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diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/docs/html/17_intro/RELEASE-NOTES b/libstdc++-v3/docs/html/17_intro/RELEASE-NOTES index 1ebaf66d829..0f834224c01 100644 --- a/libstdc++-v3/docs/html/17_intro/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/libstdc++-v3/docs/html/17_intro/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -1,13 +1,13 @@ -2000-11-29 +2001-04-06 Release Notes ------------- -The Standard C++ Library v3, or libstdc++-2.90.x, is an ongoing +The Standard C++ Library v3, or libstdc++-2.9x, is an ongoing project to implement the ISO 14882 Standard C++ library as described in chapters 17 through 27 and annex D, as a drop-in replacement for the current (ARM-conformant) library. -This is the tenth snapshot of the libstdc++ rewrite. It is still +This is the eleventh snapshot of the libstdc++ rewrite. It is still incomplet and incorrekt. It's a lot less incomplete and incorrect than some of the earlier snapshots though, and quite usable. @@ -23,55 +23,27 @@ found at the following URL: New: --- -- namespace std:: is now on by default. -- choice of "C" include strategies, including the shadow header work, - or generic global to std mapping of required "C" types. -- cpu/atomicity.h tweaks, additions of ia64 and arm support. -- abstraction of atomicity.h header to support notion of os/atomicity.h files. -- addition of backward header bits -- use of system_header pragma -- Conditional use of -Werror -- preliminary support for new g++ diagnostics capabilities, including - -fdiagnostics-show-location=once -- pedantic and shadow argument warning fixes -- Ugly, yet correct mechanism for dealing with "C" math adopted, - including the use of builtins. -- updates and configure/build work to support new libtool -- addition of strstream -- valarray work -- complex work -- update to SGI STL 3.3 -- libio sync between glibc/libstdc++-v3. Some divergence since initial - merge, but sources remain quite close. -- IO fixes for alpha -- wide character work for IO when using libio -- addition of c_io_stdio and "C" IO abstraction layer. -- auto_ptr fixes, testsuite additions -- Attempts to use -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections and - --gc-sections, depending on use of GNU ld and specific features. As of - late, --gc-sections has been disabled due to problems with it throwing - away initialization sections. This work is ongoing. -- long double support -- sub directory removal, coherent organization of cpu and os-specific - files, consolidation of include directories, integration of the C++ - support bits for operator new/delete,exceptions, etc. All includes - are now either in the include/* hierarchy or in libsupc++'s sub directory. -- Support for more platforms, including irix and bsd variants. -- filebuf tweaks to deal with variable-size buffers. -- filebuf implementation for putbackc, etc. al. -- ctype rewritten. Includes ctype<char>, ctype<wchar_t>, and others. -- codecvt rewritten. Includes codecvt<char, char, mbstate_t>, - codecvt<wchar_t, char, mbstate_t>. In addition, - implementation-defined conversions using iconv are now supported with - the __enc_traits partial-specialization of the State template - parameter of the codecvt class. In this manner, conversions between - encodings such as UCS4, USC2, UNICODE, UNICODEBIG, UNICODELITTLE, etc - can be performed. -- preliminary work on named locales -- preliminary documentation for locale implementation has been established. -- Many, many bug fixes. -- Many, many testsuite additions and consistent VERIFY usage. -- work on mkcheck to make it more flexible, use libtool, etc. +- preliminary doxygen documentation has been added. Running "make + doxygen" in the libstdc++-v3 build directory will generate HTML + documentation that can be used to cross-reference names and files in + the library. +- a dejagnu based testing framework has been added +- a new implementation of the concept checking code has been ported + from the boost libraries. +- support for -fno-exceptions has been added +- stdexcept was re-written +- using deprecated or antiquated headers now gives a warning +- the stdio interface to iostreams has been tweaked, and now works + with synchronized c/c++ io +- new libsupc++ routines implementing the IA-64 C++ ABI. +- HPUX configuration files +- support for AIX added +- a lot of bugs were fixed. +- preliminary named locales implemented +- portability improvements made to generation of <limits> +- speedups to improve configuration time. +- DJGPP support added. +- support for dlopening shared libstdc++ What doesn't: ------------- @@ -108,10 +80,11 @@ Development tools: ------------------ You will need a recent version of gcc to compile the snapshot of -libstdc++. The use of CVS g++ is strongly recommended. In addition, -you may need up-to-date tools for modifying Makefiles and regenerating -configure scripts: automake (version 1.4), autoconf (version 2.13 and -higher), and libtool. +libstdc++. The use of CVS gcc, or gcc-3_0-branch is strongly +recommended, which may introduce additional dependencies for +up-to-date binutils. In addition, you may need up-to-date tools for +modifying Makefiles and regenerating configure scripts: automake +(version 1.4), autoconf (version 2.13 and higher), and libtool. |