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(C)'2003 InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH
http://www.innotek.de


v3.2.2 Beta 3 Fix 1 (private build):
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        Fixes to LIBC:
        
                o Crash if calloc was called before main().
                
                o TZ parsing of timezones such as PST8EDT.
                
                o  sigsetjmp() and siglongjmp() visibility.


v3.2.2 Beta 3:
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        A few new features and fixes.   
                
                o Fixed a bunch of debug info problems.
                                                                                                
                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.
                
                  Note that socket is not high memory enabled yet.
                
                o Made LIBC preserve the FS selector.
                
                o Added random() and *rand48() from BSD.
                
                o Fixed crash with link386 and unresolved symbols.

                
v3.2.2 Beta 2:
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    A few bugfixes and a some new features (as usual).
                
                o Added file locking support to LIBC.
                
                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.
                
                o Timezone fixes.
                
                o Fixed some CRT init trouble in regards to getenv and putenv.
                
        o And some other minor stuff..
                

v3.2.2 Beta 1:
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    A few bugfixes and a some new features.

        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 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.)

        o Distribution is splitted into several zips:
            -core.zip:  All you really need.
            -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.)
          The big zip is everything.

v3.2.2 Alpha 3:
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    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 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.

        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 Optimized emxomf debug info conversion.

        o Wrapped bsdselect for BSD 4.4 header mode to implement bsdselect().

        o .... what did we forget...


v3.2.2 Alpha 2:
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    A few bugfixes and a couple of new features.

        o The TCP/IP headers and libraries scheme have been changed.
          The default is the current OS/2 tcpip toolkit (BSD 4.4 based).
          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.

        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.

        o A infinite loop in emxomf has been fixed.

        o Linker error on sopen() has been corrected.

        o .... what did we forget...


v3.2.2 Alpha 1:
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    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:

        o Name mangling in OMF mode have changed.
          Until this release emxomf used to pretty much strip one leading '_'
          from symbols when converting them to omf. This is now longer done
          chiefly in order to correctly support mangling calling conventions
          like __stdcall and __cdecl. This change have the following side
          effects:
            - _System and __cdecl no longer produces the same names and hence
              all OS/2 API which are _System must be declared as _System in
              order to link.
            - Assembly code might need an extra underscore to work, or
              perhaps change the prototypes to _System.
            - Global variables are prepended and underscore, so mixing VAC and
              GCC, or accessing globals from asm, take care.
              (MSC v6.0 does this too, so it's not any uncommon practise.)

          The OS/2 headers which are included are all updated to use _System.

        o TCPIP headers are updated a quite a bit to match the toolkit ones
          and to reflect the fact that the new libc does not a having common
          handle space for files and sockets. These changes aren't 100%
          completed yet, and usage probably will uncover some issues left in
          there. Also for the programmer there is the following changes in
          the apis provided:
            - TCPV40HDRS are supported and should work like with the toolkit
              headers. It will alias all functions to tcpip40_ editions
              (using #defines) so we get the right imports thru -llibsocket.
            - There is no support for sockets in select(). To do select on
              sockets you will have to use bsdselect() or os2_select().
              bsdselect() is only available for TCPV40HDRS. For
              !defined(TCPV40HDRS) fd_set is in the emx/bsd format and not the
              OS/2 tcpip v5.0 format.
            - Socket IOCTLs are not supported by the ioctl() libc function
              because of the separate handle space for sockets. For sockets
              so_ioctl() and os2_ioctl() are used. os2_ioctl() is not available
              when TCPV40HDRS is defined. According to the tcpref in v5.0
              so_ioctl() only supports BSD ioctls.
            - writev() and readv() also clashes with libc. For socket handles
              use so_writev() and so_readv().

        o The prefered OMF linker is now ilink. link386 will fail with an odd
          error message if you tell gcc/g++ to make debug info. Set the
          EMXOMFLD_LINKER environment variable to value ilink in order to use
          ilink as OMF linker.
          It likely that we will change the default OMF linker to ilink in an
          later version of the GCC suite.

        o .... what did we forget...