include here:
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/changes.htmlhttp://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-5/changes.html
(note that GCC 5.x is a release stream like GCC 4.9.x, 4.8.x, etc.)
the main issues we will have are:
The default mode for C is now -std=gnu11 instead of -std=gnu89.
ARM:
The deprecated option -mwords-little-endian has been removed.
The options -mapcs, -mapcs-frame, -mtpcs-frame and -mtpcs-leaf-frame
which are only applicable to the old ABI have been deprecated.
MIPS:
The o32 ABI has been modified and extended. The o32 64-bit
floating-point register support is now obsolete and has been removed.
It has been replaced by three ABI extensions FPXX, FP64A, and FP64.
The meaning of the -mfp64 command-line option has changed. It is now
used to enable the FP64A and FP64 ABI extensions.
instead of ac_install_sh="$ac_aux_dir/$ac_t -c"
in all configure scripts in the gcc/dist tree.
This ensures that the install-sh script is always run
under the correct shell.
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/
50617 [4.5/4.6/4.7 Regression] ICE: RTL flag check: INSN_ANNULLED_BRANCH_P used with unexpected rtx code 'simplify_immed_subreg' in output_bb, at config/pa/pa.c:6631
45383 [4.5 Regression] Implicit conversion to pointer does no longer automatically generate operator== and operator!=.
45606 [4.5 Regression] match a method prototyped a typedef alias with the original type (using stdlib)
47398 [4.5 Regression] tree check: accessed elt 10 of tree_vec with 9 elts in tsubst, at cp/pt.c:10500
49951 [4.5/4.6/4.7 Regression] Debug stepping behavior regarding g++ Class destructor has changed for the worse starting at gcc 4.5.0
43190 [4.4 Regression] Used pointer typedefs eliminated from debug info
43866 [4.4 Regression] wrong code with -fbounds-check -funswitch-loops
43897 [4.4 Regression] IA-64 asm clobbers are ignored
44777 [4.4 Regression] ICE: SIGSEGV with -fprofile-use in gcc.c-torture/execute/comp-goto-2.c
46985 [4.5 Regression] ICE: SIGSEGV in is_gimple_min_invariant (gimple.c:2742) with -fno-tree-ccp -fno-tree-dominator-opts -fno-tree-fre
47780 [4.5 Regression] -fcompare-debug failure with -O -fgcse -fgcse-las -fstack-protector-all
47858 [4.5/4.6/4.7 Regression] IPA-SRA decreases quality of debug info
47903 [4.5 Regression] var-tracking.c: valgrind error
48685 [4.5 Regression] ICE in gimplify_expr, at gimplify.c:7034
52139 [4.5 Regression] ICE: in remove_insn, at emit-rtl.c:3960 with -O -fPIC -fno-tree-dominator-opts -fno-tree-fre
48046 [4.5 Regression] Expected diagnostic "reference to 'type' is ambiguous" not given for function-local static declaration
51406 [4.5/4.6/4.7 Regression][c++0x] Incorrect result of static_cast to rvalue reference to base class.
43949 [4.4 Regression] bogus warning: array subscript is above array bounds
45982 [4.4 Regression] PTA does not track integers
48172 [4.5 Regression] incorrect vectorization of loop in GCC 4.5.* with -O3
49115 [4.5 Regression] invalid return value optimization (?) when exception is thrown and caught
49279 [4.5 Regression] Optimization incorrectly presuming constant variable inside loop in g++ 4.5 and 4.6 with -O2 and -O3 for x86_64 targets
50189 [4.5 Regression] Wrong code error in -O2 [-fstrict-enums] compile, target independent
48660 [4.5/4.6 Regression] ARM ICE in expand_expr_real_1
23656 Cross-compilation with newlib fails in libiberty
37985 [4.5/4.6/4.7/4.8 Regression] unsigned char shift lacks "statement with no effect" warning
38292 [4.5/4.6/4.7/4.8 Regression] corrupted profile info with -O[23] -fprofile-use
40778 [4.5 Regression] Mudflap instrumentation missing in cloned function.
40992 [4.4 Regression] cunroll ignoring asm size
48306 [4.4 Regression] presence of gcc subdir with . in PATH causes breakdown
49651 [4.4 Regression] nested lambdas and -O3 produced incorrect integer variable increments
52223 [4.5/4.6 Regression] libffi's man page install breaks with multilibs and overridden mandir
53418 [4.5 Regression] ICE at gimplify.c:7773
53138 [4.7 Regression] spaceship operator miscompiled
50091 [4.5/4.6/4.7 Regression] -fstack-check generates wrong assembly
50979 architecture mismatch: "mul32" not enabled for "smul" or "umul"
51187 miscompilation of genrecog.c at -O2 for --target=avr
52717 thunk referenced in discarded section when building samba with -flto
48742 [4.5 Regression] Internal error in gimplify_expr
49120 [4.5 Regression] bogus "value computed is not used" warning (variable-length array in compound statement)
49161 [4.5 Regression] Fix VRP on switch stmts
49619 [4.5 Regression] ICE in simplify_subreg, at simplify-rtx.c:5362
49621 [4.5 regression] ICE in trunc_int_for_mode, at explow.c:57
49644 [4.5 Regression] post-increment of promoted operand is incorrect.
51767 [4.5 Regression] ICE with degenerated asm goto
51768 [4.5 Regression] ICE with invalid asm goto
52736 [4.5/4.6/4.7/4.8 Regression] miscompilation: store to aliased __m128d is 8 Bytes off
49440 [4.6 regression] Invalid dynamic_cast for unnamed namespace
50565 [4.5/4.6/4.7 Regression] initializer element is not computable at load time
52294 [4.7 Regression] [ARM Thumb] generated asm code produces "branch out of range" error in gas with -Os -mcpu=cortex-a9
41159 [LTO] ICE in insert_value_copy_on_edge, at tree-outof-ssa.c:225
48822 [4.5 Regression] G++ gets stucks and never finishes compilation when enabling -O2/3 optimization options.
50162 [4.5 Regression] Wrong vectorization
49381 Unresolved symbols in libgcjgc.a when linking gctest
45786 [4.5 Regression] Relational operators .eq. and == are not recognized as equivalent
48708 Invalid V2DI vector set insn generated
50464 Using -Ofast -march=bdver1 results in internal compiler error: in extract_insn, at recog.c:2109
51821 [4.5/4.6/4.7 Regression] 64bit > 32bit conversion produces incorrect results with optimizations
52698 -maddress-mode=long doesn't work
53228 [4.6/4.7/4.8 Regression] target attributes in libcpp/lex.c cause illegal instructions to be used elsewhere
42082 [C++0x] ICE on probably invalid with "canonical types differ for identical types"
42652 vectorizer created unaligned vector insns
42856 [4.4 Regression] FAIL: gcc.dg/torture/pr41555.c -O0 (test for excess errors)
47733 psignal (int, const? char*) in libiberty/strsignal.h
48743 -march=native mis-detects AMD K6-2+ / K6-3 as Athlon - compiled C fails with "illegal instruction"
49038 [4.5/4.6/4.7 Regression] -ftree-vectorise introduces reads past end of array
49448 arm-tab-linux-gnu-eabi enableds big endian when it should not
49461 boehm-gc and gcj incompatible with pie
50875 O3 and -mavx lead to internal compiler error: in find_reloads
51161 [C++0x] Illegal static_cast to rvalue reference to ambiguous base class
51393 Wrong parameter type for _mm256_insert_epi64 in avxintrin.h
51444 [4.4 Regression]: Spurious "is used uninitialized" warning for structure with bitfields
51835 ARM EABI violation when passing arguments to helper floating functions like __aeabi_d2iz
52894 [4.5,4.6,4.7 Regression] Stage1 bootstrap fails with gcc-4.6.3: Infinite loop in pointer_set_insert
53310 [4.5/4.6/4.7/4.8 Regression] EOSHIFT leaks memory
53744 gcov version oscillates between 407* and 407p on branches
52335 [4.4/4.5/4.6/4.7 Regression] I/O: -std=f95 rejects valid DELIM= in OPEN
46192 [4.5/4.6/4.7 regression] wrong code for renaming of volatile packed array with address clause
44581 [4.5/4.6/4.7 Regression] internal compiler error: in simplify_subreg
49307 [4.5/4.6/4.7 Regression] ICE in spill_failure, at reload1.c:2113
50163 [4.4/4.5/4.6/4.7 Regression] ICE: initialization expression
50273 [4.5/4.6/4.7 Regression] -Walign-commons no longer effective
52022 [4.5/4.6/4.7 Regression] Wrong-code with procedures passed as actual argument
52452 [4.5/4.6/4.7/4.8 Regression] INTRINSIC cannot be applied to gfortran's ETIME
25973 [4.5/4.6/4.7/4.8 Regression] Wrong warning: control reaches end of non-void function
53521 [4.5/4.6/4.7/4.8 Regression] Memory leak with zero-sized array constructor
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.
