initial import of GCC 10.3.0. main changes include:

caveats:
- ABI issue between c++14 and c++17 fixed
- profile mode is removed from libstdc++
- -fno-common is now the default

new features:
- new

initial import of GCC 10.3.0. main changes include:

caveats:
- ABI issue between c++14 and c++17 fixed
- profile mode is removed from libstdc++
- -fno-common is now the default

new features:
- new flags -fallocation-dce, -fprofile-partial-training,
-fprofile-reproducible, -fprofile-prefix-path, and -fanalyzer
- many new compile and link time optimisations
- enhanced drive optimisations
- openacc 2.6 support
- openmp 5.0 features
- new warnings: -Wstring-compare and -Wzero-length-bounds
- extended warnings: -Warray-bounds, -Wformat-overflow,
-Wrestrict, -Wreturn-local-addr, -Wstringop-overflow,
-Warith-conversion, -Wmismatched-tags, and -Wredundant-tags
- some likely C2X features implemented
- more C++20 implemented
- many new arm & intel CPUs known

hundreds of reported bugs are fixed. full list of changes
can be found at:

https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-10/changes.html

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import GCC 6.5.0. this is largely a maint release with no
particularly features listed here:

http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-6/changes.html

this fixes over 250 PRs in the GCC bugzilla:

https://gcc.g

import GCC 6.5.0. this is largely a maint release with no
particularly features listed here:

http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-6/changes.html

this fixes over 250 PRs in the GCC bugzilla:

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&resolution=FIXED&target_milestone=6.5

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import GCC 4.8 branch at r206687.

highlights from: http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/changes.html

GCC now has stricter checks for invalid command-line options
New -Wunused-but-set-variable and -Wunu

import GCC 4.8 branch at r206687.

highlights from: http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/changes.html

GCC now has stricter checks for invalid command-line options
New -Wunused-but-set-variable and -Wunused-but-set-parameter
warnings
Many platforms have been obsoleted
Link-time optimization improvements
A new switch -fstack-usage has been added
A new function attribute leaf was introduced
A new warning, enabled by -Wdouble-promotion
Support for selectively enabling and disabling warnings via
#pragma GCC diagnostic has been added
There is now experimental support for some features from the
upcoming C1X revision of the ISO C standard
Improved experimental support for the upcoming C++0x ISO C++
standard
G++ now issues clearer diagnostics in several cases
Updates for ARM, x86, MIPS, PPC/PPC64, SPARC
Darwin, FreeBSD, Solaris 2, MinGW and Cygwin now all support
__float128 on 32-bit and 64-bit x86 targets. [*1]

highlights from: http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.7/changes.html

The -fconserve-space flag has been deprecated
Support for a new parameter --param case-values-threshold=n
was added
Interprocedural and Link-time optimization improvements
A new built-in, __builtin_assume_aligned, has been added
A new warning option -Wunused-local-typedefs was added
A new experimental command-line option -ftrack-macro-expansion
was added
Support for atomic operations specifying the C++11/C11 memory
model has been added
There is support for some more features from the C11 revision
of the ISO C standard
Improved experimental support for the new ISO C++ standard,
C++11
Updates for ARM, x86, MIPS, PPC/PPC64, SH, SPARC, TILE*
A new option (-grecord-gcc-switches) was added

highlights from: http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/changes.html

GCC now uses C++ as its implementation language. This means
that to build GCC from sources, you will need a C++
compiler that understands C++ 2003
DWARF4 is now the default when generating DWARF debug
information
A new general optimization level, -Og, has been introduced
A new option -ftree-partial-pre was added
The option -fconserve-space has been removed
The command-line options -fipa-struct-reorg and
-fipa-matrix-reorg have been removed
Interprocedural and Link-time optimization improvements
AddressSanitizer, a fast memory error detector, has been
added [*2]
A new -Wsizeof-pointer-memaccess warning has been added
G++ now supports a -std=c++1y option for experimentation
with features proposed for the next revision of the
standard, expected around 2014
Improved experimental support for the new ISO C++ standard,
C++11
A new port has been added to support AArch64
Updates for ARM, x86, MIPS, PPC/PPC64, SH, SPARC, TILE*


[*1] we should support this too!
[*2] we should look into this.
https://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/

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initial import of GCC 4.5.3 sources. changes since 4.1 are way too numerous
to review, please see http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.5/changes.html (and the 4.2,
4.3 and 4.4 versions, too.)

this includes the

initial import of GCC 4.5.3 sources. changes since 4.1 are way too numerous
to review, please see http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.5/changes.html (and the 4.2,
4.3 and 4.4 versions, too.)

this includes the core, c++, objc and the non java/ada/fortran parts of the
testsuite.

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