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Preliminary release notes for beta4.

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7(C)'2003-2004 InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH
8http://www.innotek.de
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11v3.2.2 Beta 4:
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13
14 New features and fixes:
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16 o Workaround for DosSetFileLocksL() on non JFS volumes.
17
18 o Fixed a bad record length problem in emxomf.
19
20 o Made waitpid() respect the WNOHANG flag.
21
22 o Added some deadlock checking/termination checks to semphores.
23
24 o Changed the glob() and globfree() implemenation with a port of
25 the FreeBSD 5.1 implemenation.
26
27 o Added macros to os2emx.h for preserving FPU control word and
28 applied these to certing read and write operations in LIBC.
29
30 o Workaround for bad FIL_STANDARDL buffer handling in os2krnl.
31
32 o Changed so_ioctl() to os2_ioctl() to match toolkit better.
33
34 o Filehandle rewrite. Files, pipes and sockets now share the same
35 handle space.
36
37 o Increased default stream buffer size to 2 pages.
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40
41v3.2.2 Beta 3 Fix 1 (private build):
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43
44 Fixes to LIBC:
45
46 o Crash if calloc was called before main().
47
48 o TZ parsing of timezones such as PST8EDT.
49
50 o sigsetjmp() and siglongjmp() visibility.
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52
53v3.2.2 Beta 3:
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55
56 A few new features and fixes.
57
58 o Fixed a bunch of debug info problems.
59
60 o Added large file support.
61
62 o Enabled high memory support for LIBC. Two new options to GCC: -Zhigh-mem
63 and -Zhigh-low. If the program is to be enabled for high memory use, specify
64 -Zhigh-mem when linking.
65
66 Note that socket is not high memory enabled yet.
67
68 o Made LIBC preserve the FS selector.
69
70 o Added random() and *rand48() from BSD.
71
72 o Fixed crash with link386 and unresolved symbols.
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74
75v3.2.2 Beta 2:
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77
78 A few bugfixes and a some new features (as usual).
79
80 o Added file locking support to LIBC.
81
82 o Fixed _System and _Optlink bugs and made _Optlink support floating
83 point argument passing in registers.
84
85 o Header updates related to limits and file locking primarily.
86
87 o Timezone fixes.
88
89 o Fixed some CRT init trouble in regards to getenv and putenv.
90
91 o And some other minor stuff..
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93
94v3.2.2 Beta 1:
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96
97 A few bugfixes and a some new features.
98
99 o Locale support in libc.
100
101 o Implemented a different approach to OMF and weak symbols. This new hack
102 performs pre-linking before invoking the OMF linker generating new .def
103 files if needed and an extra object file with aliases to resolve the weak
104 symbols correctly.
105 The old approach will be used used when GCC_WEAKSYMS is present in the
106 environment.
107
108 Please note that due to a bug in BFD, weak symbols don't work 100%
109 correctly. This will be addressed as soon as we have performed the switch
110 to a more recent version of binutils.
111
112 o A couple of new functions in libc, and a few corrections to existing
113 in respect to namespaces.
114
115 o Addressed issues with calling conventions. We now detect incompatible
116 calling conventions, emitting warnings and errors where appropriate.
117
118 o _Optlink is much better, but there are still some issues left. Passing
119 prototyped floating point parameters to _Optlink doesn't work. Mixing
120 of parameters which go into registers (eax, edx, ecx) and parameters
121 which don't - void foo(int eax, struct sss s, int edx) - doesn't work.
122 All these issues are being addressed and are expected to be fixed in
123 the next build.
124
125 o Changed GCC to link with shared libc by default. This means that in
126 order to link with the static libc one has to specify -static.
127 It also means that -Zmtd or -Zcrtdll are no longer required for linking
128 with shared libc and can be removed from all makescripts.
129
130 o Changed EMXOMFLD defaults to ilink from Visual Age for C++ v3.6.5 or
131 later (preferably later). The emxomfld usage output will instruct you
132 on how to use older linkers. For VAC308 and VAC365 linkers /dbgpack
133 is specified if debuginfo is to be generated.
134 Emxomf checks for EMXOMFLD_TYPE=link386 when choosing debug info level.
135
136 o Shipping three extra libc dlls:
137 libc02.dbg: Unstripped version of libc02.dll. This is identical
138 except from the presense of debug info.
139 libc02.prf: Linked together from profiled enabled libraries
140 using kProfiler.
141 libc02.elh: Standard libc but linked with an external eletrical
142 fence heap from kLibDbg.
143 These libc02.* dlls can be used instead of libc02.dll. kLibDbg and
144 kProfiler is available in separate zip files at same location as the
145 rest of the Innotek GCC suite. However these external tools are
146 provided as is. (I might actually not find time to put them out yet.)
147
148 o Distribution is splitted into several zips:
149 -core.zip: All you really need.
150 -dbg.zip: Map files, unstripped tools and libs, and libc02.elh.
151 -prf.zip: Profiling libraries and libc02.prf.
152 libc.zip: The runtime libraries. (included in core.)
153 The big zip is everything.
154
155v3.2.2 Alpha 3:
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158 Primarily bugfixes.
159
160 o Changed code generator for floating point truncations (double to int
161 casts and such) so PM can freely mess up the fpu status.
162
163 o We were using the wrong float.h in two sense. We're now using the
164 correct one which includes all the PC defines and prototypes.
165
166 o Fixed a few issues with error defines and tcpip.
167 Note that some of the error defines have changed value in the process
168 so we could become compatible with the tcpip stack and FreeBSD.
169
170 o Corrected bugs in a number of headers.
171
172 o Added more OS/2 prototypes and imports. There is still work left on
173 the header part,
174
175 o Optimized emxomf debug info conversion.
176
177 o Wrapped bsdselect for BSD 4.4 header mode to implement bsdselect().
178
179 o .... what did we forget...
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181
182v3.2.2 Alpha 2:
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184
185 A few bugfixes and a couple of new features.
186
187 o The TCP/IP headers and libraries scheme have been changed.
188 The default is the current OS/2 tcpip toolkit (BSD 4.4 based).
189 To target the older OS/2 tcpip stack (BSD 4.3 based) you must
190 define TCPV40HDRS before including any TCP/IP headers and make
191 sure usr/lib/tcpipv4 is searched before usr/lib (this is to get
192 the right libsocket). It is recommended to use the -D compiler
193 option for the define and either the LIBRARY_PATH or the -L
194 compiler/linker option for the library.
195
196 o There are a couple of new and updated based on FreeBSD 5.1.
197 sys\stdint.h and inttypes.h (and a few internal once) are new.
198 sys\types.h and unistd.h are the ones most heavily updated.
199 We're working on getting the headers and libc in a better shape
200 standardwise to easy compatability and portability.
201
202 o A infinite loop in emxomf has been fixed.
203
204 o Linker error on sopen() has been corrected.
205
206 o .... what did we forget...
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209v3.2.2 Alpha 1:
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211
212 This is the first release from Innotek, and it contains the Innotek LIBC.
213 In addition to the new LIBC there is a number of other major changes:
214
215 o Name mangling in OMF mode have changed.
216 Until this release emxomf used to pretty much strip one leading '_'
217 from symbols when converting them to omf. This is now longer done
218 chiefly in order to correctly support mangling calling conventions
219 like __stdcall and __cdecl. This change have the following side
220 effects:
221 - _System and __cdecl no longer produces the same names and hence
222 all OS/2 API which are _System must be declared as _System in
223 order to link.
224 - Assembly code might need an extra underscore to work, or
225 perhaps change the prototypes to _System.
226 - Global variables are prepended and underscore, so mixing VAC and
227 GCC, or accessing globals from asm, take care.
228 (MSC v6.0 does this too, so it's not any uncommon practise.)
229
230 The OS/2 headers which are included are all updated to use _System.
231
232 o TCPIP headers are updated a quite a bit to match the toolkit ones
233 and to reflect the fact that the new libc does not a having common
234 handle space for files and sockets. These changes aren't 100%
235 completed yet, and usage probably will uncover some issues left in
236 there. Also for the programmer there is the following changes in
237 the apis provided:
238 - TCPV40HDRS are supported and should work like with the toolkit
239 headers. It will alias all functions to tcpip40_ editions
240 (using #defines) so we get the right imports thru -llibsocket.
241 - There is no support for sockets in select(). To do select on
242 sockets you will have to use bsdselect() or os2_select().
243 bsdselect() is only available for TCPV40HDRS. For
244 !defined(TCPV40HDRS) fd_set is in the emx/bsd format and not the
245 OS/2 tcpip v5.0 format.
246 - Socket IOCTLs are not supported by the ioctl() libc function
247 because of the separate handle space for sockets. For sockets
248 so_ioctl() and os2_ioctl() are used. os2_ioctl() is not available
249 when TCPV40HDRS is defined. According to the tcpref in v5.0
250 so_ioctl() only supports BSD ioctls.
251 - writev() and readv() also clashes with libc. For socket handles
252 use so_writev() and so_readv().
253
254 o The prefered OMF linker is now ilink. link386 will fail with an odd
255 error message if you tell gcc/g++ to make debug info. Set the
256 EMXOMFLD_LINKER environment variable to value ilink in order to use
257 ilink as OMF linker.
258 It likely that we will change the default OMF linker to ilink in an
259 later version of the GCC suite.
260
261 o .... what did we forget...
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