Changeset 1229

Timestamp:

Feb 12, 2004, 1:40:00 PM (21 years ago)

Author:

bird

Message:

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File:

• trunk/doc/ReleaseNotes.os2 (modified) (11 diffs, 1 prop)

trunk/doc/ReleaseNotes.os2 ¶

@@ -23 +23 @@
           Where G=major version and MM=middle version numbers.
 
-        o Changed library search algorithms for the linkers (emxomfld and ld).
-          Three variations, static, shared and shared+dll. (The options
-          indicated corresponds to what binutils 2.12.x documents.)
+        o Changed library search algorithms for the linkers (emxomfld
+          and ld). Three variations, static, shared and shared+dll.
+          (The options indicated corresponds to what binutils 2.12.x
+          documents.)
           static: (-Bstatic, -non_shared, -dn, -static)
             1. libfoo_s.a
@@ -52 +53 @@
           applied these to certing read and write operations in LIBC.
 
-        o Added feature to emxomfld to automatically convert a.out libraries
-          and objects to OMF (using temporary files). Enabled by default
-          but can be disabled by the option -Zno-autoconv.
+        o Added feature to emxomfld to automatically convert a.out
+          libraries and objects to OMF (using temporary files). Enabled
+          by default but can be disabled by the option -Zno-autoconv.
 
         o Added support to emximp for dlls.
 
-        o Added support for automatic conversion of dlls to temporary import
-          libraries emxomfld and ld.
-
-        o Added getopt_long() and changed getopt() to FreeBSD implementations.
+        o Added support for automatic conversion of dlls to temporary
+          import libraries emxomfld and ld.
+
+        o Added getopt_long() and changed getopt() to FreeBSD
+          implementations.
 
         o Added a few more code page aliases.
@@ -82 +84 @@
           most of the other i386 environments.
 
-        o Changed abort and default signal termination messages to say which
-          process it's printed from. (hope this doesn't break anything)
+        o Changed abort and default signal termination messages to say
+          which process it's printed from.
 
         o Changed the glob() and globfree() implemenation with a port of
@@ -131 +133 @@
         o Fixed crash in ld when having fixups to weak symbols.
 
-        o Fixed bad conversion of dll0*.o to OMF, the OMF version got an unwanted
-          stack object.
+        o Fixed bad conversion of dll0*.o to OMF, the OMF version got an
+          unwanted stack object.
 
         o New functions:
@@ -141 +143 @@
         o New functions & globals (from FreeBSD 5.1):
             imaxabs(), imaxdiv(), strtoimax(), strtoumax(), hcreate(),
-            hdestroy(), hsearch(), insque(), lfind(), lsearch(), remque(),
-            tdelete(), tfind(), tsearch(), twalk(), reallocf(), strsignal(),
-            sys_signame, sys_siglist, sys_nsig, regcomp(), regerror(),
-            regexec(), regfree(), + bsd db functions.
+            hdestroy(), hsearch(), insque(), lfind(), lsearch(),
+            remque(), tdelete(), tfind(), tsearch(), twalk(), reallocf(),
+            strsignal(), sys_signame, sys_siglist, sys_nsig, regcomp(),
+            regerror(), regexec(), regfree(), + bsd db functions.
 
         o New functions (from GLIBC 2.3.2):
-            error(), error_at_line(), strndup(), argz_add(), argz_add_sep(),
-            argz_append(), argz_count(), argz_create(), argz_create_sep(),
-            argz_delete(), argz_extract(), argz_insert(), argz_next(),
-            argz_replace(), argz_stringify(), posix_spawn(),
-            posix_spawnattr_destroy(), posix_spawnattr_getflags(),
-            posix_spawnattr_getpgroup(), posix_spawnattr_getschedparam(),
-            posix_spawnattr_getschedpolicy(), posix_spawnattr_getsigdefault(),
+            error(), error_at_line(), strndup(), argz_add(),
+            argz_add_sep(), argz_append(), argz_count(), argz_create(),
+            argz_create_sep(), argz_delete(), argz_extract(),
+            argz_insert(), argz_next(), argz_replace(), argz_stringify(),
+            posix_spawnp() posix_spawn(), posix_spawnattr_destroy(),
+            posix_spawnattr_getflags(), posix_spawnattr_getpgroup(),
+            posix_spawnattr_getschedparam(),
+            posix_spawnattr_getschedpolicy(),
+            posix_spawnattr_getsigdefault(),
             posix_spawnattr_getsigmask(), posix_spawnattr_init(),
             posix_spawnattr_setflags(), posix_spawnattr_setpgroup(),
-            posix_spawnattr_setschedparam(), posix_spawnattr_setschedpolicy(),
-            posix_spawnattr_setsigdefault(), posix_spawnattr_setsigmask(),
+            posix_spawnattr_setschedparam(),
+            posix_spawnattr_setschedpolicy(),
+            posix_spawnattr_setsigdefault(),
+            posix_spawnattr_setsigmask(),
             posix_spawn_file_actions_addclose(),
             posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2(),
             posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen(),
             posix_spawn_file_actions_destroy(),
-            posix_spawn_file_actions_init(), posix_spawnp()
+            posix_spawn_file_actions_init()
 
         o New headers:
@@ -202 +208 @@
         o Added large file support.
 
-        o Enabled high memory support for LIBC. Two new options to GCC: -Zhigh-mem
-          and -Zhigh-low. If the program is to be enabled for high memory use, specify
-          -Zhigh-mem when linking.
+        o Enabled high memory support for LIBC. Two new options to GCC:
+          -Zhigh-mem and -Zhigh-low. If the program is to be enabled for
+          high memory use, specify -Zhigh-mem when linking.
 
           Note that socket is not high memory enabled yet.
@@ -222 +228 @@
         o Added file locking support to LIBC.
 
-        o Fixed _System and _Optlink bugs and made _Optlink support floating
-          point argument passing in registers.
+        o Fixed _System and _Optlink bugs and made _Optlink support
+          floating point argument passing in registers.
 
         o Header updates related to limits and file locking primarily.
@@ -241 +247 @@
         o Locale support in libc.
 
-        o Implemented a different approach to OMF and weak symbols. This new hack
-          performs pre-linking before invoking the OMF linker generating new .def
-          files if needed and an extra object file with aliases to resolve the weak
-          symbols correctly.
-          The old approach will be used used when GCC_WEAKSYMS is present in the
-          environment.
-
-          Please note that due to a bug in BFD, weak symbols don't work 100%
-          correctly. This will be addressed as soon as we have performed the switch
-          to a more recent version of binutils.
-
-        o A couple of new functions in libc, and a few corrections to existing
-          in respect to namespaces.
-
-        o Addressed issues with calling conventions. We now detect incompatible
-          calling conventions, emitting warnings and errors where appropriate.
-
-        o _Optlink is much better, but there are still some issues left. Passing
-          prototyped floating point parameters to _Optlink doesn't work. Mixing
-          of parameters which go into registers (eax, edx, ecx) and parameters
-          which don't - void foo(int eax, struct sss s, int edx) - doesn't work.
-          All these issues are being addressed and are expected to be fixed in
-          the next build.
-
-        o Changed GCC to link with shared libc by default. This means that in
-          order to link with the static libc one has to specify -static.
-          It also means that -Zmtd or -Zcrtdll are no longer required for linking
-          with shared libc and can be removed from all makescripts.
-
-        o Changed EMXOMFLD defaults to ilink from Visual Age for C++ v3.6.5 or
-          later (preferably later). The emxomfld usage output will instruct you
-          on how to use older linkers. For VAC308 and VAC365 linkers /dbgpack
-          is specified if debuginfo is to be generated.
-          Emxomf checks for EMXOMFLD_TYPE=link386 when choosing debug info level.
+        o Implemented a different approach to OMF and weak symbols. This
+          new hack performs pre-linking before invoking the OMF linker
+          generating new .def files if needed and an extra object file with
+          aliases to resolve the weak symbols correctly.
+          The old approach will be used used when GCC_WEAKSYMS is present in
+          the environment.
+
+          Please note that due to a bug in BFD, weak symbols don't work
+          100% correctly. This will be addressed as soon as we have
+          performed the switch to a more recent version of binutils.
+
+        o A couple of new functions in libc, and a few corrections to
+          existing in respect to namespaces.
+
+        o Addressed issues with calling conventions. We now detect
+          incompatible calling conventions, emitting warnings and errors
+          where appropriate.
+
+        o _Optlink is much better, but there are still some issues
+          left. Passing prototyped floating point parameters to
+          _Optlink doesn't work. Mixing of parameters which go into
+          registers (eax, edx, ecx) and parameters which
+          don't - void foo(int eax, struct sss s, int edx) - doesn't
+          work. All these issues are being addressed and are expected
+          to be fixed in the next build.
+
+        o Changed GCC to link with shared libc by default. This means
+          that in order to link with the static libc one has to specify
+          -static. It also means that -Zmtd or -Zcrtdll are no longer
+          required for linking with shared libc and can be removed from
+          all makescripts.
+
+        o Changed EMXOMFLD defaults to ilink from Visual Age for C++
+          v3.6.5 or later (preferably later). The emxomfld usage output
+          will instruct you on how to use older linkers. For VAC308 and
+          VAC365 linkers /dbgpack is specified if debuginfo is to be
+          generated. Emxomf checks for EMXOMFLD_TYPE=link386 when choosing
+          debug info level.
 
         o Shipping three extra libc dlls:
-            libc02.dbg:     Unstripped version of libc02.dll. This is identical
-                            except from the presense of debug info.
-            libc02.prf:     Linked together from profiled enabled libraries
-                            using kProfiler.
-            libc02.elh:     Standard libc but linked with an external eletrical
-                            fence heap from kLibDbg.
-          These libc02.* dlls can be used instead of libc02.dll. kLibDbg and
-          kProfiler is available in separate zip files at same location as the
-          rest of the Innotek GCC suite. However these external tools are
-          provided as is. (I might actually not find time to put them out yet.)
+            libc02.dbg:     Unstripped version of libc02.dll. This is
+                            identical except from the presense of debug
+                            info.
+            libc02.prf:     Linked together from profiled enabled
+                            libraries using kProfiler.
+            libc02.elh:     Standard libc but linked with an external
+                            electrical fence heap from kLibDbg.
+          These libc02.* dlls can be used instead of libc02.dll. kLibDbg
+          and kProfiler is available in separate zip files at same
+          location as the rest of the InnoTek GCC suite. However these
+          external tools are provided as is. (I might actually not find
+          time to put them out yet.)
 
         o Distribution is splitted into several zips:
             -core.zip:  All you really need.
-            -dbg.zip:   Map files, unstripped tools and libs, and libc02.elh.
+            -dbg.zip:   Map files, unstripped tools and libs, and
+                        libc02.elh.
             -prf.zip:   Profiling libraries and libc02.prf.
             libc.zip:   The runtime libraries. (included in core.)
@@ -300 +313 @@
     Primarily bugfixes.
 
-        o Changed code generator for floating point truncations (double to int
-          casts and such) so PM can freely mess up the fpu status.
-
-        o We were using the wrong float.h in two sense. We're now using the
-          correct one which includes all the PC defines and prototypes.
+        o Changed code generator for floating point truncations (double
+          to int casts and such) so PM can freely mess up the fpu status.
+
+        o We were using the wrong float.h in two sense. We're now using
+          the correct one which includes all the PC defines and
+           prototypes.
 
         o Fixed a few issues with error defines and tcpip.
-          Note that some of the error defines have changed value in the process
-          so we could become compatible with the tcpip stack and FreeBSD.
+          Note that some of the error defines have changed value in the
+          process so we could become compatible with the tcpip stack
+          and FreeBSD.
 
         o Corrected bugs in a number of headers.
 
-        o Added more OS/2 prototypes and imports. There is still work left on
-          the header part,
+        o Added more OS/2 prototypes and imports. There is still work
+          left on the header part,
 
         o Optimized emxomf debug info conversion.
 
-        o Wrapped bsdselect for BSD 4.4 header mode to implement bsdselect().
+        o Wrapped bsdselect for BSD 4.4 header mode to implement
+          bsdselect().
 
         o .... what did we forget...
@@ -331 +347 @@
           To target the older OS/2 tcpip stack (BSD 4.3 based) you must
           define TCPV40HDRS before including any TCP/IP headers and make
-          sure usr/lib/tcpipv4 is searched before usr/lib (this is to get
-          the right libsocket). It is recommended to use the -D compiler
-          option for the define and either the LIBRARY_PATH or the -L
-          compiler/linker option for the library.
+          sure usr/lib/tcpipv4 is searched before usr/lib (this is to
+          get the right libsocket). It is recommended to use the -D
+          compiler option for the define and either the LIBRARY_PATH or
+          the -L compiler/linker option for the library.
 
         o There are a couple of new and updated based on FreeBSD 5.1.
           sys\stdint.h and inttypes.h (and a few internal once) are new.
           sys\types.h and unistd.h are the ones most heavily updated.
-          We're working on getting the headers and libc in a better shape
-          standardwise to easy compatability and portability.
+          We're working on getting the headers and libc in a better
+          shape standardwise to easy compatability and portability.
 
         o A infinite loop in emxomf has been fixed.
@@ -352 +368 @@
 ---------------
 
-    This is the first release from Innotek, and it contains the Innotek LIBC.
+    This is the first release from InnoTek, and it contains the InnoTek LIBC.
     In addition to the new LIBC there is a number of other major changes: