Re: [DynInst_API:] Dyninst 9.0 release!

[Bill Williams <bill@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

In a little bit, 9.0.2 will be live...there was a last bug report to fix 
from 9.0.1. With any luck, I won't get another report 5 minutes after I 
push the tag...
9.0.2 changes: fixed legacy #defines for version information.
9.0.1 changes: fixes for PowerPC and ARM builds, and for building from 
non-git-checkout source trees.
If you're building for x86 from a git checkout with no use of the legacy 
#defines, 9.0.0 should be fine.
Pages and files should, going forward, have a standard major.minor.patch 
format, for those of you building tools/packages based on Dyninst; tags 
should consistently be vmajor.minor.patch as well.
On 08/24/2015 02:10 PM, Barton Miller wrote:
>     ================================
>       ANNOUNCEMENT: Release 9.0 of
>                Dyninst
>                ParseAPI
>                SymtabAPI
>                InstructionAPI
>                StackwalkerAPI
>                ProcControl
>                PatchAPI
>                DynC_API
>     ================================
>
> We are pleased to announce a major new release of Dyninst 9.0 and its
> component tool kits. This release includes ParseAPI 9.0, SymtabAPI
> 9.0, InstructionAPI 9.0, StackwalkerAPI 9.0, ProcControl 9.0, PatchAPI
> 9.0, and DynC_API 9.0.
>
> This release includes new usability features and efficiency
> improvements, and the beginning of our effort to port to ARM64
> (ARMv8)/Linux.  As with previous releases, we support Linux, Windows,
> IBM BG/Q, and Cray systems. All released components are fully
> integrated with Dyninst.
>
> NEW FEATURES AND BUG FIXES:
>
> * Code diversity and defensive feature: Dyninst now allows modification
>    of the stack frames of functions.
>
> * Dealing with defensive/packed binaries: SD-Dyninst is now integrated
>    into the Dyninst main line.
>
> * Much better parsing of unknown code: Machine learning based gap
>    parsing rules are now integrated into Dyninst, and no longer need
>    to be compiler-specific. Gap parsing should find significantly more
>    function entry points, particularly when run on code generated by
>    non-GNU compilers.
>
> * Inlined functions: SymtabAPI now provides information
>
> * ARM64/V8 LInux: SymtabAPI (in read-only mode), ProcControl, and
>    Stackwalker (in 3rd-party mode) now work
>
> * Loops are now represented in ParseAPI and PatchAPI, as well as at
>    the BPatch level. The loop interface has been extended to represent
>    irreducible loops correctly.
>
> * Better handling of control flow pointers: Indirect control flow is
>    now analyzed by a principled, slicing-based approach. This approach
>    significantly improves the accuracy of our parsing.
>
> * Memory improvements: SymtabAPI and ParseAPI should consume much less
>    memory for representing symbols, symbol indexes, line information,
>    block extents, and function extents. There will be a small CPU penalty
>    when opening files under SymtabAPI in exchange for this.
>
> * Thread local storage: ProcControl, in conjunction with Symtab, now
>    supports accessing variables located in thread-local storage on Linux.
>    See the manual for details.
>
> * More efficient safe instrumentation: TrampGuards have been optimized.
>
> * Compile-time thread limit on mutatees has been removed.
>
> * Fixes in ProcControl's exit handling code.
>
> Note that all Dyninst code is open source, released under the GNU
> LGPL. And thank you to Red Hat for hosting the Linux RPMs.
>
> Dyninst official distributions are available from:
>    http://www.paradyn.org/html/dyninst9.0.1-software.html
>
> The mirrors here will be updated soon:
>    http://www.dyninst.org/downloads/dyninst-9.x
>
> or you can git checkout the v9.0.1 tag from:
>    http://git.dyninst.org/dyninst.git
>
> Dyninst 9.0 is also available as a standard part of RedHat
> distributions and is making its way through their RPM publication
> process now.
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Bill Williams
Paradyn Project
bill@xxxxxxxxxxx