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documentation: Fixed typos and enhanced Release Notes a little.

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Andrew Johnson
2010-11-17 13:31:32 -06:00
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@@ -99,8 +99,8 @@ installation.</p>
<p>epicsEvent is now explicitly required to act as a simple binary semaphore.
A single epicsEventSignal call must awaken just one thread when multiple
threads are waiting for the event. A test thats checks for this has been
added to epicsEventTest and the application developers guide is being updated
threads are waiting for the event. A test that checks for this has been
added to epicsEventTest and the Application Developer's Guide has been updated
to describe this requirement.</p>
<h4>Enable array puts to subArray records</h4>
@@ -183,8 +183,8 @@ connections over ssh. See the CA reference manual for more details.</p>
<h4>Record Types aai and aao</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed bug in memory allocation that caused crashes when linking other records
to aai or aao.</li>
<li>Fixed bug in memory allocation that caused crashes when linking other
records to aai or aao.</li>
<li>Fixed bug where NELM was modified instead of NORD.</li>
<li>Added Soft Channel device support.</li>
<li>Added SIOL link and proper simulation mode for Soft Channel support.</li>
@@ -212,19 +212,20 @@ macro <tt>NO_DEVLIB_COMPAT</tt> is defined.</li>
<li>The "virtual os" table was renamed from <tt>pdevLibVirtualOS</tt> to
<tt>pdevLibVME</tt> reflecting the fact that other bus types will need seperate
tables.</li>
<li>The "virtual os" table API has been moved to a seperate header file,
<li>The "virtual os" table API has been moved to a different header file,
<tt>devLibVMEImpl.h</tt>.</li>
</ul>
<h4>DTYP and INP/OUT order</h4>
<p>The fields DTYP and INP/OUT can now be specified in any order.</p>
<p>The fields DTYP and INP/OUT can now be specified in any order in a database
instance (.db) file.</p>
<h4>Rewrite epicsThreadOnce()</h4>
<p>Michael Davidsaver suggested a better implementation of epicsThreadOnce()
which makes it possible for all architectures to detect recursive initialization
functions. This change also renames the routines to remove the original macro
functions. This change also renames the routines to remove the original macro,
and fixes some questionable usage in places.</p>
<h4>Many Record Types</h4>
@@ -235,7 +236,7 @@ giving correct initial monitor behavior in some circumstances.</p>
<h4>Compress Record Type</h4>
<p>Fixed crash when ALG (algorithm) was changed to Average at runtime.</p>
<p>Fixed a crash when ALG (algorithm) was changed to Average at runtime.</p>
<h4>configure/RELEASE Enhancements</h4>
@@ -247,9 +248,11 @@ definition is expanded. The variable <tt>EPICS_HOST_ARCH</tt> can now be used,
but target-architecture-specific values must be set in a target-specific
<tt>configure/RELEASE</tt> file such as <tt>RELEASE.Common.linux-x86</tt>.</p>
<h4>VxWorks 6.7 support</h4>
<h4>VxWorks 6.7 and 6.8 support</h4>
<p>Added build support for the latest Wind River release.</p>
<p>Added build support for the latest Wind River releases. This does not
include the ability to run on SMP vxWorks systems though, those will need some
more extensive modifications.</p>
<h4>RTEMS 4.10 support</h4>
@@ -261,7 +264,7 @@ is used.</p>
<p>Changes to the way in which we generate header dependency files, which are
now named with a <tt>.d</tt> suffix instead of <tt>.depends</tt>. We now use
the compiler to generate these if possible, and create them in the
the compiler to generate these where possible, and create them in the
<tt>O.$(T_A)</tt> directory.</p>
<h4>Installed file permissions</h4>