source: proiecte/hpl/openmpi_compiled/share/vampirtrace/doc/ChangeLog @ 97

5.4.10
        - reduced list of supported MPI implementations to Open MPI
          (support for other MPI implementations are available in the latest
           stand-alone release of VampirTrace;
           see http://www.tu-dresden.de/zih/vampirtrace/)
        - changed meaning of configure option '--with-openmpi': this option
          indicates an Open MPI internal build
        - fixed a bug in Fortran MPI wrappers: added conversion for MPI_BOTTOM
          and MPI_IN_PLACE

5.4.9
        - updated version of internal OTF to 1.3.12 (see extlib/otf/ChangeLog)
        - added support for cycle counter timer on Alpha and Sparc platforms
        - install header files to 'PREFIX/include/vampirtrace' by default to
          avoid conflicts with the OpenMPI integrated version of VT
        - added configure option '--with[out]-bfd' to control usage of BFD
          library to get symbol information for GNU, Intel, and Pathscale
          compiler instrumentation
        - fixed detection of Sun Studio compiler on Linux for automatic
          instrumentation
        - fixed faulty searching for matching filter directive

5.4.8
        - added wrapper for MPI function 'MPI_Init_thread'
        - fixed potential segmentation fault during shutdown the trace
          environment after tracing C++ programs
        - replaced usage of PATH_MAX by VT_PATH_MAX to avoid compile errors
          on some platforms

5.4.7
          (the cycle counter timer is not available on all Linux platforms)
        - added configure check for header file 'asm/intrinsics.h' and
          definition of '_IA64_REG_AR_ITC' which are required to use the
          ITC timer on IA64/Linux
        - fixed faulty timer selection in configure
        - fixed compile error on RedHat/CentOS due to missing header include
          of 'cctype.h' in the sources of 'vtunify'

5.4.6
        - updated version of internal OTF to 1.3.11 (see extlib/otf/ChangeLog)
        - added support for Cray CNL
        - added support for automatic instrumentation by using Pathscale
          compiler (version 3.1 or higher required)
        - fixed a bug in vtfilter where the tool dies when a counter appears
          outside of function
        - fixed faulty shell comparison in configure which may cause an infinite
          loop
        - bugfix: added configure check for I/O functions functions 'fseeko()'
          (this function is not available on NEC SX platforms)
        - enhancement to OPARI (see tools/opari/ChangeLog:14,15)

5.4.5
        - updated version of internal OTF to 1.3.10 (see extlib/otf/ChangeLog)
        - fixed a bug for LIBC's I/O tracing: argument of 'fileno()' must be
          a valid file stream
        - added configure option '--[enable|disable]-binaries' to control
          building of binaries (useful for multi-lib installations)

5.4.4
        - updated version of internal OTF to 1.3.9 (see extlib/otf/ChangeLog)
        - fixed a portability bug: use own implementation of function
          'strdup()'
        - removed variadic macros (they were introduced in C99)
        - fixed potential race condition by using OpenMP + LIBC's I/O tracing
        - fixed potential missing definition records by using OpenMP and the
          maximum number of buffer flushes was reached
        - fixed a bug in the compiler wrappers: added check for SUN's OpenMP
          compiler flag (-xopenmp)
        - fixed a bug for determining the timer-resolution for ITC
        - added process group definition for MPI communicator MPI_COMM_SELF
        - cleanup call stack when maximum number of flushes was reached
        - added check if we can link '-lz' in order to pass either '-lotf -lz'
          or just '-lotf' as OTF link option
        - renamed configure's option '--with[out]-mpi-io' to
          '[enable/disable]-mpi-io' for more consistent

5.4.3
        - bugfix for Fortran compiler wrappers (vtf77, vtf90):
          OPARI's table source file (opari.tab.c) will be compiled
          with the C compiler and flags which were given for VT's
          configure (CC/CFLAGS)
          (changeable in vt*-wrapper-data.txt)
        - bugfixes in vtunify:  - keep user's created process groups
                                  for MPI communicators
                                - reserve sorting of global process group
                                  definitions

5.4.2
        - bugfix for VPATH builds
        - added check for PAPI version to configure script
          (only support for version 3.x)

5.4.1
        - bugfix: added check for I/O functions which are a part of the large
          file extensions (e.g. open64, creat64, ...); disable corresponding
          wrapper functions, if system doesn't support these
        - added environment variable VT_DEMANGLE to enable/disable GNU
          demangling of C++ names (default: disabled, due to a bug in older
          versions of the GNU library 'liberty')
        - disabled support for I/O tracing on MacOS

5.4.0
        - updated version of internal OTF to 1.3.8 (see extlib/otf/ChangeLog)
        - added support for user defined counters
        - if available, PAPI cycle counter can be used as timer
          (see config.h after configure)
        - recording of events will be stopped if the maximum number of
          buffer flushes (env. VT_MAX_FLUSHES) was reached
        - added support for LIBC's I/O tracing
        - improved autoconf's m4 scripts for cross buildings
        - default settings for the compiler wrappers will be stored
          in share/vampirtrace/vt*-wrapper-data.txt
        - vtfilter: - direct filtering without second trace run
                    - parallelization using OpenMP

5.3.2
        - updated version of internal OTF to 1.3.7 (see extlib/otf/ChangeLog)
        - improved autoconf's m4 scripts for cross buildings
        - added support for VPATH builds

5.3.1
        - set default trace call limit for all regions/functions to 100000

5.3.0
        - updated version of internal OTF to 1.3.4 (see extlib/otf/ChangeLog)
        - added support for automatic instrumentation by using Intel compiler
          version 10.x (uses new compiler flag '-finstrument-functions')
        - added support for binary instrumentation by using Dyninst
        - added support for GLIBC's memory allocation tracing
          (see doc/UserManual*)
        - bugfix: corrected process id for OpenMP collective operations
        - changed default function/region group from 'USR' to 'Application'
        - if only MPI-functions are instrumented, then entry-record of
          function 'user' will be generated before MPI_Init
        - added trace filter generator tool 'vtfilter'
          (see doc/USAGE.vtfilter)
        - added support for multiple compiler-instrumentations from one
          installation of VampirTrace (see INSTALL)
        - replaced vtinst, vtinst-pomp, and vtinst-dyn by VT's compiler
          wrapper (see doc/UserManual* and doc/USAGE.compinst)
        - added simple example applications
        - changed install directory of documentations from '$prefix/info'
          to '$prefix/share/vampirtrace/doc'
        - changed install directory of metrics-, filter-, and grouping
          configuration from '$prefix/doc' to '$prefix/share/vampirtrace'

5.2.5
        - fixed potentially race condition by tracing OpenMP apps.
        - fixed some little memory leaks
        - fixed native counter issue on IA64 systems
        - added check for header files 'stdint.h' and 'inttypes.h'; if none of
          these files found, then own integer types will be defined

5.2.4
        - updated version of internal OTF to 1.2.19 (see extlib/otf/ChangeLog)
        - fixed compile error, which occurred by using old SUN compilers
        - added a configure summary
        - added HP MPI support
        - renamed Fortran MPI wrapper library to 'libvt.fmpi' to avoid possible
          name conflicts
        - fixed a bug (integer overflow) in mechanism for getting timer on
          Linux systems

5.2.3
        - changed install directory of documentations from 'doc' to 'info'
          (adjustable by configure option '--infodir')
        - forward configure options '--exec-prefix', '--bindir', '--libdir', ',
          '--includedir', and '--infodir' to configure command of internal OTF
        - added checking for CPP-Style Fortran preprocessor of gfortran
        - added checking for location of 'mmtimer.h'
        - made sure that peers of events (e.g. msg. send enter + msg. send)
          have the same timestamp
        - clock synchronization can be forced
          (see config.h after configure)

5.2.2
        - fixed a bug in region filter which occurred by tracing OpenMP apps.
          instrumented by compiler (vtinst)
        - added option '-k' for vtunify to keep input trace files

5.2.1
        - fixed several performance issues
        - improved mechanism for getting clock cycles on IBM PPC64 machines
        - the user can specify the mechanism, which used for getting timer
          (only for Linux, SGI Altix, IBM AIX, Cray X1
           - see config.h after configure)

5.2.0
        - updated version of internal OTF to 1.2.18 (see extlib/otf/ChangeLog)
        - replaced build system by GNU Autoconf/Automake
        - changed base name (e.g. environment variables, source files) to VT...
          (see doc/USAGE)
        - added OpenMP support by using OPARI instrumentation tool
        - write process group records, which contain the location of processes
          (node name)
        - added tool 'vtconfig' to simplify determining the right compiler and
          linker flags

5.1.7
        - updated version of internal OTF to 1.2.13

5.1.6
        - updated version of internal OTF to 1.2.11
        - fixed a bug: record the REAL buffer-length of a MPI non-blocking 
          receive operation
        - added wrapper for MPI function 'MPI_Probe'
        - added Open MPI support
        - added a simple "configure" command
          (see INSTALL)

5.1.5
        - fixed a bug in elg_otfunify time synchronization

5.1.4
        - updated version of internal OTF to 1.1.9
        - fixed a bug in elg_otfunify which occurred if compiled with PGI
          and used OMP parallelization
        - enhanced progress display of elg_otfunify

5.1.3
        - fixed little bugs in build system, which occurred if multiple
          mode building used (Makefile.32-64)
        - added support for clusters of IBM Power3/4 machines
          and Linux PPC cluster with IBM compilers

5.1.2
        - updated version of internal OTF to 1.1.8

5.1.1
        - write list of filtered regions to file (*.x.filt)
        - specified flags of 'ar' in Makefile.defs (AFLAG) will
          be assign to internal OTF configure script

5.1.0
        - counter event record will be wrote before leave event record
        - added region filter and grouping managment

5.0.6
        - added creator informations of tracefile (tracelib, version, date
          and time)
        - reduced offset of process group token
        - improved name of process groups

5.0.5
        - fixed a bug in elg_otfunify which occurred if the environment
          variable ELG_PFORM_DIR was set

5.0.4
        - fixed a bug which occurred on Opteron systems (faulty timestamps)
        - made sure that the ids of process groups and processes are
          different (for analyzing trace files)

5.0.3
        - updated version of internal OTF to 1.1.5
        - fixed a bug in GNU compiler interface which might have caused
          a segmentation fault during flushing the trace buffer

5.0.2
        - updated version of internal OTF to 1.1.4

5.0.1
        - updated version of internal OTF to 1.1.3

5.0.0
        - initial version