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This file contains information about GCC releases which has been generated
 
 
 
automatically from the online release notes.  It covers releases of GCC
 
 
 
(and the former EGCS project) since EGCS 1.0, on the line of development
 
 
 
that led to GCC 3. For information on GCC 2.8.1 and older releases of GCC 2,
 
 
 
see ONEWS.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
======================================================================
 
 
 
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.2/index.html
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                           GCC 4.2 Release Series
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   October 7, 2007
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   The  [1]GNU project and the GCC developers are pleased to announce the
 
 
 
   release of GCC 4.2.2.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   This release is a bug-fix release, containing fixes for regressions in GCC
 
 
 
   4.2.1 relative to previous releases of GCC.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Release History
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   GCC 4.2.2
 
 
 
          October 7, 2007 ([2]changes)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   GCC 4.2.1
 
 
 
          July 18, 2007 ([3]changes)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   GCC 4.2.0
 
 
 
          May 13, 2007 ([4]changes)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
References and Acknowledgements
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   GCC used to stand for the GNU C Compiler, but since the compiler supports
 
 
 
   several other languages aside from C, it now stands for the GNU Compiler
 
 
 
   Collection.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   A  list  of [5]successful builds is updated as new information becomes
 
 
 
   available.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   The  GCC  developers would like to thank the numerous people that have
 
 
 
   contributed new features, improvements, bug fixes, and other changes as well
 
 
 
   as test results to GCC. This [6]amazing group of volunteers is what makes
 
 
 
   GCC successful.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   For additional information about GCC please refer to the [7]GCC project web
 
 
 
   site or contact the [8]GCC development mailing list.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   To obtain GCC please use [9]our mirror sites, one of the [10]GNU mirror
 
 
 
   sites, or [11]our SVN server.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   Please send FSF & GNU inquiries & questions to [12]gnu@gnu.org. There are
 
 
 
   also [13]other ways to contact the FSF.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   These pages are maintained by [14]the GCC team.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    For questions related to the use of GCC, please consult these web pages and
 
 
 
    the [15]GCC manuals. If that fails, the [16]gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org mailing
 
 
 
    list might help.
 
 
 
    Please send comments on these web pages and the development of GCC to our
 
 
 
    developer mailing list at [17]gcc@gnu.org or [18]gcc@gcc.gnu.org. All of
 
 
 
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References
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   1. http://www.gnu.org/
 
 
 
   2. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.2/changes.html
 
 
 
   3. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.2/changes.html
 
 
 
   4. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.2/changes.html
 
 
 
   5. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.2/buildstat.html
 
 
 
   6. http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Contributors.html
 
 
 
   7. http://gcc.gnu.org/index.html
 
 
 
   8. mailto:gcc@gcc.gnu.org
 
 
 
   9. http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html
 
 
 
  10. http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
 
 
 
  11. http://gcc.gnu.org/svn.html
 
 
 
  12. mailto:gnu@gnu.org
 
 
 
  13. http://www.gnu.org/home.html#ContactInfo
 
 
 
  14. http://gcc.gnu.org/about.html
 
 
 
  15. http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/
 
 
 
  16. mailto:gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
 
 
 
  17. mailto:gcc@gnu.org
 
 
 
  18. mailto:gcc@gcc.gnu.org
 
 
 
  19. http://gcc.gnu.org/lists.html
 
 
 
  20. http://validator.w3.org/check/referer
 
 
 
======================================================================
 
 
 
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.2/changes.html
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                           GCC 4.2 Release Series
 
 
 
                      Changes, New Features, and Fixes
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Caveats
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     * GCC no longer accepts the -fshared-data option. This option has had no
 
 
 
       effect in any GCC 4 release; the targets to which the option used to
 
 
 
       apply had been removed before GCC 4.0.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
General Optimizer Improvements
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     * New  command-line options specify the possible relationships among
 
 
 
       parameters  and  between  parameters and global data. For example,
 
 
 
       -fargument-noalias-anything specifies that arguments do not alias any
 
 
 
       other storage.
 
 
 
       Each language will automatically use whatever option is required by the
 
 
 
       language standard. You should not need to use these options yourself.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
New Languages and Language specific improvements
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     * [1]OpenMP is now supported for the C, C++ and Fortran compilers.
 
 
 
     * New command-line options -fstrict-overflow and -Wstrict-overflow have
 
 
 
       been added. -fstrict-overflow tells the compiler that it may assume that
 
 
 
       the program follows the strict signed overflow semantics permitted for
 
 
 
       the language: for C and C++ this means that the compiler may assume that
 
 
 
       signed overflow does not occur. For example, a loop like
 
 
 
      for (i = 1; i > 0; i *= 2)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
       is presumably intended to continue looping until i overflows. With
 
 
 
       -fstrict-overflow, the compiler may assume that signed overflow will not
 
 
 
       occur, and transform this into an infinite loop. -fstrict-overflow is
 
 
 
       turned   on   by   default   at  -O2,  and  may  be  disabled  via
 
 
 
       -fno-strict-overflow. The -Wstrict-overflow option may be used to warn
 
 
 
       about cases where the compiler assumes that signed overflow will not
 
 
 
       occur. It takes five different levels: -Wstrict-overflow=1 to 5. See the
 
 
 
       [2]documentation for details. -Wstrict-overflow=1 is enabled by -Wall.
 
 
 
     * The new command-line option -fno-toplevel-reorder directs GCC to emit
 
 
 
       top-level functions, variables, and asm statements in the same order
 
 
 
       that they appear in the input file. This is intended to support existing
 
 
 
       code which relies on a particular ordering (for example, code which uses
 
 
 
       top-level  asm statements to switch sections). For new code, it is
 
 
 
       generally  better  to  use  function  and variable attributes. The
 
 
 
       -fno-toplevel-reorder option may be used for most cases which currently
 
 
 
       use -fno-unit-at-a-time. The -fno-unit-at-a-time option will be removed
 
 
 
       in some future version of GCC. If you know of a case which requires
 
 
 
       -fno-unit-at-a-time which is not fixed by -fno-toplevel-reorder, please
 
 
 
       [3]open a bug report.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  C family
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     * The  pragma  redefine_extname will now macro expand its tokens for
 
 
 
       compatibility with SunPRO.
 
 
 
     * In the next release of GCC, 4.3, -std=c99 or -std=gnu99 will direct GCC
 
 
 
       to  handle  inline  functions as specified in the C99 standard. In
 
 
 
       preparation for this, GCC 4.2 will warn about any use of non-static
 
 
 
       inline functions in gnu99 or c99 mode. This new warning may be disabled
 
 
 
       with the new gnu_inline function attribute or the new -fgnu89-inline
 
 
 
       command-line option. Also, GCC 4.2 and later will define one of the
 
 
 
       preprocessor macros __GNUC_GNU_INLINE__ or __GNUC_STDC_INLINE__ to
 
 
 
       indicate the semantics of inline functions in the current compilation.
 
 
 
     * A  new  command-line option -Waddress has been added to warn about
 
 
 
       suspicious uses of memory addresses as, for example, using the address
 
 
 
       of a function in a conditional expression, and comparisons against the
 
 
 
       memory address of a string literal. This warning is enabled by -Wall.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  C++
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     * C++ visibility handling has been overhauled.
 
 
 
       Restricted  visiblity  is propagated from classes to members, from
 
 
 
       functions to local statics, and from templates and template arguments to
 
 
 
       instantiations, unless the latter has explicitly declared visibility.
 
 
 
       The visibility attribute for a class must come between the class-key and
 
 
 
       the name, not after the closing brace.
 
 
 
       Attributes are now allowed for enums and elaborated-type-specifiers that
 
 
 
       only declare a type.
 
 
 
       Members  of  the anonymous namespace are now local to a particular
 
 
 
       translation unit, along with any other declarations which use them,
 
 
 
       though they are still treated as having external linkage for language
 
 
 
       semantics.
 
 
 
     * The (undocumented) extension which permitted templates with default
 
 
 
       arguments  to  be bound to template template parameters with fewer
 
 
 
       parameters has been removed. For example:
 
 
 
        template