CompCert Release 20.04
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New features
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● New architecture AArch64.
● Support for vertical tab characters if they are not removed 
  by the preprocessor.

Improvements
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● New error message for unknown __builtin_ functions.
● New error messages for malformed section attributes.
● Improved printing of types in diagnostic messages.
● Improved error message for redefinition of typedefs.
● Better treating of inline.
● Improved handling of location lists in DWARF.
● The reference interpreter now accepts free(NULL),
  which according to ISO C is correct and does nothing.
● The ec_readonly condition is reduced to the strict minimum needed 
  to show the correctness of value analysis for const globals.

Fixes
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● In strict PowerPC EABI mode, single-precision floating-point arguments 
  passed on stack are passed as a 64-bit word, extended to double precision.
● Enforced normalization for x86 and AArch64 backends 
  of parts of return values not specified in the ABI.
● More precise determination of small data accesses 
  to avoid linker errors due to too large sda offsets.
● In PPC Diab, the internal type of wide character constant 
  has been set to wchar_t.
● In certain rare cases, the int64-to-float32 conversion 
  led to a double rounding. This is now avoided.


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