Building GCC 9.3.0 on CentOS 7
Introduction
CentOS 7 distribution (as well as RHEL 7) ships with a somewhat outdated version of the GCC compiler (4.8.5 on CentOS 7.5), which may not be suitable to your compilation requirements. For example, C11 - which supersedes C99 - is fully supported only starting from GCC 4.9).
Additionally, recent versions of GCC (GCC6, GCC7, GCC8, GCC9) come with improvements which help detect issues at build time and offer suggestions on how to fix them. Sometimes, these are even actually helpful!
This note describes how to