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<h1>GCC 7 Release Series<br />Changes, New Features, and Fixes</h1>

<p>
This page is a brief summary of some of the huge number of improvements in GCC 7.
For more information, see the
<a href="porting_to.html">Porting to GCC 7</a> page and the
<a href="../onlinedocs/index.html#current">full GCC documentation</a>.
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<h2>Disclaimer: GCC 7 has not been released yet, so this document is
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<h2>Caveats</h2>
<ul>
  <li>GCC now uses <a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/LRAIsDefault">LRA (a
      new local register allocator) by default</a> for new targets.</li>

  <li>The non-standard C++0x type traits
      <code>has_trivial_default_constructor</code>,
      <code>has_trivial_copy_constructor</code> and
      <code>has_trivial_copy_assign</code> have been removed.</li>
  <li>The libstdc++
      <a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/profile_mode.html">Profile
      Mode</a> has been deprecated and will be removed in a future version.
  </li>

  <li>The Cilk+ extensions to the C and C++ languages have been deprecated.</li>
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<h2 id="general">General Optimizer Improvements</h2>
<ul>
  <li>GCC 7 can determine the return value or range of return values of
    some calls to the <code>sprintf</code> family of functions and make
    it available to other optimization passes.  Some calls to the
    <code>snprintf</code> function with a zero size argument can be folded
    into constants.  This optimization is included in <code>-O1</code>
    and can be selectively controlled by the
    <code>-fprintf-return-value</code> option.</li>
  <li>A new store merging pass has been added.  It merges constant stores to
  adjacent memory locations into fewer, wider, stores.
  It is enabled by the <code>-fstore-merging</code> option and at the
  <code>-O2</code> optimization level or higher (and <code>-Os</code>).</li>

  <li>A new code hoisting optimization has been added to the partial
  redundancy elimination pass.  It attempts to move evaluation of
  expressions executed on all paths to the function exit as early as
  possible, which helps primarily for code size, but can be useful for
  speed of generated code as well.  It is enabled by the
  <code>-fcode-hoisting</code> option and at the <code>-O2</code>
  optimization level or higher (and <code>-Os</code>).</li>

  <li>A new interprocedural bitwise constant propagation optimization
  has been added, which propagates knowledge about which bits of variables
  are known to be zero (including pointer alignment information) across
  the call graph.  It is enabled by the <code>-fipa-bit-cp</code>
  option if <code>-fipa-cp</code> is enabled as well, and is enabled
  at the <code>-O2</code> optimization level and higher (and
  <code>-Os</code>).  This optimization supersedes interprocedural
  alignment propagation of GCC 6, and therefore the
  option <code>-fipa-cp-alignment</code> is now deprecated and
  ignored.</li>

  <li>A new interprocedural value range propagation optimization has been
  added, which propagates integral ranges that variable values can be proven
  to be within across the call graph.  It is enabled by the
  <code>-fipa-vrp</code> option and at the <code>-O2</code> optimization
  level and higher (and <code>-Os</code>).</li>

  <li>A new loop splitting optimization pass has been added.  It splits
  certain loops if they contain a condition that is always true on one
  side of the iteration space and always false on the other into two
  loops where each of the new two loops iterates just on one of the sides
  of the iteration space and the condition does not need to be checked
  inside of the loop.  It is enabled by the <code>-fsplit-loops</code>
  option and at the <code>-O3</code> optimization level or higher.</li>

  <li>The shrink-wrapping optimization can now separate portions of
  prologues and epilogues to improve performance if some of the
  work done traditionally by prologues and epilogues is not needed
  on certain paths.  This is controlled by the
  <code>-fshrink-wrap-separate</code> option, enabled by default.
  It requires target support, which is currently only implemented in the
  PowerPC and AArch64 ports.</li>

  <li>AddressSanitizer gained a new sanitization option, <code>-fsanitize-address-use-after-scope</code>,
      which enables sanitization of variables whose address is taken and used after a scope where the
      variable is defined:
  <blockquote><pre>
int
main (int argc, char **argv)
{
  char *ptr;
    {
      char my_char;
      ptr = &amp;my_char;
    }

  *ptr = 123;
  return *ptr;
}

<span class="boldred">==28882==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: stack-use-after-scope on address 0x7fffb8dba990 at pc 0x0000004006d5 bp 0x7fffb8dba960 sp 0x7fffb8dba958</span>
<span class="boldblue">WRITE of size 1 at 0x7fffb8dba990 thread T0</span>
    #0 0x4006d4 in main /tmp/use-after-scope-1.c:10
    #1 0x7f9c71943290 in __libc_start_main (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x20290)
    #2 0x400739 in _start (/tmp/a.out+0x400739)

<span class="boldlime">Address 0x7fffb8dba990 is located in stack of thread T0 at offset 32 in frame</span>
    #0 0x40067f in main /tmp/use-after-scope-1.c:3

  This frame has 1 object(s):
    [32, 33) 'my_char' <span class="boldlime">&lt;== Memory access at offset 32 is inside this variable</span>
  </pre></blockquote>

  The option is enabled by default with <code>-fsanitize=address</code> and disabled
  by default with <code>-fsanitize=kernel-address</code>.
  Compared to the LLVM compiler, where the option already exists,
  the implementation in the GCC compiler has couple of improvements and advantages:
  <ul>
      <li>A complex usage of gotos and case labels are properly handled and should not
          report any false positive or false negatives.
      </li>
      <li>C++ temporaries are sanitized.</li>
      <li>Sanitization can handle invalid memory stores that are optimized out
      by the LLVM compiler when using an optimization level.</li>
  </ul>

  </li>

  <li>The <code>-fsanitize=signed-integer-overflow</code> suboption of the
  UndefinedBehavior Sanitizer now diagnoses arithmetic overflows even on
  arithmetic operations with generic vectors.</li>

  <li>Version 5 of the <a
  href="http://www.dwarfstd.org/Download.php">DWARF</a> debugging
  information standard is supported through the <code>-gdwarf-5</code>
  option.  The DWARF version 4 debugging information remains the
  default until debugging information consumers are adjusted.</li>

</ul>

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<h3 id="ada">Ada</h3>
<ul>
  <li>On mainstream native platforms, Ada programs no longer require the stack
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<h3 id="brig">BRIG (HSAIL)</h3>

<p>Support for processing BRIG 1.0 files was added in this release.
BRIG is a binary format for HSAIL (Heterogeneous System Architecture
Intermediate Language). The BRIG frontend can be used for implementing
HSAIL "finalizers" (compilation of HSAIL to a native ISA) for gcc-supported
targets. An implementation of an HSAIL runtime library, libhsail-rt is
also included.</p>

<h3 id="c-family">C family</h3>
<ul>
<li>New command-line options have been added for the C and C++ compilers:
  <ul>
    <li><code>-Wimplicit-fallthrough</code> warns when a switch case falls
        through.  This warning has five different levels.  The compiler is
	able to parse a wide range of fallthrough comments, depending on
	the level.  It also handles control-flow statements, such as ifs.
	It's possible to suppres the warning by either adding a fallthrough
	comment, or by using a null statement: <code>__attribute__
	((fallthrough));</code> (C, C++), or <code>[[fallthrough]];</code>
        (C++17), or <code>[[gnu::fallthrough]];</code> (C++11/C++14).
        This warning is enabled by <code>-Wextra</code>.</li>
    <li><code>-Wpointer-compare</code> warns when a pointer is compared with
        a zero character constant.  Such code is now invalid in C++11 and
	GCC rejects it.  This warning is enabled by default.</li>
    <li><code>-Wduplicated-branches</code> warns when an if-else has identical
        branches.</li>
    <li><code>-Wrestrict</code> warns when an argument passed to a
        <code>restrict</code>-qualified parameter aliases with another
	argument.</li>
    <li><code>-Wmemset-elt-size</code> warns for <code>memset</code> calls,
        when the first argument references an array, and the third argument is
	a number equal to the number of elements of the array, but not the size
	of the array.  This warning is enabled by <code>-Wall</code>.</li>
    <li><code>-Wint-in-bool-context</code> warns about suspicious uses of
        integer values where boolean values are expected.  This warning is
	enabled by <code>-Wall</code>.</li>
    <li><code>-Wswitch-unreachable</code> warns when a <code>switch</code>
	statement has statements between the controlling expression and the
	first case label which will never be executed.  This warning is enabled
	by default.</li>
    <li><code>-Wexpansion-to-defined</code> warns when <code>defined</code> is
        used outside <code>#if</code>.  This warning is enabled by
	<code>-Wextra</code> or <code>-Wpedantic</code>.</li>
    <li><code>-Wregister</code> warns about uses of the <code>register</code>
        storage specifier.  In C++17 this keyword has been removed and for C++17
	this is a pedantic warning enabled by default.  The warning is not
	emitted for the GNU Explicit Register Variables extension.</li>
    <li><code>-Wvla-larger-than=N</code> warns about unbounded uses of
        variable-length arrays, and about bounded uses of variable-length
	arrays whose bound can be larger than <code>N</code> bytes.</li>
    <li><code>-Wduplicate-decl-specifier</code> warns when a declaration
        has duplicate <code>const</code>, <code>volatile</code>,
	<code>restrict</code> or <code>_Atomic</code> specifier. This warning
	is enabled by <code>-Wall</code>.</li>
  </ul>
</li>
  <li>GCC 6's C and C++ frontends were able to offer suggestions for
      misspelled field names:
      <blockquote><pre>
<b>spellcheck-fields.cc:52:13:</b> <span class="boldred">error:</span> <b>'struct s'</b> has no member named <b>'colour'</b>; did you mean <b>'color'</b>?
   return ptr-&gt;<span class="boldred">colour</span>;
               <span class="boldred">^~~~~~</span>
</pre></blockquote>
      GCC 7 greatly expands the scope of these suggestions.  Firstly, it
      adds fix-it hints to such suggestions:
<blockquote><pre>
<b>spellcheck-fields.cc:52:13:</b> <span class="boldred">error:</span> <b>'struct s'</b> has no member named <b>'colour'</b>; did you mean <b>'color'</b>?
   return ptr-&gt;<span class="boldred">colour</span>;
               <span class="boldred">^~~~~~</span>
               <span class="green">color</span>
</pre></blockquote>
      The suggestions now cover many other things, such as misspelled
      function names:
<blockquote><pre>
<b>spellcheck-identifiers.c:11:3:</b> <span class="boldmagenta">warning:</span> implicit declaration of function <b>'gtk_widget_showall'</b>; did you mean <b>'gtk_widget_show_all'</b>? [<span class="boldmagenta">-Wimplicit-function-declaration</span>]
   <span class="boldmagenta">gtk_widget_showall</span> (w);
   <span class="boldmagenta">^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span>
   <span class="green">gtk_widget_show_all</span>
</pre></blockquote>
      misspelled macro names and enum values:
<blockquote><pre>
<b>spellcheck-identifiers.cc:85:11:</b> <span class="boldred">error:</span> <b>'MAX_ITEM'</b> undeclared here (not in a function); did you mean <b>'MAX_ITEMS'</b>?
 int array[<span class="boldred">MAX_ITEM</span>];
           <span class="boldred">^~~~~~~~</span>
           <span class="green">MAX_ITEMS</span>
</pre></blockquote>
      misspelled type names:
<blockquote><pre>
<b>spellcheck-typenames.c:7:14:</b> <span class="boldred">error:</span> unknown type name <b>'singed'</b>; did you mean <b>'signed'</b>?
 void test (<span class="boldred">singed</span> char e);
            <span class="boldred">^~~~~~</span>
            <span class="green">signed</span>
</pre></blockquote>
      and, in the C frontend, named initializers:
<blockquote><pre>
<b>test.c:7:20:</b> <span class="boldred">error:</span> <b>'struct s'</b> has no member named <b>'colour'</b>; did you mean <b>'color'</b>?
 struct s test = { .<span class="boldred">colour</span> = 3 };
                    <span class="boldred">^~~~~~</span>
                    <span class="green">color</span>
</pre></blockquote></li>
  <li>The preprocessor can now offer suggestions for misspelled
      directives, e.g.: 
<blockquote><pre>
<b>test.c:5:2:</b> <span class="boldred">error:</span>invalid preprocessing directive #endfi; did you mean #endif?
 #<span class="boldred">endfi</span>
  <span class="boldred">^~~~~</span>
  <span class="green">endif</span>
</pre></blockquote></li>
  <li>Warnings about format strings now underline the pertinent part of
    the string, and can offer suggested fixes.  In some cases, the
    pertinent argument is underlined.
<blockquote><pre>
<b>test.c:51:29:</b> <span class="boldmagenta">warning:</span> format <b>'%s'</b> expects argument of type <b>'char *'</b>, but argument 3 has type <b>'int'</b> [<span class="boldmagenta">-Wformat=</span>]
   printf ("foo: %d  bar: <span class="boldmagenta">%s</span> baz: %d", 100, <span class="boldmagenta">i + j</span>, 102);
                          <span class="boldmagenta">~^</span>                <span class="boldmagenta">~~~~~</span>
                          <span class="green">%d</span>
</pre></blockquote></li>

<li>The new <code>-Wdangling-else</code> command-line option has been split
out of <code>-Wparentheses</code> and warns about dangling <code>else</code>.</li>
<li><p>The <code>-Wshadow</code> warning has been split into three
variants. <code>-Wshadow=global</code> warns for any shadowing.  This
is the default when using <code>-Wshadow</code> without any
argument.  <code>-Wshadow=local</code> only warns for a local variable
shadowing another local variable or
parameter. <code>-Wshadow=compatible-local</code> only warns for a
local variable shadowing another local variable or parameter whose
type is compatible (in C++ compatible means that the type of the
shadowing variable can be converted to that of the shadowed variable).</p>

<p>The following example shows the different kinds of shadow
warnings:</p>

<blockquote><pre>
enum operation { add, count };
struct container { int nr; };

int
container_count (struct container c, int count)
{
  int r = 0;
  for (int count = 0; count > 0; count--)
    {
      struct container count = c;
      r += count.nr;
    }
  return r;
}</pre></blockquote>

<p><code>-Wshadow=compatible-local</code> will warn for the parameter being
shadowed with the same type:</p>

<blockquote><pre>
<b>warn-test.c:8:12:</b> <span class="boldmagenta">warning:</span> declaration of '<b>count</b>' shadows a parameter [<span class="boldmagenta">-Wshadow=compatible-local</span>]
   for (int <span class="boldmagenta">count</span> = 0; count > 0; count--)
            <span class="boldmagenta">^~~~~</span>
<b>warn-test.c:5:42:</b> <span class="boldcyan">note:</span> shadowed declaration is here
 container_count (struct container c, int <span class="boldcyan">count</span>)
                                          <span class="boldcyan">^~~~~</span></pre></blockquote>

<p><code>-Wshadow=local</code> will warn for the above and for the shadowed
declaration with incompatible type:</p>

<blockquote><pre>
<b>warn-test.c:10:24:</b> <span class="boldmagenta">warning:</span> declaration of '<b>count</b>' shadows a previous local [<span class="boldmagenta">-Wshadow=local</span>]
       struct container <span class="boldmagenta">count</span> = c;
                        <span class="boldmagenta">^~~~~</span>
<b>warn-test.c:8:12:</b> <span class="boldcyan">note:</span> shadowed declaration is here
   for (int <span class="boldcyan">count</span> = 0; count > 0; count--)
            <span class="boldcyan">^~~~~</span></pre></blockquote>

<p><code>-Wshadow=global</code> will warn for all of the above and the shadowing
of the global declaration:</p>

<blockquote><pre>
<b>warn-test.c:5:42:</b> <span class="boldmagenta">warning:</span> declaration of '<b>count</b>' shadows a global declaration [<span class="boldmagenta">-Wshadow</span>]
 container_count (struct container c, int <span class="boldmagenta">count</span>)
                                          <span class="boldmagenta">^~~~~</span>
<b>warn-test.c:1:23:</b> <span class="boldcyan">note:</span> shadowed declaration is here
 enum operation { add, <span class="boldcyan">count</span> };
                       <span class="boldcyan">^~~~~</span></pre></blockquote>
</li>
<li>GCC 7 contains a number of enhancements that help detect buffer overflow
  and other forms of invalid memory accesses.
  <ul>
    <li><p>The <code>-Walloc-size-larger-than=<i>size</i></code> option
	detects calls to standard and user-defined memory allocation
	functions decorated with attribute <code>alloc_size</code> whose
	argument exceeds the specified <code><i>size</i></code>
	(<code>PTRDIFF_MAX</code> by default).  The option also detects
	arithmetic overflow in the computation of the size in two-argument
	allocation functions like <code>calloc</code> where the total size
	is the product of the two arguments.  Since calls with an excessive
	size cannot succeed they are typically the result of programming
	errors.  Such bugs have been known to be the source of
	security vulnerabilities and a target of exploits.
      <code>-Walloc-size-larger-than=PTRDIFF_MAX</code> is included
      in <code>-Wall</code>.</p>
      <p>For example, the following call to <code>malloc</code> incorrectly
	tries to avoid passing a negative argument to the function and
	instead ends up unconditionally invoking it with an argument less
	than or equal to zero.  Since after conversion to the type of
	the argument of the function (<code>size_t</code>) a negative
	argument results in a value in excess of the maximum
	<code>PTRDIFF_MAX</code> the call is diagnosed.</p>
      <blockquote><pre>
void* f (int n)
{
  return malloc (n &gt; 0 ? 0 : n);
}

<span class="boldmagenta">warning: </span>argument 1 range [2147483648, 4294967295] exceeds maximum object size 2147483647 [<span class="boldmagenta">-Walloc-size-larger-than=</span>]</pre></blockquote></li>
    <li>The <code>-Walloc-zero</code> option detects calls to standard
      and user-defined memory allocation functions decorated with attribute
      <code>alloc_size</code> with a zero argument.  <code>-Walloc-zero</code>
      is not included in either <code>-Wall</code> or <code>-Wextra</code>
      and must be explicitly enabled.</li>
    <li>The <code>-Walloca</code> option detects all calls to the
      <code>alloca</code> function in the program.  <code>-Walloca</code>
      is not included in either <code>-Wall</code> or <code>-Wextra</code>
      and must be explicitly enabled.</li>
    <li><p>The <code>-Walloca-larger-than=<i>size</i></code> option detects
	calls to the <code>alloca</code> function whose argument either may
	exceed the specified <code><i>size</i></code>, or that is not known
	to be sufficiently constrained to avoid exceeding it.
	<code>-Walloca-larger-than</code> is not included in either
	<code>-Wall</code> or <code>-Wextra</code> and must be explicitly
	enabled.</p>
      <p>For example, compiling the following snippet with
	<code>-Walloca-larger-than=1024</code> results in a warning because
	even though the code appears to call <code>alloca</code> only with
	sizes of 1kb and less, since <code>n</code> is signed, a negative
	value would result in a call to the function well in excess of
	the limit.</p>
	<blockquote><pre>
void f (int n)
{
  char *d;
  if (n &lt; 1025)
    d = alloca (n);
  else
    d = malloc (n);
  &hellip;
}

<span class="boldmagenta">warning: </span>argument to '<b>alloca</b> may be too large due to conversion from '<b>int</b>' to '<b>long unsigned int</b>' [<span class="boldmagenta">-Walloca-larger-than=</span>]</pre></blockquote>
      <p>In contrast, a call to <code>alloca</code> that isn't bounded at all
	such as in the following function will elicit the warning below
	regardless of the <code><i>size</i></code> argument to the option.</p>
      <blockquote><pre>
void f (size_t n)
{
  char *d = alloca (n);
  &hellip;
}

<span class="boldmagenta">warning: </span>unbounded use of '<b>alloca</b>' [<span class="boldmagenta">-Walloca-larger-than=</span>]</pre></blockquote></li>
    <li><p>The <code>-Wformat-overflow=<i>level</i></code> option detects
	certain and likely buffer overflow in calls to the <code>sprintf</code>
	family of formatted output functions.  Although the option is enabled
	even without optimization it works best with <code>-O2</code> and
	higher.</p>
      <p>For example, in the following snippet the call to
	<code>sprintf</code> is diagnosed because even though its
	output has been constrained using the modulo operation it could
	result in as many as three bytes if <code>mday</code> were negative.
	The solution is to either allocate a larger buffer or make sure
	the argument is not negative, for example by changing
	<code>mday</code>'s type to <code>unsigned</code> or by making
	the type of the second operand of the modulo expression
	<code>unsigned</code>: <code>100U</code>.</p>
      <blockquote><pre>
void* f (int mday)
{
  char *buf = malloc (3);
  sprintf (buf, "%02i", mday % 100);
  return buf;
}

<span class="boldmagenta">warning: </span>'<b>sprintf</b> may write a terminating nul past the end of the destination [<span class="boldmagenta">-Wformat-overflow=</span>]
<span class="boldcyan">note: </span>'<b>sprintf</b>' output between 3 and 4 bytes into a destination of size 3</pre></blockquote></li>
    <li><p>The <code>-Wformat-truncation=<i>level</i></code> option detects
	certain and likely output truncation in calls to the
	<code>snprintf</code> family of formatted output functions.
	<code>-Wformat-truncation=1</code> is included in <code>-Wall</code>
	and enabled without optimization but works best with <code>-O2</code>
	and higher.</p>
      <p>For example, the following function attempts to format an integer
	between 0 and 255 in hexadecimal, including the <code>0x</code>
	prefix, into a buffer of four charactars.  But since the function
	must always terminate output by the null character (<code>'\0'</code>)
	such a buffer is only big enough to fit just one digit plus the prefix.
	Therefore the <code>snprintf</code> call is diagnosed.  To avoid
	the warning either use a bigger buffer or handle the function's
	return value which indicates whether or not its output has
	been truncated.</p>
      <blockquote><pre>
void f (unsigned x)
{
  char d[4];
  snprintf (d, sizeof d, "%#02x", x &amp; 0xff);
  &hellip;
}

<span class="boldmagenta">warning: </span>'<b>snprintf</b>' output may be truncated before the last format character [<span class="boldmagenta">-Wformat-truncation=</span>]
<span class="boldcyan">note: </span>'<b>snprintf</b>' output between 3 and 5 bytes into a destination of size 4</pre></blockquote></li>
    <li>The <code>-Wnonnull</code> option has been enhanced to detect
      a broader set of cases of passing null pointers to functions that
      expect a non-null argument (those decorated with attribute
      <code>nonnull</code>).  By taking advantage of optimizations the
      option can detect many more cases of the problem than in prior GCC
      versions.</li>
    <li><p>The <code>-Wstringop-overflow=<i>type</i></code> option detects
	buffer overflow in calls to string handling functions like
	<code>memcpy</code> and <code>strcpy</code>.  The option relies on
	<a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Object-Size-Checking.html">
	  Object Size Checking</a> and has an effect similar to defining
	the <code>_FORTIFY_SOURCE</code> macro.
	<code>-Wstringop-overflow=2</code> is enabled by default.</p>
      <p>For example, in the following snippet, because the call to
	<code>strncat</code> specifies a maximum that allows the function to
	write past the end of the destination, it is diagnosed.  To correct
	the problem and avoid the overflow the function should be called
	with a size of at most <code>sizeof d - strlen(d) - 1</code>.</p>
      <blockquote><pre>
void f (const char *fname)
{
  char d[8];
  strncpy (d, "/tmp/", sizeof d);
  strncat (d, fname, sizeof d);
  &hellip;
}

<span class="boldmagenta">warning: </span>specified bound 8 equals the size of the destination [<span class="boldmagenta">-Wstringop-overflow=</span>]</pre>
    </blockquote></li>
  </ul>
</li>
<li>The <code>&lt;limits.h&gt;</code> header provided by GCC defines
  macros such as <code>INT_WIDTH</code> for the width in bits of
  integer types, if <code>__STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__</code> is
  defined before the header is included.
  The <code>&lt;stdint.h&gt;</code> header defines such macros
  as <code>SIZE_WIDTH</code> and <code>INTMAX_WIDTH</code> for the
  width of some standard <code>typedef</code> names for integer types,
  again if <code>__STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__</code> is defined
  before the header is included; note that GCC's implementation of
  this header is only used for freestanding compilations, not hosted
  compilations, on most systems.  These macros come from ISO/IEC TS
  18661-1:2014.</li>
<li>The <code>&lt;float.h&gt;</code> header provided by GCC defines
  the macro <code>CR_DECIMAL_DIG</code>, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
  if <code>__STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__</code> is defined before
  the header is included.  This represents the number of decimal
  digits for which conversions between decimal character strings and
  binary formats, in both directions, are correctly rounded, and
  currently has the value of <code>UINTMAX_MAX</code> on all systems,
  reflecting that GCC's compile-time conversions are correctly rounded
  for any number of digits.</li>
<li><p>New <code>__builtin_add_overflow_p</code>,
  <code>__builtin_sub_overflow_p</code>,
  <code>__builtin_mul_overflow_p</code> built-in functions have been added.
  These work similarly to their siblings without the
  <code>_p</code> suffix, but do not actually store the result of the
  arithmetics anywhere, just return whether the operation would overflow.
  Calls to these built-ins with integer constant arguments evaluate to
  integer constants expressions.</p>
  <p>For example, in the following, <code>c</code> is assigned the result
    of <code>a * b</code> only if the multiplication does not overflow,
    otherwise it is assigned the value zero.  The multiplication is
    performed at compile-time and without triggering
    a <code>-Woverflow</code> warning.</p>
  <blockquote><pre>enum {
  a = 12345678,
  b = 87654321,
  c = __builtin_mul_overflow_p (a, b, a) ? 0 : a * b
};</pre></blockquote></li>

</ul>

<h3 id="c">C</h3>
<ul>
  <li><p>The C front end now supports type
  names <code>_Float<i>N</i></code> for floating-point types with IEEE
  interchange formats and <code>_Float<i>N</i>x</code> for
  floating-point types with IEEE extended formats.  These type names
  come from ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.</p>
  <p>The set of types supported depends on the target for which GCC is
  configured.  Most targets
  support <code>_Float32</code>, <code>_Float32x</code>
  and <code>_Float64</code>.  <code>_Float128</code> is supported on
  targets where IEEE binary128 encoding was already supported
  as <code>long double</code>
  or <code>__float128</code>.  <code>_Float64x</code> is supported on
  targets where a type with either binary128 or Intel extended
  precision format is available.</p>
  <p>Constants with these types are supported using
  suffixes <code>f<i>N</i></code>, <code>F<i>N</i></code>,
  <code>f<i>N</i>x</code> and <code>F<i>N</i>x</code>
  (e.g., <code>1.2f128</code> or <code>2.3F64x</code>).  Macros such
  as <code>FLT128_MAX</code> are defined
  in <code>&lt;float.h&gt;</code>
  if <code>__STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__</code> is defined before
  it is included.</p>
  <p>These new types are always distinct from each other and
  from <code>float</code>, <code>double</code> and <code>long
  double</code>, even if they have the same encoding.  Complex types
  such as <code>_Complex _Float128</code> are also supported.</p>
  <p>Type-generic built-in functions such
  as <code>__builtin_isinf</code> support the new types, and the
  following type-specific built-in functions have versions
  (suffixed <code>f<i>N</i></code> or <code>f<i>N</i>x</code>) for the
  new
  types: <code>__builtin_copysign</code>, <code>__builtin_fabs</code>, <code>__builtin_huge_val</code>, <code>__builtin_inf</code>, <code>__builtin_nan</code>, <code>__builtin_nans</code>.</p></li>
  <li>Compilation with <code>-fopenmp</code> is now compatible with the
  C11 <code>_Atomic</code> keyword.</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="cxx">C++</h3>
<ul>
  <li>The C++ front end has experimental support for all of the current C++17
    draft with the <code>-std=c++1z</code> or <code>-std=gnu++1z</code> flags,
    including <tt>if constexpr</tt>, class template argument
    deduction, <code>auto</code> template parameters, and structured bindings.
    For a full list of new features,
    see <a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx-status.html#cxx1z">the C++
      status page</a>.</li>
  <li>C++17 support for <code>new</code> of over-aligned types can be enabled
    in other modes with the <code>-faligned-new</code> flag.</li>
  <li>The C++17 evaluation order requirements can be selected in other modes
    with the <code>-fstrong-eval-order</code> flag, or disabled in C++17 mode
    with <code>-fno-strong-eval-order</code>.</li>
  <li>The default semantics of inherited constructors has changed in all modes,
    following <a href="http://wg21.link/p0136">P0136</a>.  Essentially,
    overload resolution happens as if calling the inherited constructor
    directly, and the compiler fills in construction of the other bases and
    members as needed.  Most uses should not need any changes.  The old
    behavior can be restored with <code>-fno-new-inheriting-ctors</code>,
    or <code>-fabi-version</code> less than 11.</li>
  <li>The resolution of DR 150 on matching of template template parameters,
    allowing default template arguments to make a template match a parameter,
    is currently enabled by default in C++17 mode only.  The default can be
    overridden with <code>-f{no-,}new-ttp-matching</code>.</li>
  <li>The C++ front end will now provide fix-it hints for some missing
    semicolons, allowing for automatic fixes by IDEs:
<blockquote><pre>
<b>test.cc:4:11:</b> <span class="boldred">error:</span> expected <b>';'</b> after class definition
 class a {} 
           <span class="boldred">^</span>
           <span class="green">;</span>
</pre></blockquote></li>
  <li><code>-Waligned-new</code> has been added to the C++ front end.  It warns
      about <code>new</code> of type with extended alignment without
      <code>-faligned-new</code>.</li>
</ul>

<h4 id="libstdcxx">Runtime Library (libstdc++)</h4>
<ul>
  <li>
    The type of exception thrown by iostreams,
    <code>std::ios_base::failure</code>, now uses the
    <a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/using_dual_abi.html"><code>cxx11</code>
    ABI</a>.
  </li>
  <li>Experimental support for C++17, including the following new features:
  <ul>
    <li>
      <code>std::string_view</code>;
    </li>
    <li>
      <code>std::any</code>, <code>std::optional</code>,
      and <code>std::variant</code>;
    </li>
    <li>
      <code>std::invoke</code>, <code>std::is_invocable</code>,
      <code>std::is_nothrow_invocable</code>, and <code>invoke_result</code>;
    </li>
    <li>
      <code>std::is_swappable</code>,
      and <code>std::is_nothrow_swappable</code>;
    </li>
    <li>
      <code>std::apply</code>,
      and <code>std::make_from_tuple</code>;
    </li>
    <li>
      <code>std::void_t</code>, <code>std::bool_constant</code>,
      <code>std::conjunction</code>, <code>std::disjunction</code>,
      and <code>std::negation</code>;
    </li>
    <li>Variable templates for type traits;</li>
    <li>Mathematical Special Functions;</li>
    <li>
      <code>std::chrono::floor</code>, <code>std::chrono::ceil</code>,
      <code>std::chrono::round</code>, and <code>std::chrono::abs</code>;
    </li>
    <li>
      <code>std::clamp</code>, <code>std::gcd</code>, <code>std::lcm</code>,
      3-dimensional <code>std::hypot</code>;
    </li>
    <li>
      <code>std::scoped_lock</code>, <code>std::shared_mutex</code>,
      <code>std::atomic&lt;T&gt;::is_always_lock_free</code>;
    </li>
    <li>
      <code>std::sample</code>, <code>std::default_searcher</code>,
      <code>std::boyer_moore_searcher</code> and
      <code>std::boyer_moore_horspool_searcher</code>;
    </li>
    <li>
      Extraction and re-insertion of map and set nodes, <code>try_emplace</code>
      members for maps, and functions for accessing containers
      <code>std::size</code>, <code>std::empty</code>, and
      <code>std::data</code>;
    </li>
    <li>
      <code>std::shared_ptr</code> support for arrays,
      <code>std::shared_ptr&lt;T&gt;::weak_type</code>,
      <code>std::enable_shared_from_this&lt;T&gt;::weak_from_this()</code>,
      and <code>std::owner_less&lt;void&gt;</code>;
    </li>
    <li><code>std::byte</code>;</li>
    <li><code>std::as_const</code>, <code>std::not_fn</code>,
      <code>std::has_unique_object_representations</code>,
      constexpr <code>std::addressof</code>.
    </li>
  </ul>
  Thanks to Daniel Kr&uuml;gler, Tim Shen, Edward Smith-Rowland, and Ville Voutilainen for
  work on the C++17 support.
  </li>
  <li>
    A new power-of-two rehashing policy for use with the
    <code>_Hashtable</code> internals, thanks to Fran&ccedil;ois Dumont.
  </li>
</ul>

<h3 id="fortran">Fortran</h3>
<ul>

  <li>
    Support for a number of extensions for compatibility with legacy code
    with new flags:
  <ul>
    <li>
      <code>-fdec-structure</code>
      Support for DEC <code>STRUCTURE</code> and <code>UNION</code>
    </li>
    <li>
      <code>-fdec-intrinsic-ints</code>
      Support for new integer intrinsics with B/I/J/K prefixes such as
      <code>BABS</code>, <code>JIAND</code>...
    </li>
    <li>
      <code>-fdec-math</code>
      Support for additional math intrinsics, including <code>COTAN</code> and
      degree-valued trigonometric functions such as <code>TAND</code>,
      <code>ASIND</code>...
    </li>
    <li>
      <code>-fdec</code>
      Enable the <code>-fdec-*</code> family of extensions.
    </li>
  </ul>
  </li>

  <li>
    New flag <code>-finit-derived</code> to allow default initialization of
    derived-type variables.
  </li>

  <li>
    Improved <code>DO</code> loops with step equal to 1 or -1, generates faster
    code without a loop preheader.  A new warning, <code>-Wundefined-do-loop</code>, 
    warns when a loop iterates either to <code>HUGE(i)</code> (with step equal
    to 1), or to <code>-HUGE(i)</code> (with step equal to -1). Invalid behavior
    can be caught at run time with <code>-fcheck=do</code> enabled:
    <blockquote><pre>
program test
  implicit none
  integer(1) :: i
  do i = -HUGE(i)+10, -HUGE(i)-1, -1
    print *, i
  end do
end program test

At line 8 of file do_check_12.f90
Fortran runtime error: Loop iterates infinitely</pre></blockquote>
  </li>
  <li>Version 4.5 of the <a href="http://www.openmp.org/specifications/"
      >OpenMP specification</a> is now partially supported also in the
      Fortran compiler; the largest missing item is structure element
      mapping.</li>
      
  <li>User-defined derived-type input/output (UDTIO) is added.</li>
  
  <li>Derived type coarrays with allocable and pointer components
      is partially supported.</li>

  <li>Non-constant stop codes and error stop codes (Fortran 2015 feature).</li>
  
  <li>Derived types with allocatable components of recursive type.</li>
  
  <li>Intrinsic assignment to polymorphic variables.</li>
  
  <li>Improved submodule support.</li>
  
  <li>Improved diagnostics (polymorphic results in pure functions).</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="go">Go</h3>
<ul>
  <li>GCC 7 provides a complete implementation of the Go 1.8.1
    user packages.</li>

  <li>Compared to the Go 1.8.1 toolchain, the garbage collector is more
    conservative and less concurrent.</li>

  <li>Escape analysis is available for experimental use via
    the <code>-fgo-optimize-allocs</code> option.
    The <code>-fgo-debug-escape</code> prints information useful for
    debugging escape analysis choices.</li>

</ul>

<h3 id="java">Java (GCJ)</h3>

<p>The GCC Java frontend and associated libjava runtime library have been
removed from GCC.</p>

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<h2 id="jit">libgccjit</h2>

<p>The libgccjit API gained support for marking calls as requiring
tail-call optimization via a new entrypoint:
<a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/jit/topics/expressions.html#gcc_jit_rvalue_set_bool_require_tail_call">gcc_jit_rvalue_set_bool_require_tail_call</a>.</p>

<p>libgccjit performs numerous checks at the API boundary, but
if these succeed, it previously ignored errors and other diagnostics emitted
within the core of GCC, and treated the compile of a gcc_jit_context
as having succeeded.  As of GCC 7 it now ensures that if any diagnostics are
emitted, they are visible from the libgccjit API, and that the the context is
flagged as having failed.</p>

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<h2 id="targets">New Targets and Target Specific Improvements</h2>

<h3 id="aarch64">AArch64</h3>
   <ul>
     <li>
       The ARMv8.3-A architecture is now supported.  It can be used by
       specifying the <code>-march=armv8.3-a</code> option.
     </li>
     <li>
       The option <code>-msign-return-address=</code> is supported to enable
       return address protection using ARMv8.3-A Pointer Authentication
       Extensions.  For more information on the arguments accepted by this
       option, please refer to
	<a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/AArch64-Options.html#AArch64-Options">
	AArch64-Options</a>.
     </li>
     <li>
       The ARMv8.2-A architecture and the ARMv8.2-A 16-bit Floating-Point
       Extensions are now supported.  They can be used by specifying the
       <code>-march=armv8.2-a</code> or <code>-march=armv8.2-a+fp16</code>
       options.
       The 16-bit Floating-Point Extensions introduce new half-precision data
       processing floating-point instructions.
     </li>
     <li>
       Support has been added for the following processors
       (GCC identifiers in parentheses):
       ARM Cortex-A73 (<code>cortex-a73</code>),
       Broadcom Vulcan (<code>vulcan</code>),
       Cavium ThunderX CN81xx (<code>thunderxt81</code>),
       Cavium ThunderX CN83xx (<code>thunderxt83</code>),
       Cavium ThunderX CN88xx (<code>thunderxt88</code>),
       Cavium ThunderX CN88xx pass 1.x (<code>thunderxt88p1</code>),
       Cavium ThunderX 2 CN99xx (<code>thunderx2t99</code>),
       Qualcomm Falkor (<code>falkor</code>).
       The GCC identifiers can be used
       as arguments to the <code>-mcpu</code> or <code>-mtune</code> options,
       for example: <code>-mcpu=cortex-a73</code> or
       <code>-mtune=vulcan</code> or as arguments to the equivalent target
       attributes and pragmas.
     </li>
   </ul>

<h3 id="arc">ARC</h3>
   <ul>
     <li>
       Add support for ARC HS and ARC EM processors.
     </li>
     <li>
       Add support for ARC EM variation found in Intel QuarkSE SoCs.
     </li>
     <li>
       Add support for NPS400 ARC700 based CPUs.
     </li>
     <li>
       Thread Local Storage is now supported by ARC CPUs.
     </li>
     <li>
       Fix errors for ARC600 when using 32x16 multiplier option.
     </li>
     <li>
       Fix PIE for ARC CPUs.
     </li>
     <li>
       New CPU templates are supported via multilib.
     </li>
   </ul>

<h3 id="arm">ARM</h3>
   <ul>
     <li>
       Support for the ARMv5 and ARMv5E architectures has been deprecated
       (which have no known implementations) and will be removed in a future
       GCC release.  Note that ARMv5T, ARMv5TE and ARMv5TEJ architectures
       remain supported.
       The values <code>armv5</code> and <code>armv5e</code> of
       <code>-march</code> are thus deprecated.
     </li>
     <li>
       The ARMv8.2-A architecture and the ARMv8.2-A 16-bit Floating-Point
       Extensions are now supported.  They can be used by specifying the
       <code>-march=armv8.2-a</code> or <code>-march=armv8.2-a+fp16</code>
       options.
       The 16-bit Floating-Point Extensions introduce new half-precision data
       processing floating-point instructions.
     </li>
     <li>
       The ARMv8-M architecture is now supported in its two architecture
       profiles: ARMv8-M Baseline and ARMv8-M Mainline with its DSP and
       Floating-Point Extensions.  They can be used by specifying the
       <code>-march=armv8-m.base</code>, <code>armv8-m.main</code> or
       <code>armv8-m.main+dsp</code> options.
     </li>
     <li>
       Support has been added for the following processors
       (GCC identifiers in parentheses): ARM Cortex-A73
       (<code>cortex-a73</code>), ARM Cortex-M23 (<code>cortex-m23</code>) and
       ARM Cortex-M33 (<code>cortex-m33</code>).
       The GCC identifiers can be used
       as arguments to the <code>-mcpu</code> or <code>-mtune</code> options,
       for example: <code>-mcpu=cortex-a73</code> or
       <code>-mtune=cortex-m33</code>.
     </li>
     <li>
       A new command-line option <code>-mpure-code</code> has been added.
       It does not allow constant data to be placed in code sections.
       This option is only available when generating non-pic code for ARMv7-M
       targets.
     </li>
     <li>
      Support for the ACLE Coprocessor Intrinsics has been added. This enables
      the generation of coprocessor instructions through the use of intrinsics
      such as <code>cdp</code>, <code>ldc</code>, and others.
    </li>
     <li>
      The configure option <code>--with-multilib-list</code> now accepts the
      value <code>rmprofile</code> to build multilib libraries for a range of
      embedded targets.  See our
      <a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html">installation
      instructions</a> for details.
    </li>
   </ul>

<h3 id="avr">AVR</h3>
<ul>
  <li>On the reduced Tiny cores, the <code>progmem</code>
    <a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/AVR-Variable-Attributes.html">variable
      attribute</a>
    is now properly supported.  Respective read-only variables are located
    in flash memory in section <code>.progmem.data</code>.  No special
    code is needed to access such variables; the compiler automatically
    adds an offset of <code>0x4000</code> to all addresses, which is needed
    to access variables in flash memory.  As opposed to ordinary cores
    where it is sufficient to specify the <code>progmem</code> attribute
    with definitions, on the reduced Tiny cores the attribute also has to
    be specified with (external) declarations:
    <blockquote><pre>
extern const int array[] __attribute__((__progmem__));

int get_value2 (void)
{
  /* Access via addresses array + 0x4004 and array + 0x4005. */
  return array[2];
}

const int* get_address (unsigned idx)
{
  /* Returns array + 0x4000 + 2 * idx. */
  return &amp;array[idx];
}</pre></blockquote></li>
  <li>A new command-line option <code>-Wmisspelled-isr</code> has been added.
    It turns off &mdash; or turns into errors &mdash;
    warnings that are reported for interrupt service routines (ISRs)
    which don't follow AVR-LibC's naming convention of prefixing
    ISR names with <code>__vector</code>.</li>
  <li><code>__builtin_avr_nops(<i>n</i>)</code> is a new
    <a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/AVR-Built-in-Functions.html">built-in
      function</a>
    that inserts <i>n</i> <code>NOP</code> instructions into
    the instruction stream. <i>n</i> must be a value known at
    compile time.</li>
</ul>

<!-- <h3 id="hsa">Heterogeneous Systems Architecture</h3> -->

<h3 id="x86">IA-32/x86-64</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Support for the AVX-512 Fused Multiply Accumulation Packed Single precision
  (4FMAPS), AVX-512 Vector Neural Network Instructions Word variable precision
  (4VNNIW), AVX-512 Vector Population Count (VPOPCNTDQ) and Software
  Guard Extensions (SGX) ISA extensions has been added.</li>
</ul>

<!-- <h3 id="mips">MIPS</h3> -->

<!-- <h3 id="mep">MeP</h3> -->

<!-- <h3 id="msp430">MSP430</h3> -->

<!-- <h3 id="nds32">NDS32</h3> -->

<h3 id="nvptx">NVPTX</h3>
<ul>
  <li>OpenMP target regions can now be offloaded to NVidia PTX GPGPUs.
  See the <a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Offloading">Offloading Wiki</a>
  on how to configure it.</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="powerpc">PowerPC / PowerPC64 / RS6000</h3>
<ul>
  <li>The PowerPC port now uses LRA by default.</li>
  <li>GCC now diagnoses inline assembly that clobbers register r2.
    This has always been invalid code, and is no longer quietly
    tolerated.</li>
  <li>The PowerPC port's support for ISA 3.0 (<code>-mcpu=power9</code>)
    has been enhanced to generate more of the new instructions by default, and
    to provide more built-in functions to generate code for other new
    instructions.</li>
  <li>The configuration option <code>--enable-gnu-indirect-function</code>
    is now enabled by default on PowerPC GNU/Linux builds.</li>
  <li>The PowerPC port will now allow 64-bit and 32-bit integer types to be
    allocated to the VSX vector registers (ISA 2.06 and above).  In addition,
    on ISA 3.0, 16-bit and 8-bit integer types can be allocated in the vector
    registers.  Previously, only 64-bit integer types were allowed in the
    traditional floating point registers.</li>
  <li>New options <code>-mstack-protector-guard=global</code>,
    <code>-mstack-protector-guard=tls</code>,
    <code>-mstack-protector-guard-reg=</code>, and
    <code>-mstack-protector-guard-offset=</code> change how the stack
    protector gets the value to use as canary.</li>
</ul>

<!-- <h3 id="s390">S/390, System z, IBM z Systems</h3> -->

<h3 id="riscv">RISC-V</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Support for the RISC-V instruction set has been added.</li>
</ul>

<!-- <h3 id="rx">RX</h3> -->

<!-- <h3 id="sh">SH</h3> -->

<h3 id="sparc">SPARC</h3>
<ul>
  <li>The SPARC port now uses LRA by default.</li>
  <li>Support for the new Subtract-Extended-with-Carry instruction
      available in SPARC M7 (Niagara 7) has been added.</li>
</ul>

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<h2 id="os">Operating Systems</h2>

<h3 id="aix">AIX</h3>
  <ul>
    <li>Visibility support has been enabled for AIX 7.1 and above.</li>
  </ul>

<h3 id="fuchsia">Fuchsia</h3>
   <ul>
     <li>Support has been added for the
     <a href="https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/">Fuchsia OS</a>.</li>
   </ul>

<!-- <h3 id="dragonfly">DragonFly BSD</h3> -->

<!-- <h3 id="freebsd">FreeBSD</h3> -->

<!-- <h3 id="linux">Linux</h3> -->

<h3 id="rtems">RTEMS</h3>
   <ul>
     <li>The ABI changes on ARM so that no short enums are used by default.</li>
   </ul>

<!-- <h3 id="solaris">Solaris</h3> -->

<!-- <h3 id="vxmils">VxWorks MILS</h3> -->

<!-- <h3 id="windows">Windows</h3> -->

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<!-- <h2>Documentation improvements</h2> -->

<!-- .................................................................. -->
<h2>Other significant improvements</h2>
<ul>
  <li><code>-fverbose-asm</code> previously emitted information on the
    meanings of assembly expressions.  This has been extended so that
    it now also prints comments showing the source lines that correspond
    to the assembly, making it easier to read the generated assembly
    (especially with larger functions).
    For example, given this C source file:
<blockquote><pre>
int test (int n)
{
  int i;
  int total = 0;

  for (i = 0; i &lt; n; i++)
    total += i * i;
  return total;
}
</pre></blockquote>
      <code>-fverbose-asm</code> now gives output similar to this for
      the function body (when compiling for x86_64, with
      <code>-Os</code>):
<blockquote><pre>
       .text
       .globl  test
       .type   test, @@function
test:
.LFB0:
       .cfi_startproc
# example.c:4:   int total = 0;
       xorl    %eax, %eax      # &lt;retval&gt;
# example.c:6:   for (i = 0; i &lt; n; i++)
       xorl    %edx, %edx      # i
.L2:
# example.c:6:   for (i = 0; i &lt; n; i++)
       cmpl    %edi, %edx      # n, i
       jge     .L5     #,
# example.c:7:     total += i * i;
       movl    %edx, %ecx      # i, tmp92
       imull   %edx, %ecx      # i, tmp92
# example.c:6:   for (i = 0; i &lt; n; i++)
       incl    %edx    # i
# example.c:7:     total += i * i;
       addl    %ecx, %eax      # tmp92, &lt;retval&gt;
       jmp     .L2     #
.L5:
# example.c:10: }
       ret
       .cfi_endproc
</pre></blockquote></li>
  <li id="printing-fix-it-hints">Two new options have been added for
    printing fix-it hints:
    <ul>
      <li><code>-fdiagnostics-parseable-fixits</code>
        allows for fix-it hints to be emitted in a machine-readable
        form, suitable for consumption by IDEs.  For example, given:
<blockquote><pre>
<b>spellcheck-fields.cc:52:13:</b> <span class="boldred">error:</span> <b>'struct s'</b> has no member named <b>'colour'</b>; did you mean <b>'color'</b>?
   return ptr-&gt;<span class="boldred">colour</span>;
               <span class="boldred">^~~~~~</span>
               <span class="green">color</span>
</pre></blockquote>
it will emit:
<blockquote><pre>
fix-it:"spellcheck-fields.cc":{52:13-52:19}:"color"
</pre></blockquote></li>
      <li><code>-fdiagnostics-generate-patch</code> will print
        a patch in "unified" format after any diagnostics are printed,
        showing the result of applying all fix-it hints.  For the above
        example it would emit:
<blockquote><pre>
<b>--- spellcheck-fields.cc</b>
<b>+++ spellcheck-fields.cc</b>
<span class="boldmagenta">@@ -49,5 +49,5 @@</span>

 color get_color(struct s *ptr)
 {
<span class="boldred">-  return ptr-&gt;colour;</span>
<span class="green">+  return ptr-&gt;color;</span>
 }
</pre></blockquote></li></ul></li>
  <li>The <code>gcc</code> and <code>g++</code> driver programs will now
    provide suggestions for misspelled arguments to command-line options.
<blockquote><pre>
$ gcc -c test.c -ftls-model=global-dinamic
gcc: <span class="boldred">error:</span> unknown TLS model <b>'global-dinamic'</b>
gcc: <span class="boldcyan">note:</span> valid arguments to <b>'-ftls-model='</b> are: global-dynamic initial-exec local-dynamic local-exec; did you mean <b>'global-dynamic'</b>?
</pre></blockquote></li>
  <li>The compiler will now provide suggestions for misspelled parameters.
<blockquote><pre>
$ gcc -c test.c --param max-early-inliner-iteration=3 
cc1: <span class="boldred">error:</span> invalid --param name <b>'max-early-inliner-iteration'</b>; did you mean <b>'max-early-inliner-iterations'</b>?
</pre></blockquote></li>

  <li>Profile-guided optimization (PGO) instrumentation, as well as test coverage (GCOV),
      can newly instrument constructors (functions marks with <code>__attribute__((constructor)))</code>,
      destructors and C++ constructors (and destructors) of classes that are used
      as a type of a global variable.
  </li>
  <li>A new option <code>-fprofile-update=atomic</code> prevents creation of corrupted
      profiles created during instrumentation run (<code>-fprofile=generate</code>)
      of an application.  Downside of the option is a speed penalty.  Providing
      <code>-pthread</code> on command line would result in selection of atomic
      profile updating (when supports by a target).
  </li>
  <li>
    <p>GCC's already extensive testsuite has gained some new
      capabilities, to further improve the reliability of the compiler:</p>
    <ul>
      <li>GCC now has has an internal unit testing API and a suite of tests
        for programmatic self-testing of subsystems.</li>
      <li>GCC's C frontend has been extended so that it can parse dumps of
        GCC's internal representations, allowing for DejaGnu tests
        that more directly exercise specific optimization passes.  This
        covers both the
        <a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/GIMPLE-Tests.html">
        GIMPLE representation</a> (for testing higher-level
        optimizations) and the
        <a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/RTL-Tests.html">
        RTL representation</a>, allowing for more direct testing of
        lower-level details, such as register allocation and instruction
        selection.</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>

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