This is the New & Noteworthy page for CDT 11.5 which is part of Eclipse 2024-03 Simultaneous Release
The managed build system now invokes gcc -c to build GNU assembly language source files rather than invoking as directly. The revised behaviour ensures that the GNU preprocessor is active when building *.S and *.sx files to match user expectations. In the case of existing managed build projects, a new GNU assembler tool command generator applies the -Wa, prefix to user-specified assembler flags where appropriate. Users may revert to the previous behaviour by overriding the assembler command within the project properties dialog:
The new behaviour applies to managed build configurations using a Cross GCC, Cygwin GCC, Linux GCC or MinGW GCC toolchain.
A complete set of external symbols is now presented under COFF binary object files within the Project Explorer view:
The revised presentation matches that observed for ELF binary object files.
The original locations of object files within a GNU archive are now calculated using path information where available. This enables presentation of source file names and symbols under archive files within the Project Explorer view:
Managed build Static Library projects using a Cross GCC, Cygwin GCC, Linux GCC or MinGW GCC toolchain now use the -P archiver flag by default to generate the necessary path information.
Please see CHANGELOG-API for details on the breaking API changes in this release as well as future planned API changes.
See Noteworthy issues and PRs for this release in the issue/PR tracker.