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@titlepage
@title Release Notes
@sp 3
@table @strong
@item Cygnus Support Developer's Kit
@item Release 1.0 for Solaris-2
@end table
@author Cygnus Support
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This product includes software developed by the University of
California, Berkeley and its contributors.

This note is copyright @copyright{} 1992 Cygnus Support

Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice
are preserved on all copies.

Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided also that
the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a
permission notice identical to this one.

Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual
into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions.

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@node Top
@top Solaris-2 Developer's Kit release 1.0

@menu
* Introduction::                Overview
* Contributors::		GCC for Solaris-2 exists thanks to these people
* Versions::                    Closest FSF Versions
* New::                         New in This Release
* Limits::                      Limitations and Warnings
@end menu

This product includes software developed by the University of
California, Berkeley and its contributors.

This file is copyright @copyright{} 1992 Cygnus Support

Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice
are preserved on all copies.

Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided also that
the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a
permission notice identical to this one.

Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual
into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions
@end ifinfo

@node Introduction
@chapter Overview

@table @strong
@item Cygnus Support Developer's Kit
@item Solaris-2 Release 1.0
@end table

Sun has unbunded its compilers---selling them separately from the
Solaris 2.0 operating system.  Many Sun users were unhappy that their
next upgrade might take away their C compiler.

In response, Cygnus Support ported the GNU C compiler and supporting
tools to Solaris 2.0.  The result is a full set of development
tools---ANSI and traditional C compiler (with supporting libraries),
debugger, parser generator, and lexical analyzer generator---freely
available to everyone.

The GNU C compiler can be used to compile any kind of program: public
domain, copyleft, or proprietary.  Your binaries have the same
copyright status as your sources and libraries.  The only provision of
the GNU General Public License that applies to users of the compiler
(as opposed to people who make copies of the compiler, or modify it)
is the lack of warranty (section 11 and 12).  FSF does not provide a
warranty to anyone, but Cygnus gives a 1-year limited warranty (a year
of support) to customers.  

@node Contributors
@chapter Contributors to GNU C for Solaris-2

Cygnus Support and the FSF are grateful to the forward-looking individuals and
organizations that sponsored this project.

@noindent
We are glad to be able to thank publicly:

@itemize @bullet
@item
Amoco Production Company (Houston, Texas)

@item
BBN Communications (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

@item
Boston Technology (Wakefield, Massachusetts)

@item
Cirrus Logic (Fremont, California)

@item
Compaq Computer Corporation (Houston, Texas)

@item
Deere & Company (Moline, Illinois)

@item
ELF Commnuications (San Francisco, California)

@item
European Computer-Industry Research Centre GMBH (Munich)

@item
Fidelity Investments (Boston, Massachusetts)

@item
FTP Software, Inc. (Wakefield, Massachusetts)

@item
Gallagher & Robertson (Oslo, Norway)

@item
GTE Laboratories (Waltham, Massachusetts)

@item
Ingres Corporation (Alameda, California)

@item
Inland Sea (Dexter, Michigan)

@item
Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos, New Mexico)

@item
Miller/Howard Investures (Cobleskill, New York)

@item
MIT Lincoln Laboratory (Lexington, Massachusetts)

@item
NASA Lewis Research Center (Cleveland, Ohio)

@item
Optimation Software (Melbourne, Australia)

@item
PFU Limited (Tokyo)

@item
Philips Laboratories (Briarcliff Manor, New York)

@item
Pure Software (Los Altos, California)

@item
Qualix Group, Inc. (San Mateo, California)

@item
Schlumberger-Doll Research (Ridgefield, Connecticut)

@item
Kevin Sheehan (Melbourne, Australia and elsewhere)

@item
State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo

@item
SunSoft, Inc. (Mountain View, California)

@item
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Technische Universit\"at M\"unchen (Munich)
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Technische Universitaet Muenchen (Munich)
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@item
Telecom Finland (Helsinki)

@item
Telecom Research Labs (Victoria, Australia)

@item
Union Bank of Switzerland (Zurich)

@item University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)

@item
University of Washington (Seattle)

@item
UUNET Technologies, Inc. (Falls Church, Virginia)

@item
Warwick University (Coventry, England)

@item
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (Palo Alto, California)
@end itemize

We are also grateful to six other organizations and individuals who
contributed to this project, but prefer to remain anonymous.

@node Versions
@chapter Closest FSF Versions

Cygnus Support devotes much of its effort to integrating and improving
free software.  In fact, Cygnus employees are the primary developers
of several important components of the GNU tool-chain (on behalf of
the Free Software Foundation).  However, especially for programs whose
FSF releases are issued elsewhere, our releases are often slightly
ahead of the nearest corresponding FSF version (and sometimes slightly
behind it).  We reintegrate our sources with the FSF as frequently as
possible without compromising the stability of the integrated
toolchain.

These are the nearest corresponding FSF releases of the GNU development
tools:

@table @sc
@item @emph{Program}
@emph{Last merged with FSF version}
@item gcc
2.0 (but many improvements from 2.1 and 2.2 incorporated)

@item gdb
4.6 (maintained at Cygnus)

@end table

@node New
@chapter New in This Release

@table @strong
@item GCC
Near command-line compatibility with the SVID specification for
@code{cc}, and with the SVr4 @code{cc}.  ELF output (with embedded
@code{stabs} format debugging information; this is compatible with Sun's
compilers).  Many bug-fixes (from the base FSF level, and from our
Progressive--920318 release for SunOS).

@item CPP
New directive @code{#assert}; you can use this directive, together with 
enhancements to @code{#if}, to declare and test for particular system
properties.  

@item GDB
GDB understands the debugging format used by Solaris-2 compilers (both
ours and Sun's): @code{stabs} debugging information embedded in ELF
object files.  

Since our Progressive--920318 release for SunOS, we have also made these
improvements to GDB:

Many bug fixes.

GDB now uses a new memory manager called @code{mmalloc}, an enhancement
of @sc{GNU} @code{malloc}.  It can greatly speed up the startup of GDB
by using a pre-parsed symbol table in a @code{mmalloc}-managed heap.  
Since memory-mapped files are available on Solaris-2 through the @code{mmap}
system call, you can have GDB write the symbols from your program into a
reusable file.

@item FLEX and BYACC
Release 1.0 for Solaris 2 includes @code{flex}, the fast lexical analyzer
generator, and @code{byacc}, the parser generator---both from UC
Berkeley.  There are no restrictions on what use you can make of lexical
analyzers generated by @code{flex}, or parser generators built by
@code{byacc}.

Since @code{flex} and @code{byacc} are of interest only to a specialized
audience, we ship only on-line documentation for them.
@inforef{Top,,flex.info}, or the @code{man} pages @samp{flex.1} and
@samp{byacc.1}.

@item Problem Reports
The script @code{install_cid} is now available to record your Cygnus
customer ID for the problem-reporting utility, @code{send_pr}, on your
system.  

A blank Problem Report form is now included in the @cite{Introduction}
to your Developer's Kit manuals, in case FAX is more convenient than
electronic mail to send us problem reports.

Since these programs are free software, many people who receive them
will not get them directly from Cygnus Support.  We will be glad to
support you no matter where you got the software.  If you have not yet
bought support from Cygnus for this set of tools, you can call us at
@w{+1 415 322 3811} for a support contract, and start reporting problems
and getting fixes.
@end table

@node Limits
@chapter Limitations and Warnings

Our major goals in this release was compatibility: with the System V
Interface Definition (@sc{svid}), with other Solaris-2 tools, and with
the @sc{sparc} Application Binary Interface (@sc{abi}).

We have been largely successful: our toolchain complies with the
@sc{svid} specifications for compilation tools, most of the tools are
also command-line compatible with the Sun offerings (even in cases where
these go beyond the @sc{svid}), and we know of only one violation of the
@sc{abi}.  

The following sections give details on the few remaining compatibility
issues.

@menu
* gcc-options::                 Some Solaris-2 cc options not accepted
* cc-gdb::                      Using gdb on Sun compiler output
* long double::                 The long double datatype violates the ABI
* ABI::                         No independent verification of ABI compliance
@end menu

@node gcc-options
@section Some Solaris-2 @code{cc} options are not accepted

In porting the @sc{gnu} C compiler to Solaris-2, we wanted to have
command-line compatibility with several compilers:

@itemize @bullet
@item
@sc{svid} specification for @code{cc}

@item
Other @sc{gcc} configurations

@item
Unix SVr4 implementation of @code{cc}

@item
Sun compiler for Solaris-2

@end itemize

@noindent
Unfortunately, these specifications are not altogether compatible; we
have compromised in some areas, giving the most weight to the @sc{svid}
specification and to @sc{gcc} on other platforms.

Here is a list of command line options @emph{not} accepted by
@code{gcc}, but meaningful in one of the other command-line
specifications listed:

@table @code
@item -Bstatic
@itemx -Bdynamic
Use @samp{-static} or @samp{-symbolic} instead.  (@samp{-Bstatic} and
@samp{-Bdynamic} are supported by Sun compilers, but are not in the
@sc{svid}.)

@item -dy
@itemx -dn
These Solaris-2 linker options conflict with @sc{gcc} debugging options.
Again, use @samp{-symbolic} or @samp{-static} instead; or pass the
linker options directly to the linker using @samp{-Xlinker} or
@samp{-W}.

@item -f
@sc{gcc} has a large family of options that begin with @samp{-f}.  All
of these options are supported as in other versions of @sc{gcc}.  The
SVr4 specification describes this option as accepted, but ignored; in
the @sc{svid}, it is used to specify floating-point emulation.

@item -J sfm
This SVr4 option appears to specify linking against a special-purpose
subroutine library.  It is not in the @sc{svid}, and @sc{gcc} does not
support it.

@item -K
@sc{gcc} does not support @samp{-K}.  To specify position-independent
code output, use @samp{-pic}.

@item -P
This preprocessor option retains its usual @sc{gcc} meaning, which is
slightly different from the @sc{svid} and SVr4 descriptions (which are
not quite identical with one another).  It is used to generate
preprocessor output---similar to @samp{-E}, but without embedding
@code{#line} directives.  However, for @sc{gcc}, the output still goes
to @file{stdout} rather than to a @samp{.i} file.  To place output in a
@samp{.i} file, use command-line output redirection.

@item -q
This option is defined as implementation-specific by the @sc{svid}.
This implementation does not include it.

@item -V
Displays version information for @emph{only} the assembler and linker.

@item -v
Displays the full invocation of each compiler pass, as usual for
@sc{gcc}.  This option is not defined in the @sc{svid}, but the SVr4
documentation describes it as similar to the @sc{gcc} options
@samp{-pedantic} or @samp{-pedantic-errors}.  We recommend using those
options instead.

@item -W
@itemx -Y
In this implementation, @samp{-W} and @samp{Y} are restricted to
controlling the assembler and linker (the other compiler passes used by
@sc{gcc} do not exactly correspond to those in the @sc{svid}).

@item -X
This option is not in the @sc{svid}, but is used in SVr4 to give a
little control over the dialect of C.  For this purpose, you can use the
standard @sc{gcc} options @samp{-traditional}, @samp{-ansi}, or the
other options described in @ref{Dialect Options,,Options Controlling
Dialect, usegcc.info, Using gcc}.
@end table

For full descriptions of the @sc{gcc} command line options in this
release, see the manual @cite{Using gcc}, or the man page @code{gcc.1}.

@node cc-gdb
@section Using @code{gdb} on Sun Compiler Output

By default, the Sun compiler @code{cc} and the system assembler
@code{as} omit debugging information from the final linked output file,
assuming the debugger will look in the @samp{.o} files for this
information.  @code{gdb} will not do this.  If you have the Sun compiler
@code{cc} and want to debug its output with @code{gdb}, you must include
the command-line flag @samp{-xs} when you run @code{cc}, to instruct it
to place debugging information where it will be copied to the linked
output file.  Similarly, if you call the system assembler @code{as}
directly, use its command-line option @samp{-s} for the same purpose.

@node long double
@section The @code{long double} datatype violates SPARC ABI

The @sc{sparc} Application Binary Interface (@sc{abi}) specifies that
numbers of type @code{long double} take up 16 bytes.  In this release,
@code{gcc} only emits 8-byte numbers for @code{long double}.

This is the only known violation of the @sc{abi}.  We will fix this
problem in a future release.

@node ABI
@section No independent verification of ABI compliance

We have made every effort to comply with the @sc{sparc} @sc{abi}, and we
are aware of only one violation (noted above).  However, there is as yet
no independent verification of our compiler's compliance.

@sc{sparc} International is preparing an ABI compliance test suite, but
it won't be available until sometime in the autumn of 1992.  We will
seek verification of our compiler's compliance as soon as @sc{sparc}
International is ready.

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