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diff --git a/boehm-gc/README b/boehm-gc/README index b897790..083c7a7 100644 --- a/boehm-gc/README +++ b/boehm-gc/README @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Copyright (c) 1991-1996 by Xerox Corporation. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 1996-1999 by Silicon Graphics. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 1999 by Hewlett-Packard Company. All rights reserved. - [ This version of the collector modified by Cygnus Solutions. + [ This version of the collector modified for use in libgcj. See the file ChangeLog for details ] THIS MATERIAL IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY EXPRESSED @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Permission to modify the code and to distribute modified code is granted, provided the above notices are retained, and a notice that the code was modified is included with the above copyright notice. -This is version 5.0alpha7 of a conservative garbage collector for C and C++. +This is version 5.0 of a conservative garbage collector for C and C++. You might find a more recent version of this at @@ -1602,7 +1602,17 @@ Since 5.0alpha6: be done on other platforms, too. Since I can't test those, that'll wait until after 5.0. +Since 5.0alpha7: + - Fixed threadlibs.c for linux threads. -DUSE_LD_WRAP was broken and + -ldl was omitted. Fixed Linux stack finding code to handle + -DUSE_LD_WRAP correctly. + - Added MSWIN32 exception handler around marker, so that the collector + can recover from root segments that are unmapped during the collection. + This caused occasional failures under Windows 98, and may also be + an issue under Windows NT/2000. + To do: + - Integrate Linux/SPARC fixes. - Very large root set sizes (> 16 MB or so) could cause the collector to abort with an unexpected mark stack overflow. (Thanks again to Peter Chubb.) NOT YET FIXED. Workaround is to increase the initial |