This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

July/August GNU Toolchain update


Hi Guys,

  Sorry for the delay in bringing you this update; I have been very
  busy in the last few months.  Anyway the highlights of the changes
  to the GNU Toolchain are as follows:

   * The GDB 7.10 branch has been created.  Expect a release soon.

   * Support for tracepoints on aarch64-linux was added in GDBserver.

   * A point update of the FSF Binutils - 2.25.1 - has been released.
     No new features but lots of important bug fixes.

   * GCC 5.2 has been released.  This is a bug-fix update to the
     previous 5.1 release.

   * The linker now has experimental support for the removal of
     redundant sections from COFF and PE format files.  This is
     enabled via the --gc-sections linker command line option.

   * A new linker command line option --require-defined=<symbol> has
     been added.  This behaves in much the same way as the
     --undefined=<sym> option in that it creates a reference to an
     undefined symbol that should force a library to be pulled into
     the link or garbage collection not to remove a specific section.
     The difference between --require-defined and --undefined is that
     with the former the linker will issue an error message if the
     specified symbol has not been defined by the end of the link.

  * The --disassemble (or -d) and --disassemble-all (or -D) options to
    objdump have received a subtle change.  With -d objdump will
    assume that any symbols present in a code section occur on the
    boundary between instructions and so it will refuse to disassemble
    across such a boundary.  With -D however this assumption is
    suppressed.  This means that it is possible for the output of
    -d and -D to differ if, for example, data is stored in a code
    section.

  * GCC has a couple of new warning options available:

      -Wframe-address

    This generates a warning when the __builtin_frame_address or
    __builtin_return_address are called with an argument greater than
    0.  Such calls may return indeterminate values or crash the
    program.

      -Wtautological-compare

    This generates a warning if a self-comparison always evaluates to
    true or false.  This detects various mistakes such as:

      int i = 1;

      if (i > i) { ... }

  * With the Nios II port of GCC it is now possible to specify the
    target architecture variant with -march=r1 or -march=r2.  It is
    also possible to explicitly enable or disable the use of the r2
    BMX (bit manipulation) and CDX (code density) instructions via the
    use of the new -mbmx -mno-bmx -mcdx and -mno-cdx options.

Cheers
  Nick


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]