Dear All, It is my please to announce the MELT plugin 1.1 release candidate 1 for GCC 4.8 and 4.9 (hosted preferably on Linux).
MELT -see http://gcc-melt.org/ for more - is a domain specific language and meta-plugin (free software GPLv3+ licensed, FSF copyrighted) to easily extend and customize the GCC compiler. The MELT plugin 1.1 release candidate 1 (for GCC 4.8 or 4.9, with major updates since previous MELT plugin 1.0.2) is available (since july 26th, 2014) from http://gcc-melt.org/melt-1.1-rc1-plugin-for-gcc-4.8-or-4.9.tar.bz2 as a bzip2-ed tar source file of md5sum 3b7ea46dddac2e81927c211ca6a90201, and of 3891814 bytes (3.8 Megabytes), extracted from MELT branch svn revision 213071. NEWS for 1.1 MELT plugin for GCC 4.8 & 4.9 [[july 2014]] This is a major release (with perhaps some small incompatibilities with previous MELT plugin releases). End-user improvements ===================== *** The module list files *.modlis accept conditioned extra modules. Within them, a line like ?findgimple xtramelt-ana-simple.optimized means that: if the mode is findgimple, load the xtramelt-ana-simple module in its optimized flavour. The predefined modules now are named libmelt*.melt for standard library modules and xtramelt*.melt for extra modules. Language improvements ===================== Add support for JSON (parsing and emitting JSON format) and JSONRPC2 client with TCP/IP transport. See DO_BLOCKING_JSONRPC2_CALL, MAKE_JSON_PARSER, OUTPUT_JSON, etc... This requires an UTF-8 locale. *** Several bug fixes, notably MELT-SFT-8. Better variadic binding. Many small improvements. *** The MODULE_IS_GPL_COMPATIBLE directive is now required to avoid warnings. Your modules should be GPL compatible, and state that with a directive like (MODULE_IS_GPL_COMPATIBLE <reason-string>) for example (MODULE_IS_GPL_COMPATIBLE "GPLv3") Runtime improvements ==================== *** The old GTKmm (or Qt/Python) probe is becoming deprecated. A partial support for JSON & JsonRpc2 client is available. A web-based MELT monitor is in the works, but not yet released. *** Input channel handlers can be either paragraph oriented (like in previous MELT releases) or raw input. *** We don't use setjmp but C++ exceptions *** melt_walk_use_def_chains adapted for GCC 4.9, and compatibility with GCC 4.9 *** The successful modes list is printed. *** Nearly systematic use of hooks. *** Improved support of pragmas, with both REGISTER_EXPANDED_PRAGMA & REGISTER_PLAIN_PRAGMA function. *** Sorting primitives like multiple_sort are fully reentrant, so their compare routine might do a sort itself! *** Remove old option handling, REGISTER_OPTION is removed. #### Bug and success reports are welcome on gcc-m...@googlegroups.com (If I get no annoying critical bug report, I will release MELT plugin 1.1 in the next few days) Regards. -- Basile STARYNKEVITCH http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/ email: basile<at>starynkevitch<dot>net mobile: +33 6 8501 2359 8, rue de la Faiencerie, 92340 Bourg La Reine, France *** opinions {are only mine, sont seulement les miennes} ***
