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Mention GCC 10 attribute access.
authorMartin Sebor <msebor@redhat.com>
Wed, 20 May 2020 15:40:34 +0000 (09:40 -0600)
committerMartin Sebor <msebor@redhat.com>
Wed, 20 May 2020 15:40:34 +0000 (09:40 -0600)
Reviewed-by: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
NEWS

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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