Message-Id: <199909301335.JAA25123@delorie.com> From: pavenis AT lanet DOT lv To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 15:22:30 +0300 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Subject: ANNOUNCE: gcc-2.95.1 for DJGPP Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com This is an announcement of DJGPP port of gcc-2.95.1 and some additional packages: GCC-2.95.1 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. It includes C, C++, Objective-C and GNU Fortran compilers with corresponding libraries. There are too much new features in gcc-2.95.1 against gcc-2.8.1 and egcs-1.1.2 that it's difficult to name them all here. libg++-2.8.1.3 This is addon for current gcc releases (e.g. gcc-2.95.1) and libstdc++. It is needed only if your applications depend on libg++ and you cannot easily remove the dependency on libg++. The standalone libg++ is no longer needed. Note that this package is no longer being maintained. which are available from DJGPP distribution in Simtelnet (and mirror sites) in directory v2gnu: ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu For information what's new in gcc-2.95.1 and gcc-2.95 see http://egcs.cygnus.com/gcc-2.95/gcc-2.95.1.html http://egcs.cygnus.com/gcc-2.95/gcc-2.95.html There are 7 archives: readme-gcc295.txt - readme file from DJGPP port of GCC-2.95.1. It's in separate file to avoid need to download large archives to get this file. gcc2951s.zip - sources of gcc-2.95.1 and libg++-2.8.1.3 for DJGPP. I put all sources in a single archive. This file is only needed if You're want to rebuild gcc-2.95.1 from sources. gcc2951b.zip - binaries of C compiler gpp2951b.zip - binaries of C++ compiler (needs gcc2951b.zip) g772951b.zip - binaries of Fortran compiler (needs gcc2951b.zip) objc2951.zip - binaries of Objective C compiler (needs gcc2951b.zip) lgp2951b.zip - binaries and header files of libg++-2.8.1.3 (useless without gcc2951b.zip and gpp2951b.zip) gcc2951s2.zip - shell script and patches for original gcc-2.95.1 (and libg++-2.8.1.3) sources. I used them to generate gcc-2.95.1 sources for DJGPP (later archived in gcc2951s.zip). (Note that CHILL and JAVA compiler binaries are not made available as they are not ready for general use, more exactly not tested at all. I don't know when this will change. I don't have any plans in that direction) Files user need: Programming languages Needed files C gcc2951b.zip C++ gcc2951b.zip, gpp2951b.zip (and possibly also lgp2951b.zip) Fortran gcc2951b.zip, g772951b.zip Objective-C gcc2951b.zip, objc2951.zip Pascal Sorry, not supported. Use port of egcs-1.1.2 instead NOTE: gcc2951b.zip contains file cxxfilt.exe and there is file with same name in binutils (bnu281b.zip). You can safely overwrite the old one. For more information about this port see archive gnu/gcc-2.951/readme.DJGPP after unpacking either gcc2951b.zip or gcc2951s.zip or get file readme-gcc295.txt from directory v2gnu in DJGPP distribution Also please DON'T mix C++ libraries (or object files) built with different compiler versions. C++ sources should be recompiled (seems that there is no need to do this for C sources). System requirements: DJGPP-2.02 or above (otherwise exceptions will not work at all) binutils-2.8.1 (2.9.1 recommended however official port is not yet available) Some warning for users of C++. C++ compiler in gcc-2.95.1 does more strict syntax checking as earlier versions of gcc and egcs. As result errors are generated in many places where earlier one got warnings. Happy hacking Andris Pavenis ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is official announcement of gcc-2.95.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- GCC 2.95.1 August 19, 1999 The GNU project and the GCC/EGCS developers are pleased to announce the release of GCC version 2.95.1. 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. This is a minor release to address several bugs in the GCC version 2.95 release. * Generic bugfixes and improvements + Various documentation fixes related to the GCC/EGCS merger. + Fix memory management bug which could lead to spurious aborts, core dumps or random parsing errors in the compiler. + Fix a couple bugs in the dwarf1 and dwarf2 debug record support. + Fix infinite loop in the CSE optimizer. + Avoid undefined behavior in compiler FP emulation code + Fix install problem when prefix is overridden on the make install command. + Fix problem with unwanted installation of assert.h on some systems. + Fix problem with finding the wrong assembler in a single tree build. + Avoid increasing the known alignment of a register that is already known to be a pointer. * Platform specific bugfixes and improvements + Codegen bugfix for prologue/epilogue for cpu32 target. + Fix long long code generation bug for the Coldfire target. + Fix various aborts in the SH compiler. + Fix bugs in libgcc support library for the SH. + Fix alpha ev6 code generation bug. + Fix problems with EXIT_SUCCESS/EXIT_FAILURE redefinitions on AIX platforms. + Fix -fpic code generation bug for rs6000/ppc svr4 targets. + Fix varargs/stdarg code generation bug for rs6000/ppc svr4 targets. + Fix weak symbol handling for rs6000/ppc svr4 targets. + Fix various problems with 64bit code generation for the rs6000/ppc port. + Fix codegen bug which cuased tetex to be mis-compiled on the x86 + Fix compiler abort in new cfg code exposed by x86 port. + Fix out of range array reference in code convert flat registers to the x87 stacked FP register file. + Fix minor vxworks configuration bug + Fix return type of bsearch for SunOS 4.x. * Language & Runtime specific fixes. + The G++ signature extension has been deprecated. It will be removed in the next major release of G++. Use of signatures will result in a warning from the compiler. + Several bugs relating to templates and namespaces were fixed. + A bug that caused crashes when combining templates with -g on DWARF1 platforms was fixed. + Pointers-to-members, virtual functions, and multiple inheritance should now work together correctly. + Some code-generation bugs relating to function try blocks were fixed. + G++ is a little bit more lenient with certain archaic constructs than in GCC 2.95. + Fix to prevent shared library version #s from bring truncated to 1 digit + Fix missing std:: in the libstdc++ library. + Fix stream locking problems in libio. + Fix problem in java compiler driver. The whole suite has been extensively [1]regression tested and [2]package tested. It should be reliable and suitable for widespread use. The compiler has several new optimizations, new targets, new languages and other new features. See the [3]new features page for a more complete list of new features found in the GCC 2.95 releases. The sources include installation instructions in both HTML and plaintext forms in the install directory in the distribution. However, the most up to date [4]installation instructions and [5]build/test status are on the web pages. We will update those pages as new information becomes available. The GCC developers would like to thank the numerous people that have contributed new features, test results, bugfixes, etc to GCC. This [6]amazing group of volunteers is what makes GCC successful. And finally, we can't in good conscience fail to mention some [7]caveats to using GCC 2.95.1. Download GCC 2.95.1 from the [8]GNU FTP server (ftp://ftp.gnu.org) Download GCC 2.95.1 from the [9]GCC/EGCS FTP server (ftp://go.cygnus.com) [10]Find a GNU mirror site [11]Find a GCC/EGCS mirror site For additional information about GCC please see the [12]GCC project web server or contact the [13]GCC development mailing list. _____________________________________________________________ ____ Last modified on August 19, 1999. References 1. http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc-2.95/regress.html 2. http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc-2.95/othertest.html 3. http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc-2.95/features.html 4. http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/install/index.html 5. http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc-2.95/buildstat.html 6. http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/thanks.html 7. http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc-2.95/caveats.html 8. ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gcc/ 9. ftp://go.cygnus.com/pub/sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html 10. http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html 11. http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/mirrors.html 12. http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/index.html 13. mailto:gcc AT gcc DOT gnu DOT org