Re: Version numbers question

2015-06-22 Thread JohnT
Thanks, Andrew, a reasonable reason. Time flies and GCC or its predecessor has been around for about 25 years. In another 25, hopefully GCC will still be a leading compiler and the larger numbers won't seem awkward. Regarding what's a small vs large change, I'd say that building with C++ and newly

Re: Question about DRAP register and reserving hard registers

2015-06-22 Thread Steve Ellcey
On Fri, 2015-06-19 at 09:09 -0400, Richard Henderson wrote: > On 06/16/2015 07:05 PM, Steve Ellcey wrote: > > > > I have a question about the DRAP register (used for dynamic stack alignment) > > and about reserving/using hard registers in general. I am trying to > > understand > > where, if a dr

Re: Andreas Tobler appointed FreeBSD maintainer

2015-06-22 Thread Andreas Tobler
On 22.06.15 20:33, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: A while ago Loren James Rittle, who had been taking care of GCC on FreeBSD for many years and brought the port to modern standards, wrote the following on this list: >> I am the named maintainer of the freebsd port. I have been for >> approximately

Andreas Tobler appointed FreeBSD maintainer (was: FreeBSD users of gcc)

2015-06-22 Thread Gerald Pfeifer
A while ago Loren James Rittle, who had been taking care of GCC on FreeBSD for many years and brought the port to modern standards, wrote the following on this list: >> I am the named maintainer of the freebsd port. I have been for >> approximately twelve years; although I haven't been very

Re: Version numbers question

2015-06-22 Thread Jonathan Wakely
On 22 June 2015 at 14:55, JohnT wrote: > I am wondering why it appears that GCC has started drastically raising its > major version number for minor changes, instead of spending several years > on version 3 and 4. 4.0.1, 4.1.1 and 4.12, 4.2.3, 4.3.2, 4.4.5, up through > 4.7.0, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, the 4.8

Re: Version numbers question

2015-06-22 Thread Ilya Verbin
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 08:55:03 -0500, JohnT wrote: > I am wondering why it appears that GCC has started drastically raising its > major version number for minor changes, instead of spending several years > on version 3 and 4. 4.0.1, 4.1.1 and 4.12, 4.2.3, 4.3.2, 4.4.5, up through > 4.7.0, 4.7.1,

Re: Version numbers question

2015-06-22 Thread pinskia
> On Jun 22, 2015, at 6:55 AM, JohnT wrote: > > I am wondering why it appears that GCC has started drastically raising its > major version number for minor changes, instead of spending several years > on version 3 and 4. 4.0.1, 4.1.1 and 4.12, 4.2.3, 4.3.2, 4.4.5, up through > 4.7.0, 4.7.1, 4

Version numbers question

2015-06-22 Thread JohnT
I am wondering why it appears that GCC has started drastically raising its major version number for minor changes, instead of spending several years on version 3 and 4. 4.0.1, 4.1.1 and 4.12, 4.2.3, 4.3.2, 4.4.5, up through 4.7.0, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, the 4.8 and 4.9 releases, then version 5.1 and talking

Re: dwarf DW_AT_decl_name: system headers vs source files?

2015-06-22 Thread Michael Matz
Hi, On Sat, 20 Jun 2015, DJ Delorie wrote: > Note that the DW_AT_decl_file refers to "dj.h" and not "dj.c". If you > remove the "3" from the '# 1 "dj.h" 1 3' line, the DW_AT_decl_file > instead refers to "dj.c". It's been this way for many releases. > > Is this intentional? I think it came

GCC 5.1.1 Status Report (2015-06-22)

2015-06-22 Thread Richard Biener
Status == I plan to release GCC 5.2.0 around July 10th which means a release candidate being done around July 3rd. Please check your open regression bugs for ones that eligible for backporting. Also please help getting the P1 bug count to zero (there is still the ARM aligned argument passin

Re: Possible range based 'for' bug

2015-06-22 Thread Jonathan Wakely
On 22 June 2015 at 10:18, Paulo Matos wrote: > > >> -Original Message- >> From: gcc-ow...@gcc.gnu.org [mailto:gcc-ow...@gcc.gnu.org] On Behalf >> Of Julian Klappenbach >> Sent: 21 June 2015 16:56 >> To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org >> Subject: Re: Possible range based 'for' bug >> >> Version info: >> >>

RE: Possible range based 'for' bug

2015-06-22 Thread Paulo Matos
> -Original Message- > From: gcc-ow...@gcc.gnu.org [mailto:gcc-ow...@gcc.gnu.org] On Behalf > Of Julian Klappenbach > Sent: 21 June 2015 16:56 > To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org > Subject: Re: Possible range based 'for' bug > > Version info: > > Configured with: > --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Co

June 2015 GNU Toolchain Update

2015-06-22 Thread Nick Clifton
Hi Guys, In this month's news we have: * GCC now supports a "noplt" function attribute. This specifies that the annotated function should not be called via the PLT mechanism. * GCC now supports a "target ()" function attribute to enable target specific options on individual fu