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PATCH COMMITTED: Mention -fsplit-stack on 4.6 changes page
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- To: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:10:24 -0700
- Subject: PATCH COMMITTED: Mention -fsplit-stack on 4.6 changes page
I committed this patch to the web repository to mention -fsplit-stack on
the list of changes in the upcoming gcc 4.6.
Ian
Index: gcc-4.6/changes.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-4.6/changes.html,v
retrieving revision 1.46
diff -u -r1.46 changes.html
--- gcc-4.6/changes.html 30 Sep 2010 18:25:15 -0000 1.46
+++ gcc-4.6/changes.html 1 Oct 2010 20:09:34 -0000
@@ -271,11 +271,19 @@
<h3>IA-32/x86-64</h3>
<ul>
+ <li>
+ The new <code>-fsplit-stack</code> option permits programs to
+ use a discontiguous stack. This is useful for threaded
+ programs, in that it is no longer necessary to specify the
+ maximum stack size when creating a thread. This feature is
+ currently only implemented for 32-bit and 64-bit x86 GNU/Linux
+ targets.
+ </li>
<li>Support for emitting profiler counter calls before function
prologues. This is enabled via a new command-line option
<code>-mfentry</code>.</li>
<li>The default setting (when not optimizing for size) for 32-bit
- Linux and Darwin x86 targets has been changed to
+ GNU/Linux and Darwin x86 targets has been changed to
<code>-fomit-frame-pointer</code>. The default can be reverted
to <code>-fno-omit-frame-pointer</code> by configuring GCC with
the <code>--enable-frame-pointer</code> configure option.</li>