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Subject:    Ann: MELT plugin 1.1 release available for GCC 4.8 & 4.9
From:       Basile Starynkevitch <basile () starynkevitch ! net>
Date:       2014-07-27 19:18:05
Message-ID: 1406488685.6603.9.camel () glinka ! lesours
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Dear All,

It is my pleasure to announce the MELT plugin 1.1 release for GCC 4.8 &
4.9 (hosted preferably on Linux). I've corrected all the bugs found in
MELT 1.1rc1.

MELT -see http://gcc-melt.org/ for more - is a domain specific language
and meta-plugin (free software GPLv3+ licensed, FSF copyrighted) to
easily extend and customize the GCC compiler.

The MELT plugin 1.1 release (for GCC 4.8 or 4.9, with major
updates since previous MELT plugin 1.0.2) is available (since july 27th,
2014) from 
 http://gcc-melt.org/melt-1.1-plugin-for-gcc-4.8-or-4.9.tar.bz2 
This is a bzipped2 source tar archive of 3891501 bytes (3.8 Mbytes) of
md5sum dcd4332f91140f12bee51ae4d33f66f0

This MELT 1.1 plugin is extracted from the GCC MELT branch svn revision
213094

NEWS for 1.1 MELT plugin for GCC 4.8 & 4.9

[[july 27th, 2014]]
This is a major release (with perhaps some small incompatibilities
with previous MELT plugin releases).

   End-user improvements
   =====================

 ***

   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
   =====================

   Add support for JSON (parsing and emitting JSON format) and
   JSONRPC2 client with TCP/IP transport. See
   DO_BLOCKING_JSONRPC2_CALL, MAKE_JSON_PARSER, OUTPUT_JSON, etc...
   This requires an UTF-8 locale.
   
 ***

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

 ***

  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
   ====================

 ***

   The old GTKmm (or Qt/Python) probe is becoming deprecated.  A
   partial support for JSON & JsonRpc2 client is available.  A
   web-based MELT monitor is in the works, but not yet released.

 ***

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

 ***

   We don't use setjmp but C++ exceptions
   
 ***

   melt_walk_use_def_chains adapted for GCC 4.9, and compatibility with
GCC 4.9

 ***

   The successful modes list is printed.

 ***

   Nearly systematic use of hooks.

 ***

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

 ***

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

 ***

   Remove old option handling, REGISTER_OPTION is removed.


####

Bug and success reports are welcome on gcc-melt@googlegroups.com

Regards.


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