Block objects [1] are a C-level syntactic and runtime feature. They
are similar to standard C functions, but in addition to executable
code they may also contain variable bindings to automatic (stack)
or managed (heap) memory. A block can therefore maintain a set of
state (data) that it can use to impact behavior when executed.
This port is based on Apple's GCC 5646 with some bugfixes from
Apple GCC 5666.3. It has some small differences with the support
in clang, which remains the recommended compiler.
Perhaps the most notable difference is that in GCC that __block
is not actually a keyword, but a macro. There will be workaround
for this issue in a near future. Other issues can be consulted in
the clang documentation [2]
For better compatiblity with Apple's GCC and llvm-gcc some related
fixes and features from Apple have been included. Support for the
non-standard nested functions in GCC is now off by default.
No effort was made to update the ObjC support since FreeBSD doesn't
carry ObjC in the base system, but some of the code crept in and
was more difficult to remove than to adjust.
Reference:
[1]
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Blocks/Articles/00_Introduction.html
[2]
http://clang.llvm.org/compatibility.html#block-variable-initialization
Obtained from: Apple GCC 4.2
MFC after: 3 weeks
Apple GCC has extensions to support for both label attributes and
an "unavailable" attribute. These are critical for objc but are
also useful in regular C/C++.
Apparently at least the label attributes might have found their way to
upstream GCC but the code doesn't seem available on the GPLv2 tree so
we are taking the code directly from Apple. To make this clearer we
are preserving the annoying "APPLE LOCAL" tags and the ChangeLogs
when they are available.
Obtained from: Apple GCC 4.2 - 5531
MFC after: 3 weeks
This solves GCC/32617 and contributes to reduce differences with
Apple's gcc42.
Complete some references in the ChangeLog while here.
Obtained from: gcc 4.3 (rev. 126529, 126588; GPLv2)
MFC after: 3 weeks
Bring The following revisions from the gcc43 branch[1]:
118360, 118361, 118363, 118576, 119820,
123906, 125246, and 125721.
They all have in common that the were merged long ago
into Apple's gcc and should help improve the general
quality of the compiler and make it easier to bring
new features from Apple's gcc42.
For details please review the additions to the files:
gcc/ChangeLog.gcc43
gcc/cp/ChangeLog.gcc43 (new, adds previous revisions)
Reference:
[1] http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/gcc/trunk/?pathrev=126700
Obtained from: gcc pre4.3 (GPLv2) branch
MFC after: 3 weeks
This is required to build the i965 backend with newer versions of mesa.
Original patch from Joerg Wunsch in GCC Bug 23479, under the GPLv2;
also taken from there in OpenBSD.
Obtained from: gcc 4.3 (rev. 125346; GPLv2)
MFC after: 5 days
Initial support for the AMD amdfam10 chipsets has been available in the
gcc43 branch under GPLv2. AMD and some linux distributions (OpenSUSE) did
a backport of the amdfam10 support and made it available.
This is a revised subset of the support initially brought in in r236962
and later reverted. The collateral efects seem to have disappeared but
it is still recommended to set the CPUTYPE with caution.
Reviewed by: jkim (ages ago)
MFC after: 3 weeks
The patches are unexpectedly causing gcc to fail while
building ports/graphics/ImageMagick even when the cpu
flags are not used.
Reported by: Andreas Tobler
Initial support for the AMD barcelona chipsets has been available in the
gcc43 branch under GPLv2 but was not included when the Core 2 support
was brought to the system gcc.
AMD and some linux distributions (OpenSUSE) did a backport of the amdfam10
support and made them available. Unfortunately this is still experimental
and while it can improve performance, enabling the CPUTYPE may break some
C++ ports (like clang).
Special care was taken to make sure that the patches predate the GPLv3
switch upstream.
Tested by: Vladimir Kushnir
Reviewed by: mm
Approved by: jhb (mentor)
MFC after: 2 weeks
original intent, but the functionality wasn't implemented until after
gcc 4.2 was released. However, if you compiled a program that would
behave differently before and after this change, gcc 4.2 would have
warned you; hence, everything currently in the base system is
unaffected by this change. This patch also adds additional warnings
about certain inline function-related bogosity, e.g., using a
static non-const local variable in an inline function.
These changes were merged from a snapshot of gcc mainline from March
2007, prior to the GPLv3 switch. I then ran the regression test suite
from a more recent gcc snapshot and fixed the important bugs it found.
I also squelched the following warning unless -pedantic is specified:
foo is static but used in inline function bar which is not static
This is consistent with LLVM's behavior, but not consistent with gcc 4.3.
Reviewed by: arch@
