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6v3.2.2 Beta 1:
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9 A few bugfixes and a some new features.
10
11 o Locale support in libc.
12
13 o Implmented a different approach to OMF and weak symbols. This new hack
14 does a pre-linking before invoking the OMF linker generating new .def
15 if needed and an extra object file with aliases to resolv the weak
16 symbols correctly.
17 The old approach used when GCC_WEAKSYMS is present in the environment.
18
19 Please note that due to a bug in BFD weak symbols doesn't work 100%
20 correctly. This will be addressed when we now move on to a later
21 version of binutils.
22
23 o A couple of new functions in libc, and a few correction of existing
24 in respect to namespace.
25
26 o Addressed issues with _System, _Optlink and __stdcall. They should
27 all be working now.
28
29 o Changed GCC to link with shared libc by default. This means that in
30 order to link with static libc one have to specify -static.
31 It also means that -Zmtd or -Zcrtdll is no longer required for linking
32 with shared libc and can be removed from all makescripts.
33
34 o Changed EMXOMFLD defaults to ilink from Visual Age for C++ v3.6.5 or
35 later (preferably later). The emxomfld usage output will instruct you
36 how how to use older linkers.
37 Emxomf checks for EMXOMFLD_TYPE=link386 when choosing debug info level.
38
39 o Shipping three extra libc dlls:
40 libc02.dbg: Unstripped version of libc02.dll. This is identical
41 except from the presense of debug info.
42 libc02.prf: Linked together from profiled enabled libraries
43 using kProfiler.
44 libc02.elh: Standard libc but linked with an external eletrical
45 fence heap from kLibDbg.
46 These libc02.* dlls can be used instead of libc02.dll. kLibDbg and
47 kProfiler is available in separate zip files at same location as the
48 rest of the Innotek GCC suite. However these external tools are
49 provided as is.
50
51 o Distribution is splitted into several zips:
52 -core.zip: All you really need.
53 -dbg.zip: Map files, unstripped tools and libs, and libc02.elh.
54 -prf.zip: Profiling libraries and libc02.prf.
55 libc.zip: The runtime libraries. (included in core.)
56 The big zips is everything.
57
58 o I'm sure I've foregotten something this time....
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60
61v3.2.2 Alpha 3:
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63
64 Primarily bugfixes.
65
66 o Changed code generator for floating point truncations (double to int
67 casts and such) so PM can freely mess up the fpu status.
68
69 o We were using the wrong float.h in two sense. We're now using the
70 correct one which includes all the PC defines and prototypes.
71
72 o Fixed a few issues with error defines and tcpip.
73 Note that some of the error defines have changed value in the process
74 so we could become compatible with the tcpip stack and FreeBSD.
75
76 o Corrected bugs in a number of headers.
77
78 o Added more OS/2 prototypes and imports. There is still work left on
79 the header part,
80
81 o Optimized emxomf debug info conversion.
82
83 o Wrapped bsdselect for BSD 4.4 header mode to implement bsdselect().
84
85 o .... what did we forget...
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88v3.2.2 Alpha 2:
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90
91 A few bugfixes and a couple of new features.
92
93 o The TCP/IP headers and libraries scheme have been changed.
94 The default is the current OS/2 tcpip toolkit (BSD 4.4 based).
95 To target the older OS/2 tcpip stack (BSD 4.3 based) you must
96 define TCPV40HDRS before including any TCP/IP headers and make
97 sure usr/lib/tcpipv4 is searched before usr/lib (this is to get
98 the right libsocket). It is recommended to use the -D compiler
99 option for the define and either the LIBRARY_PATH or the -L
100 compiler/linker option for the library.
101
102 o There are a couple of new and updated based on FreeBSD 5.1.
103 sys\stdint.h and inttypes.h (and a few internal once) are new.
104 sys\types.h and unistd.h are the ones most heavily updated.
105 We're working on getting the headers and libc in a better shape
106 standardwise to easy compatability and portability.
107
108 o A infinite loop in emxomf has been fixed.
109
110 o Linker error on sopen() has been corrected.
111
112 o .... what did we forget...
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115v3.2.2 Alpha 1:
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118 This is the first release from Innotek, and it contains the Innotek LIBC.
119 In addition to the new LIBC there is a number of other major changes:
120
121 o Name mangling in OMF mode have changed.
122 Until this release emxomf used to pretty much strip one leading '_'
123 from symbols when converting them to omf. This is now longer done
124 chiefly in order to correctly support mangling calling conventions
125 like __stdcall and __cdecl. This change have the following side
126 effects:
127 - _System and __cdecl no longer produces the same names and hence
128 all OS/2 API which are _System must be declared as _System in
129 order to link.
130 - Assembly code might need an extra underscore to work, or
131 perhaps change the prototypes to _System.
132 - Global variables are prepended and underscore, so mixing VAC and
133 GCC, or accessing globals from asm, take care.
134 (MSC v6.0 does this too, so it's not any uncommon practise.)
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136 The OS/2 headers which are included are all updated to use _System.
137
138 o TCPIP headers are updated a quite a bit to match the toolkit ones
139 and to reflect the fact that the new libc does not a having common
140 handle space for files and sockets. These changes aren't 100%
141 completed yet, and usage probably will uncover some issues left in
142 there. Also for the programmer there is the following changes in
143 the apis provided:
144 - TCPV40HDRS are supported and should work like with the toolkit
145 headers. It will alias all functions to tcpip40_ editions
146 (using #defines) so we get the right imports thru -llibsocket.
147 - There is no support for sockets in select(). To do select on
148 sockets you will have to use bsdselect() or os2_select().
149 bsdselect() is only available for TCPV40HDRS. For
150 !defined(TCPV40HDRS) fd_set is in the emx/bsd format and not the
151 OS/2 tcpip v5.0 format.
152 - Socket IOCTLs are not supported by the ioctl() libc function
153 because of the separate handle space for sockets. For sockets
154 so_ioctl() and os2_ioctl() are used. os2_ioctl() is not available
155 when TCPV40HDRS is defined. According to the tcpref in v5.0
156 so_ioctl() only supports BSD ioctls.
157 - writev() and readv() also clashes with libc. For socket handles
158 use so_writev() and so_readv().
159
160 o The prefered OMF linker is now ilink. link386 will fail with an odd
161 error message if you tell gcc/g++ to make debug info. Set the
162 EMXOMFLD_LINKER environment variable to value ilink in order to use
163 ilink as OMF linker.
164 It likely that we will change the default OMF linker to ilink in an
165 later version of the GCC suite.
166
167 o .... what did we forget...
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