bcc 0.15

ChangeLog

General

• added documentation and comments to code
• new configure options: --disable-bash-completions
• lots of documentation-related improvements
• improved test_install.sh
• rewrite of make check
• added & fixed a few test cases

bcc

• x86: complete rewrite
• x86: now uses GNU assembler, instead of nasm
• i386: can now use callee-saved registers
• new options: -static, -shared, -save-temps, -nobccobjs, -fhelp, -fpath-as=, fpath-ld=, -fpath-cpp=
• deprecated options: -e
• improved the type-system
• improved constant-evaluation (with the future possibility of constant propagation)
• added support for dynamic linking
• added support for glibc and musl libc (in AX_CHECK_LIBC)
• many bug fixes
• fixed random crashes
• moved 'include/%arch/*.h' back to 'src/%arch/'
• removed obsolete builtins
• removed dependency of memcpy(), now uses __builtin_memcpy()
• merged 'ir_node_t.rcall' and 'ir_node_t.ifcall' to 'ir_node_t.call'

bcpp

• added proper #line support

libbcc

• x86: ported to GNU assembler
• x86: added routines for multiply, divide, modulo
• riscv: added routines for software-{multiply, divide, modulo}
• added __builtin_memcpy()