Re: http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.1/changes.html

Re: http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.1/changes.html

[Toon Moene]

Gerald,

> I have been reminded that http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.1/changes.html 
> "is in a pretty sorry state", and there's not much there apart 
> from CPP and GCJ, especially platform specific fixes, 
> optimizations and C++ issues are scarce.

> We should really do a better job advertising our work!

"Advertising" would also mean: Pointing to this document from the front
page ...

We *do* point to the criteria.html file (twice) but say nothing about
the changes, improvements, fixes, etc. in GCC 3.1.

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PATCH for Re: http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.1/changes.html

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Toon Moene wrote:
> "Advertising" would also mean: Pointing to this document from the front
> page ...
>
> We *do* point to the criteria.html file (twice) but say nothing about
> the changes, improvements, fixes, etc. in GCC 3.1.

Good point. Addressed by the patch below (which also rearranges stuff a
bit).

Gerald

Index: index.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/index.html,v
retrieving revision 1.299
diff -u -3 -p -r1.299 index.html
--- index.html	16 Apr 2002 14:46:03 -0000	1.299
+++ index.html	19 Apr 2002 07:51:48 -0000
@@ -118,11 +118,9 @@ from the "GNU C Compiler" to the "GNU Co
 a new <a href="gccmission.html">mission statement</a>.</p>

 <p>Currently GCC contains front ends for C, C++, Objective C,
-Fortran, and <a href="java/">Java</a>
-as well as libraries for these languages (<a href="libstdc++/">libstdc++</a>,
-libgcj,...).  The next major release, <a href="gcc-3.1/criteria.html">GCC 3.1</a>,
-will also include an Ada front end.
-</p>
+Fortran, and <a href="java/">Java</a> as well as libraries for these
+languages (<a href="libstdc++/">libstdc++</a>, libgcj,...); GCC 3.1
+will also include an Ada front end.</p>

 <p>We want to work closely with developers to help and encourage them
 to <a href="contribute.html">contribute changes</a> for inclusion in
@@ -136,8 +134,12 @@ We want those releases to work well on a
 GNU/Linux) and cross targets and use an extensive
 <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/testresults/">test suite</a> as well as
 <a href="benchmarks/">various benchmark suites
-and automated testers</a> to maintain and improve quality.
-<a href="gcc-3.0/">GCC 3.0.4</a> is the current release.
+and automated testers</a> to maintain and improve quality.</p>
+
+<p><a href="gcc-3.0/">GCC 3.0.4</a> is the current release, and we are
+working on the next major release, GCC 3.1
+(<a href="gcc-3.1/criteria.html">release criteria</a>,
+<a href="gcc-3.1/changes.html">changes</a>).
 </p>

 <hr />
@@ -161,9 +163,10 @@ from the GCC source tree.

 <dt><b>February 25, 2002</b></dt>
 <dd>
-We have branched for <a href="gcc-3.1/criteria.html">GCC 3.1</a> and are
+We have branched for GCC 3.1 (<a href="gcc-3.1/criteria.html">release
+criteria</a>, <a href="gcc-3.1/changes.html">changes</a>) and are
 concentrating on bugfixes.  The 3.1 release is
-<a href="develop.html#calendar">planned for mid-April</a>.
+<a href="develop.html#calendar">planned for late April</a>.
 </dd>

 <dt><b>February 21, 2002</b></dt>

PATCH for Re: http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.1/changes.html

[Gerald Pfeifer]

[ Reply-To: gcc-patches ]

On Thu, 16 May 2002, Kurt Wall wrote:
>>> A new __builtin_prefetch instrics is available
>> What's an "instrics"?
> Perchance a distant relation of "intrinsics"?

I committed the patch below.

Index: changes.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-3.1/changes.html,v
retrieving revision 1.41
diff -u -3 -p -r1.41 changes.html
--- changes.html	16 May 2002 02:13:10 -0000	1.41
+++ changes.html	17 May 2002 09:12:52 -0000
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@

 <li>Support for data prefetching instructions has been added to the GCC
     back end and several targets.  A new <code>__builtin_prefetch</code>
-    instrics is available to explicitly insert prefetch instructions and
+    intrinsics is available to explicitly insert prefetch instructions and
     experimental support for loop array prefetching has been added (see
     <code>-fprefetch-loop-array</code> documentation).
 </li>