Release Plan

The following table lists the various milestones planned for the current release of the Core Development Tools:

Features

Binutils 2.17 port

• Support added for ARM V6.
• Support added for ARM VFP floating-point instruction set.
• Support added for SH4a and variants.
• Support added for SSE3 instructions.

GCC 4.2.1 port

• New C parser (available in gcc 4.1 and newer). Yacc-based C parser was replaced with a faster hand-written parser.
• New C++ parser (availble in gcc 3.4 and newer). g++ is now much closer to full conformance to the ISO/ANSI C++ standard.
• New optimization framework based on SSA. New code transformations include dead store elimination, constant propagation, value range propagation, load and store motion, strength reduction and many more.
• Optimized ARM floating point emulation routines.
• Support for precompiled headers.
• Open MP support is now added to for the C, C++ front ends.
• Mudflap pointer checking. (required ldd support in development)

GDB 6.7 port

• Pending breakpoint support added.
• Handling of C++ nested types, namespaces and mangled names have improved.
• Support added for C/C++ preprocessor macros.