7.2p

Changes

• Avoid potential race in GC_init_real_syms after GC_allow_register_threads
• Define SUNOS5SIGS macro for kFreeBSD
• Do not assert that GC is initialized at DLL_THREAD_DETACH (Win32)
• Ensure typed objects descriptor is never located in the first word
• Fix GC_make_descriptor for zero length argument
• Fix SUNOS5SIGS documentation to match macro definition in gcconfig.h
• Fix assertion violation in GC_allow_register_threads on Windows
• Fix get_maps failure when GC_repeat_read returns zero
• Fix hb_obj_kind type in documentation (ASCII diagram) describing hblkhdr
• Fix missing lock when GC_generate_random_valid_address is called
• Fix nodist_libgc_la_SOURCES value in Makefile.am for Solaris/sparc
• Fix oldProc initialization in gc_cleanup and eliminate related warnings
• Fix parallel_initialized assertion violation in initsecondarythread (Win32)
• Fix propagation of out-of-memory occurred in GC_make_sequence_descriptor
• Fix race between calloc_explicitly_typed and push_complex_descriptor
• Fix typos in comments of .c files, gc.h and a typo in debugging.html
• Refer to Makefile.direct instead of deleted Makefile file in README
• Remove checking of RS6000 completely
• Remove non-working check of M68K in gctest
• Revert addition of msvc_dbg.h in include.am

Build status

Travis CI build
AppVeyor CI build

Distribution Tarball

gc-7.2p.tar.gz (see the Assets, includes a copy of libatomic_ops-7.2k, md5: 997549d5e07157b4867a2397bdb1e423)