Assembly generation chnages between compiler versions

[Andrew Haley]

Sharath Manjunatha wrote:

>> The compiler has been substantially rewritten, with new 
>> optimization and code generation strategies.
> 
> Ok. I do see some changes in the end of function marker in the assembly
> output, between 2.95 and 3.4 compiler. The 2.95 compiler was using .Lef
> whereas 3.4 will use .-<function name>. Why this has been changed, do you
> have any pointer which says about the major changes from 2.95 to 3.4 GCC
> compiler .

Which part of "substantially rewritten" do you find hard to
understand?

Andrew.