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7.2g
Changes
- Fix 'illegal option -xassembler-with-cpp' error (Oracle SunCC)
- Fix 'implicit declaration of function' compiler warnings in cord/de
- Fix CFLAGS in configure regarding -O flag passing to SunCC compiler
- Fix FirstDLOpenedLinkMap for case libgc not 1st dynamically linked (NetBSD)
- Fix GC initialization in cord de_win for Cygwin
- Fix GC_get_stack_base if called before GC_init (Win32)
- Fix OSX issue with pthread_attr_setstacksize failure
- Fix Unicode Win32 API calls in cord de_win
- Fix USE_COMPILER_TLS macro duplicate description in README
- Fix cord de_win WndProc prototype parameters for 64-bit (Win64)
- Fix file descriptor resource leak in GC_register_data_segments (OS/2)
- Fix filename printing in cordtest
- Fix missing cord_pos.h, ec.h among installed headers (Automake)
- Fix missing GC_get_stack_base for Amiga
- Fix missing msvc_dbg.h in dist_noinst_HEADERS (Automake)
- Fix mistyped ARM_THREAD_STATE macro (Darwin/arm)
- Fix null-pointer dereferences on out-of-memory in cord and tests
- Fix potential multiplication overflow in check_heap_stats (gctest)
- Fix race (and potential deadlock) at marker threads initialization
- Fix signedness of char values passed to isspace, iscntrl, isxdigit
- Fix typo (items numbering) in GC_finalize_all documentation
- Fix typos in ERROR_FL, GC_malloc_uncollectable comments
- Fix typos in gc_priv.h, in README for ews4800
- Fix unresolved vsnprintf in misc.c and snprintf in cordtest (DJGPP, VC)
- Fix various spelling errors
- Fix vsprintf_args initialization/cleanup in CORD_vsprintf for EMX
- Regenerate configure files using official libtool release (v2.4.2)
- Remove documentation about obsolete GC_REDIRECT_TO_LOCAL
- Skip GC_DS_PER_OBJECT objects with negative descriptor in GC_mark_from
- windows-untested: Fix paths to msvc_dbg.c/h
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7.2f
Changes
- Fix 'Bad signal in suspend_handler' abort on FreeBSD-9.2
- Fix 'source file in a subdirectory' Automake warnings
- Fix ABORT message in GC_restart_handler
- Fix ADD_DEFINITION in CMakeLists.txt for kFreeBSD
- Fix CMakeLists.txt: do not override CMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES
- Fix GC_alloc_large by bumping GC_collect_at_heapsize in GC_add_to_heap
- Fix GC_scratch_last_end_ptr update on GC_scratch_alloc failure
- Fix GET_MEM argument rounding in GC_scratch_alloc and similar
- Fix PARALLEL_MARK for Windows 7+
- Fix build (broken by fenv.h inclusion) on Linux/x86_64 under uClibc
- Fix crash when using GC_malloc_many() as first allocation call
- Fix mark stack excessive growth during parallel mark
- Fix or remove broken URLs in documentation
- Fix out-of-memory case in new_back_edges, push_in_progress (backgraph)
- Fix typo in GC_collect_or_expand comment
- Fix typos in GC overview file, gc_config_macros.h, gc_cpp.h, README.changes
- Regenerate configure files by automake 1.14.1, libtool 2.4.2.418
- Update emails/links due to project site and ML transition
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7.4.2
Changes
- Add config option to use STGRTMIN-based signals for thread suspend/resume
- Allow parallel mark to be enabled on powerpc-linux systems
- Check for Fujitsu compiler in builtin_unwind logic (enable FX10/K-Computer)
- Fix 'Array subscript is above array bounds' GCC warning in GC_new_kind/proc
- Fix 'attribute declaration must precede definition' warning (clang-3.1)
- Fix (enable) Cygwin-64 build
- Fix GC_finalized_malloc failure on disclaim_test
- Fix GC_sig_suspend initialization when non-constant SIGRTMIN used
- Fix MS VC redefinition warning for functions declared with GC_ATTR_MALLOC
- Fix TEXT() usage for concatenated strings in GC_CreateLogFile (Win32)
- Fix data roots registration for Android/x86 and NDK ARM 'gold' linker
- Fix find stackbottom on BlueGene P/Q systems
- Fix machdep .lo files path in configure (SPARC, IA-64)
- Fix ok_init assignment (missing cast) in GC_new_kind_inner
- Fix typos in names in AUTHORS and ChangeLog files
- Remove barrett_diagram file duplicated by tree.html
- Remove non-existing DISCARD_WORDS from GC data structure ASCII diagram
- Restore contribution information for ancient releases in ChangeLog
Also, includes 7.2f changes
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7.4.0
Changes
- Add 'bytes reclaimed' counters to public GC_prof_stats_s
- Add AArch64 (64-bit ARM) target support
- Add GC_LONG_REFS_NOT_NEEDED ifdefs to exclude long link functionality
- Add GC_get_prof_stats_unsafe to GC public API
- Add GC_push_all/conditional() to GC public API
- Add assertion on number_of_objs to GC_extend_size_map
- Add assertion to GC_enable() ensuring no counter underflow
- Add assertion to LOCK definition that lock is not already held
- Add assertion to LONG_MULT and remove useless assert in PUSH_CONTENTS_HDR
- Add double-lock assertion to GC_acquire_mark_lock
- Add manual POSIX fork handling support (Android)
- Add note about 'pkg-config' solving problem with autoconf 2.68 or older
- Add public GC_set/get_abort_func to replace default GC_on_abort
- Add public GC_start_mark_threads() to allow parallel marker in fork child
- Add public setter and getter for GC_push_other_roots
- Add support of Android logger
- Add tests for GC_register/move/unregister_long_link
- Add thread suspend/resume signals public setters (POSIX threads)
- Added long weakref support
- Adjust GC_dont_expand/gc/precollect and GC_print_stats type to match gc.h
- Adjust README.md title and references to doc .html files in it
- Adjust build scripts to enable additional test library in staticrootstest
- Adjust logged messages in start_mark_threads and GC_thr_init
- Adjust printf format specifiers in GC_print_trace
- Allow not to rely on __data_start value (Linux)
- Allow pthread_kill error code logging in GC_suspend/resume (debugging)
- Allow to compile GC_inner_start_routine aside from extra/gc.c
- Allow to omit libc atexit() call
- Avoid LOCK/UNLOCK hard-coding in gc_locks.h for PS3 target
- Better document GC_warn_proc in gc.h
- Call GC_on_abort (with NULL argument) on exit(1)
- Call GC_stats/verbose_log_printf instead of GC_log_printf if print_stats
- Change policy regarding version numbers ("micro" part instead of "alpha")
- Changed C99-style designated init of GC_dl_hashtbl struct to use C89-style
- Check GC_base result in GC_print_all_smashed_proc
- Check that SIG_SUSPEND and SIG_THR_RESTART are different (Pthreads)
- Check traceable_allocator.allocate result before dereference in test_cpp
- Code refactoring of GC_x_printf (move shared code to macro)
- Convert readme to markdown
- Default to use libc_stack_end in single-threaded GC on glibc targets
- Define GC_VSNPRINTF internal macro in misc.c (code refactoring)
- Define functions in darwin_semaphore.h as inline instead of static
- Define old_bus_handler static variable only if used (Unix)
- Detect dladdr() presence by configure
- Disable find-leak GC_gcollect on GC abnormal EXIT
- Do not define _setjmp/_longjmp macros in mach_dep.c
- Do not duplicate android_log_write output to GC log file (Android)
- Do not include sigcontext.h if NO_SIGCONTEXT_H (Linux)
- Do not set GC_lock_holder by call_with_alloc_lock if assertions disabled
- Do not use pthread_getattr_np if NO_PTHREAD_GETATTR_NP specified
- Elaborate comment on dependencies in autogen.sh
- Eliminate 'cast from int to pointer' warning in GC_exclude_static_roots
- Eliminate 'missing exception specification' warning in gc_cpp.cc (Clang)
- Eliminate 'uninitialized variable use' warning in test_printf (cord)
- Eliminate 'unused result' compiler warning in main() of test_cpp
- Eliminate 'unused value' compiler warning in GC_stop_world (Pthreads)
- Eliminate 'unused variable' compiler warning in start_mark_threads (HP/UX)
- Eliminate Clang warning for GC_pthread_exit attribute
- Eliminate GCC warning about uninitialized 'hhdr' in GC_allochblk_nth
- Eliminate GCC warning in GC_get_main_stack_base (OpenBSD)
- Eliminate GCC warnings in setjmp_t.c, test_cpp and cord 'de' app
- Eliminate GC_first_nonempty atomic value reload in GC_mark_local assertion
- Eliminate SIGBUS-related dead code in GC_write_fault_handler (Linux)
- Eliminate warning and simplify expression in GC_init_explicit_typing
- Enable 'force GC at every GC_malloc' debug-related functionality
- Enable on-demand debug logging in GC_FindTopOfStack (Darwin)
- Enable prefetch operations by default (GCC 3.0+)
- Enable staticrootstest for the case of GC shared library build
- Enable thread-local allocation support for Clang on Cygwin
- Explicitly specify that Darwin, Linux and Solaris platforms have dladdr
- Fix ABORT definition for mingw32ce (WinCE)
- Fix AM_CONFIG_HEADER in configure for autoconf-2.69-1
- Fix GC_CreateThread and GC_beginthreadex definition for Cygwin
- Fix GC_INIT_CONF_ROOTS in gc.h for Android
- Fix GC_INLINE definition to comply with ISO C90 standard (GCC)
- Fix GC_remove_all_threads_but_me for Android (fork support)
- Fix debug_register_displacement calls from GC_debug_generic_malloc_inner
- Fix dyn_load.c compilation for Android 4.3
- Fix make disclaim_test to link with new GNU ld linking rules
- Improve GC error printing atomicity in GC_debug_X and GC_print_obj
- Improve GC output atomicity in GC_print_obj, GC_print_all_errors
- Improve debug-only messages of add/remove_roots and init_linux_data_start
- Improve fork test logging in gctest
- Improve logged messages about heap size and usage
- Improve logging for Android differentiating messages by log level
- Improve staticrootstest (add global data to library, add lib w/o GC_INIT)
- Improve staticrootstest checks (tests)
- Include "config.h" instead of "private/config.h" on HAVE_CONFIG_H
- Include proper header file in 'tools' for configuration macros
- Include pthread_np.h from pthread_stop_world.c on OpenBSD
- Log error messages to stderr instead of stdout in tests
- Make GC_generic_malloc_ignore_off_page() public
- Make GC_mark_lock_holder variable static
- Make GC_print_trace always thread-safe and remove 'lock' argument
- Mark GC_started_thread_while_stopped() as GC_INNER
- Minimize code duplication in GC_mark_and_push
- Move 'include setjmp.h' from mach_dep.c to gc_priv.h
- Move GC_OPENBSD_UTHREADS definition to private/gcconfig.h (OpenBSD)
- Move GC_get_suspend/thr_restart_signal to misc.c for NaCl and OpenBSD
- Move LOCK/UNLOCK from GC_unregister_disappearing_link_inner outer
- Port BDWGC to Android/x86
- Postpone the suspend signal in GC_dirty_init only if used to stop world
- Prepend '#' symbol to GC number in logged messages
- Prevent POSIX fork if mprotect_thread is started (Darwin)
- Prevent abort on GC_err/warn_printf write failure
- Prevent misleading AC_MSG_ERROR/AS_IF errors reported in configure.ac
- Put gc_cpp symbols into 'boehmgc' namespace if GC_NAMESPACE defined
- Recognize GC_DONT_GC macro in gc.h (causes GC_INIT to turn off GC)
- Recognize GC_SIG_SUSPEND and GC_SIG_THR_RESTART tuning macros in gc.h
- Redirect WRITE to __android_log_write if GC_ANDROID_LOG (Android)
- Refine comment of GC_is_heap_ptr and GC_thread_is_registered in gc.h
- Register dynamic libraries via dl_iterate_phdr on Android and OpenBSD
- Remove DebugBreak on WriteFile failure (Win32)
- Remove GC_BUILD definition from build scripts
- Remove abort on open log failure from GC_write (Win32)
- Remove configure.ac outdated revision number
- Remove nested EXPECT in GC_core_finalized_malloc
- Remove nested always-false ifdef for HPUX and FREEBSD
- Remove redundant GC_err_printf before abort
- Remove unused UTHREAD_SP_OFFSET macro (OpenBSD)
- Rename subthread_create to subthreadcreate_test (Makefile)
- Replace GC_COND_LOG_PRINTF calls with WARN for allocation failure messages
- Replace GC_log/err_printf() followed by ABORT with ABORT_ARGn()
- Replace GC_stats_log_printf with GC_DBG/INFOLOG_PRINTF
- Replace SIG_SUSPEND/THR_RESTART macros to variables in pthread_stop_world
- Replace Win32 GC_delete_gc_thread with GC_delete_gc_thread_no_free
- Replace conditional GC_log_printf calls with GC_COND/VERBOSE_LOG_PRINTF
- Replace sprintf with defensive snprintf
- Replace var-args GC_noop with GC_noop6 (to eliminate Clang warning)
- Simplify LOCK/UNLOCK macro definition for static code analysis tools
- Specify GC_malloc result is unused in some tests
- Specify GC_pthread_join result is unused in threadkey_test
- Specify LT_INIT in configure.ac
- Start of port to QNX
- Support rthreads introduced in OpenBSD 5.2+
- Suppress 'GC_dont_gc deprecated' warning in gc.h if GC_DONT_GC
- Tag GC malloc routines with alloc_size attribute for Clang 3.2+
- Test NO_WRAP_MARK_SOME macro to suppress WRAP_MARK_SOME-specific code
- Turn off GC_LOOP_ON_ABORT functionality if GC compiled with NO_DEBUGGING
- Turn on world-stop delay logging at debug level by default for Android
- Use EXPECT in GC_COND/VERBOSE_LOG_PRINTF
- Use GC_log_printf for logging instead of GC_[err_]printf
- Use compiler TLS for Android NDK gcc/arm
- Use memcpy (BCOPY) instead of strcpy (to suppress GCC warning)
- Use pthread API to operate thread-local data on Linux if no compiler TLS
- Workaround 'ELF_DATA/EM_ALPHA redefined' warning in Android linker.h
- Workaround 'unresolved __tls_get_addr' error for Android NDK Clang
Also, includes 7.2e, 7.2d, 7.2c, 7.2b changes
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7.2e
Changes
- Add weak attribute to avoid __data_start undefined messages (s390x)
- Add weak stubs for pthread_cancel API
- Adjust 'pthread_[un]register_cancel undefined ref' workaround (Pthreads)
- Append _test suffix to 'initsecondarythread' binary file names
- Enable PARALLEL_MARK and THREAD_LOCAL_ALLOC for FreeBSD in configure
- Fix 'stack section' pointer passed to push_all_stack_sections (Pthreads)
- Fix GC_CreateThread 'dwStackSize' argument type for Win64
- Fix GC_PTHREAD_PTRVAL definition for GC_PTHREADS_PARAMARK (Win32)
- Fix GC_clear_stack by declaring 'dummy' local array as volatile
- Fix GC_get_stack_base assembly code (Cygwin/Clang)
- Fix GC_malloc_explicitly_typed_ignore_off_page for large allocations
- Fix GC_marker_Id elements initialization (WinCE)
- Fix GC_print_trace missing unlock
- Fix GC_unix_mmap_get_mem for open of /dev/zero failure
- Fix GC_win32_free_heap compilation error for Cygwin
- Fix GC_win32_free_heap to prevent memory leak if USE_GLOBAL_ALLOC
- Fix Win32 GC_write preventing potential infinite recursion at abort
- Fix assertion violation in GC_mark_from prefetch loop
- Fix collection of objects referenced only from GC_mark_stack_X variables
- Fix dwSize argument of VirtualFree call in detect_GetWriteWatch (Win32)
- Fix heap sections overflow for Win32/Cygwin with enabled parallel marker
- Fix min_bytes_allocd preventing potential infinite loop in GC_allocobj
- Fix missing tabs in SMakefile.amiga file
- Fix null-pointer dereference in CORD_substr_closure
- Fix old_segv/bus_act variables initialization for FreeBSD
- Fix potential double fclose in test_extras (cordtest)
- Fix pthread_attr_t resource leak in pthread_create
- Fix race in GC_print_all_errors regarding GC_leaked
- Fix sizeof in GC_push_thread_structures
- Fix stackbottom/stack_end assignment in GC_call_with_gc_active
- Fix tests makefile to link with new GNU ld linking rules
- Fix typos in comments and documentation
- Fix unportable '==' test operators in configure
- Fix vsprintf_args cleanup in CORD_vsprintf
- Merge FreeBSD New ports collection for boehm-gc v7.2d
- Replace GC_DBG_RA with GC_DBG_EXTRAS macro
- Replace deprecated [CXX]INCLUDES to AM_C[PP]FLAGS in configure.ac file
- Use __builtin_extract_return_addr in GC_RETURN_ADDR_PARENT (gcc/x86)
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7.2d
Changes
- Fix GC_call_with_stack_base to prevent its tail-call optimization
- Fix all address-of-dummy operations by using GC_approx_sp() instead
- Fix stop_info.stack_ptr assignment in GC_suspend_all for OpenBSD
- Fix test_cpp (ensure the collector recognizes pointers to interiors)
- Fix thread-related tests for pthreads-w32
- test_cpp: Fix WinMain to prevent SEGV if zero arguments passed (MinGW)
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7.2c
Changes
- Fix CORD_cat_char_star to prevent SEGV in case of out-of-memory
- Fix GC_FirstDLOpenedLinkMap() for NetBSD 6 release
- Fix GC_scratch_alloc and GC_get_maps invocations to prevent SEGV
- Fix visibility of GC_clear/set_mark_bit (unhide symbols)
- Fix visibility of GC_push_all/conditional, GC_push_other_roots symbols
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7.2b
Changes
- Fix assertion in GC_malloc_[atomic_]uncollectable (THREADS case only)
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7.2
Changes
- Abort in GC_thr_init on pthread_atfork failure (POSIX threads)
- Add GC_WIN32_PTHREADS target in configure
- Add GC_is_disabled new function to GC API
- Add info that getcontext() resets FPE mask no longer on Linux/x86_64
- Add public GC_set_handle_fork to control forked child handling support
- Add realloc_test.c test
- Add support for Hexagon target
- Add thread-safe GC_get_heap_usage_safe to GC API
- Change GC_check_fl_marks prototype and implementation
- Check pthread_create/join result in test
- Define GC_DLL (in configure) if building only dynamic libraries
- Define NO_DEBUGGING (in configure) if "--disable-gc-debug" is set
- Disable incremental mode on Darwin if fork handling requested
- Enable parallel marker in configure for Solaris
- Fix "comparison of signed and unsigned values" compiler warnings
- Fix 'volatile' keyword placement in GC_SysVGetDataStart
- Fix ALIGNMENT, CPP_WORDSZ, GC_GRANULE_BYTES/WORDS for x32 target
- Fix GC_READ_ENV_FILE code for Cygwin
- Fix GC_add_roots_inner for Mac OS X (align segment start)
- Fix GC_check_fl_marks regarding concurrent access
- Fix GC_finalizer_nested size to workaround alignment problem in Watcom
- Fix GC_find_limit_with_bound to always reset fault handler on return
- Fix GC_init static assertion for clang/x64 (Darwin)
- Fix GC_init[_lib_bounds] and GC_get_main_stack_base for malloc redirection
- Fix GC_push_all/selected boundaries check
- Fix GC_register_my_thread marking thread as detached (Cygwin/pthreads-w32)
- Fix GC_remove_all_threads_but_me to cleanup thread-specific data storage
- Fix GC_restart_handler to preserve errno if needed
- Fix GC_root_size update in GC_add_roots_inner (Win32)
- Fix GC_unregister_my_thread to ensure no ongoing incremental GC (Win32)
- Fix GC_with_callee_saves_pushed for clang (disable __builtin_unwind_init)
- Fix calloc, GC_generic_malloc to check for allocation size overflows
- Fix compiler warning in GC_dyld_image_add/remove (Darwin)
- Fix configure --enable-cplusplus make install
- Fix configure to disable GCC aliasing optimization unless forced to
- Fix duplicate definitions in gcconfig.h for NetBSD
- Fix fork() support on Cygwin and Darwin targets
- Fix gc.h compatibility regression regarding GC_PTR, GC_I_HIDE_POINTERS
- Fix gc_cpp.cc for Cygwin (remove duplicate function definition)
- Fix gcconfig.h to define USE_GET_STACKBASE_FOR_MAIN for Android
- Fix gcconfig.h to handle mips64-linux target
- Fix gctest (for Win32) to avoid GC_print_stats internal variable usage
- Fix mach_dep.c to include sys/ucontext.h on Mac OS X 10.6
- Fix tests to check GC_malloc result for NULL (out-of-memory)
- Fix thread model in configure for MinGW ("win32" instead of "posix")
- Fix various warnings reported by LINT-like tools
- Fix visibility of some GC internal symbols used by GNU GCJ currently
- Port some thread tests to Win32
- Refine API GC setters and getter comments regarding locking
- Refine GC_stackbottom description in gc.h
- Remove duplicate calls in GC_register_dynamic_libraries
- Remove locking in API GC_get_bytes_since_gc and friends
- Remove newly-added GC_get_heap_size/free_bytes_inner from API
- Remove some local variables that are unused
- Support multi-threading for RTEMS target
- Use global GC_noop_sink variable in GC_noop1 to suppress compiler warning
- Use pkg-config to pick up libatomic_ops, etc
- Workaround some Linux/arm kernels bug to get correct GC_nprocs value
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7.3-alpha2
Changes
- Add 'const' qualifier to pointer argument of some API functions
- Add GC_UNDERSCORE_STDCALL, UNICODE macro templates to configure (Win32)
- Add GC_get_thr_restart_signal, GC_thread_is_registered to GC API
- Add GC_is_heap_ptr, GC_move_disappearing_link to GC API
- Add SHORT_DBG_HDRS macro template to configure
- Add Symbian port to mainline (porting done by Djamel Magri)
- Add TODO file
- Add assertion ensuring proper alignment of 'pushed' GC symbols
- Add assertion in GC_getspecific on qtid
- Add assertion to GC_incremental_protection_needs, refine documentation
- Add assertion to check GC_large_free_bytes by GC_finish_collection
- Add configure option to compile all library .c files into single gc.o
- Add cordtest to make check
- Add disclaim callbacks for efficient finalization (ENABLE_DISCLAIM)
- Add finalization.html to 'doc' folder
- Add javaxfc.h to the installation set of GC header files (configure)
- Add on-heap-resize event notification to API
- Adjust GC_log_printf format specifiers (regarding signed/unsigned long)
- Adjust GC_requested_heapsize on GC_init if GC_INITIAL_HEAP_SIZE given
- Allow GC_exclude_static_roots() region start to be unaligned
- Allow Win32 DllMain chaining on the client side
- Allow to exclude finalization support by GC_NO_FINALIZATION macro
- Allow to get memory via Win32 VirtualAlloc (USE_WINALLOC) on Cygwin
- Avoid unnecessary GC_find_limit invocation if GC_no_dls
- Avoid use of deprecated GC_dont_gc and GC_stackbottom in gctest
- Cast pointers to word (instead of unsigned long) in specific.h
- Changed the order in autogen.sh so ltmain exists in time for automake
- Declare privately and use handy GC_base_C() for constant object pointers
- Define GC_DLL if DLL_EXPORT at GC build (for Cygwin/MinGW)
- Define GC_READ_ENV_FILE in configure for WinCE unless gc-debug is off
- Do not compile backgraph.c unless configure '--enable-gc-debug'
- Do not compile pthread_stop_world.c for Cygwin/Darwin (configure)
- Do not install ancient new_gc_alloc.h broken for modern STL (configure)
- Enable GC_MIN_MARKERS to set minimal number of pthread-based markers
- Enable PARALLEL_MARK and THREAD_LOCAL_ALLOC for FreeBSD in configure
- Enable parallel mark by default in configure (Darwin/Linux/Solaris/Win32)
- Export GC_is_marked, GC_clear/set_mark_bit (for mark-bit manipulation)
- Extend thread-related debug messages
- Fix 'configure --enable-cplusplus' for Cygwin/MinGW
- Fix DATASTART (and other minor improvements) for NaCl target
- Fix GC_setspecific to prevent garbage collection inside
- Fix compiler warning in cordtest
- Fix minor warnings reported by GCC with '-pedantic' option
- Fix static data roots registration on Android (if GC is shared)
- Implement GC_get_stack_base for Darwin for single-threaded mode
- Improve GC_allochblk algorithm of block splitting when unmapping enabled
- Improve GC_collect_or_expand algorithm for many finalizers registered case
- In tests, print a message in case a test is a no-op
- Instruct configure to hide internal libgc.so symbols if supported by GCC
- Log amount of unmapped memory (if enabled) on marking-for-collection
- Make __data_start a weak symbol to allow loading modules on mips
- Move "cord" library tests to "cord/tests" folder
- Move asm machine-dependent files to "src" folder
- Move build tools sources to "tools" folder
- Move cord_pos.h to public headers folder
- Open log file in APPEND mode on Win32 (similar that on Unix/Cygwin)
- Optimize some functions by moving pthread_self calls out of LOCK section
- Place only major per-release changes description to ChangeLog (this file)
- Prevent compiler warnings in GC_FindTopOfStack and GC_ports (Darwin)
- Recognize GC_LOG_TO_FILE_ALWAYS macro to log to 'gc.log' by default
- Remove all auto-generated files from the repo
- Remove binary icon file for de_win
- Remove cordtest from "cord" library
- Remove duplicate MacOS_Test_config.h file
- Remove gc_amiga_redirects.h (included internally) from public headers
- Remove obsolete Makefile.DLL (superseded by Cygwin/MinGW configure)
- Remove obsolete unused asm files for ALPHA, HPUX, SGI, RS6000, ULTRIX
- Remove unsupported MMAP_STACKS (specific to Solaris threads)
- Remove unused ancient SILENT, STDC, NO_SIGNALS macros
- Replace ARGSUSED comment-based annotation with GCC 'unused' attribute
- Replace GC_ms_entry declaration with opaque definition for public API
- Replace long GC_markers global variable with int GC_markers_m1
- Replace pointer relational comparisons with non-pointer ones
- Replace printf PRIxMAX specifier with '%p' for thread id debug output
- Require autoconf 2.61 instead of v2.64
- Simplify autogen.sh (use autoreconf)
- Split GC_abort with GC_on_abort and abort() invoked from ABORT
- Support GC_ATTR_MALLOC for MS VisualStudio
- Tag auxiliary malloc-like API functions with 'malloc' attribute
- Tag deprecated variables in GC API
- Tag must-be-non-null arguments of GC API functions
- Turn on "extra" GCC warnings
- Turn on unused-parameter checking for GCC
- Update AUTHORS file
- Use EXPECT for checking various 'initialized' boolean variables
- Use USE_COMPILER_TLS on Cygwin
- Use pthread_key for thread-local storage on FreeBSD
- Use union of AO_t and word to favor strict-aliasing compiler optimization
Also, includes 7.2 changes