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diff --git a/Documentation/release-notes/v0.3.rst b/Documentation/release-notes/v0.3.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e149b410 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/release-notes/v0.3.rst @@ -0,0 +1,111 @@ +v0.3 (2007-05-01) +================= + +I have tagged and tarballed a 0.3 release of Sparse, now available from +http://ftp.be.debian.org/pub/software/devel/sparse/dist/ with sha1sum 1d868b29234176abd5f3f5463aad1f11d5268dc2. + +Note that the Sparse Git repository has moved to: + + https://git.kernel.org/cgit/devel/sparse/sparse.git + +The old repository location will continue to work for now, but please update +any references you have to the old location. + +Thanks to Christopher Li for contributing heavily to this release, including +several notable new features. See the full changelog for details. + +In addition to numerous bug fixes, cleanups, and new test cases, this release +includes several new visible features: + +* A Sparse-based implementation of ctags, thanks to Christopher Li. Now you can have a ctags that 'actually parses C'. +* Sparse now correctly supports annotations on inline functions. +* The new '-ventry' option will make Sparse dump its internal linearized bytecode format. +* Sparse now parses the '__regparm__' attribute just like 'regparm', fixing a warning with pthreads from glibc 2.5. +* Sparse now interprets the integer size attributes 'QI', 'SI', 'HI', and 'DI', and their double-underscore variants. +* Sparse now supports attributes on labels, sometimes used to specify 'unused' labels. +* Sparse now handles structure attributes between the structure keyword and the name, fixing many parse errors. +* Sparse now supports more than one command-line include file. +* The pkg-config file gets installed to its correct location under 'lib', rather than under 'share'. + +Notable internal changes: + +* Fully table-driven attribute parsing. This simplifies the C parser and makes it far easier to add new attributes to Sparse. +* Many internal cleanups, more information preserved for backends, more useful formats for that information, and lower memory usage. +* Fixed Sparse warnings about itself. + +Full changelog: + +Christopher Li (24): + * Sparse-based Ctags implementation + * Change the symbol access list to a pseudo list + * Add instruction to pseudo user tracking. + * Update usage chain for dead instructions + * Update usage chain for dead branch instruction. + * Allow more than one command line include file. + * Enhance debug information. + * Another attempt to fix the attribute parsing. + * Marking anonymous string. + * Bug fix in pointer modifier inheritance at function degeneration. + * Handle structure attributes between the structure keyword and the name + * Fix the segfault when initializer has unknown symbol + * Fix double semicolon in struct declaration + * Make the ptrlist using the sparse allocator. + * Fix core dump on anonymous symbol. + * Fix a bug that match_idents forget to end with NULL + * Adding debug option for showing the linearized instruction. + * Fix core dump on huge switch + * Introduce expression_error + * Disable liveness "dead" instruction by default. + * Add annotation for inline function call. + * Introduce keyword driven attribute parsing + * Fix the annotated inline call position + * handle label attributes + +Christopher Li and Josh Triplett (4): + * Introduce top level parsing for asm parsing. + * Introducing statement keywords + * Free up some special bits in modifiers. + * Moving statement parsing into smaller functions. + +James Westby (2): + * Fix mistaken comparison that becomes a no-op. + * Update the information in README about using the library. + +Josh Triplett (30): + * Add ctags to .gitignore + * Add a return in the last case of a switch; redundant but less error-prone. + * Coding style fix: in a pointer type, * goes with the name, not the type. + * Add missing #include "allocate.h" in linearize.h for DECLARE_ALLOCATOR. + * Add test case for function pointer modifier inheritance + * Add test case for structure attribute placement. + * Add test case for double semicolon in structure declaration. + * Coding style fix: use parentheses with sizeof + * Move pkg-config file to lib, rather than share + * Add static to declarations in test cases, to remove unrelated warnings. + * Fix typo in symbol.h: s/keywrods/keywords/ + * Fix typos in comments + * Use GCC format and sentinel attributes on appropriate functions + * Fix two potential NULL pointer dereferences in dissect.c + * Avoid returning an uninitialized pointer from dup_list of an empty list + * Remove stray space from expand_compare in expand.c + * Prevent potential NULL pointer dereference in expand_compare + * Add test case for basic address_space annotations. + * Use noreturn on die() and error_die() + * Parse and ignore the __regparm__ attribute, just like regparm. + * Fix comment to reference #weak_define rather than #ifndef, matching code + * Teach cgcc about -Wtransparent-union and -Wno-transparent-union + * Declare die_if_error extern in lib.h + * Remove unused variable "include" from lib.c + * Declare do_error static + * Declare gcc_patchlevel extern in lib.h + * compile-i386.c: Declare regs_in_use static + * simplify.c: Declare delete_pseudo_user_list_entry static + * linearize: DECLARE_ALLOCATOR for asm_constraint and asm_rules + * Fix most -Wshadow warnings in Sparse. + +Oleg Nesterov (3): + * dissect: cleanup report_implicit() + * dissect: fix multidimensional array initializer + * dissect: simplify lookup_member() + +-- Josh Triplett |