Ann: MELT 1.1-rc0 plugin release candidate for GCC 4.8 & 4.9

[Basile Starynkevitch]

Dear all,

It is my please to announce the MELT 1.1 release candidate 0 plugin for GCC 4.8 & 4.9

MELT is a plugin and domain specific language to extend GCC.
See http://gcc-melt.org/ for more.


The MELT plugin 1.1 release candidate 0 (for GCC 4.8 or 4.9) is available
(since may 5th, 2014) from

http://gcc-melt.org/melt-1.1-rc0-plugin-for-gcc-4.8-or-4.9.tar.bz2

as a bzip2-ed tar source file of md5sum 80afcf4752d57204e05437279f634522,
and of 3930677 bytes (3.8 Megabytes), extracted from MELT branch svn
revision 210065, with major updates.


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NEWS for 1.1 MELT plugin for GCC 4.8 & 4.9
[[may 2014]]
This is a major release (with perhaps some small incompatibilities
with previous MELT plugin releases).

End-user improvements
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The module list files *.modlis accept conditioned extra
modules. Within them, a line like

?findgimple xtramelt-ana-simple.optimized

means that: if the mode is findgimple, load the xtramelt-ana-simple
module in its optimized flavour.

The predefined modules now are named libmelt*.melt for standard
library modules and xtramelt*.melt for extra modules.

Language improvements
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Add support for JSON.

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Several bug fixes, notably MELT-SFT-8. Better variadic binding.

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The MODULE_IS_GPL_COMPATIBLE directive is now required to avoid
warnings. Your modules should be GPL compatible, and state that with
a directive like

(MODULE_IS_GPL_COMPATIBLE <reason-string>)

for example
(MODULE_IS_GPL_COMPATIBLE "GPLv3")



Runtime improvements
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The old GTKmm (or Qt/Python) probe is becoming deprecated. A
partial support for JSON & JsonRpc service is coming. A web-based
MELT monitor is in the works, but not yet released.

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Input channel handlers can be either paragraph oriented (like in
previous MELT releases) or raw input.

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We don't use setjmp but C++ exceptions

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melt_walk_use_def_chains adapted for GCC 4.9, and compatibility with GCC 4.9

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The successful modes list is printed.

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Nearly systematic use of hooks.

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Improved support of pragmas, with both REGISTER_EXPANDED_PRAGMA &
REGISTER_PLAIN_PRAGMA function.

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Sorting primitives like multiple_sort are fully reentrant, so their
compare routine might do a sort itself!

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Remove old option handling, REGISTER_OPTION is removed.

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Please reports bugs on gcc-...@googlegroups.com

regards.
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