8.0.8
Changes
- Avoid potential race in GC_init_real_syms after GC_allow_register_threads
- Define SUNOS5SIGS macro for kFreeBSD
- Distribute gc_disclaim.h in single-obj-compilation
- Do not assert that GC is initialized at DLL_THREAD_DETACH (Win32)
- Do not name GCC intrinsics as C11 ones
- Do not send signal to thread which is suspended manually
- Eliminate 'buffer overflow detected' FP error in realloc_test
- Eliminate 'extension used' clang warning in sparc_mach_dep.S (configure)
- Eliminate 'function/data pointer conversion in expression' MSVC warning
- Eliminate 'implicit decl of _setjmp' gcc warning if -std=c11 on Cygwin
- Eliminate 'new_l may be used uninitialized' gcc warning in os_dep (Cygwin)
- Eliminate 'old_gc_no is initialized but not referenced' MS VC false warning
- Eliminate 'possible loss of data' compiler warning in GC_envfile_getenv
- Eliminate 'value exceeds maximum size' warnings in debug_malloc, huge_test
- Eliminate 'writing into region of size 0' gcc FP warning in realloc
- Eliminate division-by-zero FP warning in GC_ASSERT in reclaim_block
- Eliminate stringop-overflow gcc-12 warning in CORD__next
- Ensure typed objects descriptor is never located in the first word
- Fix 'GC_greatest_stack_base_below is defined but not used' warning (IA64)
- Fix 'GC_text_mapping not used' GCC warning if redirect malloc w/o threads
- Fix 'ISO C forbids conversion of function pointer to object' warning
- Fix 'undeclared getpagesize' compiler warning on AIX and OSF1
- Fix 'undefined reference to __data_start' linker error on Linux/aarch64
- Fix GC_allocate_ml incorrect cleanup in GC_deinit if pthreads (MinGW)
- Fix GC_dirty() argument in GC_malloc_explicitly_typed_ignore_off_page
- Fix GC_make_descriptor for zero length argument
- Fix GC_suspend_thread if called before thread destructor
- Fix GC_unmapped_bytes update in GC_unmap for Sony PS/3
- Fix SIGSEGV caused by dropped stack access from child process in gctest
- Fix SUNOS5SIGS documentation to match macro definition in gcconfig.h
- Fix abort in Win32 DllMain if PARALLEL_MARK
- Fix assertion about built-in AO_test_and_set_acquire on sparc64 (gcc-12)
- Fix assertion violation in GC_allow_register_threads on Windows
- Fix assertion violation of GC_thread_key alignment if pthread-based TLS
- Fix context saving when GC_suspend_thread(self)
- Fix data race in fail_proc1 of gctest
- Fix get_maps failure when GC_repeat_read returns zero
- Fix hang in GC_free if GC_PREFER_MPROTECT_VDB (Mingw64)
- Fix hang in select() called from suspend signal handler if TSan
- Fix hang on sem_wait in GC_suspend_thread if thread was resumed recently
- Fix hb_obj_kind type in documentation (ASCII diagram) describing hblkhdr
- Fix incremental mode enabling in gctest if TEST_MANUAL_VDB
- Fix lock assertion violation in GC_find_limit if always multi-threaded
- Fix missing lock when GC_generate_random_valid_address is called
- Fix nodist_libgc_la_SOURCES value in Makefile.am for Solaris/sparc
- Fix oldProc initialization in gc_cleanup and eliminate related warnings
- Fix parallel_initialized assertion violation in initsecondarythread (Win32)
- Fix potential race if start_mark_threads called from threads in child
- Fix propagation of out-of-memory occurred in GC_make_sequence_descriptor
- Fix race between calloc_explicitly_typed and push_complex_descriptor
- Fix stack overflow in gctest on Alpine Linux/s390x
- Fix typo in debugging.html
- Fix typos in comments of .c files and gc.h
- Fix undefined stack_base on UWP/arm64 (llvm-mingw)
- Make finalizer_closure pointer read/write atomic in malloc and callback
- Prevent (fix) parallel custom mark procs run in single-threaded clients
- Prevent changing of GC_markers_m1 value while collection in progress
- Refer to Makefile.direct instead of deleted Makefile file in README
- Relax assertion of hb_n_marks in reclaim_block if more than two markers
- Remove checking of RS6000 completely
- Remove duplicate check of MSWIN_XBOX1 in os_dep.c
- Remove non-working check of M68K in gctest
- Remove useless TSan W/A about read of mark_lock_holder for Windows
- Replace SSH cloning with HTTPS one in README
- Revert "Remove nested always-false ifdef for HPUX and FREEBSD"
- Revert addition of msvc_dbg.h in include.am
- Support 'z' format modifier by CORD_vsprintf
- Update documentation of GC_RATE and MAX_PRIOR_ATTEMPTS
- Use SIGRTMIN+6 as suspend signal if sigrt-signals on OpenBSD
- Workaround TSan FP about race between generic_malloc and array_mark_proc
- Workaround TSan FP warning in finalized_malloc, push_unconditionally
- Workaround TSan FP warning in push_marked1/2/4, ptr_store_and_dirty
- Workaround Thread Sanitizer (TSan) FP warning in is_valid_displacement
- Workaround crash in FreeBSD rand() by avoiding its concurrent usage (tests)
Build status
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Distribution Tarball
gc-8.0.8.tar.gz (see the Assets, md5: bf60aa2263b71bea24cc2b5d83f059f1)