Date:  Fri, 19 Nov 2004 21:30:02 -0500
From:  madodel at ptdprolog.net
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: GCC v3.3.5-alpha3 release notes


From: "Dave Yeo" <dave_yeoDESPAM at paralynx.com> 

Here are the release notes as posted by Knut on the unixos2 mailing list
Quote mode on 

PS. Here are the missing release notes:


GCC v3.3.5 / LIBC v0.6 - Alpha 3:
---------------------------------

     This release have been timebombed and will stop working at the
     end of December 2004. The reason for this is that data structures
     shared between LIBC 0.6 and all future LIBC versions are not yet
     quite finalized. (For your comfort the timebomb will go away when
     the betas start, and this is the last planned LIBC v0.6 alpha.)


     New Features:

         o Updated GCC to version 3.3.5.

         o Replaced the signal implementation. The new implementation
           is much closer to the POSIX specs and implements a lot of
           new interfaces.

         o Experimental delayed loading import libraries. emximp have
           a new -l option for generating such libraries. At present
           emximp can only generate a.out libraries of this kind - so
           use emxomf to convert to OMF.

         o The dlfcn.h functions are in LIBC now.

         o New functions:
           getgrouplist(), initgroups(), memalign(), valloc(),
           mprotect(), _signal_os2(), _signal_sysv(),
           __sigpause_bsd(), bsd_signal(), killpg(), psignal(),
           sigaltstack(), sigblock(), sighold(), sigignore(),
           siginterrupt(), sigpause(), sigrelse(), sigsetmask(),
           sigtimedwait(), sigvec(), sigwait(), sigwaitinfo(),
           sigqueue(), sigset(), getgrgid(), getpwnam(),
           getpwuid(), setegid(), seteuid(), setregid(),
           setresgid(), setresuid(), setreuid(),
           setrgid(), setruid(), waitid(), wait3(),
           wait4() and getopt_long_only().


     Bug fixes;

         o Sockets were broken on some systems. Hopefully, this
           should be corrected now.

         o stat() failed on a file open for writing.

         o fork() didn't work for processes which allocated lot's
           of memory. Fixed incorrect syncing of memory objects.

         o ...


     Known Limitiations/Problems:

         o Static linking not possible - will be fixed.

         o alarm() is still missing. Code is 90% done but didn't
           make it for the release.

         o Job control will only be applied to thread 1 in a process.
           This won't change.

         o Missing some process group interfaces required for
           job control. They'll show up soon.

qoute mode off

Dave Yeo
dave.r.yeoDESPAM at gmail.com



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