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[wwwdocs] Document recent (and less recent) SPARC changes

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Eric Botcazou Sept. 11, 2011, 9:20 p.m. UTC 
This documents the recent changes made to the SPARC port, as well as an old one 
made for GCC 4.3 but that wasn't documented at the time.

OK to install?

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Gerald Pfeifer Sept. 11, 2011, 10:49 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011, Eric Botcazou wrote:
> This documents the recent changes made to the SPARC port, as well as an 
> old one made for GCC 4.3 but that wasn't documented at the time.
> 
> OK to install?

Lovely.

(Well, to live up to my reviewer's reputation :-) and provide a
nanonit, perhaps omit "and later"?)

Gerald
Eric Botcazou Sept. 12, 2011, 7:44 a.m. UTC | #2 
> (Well, to live up to my reviewer's reputation :-) and provide a
> nanonit, perhaps omit "and later"?)

Installed with this change, thanks.
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Index: htdocs/gcc-4.3/changes.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-4.3/changes.html,v
retrieving revision 1.124
diff -u -r1.124 changes.html
--- htdocs/gcc-4.3/changes.html	27 Jun 2011 11:00:44 -0000	1.124
+++ htdocs/gcc-4.3/changes.html	11 Sep 2011 21:18:30 -0000
@@ -922,6 +922,12 @@ 
     </li>
  </ul>
 
+<h3>SPARC</h3>
+  <ul>
+    <li>Support for the Sun UltraSPARC T2 (Niagara 2) processor has been
+        added.</li>
+  </ul>
+
 <h3>Xtensa</h3>
   <ul>
     <li>Stack unwinding for exception handling now uses by default a
Index: htdocs/gcc-4.7/changes.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-4.7/changes.html,v
retrieving revision 1.27
diff -u -r1.27 changes.html
--- htdocs/gcc-4.7/changes.html	6 Sep 2011 11:32:30 -0000	1.27
+++ htdocs/gcc-4.7/changes.html	11 Sep 2011 21:18:30 -0000
@@ -292,6 +292,19 @@ 
 
 <h3>MIPS</h3>
 
+<h3>SPARC</h3>
+  <ul>
+    <li>The option <code>-mflat</code> has been reinstated.  When it is
+        specified, the compiler will generate code for a single register
+        window model.  This is essentially a new implementation and the
+        associated debugger support has been added to GDB 7.4 and later.</li>
+    <li>Support for the options <code>-mtune=native</code> and
+        <code>-mcpu=native</code> has been added on selected native platforms
+        (GNU/Linux and Solaris).</li>
+    <li>Support for the Sun UltraSPARC T3 (Niagara 3) processor has been
+        added.</li>
+  </ul>
+
 <h3 id="picochip">picochip</h3>
 
 <h3 id="arm">ARM</h3>