FYI: Update NEWS

[Bryce McKinlay <mckinlay at redhat dot com>]

The NEWS file was also very out-of-date, but I figure for historical 
value its better to update it rather than delete it. The new entries 
come from the GCC web page release notes, which are obviously far from 
complete. I'm checking this in. Any thoughts on whether this file is 
worth keeping? We should probably make it a web page in future.

Bryce


Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/gcc/libjava/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -r1.7 NEWS
--- NEWS	30 Jan 2001 17:15:15 -0000	1.7
+++ NEWS	29 Jul 2004 02:47:52 -0000
@@ -1,4 +1,92 @@
-New in libgcj X.XX:
+*** Changes in GCC 3.4:
+
+* Compiling a .jar file will now cause non-.class entries to be automatically 
+  compiled as resources.
+
+* libgcj has been ported to Darwin.
+
+* Jeff Sturm has adapted Jan Hubicka's call graph optimization code to gcj.
+
+* libgcj has a new gcjlib URL type; this lets URLClassLoader load code from 
+  shared libraries.
+
+* libgcj has been much more completely merged with GNU Classpath.
+
+* Class loading is now much more correct; in particular the caller's class 
+  loader is now used when that is required.
+
+* Eclipse 2.x will run out of the box using gij.
+
+* Parts of java.nio have been implemented. Direct and indirect buffers work, 
+  as do fundamental file and socket operations.
+
+* java.awt has been improved, though it is still not ready for general use.
+
+* The HTTP protocol handler now uses HTTP/1.1 and can handle the POST method.
+
+* The MinGW port has matured. Enhancements include socket timeout support, 
+  thread interruption, improved Runtime.exec() handling and support for 
+  accented characters in filenames.
+
+*** Changes in GCC 3.3:
+
+* The java.sql and javax.sql packages now implement the JDBC 3.0 (JDK 1.4) 
+  API.
+
+* The JDK 1.4 assert facility has been implemented.
+
+* The bytecode interpreter is now direct threaded and thus faster.
+
+
+*** Changes in GCC 3.1:
+
+* libgcj now includes RMI, java.lang.ref.*, javax.naming, and 
+  javax.transaction.
+
+* Property files and other system resources can be compiled into executables 
+  which use libgcj using the new gcj --resource feature.
+
+* libgcj has been ported to more platforms. In particular there is now a 
+  mostly-functional mingw32 (Windows) target port.
+
+* JNI and CNI invocation interfaces were implemented, so gcj-compiled Java 
+  code can now be called from a C/C++ application.
+
+* gcj can now use builtin functions for certain known methods, for instance 
+  Math.cos.
+
+* gcj can now automatically remove redundant array-store checks in some common 
+  cases.
+
+* The --no-store-checks optimization option was added. This can be used to 
+  omit runtime store checks for code which is known not to throw 
+  ArrayStoreException
+
+* The following third party interface standards were added to libgcj: 
+  org.w3c.dom and org.xml.sax.
+
+* java.security has been merged with GNU Classpath. The new package is now 
+  JDK 1.2 compliant, and much more complete.
+
+* A bytecode verifier was added to the libgcj interpreter.
+
+* java.lang.Character was rewritten to comply with the Unicode 3.0 standard, 
+  and improve performance.
+
+* Partial support for many more locales was added to libgcj.
+
+* Socket timeouts have been implemented.
+
+* libgcj has been merged into a single shared library. There are no longer 
+  separate shared libraries for the garbage collector and zlib.
+
+* Several performance improvements were made to gcj and libgcj:
+      o Hash synchronization (thin locks)
+      o A special allocation path for finalizer-free objects
+      o Thread-local allocation
+      o Parallel GC, and other GC tweaks
+
+*** Changes in GCC 3.0:
 
 * libgcj now includes a bytecode interpreter. If a compiled version of a class 
 is not found in the application binary or linked shared libraries, the