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@@ -19,7 +19,23 @@ USER VISIBLE CHANGES BETWEEN ACE-5.4.4 and ACE-5.4.5 ACE logging. Formerly any TSS objects created by these threads would be leaked. -. Added support for GNU G++ 4.0. +. Added support for GNU G++ 4.0. The x.4.5 beta takes advantage of + g++ 4.0's symbol visibility. This feature is conceptually similar + to MS Windows "__declspec(dllexport)" DLL functionality. Using this + new g++ feature results in substantially improved ACE/TAO/CIAO + shared library binaries. A subset of the improvements include the + following: + + * The number of unnecessarily exported DSO/DLL symbols is + greatly reduced, resulting in faster program start times. + * Smaller footprint. + * Improved performance since run-time indirection of internal + symbols is no longer needed. + + No changes to the ACE/TAO sources were necessary to support this + feature since the required visibility attributes were hidden behind + the various "*_Export" macros (formerly only useful for MS Windows + DLLs) used throughout ACE/TAO. . The ACE_Reactor destructor will now call close() on the referenced reactor implementation. This assures that all handlers are notified before the |