What's New in This Release

This release contains a number of changes, improvements, and new features. The following list describes the major 9.1 enhancements:

• New and updated compiler options are available, including those to support Intel® Core™2 Duo processors, Intel® Core™2 Extreme processors, and the Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5100 series. These are detailed in New Options in the Intel® C++ Compiler Options reference.

• Other new compiler options are available. These are detailed in New Options in the Compiler Options reference.

• Support for floating-point semantics has been expanded, allowing you to enable more aggressive optimizations on floating-point data and round intermediate results to source-defined precision. For more information, see the -fp-model compiler option.

• The Intel® C++ Compiler integration with Eclipse* in supported on Intel® Itanium®-based systems.

• The Intel® C++ Compiler integration with Eclipse* includes support for the Intel© Debugger.

Note

Please refer to the Release Notes for the most current information about features implemented in this release.