On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 10:44:20AM +0100, Tobias Burnus wrote: > I think it is useful to know that one can build libcc1.so - also as > advertisement. Thus, I propose to include something like the quip in > the attachment. > > GDB uses it in version 7.9, which is not yet released but already > branched off. > > OK? - Other suggestions or comments?
Well, I would certainly not describe libcc1.so as C front end built as a library, there is no FE code in it; it is a library to invoke gcc with a special plugin, and I doubt it can be easily used for anything but GDB. > 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 08:20:50 -0000 > @@ -237,6 +237,10 @@ calloc (size_t x, size_t y) > <code>-Wno-discarded-qualifiers</code>.</li> > <li>The C front end now generates more precise caret diagnostics.</li> > <li>The -pg option now only affects the current file in a LTO build.</li> > + <li>The C front end can now also be build as library, which is for > instance > + used by <a > + > href="https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob_plain;f=gdb/NEWS;hb=gdb-7.9-branch"; > + >gdb 7.9</a> for compiling source code used for code injection.</li> > </ul> > > <h3 id="cxx">C++</h3> Jakub
