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@Noteworthy changes in GCC version 2.7.2:

A few bugs have been fixed (most notably the generation of an
invalid assembler opcode on some RS/6000 systems).

Noteworthy changes in GCC version 2.7.1:

This release fixes numerous bugs (mostly minor) in GCC 2.7.0, but
also contains a few new features, mostly related to specific targets.

Major changes have been made in code to support Windows NT.

The following new targets are supported:

	2.9 BSD on PDP-11
	Linux on m68k
	HP/UX version 10 on HP PA RISC (treated like version 9)
	DEC Alpha running Windows NT

When parsing C, GCC now recognizes C++ style `//' comments unless you
specify `-ansi' or `-traditional'.

The PowerPC System V targets (powerpc-*-sysv, powerpc-*-eabi) now use the
calling sequence specified in the System V Application Binary Interface
Processor Supplement (PowerPC Processor ABI Supplement) rather than the calling
sequence used in GCC version 2.7.0.  That calling sequence was based on the AIX
calling sequence without function descriptors.  To compile code for that older
calling sequence, either configure the compiler for powerpc-*-eabiaix or use
the -mcall-aix switch when compiling and linking.

Noteworthy changes in GCC version 2.7.0:

GCC now works better on systems that use ".obj" and ".exe" instead of
".o" and no extension.  This involved changes to the driver program,
gcc.c, to convert ".o" names to ".obj" and to GCC's Makefile to use
".obj" and ".exe" in filenames that are not targets.  In order to
build GCC on such systems, you may need versions of GNU make and/or
compatible shells.  At this point, this support is preliminary.

Object file extensions of ".obj" and executable file extensions of
".exe" are allowed when using appropriate version of GNU Make.

Numerous enhancements were made to the __attribute__ facility including
more attributes and more places that support it.  We now support the
"packed", "nocommon", "noreturn", "volatile", "const", "unused",
"transparent_union", "constructor", "destructor", "mode", "section",
"align", "format", "weak", and "alias" attributes.  Each of these
names may also be specified with added underscores, e.g., "__packed__".
__attribute__ may now be applied to parameter definitions, function
definitions, and structure, enum, and union definitions.

GCC now supports returning more structures in registers, as specified by
many calling sequences (ABIs), such as on the HP PA RISC.

A new option '-fpack-struct' was added to automatically pack all structure
members together without holes.

There is a new library (cpplib) and program (cppmain) that at some
point will replace cpp (aka cccp).  To use cppmain as cpp now, pass
the option CCCP=cppmain to make.  The library is already used by the
fix-header program, which should speed up the fixproto script.

New options for supported targets:

    GNU on many targets.
    NetBSD on MIPS, m68k, VAX, and x86.
    LynxOS on x86, m68k, Sparc, and RS/6000.
    VxWorks on many targets.

    Windows/NT on x86 architecture.  Initial support for Windows/NT on Alpha
    (not fully working).

    Many embedded targets, specifically UDI on a29k, aout, coff, elf,
    and vsta "operating systems" on m68k, m88k, mips, sparc, and x86.

Additional support for x86 (i386, i486, and Pentium):

    Work with old and new linkers for Linux-based GNU systems,
	supporting both a.out and ELF.
    FreeBSD on x86.
    Stdcall convention.
    -malign-double, -mregparm=, -malign-loops= and -malign-jumps=  switches.
    On ISC systems, support -Xp like -posix.

Additions for RS/6000:

    Instruction scheduling information for PowerPC 403.
    AIX 4.1 on PowerPC.
    -mstring and -mno-string.
    -msoft-float and floating-point emulation included.
    Preliminary support for PowerPC System V.4 with or without the GNU as.
    Preliminary support for EABI.
    Preliminary support for 64-bit systems.
    Both big and little endian systems.

New features for MIPS-based systems:

    r4650.
    mips4 and R8000.
    Irix 6.0.
    64-bit ABI.
    Allow dollar signs in labels on SGI/Irix 5.x.

New support for HP PA RISC:

    Generation of PIC (requires binutils-2.5.2.u6 or later).
    HP-UX version 9 on HP PA RISC (dynamically links even with -g).
    Processor variants for HP PA RISC: 700, 7100, and 7100LC.
    Automatic generation of long calls when needed.
    -mfast-indirect-calls for kernels and static binaries.

    The called routine now copies arguments passed by invisible reference,
    as required by the calling standard.

Other new miscellaneous target-specific support:

    -mno-multm on a29k.
    -mold-align for i960.
    Configuration for "semi-hosted" ARM.
    -momit-leaf-frame-pointer for M88k.
    SH3 variant of Hitachi Super-H and support both big and little endian.

Changes to Objective-C:

    Bare-bones implementation of NXConstantString has been added,
    which is invoked by the @@"string" directive.

    Class * has been changed to Class to conform to the NextSTEP and
    OpenStep runtime.

    Enhancements to make dynamic loading easier.

    The module version number has been updated to Version 7, thus existing
    code will need to be recompiled to use the current run-time library.

GCC now supports the ISO Normative Addendum 1 to the C Standard.
As a result:

    The header <iso646.h> defines macros for C programs written
    in national variants of ISO 646.

    The following digraph tokens are supported:
	<:	:>	<%	%>	%:	%:%:
    These behave like the following, respectively:
	[	]	{	}	#	##

    Digraph tokens are supported unless you specify the `-traditional'
    option; you do not need to specify `-ansi' or `-trigraphs'.  Except
    for contrived and unlikely examples involving preprocessor
    stringizing, digraph interpretation doesn't change the meaning of
    programs; this is unlike trigraph interpretation, which changes the
    meanings of relatively common strings.

    The macro __STDC_VERSION__ has the value 199409L.

  As usual, for full conformance to the standard, you also need a
  C library that conforms.

The following lists changes that have been made to g++.  If some
features mentioned below sound unfamiliar, you will probably want to
look at the recently-released public review copy of the C++ Working
Paper.  For PostScript and PDF (Adobe Acrobat) versions, see the
archive at ftp://research.att.com/dist/stdc++/WP.  For HTML and ASCII
versions, see ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/g++.  On the web, see
http://www.cygnus.com/~mrs/wp-draft.

The scope of variables declared in the for-init-statement has been changed
to conform to http://www.cygnus.com/~mrs/wp-draft/stmt.html#stmt.for; as a
result, packages such as groff 1.09 will not compile unless you specify the
-fno-for-scope flag.  PLEASE DO NOT REPORT THIS AS A BUG; this is a change
mandated by the C++ standardization committee.

Binary incompatibilities:

    The builtin 'bool' type is now the size of a machine word on RISC targets,
    for code efficiency; it remains one byte long on CISC targets.

    Code that does not use #pragma interface/implementation will most
    likely shrink dramatically, as g++ now only emits the vtable for a
    class in the translation unit where its first non-inline, non-abstract
    virtual function is defined.

    Classes that do not define the copy constructor will sometimes be
    passed and returned in registers.  This may illuminate latent bugs in
    your code.

Support for automatic template instantiation has *NOT* been added, due
to a disagreement over design philosophies.

Support for exception handling has been improved; more targets are now
supported, and throws will use the RTTI mechanism to match against the
catch parameter type.  Optimization is NOT SUPPORTED with
-fhandle-exceptions; no need to report this as a bug.

Support for Run-Time Type Identification has been added with -frtti.
This support is still in alpha; one major restriction is that any file
compiled with -frtti must include <typeinfo.h>.

Preliminary support for namespaces has been added.  This support is far
from complete, and probably not useful.

Synthesis of compiler-generated constructors, destructors and
assignment operators is now deferred until the functions are used.

The parsing of expressions such as `a ? b : c = 1' has changed from
`(a ? b : c) = 1' to `a : b ? (c = 1)'.

The code generated for testing conditions, especially those using ||
and &&, is now more efficient.

The operator keywords and, and_eq, bitand, bitor, compl, not, not_eq,
or, or_eq, xor and xor_eq are now supported.  Use -ansi or
-foperator-names to enable them.

The 'explicit' keyword is now supported.  'explicit' is used to mark
constructors and type conversion operators that should not be used
implicitly.

g++ now accepts the typename keyword, though it currently has no
semantics; it can be a no-op in the current template implementation.
You may want to start using it in your code, however, since the
pending rewrite of the template implementation to compile STL properly
(perhaps for 2.8.0, perhaps not) will require you to use it as
indicated by the current draft.

Handling of user-defined type conversion has been overhauled so that
type conversion operators are now found and used properly in
expressions and function calls.

-fno-strict-prototype now only applies to function declarations with
"C" linkage.

g++ now warns about 'if (x=0)' with -Wparentheses or -Wall.

#pragma weak and #pragma pack are supported on System V R4 targets, as
are various other target-specific #pragmas supported by gcc.

new and delete of const types is now allowed (with no additional
semantics).

Explicit instantiation of template methods is now supported.  Also,
'inline template class foo<int>;' can be used to emit only the vtable
for a template class.

With -fcheck-new, g++ will check the return value of all calls to
operator new, and not attempt to modify a returned null pointer.

The template instantiation code now handles more conversions when
passing to a parameter that does not depend on template arguments.
This means that code like 'string s; cout << s;' now works.

Invalid jumps in a switch statement past declarations that require
initializations are now caught.

Functions declared 'extern inline' now have the same linkage semantics
as inline member functions.  On supported targets, where previously
these functions (and vtables, and template instantiations) would have
been defined statically, they will now be defined as weak symbols so
that only one out-of-line definition is used.

collect2 now demangles linker output, and c++filt has become part of
the gcc distribution.

Noteworthy changes in GCC version 2.6.3:

A few more bugs have been fixed.

Noteworthy changes in GCC version 2.6.2:

A few bugs have been fixed.

Names of attributes can now be preceded and followed by double underscores.

Noteworthy changes in GCC version 2.6.1:

Numerous (mostly minor) bugs have been fixed.

The following new configurations are supported:

	GNU on x86 (instead of treating it like MACH)
	NetBSD on Sparc and Motorola 68k
	AIX 4.1 on RS/6000 and PowerPC systems
	Sequent DYNUX/ptx 1.x and 2.x.
	Both COFF and ELF configurations on AViiON without using /bin/gcc
	Windows/NT on x86 architecture; preliminary
	AT&T DSP1610 digital signal processor chips
	i960 systems on bare boards using COFF
	PDP11; target only and not extensively tested

The -pg option is now supported for Alpha under OSF/1 V3.0 or later.

Files with an extension of ".c++" are treated as C++ code.

The -Xlinker and -Wl arguments are now passed to the linker in the
position they were specified on the command line.  This makes it
possible, for example, to pass flags to the linker about specific
object files.

The use of positional arguments to the configure script is no longer
recommended.  Use --target= to specify the target; see the GCC manual.

The 386 now supports two new switches: -mreg-alloc=<string> changes
the default register allocation order used by the compiler, and
-mno-wide-multiply disables the use of the mul/imul instructions that
produce 64 bit results in EAX:EDX from 32 bit operands to do long long
multiplies and 32-bit division by constants.

Noteworthy changes in GCC version 2.6.0:

Numerous bugs have been fixed, in the C and C++ front-ends, as
well as in the common compiler code.

This release includes the C, Objective-C, and C++ compilers.  However,
we have moved the files for the C++ compiler (G++) files to a
subdirectory, cp.  Subsequent releases of GCC will split these files
to a separate TAR file.

The G++ team has been tracking the development of the ANSI standard for C++.
Here are some new features added from the latest working paper:

	* built-in boolean type 'bool', with constants 'true' and 'false'.
	* array new and delete (operator new [] and delete []).
	* WP-conforming lifetime of temporaries.
	* explicit instantiation of templates (template class A<int>;),
          along with an option (-fno-implicit-templates) to disable emission
          of implicitly instantiated templates, obsoletes -fexternal-templates.
	* static member constants (static const int foo = 4; within the
          class declaration).

Many error messages have been improved to tell the user more about the
problem.  Conformance checking with -pedantic-errors has been
improved.  G++ now compiles Fresco.

There is now an experimental implementation of virtual functions using
thunks instead of Cfront-style vtables, enabled with -fvtable-thunks.
This option also enables a heuristic which causes the compiler to only
emit the vtable in the translation unit where its first non-inline
virtual function is defined; using this option and
-fno-implicit-templates, users should be able to avoid #pragma
interface/implementation altogether.

Signatures have been added as a GNU C++ extension.  Using the option
-fhandle-signatures, users are able to turn on recognition of
signatures.  A short introduction on signatures is in the section
`Extension to the C++ Language' in the manual.

The `g++' program is now a C program, rather than a shell script.

Lots and lots and lots of bugs fixes, in nested types, access control,
pointers to member functions, the parser, templates, overload
resolution, etc, etc.

There have been two major enhancements to the Objective-C compiler:

1) Added portability.  It now runs on Alpha, and some problems with
   message forwarding have been addressed on other platforms.

2) Selectors have been redefined to be pointers to structs like:
   { void *sel_id, char *sel_types }, where the sel_id is the unique
   identifier, the selector itself is no longer unique.  

   Programmers should use the new function sel_eq to test selector
   equivalence.

The following major changes have been made to the base compiler and
machine-specific files.

- The MIL-STD-1750A is a new port, but still preliminary.

- The h8/300h is now supported; both the h8/300 and h8/300h ports come
  with 32 bit IEEE 754 software floating point support.

- The 64-bit Sparc (v9) and 64-bit MIPS chips are supported.

- NetBSD is supported on m68k, Intel x86, and pc523 systems and FreeBSD
  on x86.

- COFF is supported on x86, m68k, and Sparc systems running LynxOS.

- 68K systems from Bull and Concurrent are supported and System V
  Release 4 is supported on the Atari.

- GCC supports GAS on the Motorola 3300 (sysV68) and debugging
  (assuming GAS) on the Plexus 68K system.  (However, GAS does not yet
  work on those systems).

- System V Release 4 is supported on MIPS (Tandem).

- For DG/UX, an ELF configuration is now supported, and both the ELF
  and BCS configurations support ELF and COFF object file formats.

- OSF/1 V2.0 is supported on Alpha.

- Function profiling is also supported on Alpha.

- GAS and GDB is supported for Irix 5 (MIPS).

- "common mode" (code that will run on both POWER and PowerPC
  architectures) is now supported for the RS/6000 family; the
  compiler knows about more PPC chips.

- Both NeXTStep 2.1 and 3 are supported on 68k-based architectures.

- On the AMD 29k, the -msoft-float is now supported, as well as
  -mno-sum-in-toc for RS/6000, -mapp-regs and -mflat for Sparc, and
  -membedded-pic for MIPS.

- GCC can now convert division by integer constants into the equivalent
  multiplication and shift operations when that is faster than the
  division.
	
- Two new warning options, -Wbad-function-cast and
  -Wmissing-declarations have been added.

- Configurations may now add machine-specific __attribute__ options on
  type; many machines support the `section' attribute.

- The -ffast-math flag permits some optimization that violate strict
  IEEE rules, such as converting X * 0.0 to 0.0.

Noteworthy changes in GCC version 2.5.8:

This release only fixes a few serious bugs.  These include fixes for a
bug that prevented most programs from working on the RS/6000, a bug
that caused invalid assembler code for programs with a `switch'
statement on the NS32K, a G++ problem that caused undefined names in
some configurations, and several less serious problems, some of which
can affect most configuration.

Noteworthy change in GCC version 2.5.7:

This release only fixes a few bugs, one of which was causing bootstrap
compare errors on some systems.

Noteworthy change in GCC version 2.5.6:

A few backend bugs have been fixed, some of which only occur on one
machine.

The C++ compiler in 2.5.6 includes:

 * fixes for some common crashes
 * correct handling of nested types that are referenced as `foo::bar'
 * spurious warnings about friends being declared static and never
   defined should no longer appear
 * enums that are local to a method in a class, or a class that's
   local to a function, are now handled correctly.  For example:
       class foo { void bar () { enum { x, y } E; x; } };
       void bar () { class foo { enum { x, y } E; E baz; }; }

Noteworthy change in GCC version 2.5.5:

A large number of C++ bugs have been fixed.

The fixproto script adds prototypes conditionally on __cplusplus.

Noteworthy change in GCC version 2.5.4:

A bug fix in passing of structure arguments for the HP-PA architecture
makes code compiled with GCC 2.5.4 incompatible with code compiled
with earlier versions (if it passes struct arguments of 33 to 64 bits,
interspersed with other types of arguments).

Noteworthy change in gcc version 2.5.3:

The method of "mangling" C++ function names has been changed.  So you
must recompile all C++ programs completely when you start using GCC
2.5.  Also, GCC 2.5 requires libg++ version 2.5.  Earlier libg++
versions won't work with GCC 2.5.  (This is generally true--GCC
version M.N requires libg++ version M.N.)

Noteworthy GCC changes in version 2.5:

* There is now support for the IBM 370 architecture as a target.
Currently the only operating system supported is MVS; GCC does not run
on MVS, so you must produce .s files using GCC as a cross compiler,
then transfer them to MVS to assemble them.  This port is not reliable
yet.

* The Power PC is now supported.

* The i860-based Paragon machine is now supported.

* The Hitachi 3050 (an HP-PA machine) is now supported.

* The variable __GNUC_MINOR__ holds the minor version number of GCC, as
an integer.  For version 2.5.X, the value is 5.

* In C, initializers for static and global variables are now processed
an element at a time, so that they don't need a lot of storage.

* The C syntax for specifying which structure field comes next in an
initializer is now `.FIELDNAME='.  The corresponding syntax for
array initializers is now `[INDEX]='.  For example,

  char whitespace[256]
    = { [' '] = 1, ['\t'] = 1, ['\n'] = 1 };

This was changed to accord with the syntax proposed by the Numerical
C Extensions Group (NCEG).

* Complex numbers are now supported in C.  Use the keyword __complex__
to declare complex data types.  See the manual for details.

* GCC now supports `long double' meaningfully on the Sparc (128-bit
floating point) and on the 386 (96-bit floating point).  The Sparc
support is enabled on on Solaris 2.x because earlier system versions
(SunOS 4) have bugs in the emulation.

* All targets now have assertions for cpu, machine and system.  So you
can now use assertions to distinguish among all supported targets.

* Nested functions in C may now be inline.  Just declare them inline
in the usual way.

* Packed structure members are now supported fully; it should be possible 
to access them on any supported target, no matter how little alignment
they have.

* To declare that a function does not return, you must now write
something like this (works only in 2.5):

    void fatal () __attribute__ ((noreturn));

or like this (works in older versions too):

    typedef void voidfn ();

    volatile voidfn fatal;

It used to be possible to do so by writing this:

    volatile void fatal ();

but it turns out that ANSI C requires that to mean something
else (which is useless).

Likewise, to declare that a function is side-effect-free
so that calls may be deleted or combined, write
something like this (works only in 2.5):

    int computation () __attribute__ ((const));

or like this (works in older versions too):

    typedef int intfn ();

    const intfn computation;

* The new option -iwithprefixbefore specifies a directory to add to 
the search path for include files in the same position where -I would
put it, but uses the specified prefix just like -iwithprefix.

* Basic block profiling has been enhanced to record the function the
basic block comes from, and if the module was compiled for debugging,
the line number and filename.  A default version of the basic block
support module has been added to libgcc2 that appends the basic block
information to a text file 'bb.out'.  Machine descriptions can now
override the basic block support module in the target macro file.

New features in g++:

* The new flag `-fansi-overloading' for C++.  Use a newly implemented
scheme of argument matching for C++.  It makes g++ more accurately
obey the rules set down in Chapter 13 of the Annotated C++ Reference
Manual (the ARM).  This option will be turned on by default in a
future release.

* The -finline-debug flag is now gone (it was never really used by the
  compiler).

* Recognizing the syntax for pointers to members, e.g., "foo::*bar", has been
  dramatically improved.  You should not get any syntax errors or incorrect
  runtime results while using pointers to members correctly; if you do, it's
  a definite bug.

* Forward declaration of an enum is now flagged as an error.

* Class-local typedefs are now working properly.

* Nested class support has been significantly improved.  The compiler
  will now (in theory) support up to 240 nested classes before hitting
  other system limits (like memory size).

* There is a new C version of the `g++' driver, to replace the old
  shell script.  This should significantly improve the performance of
  executing g++ on a system where a user's PATH environment variable
  references many NFS-mounted filesystems.  This driver also works
  under MS-DOS and OS/2.

* The ANSI committee working on the C++ standard has adopted a new
  keyword `mutable'.  This will allow you to make a specific member be
  modifiable in an otherwise const class.

Noteworthy GCC changes in version 2.4.4:

  A crash building g++ on various hosts (including m68k) has been
  fixed.  Also the g++ compiler no longer reports incorrect
  ambiguities in some situations where they do not exist, and
  const template member functions are now being found properly.

Noteworthy GCC changes in version 2.4:

* On each target, the default is now to return short structures
compatibly with the "usual" compiler on that target.

For most targets, this means the default is to return all structures
in memory, like long structures, in whatever way is used on that
target.  Use -freg-struct-return to enable returning short structures
(and unions) in registers.

This change means that newly compiled binaries are incompatible with
binaries compiled with previous versions of GCC.

On some targets, GCC is itself the usual compiler.  On these targets,
the default way to return short structures is still in registers.
Use -fpcc-struct-return to tell GCC to return them in memory.

* There is now a floating point emulator which can imitate the way all
supported target machines do floating point arithmetic.

This makes it possible to have cross compilation to and from the VAX,
and between machines of different endianness.  However, this works
only when the target machine description is updated to use the new
facilities, and not all have been updated.

This also makes possible support for longer floating point types.
GCC 2.4 supports extended format on the 68K if you use `long double',
for targets that have a 68881.  (When we have run time library
routines for extended floating point, then `long double' will use
extended format on all 68K targets.)

We expect to support extended floating point on the i386 and Sparc in
future versions.

* Building GCC now automatically fixes the system's header files.
This should require no attention.

* GCC now installs an unsigned data type as size_t when it fixes the
header files (on all but a handful of old target machines).
Therefore, the bug that size_t failed to be unsigned is fixed.

* Building and installation are now completely separate.
All new files are constructed during the build process; 
installation just copies them.

* New targets supported: Clipper, Hitachi SH, Hitachi 8300, and Sparc
Lite.

* A totally new and much better Objective C run time system is included.

* Objective C supports many new features.  Alas, I can't describe them
since I don't use that language; however, they are the same ones 
supported in recent versions of the NeXT operating system.

* The builtin functions __builtin_apply_args, __builtin_apply and
__builtin_return let you record the arguments and returned
value of a function without knowing their number or type.

* The builtin string variables __FUNCTION__ and __PRETTY_FUNCTION__
give the name of the function in the source, and a pretty-printed
version of the name.  The two are the same in C, but differ in C++.

* Casts to union types do not yield lvalues.

* ## before an empty rest argument discards the preceding sequence
of non-whitespace characters from the macro definition.
(This feature is subject to change.)


New features specific to C++:

* The manual contains a new section ``Common Misunderstandings with
GNU C++'' that C++ users should read.

* #pragma interface and #pragma implementation let you use the same
C++ source file for both interface and implementation.
However, this mechanism is still in transition.

* Named returned values let you avoid an extra constructor call
when a function result has a class type.

* The C++ operators <? and >? yield min and max, respectively.

* C++ gotos can exit a block safely even if the block has
aggregates that require destructors.

* gcc defines the macro __GNUG__ when compiling C++ programs.

* GNU C++ now correctly distinguishes between the prefix and postfix
forms of overloaded operator ++ and --.  To avoid breaking old
code, if a class defines only the prefix form, the compiler
accepts either ++obj or obj++, unless -pedantic is used.

* If you are using version 2.3 of libg++, you need to rebuild it with
`make CC=gcc' to avoid mismatches in the definition of `size_t'.

Newly documented compiler options:

-fnostartfiles
	Omit the standard system startup files when linking.

-fvolatile-global
	Consider memory references to extern and global data items to
	be volatile.

-idirafter DIR
	Add DIR to the second include path.

-iprefix PREFIX
	Specify PREFIX for later -iwithprefix options.

-iwithprefix DIR
	Add PREFIX/DIR to the second include path.

-mv8
	Emit Sparc v8 code (with integer multiply and divide).
-msparclite
	Emit Sparclite code (roughly v7.5).

-print-libgcc-file-name
	Search for the libgcc.a file, print its absolute file name, and exit.

-Woverloaded-virtual
	Warn when a derived class function declaration may be an error
	in defining a C++ virtual function. 

-Wtemplate-debugging
	When using templates in a C++ program, warn if debugging is
	not yet fully available.

+eN
	Control how C++ virtual function definitions are used
	(like cfront 1.x).

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@Import of unmodified (but trimmed) gcc-2.7.2.  The bigger parts of the
non-i386, non-unix, and generatable files have been trimmed, but can easily
be added in later if needed.

gcc-2.7.2.1 will follow shortly, it's a very small delta to this and it's
handy to have both available for reference for such little cost.

The freebsd-specific changes will then be committed, and once the dust has
settled, the bmakefiles will be committed to use this code.
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@
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@d1 1
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Noteworthy changes in GCC for EGCS 1.1.
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d3 1
a3 2
The compiler now implements global common subexpression elimination (gcse) as
well as global constant/copy propagation.  (link to gcse page).
d5 1
a5 321
More major improvements have been made to the alias analysis code.  A new
option to allow front-ends to provide alias information to the optimizers
has also been added (-fstrict-aliasing).  -fstrict-aliasing is off by default
now, but will be enabled by default in the future. (link to alias page)

Major changes continue in the exception handling support.  This release
includes some changes to reduce static overhead for exception handling.  It
also includes some major changes to the setjmp/longjmp based EH mechanism to
make it less pessimistic.  And finally, major infrastructure improvements
to the dwarf2 EH mechanism have been made to make our EH support extensible.

We have fixed the infamous security problems with temporary files. 

The "regmove" optimization pass has been nearly completely rewritten.  It now
uses much more information about the target to determine profitability of
transformations.

The compiler now recomputes register usage information immediately before
register allocation.  Previously such information was only not kept up to
date after instruction combination which led to poor register allocation
choices by our priority based register allocator.

The register reloading phase of the compiler has been improved to better
optimize spill code.  This primarily helps targets which generate lots of
spills (like the x86 ports and many register poor embedded ports).

A few changes in the heuristics used by the register allocator and scheduler
have been made which can significantly improve performance for certain
applications.

The compiler's branch shortening algorithms have been significantly improved
to work better on targets which align jump targets.

The compiler now supports the "ADDRESSOF" optimization which can significantly
reduce the overhead for certain inline calls (and inline calls in general).

The compiler now supports a code size optimization switch (-Os).  When enabled
the compiler will prefer optimizations which improve code size over those
which improve code speed.

The compiler has been improved to completely eliminate library calls which
compute constant values.  This is particularly useful on machines which
do not have integer mul/div or floating point support on-chip.

GCC now supports a "--help" option to print detailed help information.

cpplib has been greatly improved.  It is probably useable for some sites now
(major missing feature is trigraphs).

Memory footprint for the compiler has been significantly reduced for certain
pathalogical cases.

Build time improvements for targets which support lots of sched parameters
(alpha and mips primarily).

Compile time for certain programs using large constant initializers has been
improved (effects glibc significantly).

Plus an incredible number of infrastructure changes, warning fixes, bugfixes
and local optimizations.

Various improvements have been made to better support cross compilations.  They
are still not easy, but they are improving.

Target specific NEWS

    Sparc: Now includes V8 plus and V9 support, lots of tuning for Ultrasparcs
           and uses the Haifa scheduler by default.

    Alpha: EV6 tuned, optimized expansion of memcpy/bzero.

    x86: Data in the static store is aligned per Intel recommendations.  Jump
         targets are aligned per Intel recommendations.  Improved epilogue
         sequences for Pentium chips.  Backend improvements which should help
         register allocation on all x86 variants.  Support for PPro conditional
         move instructions has been fixed and enabled.  Random changes
	 throughout the port to make generated code more Pentium friendly.
         Improved support for 64bit integer operations.
         Unixware 7, a System V Release 5 target is now supported.
         SCO OpenServer targets can support GAS.  See gcc/INSTALL for details.

    RS6000/PowerPC: Includes AIX4.3 support as well as PowerPC64 support.  
                    Haifa instruction scheduling is enabled by default now.

    MIPS: Multiply/Multiply-Add support has been largely rewritten to generate
          more efficient code.  Includes mips16 support.

    M68K: Various micro-optimizations and Coldfire fixes.

    M32r: Major improvements to this port.

    Arm: Includes Thumb and super interworking support.

EGCS includes all gcc2 changes up to and including the June 9, 1998 snapshot.


Noteworthy changes in GCC version 2.8.1
---------------------------------------

Numerous bugs have been fixed and some minor performance
improvements (compilation speed) have been made.

Noteworthy changes in GCC version 2.8.0
---------------------------------------

A major change in this release is the addition of a framework for
exception handling, currently used by C++.  Many internal changes and
optimization improvements have been made.  These increase the
maintainability and portability of GCC.  GCC now uses autoconf to
compute many host parameters.

The following lists changes that add new features or targets.

See cp/NEWS for new features of C++ in this release.

New tools and features:

    The Dwarf 2 debugging information format is supported on ELF systems, and
    is the default for -ggdb where available.  It can also be used for C++.
    The Dwarf version 1 debugging format is also permitted for C++, but
    does not work well.

    gcov.c is provided for test coverage analysis and branch profiling
    analysis is also supported; see -fprofile-arcs, -ftest-coverage,
    and -fbranch-probabilities.

    Support for the Checker memory checking tool.

    New switch, -fstack-check, to check for stack overflow on systems that
    don't have such built into their ABI.

    New switches, -Wundef and -Wno-undef to warn if an undefined identifier
    is evaluated in an #if directive.

    Options -Wall and -Wimplicit now cause GCC to warn about implicit int
    in declarations (e.g. `register i;'), since the C Standard committee
    has decided to disallow this in the next revision of the standard;
    -Wimplicit-function-declarations and -Wimplicit-int are subsets of
    this.

    Option -Wsign-compare causes GCC to warn about comparison of signed and
    unsigned values.

    Add -dI option of cccp for cxref.

New features in configuration, installation and specs file handling:

    New option --enable-c-cpplib to configure script.

    You can use --with-cpu on the configure command to specify the default
    CPU that GCC should generate code for.

    The -specs=file switch allows you to override default specs used in
    invoking programs like cc1, as, etc.

    Allow including one specs file from another and renaming a specs
    variable.

    You can now relocate all GCC files with a single environment variable
    or a registry entry under Windows 95 and Windows NT.

Changes in Objective-C:

    The Objective-C Runtime Library has been made thread-safe.

    The Objective-C Runtime Library contains an interface for creating
    mutexes, condition mutexes, and threads; it requires a back-end
    implementation for the specific platform and/or thread package.
    Currently supported are DEC/OSF1, IRIX, Mach, OS/2, POSIX, PCThreads,
    Solaris, and Windows32.  The --enable-threads parameter can be used
    when configuring GCC to enable and select a thread back-end.

    Objective-C is now configured as separate front-end language to GCC,
    making it more convenient to conditionally build it.

    The internal structures of the Objective-C Runtime Library have
    changed sufficiently to warrant a new version number; now version 8.
    Programs compiled with an older version must be recompiled.

    The Objective-C Runtime Library can be built as a DLL on Windows 95
    and Windows NT systems.
    
    The Objective-C Runtime Library implements +load.

The following new targets are supported (see also list under each
individual CPU below):

    Embedded target m32r-elf.
    Embedded Hitachi Super-H using ELF.
    RTEMS real-time system on various CPU targets.
    ARC processor.
    NEC V850 processor.
    Matsushita MN10200 processor.
    Matsushita MN10300 processor.
    Sparc and PowerPC running on VxWorks.
    Support both glibc versions 1 and 2 on Linux-based GNU systems.

New features for DEC Alpha systems:

    Allow detailed specification of IEEE fp support:
      -mieee, -mieee-with-inexact, and -mieee-conformant
      -mfp-trap-mode=xxx, -mfp-round-mode=xxx, -mtrap-precision=xxx
    -mcpu=xxx for CPU selection
    Support scheduling parameters for EV5.
    Add support for BWX, CIX, and MAX instruction set extensions.
    Support Linux-based GNU systems.
    Support VMS.

Additional supported processors and systems for MIPS targets:

    MIPS4 instruction set.
    R4100, R4300 and R5000 processors.
    N32 and N64 ABI.
    IRIX 6.2.
    SNI SINIX.
    
New features for Intel x86 family:

    Add scheduling parameters for Pentium and Pentium Pro.
    Support stabs on Solaris-x86.
    Intel x86 processors running the SCO OpenServer 5 family.
    Intel x86 processors running DG/UX.
    Intel x86 using Cygwin32 or Mingw32 on Windows 95 and Windows NT.

New features for Motorola 68k family:

    Support for 68060 processor.
    More consistent switches to specify processor.
    Motorola 68k family running AUX.
    68040 running pSOS, ELF object files, DBX debugging.
    Coldfire variant of Motorola m68k family.

New features for the HP PA RISC:

    -mspace and -mno-space
    -mlong-load-store and -mno-long-load-store
    -mbig-switch -mno-big-switch

    GCC on the PA requires either gas-2.7 or the HP assembler; for best
    results using GAS is highly recommended.  GAS is required for -g and
    exception handling support.

New features for SPARC-based systems:

    The ultrasparc cpu.
    The sparclet cpu, supporting only a.out file format.
    Sparc running SunOS 4 with the GNU assembler.
    Sparc running the Linux-based GNU system.
    Embedded Sparc processors running the ELF object file format.
    -mcpu=xxx
    -mtune=xxx
    -malign-loops=xxx
    -malign-jumps=xxx
    -malign-functions=xxx
    -mimpure-text and -mno-impure-text

    Options -mno-v8 and -mno-sparclite are no longer supported on SPARC
    targets.  Options -mcypress, -mv8, -msupersparc, -msparclite, -mf930,
    and -mf934 are deprecated and will be deleted in GCC 2.9.  Use
    -mcpu=xxx instead.

New features for rs6000 and PowerPC systems:

    Solaris 2.51 running on PowerPC's.
    The Linux-based GNU system running on PowerPC's.
    -mcpu=604e,602,603e,620,801,823,mpc505,821,860,power2
    -mtune=xxx
    -mrelocatable-lib, -mno-relocatable-lib
    -msim, -mmve, -memb
    -mupdate, -mno-update
    -mfused-madd, -mno-fused-madd

    -mregnames
    -meabi
    -mcall-linux, -mcall-solaris, -mcall-sysv-eabi, -mcall-sysv-noeabi
    -msdata, -msdata=none, -msdata=default, -msdata=sysv, -msdata=eabi
    -memb, -msim, -mmvme
    -myellowknife, -mads
    wchar_t is now of type long as per the ABI, not unsigned short.
    -p/-pg support
    -mcpu=403 now implies -mstrict-align.
    Implement System V profiling.

    Aix 4.1 GCC targets now default to -mcpu=common so that programs
    compiled can be moved between rs6000 and powerpc based systems.  A
    consequence of this is that -static won't work, and that some programs
    may be slightly slower.

    You can select the default value to use for -mcpu=xxx on rs6000 and
    powerpc targets by using the --with-cpu=xxx option when configuring the
    compiler.  In addition, a new options, -mtune=xxx was added that
    selects the machine to schedule for but does not select the
    architecture level.

    Directory names used for storing the multilib libraries on System V
    and embedded PowerPC systems have been shortened to work with commands
    like tar that have fixed limits on pathname size.

New features for the Hitachi H8/300(H):

    -malign-300
    -ms (for the Hitachi H8/S processor)
    -mint32

New features for the ARM:

    -march=xxx, -mtune=xxx, -mcpu=xxx
    Support interworking with Thumb code.
    ARM processor with a.out object format, COFF, or AOF assembler.
    ARM on "semi-hosted" platform.
    ARM running NetBSD.
    ARM running the Linux-based GNU system.

New feature for Solaris systems:

    GCC installation no longer makes a copy of system include files,
    thus insulating GCC better from updates to the operating system.


Noteworthy changes in GCC version 2.7.2
---------------------------------------
d10 1
a10 2
Noteworthy changes in GCC version 2.7.1
---------------------------------------
d34 2
a35 3

Noteworthy changes in GCC version 2.7.0
---------------------------------------
d287 1
a287 1
	Sequent DYNIX/ptx 1.x and 2.x.
d511 1
a511 1
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Noteworthy changes in GCC after EGCS 1.1.
-----------------------------------------

Target specific NEWS

    RS6000/PowerPC: -mcpu=401 was added as an alias for -mcpu=403.  -mcpu=e603e
		    was added to do -mcpu=603e and -msoft-float.

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@MFC:  bring in GCC 2.95.3 + official sjlj exception fixes.

Approved by:	jkh

The the setjump/longjump exception handling fixes are from GCC 2.95.3.test3
and were removed from GCC 2.95.3.test4 and the subsequent release due
to bootstrap problems on HP-UX.  However, they were very well tested and
fixed major problems on all other platforms.  Including all the all the BSD's.
OpenBSD and FreeBSD 5-current both use these official sjlj patches.

W/o this upgrade the following program segmentation faults if compiled
with -O2 (but not -Os or -O or -O0) on 4.2FreeBSD.
There are some large C++ libraries where segfaults also occur, even at -O.

#include <stdio.h>

class A {
public:
  A() { printf("c'tor A\n"); }
  ~A(){ printf("d'tor A\n"); }
};

class foo : public A {
public:
  foo()  { printf("C'tor foo\n"); throw 8; }
  ~foo() { printf("D'tor foo\n"); }
};

int main(){
  try { foo fii; }
  catch (int){ printf("catch ...\n"); }
  return 0;
}
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This file contains information about GCC releases which has been
generated automatically from the online release notes.  This file
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-2.95/gcc-2.95.3.html

                                 GCC 2.95.3

   March 16, 2001

   The GNU project and the GCC developers are pleased to announce the
   release of GCC version 2.95.3. 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.

   This is a minor release to address several bugs in the [1]GCC version
   2.95.2 release.

     * Generic bugfixes and improvements
          + Fix numerous problems that caused incorrect optimization in
            the register reloading code.
          + Fix numerous problems that caused incorrect optimization in
            the loop optimizer.
          + Fix aborts in the functions build_insn_chain and scan_loops
            under some circumstances.
          + Fix an alias analysis bug.
          + Fix an infinite compilation bug in the combiner.
          + A few problems with complex number support have been fixed.
          + It is no longer possible for gcc to act as a fork bomb when
            installed incorrectly.
          + The -fpack-struct option should be recognized now.
          + Fixed a bug that caused incorrect code to be generated due to
            a lost stack adjustment.
     * Platform specific bugfixes and improvements
          + Support building ARM toolchains hosted on Windows.
          + Fix attribute calculations in ARM toolchains.
          + arm-linux support has been improved.
          + Fix a PIC failure on sparc targets.
          + On ix86 targets, the regparm attribute should now work
            reliably.
          + Several updates for the h8300 port.

   The whole suite has been extensively [2]regression tested and
   [3]package tested. It should be reliable and suitable for widespread
   use.

   The GCC 2.95 release has several new optimizations, new targets, new
   languages and other new features as compared to EGCS 1.1 or GCC 2.8.
   See the [4]new features page for a more complete list of new features
   found in the GCC 2.95 releases.

   The sources include installation instructions in both HTML and
   plaintext forms in the install directory in the distribution. However,
   the most up to date [5]installation instructions and [6]build/test
   status are on the web pages. We will update those pages as new
   information becomes available.

   The GCC developers would like to thank the numerous people that have
   contributed new features, test results, bugfixes, etc to GCC. This
   [7]amazing group of volunteers is what makes GCC successful.

   And finally, we can't in good conscience fail to mention some
   [8]caveats to using GCC 2.95.3.

   Download GCC 2.95.3 from the [9]GNU FTP server (ftp://ftp.gnu.org)
   Download GCC 2.95.3 from the [10]GCC FTP server (ftp://gcc.gnu.org)
   [11]Find a GNU mirror site
   [12]Find a GCC mirror site

   For additional information about GCC please see the [13]GCC project
   web server or contact the [14]GCC development mailing list.
     _________________________________________________________________


    [15]The GCC team
    Last modified 2001-03-16

References

   1. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/gcc-2.95.2.html
   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/regress.html
   3. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/othertest.html
   4. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/features.html
   5. http://gcc.gnu.org/install/index.html
   6. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/buildstat.html
   7. http://gcc.gnu.org/thanks.html
   8. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/caveats.html
   9. ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gcc/
  10. ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/releases/index.html
  11. http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
  12. http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html
  13. http://gcc.gnu.org/index.html
  14. mailto:gcc@@gcc.gnu.org
  15. http://gcc.gnu.org/about.html
======================================================================
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/gcc-2.95.2.html

                                 GCC 2.95.2

   October 27, 1999

   The GNU project and the GCC developers are pleased to announce the
   release of GCC version 2.95.2. 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.

   This is a minor release to address several bugs in the GCC version
   2.95.1 release.

   The -fstrict-aliasing is not enabled by default for GCC 2.95.2. While
   the optimizations performed by -fstrict-aliasing are valid according
   to the C and C++ standards, the optimization have caused some
   problems, particularly with old non-conforming code.

   The GCC developers are experimenting with ways to warn users about
   code which violates the C/C++ standards, but those warnings are not
   ready for widespread use at this time. Rather than wait for those
   warnings the GCC developers have chosen to disable -fstrict-aliasing
   by default for the GCC 2.95.2 release.

   We strongly encourage developers to find and fix code which violates
   the C/C++ standards as -fstrict-aliasing may be enabled by default in
   future releases. Use the option -fstrict-aliasing to re-enable these
   optimizations.

     * Generic bugfixes and improvements
          + Fix incorrectly optimized memory reference in global common
            subexpression elimination (GCSE) optimization pass.
          + Fix code generation bug in regmove.c in which it could
            incorrectly change a "const" value.
          + Fix bug in optimization of conditionals involving volatile
            memory references.
          + Avoid over-allocation of stack space for some procedures.
          + Fixed bug in the compiler which caused incorrect optimization
            of an obscure series of bit manipulations, shifts and
            arithmetic.
          + Fixed register allocator bug which caused teTeX to be
            mis-compiled on Sparc targets.
          + Avoid incorrect optimization of degenerate case statements
            for certain targets such as the ARM.
          + Fix out of range memory reference in the jump optimizer.
          + Avoid dereferencing null pointer in fix-header.
          + Fix test for GCC specific features so that it is possible to
            bootstrap with gcc-2.6.2 and older versions of GCC.
          + Fix typo in scheduler which could potentially cause out of
            range memory accesses.
          + Avoid incorrect loop reversal which caused incorrect code for
            certain loops on PowerPC targets.
          + Avoid incorrect optimization of switch statements on certain
            targets (for example the ARM).
     * Platform specific bugfixes and improvements
          + Work around bug in Sun V5.0 compilers which caused bootstrap
            comparison failures on Sparc targets.
          + Fix Sparc backend bug which caused aborts in final.c.
          + Fix sparc-hal-solaris2* configuration fragments.
          + Fix bug in sparc block profiling.
          + Fix obscure code generation bug for the PARISC targets.
          + Define __STDC_EXT__ for HPUX configurations.
          + Various POWERPC64 code generation bugfixes.
          + Fix abort for PPC targets using ELF (ex GNU/Linux).
          + Fix collect2 problems for AIX targets.
          + Correct handling of .file directive for PPC targets.
          + Fix bug in fix_trunc x86 patterns.
          + Fix x86 port to correctly pop the FP stack for functions that
            return structures in memory.
          + Fix minor bug in strlen x86 pattern.
          + Use stabs debugging instead of dwarf1 for x86-solaris
            targets.
          + Fix template repository code to handle leading underscore in
            mangled names.
          + Fix weak/weak alias support for OpenBSD.
          + GNU/Linux for the ARM has C++ compatible include files.
     * Language & Runtime specific fixes.
          + Fix handling of constructor attribute in the C front-end
            which caused problems building the Chill runtime library on
            some targets.
          + Fix minor problem merging type qualifiers in the C front-end.
          + Fix aliasing bug for pointers and references (C/C++).
          + Fix incorrect "non-constant initializer bug" when
            -traditional or -fwritable-strings is enabled.
          + Fix build error for Chill front-end on SunOS.
          + Do not complain about duplicate instantiations when using
            -frepo (C++)
          + Fix array bounds handling in C++ front-end which caused
            problems with dwarf debugging information in some
            circumstances.
          + Fix minor namespace problem.
          + Fix problem linking java programs.

   The whole suite has been extensively [1]regression tested and
   [2]package tested. It should be reliable and suitable for widespread
   use.

   The GCC 2.95 release has several new optimizations, new targets, new
   languages and other new features as compared to EGCS 1.1 or GCC 2.8.
   See the [3]new features page for a more complete list of new features
   found in the GCC 2.95 releases.

   The sources include installation instructions in both HTML and
   plaintext forms in the install directory in the distribution. However,
   the most up to date [4]installation instructions and [5]build/test
   status are on the web pages. We will update those pages as new
   information becomes available.

   The GCC developers would like to thank the numerous people that have
   contributed new features, test results, bugfixes, etc to GCC. This
   [6]amazing group of volunteers is what makes GCC successful.

   And finally, we can't in good conscience fail to mention some
   [7]caveats to using GCC 2.95.2.

   Download GCC 2.95.2 from the [8]GNU FTP server (ftp://ftp.gnu.org)
   Download GCC 2.95.2 from the [9]GCC/EGCS FTP server
   (ftp://gcc.gnu.org)
   [10]Find a GNU mirror site
   [11]Find a GCC/EGCS mirror site

   For additional information about GCC please see the [12]GCC project
   web server or contact the [13]GCC development mailing list.
     _________________________________________________________________


    [14]The GCC team
    Last modified 2001-02-12

References

   1. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/regress.html
   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/othertest.html
   3. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/features.html
   4. http://gcc.gnu.org/install/index.html
   5. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/buildstat.html
   6. http://gcc.gnu.org/thanks.html
   7. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/caveats.html
   8. ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gcc/
   9. ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/releases/index.html
  10. http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
  11. http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html
  12. http://gcc.gnu.org/index.html
  13. mailto:gcc@@gcc.gnu.org
  14. http://gcc.gnu.org/about.html
======================================================================
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/gcc-2.95.1.html

                                 GCC 2.95.1

   August 19, 1999

   The GNU project and the GCC/EGCS developers are pleased to announce
   the release of GCC version 2.95.1. 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.

   This is a minor release to address several bugs in the GCC version
   2.95 release.

     * Generic bugfixes and improvements
          + Various documentation fixes related to the GCC/EGCS merger.
          + Fix memory management bug which could lead to spurious
            aborts, core dumps or random parsing errors in the compiler.
          + Fix a couple bugs in the dwarf1 and dwarf2 debug record
            support.
          + Fix infinite loop in the CSE optimizer.
          + Avoid undefined behavior in compiler FP emulation code
          + Fix install problem when prefix is overridden on the make
            install command.
          + Fix problem with unwanted installation of assert.h on some
            systems.
          + Fix problem with finding the wrong assembler in a single tree
            build.
          + Avoid increasing the known alignment of a register that is
            already known to be a pointer.
     * Platform specific bugfixes and improvements
          + Codegen bugfix for prologue/epilogue for cpu32 target.
          + Fix long long code generation bug for the Coldfire target.
          + Fix various aborts in the SH compiler.
          + Fix bugs in libgcc support library for the SH.
          + Fix alpha ev6 code generation bug.
          + Fix problems with EXIT_SUCCESS/EXIT_FAILURE redefinitions on
            AIX platforms.
          + Fix -fpic code generation bug for rs6000/ppc svr4 targets.
          + Fix varargs/stdarg code generation bug for rs6000/ppc svr4
            targets.
          + Fix weak symbol handling for rs6000/ppc svr4 targets.
          + Fix various problems with 64bit code generation for the
            rs6000/ppc port.
          + Fix codegen bug which caused tetex to be mis-compiled on the
            x86
          + Fix compiler abort in new cfg code exposed by x86 port.
          + Fix out of range array reference in code convert flat
            registers to the x87 stacked FP register file.
          + Fix minor vxworks configuration bug
          + Fix return type of bsearch for SunOS 4.x.
     * Language & Runtime specific fixes.
          + The G++ signature extension has been deprecated. It will be
            removed in the next major release of G++. Use of signatures
            will result in a warning from the compiler.
          + Several bugs relating to templates and namespaces were fixed.
          + A bug that caused crashes when combining templates with -g on
            DWARF1 platforms was fixed.
          + Pointers-to-members, virtual functions, and multiple
            inheritance should now work together correctly.
          + Some code-generation bugs relating to function try blocks
            were fixed.
          + G++ is a little bit more lenient with certain archaic
            constructs than in GCC 2.95.
          + Fix to prevent shared library version #s from bring truncated
            to 1 digit
          + Fix missing std:: in the libstdc++ library.
          + Fix stream locking problems in libio.
          + Fix problem in java compiler driver.

   The whole suite has been extensively [1]regression tested and
   [2]package tested. It should be reliable and suitable for widespread
   use.

   The compiler has several new optimizations, new targets, new languages
   and other new features. See the [3]new features page for a more
   complete list of new features found in the GCC 2.95 releases.

   The sources include installation instructions in both HTML and
   plaintext forms in the install directory in the distribution. However,
   the most up to date [4]installation instructions and [5]build/test
   status are on the web pages. We will update those pages as new
   information becomes available.

   The GCC developers would like to thank the numerous people that have
   contributed new features, test results, bugfixes, etc to GCC. This
   [6]amazing group of volunteers is what makes GCC successful.

   And finally, we can't in good conscience fail to mention some
   [7]caveats to using GCC 2.95.1.

   Download GCC 2.95.1 from the [8]GNU FTP server (ftp://ftp.gnu.org)
   Download GCC 2.95.1 from the [9]GCC/EGCS FTP server
   (ftp://go.cygnus.com)
   [10]Find a GNU mirror site
   [11]Find a GCC/EGCS mirror site

   For additional information about GCC please see the [12]GCC project
   web server or contact the [13]GCC development mailing list.
     _________________________________________________________________


    [14]The GCC team
    Last modified 2001-02-12

References

   1. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/regress.html
   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/othertest.html
   3. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/features.html
   4. http://gcc.gnu.org/install/index.html
   5. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/buildstat.html
   6. http://gcc.gnu.org/thanks.html
   7. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/caveats.html
   8. ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gcc/
   9. ftp://go.cygnus.com/pub/sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html
  10. http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
  11. http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html
  12. http://gcc.gnu.org/index.html
  13. mailto:gcc@@gcc.gnu.org
  14. http://gcc.gnu.org/about.html
======================================================================
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/gcc-2.95.html

                                  GCC 2.95

   July 31, 1999

   The GNU project and the GCC/EGCS developers are pleased to announce
   the release of GCC version 2.95. 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.

   This is the first release of GCC since the April 1999 GCC/EGCS
   reunification and includes nearly a year's worth of new development
   and bugfixes.

   The whole suite has been extensively [1]regression tested and
   [2]package tested. It should be reliable and suitable for widespread
   use.

   The compiler has several new optimizations, new targets, new languages
   and other new features. See the [3]new features page for a more
   complete list of new features found in the GCC 2.95 releases.

   The sources include installation instructions in both HTML and
   plaintext forms in the install directory in the distribution. However,
   the most up to date [4]installation instructions and [5]build/test
   status are on the web pages. We will update those pages as new
   information becomes available.

   The GCC developers would like to thank the numerous people that have
   contributed new features, test results, bugfixes, etc to GCC. This
   [6]amazing group of volunteers is what makes GCC successful.

   And finally, we can't in good conscience fail to mention some
   [7]caveats to using GCC 2.95.

   Download GCC 2.95 from the [8]GNU FTP server (ftp://ftp.gnu.org)
   Download GCC 2.95 from the [9]GCC/EGCS FTP server
   (ftp://go.cygnus.com)
   [10]Find a GNU mirror site
   [11]Find a GCC/EGCS mirror site

   For additional information about GCC please see the [12]GCC project
   web server or contact the [13]GCC development mailing list.
     _________________________________________________________________


    [14]The GCC team
    Last modified 2001-02-12

References

   1. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/regress.html
   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/othertest.html
   3. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/features.html
   4. http://gcc.gnu.org/install/index.html
   5. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/buildstat.html
   6. http://gcc.gnu.org/thanks.html
   7. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/caveats.html
   8. ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gcc/
   9. ftp://go.cygnus.com/pub/sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html
  10. http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
  11. http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html
  12. http://gcc.gnu.org/index.html
  13. mailto:gcc@@gcc.gnu.org
  14. http://gcc.gnu.org/about.html
======================================================================
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/features.html

                           GCC 2.95 New Features

     * General Optimizer Improvements:
          + [1]Localized register spilling to improve speed and code
            density especially on small register class machines.
          + [2]Global CSE using lazy code motion algorithms.
          + [3]Improved global constant/copy propagation.
          + [4]Improved control flow graph analysis and manipulation.
          + [5]Local dead store elimination.
          + [6]Memory Load hoisting/store sinking in loops.
          + [7]Type based alias analysis is enabled by default. Note this
            feature will expose bugs in the Linux kernel. Please refer to
            the [8]FAQ for additional information on this issue.
          + Major revamp of GIV detection, combination and simplification
            to improve loop performance.
          + Major improvements to register allocation and reloading.
     * New Languages and Language specific improvements
          + [9]Many C++ improvements.
          + [10]Many Fortran improvements.
          + [11]Java front-end has been integrated. A [12]runtime library
            is available separately.
          + [13]ISO C99 support
          + [14]Chill front-end and runtime has been integrated.
          + Boehm garbage collector support in libobjc.
          + More support for various pragmas which appear in vendor
            include files
     * New Targets and Target Specific Improvements
          + [15]Sparc backend rewrite.
          + -mschedule=8000 will optimize code for PA8000 class
            processors; -mpa-risc-2-0 will generate code for PA2.0
            processors
          + Various micro-optimizations for the ia32 port. K6
            optimizations
          + Compiler will attempt to align doubles in the stack on the
            ia32 port
          + Alpha EV6 support
          + PowerPC 750
          + RS6000/PowerPC: -mcpu=401 was added as an alias for
            -mcpu=403. -mcpu=e603e was added to do -mcpu=603e and
            -msoft-float.
          + c3x, c4x
          + HyperSparc
          + SparcLite86x
          + sh4
          + Support for new systems (OpenBSD, FreeBSD, UWIN, Interix,
            arm-linux)
          + vxWorks targets include support for vxWorks threads
          + StrongARM 110 and ARM9 support added. ARM Scheduling
            parameters rewritten.
          + Various changes to the MIPS port to avoid assembler macros,
            which
          + Various performance improvements to the i960 port.
          + Major rewrite of ns32k port in turn improves performance
     * Other significant improvements
          + [16]Ability to dump cfg information and display it using vcg.
          + The new faster scheme for fixing vendor header files is
            enabled by default.
          + Experimental internationalization support.
          + multibyte character support
          + Some compile-time speedups for pathological problems
          + Better support for complex types
     * Plus the usual mountain of bugfixes
     * Core compiler is based on the gcc2 development tree from Sept 30,
       1998, so we have all of the [17]features found in GCC 2.8.
     _________________________________________________________________


    [18]The GCC team
    Last modified 2001-02-12

References

   1. http://gcc.gnu.org/news/spill.html
   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/news/lcm.html
   3. http://gcc.gnu.org/news/cprop.html
   4. http://gcc.gnu.org/news/cfg.html
   5. http://gcc.gnu.org/news/dse.html
   6. http://gcc.gnu.org/news/hoist.html
   7. http://gcc.gnu.org/news/alias.html
   8. http://gcc.gnu.org/fom_serv/cache/24.html
   9. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/c++features.html
  10. http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/g77_news.html
  11. http://sources.redhat.com/java/gcj-announce.txt
  12. http://gcc.gnu.org/javaannounce.html
  13. http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html
  14. http://gcc.gnu.org/news/chill.html
  15. http://gcc.gnu.org/news/sparc.html
  16. http://gcc.gnu.org/news/egcs-vcg.html
  17. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/features-2.8.html
  18. http://gcc.gnu.org/about.html
======================================================================
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/caveats.html

                              GCC 2.95 Caveats

     * GCC 2.95 will issue an error for invalid asm statements that had
       been silently accepted by earlier versions of the compiler. This
       is particularly noticeable when compiling older versions of the
       Linux kernel (2.0.xx). Please refer to the [1]FAQ for more
       information on this issue.
     * GCC 2.95 implements type based alias analysis to disambiguate
       memory references. Some programs, particularly the Linux kernel
       violate ANSI/ISO aliasing rules and therefore may not operate
       correctly when compiled with GCC 2.95. Please refer to the [2]FAQ
       for more information on this issue.
     * GCC 2.95 has a known bug in its handling of complex variables for
       64bit targets. Instead of silently generating incorrect code, GCC
       2.95 will issue a fatal error for situations it can not handle.
       This primarily affects the Fortran community as Fortran makes more
       use of complex variables than C or C++.
     * GCC 2.95 has an integrated libstdc++, but does not have an
       integrated libg++. Furthermore old libg++ releases will not work
       with GCC 2.95. You can retrieve a recent copy of libg++ from the
       [3]GCC ftp server.
       Note most C++ programs only need libstdc++.
     * Exception handling may not work with shared libraries,
       particularly on alphas, hppas, rs6000/powerpc and mips based
       platforms. Exception handling is known to work on x86 GNU/Linux
       platforms with shared libraries.
     * In general, GCC 2.95 is more rigorous about rejecting invalid C++
       code or deprecated C++ constructs than G++ 2.7, G++ 2.8, EGCS 1.0,
       or EGCS 1.1. As a result it may be necessary to fix C++ code
       before it will compile with GCC 2.95.
     * G++ is also converting toward the ISO C++ standard; as a result
       code which was previously valid (and thus accepted by other
       compilers and older versions of g++) may no longer be accepted.
       The flag -fpermissive may allow some non-conforming code to
       compile with GCC 2.95.
     * GCC 2.95 compiled C++ code is not binary compatible with EGCS
       1.1.x, EGCS 1.0.x or GCC 2.8.x.
     * GCC 2.95 does not have changes from the GCC 2.8 tree that were
       made between Sept 30, 1998 and April 30, 1999 (the official end of
       the GCC 2.8 project). Future GCC releases will include all the
       changes from the defunct GCC 2.8 sources.
     _________________________________________________________________


    [4]The GCC team
    Last modified 2001-02-12

References

   1. http://gcc.gnu.org/faq.html#asmclobber
   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/fom_serv/cache/24.html
   3. ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/libg++-2.8.1.3.tar.gz
   4. http://gcc.gnu.org/about.html
======================================================================
http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.1/egcs-1.1.2.html

                                 EGCS 1.1.2

   March 15, 1999

   We are pleased to announce the release of EGCS 1.1.2.

   EGCS is a collaborative effort involving several groups of hackers
   using an open development model to accelerate development and testing
   of GNU compilers and runtime libraries.

   EGCS 1.1.2 is a minor update to the EGCS 1.1.1 compiler to fix several
   serious problems in EGCS 1.1.1.
     * General improvements and fixes
          + Fix bug in loop optimizer which caused the SPARC (and
            potentially other) ports to segfault.
          + Fix infinite recursion in alias analysis and combiner code.
          + Fix bug in regclass preferencing.
          + Fix incorrect loop reversal which caused incorrect code to be
            generated for several targets.
          + Fix return value for builtin memcpy.
          + Reduce compile time for certain loops which exposed quadratic
            behavior in the loop optimizer.
          + Fix bug which caused volatile memory to be written multiple
            times when only one write was needed/desired.
          + Fix compiler abort in caller-save.c
          + Fix combiner bug which caused incorrect code generation for
            certain division by constant operations.
          + Fix incorrect code generation due to a bug in range check
            optimizations.
          + Fix incorrect code generation due to mis-handling of
            clobbered values in CSE.
          + Fix compiler abort/segfault due to incorrect register
            splitting when unrolling loops.
          + Fix code generation involving autoincremented addresses with
            ternary operators.
          + Work around bug in the scheduler which caused qt to be
            mis-compiled on some platforms.
          + Fix code generation problems with -fshort-enums.
          + Tighten security for temporary files.
          + Improve compile time for codes which make heavy use of
            overloaded functions.
          + Fix multiply defined constructor/destructor symbol problems.
          + Avoid setting bogus RPATH environemnt variable during
            bootstrap.
          + Avoid GNU-make dependencies in the texinfo subdir.
          + Install CPP wrapper script in $(prefix)/bin if --enable-cpp.
            --enable-cpp= can be used to specify an additional install
            directory for the cpp wrapper script.
          + Fix CSE bug which caused incorrect label-label refs to appear
            on some platforms.
          + Avoid linking in EH routines from libgcc if they are not
            needed.
          + Avoid obscure bug in aliasing code.
          + Fix bug in weak symbol handling.
     * Platform-specific improvements and fixes
          + Fix detection of PPro/PII on Unixware 7.
          + Fix compiler segfault when building spec99 and other programs
            for SPARC targets.
          + Fix code-generation bugs for integer and floating point
            conditional move instructions on the PPro/PII.
          + Use fixincludes to fix byteorder problems on i?86-*-sysv.
          + Fix build failure for the arc port.
          + Fix floating point format configuration for i?86-gnu port
          + Fix problems with hppa1.0-hp-hpux10.20 configuration when
            threads are enabled
          + Fix coldfire code generation bugs.
          + Fix "unrecognized insn" problems for Alpha and PPC ports.
          + Fix h8/300 code generation problem with floating point values
            in memory.
          + Fix unrecognized insn problems for the m68k port.
          + Fix namespace-pollution problem for the x86 port.
          + Fix problems with old assembler on x86 NeXT systems.
          + Fix PIC code-generation problems for the SPARC port.
          + Fix minor bug with LONG_CALLS in PowerPC SVR4 support.
          + Fix minor ISO namespace violation in Alpha varargs/stdarg
            support.
          + Fix incorrect "braf" instruction usage for the SH port.
          + Fix minor bug in va-sh which prevented its use with -ansi.
          + Fix problems recognizing and supporting FreeBSD.
          + Handle OpenBSD systems correctly.
          + Minor fixincludes fix for Digital UNIX 4.0B.
          + Fix problems with ctors/dtors in SCO shared libraries.
          + Abort instead of generating incorrect code for PPro/PII
            floating point conditional moves.
          + Avoid multiply defined symbols on Linux/GNU systems using
            libc-5.4.xx.
          + Fix abort in alpha compiler.

     Fortran-specific fixes
     * Fix the IDate intrinsic (VXT) (in libg2c) so the returned year is
       in the documented, non-Y2K-compliant range of 0-99, instead of
       being returned as 100 in the year 2000.
     * Fix the `Date_and_Time' intrinsic (in libg2c) to return the
       milliseconds value properly in Values(8).
     * Fix the `LStat' intrinsic (in libg2c) to return device-ID
       information properly in SArray(7).

   An important goal of EGCS is to allow wide scale testing of new
   features and optimizations which are still under development. However,
   EGCS has been carefully tested and should be comparable in quality to
   most gcc releases.

   EGCS 1.1.2 is based on the June 6, 1998 snapshot of the GCC 2.8
   development sources; it contains all of the new features found in GCC
   2.8.1 as well as all new development from gcc2 up to June 6, 1998.

   See the [1]new features page for a more complete list of new features
   found in EGCS 1.1 releases.

   The EGCS 1.1.2 release includes installation instructions in both HTML
   and plaintext forms (see the INSTALL directory in the toplevel
   directory of the EGCS 1.1.2 distribution). However, we also keep the
   most up to date [2]installation instructions and [3]build/test status
   on our web page. We will update those pages as new information becomes
   available.

   The EGCS project would like to thank the numerous people that have
   contributed new features, test results, bugfixes, etc. This [4]amazing
   group of volunteers is what makes EGCS successful.

   And finally, we can't in good conscience fail to mention some
   [5]caveats to using EGCS 1.1.2. [6]Download EGCS 1.1.2 from
   egcs.cygnus.com (USA California) -->

   [7]Download EGCS 1.1.2 from go.cygnus.com (USA California - High speed
   link provided by Stanford)

   The EGCS 1.1.2 release is also available on many [8]mirror sites.
     _________________________________________________________________

   Last modified on July 28, 1999.

References

   1. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.1/features.html
   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/install/index.html
   3. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.1/buildstat.html
   4. http://gcc.gnu.org/thanks.html
   5. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.1/caveats.html
   6. ftp://egcs.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html
   7. ftp://go.cygnus.com/pub/sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html
   8. http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html
======================================================================
http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.1/egcs-1.1.1.html

                                 EGCS 1.1.1

   December 1, 1998

   We are pleased to announce the release of EGCS 1.1.1.

   EGCS is a collaborative effort involving several groups of hackers
   using an open development model to accelerate development and testing
   of GNU compilers and runtime libraries.

   EGCS 1.1.1 is a minor update to the EGCS 1.1 compiler to fix several
   serious problems in EGCS 1.1.
     * General improvements and fixes
          + Avoid some stack overflows when compiling large functions.
          + Avoid incorrect loop invariant code motions.
          + Fix some core dumps on Linux kernel code.
          + Bring back the imake -Di386 and friends fix from EGCS 1.0.2.
          + Fix code generation problem in gcse.
          + Various documentation related fixes.
     * g++/libstdc++ improvements and fixes
          + MT safe EH fix for setjmp/longjmp based exception handling.
          + Fix a few bad interactions between optimization and exception
            handling.
          + Fixes for demangling of template names starting with "__".
          + Fix a bug that would fail to run destructors in some cases
            with -O2.
          + Fix 'new' of classes with virtual bases.
          + Fix crash building Qt on the Alpha.
          + Fix failure compiling WIFEXITED macro on GNU/Linux.
          + Fix some -frepo failures.
     * g77 and libf2c improvements and fixes
          + Various documentation fixes.
          + Avoid compiler crash on RAND intrinsic.
          + Fix minor bugs in makefiles exposed by BSD make programs.
          + Define _XOPEN_SOURCE for libI77 build to avoid potential
            problems on some 64-bit systems.
          + Fix problem with implicit endfile on rewind.
          + Fix spurious recursive I/O errors.
     * platform specific improvements and fixes
          + Match all versions of UnixWare7.
          + Do not assume x86 SVR4 or UnixWare targets can handle stabs
          + Fix PPC/RS6000 LEGITIMIZE_ADDRESS macro and bug in conversion
            from unsigned ints to double precision floats.
          + Fix ARM ABI issue with NetBSD.
          + Fix a few arm code generation bugs.
          + Fixincludes will fix additional broken SCO OpenServer header
            files.
          + Fix a m68k backend bug which caused invalid offsets in reg+d
            addresses.
          + Fix problems with 64bit AIX 4.3 support.
          + Fix handling of long longs for varargs/stdarg functions on
            the ppc.
          + Minor fixes to CPP predefines for Windows.
          + Fix code generation problems with gpr<->fpr copies for 64bit
            ppc
          + Fix a few coldfire code generation bugs.
          + Fix some more header file problems on SunOS 4.x
          + Fix assert.h handling for RTEMS.
          + Fix Windows handling of TREE_SYMBOL_REFERENCED.
          + Fix x86 compiler abort in reg-stack pass.
          + Fix cygwin/windows problem with section attributes.
          + Fix Alpha code generation problem exposed by SMP Linux
            kernels.
          + Fix typo in m68k 32->64bit integer conversion.
          + Make sure target libraries build with -fPIC for PPC & Alpha
            targets.

   An important goal of EGCS is to allow wide scale testing of new
   features and optimizations which are still under development. However,
   EGCS has been carefully tested and should be comparable in quality to
   most gcc releases.

   EGCS 1.1.1 is based on the June 6, 1998 snapshot of the GCC 2.8
   development sources; it contains all of the new features found in GCC
   2.8.1 as well as all new development from gcc2 up to June 6, 1998.

   See the [1]new features page for a more complete list of new features
   found in EGCS 1.1 releases.

   The EGCS 1.1.1 release includes installation instructions in both HTML
   and plaintext forms (see the INSTALL directory in the toplevel
   directory of the EGCS 1.1.1 distribution). However, we also keep the
   most up to date [2]installation instructions and [3]build/test status
   on our web page. We will update those pages as new information becomes
   available.

   The EGCS project would like to thank the numerous people that have
   contributed new features, test results, bugfixes, etc. This [4]amazing
   group of volunteers is what makes EGCS successful.

   And finally, we can't in good conscience fail to mention some
   [5]caveats to using EGCS 1.1.1.

   [6]Download EGCS 1.1.1 from egcs.cygnus.com (USA California)

   The EGCS 1.1.1 release is also available on many mirror sites.
   [7]Goto mirror list to find a closer site
     _________________________________________________________________

   Last modified on July 28, 1999.

References

   1. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.1/features.html
   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/install/index.html
   3. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.1/buildstat.html
   4. http://gcc.gnu.org/thanks.html
   5. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.1/caveats.html
   6. ftp://egcs.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html
   7. http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html
======================================================================
http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.1/egcs-1.1.html

                                  EGCS 1.1

   September 3, 1998

   We are pleased to announce the release of EGCS 1.1.

   EGCS is a free software project to further the development of the GNU
   compilers using an open development environment.

   EGCS 1.1 is a major new release of the EGCS compiler system. It has
   been [1]extensively tested and is believed to be stable and suitable
   for widespread use.

   EGCS 1.1 is based on an June 6, 1998 snapshot of the GCC 2.8
   development sources; it contains all of the new features found in GCC
   2.8.1 as well as all new development from GCC up to June 6, 1998.

   EGCS also contains many improvements and features not found in GCC or
   in older versions of EGCS.
     * Global common subexpression elimination and global constant/copy
       propagation (aka [2]gcse)
     * Ongoing improvements to the [3]alias analysis support to allow for
       better optimizations throughout the compiler.
     * Vastly improved [4]C++ compiler and integrated C++ runtime
       libraries.
     * Fixes for the /tmp symlink race security problems.
     * New targets including mips16, arm-thumb and 64 bit PowerPC.
     * Improvements to GNU Fortran (g77) compiler and runtime library
       made since [5]g77 version 0.5.23.

   See the [6]new features page for a more complete list of new features
   found in EGCS 1.1 releases.

   The EGCS 1.1 release includes installation instructions in both HTML
   and plaintext forms (see the INSTALL directory in the toplevel
   directory of the EGCS 1.1 distribution). However, we also keep the
   most up to date [7]installation instructions and [8]build/test status
   on our web page. We will update those pages as new information becomes
   available.

   The EGCS project would like to thank the numerous people that have
   contributed new features, test results, bugfixes, etc. This [9]amazing
   group of volunteers is what makes EGCS successful.

   And finally, we can't in good conscience fail to mention some
   [10]caveats to using EGCS 1.1.

   [11]Download EGCS 1.1 from egcs.cygnus.com (USA California)

   [12]Download EGCS 1.1 from go.cygnus.com (USA California -- High speed
   link provided by Stanford)

   The EGCS 1.1 release is also available on many mirror sites.
   [13]Goto mirror list to find a closer site
     _________________________________________________________________

   Last modified on September 4, 1999.

References

   1. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.1/egcs-1.1-test.html
   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/news/gcse.html
   3. http://gcc.gnu.org/news/alias.html
   4. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.1/c++features.html
   5. http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/g77_news.html
   6. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.1/features.html
   7. http://gcc.gnu.org/install/index.html
   8. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.1/buildstat.html
   9. http://gcc.gnu.org/thanks.html
  10. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.1/caveats.html
  11. ftp://egcs.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html
  12. ftp://go.cygnus.com/pub/sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html
  13. http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html
======================================================================
http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.1/features.html

                           EGCS 1.1 new features

     * Integrated GNU Fortran (g77) compiler and runtime library with
       improvements, based on [1]g77 version 0.5.23.
     * Vast improvements in the C++ compiler; so many they have [2]page
       of their own!
     * Compiler implements [3]global common subexpression elimination and
       global copy/constant propagation.
     * More major improvements in the [4]alias analysis code.
     * More major improvements in the exception handling code to improve
       performance, lower static overhead and provide the infrastructure
       for future improvements.
     * The infamous /tmp symlink race security problems have been fixed.
     * The regmove optimization pass has been nearly completely rewritten
       to improve performance of generated code.
     * The compiler now recomputes register usage information before
       local register allocation. By providing more accurate information
       to the priority based allocator, we get better register
       allocation.
     * The register reloading phase of the compiler optimizes spill code
       much better than in previous releases.
     * Some bad interactions between the register allocator and
       instruction scheduler have been fixed, resulting in much better
       code for certain programs. Additionally, we have tuned the
       scheduler in various ways to improve performance of generated code
       for some architectures.
     * The compiler's branch shortening algorithms have been
       significantly improved to work better on targets which align jump
       targets.
     * The compiler now supports -Os to prefer optimizing for code space
       over optimizing for code speed.
     * The compiler will now totally eliminate library calls which
       compute constant values. This primarily helps targets with no
       integer div/mul support and targets without floating point
       support.
     * The compiler now supports an extensive "--help" option.
     * cpplib has been greatly improved and may be suitable for limited
       use.
     * Memory footprint for the compiler has been significantly reduced
       for some pathological cases.
     * The time to build EGCS has been improved for certain targets
       (particularly the alpha and mips platforms).
     * Many infrastructure improvements throughout the compiler, plus the
       usual mountain of bugfixes and minor improvements.
     * Target dependent improvements:
          + SPARC port now includes V8 plus and V9 support as well as
            performance tuning for Ultra class machines. The SPARC port
            now uses the Haifa scheduler.
          + Alpha port has been tuned for the EV6 processor and has an
            optimized expansion of memcpy/bzero. The Alpha port now uses
            the Haifa scheduler.
          + RS6000/PowerPC: EGCS 1.1 includes support for the Power64
            architecture and aix4.3 support. The RS6000/PowerPC port now
            uses the Haifa scheduler.
          + x86: Alignment of static store data and jump targets is per
            Intel recommendations now. Various improvements throughout
            the x86 port to improve performance on Pentium processors.
            Conditional move support has been fixed and enabled for PPro
            processors. The x86 port also better supports 64bit
            operations now.
          + MIPS has improved multiply/multiply-add support and now
            includes mips16 ISA support.
          + M68k has many micro-optimizations and Coldfire fixes.
     * Core compiler is based on the GCC development tree from June 9,
       1998, so we have all of the [5]features found in GCC 2.8.

   [6]Return to the EGCS home page

   Last modified: September 4, 1999

References

   1. http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/g77_news.html
   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.1/c++features.html
   3. http://gcc.gnu.org/news/gcse.html
   4. http://gcc.gnu.org/news/alias.html
   5. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/features-2.8.html
   6. http://gcc.gnu.org/index.html
======================================================================
http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.1/caveats.html

                              EGCS 1.1 Caveats

     * EGCS has an integrated libstdc++, but does not have an integrated
       libg++. Furthermore old libg++ releases will not work with EGCS;
       HJ Lu has made a [1]libg++ snapshot available which may work with
       EGCS.
       Note most C++ programs only need libstdc++.
     * Exception handling may not work with shared libraries,
       particularly on alphas, hppas, rs6000/powerpc and mips based
       platforms. Exception handling is known to work on x86-linux
       platforms with shared libraries.
     * Some versions of the Linux kernel have bugs which prevent them
       from being compiled or from running when compiled by EGCS. See
       [2]the FAQ for additional information.
     * In general, EGCS is more rigorous about rejecting invalid C++ code
       or deprecated C++ constructs than g++-2.7, g++-2.8 or EGCS 1.0. As
       a result it may be necessary to fix C++ code before it will
       compile with EGCS.
     * G++ is also converting toward the ISO C++ standard; as a result
       code which was previously valid (and thus accepted by other
       compilers and older versions of g++) may no longer be accepted.
     * EGCS 1.1 compiled C++ code is not binary compatible with EGCS
       1.0.x or GCC 2.8.x due to changes necessary to support thread safe
       exception handling.

   [3]Return to the GCC home page

   Last modified: July 28, 1999

References

   1. ftp://ftp.yggdrasil.com/private/hjl/libg++-2.8.1.2.tar.gz
   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/fom_serv/cache/24.html
   3. http://gcc.gnu.org/index.html
======================================================================
http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/egcs-1.0.3.html

                                 EGCS 1.0.3

   May 15, 1998

   We are pleased to announce the release of EGCS 1.0.3.

   EGCS is a collaborative effort involving several groups of hackers
   using an open development model to accelerate development and testing
   of GNU compilers and runtime libraries.

   EGCS 1.0.3 is a minor update to the EGCS 1.0.2 compiler to fix a few
   problems reported by Red Hat for builds of Red Hat 5.1.
     * Generic bugfixes:
          + Fix a typo in the libio library which resulted in incorrect
            behavior of istream::get.
          + Fix the Fortran negative array index problem.
          + Fix a major problem with the ObjC runtime thread support
            exposed by glibc2.
          + Reduce memory consumption of the Haifa scheduler.
     * Target specific bugfixes:
          + Fix one x86 floating point code generation bug exposed by
            glibc2 builds.
          + Fix one x86 internal compiler error exposed by glibc2 builds.
          + Fix profiling bugs on the Alpha.
          + Fix ImageMagick & emacs 20.2 build problems on the Alpha.
          + Fix rs6000/ppc bug when converting values from integer types
            to floating point types.

   An important goal of EGCS is to allow wide scale testing of new
   features and optimizations which are still under development. However,
   EGCS has been carefully tested and should be comparable in quality to
   most GCC releases.

   EGCS 1.0.3 is based on an August 2, 1997 snapshot of the GCC 2.8
   development sources; it contains nearly all of the new features found
   in GCC 2.8.

   EGCS also contains many improvements and features not found in GCC 2.7
   or GCC 2.8.
     * Integrated C++ runtime libraries, including support for most major
       GNU/Linux systems!
     * The integrated libstdc++ library includes a verbatim copy of
       [1]SGI's STL release instead of a modified copy.
     * Integrated GNU Fortran compiler
     * New instruction scheduler
     * New alias analysis code

   See the [2]new features page for a more complete list of new features
   found in EGCS 1.0.x releases.

   The EGCS 1.0.3 release includes installation instructions in both HTML
   and plaintext forms (see the INSTALL directory in the toplevel
   directory of the EGCS 1.0.3 distribution). However, we also keep the
   most up to date [3]installation instructions and [4]build/test status
   on our web page. We will update those pages as new information becomes
   available.

   And, we can't in good conscience fail to mention some [5]caveats to
   using EGCS.

   Update: Big thanks to Stanford for providing a high speed link for
   downloading EGCS (go.cygnus.com)!

   [6]Download EGCS 1.0.3 from ftp.cygnus.com (USA California)

   [7]Download EGCS 1.0.3 from go.cygnus.com (USA California -- High
   speed link provided by Stanford)

   The EGCS 1.0.3 release is also available on many mirror sites.
   [8]Goto mirror list to find a closer site

   We'd like to thank the numerous people that have contributed new
   features, test results, bugfixes, etc. Unfortunately, they're far too
   numerous to mention by name.
     _________________________________________________________________

   Last modified on February 22, 1999.

References

   1. http://www.sgi.com/Technology/STL
   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/features.html
   3. http://gcc.gnu.org/install/index.html
   4. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/buildstat.html
   5. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/caveats.html
   6. ftp://egcs.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html
   7. ftp://go.cygnus.com/pub/sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html
   8. http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html
======================================================================
http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/egcs-1.0.2.html

                                 EGCS 1.0.2

   March 16, 1998

   We are pleased to announce the release of EGCS 1.0.2.

   EGCS is a collaborative effort involving several groups of hackers
   using an open development model to accelerate development and testing
   of GNU compilers and runtime libraries.

   EGCS 1.0.2 is a minor update to the EGCS 1.0.1 compiler to fix several
   serious problems in EGCS 1.0.1.
     * General improvements and fixes
          + Memory consumption significantly reduced, especially for
            templates and inline functions.
          + Fix various problems with glibc2.1.
          + Fix loop optimization bug exposed by rs6000/ppc port.
          + Fix to avoid potential code generation problems in jump.c.
          + Fix some undefined symbol problems in dwarf1 debug support.
     * g++/libstdc++ improvements and fixes
          + libstdc++ in the EGCS release has been updated and should be
            link compatible with libstdc++-2.8.
          + Various fixes in libio/libstdc++ to work better on Linux
            systems.
          + Fix problems with duplicate symbols on systems that do not
            support weak symbols.
          + Memory corruption bug and undefined symbols in bastring have
            been fixed.
          + Various exception handling fixes.
          + Fix compiler abort for very long thunk names.
     * g77 improvements and fixes
          + Fix compiler crash for omitted bound in Fortran CASE
            statement.
          + Add missing entries to g77 lang-options.
          + Fix problem with -fpedantic in the g77 compiler.
          + Fix "backspace" problem with g77 on alphas.
          + Fix x86 backend problem with Fortran literals and -fpic.
          + Fix some of the problems with negative subscripts for g77 on
            alphas.
          + Fixes for Fortran builds on cygwin32/mingw32.
     * platform specific improvements and fixes
          + Fix long double problems on x86 (exposed by glibc)
          + x86 ports define i386 again to keep imake happy.
          + Fix exception handling support on NetBSD ports.
          + Several changes to collect2 to fix many problems with AIX.
          + Define __ELF__ for rs6000/linux.
          + Fix -mcall-linux problem on rs6000/linux.
          + Fix stdarg/vararg problem for rs6000/linux.
          + Allow autoconf to select a proper install problem on AIX 3.1.
          + m68k port support includes -mcpu32 option as well as cpu32
            multilibs.
          + Fix stdarg bug for irix6.
          + Allow EGCS to build on irix5 without the gnu assembler.
          + Fix problem with static linking on sco5.
          + Fix bootstrap on sco5 with native compiler.
          + Fix for abort building newlib on H8 target.
          + Fix fixincludes handling of math.h on SunOS.
          + Minor fix for motorola 3300 m68k systems.

   An important goal of EGCS is to allow wide scale testing of new
   features and optimizations which are still under development. However,
   EGCS has been carefully tested and should be comparable in quality to
   most GCC releases.

   EGCS 1.0.2 is based on an August 2, 1997 snapshot of the GCC 2.8
   development sources; it contains nearly all of the new features found
   in GCC 2.8.

   EGCS also contains many improvements and features not found in GCC 2.7
   or GCC 2.8.
     * Integrated C++ runtime libraries, including support for most major
       linux systems!
     * The integrated libstdc++ library includes a verbatim copy of
       [1]SGI's STL release.
     * Integrated GNU Fortran compiler
     * New instruction scheduler
     * New alias analysis code

   See the [2]new features page for a more complete list of new features
   found in EGCS 1.0.x releases.

   The EGCS 1.0.2 release includes installation instructions in both HTML
   and plaintext forms (see the INSTALL directory in the toplevel
   directory of the EGCS 1.0.2 distribution). However, we also keep the
   most up to date [3]installation instructions and [4]build/test status
   on our web page. We will update those pages as new information becomes
   available.

   And, we can't in good conscience fail to mention some [5]caveats to
   using EGCS.

   Update: Big thanks to Stanford for providing a high speed link for
   downloading EGCS (go.cygnus.com)!

   [6]Download EGCS 1.0.2 from ftp.cygnus.com (USA California)

   [7]Download EGCS 1.0.2 from go.cygnus.com (USA California -- High
   speed link provided by Stanford)

   The EGCS 1.0.2 release is also available on many mirror sites.
   [8]Goto mirror list to find a closer site

   We'd like to thank the numerous people that have contributed new
   features, test results, bugfixes, etc. Unfortunately, they're far too
   numerous to mention by name.
     _________________________________________________________________

   Last modified on July 28, 1999.

References

   1. http://www.sgi.com/Technology/STL/
   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/features.html
   3. http://gcc.gnu.org/install/index.html
   4. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/buildstat.html
   5. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/caveats.html
   6. ftp://egcs.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html
   7. ftp://go.cygnus.com/pub/sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html
   8. http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html
======================================================================
http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/egcs-1.0.1.html

                                 EGCS 1.0.1

   January 6, 1998

   We are pleased to announce the release of EGCS 1.0.1.

   EGCS is a collaborative effort involving several groups of hackers
   using an open development model to accelerate development and testing
   of GNU compilers and runtime libraries.

   EGCS 1.0.1 is a minor update to the EGCS 1.0 compiler to fix a few
   critical bugs and add support for Red Hat 5.0 Linux. Changes since the
   EGCS 1.0 release:
     * Add support for Red Hat 5.0 Linux and better support for Linux
       systems using glibc2.
       Many programs failed to link when compiled with EGCS 1.0 on Red
       Hat 5.0 or on systems with newer versions of glibc2. EGCS 1.0.1
       should fix these problems.
     * Compatability with both EGCS 1.0 and GCC 2.8 libgcc exception
       handling interfaces.
       To avoid future compatibility problems, we strongly urge anyone
       who is planning on distributing shared libraries that contain C++
       code to upgrade to EGCS 1.0.1 first.
       Soon after EGCS 1.0 was released, the GCC developers made some
       incompatible changes in libgcc's exception handling interfaces.
       These changes were needed to solve problems on some platforms.
       This means that GCC 2.8.0, when released, will not be seamlessly
       compatible with shared libraries built by EGCS 1.0. The reason is
       that the libgcc.a in GCC 2.8.0 will not contain a function needed
       by the old interface.
       The result of this is that there may be compatibility problems
       with shared libraries built by EGCS 1.0 when used with GCC 2.8.0.
       With EGCS 1.0.1, generated code uses the new (GCC 2.8.0)
       interface, and libgcc.a has the support routines for both the old
       and the new interfaces (so EGCS 1.0.1 and EGCS 1.0 code can be
       freely mixed, and EGCS 1.0.1 and GCC 2.8.0 code can be freely
       mixed).
       The maintainers of GCC 2.x have decided against including seamless
       support for the old interface in 2.8.0, since it was never
       "official", so to avoid future compatibility problems we recommend
       against distributing any shared libraries built by EGCS 1.0 that
       contain C++ code (upgrade to 1.0.1 and use that).
     * Various bugfixes in the x86, hppa, mips, and rs6000/ppc backends.
       The x86 changes fix code generation errors exposed when building
       glibc2 and the Linux dynamic linker (ld.so).
       The hppa change fixes a compiler abort when configured for use
       with RTEMS.
       The MIPS changes fix problems with the definition of LONG_MAX on
       newer systems, allow for command line selection of the target ABI,
       and fix one code generation problem.
       The rs6000/ppc change fixes some problems with passing structures
       to varargs/stdarg functions.
     * A few machine independent bugfixes, mostly to fix code generation
       errors when building Linux kernels or glibc.
     * Fix a few critical exception handling and template bugs in the C++
       compiler.
     * Fix Fortran namelist bug on alphas.
     * Fix build problems on x86-solaris systems.

   An important goal of EGCS is to allow wide scale testing of new
   features and optimizations which are still under development. However,
   EGCS has been carefully tested and should be comparable in quality to
   most GCC releases.

   EGCS 1.0.1 is based on an August 2, 1997 snapshot of the GCC 2.8
   development sources; it contains nearly all of the new features found
   in GCC 2.8.

   EGCS also contains many improvements and features not found in GCC 2.7
   and even the soon to be released GCC 2.8 compilers.
     * Integrated C++ runtime libraries, including support for most major
       linux systems!
     * The integrated libstdc++ library includes a verbatim copy of
       [1]SGI's STL release.
     * Integrated GNU Fortran compiler
     * New instruction scheduler
     * New alias analysis code

   See the [2]new features page for a more complete list of new features
   found in EGCS 1.0.x releases.

   The EGCS 1.0.1 release includes installation instructions in both HTML
   and plaintext forms (see the INSTALL directory in the toplevel
   directory of the EGCS 1.0.1 distribution). However, we also keep the
   most up to date [3]installation instructions and [4]build/test status
   on our web page. We will update those pages as new information becomes
   available.

   And, we can't in good conscience fail to mention some [5]caveats to
   using EGCS.

   Update: Big thanks to Stanford for providing a high speed link for
   downloading EGCS (go.cygnus.com)!

   [6]Download EGCS 1.0.1 from ftp.cygnus.com (USA California)

   [7]Download EGCS 1.0.1 from go.cygnus.com (USA California -- High
   speed link provided by Stanford)

   The EGCS 1.0.1 release is also available on many mirror sites.
   [8]Goto mirror list to find a closer site

   We'd like to thank the numerous people that have contributed new
   features, test results, bugfixes, etc. Unfortunately, they're far too
   numerous to mention by name.
     _________________________________________________________________

   Last modified on July 28, 1999.

References

   1. http://www.sgi.com/Technology/STL/
   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/features.html
   3. http://gcc.gnu.org/install/index.html
   4. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/buildstat.html
   5. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/caveats.html
   6. ftp://egcs.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html
   7. ftp://go.cygnus.com/pub/sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html
   8. http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html
======================================================================
http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/egcs-1.0.html

                                  EGCS 1.0

   December 3, 1997

   We are pleased to announce the release of EGCS 1.0.

   EGCS is a collaborative effort involving several groups of hackers
   using an open development model to accelerate development and testing
   of GNU compilers and runtime libraries.

   An important goal of EGCS is to allow wide scale testing of
   experimental features and optimizations; therefore, EGCS contains some
   features and optimizations which are still under development. However,
   EGCS has been carefully tested and should be comparable in quality to
   most GCC releases.

   EGCS 1.0 is based on an August 2, 1997 snapshot of the GCC 2.8
   development sources; it contains nearly all of the new features found
   in GCC 2.8.

   EGCS 1.0 also contains many improvements and features not found in GCC
   2.7 and even the soon to be released GCC 2.8 compilers.
     * Integrated C++ runtime libraries, including support for most major
       linux systems!
     * The integrated libstdc++ library includes a verbatim copy of
       [1]SGI's STL release.
     * Integrated GNU Fortran compiler
     * New instruction scheduler
     * New alias analysis code

   See the [2]new features page for a more complete list of new features.

   The EGCS 1.0 release includes installation instructions in both HTML
   and plaintext forms (see the INSTALL directory in the toplevel
   directory of the EGCS 1.0 distribution). However, we also keep the
   most up to date [3]installation instructions and [4]build/test status
   on our web page. We will update those pages as new information becomes
   available.

   And, we can't in good conscience fail to mention some [5]caveats to
   using EGCS.

   Update: The T1 into our main California offices has been 100%
   saturated since shortly after the release. We've added an EGCS 1.0
   mirror at our Massachusetts office to help share the load. We also
   encourage folks to use the many mirrors available throughout the
   world.

   Update: Big thanks to Stanford for providing a high speed link for
   downloading EGCS! (go.cygnus.com)

   [6]Download EGCS 1.0 from ftp.cygnus.com (USA California)

   [7]Download EGCS 1.0 from go.cygnus.com (USA California -- High speed
   link provided by Stanford)

   The EGCS 1.0 release should be available on most mirror sites by now.
   [8]Goto mirror list to find a closer site

   We'd like to thank the numerous people that have contributed new
   features, test results, bugfixes, etc. Unfortunately, they're far too
   numerous to mention by name.
     _________________________________________________________________

   Last modified on July 28, 1999.

References

   1. http://www.sgi.com/Technology/STL
   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/features.html
   3. http://gcc.gnu.org/install/index.html
   4. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/buildstat.html
   5. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/caveats.html
   6. ftp://egcs.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html
   7. ftp://go.cygnus.com/pub/sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html
   8. http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html
======================================================================
http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/features.html

                             EGCS 1.0 features

     * Core compiler is based on the gcc2 development tree from Aug 2,
       1997, so we have most of the [1]features found in GCC 2.8.
     * Integrated GNU Fortran compiler based on g77-0.5.22-19970929.
     * Vast improvements in the C++ compiler; so many they have [2]page
       of their own!
     * Integrated C++ runtime libraries, including support for most major
       linux systems!
     * New instruction scheduler from IBM Haifa which includes support
       for function wide instruction scheduling as well as superscalar
       scheduling.
     * Significantly improved alias analysis code.
     * Improved register allocation for two address machines.
     * Significant code generation improvements for Fortran code on
       Alphas
     * Various optimizations from the g77 project as well as improved
       loop optimizations.
     * Dwarf2 debug format support for some targets.
     * egcs libstdc++ includes the SGI STL implementation without
       changes.
     * As a result of these and other changes, egcs libstc++ is not
       binary compatible with previous releases of libstdc++.
     * Various new ports -- UltraSPARC, Irix6.2 & Irix6.3 support, The
       SCO Openserver 5 family (5.0.{0,2,4} and Internet FastStart 1.0
       and 1.1), Support for RTEMS on several embedded targets, Support
       for arm-linux, Mitsubishi M32R, Hitachi H8/S, Matsushita MN102 and
       MN103, NEC V850, Sparclet, Solaris & Linux on PowerPCs, etc.
     * Integrated testsuites for gcc, g++, g77, libstdc++ and libio.
     * RS6000/PowerPC ports generate code which can run on all
       RS6000/PowerPC variants by default.
     * -mcpu= and -march= switches for the x86 port to allow better
       control over how the x86 port generates code.
     * Includes the template repository patch (aka repo patch); note the
       new template code makes repo obsolete for ELF systems using gnu-ld
       such as Linux.
     * Plus the usual assortment of bugfixes and improvements.

   [3]Return to the egcs home page

   Last modified: July 28, 1999

References

   1. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/features-2.8.html
   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/c++features.html
   3. http://gcc.gnu.org/index.html
======================================================================
http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/caveats.html

                              EGCS 1.0 Caveats

     * EGCS has an integrated libstdc++, but does not have an integrated
       libg++. Furthermore old libg++ releases will not work with egc; HJ
       Lu has made a [1]libg++ snapshot available which may work with
       EGCS.
       Note most C++ programs only need libstdc++.
     * Note that using -pedantic or -Wreturn-type can cause an explosion
       in the amount of memory needed for template-heavy C++ code, such
       as code that uses STL. Also note that -Wall includes
       -Wreturn-type, so if you use -Wall you will need to specify
       -Wno-return-type to turn it off.
     * Exception handling may not work with shared libraries,
       particularly on alphas, hppas, and mips based platforms. Exception
       handling is known to work on x86-linux platforms with shared
       libraries.
     * Some versions of the Linux kernel have bugs which prevent them
       from being compiled or from running when compiled by EGCS. See
       [2]the FAQ for additional information.
     * In general, EGCS is more rigorous about rejecting invalid C++ code
       or deprecated C++ constructs than G++ 2.7. As a result it may be
       necessary to fix C++ code before it will compile with EGCS.
     * G++ is also aggressively tracking the C++ standard; as a result
       code which was previously valid (and thus accepted by other
       compilers and older versions of G++) may no longer be accepted.
     * EGCS 1.0 may not work with Red Hat Linux 5.0 on all targets. EGCS
       1.0.x and later releases should work with Red Hat Linux 5.0.

   [3]Return to the GCC home page

   Last modified: August 27, 1998

References

   1. ftp://ftp.yggdrasil.com/private/hjl/libg++-2.8.1.2.tar.gz
   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/fom_serv/cache/24.html
   3. http://gcc.gnu.org/index.html
======================================================================
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generated automatically from the online release notes.  This file
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-2.95/gcc-2.95.3.html

                                 GCC 2.95.3

   January 11, 2001

   The GNU project and the GCC developers are pleased to announce the
   prerelease of GCC version 2.95.3. 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.

   This is a minor release to address several bugs in the [1]GCC version
   2.95.2 release.

     * Generic bugfixes and improvements
          + Fix numerous problems that caused incorrect optimization in
            the register reloading code.
          + Fix numerous problems that caused incorrect optimization in
            the loop optimizer.
          + Fix setjmp/longjmp based exception handling.
          + Fix aborts in the functions build_insn_chain and scan_loops
            under some circumstances.
          + Fix an alias analysis bug.
          + Fix an infinite compilation bug in the combiner.
          + A few problems with complex number support have been fixed.
          + It is no longer possible for gcc to act as a fork bomb when
            installed incorrectly.
          + The -fpack-struct option should be recognized now.
          + Fixed a bug that caused incorrect code to be generated due to
            a lost stack adjustment.
     * Platform specific bugfixes and improvements
          + Support building ARM toolchains hosted on Windows.
          + Fix attribute calculations in ARM toolchains.
          + arm-linux support has been improved.
          + Fix a PIC failure on sparc targets.
          + On ix86 targets, the regparm attribute should now work
            reliably.
          + Several updates for the h8300 port.

   The whole suite has been extensively [2]regression tested and
   [3]package tested. It should be reliable and suitable for widespread
   use.

   The GCC 2.95 release has several new optimizations, new targets, new
   languages and other new features as compared to EGCS 1.1 or GCC 2.8.
   See the [4]new features page for a more complete list of new features
   found in the GCC 2.95 releases.

   The sources include installation instructions in both HTML and
   plaintext forms in the install directory in the distribution. However,
   the most up to date [5]installation instructions and [6]build/test
   status are on the web pages. We will update those pages as new
   information becomes available.

   The GCC developers would like to thank the numerous people that have
   contributed new features, test results, bugfixes, etc to GCC. This
   [7]amazing group of volunteers is what makes GCC successful.

   And finally, we can't in good conscience fail to mention some
   [8]caveats to using GCC 2.95.3.

   Download GCC 2.95.3 from the [9]GNU FTP server (ftp://ftp.gnu.org)
   Download GCC 2.95.3 from the [10]GCC FTP server (ftp://gcc.gnu.org)
   [11]Find a GNU mirror site
   [12]Find a GCC mirror site

   For additional information about GCC please see the [13]GCC project
   web server or contact the [14]GCC development mailing list.
     _________________________________________________________________


    [15]The GCC team
    Last modified 2001-01-11

References

   1. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/gcc-2.95.2.html
   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/regress.html
   3. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/othertest.html
   4. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/features.html
   5. http://gcc.gnu.org/install/index.html
   6. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/buildstat.html
   7. http://gcc.gnu.org/thanks.html
   8. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/caveats.html
   9. ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gcc/
  10. ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/releases/index.html
  11. http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
  12. http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html
  13. http://gcc.gnu.org/index.html
  14. mailto:gcc@@gcc.gnu.org
  15. http://gcc.gnu.org/about.html
======================================================================
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/gcc-2.95.2.html

                                 GCC 2.95.2

   October 27, 1999

   The GNU project and the GCC developers are pleased to announce the
   release of GCC version 2.95.2. 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.

   This is a minor release to address several bugs in the GCC version
   2.95.1 release.

   The -fstrict-aliasing is not enabled by default for GCC 2.95.2. While
   the optimizations performed by -fstrict-aliasing are valid according
   to the C and C++ standards, the optimization have caused some
   problems, particularly with old non-conforming code.

   The GCC developers are experimenting with ways to warn users about
   code which violates the C/C++ standards, but those warnings are not
   ready for widespread use at this time. Rather than wait for those
   warnings the GCC developers have chosen to disable -fstrict-aliasing
   by default for the GCC 2.95.2 release.

   We strongly encourage developers to find and fix code which violates
   the C/C++ standards as -fstrict-aliasing may be enabled by default in
   future releases. Use the option -fstrict-aliasing to re-enable these
   optimizations.

     * Generic bugfixes and improvements
          + Fix incorrectly optimized memory reference in global common
            subexpression elimination (GCSE) optimization pass.
          + Fix code generation bug in regmove.c in which it could
            incorrectly change a "const" value.
          + Fix bug in optimization of conditionals involving volatile
            memory references.
          + Avoid over-allocation of stack space for some procedures.
          + Fixed bug in the compiler which caused incorrect optimization
            of an obscure series of bit manipulations, shifts and
            arithmetic.
          + Fixed register allocator bug which caused teTeX to be
            mis-compiled on Sparc targets.
          + Avoid incorrect optimization of degenerate case statements
            for certain targets such as the ARM.
          + Fix out of range memory reference in the jump optimizer.
          + Avoid dereferencing null pointer in fix-header.
          + Fix test for GCC specific features so that it is possible to
            bootstrap with gcc-2.6.2 and older versions of GCC.
          + Fix typo in scheduler which could potentially cause out of
            range memory accesses.
          + Avoid incorrect loop reversal which caused incorrect code for
            certain loops on PowerPC targets.
          + Avoid incorrect optimization of switch statements on certain
            targets (for example the ARM).
     * Platform specific bugfixes and improvements
          + Work around bug in Sun V5.0 compilers which caused bootstrap
            comparison failures on Sparc targets.
          + Fix Sparc backend bug which caused aborts in final.c.
          + Fix sparc-hal-solaris2* configuration fragments.
          + Fix bug in sparc block profiling.
          + Fix obscure code generation bug for the PARISC targets.
          + Define __STDC_EXT__ for HPUX configurations.
          + Various POWERPC64 code generation bugfixes.
          + Fix abort for PPC targets using ELF (ex GNU/Linux).
          + Fix collect2 problems for AIX targets.
          + Correct handling of .file directive for PPC targets.
          + Fix bug in fix_trunc x86 patterns.
          + Fix x86 port to correctly pop the FP stack for functions that
            return structures in memory.
          + Fix minor bug in strlen x86 pattern.
          + Use stabs debugging instead of dwarf1 for x86-solaris
            targets.
          + Fix template repository code to handle leading underscore in
            mangled names.
          + Fix weak/weak alias support for OpenBSD.
          + GNU/Linux for the ARM has C++ compatible include files.
     * Language & Runtime specific fixes.
          + Fix handling of constructor attribute in the C front-end
            which caused problems building the Chill runtime library on
            some targets.
          + Fix minor problem merging type qualifiers in the C front-end.
          + Fix aliasing bug for pointers and references (C/C++).
          + Fix incorrect "non-constant initializer bug" when
            -traditional or -fwritable-strings is enabled.
          + Fix build error for Chill front-end on SunOS.
          + Do not complain about duplicate instantiations when using
            -frepo (C++)
          + Fix array bounds handling in C++ front-end which caused
            problems with dwarf debugging information in some
            circumstances.
          + Fix minor namespace problem.
          + Fix problem linking java programs.

   The whole suite has been extensively [1]regression tested and
   [2]package tested. It should be reliable and suitable for widespread
   use.

   The GCC 2.95 release has several new optimizations, new targets, new
   languages and other new features as compared to EGCS 1.1 or GCC 2.8.
   See the [3]new features page for a more complete list of new features
   found in the GCC 2.95 releases.

   The sources include installation instructions in both HTML and
   plaintext forms in the install directory in the distribution. However,
   the most up to date [4]installation instructions and [5]build/test
   status are on the web pages. We will update those pages as new
   information becomes available.

   The GCC developers would like to thank the numerous people that have
   contributed new features, test results, bugfixes, etc to GCC. This
   [6]amazing group of volunteers is what makes GCC successful.

   And finally, we can't in good conscience fail to mention some
   [7]caveats to using GCC 2.95.2.

   Download GCC 2.95.2 from the [8]GNU FTP server (ftp://ftp.gnu.org)
   Download GCC 2.95.2 from the [9]GCC/EGCS FTP server
   (ftp://gcc.gnu.org)
   [10]Find a GNU mirror site
   [11]Find a GCC/EGCS mirror site

   For additional information about GCC please see the [12]GCC project
   web server or contact the [13]GCC development mailing list.
     _________________________________________________________________


    [14]The GCC team
    Last modified 2000-11-10

References

   1. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/regress.html
   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/othertest.html
   3. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/features.html
   4. http://gcc.gnu.org/install/index.html
   5. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/buildstat.html
   6. http://gcc.gnu.org/thanks.html
   7. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/caveats.html
   8. ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gcc/
   9. ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/releases/index.html
  10. http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
  11. http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html
  12. http://gcc.gnu.org/index.html
  13. mailto:gcc@@gcc.gnu.org
  14. http://gcc.gnu.org/about.html
======================================================================
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/gcc-2.95.1.html

                                 GCC 2.95.1

   August 19, 1999

   The GNU project and the GCC/EGCS developers are pleased to announce
   the release of GCC version 2.95.1. 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.

   This is a minor release to address several bugs in the GCC version
   2.95 release.

     * Generic bugfixes and improvements
          + Various documentation fixes related to the GCC/EGCS merger.
          + Fix memory management bug which could lead to spurious
            aborts, core dumps or random parsing errors in the compiler.
          + Fix a couple bugs in the dwarf1 and dwarf2 debug record
            support.
          + Fix infinite loop in the CSE optimizer.
          + Avoid undefined behavior in compiler FP emulation code
          + Fix install problem when prefix is overridden on the make
            install command.
          + Fix problem with unwanted installation of assert.h on some
            systems.
          + Fix problem with finding the wrong assembler in a single tree
            build.
          + Avoid increasing the known alignment of a register that is
            already known to be a pointer.
     * Platform specific bugfixes and improvements
          + Codegen bugfix for prologue/epilogue for cpu32 target.
          + Fix long long code generation bug for the Coldfire target.
          + Fix various aborts in the SH compiler.
          + Fix bugs in libgcc support library for the SH.
          + Fix alpha ev6 code generation bug.
          + Fix problems with EXIT_SUCCESS/EXIT_FAILURE redefinitions on
            AIX platforms.
          + Fix -fpic code generation bug for rs6000/ppc svr4 targets.
          + Fix varargs/stdarg code generation bug for rs6000/ppc svr4
            targets.
          + Fix weak symbol handling for rs6000/ppc svr4 targets.
          + Fix various problems with 64bit code generation for the
            rs6000/ppc port.
          + Fix codegen bug which caused tetex to be mis-compiled on the
            x86
          + Fix compiler abort in new cfg code exposed by x86 port.
          + Fix out of range array reference in code convert flat
            registers to the x87 stacked FP register file.
          + Fix minor vxworks configuration bug
          + Fix return type of bsearch for SunOS 4.x.
     * Language & Runtime specific fixes.
          + The G++ signature extension has been deprecated. It will be
            removed in the next major release of G++. Use of signatures
            will result in a warning from the compiler.
          + Several bugs relating to templates and namespaces were fixed.
          + A bug that caused crashes when combining templates with -g on
            DWARF1 platforms was fixed.
          + Pointers-to-members, virtual functions, and multiple
            inheritance should now work together correctly.
          + Some code-generation bugs relating to function try blocks
            were fixed.
          + G++ is a little bit more lenient with certain archaic
            constructs than in GCC 2.95.
          + Fix to prevent shared library version #s from bring truncated
            to 1 digit
          + Fix missing std:: in the libstdc++ library.
          + Fix stream locking problems in libio.
          + Fix problem in java compiler driver.

   The whole suite has been extensively [1]regression tested and
   [2]package tested. It should be reliable and suitable for widespread
   use.

   The compiler has several new optimizations, new targets, new languages
   and other new features. See the [3]new features page for a more
   complete list of new features found in the GCC 2.95 releases.

   The sources include installation instructions in both HTML and
   plaintext forms in the install directory in the distribution. However,
   the most up to date [4]installation instructions and [5]build/test
   status are on the web pages. We will update those pages as new
   information becomes available.

   The GCC developers would like to thank the numerous people that have
   contributed new features, test results, bugfixes, etc to GCC. This
   [6]amazing group of volunteers is what makes GCC successful.

   And finally, we can't in good conscience fail to mention some
   [7]caveats to using GCC 2.95.1.

   Download GCC 2.95.1 from the [8]GNU FTP server (ftp://ftp.gnu.org)
   Download GCC 2.95.1 from the [9]GCC/EGCS FTP server
   (ftp://go.cygnus.com)
   [10]Find a GNU mirror site
   [11]Find a GCC/EGCS mirror site

   For additional information about GCC please see the [12]GCC project
   web server or contact the [13]GCC development mailing list.
     _________________________________________________________________


    [14]The GCC team
    Last modified 2000-11-10

References

   1. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/regress.html
   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/othertest.html
   3. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/features.html
   4. http://gcc.gnu.org/install/index.html
   5. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/buildstat.html
   6. http://gcc.gnu.org/thanks.html
   7. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/caveats.html
   8. ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gcc/
   9. ftp://go.cygnus.com/pub/sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html
  10. http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
  11. http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html
  12. http://gcc.gnu.org/index.html
  13. mailto:gcc@@gcc.gnu.org
  14. http://gcc.gnu.org/about.html
======================================================================
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/gcc-2.95.html

                                  GCC 2.95

   July 31, 1999

   The GNU project and the GCC/EGCS developers are pleased to announce
   the release of GCC version 2.95. 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.

   This is the first release of GCC since the April 1999 GCC/EGCS
   reunification and includes nearly a year's worth of new development
   and bugfixes.

   The whole suite has been extensively [1]regression tested and
   [2]package tested. It should be reliable and suitable for widespread
   use.

   The compiler has several new optimizations, new targets, new languages
   and other new features. See the [3]new features page for a more
   complete list of new features found in the GCC 2.95 releases.

   The sources include installation instructions in both HTML and
   plaintext forms in the install directory in the distribution. However,
   the most up to date [4]installation instructions and [5]build/test
   status are on the web pages. We will update those pages as new
   information becomes available.

   The GCC developers would like to thank the numerous people that have
   contributed new features, test results, bugfixes, etc to GCC. This
   [6]amazing group of volunteers is what makes GCC successful.

   And finally, we can't in good conscience fail to mention some
   [7]caveats to using GCC 2.95.

   Download GCC 2.95 from the [8]GNU FTP server (ftp://ftp.gnu.org)
   Download GCC 2.95 from the [9]GCC/EGCS FTP server
   (ftp://go.cygnus.com)
   [10]Find a GNU mirror site
   [11]Find a GCC/EGCS mirror site

   For additional information about GCC please see the [12]GCC project
   web server or contact the [13]GCC development mailing list.
     _________________________________________________________________


    [14]The GCC team
    Last modified 2000-11-10

References

   1. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/regress.html
   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/othertest.html
   3. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/features.html
   4. http://gcc.gnu.org/install/index.html
   5. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/buildstat.html
   6. http://gcc.gnu.org/thanks.html
   7. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/caveats.html
   8. ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gcc/
   9. ftp://go.cygnus.com/pub/sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html
  10. http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
  11. http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html
  12. http://gcc.gnu.org/index.html
  13. mailto:gcc@@gcc.gnu.org
  14. http://gcc.gnu.org/about.html
======================================================================
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/features.html

                           GCC 2.95 New Features

     * General Optimizer Improvements:
          + [1]Localized register spilling to improve speed and code
            density especially on small register class machines.
          + [2]Global CSE using lazy code motion algorithms.
          + [3]Improved global constant/copy propagation.
          + [4]Improved control flow graph analysis and manipulation.
          + [5]Local dead store elimination.
          + [6]Memory Load hoisting/store sinking in loops.
          + [7]Type based alias analysis is enabled by default. Note this
            feature will expose bugs in the Linux kernel. Please refer to
            the [8]FAQ for additional information on this issue.
          + Major revamp of GIV detection, combination and simplification
            to improve loop performance.
          + Major improvements to register allocation and reloading.
     * New Languages and Language specific improvements
          + [9]Many C++ improvements.
          + [10]Many Fortran improvements.
          + [11]Java front-end has been integrated. A [12]runtime library
            is available separately.
          + [13]ISO C99 support
          + [14]Chill front-end and runtime has been integrated.
          + Boehm garbage collector support in libobjc.
          + More support for various pragmas which appear in vendor
            include files
     * New Targets and Target Specific Improvements
          + [15]Sparc backend rewrite.
          + -mschedule=8000 will optimize code for PA8000 class
            processors; -mpa-risc-2-0 will generate code for PA2.0
            processors
          + Various micro-optimizations for the ia32 port. K6
            optimizations
          + Compiler will attempt to align doubles in the stack on the
            ia32 port
          + Alpha EV6 support
          + PowerPC 750
          + RS6000/PowerPC: -mcpu=401 was added as an alias for
            -mcpu=403. -mcpu=e603e was added to do -mcpu=603e and
            -msoft-float.
          + c3x, c4x
          + HyperSparc
          + SparcLite86x
          + sh4
          + Support for new systems (OpenBSD, FreeBSD, UWIN, Interix,
            arm-linux)
          + vxWorks targets include support for vxWorks threads
          + StrongARM 110 and ARM9 support added. ARM Scheduling
            parameters rewritten.
          + Various changes to the MIPS port to avoid assembler macros,
            which
          + Various performance improvements to the i960 port.
          + Major rewrite of ns32k port in turn improves performance
     * Other significant improvements
          + [16]Ability to dump cfg information and display it using vcg.
          + The new faster scheme for fixing vendor header files is
            enabled by default.
          + Experimental internationalization support.
          + multibyte character support
          + Some compile-time speedups for pathological problems
          + Better support for complex types
     * Plus the usual mountain of bugfixes
     * Core compiler is based on the gcc2 development tree from Sept 30,
       1998, so we have all of the [17]features found in GCC 2.8.
     _________________________________________________________________


    [18]The GCC team
    Last modified 2000-12-04

References

   1. http://gcc.gnu.org/news/spill.html
   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/news/lcm.html
   3. http://gcc.gnu.org/news/cprop.html
   4. http://gcc.gnu.org/news/cfg.html
   5. http://gcc.gnu.org/news/dse.html
   6. http://gcc.gnu.org/news/hoist.html
   7. http://gcc.gnu.org/news/alias.html
   8. http://gcc.gnu.org/fom_serv/cache/24.html
   9. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/c++features.html
  10. http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/g77_news.html
  11. http://sources.redhat.com/java/gcj-announce.txt
  12. http://gcc.gnu.org/javaannounce.html
  13. http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html
  14. http://gcc.gnu.org/news/chill.html
  15. http://gcc.gnu.org/news/sparc.html
  16. http://gcc.gnu.org/news/egcs-vcg.html
  17. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/features-2.8.html
  18. http://gcc.gnu.org/about.html
======================================================================
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/caveats.html

                              GCC 2.95 Caveats

     * GCC 2.95 will issue an error for invalid asm statements that had
       been silently accepted by earlier versions of the compiler. This
       is particularly noticeable when compiling older versions of the
       Linux kernel (2.0.xx). Please refer to the [1]FAQ for more
       information on this issue.
     * GCC 2.95 implements type based alias analysis to disambiguate
       memory references. Some programs, particularly the Linux kernel
       violate ANSI/ISO aliasing rules and therefore may not operate
       correctly when compiled with GCC 2.95. Please refer to the [2]FAQ
       for more information on this issue.
     * GCC 2.95 has a known bug in its handling of complex variables for
       64bit targets. Instead of silently generating incorrect code, GCC
       2.95 will issue a fatal error for situations it can not handle.
       This primarily affects the Fortran community as Fortran makes more
       use of complex variables than C or C++.
     * GCC 2.95 has an integrated libstdc++, but does not have an
       integrated libg++. Furthermore old libg++ releases will not work
       with GCC 2.95. You can retrieve a recent copy of libg++ from the
       [3]GCC ftp server.
       Note most C++ programs only need libstdc++.
     * Exception handling may not work with shared libraries,
       particularly on alphas, hppas, rs6000/powerpc and mips based
       platforms. Exception handling is known to work on x86 GNU/Linux
       platforms with shared libraries.
     * In general, GCC 2.95 is more rigorous about rejecting invalid C++
       code or deprecated C++ constructs than G++ 2.7, G++ 2.8, EGCS 1.0,
       or EGCS 1.1. As a result it may be necessary to fix C++ code
       before it will compile with GCC 2.95.
     * G++ is also converting toward the ISO C++ standard; as a result
       code which was previously valid (and thus accepted by other
       compilers and older versions of g++) may no longer be accepted.
       The flag -fpermissive may allow some non-conforming code to
       compile with GCC 2.95.
     * GCC 2.95 compiled C++ code is not binary compatible with EGCS
       1.1.x, EGCS 1.0.x or GCC 2.8.x.
     * GCC 2.95 does not have changes from the GCC 2.8 tree that were
       made between Sept 30, 1998 and April 30, 1999 (the official end of
       the GCC 2.8 project). Future GCC releases will include all the
       changes from the defunct GCC 2.8 sources.
     _________________________________________________________________


    [4]The GCC team
    Last modified 2000-11-10

References

   1. http://gcc.gnu.org/faq.html#asmclobber
   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/fom_serv/cache/24.html
   3. ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/libg++-2.8.1.3.tar.gz
   4. http://gcc.gnu.org/about.html
======================================================================
http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.1/egcs-1.1.2.html

                                 EGCS 1.1.2

   March 15, 1999

   We are pleased to announce the release of EGCS 1.1.2.

   EGCS is a collaborative effort involving several groups of hackers
   using an open development model to accelerate development and testing
   of GNU compilers and runtime libraries.

   EGCS 1.1.2 is a minor update to the EGCS 1.1.1 compiler to fix several
   serious problems in EGCS 1.1.1.
     * General improvements and fixes
          + Fix bug in loop optimizer which caused the SPARC (and
            potentially other) ports to segfault.
          + Fix infinite recursion in alias analysis and combiner code.
          + Fix bug in regclass preferencing.
          + Fix incorrect loop reversal which caused incorrect code to be
            generated for several targets.
          + Fix return value for builtin memcpy.
          + Reduce compile time for certain loops which exposed quadratic
            behavior in the loop optimizer.
          + Fix bug which caused volatile memory to be written multiple
            times when only one write was needed/desired.
          + Fix compiler abort in caller-save.c
          + Fix combiner bug which caused incorrect code generation for
            certain division by constant operations.
          + Fix incorrect code generation due to a bug in range check
            optimizations.
          + Fix incorrect code generation due to mis-handling of
            clobbered values in CSE.
          + Fix compiler abort/segfault due to incorrect register
            splitting when unrolling loops.
          + Fix code generation involving autoincremented addresses with
            ternary operators.
          + Work around bug in the scheduler which caused qt to be
            mis-compiled on some platforms.
          + Fix code generation problems with -fshort-enums.
          + Tighten security for temporary files.
          + Improve compile time for codes which make heavy use of
            overloaded functions.
          + Fix multiply defined constructor/destructor symbol problems.
          + Avoid setting bogus RPATH environemnt variable during
            bootstrap.
          + Avoid GNU-make dependencies in the texinfo subdir.
          + Install CPP wrapper script in $(prefix)/bin if --enable-cpp.
            --enable-cpp= can be used to specify an additional install
            directory for the cpp wrapper script.
          + Fix CSE bug which caused incorrect label-label refs to appear
            on some platforms.
          + Avoid linking in EH routines from libgcc if they are not
            needed.
          + Avoid obscure bug in aliasing code.
          + Fix bug in weak symbol handling.
     * Platform-specific improvements and fixes
          + Fix detection of PPro/PII on Unixware 7.
          + Fix compiler segfault when building spec99 and other programs
            for SPARC targets.
          + Fix code-generation bugs for integer and floating point
            conditional move instructions on the PPro/PII.
          + Use fixincludes to fix byteorder problems on i?86-*-sysv.
          + Fix build failure for the arc port.
          + Fix floating point format configuration for i?86-gnu port
          + Fix problems with hppa1.0-hp-hpux10.20 configuration when
            threads are enabled
          + Fix coldfire code generation bugs.
          + Fix "unrecognized insn" problems for Alpha and PPC ports.
          + Fix h8/300 code generation problem with floating point values
            in memory.
          + Fix unrecognized insn problems for the m68k port.
          + Fix namespace-pollution problem for the x86 port.
          + Fix problems with old assembler on x86 NeXT systems.
          + Fix PIC code-generation problems for the SPARC port.
          + Fix minor bug with LONG_CALLS in PowerPC SVR4 support.
          + Fix minor ISO namespace violation in Alpha varargs/stdarg
            support.
          + Fix incorrect "braf" instruction usage for the SH port.
          + Fix minor bug in va-sh which prevented its use with -ansi.
          + Fix problems recognizing and supporting FreeBSD.
          + Handle OpenBSD systems correctly.
          + Minor fixincludes fix for Digital UNIX 4.0B.
          + Fix problems with ctors/dtors in SCO shared libraries.
          + Abort instead of generating incorrect code for PPro/PII
            floating point conditional moves.
          + Avoid multiply defined symbols on Linux/GNU systems using
            libc-5.4.xx.
          + Fix abort in alpha compiler.

     Fortran-specific fixes
     * Fix the IDate intrinsic (VXT) (in libg2c) so the returned year is
       in the documented, non-Y2K-compliant range of 0-99, instead of
       being returned as 100 in the year 2000.
     * Fix the `Date_and_Time' intrinsic (in libg2c) to return the
       milliseconds value properly in Values(8).
     * Fix the `LStat' intrinsic (in libg2c) to return device-ID
       information properly in SArray(7).

   An important goal of EGCS is to allow wide scale testing of new
   features and optimizations which are still under development. However,
   EGCS has been carefully tested and should be comparable in quality to
   most gcc releases.

   EGCS 1.1.2 is based on the June 6, 1998 snapshot of the GCC 2.8
   development sources; it contains all of the new features found in GCC
   2.8.1 as well as all new development from gcc2 up to June 6, 1998.

   See the [1]new features page for a more complete list of new features
   found in EGCS 1.1 releases.

   The EGCS 1.1.2 release includes installation instructions in both HTML
   and plaintext forms (see the INSTALL directory in the toplevel
   directory of the EGCS 1.1.2 distribution). However, we also keep the
   most up to date [2]installation instructions and [3]build/test status
   on our web page. We will update those pages as new information becomes
   available.

   The EGCS project would like to thank the numerous people that have
   contributed new features, test results, bugfixes, etc. This [4]amazing
   group of volunteers is what makes EGCS successful.

   And finally, we can't in good conscience fail to mention some
   [5]caveats to using EGCS 1.1.2. [6]Download EGCS 1.1.2 from
   egcs.cygnus.com (USA California) -->

   [7]Download EGCS 1.1.2 from go.cygnus.com (USA California - High speed
   link provided by Stanford)

   The EGCS 1.1.2 release is also available on many [8]mirror sites.
     _________________________________________________________________

   Last modified on July 28, 1999.

References

   1. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.1/features.html
   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/install/index.html
   3. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.1/buildstat.html
   4. http://gcc.gnu.org/thanks.html
   5. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.1/caveats.html
   6. ftp://egcs.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html
   7. ftp://go.cygnus.com/pub/sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html
   8. http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html
======================================================================
http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.1/egcs-1.1.1.html

                                 EGCS 1.1.1

   December 1, 1998

   We are pleased to announce the release of EGCS 1.1.1.

   EGCS is a collaborative effort involving several groups of hackers
   using an open development model to accelerate development and testing
   of GNU compilers and runtime libraries.

   EGCS 1.1.1 is a minor update to the EGCS 1.1 compiler to fix several
   serious problems in EGCS 1.1.
     * General improvements and fixes
          + Avoid some stack overflows when compiling large functions.
          + Avoid incorrect loop invariant code motions.
          + Fix some core dumps on Linux kernel code.
          + Bring back the imake -Di386 and friends fix from EGCS 1.0.2.
          + Fix code generation problem in gcse.
          + Various documentation related fixes.
     * g++/libstdc++ improvements and fixes
          + MT safe EH fix for setjmp/longjmp based exception handling.
          + Fix a few bad interactions between optimization and exception
            handling.
          + Fixes for demangling of template names starting with "__".
          + Fix a bug that would fail to run destructors in some cases
            with -O2.
          + Fix 'new' of classes with virtual bases.
          + Fix crash building Qt on the Alpha.
          + Fix failure compiling WIFEXITED macro on GNU/Linux.
          + Fix some -frepo failures.
     * g77 and libf2c improvements and fixes
          + Various documentation fixes.
          + Avoid compiler crash on RAND intrinsic.
          + Fix minor bugs in makefiles exposed by BSD make programs.
          + Define _XOPEN_SOURCE for libI77 build to avoid potential
            problems on some 64-bit systems.
          + Fix problem with implicit endfile on rewind.
          + Fix spurious recursive I/O errors.
     * platform specific improvements and fixes
          + Match all versions of UnixWare7.
          + Do not assume x86 SVR4 or UnixWare targets can handle stabs
          + Fix PPC/RS6000 LEGITIMIZE_ADDRESS macro and bug in conversion
            from unsigned ints to double precision floats.
          + Fix ARM ABI issue with NetBSD.
          + Fix a few arm code generation bugs.
          + Fixincludes will fix additional broken SCO OpenServer header
            files.
          + Fix a m68k backend bug which caused invalid offsets in reg+d
            addresses.
          + Fix problems with 64bit AIX 4.3 support.
          + Fix handling of long longs for varargs/stdarg functions on
            the ppc.
          + Minor fixes to CPP predefines for Windows.
          + Fix code generation problems with gpr<->fpr copies for 64bit
            ppc
          + Fix a few coldfire code generation bugs.
          + Fix some more header file problems on SunOS 4.x
          + Fix assert.h handling for RTEMS.
          + Fix Windows handling of TREE_SYMBOL_REFERENCED.
          + Fix x86 compiler abort in reg-stack pass.
          + Fix cygwin/windows problem with section attributes.
          + Fix Alpha code generation problem exposed by SMP Linux
            kernels.
          + Fix typo in m68k 32->64bit integer conversion.
          + Make sure target libraries build with -fPIC for PPC & Alpha
            targets.

   An important goal of EGCS is to allow wide scale testing of new
   features and optimizations which are still under development. However,
   EGCS has been carefully tested and should be comparable in quality to
   most gcc releases.

   EGCS 1.1.1 is based on the June 6, 1998 snapshot of the GCC 2.8
   development sources; it contains all of the new features found in GCC
   2.8.1 as well as all new development from gcc2 up to June 6, 1998.

   See the [1]new features page for a more complete list of new features
   found in EGCS 1.1 releases.

   The EGCS 1.1.1 release includes installation instructions in both HTML
   and plaintext forms (see the INSTALL directory in the toplevel
   directory of the EGCS 1.1.1 distribution). However, we also keep the
   most up to date [2]installation instructions and [3]build/test status
   on our web page. We will update those pages as new information becomes
   available.

   The EGCS project would like to thank the numerous people that have
   contributed new features, test results, bugfixes, etc. This [4]amazing
   group of volunteers is what makes EGCS successful.

   And finally, we can't in good conscience fail to mention some
   [5]caveats to using EGCS 1.1.1.

   [6]Download EGCS 1.1.1 from egcs.cygnus.com (USA California)

   The EGCS 1.1.1 release is also available on many mirror sites.
   [7]Goto mirror list to find a closer site
     _________________________________________________________________

   Last modified on July 28, 1999.

References

   1. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.1/features.html
   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/install/index.html
   3. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.1/buildstat.html
   4. http://gcc.gnu.org/thanks.html
   5. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.1/caveats.html
   6. ftp://egcs.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html
   7. http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html
======================================================================
http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.1/egcs-1.1.html

                                  EGCS 1.1

   September 3, 1998

   We are pleased to announce the release of EGCS 1.1.

   EGCS is a free software project to further the development of the GNU
   compilers using an open development environment.

   EGCS 1.1 is a major new release of the EGCS compiler system. It has
   been [1]extensively tested and is believed to be stable and suitable
   for widespread use.

   EGCS 1.1 is based on an June 6, 1998 snapshot of the GCC 2.8
   development sources; it contains all of the new features found in GCC
   2.8.1 as well as all new development from GCC up to June 6, 1998.

   EGCS also contains many improvements and features not found in GCC or
   in older versions of EGCS.
     * Global common subexpression elimination and global constant/copy
       propagation (aka [2]gcse)
     * Ongoing improvements to the [3]alias analysis support to allow for
       better optimizations throughout the compiler.
     * Vastly improved [4]C++ compiler and integrated C++ runtime
       libraries.
     * Fixes for the /tmp symlink race security problems.
     * New targets including mips16, arm-thumb and 64 bit PowerPC.
     * Improvements to GNU Fortran (g77) compiler and runtime library
       made since [5]g77 version 0.5.23.

   See the [6]new features page for a more complete list of new features
   found in EGCS 1.1 releases.

   The EGCS 1.1 release includes installation instructions in both HTML
   and plaintext forms (see the INSTALL directory in the toplevel
   directory of the EGCS 1.1 distribution). However, we also keep the
   most up to date [7]installation instructions and [8]build/test status
   on our web page. We will update those pages as new information becomes
   available.

   The EGCS project would like to thank the numerous people that have
   contributed new features, test results, bugfixes, etc. This [9]amazing
   group of volunteers is what makes EGCS successful.

   And finally, we can't in good conscience fail to mention some
   [10]caveats to using EGCS 1.1.

   [11]Download EGCS 1.1 from egcs.cygnus.com (USA California)

   [12]Download EGCS 1.1 from go.cygnus.com (USA California -- High speed
   link provided by Stanford)

   The EGCS 1.1 release is also available on many mirror sites.
   [13]Goto mirror list to find a closer site
     _________________________________________________________________

   Last modified on September 4, 1999.

References

   1. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.1/egcs-1.1-test.html
   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/news/gcse.html
   3. http://gcc.gnu.org/news/alias.html
   4. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.1/c++features.html
   5. http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/g77_news.html
   6. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.1/features.html
   7. http://gcc.gnu.org/install/index.html
   8. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.1/buildstat.html
   9. http://gcc.gnu.org/thanks.html
  10. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.1/caveats.html
  11. ftp://egcs.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html
  12. ftp://go.cygnus.com/pub/sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html
  13. http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html
======================================================================
http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.1/features.html

                           EGCS 1.1 new features

     * Integrated GNU Fortran (g77) compiler and runtime library with
       improvements, based on [1]g77 version 0.5.23.
     * Vast improvements in the C++ compiler; so many they have [2]page
       of their own!
     * Compiler implements [3]global common subexpression elimination and
       global copy/constant propagation.
     * More major improvements in the [4]alias analysis code.
     * More major improvements in the exception handling code to improve
       performance, lower static overhead and provide the infrastructure
       for future improvements.
     * The infamous /tmp symlink race security problems have been fixed.
     * The regmove optimization pass has been nearly completely rewritten
       to improve performance of generated code.
     * The compiler now recomputes register usage information before
       local register allocation. By providing more accurate information
       to the priority based allocator, we get better register
       allocation.
     * The register reloading phase of the compiler optimizes spill code
       much better than in previous releases.
     * Some bad interactions between the register allocator and
       instruction scheduler have been fixed, resulting in much better
       code for certain programs. Additionally, we have tuned the
       scheduler in various ways to improve performance of generated code
       for some architectures.
     * The compiler's branch shortening algorithms have been
       significantly improved to work better on targets which align jump
       targets.
     * The compiler now supports -Os to prefer optimizing for code space
       over optimizing for code speed.
     * The compiler will now totally eliminate library calls which
       compute constant values. This primarily helps targets with no
       integer div/mul support and targets without floating point
       support.
     * The compiler now supports an extensive "--help" option.
     * cpplib has been greatly improved and may be suitable for limited
       use.
     * Memory footprint for the compiler has been significantly reduced
       for some pathological cases.
     * The time to build EGCS has been improved for certain targets
       (particularly the alpha and mips platforms).
     * Many infrastructure improvements throughout the compiler, plus the
       usual mountain of bugfixes and minor improvements.
     * Target dependent improvements:
          + SPARC port now includes V8 plus and V9 support as well as
            performance tuning for Ultra class machines. The SPARC port
            now uses the Haifa scheduler.
          + Alpha port has been tuned for the EV6 processor and has an
            optimized expansion of memcpy/bzero. The Alpha port now uses
            the Haifa scheduler.
          + RS6000/PowerPC: EGCS 1.1 includes support for the Power64
            architecture and aix4.3 support. The RS6000/PowerPC port now
            uses the Haifa scheduler.
          + x86: Alignment of static store data and jump targets is per
            Intel recommendations now. Various improvements throughout
            the x86 port to improve performance on Pentium processors.
            Conditional move support has been fixed and enabled for PPro
            processors. The x86 port also better supports 64bit
            operations now.
          + MIPS has improved multiply/multiply-add support and now
            includes mips16 ISA support.
          + M68k has many micro-optimizations and Coldfire fixes.
     * Core compiler is based on the GCC development tree from June 9,
       1998, so we have all of the [5]features found in GCC 2.8.

   [6]Return to the EGCS home page

   Last modified: September 4, 1999

References

   1. http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/g77_news.html
   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.1/c++features.html
   3. http://gcc.gnu.org/news/gcse.html
   4. http://gcc.gnu.org/news/alias.html
   5. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/features-2.8.html
   6. http://gcc.gnu.org/index.html
======================================================================
http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.1/caveats.html

                              EGCS 1.1 Caveats

     * EGCS has an integrated libstdc++, but does not have an integrated
       libg++. Furthermore old libg++ releases will not work with EGCS;
       HJ Lu has made a [1]libg++ snapshot available which may work with
       EGCS.
       Note most C++ programs only need libstdc++.
     * Exception handling may not work with shared libraries,
       particularly on alphas, hppas, rs6000/powerpc and mips based
       platforms. Exception handling is known to work on x86-linux
       platforms with shared libraries.
     * Some versions of the Linux kernel have bugs which prevent them
       from being compiled or from running when compiled by EGCS. See
       [2]the FAQ for additional information.
     * In general, EGCS is more rigorous about rejecting invalid C++ code
       or deprecated C++ constructs than g++-2.7, g++-2.8 or EGCS 1.0. As
       a result it may be necessary to fix C++ code before it will
       compile with EGCS.
     * G++ is also converting toward the ISO C++ standard; as a result
       code which was previously valid (and thus accepted by other
       compilers and older versions of g++) may no longer be accepted.
     * EGCS 1.1 compiled C++ code is not binary compatible with EGCS
       1.0.x or GCC 2.8.x due to changes necessary to support thread safe
       exception handling.

   [3]Return to the GCC home page

   Last modified: July 28, 1999

References

   1. ftp://ftp.yggdrasil.com/private/hjl/libg++-2.8.1.2.tar.gz
   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/fom_serv/cache/24.html
   3. http://gcc.gnu.org/index.html
======================================================================
http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/egcs-1.0.3.html

                                 EGCS 1.0.3

   May 15, 1998

   We are pleased to announce the release of EGCS 1.0.3.

   EGCS is a collaborative effort involving several groups of hackers
   using an open development model to accelerate development and testing
   of GNU compilers and runtime libraries.

   EGCS 1.0.3 is a minor update to the EGCS 1.0.2 compiler to fix a few
   problems reported by Red Hat for builds of Red Hat 5.1.
     * Generic bugfixes:
          + Fix a typo in the libio library which resulted in incorrect
            behavior of istream::get.
          + Fix the Fortran negative array index problem.
          + Fix a major problem with the ObjC runtime thread support
            exposed by glibc2.
          + Reduce memory consumption of the Haifa scheduler.
     * Target specific bugfixes:
          + Fix one x86 floating point code generation bug exposed by
            glibc2 builds.
          + Fix one x86 internal compiler error exposed by glibc2 builds.
          + Fix profiling bugs on the Alpha.
          + Fix ImageMagick & emacs 20.2 build problems on the Alpha.
          + Fix rs6000/ppc bug when converting values from integer types
            to floating point types.

   An important goal of EGCS is to allow wide scale testing of new
   features and optimizations which are still under development. However,
   EGCS has been carefully tested and should be comparable in quality to
   most GCC releases.

   EGCS 1.0.3 is based on an August 2, 1997 snapshot of the GCC 2.8
   development sources; it contains nearly all of the new features found
   in GCC 2.8.

   EGCS also contains many improvements and features not found in GCC 2.7
   or GCC 2.8.
     * Integrated C++ runtime libraries, including support for most major
       GNU/Linux systems!
     * The integrated libstdc++ library includes a verbatim copy of
       [1]SGI's STL release instead of a modified copy.
     * Integrated GNU Fortran compiler
     * New instruction scheduler
     * New alias analysis code

   See the [2]new features page for a more complete list of new features
   found in EGCS 1.0.x releases.

   The EGCS 1.0.3 release includes installation instructions in both HTML
   and plaintext forms (see the INSTALL directory in the toplevel
   directory of the EGCS 1.0.3 distribution). However, we also keep the
   most up to date [3]installation instructions and [4]build/test status
   on our web page. We will update those pages as new information becomes
   available.

   And, we can't in good conscience fail to mention some [5]caveats to
   using EGCS.

   Update: Big thanks to Stanford for providing a high speed link for
   downloading EGCS (go.cygnus.com)!

   [6]Download EGCS 1.0.3 from ftp.cygnus.com (USA California)

   [7]Download EGCS 1.0.3 from go.cygnus.com (USA California -- High
   speed link provided by Stanford)

   The EGCS 1.0.3 release is also available on many mirror sites.
   [8]Goto mirror list to find a closer site

   We'd like to thank the numerous people that have contributed new
   features, test results, bugfixes, etc. Unfortunately, they're far too
   numerous to mention by name.
     _________________________________________________________________

   Last modified on February 22, 1999.

References

   1. http://www.sgi.com/Technology/STL
   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/features.html
   3. http://gcc.gnu.org/install/index.html
   4. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/buildstat.html
   5. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/caveats.html
   6. ftp://egcs.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html
   7. ftp://go.cygnus.com/pub/sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html
   8. http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html
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http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/egcs-1.0.2.html

                                 EGCS 1.0.2

   March 16, 1998

   We are pleased to announce the release of EGCS 1.0.2.

   EGCS is a collaborative effort involving several groups of hackers
   using an open development model to accelerate development and testing
   of GNU compilers and runtime libraries.

   EGCS 1.0.2 is a minor update to the EGCS 1.0.1 compiler to fix several
   serious problems in EGCS 1.0.1.
     * General improvements and fixes
          + Memory consumption significantly reduced, especially for
            templates and inline functions.
          + Fix various problems with glibc2.1.
          + Fix loop optimization bug exposed by rs6000/ppc port.
          + Fix to avoid potential code generation problems in jump.c.
          + Fix some undefined symbol problems in dwarf1 debug support.
     * g++/libstdc++ improvements and fixes
          + libstdc++ in the EGCS release has been updated and should be
            link compatible with libstdc++-2.8.
          + Various fixes in libio/libstdc++ to work better on Linux
            systems.
          + Fix problems with duplicate symbols on systems that do not
            support weak symbols.
          + Memory corruption bug and undefined symbols in bastring have
            been fixed.
          + Various exception handling fixes.
          + Fix compiler abort for very long thunk names.
     * g77 improvements and fixes
          + Fix compiler crash for omitted bound in Fortran CASE
            statement.
          + Add missing entries to g77 lang-options.
          + Fix problem with -fpedantic in the g77 compiler.
          + Fix "backspace" problem with g77 on alphas.
          + Fix x86 backend problem with Fortran literals and -fpic.
          + Fix some of the problems with negative subscripts for g77 on
            alphas.
          + Fixes for Fortran builds on cygwin32/mingw32.
     * platform specific improvements and fixes
          + Fix long double problems on x86 (exposed by glibc)
          + x86 ports define i386 again to keep imake happy.
          + Fix exception handling support on NetBSD ports.
          + Several changes to collect2 to fix many problems with AIX.
          + Define __ELF__ for rs6000/linux.
          + Fix -mcall-linux problem on rs6000/linux.
          + Fix stdarg/vararg problem for rs6000/linux.
          + Allow autoconf to select a proper install problem on AIX 3.1.
          + m68k port support includes -mcpu32 option as well as cpu32
            multilibs.
          + Fix stdarg bug for irix6.
          + Allow EGCS to build on irix5 without the gnu assembler.
          + Fix problem with static linking on sco5.
          + Fix bootstrap on sco5 with native compiler.
          + Fix for abort building newlib on H8 target.
          + Fix fixincludes handling of math.h on SunOS.
          + Minor fix for motorola 3300 m68k systems.

   An important goal of EGCS is to allow wide scale testing of new
   features and optimizations which are still under development. However,
   EGCS has been carefully tested and should be comparable in quality to
   most GCC releases.

   EGCS 1.0.2 is based on an August 2, 1997 snapshot of the GCC 2.8
   development sources; it contains nearly all of the new features found
   in GCC 2.8.

   EGCS also contains many improvements and features not found in GCC 2.7
   or GCC 2.8.
     * Integrated C++ runtime libraries, including support for most major
       linux systems!
     * The integrated libstdc++ library includes a verbatim copy of
       [1]SGI's STL release.
     * Integrated GNU Fortran compiler
     * New instruction scheduler
     * New alias analysis code

   See the [2]new features page for a more complete list of new features
   found in EGCS 1.0.x releases.

   The EGCS 1.0.2 release includes installation instructions in both HTML
   and plaintext forms (see the INSTALL directory in the toplevel
   directory of the EGCS 1.0.2 distribution). However, we also keep the
   most up to date [3]installation instructions and [4]build/test status
   on our web page. We will update those pages as new information becomes
   available.

   And, we can't in good conscience fail to mention some [5]caveats to
   using EGCS.

   Update: Big thanks to Stanford for providing a high speed link for
   downloading EGCS (go.cygnus.com)!

   [6]Download EGCS 1.0.2 from ftp.cygnus.com (USA California)

   [7]Download EGCS 1.0.2 from go.cygnus.com (USA California -- High
   speed link provided by Stanford)

   The EGCS 1.0.2 release is also available on many mirror sites.
   [8]Goto mirror list to find a closer site

   We'd like to thank the numerous people that have contributed new
   features, test results, bugfixes, etc. Unfortunately, they're far too
   numerous to mention by name.
     _________________________________________________________________

   Last modified on July 28, 1999.

References

   1. http://www.sgi.com/Technology/STL/
   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/features.html
   3. http://gcc.gnu.org/install/index.html
   4. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/buildstat.html
   5. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/caveats.html
   6. ftp://egcs.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html
   7. ftp://go.cygnus.com/pub/sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html
   8. http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html
======================================================================
http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/egcs-1.0.1.html

                                 EGCS 1.0.1

   January 6, 1998

   We are pleased to announce the release of EGCS 1.0.1.

   EGCS is a collaborative effort involving several groups of hackers
   using an open development model to accelerate development and testing
   of GNU compilers and runtime libraries.

   EGCS 1.0.1 is a minor update to the EGCS 1.0 compiler to fix a few
   critical bugs and add support for Red Hat 5.0 Linux. Changes since the
   EGCS 1.0 release:
     * Add support for Red Hat 5.0 Linux and better support for Linux
       systems using glibc2.
       Many programs failed to link when compiled with EGCS 1.0 on Red
       Hat 5.0 or on systems with newer versions of glibc2. EGCS 1.0.1
       should fix these problems.
     * Compatability with both EGCS 1.0 and GCC 2.8 libgcc exception
       handling interfaces.
       To avoid future compatibility problems, we strongly urge anyone
       who is planning on distributing shared libraries that contain C++
       code to upgrade to EGCS 1.0.1 first.
       Soon after EGCS 1.0 was released, the GCC developers made some
       incompatible changes in libgcc's exception handling interfaces.
       These changes were needed to solve problems on some platforms.
       This means that GCC 2.8.0, when released, will not be seamlessly
       compatible with shared libraries built by EGCS 1.0. The reason is
       that the libgcc.a in GCC 2.8.0 will not contain a function needed
       by the old interface.
       The result of this is that there may be compatibility problems
       with shared libraries built by EGCS 1.0 when used with GCC 2.8.0.
       With EGCS 1.0.1, generated code uses the new (GCC 2.8.0)
       interface, and libgcc.a has the support routines for both the old
       and the new interfaces (so EGCS 1.0.1 and EGCS 1.0 code can be
       freely mixed, and EGCS 1.0.1 and GCC 2.8.0 code can be freely
       mixed).
       The maintainers of GCC 2.x have decided against including seamless
       support for the old interface in 2.8.0, since it was never
       "official", so to avoid future compatibility problems we recommend
       against distributing any shared libraries built by EGCS 1.0 that
       contain C++ code (upgrade to 1.0.1 and use that).
     * Various bugfixes in the x86, hppa, mips, and rs6000/ppc backends.
       The x86 changes fix code generation errors exposed when building
       glibc2 and the Linux dynamic linker (ld.so).
       The hppa change fixes a compiler abort when configured for use
       with RTEMS.
       The MIPS changes fix problems with the definition of LONG_MAX on
       newer systems, allow for command line selection of the target ABI,
       and fix one code generation problem.
       The rs6000/ppc change fixes some problems with passing structures
       to varargs/stdarg functions.
     * A few machine independent bugfixes, mostly to fix code generation
       errors when building Linux kernels or glibc.
     * Fix a few critical exception handling and template bugs in the C++
       compiler.
     * Fix Fortran namelist bug on alphas.
     * Fix build problems on x86-solaris systems.

   An important goal of EGCS is to allow wide scale testing of new
   features and optimizations which are still under development. However,
   EGCS has been carefully tested and should be comparable in quality to
   most GCC releases.

   EGCS 1.0.1 is based on an August 2, 1997 snapshot of the GCC 2.8
   development sources; it contains nearly all of the new features found
   in GCC 2.8.

   EGCS also contains many improvements and features not found in GCC 2.7
   and even the soon to be released GCC 2.8 compilers.
     * Integrated C++ runtime libraries, including support for most major
       linux systems!
     * The integrated libstdc++ library includes a verbatim copy of
       [1]SGI's STL release.
     * Integrated GNU Fortran compiler
     * New instruction scheduler
     * New alias analysis code

   See the [2]new features page for a more complete list of new features
   found in EGCS 1.0.x releases.

   The EGCS 1.0.1 release includes installation instructions in both HTML
   and plaintext forms (see the INSTALL directory in the toplevel
   directory of the EGCS 1.0.1 distribution). However, we also keep the
   most up to date [3]installation instructions and [4]build/test status
   on our web page. We will update those pages as new information becomes
   available.

   And, we can't in good conscience fail to mention some [5]caveats to
   using EGCS.

   Update: Big thanks to Stanford for providing a high speed link for
   downloading EGCS (go.cygnus.com)!

   [6]Download EGCS 1.0.1 from ftp.cygnus.com (USA California)

   [7]Download EGCS 1.0.1 from go.cygnus.com (USA California -- High
   speed link provided by Stanford)

   The EGCS 1.0.1 release is also available on many mirror sites.
   [8]Goto mirror list to find a closer site

   We'd like to thank the numerous people that have contributed new
   features, test results, bugfixes, etc. Unfortunately, they're far too
   numerous to mention by name.
     _________________________________________________________________

   Last modified on July 28, 1999.

References

   1. http://www.sgi.com/Technology/STL/
   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/features.html
   3. http://gcc.gnu.org/install/index.html
   4. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/buildstat.html
   5. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/caveats.html
   6. ftp://egcs.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html
   7. ftp://go.cygnus.com/pub/sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html
   8. http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html
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http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/egcs-1.0.html

                                  EGCS 1.0

   December 3, 1997

   We are pleased to announce the release of EGCS 1.0.

   EGCS is a collaborative effort involving several groups of hackers
   using an open development model to accelerate development and testing
   of GNU compilers and runtime libraries.

   An important goal of EGCS is to allow wide scale testing of
   experimental features and optimizations; therefore, EGCS contains some
   features and optimizations which are still under development. However,
   EGCS has been carefully tested and should be comparable in quality to
   most GCC releases.

   EGCS 1.0 is based on an August 2, 1997 snapshot of the GCC 2.8
   development sources; it contains nearly all of the new features found
   in GCC 2.8.

   EGCS 1.0 also contains many improvements and features not found in GCC
   2.7 and even the soon to be released GCC 2.8 compilers.
     * Integrated C++ runtime libraries, including support for most major
       linux systems!
     * The integrated libstdc++ library includes a verbatim copy of
       [1]SGI's STL release.
     * Integrated GNU Fortran compiler
     * New instruction scheduler
     * New alias analysis code

   See the [2]new features page for a more complete list of new features.

   The EGCS 1.0 release includes installation instructions in both HTML
   and plaintext forms (see the INSTALL directory in the toplevel
   directory of the EGCS 1.0 distribution). However, we also keep the
   most up to date [3]installation instructions and [4]build/test status
   on our web page. We will update those pages as new information becomes
   available.

   And, we can't in good conscience fail to mention some [5]caveats to
   using EGCS.

   Update: The T1 into our main California offices has been 100%
   saturated since shortly after the release. We've added an EGCS 1.0
   mirror at our Massachusetts office to help share the load. We also
   encourage folks to use the many mirrors available throughout the
   world.

   Update: Big thanks to Stanford for providing a high speed link for
   downloading EGCS! (go.cygnus.com)

   [6]Download EGCS 1.0 from ftp.cygnus.com (USA California)

   [7]Download EGCS 1.0 from go.cygnus.com (USA California -- High speed
   link provided by Stanford)

   The EGCS 1.0 release should be available on most mirror sites by now.
   [8]Goto mirror list to find a closer site

   We'd like to thank the numerous people that have contributed new
   features, test results, bugfixes, etc. Unfortunately, they're far too
   numerous to mention by name.
     _________________________________________________________________

   Last modified on July 28, 1999.

References

   1. http://www.sgi.com/Technology/STL
   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/features.html
   3. http://gcc.gnu.org/install/index.html
   4. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/buildstat.html
   5. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/caveats.html
   6. ftp://egcs.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html
   7. ftp://go.cygnus.com/pub/sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html
   8. http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html
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http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/features.html

                             EGCS 1.0 features

     * Core compiler is based on the gcc2 development tree from Aug 2,
       1997, so we have most of the [1]features found in GCC 2.8.
     * Integrated GNU Fortran compiler based on g77-0.5.22-19970929.
     * Vast improvements in the C++ compiler; so many they have [2]page
       of their own!
     * Integrated C++ runtime libraries, including support for most major
       linux systems!
     * New instruction scheduler from IBM Haifa which includes support
       for function wide instruction scheduling as well as superscalar
       scheduling.
     * Significantly improved alias analysis code.
     * Improved register allocation for two address machines.
     * Significant code generation improvements for Fortran code on
       Alphas
     * Various optimizations from the g77 project as well as improved
       loop optimizations.
     * Dwarf2 debug format support for some targets.
     * egcs libstdc++ includes the SGI STL implementation without
       changes.
     * As a result of these and other changes, egcs libstc++ is not
       binary compatible with previous releases of libstdc++.
     * Various new ports -- UltraSPARC, Irix6.2 & Irix6.3 support, The
       SCO Openserver 5 family (5.0.{0,2,4} and Internet FastStart 1.0
       and 1.1), Support for RTEMS on several embedded targets, Support
       for arm-linux, Mitsubishi M32R, Hitachi H8/S, Matsushita MN102 and
       MN103, NEC V850, Sparclet, Solaris & Linux on PowerPCs, etc.
     * Integrated testsuites for gcc, g++, g77, libstdc++ and libio.
     * RS6000/PowerPC ports generate code which can run on all
       RS6000/PowerPC variants by default.
     * -mcpu= and -march= switches for the x86 port to allow better
       control over how the x86 port generates code.
     * Includes the template repository patch (aka repo patch); note the
       new template code makes repo obsolete for ELF systems using gnu-ld
       such as Linux.
     * Plus the usual assortment of bugfixes and improvements.

   [3]Return to the egcs home page

   Last modified: July 28, 1999

References

   1. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/features-2.8.html
   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/c++features.html
   3. http://gcc.gnu.org/index.html
======================================================================
http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/caveats.html

                              EGCS 1.0 Caveats

     * EGCS has an integrated libstdc++, but does not have an integrated
       libg++. Furthermore old libg++ releases will not work with egc; HJ
       Lu has made a [1]libg++ snapshot available which may work with
       EGCS.
       Note most C++ programs only need libstdc++.
     * Note that using -pedantic or -Wreturn-type can cause an explosion
       in the amount of memory needed for template-heavy C++ code, such
       as code that uses STL. Also note that -Wall includes
       -Wreturn-type, so if you use -Wall you will need to specify
       -Wno-return-type to turn it off.
     * Exception handling may not work with shared libraries,
       particularly on alphas, hppas, and mips based platforms. Exception
       handling is known to work on x86-linux platforms with shared
       libraries.
     * Some versions of the Linux kernel have bugs which prevent them
       from being compiled or from running when compiled by EGCS. See
       [2]the FAQ for additional information.
     * In general, EGCS is more rigorous about rejecting invalid C++ code
       or deprecated C++ constructs than G++ 2.7. As a result it may be
       necessary to fix C++ code before it will compile with EGCS.
     * G++ is also aggressively tracking the C++ standard; as a result
       code which was previously valid (and thus accepted by other
       compilers and older versions of G++) may no longer be accepted.
     * EGCS 1.0 may not work with Red Hat Linux 5.0 on all targets. EGCS
       1.0.x and later releases should work with Red Hat Linux 5.0.

   [3]Return to the GCC home page

   Last modified: August 27, 1998

References

   1. ftp://ftp.yggdrasil.com/private/hjl/libg++-2.8.1.2.tar.gz
   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/fom_serv/cache/24.html
   3. http://gcc.gnu.org/index.html
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                            Changes in GCC 3.2.1

C/C++/Objective-C

     * The  method of constructing the list of directories to be searched
       for  header  files  has been revised. If a directory named by a -I
       option  is  a  standard  system  include  directory, the option is
       ignored  to  ensure  that  the  default  search  order  for system
       directories  and  the special treatment of system header files are
       not defeated.
     * The  C  and  Objective-C  compilers  no  longer accept the "Naming
       Types"  extension  (typedef foo = bar); it was already unavailable
       in  C++.  Code  which  uses  it will need to be changed to use the
       "typeof"  extension  instead:  typedef  typeof(bar)  foo. (We have
       removed  this extension without a period of deprecation because it
       has  caused  the  compiler  to  crash since version 3.0 and no one
       noticed  until  very  recently.  Thus  we  conclude  it  is not in
       widespread use.)

New Targets and Target Specific Improvements

  IA-32

     * Fixed a number of bugs in SSE and MMX intrinsics.
     * Fixed  common  compiler  crashes  with SSE instruction set enabled
       (implied by -march=pentium3, pentium4, athlon-xp)
     * __m128 and __m128i is not 128bit aligned when used in structures.

  x86-64

     * A  bug  whereby the compiler could generate bad code for bzero has
       been fixed.
     * ABI fixes (implying ABI incompatibilities with previous version in
       some corner cases)
     * Fixed prefetch code generation

Bug Fixes

   See [1]this message for a list of bugs fixed in this release.

                             Changes in GCC 3.2

Bug Fixes

   See [2]this message for a list of bugs fixed in this release.

Caveats

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       example:
           int S::*m(0);

       will  work,  but  depending on default-initialization to zero will
       not  work.  This  bug  cannot be fixed in GCC 3.2 without inducing
       unacceptable risks. It will be fixed in GCC 3.3.
     * This  GCC release is based on the GCC 3.1 sourcebase, and thus has
       all the [3]changes in the GCC 3.1 series. In addition, GCC 3.2 has
       a  number  of  C++  ABI fixes which make its C++ compiler generate
       binary  code which is incompatible with the C++ compilers found in
       earlier GCC releases, including GCC 3.1 and GCC 3.1.1.

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     * There are now no known differences between the C++ ABI implemented
       in  GCC and the multi-vendor standard. We believe that the ABI for
       the  C++  standard  library  is  now stable and will not change in
       future  versions  of  the  compiler.  However, hard experience has
       taught  us  to be cautious; it is possible that more problems will
       be  found.  It is our intention to make changes to the ABI only if
       they  are  necessary for correct compilation of C++, as opposed to
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                                  GCC 3.1
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   The  [1]GNU project and the GCC developers are pleased to announce the
   release of GCC 3.1.1.
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   May 15, 2002
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   The  [2]GNU project and the GCC developers are pleased to announce the
   release of GCC 3.1.
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   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.
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   contributed  [4]new  features,  improvements,  bug  fixes,  and  other
   changes  as  well  as  test  results  to GCC. This [5]amazing group of
   volunteers is what makes GCC successful.
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   project web site or contact the [7]GCC development mailing list.
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   sites, or [10]our CVS server.
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   3. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.1/buildstat.html
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                  GCC 3.1 Changes, New Features, and Fixes
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Additional changes in GCC 3.1.1

     * A  bug  related to how structures and unions are returned has been
       fixed for powerpc-*-netbsd*.
     * An  important  bug in the implementation of -fprefetch-loop-arrays
       has  been  fixed.  Previously  the  optimization prefetched random
       blocks of memory for most targets except for i386.
     * The  Java compiler now compiles Java programs much faster and also
       works with parallel make.
     * Nested functions have been fixed for mips*-*-netbsd*.
     * Some  missing  floating point support routines have beed added for
       mips*-*-netbsd*.
     * This  [1]message gives additional information about the bugs fixed
       in this release.

Caveats

     * The -traditional C compiler option has been deprecated and will be
       removed  in GCC 3.3. (It remains possible to preprocess non-C code
       with the traditional preprocessor.)
     * The  default  debugging  format  for most ELF platforms (including
       GNU/Linux  and  FreeBSD; notable exception is Solaris) has changed
       from stabs to DWARF2. This requires GDB 5.1.1 or later.

General Optimizer Improvements

     * Jan  Hubicka, SuSE Labs, together with Richard Henderson, Red Hat,
       and  Andreas  Jaeger, SuSE Labs, has contributed [2]infrastructure
       for profile driven optimizations.
       Options  -fprofile-arcs and -fbranch-probabilities can now be used
       to  improve  speed  of  the generated code by profiling the actual
       program  behaviour on typical runs. In the absence of profile info
       the compiler attempts to guess the profile statically.
     * [3]SPEC2000  and  [4]SPEC95 benchmark suites are now used daily to
       monitor performance of the generated code.
       According  to  the  SPECInt2000  results on an AMD Athlon CPU, the
       code generated by GCC 3.1 is 6% faster on the average (8.2% faster
       with  profile  feedback) compared to GCC 3.0. The code produced by
       GCC  3.0  is about 2.1% faster compared to 2.95.3. Tests were done
       using the -O2 -march=athlon command-line options.
     * Alexandre  Oliva, of [5]Red Hat, has generalized the tree inlining
       infrastructure developed by [6]CodeSourcery, LLC for the C++ front
       end,  so  that  it  is  now  used in the C front end too. Inlining
       functions as trees exposes them earlier to the compiler, giving it
       more opportunities for optimization.
     * Support  for  data  prefetching instructions has been added to the
       GCC  back  end  and  several  targets.  A  new  __builtin_prefetch
       intrinsic  is available to explicitly insert prefetch instructions
       and experimental support for loop array prefetching has been added
       (see -fprefetch-loop-array documentation).
     * Support  for  emitting  debugging  information for macros has been
       added for DWARF2. It is activated using -g3.

New Languages and Language specific improvements

  C/C++

     * A few more [7]ISO C99 features.
     * The  preprocessor  is  10-50%  faster than the preprocessor in GCC
       3.0.
     * The  preprocessor's  symbol  table has been merged with the symbol
       table of the C, C++ and Objective-C front ends.
     * The preprocessor consumes less memory than the preprocessor in GCC
       3.0,  often  significantly so. On normal input files, it typically
       consumes less memory than pre-3.0 cccp-based GCC, too.

  C++

     * -fhonor-std  and  -fno-honor-std have been removed. -fno-honor-std
       was  a  workaround  to  allow  std compliant code to work with the
       non-std compliant libstdc++-v2. libstdc++-v3 is std compliant.
     * The  C++ ABI has been fixed so that void (A::*)() const is mangled
       as  "M1AKFvvE", rather than "MK1AFvvE" as before. This change only
       affects pointer to cv-qualified member function types.
     * The C++ ABI has been changed to correctly handle this code:
    struct A {
      void operator delete[] (void *, size_t);
    };

    struct B : public A {
    };

    new B[10];

       The amount of storage allocated for the array will be greater than
       it  was  in  3.0,  in order to store the number of elements in the
       array, so that the correct size can be passed to operator delete[]
       when  the  array  is  deleted.  Previously,  the  value  passed to
       operator delete[] was unpredictable.
       This  change  will  only  affect code that declares a two-argument
       operator delete[] with a second parameter of type size_t in a base
       class, and does not override that definition in a derived class.
     * The C++ ABI has been changed so that:
    struct A {
      void operator delete[] (void *, size_t);
      void operator delete[] (void *);
    };

       does  not  cause unnecessary storage to be allocated when an array
       of A objects is allocated.
       This  change  will  only  affect  code that declares both of these
       forms  of  operator  delete[],  and declared the two-argument form
       before the one-argument form.
     * The C++ ABI has been changed so that when a parameter is passed by
       value,  any cleanup for that parameter is performed in the caller,
       as  specified by the ia64 C++ ABI, rather than the called function
       as  before. As a result, classes with a non-trivial destructor but
       a  trivial  copy  constructor  will  be  passed  and  returned  by
       invisible reference, rather than by bitwise copy as before.
     * G++  now  supports the "named return value optimization": for code
       like
    A f () {
      A a;
      ...
      return a;
    }

       G++  will  allocate a in the return value slot, so that the return
       becomes  a  no-op.  For this to work, all return statements in the
       function must return the same variable.
     * Improvements  to the C++ library are listed in [8]the libstdc++-v3
       FAQ.

  Objective-C

     * Annoying  linker  warnings (due to incorrect code being generated)
       have been fixed.
     * If a class method cannot be found, the compiler no longer issues a
       warning  if  a  corresponding  instance  method exists in the root
       class.
     * Forward @@protocol declarations have been fixed.
     * Loading  of  categories  has been fixed in certain situations (GNU
       run time only).
     * The  class  lookup  in  the run-time library has been rewritten so
       that  class  method dispatch is more than twice as fast as it used
       to be (GNU run time only).

  Java

     * libgcj   now  includes  RMI,  java.lang.ref.*,  javax.naming,  and
       javax.transaction.
     * Property  files  and  other  system resources can be compiled into
       executables which use libgcj using the new gcj --resource feature.
     * libgcj  has  been ported to more platforms. In particular there is
       now a mostly-functional mingw32 (Windows) target port.
     * JNI   and   CNI   invocation   interfaces   were  implemented,  so
       gcj-compiled Java code can now be called from a C/C++ application.
     * gcj  can  now use builtin functions for certain known methods, for
       instance Math.cos.
     * gcj  can  now automatically remove redundant array-store checks in
       some common cases.
     * The  --no-store-checks  optimization option was added. This can be
       used  to  omit runtime store checks for code which is known not to
       throw ArrayStoreException
     * The  following  third  party  interface  standards  were  added to
       libgcj: org.w3c.dom and org.xml.sax.
     * java.security  has been merged with GNU Classpath. The new package
       is now JDK 1.2 compliant, and much more complete.
     * A bytecode verifier was added to the libgcj interpreter.
     * java.lang.Character  was  rewritten to comply with the Unicode 3.0
       standard, and improve performance.
     * Partial support for many more locales was added to libgcj.
     * Socket timeouts have been implemented.
     * libgcj  has been merged into a single shared library. There are no
       longer  separate  shared  libraries  for the garbage collector and
       zlib.
     * Several performance improvements were made to gcj and libgcj:
          + Hash synchronization (thin locks)
          + A special allocation path for finalizer-free objects
          + Thread-local allocation
          + Parallel GC, and other GC tweaks

  Fortran

   Fortran improvements are listed in [9]the Fortran documentation.

  Ada

   [10]Ada  Core Technologies, Inc, has contributed its GNAT Ada 95 front
   end  and  associated tools. The GNAT compiler fully implements the Ada
   language as defined by the ISO/IEC 8652 standard.

   Please note that the integration of the Ada front end is still work in
   progress.

New Targets and Target Specific Improvements

     * Hans-Peter  Nilsson  has  contributed  a port to [11]MMIX, the CPU
       architecture  used in new editions of Donald E. Knuth's The Art of
       Computer Programming.
     * [12]Axis  Communications  has contributed its port to the CRIS CPU
       architecture,  used  in  the  ETRAX  system-on-a-chip  series. See
       [13]Axis' developer site for technical information.
     * Alexandre  Oliva,  of  [14]Red  Hat, has contributed a port to the
       [15]SuperH  SH5 64-bit RISC microprocessor architecture, extending
       the existing SH port.
     * UltraSPARC  is  fully  supported  in  64-bit mode. The option -m64
       enables it.
     * For  compatibility  with the Sun compiler #pragma redefine_extname
       has been implemented on Solaris.
     * The x86 back end has had some noticeable work done to it.
          + [16]SuSE  Labs developers Jan Hubicka, Bo Thorsen and Andreas
            Jaeger   have   contributed   a   port   to  the  AMD  x86-64
            architecture.    For   more   information   on   x86-64   see
            [17]http://www.x86-64.org.
          + The   compiler  now  supports  MMX,  3DNow!,  SSE,  and  SSE2
            instructions.  Options -mmmx, -m3dnow, -msse, and -msse2 will
            enable  the respective instruction sets. Intel C++ compatible
            MMX/3DNow!/SSE  intrinsics  are  implemented. SSE2 intrinsics
            will be added in next major release.
          + Following  those improvements, targets for Pentium MMX, K6-2,
            K6-3,  Pentium III, Pentium 4, and Athlon 4 Mobile/XP/MP were
            added.  Refer  to  the  documentation  on  -march= and -mcpu=
            options for details.
          + For  those  targets  that support it, -mfpmath=sse will cause
            the  compiler  to generate SSE/SSE2 instructions for floating
            point  math  instead  of x87 instructions. Usually, this will
            lead  to  quicker  code  -- especially on the Pentium 4. Note
            that only scalar floating point instructions are used and GCC
            does not exploit SIMD features yet.
          + Prefetch  support  has been added to the Pentium III, Pentium
            4, K6-2, K6-3, and Athlon series.
          + Code  generated for floating point to integer converisons has
            been  improved  leading  to  better  performance  of  many 3D
            applications.
     * The PowerPC back end has added 64-bit PowerPC GNU/Linux support.
     * C++ support for AIX has been improved.
     * Aldy  Hernandez, of [18]Red Hat, Inc has contributed extensions to
       the  PowerPC port supporting the AltiVec programming model (SIMD).
       The  support,  though  presently  useful,  is  experimental and is
       expected  to  stabilize for 3.2. The support is written to conform
       to Motorola's AltiVec specs. See -maltivec.

Obsolete Systems

   Support  for  a  number of older systems has been declared obsolete in
   GCC  3.1. Unless there is activity to revive them, the next release of
   GCC will have their sources permanently removed.

   All  configurations of the following processor architectures have been
   declared obsolete:
     * MIL-STD-1750A, 1750a-*-*
     * AMD A29k, a29k-*-*
     * Convex, c*-convex-*
     * Clipper, clipper-*-*
     * Elxsi, elxsi-*-*
     * Intel i860, i860-*-*
     * Sun picoJava, pj-*-* and pjl-*-*
     * Western Electric 32000, we32k-*-*

   Most configurations of the following processor architectures have been
   declared  obsolete, but we are preserving a few systems which may have
   active  developers.  It  is  unlikely  that the remaining systems will
   survive much longer unless we see definite signs of port activity.
     * Motorola 88000 except
          + Generic a.out, m88k-*-aout*
          + Generic SVR4, m88k-*-sysv4
          + OpenBSD, m88k-*-openbsd*
     * NS32k except
          + NetBSD, ns32k-*-netbsd*
          + OpenBSD, ns32k-*-openbsd*.
     * ROMP except
          + OpenBSD, romp-*-openbsd*.

   Finally, only some configurations of these processor architectures are
   being obsoleted.
     * Alpha:
          + OSF/1,  alpha*-*-osf[123]*. (Digital Unix and Tru64 Unix, aka
            alpha*-*-osf[45], are still supported.)
     * ARM:
          + RISCiX, arm-*-riscix*.
     * i386:
          + 386BSD, i?86-*-bsd*
          + Chorus, i?86-*-chorusos*
          + DG/UX, i?86-*-dgux*
          + FreeBSD 1.x, i?86-*-freebsd1.*
          + IBM AIX, i?86-*-aix*
          + ISC UNIX, i?86-*-isc*
          + Linux with pre-BFD linker, i?86-*-linux*oldld*
          + NEXTstep, i?86-next-*
          + OSF UNIX, i?86-*-osf1* and i?86-*-osfrose*
          + RTEMS/coff, i?86-*-rtemscoff*
          + RTEMS/go32, i?86-go32-rtems*
          + Sequent/BSD, i?86-sequent-bsd*
          + Sequent/ptx   before  version  3,  i?86-sequent-ptx[12]*  and
            i?86-sequent-sysv3*
          + SunOS, i?86-*-sunos*
     * Motorola 68000:
          + Altos, m68[k0]*-altos-*
          + Apollo, m68[k0]*-apollo-*
          + Apple A/UX, m68[k0]*-apple-*
          + Bull, m68[k0]*-bull-*
          + Convergent, m68[k0]*-convergent-*
          + Generic SVR3, m68[k0]*-*-sysv3*
          + ISI, m68[k0]*-isi-*
          + LynxOS, m68[k0]*-*-lynxos*
          + NEXT, m68[k0]*-next-*
          + RTEMS/coff, m68[k0]*-*-rtemscoff*
          + Sony, m68[k0]*-sony-*
     * MIPS:
          + DEC Ultrix, mips-*-ultrix* and mips-dec-*
          + Generic BSD, mips-*-bsd*
          + Generic System V, mips-*-sysv*
          + IRIX before version 5, mips-sgi-irix[1234]*
          + RiscOS, mips-*-riscos*
          + Sony, mips-sony-*
          + Tandem, mips-tandem-*
     * SPARC:
          + RTEMS/a.out, sparc-*-rtemsaout*.

Documentation improvements

     * The  old  manual ("Using and Porting the GNU Compiler Collection")
       has  been  replaced  by  a  users  manual ("Using the GNU Compiler
       Collection")  and  a  separate  internals  reference  manual ("GNU
       Compiler Collection Internals").
     * More complete and much improved documentation about GCC's internal
       representation used by the C and C++ front ends.
     * Many cleanups and improvements in general.
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   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/news/profiledriven.html
   3. http://www.suse.de/~aj/SPEC/
   4. http://people.redhat.com/dnovillo/SPEC/
   5. http://www.redhat.com/
   6. http://www.codesourcery.com/
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   8. http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/faq/index.html#4_1
   9. http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/g77/News.html
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   The  [1]GNU project and the GCC developers are pleased to announce the
   release  of  GCC  3.0.4,  which  is  a bug-fix release for the GCC 3.0
   series.
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   supports  several  other languages aside from C, it now stands for the
   GNU Compiler Collection.
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   GCC  3.0.x  has  several new optimizations, new targets, new languages
   and  many  other  new features, relative to GCC 2.95.x. See the [2]new
   features page for a more complete list.
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   available.
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   contributed  new  features,  test  results, bugfixes, etc to GCC. This
   [4]amazing group of volunteers is what makes GCC successful.
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   [5]caveats to using GCC 3.0.x.
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   project web site or contact the [7]GCC development mailing list.
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   sites, or [10]our CVS server.
     _________________________________________________________________
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   October 25, 2001: GCC 3.0.2 has been released.
   August 20, 2001: GCC 3.0.1 has been released.
   June 18, 2001: GCC 3.0 has been released.
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                            GCC 3.0 New Features

Additional changes in GCC 3.0.4

     * GCC  3.0  now  supports  newer versions of the [1]NetBSD operating
       system, which use the ELF object file format, on x86 processors.
     * Correct  debugging  information  is  generated from functions that
       have lines from multiple files (e.g. yacc output).
     * A  fix  for  whitespace handling in the -traditional preprocessor,
       which can affect Fortran.
     * Fixes to the exception handling runtime.
     * More fixes for bad code generation in C++.
     * A fix for shared library generation under AIX 4.3.
     * Documentation updates.
     * Port of GCC to Tensilica's Xtensa processor contributed.
     * A fix for compiling the PPC Linux kernel (FAT fs wouldn't link).

Additional changes in GCC 3.0.3

     * A fix to correct an accidental change to the PowerPC ABI.
     * Fixes for bad code generation on a variety of architectures.
     * Improvements  to  the  debugging  information  generated  for  C++
       classes.
     * Fixes for bad code generation in C++.
     * A fix to avoid crashes in the C++ demangler.
     * A fix to the C++ standard library to avoid buffer overflows.
     * Miscellaneous improvements for a variety of architectures.

Additional changes in GCC 3.0.2

     * Fixes for bad code generation during loop unrolling.
     * Fixes for bad code generation by the sibling call optimization.
     * Minor improvements to x86 code generation.
     * Implemenation of function descriptors in C++ vtables for IA64.
     * Numerous minor bug-fixes.

Additional changes in GCC 3.0.1

     * C++ fixes for incorrect code-generation.
     * Improved cross-compiling support for the C++ standard library.
     * Fixes for some embedded targets that worked in GCC 2.95.3, but not
       in GCC 3.0.
     * Fixes for various exception-handling bugs.
     * A port to the S/390 architecture.

General Optimizer Improvements

     * [2]Basic block reordering pass.
     * New  if-conversion  pass with support for conditional (predicated)
       execution.
     * New tail call and sibling call elimination optimizations.
     * New register renaming pass.
     * New    (experimental)    [3]static    single    assignment   (SSA)
       representation support.
     * New   dead-code   elimination   pass  implemented  using  the  SSA
       representation.
     * [4]Global null pointer test elimination.
     * [5]Global code hoisting/unification.
     * More  builtins and optimizations for stdio.h, string.h and old BSD
       functions, as well as for ISO C99 functions.
     * New  builtin  __builtin_expect  for  giving  hints  to  the branch
       predictor.

New Languages and Language specific improvements

     * The GNU Compiler for the Java(TM) language (GCJ) is now integrated
       and  supported,  including  the  run-time  library containing most
       common non-GUI Java classes, a bytecode interpreter, and the Boehm
       conservative garbage collector. Many bugs have been fixed. GCJ can
       compile  Java  source  or  Java bytecodes to either native code or
       Java  class  files,  and supports native methods written in either
       the standard JNI or the more efficient and convenient CNI.
     * Here  is  a [6]partial list of C++ improvements, both new features
       and those no longer supported.
     * New   C++   ABI.   On   the  IA-64  platform  GCC  is  capable  of
       inter-operating with other IA-64 compilers.
     * The  new  ABI  also  significantly  reduces the size of symbol and
       debug information.
     * New  [7]C++  support  library  and  many  C++  bug  fixes,  vastly
       improving our conformance to the ISO C++ standard.
     * New [8]inliner for C++.
     * Rewritten C preprocessor, integrated into the C, C++ and Objective
       C compilers, with very many improvements including ISO C99 support
       and [9]improvements to dependency generation.
     * Support for more [10]ISO C99 features.
     * Many   improvements  to  support  for  checking  calls  to  format
       functions  such as printf and scanf, including support for ISO C99
       format features, extensions from the Single Unix Specification and
       GNU  libc  2.2, checking of strfmon formats and features to assist
       in auditing for format string security bugs.
     * New  warnings for C code that may have undefined semantics because
       of violations of sequence point rules in the C standard (such as a
       = a++;, a[n] = b[n++]; and a[i++] = i;), included in -Wall.
     * Additional warning option -Wfloat-equal.
     * Improvements to -Wtraditional.
     * Fortran improvements are listed in [11]the Fortran documentation.

New Targets and Target Specific Improvements

     * New x86 back-end, generating much improved code.
     * Support for a generic i386-elf target contributed.
     * New  option  to  emit  x86  assembly code using Intel style syntax
       (-mintel-syntax).
     * HPUX 11 support contributed.
     * Improved PowerPC code generation, including scheduled prologue and
       epilogue.
     * Port of GCC to Intel's IA-64 processor contributed.
     * Port of GCC to Motorola's MCore 210 and 340 contributed.
     * New unified back-end for Arm, Thumb and StrongArm contributed.
     * Port of GCC to Intel's XScale processor contributed.
     * Port of GCC to Atmel's AVR microcontrollers contributed.
     * Port of GCC to Mitsubishi's D30V processor contributed.
     * Port  of  GCC  to  Matsushita's  AM33  processor  (a member of the
       MN10300 processor family) contributed.
     * Port of GCC to Fujitsu's FR30 processor contributed.
     * Port   of   GCC   to   Motorola's  68HC11  and  68HC12  processors
       contributed.
     * Port of GCC to Sun's picoJava processor core contributed.

Documentation improvements

     * Substantially rewritten and improved C preprocessor manual.
     * Many improvements to other documentation.
     * Manpages  for  gcc,  cpp  and gcov are now generated automatically
       from  the  master  Texinfo  manual,  eliminating  the  problem  of
       manpages  being  out  of  date.  (The  generated manpages are only
       extracts  from the full manual, which is provided in Texinfo form,
       from  which  info, HTML, other formats and a printed manual can be
       generated.)
     * Generated   info  files  are  included  in  the  release  tarballs
       alongside   their  Texinfo  sources,  avoiding  problems  on  some
       platforms with building makeinfo as part of the GCC distribution.

Other significant improvements

     * Garbage collection used internally by the compiler for most memory
       allocation instead of obstacks.
     * Lengauer and Tarjan algorithm used for computing dominators in the
       CFG.  This  algorithm  can  be significantly faster and more space
       efficient than our older algorithm.
     * gccbug  script provided to assist in submitting bug reports to the
       GCC GNATS bug tracking database. (Bug reports previously submitted
       directly to the GCC mailing lists, for which no GNATS bug tracking
       number  has  been  received,  should be submitted again to the bug
       tracking  database  using  gccbug if you can reproduce the problem
       with GCC 3.0.)
     * The  internal  libgcc  library is [12]built as a shared library on
       systems that support it.
     * Extensive  testsuite  included  with  GCC, with many new tests. In
       addition  to  tests  for GCC bugs that have been fixed, many tests
       have  been  added  for  language  features,  compiler warnings and
       builtin functions.
     * Additional    language-independent   warning   options   -Wpacked,
       -Wpadded, -Wunreachable-code and -Wdisabled-optimization.
     * Target-independent  options  -falign-functions,  -falign-loops and
       -falign-jumps.

   Plus  a  great  many bugfixes and almost all the [13]features found in
   GCC 2.95.
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                              GCC 3.0 Caveats

     * -fstrict-aliasing  is  now  part  of  -O2  and higher optimization
       levels.  This allows the compiler to assume the strictest aliasing
       rules  applicable  to  the language being compiled. For C and C++,
       this  activates  optimizations  based  on the type of expressions.
       This optimization may thus break old, non-compliant code.
     * Enumerations   are  now  properly  promoted  to  int  in  function
       parameters  and  function  returns.  Normally  this  change is not
       visible, but when using -fshort-enums this is an ABI change.
     * The undocumented extension that allowed C programs to have a label
       at  the end of a compound statement has been deprecated and may be
       removed  in a future version. Programs that now generate a warning
       about  this  may  be  fixed  by  adding a null statement (a single
       semicolon) after the label.
     * The  poorly  documented extension that allowed string constants in
       C,  C++  and  Objective  C  to contain unescaped newlines has been
       deprecated  and may be removed in a future version. Programs using
       this  extension may be fixed in several ways: the bare newline may
       be replaced by \n, or preceded by \n\, or string concatenation may
       be  used with the bare newline preceded by \n" and " placed at the
       start of the next line.
     * The Chill compiler is not included in GCC 3.0, because of the lack
       of a volunteer to convert it to use garbage collection.
     * Certain  non-standard  iostream  methods  from earlier versions of
       libstdc++  are not included in libstdc++ v3, i.e. filebuf::attach,
       ostream::form,  and  istream::gets. Here are workaround hints for:
       [1]ostream::form, [2]filebuf::attach.
     * The  new  C++  ABI  is  not  yet fully supported by current (as of
       2001-07-01)  releases  and  development  versions  of  GDB, or any
       earlier  versions.  There is a problem setting breakpoints by line
       number,  and  other related issues that have been fixed in GCC 3.0
       but not yet handled in GDB:
       [3]http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-bugs/2001-06/msg00421.html
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   July 31, 1999: The GNU project and the GCC/EGCS developers are pleased
   to announce the release of GCC version 2.95. This is the first release
   of GCC since the April 1999 GCC/EGCS reunification and includes nearly
   a year's worth of new development and bugfixes.

   August 19, 1999: GCC version 2.95.1 has been released.

   October 27, 1999: GCC version 2.95.2 has been released.

   March 16, 2001: GCC version 2.95.3 has been released.
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   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.
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   The   whole  suite  has  been  extensively  [1]regression  tested  and
   [2]package  tested.  It should be reliable and suitable for widespread
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   and  other  new  features.  See  the  [3]new  features page for a more
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   The  sources  include  installation  instructions  in  both  HTML  and
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   the  most  up  to  date [4]installation instructions and [5]build/test
   status  are  on  the  web  pages.  We  will  update those pages as new
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   The  GCC  developers would like to thank the numerous people that have
   contributed  new  features,  test  results, bugfixes, etc to GCC. This
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   And  finally,  we  can't  in  good  conscience  fail  to  mention some
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   [9]Find a GNU mirror site
   [10]Find a GCC mirror site
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   For  additional  information  about GCC please see the [11]GCC project
   web server or contact the [12]GCC development mailing list.
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          + [1]Localized  register  spilling  to  improve  speed and code
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          + [11]Java  front-end  has been integrated. [12]runtime library
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          + More  support  for  various  pragmas  which  appear in vendor
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          + -mschedule=8000   will   optimize   code   for  PA8000  class
            processors;   -mpa-risc-2-0  will  generate  code  for  PA2.0
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          + Various   micro-optimizations   for   the   ia32   port.   K6
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          + Compiler  will  attempt  to align doubles in the stack on the
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          + RS6000/PowerPC:   -mcpu=401   was   added  as  an  alias  for
            -mcpu=403.   -mcpu=e603e  was  added  to  do  -mcpu=603e  and
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          + Support  for  new  systems  (OpenBSD, FreeBSD, UWIN, Interix,
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          + StrongARM   110   and  ARM9  support  added.  ARM  Scheduling
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          + Various  changes  to the MIPS port to avoid assembler macros,
            which in turn improves performance
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          + Major rewrite of ns32k port
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          + The  new  faster  scheme  for  fixing  vendor header files is
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     * Core  compiler is based on the gcc2 development tree from Sept 30,
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Additional Changes in GCC 2.95.1

     * Generic bugfixes and improvements
          + Various documentation fixes related to the GCC/EGCS merger.
          + Fix  memory  management  bug  which  could  lead  to spurious
            aborts, core dumps or random parsing errors in the compiler.
          + Fix  a  couple  bugs  in  the  dwarf1 and dwarf2 debug record
            support.
          + Fix infinite loop in the CSE optimizer.
          + Avoid undefined behavior in compiler FP emulation code
          + Fix  install  problem  when  prefix is overridden on the make
            install command.
          + Fix  problem  with  unwanted installation of assert.h on some
            systems.
          + Fix problem with finding the wrong assembler in a single tree
            build.
          + Avoid  increasing  the  known alignment of a register that is
            already known to be a pointer.
     * Platform specific bugfixes and improvements
          + Codegen bugfix for prologue/epilogue for cpu32 target.
          + Fix long long code generation bug for the Coldfire target.
          + Fix various aborts in the SH compiler.
          + Fix bugs in libgcc support library for the SH.
          + Fix alpha ev6 code generation bug.
          + Fix  problems with EXIT_SUCCESS/EXIT_FAILURE redefinitions on
            AIX platforms.
          + Fix -fpic code generation bug for rs6000/ppc svr4 targets.
          + Fix  varargs/stdarg  code  generation bug for rs6000/ppc svr4
            targets.
          + Fix weak symbol handling for rs6000/ppc svr4 targets.
          + Fix  various  problems  with  64bit  code  generation for the
            rs6000/ppc port.
          + Fix  codegen bug which caused tetex to be mis-compiled on the
            x86.
          + Fix compiler abort in new cfg code exposed by x86 port.
          + Fix  out  of  range  array  reference  in  code  convert flat
            registers to the x87 stacked FP register file.
          + Fix minor vxworks configuration bug.
          + Fix return type of bsearch for SunOS 4.x.
     * Language & Runtime specific fixes.
          + The  G++  signature extension has been deprecated. It will be
            removed  in  the next major release of G++. Use of signatures
            will result in a warning from the compiler.
          + Several bugs relating to templates and namespaces were fixed.
          + A bug that caused crashes when combining templates with -g on
            DWARF1 platforms was fixed.
          + Pointers-to-members,    virtual   functions,   and   multiple
            inheritance should now work together correctly.
          + Some  code-generation  bugs  relating  to function try blocks
            were fixed.
          + G++  is  a  little  bit  more  lenient  with  certain archaic
            constructs than in GCC 2.95.
          + Fix to prevent shared library version #s from bring truncated
            to 1 digit
          + Fix missing std:: in the libstdc++ library.
          + Fix stream locking problems in libio.
          + Fix problem in java compiler driver.

Additional Changes in GCC 2.95.2

   The  -fstrict-aliasing is not enabled by default for GCC 2.95.2. While
   the  optimizations  performed by -fstrict-aliasing are valid according
   to  the  C  and  C++  standards,  the  optimization  have  caused some
   problems, particularly with old non-conforming code.

   The  GCC  developers  are  experimenting with ways to warn users about
   code  which  violates  the C/C++ standards, but those warnings are not
   ready  for  widespread  use  at  this time. Rather than wait for those
   warnings  the  GCC developers have chosen to disable -fstrict-aliasing
   by default for the GCC 2.95.2 release.

   We  strongly  encourage developers to find and fix code which violates
   the  C/C++ standards as -fstrict-aliasing may be enabled by default in
   future  releases.  Use the option -fstrict-aliasing to re-enable these
   optimizations.
     * Generic bugfixes and improvements
          + Fix  incorrectly  optimized memory reference in global common
            subexpression elimination (GCSE) optimization pass.
          + Fix  code  generation  bug  in  regmove.c  in  which it could
            incorrectly change a "const" value.
          + Fix  bug  in  optimization of conditionals involving volatile
            memory references.
          + Avoid over-allocation of stack space for some procedures.
          + Fixed bug in the compiler which caused incorrect optimization
            of  an  obscure  series  of  bit  manipulations,  shifts  and
            arithmetic.
          + Fixed  register  allocator  bug  which  caused  teTeX  to  be
            mis-compiled on Sparc targets.
          + Avoid  incorrect  optimization  of degenerate case statements
            for certain targets such as the ARM.
          + Fix out of range memory reference in the jump optimizer.
          + Avoid dereferencing null pointer in fix-header.
          + Fix  test for GCC specific features so that it is possible to
            bootstrap with gcc-2.6.2 and older versions of GCC.
          + Fix  typo  in  scheduler which could potentially cause out of
            range memory accesses.
          + Avoid incorrect loop reversal which caused incorrect code for
            certain loops on PowerPC targets.
          + Avoid  incorrect optimization of switch statements on certain
            targets (for example the ARM).
     * Platform specific bugfixes and improvements
          + Work  around bug in Sun V5.0 compilers which caused bootstrap
            comparison failures on Sparc targets.
          + Fix Sparc backend bug which caused aborts in final.c.
          + Fix sparc-hal-solaris2* configuration fragments.
          + Fix bug in sparc block profiling.
          + Fix obscure code generation bug for the PARISC targets.
          + Define __STDC_EXT__ for HPUX configurations.
          + Various POWERPC64 code generation bugfixes.
          + Fix abort for PPC targets using ELF (ex GNU/Linux).
          + Fix collect2 problems for AIX targets.
          + Correct handling of .file directive for PPC targets.
          + Fix bug in fix_trunc x86 patterns.
          + Fix x86 port to correctly pop the FP stack for functions that
            return structures in memory.
          + Fix minor bug in strlen x86 pattern.
          + Use   stabs  debugging  instead  of  dwarf1  for  x86-solaris
            targets.
          + Fix  template repository code to handle leading underscore in
            mangled names.
          + Fix weak/weak alias support for OpenBSD.
          + GNU/Linux for the ARM has C++ compatible include files.
     * Language & Runtime specific fixes.
          + Fix  handling  of  constructor  attribute  in the C front-end
            which  caused  problems building the Chill runtime library on
            some targets.
          + Fix minor problem merging type qualifiers in the C front-end.
          + Fix aliasing bug for pointers and references (C/C++).
          + Fix    incorrect    "non-constant   initializer   bug"   when
            -traditional or -fwritable-strings is enabled.
          + Fix build error for Chill front-end on SunOS.
          + Do  not  complain  about  duplicate instantiations when using
            -frepo (C++).
          + Fix  array  bounds  handling  in  C++  front-end which caused
            problems   with   dwarf   debugging   information   in   some
            circumstances.
          + Fix minor namespace problem.
          + Fix problem linking java programs.

Additional Changes in GCC 2.95.3

     * Generic bugfixes and improvements
          + Fix  numerous  problems that caused incorrect optimization in
            the register reloading code.
          + Fix  numerous  problems that caused incorrect optimization in
            the loop optimizer.
          + Fix  aborts  in the functions build_insn_chain and scan_loops
            under some circumstances.
          + Fix an alias analysis bug.
          + Fix an infinite compilation bug in the combiner.
          + A few problems with complex number support have been fixed.
          + It  is  no longer possible for gcc to act as a fork bomb when
            installed incorrectly.
          + The -fpack-struct option should be recognized now.
          + Fixed a bug that caused incorrect code to be generated due to
            a lost stack adjustment.
     * Platform specific bugfixes and improvements
          + Support building ARM toolchains hosted on Windows.
          + Fix attribute calculations in ARM toolchains.
          + arm-linux support has been improved.
          + Fix a PIC failure on sparc targets.
          + On  ix86  targets,  the  regparm  attribute  should  now work
            reliably.
          + Several updates for the h8300 port.
          + Fix problem building libio with glibc 2.2.
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     * GCC  2.95  will issue an error for invalid asm statements that had
       been  silently  accepted by earlier versions of the compiler. This
       is  particularly  noticeable  when compiling older versions of the
       Linux  kernel  (2.0.xx).  Please  refer  to  the  [1]FAQ  for more
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     * GCC  2.95  implements  type  based  alias analysis to disambiguate
       memory  references.  Some  programs, particularly the Linux kernel
       violate  ANSI/ISO  aliasing  rules  and  therefore may not operate
       correctly  when compiled with GCC 2.95. Please refer to the [2]FAQ
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     * GCC  2.95 has a known bug in its handling of complex variables for
       64bit  targets. Instead of silently generating incorrect code, GCC
       2.95  will  issue  a fatal error for situations it can not handle.
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     * GCC  2.95  has  an  integrated  libstdc++,  but  does  not have an
       integrated  libg++.  Furthermore old libg++ releases will not work
       with  GCC  2.95. You can retrieve a recent copy of libg++ from the
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     * Exception   handling   may   not   work   with  shared  libraries,
       particularly  on  alphas,  hppas,  rs6000/powerpc  and  mips based
       platforms.  Exception  handling  is known to work on x86 GNU/Linux
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     * In  general, GCC 2.95 is more rigorous about rejecting invalid C++
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       or  EGCS  1.1.  As  a  result  it may be necessary to fix C++ code
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     * G++  is  also  converting toward the ISO C++ standard; as a result
       code  which  was  previously  valid  (and  thus  accepted by other
       compilers  and  older  versions of g++) may no longer be accepted.
       The  flag  -fpermissive  may  allow  some  non-conforming  code to
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     * GCC  2.95  compiled  C++  code  is not binary compatible with EGCS
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                                  EGCS 1.1
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   September 3, 1998: We are pleased to announce the release of EGCS 1.1.
   December  1,  1998:  We  are  pleased  to announce the release of EGCS
   1.1.1.
   March 15, 1999: We are pleased to announce the release of EGCS 1.1.2.
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   EGCS  is a free software project to further the development of the GNU
   compilers using an open development environment.
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   EGCS  1.1  is  a major new release of the EGCS compiler system. It has
   been  [1]extensively  tested and is believed to be stable and suitable
   for widespread use.
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   EGCS  1.1  is  based  on  an  June  6,  1998  snapshot  of the GCC 2.8
   development  sources; it contains all of the new features found in GCC
   2.8.1 as well as all new development from GCC up to June 6, 1998.

   EGCS 1.1 also contains many improvements and features not found in GCC
   or in older versions of EGCS:
     * Global  common  subexpression elimination and global constant/copy
       propagation (aka [2]gcse)
     * Ongoing improvements to the [3]alias analysis support to allow for
       better optimizations throughout the compiler.
     * Vastly   improved  [4]C++  compiler  and  integrated  C++  runtime
       libraries.
     * Fixes for the /tmp symlink race security problems.
     * New targets including mips16, arm-thumb and 64 bit PowerPC.
     * Improvements  to  GNU  Fortran  (g77) compiler and runtime library
       made since g77 version 0.5.23.

   See  the [5]new features page for a more complete list of new features
   found in EGCS 1.1 releases.

   EGCS  1.1.1  is a minor update to fix several serious problems in EGCS
   1.1:
     * General improvements and fixes
          + Avoid some stack overflows when compiling large functions.
          + Avoid incorrect loop invariant code motions.
          + Fix some core dumps on Linux kernel code.
          + Bring back the imake -Di386 and friends fix from EGCS 1.0.2.
          + Fix code generation problem in gcse.
          + Various documentation related fixes.
     * g++/libstdc++ improvements and fixes
          + MT safe EH fix for setjmp/longjmp based exception handling.
          + Fix a few bad interactions between optimization and exception
            handling.
          + Fixes for demangling of template names starting with "__".
          + Fix  a  bug  that would fail to run destructors in some cases
            with -O2.
          + Fix 'new' of classes with virtual bases.
          + Fix crash building Qt on the Alpha.
          + Fix failure compiling WIFEXITED macro on GNU/Linux.
          + Fix some -frepo failures.
     * g77 and libf2c improvements and fixes
          + Various documentation fixes.
          + Avoid compiler crash on RAND intrinsic.
          + Fix minor bugs in makefiles exposed by BSD make programs.
          + Define  _XOPEN_SOURCE  for  libI77  build  to avoid potential
            problems on some 64-bit systems.
          + Fix problem with implicit endfile on rewind.
          + Fix spurious recursive I/O errors.
     * platform specific improvements and fixes
          + Match all versions of UnixWare7.
          + Do not assume x86 SVR4 or UnixWare targets can handle stabs.
          + Fix PPC/RS6000 LEGITIMIZE_ADDRESS macro and bug in conversion
            from unsigned ints to double precision floats.
          + Fix ARM ABI issue with NetBSD.
          + Fix a few arm code generation bugs.
          + Fixincludes  will fix additional broken SCO OpenServer header
            files.
          + Fix  a m68k backend bug which caused invalid offsets in reg+d
            addresses.
          + Fix problems with 64bit AIX 4.3 support.
          + Fix  handling  of  long longs for varargs/stdarg functions on
            the ppc.
          + Minor fixes to CPP predefines for Windows.
          + Fix  code generation problems with gpr<->fpr copies for 64bit
            ppc.
          + Fix a few coldfire code generation bugs.
          + Fix some more header file problems on SunOS 4.x.
          + Fix assert.h handling for RTEMS.
          + Fix Windows handling of TREE_SYMBOL_REFERENCED.
          + Fix x86 compiler abort in reg-stack pass.
          + Fix cygwin/windows problem with section attributes.
          + Fix  Alpha  code  generation  problem  exposed  by  SMP Linux
            kernels.
          + Fix typo in m68k 32->64bit integer conversion.
          + Make  sure  target libraries build with -fPIC for PPC & Alpha
            targets.
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   EGCS  1.1.2  is a minor update to fix several serious problems in EGCS
   1.1.1:
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          + Fix  bug  in  loop  optimizer  which  caused  the  SPARC (and
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          + Fix  bug  which caused volatile memory to be written multiple
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          + Fix  combiner  bug which caused incorrect code generation for
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          + Fix  incorrect  code  generation  due to a bug in range check
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          + Fix   incorrect   code  generation  due  to  mis-handling  of
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          + Fix   compiler   abort/segfault  due  to  incorrect  register
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          + Fix  code generation involving autoincremented addresses with
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          + Work  around  bug  in  the  scheduler  which  caused qt to be
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          + Improve  compile  time  for  codes  which  make  heavy use of
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          + Avoid   setting   bogus  RPATH  environemnt  variable  during
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          + Install  CPP wrapper script in $(prefix)/bin if --enable-cpp.
            --enable-cpp=<dirname>  can  be used to specify an additional
            install directory for the cpp wrapper script.
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          + Avoid  linking  in  EH  routines  from libgcc if they are not
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          + Fix  code-generation  bugs  for  integer  and  floating point
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          + Fix floating point format configuration for i?86-gnu port.
          + Fix  problems  with  hppa1.0-hp-hpux10.20  configuration when
            threads are enabled.
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          + Fix  minor  ISO  namespace  violation in Alpha varargs/stdarg
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          + Abort  instead  of  generating  incorrect  code  for PPro/PII
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          + Avoid  multiply  defined  symbols  on Linux/GNU systems using
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     * Fortran-specific fixes
          + Fix  the  IDate  intrinsic  (VXT) (in libg2c) so the returned
            year  is  in the documented, non-Y2K-compliant range of 0-99,
            instead of being returned as 100 in the year 2000.
          + Fix  the  `Date_and_Time' intrinsic (in libg2c) to return the
            milliseconds value properly in Values(8).
          + Fix  the  `LStat'  intrinsic  (in libg2c) to return device-ID
            information properly in SArray(7).

   Each  release  includes  installation  instructions  in  both HTML and
   plaintext  forms  (see the INSTALL directory in the toplevel directory
   of  the  distribution).  However,  we  also  keep  the most up to date
   [6]installation instructions and [7]build/test status on our web page.
   We will update those pages as new information becomes available.
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   The  EGCS  project  would  like to thank the numerous people that have
   contributed new features, test results, bugfixes, etc. This [8]amazing
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   And  finally,  we  can't  in  good  conscience  fail  to  mention some
   [9]caveats to using EGCS 1.1.
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     * Integrated  GNU  Fortran  (g77)  compiler and runtime library with
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     * Vast  improvements  in the C++ compiler; so many they have [2]page
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     * More  major improvements in the exception handling code to improve
       performance,  lower static overhead and provide the infrastructure
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     * The  compiler  now  recomputes  register  usage information before
       local  register allocation. By providing more accurate information
       to   the   priority   based  allocator,  we  get  better  register
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     * The  register reloading phase of the compiler optimizes spill code
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     * Some   bad   interactions   between  the  register  allocator  and
       instruction  scheduler  have  been fixed, resulting in much better
       code  for  certain  programs.  Additionally,  we  have  tuned  the
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     * The    compiler's   branch   shortening   algorithms   have   been
       significantly  improved to work better on targets which align jump
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     * The  compiler now supports -Os to prefer optimizing for code space
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     * The  compiler  will  now  totally  eliminate  library  calls which
       compute  constant  values.  This  primarily  helps targets with no
       integer   div/mul  support  and  targets  without  floating  point
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     * cpplib  has  been greatly improved and may be suitable for limited
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     * Memory  footprint  for the compiler has been significantly reduced
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     * The  time  to  build  EGCS  has  been improved for certain targets
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          + SPARC  port  now  includes  V8 plus and V9 support as well as
            performance  tuning  for Ultra class machines. The SPARC port
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          + Alpha  port  has  been tuned for the EV6 processor and has an
            optimized  expansion of memcpy/bzero. The Alpha port now uses
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          + RS6000/PowerPC:  EGCS  1.1  includes  support for the Power64
            architecture  and aix4.3 support. The RS6000/PowerPC port now
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          + x86:  Alignment  of static store data and jump targets is per
            Intel  recommendations  now.  Various improvements throughout
            the  x86  port  to improve performance on Pentium processors.
            Conditional  move support has been fixed and enabled for PPro
            processors.   The   x86   port  also  better  supports  64bit
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          + MIPS  has  improved  multiply/multiply-add  support  and  now
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     * EGCS  has an integrated libstdc++, but does not have an integrated
       libg++.  Furthermore  old libg++ releases will not work with EGCS;
       HJ  Lu has made a libg++-2.8.1.2 snapshot available which may work
       with EGCS.
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     * Exception   handling   may   not   work   with  shared  libraries,
       particularly  on  alphas,  hppas,  rs6000/powerpc  and  mips based
       platforms.  Exception  handling  is  known  to  work  on x86-linux
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     * Some  versions  of  the  Linux kernel have bugs which prevent them
       from  being  compiled  or  from running when compiled by EGCS. See
       [1]the FAQ for additional information.
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       a  result  it  may  be  necessary  to  fix C++ code before it will
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     * G++  is  also  converting toward the ISO C++ standard; as a result
       code  which  was  previously  valid  (and  thus  accepted by other
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     * EGCS  1.1  compiled  C++  code  is not binary compatible with EGCS
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   EGCS  is  a  collaborative  effort involving several groups of hackers
   using  an open development model to accelerate development and testing
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   EGCS  1.0.3  is a minor update to the EGCS 1.0.2 compiler to fix a few
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          + Fix  a  typo in the libio library which resulted in incorrect
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          + Fix  a  major  problem  with  the ObjC runtime thread support
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          + Fix  one  x86  floating  point code generation bug exposed by
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          + Fix  rs6000/ppc bug when converting values from integer types
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   An  important  goal  of  EGCS  is  to  allow wide scale testing of new
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   EGCS  has been carefully tested and should be comparable in quality to
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   EGCS  1.0.3  is  based  on  an  August 2, 1997 snapshot of the GCC 2.8
   development  sources; it contains nearly all of the new features found
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     * The integrated libstdc++ library includes a verbatim copy of SGI's
       STL release instead of a modified copy.
     * Integrated GNU Fortran compiler.
     * New instruction scheduler.
     * New alias analysis code.
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   See  the [1]new features page for a more complete list of new features
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   and  plaintext  forms  (see  the  INSTALL  directory  in  the toplevel
   directory  of  the EGCS 1.0.3 distribution). However, we also keep the
   most  up to date [2]installation instructions and [3]build/test status
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   And,  we  can't  in good conscience fail to mention some [4]caveats to
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   Update:  Big  thanks  to  Stanford for providing a high speed link for
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   Download  EGCS  from  ftp.cygnus.com (USA California) or go.cygnus.com
   (USA California -- High speed link provided by Stanford).
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   EGCS  is  a  collaborative  effort involving several groups of hackers
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          + Memory  consumption  significantly  reduced,  especially  for
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          + libstdc++  in the EGCS release has been updated and should be
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          + Various  fixes  in  libio/libstdc++  to  work better on Linux
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          + Fix  problems  with  duplicate symbols on systems that do not
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          + Memory  corruption bug and undefined symbols in bastring have
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          + Fix   compiler  crash  for  omitted  bound  in  Fortran  CASE
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          + Fix  some of the problems with negative subscripts for g77 on
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          + Fix long double problems on x86 (exposed by glibc).
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          + m68k  port  support  includes -mcpu32 option as well as cpu32
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   An  important  goal  of  EGCS  is  to  allow wide scale testing of new
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   EGCS  has been carefully tested and should be comparable in quality to
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   EGCS  1.0.2  is  based  on  an  August 2, 1997 snapshot of the GCC 2.8
   development  sources; it contains nearly all of the new features found
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     * The integrated libstdc++ library includes a verbatim copy of SGI's
       STL release.
     * Integrated GNU Fortran compiler.
     * New instruction scheduler.
     * New alias analysis code.
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   and  plaintext  forms  (see  the  INSTALL  directory  in  the toplevel
   directory  of  the EGCS 1.0.2 distribution). However, we also keep the
   most  up to date [2]installation instructions and [3]build/test status
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   Update:  Big  thanks  to  Stanford for providing a high speed link for
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   EGCS  is  a  collaborative  effort involving several groups of hackers
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   EGCS  1.0.1  is  a  minor update to the EGCS 1.0 compiler to fix a few
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     * Add  support  for  Red  Hat 5.0 Linux and better support for Linux
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       Many  programs  failed  to link when compiled with EGCS 1.0 on Red
       Hat  5.0  or  on systems with newer versions of glibc2. EGCS 1.0.1
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     * Compatibility  with  both  EGCS  1.0  and GCC 2.8 libgcc exception
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       To  avoid  future  compatibility problems, we strongly urge anyone
       who  is planning on distributing shared libraries that contain C++
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       Soon  after  EGCS  1.0  was released, the GCC developers made some
       incompatible  changes  in  libgcc's exception handling interfaces.
       These  changes  were  needed  to solve problems on some platforms.
       This  means  that GCC 2.8.0, when released, will not be seamlessly
       compatible  with shared libraries built by EGCS 1.0. The reason is
       that  the libgcc.a in GCC 2.8.0 will not contain a function needed
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       The  result  of  this  is that there may be compatibility problems
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       With   EGCS  1.0.1,  generated  code  uses  the  new  (GCC  2.8.0)
       interface,  and libgcc.a has the support routines for both the old
       and  the  new  interfaces  (so EGCS 1.0.1 and EGCS 1.0 code can be
       freely  mixed,  and  EGCS  1.0.1  and GCC 2.8.0 code can be freely
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       support  for  the  old  interface  in  2.8.0,  since  it was never
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       against  distributing  any shared libraries built by EGCS 1.0 that
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       The  x86  changes fix code generation errors exposed when building
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       The  hppa  change  fixes  a compiler abort when configured for use
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       The  MIPS  changes fix problems with the definition of LONG_MAX on
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       The  rs6000/ppc change fixes some problems with passing structures
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     * A  few machine independent bugfixes, mostly to fix code generation
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   An  important  goal  of  EGCS  is  to  allow wide scale testing of new
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   EGCS  has been carefully tested and should be comparable in quality to
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   EGCS  1.0.1  is  based  on  an  August 2, 1997 snapshot of the GCC 2.8
   development  sources; it contains nearly all of the new features found
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     * The integrated libstdc++ library includes a verbatim copy of SGI's
       STL release.
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   See  the [1]new features page for a more complete list of new features
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   and  plaintext  forms  (see  the  INSTALL  directory  in  the toplevel
   directory  of  the EGCS 1.0.1 distribution). However, we also keep the
   most  up to date [2]installation instructions and [3]build/test status
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   And,  we  can't  in good conscience fail to mention some [4]caveats to
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   Update:  Big  thanks  to  Stanford for providing a high speed link for
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   Download  EGCS  from  ftp.cygnus.com (USA California) or go.cygnus.com
   (USA California -- High speed link provided by Stanford).
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   [5]Goto mirror list to find a closer site
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   We'd  like  to  thank  the  numerous  people that have contributed new
   features,  test results, bugfixes, etc. Unfortunately, they're far too
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   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/install/index.html
   3. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/buildstat.html
   4. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/caveats.html
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   EGCS  is  a  collaborative  effort involving several groups of hackers
   using  an open development model to accelerate development and testing
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   An  important  goal  of  EGCS  is  to  allow  wide  scale  testing  of
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   EGCS  has been carefully tested and should be comparable in quality to
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   EGCS  1.0  is  based  on  an  August  2,  1997 snapshot of the GCC 2.8
   development  sources; it contains nearly all of the new features found
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     * The integrated libstdc++ library includes a verbatim copy of SGI's
       STL release.
     * Integrated GNU Fortran compiler.
     * New instruction scheduler.
     * New alias analysis code.

   See the [1]new features page for a more complete list of new features.

   The  EGCS  1.0 release includes installation instructions in both HTML
   and  plaintext  forms  (see  the  INSTALL  directory  in  the toplevel
   directory  of  the  EGCS  1.0 distribution). However, we also keep the
   most  up to date [2]installation instructions and [3]build/test status
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   And,  we  can't  in good conscience fail to mention some [4]caveats to
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   Update:  The  T1  into  our  main  California  offices  has  been 100%
   saturated  since  shortly  after  the release. We've added an EGCS 1.0
   mirror  at  our  Massachusetts  office to help share the load. We also
   encourage  folks  to  use  the  many  mirrors available throughout the
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   Update:  Big  thanks  to  Stanford for providing a high speed link for
   downloading EGCS (go.cygnus.com)!
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   Download  EGCS  from  ftp.cygnus.com (USA California) or go.cygnus.com
   (USA California -- High speed link provided by Stanford).
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   [5]Goto mirror list to find a closer site
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   We'd  like  to  thank  the  numerous  people that have contributed new
   features,  test results, bugfixes, etc. Unfortunately, they're far too
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   Please  send  FSF & GNU inquiries & questions to [6]gnu@@gnu.org. There
   are also [7]other ways to contact the FSF.

   These pages are maintained by [8]The GCC team.


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    mailing  list  at  [9]gcc@@gnu.org or [10]gcc@@gcc.gnu.org, send other
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   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/install/index.html
   3. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/buildstat.html
   4. http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/caveats.html
   5. http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html
   6. mailto:gnu@@gnu.org
   7. http://www.gnu.org/home.html#ContactInfo
   8. http://gcc.gnu.org/about.html
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     * Core  compiler  is  based on the gcc2 development tree from Aug 2,
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     * Vast  improvements  in the C++ compiler; so many they have [2]page
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     * New  instruction  scheduler  from IBM Haifa which includes support
       for  function  wide  instruction scheduling as well as superscalar
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     * Significant  code  generation  improvements  for  Fortran  code on
       Alphas.
     * Various  optimizations  from  the  g77 project as well as improved
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     * egcs   libstdc++  includes  the  SGI  STL  implementation  without
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     * As  a  result  of  these  and  other changes, egcs libstc++ is not
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     * Various  new  ports  -- UltraSPARC, Irix6.2 & Irix6.3 support, The
       SCO  Openserver  5  family (5.0.{0,2,4} and Internet FastStart 1.0
       and  1.1),  Support for RTEMS on several embedded targets, Support
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     * RS6000/PowerPC   ports   generate   code  which  can  run  on  all
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     * -mcpu=  and  -march=  switches  for  the  x86 port to allow better
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     * Includes  the template repository patch (aka repo patch); note the
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     _________________________________________________________________

   Please  send  FSF & GNU inquiries & questions to [3]gnu@@gnu.org. There
   are also [4]other ways to contact the FSF.

   These pages are maintained by [5]The GCC team.


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    mailing  list  at  [6]gcc@@gnu.org  or [7]gcc@@gcc.gnu.org, send other
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   330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
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   in any medium, provided this notice is preserved.
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     * EGCS  has an integrated libstdc++, but does not have an integrated
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       Lu has made a libg++-2.8.1.2 available which may work with EGCS.
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     * Note  that using -pedantic or -Wreturn-type can cause an explosion
       in  the  amount of memory needed for template-heavy C++ code, such
       as   code   that   uses   STL.   Also  note  that  -Wall  includes
       -Wreturn-type,  so  if  you  use  -Wall  you  will need to specify
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     * Exception   handling   may   not   work   with  shared  libraries,
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       handling  is  known  to  work  on  x86-linux platforms with shared
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     * Some  versions  of  the  Linux kernel have bugs which prevent them
       from  being  compiled  or  from running when compiled by EGCS. See
       [1]the FAQ for additional information.
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       or  deprecated  C++ constructs than G++ 2.7. As a result it may be
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     * G++  is  also  aggressively tracking the C++ standard; as a result
       code  which  was  previously  valid  (and  thus  accepted by other
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     * EGCS  1.0 may not work with Red Hat Linux 5.0 on all targets. EGCS
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     _________________________________________________________________

   Please  send  FSF & GNU inquiries & questions to [2]gnu@@gnu.org. There
   are also [3]other ways to contact the FSF.

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    mailing  list  at  [5]gcc@@gnu.org  or [6]gcc@@gcc.gnu.org, send other
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