GCC 3.1 Release Series
Changes, New Features, and Fixes

Additional changes in GCC 3.1.1

Caveats

General Optimizer Improvements

New Languages and Language specific improvements

C/C++

C++

Objective-C

Java

Fortran

Fortran improvements are listed in the Fortran documentation.

Ada

AdaCore, has contributed its GNAT Ada 95 front end and associated tools. The GNAT compiler fully implements the Ada language as defined by the ISO/IEC 8652 standard.

Please note that the integration of the Ada front end is still work in progress.

New Targets and Target Specific Improvements

Obsolete Systems

Support for a number of older systems has been declared obsolete in GCC 3.1. Unless there is activity to revive them, the next release of GCC will have their sources permanently removed.

All configurations of the following processor architectures have been declared obsolete:

Most configurations of the following processor architectures have been declared obsolete, but we are preserving a few systems which may have active developers. It is unlikely that the remaining systems will survive much longer unless we see definite signs of port activity.

Finally, only some configurations of these processor architectures are being obsoleted.

Documentation improvements