This file contains information about GCC releases which has been generated automatically from the online release notes. It covers releases of GCC (and the former EGCS project) since EGCS 1.0, on the line of development that led to GCC 3. For information on GCC 2.8.1 and older releases of GCC 2, see ONEWS. ====================================================================== http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/index.html GCC 4.9 Release Series June 26, 2015 The [1]GNU project and the GCC developers are pleased to announce the release of GCC 4.9.3. This release is a bug-fix release, containing fixes for regressions in GCC 4.9.2 relative to previous releases of GCC. Release History GCC 4.9.3 June 26, 2015 ([2]changes, [3]documentation) GCC 4.9.2 October 30, 2014 ([4]changes, [5]documentation) GCC 4.9.1 July 16, 2014 ([6]changes, [7]documentation) GCC 4.9.0 April 22, 2014 ([8]changes, [9]documentation) References and Acknowledgements GCC used to stand for the GNU C Compiler, but since the compiler supports several other languages aside from C, it now stands for the GNU Compiler Collection. A list of [10]successful builds is updated as new information becomes available. The GCC developers would like to thank the numerous people that have contributed new features, improvements, bug fixes, and other changes as well as test results to GCC. This [11]amazing group of volunteers is what makes GCC successful. For additional information about GCC please refer to the [12]GCC project web site or contact the [13]GCC development mailing list. To obtain GCC please use [14]our mirror sites or [15]our SVN server. 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References 1. http://www.gnu.org/ 2. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/changes.html 3. http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/4.9.3/ 4. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/changes.html 5. http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/4.9.2/ 6. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/changes.html 7. http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/4.9.1/ 8. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/changes.html 9. https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/4.9.0/ 10. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/buildstat.html 11. https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Contributors.html 12. http://gcc.gnu.org/index.html 13. mailto:gcc@gcc.gnu.org 14. http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html 15. http://gcc.gnu.org/svn.html 16. https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/ 17. mailto:gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org 18. mailto:gcc@gcc.gnu.org 19. https://gcc.gnu.org/lists.html 20. http://www.fsf.org/ 21. https://gcc.gnu.org/about.html 22. http://validator.w3.org/check/referer ====================================================================== http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/changes.html GCC 4.9 Release Series Changes, New Features, and Fixes Caveats * The mudflap run time checker has been removed. The mudflap options remain, but do nothing. * Support for a number of older systems and recently unmaintained or untested target ports of GCC has been declared obsolete in GCC 4.9. Unless there is activity to revive them, the next release of GCC will have their sources permanently removed. The following ports for individual systems on particular architectures have been obsoleted: + Solaris 9 (*-*-solaris2.9). Details can be found in the [1]announcement. * On AArch64, the singleton vector types int64x1_t, uint64x1_t and float64x1_t exported by arm_neon.h are defined to be the same as their base types. This results in incorrect application of parameter passing rules to arguments of types int64x1_t and uint64x1_t, with respect to the AAPCS64 ABI specification. In addition, names of C++ functions with parameters of these types (including float64x1_t) are not mangled correctly. The current typedef declarations also unintentionally allow implicit casting between singleton vector types and their base types. These issues will be resolved in a near future release. See [2]PR60825 for more information. More information on porting to GCC 4.9 from previous versions of GCC can be found in the [3]porting guide for this release. General Optimizer Improvements * AddressSanitizer, a fast memory error detector, is now available on ARM. * UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer (ubsan), a fast undefined behavior detector, has been added and can be enabled via -fsanitize=undefined. Various computations will be instrumented to detect undefined behavior at runtime. UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer is currently available for the C and C++ languages. * Link-time optimization (LTO) improvements: + Type merging was rewritten. The new implementation is significantly faster and uses less memory. + Better partitioning algorithm resulting in less streaming during link time. + Early removal of virtual methods reduces the size of object files and improves link-time memory usage and compile time. + Function bodies are now loaded on-demand and released early improving overall memory usage at link time. + C++ hidden keyed methods can now be optimized out. + When using a linker plugin, compiling with the -flto option now generates slim object files (.o) which only contain intermediate language representation for LTO. Use -ffat-lto-objects to create files which contain additionally the object code. To generate static libraries suitable for LTO processing, use gcc-ar and gcc-ranlib; to list symbols from a slim object file use gcc-nm. (This requires that ar, ranlib and nm have been compiled with plugin support.) Memory usage building Firefox with debug enabled was reduced from 15GB to 3.5GB; link time from 1700 seconds to 350 seconds. * Inter-procedural optimization improvements: + New type inheritance analysis module improving devirtualization. Devirtualization now takes into account anonymous name-spaces and the C++11 final keyword. + New speculative devirtualization pass (controlled by -fdevirtualize-speculatively. + Calls that were speculatively made direct are turned back to indirect where direct call is not cheaper. + Local aliases are introduced for symbols that are known to be semantically equivalent across shared libraries improving dynamic linking times. * Feedback directed optimization improvements: + Profiling of programs using C++ inline functions is now more reliable. + New time profiling determines typical order in which functions are executed. + A new function reordering pass (controlled by -freorder-functions) significantly reduces startup time of large applications. Until binutils support is completed, it is effective only with link-time optimization. + Feedback driven indirect call removal and devirtualization now handle cross-module calls when link-time optimization is enabled. New Languages and Language specific improvements * Version 4.0 of the [4]OpenMP specification is now supported in the C and C++ compilers and starting with the 4.9.1 release also in the Fortran compiler. The new -fopenmp-simd option can be used to enable OpenMP's SIMD directives, while ignoring other OpenMP directives. The new [5]-fsimd-cost-model= option permits to tune the vectorization cost model for loops annotated with OpenMP and Cilk Plus simd directives; -Wopenmp-simd warns when the current cost model overrides simd directives set by the user. * The -Wdate-time option has been added for the C, C++ and Fortran compilers, which warns when the __DATE__, __TIME__ or __TIMESTAMP__ macros are used. Those macros might prevent bit-wise-identical reproducible compilations. Ada * GNAT switched to Ada 2012 instead of Ada 2005 by default. C family * Support for colorizing diagnostics emitted by GCC has been added. The [6]-fdiagnostics-color=auto will enable it when outputting to terminals, -fdiagnostics-color=always unconditionally. The GCC_COLORS environment variable can be used to customize the colors or disable coloring. If GCC_COLORS variable is present in the environment, the default is -fdiagnostics-color=auto, otherwise -fdiagnostics-color=never. Sample diagnostics output: $ g++ -fdiagnostics-color=always -S -Wall test.C test.C: In function ‘int foo()’: test.C:1:14: warning: no return statement in function returning non-void [-W return-type] int foo () { } ^ test.C:2:46: error: template instantiation depth exceeds maximum of 900 (use -ftemplate-depth= to increase the maximum) instantiating ‘struct X<100>’ template struct X { static const int value = X::value; }; temp late struct X<1000>; ^ test.C:2:46: recursively required from ‘const int X<999>::value’ test.C:2:46: required from ‘const int X<1000>::value’ test.C:2:88: required from here test.C:2:46: error: incomplete type ‘X<100>’ used in nested name specifier * With the new [7]#pragma GCC ivdep, the user can assert that there are no loop-carried dependencies which would prevent concurrent execution of consecutive iterations using SIMD (single instruction multiple data) instructions. * Support for [8]Cilk Plus has been added and can be enabled with the -fcilkplus option. Cilk Plus is an extension to the C and C++ languages to support data and task parallelism. The present implementation follows ABI version 1.2; all features but _Cilk_for have been implemented. C * ISO C11 atomics (the _Atomic type specifier and qualifier and the header) are now supported. * ISO C11 generic selections (_Generic keyword) are now supported. * ISO C11 thread-local storage (_Thread_local, similar to GNU C __thread) is now supported. * ISO C11 support is now at a similar level of completeness to ISO C99 support: substantially complete modulo bugs, extended identifiers (supported except for corner cases when -fextended-identifiers is used), floating-point issues (mainly but not entirely relating to optional C99 features from Annexes F and G) and the optional Annexes K (Bounds-checking interfaces) and L (Analyzability). * A new C extension __auto_type provides a subset of the functionality of C++11 auto in GNU C. C++ * The G++ implementation of [9]C++1y return type deduction for normal functions has been updated to conform to [10]N3638, the proposal accepted into the working paper. Most notably, it adds decltype(auto) for getting decltype semantics rather than the template argument deduction semantics of plain auto: int& f(); auto i1 = f(); // int decltype(auto) i2 = f(); // int& * G++ supports [11]C++1y lambda capture initializers: [x = 42]{ ... }; Actually, they have been accepted since GCC 4.5, but now the compiler doesn't warn about them with -std=c++1y, and supports parenthesized and brace-enclosed initializers as well. * G++ supports [12]C++1y variable length arrays. G++ has supported GNU/C99-style VLAs for a long time, but now additionally supports initializers and lambda capture by reference. In C++1y mode G++ will complain about VLA uses that are not permitted by the draft standard, such as forming a pointer to VLA type or applying sizeof to a VLA variable. Note that it now appears that VLAs will not be part of C++14, but will be part of a separate document and then perhaps C++17. void f(int n) { int a[n] = { 1, 2, 3 }; // throws std::bad_array_length if n < 3 [&a]{ for (int i : a) { cout << i << endl; } }(); &a; // error, taking address of VLA } * G++ supports the [13]C++1y [[deprecated]] attribute modulo bugs in the underlying [[gnu::deprecated]] attribute. Classes and functions can be marked deprecated and a diagnostic message added: class A; int bar(int n); #if __cplusplus > 201103 class [[deprecated("A is deprecated in C++14; Use B instead")]] A; [[deprecated("bar is unsafe; use foo() instead")]] int bar(int n); int foo(int n); class B; #endif A aa; // warning: 'A' is deprecated : A is deprecated in C++14; Use B instead int j = bar(2); // warning: 'int bar(int)' is deprecated : bar is unsafe; use fo o() instead * G++ supports [14]C++1y digit separators. Long numeric literals can be subdivided with a single quote ' to enhance readability: int i = 1048576; int j = 1'048'576; int k = 0x10'0000; int m = 0'004'000'000; int n = 0b0001'0000'0000'0000'0000'0000; double x = 1.602'176'565e-19; double y = 1.602'176'565e-1'9; * G++ supports [15]C++1y generic (polymorphic) lambdas. // a functional object that will increment any type auto incr = [](auto x) { return x++; }; * As a GNU extension, G++ supports explicit template parameter syntax for generic lambdas. This can be combined in the expected way with the standard auto syntax. // a functional object that will add two like-type objects auto add = [] (T a, T b) { return a + b; }; * G++ supports unconstrained generic functions as specified by §4.1.2 and §5.1.1 of [16]N3889: Concepts Lite Specification. Briefly, auto may be used as a type-specifier in a parameter declaration of any function declarator in order to introduce an implicit function template parameter, akin to generic lambdas. // the following two function declarations are equivalent auto incr(auto x) { return x++; } template auto incr(T x) { return x++; } Runtime Library (libstdc++) * [17]Improved support for C++11, including: + support for ; + The associative containers in and and the unordered associative containers in and meet the allocator-aware container requirements; * [18]Improved experimental support for the upcoming ISO C++ standard, C++14, including: + fixing constexpr member functions without const; + implementation of the std::exchange() utility function; + addressing tuples by type; + implemention of std::make_unique; + implemention of std::shared_lock; + making std::result_of SFINAE-friendly; + adding operator() to std::integral_constant; + adding user-defined literals for standard library types std::basic_string, std::chrono::duration, and std::complex; + adding two range overloads to non-modifying sequence oprations std::equal and std::mismatch; + adding IO manipulators for quoted strings; + adding constexpr members to , , , and some containers; + adding compile-time std::integer_sequence; + adding cleaner transformation traits; + making s operator functors easier to use and more generic; * An implementation of std::experimental::optional. * An implementation of std::experimental::string_view. * The non-standard function std::copy_exception has been deprecated and will be removed in a future version. std::make_exception_ptr should be used instead. Fortran * Compatibility notice: + Module files: The version of the module files (.mod) has been incremented; additionally, module files are now compressed. Fortran MODULEs compiled by earlier GCC versions have to be recompiled, when they are USEd by files compiled with GCC 4.9. GCC 4.9 is not able to read .mod files of earlier GCC versions; attempting to do so gives an error message. Note: The ABI of the produced assembler data itself has not changed: object files and libraries are fully compatible with older versions (except as stated below). + ABI changes: o The [19]argument passing ABI has changed for scalar dummy arguments of type INTEGER, REAL, COMPLEX and LOGICAL, which have both the VALUE and the OPTIONAL attributes. o To support finalization the virtual table associated with polymorphic variables has changed. Code containing CLASS should be recompiled, including all files which define derived types involved in the type definition used by polymorphic variables. (Note: Due to the incremented module version, trying to mix old code with new code will usually give an error message.) + GNU Fortran no longer deallocates allocatable variables or allocatable components of variables declared in the main program. Since Fortran 2008, the standard explicitly states that variables declared in the Fortran main program automatically have the SAVE attribute. + When opening files, the close-on-exec flag is set if the system supports such a feature. This is generally considered good practice these days, but if there is a need to pass file descriptors to child processes the parent process must now remember to clear the close-on-exec flag by calling fcntl(), e.g. via ISO_C_BINDING, before executing the child process. * The deprecated command-line option -fno-whole-file has been removed. (-fwhole-file is the default since GCC 4.6.) -fwhole-file/-fno-whole-file continue to be accepted but do not influence the code generation. * The compiler no longer unconditionally warns about DO loops with zero iterations. This warning is now controlled by the -Wzerotrip option, which is implied by -Wall. * The new NO_ARG_CHECK attribute of the [20]!GCC$ directive can be used to disable the type-kind-rank (TKR) argument check for a dummy argument. The feature is similar to ISO/IEC TS 29133:2012's TYPE(*), except that it additionally also disables the rank check. Variables with NO_ARG_CHECK have to be dummy arguments and may only be used as argument to ISO_C_BINDING's C_LOC and as actual argument to another NO_ARG_CHECK dummy argument; also the other constraints of TYPE(*) apply. The dummy arguments should be declared as scalar or assumed-size variable of type type(*) (recommended) – or of type integer, real, complex or logical. With NO_ARG_CHECK, a pointer to the data without further type or shape information is passed, similar to C's void*. Note that also TS 29113's type(*),dimension(..) accepts arguments of any type and rank; contrary to NO_ARG_CHECK assumed-rank arguments pass an array descriptor which contains the array shape and stride of the argument. * [21]Fortran 2003: + Finalization is now supported. It is currently only done for a subset of those situations in which it should occur. + Experimental support for scalar character components with deferred length (i.e. allocatable string length) in derived types has been added. (Deferred-length character variables are supported since GCC 4.6.) * [22]Fortran 2008: + When STOP or ERROR STOP are used to terminate the execution and any exception (but inexact) is signaling, a warning is printed to ERROR_UNIT, indicating which exceptions are signaling. The [23]-ffpe-summary= command-line option can be used to fine-tune for which exceptions the warning should be shown. + Rounding on input (READ) is now handled on systems where strtod honours the rounding mode. (For output, rounding is supported since GCC 4.5.) Note that for input, the compatible rounding mode is handled as nearest (i.e., for a tie, rounding to an even last significant [cf. IEC 60559:1989] – while compatible rounds away from zero for a tie). Go * GCC 4.9 provides a complete implementation of the Go 1.2.1 release. New Targets and Target Specific Improvements AArch64 * The ARMv8-A crypto and CRC instructions are now supported through intrinsics. These are enabled when the architecture supports these and are available through the -march=armv8-a+crc and -march=armv8-a+crypto options. * Initial support for ILP32 has now been added to the compiler. This is now available through the command-line option -mabi=ilp32. Support for ILP32 is considered experimental as the ABI specification is still beta. * Coverage of more of the ISA including the SIMD extensions has been added. The Advanced SIMD intrinsics have also been improved. * The new local register allocator (LRA) is now on by default for the AArch64 backend. * The REE (Redundant extension elimination) pass has now been enabled by default for the AArch64 backend. * Tuning for the Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A57 has been improved. * Initial big.LITTLE tuning support for the combination of Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A53 was added through the -mcpu=cortex-a57.cortex-a53 option. * A number of structural changes have been made to both the ARM and AArch64 backends to facilitate improved code-generation. * As of GCC 4.9.2 a workaround for the ARM Cortex-A53 erratum 835769 has been added and can be enabled by giving the -mfix-cortex-a53-835769 option. Alternatively it can be enabled by default by configuring GCC with the --enable-fix-cortex-a53-835769 option. ARC * A port for Synopsys Designware ARC has been contributed by Embecosm and Synopsys Inc. ARM * Use of Advanced SIMD (Neon) for 64-bit scalar computations has been disabled by default. This was found to generate better code in only a small number of cases. It can be turned back on with the -mneon-for-64bits option. * Further support for the ARMv8-A architecture, notably implementing the restriction around IT blocks in the Thumb32 instruction set has been added. The -mrestrict-it option can be used with -march=armv7-a or the -march=armv7ve options to make code generation fully compatible with the deprecated instructions in ARMv8-A. * Support has now been added for the ARMv7ve variant of the architecture. This can be used by the -march=armv7ve option. * The ARMv8-A crypto and CRC instructions are now supported through intrinsics and are available through the -march=armv8-a+crc and mfpu=crypto-neon-fp-armv8 options. * LRA is now on by default for the ARM target. This can be turned off using the -mno-lra option. This option is a purely transitionary command-line option and will be removed in a future release. We are interested in any bug reports regarding functional and performance regressions with LRA. * A new option -mslow-flash-data to improve performance of programs fetching data on slow flash memory has now been introduced for the ARMv7-M profile cores. * A new option -mpic-data-is-text-relative for targets that allows data segments to be relative to text segments has been added. This is on by default for all targets except VxWorks RTP. * A number of infrastructural changes have been made to both the ARM and AArch64 backends to facilitate improved code-generation. * GCC now supports Cortex-A12 and the Cortex-R7 through the -mcpu=cortex-a12 and -mcpu=cortex-r7 options. * GCC now has tuning for the Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A53 through the -mcpu=cortex-a57 and -mcpu=cortex-a53 options. * Initial big.LITTLE tuning support for the combination of Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A53 was added through the -mcpu=cortex-a57.cortex-a53 option. Similar support was added for the combination of Cortex-A15 and Cortex-A7 through the -mcpu=cortex-a15.cortex-a7 option. * Further performance optimizations for the Cortex-A15 and the Cortex-M4 have been added. * A number of code generation improvements for Thumb2 to reduce code size when compiling for the M-profile processors. IA-32/x86-64 * -mfpmath=sse is now implied by -ffast-math on all targets where SSE2 is supported. * Intel AVX-512 support was added to GCC. That includes inline assembly support, new registers and extending existing ones, new intrinsics (covered by corresponding testsuite), and basic autovectorization. AVX-512 instructions are available via the following GCC switches: AVX-512 foundation instructions: -mavx512f, AVX-512 prefetch instructions: -mavx512pf, AVX-512 exponential and reciprocal instructions: -mavx512er, AVX-512 conflict detection instructions: -mavx512cd. * It is now possible to call x86 intrinsics from select functions in a file that are tagged with the corresponding target attribute without having to compile the entire file with the -mxxx option. This improves the usability of x86 intrinsics and is particularly useful when doing [24]Function Multiversioning. * GCC now supports the new Intel microarchitecture named Silvermont through -march=silvermont. * GCC now supports the new Intel microarchitecture named Broadwell through -march=broadwell. * Optimizing for other Intel microarchitectures have been renamed to -march=nehalem, westmere, sandybridge, ivybridge, haswell, bonnell. * -march=generic has been retuned for better support of Intel core and AMD Bulldozer architectures. Performance of AMD K7, K8, Intel Pentium-M, and Pentium4 based CPUs is no longer considered important for generic. * -mtune=intel can now be used to generate code running well on the most current Intel processors, which are Haswell and Silvermont for GCC 4.9. * Support to encode 32-bit assembly instructions in 16-bit format is now available through the -m16 command-line option. * Better inlining of memcpy and memset that is aware of value ranges and produces shorter alignment prologues. * -mno-accumulate-outgoing-args is now honored when unwind information is output. Argument accumulation is also now turned off for portions of programs optimized for size. * Support for new AMD family 15h processors (Excavator core) is now available through the -march=bdver4 and -mtune=bdver4 options. MSP430 * A new command-line option -mcpu= has been added to the MSP430 backend. This option is used to specify the ISA to be used. Accepted values are msp430 (the default), msp430x and msp430xv2. The ISA is no longer deduced from the -mmcu= option as there are far too many different MCU names. The -mmcu= option is still supported, and this is still used to select linker scripts and generate a C preprocessor symbol that will be recognised by the msp430.h header file. NDS32 * A new nds32 port supports the 32-bit architecture from Andes Technology Corporation. * The port provides initial support for the V2, V3, V3m instruction set architectures. Nios II * A port for the Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics. PowerPC / PowerPC64 / RS6000 * GCC now supports Power ISA 2.07, which includes support for Hardware Transactional Memory (HTM), Quadword atomics and several VMX and VSX additions, including Crypto, 64-bit integer, 128-bit integer and decimal integer operations. * Support for the POWER8 processor is now available through the -mcpu=power8 and -mtune=power8 options. * The libitm library has been modified to add a HTM fastpath that automatically uses POWER's HTM hardware instructions when it is executing on a HTM enabled processor. * Support for the new powerpc64le-linux platform has been added. It defaults to generating code that conforms to the ELFV2 ABI. S/390, System z * Support for the Transactional Execution Facility included with the IBM zEnterprise zEC12 processor has been added. A set of GCC style builtins as well as XLC style builtins are provided. The builtins are enabled by default when using the -march=zEC12 option but can explicitly be disabled with -mno-htm. Using the GCC builtins also libitm supports hardware transactions on S/390. * The hotpatch features allows to prepare functions for hotpatching. A certain amount of bytes is reserved before the function entry label plus a NOP is inserted at its very beginning to implement a backward jump when applying a patch. The feature can either be enabled per compilation unit via the command-line option -mhotpatch or per function using the hotpatch attribute. * The shrink wrap optimization is now supported on S/390 and enabled by default. * A major rework of the routines to determine which registers need to be saved and restored in function prologue/epilogue now allow to use floating point registers as save slots. This will happen for certain leaf function with -march=z10 or higher. * The LRA rtl pass replaces reload by default on S/390. RX * The port now allows to specify the RX100, RX200, and RX600 processors with the command-line options -mcpu=rx100, -mcpu=rx200 and -mcpu=rx600. SH * Minor improvements to code generated for integer arithmetic and code that involves the T bit. * Added support for the SH2A clips and clipu instructions. The compiler will now try to utilize them for min/max expressions such as max (-128, min (127, x)). * Added support for the cmp/str instruction through built-in functions such as __builtin_strlen. When not optimizing for size, the compiler will now expand calls to e.g. strlen as an inlined sequences which utilize the cmp/str instruction. * Improved code generated around volatile memory loads and stores. * The option -mcbranchdi has been deprecated. Specifying it will result in a warning and will not influence code generation. * The option -mcmpeqdi has been deprecated. Specifying it will result in a warning and will not influence code generation. GCC 4.9.1 This is the [25]list of problem reports (PRs) from GCC's bug tracking system that are known to be fixed in the 4.9.1 release. This list might not be complete (that is, it is possible that some PRs that have been fixed are not listed here). Version 4.0 of the [26]OpenMP specification is supported even in Fortran, not just C and C++. GCC 4.9.2 This is the [27]list of problem reports (PRs) from GCC's bug tracking system that are known to be fixed in the 4.9.2 release. This list might not be complete (that is, it is possible that some PRs that have been fixed are not listed here). GCC 4.9.3 This is the [28]list of problem reports (PRs) from GCC's bug tracking system that are known to be fixed in the 4.9.3 release. This list might not be complete (that is, it is possible that some PRs that have been fixed are not listed here). For questions related to the use of GCC, please consult these web pages and the [29]GCC manuals. If that fails, the [30]gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org mailing list might help. Comments on these web pages and the development of GCC are welcome on our developer list at [31]gcc@gcc.gnu.org. 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This release is a bug-fix release, containing fixes for regressions in GCC 4.8.4 relative to previous releases of GCC. Release History GCC 4.8.5 June 23, 2015 ([2]changes, [3]documentation) GCC 4.8.4 December 19, 2014 ([4]changes, [5]documentation) GCC 4.8.3 May 22, 2014 ([6]changes, [7]documentation) GCC 4.8.2 October 16, 2013 ([8]changes, [9]documentation) GCC 4.8.1 May 31, 2013 ([10]changes, [11]documentation) GCC 4.8.0 March 22, 2013 ([12]changes, [13]documentation) References and Acknowledgements GCC used to stand for the GNU C Compiler, but since the compiler supports several other languages aside from C, it now stands for the GNU Compiler Collection. A list of [14]successful builds is updated as new information becomes available. The GCC developers would like to thank the numerous people that have contributed new features, improvements, bug fixes, and other changes as well as test results to GCC. This [15]amazing group of volunteers is what makes GCC successful. 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This means that to build GCC from sources, you will need a C++ compiler that understands C++ 2003. For more details on the rationale and specific changes, please refer to the [1]C++ conversion page. To enable the Graphite framework for loop optimizations you now need CLooG version 0.18.0 and ISL version 0.11.1. Both can be obtained from the [2]GCC infrastructure directory. The installation manual contains more information about requirements to build GCC. GCC now uses a more aggressive analysis to derive an upper bound for the number of iterations of loops using constraints imposed by language standards. This may cause non-conforming programs to no longer work as expected, such as SPEC CPU 2006 464.h264ref and 416.gamess. A new option, -fno-aggressive-loop-optimizations, was added to disable this aggressive analysis. In some loops that have known constant number of iterations, but undefined behavior is known to occur in the loop before reaching or during the last iteration, GCC will warn about the undefined behavior in the loop instead of deriving lower upper bound of the number of iterations for the loop. The warning can be disabled with -Wno-aggressive-loop-optimizations. On ARM, a bug has been fixed in GCC's implementation of the AAPCS rules for the layout of vectors that could lead to wrong code being generated. Vectors larger than 8 bytes in size are now by default aligned to an 8-byte boundary. This is an ABI change: code that makes explicit use of vector types may be incompatible with binary objects built with older versions of GCC. Auto-vectorized code is not affected by this change. On AVR, support has been removed for the command-line option -mshort-calls deprecated in GCC 4.7. On AVR, the configure option --with-avrlibc supported since GCC 4.7.2 is turned on per default for all non-RTEMS configurations. This option arranges for a better integration of [3]AVR Libc with avr-gcc. For technical details, see [4]PR54461. To turn off the option in non-RTEMS configurations, use --with-avrlibc=no. If the compiler is configured for RTEMS, the option is always turned off. More information on porting to GCC 4.8 from previous versions of GCC can be found in the [5]porting guide for this release. General Optimizer Improvements (and Changes) * DWARF4 is now the default when generating DWARF debug information. When -g is used on a platform that uses DWARF debugging information, GCC will now default to -gdwarf-4 -fno-debug-types-section. GDB 7.5, Valgrind 3.8.0 and elfutils 0.154 debug information consumers support DWARF4 by default. Before GCC 4.8 the default version used was DWARF2. To make GCC 4.8 generate an older DWARF version use -g together with -gdwarf-2 or -gdwarf-3. The default for Darwin and VxWorks is still -gdwarf-2 -gstrict-dwarf. * A new general optimization level, -Og, has been introduced. It addresses the need for fast compilation and a superior debugging experience while providing a reasonable level of run-time performance. Overall experience for development should be better than the default optimization level -O0. * A new option -ftree-partial-pre was added to control the partial redundancy elimination (PRE) optimization. This option is enabled by default at the -O3 optimization level, and it makes PRE more aggressive. * The option -fconserve-space has been removed; it was no longer useful on most targets since GCC supports putting variables into BSS without making them common. * The struct reorg and matrix reorg optimizations (command-line options -fipa-struct-reorg and -fipa-matrix-reorg) have been removed. They did not always work correctly, nor did they work with link-time optimization (LTO), hence were only applicable to programs consisting of a single translation unit. * Several scalability bottle-necks have been removed from GCC's optimization passes. Compilation of extremely large functions, e.g. due to the use of the flatten attribute in the "Eigen" C++ linear algebra templates library, is significantly faster than previous releases of GCC. * Link-time optimization (LTO) improvements: + LTO partitioning has been rewritten for better reliability and maintanibility. Several important bugs leading to link failures have been fixed. * Interprocedural optimization improvements: + A new symbol table has been implemented. It builds on existing callgraph and varpool modules and provide a new API. Unusual symbol visibilities and aliases are handled more consistently leading to, for example, more aggressive unreachable code removal with LTO. + The inline heuristic can now bypass limits on the size of of inlined functions when the inlining is particularly profitable. This happens, for example, when loop bounds or array strides get propagated. + Values passed through aggregates (either by value or reference) are now propagated at the inter-procedural level leading to better inlining decisions (for example in the case of Fortran array descriptors) and devirtualization. * [6]AddressSanitizer , a fast memory error detector, has been added and can be enabled via -fsanitize=address. Memory access instructions will be instrumented to detect heap-, stack-, and global-buffer overflow as well as use-after-free bugs. To get nicer stacktraces, use -fno-omit-frame-pointer. The AddressSanitizer is available on IA-32/x86-64/x32/PowerPC/PowerPC64 GNU/Linux and on x86-64 Darwin. * [7]ThreadSanitizer has been added and can be enabled via -fsanitize=thread. Instructions will be instrumented to detect data races. The ThreadSanitizer is available on x86-64 GNU/Linux. * A new local register allocator (LRA) has been implemented, which replaces the 26 year old reload pass and improves generated code quality. For now it is active on the IA-32 and x86-64 targets. * Support for transactional memory has been implemented on the following architectures: IA-32/x86-64, ARM, PowerPC, SH, SPARC, and Alpha. New Languages and Language specific improvements C family * Each diagnostic emitted now includes the original source line and a caret '^' indicating the column. The option -fno-diagnostics-show-caret suppresses this information. * The option -ftrack-macro-expansion=2 is now enabled by default. This allows the compiler to display the macro expansion stack in diagnostics. Combined with the caret information, an example diagnostic showing these two features is: t.c:1:94: error: invalid operands to binary < (have ‘struct mystruct’ and ‘float ’) #define MYMAX(A,B) __extension__ ({ __typeof__(A) __a = (A); __typeof__(B) _ _b = (B); __a < __b ? __b : __a; }) ^ t.c:7:7: note: in expansion of macro 'MYMAX' X = MYMAX(P, F); ^ * A new -Wsizeof-pointer-memaccess warning has been added (also enabled by -Wall) to warn about suspicious length parameters to certain string and memory built-in functions if the argument uses sizeof. This warning warns e.g. about memset (ptr, 0, sizeof (ptr)); if ptr is not an array, but a pointer, and suggests a possible fix, or about memcpy (&foo, ptr, sizeof (&foo));. * The new option -Wpedantic is an alias for -pedantic, which is now deprecated. The forms -Wno-pedantic, -Werror=pedantic, and -Wno-error=pedantic work in the same way as for any other -W option. One caveat is that -Werror=pedantic is not equivalent to -pedantic-errors, since the latter makes into errors some warnings that are not controlled by -Wpedantic, and the former only affects diagnostics that are disabled when using -Wno-pedantic. * The option -Wshadow no longer warns if a declaration shadows a function declaration, unless the former declares a function or pointer to function, because this is [8]a common and valid case in real-world code. C++ * G++ now implements the [9]C++11 thread_local keyword; this differs from the GNU __thread keyword primarily in that it allows dynamic initialization and destruction semantics. Unfortunately, this support requires a run-time penalty for references to non-function-local thread_local variables defined in a different translation unit even if they don't need dynamic initialization, so users may want to continue to use __thread for TLS variables with static initialization semantics. If the programmer can be sure that no use of the variable in a non-defining TU needs to trigger dynamic initialization (either because the variable is statically initialized, or a use of the variable in the defining TU will be executed before any uses in another TU), they can avoid this overhead with the -fno-extern-tls-init option. OpenMP threadprivate variables now also support dynamic initialization and destruction by the same mechanism. * G++ now implements the [10]C++11 attribute syntax, e.g. [[noreturn]] void f(); and also the alignment specifier, e.g. alignas(double) int i; * G++ now implements [11]C++11 inheriting constructors, e.g. struct A { A(int); }; struct B: A { using A::A; }; // defines B::B(int) B b(42); // OK * As of GCC 4.8.1, G++ implements the change to decltype semantics from [12]N3276. struct A f(); decltype(f()) g(); // OK, return type of f() is not required to be complete. * As of GCC 4.8.1, G++ implements [13]C++11 ref-qualifiers, e.g. struct A { int f() &; }; int i = A().f(); // error, f() requires an lvalue object * G++ now supports a -std=c++1y option for experimentation with features proposed for the next revision of the standard, expected around 2014. Currently the only difference from -std=c++11 is support for return type deduction in normal functions, as proposed in [14]N3386. Status of C++1y features in GCC 4.8 can be found [15]here. * The G++ namespace association extension, __attribute ((strong)), has been deprecated. Inline namespaces should be used instead. * G++ now supports a -fext-numeric-literal option to control whether GNU numeric literal suffixes are accepted as extensions or processed as C++11 user-defined numeric literal suffixes. The flag is on (use suffixes for GNU literals) by default for -std=gnu++*, and -std=c++98. The flag is off (use suffixes for user-defined literals) by default for -std=c++11 and later. Runtime Library (libstdc++) * [16]Improved experimental support for the new ISO C++ standard, C++11, including: + forward_list meets the allocator-aware container requirements; + this_thread::sleep_for(), this_thread::sleep_until() and this_thread::yield() are defined without requiring the configure option --enable-libstdcxx-time; * Improvements to : + SSE optimized normal_distribution. + Use of hardware RNG instruction for random_device on new x86 processors (requires the assembler to support the instruction.) and : + New random number engine simd_fast_mersenne_twister_engine with an optimized SSE implementation. + New random number distributions beta_distribution, normal_mv_distribution, rice_distribution, nakagami_distribution, pareto_distribution, k_distribution, arcsine_distribution, hoyt_distribution. * Added --disable-libstdcxx-verbose configure option to disable diagnostic messages issued when a process terminates abnormally. This may be useful for embedded systems to reduce the size of executables that link statically to the library. Fortran * Compatibility notice: + Module files: The version of module files (.mod) has been incremented. Fortran MODULEs compiled by earlier GCC versions have to be recompiled, when they are USEd by files compiled with GCC 4.8. GCC 4.8 is not able to read .mod files created by earlier versions; attempting to do so gives an error message. Note: The ABI of the produced assembler data itself has not changed; object files and libraries are fully compatible with older versions except as noted below. + ABI: Some internal names (used in the assembler/object file) have changed for symbols declared in the specification part of a module. If an affected module – or a file using it via use association – is recompiled, the module and all files which directly use such symbols have to be recompiled as well. This change only affects the following kind of module symbols: o Procedure pointers. Note: C-interoperable function pointers (type(c_funptr)) are not affected nor are procedure-pointer components. o Deferred-length character strings. * The [17]BACKTRACE intrinsic subroutine has been added. It shows a backtrace at an arbitrary place in user code; program execution continues normally afterwards. * The [18]-Wc-binding-type warning option has been added (disabled by default). It warns if the a variable might not be C interoperable; in particular, if the variable has been declared using an intrinsic type with default kind instead of using a kind parameter defined for C interoperability in the intrinsic ISO_C_Binding module. Before, this warning was always printed. The -Wc-binding-type option is enabled by -Wall. * The [19]-Wrealloc-lhs and -Wrealloc-lhs-all warning command-line options have been added, which diagnose when code is inserted for automatic (re)allocation of a variable during assignment. This option can be used to decide whether it is safe to use [20]-fno-realloc-lhs. Additionally, it can be used to find automatic (re)allocation in hot loops. (For arrays, replacing "var=" by "var(:)=" disables the automatic reallocation.) * The [21]-Wcompare-reals command-line option has been added. When this is set, warnings are issued when comparing REAL or COMPLEX types for equality and inequality; consider replacing a == b by abs(a−b) < eps with a suitable eps. -Wcompare-reals is enabled by -Wextra. * The [22]-Wtarget-lifetime command-line option has been added (enabled with -Wall), which warns if the pointer in a pointer assignment might outlive its target. * Reading floating point numbers which use "q" for the exponential (such as 4.0q0) is now supported as vendor extension for better compatibility with old data files. It is strongly recommended to use for I/O the equivalent but standard conforming "e" (such as 4.0e0). (For Fortran source code, consider replacing the "q" in floating-point literals by a kind parameter (e.g. 4.0e0_qp with a suitable qp). Note that – in Fortran source code – replacing "q" by a simple "e" is not equivalent.) * The GFORTRAN_TMPDIR environment variable for specifying a non-default directory for files opened with STATUS="SCRATCH", is not used anymore. Instead gfortran checks the POSIX/GNU standard TMPDIR environment variable. If TMPDIR is not defined, gfortran falls back to other methods to determine the directory for temporary files as documented in the [23]user manual. * [24]Fortran 2003: + Support for unlimited polymorphic variables (CLASS(*)) has been added. Nonconstant character lengths are not yet supported. * [25]TS 29113: + Assumed types (TYPE(*)) are now supported. + Experimental support for assumed-rank arrays (dimension(..)) has been added. Note that currently gfortran's own array descriptor is used, which is different from the one defined in TS29113, see [26]gfortran's header file or use the [27]Chasm Language Interoperability Tools. Go * GCC 4.8.2 provides a complete implementation of the Go 1.1.2 release. * GCC 4.8.0 and 4.8.1 implement a preliminary version of the Go 1.1 release. The library support is not quite complete. * Go has been tested on GNU/Linux and Solaris platforms for various processors including x86, x86_64, PowerPC, SPARC, and Alpha. It may work on other platforms as well. New Targets and Target Specific Improvements AArch64 * A new port has been added to support AArch64, the new 64-bit architecture from ARM. Note that this is a separate port from the existing 32-bit ARM port. * The port provides initial support for the Cortex-A53 and the Cortex-A57 processors with the command line options -mcpu=cortex-a53 and -mcpu=cortex-a57. * As of GCC 4.8.4 a workaround for the ARM Cortex-A53 erratum 835769 has been added and can be enabled by giving the -mfix-cortex-a53-835769 option. Alternatively it can be enabled by default by configuring GCC with the --enable-fix-cortex-a53-835769 option. ARM * Initial support has been added for the AArch32 extensions defined in the ARMv8 architecture. * Code generation improvements for the Cortex-A7 and Cortex-A15 CPUs. * A new option, -mcpu=marvell-pj4, has been added to generate code for the Marvell PJ4 processor. * The compiler can now automatically generate the VFMA, VFMS, REVSH and REV16 instructions. * A new vectorizer cost model for Advanced SIMD configurations to improve the auto-vectorization strategies used. * The scheduler now takes into account the number of live registers to reduce the amount of spilling that can occur. This should improve code performance in large functions. The limit can be removed by using the option -fno-sched-pressure. * Improvements have been made to the Marvell iWMMX code generation and support for the iWMMX2 SIMD unit has been added. The option -mcpu=iwmmxt2 can be used to enable code generation for the latter. * A number of code generation improvements for Thumb2 to reduce code size when compiling for the M-profile processors. * The RTEMS (arm-rtems) port has been updated to use the EABI. * Code generation support for the old FPA and Maverick floating-point architectures has been removed. Ports that previously relied on these features have also been removed. This includes the targets: + arm*-*-linux-gnu (use arm*-*-linux-gnueabi) + arm*-*-elf (use arm*-*-eabi) + arm*-*-uclinux* (use arm*-*-uclinux*eabi) + arm*-*-ecos-elf (no alternative) + arm*-*-freebsd (no alternative) + arm*-wince-pe* (no alternative). AVR * Support for the "Embedded C" fixed-point has been added. For details, see the [28]GCC wiki and the [29]user manual. The support is not complete. * A new print modifier %r for register operands in inline assembler is supported. It will print the raw register number without the register prefix 'r': /* Return the most significant byte of 'val', a 64-bit value. */ unsigned char msb (long long val) { unsigned char c; __asm__ ("mov %0, %r1+7" : "=r" (c) : "r" (val)); return c; } The inline assembler in this example will generate code like mov r24, 8+7 provided c is allocated to R24 and val is allocated to R8…R15. This works because the GNU assembler accepts plain register numbers without register prefix. * Static initializers with 3-byte symbols are supported now: extern const __memx char foo; const __memx void *pfoo = &foo; This requires at least Binutils 2.23. IA-32/x86-64 * Allow -mpreferred-stack-boundary=3 for the x86-64 architecture with SSE extensions disabled. Since the x86-64 ABI requires 16 byte stack alignment, this is ABI incompatible and intended to be used in controlled environments where stack space is an important limitation. This option will lead to wrong code when functions compiled with 16 byte stack alignment (such as functions from a standard library) are called with misaligned stack. In this case, SSE instructions may lead to misaligned memory access traps. In addition, variable arguments will be handled incorrectly for 16 byte aligned objects (including x87 long double and __int128), leading to wrong results. You must build all modules with -mpreferred-stack-boundary=3, including any libraries. This includes the system libraries and startup modules. * Support for the new Intel processor codename Broadwell with RDSEED, ADCX, ADOX, PREFETCHW is available through -madx, -mprfchw, -mrdseed command-line options. * Support for the Intel RTM and HLE intrinsics, built-in functions and code generation is available via -mrtm and -mhle. * Support for the Intel FXSR, XSAVE and XSAVEOPT instruction sets. Intrinsics and built-in functions are available via -mfxsr, -mxsave and -mxsaveopt respectively. * New -maddress-mode=[short|long] options for x32. -maddress-mode=short overrides default 64-bit addresses to 32-bit by emitting the 0x67 address-size override prefix. This is the default address mode for x32. * New built-in functions to detect run-time CPU type and ISA: + A built-in function __builtin_cpu_is has been added to detect if the run-time CPU is of a particular type. It returns a positive integer on a match and zero otherwise. It accepts one string literal argument, the CPU name. For example, __builtin_cpu_is("westmere") returns a positive integer if the run-time CPU is an Intel Core i7 Westmere processor. Please refer to the [30]user manual for the list of valid CPU names recognized. + A built-in function __builtin_cpu_supports has been added to detect if the run-time CPU supports a particular ISA feature. It returns a positive integer on a match and zero otherwise. It accepts one string literal argument, the ISA feature. For example, __builtin_cpu_supports("ssse3") returns a positive integer if the run-time CPU supports SSSE3 instructions. Please refer to the [31]user manual for the list of valid ISA names recognized. Caveat: If these built-in functions are called before any static constructors are invoked, like during IFUNC initialization, then the CPU detection initialization must be explicitly run using this newly provided built-in function, __builtin_cpu_init. The initialization needs to be done only once. For example, this is how the invocation would look like inside an IFUNC initializer: static void (*some_ifunc_resolver(void))(void) { __builtin_cpu_init(); if (__builtin_cpu_is("amdfam10h") ... if (__builtin_cpu_supports("popcnt") ... } * Function Multiversioning Support with G++: It is now possible to create multiple function versions each targeting a specific processor and/or ISA. Function versions have the same signature but different target attributes. For example, here is a program with function versions: __attribute__ ((target ("default"))) int foo(void) { return 1; } __attribute__ ((target ("sse4.2"))) int foo(void) { return 2; } int main (void) { int (*p) = &foo; assert ((*p)() == foo()); return 0; } Please refer to this [32]wiki for more information. * The x86 back end has been improved to allow option -fschedule-insns to work reliably. This option can be used to schedule instructions better and leads to improved performace in certain cases. * Windows MinGW-w64 targets (*-w64-mingw*) require at least r5437 from the Mingw-w64 trunk. * Support for new AMD family 15h processors (Steamroller core) is now available through the -march=bdver3 and -mtune=bdver3 options. * Support for new AMD family 16h processors (Jaguar core) is now available through the -march=btver2 and -mtune=btver2 options. FRV * This target now supports the -fstack-usage command-line option. MIPS * GCC can now generate code specifically for the R4700, Broadcom XLP and MIPS 34kn processors. The associated -march options are -march=r4700, -march=xlp and -march=34kn respectively. * GCC now generates better DSP code for MIPS 74k cores thanks to further scheduling optimizations. * The MIPS port now supports the -fstack-check option. * GCC now passes the -mmcu and -mno-mcu options to the assembler. * Previous versions of GCC would silently accept -fpic and -fPIC for -mno-abicalls targets like mips*-elf. This combination was not intended or supported, and did not generate position-independent code. GCC 4.8 now reports an error when this combination is used. PowerPC / PowerPC64 / RS6000 * SVR4 configurations (GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD) no longer save, restore or update the VRSAVE register by default. The respective operating systems manage the VRSAVE register directly. * Large TOC support has been added for AIX through the command line option -mcmodel=large. * Native Thread-Local Storage support has been added for AIX. * VMX (Altivec) and VSX instruction sets now are enabled implicitly when targetting processors that support those hardware features on AIX 6.1 and above. RX * This target will now issue a warning message whenever multiple fast interrupt handlers are found in the same compilation unit. This feature can be turned off by the new -mno-warn-multiple-fast-interrupts command-line option. S/390, System z * Support for the IBM zEnterprise zEC12 processor has been added. When using the -march=zEC12 option, the compiler will generate code making use of the following new instructions: + load and trap instructions + 2 new compare and trap instructions + rotate and insert selected bits - without CC clobber The -mtune=zEC12 option enables zEC12 specific instruction scheduling without making use of new instructions. * Register pressure sensitive instruction scheduling is enabled by default. * The ifunc function attribute is enabled by default. * memcpy and memcmp invokations on big memory chunks or with run time lengths are not generated inline anymore when tuning for z10 or higher. The purpose is to make use of the IFUNC optimized versions in Glibc. SH * The default alignment settings have been reduced to be less aggressive. This results in more compact code for optimization levels other than -Os. * Improved support for the __atomic built-in functions: + A new option -matomic-model=model selects the model for the generated atomic sequences. The following models are supported: soft-gusa Software gUSA sequences (SH3* and SH4* only). On SH4A targets this will now also partially utilize the movco.l and movli.l instructions. This is the default when the target is sh3*-*-linux* or sh4*-*-linux*. hard-llcs Hardware movco.l / movli.l sequences (SH4A only). soft-tcb Software thread control block sequences. soft-imask Software interrupt flipping sequences (privileged mode only). This is the default when the target is sh1*-*-linux* or sh2*-*-linux*. none Generates function calls to the respective __atomic built-in functions. This is the default for SH64 targets or when the target is not sh*-*-linux*. + The option -msoft-atomic has been deprecated. It is now an alias for -matomic-model=soft-gusa. + A new option -mtas makes the compiler generate the tas.b instruction for the __atomic_test_and_set built-in function regardless of the selected atomic model. + The __sync functions in libgcc now reflect the selected atomic model when building the toolchain. * Added support for the mov.b and mov.w instructions with displacement addressing. * Added support for the SH2A instructions movu.b and movu.w. * Various improvements to code generated for integer arithmetic. * Improvements to conditional branches and code that involves the T bit. A new option -mzdcbranch tells the compiler to favor zero-displacement branches. This is enabled by default for SH4* targets. * The pref instruction will now be emitted by the __builtin_prefetch built-in function for SH3* targets. * The fmac instruction will now be emitted by the fmaf standard function and the __builtin_fmaf built-in function. * The -mfused-madd option has been deprecated in favor of the machine-independent -ffp-contract option. Notice that the fmac instruction will now be generated by default for expressions like a * b + c. This is due to the compiler default setting -ffp-contract=fast. * Added new options -mfsrra and -mfsca to allow the compiler using the fsrra and fsca instructions on targets other than SH4A (where they are already enabled by default). * Added support for the __builtin_bswap32 built-in function. It is now expanded as a sequence of swap.b and swap.w instructions instead of a library function call. * The behavior of the -mieee option has been fixed and the negative form -mno-ieee has been added to control the IEEE conformance of floating point comparisons. By default -mieee is now enabled and the option -ffinite-math-only implicitly sets -mno-ieee. * Added support for the built-in functions __builtin_thread_pointer and __builtin_set_thread_pointer. This assumes that GBR is used to hold the thread pointer of the current thread. Memory loads and stores relative to the address returned by __builtin_thread_pointer will now also utilize GBR based displacement address modes. * The -mdiv= option for targets other than SHmedia has been fixed and documented. SPARC * Added optimized instruction scheduling for Niagara4. TILE-Gx * Added support for the -mcmodel=MODEL command-line option. The models supported are small and large. V850 * This target now supports the E3V5 architecture via the use of the new -mv850e3v5 command-line option. It also has experimental support for the e3v5 LOOP instruction which can be enabled via the new -mloop command-line option. XStormy16 * This target now supports the -fstack-usage command-line option. Operating Systems Windows (Cygwin) * Executables are now linked against shared libgcc by default. The previous default was to link statically, which can still be done by explicitly specifying -static or static-libgcc on the command line. However it is strongly advised against, as it will cause problems for any application that makes use of DLLs compiled by GCC. It should be alright for a monolithic stand-alone application that only links against the Windows DLLs, but offers little or no benefit. GCC 4.8.1 This is the [33]list of problem reports (PRs) from GCC's bug tracking system that are known to be fixed in the 4.8.1 release. This list might not be complete (that is, it is possible that some PRs that have been fixed are not listed here). The C++11 std::chrono::system_clock and std::chrono::steady_clock classes have changed ABI in GCC 4.8.1, they both are now separate (never typedefs of each other), both use std::chrono::nanoseconds resolution, on most GNU/Linux configurations std::chrono::steady_clock is now finally monotonic, and both classes are mangled differently than in the previous GCC releases. std::chrono::system_clock::now() with std::chrono::microseconds resp. std::chrono::seconds resolution is still exported for backwards compatibility with default configured libstdc++. Note that libstdc++ configured with --enable-libstdcxx-time= used to be ABI incompatible with default configured libstdc++ for those two classes and no ABI compatibility can be offered for those configurations, so any C++11 code that uses those classes and has been compiled and linked against libstdc++ configured with the non-default --enable-libstdcxx-time= configuration option needs to be recompiled. GCC 4.8.2 This is the [34]list of problem reports (PRs) from GCC's bug tracking system that are known to be fixed in the 4.8.2 release. This list might not be complete (that is, it is possible that some PRs that have been fixed are not listed here). GCC 4.8.3 This is the [35]list of problem reports (PRs) from GCC's bug tracking system that are known to be fixed in the 4.8.3 release. This list might not be complete (that is, it is possible that some PRs that have been fixed are not listed here). Support for the new powerpc64le-linux platform has been added. It defaults to generating code that conforms to the ELFV2 ABI. GCC 4.8.4 This is the [36]list of problem reports (PRs) from GCC's bug tracking system that are known to be fixed in the 4.8.4 release. This list might not be complete (that is, it is possible that some PRs that have been fixed are not listed here). GCC 4.8.5 This is the [37]list of problem reports (PRs) from GCC's bug tracking system that are known to be fixed in the 4.8.5 release. This list might not be complete (that is, it is possible that some PRs that have been fixed are not listed here). For questions related to the use of GCC, please consult these web pages and the [38]GCC manuals. If that fails, the [39]gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org mailing list might help. Comments on these web pages and the development of GCC are welcome on our developer list at [40]gcc@gcc.gnu.org. All of [41]our lists have public archives. Copyright (C) [42]Free Software Foundation, Inc. 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This release is a bug-fix release, containing fixes for regressions in GCC 4.7.3 relative to previous releases of GCC. Release History GCC 4.7.4 June 12, 2014 ([2]changes, [3]documentation) GCC 4.7.3 April 11, 2013 ([4]changes, [5]documentation) GCC 4.7.2 September 20, 2012 ([6]changes, [7]documentation) GCC 4.7.1 June 14, 2012 ([8]changes, [9]documentation) GCC 4.7.0 March 22, 2012 ([10]changes, [11]documentation) References and Acknowledgements GCC used to stand for the GNU C Compiler, but since the compiler supports several other languages aside from C, it now stands for the GNU Compiler Collection. A list of [12]successful builds is updated as new information becomes available. The GCC developers would like to thank the numerous people that have contributed new features, improvements, bug fixes, and other changes as well as test results to GCC. This [13]amazing group of volunteers is what makes GCC successful. 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The flag had no effect for most targets: only targets without a global .bss section and without support for switchable sections. Furthermore, the flag only had an effect for G++, where it could result in wrong semantics (please refer to the GCC manual for further details). The flag will be removed in GCC 4.8 * Support for a number of older systems and recently unmaintained or untested target ports of GCC has been declared obsolete in GCC 4.7. Unless there is activity to revive them, the next release of GCC will have their sources permanently removed. All GCC ports for the following processor architectures have been declared obsolete: + picoChip (picochip-*) The following ports for individual systems on particular architectures have been obsoleted: + IRIX 6.5 (mips-sgi-irix6.5) + MIPS OpenBSD (mips*-*-openbsd*) + Solaris 8 (*-*-solaris2.8). Details can be found in the [1]announcement. + Tru64 UNIX V5.1 (alpha*-dec-osf5.1*) * On ARM, when compiling for ARMv6 (but not ARMv6-M), ARMv7-A, ARMv7-R, or ARMv7-M, the new option -munaligned-access is active by default, which for some sources generates code that accesses memory on unaligned addresses. This requires the kernel of those systems to enable such accesses (controlled by CP15 register c1, refer to ARM documentation). Alternatively, or for compatibility with kernels where unaligned accesses are not supported, all code has to be compiled with -mno-unaligned-access. Upstream Linux kernel releases have automatically and unconditionally supported unaligned accesses as emitted by GCC due to this option being active since version 2.6.28. * Support on ARM for the legacy floating-point accelerator (FPA) and the mixed-endian floating-point format that it used has been obsoleted. The ports that still use this format have been obsoleted as well. Many legacy ARM ports already provide an alternative that uses the VFP floating-point format. The obsolete ports will be deleted in the next release. The obsolete ports with alternatives are: + arm*-*-rtems (use arm*-*-rtemseabi) + arm*-*-linux-gnu (use arm*-*-linux-gnueabi) + arm*-*-elf (use arm*-*-eabi) + arm*-*-uclinux* (use arm*-*-uclinux*eabi) Note, however, that these alternatives are not binary compatible with their legacy counterparts (although some can support running legacy applications). The obsolete ports that currently lack a modern alternative are: + arm*-*-ecos-elf + arm*-*-freebsd + arm*-wince-pe* New ports that support more recent versions of the architecture are welcome. * Support for the Maverick co-processor on ARM has been obsoleted. Code to support it will be deleted in the next release. * Support has been removed for Unix International threads on Solaris 2, so the --enable-threads=solaris configure option and the -threads compiler option don't work any longer. * Support has been removed for the Solaris BSD Compatibility Package, which lives in /usr/ucbinclude and /usr/ucblib. It has been removed from Solaris 11, and was only intended as a migration aid from SunOS 4 to SunOS 5. The -compat-bsd compiler option is not recognized any longer. * The AVR port's libgcc has been improved and its multilib structure has been enhanced. As a result, all objects contributing to an application must either be compiled with GCC versions up to 4.6.x or with GCC versions 4.7.1 or later. If the compiler is used with AVR Libc, you need a version that supports the new layout, i.e. implements [2]#35407. * The AVR port's -mshort-calls command-line option has been deprecated. It will be removed in the GCC 4.8 release. See -mrelax for a replacement. * The AVR port only references startup code that clears .bss and the common section resp. initializes the .data and .rodata section provided respective sections (or subsections thereof) are not empty, see [3]PR18145. Applications that put all static storage objects into non-standard sections and / or define all static storage objects in assembler modules, must reference __do_clear_bss resp. __do_copy_data by hand or undefine the symbol(s) by means of -Wl,-u,__do_clear_bss resp. -Wl,-u,__do_copy_data. * The ARM port's -mwords-little-endian option has been deprecated. It will be removed in a future release. * Support has been removed for the NetWare x86 configuration obsoleted in GCC 4.6. * It is no longer possible to use the "l" constraint in MIPS16 asm statements. * GCC versions 4.7.0 and 4.7.1 had changes to the C++ standard library which affected the ABI in C++11 mode: a data member was added to std::list changing its size and altering the definitions of some member functions, and std::pair's move constructor was non-trivial which altered the calling convention for functions with std::pair arguments or return types. The ABI incompatibilities have been fixed for GCC version 4.7.2 but as a result C++11 code compiled with GCC 4.7.0 or 4.7.1 may be incompatible with C++11 code compiled with different GCC versions and with C++98/C++03 code compiled with any version. * On ARM, a bug has been fixed in GCC's implementation of the AAPCS rules for the layout of vectors that could lead to wrong code being generated. Vectors larger than 8 bytes in size are now by default aligned to an 8-byte boundary. This is an ABI change: code that makes explicit use of vector types may be incompatible with binary objects built with older versions of GCC. Auto-vectorized code is not affected by this change. (This change affects GCC versions 4.7.2 and later.) * More information on porting to GCC 4.7 from previous versions of GCC can be found in the [4]porting guide for this release. General Optimizer Improvements * Support for a new parameter --param case-values-threshold=n was added to allow users to control the cutoff between doing switch statements as a series of if statements and using a jump table. * Link-time optimization (LTO) improvements: + Improved scalability and reduced memory usage. Link time optimization of Firefox now requires 3GB of RAM on a 64-bit system, while over 8GB was needed previously. Linking time has been improved, too. The serial stage of linking Firefox has been sped up by about a factor of 10. + Reduced size of object files and temporary storage used during linking. + Streaming performance (both outbound and inbound) has been improved. + ld -r is now supported with LTO. + Several bug fixes, especially in symbol table handling and merging. * Interprocedural optimization improvements: + Heuristics now take into account that after inlining code will be optimized out because of known values (or properties) of function parameters. For example: void foo(int a) { if (a > 10) ... huge code ... } void bar (void) { foo (0); } The call of foo will be inlined into bar even when optimizing for code size. Constructs based on __builtin_constant_p are now understood by the inliner and code size estimates are evaluated a lot more realistically. + The representation of C++ virtual thunks and aliases (both implicit and defined via the alias attribute) has been re-engineered. Aliases no longer pose optimization barriers and calls to an alias can be inlined and otherwise optimized. + The inter-procedural constant propagation pass has been rewritten. It now performs generic function specialization. For example when compiling the following: void foo(bool flag) { if (flag) ... do something ... else ... do something else ... } void bar (void) { foo (false); foo (true); foo (false); foo (true); foo (false); foo (true); } GCC will now produce two copies of foo. One with flag being true, while other with flag being false. This leads to performance improvements previously possible only by inlining all calls. Cloning causes a lot less code size growth. * A string length optimization pass has been added. It attempts to track string lengths and optimize various standard C string functions like strlen, strchr, strcpy, strcat, stpcpy and their _FORTIFY_SOURCE counterparts into faster alternatives. This pass is enabled by default at -O2 or above, unless optimizing for size, and can be disabled by the -fno-optimize-strlen option. The pass can e.g. optimize char *bar (const char *a) { size_t l = strlen (a) + 2; char *p = malloc (l); if (p == NULL) return p; strcpy (p, a); strcat (p, "/"); return p; } into: char *bar (const char *a) { size_t tmp = strlen (a); char *p = malloc (tmp + 2); if (p == NULL) return p; memcpy (p, a, tmp); memcpy (p + tmp, "/", 2); return p; } or for hosted compilations where stpcpy is available in the runtime and headers provide its prototype, e.g. void foo (char *a, const char *b, const char *c, const char *d) { strcpy (a, b); strcat (a, c); strcat (a, d); } can be optimized into: void foo (char *a, const char *b, const char *c, const char *d) { strcpy (stpcpy (stpcpy (a, b), c), d); } New Languages and Language specific improvements * Version 3.1 of the [5]OpenMP specification is now supported for the C, C++, and Fortran compilers. Ada * The command-line option -feliminate-unused-debug-types has been re-enabled by default, as it is for the other languages, leading to a reduction in debug info size of 12.5% and more for relevant cases, as well as to a small compilation speedup. C family * A new built-in, __builtin_assume_aligned, has been added, through which the compiler can be hinted about pointer alignment and can use it to improve generated code. * A new warning option -Wunused-local-typedefs was added for C, C++, Objective-C and Objective-C++. This warning diagnoses typedefs locally defined in a function, and otherwise not used. * A new experimental command-line option -ftrack-macro-expansion was added for C, C++, Objective-C, Objective-C++ and Fortran. It allows the compiler to emit diagnostic about the current macro expansion stack when a compilation error occurs in a macro expansion. * Experimental support for transactional memory has been added. It includes support in the compiler, as well as a supporting runtime library called libitm. To compile code with transactional memory constructs, use the -fgnu-tm option. Support is currently available for Alpha, ARM, PowerPC, SH, SPARC, and 32-bit/64-bit x86 platforms. For more details on transactional memory see [6]the GCC WiKi. * Support for atomic operations specifying the C++11/C11 memory model has been added. These new __atomic routines replace the existing __sync built-in routines. Atomic support is also available for memory blocks. Lock-free instructions will be used if a memory block is the same size and alignment as a supported integer type. Atomic operations which do not have lock-free support are left as function calls. A set of library functions is available on the GCC atomic wiki in the "External Atomics Library" section. For more details on the memory models and features, see the [7]atomic wiki. * When a binary operation is performed on vector types and one of the operands is a uniform vector, it is possible to replace the vector with the generating element. For example: typedef int v4si __attribute__ ((vector_size (16))); v4si res, a = {1,2,3,4}; int x; res = 2 + a; /* means {2,2,2,2} + a */ res = a - x; /* means a - {x,x,x,x} */ C * There is support for some more features from the C11 revision of the ISO C standard. GCC now accepts the options -std=c11 and -std=gnu11, in addition to the previous -std=c1x and -std=gnu1x. + Unicode strings (previously supported only with options such as -std=gnu11, now supported with -std=c11), and the predefined macros __STDC_UTF_16__ and __STDC_UTF_32__. + Nonreturning functions (_Noreturn and ). + Alignment support (_Alignas, _Alignof, max_align_t, ). + A built-in function __builtin_complex is provided to support C library implementation of the CMPLX family of macros. C++ * G++ now accepts the -std=c++11, -std=gnu++11, and -Wc++11-compat options, which are equivalent to -std=c++0x, -std=gnu++0x, and -Wc++0x-compat, respectively. * G++ now implements [8]C++11 extended friend syntax: template class Q { static const int I = 2; public: friend W; }; struct B { int ar[Q::I]; }; * Thanks to Ville Voutilainen, G++ now implements [9]C++11 explicit override control. struct B { virtual void f() const final; virtual void f(int); }; struct D : B { void f() const; // error: D::f attempts to override final B::f void f(long) override; // error: doesn't override anything void f(int) override; // ok }; struct E final { }; struct F: E { }; // error: deriving from final class * G++ now implements [10]C++11 non-static data member initializers. struct A { int i = 42; } a; // initializes a.i to 42 * Thanks to Ed Smith-Rowland, G++ now implements [11]C++11 user-defined literals. // Not actually a good approximation. :) constexpr long double operator"" _degrees (long double d) { return d * 0.0175; } long double pi = 180.0_degrees; * G++ now implements [12]C++11 alias-declarations. template using Ptr = T*; Ptr ip; // decltype(ip) is int* * Thanks to Ville Voutilainen and Pedro Lamarão, G++ now implements [13]C++11 delegating constructors. struct A { A(int); A(): A(42) { } // delegate to the A(int) constructor }; * G++ now fully implements C++11 atomic classes rather than just integer derived classes. class POD { int a; int b; }; std::atomic my_atomic_POD; * G++ now sets the predefined macro __cplusplus to the correct value, 199711L for C++98/03, and 201103L for C++11. * G++ now correctly implements the two-phase lookup rules such that an unqualified name used in a template must have an appropriate declaration found either in scope at the point of definition of the template or by argument-dependent lookup at the point of instantiation. As a result, code that relies on a second unqualified lookup at the point of instantiation to find functions declared after the template or in dependent bases will be rejected. The compiler will suggest ways to fix affected code, and using the -fpermissive compiler flag will allow the code to compile with a warning. template void f() { g(T()); } // error, g(int) not found by argument-dependent lookup void g(int) { } // fix by moving this declaration before the declaration of f template struct A: T { // error, B::g(B) not found by argument-dependent lookup void f() { g(T()); } // fix by using this->g or A::g }; struct B { void g(B); }; int main() { f(); A().f(); } * G++ now properly re-uses stack space allocated for temporary objects when their lifetime ends, which can significantly lower stack consumption for some C++ functions. As a result of this, some code with undefined behavior will now break: const int &f(const int &i) { return i; } .... const int &x = f(1); const int &y = f(2); Here, x refers to the temporary allocated to hold the 1 argument, which only lives until the end of the initialization; it immediately becomes a dangling reference. So the next statement re-uses the stack slot to hold the 2 argument, and users of x get that value instead. Note that this should not cause any change of behavior for temporaries of types with non-trivial destructors, as they are already destroyed at end of full-expression; the change is that now the storage is released as well. * A new command-line option -Wdelete-non-virtual-dtor has been added to warn when delete is used to destroy an instance of a class which has virtual functions and non-virtual destructor. It is unsafe to delete an instance of a derived class through a pointer to a base class if the base class does not have a virtual destructor. This warning is enabled by -Wall. * A new command-line option -Wzero-as-null-pointer-constant has been added to warn when a literal '0' is used as null pointer constant. It can be useful to facilitate the conversion to nullptr in C++11. * As per C++98, access-declarations are now deprecated by G++. Using-declarations are to be used instead. Furthermore, some efforts have been made to improve the support of class scope using-declarations. In particular, using-declarations referring to a dependent type now work as expected ([14]bug c++/14258). * The ELF symbol visibility of a template instantiation is now properly constrained by the visibility of its template arguments ([15]bug c++/35688). Runtime Library (libstdc++) * [16]Improved experimental support for the new ISO C++ standard, C++11, including: + using noexcept in most of the library; + implementations of pointer_traits, allocator_traits and scoped_allocator_adaptor; + uses-allocator construction for tuple; + vector meets the allocator-aware container requirements; + replacing monotonic_clock with steady_clock; + enabling the thread support library on most POSIX targets; + many small improvements to conform to the FDIS. * Added --enable-clocale=newlib configure option. * Debug Mode iterators for unordered associative containers. * Avoid polluting the global namespace and do not include . Fortran * The compile flag [17]-fstack-arrays has been added, which causes all local arrays to be put on stack memory. For some programs this will improve the performance significantly. If your program uses very large local arrays, it is possible that you will have to extend your runtime limits for stack memory. * The [18]-Ofast flag now also implies [19]-fno-protect-parens and [20]-fstack-arrays. * Front-end optimizations can now be selected by the [21]-ffrontend-optimize option and deselected by the -fno-frontend-optimize option. * When front-end optimization removes a function call, [22]-Wfunction-elimination warns about that. * When performing front-end-optimization, the [23]-faggressive-function-elimination option allows the removal of duplicate function calls even for impure functions. * The flag [24]-Wreal-q-constant has been added, which warns if floating-point literals have been specified using q (such as 1.0q0); the q marker is now supported as a vendor extension to denote quad precision (REAL(16) or, if not available, REAL(10)). Consider using a kind parameter (such as in 1.0_qp) instead, which can be obtained via [25]SELECTED_REAL_KIND. * The GFORTRAN_USE_STDERR environment variable has been removed. GNU Fortran now always prints error messages to standard error. If you wish to redirect standard error, please consult the manual for your OS, shell, batch environment etc. as appropriate. * The -fdump-core option and GFORTRAN_ERROR_DUMPCORE environment variable have been removed. When encountering a serious error, gfortran will now always abort the program. Whether a core dump is generated depends on the user environment settings; see the ulimit -c setting for POSIX shells, limit coredumpsize for C shells, and the [26]WER user-mode dumps settings on Windows. * The [27]-fbacktrace option is now enabled by default. When encountering a fatal error, gfortran will attempt to print a backtrace to standard error before aborting. It can be disabled with -fno-backtrace. Note: On POSIX targets with the addr2line utility from GNU binutils, GNU Fortran can print a backtrace with function name, file name, line number information in addition to the addresses; otherwise only the addresses are printed. * [28]Fortran 2003: + Generic interface names which have the same name as derived types are now supported, which allows to write constructor functions. Note that Fortran does not support static constructor functions; only default initialization or an explicit structure-constructor initialization are available. + [29]Polymorphic (class) arrays are now supported. * [30]Fortran 2008: + Support for the DO CONCURRENT construct has been added, which allows the user to specify that individual loop iterations have no interdependencies. + [31]Coarrays: Full single-image support except for polymorphic coarrays. Additionally, preliminary support for multiple images via an MPI-based [32]coarray communication library has been added. Note: The library version is not yet usable as remote coarray access is not yet possible. * [33]TS 29113: + New flag [34]-std=f2008ts permits programs that are expected to conform to the Fortran 2008 standard and the draft Technical Specification (TS) 29113 on Further Interoperability of Fortran with C. + The OPTIONAL attribute is now allowed for dummy arguments of BIND(C) procedures. + The RANK intrinsic has been added. + The implementation of the ASYNCHRONOUS attribute in GCC is compatible with the candidate draft of TS 29113 (since GCC 4.6). Go * GCC 4.7 implements the [35]Go 1 language standard. The library support in 4.7.0 is not quite complete, due to release timing. Release 4.7.1 includes complete support for Go 1. The Go library is from the Go 1.0.1 release. * Go has been tested on GNU/Linux and Solaris platforms. It may work on other platforms as well. New Targets and Target Specific Improvements ARM * GCC now supports the Cortex-A7 processor implementing the v7-a version of the architecture using the option -mcpu=cortex-a7. * The default vector size in auto-vectorization for NEON is now 128 bits. If vectorization fails thusly, the vectorizer tries again with 64-bit vectors. * A new option -mvectorize-with-neon-double was added to allow users to change the vector size to 64 bits. AVR * GCC now supports the XMEGA architecture. This requires GNU binutils 2.22 or later. * Support for the [36]named address spaces __flash, __flash1, …, __flash5 and __memx has been added. These address spaces locate read-only data in flash memory and allow reading from flash memory by means of ordinary C code, i.e. without the need of (inline) assembler code: const __flash int values[] = { 42, 31 }; int add_values (const __flash int *p, int i) { return values[i] + *p; } * Support has been added for the AVR-specific configure option --with-avrlibc=yes in order to arrange for better integration of [37]AVR-Libc. This configure option is supported in avr-gcc 4.7.2 and newer and will only take effect in non-RTEMS configurations. If avr-gcc is configured for RTEMS, the option will be ignored which is the same as specifying --with-avrlibc=no. See [38]PR54461 for more technical details. * Support for AVR-specific [39]built-in functions has been added. * Support has been added for the signed and unsigned 24-bit scalar integer types __int24 and __uint24. * New command-line options -maccumulate-args, -mbranch-cost=cost and -mstrict-X were added to allow better fine-tuning of code optimization. * The command option -fdata-sections now also takes affect on the section names of variables with the progmem attribute. * A new inline assembler print modifier %i to print a RAM address as I/O address has been added: #include /* Port Definitions from AVR-LibC */ void set_portb (uint8_t value) { asm volatile ("out %i0, %1" :: "n" (&PORTB), "r" (value) : "memory"); } The offset between an I/O address and the RAM address for that I/O location is device-specific. This offset is taken into account when printing a RAM address with the %i modifier so that the address is suitable to be used as operand in an I/O command. The address must be a constant integer known at compile time. * The inline assembler constraint "R" to represent integers in the range −6 … 5 has been removed without replacement. * Many optimizations to: + 64-bit integer arithmetic + Widening multiplication + Integer division by a constant + Avoid constant reloading in multi-byte instructions. + Micro-optimizations for special instruction sequences. + Generic built-in functions like __builtin_ffs*, __builtin_clz*, etc. + If-else decision trees generated by switch instructions + Merging of data located in flash memory + New libgcc variants for devices with 8-bit wide stack pointer + … * Better documentation: + Handling of EIND and indirect jumps on devices with more than 128 KiB of program memory. + Handling of the RAMPD, RAMPX, RAMPY and RAMPZ special function registers. + Function attributes OS_main and OS_task. + AVR-specific built-in macros. C6X * Support has been added for the Texas Instruments C6X family of processors. CR16 * Support has been added for National Semiconductor's CR16 architecture. Epiphany * Support has been added for Adapteva's Epiphany architecture. IA-32/x86-64 * Support for Intel AVX2 intrinsics, built-in functions and code generation is available via -mavx2. * Support for Intel BMI2 intrinsics, built-in functions and code generation is available via -mbmi2. * Implementation and automatic generation of __builtin_clz* using the lzcnt instruction is available via -mlzcnt. * Support for Intel FMA3 intrinsics and code generation is available via -mfma. * A new -mfsgsbase command-line option is available that makes GCC generate new segment register read/write instructions through dedicated built-ins. * Support for the new Intel rdrnd instruction is available via -mrdrnd. * Two additional AVX vector conversion instructions are available via -mf16c. * Support for new Intel processor codename IvyBridge with RDRND, FSGSBASE and F16C is available through -march=core-avx-i. * Support for the new Intel processor codename Haswell with AVX2, FMA, BMI, BMI2, LZCNT is available through -march=core-avx2. * Support for new AMD family 15h processors (Piledriver core) is now available through -march=bdver2 and -mtune=bdver2 options. * Support for [40]the x32 psABI is now available through the -mx32 option. * Windows mingw targets are using the -mms-bitfields option by default. * Windows x86 targets are using the __thiscall calling convention for C++ class-member functions. * Support for the configure option --with-threads=posix for Windows mingw targets. MIPS * GCC now supports thread-local storage (TLS) for MIPS16. This requires GNU binutils 2.22 or later. * GCC can now generate code specifically for the Cavium Octeon+ and Octeon2 processors. The associated command-line options are -march=octeon+ and -march=octeon2 respectively. Both options require GNU binutils 2.22 or later. * GCC can now work around certain 24k errata, under the control of the command-line option -mfix-24k. These workarounds require GNU binutils 2.20 or later. * 32-bit MIPS GNU/Linux targets such as mips-linux-gnu can now build n32 and n64 multilibs. The result is effectively a 64-bit GNU/Linux toolchain that generates 32-bit code by default. Use the configure-time option --enable-targets=all to select these extra multilibs. * Passing -fno-delayed-branch now also stops the assembler from automatically filling delay slots. PowerPC/PowerPC64 * Vectors of type vector long long or vector long are passed and returned using the same method as other vectors with the VSX instruction set. Previously GCC did not adhere to the ABI for 128-bit vectors with 64-bit integer base types (PR 48857). This will also be fixed in the GCC 4.6.1 and 4.5.4 releases. * A new option -mno-pointers-to-nested-functions was added to allow AIX 32-bit/64-bit and GNU/Linux 64-bit PowerPC users to specify that the compiler should not load up the chain register (r11) before calling a function through a pointer. If you use this option, you cannot call nested functions through a pointer, or call other languages that might use the static chain. * A new option msave-toc-indirect was added to allow AIX 32-bit/64-bit and GNU/Linux 64-bit PowerPC users control whether we save the TOC in the prologue for indirect calls or generate the save inline. This can speed up some programs that call through a function pointer a lot, but it can slow down other functions that only call through a function pointer in exceptional cases. * The PowerPC port will now enable machine-specific built-in functions when the user switches the target machine using the #pragma GCC target or __attribute__ ((__target__ ("target"))) code sequences. In addition, the target macros are updated. However, due to the way the -save-temps switch is implemented, you won't see the effect of these additional macros being defined in preprocessor output. SH * A new option -msoft-atomic has been added. When it is specified, GCC will generate GNU/Linux-compatible gUSA atomic sequences for the new __atomic routines. * Since it is neither supported by GAS nor officially documented, code generation for little endian SH2A has been disabled. Specifying -ml with -m2a* will now result in a compiler error. * The defunct -mbranch-cost option has been fixed. * Some improvements to the generated code of: + Utilization of the tst #imm,R0 instruction. + Dynamic shift instructions on SH2A. + Integer absolute value calculations. * The -mdiv= option for targets other than SHmedia has been fixed and documented. SPARC * The option -mflat has been reinstated. When it is specified, the compiler will generate code for a single register window model. This is essentially a new implementation and the corresponding debugger support has been added to GDB 7.4. * Support for the options -mtune=native and -mcpu=native has been added on selected native platforms (GNU/Linux and Solaris). * Support for the SPARC T3 (Niagara 3) processor has been added. * VIS: + An intrinsics header visintrin.h has been added. + Builtin intrinsics for the VIS 1.0 edge handling and pixel compare instructions have been added. + The little-endian version of alignaddr is now supported. + When possible, VIS builtins are marked const, which should increase the compiler's ability to optimize VIS operations. + The compiler now properly tracks the %gsr register and how it behaves as an input for various VIS instructions. + Akin to fzero, the compiler can now generate fone instructions in order to set all of the bits of a floating-point register to 1. + The documentation for the VIS intrinsics in the GCC manual has been brought up to date and many inaccuracies were fixed. + Intrinsics for the VIS 2.0 bmask, bshuffle, and non-condition-code setting edge instructions have been added. Their availability is controlled by the new -mvis2 and -mno-vis2 options. They are enabled by default on UltraSPARC-III and later CPUs. * Support for UltraSPARC Fused Multiply-Add floating-point extensions has been added. These instructions are enabled by default on SPARC T3 (Niagara 3) and later CPUs. TILE-Gx/TILEPro * Support has been added for the Tilera TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Other significant improvements * A new option (-grecord-gcc-switches) was added that appends compiler command-line options that might affect code generation to the DW_AT_producer attribute string in the DWARF debugging information. * GCC now supports various new GNU extensions to the DWARF debugging information format, like [41]entry value and [42]call site information, [43]typed DWARF stack or [44]a more compact macro representation. Support for these extensions has been added to GDB 7.4. They can be disabled through the -gstrict-dwarf command-line option. GCC 4.7.1 This is the [45]list of problem reports (PRs) from GCC's bug tracking system that are known to be fixed in the 4.7.1 release. This list might not be complete (that is, it is possible that some PRs that have been fixed are not listed here). The Go frontend in the 4.7.1 release fully supports the [46]Go 1 language standard. GCC 4.7.2 This is the [47]list of problem reports (PRs) from GCC's bug tracking system that are known to be fixed in the 4.7.2 release. This list might not be complete (that is, it is possible that some PRs that have been fixed are not listed here). GCC 4.7.3 This is the [48]list of problem reports (PRs) from GCC's bug tracking system that are known to be fixed in the 4.7.3 release. This list might not be complete (that is, it is possible that some PRs that have been fixed are not listed here). GCC 4.7.4 This is the [49]list of problem reports (PRs) from GCC's bug tracking system that are known to be fixed in the 4.7.4 release. This list might not be complete (that is, it is possible that some PRs that have been fixed are not listed here). For questions related to the use of GCC, please consult these web pages and the [50]GCC manuals. If that fails, the [51]gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org mailing list might help. Comments on these web pages and the development of GCC are welcome on our developer list at [52]gcc@gcc.gnu.org. All of [53]our lists have public archives. Copyright (C) [54]Free Software Foundation, Inc. Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved. These pages are [55]maintained by the GCC team. Last modified 2014-12-06[56]. 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This release is a bug-fix release, containing fixes for regressions in GCC 4.6.3 relative to previous releases of GCC. Release History GCC 4.6.4 April 12, 2013 ([2]changes, [3]documentation) GCC 4.6.3 March 1, 2012 ([4]changes, [5]documentation) GCC 4.6.2 October 26, 2011 ([6]changes, [7]documentation) GCC 4.6.1 June 27, 2011 ([8]changes, [9]documentation) GCC 4.6.0 March 25, 2011 ([10]changes, [11]documentation) References and Acknowledgements GCC used to stand for the GNU C Compiler, but since the compiler supports several other languages aside from C, it now stands for the GNU Compiler Collection. A list of [12]successful builds is updated as new information becomes available. The GCC developers would like to thank the numerous people that have contributed new features, improvements, bug fixes, and other changes as well as test results to GCC. This [13]amazing group of volunteers is what makes GCC successful. 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Instead, users should directly run -gcc when cross-compiling, or -gcc- to run a different version of gcc. * GCC now has stricter checks for invalid command-line options. In particular, when gcc was called to link object files rather than compile source code, it would previously accept and ignore all options starting with --, including linker options such as --as-needed and --export-dynamic, although such options would result in errors if any source code was compiled. Such options, if unknown to the compiler, are now rejected in all cases; if the intent was to pass them to the linker, options such as -Wl,--as-needed should be used. * Versions of the GNU C library up to and including 2.11.1 included an [1]incorrect implementation of the cproj function. GCC optimizes its builtin cproj according to the behavior specified and allowed by the ISO C99 standard. If you want to avoid discrepancies between the C library and GCC's builtin transformations when using cproj in your code, use GLIBC 2.12 or later. If you are using an older GLIBC and actually rely on the incorrect behavior of cproj, then you can disable GCC's transformations using -fno-builtin-cproj. * The C-only intermodule optimization framework (IMA, enabled by -combine) has been removed in favor of the new generic link-time optimization framework (LTO) introduced in [2]GCC 4.5.0. * GCC now ships with the LGPL-licensed libquadmath library, which provides quad-precision mathematical functions for targets with a __float128 datatype. __float128 is available for targets on 32-bit x86, x86-64 and Itanium architectures. The libquadmath library is automatically built on such targets when building the Fortran compiler. * New -Wunused-but-set-variable and -Wunused-but-set-parameter warnings were added for C, C++, Objective-C and Objective-C++. These warnings diagnose variables respective parameters which are only set in the code and never otherwise used. Usually such variables are useless and often even the value assigned to them is computed needlessly, sometimes expensively. The -Wunused-but-set-variable warning is enabled by default by -Wall flag and -Wunused-but-set-parameter by -Wall -Wextra flags. * On ARM, a bug has been fixed in GCC's implementation of the AAPCS rules for the layout of vectors that could lead to wrong code being generated. Vectors larger than 8 bytes in size are now by default aligned to an 8-byte boundary. This is an ABI change: code that makes explicit use of vector types may be incompatible with binary objects built with older versions of GCC. Auto-vectorized code is not affected by this change. (This change affects GCC versions 4.6.4 and later, with the exception of versions 4.7.0 and 4.7.1.) * On AVR, variables with the progmem attribute to locate data in flash memory must be qualified as const. * Support for a number of older systems and recently unmaintained or untested target ports of GCC has been declared obsolete in GCC 4.6. Unless there is activity to revive them, the next release of GCC will have their sources permanently removed. All GCC ports for the following processor architectures have been declared obsolete: + Argonaut ARC (arc-*) + National Semiconductor CRX (crx-*) + Motorola 68HC11 and 68HC12 (m68hc11-*-*, m6811-*-*, m68hc12-*-*, m6812-*-*) + Sunplus S+core (score-*) The following ports for individual systems on particular architectures have been obsoleted: + Interix (i[34567]86-*-interix3*) + NetWare x86 (i[3456x]86-*-netware*) + Generic ARM PE (arm-*-pe* other than arm*-wince-pe*) + MCore PE (mcore-*-pe*) + SH SymbianOS (sh*-*-symbianelf*) + GNU Hurd on Alpha and PowerPC (alpha*-*-gnu*, powerpc*-*-gnu*) + M68K uClinux old ABI (m68k-*-uclinuxoldabi*) + a.out NetBSD (arm*-*-netbsd*, i[34567]86-*-netbsd*, vax-*-netbsd*, but not *-*-netbsdelf*) The i[34567]86-*-pe alias for Cygwin targets has also been obsoleted; users should configure for i[34567]86-*-cygwin* instead. Certain configure options to control the set of libraries built with GCC on some targets have been obsoleted. On ARM targets, the options --disable-fpu, --disable-26bit, --disable-underscore, --disable-interwork, --disable-biendian and --disable-nofmult have been obsoleted. On MIPS targets, the options --disable-single-float, --disable-biendian and --disable-softfloat have been obsoleted. * Support has been removed for all the [3]configurations obsoleted in GCC 4.5. * More information on porting to GCC 4.6 from previous versions of GCC can be found in the [4]porting guide for this release. General Optimizer Improvements * A new general optimization level, -Ofast, has been introduced. It combines the existing optimization level -O3 with options that can affect standards compliance but result in better optimized code. For example, -Ofast enables -ffast-math. * Link-time optimization improvements: + The [5]Scalable Whole Program Optimizer (WHOPR) project has stabilized to the point of being usable. It has become the default mode when using the LTO optimization model. Link time optimization can now split itself into multiple parallel compilations. Parallelism is controlled with -flto=n (where n specifies the number of compilations to execute in parallel). GCC can also cooperate with a GNU make job server by specifying the -flto=jobserver option and adding + to the beginning of the Makefile rule executing the linker. Classical LTO mode can be enforced by -flto-partition=none. This may result in small code quality improvements. + A large number of bugs were fixed. GCC itself, Mozilla Firefox and other large applications can be built with LTO enabled. + The linker plugin support improvements o Linker plugin is now enabled by default when the linker is detected to have plugin support. This is the case for GNU ld 2.21.51 or newer (on ELF and Cygwin targets) and the Gold linker on ELF targets. Plugin support of the Apple linker on Darwin is not compatible with GCC. The linker plugin can also be controlled by the -fuse-linker-plugin command line option. o Resolution information from the linker plugin is used to drive whole program assumptions. Use of the linker plugin results in more aggressive optimization on binaries and on shared libraries that use the hidden visibility attribute. Consequently the use of -fwhole-program is not necessary in addition to LTO. + Hidden symbols used from non-LTO objects now have to be explicitly annotated with externally_visible when the linker plugin is not used. + C++ inline functions and virtual tables are now privatized more aggressively, leading to better inter-procedural optimization and faster dynamic linking. + Memory usage and intermediate language streaming performance have been improved. + Static constructors and destructors from individual units are inlined into a single function. This can significantly improve startup times of large C++ applications where static constructors are very common. For example, static constructors are used when including the iostream header. + Support for the Ada language has been added. * Interprocedural optimization improvements + The interprocedural framework was re-tuned for link time optimization. Several scalability issues were resolved. + Improved auto-detection of const and pure functions. Newly, noreturn functions are auto-detected. The [6]-Wsuggest-attribute=[const|pure|noreturn] flag is available that informs users when adding attributes to headers might improve code generation. + A number of inlining heuristic improvements. In particular: o Partial inlining is now supported and enabled by default at -O2 and greater. The feature can be controlled via -fpartial-inlining. Partial inlining splits functions with short hot path to return. This allows more aggressive inlining of the hot path leading to better performance and often to code size reductions (because cold parts of functions are not duplicated). o Scalability for large compilation units was improved significantly. o Inlining of callbacks is now more aggressive. o Virtual methods are considered for inlining when the caller is inlined and devirtualization is then possible. o Inlining when optimizing for size (either in cold regions of a program or when compiling with -Os) was improved to better handle C++ programs with larger abstraction penalty, leading to smaller and faster code. + The IPA reference optimization pass detecting global variables used or modified by functions was strengthened and sped up. + Functions whose address was taken are now optimized out when all references to them are dead. + A new inter-procedural static profile estimation pass detects functions that are executed once or unlikely to be executed. Unlikely executed functions are optimized for size. Functions executed once are optimized for size except for the inner loops. + On most targets with named section support, functions used only at startup (static constructors and main), functions used only at exit and functions detected to be cold are placed into separate text segment subsections. This extends the -freorder-functions feature and is controlled by the same switch. The goal is to improve the startup time of large C++ programs. Proper function placement requires linker support. GNU ld 2.21.51 on ELF targets was updated to place those functions together within the text section leading to better code locality and faster startup times of large C++ programs. The feature is also supported in the Apple linker. Support in the gold linker is planned. * A new switch -fstack-usage has been added. It makes the compiler output stack usage information for the program, on a per-function basis, in an auxiliary file. * A new switch -fcombine-stack-adjustments has been added. It can be used to enable or disable the compiler's stack-slot combining pass which before was enabled automatically at -O1 and above, but could not be controlled on its own. * A new switch -fstrict-volatile-bitfields has been added. Using it indicates that accesses to volatile bitfields should use a single access of the width of the field's type. This option can be useful for precisely defining and accessing memory-mapped peripheral registers from C or C++. Compile time and memory usage improvements * Datastructures used by the dataflow framework in GCC were reorganized for better memory usage and more cache locality. Compile time is improved especially on units with large functions (possibly resulting from a lot of inlining) not fitting into the processor cache. The compile time of the GCC C compiler binary with link-time optimization went down by over 10% (benchmarked on x86-64 target). New Languages and Language specific improvements Ada * Stack checking has been improved on selected architectures (Alpha, IA-32/x86-64, RS/6000 and SPARC): it now will detect stack overflows in all cases on these architectures. * Initial support for Ada 2012 has been added. C family * A new warning, enabled by -Wdouble-promotion, has been added that warns about cases where a value of type float is implicitly promoted to double. This is especially helpful for CPUs that handle the former in hardware, but emulate the latter in software. * A new function attribute leaf was introduced. This attribute allows better inter-procedural optimization across calls to functions that return to the current unit only via returning or exception handling. This is the case for most library functions that have no callbacks. * Support for a new data type __int128 for targets having wide enough machine-mode support. * The new function attribute callee_pop_aggregate allows to specify if the caller or callee is responsible for popping the aggregate return pointer value from the stack. * Support for selectively enabling and disabling warnings via #pragma GCC diagnostic has been added. For instance: #pragma GCC diagnostic error "-Wuninitialized" foo(a); /* error is given for this one */ #pragma GCC diagnostic push #pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wuninitialized" foo(b); /* no diagnostic for this one */ #pragma GCC diagnostic pop foo(c); /* error is given for this one */ #pragma GCC diagnostic pop foo(d); /* depends on command line options */ * The -fmax-errors=N option is now supported. Using this option causes the compiler to exit after N errors have been issued. C * There is now experimental support for some features from the upcoming C1X revision of the ISO C standard. This support may be selected with -std=c1x, or -std=gnu1x for C1X with GNU extensions. Note that this support is experimental and may change incompatibly in future releases for consistency with changes to the C1X standard draft. The following features are newly supported as described in the N1539 draft of C1X (with changes agreed at the March 2011 WG14 meeting); some other features were already supported with no compiler changes being needed, or have some support but not in full accord with N1539 (as amended). + Static assertions (_Static_assert keyword) + Typedef redefinition + New macros in + Anonymous structures and unions * The new -fplan9-extensions option directs the compiler to support some extensions for anonymous struct fields which are implemented by the Plan 9 compiler. A pointer to a struct may be automatically converted to a pointer to an anonymous field when calling a function, in order to make the types match. An anonymous struct field whose type is a typedef name may be referred to using the typedef name. C++ * Improved [7]experimental support for the upcoming C++0x ISO C++ standard, including support for constexpr (thanks to Gabriel Dos Reis and Jason Merrill), nullptr (thanks to Magnus Fromreide), noexcept, unrestricted unions, range-based for loops (thanks to Rodrigo Rivas Costa), opaque enum declarations (thanks also to Rodrigo), implicitly deleted functions and implicit move constructors. * When an extern declaration within a function does not match a declaration in the enclosing context, G++ now properly declares the name within the namespace of the function rather than the namespace which was open just before the function definition ([8]c++/43145). * GCC now warns by default when casting integers to larger pointer types. These warnings can be disabled with the option -Wno-int-to-pointer-cast, which is now also available in C++. * G++ no longer optimizes using the assumption that a value of enumeration type will fall within the range specified by the standard, since that assumption is easily violated with a conversion from integer type ([9]c++/43680). The old behavior can be restored with -fstrict-enums. * The new -fnothrow-opt flag changes the semantics of a throw() exception specification to match the proposed semantics of the noexcept specification: just call terminate if an exception tries to propagate out of a function with such an exception specification. This dramatically reduces or eliminates the code size overhead from adding the exception specification. * The new -Wnoexcept flag will suggest adding a noexcept qualifier to a function that the compiler can tell doesn't throw if it would change the value of a noexcept expression. * The -Wshadow option now warns if a local variable or type declaration shadows another type in C++. Note that the compiler will not warn if a local variable shadows a struct/class/enum, but will warn if it shadows an explicit typedef. * When an identifier is not found in the current scope, G++ now offers suggestions about which identifier might have been intended. * G++ now issues clearer diagnostics for missing semicolons after class, struct, and union definitions. * G++ now issues clearer diagnostics for missing semicolons after class member declarations. * G++ now issues clearer diagnostics when a colon is used in a place where a double-colon was intended. * G++ no longer accepts mutable on reference members ([10]c++/33558). Use -fpermissive to allow the old, non-conforming behaviour. * A few mangling fixes have been made, to attribute const/volatile on function pointer types, decltype of a plain decl, and use of a function parameter in the declaration of another parameter. By default the compiler still uses the old mangling, but emits aliases with the new mangling on targets that support strong aliases. Users can switch over entirely to the new mangling with -fabi-version=5 or -fabi-version=0. -Wabi will now warn about code that uses the old mangling. * In 4.6.0 and 4.6.1 G++ no longer allows objects of const-qualified type to be default initialized unless the type has a user-declared default constructor. In 4.6.2 G++ implements the proposed resolution of [11]DR 253, so default initialization is allowed if it initializes all subobjects. Code that fails to compile can be fixed by providing an initializer e.g. struct A { A(); }; struct B : A { int i; }; const B b = B(); Use -fpermissive to allow the old, non-conforming behaviour. Runtime Library (libstdc++) * [12]Improved experimental support for the upcoming ISO C++ standard, C++0x, including using constexpr and nullptr. * Performance improvements to the [13]Debug Mode, thanks to François Dumont. * Atomic operations used for reference-counting are annotated so that they can be understood by race detectors such as Helgrind, see [14]Data Race Hunting. * Most libstdc++ standard headers have been changed to no longer include the cstddef header as an implementation detail. Code that relied on that header being included as side-effect of including other standard headers will need to include cstddef explicitly. Fortran * On systems supporting the libquadmath library, GNU Fortran now also supports a quad-precision, kind=16 floating-point data type (REAL(16), COMPLEX(16)). As the data type is not fully supported in hardware, calculations might be one to two orders of magnitude slower than with the 4, 8 or 10 bytes floating-point data types. This change does not affect systems which support REAL(16) in hardware nor those which do not support libquadmath. * Much improved compile time for large array constructors. * In order to reduce execution time and memory consumption, use of temporary arrays in assignment expressions is avoided for many cases. The compiler now reverses loops in order to avoid generating a temporary array where possible. * Improved diagnostics, especially with -fwhole-file. * The -fwhole-file flag is now enabled by default. This improves code generation and diagnostics. It can be disabled using the deprecated -fno-whole-file flag. * Support the generation of Makefile dependencies via the [15]-M... flags of GCC; you may need to specify the -cpp option in addition. The dependencies take modules, Fortran's include, and CPP's #include into account. Note: Using -M for the module path is no longer supported, use -J instead. * The flag -Wconversion has been modified to only issue warnings where a conversion leads to information loss. This drastically reduces the number of warnings; -Wconversion is thus now enabled with -Wall. The flag -Wconversion-extra has been added and also warns about other conversions; -Wconversion-extra typically issues a huge number of warnings, most of which can be ignored. * A new command-line option -Wunused-dummy-argument warns about unused dummy arguments and is included in -Wall. Before, -Wunused-variable also warned about unused dummy arguments. * Fortran 2003 support has been extended: + Improved support for polymorphism between libraries and programs and for complicated inheritance patterns (cf. [16]object-oriented programming). + Experimental support of the ASSOCIATE construct. + In pointer assignments it is now possible to specify the lower bounds of the pointer and, for a rank-1 or a simply contiguous data-target, to remap the bounds. + Automatic (re)allocation: In intrinsic assignments to allocatable variables the left-hand side will be automatically allocated (if unallocated) or reallocated (if the shape or type parameter is different). To avoid the small performance penalty, you can use a(:) = ... instead of a = ... for arrays and character strings – or disable the feature using -std=f95 or -fno-realloc-lhs. + Deferred type parameter: For scalar allocatable and pointer variables the character length can be deferred. + Namelist variables with allocatable and pointer attribute and nonconstant length type parameter are supported. * Fortran 2008 support has been extended: + Experimental [17]coarray support (for one image only, i.e. num_images() == 1); use the [18]-fcoarray=single flag to enable it. + The STOP and the new ERROR STOP statements now support all constant expressions. + Support for the CONTIGUOUS attribute. + Support for ALLOCATE with MOLD. + Support for the STORAGE_SIZE intrinsic inquiry function. + Support of the NORM2 and PARITY intrinsic functions. + The following bit intrinsics were added: POPCNT and POPPAR for counting the number of 1 bits and returning the parity; BGE, BGT, BLE, and BLT for bitwise comparisons; DSHIFTL and DSHIFTR for combined left and right shifts, MASKL and MASKR for simple left and right justified masks, MERGE_BITS for a bitwise merge using a mask, SHIFTA, SHIFTL and SHIFTR for shift operations, and the transformational bit intrinsics IALL, IANY and IPARITY. + Support of the EXECUTE_COMMAND_LINE intrinsic subroutine. + Support for the IMPURE attribute for procedures, which allows for ELEMENTAL procedures without the restrictions of PURE. + Null pointers (including NULL()) and not allocated variables can be used as actual argument to optional non-pointer, non-allocatable dummy arguments, denoting an absent argument. + Non-pointer variables with TARGET attribute can be used as actual argument to POINTER dummies with INTENT(IN) + Pointers including procedure pointers and those in a derived type (pointer components) can now be initialized by a target instead of only by NULL. + The EXIT statement (with construct-name) can now be used to leave not only the DO but also the ASSOCIATE, BLOCK, IF, SELECT CASE and SELECT TYPE constructs. + Internal procedures can now be used as actual argument. + The named constants INTEGER_KINDS, LOGICAL_KINDS, REAL_KINDS and CHARACTER_KINDS of the intrinsic module ISO_FORTRAN_ENV have been added; these arrays contain the supported kind values for the respective types. + The module procedures C_SIZEOF of the intrinsic module ISO_C_BINDINGS and COMPILER_VERSION and COMPILER_OPTIONS of ISO_FORTRAN_ENV have been implemented. + Minor changes: obsolescence diagnostics for ENTRY was added for -std=f2008; a line may start with a semicolon; for internal and module procedures END can be used instead of END SUBROUTINE and END FUNCTION; SELECTED_REAL_KIND now also takes a RADIX argument; intrinsic types are supported for TYPE(intrinsic-type-spec); multiple type-bound procedures can be declared in a single PROCEDURE statement; implied-shape arrays are supported for named constants (PARAMETER). The transformational, three argument versions of BESSEL_JN and BESSEL_YN were added – the elemental, two-argument version had been added in GCC 4.4; note that the transformational functions use a recurrence algorithm. Go Support for the [19]Go programming language has been added to GCC. It is not enabled by default when you build GCC; use the --enable-languages configure option to build it. The driver program for compiling Go code is gccgo. Go is currently known to work on GNU/Linux and RTEMS. Solaris support is in progress. It may or may not work on other platforms. Objective-C and Objective-C++ * The -fobjc-exceptions flag is now required to enable Objective-C exception and synchronization syntax (introduced by the keywords @try, @catch, @finally and @synchronized). * A number of Objective-C 2.0 features and extensions are now supported by GCC. These features are enabled by default; you can disable them by using the new -fobjc-std=objc1 command-line option. * The Objective-C 2.0 dot-syntax is now supported. It is an alternative syntax for using getters and setters; object.count is automatically converted into [object count] or [object setCount: ...] depending on context; for example if (object.count > 0) is automatically compiled into the equivalent of if ([object count] > 0) while object.count = 0; is automatically compiled into the equivalent ot [object setCount: 0];. The dot-syntax can be used with instance and class objects and with any setters or getters, no matter if they are part of a declared property or not. * Objective-C 2.0 declared properties are now supported. They are declared using the new @property keyword, and are most commonly used in conjunction with the new Objective-C 2.0 dot-syntax. The nonatomic, readonly, readwrite, assign, retain, copy, setter and getter attributes are all supported. Marking declared properties with __attribute__ ((deprecated)) is supported too. * The Objective-C 2.0 @synthesize and @dynamic keywords are supported. @synthesize causes the compiler to automatically synthesize a declared property, while @dynamic is used to disable all warnings for a declared property for which no implementation is provided at compile time. Synthesizing declared properties requires runtime support in most useful cases; to be able to use it with the GNU runtime, appropriate helper functions have been added to the GNU Objective-C runtime ABI, and are implemented by the GNU Objective-C runtime library shipped with GCC. * The Objective-C 2.0 fast enumeration syntax is supported in Objective-C. This is currently not yet available in Objective-C++. Fast enumeration requires support in the runtime, and such support has been added to the GNU Objective-C runtime library (shipped with GCC). * The Objective-C 2.0 @optional keyword is supported. It allows you to mark methods or properties in a protocol as optional as opposed to required. * The Objective-C 2.0 @package keyword is supported. It has currently the same effect as the @public keyword. * Objective-C 2.0 method attributes are supported. Currently the supported attributes are deprecated, sentinel, noreturn and format. * Objective-C 2.0 method argument attributes are supported. The most widely used attribute is unused, to mark an argument as unused in the implementation. * Objective-C 2.0 class and protocol attributes are supported. Currently the only supported attribute is deprecated. * Objective-C 2.0 class extensions are supported. A class extension has the same syntax as a category declaration with no category name, and the methods and properties declared in it are added directly to the main class. It is mostly used as an alternative to a category to add methods to a class without advertising them in the public headers, with the advantage that for class extensions the compiler checks that all the privately declared methods are actually implemented. * As a result of these enhancements, GCC can now be used to build Objective-C and Objective-C++ software that uses Foundation and other important system frameworks with the NeXT runtime on Darwin 9 and Darwin 10 (OSX 10.5 and 10.6). * Many bugs in the compiler have been fixed in this release; in particular, LTO can now be used when compiling Objective-C and Objective-C++ and the parser is much more robust in dealing with invalid code. Runtime Library (libobjc) * The GNU Objective-C runtime library now defines the macro __GNU_LIBOBJC__ (with a value that is increased at every release where there is any change to the API) in objc/objc.h, making it easy to determine if the GNU Objective-C runtime library is being used, and if so, which version. Previous versions of the GNU Objective-C runtime library (and other Objective-C runtime libraries such as the Apple one) do not define this macro. * A new Objective-C 2.0 API, almost identical to the one implemented by the Apple Objective-C runtime, has been implemented in the GNU Objective-C runtime library. The new API hides the internals of most runtime structures but provides a more extensive set of functions to operate on them. It is much easier, for example, to create or modify classes at runtime. The new API also makes it easier to port software from Apple to GNU as almost no changes should be required. The old API is still supported for backwards compatibility; including the old objc/objc-api.h header file automatically selects the old API, while including the new objc/runtime.h header file automatically selects the new API. Support for the old API is being phased out and upgrading the software to use the new API is strongly recommended. To check for the availability of the new API, the __GNU_LIBOBJC__ macro can be used as older versions of the GNU Objective-C runtime library, which do not support the new API, do not define such a macro. * Runtime support for @synchronized has been added. * Runtime support for Objective-C 2.0 synthesized property accessors has been added. * Runtime support for Objective-C 2.0 fast enumeration has been added. New Targets and Target Specific Improvements ARM * GCC now supports the Cortex-M4 processor implementing the v7-em version of the architecture using the option -mcpu=cortex-m4. * Scheduling descriptions for the Cortex-M4, the Neon and the floating point units of the Cortex-A9 and a pipeline description for the Cortex-A5 have been added. * Synchronization primitives such as __sync_fetch_and_add and friends are now inlined for supported architectures rather than calling into a kernel helper function. * SSA loop prefetching is enabled by default for the Cortex-A9 at -O3. * Several improvements were committed to improve code generation for the ARM architecture including a rewritten implementation for load and store multiples. * Several enhancements were committed to improve SIMD code generation for NEON by adding support for widening instructions, misaligned loads and stores, vector conditionals and support for 64 bit arithmetic. * Support was added for the Faraday cores fa526, fa606te, fa626te, fmp626te, fmp626 and fa726te and can be used with the respective names as parameters to the -mcpu= option. * Basic support was added for Cortex-A15 and is available through -mcpu=cortex-a15. * GCC for AAPCS configurations now more closely adheres to the AAPCS specification by enabling -fstrict-volatile-bitfields by default. IA-32/x86-64 * The new -fsplit-stack option permits programs to use a discontiguous stack. This is useful for threaded programs, in that it is no longer necessary to specify the maximum stack size when creating a thread. This feature is currently only implemented for 32-bit and 64-bit x86 GNU/Linux targets. * Support for emitting profiler counter calls before function prologues. This is enabled via a new command-line option -mfentry. * Optimization for the Intel Core 2 processors is now available through the -march=core2 and -mtune=core2 options. * Support for Intel Core i3/i5/i7 processors is now available through the -march=corei7 and -mtune=corei7 options. * Support for Intel Core i3/i5/i7 processors with AVX is now available through the -march=corei7-avx and -mtune=corei7-avx options. * Support for AMD Bobcat (family 14) processors is now available through the -march=btver1 and -mtune=btver1 options. * Support for AMD Bulldozer (family 15) processors is now available through the -march=bdver1 and -mtune=bdver1 options. * The default setting (when not optimizing for size) for 32-bit GNU/Linux and Darwin x86 targets has been changed to -fomit-frame-pointer. The default can be reverted to -fno-omit-frame-pointer by configuring GCC with the --enable-frame-pointer configure option. * Darwin, FreeBSD, Solaris 2, MinGW and Cygwin now all support __float128 on 32-bit and 64-bit x86 targets. * AVX floating-point arithmetic can now be enabled by default at configure time with the new --with-fpmath=avx option. * The SSA loop prefetching pass is enabled when using -O3 when optimizing for CPUs where prefetching is beneficial (AMD CPUs newer than K6). * Support for TBM (Trailing Bit Manipulation) built-in functions and code generation is available via -mtbm. * Support for AMD's BMI (Bit Manipulation) built-in functions and code generation is available via -mbmi. MicroBlaze * Support has been added for the Xilinx MicroBlaze softcore processor (microblaze-elf) embedded target. This configurable processor is supported on several Xilinx Spartan and Virtex FPGAs. MIPS * GCC now supports the Loongson 3A processor. Its canonical -march= and -mtune= name is loongson3a. MN10300 / AM33 * The inline assembly register constraint "A" has been renamed "c". This constraint is used to select a floating-point register that can be used as the destination of a multiply-accumulate instruction. * New inline assembly register constraints "A" and "D" have been added. These constraint letters resolve to all general registers when compiling for AM33, and resolve to address registers only or data registers only when compiling for MN10300. * The MDR register is represented in the compiler. One can access the register via the "z" constraint in inline assembly. It can be marked as clobbered or used as a local register variable via the "mdr" name. The compiler uses the RETF instruction if the function does not modify the MDR register, so it is important that inline assembly properly annotate any usage of the register. PowerPC/PowerPC64 * GCC now supports the Applied Micro Titan processor with -mcpu=titan. * The -mrecip option has been added, which indicates whether the reciprocal and reciprocal square root instructions should be used. * The -mveclibabi=mass option can be used to enable the compiler to autovectorize mathematical functions using the Mathematical Acceleration Subsystem library. * The -msingle-pic-base option has been added, which instructs the compiler to avoid loading the PIC base register in function prologues. The PIC base register must be initialized by the runtime system. * The -mblock-move-inline-limit option has been added, which enables the user to control the maximum size of inlined memcpy calls and similar. * PowerPC64 GNU/Linux support for applications requiring a large TOC section has been improved. A new command-line option, -mcmodel=MODEL, controls this feature; valid values for MODEL are small, medium, or large. * The Altivec builtin functions vec_ld and vec_st have been modified to generate the Altivec memory instructions LVX and STVX, even if the -mvsx option is used. In the initial GCC 4.5 release, these builtin functions were changed to generate VSX memory reference instructions instead of Altivec memory instructions, but there are differences between the two instructions. If the VSX instruction set is available, you can now use the new builtin functions vec_vsx_ld and vec_vsx_st which always generates the VSX memory instructions. * The GCC compiler on AIX now defaults to a process layout with a larger data space allowing larger programs to be compiled. * The GCC long double type on AIX 6.1 and above has reverted to 64 bit double precision, matching the AIX XL compiler default, because of missing C99 symbols required by the GCC runtime. * The default processor scheduling model and tuning for PowerPC64 GNU/Linux and for AIX 6.1 and above now is POWER7. * Starting with GCC 4.6.1, vectors of type vector long long or vector long are passed and returned in the same method as other vectors with the VSX instruction set. Previously the GCC compiler did not adhere to the ABI for 128-bit vectors with 64-bit integer base types (PR 48857). This is also fixed in the GCC 4.5.4 release. S/390, zSeries and System z9/z10, IBM zEnterprise z196 * Support for the zEnterprise z196 processor has been added. When using the -march=z196 option, the compiler will generate code making use of the following instruction facilities: + Conditional load/store + Distinct-operands + Floating-point-extension + Interlocked-access + Population-count The -mtune=z196 option avoids the compare and branch instructions as well as the load address instruction with an index register as much as possible and performs instruction scheduling appropriate for the new out-of-order pipeline architecture. * When using the -m31 -mzarch options the generated code still conforms to the 32-bit ABI but uses the general purpose registers as 64-bit registers internally. This requires a Linux kernel saving the whole 64-bit registers when doing a context switch. Kernels providing that feature indicate that by the 'highgprs' string in /proc/cpuinfo. * The SSA loop prefetching pass is enabled when using -O3. SPARC * GCC now supports the LEON series of SPARC V8 processors. The code generated by the compiler can either be tuned to it by means of the --with-tune=leon configure option and -mtune=leon compilation option, or the compiler can be built for the sparc-leon-{elf,linux} and sparc-leon3-{elf,linux} targets directly. * GCC has stopped sign/zero-extending parameter registers in the callee for functions taking parameters with sub-word size in 32-bit mode, since this is redundant with the specification of the ABI. GCC has never done so in 64-bit mode since this is also redundant. * The command line option -mfix-at697f has been added to enable the documented workaround for the single erratum of the Atmel AT697F processor. Operating Systems Android * GCC now supports the Bionic C library and provides a convenient way of building native libraries and applications for the Android platform. Refer to the documentation of the -mandroid and -mbionic options for details on building native code. At the moment, Android support is enabled only for ARM. Darwin/Mac OS X * General + Initial support for CFString types has been added. This allows GCC to build projects including the system Core Foundation frameworks. The GCC Objective-C family supports CFString "toll-free bridged" as per the Mac OS X system tools. CFString is also recognized in the context of format attributes and arguments (see the documentation for format attributes for limitations). At present, 8-bit character types are supported. + Object file size reduction. The Darwin zeroed memory allocators have been re-written to make more use of .zerofill sections. For non-debug code, this can reduce object file size significantly. + Objective-C family 64-bit support (NeXT ABI 2). Initial support has been added to support 64-bit Objective-C code using the Darwin/OS X native (NeXT) runtime. ABI version 2 will be selected automatically when 64-bit code is built. + Objective-C family 32-bit ABI 1. For 32-bit code ABI 1 is also now also allowed. At present it must be selected manually using -fobjc-abi-version=1 where applicable - i.e. on Darwin 9/10 (OS X 10.5/10.6). * x86 Architecture + The -mdynamic-no-pic option has been enabled. Code supporting -mdynamic-no-pic optimization has been added and is applicable to -m32 builds. The compiler bootstrap uses the option where appropriate. + The default value for -mtune= has been changed. Since Darwin systems are primarily Xeon, Core-2 or similar the default tuning has been changed to -mtune=core2. + Enable 128-bit long double (__float128) support on Darwin. * PPC Architecture + Darwin64 ABI. Several significant bugs have been fixed, such that GCC now produces code compatible with the Darwin64 PowerPC ABI. + libffi and boehm-gc. The Darwin ports of the libffi and boehm-gc libraries have been upgraded to include a Darwin64 implementation. This means that powerpc*-*-darwin9 platforms may now, for example, build Java applications with -m64 enabled. + Plug-in support has been enabled. + The -fsection-anchors option is now available although, presently, not heavily tested. Solaris 2 New Features * Support symbol versioning with the Sun linker. * Allow libstdc++ to leverage full ISO C99 support on Solaris 10+. * Support thread-local storage (TLS) with the Sun assembler on Solaris 2/x86. * Support TLS on Solaris 8/9 if prerequisites are met. * Support COMDAT group with the GNU assembler and recent Sun linker. * Support the Sun assembler visibility syntax. * Default Solaris 2/x86 to -march=pentium4 (Solaris 10+) resp. -march=pentiumpro (Solaris 8/9). * Don't use SSE on Solaris 8/9 x86 by default. * Enable 128-bit long double (__float128) support on Solaris 2/x86. ABI Change * Change the ABI for returning 8-byte vectors like __m64 in MMX registers on Solaris 10+/x86 to match the Sun Studio 12.1+ compilers. This is an incompatible change. If you use such types, you must either recompile all your code with the new compiler or use the new -mvect8-ret-in-mem option to remain compatible with previous versions of GCC and Sun Studio. Windows x86/x86_64 * Initial support for decimal floating point. * Support for the __thiscall calling-convention. * Support for hot-patchable function prologues via the ms_hook_prologue attribute for x86_64 in addition to 32-bit x86. * Improvements of stack-probing and stack-allocation mechanisms. * Support of push/pop-macro pragma as preprocessor command. With #pragma push_macro("macro-name") the current definition of macro-name is saved and can be restored with #pragma pop_macro("macro-name") to its saved definition. * Enable 128-bit long double (__float128) support on MinGW and Cygwin. Other significant improvements Installation changes * An install-strip make target is provided that installs stripped executables, and may install libraries with unneeded or debugging sections stripped. * On Power7 systems, there is a potential problem if you build the GCC compiler with a host compiler using options that enable the VSX instruction set generation. If the host compiler has been patched so that the vec_ld and vec_st builtin functions generate Altivec memory instructions instead of VSX memory instructions, then you should be able to build the compiler with VSX instruction generation. 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This release is a bug-fix release, containing fixes for regressions in GCC 4.5.3 relative to previous releases of GCC. Release History GCC 4.5.4 Jul 2, 2012 ([2]changes) GCC 4.5.3 Apr 28, 2011 ([3]changes) GCC 4.5.2 Dec 16, 2010 ([4]changes) GCC 4.5.1 Jul 31, 2010 ([5]changes) GCC 4.5.0 April 14, 2010 ([6]changes) References and Acknowledgements GCC used to stand for the GNU C Compiler, but since the compiler supports several other languages aside from C, it now stands for the GNU Compiler Collection. A list of [7]successful builds is updated as new information becomes available. The GCC developers would like to thank the numerous people that have contributed new features, improvements, bug fixes, and other changes as well as test results to GCC. This [8]amazing group of volunteers is what makes GCC successful. For additional information about GCC please refer to the [9]GCC project web site or contact the [10]GCC development mailing list. 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References 1. http://www.gnu.org/ 2. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.5/changes.html 3. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.5/changes.html 4. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.5/changes.html 5. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.5/changes.html 6. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.5/changes.html 7. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.5/buildstat.html 8. https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Contributors.html 9. http://gcc.gnu.org/index.html 10. mailto:gcc@gcc.gnu.org 11. http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html 12. http://gcc.gnu.org/svn.html 13. https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/ 14. mailto:gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org 15. mailto:gcc@gcc.gnu.org 16. https://gcc.gnu.org/lists.html 17. http://www.fsf.org/ 18. https://gcc.gnu.org/about.html 19. http://validator.w3.org/check/referer ====================================================================== http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.5/changes.html GCC 4.5 Release Series Changes, New Features, and Fixes Caveats * GCC now requires the [1]MPC library in order to build. See the [2]prerequisites page for version requirements. * Support for a number of older systems and recently unmaintained or untested target ports of GCC has been declared obsolete in GCC 4.5. Unless there is activity to revive them, the next release of GCC will have their sources permanently removed. The following ports for individual systems on particular architectures have been obsoleted: + IRIX releases before 6.5 (mips-sgi-irix5*, mips-sgi-irix6.[0-4]) + Solaris 7 (*-*-solaris2.7) + Tru64 UNIX releases before V5.1 (alpha*-dec-osf4*, alpha-dec-osf5.0*) + Details for the IRIX, Solaris 7, and Tru64 UNIX obsoletions can be found in the [3]announcement. Support for the classic POWER architecture implemented in the original RIOS and RIOS2 processors of the old IBM RS/6000 product line has been obsoleted in the rs6000 port. This does not affect the new generation Power and PowerPC architectures. * Support has been removed for all the [4]configurations obsoleted in GCC 4.4. * Support has been removed for the protoize and unprotoize utilities, obsoleted in GCC 4.4. * Support has been removed for tuning for Itanium1 (Merced) variants. Note that code tuned for Itanium2 should also run correctly on Itanium1. * GCC now generates unwind info also for epilogues. DWARF debuginfo generated by GCC now uses more features of DWARF3 than before, and also some DWARF4 features. GDB older than 7.0 is not able to handle either of these, so to debug GCC 4.5 generated binaries or libraries GDB 7.0 or later is needed. You can disable use of DWARF4 features with the -gdwarf-3 -gstrict-dwarf options, or use -gdwarf-2 -gstrict-dwarf to restrict GCC to just DWARF2, but epilogue unwind info is emitted unconditionally whenever unwind info is emitted. * On x86 targets, code containing floating-point calculations may run significantly slower when compiled with GCC 4.5 in strict C99 conformance mode than they did with earlier GCC versions. This is due to stricter standard conformance of the compiler and can be avoided by using the option -fexcess-precision=fast; also see [5]below. * The function attribute noinline no longer prevents GCC from cloning the function. A new attribute noclone has been introduced for this purpose. Cloning a function means that it is duplicated and the new copy is specialized for certain contexts (for example when a parameter is a known constant). General Optimizer Improvements * The -save-temps now takes an optional argument. The -save-temps and -save-temps=cwd switches write the temporary files in the current working directory based on the original source file. The -save-temps=obj switch will write files into the directory specified with the -o option, and the intermediate filenames are based on the output file. This will allow the user to get the compiler intermediate files when doing parallel builds without two builds of the same filename located in different directories from interfering with each other. * Debugging dumps are now created in the same directory as the object file rather than in the current working directory. This allows the user to get debugging dumps when doing parallel builds without two builds of the same filename interfering with each other. * GCC has been integrated with the [6]MPC library. This allows GCC to evaluate complex arithmetic at compile time [7]more accurately. It also allows GCC to evaluate calls to complex built-in math functions having constant arguments and replace them at compile time with their mathematically equivalent results. In doing so, GCC can generate correct results regardless of the math library implementation or floating point precision of the host platform. This also allows GCC to generate identical results regardless of whether one compiles in native or cross-compile configurations to a particular target. The following built-in functions take advantage of this new capability: cacos, cacosh, casin, casinh, catan, catanh, ccos, ccosh, cexp, clog, cpow, csin, csinh, csqrt, ctan, and ctanh. The float and long double variants of these functions (e.g. csinf and csinl) are also handled. * A new link-time optimizer has been added ([8]-flto). When this option is used, GCC generates a bytecode representation of each input file and writes it to specially-named sections in each object file. When the object files are linked together, all the function bodies are read from these named sections and instantiated as if they had been part of the same translation unit. This enables interprocedural optimizations to work across different files (and even different languages), potentially improving the performance of the generated code. To use the link-timer optimizer, -flto needs to be specified at compile time and during the final link. If the program does not require any symbols to be exported, it is possible to combine -flto and the experimental [9]-fwhopr with [10]-fwhole-program to allow the interprocedural optimizers to use more aggressive assumptions. * The automatic parallelization pass was enhanced to support parallelization of outer loops. * Automatic parallelization can be enabled as part of Graphite. In addition to -ftree-parallelize-loops=, specify -floop-parallelize-all to enable the Graphite-based optimization. * The infrastructure for optimizing based on [11]restrict qualified pointers has been rewritten and should result in code generation improvements. Optimizations based on restrict qualified pointers are now also available when using -fno-strict-aliasing. * There is a new optimization pass that attempts to change prototype of functions to avoid unused parameters, pass only relevant parts of structures and turn arguments passed by reference to arguments passed by value when possible. It is enabled by -O2 and above as well as -Os and can be manually invoked using the new command-line switch -fipa-sra. * GCC now optimize exception handling code. In particular cleanup regions that are proved to not have any effect are optimized out. New Languages and Language specific improvements All languages * The -fshow-column option is now on by default. This means error messages now have a column associated with them. Ada * Compilation of programs heavily using discriminated record types with variant parts has been sped up and generates more compact code. * Stack checking now works reasonably well on most plaforms. In some specific cases, stack overflows may still fail to be detected, but a compile-time warning will be issued for these cases. C family * If a header named in a #include directive is not found, the compiler exits immediately. This avoids a cascade of errors arising from declarations expected to be found in that header being missing. * A new built-in function __builtin_unreachable() has been added that tells the compiler that control will never reach that point. It may be used after asm statements that terminate by transferring control elsewhere, and in other places that are known to be unreachable. * The -Wlogical-op option now warns for logical expressions such as (c == 1 && c == 2) and (c != 1 || c != 2), which are likely to be mistakes. This option is disabled by default. * An asm goto feature has been added to allow asm statements that jump to C labels. * C++0x raw strings are supported for C++ and for C with -std=gnu99. * The deprecated attribute now takes an optional string argument, for example, __attribute__((deprecated("text string"))), that will be printed together with the deprecation warning. C * The -Wenum-compare option, which warns when comparing values of different enum types, now works for C. It formerly only worked for C++. This warning is enabled by -Wall. It may be avoided by using a type cast. * The -Wcast-qual option now warns about casts which are unsafe in that they permit const-correctness to be violated without further warnings. Specifically, it warns about cases where a qualifier is added when all the lower types are not const. For example, it warns about a cast from char ** to const char **. * The -Wc++-compat option is significantly improved. It issues new warnings for: + Using C++ reserved operator names as identifiers. + Conversions to enum types without explicit casts. + Using va_arg with an enum type. + Using different enum types in the two branches of ?:. + Using ++ or -- on a variable of enum type. + Using the same name as both a struct, union or enum tag and a typedef, unless the typedef refers to the tagged type itself. + Using a struct, union, or enum which is defined within another struct or union. + A struct field defined using a typedef if there is a field in the struct, or an enclosing struct, whose name is the typedef name. + Duplicate definitions at file scope. + Uninitialized const variables. + A global variable with an anonymous struct, union, or enum type. + Using a string constant to initialize a char array whose size is the length of the string. * The new -Wjump-misses-init option warns about cases where a goto or switch skips the initialization of a variable. This sort of branch is an error in C++ but not in C. This warning is enabled by -Wc++-compat. * GCC now ensures that a C99-conforming is present on most targets, and uses information about the types in this header to implement the Fortran bindings to those types. GCC does not ensure the presence of such a header, and does not implement the Fortran bindings, on the following targets: NetBSD, VxWorks, VMS, SymbianOS, WinCE, LynxOS, Netware, QNX, Interix, TPF. * GCC now implements C90- and C99-conforming rules for constant expressions. This may cause warnings or errors for some code using expressions that can be folded to a constant but are not constant expressions as defined by ISO C. * All known target-independent C90 and C90 Amendment 1 conformance bugs, and all known target-independent C99 conformance bugs not related to floating point or extended identifiers, have been fixed. * The C decimal floating point support now includes support for the FLOAT_CONST_DECIMAL64 pragma. * The named address space feature from ISO/IEC TR 18037 is now supported. This is currently only implemented for the SPU processor. C++ * Improved [12]experimental support for the upcoming C++0x ISO C++ standard, including support for raw strings, lambda expressions and explicit type conversion operators. * When printing the name of a class template specialization, G++ will now omit any template arguments which come from default template arguments. This behavior (and the pretty-printing of function template specializations as template signature and arguments) can be disabled with the -fno-pretty-templates option. * Access control is now applied to typedef names used in a template, which may cause G++ to reject some ill-formed code that was accepted by earlier releases. The -fno-access-control option can be used as a temporary workaround until the code is corrected. * Compilation time for code that uses templates should now scale linearly with the number of instantiations rather than quadratically, as template instantiations are now looked up using hash tables. * Declarations of functions that look like builtin declarations of library functions are only considered to be redeclarations if they are declared with extern "C". This may cause problems with code that omits extern "C" on hand-written declarations of C library functions such as abort or memcpy. Such code is ill-formed, but was accepted by earlier releases. * Diagnostics that used to complain about passing non-POD types to ... or jumping past the declaration of a non-POD variable now check for triviality rather than PODness, as per C++0x. * In C++0x mode local and anonymous classes are now allowed as template arguments, and in declarations of variables and functions with linkage, so long as any such declaration that is used is also defined ([13]DR 757). * Labels may now have attributes, as has been permitted for a while in C. This is only permitted when the label definition and the attribute specifier is followed by a semicolon—i.e., the label applies to an empty statement. The only useful attribute for a label is unused. * G++ now implements [14]DR 176. Previously G++ did not support using the injected-class-name of a template base class as a type name, and lookup of the name found the declaration of the template in the enclosing scope. Now lookup of the name finds the injected-class-name, which can be used either as a type or as a template, depending on whether or not the name is followed by a template argument list. As a result of this change, some code that was previously accepted may be ill-formed because 1. The injected-class-name is not accessible because it's from a private base, or 2. The injected-class-name cannot be used as an argument for a template template parameter. In either of these cases, the code can be fixed by adding a nested-name-specifier to explicitly name the template. The first can be worked around with -fno-access-control; the second is only rejected with -pedantic. * A new standard mangling for SIMD vector types has been added, to avoid name clashes on systems with vectors of varying length. By default the compiler still uses the old mangling, but emits aliases with the new mangling on targets that support strong aliases. Users can switch over entirely to the new mangling with -fabi-version=4 or -fabi-version=0. -Wabi will now warn about code that uses the old mangling. * The command-line option -ftemplate-depth-N is now written as -ftemplate-depth=N and the old form is deprecated. * Conversions between NULL and non-pointer types are now warned by default. The new option -Wno-conversion-null disables these warnings. Previously these warnings were only available when using -Wconversion explicitly. Runtime Library (libstdc++) * Improved experimental support for the upcoming ISO C++ standard, C++0x, including: + Support for , , and . + Existing facilities now exploit explicit operators and the newly implemented core C++0x features. + The header has been renamed to . * An experimental [15]profile mode has been added. This is an implementation of many C++ standard library constructs with an additional analysis layer that gives performance improvement advice based on recognition of suboptimal usage patterns. For example, #include int main() { std::vector v; for (int k = 0; k < 1024; ++k) v.insert(v.begin(), k); } When instrumented via the profile mode, can return suggestions about the initial size and choice of the container used as follows: vector-to-list: improvement = 5: call stack = 0x804842c ... : advice = change std::vector to std::list vector-size: improvement = 3: call stack = 0x804842c ... : advice = change initial container size from 0 to 1024 These constructs can be substituted for the normal libstdc++ constructs on a piecemeal basis, or all existing components can be transformed via the -D_GLIBCXX_PROFILE macro. * [16]Support for decimal floating-point arithmetic (aka ISO C++ TR 24733) has been added. This support is in header file , uses namespace std::decimal, and includes classes decimal32, decimal64, and decimal128. * Sources have been audited for application of function attributes nothrow, const, pure, and noreturn. * Python pretty-printers have been added for many standard library components that simplify the internal representation and present a more intuitive view of components when used with appropriately-advanced versions of GDB. For more information, please consult the more [17]detailed description. * The default behavior for comparing typeinfo names has changed, so in , __GXX_MERGED_TYPEINFO_NAMES now defaults to zero. * The new -static-libstdc++ option directs g++ to link the C++ library statically, even if the default would normally be to link it dynamically. Fortran * The COMMON default padding has been changed – instead of adding the padding before a variable it is now added afterwards, which increases the compatibility with other vendors and helps to obtain the correct output in some cases. Cf. also the -falign-commons option ([18]added in 4.4). * The -finit-real= option now also supports the value snan for signalling not-a-number; to be effective, one additionally needs to enable trapping (e.g. via -ffpe-trap=). Note: Compile-time optimizations can turn a signalling NaN into a quiet one. * The new option -fcheck= has been added with the options bounds, array-temps, do, pointer, and recursive. The bounds and array-temps options are equivalent to -fbounds-check and -fcheck-array-temporaries. The do option checks for invalid modification of loop iteration variables, and the recursive option tests for recursive calls to subroutines/functions which are not marked as recursive. With pointer pointer association checks in calls are performed; however, neither undefined pointers nor pointers in expressions are handled. Using -fcheck=all enables all these run-time checks. * The run-time checking -fcheck=bounds now warns about invalid string lengths of character dummy arguments. Additionally, more compile-time checks have been added. * The new option [19]-fno-protect-parens has been added; if set, the compiler may reorder REAL and COMPLEX expressions without regard to parentheses. * GNU Fortran no longer links against libgfortranbegin. As before, MAIN__ (assembler symbol name) is the actual Fortran main program, which is invoked by the main function. However, main is now generated and put in the same object file as MAIN__. For the time being, libgfortranbegin still exists for backward compatibility. For details see the new [20]Mixed-Language Programming chapter in the manual. * The I/O library was restructured for performance and cleaner code. * Array assignments and WHERE are now run in parallel when OpenMP's WORKSHARE is used. * The experimental option -fwhole-file was added. The option allows whole-file checking of procedure arguments and allows for better optimizations. It can also be used with -fwhole-program, which is now also supported in gfortran. * More Fortran 2003 and Fortran 2008 mathematical functions can now be used as initialization expressions. * Some extended attributes such as STDCALL are now supported via the [21]GCC$ compiler directive. * For Fortran 77 compatibility: If -fno-sign-zero is used, the SIGN intrinsic behaves now as if zero were always positive. * For legacy compatibiliy: On Cygwin and MinGW, the special files CONOUT$ and CONIN$ (and CONERR$ which maps to CONOUT$) are now supported. * Fortran 2003 support has been extended: + Procedure-pointer function results and procedure-pointer components (including PASS), + allocatable scalars (experimental), + DEFERRED type-bound procedures, + the ERRMSG= argument of the ALLOCATE and DEALLOCATE statements have been implemented. + The ALLOCATE statement supports type-specs and the SOURCE= argument. + OPERATOR(*) and ASSIGNMENT(=) are now allowed as GENERIC type-bound procedure (i.e. as type-bound operators). + Rounding (ROUND=, RZ, ...) for output is now supported. + The INT_FAST{8,16,32,64,128}_T kind type parameters of the intrinsic module ISO_C_BINDING are now supported, except for the targets listed above as ones where GCC does not have type information. + Extensible derived types with type-bound procedure or procedure pointer with PASS attribute now have to use CLASS in line with the Fortran 2003 standard; the workaround to use TYPE is no longer supported. + [22]Experimental, incomplete support for polymorphism, including CLASS, SELECT TYPE and dynamic dispatch of type-bound procedure calls. Some features do not work yet such as unlimited polymorphism (CLASS(*)). * Fortran 2008 support has been extended: + The OPEN statement now supports the NEWUNIT= option, which returns a unique file unit, thus preventing inadvertent use of the same unit in different parts of the program. + Support for unlimited format items has been added. + The INT{8,16,32} and REAL{32,64,128} kind type parameters of the intrinsic module ISO_FORTRAN_ENV are now supported. + Using complex arguments with TAN, SINH, COSH, TANH, ASIN, ACOS, and ATAN is now possible; the functions ASINH, ACOSH, and ATANH have been added (for real and complex arguments) and ATAN(Y,X) is now an alias for ATAN2(Y,X). + The BLOCK construct has been implemented. New Targets and Target Specific Improvements AIX * Full cross-toolchain support now available with GNU Binutils ARM * GCC now supports the Cortex-M0 and Cortex-A5 processors. * GCC now supports the ARM v7E-M architecture. * GCC now supports VFPv4-based FPUs and FPUs with single-precision-only VFP. * GCC has many improvements to optimization for other ARM processors, including scheduling support for the integer pipeline on Cortex-A9. * GCC now supports the IEEE 754-2008 half-precision floating-point type, and a variant ARM-specific half-precision type. This type is specified using __fp16, with the layout determined by -mfp16-format. With appropriate -mfpu options, the Cortex-A9 and VFPv4 half-precision instructions will be used. * GCC now supports the variant of AAPCS that uses VFP registers for parameter passing and return values. AVR * The -mno-tablejump option has been removed because it has the same effect as the -fno-jump-tables option. * Added support for these new AVR devices: + ATmega8U2 + ATmega16U2 + ATmega32U2 IA-32/x86-64 * GCC now will set the default for -march= based on the configure target. * GCC now supports handling floating-point excess precision arising from use of the x87 floating-point unit in a way that conforms to ISO C99. This is enabled with -fexcess-precision=standard and with standards conformance options such as -std=c99, and may be disabled using -fexcess-precision=fast. * Support for the Intel Atom processor is now available through the -march=atom and -mtune=atom options. * A new -mcrc32 option is now available to enable crc32 intrinsics. * A new -mmovbe option is now available to enable GCC to use the movbe instruction to implement __builtin_bswap32 and __builtin_bswap64. * SSE math now can be enabled by default at configure time with the new --with-fpmath=sse option. * There is a new intrinsic header file, . It should be included before using any IA-32/x86-64 intrinsics. * Support for the XOP, FMA4, and LWP instruction sets for the AMD Orochi processors are now available with the -mxop, -mfma4, and -mlwp options. * The -mabm option enables GCC to use the popcnt and lzcnt instructions on AMD processors. * The -mpopcnt option enables GCC to use the popcnt instructions on both AMD and Intel processors. M68K/ColdFire * GCC now supports ColdFire 51xx, 5221x, 5225x, 52274, 52277, 5301x and 5441x devices. * GCC now supports thread-local storage (TLS) on M68K and ColdFire processors. MeP Support has been added for the Toshiba Media embedded Processor (MeP, or mep-elf) embedded target. MIPS * GCC now supports MIPS 1004K processors. * GCC can now be configured with options --with-arch-32, --with-arch-64, --with-tune-32 and --with-tune-64 to control the default optimization separately for 32-bit and 64-bit modes. * MIPS targets now support an alternative _mcount interface, in which register $12 points to the function's save slot for register $31. This interface is selected by the -mcount-ra-address option; see the documentation for more details. * GNU/Linux targets can now generate read-only .eh_frame sections. This optimization requires GNU binutils 2.20 or above, and is only available if GCC is configured with a suitable version of binutils. * GNU/Linux targets can now attach special relocations to indirect calls, so that the linker can turn them into direct jumps or branches. This optimization requires GNU binutils 2.20 or later, and is automatically selected if GCC is configured with an appropriate version of binutils. It can be explicitly enabled or disabled using the -mrelax-pic-calls command-line option. * GCC now generates more heavily-optimized atomic operations on Octeon processors. * MIPS targets now support the -fstack-protector option. * GCC now supports an -msynci option, which specifies that synci is enough to flush the instruction cache, without help from the operating system. GCC uses this information to optimize automatically-generated cache flush operations, such as those used for nested functions in C. There is also a --with-synci configure-time option, which makes -msynci the default. * GCC supports four new function attributes for interrupt handlers: interrupt, use_shadow_register_set, keep_interrupts_masked and use_debug_exception_return. See the documentation for more details about these attributes. RS/6000 (POWER/PowerPC) * GCC now supports the Power ISA 2.06, which includes the VSX instructions that add vector 64-bit floating point support, new population count instructions, and conversions between floating point and unsigned types. * Support for the power7 processor is now available through the -mcpu=power7 and -mtune=power7. * GCC will now vectorize loops that contain simple math functions like copysign when generating code for altivec or VSX targets. * Support for the A2 processor is now available through the -mcpu=a2 and -mtune=a2 options. * Support for the 476 processor is now available through the -mcpu={476,476fp} and -mtune={476,476fp} options. * Support for the e500mc64 processor is now available through the -mcpu=e500mc64 and -mtune=e500mc64 options. * GCC can now be configured with options --with-cpu-32, --with-cpu-64, --with-tune-32 and --with-tune-64 to control the default optimization separately for 32-bit and 64-bit modes. * Starting with GCC 4.5.4, vectors of type vector long long or vector long are passed and returned in the same method as other vectors with the VSX instruction set. Previously the GCC compiler did not adhere to the ABI for 128-bit vectors with 64-bit integer base types (PR 48857). This is also fixed in the GCC 4.6.1 release. RX Support has been added for the Renesas RX Processor (rx-elf) target. Operating Systems Windows (Cygwin and MinGW) * GCC now installs all the major language runtime libraries as DLLs when configured with the --enable-shared option. * GCC now makes use of the new support for aligned common variables in versions of binutils >= 2.20 to fix bugs in the support for SSE data types. * Improvements to the libffi support library increase the reliability of code generated by GCJ on all Windows platforms. Libgcj is enabled by default for the first time. * Libtool improvements simplify installation by placing the generated DLLs in the correct binaries directory. * Numerous other minor bugfixes and improvements, and substantial enhancements to the Fortran language support library. > Other significant improvements Plugins * It is now possible to extend the compiler without having to modify its source code. A new option -fplugin=file.so tells GCC to load the shared object file.so and execute it as part of the compiler. The internal documentation describes the details on how plugins can interact with the compiler. Installation changes * The move to newer autotools changed default installation directories and switches to control them: The --with-datarootdir, --with-docdir, --with-pdfdir, and --with-htmldir switches are not used any more. Instead, you can now use --datarootdir, --docdir, --htmldir, and --pdfdir. The default installation directories have changed as follows according to the GNU Coding Standards: datarootdir read-only architecture-independent data root [PREFIX/share] localedir locale-specific message catalogs [DATAROOTDIR/locale] docdir documentation root [DATAROOTDIR/doc/PACKAGE] htmldir html documentation [DOCDIR] dvidir dvi documentation [DOCDIR] pdfdir pdf documentation [DOCDIR] psdir ps documentation [DOCDIR] The following variables have new default values: datadir read-only architecture-independent data [DATAROOTDIR] infodir info documentation [DATAROOTDIR/info] mandir man documentation [DATAROOTDIR/man] GCC 4.5.1 This is the [23]list of problem reports (PRs) from GCC's bug tracking system that are known to be fixed in the 4.5.1 release. This list might not be complete (that is, it is possible that some PRs that have been fixed are not listed here). All languages * GCC's new link-time optimizer ([24]-flto) now also works on a few non-ELF targets: + Cygwin (*-cygwin*) + MinGW (*-mingw*) + Darwin on x86-64 (x86_64-apple-darwin*) LTO is not enabled by default for these targets. To enable LTO, you should configure with the --enable-lto option. GCC 4.5.2 This is the [25]list of problem reports (PRs) from GCC's bug tracking system that are known to be fixed in the 4.5.2 release. This list might not be complete (that is, it is possible that some PRs that have been fixed are not listed here). GCC 4.5.3 This is the [26]list of problem reports (PRs) from GCC's bug tracking system that are known to be fixed in the 4.5.3 release. This list might not be complete (that is, it is possible that some PRs that have been fixed are not listed here). On the PowerPC compiler, the Altivec builtin functions vec_ld and vec_st have been modified to generate the Altivec memory instructions LVX and STVX, even if the -mvsx option is used. In the initial GCC 4.5 release, these builtin functions were changed to generate VSX memory reference instructions instead of Altivec memory instructions, but there are differences between the two instructions. If the VSX instruction set is available, you can now use the new builtin functions vec_vsx_ld and vec_vsx_st which always generates the VSX memory instructions. GCC 4.5.4 This is the [27]list of problem reports (PRs) from GCC's bug tracking system that are known to be fixed in the 4.5.4 release. This list might not be complete (that is, it is possible that some PRs that have been fixed are not listed here). For questions related to the use of GCC, please consult these web pages and the [28]GCC manuals. If that fails, the [29]gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org mailing list might help. Comments on these web pages and the development of GCC are welcome on our developer list at [30]gcc@gcc.gnu.org. All of [31]our lists have public archives. Copyright (C) [32]Free Software Foundation, Inc. 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This release is a bug-fix release, containing fixes for regressions in GCC 4.4.6 relative to previous releases of GCC. Release History GCC 4.4.7 March 13, 2012 ([2]changes) GCC 4.4.6 April 16, 2011 ([3]changes) GCC 4.4.5 October 1, 2010 ([4]changes) GCC 4.4.4 April 29, 2010 ([5]changes) GCC 4.4.3 January 21, 2010 ([6]changes) GCC 4.4.2 October 15, 2009 ([7]changes) GCC 4.4.1 July 22, 2009 ([8]changes) GCC 4.4.0 April 21, 2009 ([9]changes) References and Acknowledgements GCC used to stand for the GNU C Compiler, but since the compiler supports several other languages aside from C, it now stands for the GNU Compiler Collection. A list of [10]successful builds is updated as new information becomes available. The GCC developers would like to thank the numerous people that have contributed new features, improvements, bug fixes, and other changes as well as test results to GCC. This [11]amazing group of volunteers is what makes GCC successful. 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Caveats * __builtin_stdarg_start has been completely removed from GCC. Support for had been deprecated since GCC 4.0. Use __builtin_va_start as a replacement. * Some of the errors issued by the C++ front end that could be downgraded to warnings in previous releases by using -fpermissive are now warnings by default. They can be converted into errors by using -pedantic-errors. * Use of the cpp assertion extension will now emit a warning when -Wdeprecated or -pedantic is used. This extension has been deprecated for many years, but never warned about. * Packed bit-fields of type char were not properly bit-packed on many targets prior to GCC 4.4. On these targets, the fix in GCC 4.4 causes an ABI change. For example there is no longer a 4-bit padding between field a and b in this structure: struct foo { char a:4; char b:8; } __attribute__ ((packed)); There is a new warning to help identify fields that are affected: foo.c:5: note: Offset of packed bit-field 'b' has changed in GCC 4.4 The warning can be disabled with -Wno-packed-bitfield-compat. * On ARM EABI targets, the C++ mangling of the va_list type has been changed to conform to the current revision of the EABI. This does not affect the libstdc++ library included with GCC. * The SCOUNT and POS bits of the MIPS DSP control register are now treated as global. Previous versions of GCC treated these fields as call-clobbered instead. * The MIPS port no longer recognizes the h asm constraint. It was necessary to remove this constraint in order to avoid generating unpredictable code sequences. One of the main uses of the h constraint was to extract the high part of a multiplication on 64-bit targets. For example: asm ("dmultu\t%1,%2" : "=h" (result) : "r" (x), "r" (y)); You can now achieve the same effect using 128-bit types: typedef unsigned int uint128_t __attribute__((mode(TI))); result = ((uint128_t) x * y) >> 64; The second sequence is better in many ways. For example, if x and y are constants, the compiler can perform the multiplication at compile time. If x and y are not constants, the compiler can schedule the runtime multiplication better than it can schedule an asm statement. * Support for a number of older systems and recently unmaintained or untested target ports of GCC has been declared obsolete in GCC 4.4. Unless there is activity to revive them, the next release of GCC will have their sources permanently removed. The following ports for individual systems on particular architectures have been obsoleted: + Generic a.out on IA32 and m68k (i[34567]86-*-aout*, m68k-*-aout*) + Generic COFF on ARM, H8300, IA32, m68k and SH (arm-*-coff*, armel-*-coff*, h8300-*-*, i[34567]86-*-coff*, m68k-*-coff*, sh-*-*). This does not affect other more specific targets using the COFF object format on those architectures, or the more specific H8300 and SH targets (h8300-*-rtems*, h8300-*-elf*, sh-*-elf*, sh-*-symbianelf*, sh-*-linux*, sh-*-netbsdelf*, sh-*-rtems*, sh-wrs-vxworks). + 2BSD on PDP-11 (pdp11-*-bsd) + AIX 4.1 and 4.2 on PowerPC (rs6000-ibm-aix4.[12]*, powerpc-ibm-aix4.[12]*) + Tuning support for Itanium1 (Merced) variants. Note that code tuned for Itanium2 should also run correctly on Itanium1. * The protoize and unprotoize utilities have been obsoleted and will be removed in GCC 4.5. These utilities have not been installed by default since GCC 3.0. * Support has been removed for all the [2]configurations obsoleted in GCC 4.3. * Unknown -Wno-* options are now silently ignored by GCC if no other diagnostics are issued. If other diagnostics are issued, then GCC warns about the unknown options. * More information on porting to GCC 4.4 from previous versions of GCC can be found in the [3]porting guide for this release. General Optimizer Improvements * A new command-line switch -findirect-inlining has been added. When turned on it allows the inliner to also inline indirect calls that are discovered to have known targets at compile time thanks to previous inlining. * A new command-line switch -ftree-switch-conversion has been added. This new pass turns simple initializations of scalar variables in switch statements into initializations from a static array, given that all the values are known at compile time and the ratio between the new array size and the original switch branches does not exceed the parameter --param switch-conversion-max-branch-ratio (default is eight). * A new command-line switch -ftree-builtin-call-dce has been added. This optimization eliminates unnecessary calls to certain builtin functions when the return value is not used, in cases where the calls can not be eliminated entirely because the function may set errno. This optimization is on by default at -O2 and above. * A new command-line switch -fconserve-stack directs the compiler to minimize stack usage even if it makes the generated code slower. This affects inlining decisions. * When the assembler supports it, the compiler will now emit unwind information using assembler .cfi directives. This makes it possible to use such directives in inline assembler code. The new option -fno-dwarf2-cfi-asm directs the compiler to not use .cfi directives. * The [4]Graphite branch has been merged. This merge has brought in a new framework for loop optimizations based on a polyhedral intermediate representation. These optimizations apply to all the languages supported by GCC. The following new code transformations are available in GCC 4.4: + -floop-interchange performs loop interchange transformations on loops. Interchanging two nested loops switches the inner and outer loops. For example, given a loop like: DO J = 1, M DO I = 1, N A(J, I) = A(J, I) * C ENDDO ENDDO loop interchange will transform the loop as if the user had written: DO I = 1, N DO J = 1, M A(J, I) = A(J, I) * C ENDDO ENDDO which can be beneficial when N is larger than the caches, because in Fortran, the elements of an array are stored in memory contiguously by column, and the original loop iterates over rows, potentially creating at each access a cache miss. + -floop-strip-mine performs loop strip mining transformations on loops. Strip mining splits a loop into two nested loops. The outer loop has strides equal to the strip size and the inner loop has strides of the original loop within a strip. For example, given a loop like: DO I = 1, N A(I) = A(I) + C ENDDO loop strip mining will transform the loop as if the user had written: DO II = 1, N, 4 DO I = II, min (II + 3, N) A(I) = A(I) + C ENDDO ENDDO + -floop-block performs loop blocking transformations on loops. Blocking strip mines each loop in the loop nest such that the memory accesses of the element loops fit inside caches. For example, given a loop like: DO I = 1, N DO J = 1, M A(J, I) = B(I) + C(J) ENDDO ENDDO loop blocking will transform the loop as if the user had written: DO II = 1, N, 64 DO JJ = 1, M, 64 DO I = II, min (II + 63, N) DO J = JJ, min (JJ + 63, M) A(J, I) = B(I) + C(J) ENDDO ENDDO ENDDO ENDDO which can be beneficial when M is larger than the caches, because the innermost loop will iterate over a smaller amount of data that can be kept in the caches. * A new register allocator has replaced the old one. It is called integrated register allocator (IRA) because coalescing, register live range splitting, and hard register preferencing are done on-the-fly during coloring. It also has better integration with the reload pass. IRA is a regional register allocator which uses modern Chaitin-Briggs coloring instead of Chow's priority coloring used in the old register allocator. More info about IRA internals and options can be found in the GCC manuals. * A new instruction scheduler and software pipeliner, based on the selective scheduling approach, has been added. The new pass performs instruction unification, register renaming, substitution through register copies, and speculation during scheduling. The software pipeliner is able to pipeline non-countable loops. The new pass is targeted at scheduling-eager in-order platforms. In GCC 4.4 it is available for the Intel Itanium platform working by default as the second scheduling pass (after register allocation) at the -O3 optimization level. * When using -fprofile-generate with a multi-threaded program, the profile counts may be slightly wrong due to race conditions. The new -fprofile-correction option directs the compiler to apply heuristics to smooth out the inconsistencies. By default the compiler will give an error message when it finds an inconsistent profile. * The new -fprofile-dir=PATH option permits setting the directory where profile data files are stored when using -fprofile-generate and friends, and the directory used when reading profile data files using -fprofile-use and friends. New warning options * The new -Wframe-larger-than=NUMBER option directs GCC to emit a warning if any stack frame is larger than NUMBER bytes. This may be used to help ensure that code fits within a limited amount of stack space. * The command-line option -Wlarger-than-N is now written as -Wlarger-than=N and the old form is deprecated. * The new -Wno-mudflap option disables warnings about constructs which can not be instrumented when using -fmudflap. New Languages and Language specific improvements * Version 3.0 of the [5]OpenMP specification is now supported for the C, C++, and Fortran compilers. * New character data types, per [6]TR 19769: New character types in C, are now supported for the C compiler in -std=gnu99 mode, as __CHAR16_TYPE__ and __CHAR32_TYPE__, and for the C++ compiler in -std=c++0x and -std=gnu++0x modes, as char16_t and char32_t too. C family * A new optimize attribute was added to allow programmers to change the optimization level and particular optimization options for an individual function. You can also change the optimization options via the GCC optimize pragma for functions defined after the pragma. The GCC push_options pragma and the GCC pop_options pragma allow you temporarily save and restore the options used. The GCC reset_options pragma restores the options to what was specified on the command line. * Uninitialized warnings do not require enabling optimization anymore, that is, -Wuninitialized can be used together with -O0. Nonetheless, the warnings given by -Wuninitialized will probably be more accurate if optimization is enabled. * -Wparentheses now warns about expressions such as (!x | y) and (!x & y). Using explicit parentheses, such as in ((!x) | y), silences this warning. * -Wsequence-point now warns within if, while,do while and for conditions, and within for begin/end expressions. * A new option -dU is available to dump definitions of preprocessor macros that are tested or expanded. C++ * [7]Improved experimental support for the upcoming ISO C++ standard, C++0x. Including support for auto, inline namespaces, generalized initializer lists, defaulted and deleted functions, new character types, and scoped enums. * Those errors that may be downgraded to warnings to build legacy code now mention -fpermissive when -fdiagnostics-show-option is enabled. * -Wconversion now warns if the result of a static_cast to enumeral type is unspecified because the value is outside the range of the enumeral type. * -Wuninitialized now warns if a non-static reference or non-static const member appears in a class without constructors. * G++ now properly implements value-initialization, so objects with an initializer of () and an implicitly defined default constructor will be zero-initialized before the default constructor is called. Runtime Library (libstdc++) * Improved experimental support for the upcoming ISO C++ standard, C++0x, including: + Support for , , , , , , , , and . + unique_ptr, additions, exception propagation, and support for the new character types in and . + Existing facilities now exploit initializer lists, defaulted and deleted functions, and the newly implemented core C++0x features. + Some standard containers are more efficient together with stateful allocators, i.e., no allocator is constructed on the fly at element construction time. * Experimental support for non-standard pointer types in containers. * The long standing libstdc++/30928 has been fixed for targets running glibc 2.10 or later. * As usual, many small and larger bug fixes, in particular quite a few corner cases in . Fortran * GNU Fortran now employs libcpp directly instead of using cc1 as an external preprocessor. The [8]-cpp option was added to allow manual invocation of the preprocessor without relying on filename extensions. * The [9]-Warray-temporaries option warns about array temporaries generated by the compiler, as an aid to optimization. * The [10]-fcheck-array-temporaries option has been added, printing a notification at run time, when an array temporary had to be created for an function argument. Contrary to -Warray-temporaries the warning is only printed if the array is noncontiguous. * Improved generation of DWARF debugging symbols * If using an intrinsic not part of the selected standard (via -std= and -fall-intrinsics) gfortran will now treat it as if this procedure were declared EXTERNAL and try to link to a user-supplied procedure. -Wintrinsics-std will warn whenever this happens. The now-useless option -Wnonstd-intrinsic was removed. * The flag -falign-commons has been added to control the alignment of variables in COMMON blocks, which is enabled by default in line with previous GCC version. Using -fno-align-commons one can force commons to be contiguous in memory as required by the Fortran standard, however, this slows down the memory access. The option -Walign-commons, which is enabled by default, warns when padding bytes were added for alignment. The proper solution is to sort the common objects by decreasing storage size, which avoids the alignment problems. * Fortran 2003 support has been extended: + Wide characters (ISO 10646, UCS-4, kind=4) and UTF-8 I/O is now supported (except internal reads from/writes to wide strings). [11]-fbackslash now supports also \unnnn and \Unnnnnnnn to enter Unicode characters. + Asynchronous I/O (implemented as synchronous I/O) and the decimal=, size=, sign=, pad=, blank=, and delim= specifiers are now supported in I/O statements. + Support for Fortran 2003 structure constructors and for array constructor with typespec has been added. + Procedure Pointers (but not yet as component in derived types and as function results) are now supported. + Abstract types, type extension, and type-bound procedures (both PROCEDURE and GENERIC but not as operators). Note: As CLASS/polymorphyic types are not implemented, type-bound procedures with PASS accept as non-standard extension TYPE arguments. * Fortran 2008 support has been added: + The -std=f2008 option and support for the file extensions .f2008 and .F2008 has been added. + The g0 format descriptor is now supported. + The Fortran 2008 mathematical intrinsics ASINH, ACOSH, ATANH, ERF, ERFC, GAMMA, LOG_GAMMA, BESSEL_*, HYPOT, and ERFC_SCALED are now available (some of them existed as GNU extension before). Note: The hyperbolic functions are not yet supporting complex arguments and the three- argument version of BESSEL_*N is not available. + The bit intrinsics LEADZ and TRAILZ have been added. Java (GCJ) Ada * The Ada runtime now supports multilibs on many platforms including x86_64, SPARC and PowerPC. Their build is enabled by default. New Targets and Target Specific Improvements ARM * GCC now supports optimizing for the Cortex-A9, Cortex-R4 and Cortex-R4F processors and has many other improvements to optimization for ARM processors. * GCC now supports the VFPv3 variant with 16 double-precision registers with -mfpu=vfpv3-d16. The option -mfpu=vfp3 has been renamed to -mfpu=vfpv3. * GCC now supports the -mfix-cortex-m3-ldrd option to work around an erratum on Cortex-M3 processors. * GCC now supports the __sync_* atomic operations for ARM EABI GNU/Linux. * The section anchors optimization is now enabled by default when optimizing for ARM. * GCC now uses a new EABI-compatible profiling interface for EABI targets. This requires a function __gnu_mcount_nc, which is provided by GNU libc versions 2.8 and later. AVR * The -mno-tablejump option has been deprecated because it has the same effect as the -fno-jump-tables option. * Added support for these new AVR devices: + ATA6289 + ATtiny13A + ATtiny87 + ATtiny167 + ATtiny327 + ATmega8C1 + ATmega16C1 + ATmega32C1 + ATmega8M1 + ATmega16M1 + ATmega32M1 + ATmega32U4 + ATmega16HVB + ATmega4HVD + ATmega8HVD + ATmega64C1 + ATmega64M1 + ATmega16U4 + ATmega32U6 + ATmega128RFA1 + AT90PWM81 + AT90SCR100 + M3000F + M3000S + M3001B IA-32/x86-64 * Support for Intel AES built-in functions and code generation is available via -maes. * Support for Intel PCLMUL built-in function and code generation is available via -mpclmul. * Support for Intel AVX built-in functions and code generation is available via -mavx. * Automatically align the stack for local variables with alignment requirement. * GCC can now utilize the SVML library for vectorizing calls to a set of C99 functions if -mveclibabi=svml is specified and you link to an SVML ABI compatible library. * On x86-64, the ABI has been changed in the following cases to conform to the x86-64 ABI: + Passing/returning structures with flexible array member: struct foo { int i; int flex[]; }; + Passing/returning structures with complex float member: struct foo { int i; __complex__ float f; }; + Passing/returning unions with long double member: union foo { int x; long double ld; }; Code built with previous versions of GCC that uses any of these is not compatible with code built with GCC 4.4.0 or later. * A new target attribute was added to allow programmers to change the target options like -msse2 or -march=k8 for an individual function. You can also change the target options via the GCC target pragma for functions defined after the pragma. * GCC can now be configured with options --with-arch-32, --with-arch-64, --with-cpu-32, --with-cpu-64, --with-tune-32 and --with-tune-64 to control the default optimization separately for 32-bit and 64-bit modes. IA-32/IA64 * Support for __float128 (TFmode) IEEE quad type and corresponding TCmode IEEE complex quad type is available via the soft-fp library on IA-32/IA64 targets. This includes basic arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, negation, multiplication and division) on __float128 real and TCmode complex values, the full set of IEEE comparisons between __float128 values, conversions to and from float, double and long double floating point types, as well as conversions to and from signed or unsigned integer, signed or unsigned long integer and signed or unsigned quad (TImode, IA64 only) integer types. Additionally, all operations generate the full set of IEEE exceptions and support the full set of IEEE rounding modes. M68K/ColdFire * GCC now supports instruction scheduling for ColdFire V1, V3 and V4 processors. (Scheduling support for ColdFire V2 processors was added in GCC 4.3.) * GCC now supports the -mxgot option to support programs requiring many GOT entries on ColdFire. * The m68k-*-linux-gnu target now builds multilibs by default. MIPS * MIPS Technologies have extended the original MIPS SVR4 ABI to include support for procedure linkage tables (PLTs) and copy relocations. These extensions allow GNU/Linux executables to use a significantly more efficient code model than the one defined by the original ABI. GCC support for this code model is available via a new command-line option, -mplt. There is also a new configure-time option, --with-mips-plt, to make -mplt the default. The new code model requires support from the assembler, the linker, and the runtime C library. This support is available in binutils 2.19 and GLIBC 2.9. * GCC can now generate MIPS16 code for 32-bit GNU/Linux executables and 32-bit GNU/Linux shared libraries. This feature requires GNU binutils 2.19 or above. * Support for RMI's XLR processor is now available through the -march=xlr and -mtune=xlr options. * 64-bit targets can now perform 128-bit multiplications inline, instead of relying on a libgcc function. * Native GNU/Linux toolchains now support -march=native and -mtune=native, which select the host processor. * GCC now supports the R10K, R12K, R14K and R16K processors. The canonical -march= and -mtune= names for these processors are r10000, r12000, r14000 and r16000 respectively. * GCC can now work around the side effects of speculative execution on R10K processors. Please see the documentation of the -mr10k-cache-barrier option for details. * Support for the MIPS64 Release 2 instruction set has been added. The option -march=mips64r2 enables generation of these instructions. * GCC now supports Cavium Networks' Octeon processor. This support is available through the -march=octeon and -mtune=octeon options. * GCC now supports STMicroelectronics' Loongson 2E/2F processors. The canonical -march= and -mtune= names for these processors are loongson2e and loongson2f. picochip Picochip is a 16-bit processor. A typical picoChip contains over 250 small cores, each with small amounts of memory. There are three processor variants (STAN, MEM and CTRL) with different instruction sets and memory configurations and they can be chosen using the -mae option. This port is intended to be a "C" only port. Power Architecture and PowerPC * GCC now supports the e300c2, e300c3 and e500mc processors. * GCC now supports Xilinx processors with a single-precision FPU. * Decimal floating point is now supported for e500 processors. S/390, zSeries and System z9/z10 * Support for the IBM System z10 EC/BC processor has been added. When using the -march=z10 option, the compiler will generate code making use of instructions provided by the General-Instruction-Extension Facility and the Execute-Extension Facility. VxWorks * GCC now supports the thread-local storage mechanism used on VxWorks. Xtensa * GCC now supports thread-local storage (TLS) for Xtensa processor configurations that include the Thread Pointer option. TLS also requires support from the assembler and linker; this support is provided in the GNU binutils beginning with version 2.19. Documentation improvements Other significant improvements GCC 4.4.1 This is the [12]list of problem reports (PRs) from GCC's bug tracking system that are known to be fixed in the 4.4.1 release. This list might not be complete (that is, it is possible that some PRs that have been fixed are not listed here). GCC 4.4.2 This is the [13]list of problem reports (PRs) from GCC's bug tracking system that are known to be fixed in the 4.4.2 release. This list might not be complete (that is, it is possible that some PRs that have been fixed are not listed here). GCC 4.4.3 This is the [14]list of problem reports (PRs) from GCC's bug tracking system that are known to be fixed in the 4.4.3 release. This list might not be complete (that is, it is possible that some PRs that have been fixed are not listed here). GCC 4.4.4 This is the [15]list of problem reports (PRs) from GCC's bug tracking system that are known to be fixed in the 4.4.4 release. This list might not be complete (that is, it is possible that some PRs that have been fixed are not listed here). GCC 4.4.5 This is the [16]list of problem reports (PRs) from GCC's bug tracking system that are known to be fixed in the 4.4.5 release. This list might not be complete (that is, it is possible that some PRs that have been fixed are not listed here). 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This release is a bug-fix release, containing fixes for regressions in GCC 4.3.5 relative to previous releases of GCC. Release History GCC 4.3.6 Jun 27, 2011 ([2]changes) GCC 4.3.5 May 22, 2010 ([3]changes) GCC 4.3.4 August 4, 2009 ([4]changes) GCC 4.3.3 January 24, 2009 ([5]changes) GCC 4.3.2 August 27, 2008 ([6]changes) GCC 4.3.1 June 6, 2008 ([7]changes) GCC 4.3.0 March 5, 2008 ([8]changes) References and Acknowledgements GCC used to stand for the GNU C Compiler, but since the compiler supports several other languages aside from C, it now stands for the GNU Compiler Collection. A list of [9]successful builds is updated as new information becomes available. The GCC developers would like to thank the numerous people that have contributed new features, improvements, bug fixes, and other changes as well as test results to GCC. This [10]amazing group of volunteers is what makes GCC successful. 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Caveats * GCC requires the [2]GMP and [3]MPFR libraries for building all the various front-end languages it supports. See the [4]prerequisites page for version requirements. * ColdFire targets now treat long double as having the same format as double. In earlier versions of GCC, they used the 68881 long double format instead. * The m68k-uclinux target now uses the same calling conventions as m68k-linux-gnu. You can select the original calling conventions by configuring for m68k-uclinuxoldabi instead. Note that m68k-uclinuxoldabi also retains the original 80-bit long double on ColdFire targets. * The -fforce-mem option has been removed because it has had no effect in the last few GCC releases. * The i386 -msvr3-shlib option has been removed since it is no longer used. * Fastcall for i386 has been changed not to pass aggregate arguments in registers, following Microsoft compilers. * Support for the AOF assembler has been removed from the ARM back end; this affects only the targets arm-semi-aof and armel-semi-aof, which are no longer recognized. We removed these targets without a deprecation period because we discovered that they have been unusable since GCC 4.0.0. * Support for the TMS320C3x/C4x processor (targets c4x-* and tic4x-*) has been removed. This support had been deprecated since GCC 4.0.0. * Support for a number of older systems and recently unmaintained or untested target ports of GCC has been declared obsolete in GCC 4.3. Unless there is activity to revive them, the next release of GCC will have their sources permanently removed. All GCC ports for the following processor architectures have been declared obsolete: + Morpho MT (mt-*) The following aliases for processor architectures have been declared obsolete. Users should use the indicated generic target names instead, with compile-time options such as -mcpu or configure-time options such as --with-cpu to control the configuration more precisely. + strongarm*-*-*, ep9312*-*-*, xscale*-*-* (use arm*-*-* instead). + parisc*-*-* (use hppa*-*-* instead). + m680[012]0-*-* (use m68k-*-* instead). All GCC ports for the following operating systems have been declared obsolete: + BeOS (*-*-beos*) + kaOS (*-*-kaos*) + GNU/Linux using the a.out object format (*-*-linux*aout*) + GNU/Linux using version 1 of the GNU C Library (*-*-linux*libc1*) + Solaris versions before Solaris 7 (*-*-solaris2.[0-6], *-*-solaris2.[0-6].*) + Miscellaneous System V (*-*-sysv*) + WindISS (*-*-windiss*) Also, those for some individual systems on particular architectures have been obsoleted: + UNICOS/mk on DEC Alpha (alpha*-*-unicosmk*) + CRIS with a.out object format (cris-*-aout) + BSD 4.3 on PA-RISC (hppa1.1-*-bsd*) + OSF/1 on PA-RISC (hppa1.1-*-osf*) + PRO on PA-RISC (hppa1.1-*-pro*) + Sequent PTX on IA32 (i[34567]86-sequent-ptx4*, i[34567]86-sequent-sysv4*) + SCO Open Server 5 on IA32 (i[34567]86-*-sco3.2v5*) + UWIN on IA32 (i[34567]86-*-uwin*) (support for UWIN as a host was previously [5]removed in 2001, leaving only the support for UWIN as a target now being deprecated) + ChorusOS on PowerPC (powerpc-*-chorusos*) + All VAX configurations apart from NetBSD and OpenBSD (vax-*-bsd*, vax-*-sysv*, vax-*-ultrix*) * The [6]-Wconversion option has been modified. Its purpose now is to warn for implicit conversions that may alter a value. This new behavior is available for both C and C++. Warnings about conversions between signed and unsigned integers can be disabled by using -Wno-sign-conversion. In C++, they are disabled by default unless -Wsign-conversion is explicitly requested. The old behavior of -Wconversion, that is, warn for prototypes causing a type conversion that is different from what would happen to the same argument in the absence of a prototype, has been moved to a new option -Wtraditional-conversion, which is only available for C. * The -m386, -m486, -mpentium and -mpentiumpro tuning options have been removed because they were deprecated for more than 3 GCC major releases. Use -mtune=i386, -mtune=i486, -mtune=pentium or -mtune=pentiumpro as a replacement. * The -funsafe-math-optimizations option now automatically turns on -fno-trapping-math in addition to -fno-signed-zeros, as it enables reassociation and thus may introduce or remove traps. * The -ftree-vectorize option is now on by default under -O3. In order to generate code for a SIMD extension, it has to be enabled as well: use -maltivec for PowerPC platforms and -msse/-msse2 for i?86 and x86_64. * More information on porting to GCC 4.3 from previous versions of GCC can be found in the [7]porting guide for this release. General Optimizer Improvements * The GCC middle-end has been integrated with the [8]MPFR library. This allows GCC to evaluate and replace at compile-time calls to built-in math functions having constant arguments with their mathematically equivalent results. In making use of [9]MPFR, GCC can generate correct results regardless of the math library implementation or floating point precision of the host platform. This also allows GCC to generate identical results regardless of whether one compiles in native or cross-compile configurations to a particular target. The following built-in functions take advantage of this new capability: acos, acosh, asin, asinh, atan2, atan, atanh, cbrt, cos, cosh, drem, erf, erfc, exp10, exp2, exp, expm1, fdim, fma, fmax, fmin, gamma_r, hypot, j0, j1, jn, lgamma_r, log10, log1p, log2, log, pow10, pow, remainder, remquo, sin, sincos, sinh, tan, tanh, tgamma, y0, y1 and yn. The float and long double variants of these functions (e.g. sinf and sinl) are also handled. The sqrt and cabs functions with constant arguments were already optimized in prior GCC releases. Now they also use [10]MPFR. * A new forward propagation pass on RTL was added. The new pass replaces several slower transformations, resulting in compile-time improvements as well as better code generation in some cases. * A new command-line switch -frecord-gcc-switches has been added to GCC, although it is only enabled for some targets. The switch causes the command line that was used to invoke the compiler to be recorded into the object file that is being created. The exact format of this recording is target and binary file format dependent, but it usually takes the form of a note section containing ASCII text. The switch is related to the -fverbose-asm switch, but that one only records the information in the assembler output file as comments, so the information never reaches the object file. * The inliner heuristic is now aware of stack frame consumption. New command-line parameters --param large-stack-frame and --param large-stack-frame-growth can be used to limit stack frame size growth caused by inlining. * During feedback directed optimizations, the expected block size the memcpy, memset and bzero functions operate on is discovered and for cases of commonly used small sizes, specialized inline code is generated. * __builtin_expect no longer requires its argument to be a compile time constant. * Interprocedural optimization was reorganized to work on functions in SSA form. This enables more precise and cheaper dataflow analysis and makes writing interprocedural optimizations easier. The following improvements have been implemented on top of this framework: + Pre-inline optimization: Selected local optimization passes are run before the inliner (and other interprocedural passes) are executed. This significantly improves the accuracy of code growth estimates used by the inliner and reduces the overall memory footprint for large compilation units. + Early inlining (a simple bottom-up inliner pass inlining only functions whose body is smaller than the expected call overhead) is now executed with the early optimization passes, thus inlining already optimized function bodies into an unoptimized function that is subsequently optimized by early optimizers. This enables the compiler to quickly eliminate abstraction penalty in C++ programs. + Interprocedural constant propagation now operate on SSA form increasing accuracy of the analysis. * A new internal representation for GIMPLE statements has been contributed, resulting in compile-time memory savings. * The vectorizer was enhanced to support vectorization of outer loops, intra-iteration parallelism (loop-aware SLP), vectorization of strided accesses and loops with multiple data-types. Run-time dependency testing using loop versioning was added. The cost model, turned on by -fvect-cost-model, was developed. New Languages and Language specific improvements * We have added new command-line options -finstrument-functions-exclude-function-list and -finstrument-functions-exclude-file-list. They provide more control over which functions are annotated by the -finstrument-functions option. C family * Implicit conversions between generic vector types are now only permitted when the two vectors in question have the same number of elements and compatible element types. (Note that the restriction involves compatible element types, not implicitly-convertible element types: thus, a vector type with element type int may not be implicitly converted to a vector type with element type unsigned int.) This restriction, which is in line with specifications for SIMD architectures such as AltiVec, may be relaxed using the flag -flax-vector-conversions. This flag is intended only as a compatibility measure and should not be used for new code. * -Warray-bounds has been added and is now enabled by default for -Wall . It produces warnings for array subscripts that can be determined at compile time to be always out of bounds. -Wno-array-bounds will disable the warning. * The constructor and destructor function attributes now accept optional priority arguments which control the order in which the constructor and destructor functions are run. * New [11]command-line options -Wtype-limits, -Wold-style-declaration, -Wmissing-parameter-type, -Wempty-body, -Wclobbered and -Wignored-qualifiers have been added for finer control of the diverse warnings enabled by -Wextra. * A new function attribute alloc_size has been added to mark up malloc style functions. For constant sized allocations this can be used to find out the size of the returned pointer using the __builtin_object_size() function for buffer overflow checking and similar. This supplements the already built-in malloc and calloc constant size handling. * Integer constants written in binary are now supported as a GCC extension. They consist of a prefix 0b or 0B, followed by a sequence of 0 and 1 digits. * A new predefined macro __COUNTER__ has been added. It expands to sequential integral values starting from 0. In conjunction with the ## operator, this provides a convenient means to generate unique identifiers. * A new command-line option -fdirectives-only has been added. It enables a special preprocessing mode which improves the performance of applications like distcc and ccache. * Fixed-point data types and operators have been added. They are based on Chapter 4 of the Embedded-C specification (n1169.pdf). Currently, only MIPS targets are supported. * Decimal floating-point arithmetic based on draft ISO/IEC TR 24732, N1241, is now supported as a GCC extension to C for targets i[34567]86-*-linux-gnu, powerpc*-*-linux-gnu, s390*-ibm-linux-gnu, and x86_64-*-linux-gnu. The feature introduces new data types _Decimal32, _Decimal64, and _Decimal128 with constant suffixes DF, DD, and DL. C++ * [12]Experimental support for the upcoming ISO C++ standard, C++0x. * -Wc++0x-compat has been added and is now enabled by default for -Wall. It produces warnings for constructs whose meaning differs between ISO C++ 1998 and C++0x. * The -Wparentheses option now works for C++ as it does for C. It warns if parentheses are omitted when operators with confusing precedence are nested. It also warns about ambiguous else statements. Since -Wparentheses is enabled by -Wall, this may cause additional warnings with existing C++ code which uses -Wall. These new warnings may be disabled by using -Wall -Wno-parentheses. * The -Wmissing-declarations now works for C++ as it does for C. * The -fvisibility-ms-compat flag was added, to make it easier to port larger projects using shared libraries from Microsoft's Visual Studio to ELF and Mach-O systems. * C++ attribute handling has been overhauled for template arguments (ie dependent types). In particular, __attribute__((aligned(T))); works for C++ types. Runtime Library (libstdc++) * [13]Experimental support for the upcoming ISO C++ standard, C++0x. * Support for TR1 mathematical special functions and regular expressions. ([14]Implementation status of TR1) * Default what implementations give more elaborate exception strings for bad_cast, bad_typeid, bad_exception, and bad_alloc. * Header dependencies have been streamlined, reducing unnecessary includes and pre-processed bloat. * Variadic template implementations of items in and . * An experimental [15]parallel mode has been added. This is a parallel implementation of many C++ Standard library algorithms, like std::accumulate, std::for_each, std::transform, or std::sort, to give but four examples. These algorithms can be substituted for the normal (sequential) libstdc++ algorithms on a piecemeal basis, or all existing algorithms can be transformed via the -D_GLIBCXX_PARALLEL macro. * Debug mode versions of classes in and . * Formal deprecation of and , which are now and . This code: #include __gnu_cxx::hash_set s; Can be transformed (in order of preference) to: #include std::tr1::unordered_set s; or #include __gnu_cxx::hash_set s; Similar transformations apply to __gnu_cxx::hash_map, __gnu_cxx::hash_multimap, __gnu_cxx::hash_set, __gnu_cxx::hash_multiset. Fortran * Due to the fact that the [16]GMP and [17]MPFR libraries are required for all languages, Fortran is no longer special in this regard and is available by default. * The [18]-fexternal-blas option has been added, which generates calls to BLAS routines for intrinsic matrix operations such as matmul rather than using the built-in algorithms. * Support to give a backtrace (compiler flag -fbacktrace or environment variable GFORTRAN_ERROR_BACKTRACE; on glibc systems only) or a core dump (-fdump-core, GFORTRAN_ERROR_DUMPCORE) when a run-time error occured. * GNU Fortran now defines __GFORTRAN__ when it runs the C preprocessor (CPP). * The [19]-finit-local-zero, -finit-real, -finit-integer, -finit-character, and -finit-logical options have been added, which can be used to initialize local variables. * The intrinsic procedures [20]GAMMA and [21]LGAMMA have been added, which calculate the Gamma function and its logarithm. Use EXTERNAL gamma if you want to use your own gamma function. * GNU Fortran now regards the backslash character as literal (as required by the Fortran 2003 standard); using [22]-fbackslash GNU Fortran interprets backslashes as C-style escape characters. * The [23]interpretation of binary, octal and hexadecimal (BOZ) literal constants has been changed. Before they were always interpreted as integer; now they are bit-wise transferred as argument of INT, REAL, DBLE and CMPLX as required by the Fortran 2003 standard, and for real and complex variables in DATA statements or when directly assigned to real and complex variables. Everywhere else and especially in expressions they are still regarded as integer constants. * Fortran 2003 support has been extended: + Intrinsic statements IMPORT, PROTECTED, VALUE and VOLATILE + Pointer intent + Intrinsic module ISO_ENV_FORTRAN + Interoperability with C (ISO C Bindings) + ABSTRACT INTERFACES and PROCEDURE statements (without POINTER attribute) + Fortran 2003 BOZ Java (GCJ) * GCJ now uses the Eclipse Java compiler for its Java parsing needs. This enables the use of all 1.5 language features, and fixes most existing front end bugs. * libgcj now supports all 1.5 language features which require runtime support: foreach, enum, annotations, generics, and auto-boxing. * We've made many changes to the tools shipped with gcj. + The old jv-scan tool has been removed. This tool never really worked properly. There is no replacement. + gcjh has been rewritten. Some of its more obscure options no longer work, but are still recognized in an attempt at compatibility. gjavah is a new program with similar functionality but different command-line options. + grmic and grmiregistry have been rewritten. grmid has been added. + gjar replaces the old fastjar. + gjarsigner (used for signing jars), gkeytool (used for key management), gorbd (for CORBA), gserialver (computes serialization UIDs), and gtnameserv (also for CORBA) are now installed. * The ability to dump the contents of the java run time heap to a file for off-line analysis has been added. The heap dumps may be analyzed with the new gc-analyze tool. They may be generated on out-of-memory conditions or on demand and are controlled by the new run time class gnu.gcj.util.GCInfo. * java.util.TimeZone can now read files from /usr/share/zoneinfo to provide correct, updated, timezone information. This means that packagers no longer have to update libgcj when a time zone change is published. New Targets and Target Specific Improvements IA-32/x86-64 * Tuning for Intel Core 2 processors is available via -mtune=core2 and -march=core2. * Tuning for AMD Geode processors is available via -mtune=geode and -march=geode. * Code generation of block move (memcpy) and block set (memset) was rewritten. GCC can now pick the best algorithm (loop, unrolled loop, instruction with rep prefix or a library call) based on the size of the block being copied and the CPU being optimized for. A new option -minline-stringops-dynamically has been added. With this option string operations of unknown size are expanded such that small blocks are copied by in-line code, while for large blocks a library call is used. This results in faster code than -minline-all-stringops when the library implementation is capable of using cache hierarchy hints. The heuristic choosing the particular algorithm can be overwritten via -mstringop-strategy. Newly also memset of values different from 0 is inlined. * GCC no longer places the cld instruction before string operations. Both i386 and x86-64 ABI documents mandate the direction flag to be clear at the entry of a function. It is now invalid to set the flag in asm statement without reseting it afterward. * Support for SSSE3 built-in functions and code generation are available via -mssse3. * Support for SSE4.1 built-in functions and code generation are available via -msse4.1. * Support for SSE4.2 built-in functions and code generation are available via -msse4.2. * Both SSE4.1 and SSE4.2 support can be enabled via -msse4. * A new set of options -mpc32, -mpc64 and -mpc80 have been added to allow explicit control of x87 floating point precision. * Support for __float128 (TFmode) IEEE quad type and corresponding TCmode IEEE complex quad type is available via the soft-fp library on x86_64 targets. This includes basic arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, negation, multiplication and division) on __float128 real and TCmode complex values, the full set of IEEE comparisons between __float128 values, conversions to and from float, double and long double floating point types, as well as conversions to and from signed or unsigned integer, signed or unsigned long integer and signed or unsigned quad (TImode) integer types. Additionally, all operations generate the full set of IEEE exceptions and support the full set of IEEE rounding modes. * GCC can now utilize the ACML library for vectorizing calls to a set of C99 functions on x86_64 if -mveclibabi=acml is specified and you link to an ACML ABI compatible library. ARM * Compiler and Library support for Thumb-2 and the ARMv7 architecture has been added. CRIS New features * Compiler and Library support for the CRIS v32 architecture, as found in Axis Communications ETRAX FS and ARTPEC-3 chips, has been added. Configuration changes * The cris-*-elf target now includes support for CRIS v32, including libraries, through the -march=v32 option. * A new crisv32-*-elf target defaults to generate code for CRIS v32. * A new crisv32-*-linux* target defaults to generate code for CRIS v32. * The cris-*-aout target has been obsoleted. Improved support for built-in functions * GCC can now use the lz and swapwbr instructions to implement the __builtin_clz, __builtin_ctz and __builtin_ffs family of functions. * __builtin_bswap32 is now implemented using the swapwb instruction, when available. m68k and ColdFire New features * Support for several new ColdFire processors has been added. You can generate code for them using the new -mcpu option. * All targets now support ColdFire processors. * m68k-uclinux targets have improved support for C++ constructors and destructors, and for shared libraries. * It is now possible to set breakpoints on the first or last line of a function, even if there are no statements on that line. Optimizations * Support for sibling calls has been added. * More use is now made of the ColdFire mov3q instruction. * __builtin_clz is now implemented using the ff1 ColdFire instruction, when available. * GCC now honors the -m68010 option. 68010 code now uses clr rather than move to zero volatile memory. * 68020 targets and above can now use symbol(index.size*scale) addresses for indexed array accesses. Earlier compilers would always load the symbol into a base register first. Configuration changes * All m68k and ColdFire targets now allow the default processor to be set at configure time using --with-cpu. * A --with-arch configuration option has been added. This option allows you to restrict a target to ColdFire or non-ColdFire processors. Preprocessor macros * An __mcfv*__ macro is now defined for all ColdFire targets. (Earlier versions of GCC only defined __mcfv4e__.) * __mcf_cpu_*, __mcf_family_* and __mcffpu__ macros have been added. * All targets now define __mc68010 and __mc68010__ when generating 68010 code. Command-line changes * New command-line options -march, -mcpu, -mtune and -mhard-float have been added. These options apply to both m68k and ColdFire targets. * -mno-short, -mno-bitfield and -mno-rtd are now accepted as negative versions of -mshort, etc. * -fforce-addr has been removed. It is now ignored by the compiler. Other improvements * ColdFire targets now try to maintain a 4-byte-aligned stack where possible. * m68k-uclinux targets now try to avoid situations that lead to the load-time error: BINFMT_FLAT: reloc outside program. MIPS Changes to existing configurations * libffi and libjava now support all three GNU/Linux ABIs: o32, n32 and n64. Every GNU/Linux configuration now builds these libraries by default. * GNU/Linux configurations now generate -mno-shared code unless overridden by -fpic, -fPIC, -fpie or -fPIE. * mipsisa32*-linux-gnu configurations now generate hard-float code by default, just like other mipsisa32* and mips*-linux-gnu configurations. You can build a soft-float version of any mips*-linux-gnu configuration by passing --with-float=soft to configure. * mips-wrs-vxworks now supports run-time processes (RTPs). Changes to existing command-line options * The -march and -mtune options no longer accept 24k as a processor name. Please use 24kc, 24kf2_1 or 24kf1_1 instead. * The -march and -mtune options now accept 24kf2_1, 24kef2_1 and 34kf2_1 as synonyms for 24kf, 24kef and 34kf respectively. The options also accept 24kf1_1, 24kef1_1 and 34kf1_1 as synonyms for 24kx, 24kex and 34kx. New configurations GCC now supports the following configurations: * mipsisa32r2*-linux-gnu*, which generates MIPS32 revision 2 code by default. Earlier releases also recognized this configuration, but they treated it in the same way as mipsisa32*-linux-gnu*. Note that you can customize any mips*-linux-gnu* configuration to a particular ISA or processor by passing an appropriate --with-arch option to configure. * mipsisa*-sde-elf*, which provides compatibility with MIPS Technologies' SDE toolchains. The configuration uses the SDE libraries by default, but you can use it like other newlib-based ELF configurations by passing --with-newlib to configure. It is the only configuration besides mips64vr*-elf* to build MIPS16 as well as non-MIPS16 libraries. * mipsisa*-elfoabi*, which is similar to the general mipsisa*-elf* configuration, but uses the o32 and o64 ABIs instead of the 32-bit and 64-bit forms of the EABI. New processors and application-specific extensions * Support for the SmartMIPS ASE is available through the new -msmartmips option. * Support for revision 2 of the DSP ASE is available through the new -mdspr2 option. A new preprocessor macro called __mips_dsp_rev indicates the revision of the ASE in use. * Support for the 4KS and 74K families of processors is available through the -march and -mtune options. Improved support for built-in functions * GCC can now use load-linked, store-conditional and sync instructions to implement atomic built-in functions such as __sync_fetch_and_add. The memory reference must be 4 bytes wide for 32-bit targets and either 4 or 8 bytes wide for 64-bit targets. * GCC can now use the clz and dclz instructions to implement the __builtin_ctz and __builtin_ffs families of functions. * There is a new __builtin___clear_cache function for flushing the instruction cache. GCC expands this function inline on MIPS32 revision 2 targets, otherwise it calls the function specified by -mcache-flush-func. MIPS16 improvements * GCC can now compile objects that contain a mixture of MIPS16 and non-MIPS16 code. There are two new attributes, mips16 and nomips16, for specifying which mode a function should use. * A new option called -minterlink-mips16 makes non-MIPS16 code link-compatible with MIPS16 code. * After many bug fixes, the long-standing MIPS16 -mhard-float support should now work fairly reliably. * GCC can now use the MIPS16e save and restore instructions. * -fsection-anchors now works in MIPS16 mode. MIPS16 code compiled with -G0 -fsection-anchors is often smaller than code compiled with -G8. However, please note that you must usually compile all objects in your application with the same -G option; see the documentation of -G for details. * A new option called-mcode-readable specifies which instructions are allowed to load from the code segment. -mcode-readable=yes is the default and says that any instruction may load from the code segment. The other alternatives are -mcode-readable=pcrel, which says that only PC-relative MIPS16 instructions may load from the code segment, and -mcode-readable=no, which says that no instruction may do so. Please see the documentation for more details, including example uses. Small-data improvements There are three new options for controlling small data: * -mno-extern-sdata, which disables small-data accesses for externally-defined variables. Code compiled with -Gn -mno-extern-sdata will be link-compatible with any -G setting between -G0 and -Gn inclusive. * -mno-local-sdata, which disables the use of small-data sections for data that is not externally visible. This option can be a useful way of reducing small-data usage in less performance-critical parts of an application. * -mno-gpopt, which disables the use of the $gp register while still honoring the -G limit when placing externally-visible data. This option implies -mno-extern-sdata and -mno-local-sdata and it can be useful in situations where $gp does not necessarily hold the expected value. Miscellaneous improvements * There is a new option called -mbranch-cost for tweaking the perceived cost of branches. * If GCC is configured to use a version of GAS that supports the .gnu_attribute directive, it will use that directive to record certain properties of the output code. .gnu_attribute is new to GAS 2.18. * There are two new function attributes, near and far, for overriding the command-line setting of -mlong-calls on a function-by-function basis. * -mfp64, which previously required a 64-bit target, now works with MIPS32 revision 2 targets as well. The mipsisa*-elfoabi* and mipsisa*-sde-elf* configurations provide suitable library support. * GCC now recognizes the -mdmx and -mmt options and passes them down to the assembler. It does nothing else with the options at present. SPU (Synergistic Processor Unit) of the Cell Broadband Engine Architecture (BEA) * Support has been added for this new architecture. RS6000 (POWER/PowerPC) * Support for the PowerPC 750CL paired-single instructions has been added with a new powerpc-*-linux*paired* target configuration. It is enabled by an associated -mpaired option and can be accessed using new built-in functions. * Support for auto-detecting architecture and system configuration to auto-select processor optimization tuning. * Support for VMX on AIX 5.3 has been added. * Support for AIX Version 6.1 has been added. S/390, zSeries and System z9 * Support for the IBM System z9 EC/BC processor (z9 GA3) has been added. When using the -march=z9-ec option, the compiler will generate code making use of instructions provided by the decimal floating point facility and the floating point conversion facility (pfpo). Besides the instructions used to implement decimal floating point operations these facilities also contain instructions to move between general purpose and floating point registers and to modify and copy the sign-bit of floating point values. * When the -march=z9-ec option is used the new -mhard-dfp/-mno-hard-dfp options can be used to specify whether the decimal floating point hardware instructions will be used or not. If none of them is given the hardware support is enabled by default. * The -mstack-guard option can now be omitted when using stack checking via -mstack-size in order to let GCC choose a sensible stack guard value according to the frame size of each function. * Various changes to improve performance of generated code have been implemented, including: + The condition code set by an add logical with carry instruction is now available for overflow checks like: a + b + carry < b. + The test data class instruction is now used to implement sign-bit and infinity checks of binary and decimal floating point numbers. SPARC * Support for the Sun UltraSPARC T2 (Niagara 2) processor has been added. Xtensa * Stack unwinding for exception handling now uses by default a specialized version of DWARF unwinding. This is not binary-compatible with the setjmp/longjmp (sjlj) unwinding used for Xtensa with previous versions of GCC. * For Xtensa processors that include the Conditional Store option, the built-in functions for atomic memory access are now implemented using S32C1I instructions. * If the Xtensa NSA option is available, GCC will use it to implement the __builtin_ctz and __builtin_clz functions. Documentation improvements * Existing libstdc++ documentation has been edited and restructured into a single DocBook XML manual. The results can be viewed online [24]here. Other significant improvements * The compiler's --help command-line option has been extended so that it now takes an optional set of arguments. These arguments restrict the information displayed to specific classes of command-line options, and possibly only a subset of those options. It is also now possible to replace the descriptive text associated with each displayed option with an indication of its current value, or for binary options, whether it has been enabled or disabled. Here are some examples. The following will display all the options controlling warning messages: --help=warnings Whereas this will display all the undocumented, target specific options: --help=target,undocumented This sequence of commands will display the binary optimizations that are enabled by -O3: gcc -c -Q -O3 --help=optimizers > /tmp/O3-opts gcc -c -Q -O2 --help=optimizers > /tmp/O2-opts diff /tmp/O2-opts /tmp/O3-opts | grep enabled * The configure options --with-pkgversion and --with-bugurl have been added. These allow distributors of GCC to include a distributor-specific string in manuals and --version output and to specify the URL for reporting bugs in their versions of GCC. GCC 4.3.1 This is the [25]list of problem reports (PRs) from GCC's bug tracking system that are known to be fixed in the 4.3.1 release. This list might not be complete (that is, it is possible that some PRs that have been fixed are not listed here). Target Specific Changes IA-32/x86-64 ABI changes * Starting with GCC 4.3.1, decimal floating point variables are aligned to their natural boundaries when they are passed on the stack for i386. Command-line changes * Starting with GCC 4.3.1, the -mcld option has been added to automatically generate a cld instruction in the prologue of functions that use string instructions. This option is used for backward compatibility on some operating systems and can be enabled by default for 32-bit x86 targets by configuring GCC with the --enable-cld configure option. GCC 4.3.2 This is the [26]list of problem reports (PRs) from GCC's bug tracking system that are known to be fixed in the 4.3.2 release. 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This list might not be complete (that is, it is possible that some PRs that have been fixed are not listed here). For questions related to the use of GCC, please consult these web pages and the [31]GCC manuals. If that fails, the [32]gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org mailing list might help. Comments on these web pages and the development of GCC are welcome on our developer list at [33]gcc@gcc.gnu.org. All of [34]our lists have public archives. Copyright (C) [35]Free Software Foundation, Inc. Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved. These pages are [36]maintained by the GCC team. Last modified 2014-06-28[37]. 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This release is a bug-fix release, containing fixes for regressions in GCC 4.2.3 relative to previous releases of GCC. Release History GCC 4.2.4 May 19, 2008 ([2]changes) GCC 4.2.3 February 1, 2008 ([3]changes) GCC 4.2.2 October 7, 2007 ([4]changes) GCC 4.2.1 July 18, 2007 ([5]changes) GCC 4.2.0 May 13, 2007 ([6]changes) References and Acknowledgements GCC used to stand for the GNU C Compiler, but since the compiler supports several other languages aside from C, it now stands for the GNU Compiler Collection. A list of [7]successful builds is updated as new information becomes available. The GCC developers would like to thank the numerous people that have contributed new features, improvements, bug fixes, and other changes as well as test results to GCC. This [8]amazing group of volunteers is what makes GCC successful. For additional information about GCC please refer to the [9]GCC project web site or contact the [10]GCC development mailing list. To obtain GCC please use [11]our mirror sites or [12]our SVN server. For questions related to the use of GCC, please consult these web pages and the [13]GCC manuals. If that fails, the [14]gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org mailing list might help. Comments on these web pages and the development of GCC are welcome on our developer list at [15]gcc@gcc.gnu.org. All of [16]our lists have public archives. Copyright (C) [17]Free Software Foundation, Inc. Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved. These pages are [18]maintained by the GCC team. Last modified 2014-06-28[19]. References 1. http://www.gnu.org/ 2. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.2/changes.html 3. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.2/changes.html 4. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.2/changes.html 5. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.2/changes.html 6. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.2/changes.html 7. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.2/buildstat.html 8. https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Contributors.html 9. http://gcc.gnu.org/index.html 10. mailto:gcc@gcc.gnu.org 11. http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html 12. http://gcc.gnu.org/svn.html 13. https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/ 14. mailto:gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org 15. mailto:gcc@gcc.gnu.org 16. https://gcc.gnu.org/lists.html 17. http://www.fsf.org/ 18. https://gcc.gnu.org/about.html 19. http://validator.w3.org/check/referer ====================================================================== http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.2/changes.html GCC 4.2 Release Series Changes, New Features, and Fixes Caveats * GCC no longer accepts the -fshared-data option. This option has had no effect in any GCC 4 release; the targets to which the option used to apply had been removed before GCC 4.0. General Optimizer Improvements * New command-line options specify the possible relationships among parameters and between parameters and global data. For example, -fargument-noalias-anything specifies that arguments do not alias any other storage. Each language will automatically use whatever option is required by the language standard. You should not need to use these options yourself. New Languages and Language specific improvements * [1]OpenMP is now supported for the C, C++ and Fortran compilers. * New command-line options -fstrict-overflow and -Wstrict-overflow have been added. -fstrict-overflow tells the compiler that it may assume that the program follows the strict signed overflow semantics permitted for the language: for C and C++ this means that the compiler may assume that signed overflow does not occur. For example, a loop like for (i = 1; i > 0; i *= 2) is presumably intended to continue looping until i overflows. With -fstrict-overflow, the compiler may assume that signed overflow will not occur, and transform this into an infinite loop. -fstrict-overflow is turned on by default at -O2, and may be disabled via -fno-strict-overflow. The -Wstrict-overflow option may be used to warn about cases where the compiler assumes that signed overflow will not occur. It takes five different levels: -Wstrict-overflow=1 to 5. See the [2]documentation for details. -Wstrict-overflow=1 is enabled by -Wall. * The new command-line option -fno-toplevel-reorder directs GCC to emit top-level functions, variables, and asm statements in the same order that they appear in the input file. This is intended to support existing code which relies on a particular ordering (for example, code which uses top-level asm statements to switch sections). For new code, it is generally better to use function and variable attributes. The -fno-toplevel-reorder option may be used for most cases which currently use -fno-unit-at-a-time. The -fno-unit-at-a-time option will be removed in some future version of GCC. If you know of a case which requires -fno-unit-at-a-time which is not fixed by -fno-toplevel-reorder, please open a bug report. C family * The pragma redefine_extname will now macro expand its tokens for compatibility with SunPRO. * In the next release of GCC, 4.3, -std=c99 or -std=gnu99 will direct GCC to handle inline functions as specified in the C99 standard. In preparation for this, GCC 4.2 will warn about any use of non-static inline functions in gnu99 or c99 mode. This new warning may be disabled with the new gnu_inline function attribute or the new -fgnu89-inline command-line option. Also, GCC 4.2 and later will define one of the preprocessor macros __GNUC_GNU_INLINE__ or __GNUC_STDC_INLINE__ to indicate the semantics of inline functions in the current compilation. * A new command-line option -Waddress has been added to warn about suspicious uses of memory addresses as, for example, using the address of a function in a conditional expression, and comparisons against the memory address of a string literal. This warning is enabled by -Wall. C++ * C++ visibility handling has been overhauled. Restricted visiblity is propagated from classes to members, from functions to local statics, and from templates and template arguments to instantiations, unless the latter has explicitly declared visibility. The visibility attribute for a class must come between the class-key and the name, not after the closing brace. Attributes are now allowed for enums and elaborated-type-specifiers that only declare a type. Members of the anonymous namespace are now local to a particular translation unit, along with any other declarations which use them, though they are still treated as having external linkage for language semantics. * The (undocumented) extension which permitted templates with default arguments to be bound to template template parameters with fewer parameters has been removed. For example: template