Release Plan#
The following table lists the various milestones planned for the current release of the Core Development Tools:
Milestone | Planned date | Status |
Project goes public | September 12, 2007 | 100% |
Binutils 2.17 port completed | September 2007 | 80% |
GCC 4.2.1 port completed | September 2007 | 80% |
GDB 6.6 port completed | October 2007 | 50% |
Release | 4Q07 | . |
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
GDB 6.6 port#
- Pending breakpoint support added.
- Handling of C++ nested types, namespaces and mangled names have improved.
- Support added for C/C++ preprocessor macros.