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diff --git a/gc/doc/README.changes b/gc/doc/README.changes index c018c8b..4478da7 100644 --- a/gc/doc/README.changes +++ b/gc/doc/README.changes @@ -1360,7 +1360,7 @@ Since 6.0alpha8: it on untested platforms. - Integrated initial GNU HURD port. (Thanks to Chris Lingard and Igor Khavkine.) - - A few more fixes for Digital Mars compiler. + - A few more fixes for Digital Mars compiler (Walter Bright). - Fixed gcc version recognition. Renamed OPERATOR_NEW_ARRAY to GC_OPERATOR_NEW_ARRAY. Changed GC_OPERATOR_NEW_ARRAY to be the default. It can be overridden with -DGC_NO_OPERATOR_NEW_ARRAY. (Thanks to @@ -1378,16 +1378,71 @@ Since 6.0alpha9: - Fixed a stack clearing problem that resulted in SIGILL with a misaligned stack pointer for multithreaded SPARC builds. - Integrated another HURD patch (thanks to Igor Khavkine). + +Since 6.0: + - Non-debug, atomic allocations could result in bogus smashed object + reports with debugging on. (Thanks to Patrick Doyle for the small + test case.) + - Fixed GC_get_register_stack_base (Itanium only) to work around a glibc + 2.2.4 bug. + - Initial port to HP/UX on Itanium. Thread support and both 32 and 64 + bit ABIs appear to work. Parallel mark support doesn't yet, due to + some inline assembly code issues. Thread local allocation does appear + to work. + - ifdef'ed out glibc2.1/Itanium workaround. I suspect nobody is using + that combination anymore. + - Added a patch to make new_gc_alloc.h usable with gcc3.0. (Thanks to + Dimitris Vyzovitis for the patch.) + - Debugged 64-bit support on HP/UX PA-RISC. + - Turned on dynamic loading support for FreeBSD/ELF. (Thanks to Peter + Housel.) + - Unregistering of finalizers with debugging allocation was broken. + (Thanks to Jani Kajala for the test case.) + - Old finalizers were not returned correctly from GC_debug_register_finalizer. + - Disabled MPROTECT_VDB for Linux/M68K based on a report that it doesn't work. + - Cleaned up some statistics gathering code in reclaim.c (Thanks to Walter + Bright.) + - Added some support for OpenBSD/ELF/Linux. (Thanks to Suzuki Toshiya.) + - Added Jakub Jelinek's patch to use dl_iterate_phdr for dynamic library + traversal to dyn_load.c. Changed it to weakly reference dl_iterate_phdr, + so that the old code is stilll used with old versions of glibc. + - Cleaned up feature test macros for various threads packages and + integrated (partially functional) FreeBSD threads code from Loren Rittle. + It's likely that the cleanup broke something, since it touched lots of + code. It's also likelly that it fixed some unreported bugs in the + less common thread implementations, since some of the original code + didn't stand up to close scrutiny. Support for the next pthreads + implementation should be easier to add. +Since 6.0alpha1: + - No longer wrap read by default in multithreaded applications. It was + pointed out on the libgcj list that this holds the allocation lock for + way too long if the read blocks. For now, reads into the heap are + broken with incremental collection. It's possible to turn this back on + if you make sure that read calls don't block (e.g. by calling select + first). + - Fix ifdef in Solaris_threads.h to refer to GC_SOLARIS_THREADS. + - Added check for environment variable GC_IGNORE_GCJ_INFO. + - Added printing of stop-the-world GC times if GC_PRINT_STATS environment + variable is set. + - The calloc definition in leak_detector.h was missing parentheses, and + realloc was missing a second argument to GC_REALLOC. (Thanks to Elrond.) + - Added GC_PRINT_BACK_HEIGHT environment variable and associated + code, mostly in the new file backgraph.c. See doc/README.environment. + - Added -DUSE_GLOBAL_ALLOC to work around a Windows NT issue. (Thanks to + Jonathan Clark.) + - Integrated port to NEC EWS4800 (MIPS-based workstation, with somewhat + different address-space layout). This may help for other machines with + holes in the data segment. (Thanks to Hironori Sakamoto.) + - Changed the order in which GC_push_roots and friends push things onto + the mark stack. GC_push_all calls need to come first, since we can't + necessarily recovere if thos overflow the mark stack. (Thanks to + Matthew Flatt for tracking down the problem.) To do: - There seem to be outstanding issues on Solaris/X86, possibly with finding the data segment starting address. Information/patches would - ne appreciated. - - New_gc_alloc.h is apparently no longer compatible with the latest C++ - standard library in gcc3.0. (This isn't technically a bug, since it only - claimed compatibility with the SGI STL. But we may need a new C++ STL - allocator interface.) + be appreciated. - Very large root set sizes (> 16 MB or so) could cause the collector to abort with an unexpected mark stack overflow. (Thanks again to Peter Chubb.) NOT YET FIXED. Workaround is to increase the initial |