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[wwwdocs] 4.5/changes.html: Add windows-specific changes.
- From: Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>
- To: GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:34:05 +0000
- Subject: [wwwdocs] 4.5/changes.html: Add windows-specific changes.
Hello,
Here's a new hunk for the 4.5.0 changes page listing some of the stuff
that's gone in recently for windows targets.
I looked at all the entries under "New Targets and Target Specific
Improvements", and they all seemed to be categories of CPU, which I thought
wasn't quite right, so I added a "Platform and O/S Specific Improvements"
chunk with its own header. If that seems overkill I guess I could make it a
subsection under "IA-32/x86-64" but then some of this will probably feed
through into stuff like arm-cegcc targets, so that seems a little
over-specific really.
* htdocs/gcc-4.5/changes.html: Add new section for platform and
O/S specific improvements and document recent Windows changes.
Ok?
cheers,
DaveK
Index: htdocs/gcc-4.5/changes.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-4.5/changes.html,v
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--- htdocs/gcc-4.5/changes.html 19 Dec 2009 17:24:18 -0000 1.57
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@@ -525,6 +525,23 @@ mep-elf) embedded target.</p>
<p>Support has been added for the Renesas RX Processor (rx-elf) target.</p>
+<h2 id="platforms">Platform and O/S Specific Improvements</h2>
+
+<h3 id="windows">Windows (Cygwin and MinGW)</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li>GCC now builds all the major the language runtime libraries as DLLs
+ when configured with the <code>--enable-shared</code> option.</li>
+ <li>GCC now makes use of the new support for aligned common variables in
+ recent versions of binutils to enable better support for SSE code.</li>
+ <li>Improvements to the libffi support library increase the reliability
+ of code generated by GCJ on all Windows platforms. Libgcj is enabled
+ by default for the first time.</li>
+ <li>Libtool improvements simplify installation by placing the generated
+ DLLs in the correct binaries directory.</li>
+ <li>Numerous other minor bugfixes and improvements, and substantial
+ enhancements to the Fortran language support library.</li>
+ </ul>
+
<h2>Documentation improvements</h2>
<h2>Other significant improvements</h2>