Re: GCC 3.1 Released

[Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>]

Nicola Pero wrote:
> 
> > >>   http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.1/changes.html
> > > I see no mention of Objective-C improvements.
> > > [...]
> > > I think the following end-ix86-user relevant improvements were made to the
> > > ObjC compiler and GNU runtime library from 3.0 to 3.1 -
> >
> > Would you mind adding this list to gcc-3.1/changes.html?
> >
> > (The file has the following comment at the top:
> >
> >   <!-- GCC maintainers, please do not hesitate to update/contribute entries
> >      concerning those part of GCC you maintain!  2002-03-23, Gerald.
> >   -->
> >
> > so Stan and Ovidiu can approve the patch.)
> > )
> 
> Thanks - seems I missed that :-/ - here is a patch then -
> 
>  Stan, is it Ok to apply ?

This OK with me, with the grammatical tweaks.  Thanks for writing
this up!

Stan

> Index: changes.html
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> RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-3.1/changes.html,v
> retrieving revision 1.41
> diff -u -r1.41 changes.html
> --- changes.html        16 May 2002 02:13:10 -0000      1.41
> +++ changes.html        16 May 2002 12:02:38 -0000
> @@ -158,6 +158,22 @@
>      </li>
>  </ul>
> 
> +<h3>Objective-C</h3>
> +
> +<ul>
> +<li>Annoying linker warnings (due to incorrect code being generated)
> +have been fixed.</li>
> +<li>If a class method cannot be found, the compiler no longer issues a
> +warning if a corresponding instance method exists in the root
> +class.</li>
> +<li>Forward @protocol declarations have been fixed.</li>
> +<li>Loading of categories has been fixed in certain situations (GNU
> +runtime only).</li>
> +<li>The class lookup in the runtime library has been rewritten so that
> +class method dispatch is more than twice as fast as it used to be (GNU
> +runtime only).</li>
> +</ul>
> +
>  <h3>Java</h3>
> 
>  <ul>