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- tweaked html doc generation again so that it'll pick up dyncall.org's css file correctly (all in all not clean, see comment in source)
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| date | Tue, 07 Jan 2020 11:34:31 +0100 |
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| 0 | 1 This file lists bigger/noteworthy changes, only... |
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| 295 | 3 Version 1.1 (upcoming) |
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| 305 | 5 o support for soft-float MIPS o32 & n64 (big- and little-endian, each) |
| 339 | 6 o x64 System V syscall support |
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| 305 | 8 o support for soft-float MIPS o32 & n64 (big- and little-endian, each) |
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10 o added UTF-8 support for pathnames on windows |
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15 o support for dlGetLibraryPath() on glibc platforms with glibc vesions <= 2.3.3 |
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16 o dlGetLibraryPath() now accepts NULL as argument to return path to executable |
| 301 | 17 doc: |
| 18 o more detail in support matrix for bi-endian platforms | |
| 332 | 19 o improvements/corrections to calling convention appendix |
| 20 o PPC64 calling convention description | |
| 336 | 21 o MIPS64/N32 calling convention description |
| 332 | 22 o man page additions for clarity |
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24 o dynload_plain test extended to test UTF-8 library paths |
| 332 | 25 o better output for plain test |
| 26 o better output and *nix fix for plain_c++ test | |
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28 o default ./configure: FreeBSD/mips*hf needed -mhard-float compiler flag set explicitly |
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29 o better MacOS Mojave support in ./configure (Mojave dropped i386 builds) |
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31 Version 1.0 (2018/04/23) |
| 79 | 32 dyncall: |
| 206 | 33 o PPC64 single-precision float fixes for more than 13 float args (thanks Masanori Mitsugi!) |
| 147 | 34 o fixed potential buffer overrun on ARM64 |
| 206 | 35 o error code handling (dcGetError) changes, flag is now cleared (work still underway) |
| 130 | 36 o MIPS n64 ellipsis call fixes |
| 147 | 37 o ARM32 armhf ellipsis call fixes |
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38 o fixed ARM32-THUMB stack alignment issues (found on Cortex-m0, thanks Darren Whobrey!) |
| 147 | 39 o better C++ compiler support (for pointer conversions) |
| 79 | 40 dyncallback: |
| 206 | 41 o PPC64 single-precision float fixes for more than 13 float args (thanks Masanori Mitsugi!) |
| 135 | 42 o MIPS o32 (big- and little-endian), EABI (32 bit, little-endian) and n64 (big-endian) support |
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43 o SPARC32 (v7/v8) support |
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44 o SPARC64 (v9) support |
| 237 | 45 o PPC32 fixes for (old) Darwin/OS X systems |
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46 o POSIX compliance: fallback for wx alloc on systems that don't have mmap()'s MAP_ANON |
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47 o allocated space used for thunk now always W^X (req. for e.g. OpenBSD >= 6.0) |
| 217 | 48 dynload: |
| 224 | 49 o major reliability/stability fixes for Mach-O dlSyms* functions to (thanks Stéphane Mons for help): |
| 50 better handle loading dylibs by symlink, relative path, random casing, etc. | |
| 51 fixes to symbol name lookups that used wrong offsets before | |
| 52 64-bit platform fixes (was broken on x64 and never supported on others) | |
| 217 | 53 o allowing Mach-O dlSyms* lib to be used standalone (consistent with ELF and PE impls now) |
| 224 | 54 o simplifications of implemention on Darwin, sharing parts with *nix implementation |
| 221 | 55 o potentially breaking change on macos/Darwin platforms: all functions now consistently accept or |
| 224 | 56 return symbol names as they would appear in C code, instead of the raw ones in object files |
| 247 | 57 o added new function dlGetLibraryPath, allowing lookups of path to library via handle |
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59 o assembly code now built by explicitily asking for non-execstack, for safer/easier integration |
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61 toolchains (thanks Thorsten Behrens for report and analysis) |
| 79 | 62 doc: |
| 63 o working html doc generation from TEX sources | |
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66 bindings: |
| 84 | 67 o better documentation, removed relative path dependencies, general cleanup |
| 68 o python: updated to latest signature format (was still on 0.1) | |
| 69 o java: rewritten (old version was never complete, anyways) | |
| 214 | 70 tests: |
| 71 o added new dynload_plain test covering basic use of all dynload functions | |
| 151 | 72 buildsys: |
| 73 o cmake: made to work on systems without C++ compiler (thanks Franklin Mathieu) | |
| 65 | 74 |
| 59 | 75 Version 0.9 (2015/12/31) |
| 0 | 76 dyncall: |
| 40 | 77 o ARM64 support (AAPCS64 on Linux & Apple's derived version on iOS) |
| 78 o armhf calling convention support for ARM32 | |
| 206 | 79 o PPC64 support, including syscalls (thanks Masanori Mitsugi!) |
| 0 | 80 o introduced dcArgF and dcVArgF for flexible/convenient argument binding (works like dcCallF/dcVCallF but without the function call) |
| 21 | 81 o using -fPIC by default for FreeBSD |
| 0 | 82 o PPC32 linux syscall support |
| 147 | 83 o fixed return value errors for ARM32 on some platforms (e.g. freebsd/arm32, nintendo ds); arm & thumb mode |
| 0 | 84 dyncallback: |
| 85 o ARM64 support (AAPCS64 on Linux, Apple's derived version on iOS) | |
| 40 | 86 o armhf calling convention support for ARM32 |
| 206 | 87 o PPC64 support (thanks Masanori Mitsugi!) |
| 0 | 88 o PPC32 System V support (Linux) |
| 89 o fix for PPC32 Darwin/OS X | |
| 90 o more intuitive specification of callback return type | |
| 91 doc: | |
| 92 o added ARM64 support info and calling convention documentation | |
| 64 | 93 o added ARM32 armhf section |
| 0 | 94 o added PPC64 support info |
| 95 o cleanup, brought all up to date, etc. | |
| 96 tests: | |
| 97 o callf test covers new argf interface | |
| 64 | 98 o several fixes to some test suites |
| 0 | 99 buildsys: |
| 100 o more flexible testsuite build and 'pack' target for convenience | |
| 101 o fixes/additions for OS X universal builds | |
| 102 o added iOS universal build support for armv7/arm64 | |
| 103 o helper script for generic .elf -> EBOOT.PBP creation for PSP | |
| 104 o Sun make fixes for C++ code in test suite | |
| 105 bindings: | |
| 106 o erldc: Erlang binding (thanks Erik!) | |
| 2 | 107 infrastructure: |
| 108 o moved to hg | |
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| 40 | 111 Version 0.8 (2014/03/24) |
| 0 | 112 buildsys: |
| 113 o big simplification make-based build system, no more distinct GNU and BSD makefiles anymore | |
| 114 o new, much simpler ./configure for new make-based build-system | |
| 115 o support for in-source and out-of-source builds for make-based build systems | |
| 116 o made configure.bat guess x64 as target arch for x64 windows hosts | |
| 117 o based more sources on portasm generation | |
| 118 dyncall: | |
| 119 o fix for ARMv7 Thumb-2 code (tested on iPhone 4 CDMA / iOS 6.0.1) | |
| 79 | 120 o bugfixes for -O2 builds for SPARC-v9 and SPARC-v7 |
| 0 | 121 o new optimized call kernel for SPARC-v9 without conditionals |
| 130 | 122 o bigger refactoring and optimization of MIPS o32 |
| 0 | 123 o x64 optimizations |
| 124 dyncallback: | |
| 125 o added callback support for plan9 | |
| 126 o big cleanup, removal of duplicate files after introduction of portasm | |
| 127 o include path fixes for public facing APIs (removed relative paths) | |
| 128 doc: | |
| 129 o cleanup of manual and corrections | |
| 130 o added info about newly supported and/or tested platforms (e.g. FreeBSD on ARM) | |
| 131 o restructured folder layout for documentation | |
| 132 o added API doc for dyncallback and dynload | |
| 133 o added manpages for dyncallback and dynload | |
| 134 tests: | |
| 135 o added arm/thumb interwork test suite | |
| 136 bindings: | |
| 137 o godc: added bindings for Go | |
| 138 o rbdc: fixed and extended ruby bindings | |
| 139 o shdc: renamed shell binding to shdc and added feature to list shared-objects' symbols | |
| 140 | |
| 40 | 141 Version 0.7 (2012/01/02) |
| 0 | 142 architecture: |
| 79 | 143 o added subproject: portasm - portable (GNU AS,+Apple and MASM) assembly framework |
| 0 | 144 o added subproject: autovar - predefined macro framework (was dyncall_macros.h) |
| 145 o added support for Solaris and SunPro compiler for i386, x86_64, sparc and sparc64 | |
| 146 o improved auto-detection via preprocessor defines | |
| 147 dyncall updates: | |
| 148 o uses portasm (GNU,Apple,Microsoft) common sources for x86,x64,ppc32,arm32_arm | |
| 206 | 149 o added support for sparc (32-bit) (tested on linux/debian,openbsd,solaris) |
| 150 o added support for sparc (64-bit) (tested on linux/debian,openbsd,solaris) | |
| 0 | 151 o bug fixes for x64/win64 calling convention |
| 152 o added support for mingw32-w64 on x64 | |
| 153 o improved cdecl x86 calling convention: stack always 16 byte aligned | |
| 154 o updated API and initial support for structs (for x86/AMD64) | |
| 155 o initial support for syscalls on x86, added x86 int80h linux/bsd | |
| 156 o added Minix port (stable) | |
| 157 o optimized vector buffer for small type pushing | |
| 158 o minor fix for amd64/sysv: alignment to 32-byte | |
| 159 o bug fix for ppc32/sysv: ellipsis calls work now | |
| 160 o updated API, introduced DC_CALL_C_ELLIPSIS_VARARGS | |
| 161 o changed interface: dcMode does not reset internally anymore | |
| 162 dyncallback updates: | |
| 163 o uses portasm for x86,x64 | |
| 164 o added Solaris/x86/sunpro port (stable) | |
| 165 o added Minix port (unstable) | |
| 166 o callback support for Darwin/ppc32 | |
| 167 o updates source, uses relative includes | |
| 168 dynload updates: | |
| 169 o fixes for missing includes (dyncall_alloc.h) | |
| 170 o fixes for self-resolving symbols on windows | |
| 171 o removed Dbghelf.lib dependency | |
| 172 o bug fixes for cygwin/x86 | |
| 173 o fixes for beos/haiku | |
| 174 o no dependencies to libdyncall sources. | |
| 175 buildsys additions: | |
| 176 o added zero-config (BSD,GNU,SUN) make files (Makefile.embedded) | |
| 79 | 177 o added in/out-of-source configure2 w/ (BSD,GNU) make files (Makefile.generic) |
| 178 o added bootstrap lua script (download/build) | |
| 0 | 179 o Nmakefile: more tests included (resolve_self) |
| 180 o improved cross-compilation for iOS (upgrade to 4.3 sdk) | |
| 181 o darwin 8.0 support | |
| 182 o added 'install' support for Makefile.embedded | |
| 183 buildsys/gmake updates: | |
| 184 o added support for msvc/x64 tool-chain | |
| 185 o default settings for build-dir changed to '.' | |
| 186 o cleanup: removed top-level Make{Prolog,Epilog,Rules} files and updated all sub-projects and tests | |
| 187 o added support for DESTDIR staging installation | |
| 188 o added support for manual page installation | |
| 189 buildsys/cmake updates: | |
| 190 o updated find module scripts (see cmake/Modules) | |
| 191 o added support for using dyncall as sub-project (via *Config.cmake files) | |
| 192 see details in README.CMake | |
| 193 o fixes for msvc and ml | |
| 194 o fixes for CPack | |
| 195 o fixes for universal builds on Mac OS X | |
| 196 o supports SunPro with *.S files. | |
| 197 o added experimental 'dynMake' portable make-based build-system (not stable, yet) | |
| 198 documentation updates: | |
| 199 o added dyncallback documentation | |
| 79 | 200 o updated dyncall documentation |
| 0 | 201 o minor updates |
| 202 tests: | |
| 203 o added flexible test suite for calls (call_suite) based on Lua and C | |
| 204 o added syscall test | |
| 205 o updates to resolve-self test (adding additional link flags to export symbols) | |
| 79 | 206 o improved dir name portability (renamed plain_c++ -> plain_cxx) |
| 0 | 207 o renamed *.cpp -> *.cc files (OpenBSD/Sun make has no implicit rules for cpp) |
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| 40 | 209 Version 0.6 (2010/09/25) |
| 0 | 210 building: |
| 211 o new build systems: CMake and Plan9's mk | |
| 212 o buildsys/gmake tool chain update: pcc and iphone sdk | |
| 213 o x64 bugfix: added "-fPIC" even for static libs | |
| 79 | 214 dynload updates: |
| 0 | 215 o enum symbols update: Mach-O and Win64 (thanks Olivier) |
| 216 o numerous convenience changes to dynload interface (thanks Olivier) | |
| 217 o added support for resolving application images itself | |
| 218 dyncall updates: | |
| 219 o new platform support: arm/iphone (armv6), x86/Plan9 | |
| 130 | 220 o new MIPS calling conventions: o32, n64 (both endian models) |
| 0 | 221 o cleanup: unexported functions in MASM files, b/c export not needed (thanks Olivier) |
| 222 o interface update: added error reporting facility 'dcGetError' | |
| 223 o bugfix for ppc32/sysv: ellipsis calls were broken | |
| 79 | 224 o interface update: added new abstract mode for ellipsis calls (DC_CALL_C_ELLIPSIS) |
| 0 | 225 docs: |
| 226 o comprehensive update | |
| 227 tests: | |
| 228 o plain: split "plain" test up in C and C++ part | |
| 229 o callbacksuite: added multiple configuration support for callback_suite | |
| 230 | |
| 40 | 231 Version 0.5 (2010/02/01) |
| 0 | 232 o renamed arm9 stuff to arm32 |
| 233 o added non-EABI ABI for arm32 (before, EABI was the default implementation) | |
| 234 o added dyncallback support for x64/windows (thanks Olivier), x64/darwin, arm32/arm, arm32/thumb | |
| 235 o synced documentation again with current state of the source (lots of small changes) | |
| 236 o updated ruby binding to current state of signature string (still some features missing, though) | |
| 237 o added a couple of new options to configure scripts (e.g. prefix-bd, new targets, etc.) | |
| 238 o darwin universal binary support | |
| 239 o added new tests callback_plain and calback_suite | |
| 240 o added Haiku/BeOS support | |
| 241 | |
| 40 | 242 Version 0.4 (2009/07/06) |
| 0 | 243 o added 'doc' makefile target for coherency and ease of use |
| 244 o fixed nmake buildfiles and configure.bat (were out of date and wrong) | |
| 245 o test suite clean up (GNUmake, BSDmake): | |
| 246 target "config" modified, phony without dependencies to other builds | |
| 221 | 247 o bugfix: GNU fastcall calling convention for float and double arguments was wrong (no skip of register) |
| 0 | 248 o update: x86win32* suite tests are built on cygwin now, added total result output |
| 249 o signature types change: | |
| 250 C Strings: 'S' -> 'Z' | |
| 251 long: 'l' -> 'j' | |
| 252 long long: 'L' -> 'l' | |
| 79 | 253 added unsigned integer type signature characters: upper case encoding |
| 0 | 254 o added: callbacks component (support only for some platforms ATM) |
| 255 o added: test cases for alloc_wx, thunk | |
| 256 o updated Documentation | |
| 257 | |
| 40 | 258 Version 0.3 (2009/01/17) |
| 0 | 259 o added Linux PPC32 support |
| 260 o added ARM THUMB mode support | |
| 261 o cosmetic changes, documentation updated | |
| 262 o bugfix: on cygwin exported C symbols in GNU as are prefixed with '_' now. | |
| 263 o removed scons build support | |
| 264 | |
| 40 | 265 Version 0.2 (2008/05/18) |
| 0 | 266 o added scons build support |
| 267 o configure variables all prefix CONFIG_* now | |
| 268 o configure variable INSTALL_DIR changed to INSTALL_PREFIX | |
| 269 o configure (shell version) option "--prefix" changed to "--prefix=<path>" | |
| 270 | |
| 40 | 271 Version 0.1 (2008/01/23) |
| 0 | 272 o initial release |
| 273 |