[Fwd: GCC 4.6.0 Released]

[Dennis Clarke <dclarke at blastwave dot org>]

Seems to be working well on Solaris 8 Sparc thus far. No surprises. I'll
post a result set once the tests are complete but for now I see the output
from hello.c is exactly as expected :

# pwd
/tmp/test
# cat -n hello.c
     1  #include <stdio.h>
     2
     3  int
     4  main(int argc, char *argv[])
     5  {
     6      printf ( "Hello World!\n" );
     7      return (0);
     8  }

# gcc --version
gcc (Blastwave.org Inc. Mon Mar 28 06:28:14 GMT 2011) 4.6.0
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

# gcc -mcpu=v8 -mno-app-regs -mno-vis -m32 -S -o hello.s hello.c

# cat hello.s
        .file   "hello.c"
        .section        ".rodata"
        .align 8
.LLC0:
        .asciz  "Hello World!"
        .section        ".text"
        .align 4
        .global main
        .type   main, #function
        .proc   04
main:
        save    %sp, -96, %sp
        st      %i0, [%fp+68]
        st      %i1, [%fp+72]
        sethi   %hi(.LLC0), %g1
        or      %g1, %lo(.LLC0), %o0
        call    puts, 0
         nop
        mov     0, %g1
        mov     %g1, %i0
        restore
        jmp     %o7+8
         nop
        .size   main, .-main
        .ident  "GCC: (Blastwave.org Inc. Mon Mar 28 06:28:14 GMT 2011)
4.6.0"
#

This is precisely the same as the output from 4.5.2 :

# diff /export/medusa/dclarke/build/test/hello_gcc_sparcv7.s hello.s
25c25
<       .ident  "GCC: (Blastwave.org Inc. Thu Dec 16 18:30:45 GMT 2010)
4.5.2"
---
>       .ident  "GCC: (Blastwave.org Inc. Mon Mar 28 06:28:14 GMT 2011)
4.6.0"
#

Thus all is well.

   GCC is the ultimate open source project in my opinion in that it gives
birth to everything else. Well, that makes binutils the pen-ultimate I
guess. :-)

  Thank you to the massive collection of Red Hat guys and volunteers and
to  a massive colleection of truely gifted programmers and the FSF for
making GCC possible.

-- 
Dennis Clarke
dclarke@opensolaris.ca <- related to the open source Solaris
dclarke@blastwave.org  <- related to open source for Solaris

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---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: GCC 4.6.0 Released
From:    "Jakub Jelinek" <jakub@redhat.com>
Date:    Mon, March 28, 2011 03:25
To:      gcc-announce@gcc.gnu.org
Cc:      gcc@gcc.gnu.org
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The GNU Compiler Collection version 4.6.0 has been released.

GCC 4.6.0 is a major release, containing substantial new functionality
not available in GCC 4.5.x or previous GCC releases.

The "link-time optimization" framework introduced in GCC 4.5.0 has been
significantly improved in this release, it is now possible to compile
very large applications like Mozilla or GCC itself with LTO.
GCC can now partially inline functions, inlining just hot short path
to exit and keeping the rest of the function out of line.
Support for the upcoming C++0x standard has been notably improved,
Fortran 2003 and 2008 has been greatly extended and many other frontends
undergone substantial changes as well.
Many other improvements have been added and more than thousand of bugs
have been fixed in various parts of the compiler collection.

See:

  http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/changes.html

for more information about changes in GCC 4.6.0.

This release is available from the FTP servers listed here:

  http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

The release is in gcc/gcc-4.6.0/ subdirectory.

If you encounter difficulties using GCC 4.6, please do not contact me
directly.  Instead, please visit http://gcc.gnu.org for information
about getting help.

As always, a vast number of people contributed to this GCC releases --
far too many to thank individually!