Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Tue, 7 Oct 2008 10:00:29 -0500

We are going to have to generate a second Release Candidate, which means the 
final release won't happen until after the INFN meeting.  This means that if 
you have any other fixes that can go into R3.14.10 without breaking anything, 
now is the time to commit them (before 1pm Chicago time on Thursday please).

Mark Rivers discovered a serious but subtle bug in epicsRingPointer when 
compiled using a very recent gcc and run on an SMP system.  He and Eric 
managed to isolate this to two instructions being issued in the wrong order 
by the compiler optimizer, which Eric has fixed with judicious addition 
of 'volatile' modifiers.

I am also about to commit a simplification of the exception classes in 
epicsThread.{h,cpp} which should resolve a compilation issue reported by 
Kazuro Furukawa on osf-alpha, and Janet will be making a few changes in 
configure and src/gdd/Makefile.

- Andrew
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System