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[RFC,wwwdocs] Internal GCC changes in 4.6

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Laurynas Biveinis Jan. 19, 2011, 9:31 a.m. UTC 
There are GCC frontends and backends that live outside the tree and only track major GCC
releases instead of daily development in svn.  Now also with plugins, the amount of
software that somehow uses GCC at the source level is only going to increase.

Why not try to make life easier for their maintainers and document some of the internal
GCC changes between the versions?  I propose adding a new section at the end of
changes.html.  If the idea is acceptable in principle, then any suggestions/fixes to
language are most welcome.

Of course, then this new section needs attention from various maintainers to fill it with
content.

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Gerald Pfeifer Jan. 21, 2011, 8:56 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Laurynas Biveinis wrote:
> There are GCC frontends and backends that live outside the tree and only 
> track major GCC releases instead of daily development in svn.  Now also 
> with plugins, the amount of software that somehow uses GCC at the source 
> level is only going to increase.
> 
> Why not try to make life easier for their maintainers and document some 
> of the internal GCC changes between the versions?

I like this very much.

Index: changes.html
===================================================================
+<h2>GCC developer changes</h2>

How about making this "Changing for GCC Developers" or something
like this which seems more clear?

+    The <code>gengtype</code> utility, which previously was internal to
+    GCC build process, has been enchanced to provide GC root

"the GCC build process"

Thanks,
Gerald
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Index: changes.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-4.6/changes.html,v
retrieving revision 1.90
diff -u -r1.90 changes.html
--- changes.html	17 Jan 2011 01:55:22 -0000	1.90
+++ changes.html	19 Jan 2011 09:25:35 -0000
@@ -717,5 +717,23 @@ 
     </li>
   </ul>

+<h2>GCC developer changes</h2>
+
+<p>Note: these changes concern developers that develop GCC itself or
+  software that integrates with GCC, such as plugins, and not the
+  general GCC users.</p>
+
+<ul>
+  <li>
+    The <code>gengtype</code> utility, which previously was internal to
+    GCC build process, has been enchanced to provide GC root
+    information for plugins as necessary.
+  </li>
+  <li>
+    The old GC allocation interface of <code>ggc_alloc</code> and
+    friends was replaced with a type-safe alternative.
+  </li>
+</ul>
+
 </body>
 </html>