X-Git-Url: http://git.sourceforge.jp/view?a=blobdiff_plain;f=libjava%2FNEWS;h=8c9b3b745d18ebdd59e7f0f6e994d288d79aa5c6;hb=31022362da2d9a98060dd03fa6c4bf6ee010fd14;hp=114e48ac999d8bbb7d6b9da1403893bd2dfb47e9;hpb=de95f8d4249c7aee205999c4d5452a5c4a8a9e8d;p=pf3gnuchains%2Fgcc-fork.git diff --git a/libjava/NEWS b/libjava/NEWS index 114e48ac999..8c9b3b745d1 100644 --- a/libjava/NEWS +++ b/libjava/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,122 @@ +*** Changes in GCC 3.4: + +* Compiling a .jar file will now cause non-.class entries to be automatically + compiled as resources. + +* libgcj has been ported to Darwin. + +* Jeff Sturm has adapted Jan Hubicka's call graph optimization code to gcj. + +* libgcj has a new gcjlib URL type; this lets URLClassLoader load code from + shared libraries. + +* libgcj has been much more completely merged with GNU Classpath. + +* Class loading is now much more correct; in particular the caller's class + loader is now used when that is required. + +* Eclipse 2.x will run out of the box using gij. + +* Parts of java.nio have been implemented. Direct and indirect buffers work, + as do fundamental file and socket operations. + +* java.awt has been improved, though it is still not ready for general use. + +* The HTTP protocol handler now uses HTTP/1.1 and can handle the POST method. + +* The MinGW port has matured. Enhancements include socket timeout support, + thread interruption, improved Runtime.exec() handling and support for + accented characters in filenames. + +*** Changes in GCC 3.3: + +* The java.sql and javax.sql packages now implement the JDBC 3.0 (JDK 1.4) + API. + +* The JDK 1.4 assert facility has been implemented. + +* The bytecode interpreter is now direct threaded and thus faster. + + +*** Changes in GCC 3.1: + +* libgcj now includes RMI, java.lang.ref.*, javax.naming, and + javax.transaction. + +* Property files and other system resources can be compiled into executables + which use libgcj using the new gcj --resource feature. + +* libgcj has been ported to more platforms. In particular there is now a + mostly-functional mingw32 (Windows) target port. + +* JNI and CNI invocation interfaces were implemented, so gcj-compiled Java + code can now be called from a C/C++ application. + +* gcj can now use builtin functions for certain known methods, for instance + Math.cos. + +* gcj can now automatically remove redundant array-store checks in some common + cases. + +* The --no-store-checks optimization option was added. This can be used to + omit runtime store checks for code which is known not to throw + ArrayStoreException + +* The following third party interface standards were added to libgcj: + org.w3c.dom and org.xml.sax. + +* java.security has been merged with GNU Classpath. The new package is now + JDK 1.2 compliant, and much more complete. + +* A bytecode verifier was added to the libgcj interpreter. + +* java.lang.Character was rewritten to comply with the Unicode 3.0 standard, + and improve performance. + +* Partial support for many more locales was added to libgcj. + +* Socket timeouts have been implemented. + +* libgcj has been merged into a single shared library. There are no longer + separate shared libraries for the garbage collector and zlib. + +* Several performance improvements were made to gcj and libgcj: + o Hash synchronization (thin locks) + o A special allocation path for finalizer-free objects + o Thread-local allocation + o Parallel GC, and other GC tweaks + +*** Changes in GCC 3.0: + +* libgcj now includes a bytecode interpreter. If a compiled version of a class +is not found in the application binary or linked shared libraries, the +class loader will search for a bytecode version in the CLASSPATH and execute +it using the interpreter. A new front end that behaves like the traditional +`java' command is also provided: `gij'. + +* Support for specifying java system properties. Properties can either be set +at runtime via the GCJ_PROPERTIES environment variable in the format +"= ..."'; or can be compiled into an application binary using +-D=. + +* Support for setjmp/longjmp (sjlj) exception handling has been added, as an +alternative to the existing range-table based mechanism. sjlj is the default +on non-sparc, non-x86 targets, or can be specified with the +`--enable-sjlj-exceptions' configure parameter. + +* Complete JDK 1.1 reflection support, including invocation. + +* Throwable.printStackTrace() has been implemented. + +* Runtime.loadLibrary() has been implemented. + +* Class.forName() will now try to load a series of shared objects in order +to find the requested class. If a class `gnu.quux.whatever' is requested, +libgcj will search the system shared library path (eg LD_LIBRARY_PATH) for +`gnu-quux-whatever.so', then `gnu-quux.so', and finally `gnu.so'. + +* A pure-java implementation of java.math.BigInteger. + New in libgcj 2.95: * First public release