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Version 0.9.27:
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Licensing:
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- TinyCC partly relicensed to MIT license
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User interface:
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- define __STDC_HOSTED__ (Michael Matz, Urs Janssen)
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- added support for CPATH, C_INCLUDE_PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH (Andrew Aladjev
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and Urs Janssen)
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- added option -norunsrc to control argv[0] with tcc -run (James Lyon)
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- improve --with-libgcc configure help (grischka)
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- improve error message when memory is full (grischka)
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- improve wording about compiler switches in documentation (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- use GNU triplet prefix for cross compiler names (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- ignore unknown linker optimization and as-needed option (Austin English)
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Features:
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- added ABI tests with native compiler using libtcc (James Lyon)
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- added CMake build system with support for cross-compilation (James Lyon)
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- improved variable length array support (James Lyon)
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- add the possibility to use noname functions by ordinal (YX Hao)
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- add a install-strip target to install tcc (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- add runtime selection of float ABI on ARM (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- add shared lib support on x86-64 (Michael Matz)
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Platforms:
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- support Debian GNU/kfreeBSD 64bit userspace (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- fix GNU/Hurd interpreter path (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- fix configure script for FreeBSD host (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- make tcc -run work reliably on ARM by flushing caches (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- many x86-64 ABI fixes incl. XMM register passing (James Lyon)
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- improve compatibility with mingw's long double (James Lyon)
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- avoid .stabstr section name to be truncated on win32 (Roy)
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- add support for load/store of _Bool value (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- detect instruction with incorrect operands on x86-64 (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- improved relocations on ARM (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- add va_* macro implementation for ARM (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- define __ARM_EABI__, __ARMEL__ and __ARM_PCS_VFP (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- provide a runtime library for ARM (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- vastly improved support for ARM hard float calling convention
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(Thomas Preud'homme, Daniel Glöckner)
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- tcc can uses libtcc1 on ARM (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- use __fixdfdi for all float to integer conversion (grischka)
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- simplify startup code for unix platforms (grischka)
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- improve ELF generated on ARM (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- add support for thumb to ARM relocation (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- fix globbing to match MSVC on Windows (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- deprecate FPA and OABI support for ARM (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- warn about softfloat not being supported on ARM (Thomas Preud'homme)
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Bug fixes:
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- many code clean up (Urs Janssen, grischka)
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- fixes of other's patches (grischka, Ramsay Jones, Michael Matz)
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- fix documentation about __TINYC__ (Urs Janssen)
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- improve build of documentation (Urs Janssen)
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- improve build instructions (Jov)
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- switch from texi2html to makeinfo --html to build tcc-doc.html (James Lyon)
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- improve out of tree build (James Lyon)
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- improved passing and returning of struct (James Lyon)
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- fix CMake build on i386 and x86-64 (James Lyon)
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- fix i386 calling convention issue (James Lyon)
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- fix error in Windows build of tests (James Lyon)
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- fix x86-64 long double passing (James Lyon)
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- fix crash with undefined struct (grischka)
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- normalize slashes on win32 to always use backslashes (grischka)
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- use runtime function for float to int conversion on i386 (grischka)
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- improved documentation for include and lib lookup on win32 (grischka)
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- detect redefinition of function (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- detect the use of array of functions (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- detect use of enumerator with wrong enumeration (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- detect redefinition of enumerator or enumeration (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- set the user-defined library search paths first (Vittorio Giovara)
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- detect usage of incomplete types inside struct/union (Amine Najahi)
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- various macro bug fixes (Joseph Poirier)
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- avoid wrong trigger of assert on x86-64 platform (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- fix NaN comparison (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- use libtcc for static linking with runtime library (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- fix negation of 0.0 and -0.0 values (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- fix use of long long as if condition (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- disable bound check if libgcc is used (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- error out when casting to void (grischka)
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- remove circular dependency in Makefile (grischka)
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- stop preventing gcc to do strict aliasing (grischka)
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- fix Windows build of tcc (grischka)
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- build runtime library for arm cross compiler (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- fix installation of arm cross-compiler (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- add basic test for cross-compiler (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- fix failure when generating PE on x86-64 (Archidemon)
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- fix floating point unary minus and plus (Michael Matz)
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- add more tests for signed zero float (Michael Matz)
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- fix precision of double on x86-64 (Vincent Lefevre)
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- fix bound checking of argv with -run switch (Kirill Smelkov)
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- work around a wine cmd bug when building tcc on Windows (Austin English)
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- reenable some bound check tests (grischka)
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- boundtest.c lookup honors VPATH (grischka)
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- diff compared to CC in test[123]b? are now errors (grischka)
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- fix test3 on Windows (grischka)
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- prevent gcc from building (non functional) libtcc.a (grischka)
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- fix warning related to PE file generation on x86-64 (grischka)
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- stop mixing ordinary and implicit rule in Makefile (Iavael)
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- fix integer to double conversion on ARM (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- fix parameter passing of structure < 4 bytes on ARM (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- disable builtin_frame_address test on ARM due to gcc bug (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- fix initialization of struct on ARM (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- fix parameter passing of (unsigned) long long bitfield (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- improve float to integer tests (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- fix relocation of Thumb branch to ARM function (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- fix char wrong compatibility with [un]signed char (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- choose the code to compile based on target in libtcc1 (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- fix various clang warnings (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- don't hardcode tcc in Makefile for tests (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- fix relocation of __bound_init bound checking code (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- accept only one basic type for a given variable (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- fix error when using va_* with tcc using libgcc (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- support GOT32 and PLT32 reloc on the same symbol (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- fix memory leak due to symbol attributes (mingodad)
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- partially fix bound checking of argv and arge (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- fix possible dereference when getting name of symbol (grischka)
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- fix va_list type definition on x86-64 (Daniel Glöckner)
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- reduce number of scan-build false positive (mingodad)
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version 0.9.26:
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User interface:
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- -MD/-MF (automatically generate dependencies for make)
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- -pthread option (same as -D_REENTRANT -lpthread) (Henry Kroll III)
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- -m32/-m64 to re-exec cross compiler (Henry Kroll III)
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- -Wl, Mimic all GNU -option forms supported by ld (Kirill Smelkov)
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- new LIBTCCAPI tcc_set_options() (grischka)
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Platforms:
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- Many improvements for x86-64 target (Shinichiro Hamaji, Michael Matz, grischka)
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- x86-64 assembler (Frederic Feret)
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- Many improvements for ARM target (Daniel Glöckner, Thomas Preud'homme)
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- Support WinCE PE ARM (Timo VJ Lahde)
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- Support ARM hardfloat calling convention (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- Support SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux) (Henry Kroll III)
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- Support Debian GNU/kFreeBSD kernels (Pierre Chifflier)
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- Support GNU/Hurd kernels (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- Support OSX (tcc -run only) (Milutin Jovanovic)
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- Support multiarch configuration (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- Support out-of-tree build (Akim Demaille)
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Features:
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- C99 variable length arrays (Thomas Preud'homme & Joe Soroka)
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- Asm labels for variables and functions (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- STT_GNU_IFUNC (Indirect functions as externals) (Thomas Preud'homme)
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- More tests (tests2) (Milutin Jovanovic)
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version 0.9.25:
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- first support for x86-64 target (Shinichiro Hamaji)
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- support µClibc
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- split tcc.c into tcc.h libtcc.c tccpp.c tccgen.c tcc.c
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- improved preprocess output with linenumbers and spaces preserved
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- tcc_relocate now copies code into user buffer
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- fix bitfields with non-int types and in unions
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- improve ARM cross-compiling (Daniel Glöckner)
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- link stabstr sections from multiple objects
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- better (still limited) support for multiple TCCStates
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version 0.9.24:
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- added verbosity levels -v, -vv, -vvv
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- Accept standard input as an inputstream (Hanzac Chen)
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- Support c89 compilers other than gcc (Hanzac Chen)
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- -soname linker option (Marc Andre Tanner)
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- Just warn about unknown directives, ignore quotes in #error/#warning
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- Define __STDC_VERSION__=199901L (477)
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- Switch to newer tccpe.c (includes support for resources)
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- Handle backslashes within #include/#error/#warning
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- Import changesets (part 4) 428,457,460,467: defines for openbsd etc.
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- Use _WIN32 for a windows hosted tcc and define it for the PE target,
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  otherwise define __unix / __linux (Detlef Riekenberg)
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- Import changesets (part 3) 409,410: ARM EABI by Daniel Glöckner
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- Some in-between fixes:
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  TCC -E no longer hangs with macro calls involving newlines.
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  (next_nomacro1 now advances the read-pointer with TOK_LINEFEED)
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  Global cast (int g_i = 1LL;) no longer crashes tcc.
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  (nocode_wanted is initially 1, and only 0 for gen_function)
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  On win32 now tcc.exe finds 'include' & 'lib' even if itself is in 'bin'.
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  (new function w32_tcc_lib_path removes 'bin' if detected)
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  Added quick build batch file for mingw (win32/build-tcc.bat)
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  Last added case label optimization (455) produced wrong code. Reverted.
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- Import more changesets from Rob Landley's fork (part 2):
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  487: Handle long long constants in gen_opic() (Rob Landley)
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  484: Handle parentheses within __attribute__((...)) (Rob Landley)
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  480: Remove a goto in decl_initializer_alloc (Rob Landley)
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  475: Fix dereferences in inline assembly output (Joshua Phillips)
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  474: Cast ptrs to ints of different sizes correctly (Joshua Phillips)
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  473: Fix size of structs with empty array member (Joshua Phillips)
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  470: No warning for && and || with mixed pointers/integers (Rob Landley)
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  469: Fix symbol visibility problems in the linker (Vincent Pit)
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  468: Allow && and || involving pointer arguments (Rob Landley)
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  455: Optimize case labels with no code in between (Zdenek Pavlas)
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  450: Implement alloca for x86 (grischka)
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  415: Parse unicode escape sequences (Axel Liljencrantz)
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  407: Add a simple va_copy() in stdarg.h (Hasso Tepper)
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  400: Allow typedef names as symbols (Dave Dodge)
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- Import some changesets from Rob Landley's fork (part 1):
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  462: Use LGPL with bcheck.c and il-gen.c
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  458: Fix global compound literals (in unary: case '&':) (Andrew Johnson)
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  456: Use return code from tcc_output_file in main() (Michael Somos)
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  442: Fix indirections with function pointers (***fn)() (grischka)
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  441: Fix LL left shift in libtcc1.c:__shldi3 (grischka)
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  440: Pass structures and function ptrs through ?: (grischka)
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  439: Keep rvalue in bit assignment (bit2 = bit1 = x) (grischka)
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  438: Degrade nonportable pointer assignment to warning (grischka)
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  437: Call 'saveregs()' before jumping with logical and/or/not (grischka)
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  435: Put local static variables into global memory (grischka)
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  432/434: Cast double and ptr to bool (grischka)
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  420: Zero pad x87 tenbyte long doubles (Felix Nawothnig)
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  417: Make 'sizeof' unsigned (Rob Landley)
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  397: Fix save_reg for longlongs (Daniel Glöckner)
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  396: Fix "invalid relocation entry" problem on ubuntu - (Bernhard Fischer)
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- ignore AS_NEEDED ld command
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- mark executable sections as executable when running in memory
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- added support for win32 wchar_t (Filip Navara)
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- segment override prefix support (Filip Navara)
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- normalized slashes in paths (Filip Navara)
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- windows style fastcall (Filip Navara)
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- support for empty input register section in asm (Filip Navara)
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- anonymous union/struct support (Filip Navara)
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- fixed parsing of function parameters
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- workaround for function pointers in conditional expressions (Dave Dodge)
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- initial '-E' option support to use the C preprocessor alone
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- discard type qualifiers when comparing function parameters (Dave Dodge)
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- Bug fix: A long long value used as a test expression ignores the
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  upper 32 bits at runtime (Dave Dodge)
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- fixed multiple concatenation of PPNUM tokens (initial patch by Dave Dodge)
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- fixed multiple typedef specifiers handling
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- fixed sign extension in some type conversions (Dave Dodge)
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version 0.9.23:
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- initial PE executable format for windows version (grischka)
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- '#pragma pack' support (grischka)
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- '#include_next' support (Bernhard Fischer)
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- ignore '-pipe' option
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- added -f[no-]leading-underscore
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- preprocessor function macro parsing fix (grischka)
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version 0.9.22:
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- simple memory optimisations: kernel compilation is 30% faster
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- linker symbol definitions fixes
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- gcc 3.4 fixes
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- fixed value stack full error
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- 'packed' attribute support for variables and structure fields
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- ignore 'const' and 'volatile' in function prototypes
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- allow '_Bool' in bit fields
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version 0.9.21:
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- ARM target support (Daniel Glöckner)
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- added '-funsigned-char, '-fsigned-char' and
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  '-Wimplicit-function-declaration'
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- fixed assignment of const struct in struct
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- line comment fix (reported by Bertram Felgenhauer)
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- initial TMS320C67xx target support (TK)
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- win32 configure
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- regparm() attribute
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- many built-in assembler fixes
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- added '.org', '.fill' and '.previous' assembler directives
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- '-fno-common' option
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- '-Ttext' linker option
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- section alignment fixes
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- bit fields fixes
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- do not generate code for unused inline functions
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- '-oformat' linker option.
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- added 'binary' output format.
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version 0.9.20:
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- added '-w' option
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- added '.gnu.linkonce' ELF sections support
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- fixed libc linking when running in memory (avoid 'stat' function
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  errors).
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- extended '-run' option to be able to give several arguments to a C
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  script.
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version 0.9.19:
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- "alacarte" linking (Dave Long)
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- simpler function call
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- more strict type checks
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- added 'const' and 'volatile' support and associated warnings
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- added -Werror, -Wunsupported, -Wwrite-strings, -Wall.
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- added __builtin_types_compatible_p() and __builtin_constant_p()
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- chars support in assembler (Dave Long)
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- .string, .globl, .section, .text, .data and .bss asm directive
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  support (Dave Long)
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- man page generated from tcc-doc.texi
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- fixed macro argument substitution
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- fixed zero argument macro parsing
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- changed license to LGPL
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- added -rdynamic option support
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version 0.9.18:
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- header fix (time.h)
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- fixed inline asm without operand case
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- fixed 'default:' or 'case x:' with '}' after (incorrect C construct accepted
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  by gcc)
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- added 'A' inline asm constraint.
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version 0.9.17:
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- PLT generation fix
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- tcc doc fixes (Peter Lund)
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- struct parse fix (signaled by Pedro A. Aranda Gutierrez)
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- better _Bool lvalue support (signaled by Alex Measday)
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- function parameters must be converted to pointers (signaled by Neil Brown)
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- sanitized string and character constant parsing
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- fixed comment parse (signaled by Damian M Gryski)
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- fixed macro function bug (signaled by Philippe Ribet)
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- added configure (initial patch by Mitchell N Charity)
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- added '-run' and '-v' options (initial patch by vlindos)
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- added real date report in __DATE__ and __TIME__ macros
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version 0.9.16:
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- added assembler language support
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- added GCC inline asm() support
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- fixed multiple variable definitions : uninitialized variables are
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  created as COMMON symbols.
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- optimized macro processing
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- added GCC statement expressions support
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- added GCC local labels support
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- fixed array declaration in old style function parameters
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- support casts in static structure initializations
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- added various __xxx[__] keywords for GCC compatibility
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- ignore __extension__ GCC in an expression or in a type (still not perfect)
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- added '? :' GCC extension support
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version 0.9.15:
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- compilation fixes for glibc 2.2, gcc 2.95.3 and gcc 3.2.
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- FreeBSD compile fixes. Makefile patches still missing (Carl Drougge).
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- fixed file type guessing if '.' is in the path.
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- fixed tcc_compile_string()
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- add a dummy page in ELF files to fix RX/RW accesses (pageexec at
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  freemail dot hu).
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version 0.9.14:
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- added #warning. error message if invalid preprocessing directive.
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- added CType structure to ease typing (faster parse).
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- suppressed secondary hash tables (faster parse).
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- rewrote parser by optimizing common cases (faster parse).
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- fixed signed long long comparisons.
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- fixed 'int a(), b();' declaration case.
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- fixed structure init without '{}'.
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- correct alignment support in structures.
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- empty structures support.
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- gcc testsuite now supported.
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- output only warning if implicit integer/pointer conversions.
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- added static bitfield init.
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version 0.9.13:
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- correct preprocessing token pasting (## operator) in all cases (added
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  preprocessing number token).
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- fixed long long register spill.
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- fixed signed long long '>>'.
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- removed memory leaks.
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- better error handling : processing can continue on link errors. A
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  custom callback can be added to display error messages. Most
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  errors do not call exit() now.
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- ignore -O, -W, -m and -f options
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- added old style function declarations
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- added GCC __alignof__ support.
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- added GCC typeof support.
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- added GCC computed gotos support.
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- added stack backtrace in runtime error message. Improved runtime
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  error position display.
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version 0.9.12:
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- more fixes for || and && handling.
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- improved '? :' type handling.
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- fixed bound checking generation with structures
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- force '#endif' to be in same file as matching '#if'
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- #include file optimization with '#ifndef #endif' construct detection
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- macro handling optimization
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- added tcc_relocate() and tcc_get_symbol() in libtcc.
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version 0.9.11:
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- stdarg.h fix for double type (thanks to Philippe Ribet).
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- correct white space characters and added MSDOS newline support.
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- fixed invalid implicit function call type declaration.
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- special macros such as __LINE__ are defined if tested with defined().
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- fixed '!' operator with relocated address.
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- added symbol + offset relocation (fixes some static variable initializers)
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- '-l' option can be specified anywhere. '-c' option yields default
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  output name. added '-r' option for relocatable output.
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- fixed '\nnn' octal parsing.
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- fixed local extern variables declarations.
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version 0.9.10:
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- fixed lvalue type when saved in local stack.
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- fixed '#include' syntax when using macros.
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- fixed '#line' bug.
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- removed size limit on strings. Unified string constants handling
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  with variable declarations.
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- added correct support for '\xX' in wchar_t strings.
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- added support for bound checking in generated executables
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- fixed -I include order.
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- fixed incorrect function displayed in runtime error.
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version 0.9.9:
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- fixed preprocessor expression parsing for #if/#elif.
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- relocated debug info (.stab section).
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- relocated bounds info (.bounds section).
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- fixed cast to char of char constants ('\377' is -1 instead of 255)
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- fixed implicit cast for unary plus.
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- strings and '__func__' have now 'char[]' type instead of 'char *'
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  (fixes sizeof() return value).
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- added __start_xxx and __stop_xxx symbols in linker.
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- better DLL creation support (option -shared begins to work).
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- ELF sections and hash tables are resized dynamically.
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- executables and DLLs are stripped by default.
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version 0.9.8:
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- First version of full ELF linking support (generate objects, static
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  executable, dynamic executable, dynamic libraries). Dynamic library
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  support is not finished (need PIC support in compiler and some
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  patches in symbol exporting).
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- First version of ELF loader for object (.o) and archive (.a) files.
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- Support of simple GNU ld scripts (GROUP and FILE commands)
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- Separated runtime library and bound check code from TCC (smaller
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  compiler core).
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- fixed register reload in float compare.
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- fixed implicit char/short to int casting.
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- allow array type for address of ('&') operator.
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- fixed unused || or && result.
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- added GCC style variadic macro support.
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- optimized bound checking code for array access.
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- tcc includes are now in $(prefix)/lib/tcc/include.
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- more command line options - more consistent handling of multiple
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  input files.
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- added tcc man page (thanks to Cyril Bouthors).
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- uClibc Makefile update
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- converted documentation to texinfo format.
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- added developper's guide in documentation.
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version 0.9.7:
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- added library API for easy dynamic compilation (see libtcc.h - first
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  draft).
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- fixed long long register spill bug.
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- fixed '? :' register spill bug.
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version 0.9.6:
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- added floating point constant propagation (fixes negative floating
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  point constants bug).
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version 0.9.5:
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 - uClibc patches (submitted by Alfonso Martone).
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 - error reporting fix
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 - added CONFIG_TCC_BCHECK to get smaller code if needed.
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version 0.9.4:
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 - windows port (currently cannot use -g, -b and dll functions).
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 - faster and simpler I/O handling.
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 - '-D' option works in all cases.
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 - preprocessor fixes (#elif and empty macro args)
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 - floating point fixes
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 - first code for CIL generation (does not work yet)
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version 0.9.3:
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 - better and smaller code generator.
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 - full ISOC99 64 bit 'long long' support.
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 - full 32 bit 'float', 64 bit 'double' and 96 bit 'long double' support.
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 - added '-U' option.
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 - added assembly sections support.
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 - even faster startup time by mmaping sections instead of mallocing them.
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 - added GNUC __attribute__ keyword support (currently supports
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    'section' and 'aligned' attributes).
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 - added ELF file output (only usable for debugging now)
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 - added debug symbol generation (STAB format).
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 - added integrated runtime error analysis ('-g' option: print clear
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   run time error messages instead of "Segmentation fault").
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 - added first version of tiny memory and bound checker ('-b' option).
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version 0.9.2:
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 - even faster parsing.
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 - various syntax parsing fixes.
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 - fixed external relocation handling for variables or functions pointers.
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 - better function pointers type handling.
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 - can compile multiple files (-i option).
507
 - ANSI C bit fields are supported.
508
 - beginning of float/double/long double support.
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 - beginning of long long support.
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version 0.9.1:
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 - full ISOC99 initializers handling.
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 - compound literals.
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 - structures handle in assignments and as function param or return value.
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 - wide chars and strings.
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 - macro bug fix
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version 0.9:
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 - initial version.