GCC 3.4 Release Series
Changes, New Features, and Fixes

The latest release in the 3.4 release series is GCC 3.4.5.

GCC 3.4 has many improvements in the C++ frontend. Before reporting a bug, please make sure it's really GCC, and not your code, that is broken.

Caveats

GNU Make is now required to build GCC.
With -nostdinc the preprocessor used to ignore both standard include paths and include paths contained in environment variables. It was neither documented nor intended that environment variable paths be ignored, so this has been corrected.
GCC no longer accepts the options -fvolatile, -fvolatile-global and -fvolatile-static. It is unlikely that they worked correctly in any 3.x release.
GCC no longer ships <varargs.h>. Use <stdarg.h> instead.
Support for all the systems obsoleted in GCC 3.3 has been removed from GCC 3.4. See below for a list of systems which are obsoleted in this release.
GCC now requires an ISO C90 (ANSI C89) C compiler to build. K&R C compilers will not work.
The implementation of the MIPS ABIs has changed. As a result, the code generated for certain MIPS targets will not be binary compatible with earlier releases.
In previous releases, the MIPS port had a fake "hilo" register with the user-visible name accum. This register has been removed.
The implementation of the SPARC ABIs has changed. As a result, the code generated will not be binary compatible with earlier releases in certain cases.
The configure option --enable-threads=pthreads has been removed; use --enable-threads=posix instead, which should have the same effect.
Code size estimates used by inlining heuristics for C, Objective-C, C++ and Java have been redesigned significantly. As a result the parameters of -finline-insns, --param max-inline-insns-single and --param max-inline-insns-auto need to be reconsidered.
--param max-inline-slope and --param min-inline-insns have been removed; they are not needed for the new bottom-up inlining heuristics.
The new unit-at-a-time compilation scheme has several compatibility issues:
- The order in which functions, variables, and top-level asm statements are emitted may have changed. Code relying on some particular ordering needs to be updated. The majority of such top-level asm statements can be replaced by section attributes.
- Unreferenced static variables and functions are removed. This may result in undefined references when an asm statement refers to the variable/function directly. In that case either the variable/function shall be listed in asm statement operand or in the case of top-level asm statements the attribute used shall be used to force function/variable to be always output and considered as a possibly used by unknown code.
  For variables the attribute is accepted only by GCC 3.4 and newer, while for earlier versions it is sufficient to use unused to silence warnings about the variables not being referenced. To keep code portable across different GCC versions, you can use appropriate preprocessor conditionals.
- Static functions now can use non-standard passing conventions that may break asm statements calling functions directly. Again the attribute used shall be used to prevent this behavior.
As a temporary workaround, -fno-unit-at-a-time can be used, but this scheme may not be supported by future releases of GCC.
GCC 3.4 automatically places zero-initialized variables in the .bss section on some operating systems. Versions of GNU Emacs up to (and including) 21.3 will not work correctly when using this optimization; you can use -fno-zero-initialized-in-bss to disable it.
If GCC 3.4 is configured with --enable-threads=posix (the default on most targets that support pthreads) then _REENTRANT will be defined unconditionally by some libstdc++ headers. C++ code which relies on that macro to detect whether multi-threaded code is being compiled might change in meaning, possibly resulting in linker errors for single-threaded programs. Affected users of Boost should compile single-threaded code with -DBOOST_DISABLE_THREADS. See Bugzilla for more information.

General Optimizer Improvements

Usability of the profile feedback and coverage testing has been improved.
- Performance of profiled programs has been improved by faster profile merging code.
- Better use of the profile feedback for optimization (loop unrolling and loop peeling).
- File locking support allowing fork() calls and parallel runs of profiled programs.
- Coverage file format has been redesigned.
- gcov coverage tool has been improved.
- make profiledbootstrap available to build a faster compiler.
  Experiments made on i386 hardware showed an 11% speedup on -O0 and a 7.5% speedup on -O2 compilation of a large C++ testcase.
- New value profiling pass enabled via -fprofile-values
- New value profile transformations pass enabled via -fvpt aims to optimize some code sequences by exploiting knowledge about value ranges or other properties of the operands. At the moment a conversion of expensive divisions into cheaper operations has been implemented.
- New -fprofile-generate and -fprofile-use command line options to simplify the use of profile feedback.
A new unit-at-a-time compilation scheme for C, Objective-C, C++ and Java which is enabled via -funit-at-a-time (and implied by -O2). In this scheme a whole file is parsed first and optimized later. The following basic inter-procedural optimizations are implemented:
- Removal of unreachable functions and variables
- Discovery of local functions (functions with static linkage whose address is never taken)
- On i386, these local functions use register parameter passing conventions.
- Reordering of functions in topological order of the call graph to enable better propagation of optimizing hints (such as the stack alignments needed by functions) in the back end.
- Call graph based out-of-order inlining heuristics which allows to limit overall compilation unit growth (--param inline-unit-growth).
Overall, the unit-at-a-time scheme produces a 1.3% improvement for the SPECint2000 benchmark on the i386 architecture (AMD Athlon CPU).
More realistic code size estimates used by inlining for C, Objective-C, C++ and Java. The growth of large functions can now be limited via --param large-function-insns and --param large-function-growth.
A new cfg-level loop optimizer pass replaces the old loop unrolling pass and adds two other loop transformations -- loop peeling and loop unswitching -- and also uses the profile feedback to limit code growth. (The three optimizations are enabled by -funroll-loops, -fpeel-loops and -funswitch-loops flags, respectively).
The old loop unroller still can be enabled by -fold-unroll-loops and may produce better code in some cases, especially when the webizer optimization pass is not run.
A new web construction pass enabled via -fweb (and implied by -O3) improves the quality of register allocation, CSE, first scheduling pass and some other optimization passes by avoiding re-use of pseudo registers with non-overlapping live ranges. The pass almost always improves code quality but does make debugging difficult and thus is not enabled by default by -O2
The pass is especially effective as cleanup after code duplication passes, such as the loop unroller or the tracer.
Experimental implementations of superblock or trace scheduling in the second scheduling pass can be enabled via -fsched2-use-superblocks and -fsched2-use-traces, respectively.

New Languages and Language specific improvements

Ada

The Ada front end has been updated to include numerous bug fixes and enhancements. These include:
- Improved project file support
- Additional set of warnings about potential wrong code
- Improved error messages
- Improved code generation
- Improved cross reference information
- Improved inlining
- Better run-time check elimination
- Better error recovery
- More efficient implementation of unbounded strings
- Added features in GNAT.Sockets, GNAT.OS_Lib, GNAT.Debug_Pools, ...
- New GNAT.xxxx packages (e.g. GNAT.Strings, GNAT.Exception_Action)
- New pragmas
- New -gnatS switch replacing gnatpsta
- Implementation of new Ada features (in particular limited with, limited aggregates)

C/Objective-C/C++

Precompiled headers are now supported. Precompiled headers can dramatically speed up compilation of some projects. There are some known defects in the current precompiled header implementation that will result in compiler crashes in relatively rare situations. Therefore, precompiled headers should be considered a "technology preview" in this release. Read the manual for details about how to use precompiled headers.
File handling in the preprocessor has been rewritten. GCC no longer gets confused by symlinks and hardlinks, and now has a correct implementation of #import and #pragma once. These two directives have therefore been un-deprecated.
The undocumented extension that allowed C programs to have a label at the end of a compound statement, which has been deprecated since GCC 3.0, has been removed.
The cast-as-lvalue extension has been removed for C++ and deprecated for C and Objective-C. In particular, code like this:
```
        int i;
        (char) i = 5;
        
```
or this:
```
        char *p;
        ((int *) p)++;
        
```
is no longer accepted for C++ and will not be accepted for C and Objective-C in a future version.
The conditional-expression-as-lvalue extension has been deprecated for C and Objective-C. In particular, code like this:
```
        int a, b, c;
        (a ? b : c) = 2;
        
```
will not be accepted for C and Objective-C in a future version.
The compound-expression-as-lvalue extension has been deprecated for C and Objective-C. In particular, code like this:
```
        int a, b;
        (a, b) = 2;
        
```
will not be accepted for C and Objective-C in a future version. A possible non-intrusive workaround is the following:
```
        (*(a, &b)) = 2;
        
```
Several built-in functions such as __builtin_popcount for counting bits, finding the highest and lowest bit in a word, and parity have been added.
The -fwritable-strings option has been deprecated and will be removed.
Many C math library functions are now recognized as built-ins and optimized.
The C, C++, and Objective-C compilers can now handle source files written in any character encoding supported by the host C library. The default input character set is taken from the current locale, and may be overridden with the -finput-charset command line option. In the future we will add support for inline encoding markers.

C++

G++ is now much closer to full conformance to the ISO/ANSI C++ standard. This means, among other things, that a lot of invalid constructs which used to be accepted in previous versions will now be rejected. It is very likely that existing C++ code will need to be fixed. This document lists some of the most common issues.
A hand-written recursive-descent C++ parser has replaced the YACC-derived C++ parser from previous GCC releases. The new parser contains much improved infrastructure needed for better parsing of C++ source codes, handling of extensions, and clean separation (where possible) between proper semantics analysis and parsing. The new parser fixes many bugs that were found in the old parser.

You must now use the typename and template keywords to disambiguate dependent names, as required by the C++ standard.

	struct K {
	  typedef int mytype_t;
	};
	
	template <class T1> struct A {
	  template <class T2> struct B { 
	      void callme(void);
	    };

	  template <int N> void bar(void) 
	  {
	    // Use 'typename' to tell the parser that T1::mytype_t names
	    //  a type. This is needed because the name is dependent (in
	    //  this case, on template parameter T1).
	    typename T1::mytype_t x;
	    x = 0;
	  }
	};

	template <class T> void template_func(void)
	{
	  // Use 'template' to prefix member templates within 
	  //  dependent types (a has type A<T>, which depends on
	  //  the template parameter T).
	  A<T> a;
	  a.template bar<0>();

	  // Use 'template' to tell the parser that B is a nested 
	  //  template class (dependent on template parameter T), and 
	  //  'typename' because the whole A<T>::B<int> is 
	  //  the name of a type (again, dependent).
	  typename A<T>::template B<int> b;
	  b.callme();
	}
	
	void non_template_func(void)
	{
	  // Outside of any template class or function, no names can be
	  //  dependent, so the use of the keyword 'typename' and 'template'
	  //  is not needed (and actually forbidden).
	  A<K> a;
	  a.bar<0>();
	  A<K>::B<float> b;
	  b.callme();
	}

In a template definition, unqualified names will no longer find members of a dependent base (as specified by [temp.dep]/3 in the C++ standard). For example,

	template <typename T> struct B {
	  int m;
	  int n;
	  int f ();
	  int g ();
	};
	int n;
	int g ();
	template <typename T> struct C : B<T> {
	  void h ()
	  {
	    m = 0; // error
	    f ();  // error
	    n = 0; // ::n is modified
	    g ();  // ::g is called
	  }
	};

You must make the names dependent, e.g. by prefixing them with this->. Here is the corrected definition of C<T>::h,

	template <typename T> void C<T>::h ()
	{
	  this->m = 0;
	  this->f ();
	  this->n = 0
	  this->g ();
	}

As an alternative solution (unfortunately not backwards compatible with GCC 3.3), you may use using declarations instead of this->:

	template <typename T> struct C : B<T> {
	  using B<T>::m;
	  using B<T>::f;
	  using B<T>::n;
	  using B<T>::g;
	  void h ()
	  {
	    m = 0;
	    f ();
	    n = 0;
	    g ();
	  }
	};

In templates, all non-dependent names are now looked up and bound at definition time (while parsing the code), instead of later when the template is instantiated. For instance:

	void foo(int);

	template <int> struct A {
	  static void bar(void){
	    foo('a');
	  }
	};

	void foo(char);

	int main()
	{
	  A<0>::bar();    // Calls foo(int), used to call foo(char).
	}

In an explicit instantiation of a class template, you must use class or struct before the template-id:

	template <int N>
	class A {};
	
	template A<0>;         // error, not accepted anymore
	template class A<0>;   // OK

The "named return value" and "implicit typename" extensions have been removed.
Default arguments in function types have been deprecated and will be removed.
ARM-style name-injection of friend declarations has been deprecated and will be removed. For example: struct S { friend void f(); }; void g() { f(); } will not be accepted by future versions of G++; instead a declaration of "f" will need to be present outside of the scope of "S".
Covariant returns are implemented for all but varadic functions that require an adjustment.

When -pedantic is used, G++ now issues errors about spurious semicolons. For example,

        namespace N {}; // Invalid semicolon.
        void f() {}; // Invalid semicolon.

G++ no longer accepts attributes for a declarator after the initializer associated with that declarator. For example,
```
        X x(1) __attribute__((...));
```
is no longer accepted. Instead, use:
```
        X x __attribute__((...)) (1);
```
Inside the scope of a template class, the name of the class itself can be treated as either a class or a template. So GCC used to accept the class name as argument of type template, and template template parameter. However this is not C++ standard compliant. Now the name is not treated as a valid template template argument unless you qualify the name by its scope. For example, the code below no longer compiles.
```
        template <template <class> class TT> class X {};
        template <class T> class Y {
          X<Y> x; // Invalid, Y is always a type template parameter.
        };
```
The valid code for the above example is
```
          X< ::Y> x; // Valid.
```
(Notice the space between < and : to prevent GCC to interpret this as a digraph for [.)
Friend declarations that refer to template specializations are rejected if the template has not already been declared. For example,
```
	template <typename T>
	class C {
	  friend void f<> (C&);
	};
```
is rejected. You must first declare f as a template,
```
	template <typename T>
	void f(T);
```
In case of friend declarations, every name used in the friend declaration must be accessible at the point of that declaration. Previous versions of G++ used to be less strict about this and allowed friend declarations for private class members, for example. See the ISO C++ Standard Committee's defect report #209 for details.

Declaration of member functions of class templates as friends are supported. For example,

	template <typename T> struct A {
	  void f();
	};
	class C {
	  template <typename T> friend void A<T>::f();
	};

You must use template <> to introduce template specializations, as required by the standard. For example,
```
	template <typename T>
	struct S;

	struct S<int> { };
```
is rejected. You must write,
```
	template <> struct S<int> {};
```
G++ used to accept code like this,
```
	struct S {
	  int h();
	  void f(int i = g());
	  int g(int i = h());
	};
```
This behavior is not mandated by the standard. Now G++ issues an error about this code. To avoid the error, you must move the declaration of g before the declaration of f. The default arguments for g must be visible at the point where it is called.
The C++ ABI Section 3.3.3 specifications for the array construction routines __cxa_vec_new2 and __cxa_vec_new3 were changed to return NULL when the allocator argument returns NULL. These changes are incorporated into the libstdc++ runtime library.

Using a name introduced by a typedef in a friend declaration or in an explicit instantiation is now rejected, as specified by the ISO C++ standard.

	class A;
	typedef A B;
	class C { 
	  friend class B;      // error, no typedef name here
	  friend B;            // error, friend always needs class/struct/enum
	  friend class A;      // OK
	};
	
	template <int> class Q {};
	typedef Q<0> R;
	template class R;      // error, no typedef name here
	template class Q<0>;   // OK

When allocating an array with a new expression, GCC used to allow parentheses around the type name. This is actually ill-formed and it is now rejected:
```
	int* a = new (int)[10];    // error, not accepted anymore
	int* a = new int[10];      // OK
```

When binding an rvalue of class type to a reference, the copy constructor of the class must be accessible. For instance, consider the following code:

	class A 
	{
	public:
	  A();
	  
	private:
	  A(const A&);   // private copy ctor
	};
	
	A makeA(void);
	void foo(const A&);
	
	void bar(void)
	{
	  foo(A());       // error, copy ctor is not accessible
	  foo(makeA());   // error, copy ctor is not accessible
	  
	  A a1;
	  foo(a1);        // OK, a1 is a lvalue
	}

This might be surprising at first sight, especially since most popular compilers do not correctly implement this rule (further details).

When forming a pointer to member or a pointer to member function, access checks for class visibility (public, protected, private) are now performed using the qualifying scope of the name itself. This is better explained with an example:

	class A
	{
	public:
	  void pub_func();
	protected:
	  void prot_func();
	private:
	  void priv_func();
	};

	class B : public A
	{
	public:
	  void foo()
	  {
	    &A::pub_func;   // OK, pub_func is accessible through A
	    &A::prot_func;  // error, cannot access prot_func through A
	    &A::priv_func;  // error, cannot access priv_func through A

	    &B::pub_func;   // OK, pub_func is accessible through B
	    &B::prot_func;  // OK, can access prot_func through B (within B)
	    &B::priv_func;  // error, cannot access priv_func through B
	  }
	};

Runtime Library (libstdc++)

Optimization work:
- Streamlined streambuf, filebuf, separate synched with C Standard I/O streambuf.
- All formatted I/O now uses cached locale information.
- STL optimizations (memory/speed for list, red-black trees as used by sets and maps).
- More use of GCC builtins.
- String optimizations (avoid contention on increment/decrement-and-test of the reference count in the empty-string object, constructor from input_iterators speedup).
Static linkage size reductions.
Large File Support (files larger than 2 GB on 32-bit systems).
Wide character and variable encoding filebuf work (UTF-8, Unicode).
Generic character traits.
Also support wchar_t specializations on Mac OS 10.3.x, FreeBSD 5.x, Solaris 2.7 and above, AIX 5.x, Irix 6.5.
The allocator class is now standard-conformant, and two additional extension allocators have been added, mt_alloc and bitmap_allocator.
PCH support: -include bits/stdc++.h (2x compile speedup).
Rewrote __cxa_demangle with support for C++ style allocators.
New debug modes for STL containers and iterators.
Testsuite rewrite: five times as many tests, plus increasingly sophisticated tests, including I/O, MT, multi-locale, wide and narrow characters.
Use current versions of GNU "autotools" for build/configuration.

Objective-C

The Objective-C front end has been updated to include the numerous bug fixes and enhancements previously available only in Apple's version of GCC. These include:
- Structured exception (@try... @catch... @finally, @throw) and synchronization (@synchronized) support. These are accessible via the -fobjc-exceptions switch; as of this writing, they may only be used in conjunction with -fnext-runtime on Mac OS X 10.3 and later. See Options Controlling Objective-C Dialect for more information.
- An overhaul of @encode logic. The C99 _Bool and C++ bool type may now be encoded as 'B'. In addition, the back-end/codegen dependencies have been removed.
- An overhaul of message dispatch construction, ensuring that the various receiver types (and casts thereof) are handled properly, and that correct diagnostics are issued.
- Support for "Zero-Link" (-fzero-link) and "Fix-and-Continue" (-freplace-objc-classes) debugging modes, currently available on Mac OS X 10.3 and later. See Options Controlling Objective-C Dialect for more information.
- Access to optimized runtime entry points (-fno-nil-receivers) on the assumption that message receivers are never nil. This is currently available on Mac OS X 10.3 and later. See Options Controlling Objective-C Dialect for more information.

Java

Compiling a .jar file will now cause non-.class entries to be automatically compiled as resources.
libgcj has been ported to Darwin.
Jeff Sturm has adapted Jan Hubicka's call graph optimization code to gcj.
libgcj has a new gcjlib URL type; this lets URLClassLoader load code from shared libraries.
libgcj has been much more completely merged with GNU Classpath.
Class loading is now much more correct; in particular the caller's class loader is now used when that is required.
Eclipse 2.x will run out of the box using gij.
Parts of java.nio have been implemented. Direct and indirect buffers work, as do fundamental file and socket operations.
java.awt has been improved, though it is still not ready for general use.
The HTTP protocol handler now uses HTTP/1.1 and can handle the POST method.
The MinGW port has matured. Enhancements include socket timeout support, thread interruption, improved Runtime.exec() handling and support for accented characters in filenames.

Fortran

Fortran improvements are listed in the Fortran documentation.

New Targets and Target Specific Improvements

Alpha

Several built-in functions have been added such as __builtin_alpha_zap to allow utilizing the more obscure instructions of the CPU.
Parameter passing of complex arguments has changed to match the ABI. This change is incompatible with previous GCC versions, but does fix compatibility with the Tru64 compiler and several corner cases where GCC was incompatible with itself.

ARM

Nicolas Pitre has contributed his hand-coded floating-point support code for ARM. It is both significantly smaller and faster than the existing C-based implementation, even when building applications for Thumb. The arm-elf configuration has been converted to use the new code.
Support for the Intel's iWMMXt architecture, a second generation XScale processor, has been added. Enabled at run time with the -mcpu=iwmmxt command line switch.
A new ARM target has been added: arm-wince-pe. This is similar to the arm-pe target, but it defaults to using the APCS32 ABI.
The existing ARM pipeline description has been converted to the use the DFA processor pipeline model. There is not much change in code performance, but the description is now easier to understand.
Support for the Cirrus EP9312 Maverick floating point co-processor added. Enabled at run time with the -mcpu=ep9312 command line switch. Note however that the multilibs to support this chip are currently disabled in gcc/config/arm/t-arm-elf, so if you want to enable their production you will have to uncomment the entries in that file.

H8/300

Support for long long has been added.
Support for saveall attribute has been added.
Pavel Pisa contributed hand-written 32-bit-by-32-bit division code for H8/300H and H8S, which is much faster than the previous implementation.
A lot of small performance improvements.

IA-32/AMD64 (x86-64)

Tuning for K8 (AMD Opteron/Athlon64) core is available via -march=k8 and -mcpu=k8.
Scalar SSE code generation carefully avoids reformatting penalties, hidden dependencies and minimizes the number of uops generated on both Intel and AMD CPUs.
Vector MMX and SSE operands are now passed in registers to improve performance and match the argument passing convention used by the Intel C++ Compiler. As a result it is not possible to call functions accepting vector arguments compiled by older GCC version.
Conditional jump elimination is now more aggressive on modern CPUs.
The Athlon ports has been converted to use the DFA processor pipeline description.
Optimization of indirect tail calls is now possible in a similar fashion as direct sibcall optimization.
Further small performance improvements.
-m128bit-long-double is now less buggy.
__float128 support in 64-bit compilation.
Support for data structures exceeding 2GB in 64-bit mode.
-mcpu has been renamed to -mtune.

IA-64

Tuning code for the Itanium 2 processor has been added. The generation of code tuned for Itanium 2 (option -mtune=itanium2) is enabled by default now. To generate code tuned for Itanium 1 the option -mtune=itanium1 should be used.
DFA processor pipeline descriptions for the IA-64 processors have been added. This resulted in about 3% improvement on the SPECInt2000 benchmark for Itanium 2.
Instruction bundling for the IA-64 processors has been rewritten using the DFA pipeline hazard recognizer. It resulted in about 60% compiler speedup on the SPECInt2000 C programs.

M32R

Support for the M32R/2 processor has been added by Renesas.
Support for an M32R Linux target and PIC code generation has been added by Renesas.

M68000

Bernardo Innocenti (Develer S.r.l.) has contributed the m68k-uclinux target, based on former work done by Paul Dale (SnapGear Inc.). Code generation for the ColdFire processors family has been enhanced and extended to support the MCF 53xx and MCF 54xx cores, integrating former work done by Peter Barada (Motorola).

MIPS

Processor-specific changes

Support for the RM7000 and RM9000 processors has been added. It can be selected using the -march compiler option and should work with any MIPS I (mips-*) or MIPS III (mips64-*) configuration.
Support for revision 2 of the MIPS32 ISA has been added. It can be selected with the command-line option -march=mips32r2.
There is a new option, -mfix-sb1, to work around certain SB-1 errata.

Configuration

It is possible to customize GCC using the following configure-time options:
- --with-arch, which specifies the default value of the -march option.
- --with-tune, which specifies the default value of the -mtune option.
- --with-abi, which specifies the default ABI.
- --with-float=soft, which tells GCC to use software floating point by default.
- --with-float=hard, which tells GCC to use hardware floating point by default.
A 64-bit GNU/Linux port has been added. The associated configurations are mips64-linux-gnu and mips64el-linux-gnu.
The 32-bit GNU/Linux port now supports Java.
The IRIX 6 configuration now supports the o32 ABI and will build o32 multilibs by default. This support is compatible with both binutils and the SGI tools, but note that several features, including debugging information and DWARF2 exception handling, are only available when using the GNU assembler. Use of the GNU assembler and linker (version 2.15 or above) is strongly recommended.
The IRIX 6 configuration now supports 128-bit long doubles.
There are two new RTEMS-specific configurations, mips-rtems and mipsel-rtems.
There are two new *-elf configurations, mipsisa32r2-elf and mipsisa32r2el-elf.

General

Several ABI bugs have been fixed. Unfortunately, these changes will break binary compatibility with earlier releases.
GCC can now use explicit relocation operators when generating -mabicalls code. This behavior is controlled by -mexplicit-relocs and can have several performance benefits. For example:
- It allows for more optimization of GOT accesses, including better scheduling and redundancy elimination.
- It allows sibling calls to be implemented as jumps.
- n32 and n64 leaf functions can use a call-clobbered global pointer instead of $28.
- The code to set up $gp can be removed from functions that don't need it.
A new option, -mxgot, allows the GOT to be bigger than 64k. This option is equivalent to the assembler's -xgot option and should be used instead of -Wa,-xgot.
Frame pointer elimination is now supported when generating 64-bit MIPS16 code.
Inline block moves have been optimized to take more account of alignment information.
Many internal changes have been made to the MIPS port, mostly aimed at reducing the reliance on assembler macros.

PowerPC

GCC 3.4 releases have a number of fixes for PowerPC and PowerPC64 ABI incompatibilities regarding the way parameters are passed during functions calls. These changes may result in incompatibility between code compiled with GCC 3.3 and GCC 3.4.

PowerPC Darwin

Support for shared/dylib gcc libraries has been added. It is enabled by default on powerpc-apple-darwin7.0.0 and up.
Libgcj is enabled by default. On systems older than powerpc-apple-darwin7.0.0 you need to install dlcompat.
128-bit IBM extended precision format support added for long double.

PowerPC64 GNU/Linux

By default, PowerPC64 GNU/Linux now uses natural alignment of structure elements. The old four byte alignment for double, with special rules for a struct starting with a double, can be chosen with -malign-power. This change may result in incompatibility between code compiled with GCC 3.3 and GCC 3.4.
-mabi=altivec is now the default rather than -mabi=no-altivec.
128-bit IBM extended precision format support added for long double.

S/390 and zSeries

New command-line options allow to specify the intended execution environment for generated code:
- -mesa/-mzarch allows to specify whether to generate code running in ESA/390 mode or in z/Architecture mode (this is applicable to 31-bit code only).
- -march allows to specify a minimum processor architecture level (g5, g6, z900, or z990).
- -mtune allows to specify which processor to tune for.
It is possible to customize GCC using the following configure-time options:
- --with-mode, which specifies whether to default to assuming ESA/390 or z/Architecture mode.
- --with-arch, which specifies the default value of the -march option.
- --with-tune, which specifies the default value of the -mtune option.
Support for the z990 processor has been added, and can be selected using -march=z990 or -mtune=z990. This includes instruction scheduling tuned for the superscalar instruction pipeline of the z990 processor as well as support for all new instructions provided by the long-displacement facility.
Support to generate 31-bit code optimized for zSeries processors (running in ESA/390 or in z/Architecture mode) has been added. This can be selected using -march=z900 and -mzarch respectively.
Instruction scheduling for the z900 and z990 processors now uses the DFA pipeline hazard recognizer.
GCC no longer generates code to maintain a stack backchain, previously used to generate stack backtraces for debugging purposes. As replacement that does not incur runtime overhead, DWARF-2 call frame information is provided by GCC; this is supported by GDB 6.1. The old behavior can be restored using the -mbackchain option.
The stack frame size of functions may now exceed 2 GB in 64-bit code.
A port for the 64-bit IBM TPF operating system has been added; the configuration is s390x-ibm-tpf. This configuration is supported as cross-compilation target only.
Various changes to improve the generated code have been implemented, including:
- GCC now uses the MULTIPLY AND ADD and MULTIPLY AND SUBTRACT instructions to significantly speed up many floating-point applications.
- GCC now uses the ADD LOGICAL WITH CARRY and SUBTRACT LOGICAL WITH BORROW instructions to speed up long long arithmetic.
- GCC now uses the SEARCH STRING instruction to implement strlen().
- In many cases, function call overhead for 31-bit code has been reduced by placing the literal pool after the function code instead of after the function prolog.
- Register 14 is no longer reserved in 64-bit code.
- Handling of global register variables has been improved.

SPARC

The option -mflat is deprecated.
Support for large (> 2GB) frames has been added to the 64-bit port.
Several ABI bugs have been fixed. Unfortunately, these changes will break binary compatibility with earlier releases.
The default debugging format has been switched from STABS to DWARF-2 for 32-bit code on Solaris 7 and later. DWARF-2 is already the default debugging format for 64-bit code on Solaris.

SuperH

Support for the SH2E processor has been added. Enabled at run time with the -m2e command line switch, or at configure time by specifying sh2e as the machine part of the target triple.

V850

Support for the Mitsubishi V850E1 processor has been added. This is a variant of the V850E processor with some additional debugging instructions.

Xtensa

Several ABI bugs have been fixed. Unfortunately, these changes break binary compatibility with earlier releases.
- For big-endian processors, the padding of aggregate return values larger than a word has changed. If the size of an aggregate return value is not a multiple of 32 bits, previous versions of GCC inserted padding in the most-significant bytes of the first return value register. Aggregates larger than a word are now padded in the least-significant bytes of the last return value register used. Aggregates smaller than a word are still padded in the most-significant bytes. The return value padding has not changed for little-endian processors.
- Function arguments with 16-byte alignment are now properly aligned.
- The implementation of the va_list type has changed. A va_list value created by va_start from a previous release cannot be used with va_arg from this release, or vice versa.
More processor configuration options for Xtensa processors are supported:
- the ABS instruction is now optional;
- the ADDX* and SUBX* instructions are now optional;
- an experimental CONST16 instruction can be used to synthesize constants instead of loading them from constant pools.
These and other Xtensa processor configuration options can no longer be enabled or disabled by command-line options; the processor configuration must be specified by the xtensa-config.h header file when building GCC. Additionally, the -mno-serialize-volatile option is no longer supported.

Obsolete Systems

Support for a number of older systems has been declared obsolete in GCC 3.4. Unless there is activity to revive them, the next release of GCC will have their sources permanently removed.

All configurations of the following processor architectures have been declared obsolete:

Mitsubishi D30V, d30v-*
AT&T DSP1600 and DSP1610, dsp16xx-*
Intel 80960, i960

Also, some individual systems have been obsoleted:

ARM Family
- Support for generating code for operation in APCS/26 mode (-mapcs-26).
IBM ESA/390
- "Bigfoot" port, i370-*. (The other port, s390-*, is actively maintained and supported.)
Intel 386 family
- MOSS, i?86-moss-msdos and i?86-*-moss*
- NCR 3000 running System V r.4, i?86-ncr-sysv4*
- FreeBSD with a.out object format, i?86-*-freebsd*aout* and i?86-*-freebsd2*
- Linux with a.out object format, i?86-linux*aout*
- Linux with libc5, a.k.a. glibc1, i?86-linux*libc1*
- Interix versions before Interix 3, i?86-*-interix
- Mach microkernel, i?86-mach*
- SCO UnixWare with UDK, i?86-*-udk*
- Generic System V releases 1, 2, and 3, i?86-*-sysv[123]*
- VSTa microkernel, i386-*-vsta
Motorola M68000 family
- HPUX, m68k-hp-hpux* and m68000-hp-hpux*
- NetBSD with a.out object format (before NetBSD 1.4), m68k-*-*-netbsd* except m68k-*-*-netbsdelf*
- Generic System V r.4, m68k-*-sysv4*
VAX
- Generic VAX, vax-*-* (This is generic VAX only; we have not obsoleted any VAX triples for specific operating systems.)

Documentation improvements

Other significant improvements

The build system has undergone several significant cleanups. Subdirectories will only be configured if they are being built, and all subdirectory configures are run from the make command. The top level has been autoconfiscated.
Building GCC no longer writes to its source directory. This should help those wishing to share a read-only source directory over NFS or build from a CD. The exceptions to this feature are if you configure with either --enable-maintainer-mode or --enable-generated-files-in-srcdir.
The -W warning option has been renamed to -Wextra, which is more easily understood. The older spelling will be retained for backwards compatibility.
Substantial improvements in compile time have been made, particularly for non-optimizing compilations.

GCC 3.4.0

Bug Fixes

A vast number of bugs have been fixed in 3.4.0, too many to publish a complete list here. Follow this link to query the Bugzilla database for the list of over 900 bugs fixed in 3.4.0. This is the list of all bugs marked as resolved and fixed in 3.4.0 that are not flagged as 3.4 regressions.

GCC 3.4.1

Bug Fixes

This section lists the problem reports (PRs) from GCC's bug tracking system that are known to be fixed in the 3.4.1 release. This list might not be complete (that is, it is possible that some PRs that have been fixed are not listed here).

Bootstrap failures

10129 Ada bootstrap fails on PPC-Darwin - invalid assembler emitted - PIC related
14576 [ARM] ICE in libiberty when building gcc-3.4 for arm-elf
14760 A bug in configure.in prevents using both --program-suffix and --program-prefix
14671 [hppa64] bootstrap fails: ICE in save_call_clobbered_regs, in caller_save.c
15093 [alpha][Java] make bootstrap fails to configure libffi on Alpha
15178 Solaris 9/x86 fails linking after stage 3

Multi-platform internal compiler errors (ICEs)

12753 (preprocessor) Memory corruption in preprocessor on bad input
13985 ICE in gcc.c-torture/compile/930621-1.c
14810 (c++) tree check failures with invalid code involving templates
14883 (c++) ICE on invalid code, in cp_parser_lookup_name, in cp/parser.c
15044 (c++) ICE on syntax error, template header
15057 (c++) Compiling of conditional value throw constructs cause a segmentation violation
15064 (c++) typeid of template parameter gives ICE
15142 (c++) ICE when passing a string where a char* is expected in a throw statement
15159 ICE in rtl_verify_flow_info_1
15165 (c++) ICE in instantiate_template
15193 Unary minus using pointer to V4SF vector causes -fforce-mem to exhaust all memory
15209 (c++) Runs out of memory with packed structs
15227 (c++) Trouble with invalid function definition
15285 (c++) instantiate_type ICE when forming pointer to template function
15299 (c++) ICE in resolve_overloaded_unification
15329 (c++) ICE on constructor of member template
15550 ICE in extract_insn, in recog.c
15554 (c++) ICE in tsubst_copy, in cp/pt.c
15640 (c++) ICE on invalid code in arg_assoc, in cp/name-lookup.c
15666 [unit-at-a-time] Gcc abort on valid code
15696 (c++) ICE with bad pointer-to-member code
15701 (c++) ICE with friends and template template parameter
15761 ICE in do_SUBST, in combine.c
15829 (c++) ICE on Botan-1.3.13 due to -funroll-loops

Ada

14538 All RTEMS targets broken for gnat

C front end

12391 missing warning about assigning to an incomplete type
14649 atan(1.0) should not be a constant expression
15004 [unit-at-a-time] no warning for unused paramater in static function
15749 --pedantic-errors behaves differently from --pedantic with C-compiler on GNU/Linux

C++ compiler and library

10646 non-const reference is incorrectly matched in a "const T" partial specialization
12077 wcin.rdbuf()->in_avail() return value too high
13598 enc_filebuf doesn't work
14211 const_cast returns lvalue but should be rvalue
14220 num_put::do_put() undesired float/double behavior
14245 problem with user-defined allocators in std::basic_string
14340 libstdc++ Debug mode: failure to convert iterator to const_iterator
14600 __gnu_cxx::stdio_sync_filebuf should expose internal FILE*
14668 no warning anymore for reevaluation of declaration
14775 LFS (large file support) tests missing
14821 Duplicate namespace alias declaration should not conflict
14930 Friend declaration ignored
14932 cannot use offsetof to get offsets of array elements in g++ 3.4.0
14950 [non unit-at-a-time] always_inline does not mix with templates and -O0
14962 g++ ignores #pragma redefine_extname
14975 Segfault on low-level write error during imbue
15002 Linewise stream input is unusably slow (std::string slow)
15025 compiler accepts redeclaration of template as non-template
15046 [arm] Math functions misdetected by cross configuration
15069 a bit test on a variable of enum type is miscompiled
15074 g++ -lsupc++ still links against libstdc++
15083 spurious "statement has no effect" warning
15096 parse error with templates and pointer to const member
15287 combination of operator[] and operator .* fails in templates
15317 __attribute__ unused in first parameter of constructor gives error
15337 sizeof on incomplete type diagnostic
15361 bitset<>::_Find_next fails
15412 _GLIBCXX_ symbols symbols defined and used in different namespaces
15427 valid code results in incomplete type error
15471 Incorrect member pointer offsets in anonymous structs/unions
15503 nested template problem
15507 compiler hangs while laying out union
15542 operator & and template definitions
15565 SLES9: leading + sign for unsigned int with showpos
15625 friend defined inside a template fails to find static function
15629 Function templates, overloads, and friend name injection
15742 'noreturn' attribute ignored in method of template functions.
15775 Allocator::pointer consistently ignored
15821 Duplicate namespace alias within namespace rejected
15862 'enum yn' fails (confict with undeclared builtin)
15875 rejects pointer to member in template
15877 valid code using templates and anonymous enums is rejected
15947 Puzzling error message for wrong destructor declaration in template class
16020 cannot copy __gnu_debug::bitset
16154 input iterator concept too restrictive
16174 deducing top-level consts

Java

14315 Java compiler is not parallel make safe

Fortran

15151 [g77] incorrect logical i/o in 64-bit mode

Objective-C

7993 private variables cannot be shadowed in subclasses

Optimization bugs

15228 useless copies of floating point operands
15345 [non-unit-at-a-time] unreferenced nested inline functions not optimized away
15945 Incorrect floating point optimization
15526 ftrapv aborts on 0 * (-1)
14690 Miscompiled POOMA tests
15112 GCC generates code to write to unchanging memory

Preprocessor

15067 Minor glitch in the source of cpp

Main driver program bugs

1963 collect2 interprets -oldstyle_liblookup as -o ldstyle_liblookup

x86-specific (Intel/AMD)

15717 Error: can't resolve `L0' {*ABS* section} - `xx' {*UND* section}

HPPA-specific

14782 GCC produces an unaligned data access at -O2
14828 FAIL: gcc.c-torture/execute/20030408-1.c execution, -O2
15202 ICE in reload_cse_simplify_operands, in postreload.c

IA64-specific

14610 __float80 constants incorrectly emitted
14813 init_array sections are initialized in the wrong order
14857 GCC segfault on duplicated asm statement
15598 Gcc 3.4 ICE on valid code
15653 Gcc 3.4 ICE on valid code

MIPS-specific

15189 wrong filling of delay slot with -march=mips1 -G0 -mno-split-addresses -mno-explicit-relocs
15331 Assembler error building gnatlib on IRIX 6.5 with GNU as 2.14.91
16144 Bogus reference to __divdf3 when -O1
16176 Miscompilation of unaligned data in MIPS backend

PowerPC-specific

11591 ICE in gcc.dg/altivec-5.c
12028 powerpc-eabispe produces bad sCOND operation
14478 rs6000 geu/ltu patterns generate incorrect code
14567 long double and va_arg complex args
14715 Altivec stack layout may overlap gpr save with stack temps
14902 (libstdc++) Stream checking functions fail when -pthread option is used.
14924 Compiler ICE on valid code
14960 -maltivec affects vector return with -mabi=no-altivec
15106 vector varargs failure passing from altivec to non-altivec code for -m32
16026 ICE in function.c:4804, assign_parms, when -mpowerpc64 & half-word operation
15191 -maltivec -mabi=no-altivec results in mis-aligned lvx and stvx
15662 Segmentation fault when an exception is thrown - even if try and catch are specified

s390-specific

15054 Bad code due to overlapping stack temporaries

SPARC-specific

15783 ICE with union assignment in 64-bit mode
15626 GCC 3.4 emits "ld: warning: relocation error: R_SPARC_UA32"

x86-64-specific

14326 boehm-gc hardcodes to 3DNow! prefetch for x86_64
14723 Backported -march=nocona from mainline
15290 __float128 failed to pass to function properly

Cygwin/Mingw32-specific

15250 Option -mms-bitfields support on GCC 3.4 is not conformant to MS layout
15551 -mtune=pentium4 -O2 with sjlj EH breaks stack probe worker on windows32 targets

Bugs specific to embedded processors

8309 [m68k] -m5200 produces erroneous SImode set of short varaible on stack
13250 [SH] Gcc code for rotation clobbers the register, but gcc continues to use the register as if it was not clobbered
13803 [coldfire] movqi operand constraints too restrictivefor TARGET_COLDFIRE
14093 [SH] ICE for code when using -mhitachi option in SH
14457 [m6811hc] ICE with simple c++ source
14542 [m6811hc] ICE on simple source
15100 [SH] cc1plus got hang-up on libstdc++-v3/testsuite/abi_check.cc
15296 [CRIS] Delayed branch scheduling causing invalid code on cris-*
15396 [SH] ICE with -O2 -fPIC
15782 [coldfire] m68k_output_mi_thunk emits wrong code for ColdFire

Testsuite problems (compiler not affected)

11610 libstdc++ testcases 27_io/* don't work properly remotely
15488 (libstdc++) possibly insufficient file permissions for executing test suite
15489 (libstdc++) testsuite_files determined incorrectly

Documentation bugs

13928 (libstdc++) no whatis info in some man pages generated by doxygen
14150 Ada documentation out of date
14949 (c++) Need to document method visibility changes
15123 libstdc++-doc: Allocators.3 manpage is empty

GCC 3.4.2

Bug Fixes

This section lists the problem reports (PRs) from GCC's bug tracking system that are known to be fixed in the 3.4.2 release. This list might not be complete (that is, it is possible that some PRs that have been fixed are not listed here).

Bootstrap failures and issues

16469 [mips-sgi-irix5.3] bootstrap fails in libstdc++-v3/testsuite
16344 [hppa-linux-gnu] libstdc++'s PCH built by profiledbootstrap does not work with the built compiler
16842 [Solaris/x86] mkheaders can not find mkheaders.conf

Multi-platform internal compiler errors (ICEs)

12608 (c++) ICE: expected class 't', have 'x' (error_mark) in cp_parser_class_specifier, in cp/parser.c
14492 ICE in loc_descriptor_from_tree, in dwarf2out.c
15461 (c++) ICE due to NRV and inlining
15890 (c++) ICE in c_expand_expr, in c-common.c
16180 ICE: segmentation fault in RTL optimization
16224 (c++) ICE in write_unscoped_name (template/namespace)
16408 ICE: in delete_insn, in cfgrtl.c
16529 (c++) ICE for: namespace-alias shall not be declared as the name of any other entity
16698 (c++) ICE with exceptions and declaration of __cxa_throw
16706 (c++) ICE in finish_member_declaration, in cp/semantics.c
16810 (c++) Legal C++ program with cast gives ICE in build_ptrmemfunc
16851 (c++) ICE when throwing a comma expression
16870 (c++) Boost.Spirit causes ICE in tsubst, in cp/pt.c
16904 (c++) ICE in finish_class_member_access_expr, in cp/typeck.c
16905 (c++) ICE (segfault) with exceptions
16964 (c++) ICE in cp_parser_class_specifier due to redefinition
17068 (c++) ICE: tree check: expected class 'd', have 'x' (identifier_node) in dependent_template_p, in cp/pt.c

Preprocessor bugs

16366 Preprocessor option -remap causes memory corruption

Optimization

15345 unreferenced nested inline functions not optimized away
16590 Incorrect execution when compiling with -O2
16693 Bitwise AND is lost when used within a cast to an enum of the same precision
17078 Jump into if(0) substatement fails

Problems in generated debug information

13956 incorrect stabs for nested local variables

C front end bugs

16684 GCC should not warn about redundant redeclarations of built-ins

C++ compiler and library

12658 Thread safety problems in locale::global() and locale::locale()
13092 g++ accepts invalid pointer-to-member conversion
15320 Excessive memory consumption
16246 Incorrect template argument deduction
16273 Memory exhausted when using nested classes and virtual functions
16401 ostringstream in gcc 3.4.x very slow for big data
16411 undefined reference to __gnu_cxx::stdio_sync_filebuf<char, std::char_traits<char> >::file()
16489 G++ incorrectly rejects use of a null constant integral expression as a null constant pointer
16618 offsetof fails with constant member
16637 syntax error reported for valid input code
16717 __attribute__((constructor)) broken in C++
16813 compiler error in DEBUG version of range insertion std::map::insert
16853 pointer-to-member initialization from incompatible one accepted
16889 ambiguity is not detected
16959 Segmentation fault in ios_base::sync_with_stdio

Java compiler and library

7587 direct threaded interpreter not thread-safe
16473 ServerSocket accept() leaks file descriptors
16478 Hash synchronization deadlock with finalizers

Alpha-specific

10695 ICE in dwarf2out_frame_debug_expr, in dwarf2out.c
16974 could not split insn (ice in final_scan_insn, in final.c)

x86-specific

16298 ICE in output_operand
17113 ICE with SSE2 intrinsics

x86-64 specific

14697 libstdc++ couldn't find 32bit libgcc_s

MIPS-specific

15869 [mips64] No NOP after LW (with -mips1 -O0)
16325 [mips64] value profiling clobbers gp on mips
16357 [mipsisa64-elf] ICE copying 7 bytes between extern char[]s
16380 [mips64] Use of uninitialised register after dbra conversion
16407 [mips64] Unaligned access to local variables
16643 [mips64] verify_local_live_at_start ICE after crossjumping & cfgcleanup

ARM-specific

15927 THUMB -O2: strength-reduced iteration variable ends up off by 1
15948 THUMB: ICE with non-commutative cbranch
17019 THUMB: bad switch statement in md code for addsi3_cbranch_scratch

IA64-specific

16130 ICE on valid code: in bundling, in config/ia64/ia64.c (-mtune=merced)
16142 ICE on valid code: in bundling, in config/ia64/ia64.c (-mtune=itanium)
16278 Gcc failed to build Linux kernel with -mtune=merced
16414 ICE on valid code: typo in comparison of asm_noperands result
16445 ICE on valid code: don't count ignored insns
16490 ICE (segfault) while compiling with -fprofile-use
16683 ia64 does not honor SUBTARGET_EXTRA_SPECS

PowerPC-specific

16195 (ppc64): Miscompilation of GCC 3.3.x by 3.4.x
16239 ICE on ppc64 (mozilla 1.7 compile, -O1 -fno-exceptions issue)

SPARC-specific

16199 ICE while compiling apache 2.0.49
16416 -m64 doesn't imply -mcpu=v9 anymore
16430 ICE when returning non-C aggregates larger than 16 bytes

Bugs specific to embedded processors

16379 [m32r] can't output large model function call of memcpy
17093 [m32r] ICE with -msdata=use -O0
17119 [m32r] ICE at switch case 0x8000

DJGPP-specific

15928 libstdc++ in 3.4.x doesn't cross-compile for djgpp

Alpha Tru64-specific

16210 libstdc++ gratuitously omits "long long" I/O

Testsuite, documentation issues (compiler is not affected):

15488 (libstdc++) possibly insufficient file permissions for executing test suite
16250 ada/doctools runs makeinfo even in release tarball

GCC 3.4.3

This is the list of problem reports (PRs) from GCC's bug tracking system that are known to be fixed in the 3.4.3 release. This list might not be complete (that is, it is possible that some PRs that have been fixed are not listed here).

Bootstrap failures

17369 [ia64] Bootstrap failure with binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1
17850 [arm-elf] bootstrap failure - libstdc++ uses strtold when undeclared

Internal compiler errors (ICEs) affecting multiple platforms

13948 (java) GCJ segmentation fault while compiling GL4Java .class files
14492 ICE in loc_descriptor_from_tree, in dwarf2out.c
16301 (c++) ICE when "strong" attribute is attached to a using directive
16566 ICE with flexible arrays
17023 ICE with nested functions in parameter declaration
17027 ICE with noreturn function in loop at -O2
17524 ICE in grokdeclarator, in cp/decl.c
17826 (c++) ICE in cp_tree_equal

C and optimization bugs

15526 -ftrapv aborts on 0 * (-1)
16999 #ident stopped working
17503 quadratic behaviour in invalid_mode_change_p
17581 Long long arithmetic fails inside a switch/case statement when compiled with -O2
18129 -fwritable-strings doesn't work

C++ compiler and library bugs

10975 incorrect initial ostringstream::tellp()
11722 Unbuffered filebuf::sgetn is slow
14534 Unrecognizing static function as a template parameter when its return value is also templated
15172 Copy constructor optimization in aggregate initialization
15786 Bad error message for frequently occuring error.
16162 Rejects valid member-template-definition
16612 empty basic_strings can't live in shared memory
16715 std::basic_iostream is instantiated when used, even though instantiations are already contained in libstdc++
16848 code in /ext/demangle.h appears broken
17132 GCC fails to eliminate function template specialization when argument deduction fails
17259 One more _S_leaf incorrectly qualified with _RopeRep:: in ropeimpl.h
17327 use of `enumeral_type' in template type unification
17393 "unused variable '._0'" warning with -Wall
17501 Confusion with member templates
17537 g++ not passing -lstdc++ to linker when all command line arguments are libraries
17585 usage of unqualified name of static member from within class not allowed
17821 Poor diagnostic for using "." instead of "->"
17829 wrong error: call of overloaded function is ambiguous
17851 Misleading diagnostic for invalid function declarations with undeclared types
17976 Destructor is called twice
18020 rejects valid definition of enum value in template
18093 bogus conflict in namespace aliasing
18140 C++ parser bug when using >> in templates

Fortran

17541 data statements with double precision constants fail

x86-specific

17853 -O2 ICE for MMX testcase

SPARC-specific

17245 ICE compiling gsl-1.5 statistics/lag1.c

Darwin-specific

17167 FATAL:Symbol L_foo$stub already defined.

AIX-specific

17277 could not catch an exception when specified -maix64

Solaris-specific

17505 <cmath> calls acosf(), ceilf(), and other functions missing from system libraries

HP/UX specific:

17684 /usr/ccs/bin/ld: Can't create libgcc_s.sl

ARM-specific

17384 ICE with mode attribute on structures

MIPS-specific

17770 No NOP after LWL with -mips1

Other embedded target specific

11476 [arc-elf] gcc ICE on newlib's vfprintf.c
14064 [avr-elf] -fdata-sections triggers ICE
14678 [m68hc11-elf] gcc ICE
15583 [powerpc-rtems] powerpc-rtems lacks __USE_INIT_FINI__
15790 [i686-coff] Alignment error building gcc with i686-coff target
15886 [SH] Miscompilation with -O2 -fPIC
16884 [avr-elf] [fweb related] bug while initializing variables

Bugs relating to debugger support

13841 missing debug info for _Complex function arguments
15860 [big-endian targets] No DW_AT_location debug info is emitted for formal arguments to a function that uses "register" qualifiers

Testsuite issues (compiler not affected)

17465 Testsuite in libffi overrides LD_LIBRARY_PATH
17469 Testsuite in libstdc++ overrides LD_LIBRARY_PATH
18138 [mips-sgi-irix6.5] libgcc_s.so.1 not found by 64-bit testsuite

Documentation

15498 typo in gcc manual: non-existing locale example en_UK, should be en_GB
15747 [mips-sgi-irix5.3] /bin/sh hangs during bootstrap: document broken shell
16406 USE_LD_AS_NEEDED undocumented

GCC 3.4.4

This is the list of problem reports (PRs) from GCC's bug tracking system that are known to be fixed in the 3.4.4 release. This list might not be complete (that is, it is possible that some PRs that have been fixed are not listed here).

GCC 3.4.5

This is the list of problem reports (PRs) from GCC's bug tracking system that are known to be fixed in the 3.4.5 release. This list might not be complete (that is, it is possible that some PRs that have been fixed are not listed here).

Bootstrap issues

24688 sco_math fixincl breaks math.h

C compiler bugs

17188 struct Foo { } redefinition
20187 wrong code for ((unsigned char)(unsigned long long)((a?a:1)&(a*b)))?0:1)
21873 infinite warning loop on bad array initializer
21899 enum definition accepts values to be overriden
22061 ICE in find_function_data, in function.c
22308 Failure to diagnose violation of constraint 6.516p2
22458 ICE on missing brace
22589 ICE casting to long long
24101 Segfault with preprocessed source

C++ compiler and library bugs

10611 operations on vector mode not recognized in C++
13377 unexpected behavior of namespace usage directive
16002 Strange error message with new parser
17413 local classes as template argument
17609 spurious error message after using keyword
17618 ICE in cp_convert_to_pointer, in cp/cvt.c
18124 ICE with invalid template template parameter
18155 typedef in template declaration not rejected
18177 ICE with const_cast for undeclared variable
18368 C++ error message regression
16378 ICE when returning a copy of a packed member
18466 int ::i; accepted
18512 ICE on invalid usage of template base class
18454 ICE when returning undefined type
18738 typename not allowed with non-dependent qualified name
18803 rejects access to operator() in template
19004 ICE in uses_template_parms, in cp/pt.c
19208 Spurious error about variably modified type
18253 bad error message / ICE for invalid template parameter
19608 ICE after friend function definition in local class
19884 ICE on explicit instantiation of a non-template constructor
20153 ICE when C++ template function contains anonymous union
20563 Infinite loop in diagnostic (and ice after error message)
20789 ICE with incomplete type in template
21336 Internal compiler error when using custom new operators
21768 ICE in error message due to violation of coding conventions
21853 constness of pointer to data member ignored
21903 Default argument of template function causes a compile-time error
21983 multiple diagnostics
21987 New testsuite failure g++.dg/warn/conversion-function-1.C
22153 ICE on invalid template specialization
22172 Internal compiler error, seg fault.
21286 filebuf::xsgetn vs pipes
22233 ICE with wrong number of template parameters
22508 ICE after invalid operator new
22545 ICE with pointer to class member & user defined conversion operator
23528 Wrong default allocator in ext/hash_map
23550 char_traits requirements/1.cc test bad math
23586 Bad diagnostic for invalid namespace-name
23624 ICE in invert_truthvalue, in fold-const.c
23639 Bad error message: not a member of '<declaration error>'
23797 ICE on typename outside template
23965 Bogus error message: no matching function for call to 'foo(<type error>)'
24052 &#`label_decl' not supported by dump_expr#<expression error>
24580 virtual base class cause exception not to be caught

Problems in generated debug information

24267 Bad DWARF for altivec vectors

Optimizations issues

17810 ICE in verify_local_live_at_start
17860 Wrong generated code for loop with varying bound
21709 ICE on compile-time complex NaN
21964 broken tail call at -O2 or more
22167 Strange optimization bug when using -Os
22619 Compilation failure for real_const_1.f and real_const_2.f90
23241 Invalid code generated for comparison of uchar to 255
23478 Miscompilation due to reloading of a var that is also used in EH pad
24470 segmentation fault in cc1plus when compiling with -O
24950 ICE in operand_subword_force

Precompiled headers problems

14400 Cannot compile qt-x11-free-3.3.0
14940 PCH largefile test fails on various platforms

Preprocessor bugs

20239 ICE on empty preprocessed input
15220 "gcc -E -MM -MG" reports missing system headers in source directory

Testsuite issues

19275 gcc.dg/20020919-1.c fails with -fpic/-fPIC on i686-pc-linux-gnu

Alpha specific

21888 bootstrap failure with linker relaxation enabled

ARM specific

15342 [arm-linux]: ICE in verify_local_live_at_start
23985 Memory aliasing information incorrect in inlined memcpy

ColdFile specific

16719 Illegal move of byte into address register causes compiler to ICE

HPPA specific

21723 ICE while building libgfortran
21841 -mhp-ld/-mgnu-ld documentation

IA-64 specific

23644 IA-64 hardware models and configuration options documentation error
24718 Shared libgcc not used for linking by default

M68000 specific

18421 ICE in reload_cse_simplify_operands, in postreload.c

MIPS specific

20621 ICE in change_address_1, in emit-rtl.c

PowerPC and PowerPC64 specific

18583 error on valid code: const __attribute__((altivec(vector__))) doesn't work in arrays
20191 ICE in reload_cse_simplify_operands
22083 AIX: TARGET_C99_FUNCTIONS is wrongly defined
23070 CALL_V4_CLEAR_FP_ARGS flag not properly set
23404 gij trashes args of functions with more than 8 fp args
23539 C & C++ compiler generating misaligned references regardless of compiler flags
24102 floatdisf2_internal2 broken
24465 -mminimal-toc miscompilation of __thread vars

Solaris specific

19933 Problem with define of HUGE_VAL in math_c99
21889 Native Solaris assembler cannot grok DTP-relative debug symbols

SPARC specific

19300 PCH failures on sparc-linux
20301 Assembler labels have a leading "-"
20673 C PCH testsuite assembly comparison failure

x86 and x86_64 specific

18582 ICE with arrays of type V2DF
19340 Compilation SEGFAULTs with -O1 -fschedule-insns2 -fsched2-use-traces
21716 ICE in reg-stack.c's swap_rtx_condition
24315 amd64 fails -fpeephole2

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