import GCC 7.4.0. main changes include:

The non-standard C++0x type traits has_trivial_default_constructor,
has_trivial_copy_constructor and has_trivial_copy_assign have been
removed.

On ARM targe

import GCC 7.4.0. main changes include:

The non-standard C++0x type traits has_trivial_default_constructor,
has_trivial_copy_constructor and has_trivial_copy_assign have been
removed.

On ARM targets (arm*-*-*), a bug introduced in GCC 5 that affects
conformance to the procedure call standard (AAPCS) has been fixed.

Many optimiser improvements

DWARF-5 support.

Many new and enhanced warnings.

Warnings about format strings now underline the pertinent part of
the string, and can offer suggested fixes.

Several new warnings related to buffer overflows and buffer
truncation.

New __builtin_add_overflow_p, __builtin_sub_overflow_p,
__builtin_mul_overflow_p built-ins added that test for overflow.

The C++ front end has experimental support for all of the current
C++17 draft.

The -fverbose-asm option has been expanded to prints comments
showing the source lines that correspond to the assembly.

The gcc and g++ driver programs will now provide suggestions for
misspelled arguments to command-line options.


AArch64 specific:

GCC has been updated to the latest revision of the procedure call
standard (AAPCS64) to provide support for parameter passing when
data types have been over-aligned.

The ARMv8.2-A and ARMv8.3-A architecture are now supported.

ARM specific:

Support for the ARMv5 and ARMv5E architectures has been
deprecated (which have no known implementations).

A new command-line option -mpure-code has been added. It does not
allow constant data to be placed in code sections.

x86 specific:

Support for the AVX-512 4FMAPS, 4VNNIW, VPOPCNTDQ and Software
Guard Extensions (SGX) ISA extensions has been added.

PPC specific:

GCC now diagnoses inline assembly that clobbers register r2.

RISC-V specific:

Support for the RISC-V instruction set has been added.

SH specific:

Support for SH5/SH64 has been removed.

Support for SH2A has been enhanced.

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import GCC 4.8 branch at r206687.

highlights from: http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/changes.html

GCC now has stricter checks for invalid command-line options
New -Wunused-but-set-variable and -Wunu

import GCC 4.8 branch at r206687.

highlights from: http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/changes.html

GCC now has stricter checks for invalid command-line options
New -Wunused-but-set-variable and -Wunused-but-set-parameter
warnings
Many platforms have been obsoleted
Link-time optimization improvements
A new switch -fstack-usage has been added
A new function attribute leaf was introduced
A new warning, enabled by -Wdouble-promotion
Support for selectively enabling and disabling warnings via
#pragma GCC diagnostic has been added
There is now experimental support for some features from the
upcoming C1X revision of the ISO C standard
Improved experimental support for the upcoming C++0x ISO C++
standard
G++ now issues clearer diagnostics in several cases
Updates for ARM, x86, MIPS, PPC/PPC64, SPARC
Darwin, FreeBSD, Solaris 2, MinGW and Cygwin now all support
__float128 on 32-bit and 64-bit x86 targets. [*1]

highlights from: http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.7/changes.html

The -fconserve-space flag has been deprecated
Support for a new parameter --param case-values-threshold=n
was added
Interprocedural and Link-time optimization improvements
A new built-in, __builtin_assume_aligned, has been added
A new warning option -Wunused-local-typedefs was added
A new experimental command-line option -ftrack-macro-expansion
was added
Support for atomic operations specifying the C++11/C11 memory
model has been added
There is support for some more features from the C11 revision
of the ISO C standard
Improved experimental support for the new ISO C++ standard,
C++11
Updates for ARM, x86, MIPS, PPC/PPC64, SH, SPARC, TILE*
A new option (-grecord-gcc-switches) was added

highlights from: http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/changes.html

GCC now uses C++ as its implementation language. This means
that to build GCC from sources, you will need a C++
compiler that understands C++ 2003
DWARF4 is now the default when generating DWARF debug
information
A new general optimization level, -Og, has been introduced
A new option -ftree-partial-pre was added
The option -fconserve-space has been removed
The command-line options -fipa-struct-reorg and
-fipa-matrix-reorg have been removed
Interprocedural and Link-time optimization improvements
AddressSanitizer, a fast memory error detector, has been
added [*2]
A new -Wsizeof-pointer-memaccess warning has been added
G++ now supports a -std=c++1y option for experimentation
with features proposed for the next revision of the
standard, expected around 2014
Improved experimental support for the new ISO C++ standard,
C++11
A new port has been added to support AArch64
Updates for ARM, x86, MIPS, PPC/PPC64, SH, SPARC, TILE*


[*1] we should support this too!
[*2] we should look into this.
https://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/

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initial import of GCC 4.5.3 sources. changes since 4.1 are way too numerous
to review, please see http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.5/changes.html (and the 4.2,
4.3 and 4.4 versions, too.)

this includes the

initial import of GCC 4.5.3 sources. changes since 4.1 are way too numerous
to review, please see http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.5/changes.html (and the 4.2,
4.3 and 4.4 versions, too.)

this includes the core, c++, objc and the non java/ada/fortran parts of the
testsuite.

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