I'm used to install packages on Debian/Ubuntu distributions, but now I need to install gcc and g++ version 8.*. There is only version 4.* in CentOS repositories. What's the correct way to install t...

Recently, I noticed that my program has a big performance regression because the standard library implementation of gcc with version earlier than 5 makes list::size() an O(n). I'm using Cen...

I'm running CentOS 6.4 and need a later version of the C++ compiler to build my development tools (Qt Creator in this case). I'm unclear on the implications of using devtools and I'm hoping someon...

I just found out that RedHat provides this "Developer toolset" which allows me to install (and of course use) the most up-to-date gcc-4.7.2. I use it on Centos, but the process is the same. Once i...