From patchwork Tue Nov 1 15:17:43 2011 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Gerald Pfeifer X-Patchwork-Id: 123082 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from sourceware.org (server1.sourceware.org [209.132.180.131]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 918F0B6F85 for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2011 02:18:05 +1100 (EST) Received: (qmail 17815 invoked by alias); 1 Nov 2011 15:18:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 17799 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Nov 2011 15:18:00 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ainaz.pair.com (HELO ainaz.pair.com) (209.68.2.66) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:17:46 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.130] (vie-188-118-240-137.dsl.sil.at [188.118.240.137]) by ainaz.pair.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D6D783F410 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2011 11:17:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 16:17:43 +0100 (CET) From: Gerald Pfeifer To: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org Subject: [wwwdocs] Prepare GCC 4.7 release notes for the release Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org Delivered-To: mailing list gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org ...at least somwhat, and also to then serve as a better template for the following release. Sort ARM, MIPS and picochip alphabetically, add an anchor for MIPS. Comment out empty sections. Applied. Gerald Index: changes.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-4.7/changes.html,v retrieving revision 1.52 diff -u -r1.52 changes.html --- changes.html 1 Nov 2011 03:56:01 -0000 1.52 +++ changes.html 1 Nov 2011 15:10:07 -0000 @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@

GCC 4.7 Release Series
Changes, New Features, and Fixes

+

Caveats

    @@ -51,6 +52,7 @@ obsoleted in GCC 4.6.
+

General Optimizer Improvements

    @@ -168,6 +170,7 @@
+

New Languages and Language specific improvements

    @@ -399,10 +402,23 @@
+ +

New Targets and Target Specific Improvements

+

ARM

+
    +
  • The default vector size in auto-vectorization for NEON is now 128 bits. + If vectorization fails thusly, the vectorizer tries again with + 64-bit vectors.
    • +
  • A new option -mvectorize-with-neon-double was added to + allow users to change the vector size to 64 bits.
    • + +
+

C6X

  • Support has been added for the Texas Instruments C6X family of @@ -430,6 +446,14 @@
  • ...
+ + + +

PowerPC/PowerPC64

  • Vectors of type vector long long or vector long are @@ -448,8 +472,6 @@
-

MIPS

-

SPARC

  • The option -mflat has been reinstated. When it is @@ -490,19 +512,11 @@ default on UltraSPARC T3 (Niagara 3) and later CPUs.
-

picochip

- -

ARM

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    -
  • The default vector size in auto-vectorization for NEON is now 128 bits. - If vectorization fails thusly, the vectorizer tries again with - 64-bit vectors.
    • -
  • A new option -mvectorize-with-neon-double was added to - allow users to change the vector size to 64 bits.
    • - -
+ +

Other significant improvements