gc-8.2.10

[Bruce Dubbs]

New point version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

8.2.10 - 2025-10-18

• Add missing test_cpp dependency on gc_allocator.h in build scripts
• Add Serenity OS to list of platforms with POSIX threads in configure
• Avoid abort on ResumeThread failure if Win32 DllMain closes thread handle
• Avoid code duplication in GC_dyld_image_add/remove on Darwin
• Do not define GC_SysVGetDataStart on AIX
• Do not produce '-lpthread' by threadlibs on Tru64/OSF1
• Do not search for data start using GC_find_limit on Haiku
• Do not use deprecated _dyld_bind_fully_image_containing_address (Darwin)
• Do not use deprecated get_etext and get_end on Darwin
• Do not use deprecated getsectbynamefromheader_64 (Darwin)
• Duplicate abort message in system app crash dialog on Haiku
• Eliminate 'allocating insufficient size 0 for char` gcc warning in gctest
• Eliminate 'compare signed/unsigned in check_finalizer_nested' bcc warning
• Eliminate 'conversion from void* to ptr_t' g++ warning in PS_ALLOCA_BUF
• Eliminate 'int-to-ptr cast' gcc warning in GC_push_all_stacks on Solaris
• Eliminate 'int-to-ptr cast' gcc warning in GC_restart_all on OpenBSD
• Eliminate 'int-to-ptr cast' gcc warnings in DEBUG_THREADS code
• Eliminate 'message number 726 is invalid' wcc warning
• Eliminate 'unused parameter fd' gcc warning in NOSYS GC_write
• Eliminate 'value exceeds maximum obj size' gcc warning in hugetest on x32
• Ensure no GC_proc_buf overrun on Solaris
• Export CMake libraries with aliases
• Fix 'cannot implement AO_compare_and_swap_full' error by wcc in tests
• Fix 'cannot locate assembly file' bcc32 error in CMake script
• Fix 'conflicting types for sbrk' gcc error on Solaris if redirect malloc
• Fix 'missing GNU-stack section in atomic_ops_sysdeps' ld warning
• Fix 'symbol undefined _snprintf' dmc linker error in cordtest
• Fix 'undefined STACKBOTTOM' preprocessor error for no-OS PowerPC target
• Fix 'undefined symbol GC_arrays` in tools on Solaris
• Fix 'undefined symbol sbrk' linker error on FreeBSD
• Fix all broken URLs in documentation (as of Nov 2024)
• Fix assertion violation about GC_mark_lock_holder in fork_child_proc
• Fix blocked signals in fork_prepare_proc on HP/UX
• Fix cast of struct-based pthread_t to void pointer on Win32
• Fix code blocks formatting in .md files
• Fix compilation error regarding locks initialization in GC_init on HP_PA
• Fix CPP_WORDSZ for LoongArch
• Fix deprecation warning about support of CMake older than v3.10
• Fix extraneous '#' symbol before comment near USE_WINALLOC for Cygwin
• Fix GC_GRANULE_BYTES for SPARC V9
• Fix GC_suspend abort when the thread is deleted by DllMain
• Fix GC_threads alignment caused by 1-byte global AO_TS_t variables (wcc)
• Fix GETPAGESIZE and USE_M[UN]MAP for Nintendo Switch
• Fix getting memory from OS on Haiku
• Fix I_HOLD_LOCK assertion violation in child process
• Fix mark lock in child process after fork
• Fix missing export for Symbian-specific GC_init_global_static_roots
• Fix missing parentheses in SIG_THR_RESTART macro definition
• Fix print_heap_obj call with the lock held in backgraph add_edge
• Fix pthread id stored in GC_threads of child process
• Fix pthread id stored in key thread_specific_data of child process
• Fix pthread_sigmask result checking in GC_start_mark_threads_inner
• Fix reading async proc maps when GC is single-threaded but process is not
• Fix rounding up in STACKBOTTOM for OSF1
• Fix stack base detection on Haiku by using pthread_getattr_np()
• Fix stack direction detection in setjmp_t on E2K
• Fix symbols alignment checking for CRIS and M68K
• Fix undefined reference to GC_objfreelist and GC_bytes_allocd
• Fix usage of new structured procfs interface on Solaris
• Fix various typos in comments and documentation
• Force use of spin locks to improve performance on Haiku
• Grow GC_proc_buf to required size in GC_proc_read_dirty instead of WARN
• Handle sparc-sun-solaris3 (SunOS6) in configure to use sparc_mach_dep.S
• Initial support of Serenity OS on x86[_64]
• Refine comment in fork_child_proc() about GC_allocate_ml attribute
• Refine description of 'more background' links in Overview document
• Remove always-false check if C++ allocator.allocate returns null in test
• Remove comment about limited support of memory unmapping
• Remove improper comment about returned value of CORD_extend_path
• Remove outdated comment about 'make distcheck' from Makefile.am
• Support RISC-V ILP32 ABI (rv64ilp32)
• Suppress 'missing return value' wcc warning for AO asm primitives
• Suppress 'unreachable code' wcc warnings in win32 threads ASSERT (CMake)
• Turn off thread suspend/resume API support explicitly
• Update libatomic_ops repo URL in README after repo transfer
• Update URLs in documentation after repo transfer to bdwgc organization
• Workaround 'stdcall ignored for this target' clang warning on Cygwin64
• Workaround 'array index 4096 is above bounds' gcc warning in malloc_kind
• Workaround 'REFERENCED_DYNAMICALLY flag' linker error on macOS 15.4
• Workaround incremental collection fails on Haiku
• Workaround tests crash if mprotect-based VDB is manually selected (bcc)
• Workaround undefined GC_ptr_store_and_dirty MinGW error in Makefile.direct
• Workaround vpush/vpop instructions generation for non-FPU ARMv5 target

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commits

bade117777 Update to gc-8.2.10.
b145aa44f0 Update to stunnel-5.76.
ca8025eb52 Update to librsvg-2.61.2.
869e7d0bc0 Update to psutil-7.1.1 (Python module).

[Bruce Dubbs]

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