I've applied this patch to include the new C extension __auto_type in the 4.9 release notes.
Index: changes.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-4.9/changes.html,v retrieving revision 1.44 diff -u -r1.44 changes.html --- changes.html 2 Dec 2013 21:44:13 -0000 1.44 +++ changes.html 5 Dec 2013 16:06:49 -0000 @@ -162,6 +162,9 @@ issues (mainly but not entirely relating to optional C99 features from Annexes F and G) and the optional Annexes K (Bounds-checking interfaces) and L (Analyzability).</li> + + <li>A new C extension <code>__auto_type</code> provides a subset of + the functionality of C++11 <code>auto</code> in GNU C.</li> </ul> <h3 id="cxx">C++</h3> -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com