For GCC 4.8 we announced the new local register allocator. Some people might (and all of us on the lists) may be looking for it under the name of LRA, so I added that in parentheses.
Gerald Index: changes.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-4.8/changes.html,v retrieving revision 1.120 diff -u -3 -p -r1.120 changes.html --- changes.html 18 Aug 2013 11:57:48 -0000 1.120 +++ changes.html 18 Aug 2013 13:25:04 -0000 @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ by this change.</p> <code>-fsanitize=thread</code>. Instructions will be instrumented to detect data races. The ThreadSanitizer is available on x86-64 GNU/Linux.</li> - <li>A new local register allocator has been implemented, which + <li>A new local register allocator (LRA) has been implemented, which replaces the 26 year old reload pass and improves generated code quality. For now it is active on the ia32 and x86-64 targets.</li>