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| author | Dana Robinson <derobins@hdfgroup.org> | 2020-08-19 19:04:34 (GMT) |
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| committer | Dana Robinson <derobins@hdfgroup.org> | 2020-08-19 19:04:34 (GMT) |
| commit | 00388c4e0f252f29426416b33d2f4d13c1dcdbb6 (patch) | |
| tree | 9904834b72c8530adc6fd5ea0dc38c455a3bdcc4 /release_docs | |
| parent | 5565dd5f208c1420097223c9a037fd3deee8d1b4 (diff) | |
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Disables memory sanity checks in Autotools debug builds
** ONLY FOR THIS RELEASE BRANCH **
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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index 719b018..d235a66 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -47,6 +47,23 @@ New Features Configuration: ------------- + - Disable memory sanity checks in the Autotools in release branches + + The library can be configured to use internal memory sanity checking, + which replaces C API calls like malloc(3) and free(3) with our own calls + which add things like heap canaries. These canaries can cause problems + when external filter plugins reallocate canary-marked buffers. + + For this reason, the default will be to not use the memory allocation + sanity check feature in release branches (e.g., hdf5_1_10_7). + Debug builds in development branches (e.g., develop, hdf5_1_10) will + still use them by default. + + This change only affects Autotools debug builds. Non-debug autotools + builds and all CMake builds do not enable this feature by default. + + (DER - 2020/08/19) + - Add file locking configure and CMake options HDF5 1.10.0 introduced a file locking scheme, primarily to help |