"Mark Mitchell announced the availability of GCC 4.2.2 saying, 'GCC 4.2.2 is a bug-fix release, containing fixes for regressions in GCC 4.2.1 relative to previous GCC releases.' He adds, 'the compilers in this release are covered by GNU General Public License version 3,' making GCC 4.2.2 the first released under the GPLv3.
"GCC is the GNU Compiler Collection which includes C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada compilers..."
