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Re: [wwwdocs] A few more 4.1 changes items
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- To: Steven Bosscher <stevenb at suse dot de>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 00:59:54 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: [wwwdocs] A few more 4.1 changes items
- References: <200508022237.38233.stevenb@suse.de>
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> This adds IPCP, fixes the grammar of another entry, and adds
> other finished projects mentioned on the 4.1 projects wiki page.
> Does this look OK?
I wonder whether we shouldn't make you a co-maintainer for the
gcc-X.Y/changes.html pages. :-)
Good stuff.
> Index: htdocs/gcc-4.1/changes.html
> ===================================================================
> +<h3>RS6000 (POWER/PowerPC)</h3>
> + <ul>
> + <li>The AltiVec vector primitives are now implemented in a way that puts
> + a smaller burden on the preprocessor, instead processing the
> + "overloading" in the C front-end. This should benefit compilation
> + speed on AltiVec vector code.</li>
> + </ul>
Are these primitives also supported in the C/C++/Objective-C front ends?
(According to codedingconventions.html it's "front ends", not "frontends",
though I'll readily admit that I just had to check because I always forget.)
> + <li>Some builtin functions have been fortified to protect them against
> + various buffer overflow (and format string) vulnerabilities. Compared
> + to the mudflap bounds checking feature, the safe builtins have far
> + smaller overhead. This means that programs built using safe builtins
> + should not experiece any measurable slowdown.</li>
^^^^
Typo
And "built-in" instead of "builtin". (Yes, I had to look it up myself. ;-)
Thanks a bunch!
Gerald