GCC 16 Release Series
Changes, New Features, and Fixes

This page is a "brief" summary of some of the huge number of improvements in GCC 16.

Note: GCC 16 has not been released yet, so this document is a work-in-progress.

Caveats

General Improvements

New Languages and Language specific improvements

New Targets and Target Specific Improvements

Operating Systems

Other significant improvements

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