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authorMartin Sebor <msebor@redhat.com>2020-05-20 09:40:34 -0600
committerMartin Sebor <msebor@redhat.com>2020-05-20 09:40:34 -0600
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Mention GCC 10 attribute access.
Reviewed-by: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
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@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ Major new features:
toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
this option.
+* To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
+ several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
+ should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
+
Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
* The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been