import GCC 12.4.0.

this includes at least 85 GCC PRs fixed, 2 C, 17 C++, 16 libstdc++-v3,
at least 13 target-specific (x86, arm64, riscv mostly), and at least
24 optimisation PRs.

initial import of GCC 12.3.0.

major changes in GCC 11 included:

- The default mode for C++ is now -std=gnu++17 instead of -std=gnu++14.
- When building GCC itself, the host compiler must now suppor

initial import of GCC 12.3.0.

major changes in GCC 11 included:

- The default mode for C++ is now -std=gnu++17 instead of -std=gnu++14.
- When building GCC itself, the host compiler must now support C++11,
rather than C++98.
- Some short options of the gcov tool have been renamed: -i to -j and
-j to -H.
- ThreadSanitizer improvements.
- Introduce Hardware-assisted AddressSanitizer support.
- For targets that produce DWARF debugging information GCC now defaults
to DWARF version 5. This can produce up to 25% more compact debug
information compared to earlier versions.
- Many optimisations.
- The existing malloc attribute has been extended so that it can be
used to identify allocator/deallocator API pairs. A pair of new
-Wmismatched-dealloc and -Wmismatched-new-delete warnings are added.
- Other new warnings:
-Wsizeof-array-div, enabled by -Wall, warns about divisions of two
sizeof operators when the first one is applied to an array and the
divisor does not equal the size of the array element.
-Wstringop-overread, enabled by default, warns about calls to string
functions reading past the end of the arrays passed to them as
arguments.
-Wtsan, enabled by default, warns about unsupported features in
ThreadSanitizer (currently std::atomic_thread_fence).
- Enchanced warnings:
-Wfree-nonheap-object detects many more instances of calls to
deallocation functions with pointers not returned from a dynamic
memory allocation function.
-Wmaybe-uninitialized diagnoses passing pointers or references to
uninitialized memory to functions taking const-qualified arguments.
-Wuninitialized detects reads from uninitialized dynamically
allocated memory.
-Warray-parameter warns about functions with inconsistent array forms.
-Wvla-parameter warns about functions with inconsistent VLA forms.
- Several new features from the upcoming C2X revision of the ISO C
standard are supported with -std=c2x and -std=gnu2x.
- Several C++20 features have been implemented.
- The C++ front end has experimental support for some of the upcoming
C++23 draft.
- Several new C++ warnings.
- Enhanced Arm, AArch64, x86, and RISC-V CPU support.
- The implementation of how program state is tracked within
-fanalyzer has been completely rewritten with many enhancements.

see https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-11/changes.html for a full list.

major changes in GCC 12 include:

- An ABI incompatibility between C and C++ when passing or returning
by value certain aggregates containing zero width bit-fields has
been discovered on various targets. x86-64, ARM and AArch64
will always ignore them (so there is a C ABI incompatibility
between GCC 11 and earlier with GCC 12 or later), PowerPC64 ELFv2
always take them into account (so there is a C++ ABI
incompatibility, GCC 4.4 and earlier compatible with GCC 12 or
later, incompatible with GCC 4.5 through GCC 11). RISC-V has
changed the handling of these already starting with GCC 10. As
the ABI requires, MIPS takes them into account handling function
return values so there is a C++ ABI incompatibility with GCC 4.5
through 11.
- STABS: Support for emitting the STABS debugging format is
deprecated and will be removed in the next release. All ports now
default to emit DWARF (version 2 or later) debugging info or are
obsoleted.
- Vectorization is enabled at -O2 which is now equivalent to the
original -O2 -ftree-vectorize -fvect-cost-model=very-cheap.
- GCC now supports the ShadowCallStack sanitizer.
- Support for __builtin_shufflevector compatible with the clang
language extension was added.
- Support for attribute unavailable was added.
- Support for __builtin_dynamic_object_size compatible with the
clang language extension was added.
- New warnings:
-Wbidi-chars warns about potentially misleading UTF-8
bidirectional control characters.
-Warray-compare warns about comparisons between two operands of
array type.
- Some new features from the upcoming C2X revision of the ISO C
standard are supported with -std=c2x and -std=gnu2x.
- Several C++23 features have been implemented.
- Many C++ enhancements across warnings and -f options.

see https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-12/changes.html for a full list.

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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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initial import of GCC 5.5.0. this fixes a very large number of PRs.
280 are listed here:
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&resolution=FIXED&target_milestone=5.5
and th

initial import of GCC 5.5.0. this fixes a very large number of PRs.
280 are listed here:
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&resolution=FIXED&target_milestone=5.5
and this list is likely not complete, and not reproduced here. the
only specific change in functionality is removal of x86 "pcommit"
instruction (which was apparently never implemented.)

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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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