+2004-07-11 Martin Quinson
+ version 0.0.4
+ - Get it working with any kind of structure (we can compute the padding
+ bytes remotely for all the architectures I have access to)
+ - Implement the structure parsing macro (still not quite robust/complete)
+ - Improvement to the remote testing toysuite
+
+2004-07-10 Martin Quinson
+ [autoconf mecanism]
+ - get ride of a bunch of deprecated macros
+ - actually run the test for two-compliment, not only compile it :-/
+ - test whether the structures get packed (and bail out if yes. Damn.
+ Alignment is a serious matter)
+ - test whether the structures get compacted (but respecting the alignment
+ constraints of each types)
+ - test whether the array fields of structures can straddle alignment boundaries
+ [base]
+ - Damnit, double are bigger than float (typo in creation of 'double' datadesc)
+ (took me 2 hours to find that bug, looking at the wrong place)
+ - Add gras_datadesc_declare_{union,struct}_close(). They must be used
+ before sending/receiving and are used to compute the offsets of fields
+ - Given that padding size depend even on compiler options, keep track of
+ alignment and aligned_size only for the current architecture. Not a big
+ deal since we send structure fields one after the other (seems
+ reasonable).
+ - Add the datastructure used for IEEE paper by the PBIO guys to the test
+ program, let it work on linux/gcc/little32. portability todo.
+
+2004-07-08 Martin Quinson
+ - import and improve remote compilation support from FAST
+ - make sure make check works on half a dozen of machines out there
+
+2004-07-07 Martin Quinson
+ Let's say it's version 0.0.3 ;)
+ - Implement conversions (yuhu!)
+ - Let it work on solaris (beside conversion, of course)
+ - Stupid me, using rand() to generate the conversion datatests in not wise.
+
+2004-07-06 Martin Quinson
+ - Let make dist work, since I'm gonna need it to compile on remote hosts
+ - Let Tests/datadesc_usage write the architecture on which the file was
+ generated as first byte.
+ - Add PowerPC (being also IRIX64), SPARC (also power4) and ALPHA
+ architecture descriptions.
+ - Add datadesc_usage.{i386,ppc,sparc} files being the result of execution
+ on those architectures.
+ - Optimization: send/recv array of scalar in one shoot
+
+2004-07-05 Martin Quinson
+ - YEAH! GRAS/SG and GRAS/RL are both able to run the ping example !
+
+ - Plug a whole bunch of memleaks
+ - each process now have to call gras_{init,exit}. One day, their log
+ settings will be separated
+ - Continue the code factorisation between SG, RL and common in Transport.
+
+2004-07-04 Martin Quinson
+ [Transport]
+ - Redistribution between SG and RL.
+ We wanna have to accept in SG, so move accepted related parts of RL in
+ the common part. (more precisely, the dynar of all known sockets is no
+ more a static in transport.c, but part of the process_data)
+ [Core/module.c]
+ [gras_stub_generator]
+ - Bug fix: Do call gras_process_init from gras_init (wasnt called in RL).
+
+2004-07-03 Martin Quinson
+ - Create a new log channel tbx containing dict, set, log, dynar (to shut
+ them all up in one shot)
+ [DataDesc]
+ - Fix the ugly case of reference to dynamic array.
+ - New (semi-public) function gras_datadesc_size to allow the messaging
+ layer to malloc the needed space for the buffer.
+ [Transport]
+ - gras_socket_close now expect the socket to close (and not its address to
+ put NULL in it after it). This is because the socket passed to handlers
+ is one of their argument (=> not writable).
+ [Messaging]
+ - propagate the interface cleanup from last week in datadesc, ie remove a
+ superfluous level of indirection. User pass adress of variable
+ containing data (both when sending and receiving), and not of a variable
+ being a pointer to the data. Let's say that I like it better ;)
+ The price for that is constructs like "int msg=*(int*)payload" in
+ handlers, but it's a fine price, IMHO.
+ [examples/ping]
+ - Let it work in RL (yuhu)
+
+2004-06-21 Martin Quinson
+ [Transport]
+ - porting SG plugin and SG select to new standards (works almost).
+ - plug memleaks and fix bugs around.
+
+ [DataDesc]
+ - cleanup the prototype of data recv and force users to specify when they
+ want to handle references to objects. Test case working even for cycles.
+ - plug memleaks. Valgrind is perfectly ok with this.
+
+2004-06-12 Martin Quinson
+ [Transport]
+ - cleanup the separation between plugin and main code in plugin creation
+
+2004-06-11 Martin Quinson
+ [Transport]
+ - Reput hook for raw sockets, needed for BW experiments
+ - kill a few lines of dead code
+ [Data description] Interface cleanup
+ - gras_datadesc_by_name returns the searched type or NULL.
+ That way, no variable is needed to use a type desc once, which makes
+ the code clearer.
+ - gras_datadesc_declare_[struct|union]_append_name is removed. The last
+ two parameters were strings (field name, type name), leading to
+ common errors.
+ [Dicos] Interface cleanup
+ - gras_dico_retrieve -> gras_dico_get ; gras_dico_insert -> gras_dico_set
+ This is consistant with the dynar API.
+
+2004-04-21 Martin Quinson
+ [Messaging]
+ - Porting to new standards.
+ [Data description]
+ - interface cleanup.
+ There is no bag anymore, no need to take extra provision to mask the
+ pointers behind "ID".
+ Better splitup of functions between files create/exchange/convert.
+ This is still a bit artificial since convert and receive are so
+ interleaved, but anyway.
+ [Virtu(process)]
+ - add a queued message list to procdata (the ones not matching criteria
+ in msg_wait)
+ - factorize some more code between SG and RL wrt procdata
+ [Tests]
+ - use gras_exit in example to track memleaks
+ - get rid of gs_example now that GS is properly integrated into gras
+ - update run_test to integrate the lastest tests (datadesc)
+ [Logging]
+ - rename WARNINGn macros to WARNn since it prooved error-prone
+
+2004-04-19 Martin Quinson
+ [Data description]
+ - register init/exit functions within gras module mecanism
+ - send/receive function.
+ Convertion is not implemented, but short-cutted if not needed.
+ struct/array elements are sent one by one (instead of block-wise), but
+ nobody really cares (yet). Get a prototype before optimizing.
+ - tests (using a file socket) for DD send/receive on:
+ - base types: int, float
+ - array: fixed size, string (ie ref to dynamic string)
+ - structure: homogeneous, heterogeneous
+ - chained list, graph with cycle
+ Believe it or not, valgrind is not too unhappy with the results. The
+ cycle happily segfaults, but the others are ok. And I'm sick of pointers
+ for now.
+ [Transport]
+ [File plugin]
+ - Bugfix when using a filename explicitely (instead of '-')
+
+2004-04-09 Martin Quinson
+ [Transport plugins]
+ - factorize more code between RL and SG in socket creation
+ - Complete the implementation and tests of:
+ o TCP
+ o file (only in RL, and mainly for debugging)
+
+ I lost 3 days to design a portable address resolver, and then decided
+ that the prototype mainly have to run on my box.
+ Addressing portability too early may be like optimizing too early :-/
+ [Tests]
+ - use gras_init in the Tests instead of the crappy parse_log_opt
+ (the latter function is removed)
+ [Conditional execution]
+ - New functions: gras_if_RL/gras_if_SG (basic support for this)
+ [Code reorganisation]
+ - Get rid of libgrasutils.a since it makes more trouble than it solves.
+ Build examples against the RL library, since there is no way to disable
+ its creation for now.
