announce: MELT plugin 0.8rc2 for 4.6

[Basile Starynkevitch]

Hello All,

It is my pleasure to announce the 2nd release candidate of MELT plugin
version 0.8 for GCC 4.6

You can download it from http://gcc-melt.org/
gnuzipped tar http://gcc-melt.org/melt-0.8rc2-plugin-for-gcc-4.6.tgz
of md5sum 880db34a1d76a27f51ba4d594e725519


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NEWS for 0.8rc2 MELT plugin for gcc-4.6

July 08th, 2011: Release candidate 2 of melt-0.8rc1-plugin-for-gcc-4.6

New features:
 * support for pragmas for MELT

 * the MELT garbage collector is called less often, using the
   PLUGIN_GGC_START hook.

 * several new c-iterators and c-matchers.

 * added static analyzing pass gccframe, useful for melt-runtime.c

 * reject nested defun-s, you should use letrec or let...

 * the MELT plugin build-melt-plugin.sh has changed incompatibly
   (w.r.t. the previous 0.7 MELT plugin release).

 * debug_msg, assert_msg ... should work, thanks to MELT_HAVE_DEBUG
   preprocessor flag, even when melt.so is a plugin for a GCC without
   checks enabled.

 * melt-runtime.h has a melt_gcc_version integer variable and
   melt-runtime.c should be given MELT_GCC_VERSION preprocessor
   constant.

* runfile mode compiles quickly (with debug_msg support). Add new mode
  translatequickly to compile quickly (with debug_msg & assert_msg
  support).

Many bugfixes
  (but some bugs remain)


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Thanks to Pierre Vittet and to Alexandre Lissy for their contributions.

Regards.
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