Author: Matti Picus <matti.pi...@gmail.com> Branch: Changeset: r90713:031f96ce5f5a Date: 2017-03-15 20:48 +0200 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/031f96ce5f5a/
Log: highlight asmgcc and update doc diff --git a/pypy/doc/config/translation.gcrootfinder.txt b/pypy/doc/config/translation.gcrootfinder.txt --- a/pypy/doc/config/translation.gcrootfinder.txt +++ b/pypy/doc/config/translation.gcrootfinder.txt @@ -9,10 +9,8 @@ - ``--gcrootfinder=asmgcc``: use assembler hackery to find the roots directly from the normal stack. This is a bit faster, but platform specific. It works so far with GCC or MSVC, - on i386 and x86-64. It is tested only on Linux (where it is - the default) so other platforms (as well as MSVC) may need - various fixes before they can be used. + on i386 and x86-64. It is tested only on Linux + so other platforms (as well as MSVC) may need + various fixes before they can be used. Note asmgcc will be deprecated + at some future date, and does not work with clang. -You may have to force the use of the shadowstack root finder if -you are running into troubles or if you insist on translating -PyPy with other compilers like clang. diff --git a/pypy/doc/release-v5.7.0.rst b/pypy/doc/release-v5.7.0.rst --- a/pypy/doc/release-v5.7.0.rst +++ b/pypy/doc/release-v5.7.0.rst @@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ CFFI_ has been updated to 1.10, improving an already great package for interfacing with C. +We now use shadowstack as our default gcrootfinder_, asmgcc will be deprecated +at some future point. While about 3% slower, shadowstack is much more +easily maintained and debuggable. + As always, this release fixed many issues and bugs raised by the growing community of PyPy users. We strongly recommend updating. @@ -47,6 +51,7 @@ .. _`modules`: project-ideas.html#make-more-python-modules-pypy-friendly .. _`help`: project-ideas.html .. _`these benchmarks show`: https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2017/03/async-http-benchmarks-on-pypy3.html +.. _gcrootfinder: config/translation.gcrootfinder.html What is PyPy? ============= _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list pypy-commit@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
