To make the API consistent for MSVC versus MinGW builds, make
a functional formerly required for embedding on 32-bit Windows
always available and required for all Windows variants.
Building creates compiler-specific files in "lib/msvc"
or "lib/gcc". For consistency, strip those directories
when creating a distribution.
The newly added ".def" file provides information that
would otherwise be lost by removing the MSVC ".lib"
file from the distribution.
Removing the compiler-specific ".obj" files means that
used to be included for linking extensions. My guess
is that the files are now completely unused.
Recent versions of MinGW-W64 use emutls for `__thread` variables,
and that's much slower than Windows-native TLS. Go back to the
inline-assembly implementation of therad-local access.
Make the old-generation marking process incremental
on request, where `(collect-garbage 'incremental)`
makes a request.
Only the marking phase of an old-generation collection
is incremental, so far. In exchange for slower
minor collections and a larger heap, you get a major
collection pause time that is roughly halved. So, this
is a step forward, but not good enough for most purposes
that need incremental collection.
An incremental-mode request sticks until the next
major GC. The idea is that any program that could
benefit from incremental collection will have
some sort of periodic task where it can naturally
request incremental mode. (In particular, that
request belongs in the program, not in some external
flag to the runtime system.) Otherwise, the
system should revert to non-incremental mode, given
that incremental mode is slower overall and can
use much more memory --- usually within a factor of
two, but the factor can be much worse due to
fragmentation.
For a minor GC and pages that contain backpointers,
leave mark bits as they are; instead make a pass to
shift mark bits for new objects to "dead" bits, and
use dead bits for fixup.
This change is intended as a small step toward incremental
collection.
The rule for using generation 1/2is based on the current
memory use versus the maximum size of generation 0. Recent
changes to the GC have caused that size to vary during
a collection, which means that the choice to use generation
1/2 or not can change within a collection.
Partial use of generation 1/2 doesn't inherently cause problems, but
it can cause a generation-1 object to point to a generation-1/2 object
even though the former was allocated after the latter. That's a
problem on if getting generations out of order relative to allocation
order can create problems. As it happens, reset_finalizer_tree()
checks the generation of the finalization record and not the finalized
pointer, because the record is always allocated after the pointer.
Merge to v6.3
Certain datatypes in the runtime system are not supposed
to be hashed, where bits normally reserved for hash codes
are used for other purposes. A bad bytecode file can cause
some of those to be hashed, anyway. Normally, the damage is
isolated to that content of the damaged bytecode, but
certain variable-reference bytecode forms are both shared
and non-hashable. Set a bit that ensures hashing will not
change flags in the shared object.
This problem was exposed by fuzz testing.
History of the parsing of "file:" URLs for Windows:
* In response to PR 8060 (April 2006): special handling added to
support ill-formed URLs that were (are?) commonly used for
filesystem paths.
* Follow-up to PR 8060 (April 2008): added `path->url` and
`url->path`.
* In response to #1086 (October 2015, the commit): changed
Windows-specific handling to be more constrained and added support
for the proper encoding of UNC paths --- where "proper" means
"according to a blog post from late 2006", which appears to be as
close as we get to documentation of the URL encoding for Windows
paths.
When a compiler is run in standards mode, predefined macros that
do not start with "_" are dropped, so use the "_" versions
consistently. Whether or not Racket itself would compile in
standards mode, the Racket headers should be able to work that
way --- at least on Unix platforms.
In Mac OS X 10.11, something about the use of exceptions triggers
a libunwind stack traversal, and that traversal runs into trouble
with Racket's stack mangling for threads. Inserting generated code
in the stack frame sequence causes libunwind to give up and avoids
a crash (e.g., with `-j -l drracket` on startup).
