libatomic_ops-7.8.0

[Douglas R. Reno]

New minor version

[Bruce Dubbs]

[7.8.0] 2023-03-26

• Add AUTHORS file to the list of installed documentation
• Add goal to Makefile.msft to build all tests but not execute them
• Allocate marks[] dynamically and report all found errors in test_stack
• Always export stack_init/push_release/pop_acquire from atomic_ops_gpl
• Always use 'mfence' for nop_full if target CPU supports SSE2 (MS VC/x86)
• Avoid 'cast increases required alignment' warnings in atomic_ops_malloc.c
• Avoid breaking strict-aliasing rules in test_malloc and test_stack
• Avoid code duplication in AO_stack_push_explicit_aux_release
• Better document test_stack internals
• Build atomic_ops.lib by Makefile.msft (MS VC)
• Build test object and executable files in tests folder (MS VC)
• Define AO_stack_t uniformly
• Define double_compare_and_swap_full if MS VS 2017+ (x86)
• Do not expose AO_REAL_HEAD/NEXT_PTR implementation in header by default
• Document config macros in README_win32 and remove them from configure
• Eliminate 'function is never used' cppcheck warning for AO_stack_init
• Enforce most strict level of compiler warnings (MS VC)
• Ensure atomic_ops.c global symbols are always declared as extern 'C'
• Explicitly outline symbols exported in AO shared libraries with AO_API
• Hide AO_free_list symbol
• Implement AO_stack_init using memset
• Implement AO_test_and_set using InterlockedExchange8 (MS VC)
• Implement and/or/xor for AO_t, short and int types (MS VC)
• Implement nf/acq/rel variants of primitives on Windows RT (MS VC)
• Mention MIT near core library licensing terms in LICENSE file
• Move all README_*.txt and license files to the top folder
• Move all non-double intrinsic-based primitives to msftc/common32_defs.h
• Move gcc-4/alpha workaround outside AO_stack_pop_explicit_aux_acquire
• New AO_stack_is_lock_free API function
• New configure option (--disable-gpl) to skip building of libatomic_ops_gpl
• Print message of almost-lock-free implementation in test_stack if used
• Refine LICENSE and README about code parts covered by MIT and GPL-2.0
• Refine copyright terms in GPL source files
• Reformat atomic_ops_stack.c/h files
• Remove 'lib' prefix for atomic_ops_gpl.lib in Makefile.msft
• Remove redundant assert in AO_stack_pop_explicit_aux_acquire
• Remove redundant cast to AO_t in lock-free AO_stack_pop_acquire
• Rename LICENSING.txt to LICENSE file
• Rename VERBOSE macro to VERBOSE_STACK in test_stack (refactoring)
• Rename fetch_and_add to fetch_then_add in test_stack (refactoring)
• Replace obsolete AC_HELP_STRING with AS_HELP_STRING in configure
• Replace obsolete AC_TRY_COMPILE with AC_COMPILE_IFELSE in configure
• Split test_stack main into several functions (refactoring)
• Support Elbrus 2000 (gcc/e2k)
• Support build with CMake
• Support double-wide CAS on armv7+ and UWP/arm64 (MS VC)
• Support test_atomic with MS build w/o the need to run GNU make first
• Use GCC atomic intrinsics for SPARC
• Use builtin_expect in AO_stack_push_explicit_aux_release

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commits

d553af0f03 Update to libbytesize-2.8.
7d90b1b074 Update to libcap-2.68.
ed8afcef19 Update to libatomic_ops-7.8.0.
9a76d72e1d Update to Cython-0.29.34 (Python module).

[Bruce Dubbs]

Milestone renamed