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[wwwdocs] Couple of items for gcc-8/changes.html
- From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at adacore dot com>
- To: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 09:44:54 +0100
- Subject: [wwwdocs] Couple of items for gcc-8/changes.html
Plus a wording change for the sake of consistency. OK to commit?
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Eric Botcazou
Index: htdocs/gcc-8/changes.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-8/changes.html,v
retrieving revision 1.47
diff -u -r1.47 changes.html
--- htdocs/gcc-8/changes.html 20 Mar 2018 08:22:03 -0000 1.47
+++ htdocs/gcc-8/changes.html 21 Mar 2018 08:42:39 -0000
@@ -30,8 +30,7 @@
<li>Support for the obsolete SDB/coff debug info format has been
<strong>removed</strong>. The option <code>-gcoff</code> no longer
does anything.</li>
- <li>The Cilk+ extensions to the C and C++ languages were removed from
- GCC.</li>
+ <li>The Cilk+ extensions to the C and C++ languages have been removed.</li>
<li>
The MPX extensions to the C and C++ languages have been deprecated and
will be removed in a future release.
@@ -103,6 +102,11 @@
thus mitigate the attack vector that relies on jumping over
a stack guard page as provided by the operating system.
</li>
+ <li>
+ A new pragma <code>GCC unroll</code> has been implemented in the C
+ family of languages, as well as Fortran and Ada, so as to make it
+ possible for the user to have a finer-grained control over the loop
+ unrolling optimization than with optimization switches.
</ul>
@@ -111,7 +115,11 @@
<h3 id="ada">Ada</h3>
<ul>
- <li></li>
+ <li>For its internal exception handling used on the host for error
+ recovery in the front-end, the compiler now relies on the native
+ exception handling mechanism of the host platform, which should
+ be more efficient than the former mechanism.
+ </li>
</ul>
<h3 id="brig">BRIG (HSAIL)</h3>