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Re: [wwwdocs] 4.5/changes.html: Add windows-specific changes.
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- To: Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>
- Cc: GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 20:16:59 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: [wwwdocs] 4.5/changes.html: Add windows-specific changes.
- References: <4B2E984D.10706@gmail.com>
On Sun, 20 Dec 2009, Dave Korn wrote:
> 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.
I think it's okay to limit "Targets" to architectures and introduce
a new section for operating systems. "Platforms" can mean many different
things, so I would prefer to call the new section just "Operating Systems"
and use "#os" for links. Does that make sense?
Index: htdocs/gcc-4.5/changes.html
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+<h3 id="windows">Windows (Cygwin and MinGW)</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li>GCC now builds all the major the language runtime libraries as DLLs
Somehow this doesn't seem to be a proper sentence?
+ <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>
Do you know which version of binutils ("versions X and later") this is?
What is "better support for SSE code"? More efficient (= "to generate
more efficient SSE code") or something else?
+ <li>Libtool improvements simplify installation by placing the generated
+ DLLs in the correct binaries directory.</li>
Is "binaries directory" a Windows term? For someone with a UNIX
background it sounds a bit odd to put DLLs there. ;-)
Gerald