GCC 16.1 Released With AMD Zen 6 Support, Algol 68 & Many C++ Improvements

GCC 16.1 is now available as the first stable release of GCC 16 as this year's major open-source GNU compiler feature release.

GCC 16 ships improved error messages with experimental HTML output support, the new Algol 68 programming language front-end, support for using Picolibc, Arm AGI CPU target support, experimental AMD Instinct MI300 series support in the AMDGCN back-end, and initial AMD Zen 6 "znver6" CPU support.

GCC 16 is also using the C++20 standard by default and brings many C and C++ language improvements. More OpenMP 5.x/6.x functionality is also in place, the GCC Ada support continues improving, and many other improvements as outlined via the documentation.

Downloads and more details on today's GCC 16.1 stable release via gcc.gnu.org. GCC 16.1 compiler benchmarks coming up soon on Phoronix.