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- From lcc 4.0 to 4.1:
- Changes:
- See doc/4.html for changes in the code-generation interface.
- Warns about constants that are too large, eg, short x = 70000;
- Warns about expressions that have no effect.
- Unsigned shorts are now used for wide-character constants, and
- wchar_t is a typedef for unsigned short.
- More assertions in gen.c to confirm that the register allocator is
- configured correctly; ie, that the various masks, wildcards,
- clobbers, and targets are internally consistent. Full checking
- appears impractical, but there's still more than than there was
- before.
- On the SPARC, lcc now emits .type and .size directives
- unconditionally.
- On the x86, constants are now emitted into the text segment.
- If the environment variable "LCCDIR" is defined, it gives the directory
- that contains the preprocessor, the compiler proper, and the
- lcc-specific libraries.
- Under Windows, lcc searches the directories named in the environment
- variable "include" for header files.
- Errors fixed:
- Erroneously complained about unknown sizes for some const fields, eg,
- typedef struct foo ref; struct foo { const ref *q; int a; };
- f(ref *p, int i) { return p->q[i].a; }
- -A -A erroneously complained about static main's that didn't conform
- to the ANSI-mandated "int main(void)" or "int main(int, char **)".
- Silently generated incorrect code for a structure copy with a
- post-incremented target, eg,
- struct { int x; } data = {1}, copy[2], *q = copy;
- main() { *q++ = data; }
- Generated incorrect values in some expressions with constant pointers.
- Silently truncated string literals longer than 4095 characters.
- Failed to emit debugging information for uninitialized globals.
- Failed to diagnose missing sizes in some multi-dimensioned array
- declarators, eg, extern int x[][10]; int x[5][];
- Silently emitted incorrect sizes and initalizations for some
- incomplete multi-dimensioned arrays involving pointers and whose size
- is determined by the number of initializers.
- Set only the x.name field for some back-end symbols (eg, wildcards),
- and the uninitialized name field crashed some debugging output.
- uses() failed to check the register *set* as well as the register
- mask. There's no known bug demo, but a wildcard set might be
- contrived that would need the test.
- Crashed with -b on some conditional expressions involving calls, eg,
- int p; void g(void) { p ? f() : 1; }
- On the MIPS, sometimes generated an incorrect frame size and thus a
- crash when floating-point registers were saved.
- On the SPARC, erroneously reused a register variable as a temporary
- when the variable is compiler-generated.
- On the SPARC with -b, emitted incorrect code for returning structs.
- On the x86, conversion from float to int rounded instead of truncated
- with the default floating-point mode.
- On the x86, eliminate rtargets for kids after the first (see p. 419).
- On the x86, substitute reg for freg, in order to use the common reg
- rules. Needed only for debugging output, since we're not using any
- float regs as regs at this time.
- On the x86, "double f(); main(){f();}" wasn't popping the FP register stack.
- On the x86, ECX was saved by the callee, when it should have been
- saved by the caller.
- $Id: LOG 145 2001-10-17 21:53:10Z timo $
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