I plan to commit this to wwwdocs later today, it adds a caveat to the
top of the file, with a link to a larger description in the libstdc++
section, which links to the new page I've just added to the manual.
It also clarifies that the deprecations apply to C++, so people who
don't care about C++ can ignore that item.
Index: htdocs/gcc-5/changes.html
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--- htdocs/gcc-5/changes.html 20 Apr 2015 08:22:35 -0000 1.109
+++ htdocs/gcc-5/changes.html 21 Apr 2015 11:45:51 -0000
@@ -16,15 +16,17 @@
<ul>
<li>The default mode for C is now <code>-std=gnu11</code> instead of
<code>-std=gnu89</code>.</li>
+ <li>The C++ runtime library (libstdc++) uses a new ABI by default
+ (see <a href="#libstdcxx">below</a>).</li>
<li>The Graphite framework for loop optimizations no longer requires the
CLooG library, only ISL version 0.14 (recommended) or 0.12.2. The
installation manual contains more information about requirements to
build GCC.</li>
- <li>The non-standard type traits
+ <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 deprecated and will
- be removed in a future version. The standard traits
+ be removed in a future version. The standard C++11 traits
<code>is_trivially_default_constructible</code>,
<code>is_trivially_copy_constructible</code> and
<code>is_trivially_copy_assignable</code> should be used instead.</li>
@@ -415,6 +417,11 @@
<h4 id="libstdcxx">Runtime Library (libstdc++)</h4>
<ul>
+ <li>A <a href="/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/using_dual_abi.html">Dual
+ ABI</a> is provided by the library. A new ABI is enabled by default.
+ The old ABI is still supported and can be used by defining the macro
+ <code>_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI</code> to </code>0</code> before
+ including any C++ standard library headers. </li>
<li>A new implementation of <code>std::string</code> is enabled by default,
using the <em>small string optimization</em> instead of
<em>copy-on-write</em> reference counting.</li>
