Hi Guys,
Well now that GCC 6 is out lets see what new features have started
to appear in the toolchain:
Several new warning options have been added to GCC:
* The option -Wno-duplicate-decl-specifier has been added to
generate warnings whenever a declaration contains duplicate const,
volatile, restrict or _Atomic specifiers. This warning is enabled
by -Wall.
* The option -Wignored-attributes warns when an attribute is
correctly assigned, but the compiler decided to ignore it anyway.
This is different from the -Wattributes which warns when an
attribute is either unknown or used in the wrong place.
* The option -Wswitch-unreachable warns whenever a switch statement
contains statements between the controlling expression and the
first case label, which will never be executed. For example:
switch (cond)
{
i = 15;
case 5:
<code>
The option does not warn if the statement(s) between the
controlling expression and the first case label are just variable
declarations:
switch (cond)
{
int i;
case 5:
<code>
* The option -Wdangling-else warns about constructions where there
may be confusion to which if statement an else branch belongs.
For example:
if (a)
if (b)
foo ();
else
bar ();
* The option -Wmemset-elt-size warns about suspicious calls to
the memset function, if the first argument references an array,
and the third argument is a number equal to the number of
elements, but not equal to the size of the array in memory.
For example:
int array[10];
memset (array, 0, 10); // Should be: memset (array, 0, 10 * sizeof
(int));
A new point release of GDB is out: 7.11.1. This is a bugfix release
addressing these issues:
* PR remote/19863 (7.10 regression: gdb remote.c due to "setfs" with
gdbserver < 7.7)
* PR gdb/19829 (gdb crashes with PT and reverse next)
* PR gdb/19676 (gdb fails with assert error if /proc is not mounted)
* PR gdb/19828 (7.11 regression: non-stop gdb -p <process from a
container>: internal error)
* PR remote/19840 (gdb crashes on reverse-stepi)
* PR gdb/19858 (GDB doesn't register the JIT libraries on attach)
* PR gdb/19958 (Breakpoints/watchpoints broken on MIPS Linux <= 4.5)
* PR build/20029 (symfile.c ambiguous else warning)
* PR python/20037 (GDB use-after-free error)
* PR gdb/20039 (Using MI/all-stop, can't interrupt multi-threaded
program after continue)a
In the development GDB sources a couple of new features have been
added:
* Fortran: Support structures with fields of dynamic types and
arrays of dynamic types.
* Rust language support.
GDB now supports debugging programs written in the Rust
programming language.
Development in the binutils has mostly concentrated on bugfixing,
but there have been a few new features added:
* The ARM port of GAS now has support for the ARMv8-M architecture,
including the security and DSP extensions.
* The ARC port of GAS now accepts .extInstruction, .extCondCode,
.extAuxRegister, and .extCoreRegister pseudo-ops that allow an
user to define custom instructions, conditional codes, auxiliary
and core registers.
* The MIPS port of GAS can now generate code for the DSP Release 3
Application Specific Extension.
* Linker scripts can now use a NOCROSSREFSTO directive. This is
like the NOCROSSREFS directive which ensures that two or more
output sections are entirely independent from each other, except
that it does allow one way referencing. The NOCROSSREFS_TO
directive takes a list of output section names and complains if
the first section is referenced from any of the other sections.
Cheers
Nick
