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GCC 3.2 Release Series — Changes, New Features, and Fixes
-Caveats
+Caveats and New Features
+
+Caveats
- The C++ compiler does not correctly zero-initialize
pointers-to-data members. You must explicitly initialize
@@ -28,9 +30,9 @@
and GCC 3.1.1.
-Frontend Enhancements
-
-C/C++/Objective-C
+Frontend Enhancements
+
+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
@@ -47,8 +49,9 @@
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.)
-
C++
+
+
+C++
- There are now no known differences between the C++ ABI
implemented in GCC and the multi-vendor standard. We believe that
@@ -62,11 +65,10 @@
GNU/Linux systems, check the common C++ ABI
page.
-
-New Targets and Target Specific Improvements
-
-IA-32
+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
@@ -74,8 +76,9 @@
athlon-xp)
__m128 and __m128i is not 128bit
aligned when used in structures.
x86-64
+
+
+x86-64
- A bug whereby the compiler could generate bad code for
bzero has been fixed.
@@ -83,11 +86,11 @@
corner cases)
- Fixed prefetch code generation
-
-
+
+
Beginning with 3.2.2, GCC's Makefile suite supports redirection of
make install by means of the DESTDIR
@@ -97,7 +100,7 @@
Other than that, GCC 3.2.2 is a bug fix release only; there are no
new features that were not present in GCC 3.2.1.
-Bug Fixes
+Bug Fixes
This section lists the problem reports (PRs) from GCC's bug tracking
system (GNATS) that are known to be fixed in the 3.2.2 release. This
@@ -107,8 +110,7 @@
The sorting is slightly different from the GNATS categories, and some of
the titles have been changed to make them more clear.
-
-Internal Compiler Errors (multi-platform)
+Internal Compiler Errors (multi-platform)
- 5919: (c++) ICE when passing variable array to template function
- 7129: (c++) ICE with min/max assignment operators (
<?= and >?=)
@@ -127,8 +129,9 @@
- 8799: (c++) ICE: error reporting routines re-entered
- 9328: (c++) ICE with
typeof(X) for overloaded X
- 9465: (preprocessor)
cpp -traditional ICE on null bytes
-
C++ (compiler and library) bugs
+
+
+C++ (compiler and library) bugs
- 47: scoping in nested classes is broken
- 6745: problems with iostream rdbuf() member function
@@ -150,8 +153,9 @@
- 9269: libstdc++ headers: explicit specialization of function must precede its first use
- 9322: return value of
basic_streambuf<>::getloc affected by locale::global
- 9433: segfault in runtime support for
dynamic_cast
-
-C and optimizer bugs
+
+
+C and optimizer bugs
- 8032: GCC incorrectly initializes static structs that have flexible arrays
- 8639: simple arithmetic expression broken
@@ -159,55 +163,64 @@
- 8832: traditional "
asm volatile" code is illegally optimized
- 8988: loop optimizer bug: with
-O2, code is generated that segfaults (found on i386, bug present for all platforms)
- 9492: structure copy clobbers subsequent stores to structure
-
-Objective-C bugs
+
+
+Objective-C bugs
- 9267: Objective-C parser won't build with newer bison versions (e.g. 1.875)
-
-Ada bugs
+
+
+Ada bugs
- 8344: Ada build problem due to conflict between
gcc/final.o, gcc/ada/final.o
-
-Preprocessor bugs
+
+
+Preprocessor bugs
- 8524:
_Pragma within macros is improperly expanded
- 8880:
__WCHAR_TYPE__ macro incorrectly set to "long int" with -fshort-wchar
-
-ARM-specific
+
+
+ARM-specific
- 9090: arm ICE with
>= -O2; regression from gcc-2.95
-
-x86-specific (Intel/AMD)
+
+
+x86-specific (Intel/AMD)
- 8588: ICE in
extract_insn, at recog.c:NNNN (shift instruction)
- 8599: loop unroll bug with
-march=k6-3
- 9506: ABI breakage in structure return (affects BSD and Cygwin, but not GNU/Linux)
-
-FreeBSD 5.0 specific
+
+
+FreeBSD 5.0 specific
- 9484: GCC 3.2.1 Bootstrap failure on FreeBSD 5.0
-
-RTEMS-specific
+
+
+RTEMS-specific
- 9292: hppa1.1-rtems configurery problems
- 9293: [m68k-elf/rtems]
config/m68k/t-crtstuff bug
- 9295: [mips-rtems]
config/mips/rtems.h init/fini issue
- 9296: gthr-rtems regression
- 9316: powerpc-rtems: extending multilibs
-
-HP-PA specific
+
+
+HP-PA specific
- 9493: ICE with
-O2 when building a simple function
-
-Documentation
+
+
+Documentation
- 7341: hyperlink to
gcov in GCC documentation doesn't work
- 8947: Please add a warning about "
-malign-double" in docs
- 7448, 8882: typo cleanups
-
-
+
+
3.2.1 adds a new warning, -Wabi. This option warns when GNU
C++ generates code that is known not to be binary-compatible with the
@@ -228,7 +241,7 @@
applications) was reverted ("unfixed"), because the "fix" was not
thread-safe.
-Bug Fixes
+Bug Fixes
This section lists the problem reports (PRs) from GCC's bug tracking
system (GNATS) that
@@ -238,8 +251,7 @@
strongly recommended that users of earlier gcc 3.x releases upgrade to
GCC 3.2.1.
-
-Internal Compiler Errors (multi-platform)
+Internal Compiler Errors (multi-platform)
- 2521: (c++) ICE in
build_ptrmemfunc, in cp/typeck.c
- 5661: (c++) ICE instantiating template on array of unknown size (bad code)
@@ -263,9 +275,9 @@
- 8134: (c++) ICE in
force_store_init_value on legal code
- 8149: (c++) ICE on incomplete type
- 8160: (c++) ICE in
build_modify_expr, in cp/typeck.c: array initialization
-
-C++ (compiler and library) bugs
+C++ (compiler and library) bugs
- 5607: No pointer adjustment in covariant return types
- 6579: Infinite loop with statement expressions in member initialization
@@ -290,8 +302,9 @@
- 8347: empty vector range used in string construction causes core dump
- 8348:
fail() flag is set in istringstream when eof() flag is set
- 8391: regression: infinite loop in
cp/decl2.c(finish_file)
-
-C and optimizer bugs
+
+
+C and optimizer bugs
- 6627:
-fno-align-functions doesn't seem to disable function alignment
- 6631:
life_analysis misoptimizes code to initialize fields of a structure
@@ -301,8 +314,9 @@
- 7515: invalid inlining of global function with
-O3
- 7814: incorrect scheduling for glibc-2.2.92 strcpy test
- 8467: bug in sibling call optimization
-
-Preprocessor bugs
+
+
+Preprocessor bugs
- 4890: incorrect line markers from the traditional preprocessor
- 7357:
-M option omits system headers files (making it the same as -MM)
@@ -311,8 +325,9 @@
- 7862: Interrupting
GCC -MD removes .d file but not .o
- 8190: Failed compilation deletes
-MD dependency file
- 8524:
_Pragma within macro is improperly expanded
-
-x86 specific (Intel/AMD)
+
+
+x86 specific (Intel/AMD)
- 5351: (i686-only) function pass-by-value structure copy corrupts stack
(7591 is a duplicate)
@@ -332,8 +347,9 @@
- 7723: ICE - Pentium3 sse - GCC 3.2
- 7951: ICE on
-march=pentium4 -O2 -mfpmath=sse
- 8146: (i686 only) gcc 3.2 miscompiles gcc 2.95.3
-
-PowerPC specific
+
+
+PowerPC specific
- 5967: GCC bug when profiling nested functions on powerpc
- 6984: wrong code generated with
-O2, -O3, -Os for do-while loop on PowerPC
@@ -343,52 +359,60 @@
- 7380: ICE in
extract_insn, at recog.c:2148
- 8252: ICE on Altivec code with optimization turned on
- 8451: Altivec ICE in GCC 3.2
-
-HP/PA specific
+
+
+HP/PA specific
- 7250:
__ashrdi3 returns wrong value on 32 bit hppa
-
-SPARC specific
+
+
+SPARC specific
- 6668: when using
--disable-multilib, libgcc_s.so is installed in the wrong place on sparc-solaris
- 7151: ICE when compiling for UltraSPARC
- 7335: SPARC: ICE in
verify_wide_reg (flow.c:557) with long double and -O1
- 7842: [REGRESSION] SPARC code gen bug
-
-ARM specific
+
+
+ARM specific
- 7856: [arm] invalid offset in constant pool reference
- 7967: optimization produces wrong code (ARM)
-
-Alpha specific
+
+
+Alpha specific
- 7374:
__builtin_fabsl broken on alpha
-
-IBM s390 specific
+
+
+IBM s390 specific
- 7370: ICE in
fixup_var_refs_1 on s390x
- 7409: loop optimization bug on s390x-linux-gnu
- 8232: s390x: ICE when using bcmp with
int length argument
-
-SCO specific
+
+
+SCO specific
- 7623: SCO OpenServer build fails with
machmode.def: undefined symbol: BITS_PER_UNIT
-
-m68k/Coldfire specific
+
+
+m68k/Coldfire specific
- 8314:
crtbegin, crtend need to be multilib'ed for this platform
-
-Documentation
+
+
+Documentation
- 761: Document some undocumented options
- 5610: Fix documentation about invoking SSE instructions (
-mfpmath=sse)
- 7484: List
-Wmissing-declarations as C-only option
- 7531:
-mcmodel not documented for x86-64
- 8120: Update documentation of bad use of
##
-
-
+
+
3.2 is a small bug fix release, but there is a change to the application
binary interface (ABI), hence the change to the second part of the version
@@ -398,16 +422,15 @@
the C++ ABI, with the intention of providing a stable interface going
forward. Accordingly, 3.2 is only a small change to 3.1.1.
-Bug Fixes
+Bug Fixes
-
-C++
+C++
- 7320: g++ 3.2 relocation problem
- 7470: vtable: virtual function pointers not in declaration order
-
-libstdc++
+libstdc++
- 6410: Trouble with non-ASCII monetary symbols and
wchar_t
- 6503,
@@ -419,12 +442,11 @@
- 7286: placement operator delete issue
- 7442:
cxxabi.h does not match the C++ ABI
- 7445: poor performance of
std::locale::classic() in multi-threaded applications
-
+
-x86-64 specific
+x86-64 specific
- 7291: off-by-one in generated inline
bzero code for x86-64
-