2009-09-16 Ivan Maidanski <ivmai@mail.ru>

	(ivmai131.diff - superseding diff83, diff84 partly)

	* doc/README.solaris2: Replace GC_SOLARIS_THREADS with GC_THREADS.
	* doc/README.win32: Replace GC_WIN32_THREADS with GC_THREADS.
	* doc/README.win64: Add info about mingw-w64; add note for VC++
	warnings suppression.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 004d645..381b869 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2009-09-16  Ivan Maidanski <ivmai@mail.ru>
+       (ivmai131.diff - superseding diff83, diff84 partly)
+
+       * doc/README.solaris2: Replace GC_SOLARIS_THREADS with GC_THREADS.
+       * doc/README.win32: Replace GC_WIN32_THREADS with GC_THREADS.
+       * doc/README.win64: Add info about mingw-w64; add note for VC++
+       warnings suppression.
+
 2009-09-15 Hans Boehm <Hans.Boehm@hp.com> (Mostly Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll)
        (Also similar to, but not the same as, Ivan's diff104_cvs)
 

diff --git a/doc/README.solaris2 b/doc/README.solaris2
index 7362034..f914106 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/README.solaris2
+++ b/doc/README.solaris2
@@ -20,9 +20,9 @@ You may want to reverse this decisions if you use -DREDIRECT_MALLOC=...
 
 SOLARIS THREADS:
 
-The collector must be compiled with -DGC_SOLARIS_THREADS (thr_ functions)
-or -DGC_THREADS to be thread safe.  This assumes use of the pthread_
-interface.  Old style Solaris threads are no longer supported.
+The collector must be compiled with -DGC_THREADS to be thread safe.
+This assumes use of the pthread_ interface.  Old style Solaris threads
+are no longer supported.
 
 It is also essential that gc.h be included in files that call thr_create,
 thr_join, thr_suspend, thr_continue, or dlopen.  Gc.h macro defines

diff --git a/doc/README.win32 b/doc/README.win32
index 7f963b9..db019f2 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/README.win32
+++ b/doc/README.win32
@@ -201,10 +201,9 @@ enabled before any additional threads are created.
 
 Since 6.3alpha2, threads are also better supported in static library builds
 with Microsoft tools (use NT_STATIC_THREADS_MAKEFILE) and with the GNU
-tools.  In all cases,the collector must be built with GC_WIN32_THREADS
-defined, even if the Cygwin pthreads interface is used.
+tools.  The collector must be built with GC_THREADS defined.
 (NT_STATIC_THREADS_MAKEFILE does this implicitly.  Under Cygwin,
-./configure --enable-threads=posix defines GC_WIN32_THREADS.)
+./configure --enable-threads=posix should be used.)
 
 For the normal, non-dll-based thread tracking to work properly,
 threads should be created with GC_CreateThread or GC_beginthreadex,

diff --git a/doc/README.win64 b/doc/README.win64
index 2225fd4..46dba46 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/README.win64
+++ b/doc/README.win64
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 64-bit Windows on AMD64/Intel EM64T is somewhat supported in the 7.0
-and later release.  A collector can be built with Microsoft Visual C++ 2005.
-The resulting test programs have been known to work at least once.
+and later release.  A collector can be built with Microsoft Visual C++ 2005
+or with mingw-w64 gcc.
 More testing would clearly be helpful.
 
 NT_X64_STATIC_THREADS_MAKEFILE has been used in
@@ -20,3 +20,7 @@ in some cases.  The C tests seemed OK.
 
 Note that currently a few warnings are still generated by default,
 and a number of others have been explicitly turned off in the makefile.
+
+VC++ note: to suppress warnings use -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE.
+
+gcc note: -fno-strict-aliasing should be used if optimizing.