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1 files changed, 45 insertions, 10 deletions
@@ -31,11 +31,6 @@ the full test suite, stress tests and benchmarks. New Features ------------ -Dependence on the winsock library is now discretionary via -#define RETAIN_WSALASTERROR in config.h. It is undefined by default unless -WINCE is defined (because I (RJ) am unsure of the dependency there). -- Ramiro Polla - (MSC and GNU builds) The statically linked library now automatically initialises and cleans up on program start/exit, i.e. statically linked applications need not call the routines pthread_win32_process_attach_np() @@ -49,6 +44,19 @@ POSIX TSD (TLS) destructors. See README.NONPORTABLE for descriptions of these routines. - Ramiro Polla +Robust mutexes are implemented within the PROCESS_PRIVATE scope. NOTE that +pthread_mutex_* functions may return different error codes for robust +mutexes than they otherwise do in normal usage, e.g. pthread_mutex_unlock +is required to check ownership for all mutex types when the mutex is +robust, whereas this does not occur for the "normal" non-robust mutex type. +- Ross Johnson + +pthread_getunique_np is implemented for source level compatibility +with some other implementations. This routine returns a 64 bit +sequence number that is uniquely associated with a thread. It can be +used by applications to order or hash POSIX thread handles. +- Ross Johnson + Bug fixes --------- Many more changes for 64 bit systems. @@ -75,11 +83,10 @@ Removed potential NULL pointer reference. - Robert Kindred Removed the requirement that applications restrict the number of threads -calling pthread_barrier_wait() [on the same barrier] to just the barrier -count in order to avoid contention and dead lock. Also reduced the -contention between barrier_wait and barrier_destroy. This change will -have slowed barriers down slightly but halves the number of semaphores -consumed per barrier to one. +calling pthread_barrier_wait to just the barrier count. Also reduced the +contention between barrier_wait and barrier_destroy. This change will have +slowed barriers down slightly but halves the number of semaphores consumed +per barrier to one. - Ross Johnson Fixed a handle leak in sched_[gs]etscheduler. @@ -89,6 +96,34 @@ Removed all of the POSIX re-entrant function compatibility macros from pthread.h Some were simply not semanticly correct. - Igor Lubashev +Threads no longer attempt to pass uncaught exceptions out of thread scope (C++ +and SEH builds only). Uncaught exceptions now cause the thread to exit with +the return code PTHREAD_CANCELED. +- Ross Johnson + +Other changes +------------- +Dependence on the winsock library is now discretionary via +#define RETAIN_WSALASTERROR in config.h. It is undefined by default unless +WINCE is defined (because RJ is unsure of the dependency there). +- Ramiro Polla + +Several static POSIX mutexes used for internal management were replaced by +MCS queue-based locks to reduce resource consumption, in particular use of Win32 +objects. +- Ross Johnson + +New tests +--------- +robust[1-5].c - Robust mutexes +sequence1.c - per-thread unique sequence numbers + +Modified tests and benchtests +----------------------------- +All mutex*.c tests wherever appropriate have been modified to also test +robust mutexes under the same conditions. +Added robust mutex benchtests to benchtest*.c wherever appropriate. + RELEASE 2.8.0 ------------- |