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<h2 style="margin-top:0pt;" id="news">News</h2>
<dl class="news">
+<dt>November 16, 2010</dt>
+<dd><a href="gcc-4.6/changes.html">GCC 4.6.0</a> will include the
+<tt>libquadmath</tt> library, which provides quad-precision mathematical
+functions on targets supporting the <tt>__float128</tt> datatype. The
+library is used to provide on such targets the <tt>REAL(16)</tt> type in GNU
+Fortran compiler. The library has been contributed by François-Xavier
+Coudert.</dd>
<dt>October 1, 2010</dt>
<dd><a href="gcc-4.4/">GCC 4.4.5</a> has been released.</dd>
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generic link-time optimization framework (LTO) introduced
in <a href="../gcc-4.5/changes.html">GCC 4.5.0</a>.</li>
+ <li>GCC now ships with the LGPL-licensed <tt>libquadmath</tt> library,
+ which provides for targets with a <tt>__float128</tt> datatype
+ quad-precision mathematical functions. <tt>__float128</tt> is available
+ for targets on 32-bit x86, x86-64 and Itanium architectures. The
+ <tt>libquadmath</tt> library is automatically build on such targets
+ when building the Fortran compiler.</tt>
+
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<h2>General Optimizer Improvements</h2>
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<h3 id="fortran">Fortran</h3>
<ul>
+ <li>On systems supporting the <tt>libquadmath</tt> library, GNU Fortran
+ now also supports a quad-precision, <tt>kind=16</tt> floating-point
+ data type (<tt>REAL(16)</tt>, <tt>COMPLEX(16)</tt>). As the data type is not
+ fully supported in hardware, calculations might be one to two orders
+ of magnitute slower than with the 4, 8 or 10 bytes floating-point data types.
+ This change does not affect systems which support <tt>REAL(16)</tt> in
+ hardware nor those which do not support <tt>libquadmath</tt>.</li>
<li>Much improved compile time for large array constructors.</li>
<li>Improved diagnostics, especially with
<code>-fwhole-file</code>.</li>