Note the following new and changed features in the current C compiler release.
Support for SPARC M6, M7, and T7 processors.
Support for the Intel Broadwell/avx2_i processor.
Many SIMD (__m128{d|i}) intrinsic functions are provided for SPARCACE and SPARCACE+.
Support for x86 dataspace profiling.
New compiler options:
–features=[no%]mergestrings causes the compiler to put string literals and other suitable const or read-only data into a special section of the binary where the linker removes duplicate strings. This option is available only on SPARC.
–xatomic specifies which atomics support runtime library is linked.
–xcheck=noreturn informs the compiler to add code to cause a runtime error if a routine which has been described as "do not return" returns.
–xsecure_code_analysis enables compiler secure code analysis to find and display possible memory safety violations at compile time.