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Re: fourth draft: gcc 3.2.1 release notes
- From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- To: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 19:29:05 +0200
- Subject: Re: fourth draft: gcc 3.2.1 release notes
- References: <200210161723.g9GHNnl29383@piper.synopsys.com>
- Reply-to: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 10:23:49AM -0700, Joe Buck wrote:
> Here's a fourth draft for GCC 3.2.1 release notes. Please let me know
> about anything else that should be mentioned.
>
> More bugs have been fixed:
>
> Optimization: 6631
> Preprocessor: 7862, 8190
> IBM s390: 7370, 7409, 8232
>
> It is possible that there will be more bug fixes before final release.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Release notes for GCC 3.2.1 [DRAFT!]
>
> 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 vendor-neutral
> ia32/ia64 ABI. Please consult the GCC manual, included in the
> distribution, for details.
>
> This release also removes an old GCC extension, "naming types", and the
> documentation now directs users to use a different GCC extension,
> "__typeof", instead. The feature had evidently been broken for a while.
>
> Otherwise, 3.2.1 is a bug fix release only; other than bug fixes and the
> new warning there are no new features that were not present in GCC 3.2.
Maybe --print-multi-os-directory should be mentioned too (as well as
the bug ID fixed by it, target/6668).
Jakub