Improved toolchain: gcc, binutils, and glibc - Amazon Linux 2023
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Improved toolchain: gcc, binutils, and glibc

AL2023 includes many of the same core packages as AL2.

We updated the following three core toolchain packages for AL2023.

Package name AL2 AL2023
glibc

2.26

 2.34

gcc

7.3

11.3

binutils

2.29

2.39

For more information, see Core toolchain packages glibc, gcc, binutils.

For more information about C, C++, and Fortran language runtimes, including updated default language standards, see C, C++, and Fortran in AL2023.

For more information about optimizations, see Performance and operational optimizations.