1.0.41.42: ppc: Documentation and NEWS updates for threading.

* Threading now officially experimentally supported on Linux/PPC.

  * Added PPC Linux to the list of platforms with experimental
thread support in the INSTALL file and the manual.

  * Updated NEWS.
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Alastair Bridgewater 2010-08-08 01:14:39 +00:00
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@ -169,8 +169,8 @@ INSTALLING SBCL
:SB-THREAD
Native threads. Enabled by default on x86[-64] Linux only, also
available on x86[-64] Max OS X, x86[-64] FreeBSD, and x86
Solaris.
available on x86[-64] Max OS X, x86[-64] FreeBSD, x86 Solaris,
and PPC Linux.
:SB-UNICODE
Unicode support. Enabled by default. Disabling this feature

1
NEWS
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@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.41
COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION does much less wasted work.
* enhancement: Explicit memory barrier operations are now available for use
by multithreaded code. See documentation for details.
* enhancement: Experimental support for threading on Linux/PPC.
changes in sbcl-1.0.41 relative to sbcl-1.0.40:
* optimization: validity of observed keyword initargs to MAKE-INSTANCE is

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@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ SB-THREAD package.
Threads are part of the default build on x86[-64] Linux only.
They are also experimentally supported on: x86[-64] Darwin (Mac OS X),
x86[-64] FreeBSD, and x86 SunOS (Solaris). On these platforms threads
must be explicitly enabled at build-time, see @file{INSTALL} for
x86[-64] FreeBSD, x86 SunOS (Solaris), and PPC Linux. On these platforms
threads must be explicitly enabled at build-time, see @file{INSTALL} for
directions.
@menu

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;;; checkins which aren't released. (And occasionally for internal
;;; versions, especially for internal versions off the main CVS
;;; branch, it gets hairier, e.g. "0.pre7.14.flaky4.13".)
"1.0.41.41"
"1.0.41.42"