This patch adds an <h2>-level section about libgccjit between the sections on languages and targets.
It has various links to the documentation (now that that's on the website), and to a couple of 3rd party repos (the Python and D bindings). It also mentions the license of the library. OK to commit? Dave
Index: htdocs/gcc-5/changes.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-5/changes.html,v retrieving revision 1.78 diff -u -p -r1.78 changes.html --- htdocs/gcc-5/changes.html 5 Feb 2015 13:52:05 -0000 1.78 +++ htdocs/gcc-5/changes.html 6 Feb 2015 02:46:57 -0000 @@ -451,6 +451,33 @@ void operator delete[] (void *, std::siz <!-- h3 id="go">Go</h3 --> <!--h3 id="java">Java (GCJ)</h3--> +<h2 id="jit">libgccjit</h2> +<p>New in GCC 5 is the ability to build gcc as a shared library for embedding +in other processes (such as interpreters), suitable for Just-In-Time +compilation to machine code.</p> + +<p>The shared library has a <a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/jit/intro/index.html";>C API</a> +and a +<a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/jit/cp/index.html";>C++ wrapper API</a> +providing some "syntactic sugar". +There are also bindings available from 3rd parties for +<a href="https://github.com/davidmalcolm/pygccjit";>Python</a> and for +<a href="https://github.com/ibuclaw/gccjitd";>D</a>.</p> + +<p>For example, this library can be used by interpreters for +<a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/jit/intro/tutorial04.html";>compiling +functions from bytecode to machine code</a>.</p> + +<p>The library can also be used for ahead-of-time compilation, enabling +GCC to be plugged into a pre-existing frontend. An example of using +this to build a compiler for an esoteric language we'll refer to as "brainf" +can be seen <a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/jit/intro/tutorial05.html";> +here</a>.</p> + +<p>libgccjit is licensed under the GPLv3 (or at your option, any later version)</p> + +<p>It should be regarded as experimental at this time.</p> + <h2 id="targets">New Targets and Target Specific Improvements</h2> <h3 id="aarch64">AArch64</h3>
