X-Git-Url: https://oss.titaniummirror.com/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=gcc%2Fcp%2FNEWS;fp=gcc%2Fcp%2FNEWS;h=6825b9e3cfe7a5c6dfaefbdf1cb05db19097a7f9;hb=6fed43773c9b0ce596dca5686f37ac3fc0fa11c0;hp=97d4cd83f51095fdfc62e585dfdc5e8ce17f5f42;hpb=27b11d56b743098deb193d510b337ba22dc52e5c;p=msp430-gcc.git diff --git a/gcc/cp/NEWS b/gcc/cp/NEWS index 97d4cd83..6825b9e3 100644 --- a/gcc/cp/NEWS +++ b/gcc/cp/NEWS @@ -1,17 +1,23 @@ -*** Changes in GCC 3.2.2: +*** Changes in GCC 3.4: + +* Changes in GCC 3.4 are described in 'gcc-3.4/changes.html' + +*** Changes in GCC 3.3: + +* The "new X = 3" extension has been removed; you must now use "new X(3)". * G++ no longer allows in-class initializations of static data members that do not have arithmetic or enumeration type. For example: - struct S { + struct S { static const char* const p = "abc"; }; - is no longer accepted. + is no longer accepted. Use the standards-conformant form: - struct S { + struct S { static const char* const p; }; @@ -33,12 +39,12 @@ pointer to cv-qualified member function types. * The C++ ABI has been changed to correctly handle this code: - + struct A { void operator delete[] (void *, size_t); }; - struct B : public A { + struct B : public A { }; new B[10]; @@ -46,17 +52,17 @@ The amount of storage allocated for the array will be greater than it was in 3.0, in order to store the number of elements in the array, so that the correct size can be passed to `operator delete[]' - when the array is deleted. Previously, the value passed to + when the array is deleted. Previously, the value passed to `operator delete[]' was unpredictable. This change will only affect code that declares a two-argument `operator delete[]' with a second parameter of type `size_t' - in a base class, and does not override that definition in a + in a base class, and does not override that definition in a derived class. * The C++ ABI has been changed so that: - struct A { + struct A { void operator delete[] (void *, size_t); void operator delete[] (void *); }; @@ -103,7 +109,7 @@ are those whose types involve non-type template arguments whose mangled representations require more than one digit. -* Support for assignment to `this' has been removed. This idiom +* Support for assignment to `this' has been removed. This idiom was used in the very early days of C++, before users were allowed to overload `operator new'; it is no longer allowed by the C++ standard. @@ -118,15 +124,15 @@ * G++ previously allowed `sizeof (X::Y)' where Y was a non-static member of X, even if the `sizeof' expression occurred outside - of a non-static member function of X (or one of its derived classes, + of a non-static member function of X (or one of its derived classes, or a member-initializer for X or one of its derived classes.) This extension has been removed. -* G++ no longer allows you to overload the conditional operator (i.e., +* G++ no longer allows you to overload the conditional operator (i.e., the `?:' operator.) * The "named return value" extension: - + int f () return r { r = 3; } has been deprecated, and will be removed in a future version of G++. @@ -169,7 +175,7 @@ *** Changes in EGCS 1.1: -* Namespaces are fully supported. The library has not yet been converted +* Namespaces are fully supported. The library has not yet been converted to use namespace std, however, and the old std-faking code is still on by default. To turn it off, you can use -fhonor-std. @@ -244,9 +250,9 @@ but not all, the compiler will tell you where you need to add 'typename'. For more information, see - http://www.cygnus.com/misc/wp/dec96pub/template.html#temp.res + http://www.cygnus.com/misc/wp/dec96pub/template.html#temp.res - + Guiding declarations are no longer supported. Function declarations, + + Guiding declarations are no longer supported. Function declarations, including friend declarations, do not refer to template instantiations. You can restore the old behavior with -fguiding-decls until you fix your code. @@ -263,7 +269,7 @@ + Explicit instantiation of template constructors and destructors is now supported. For instance: - template A::A(const A&); + template A::A(const A&); Still not supported: @@ -309,7 +315,7 @@ converting from a bound member function pointer to function pointer). - + A flag -Weffc++ has been added for violations of some of the style + + A flag -Weffc++ has been added for violations of some of the style guidelines in Scott Meyers' _Effective C++_ books. + -Woverloaded-virtual now warns if a virtual function in a base @@ -318,9 +324,9 @@ signatures are overridden) as it did before. + -Wall no longer implies -W. The new warning flag, -Wsign-compare, - included in -Wall, warns about dangerous comparisons of signed and - unsigned values. Only the flag is new; it was previously part of - -W. + included in -Wall, warns about dangerous comparisons of signed and + unsigned values. Only the flag is new; it was previously part of + -W. + The new flag, -fno-weak, disables the use of weak symbols. @@ -330,13 +336,13 @@ * __FUNCTION__ and __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ are now treated as variables by the parser; previously they were treated as string constants. So code like - `printf (__FUNCTION__ ": foo")' must be rewritten to + `printf (__FUNCTION__ ": foo")' must be rewritten to `printf ("%s: foo", __FUNCTION__)'. This is necessary for templates. * local static variables in extern inline functions will be shared between translation units. -* -fvtable-thunks is supported for all targets, and is the default for +* -fvtable-thunks is supported for all targets, and is the default for Linux with glibc 2.x (also called libc 6.x). * bool is now always the same size as another built-in type. Previously, @@ -371,12 +377,12 @@ supported. For instance: struct A { - struct B; - B* bp; + struct B; + B* bp; }; struct A::B { - int member; + int member; }; * On the HPPA, some classes that do not define a copy constructor @@ -389,7 +395,7 @@ * Joe Buck , the maintainer of the g++ FAQ. * Brendan Kehoe , who coordinates testing of g++. * Jason Merrill , the g++ maintainer. -* Mark Mitchell , who implemented member function +* Mark Mitchell , who implemented member function templates and explicit qualification of function templates. * Mike Stump , the previous g++ maintainer, who did most of the exception handling work.