Richard Brooksby
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Detabifying code and restructuredtext files.
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Richard Brooksby
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Documenting thread root registration functions.
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Richard Brooksby
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Catch up merge from master sources.
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Richard Brooksby
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Catch-up merge from masters.
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Gareth Rees
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Need to pass sizeof(mps_word_t) - 1 for the mask argument to get the old behaviour.
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Gareth Rees
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Rename mps_root_create_reg_masked to mps_root_create_stack, and deprecate mps_root_create_reg, as suggested in review by nb < https://info.ravenbrook.com/mail/2015/09/09/16-18-10/0/ >.
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Gareth Rees
86a933a581
Emphasize the right line in the finalization example.
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2014-11-06 11:01:11 +00:00
Gareth Rees
cb3f6ce768
Minor documentation improvements.
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2014-10-26 12:44:58 +00:00
Gareth Rees
ce7dc08514
Add a section to the guide explaining how to implement malloc and free.
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2014-10-25 22:31:07 +01:00
Gareth Rees
e7220f2ad7
Fix rest syntax.
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2014-10-19 09:39:41 +01:00
Gareth Rees
a5806a0623
Don't call mps_definalize in the example scheme interpreter: it's not actually an optimization because of the inefficient implementation.
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2014-10-02 13:49:28 +01:00
Gareth Rees
bd03fb5a46
Remove unused argument 'buckets' from scheme table_find. (this broke the xcode build on os x.)
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2014-10-02 11:42:33 +01:00
Gareth Rees
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Arenafinalize now asserts that the object belongs to a finalizable (attrgc) pool. (it's a programming error to try to register a non-finalizable object for finalization.)
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Can't test this behaviour via the smoke tests, unfortunately.
Document the performance problem with mps_definalize, so that users aren't tempted into using it inappropriately.
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2014-10-02 10:27:57 +01:00
Gareth Rees
466081d0f2
Must test a key for staleness with respect to a location dependency before setting it (not just before looking it up or deleting it).
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2014-09-28 23:32:37 +01:00
Gareth Rees
a26ef830b7
Synchronize the readme and the overview in the guide.
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2014-09-26 20:38:41 +01:00
Gareth Rees
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Microsoft has issued a hotfix for the wow64 bug; explain this in the overview.
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Supported platform now described as "Linux 2.4 or later" rather than "Linux (some distros known good)".
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2014-09-26 13:07:49 +01:00
Gareth Rees
e9dddf19de
New chapter of the guide discusses the "stretchy vector" problem.
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2014-05-26 12:39:38 +01:00
Gareth Rees
cc43fd2a1c
Add aslr test program to the repository.
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Explain how to disable ASLR for a single process on Linux (better than disabling it for the whole system).
Organize the ASLR documentation more clearly.
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2014-05-21 16:08:15 +01:00
Gareth Rees
85bb536fa5
Glossary entry and guide to address space layout randomization.
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2014-05-21 14:47:11 +01:00
Gareth Rees
b0f1837ea9
Cross-reference from debugging chapter of the guide to "common assertions and their causes".
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2014-05-21 12:20:40 +01:00
Gareth Rees
62eafbbb47
Add note about consequences of running frequent collections.
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2014-05-16 12:31:47 +01:00
Gareth Rees
8146121134
Strength the tear-down advice: you "should" park the arena (not just "good practice").
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2014-05-13 10:57:35 +01:00
Gareth Rees
e58b421e1b
Fix typo: the general root scanning function type is mps_root_scan_t, not mps_reg_scan_t.
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2014-05-13 10:48:51 +01:00
Gareth Rees
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Explain how to call mps_root_create_table() safely (avoiding type punning). fix example for mps_root_create_table_masked(). use the recommended approach in qs.c.
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2014-04-04 11:49:19 +01:00
Gareth Rees
32d10cd02a
Make mps_args_done obsolete.
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2014-02-26 12:47:27 +00:00
Gareth Rees
d2220c5c16
Better user documentation for generation chains:
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* In the pool class properties table, note whether a pool class uses generational garbage collection.
* The arena has a default generation chain.
* The MPS_KEY_CHAIN keyword argument is now optional when creating an AMC, AMCZ or AMS pool.
* The pool classes AWL and LO now take an optional MPS_KEY_CHAIN keyword argument.
* The pool classes AMS, AWL and LO now take an optional MPS_KEY_GEN keyword argument specifying the generation for new objects.
* Remove material about generation chains from the user guide (just use the arena's default generation chain).
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2014-01-31 16:23:04 +00:00
Gareth Rees
b264bc1b5c
Fix typo.
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2014-01-14 10:44:17 +00:00
Gareth Rees
b5eac5fb83
Use #. for numbered lists instead of 1. 2. 3. to make these documents easier to edit.
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2014-01-10 09:58:44 +00:00
Gareth Rees
f9257638d8
Make it clear that the forwarding object must be the same size as the object it replaces.
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2013-10-29 12:45:20 +00:00
Gareth Rees
ecd974df8f
Bring guide up to date by using mps_fmt_create_k instead of mps_fmt_create in the exaple code.
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2013-10-01 15:11:39 +01:00
Gareth Rees
ae39473509
Rename align_up and align macros in the scheme example as align_word and align_obj respectively.
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2013-09-05 08:15:56 +01:00
Richard Brooksby
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Documentation and commentary clarifications in response to code review < https://info.ravenbrook.com/mail/2013/07/11/13-17-56/0/ >.
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2013-07-11 15:44:19 +01:00
Gareth Rees
09d0dfc481
Document the intention behind mps_ld_isstale rather than the implementation: it captures the intention of testing whether a particular dependency is stale (even though the implementation in fact tests whether any dependency is stale). add new function mps_ls_isstale_any for expressing the intention of testing whether any dependencey is stale. the two functions have the same implementation at present, but the separation gives us the freedom to return a more precise result from mps_ld_isstale in future.
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2013-06-20 16:25:08 +01:00
Gareth Rees
514d0bea39
Improvements to clarity of weak hash table implementation:
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* TAG_SIZE was changed to TAG_COUNT in the code, so make the corresponding change in the manual.
* Avoid the "+= 2" hack: use TAG_COUNT(UNTAG_COUNT(...) + 1). Clarity is more important than speed here.
* Use obj_unused for unused hash table entries so that there can be no confusion between NULL meaning "unused" and NULL meaning "splatted by the garbage collector".
* Add references from the example code to the notes.
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2013-06-19 12:59:49 +01:00
Richard Brooksby
bafc15444a
Merging branch/2013-05-21/final-destroy. now we can finally destroy things.
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2013-06-06 15:04:30 +01:00
Richard Brooksby
e181376dd0
Merging branch/2013-05-01/keyword-arguments to pick up keyword arguments for object formats.
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2013-06-06 12:55:04 +01:00
Gareth Rees
aa71bfe1bc
Describe the fact that the collector works across pools in several places where people are likely to look for this information.
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Improve wording of assertion handling section.
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2013-05-28 16:47:58 +01:00
Gareth Rees
fa63d63b23
New public function mps_fmt_create_k creates an object format using the keyword argument interface.
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Deprecate the format variant structures (mps_fmt_A_s, mps_fmt_B_s, mps_fmt_auto_header_s, mps_fmt_fixed_s) and the old interface (mps_fmt_create_A, mps_fmt_create_B, mps_fmt_create_auto_header, mps_fmt_create_fixed).
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2013-05-28 16:10:08 +01:00
Gareth Rees
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Document the way to safely destroy automatically managed pools.
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2013-05-24 16:17:51 +01:00
Gareth Rees
29378fe033
Convert arenavm, buffer, lib, and poolmrg to restructuredtext.
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Convert [notes in square brackets] to .. note:: to make them stand out more and be easier to find and fix.
Modernize config a bit.
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2013-05-24 15:30:38 +01:00
Gareth Rees
010fb7c45b
Need to handle sigsegv on linux and freebsd.
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2013-05-23 20:19:01 +01:00
Gareth Rees
9e9c0e3990
Remove mps_arg from mps.h.
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Use MPS_ARGS_BEGIN etc in the Scheme example and in the manual.
Use MPS_BEGIN and MPS_END instead of BEGIN and END.
The _FIELD macros don't need to be function-like macros.
Restore TODO comments in mps.h.
Scheme example compiles with -std=c89.
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2013-05-13 21:01:38 +01:00
Gareth Rees
10c13b2a54
New macro mps_arg and revised macro mps_args_add mean that client programs no longer need to know which keyword argument goes in which field. revise documentation accordingly.
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2013-05-12 17:21:03 +01:00
Gareth Rees
052e5ec39c
Update user guide to use the new keyword argument interface.
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2013-05-11 19:42:31 +01:00
Gareth Rees
ff11f1798d
Fix typo.
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2013-05-07 19:01:59 +01:00
Gareth Rees
72656a4f9c
Avoid sentence-initial "which", for ndl.
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2013-04-13 17:31:33 +01:00
Gareth Rees
39d57d4cf5
Fix broken link reported by ndl.
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2013-04-13 17:02:53 +01:00
Gareth Rees
0f418f12e0
Fix typo.
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2013-03-08 18:09:24 +00:00
Gareth Rees
4cee27b97f
Minor documentation improvements:
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* Use "OS X" consistently (not "Mac OS X").
* Explain how to avoid GDB from stopping on barrier hits on Linux.
* Bring HTML up to date.
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2013-03-07 15:22:41 +00:00
Gareth Rees
7144669a84
Remove mps_tramp from backtraces.
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2013-02-20 16:57:12 +00:00