GCC 4.8 release

Oh well, this release page has been up for months! Please consider changing the title to "GCC 4.8 upcoming changes" or something like that. I got confused that 4.8 was released today!<p>Like already pointed out, 4.8 is <i>not</i> yet released!

Actually only the release candidate of GNU GCC 4.8 is released. The final release is expected in about a week or so: <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2013-03/msg00127.html" rel="nofollow">http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2013-03/msg00127.html</a>

<i>GCC now uses C++ as its implementation language.</i><p>It looks like C++ is getting some traction. BIND has also made the switch to C++ (and Python).

The new AVR enhancements are interesting. They added Embedded C fixed-point arithmetic. I wonder how often Arduino folks will use this.

They had me at -Og.

Nice! Could someone plz explain to me what it's not technically easy to have the ASan profiler also on windows? In other words, do you prefer other OSes for development due to tools like ASan?<p>Thanks

Especially with the C++ change, GCC seems to be on the verge of crashing in under its own weight. I have the feeling that clang or something else, something simpler, will eventually prevail.