--- gcc/NEWS 2018/04/24 18:10:53 1.1.1.2 +++ gcc/NEWS 2018/04/24 18:17:53 1.1.1.3 @@ -1,3 +1,160 @@ +Noteworthy changes in GCC version 2.6.3: + +A few more bugs have been fixed. + +Noteworthy changes in GCC version 2.6.2: + +A few bugs have been fixed. + +Names of attributes can now be preceded and followed by double underscores. + +Noteworthy changes in GCC version 2.6.1: + +Numerous (mostly minor) bugs have been fixed. + +The following new configurations are supported: + + GNU on x86 (instead of treating it like MACH) + NetBSD on Sparc and Motorola 68k + AIX 4.1 on RS/6000 and PowerPC systems + Sequent DYNUX/ptx 1.x and 2.x. + Both COFF and ELF configurations on AViiON without using /bin/gcc + Windows/NT on x86 architecture; preliminary + AT&T DSP1610 digital signal processor chips + i960 systems on bare boards using COFF + PDP11; target only and not extensively tested + +The -pg option is now supported for Alpha under OSF/1 V3.0 or later. + +Files with an extension of ".c++" are treated as C++ code. + +The -Xlinker and -Wl arguments are now passed to the linker in the +position they were specified on the command line. This makes it +possible, for example, to pass flags to the linker about specific +object files. + +The use of positional arguments to the configure script is no longer +recommended. Use --target= to specify the target; see the GCC manual. + +The 386 now supports two new switches: -mreg-alloc= changes +the default register allocation order used by the compiler, and +-mno-wide-multiply disables the use of the mul/imul instructions that +produce 64 bit results in EAX:EDX from 32 bit operands to do long long +multiplies and 32-bit division by constants. + +Noteworthy changes in GCC version 2.6.0: + +Numerous bugs have been fixed, in the C and C++ front-ends, as +well as in the common compiler code. + +This release includes the C, Objective-C, and C++ compilers. However, +we have moved the files for the C++ compiler (G++) files to a +subdirectory, cp. Subsequent releases of GCC will split these files +to a separate TAR file. + +The G++ team has been tracking the development of the ANSI standard for C++. +Here are some new features added from the latest working paper: + + * built-in boolean type 'bool', with constants 'true' and 'false'. + * array new and delete (operator new [] and delete []). + * WP-conforming lifetime of temporaries. + * explicit instantiation of templates (template class A;), + along with an option (-fno-implicit-templates) to disable emission + of implicitly instantiated templates, obsoletes -fexternal-templates. + * static member constants (static const int foo = 4; within the + class declaration). + +Many error messages have been improved to tell the user more about the +problem. Conformance checking with -pedantic-errors has been +improved. G++ now compiles Fresco. + +There is now an experimental implementation of virtual functions using +thunks instead of Cfront-style vtables, enabled with -fvtable-thunks. +This option also enables a heuristic which causes the compiler to only +emit the vtable in the translation unit where its first non-inline +virtual function is defined; using this option and +-fno-implicit-templates, users should be able to avoid #pragma +interface/implementation altogether. + +Signatures have been added as a GNU C++ extension. Using the option +-fhandle-signatures, users are able to turn on recognition of +signatures. A short introduction on signatures is in the section +`Extension to the C++ Language' in the manual. + +The `g++' program is now a C program, rather than a shell script. + +Lots and lots and lots of bugs fixes, in nested types, access control, +pointers to member functions, the parser, templates, overload +resolution, etc, etc. + +There have been two major enhancements to the Objective-C compiler: + +1) Added portability. It now runs on Alpha, and some problems with + message forwarding have been addressed on other platforms. + +2) Selectors have been redefined to be pointers to structs like: + { void *sel_id, char *sel_types }, where the sel_id is the unique + identifier, the selector itself is no longer unique. + + Programmers should use the new function sel_eq to test selector + equivalence. + +The following major changes have been made to the base compiler and +machine-specific files. + +- The MIL-STD-1750A is a new port, but still preliminary. + +- The h8/300h is now supported; both the h8/300 and h8/300h ports come + with 32 bit IEEE 754 software floating point support. + +- The 64-bit Sparc (v9) and 64-bit MIPS chips are supported. + +- NetBSD is supported on m68k, Intel x86, and pc523 systems and FreeBSD + on x86. + +- COFF is supported on x86, m68k, and Sparc systems running LynxOS. + +- 68K systems from Bull and Concurrent are supported and System V + Release 4 is supported on the Atari. + +- GCC supports GAS on the Motorola 3300 (sysV68) and debugging + (assuming GAS) on the Plexus 68K system. (However, GAS does not yet + work on those systems). + +- System V Release 4 is supported on MIPS (Tandem). + +- For DG/UX, an ELF configuration is now supported, and both the ELF + and BCS configurations support ELF and COFF object file formats. + +- OSF/1 V2.0 is supported on Alpha. + +- Function profiling is also supported on Alpha. + +- GAS and GDB is supported for Irix 5 (MIPS). + +- "common mode" (code that will run on both POWER and PowerPC + architectures) is now supported for the RS/6000 family; the + compiler knows about more PPC chips. + +- Both NeXTStep 2.1 and 3 are supported on 68k-based architectures. + +- On the AMD 29k, the -msoft-float is now supported, as well as + -mno-sum-in-toc for RS/6000, -mapp-regs and -mflat for Sparc, and + -membedded-pic for MIPS. + +- GCC can now convert division by integer constants into the equivalent + multiplication and shift operations when that is faster than the + division. + +- Two new warning options, -Wbad-function-cast and + -Wmissing-declarations have been added. + +- Configurations may now add machine-specific __attribute__ options on + type; many machines support the `section' attribute. + +- The -ffast-math flag permits some optimization that violate strict + IEEE rules, such as converting X * 0.0 to 0.0. + Noteworthy changes in GCC version 2.5.8: This release only fixes a few serious bugs. These include fixes for a