bcc 0.17

ChangeLog

bcc

• Ported to ARMv4+ (32bit only)
• Added labels & gotos
• Extended the binutils helpers
• Merged implementations of copy_to_memcpy()
• Fixed simple if-statements
• riscv: Fixed a few bugs
• riscv: Implemented sign-extension for IR_IICAST

libbcc

• Ported to arm

bcc 0.16

ChangeLog

General

• added documentation to code
• from this release onward most commits will be signed and contain a Signed-off-by tag
• added 2 test cases
• many bugfixes

bcc

• removed legacy -e option
• added auto-detection of --with-cpu= and --with-abi=
• added --with-ld= configure option
• implemented fusion of memory IR instructions
• merged binutils-specific code into src/binutils_helpers.c
• added more advanced target-specific configurability

bcc 0.15

ChangeLog

General

• added documentation and comments to code
• new configure options: --disable-bash-completions
• lots of documentation-related improvements
• improved test_install.sh
• rewrite of make check
• added & fixed a few test cases

bcc

• x86: complete rewrite
• x86: now uses GNU assembler, instead of nasm
• i386: can now use callee-saved registers
• new options: -static, -shared, -save-temps, -nobccobjs, -fhelp, -fpath-as=, fpath-ld=, -fpath-cpp=
• deprecated options: -e
• improved the type-system
• improved constant-evaluation (with the future possibility of constant propagation)
• added support for dynamic linking
• added support for glibc and musl libc (in AX_CHECK_LIBC)
• many bug fixes
• fixed random crashes
• moved 'include/%arch/*.h' back to 'src/%arch/'
• removed obsolete builtins
• removed dependency of memcpy(), now uses __builtin_memcpy()
• merged 'ir_node_t.rcall' and 'ir_node_t.ifcall' to 'ir_node_t.call'

bcpp

• added proper #line support

libbcc

• x86: ported to GNU assembler
• x86: added routines for multiply, divide, modulo
• riscv: added routines for software-{multiply, divide, modulo}
• added __builtin_memcpy()

bcc 0.14

ChangeLog

General

• added libbcc
• improved versioning
• added and deprecated bcl
• added fix_crts.sh
• updated test_install.sh script
• improved documentation
• added a few test cases

bcc

• riscv: added IR_COPY
• added linking support
• added support for multiple input files
• improved command-line interface
• added inline keyword
• added array-initialization syntax (int a[] = { 1, 2, 3, 4})
• moved src/arch/*.h to include/arch/
• added --enable-bcl & --disable-target-libbcc configure options
• new options: -L, -l, -s, -v, -no{stdinc,stdlib,startfiles,libc}

bcpp

• No changes

libbcc

• added currently empty libbcc.a
• added currently empty crt{begin,end}.o

bcc 0.13

ChangeLog

bcc

• added wrapper bcl for preliminary linking-support
• added test_install.sh for quick testing
• added -U, -dumpmacros options
• new keywords: _Static_assert, _Noreturn, _Bool, restrict
• cleaned up configure.ac & Makefile.am
• removed _GNU_SOURCE dependency (except for make check)
• added compiler-specific header files (bcc-include)
• improved error messages
• many bug fixes

bcpp

• added -U, -dumpmacros options
• added __FILE__, __TIME__, __DATE__, __LINE__ special macros
• added #, ## operators
• added #line, #warning directives
• bugfixes

bcc 0.12

ChangeLog

• improved tester
• added volatile
• added software routines for multiply/divide/modulo on riscv
• improved support for structs/unions
• changed LICENSE to GPLv3
• removed bash dependency
• added new tests
• and many bugfixes

bcc 0.11

This is the first release using the GNU build system (autotools), instead of the old GNU make-way.

bcc 0.10

riscv64 finally passes all relevant tests (except VLAs of course)

bcc 0.9

This is a release for testing purposes.