1 SimGrid (3.4-svn) unstable; urgency=high
4 * Tested successfully on AIX
7 * fix a bug on struct sizeof computation, which prevented the
8 exchange of arrays of structs in some conditions
9 - added a regression test about this in datadesc_usage
10 * Allow the exchange of 0-long dynamic vectors.
11 - for that, use -1 as indicator of dynamic size instead of 0
12 - This implied to change any size from unsigned long to long,
13 reducing a bit communication abilities, but I guess that with
14 64bits being quite common, this is more than enough.
15 - This also induce a protocol change, thus bumping network protocol
16 version from 0 to 1 (if we have external users, we have to get
17 clean on that point too ;)
18 - added two regression tests about this in datadesc_usage
19 * Be more verbose when propagating local exceptions
21 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT in
25 * Allow to control the simulation from a trace file.
26 New functions MSG_action_register() and MSG_action_trace_run()
27 The first one allows to associate a function execution to each
28 kind of action while the second one parses a trace file and
29 triggers the corresponding actions within the system.
30 For now, only a toy example is provided in examples/msg/actions
31 * Add an exemple of process migration in examples/msg/migration
32 * Fix a bug in task exchange which broke MSG_task_get_sender()
33 Add a teshsuite regression test for that.
34 [Bug: if MSG_task_get_sender() is called after sender exit,
36 * Fix a bug which prevented suspend/resume to work properly
39 * Add SIMIX_process_set_name() to change the name of the current
40 process in the log messages.
43 * Also include strbuff from xbt.h public header
44 * xbt_ex_display(): do not free the exception after displaying
45 This allows to do more with the given exception afterward.
46 Users should call xbt_ex_free() themselves.
47 * Do not allow malloc(0) since that's not portable
50 * Do not require doxygen in maintainer mode
52 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
54 SimGrid (3.3) stable; urgency=high
58 * JAVA BINDINGS for MSG (you dreamt of them? We made them)
61 * Introduce the SIMIX module: factorize code between MSG and GRAS.
64 Until now, GRAS were using MSG as an interface to SURF. It was
65 quite difficult because both interface have several differences
66 (MSG channels vs GRAS sockets were the most notable point).
68 This also opens the gate to SMPI (which should occur soon) and speed
69 up simulations by to 40% (even if it were not the main goal).
71 **************************************
72 *DO NOT MIX 3.2 RESULTS WITH 3.3 ONES* Simix may changes simulations!
73 **************************************
74 The point is that events occuring at the exact same timestamp are
75 not scheduled in the same order with the old and new version. This
76 may be enough to completely change the execution of simulations in
77 some cases. Sorry for the inconvenience.
79 * Cleanup and upgrade the XML format to push further scalability
80 issues (check http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00256883/ for more info)
82 * Improve the testing infrastructure with tesh. Now a very large part of
83 the code is tested not only by being run but also by checking that the
84 output match an expected output [Mt].
86 * Move on to FleXML v1.7 for the embeeded XML parsers. This version
87 is really less memory-demanding, which should allow you to use
88 larger files in SimGrid [AL].
90 * Inform valgrind about our contextes, so that it becomes usable
91 with the default (and more effecient) version of SimGrid
92 [contributed by Sékou Diakite, many thanks]
95 * Introduce a listener thread in charge of receiving incomming
96 messages from the network. It allows to overlap communication and
97 computation but most notably, it removes some stupid deadlocks due
98 to the fact that so far, a process could not send and receive at
99 the same time. This made most non trivial communication schema
101 * Convert the PIDs from long int to int to match the MSG ones (and
103 * New function: gras_agent_spawn() to launch a new process on
104 current host. Only working in simulation for now. [Mt]
105 * New function: gras_os_hostport() returning a constant form (ie,
106 not needing to be freed) of "gras_os_hostname():gras_os_myport()"
109 * Make the backtrace of exceptions more human readable [Mt]
110 * New module: xbt/str [Mt]
111 a ton of string utility functions (split, join, printf to a newly
112 allocated buffer, trim, etc)
113 * New module: xbt/hash [Mt]
114 SHA1 hashing algorithm (more to come if needed)
115 * New module: xbt/synchro [Mt]
116 synchronization tools (mutex and conditions) working the same way
117 in simulation and in real life (mainly useful for GRAS, but not
119 * New module: xbt/queue [Mt]
120 classical producer/consumer synchronization scheme
121 * xbt_dynar_new_sync() creates a synchronized dynar. All access
122 (using the classical functions will get serialized) [Mt]
123 * Make dictionary internal table dynamic. No need to specify its size
124 anymore; functions xbt_dict_new_ext() and xbt_dict_hashsize_set()
126 * Make sure the log channels are organized as a tree under windows
127 (because of ANSI C compatibility issue, any channel were child of
131 * Cleaned many thing in surf and fixed a few bugs [AL].
132 * Add a nice command line configuration mechanism to compose models [AL].
133 * Add a new model for parallel tasks (ptask_L07) that is less buggy than
134 the previous one (KCCFLN05). It relies on something that looks like
135 a max-min sharing mechanism but cannot be written as such. A new solver
136 was thus designed [AL].
137 * Add a new solver to lmm. Based on Lagrange optimization and
138 gradient-based descent, it enables to efficiently maximise systems s.a
140 sum f_i(x_i) s.t Ax<= b with A_{i,j}>=0 and f_i a concave function.
142 This solver enables to propose two new network models for TCP Reno and
143 TCP Vegas based on Low's work. These models still need to be fully
144 tested though [Pedro Velho].
147 * Bug fix in SD_simulate. Now the time bound given as argument is
149 * Use the new parallel task model (ptask_L07) as default.
150 * Use the SURF command line configuration mechanism.
151 * 0-size tasks (for synchronization) should now work.
153 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sun Apr 12 05:20:36 CEST 2009
155 SimGrid (3.2) stable; urgency=high
159 We still experience issues on this platform, but we believe that at
162 GRAS API BREAKAGE (for simplification purpose, sorry):
163 * the gras_msgtype_by_name is not used anymore. Instead of
164 gras_msg_send(toserver, gras_msgtype_by_name("request"), &request);
165 you can write (and must)
166 gras_msg_send(toserver, "request", &request);
167 - If you still want to pass a gras_msgtype_t to the function (to cache
168 the type and avoid the lookup time), use the gras_msg_send_() variant.
169 - Impacted functions:
170 gras_cb_register, gras_cb_unregister, gras_msg_send, gras_msg_wait,
171 gras_msg_rpccall, gras_msg_rpc_async_call, gras_msg_wait_ext
172 * The callbacks are now expected to return 0 when everything went well
173 (just like the main() function)
175 GRAS new features and improvements:
176 * New module mecanism where user code can use per process globals [Mt]
177 This is similar to gras_userdata_*() functions, but for libraries. It
178 factorize some code developped over and over in the examples and AMOK.
179 It has still to be documented and used (only amok/peermanagement is
181 * Fix a vicious bug in the TCP buffering mecanism which leaded to message
182 loss when they were small enough to fit into the buffer and sent quickly
183 enough so that they can all get received in one shoot.
184 * gras_datadesc_by_name and gras_msgtype_by_name: now raise an exception
185 if not found. Use the *_or_null() variant for the old semantic.
186 * In gras_msg_handle, do not discard messages without callback.
187 They are probably messages to be explicitly awaited later (ie, proofs of
188 mis-synchronization in userland since they are sent before being awaited)
190 * gras_socket_meas_send/recv: semantic changed!
191 The numerical arguments used to be (1) the total amount of data to send
192 and (2) msg_size. This was changed to (1) msg_size and (2) amount of
193 messages. This was need for the fool willing to send more than MAXINT
194 bytes on quite fat pipes.
197 * Do really rename the hostmanagement module to peermanagement. [Mt]
198 Ie, rename functions from amok_hm_* to amok_pm_*. This breaks the API,
199 but this is rather new and this was documented in the module
200 documentation (poor excuses, I admit)
201 * Bandwidth measurement semantic changed! This follows the changes to
202 gras_socket_meas_send/recv explained above.
205 * A sequential mode has been added to the workstations. When a workstation
206 is in sequential mode, it can execute only one task, and the other tasks
207 are waiting in a FIFO. [Christophe Thiery]
210 * The KCCFLN05 workstation model now handles parallel tasks. It is the
211 model for SIMDAG. [Christophe Thiery]
212 * Bug fix in the maxmin solver: Some values were close to 0 instead of
213 equal to 0, which caused some bad behaviors in
214 saturated_constraint_set_update. I now use a threshold mechanism like in
218 * When running manually src/testall, you select specific units [Mt]
219 testall is the result of our cunit mecanism, and should replace all
220 the scripty thingy around since bash don't run easily on billware.
222 * A mallocator system has been added. [Christophe Thiery]
223 Mallocators allow you to recycle your unused objects instead of freeing them
224 and allocating new ones.
226 Documentation update:
227 * FAQ reworking + New FAQs:
228 - "Valgrind spits tons of errors!" [Mt]
229 - "How to repport bugs" [Mt]
230 - "Cross-compiling a Windows DLL of SimGrid from Linux" [Mt]
231 - "What is the difference between MSG, SimDag, and GRAS?" [Mt]
232 - Communication time measurement within MSG [AL]
233 - I experience weird communication times when I change the latency [AL]
236 - an introduction to the framework and to the used communication model
237 - an initiatic tour introducing the most proheminent features:
239 . Lesson 0: Installing GRAS
240 . Lesson 1: Setting up your own project
241 o Part 2: Message passing
242 . Lesson 2: Exchanging simple messages
243 . Lesson 3: Passing arguments to the processes (in SG)
244 . Lesson 4: Attaching callbacks to messages
245 . Lesson 5: Using globals in processes
246 . Lesson 6: Logging informations properly
247 . Lesson 7: Using internal timers
248 . Lesson 8: Handling errors through exceptions
249 . Lesson 9: Exchanging simple data
250 . Lesson 10: Remote Procedure Calling (RPC)
251 . Lesson 11: Explicitely waiting for messages
252 . Recapping of message passing features in GRAS
253 - A HOWTO section containing:
254 o HOWTO design a GRAS application
255 More are due, of course. They will come latter. In the meanwhile, you can
256 check the examples which are still here.
258 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri Mar 16 21:11:46 CET 2007
260 SimGrid (3.1) stable; urgency=high
264 There was a stack corruption somewhere, visible only when optimizing
265 with these versions. [Vince]
268 * This is a NEW module! SimDAG (SD for short) is a revival of the old SG
269 module that enabled to play with Directed Acyclic Graphs. It is built
270 directly on top of SURF and provides an API rather close to the old
271 SG. Some old codes using SG are currently under rewrite to check that
272 all needful functions are provided. [Christophe Thiery]
275 * Complete rewrite of the KCCFLN05 workstation model. It is now an
276 extension of the classical CLM03 model that gracefully handles
277 failures. This is now the default model for MSG and GRAS. It doesn't
278 handle parallel tasks yet though. [AL]
279 * Bug fix: Weights were not correctly set in the network part.
280 WARNING: This may have resulted in incorrect results with simulations
281 where there are more than one flow on a given link. [AL]
284 * After a (long ?) discussion on simgrid-devel, we have decided that the
285 convention we had on units was stupid. That is why it has been decided
286 to move from (MBits, MFlops, seconds) to (Bits, Flops, seconds).
287 WARNING : This means that all previous platform files will not work as
288 such with this version! A warning is issued to ask users to update
290 A conversion script can be found in the contrib module of the CVS, under
291 the name contrib/platform_generation/surfxml_update.pl [MQ]
294 * Bug fix: Processes were started in reverse order, wrt deployment file.
295 WARNING: if your code relies on this bug, please fix it. [AL]
296 * Bug fix: Add a test in MSG_task_execute to stop whenever a task is
297 being executed on two different locations. [AL]
298 * Bug fix: Failures are now better supported thanks to Derrick's tests
299 (there was many failure situations I hadn't thought of and that weren't
300 correctly handled). [AL]
301 * New function: MSG_host_is_avail indicates you whether a given m_host_t
305 * New! a real RPC mecanism, as it ought to be since too long. [MQ]
306 Exception occurring on server-side are propagated back to client (!).
308 API CHANGE: the callback changed their prototype. Change:
309 int my_handler(gras_socket_t expeditor, void *payload_data) {
311 int my_handler(gras_msg_cb_ctx_t ctx , void *payload_data) {
312 gras_socket_t expeditor=gras_msg_cb_ctx_from(ctx);
314 * New! function: gras_msg_handleall to deal with all messages arriving
315 within a given period.
316 * New! function: gras_socket_server_range to get a server socket in a
317 range of port numbers (ease to avoid port number conflicts) [MQ]
318 * New! gras processes display their backtrace when they get a SIGUSR1
319 or when Ctrl-C is pressed. Use Ctrl-C Ctrl-C to exit.
320 Sweet to debug RL processes [MQ]
324 - Do not force experiment sizes to be expressed in kb, or it becomes
325 impossible to measure the latency this way (needs one byte-long tests)
326 WARNING: this changes the amok_bw_* function semantic. [MQ]
327 - Implements the link saturation stuff. [MQ]
328 * Peer management module:
329 New! module factorizing code that we wrote over and over [MQ].
332 * New module: cunit (my jUnit implementation in ansi C) [MQ]
333 - Test units are placed directly into the library code, they get extracted
334 automatically and placed into the src/testall binary.
335 - Convert most of the XBT tests to this system.
336 * New functions: xbt_dynar_getfirst_as() and xbt_dynar_getlast_as() [MQ]
337 * XML parsing: rewrote parts of flexml to enable multiple xml parsers to
338 live in the same C code. This required to change a little bit the API
339 of surfxml parsing but shouldn't be an issue for end-users. [AL]
340 * New module: sparse graph structure with basic algorithms (this is work
341 in progress and the API is not considered to be frozen yet). [AL]
342 * Display more information on backtraces: source line & function names are
343 now displayed just like valgrind does (rely on addr2line tool) [MQ]
344 * New function: xbt_backtrace_display(). Sweet while debuging [MQ]
345 * Reworked a little bit some #include statements to load only required
346 headers. Some user code that relied on SimGrid to include stdlib or
347 stdio may need to include it by themselves. [AL]
348 * Fixed xbt/log.h. A missing SG_BEGIN_DECL prevented compilation with
350 * Renamed xbt_host_t into xbt_peer_t since it betterly describes what I
351 meant. This breaks the API of AMOK and of xbt/config. Sorry about this,
352 but I guess that almost nobody used those parts. [MQ]
354 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:32:27 +0200
356 SimGrid (3.0.1) stable; urgency=low
359 * Unfortunately, I had missed 5 misnamed functions:
360 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_newitem(void);
361 void xbt_fifo_freeitem(xbt_fifo_item_t);
362 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getFirstItem(xbt_fifo_t l);
363 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getNextItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
364 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getPrevItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
365 They're now deprecated. Please use their new versions:
366 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_new_item(void);
367 void xbt_fifo_free_item(xbt_fifo_item_t);
368 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_first_item(xbt_fifo_t l);
369 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_next_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
370 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_prev_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
372 * Bugfix: really disconnect fifo items which are remove_item()ed [AL]
373 * Documentation: xbt_log module unmercifully reworked [MQ]
374 * Bugfix: there was a problem with the ending of contexts with
375 the pthread backend. It caused some weird deadlock or behavior
376 depending on the pthread implementation. [AL]
377 * Bugfix: get the exceptions raised in the simulator repport where
378 and why they come from when they are not catched in time [AL, MQ]
381 * Bugfix: Do repport the error when two non-connected hosts try to
382 exchange data (Thanks to Flavien for stumbling into this one) [AL]
385 * Add additionnal checkings on communications. Assert that two
386 communicating hosts are connected by a set of links... [AL]
389 * Add additionnal checkings on channel values in communication [AL]
390 * New: MSG_task_get_source to see on which host a task was generated [HC]
391 * New: int MSG_task_probe_from_host(int channel, m_host_t host): returns
392 the number of tasks waiting to be received on channel and sent
394 * New: MSG_error_t MSG_task_get_from_host(m_task_t * task, int channel, m_host_t host);
395 waits for the first task coming from a given host.. [AL]
397 GRAS new functionnalities: [MQ]
398 * Enhance the parsing macro to allow the size of multidimentional objects
399 to be given thru annotations.
400 * New example (and documentation): Matrix Multiplication a la RPC
401 (as when I was young!) and fix a bunch of bugs found on the way.
403 GRAS performance improvements: [MQ]
405 * Reduce the amount of cbps creation/destruction by making it static to
406 datadesc_send/recv() and using a (newly created) cbps_reset (based on
409 * Change libdata to a set so that we can search for stuff by ID (and thus
410 reduce the insane amount of dict lookups)
413 * Actually implement gras_datadesc_copy() so that we don't have to mimick
414 RL communication on top of SG since it's so uneffective.
415 It may also be used for inter-thread communication in RL, one day.
416 * Use gras_datadesc_copy() to exchange messages on top of SG
418 - improve message exchange performance on top of SG
419 - deprecate transport_plugin_sg.c:gras_trp_sg_chunk_send() & recv()
420 * Don't exchange on the network the size of the used part of buffer,
421 instead, specify the possible buffer size to read().
423 - reduces the amount of read/write calls (one pair per exchange)
424 - reduces the amount of exchanged data (the size)
425 - allows to retrieve all arrived data on receiver side, if we don't need
426 it right now (subsequent read will peek the buffer)
427 - allows the receiver to proceed with the begining of the stream before
428 everything is arrived
429 - make it possible to build an iov transport (using readv/writev)
431 - take care of the data with non-stable storage (like stacked data),
433 * If possible, TCP send uses vector I/O (when writev() is here)
434 - Don't use it for receive since we send data sizes and data on the
435 same stream, so we wouldn't be able to chain large amount of chunks
436 before having to flush the stuff to read the size.
437 * Rework the transport plugin mecanism to simplify it and reduce the
438 amount of pointer dereferencement when searching for the right function
441 * I guess that now, we do almost as few system calls as possible while
442 doing as few data copy as possible.
444 To improve it further, we could try to send all the sizes first and then
445 all the data (to use iov on receiving size), but it's only a partial
446 solution: when you have 2 dimensional data, the sizes of the second
447 dimension is data of the first dimension, so you need 3 streams.
449 I'm not sure the potential performance gains justify the coding burden.
451 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:42:20 +0200
453 SimGrid (3.00) stable; urgency=high
456 * New! Give the possibility to hijack the surf parser and thus bypass
457 MSG_create_environment and MSG_launch_application. Have a look at
458 examples/msg/msg_test_surfxml_bypassed.c to see how it can be done.
460 -- Arnaud Legrand <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 20 Aug 2005 23:25:25 -0700
462 SimGrid (2.96) unstable; urgency=low
467 * New! Exception handling with setjmp or such (code from OSSP ex) [MQ]
468 This deprecates the xbt_error_t mecanisms.
469 It modifies (simplifies) all XBT and GRAS API.
470 MSG API keeps unchanged (exceptions raised by XBT are catched from
471 within MSG and masked with existing error handling facilities)
474 * New! Add a FATPIPE model. [AL]
475 * New! Add a parallel task model. [AL]
476 * New! Add automatically a loopback interface (in the default
477 network model) if none was precised.
480 * Bugfix: MSG_process_resume now works with the current running process.
482 * New! Add MSG_parallel_task_create and MSG_parallel_task_execute. [AL]
483 * Modification of MSG_task_get_compute_duration. Once a task has been
484 processed, the value returned by this function is now equal to 0. [AL]
485 * New! Add double MSG_task_get_remaining_computation(m_task_t task) and
486 MSG_error_t MSG_task_cancel(m_task_t task). Add a state
487 (MSG_TASK_CANCELLED) to MSG_error_t corresponding to the cancelation
488 of a m_task. For now, MSG_task_cancel only works with computation
490 * New! Add double MSG_get_host_speed(m_host_t h) that returns the speed
491 of the processor (in Mflop/s) regardless of the current load on the
493 * API Change: use proper naming convention for MSG_getClock and
494 MSG_process_isSuspended: MSG_get_clock and MSG_process_is_suspended.
496 * New! Add void MSG_task_set_priority(m_task_t task, double priority).
497 This function changes the priority of a computation task. This priority
498 doesn't affect the transfer rate. A priority of 2 will make a task
499 receive two times more cpu power than the other ones. This function
500 has been added to suit the needs of Nguyen The Loc and hasn't been that
501 much tested yet. So if it fails, please report it and send me your code.
503 * API Change: removed all functions and types that were marked "deprecated"
504 since many months. Renamed MSG_global_init_args to MSG_global_init.
506 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:58:47 -0700
508 SimGrid (2.95) unstable; urgency=low
511 * Steal some nice code to GNU pth to fix context detection and usage [AL]
512 * Cleanup in the xbt_config API; add configuration callbacks. [MQ]
513 * Cleanup in the initialization API: the unused "defaultlog" is dead. [MQ]
516 * Bugfix: Allow absolute paths for platform description files [MQ]
517 * Bugfix: do free the variables after use. Leads to drastic performance
519 * Implement max_duration (ie, timeouts) on resources [AL]
522 * Implement MSG_config to configure MSG at runtime. xbt_cfg test on a real
524 * Implement MSG_channel_select_from() to help GRAS now that SURF provide
525 the needed support (timeouts) [AL]
528 * Implement measurement sockets. You can now get the bandwidth between two
529 hosts thanks to AMOK (see below). [MQ]
530 * gras_datadesc_dynar() builds a dynar type descriptor, allowing to send
531 dynar over the network (yeah) [MQ]
532 * Real (even if simplistic) implementation of gras_os_myname() on RL [MQ]
533 * simple/static token-ring example. [Alexandre Colucci and MQ]
534 * Use MSG_channel_select_from() and remove the *slow* hack we had to put
538 * Differentiate the types "char[22]" and "unsigned char[22]" in automatic
539 type parsing. "short" and "long" modifiers were also ignored; other
540 modifier (such as reference level) are still ignored. [MQ]
541 * Embeed the buffer size within the buffer itself on SG. [MQ]
542 That way, send() are atomic and cannot get intermixed anymore (at least
543 the ones which are less than 100k; bigger messages still have the issue)
544 * Array size pushed by the field, not by the field type (or each
545 and every long int will push stuff to the cbps) [MQ]
546 * use select() to sleep since it allows to portably sleep less than one
549 GRAS (minor cleanups)
550 * <project>.Makefile.local (generated from gras_stub_generator) |MQ]:
553 * Type Callbacks now receive the gras_datadesc_type_t they work on as argument.
554 * type category 'ignored' killed as it was never used and were difficult
556 * whether a type can cycle or not is now a flag, leaving room for more
557 flags (as "ignored", if we feel the need one day ;)
558 * Rename raw sockets to measurement sockets since "raw" has another
559 meaning in networking community.
562 * Advanced Metacomputing Overlay Kit introduction. It is based over GRAS
563 and offers features not belonging to GRAS but that most applications
564 need. One day, it may be a set of plugins loadable at runtime.
565 * New module: bandwidth
566 bandwidth measurement between arbitrary nodes running this module. [MQ]
568 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:29:20 -0700
570 SimGrid (2.94) unstable; urgency=low
572 The first beta release of SimGrid 3 !
576 * Update the main page and the FAQ. Adding references to gforge.
579 * Add a gras_os_getpid function.
582 * Add MSG_task_get_compute_duration() and MSG_task_get_data_size()
583 * Extend the logs so that they also print PID, hostname, date, ... if
585 * Convert the MSG example to the use of xbt_logs instead of PRINT_MESSAGE,
586 and kill the old version which were in testsuite/
587 * Rewrite tools/MSG_visualization/colorize.pl for using with logs instead
591 * Add xbt_os_time(). As the rest of xbt/portability, this is not public
592 for users. Instead, each programming environment (GRAS, MSG,...) use it
593 when needed to provide such a feature to users.
594 Don't shortcut the mecanism or you will also shortcut the virtualization
595 you need on the simulator.
599 * Cleanups in configury with regard to compile optimization/warning flags.
600 Also add -fno-loop-optimize to any powerpc since it's the optimization
601 killing gcc (< 3.4.0).
602 * Doxygen cleanups: move MSG examples, kill the second Doxygen phase
603 needed by MSG examples complications
604 * Borrow configury beautifications from PHP
607 * Bugfix: XBT_LOG_NEW_DEFAULT_CATEGORY now compiles without compiler
608 warning (thanks loris for stumbling into this one).
609 * Bugfix: stop loading private headers (gras_config.h) from the public
613 * Change SIMGRID_INSTALL_PATH to GRAS_ROOT in Makefiles generated for user.
614 * Rename gras_get_my_fqdn to gras_os_myname and implement it in the simulator
615 RL would imply a DNS resolver, which is *hard* to do in a portable way
616 (and therefore delayed).
617 * Implement a real timer mecanism and use it in timing macros. This allows
618 to avoid rounding errors and get a 0.000005 sec precision in timing
619 macros. While I was at it, various cleanups:
620 - allow to declare more than one timed section per file (fix a stupid bug)
621 - move some private declaration to the right place
622 - merge conditional execution and timing macros into emulation module
623 - document the module
624 - make sure the module cleanups its mess on gras_exit
625 * Documentation improvements:
626 - (new) how to compile applications using GRAS
627 - (new) emulation support (timing macros)
629 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 13 May 2005 10:49:31 +0200
631 SimGrid (2.93) unstable; urgency=low
633 Alpha 4 on the path to SimGrid 3 (aka the "neuf-trois" version)
636 - Use Paje properly where used. Still to be sanitized properly.
637 - Portability fix: Add an implementation of the contexts using pthread
641 - Add xbt_procname(): returns the name of the current process.
642 Use it to show the current process's name in all logging.
644 - fix detection of older flex version and the reaction, since we do
645 depend on modern ones (we use lex_destroy)
646 - Better separation of SG and RL in the libs: remove all simulation code
647 from libgras. As a result, this lib is now only 200k when stripped.
648 Some of the xbt modules may also be duplicated (two sets and such) and
649 should be cleaned/killed before SG3.
650 - Insist on using xlC on AIX because of weird problems involving gcc there.
651 - Cleanup the make remote stuff. This is now done by scripts
652 tools/graspe-{master,slave} (GRAS Platform Expender). This is still
653 mainly for our private use, but we're working on changing them to user
656 - Bugfix: flush the socket on close only if there is some *output*.
657 - Bugfix: flush idempotent when there's nothing to send (don't send size=0)
659 - Add MSG_task_get_name. The task names are mainly for debugging purpose,
662 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:32:37 -0800
664 SimGrid (2.92) unstable; urgency=low
666 Alpha 3 on the path to SimGrid 3
670 - New! First try of benchmarking macros.
671 - New! First try so that gras_stub_generator generate deployment and
672 remote compilation helpers.
674 - Bugfix: Initialization fix in msg_test.
678 - Bugfix: applied patch to lexer so that it doesn't need a huge heap.
680 - Bugfix: let dicts work with NULL content (_foreach didn't) and cleanups
682 - API Change: gras_os_sleep to take the amount of seconds as a double.
683 Accepting an int was error prone since it was the only location where
684 seconds were coded as such. It leaded to damn rounding errors.
685 - Bugfix: Hard to belive that timers ever worked before this.
687 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:09:21 +0100
689 SimGrid (2.91) unstable; urgency=low
691 Alpha 2 on the path to SimGrid 3
695 - Bug fix in the lmm_solver.
697 - New! Interface to Paje (see http://www-id.imag.fr/Logiciels/paje/)
698 through the function MSG_paje_output.
699 - New! Introducing two new functions MSG_process_kill() and MSG_process_killall().
700 - It is possible to bound the rate of a communication in MSG with
701 MSG_task_put_bounded() (was already in the previous version but I had forgotten
702 to write it in the changelog).
703 - Bug fix to let GRAS run on top of MSG until we move it directly on top
708 - Various cleanups to the autotools stuff
709 - Begin to move Gras examples to examples/gras/
710 - Let make distcheck work again (yeah!)
712 - documentation overhauled using doxygen.
713 gtk-doc-tools is dead in SimGrid now.
714 - Automatically extract all existing logging categories, and add the list
715 to the documentation (long standing one, to say the less)
717 - Cleanup the known architecture table. Reorder the entries to group what
718 should be, and use a more consistent naming scheme.
719 (some of the test dataset are still to be regenerated)
720 - New! Allow library to register globals on each process just as userdata
722 This is implemented using a xbt_dict and not a xbt_set, so we loose the
723 lookup time (for now).
724 Use it in msg and trp.
725 This cleans a lot the internals and helps enforcing privacy of the
726 headers between the gras components.
727 - New! Add a timer mechanism, not unlike cron(8) and at(1).
728 - Bugfix: gras_os_time was delirious in RL.
729 - Bugfix: gras_trp_select/RL don't run into the wall when asked to select
731 - Reenable GRAS now that it works.
733 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:02:13 -0800
735 SimGrid (2.90) unstable; urgency=low
737 Alpha 1 on the path to SimGrid 3
739 * It is a long time since the last release of SimGrid. I'm sorry about
740 that but as I had told you, I was rewriting a lot of things. I apologize
741 to those who had been reporting bugs to me and that I had not answered.
742 If your bug is still in the new version, please tell me. Here is a
743 summary of the main changes.
745 * REVOLUTION 1: The SimGrid project has merged with the GRAS project
746 lead by Martin Quinson. As a consequence SimGrid gains a lot in
747 portability, speed, and a lot more but you'll figure it out later.
748 SimGrid now comprises 3 different projects : MSG, GRAS and SMPI.
749 I wanted to release the new MSG as soon as possible and I have
750 broken GRAS, which is the reason why, for now, only MSG is fully
751 functional. A laconic description of these projects is available
752 in the documentation.
754 * REVOLUTION 2: I have removed SG and I am now using a new simulation
755 kernel optimized for our needs (called SURF but only the developers
756 should use it). Hence, MSG is now roughly 30 times faster and I think
757 that by rewriting a little bit MSG, I could event speed it up a little
758 bit more. Beside the gain in speed, it is also much easier to encode a
759 new platform model with SURF than it was with SG. More to come...
761 * REVOLUTION 3: I have tried to change a little as possible the API of
762 MSG but a few things really had to disappear. The main differences
763 with the previous version are :
764 1) no more m_links_t and the corresponding functions. Platforms are
765 directly read from a XML description and cannot be hard-coded
766 anymore. The same format is used for application deployment
767 description. The new format is described in the documentation.
768 Have a look in tools/platform_generation. There is a tiny script
769 that converts from the old platform format to the new one. Concerning
770 the application deployment format, parsing the old one is tricky.
771 I think most of you should however be able to convert your files. If
772 it is really an issue, I can write a C code that does the conversion.
774 2) the toolbox tbx does not exist anymore. We now have a library
775 with much more data-structures but without the hash-tables (we have
776 dictionaries that are much faster).
778 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:45:53 -0800
780 *****************************************************************************
781 * Follows the old GRAS changelog. It does not follow the same syntax, but I *
782 * don't feel like converting the oldies. (Mt) *
783 *****************************************************************************
786 Version 2.90: "the long awaited one"
787 - Finished rewriting and debugging MSG. Rewrote the documentation.
788 - disable GRAS for now since it needs to be ported to the newest SG
791 - Finish the port to windows (using mingw32 for cross-compile)
794 - Main loop and datastructures of SURF. A cpu resource object is
795 functional. Surf can thus be used to create cpu's with variable
796 performance on which you can execute some actions.
798 2004-11-15 Martin Quinson
799 - Port to ARM. Simply added the alignment and size descriptions. Should
800 work, but the ARM machines are so slow that I didn't had the opportunity
801 to 'make check' over there yet.
803 2004-11-15 Arnaud Legrand
804 - Trace manager now written. It uses a heap structure and is therefore
805 expected to be efficient. It may however be speeded up (particularly
806 when many events occur at the same date) by using red and black
807 trees. One day maybe...
808 - Max-min linear system solver written. It uses a sparse matrix
809 structure taking advantage of its expected use. Most operations are
810 O(1) and free/calloc are called as few as possible. The computation of
811 the minimum could however be improved by using a red and black tree
814 2004-11-03 Arnaud Legrand
815 - Rename every gras_* function that was in xbt/ to its xbt_
817 - Add a heap and a doubly-linked list to xbt
818 - Added a dichotomy to the dictionaries. make check works as well before
819 so I assume that the patch is correct. I do not know however if things
820 run effectively faster than before now. :)
822 Inclusion of the SimGrid tree in the GRAS one. The archive is renamed to
823 SimGrid, and the version number is bumped to 2.x
825 2004-10-29 Martin Quinson
826 - Introduction of the remote errors.
827 They are the result of a RMI/RPC on the remote machine.
828 ErrCodes being scalar values, you can't get the host on which those
829 errors did happen. Extending the error mechanism as in Gnome is possible.
830 No idea yet whether it is a good idea.
832 2004-10-28 Martin Quinson
833 - Interface revolution: the Starred Structure Eradication.
834 I used to do typedef struct {} toto_t; and then handle *toto_t.
835 Arnaud (and Oli) didn't like it, and I surrendered. Now, you have:
836 - ???_t is a valid type (builded with typedef)
837 - s_toto_t is a structure (access to fields with .)
838 - s_toto is a structure needing 'struct' keyword to be used
839 - e_toto_t is an enum
840 - toto_t is an 'object' (struct*)
842 typedef struct s_toto {} s_toto_t, *toto_t;
843 typedef enum {} e_toto_t;
844 Moreover, only toto_t (and e_toto_t) are public. The rest (mainly
845 s_toto_t) is private.
847 - While I was at it, all gras_<obj>_free() functions want a gras_<obj>_t*
848 so that it can set the variable to NULL. It was so for dicts and sets,
849 it changed for dynars.
851 - Fix a bunch of memleaks in dict_remove
852 - Fix a bug in sg/server_socket opening: it failed all the time.
854 2004-10-07 Martin Quinson
855 - Speed up dynar lookup operation a bit.
857 gras_dynar_get is dead.
859 Now, you can choose between gras_dynar_get_cpy (the old gras_dynar_get
860 but should be avoided for efficiency reasons) and gras_dynar_get_ptr
861 (which gives you the address of the stored data).
863 gras_dynar_get_as is an helpful macro which allows you to retrieve a
864 copy of the data using an affectation to do the job and not a memcpy.
866 int toto = gras_dynar_get_as(dyn,0,int); rewrites itself to
867 int toto = *(int*)gras_dynar_get_ptr(dyn,0);
869 It does not really speedup the dynar test because they are
870 setting elements all the time (and look them seldom). But the dict does
871 far more lookup than setting.
873 So, this brings the dict_crash test from ~33s to ~25s (200000 elms).
875 2004-10-05 Martin Quinson
876 - Allow to (en/dis)able the cycle detection at run time.
878 Whether we should check for cycle or not is now a property of each
879 datatype. When you think there may be some cycle, use datadesc_cycle_set.
880 datadesc_cycle_unset allow to remove this property when previously set.
882 Note that the cycle detection is off by default since it impacts the
883 performance. Watch the data you feed GRAS with ;)
885 This property is hereditary. Any element embedded in a structure having it
886 set have it set for the time of this data exchange.
888 You should set it both on sender and receiver side. If you don't set it on
889 sender side, it will enter an endless loop. If you forget on receiver
890 side, the cycles won't be recreated after communication.
892 - Header reorganization.
893 Kill gras_private.h, each submodule must load the headers it needs.
895 2004-10-04 Martin Quinson
896 - Interface revolution: do not try to survive to malloc failure.
898 Now, gras_malloc and friends call gras_abort() on failure.
899 As a conclusion, malloc_error is not a valid error anymore, and all
900 functions for which it was the only gras_error_t return value are
901 changed. They now return void, or there result directly.
902 This simplify the API a lot.
904 2004-09-29 Martin Quinson
905 - Re-enable raw sockets.
906 Created by gras_socket_{client,server}_ext;
907 Used with gras_raw_{send,recv}
910 It should allow to kill the last bits of gras first version soon.
912 This is not completely satisfactory yet (duplicate code with
913 chunk_{send,recv}; a bit out of the plugin mechanism), but it should
916 - Simplify transport plugin (internal) interface by not passing any
917 argument to _server and _client, but embedding them in the socket
920 2004-09-28 Martin Quinson
921 - Finish the port to AIX.
922 autoconf was my problem (segfault within the malloc replacement
923 function. No idea why)
925 2004-09-16 Martin Quinson
926 - Fix some size_t madness on 64bit architectures.
928 2004-09-08 Martin Quinson
929 - Reduce the number of system headers loaded, overload some more system
930 calls (such as malloc to cast the result of the system one, and work
932 - Fix and reintroduce the config support
934 2004-09-07 Martin Quinson
935 - Source code reorganization to allow Arnaud to surf all over there.
936 - Allow to document the logging categories.
937 - Remove all uppercase from logging categories and useless cleanup in names.
939 2004-08-18 Martin Quinson
940 Version 0.6.2 (protocol not changed; API changed)
941 - Interface cleanup: gras_msgtype_by_name returns the type (instead of a
942 gras_error_t), and NULL when not found. Functions expecting a msgtype
943 as argument (msg_wait; msg_send) deal with NULL argument by providing a
944 hopefully usefull message.
945 - Portability to prehistoric sparcs again
947 2004-08-17 Martin Quinson
948 Version 0.6.1 (protocol not changed; ABI not changed)
949 - prealloc some buffers to speed things up
951 2004-08-11 Martin Quinson
952 Version 0.6 (protocol not changed; ABI expended)
953 - The parsing macro can deal with the references, provided that you add
954 the relevant annotations (using GRAS_ANNOTE(size,field_name))
956 2004-08-09 Martin Quinson
957 Version 0.5 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
958 - Allow to off turn the cycle detection code in data exchange at
959 compilation time. It should be at run time, but I'm short of time (and
960 the config stuff is still broken). That way, we keep dict out of the
961 critical path, which is good because the performance is poor:
962 - search not dichotomial yet
963 - dynar give no way to access their content and memcpy everytime
964 - In composed data description (struct, ref and so on), stop foolness of
965 keeping the subtype's ID, but store the type itself. This keeps sets out
966 of the critical path, which is good since they rely on dynar and
967 dictionnaries. The only loose of that is that we cannot detect the
968 redeclaration of a structure/union with another content (but I'm not sure
969 the code detected well this error before anyway). We still can detect
970 the redefinition discrepancy for the other types.
971 - Use a whole bunch of optimisation flags (plus -fno-strict-aliasing since
972 it breaks the code because of type-punning used all over the place).
973 This breaks on all non-gcc architectures (for now).
975 All those changes (plus the buffer of last time) allow me to gain 2 order
976 of magnitude on cruel tests consisting of 800000 array of integers on two
977 level of a hierarchical structure (200 secondes -> 4 secondes)
980 - the selector of reference must now return the type it points to, not
983 2004-08-06 Martin Quinson
984 Version 0.4 (protocol changed; ABI not changed)
985 - Allow to pass --gras-log argument to processes in simulation mode. Really.
986 - New debugging level: trace (under debug) to see effect of GRAS_IN/OUT
987 - Implement a buffer transport, and use it by default (it relies on tcp in
988 real life and on sg in simulation).
989 That's a bit hackish since I had a new field to the structure to store
990 its data without interfering with the subtype ones. Inheritance
991 is tricky in C. And that's a kind of reverse inheritance with one class
992 derivating two classes. Or maybe a game with java interfaces. Anyway,
993 that's damn hard in C (at least).
994 Moreover, I got tired while trying to ensure plugin separation and
995 genericity in SG mode. MSG wants me to do weird things, so let's go for
996 cruel hacks (temporarily of course ;).
997 See comment in transport_private.h:71
998 - do not include all the _interface headers in private but in the files
999 which really need them (to cut the compilation time when they are
1002 2004-07-26 Martin Quinson
1003 Version 0.3 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
1004 - Major overhault of the datadesc interface to simplify it:
1005 - shorted the function names:
1006 s/gras_datadesc_declare_struct/gras_datadesc_struct/ and so on
1007 - add a trivial way to push/pop integers into the cbps without malloc.
1008 This allows to make really generic sub_type description, which simply
1009 pop their size of the stack.
1010 - add a function gras_datadesc_ref_pop_arr() which does what users want
1011 most of the time: Declare a dynamic array (which pops its size of the
1012 stack) and declare a reference to it. Poor name, but anyway.
1013 - kill the post-send callback, add a post-receive one
1015 2004-07-23 Martin Quinson
1016 Version 0.2 (protocol changed; ABI changed)
1017 - add some testing for cpbs in the test cases, and fix some more bugs.
1018 This invalidate again the little64 data file, since I cannot regenerate
1020 - remove an awfull optimization in the logging stuff, allowing me to:
1021 - understand it again
1022 - learn gcc how to check that the argument match the provided format
1023 - fix all errors revealed by gcc after that
1024 - internal keys of dict are not \0 terminated. Deal with it properly in
1025 loggings instead of segfaulting when the user want to see the logs :-/
1027 2004-07-22 Martin Quinson
1028 - Fix some stupid bug preventing cbps (callback postit) from working
1030 2004-07-21 Martin Quinson
1031 - Some documentation cleanups
1032 - remove the useless last argument of msgtype_declare
1033 - rename the Virtu functions to fit into the 'os' namespace
1034 - move headers src/include -> src/include/gras/ and stop fooling with
1035 gras -> . symbolic link
1036 - make distcheck is now successful
1038 2004-07-19 Martin Quinson
1040 - Build shared library also
1041 - Install html doc to the right location
1042 - stop removing maintainer files in make clean
1043 - build tests only on make check
1045 2004-07-13 Martin Quinson
1047 - No major issue in previous version => change versionning schema
1048 - Re-enable little64 convertion test now that Abdou kindly regenerated the
1049 corresponding dataset.
1051 2004-07-11 Martin Quinson
1053 - Get it working with any kind of structure (we can compute the padding
1054 bytes remotely for all the architectures I have access to)
1055 - Implement the structure parsing macro (still not quite robust/complete)
1056 - Improvement to the remote testing toysuite
1058 2004-07-10 Martin Quinson
1059 [autoconf mechanism]
1060 - get ride of a bunch of deprecated macros
1061 - actually run the test for two-compliment, not only compile it :-/
1062 - test whether the structures get packed (and bail out if yes. Damn.
1063 Alignment is a serious matter)
1064 - test whether the structures get compacted (but respecting the alignment
1065 constraints of each types)
1066 - test whether the array fields of structures can straddle alignment boundaries
1068 - Damnit, double are bigger than float (typo in creation of 'double' datadesc)
1069 (took me 2 hours to find that bug, looking at the wrong place)
1070 - Add gras_datadesc_declare_{union,struct}_close(). They must be used
1071 before sending/receiving and are used to compute the offsets of fields
1072 - Given that padding size depend even on compiler options, keep track of
1073 alignment and aligned_size only for the current architecture. Not a big
1074 deal since we send structure fields one after the other (seems
1076 - Add the datastructure used for IEEE paper by the PBIO guys to the test
1077 program, let it work on linux/gcc/little32. portability todo.
1079 2004-07-08 Martin Quinson
1080 - import and improve remote compilation support from FAST
1081 - make sure make check works on half a dozen of machines out there
1083 2004-07-07 Martin Quinson
1084 Let's say it's version 0.0.3 ;)
1085 - Implement conversions (yuhu!)
1086 - Let it work on solaris (beside conversion, of course)
1087 - Stupid me, using rand() to generate the conversion datatests in not wise.
1089 2004-07-06 Martin Quinson
1090 - Let make dist work, since I'm gonna need it to compile on remote hosts
1091 - Let Tests/datadesc_usage write the architecture on which the file was
1092 generated as first byte.
1093 - Add PowerPC (being also IRIX64), SPARC (also power4) and ALPHA
1094 architecture descriptions.
1095 - Add datadesc_usage.{i386,ppc,sparc} files being the result of execution
1096 on those architectures.
1097 - Optimization: send/recv array of scalar in one shoot
1099 2004-07-05 Martin Quinson
1100 - YEAH! GRAS/SG and GRAS/RL are both able to run the ping example !
1102 - Plug a whole bunch of memleaks
1103 - each process now have to call gras_{init,exit}. One day, their log
1104 settings will be separated
1105 - Continue the code factorisation between SG, RL and common in Transport.
1107 2004-07-04 Martin Quinson
1109 - Redistribution between SG and RL.
1110 We wanna have to accept in SG, so move accepted related parts of RL in
1111 the common part. (more precisely, the dynar of all known sockets is no
1112 more a static in transport.c, but part of the process_data)
1114 [gras_stub_generator]
1115 - Bug fix: Do call gras_process_init from gras_init (wasnt called in RL).
1117 2004-07-03 Martin Quinson
1118 - Create a new log channel tbx containing dict, set, log, dynar (to shut
1119 them all up in one shot)
1121 - Fix the ugly case of reference to dynamic array.
1122 - New (semi-public) function gras_datadesc_size to allow the messaging
1123 layer to malloc the needed space for the buffer.
1125 - gras_socket_close now expect the socket to close (and not its address to
1126 put NULL in it after it). This is because the socket passed to handlers
1127 is one of their argument (=> not writable).
1129 - propagate the interface cleanup from last week in datadesc, ie remove a
1130 superfluous level of indirection. User pass adress of variable
1131 containing data (both when sending and receiving), and not of a variable
1132 being a pointer to the data. Let's say that I like it better ;)
1133 The price for that is constructs like "int msg=*(int*)payload" in
1134 handlers, but it's a fine price, IMHO.
1136 - Let it work in RL (yuhu)
1138 2004-06-21 Martin Quinson
1140 - porting SG plugin and SG select to new standards (works almost).
1141 - plug memleaks and fix bugs around.
1144 - cleanup the prototype of data recv and force users to specify when they
1145 want to handle references to objects. Test case working even for cycles.
1146 - plug memleaks. Valgrind is perfectly ok with this.
1148 2004-06-12 Martin Quinson
1150 - cleanup the separation between plugin and main code in plugin creation
1152 2004-06-11 Martin Quinson
1154 - Reput hook for raw sockets, needed for BW experiments
1155 - kill a few lines of dead code
1156 [Data description] Interface cleanup
1157 - gras_datadesc_by_name returns the searched type or NULL.
1158 That way, no variable is needed to use a type desc once, which makes
1160 - gras_datadesc_declare_[struct|union]_append_name is removed. The last
1161 two parameters were strings (field name, type name), leading to
1163 [Dicos] Interface cleanup
1164 - gras_dico_retrieve -> gras_dico_get ; gras_dico_insert -> gras_dico_set
1165 This is consistant with the dynar API.
1167 2004-04-21 Martin Quinson
1169 - Porting to new standards.
1171 - interface cleanup.
1172 There is no bag anymore, no need to take extra provision to mask the
1173 pointers behind "ID".
1174 Better splitup of functions between files create/exchange/convert.
1175 This is still a bit artificial since convert and receive are so
1176 interleaved, but anyway.
1178 - add a queued message list to procdata (the ones not matching criteria
1180 - factorize some more code between SG and RL wrt procdata
1182 - use gras_exit in example to track memleaks
1183 - get rid of gs_example now that GS is properly integrated into gras
1184 - update run_test to integrate the lastest tests (datadesc)
1186 - rename WARNINGn macros to WARNn since it prooved error-prone
1188 2004-04-19 Martin Quinson
1190 - register init/exit functions within gras module mechanism
1191 - send/receive function.
1192 Convertion is not implemented, but short-cutted if not needed.
1193 struct/array elements are sent one by one (instead of block-wise), but
1194 nobody really cares (yet). Get a prototype before optimizing.
1195 - tests (using a file socket) for DD send/receive on:
1196 - base types: int, float
1197 - array: fixed size, string (ie ref to dynamic string)
1198 - structure: homogeneous, heterogeneous
1199 - chained list, graph with cycle
1200 Believe it or not, valgrind is not too unhappy with the results. The
1201 cycle happily segfaults, but the others are ok. And I'm sick of pointers
1205 - Bugfix when using a filename explicitely (instead of '-')
1207 2004-04-09 Martin Quinson
1209 - factorize more code between RL and SG in socket creation
1210 - Complete the implementation and tests of:
1212 o file (only in RL, and mainly for debugging)
1214 I lost 3 days to design a portable address resolver, and then decided
1215 that the prototype mainly have to run on my box.
1216 Addressing portability too early may be like optimizing too early :-/
1218 - use gras_init in the Tests instead of the crappy parse_log_opt
1219 (the latter function is removed)
1220 [Conditional execution]
1221 - New functions: gras_if_RL/gras_if_SG (basic support for this)
1222 [Code reorganisation]
1223 - Get rid of libgrasutils.a since it makes more trouble than it solves.
1224 Build examples against the RL library, since there is no way to disable
1225 its creation for now.
1227 For information, the beginning of coding on GRAS was back in june
1228 2003. I guess that every line has been rewritten at least twice since