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diff --git a/mcs/tools/linker/ChangeLog b/mcs/tools/linker/ChangeLog deleted file mode 100644 index 32d01043d3e..00000000000 --- a/mcs/tools/linker/ChangeLog +++ /dev/null @@ -1,639 +0,0 @@ -2010-05-31 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - Merge the MonoTouch Linker branch. - - * Mono.Linker/TypeParser.cs: add a type parser. - - * Mono.Linker.Steps/MarkStep.cs: properly mark types used - with typeof in custom attributes - - * Mono.Linker/LinkContext.cs: remove dead code. - - * monolinker.exe.sources: add TypeParser.cs - -2010-03-02 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - Merge the MonoTouch Linker branch. - - * Mono.Linker/LinkContext.cs: - Allow creation with a custom resolver. - - * Mono.Linker/AssemblyResolver.cs: - Allow creation with a custom assembly cache. - - * Mono.Linker.Steps/ResolveFromAssemblyStep.cs: - - Mark fields for copied assemblied. - - Now can take an assembly directly. - - * Mono.Linker.Steps/SweepStep.cs - * Mono.Linker.Steps/CleanStep.cs: - Optimizations. - -2010-02-01 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * MarkStep.cs: SoapHeader can either take a field or a property. - -2010-01-20 Rolf Bjarne Kvinge <RKvinge@novell.com> - - * Makefile: Fetch Mono.Cecil.dll from whatever profile we happen to be - building in. - -2010-01-14 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * MarkStep.cs: preserve fields specified by the - SoapHeader attribute. - -2010-01-13 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * MarkStep.cs: preserve methods specified by the - XmlSchemaProvider attribute. - -2010-01-06 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Descriptors/mscorlib.xml: optimize descriptor. - -2009-11-23 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Descriptors/mscorlib.xml: protect the InternalThread class. - Fixes #555871. - -2009-11-02 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - Merge the MonoTouch Linker branch. - - * monolinker.exe.sources: update - - * Mono.Linker/Annotations.cs: - - add an preserved methods annotation on a type. - - add an annotation to get the base methods of a method. - - add an annotation to get the overriden method of a method. - - * Mono.Linker/AssemblyAction.cs: - add a Delete action to remove an assembly from the output set. - - * Mono.Linker.Steps/TypeMapStep.cs: - new step that create a map of virtual methods implementation. - - * Mono.Linker.Steps/MarkStep.cs: - - removal of virtual methods. - - fix for custom attributes assigning properties and field - defined in a base type. - - mark scopes. - - mark default constructors of types used as a generic instance - of a generic parameter constrained with new(). - - apply preserved methods. - - * Mono.Linker.Steps/SweepStep.cs: remove unused assemblies. - - * Mono.Linker.Steps/LoadI18nAssemblies.cs: - fix linking of i18n assemblies. - - * Mono.Linker.Steps/OutputStep.cs: - fix the copied assemblies when the output directory - is the same as the origin of the assemblies. - - * Mono.Linker.Steps/ResolveFromXmlStep.cs - * Mono.Linker.Steps/ResolveFromAssemblyStep.cs - * Mono.Linker.Steps/BaseStep.cs - * Mono.Linker/Driver.cs - * Mono.Linker/Pipeline.cs: - Cosmetics. - -2009-09-10 Andrés G. Aragoneses <aaragoneses@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker.Steps/MarkStep.cs: Make IgnoreScope() virtual to - prevent marking custom attributes of foreign assemblies in a - derived step in the tuner. ( r: jb ) - -2009-09-09 Andrés G. Aragoneses <aaragoneses@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker.Steps/MarkStep.cs: Visibility changes needed by - the need of some new tuner step to redefine or call some - methods. - -2009-07-02 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Makefile: fix cecil's location. - -2009-06-09 Andrés G. Aragoneses <aaragoneses@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker.Steps/BaseStep.cs: New virtual API needed. - - * Mono.Linker/Pipeline.cs: API love. - -2009-06-09 Andrés G. Aragoneses <aaragoneses@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker.csproj: Update. - - * Mono.Linker/Driver.cs: Prevent InvalidCastException. - -2009-06-05 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker.Steps/MarkStep.cs: fix a nre. - Based on patch by Andres G. Aragoneses <aaragoneses@novell.com>. - -2009-06-05 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker.Steps/ResolveFromXmlStep.cs: more ways of choosing fields. - -2009-06-05 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker.Steps/ResolveFromXmlStep.cs: give us more - possibilities to detail the xml descriptors. - -2009-06-04 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker.Steps/ResolveFromXmlStep.cs: fix handling - of wildcards constructors. - -2009-04-23 Andrés G. Aragoneses <aaragoneses@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker/Driver.cs: Report error and exit if it cannot - resolve some type (useful to avoid an ugly TypeLoadException - when specifying an erroneus custom step). - -2009-04-21 Andrés G. Aragoneses <aaragoneses@novell.com> - - * Driver.cs: Postprocess custom steps in order to make them - able to find steps determined by the resolve method. Fixes - #493702. - -2009-04-08 Andrés G. Aragoneses <aaragoneses@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker.csproj: Update. - -2009-02-18 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker/XApiService.cs: delete, unused. - * Mono.Linker/Driver.cs: don't use the uneeded XApiService anymore. - -2009-01-28 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker/AssemblyResolver.cs - Mono.Linker.Steps/MarkStep.cs: - Directly use the Resolve methods from Cecil. - -2008-12-16 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Makefile: build monolinker.exe in the profile directory instead of - the current one. - -2008-12-02 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker/AssemblyResolver.cs (AreSame(TypeReference,TypeReference): - fix the case where we compare two GenericInstanceType of the same - element type with different generic arguments. - -2008-11-24 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker.Steps/ResolveFromAssemblyStep.cs - * Mono.Linker.Steps/ResolveFromXmlStep.cs - * Mono.Linker.Steps/MarkStep.cs: - generalize the use of the new Has* pattern in Cecil - to avoid unecessary allocations. Also cache delegates. - -2008-09-12 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker/Pipeline.cs: add a RemoveStep method. - * Mono.Linker/Driver.cs: make the linker generate new - module guids by default. - -2008-09-12 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker.Steps/RegenerateGuidStep.cs: new step that is used - to regenerate the Mvid identifier of each linked module. - - * monolinker.exe.sources: - * Mono.Linker.csproj: add RegeneratedGuidStep to the build. - - * Mono.Linker/Driver.cs: add a -g option to control whether to - regenerate the modules identifier or not. - -2008-09-01 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker/AssemblyResolver.cs: properly cache .exes. - -2008-08-26 Zoltan Varga <vargaz@gmail.com> - - * Descriptors/mscorlib.xml: Add EntryPointNotFoundException. - -2008-03-28 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker/XApiReader.cs: deal better with complex names. - -2008-03-28 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker/LinkContext.cs: do not force the loading of - debug symbols if not asked. - -2007-12-28 Gert Driesen <drieseng@users.sourceforge.net> - - * Descriptors/mscorlib.xml: Preserve all for CultureInfo to prevent - linker from removing CreateCulture method that is only used by the - runtime. - -2007-11-21 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker.Steps/ResolveFromXmlStep.cs: - Implement resolving from xml patterns. - -2007-10-25 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * monolinker.exe.sources - * Mono.Linker.Steps/ResolveFromApiInfoStep.cs - * Mono.Linker/Driver.cs - * Mono.Linker/XApiReader.cs - * Mono.Linker/ApiInfoService.cs - * Mono.Linker/IXApiVisitor.cs: - - Big refactoring. Move logic to read Xml Api Info files - to XApiReader, so we can use that in the tuner to deal - with xapi files to inject attributes. - -2007-08-27 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker/Driver.cs - Mono.Linker/Annotations.cs - Mono.Linker/LinkContext.cs - Mono.Linker.Steps/OutputStep.cs: - Implement symbols loading/saving. - -2007-08-16 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker/Driver.cs - Mono.Linker/LinkContext.cs: - Add a way to specify parameters to the context. - -2007-08-05 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker.Steps/ResolveFromXmlStep.cs: - Now the resolver deals only with assembly names - instead of fullnames. - -2007-07-25 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker.Steps/ResolveFromAssemblyStep.cs: - When linking from an executable, it's possible - to reduce the executable as well. - -2007-07-23 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker/Driver.cs - Mono.Linker/LinkContext.cs: - Allow one to specify the action to apply to an assembly - from the command line. - -2007-07-22 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker/LinkContext.cs: - If no file found with -a, try to resolve it. - - * Mono.Linker/Driver.cs - Mono.Linker/Pipeline.cs: - Adjust the visibility only once, even with multiple -i. - -2007-07-21 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker.Steps/SweepStep.cs: - Sweep memberrefs along with the typerefs. - -2007-07-20 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker.Steps/AdjustVisibilityStep.cs: - Don't change the visibility of the members if the type - is marked internal. - -2007-07-18 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker/ResolutionException.cs: - Mono.Linker.Steps/MarkStep.cs: - Throw a resolution exception when a metadata item - can not be resolved in external assemblies. - - * Mono.Linker/AssemblyResolver.cs: - Use the assembly name only as a key for the - assembly cache. - -2007-07-05 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker/Driver.cs - Mono.Linker/Pipeline.cs: - Add a way to install steps in the pipeline - from the outside. - -2007-07-03 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker/Driver.cs: - Add support for @files - - * Mono.Linker/Driver.cs: - Add a way to add search directories to the resolver. - -2007-06-18 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker.Steps/MarkStep.cs: - Mark generic parameter constraints. - - * Mono.Linker.Steps/MarkStep.cs: - Mark modifiers of modtype. - -2007-06-15 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker/Driver.cs, - Mono.Linker/I18nAssemblies.cs, - Mono.Linker.Steps/LoadI18nAssemblies.cs: - Copy the i18n assemblies when running Mono. - - * Mono.Linker/CustomResolver.cs => AssemblyResolver.cs, - Mono.Linker/Annotations.cs, - Mono.Linker/LinkContext.cs, - Mono.Linker.Steps/ResolveFromXmlStep.cs: - Clean up the assembly reference system. - Fixes bug where the linker have multiple - time the same assembly in its cache. - -2007-06-13 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker.Steps/OutputStep.cs: - Copy .config files alongs with assemblies. - - * Mono.Linker.Steps/CleanStep.cs: - Clean memberref that are not used anymore. - -2007-06-12 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker.Steps/AdjustVisibilityStep.cs, - Mono.Linker.Steps/ResolveFromApiInfoStep.cs, - Mono.Linker/Drivers.cs: - Adjust the visibility depending on the data - gathered in the api-info. - - * Mono.Linker.Steps/ResolveFromApiInfoStep.cs: - Mono.Linker/Driver.cs: - Started working on linking from api-info. - -2007-06-08 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Descriptors/System.Drawing.xml, - Mono.Linker.Steps/BlackListStep.cs: - Add preserve infos for System.Drawing. - - * Mono.Linker.Steps/MarkStep.cs: - Tests/TestsCases/Linker/Generics/*: - Also walk through generic instances to - mark arguments. - -2007-06-07 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker.Steps/MarkStep.cs: - Mark types used in some marshal specs. - - * Mono.Linker.Tests/MarkStep.cs - Tests/Mono.Linker.Tests/XmlLinkingTestFixture.cs - Tests/TestCases/Linker/ReferenceInAttributes/*: - Mark fields and setters used in custom attribute - instantiation. Mark also types used in custom attribute - instantiation. - - * profiler/Makefile, - profiler/link.c: - Add a small profiler that outputs the xml format - that the linker can resolve. - - By running an application with the profiler, one - can help the linker gather data. Especially for dynamic - cases like assembly loading an dynamic type resolving. - -2007-06-06 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker.Steps/MarkStep.cs: - Mono.Linker/CustomResolvercs: - Try to find types in custom attributes to mark them. - - * Mono.Linker.Steps/MarkStep.cs: - Mark default constructor for serializable types. - Mark the special serialization constructor as well. - - * Mono.Linker/LinkContext.cs: - Mono.Linker.Steps/LoadReferences.cs: - Use the name of the assembly as a key - instead of the fullname. - - * Mono.Linker/CustomResolver.cs: - When a method is not found, go down - the class hierarchy to find it. - -2007-06-05 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Tests/Mono.Linker.Tests/IntegrationTestFixture.cs: - Tests/TestCases/Integration/* - Tests/Makefile: - Start the integration tests. - -2007-06-04 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker.Steps/MarkStep.cs - Mark the custom attributes on the assemblies - on initialize. - - * Mono.Linker.Steps/ResolveFromXmlStep.cs - Descriptors/corlib.xml: - Preserve the whole S.S.Crypto namespace. - - * rename back from mink to monolinker. - -2007-06-01 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * configure, config.make, mink.in: added - - * AUTHORS, MIT.X11, man/mink.1: added - -2007-05-31 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * README: added - monolinker.exe.sources: moved to mink.exe.sources - Makefile, Mono.Linker.csproj: emit a mink.exe - - * Mono.Linker/LinkContext.cs: - A resolved assembly is not always the one requested, - cache the good name. - - * Tests/Mono.Linker.Tests/AbstractLinkingTestFixture.cs - Mono.Linker.Steps/OutputStep.cs - Mono.Linker.Steps/LoadReferencesStep.cs - Mono.Linker.Steps/CleanStep.cs - Mono.Linker.Steps/ResolveFromAssemblyStep.cs - Mono.Linker.Steps/SweepStep.cs - Mono.Linker.Steps/BlacklistStep.cs - Mono.Linker.Steps/MarkStep.cs - Mono.Linker.Steps/BaseStep.cs - Mono.Linker.csproj - Mono.Linker/Driver.cs: - Add a new abstract BaseStep to be extends by most - of the steps. - Add a new LoadReferences step to force all referenced - assemblies to be resolved before the mark step. - - * Mono.Linker/CustomResolver.cs - Mono.Linker/LinkContext.cs: - Register entry assembly. - -2007-05-30 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Mono.Linker/MarkStep.cs: - Fix regression: do not mark GenericParameters that are - part of a typespec, like T[] or T*. - -2007-05-28 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Big refactoring. Get rid of the markers, use the annotations - of Cecil instead. - - * Mono.Linker/Marker.cs - Mono.Linker/MarkStep.cs - Mono.Linker/SweepStep.cs: - Use annotations to mark wether or not we should - sweep an item. - -2007-05-23 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com> - - * Mono.Limker/CleanStep.cs: - Stop doing hackish stupid things because - Cecil suddenly handles MemberRef much better. - -2007-05-19 Jb Evain <jb@nurv.fr> - - * Mono.Linker/ResolveFromXmlStep.cs - Mono.Linker/AssemblyMarker.cs - Mono.Linker/MarkStep.cs - Mono.Linker/ResolveFromAssemblyStep.cs: - Process correctly the marker selected in the resolve phases. - -2007-05-17 Jb Evain <jb@nurv.fr> - - * Mono.Linker/CleanStep.cs - Mono.Linker/SweepStep.cs - Mono.Linker/MarkStep.cs: - Link only when necessary. - - * Tests/Mono.Linker.Tests/AbstractLinkingTestFixture.cs - Tests/Mono.Linker.Tests/AbstractTestFixture.cs - Mono.Linker.csproj - Mono.Linker/ResolveFromXmlStep.cs - Mono.Linker/AssemblyMarker.cs - Mono.Linker/Marker.cs - Mono.Linker/MarkStep.cs - Mono.Linker/TypePreserve.cs - Mono.Linker/Pipeline.cs: - Deal with preserve and required infos, make last test pass. - - * Tests/Mono.Linker.Tests/XmlLinkingTestFixture.cs - Tests/Mono.Linker.Tests/AbstractLinkingTestFixture.cs - Tests/TestCases/Linker/PreserveFieldsRequired - Tests/TestCases/Linker/PreserveFieldsRequired/Library.cs - Tests/TestCases/Linker/PreserveFieldsRequired/desc.xml - Tests/TestCases/Linker/PreserveFieldsRequired/Makefile - Tests/TestCases/Linker/PreserveFieldsRequired/Library.dll: - Add a new (failing for now) test case for preserve and required. - -2007-05-16 Jb Evain <jb@nurv.fr> - - * Tests/Mono.Linker.Tests/AbstractTestFixture.cs - Mono.Linker.csproj - Mono.Linker/CoreAction.cs - Mono.Linker/Driver.cs - Mono.Linker/LinkContext.cs: - Simplify the command line options. - - * Tests/Mono.Linker.Tests/AbstractTestFixture.cs - Mono.Linker.csproj - Mono.Linker/CleanStep.cs - Mono.Linker/ResolveFromXmlStep.cs - Mono.Linker/Driver.cs - Mono.Linker/OutputStep.cs - Mono.Linker/ResolveFromAssemblyStep.cs - Mono.Linker/LinkContext.cs - Mono.Linker/BlacklistStep.cs - Mono.Linker/Pipeline.cs: - Working on black list support. - - * Descriptors/corlib.xml - Descriptors/system.xml - Descriptors/system.web.xml: - First audit of the core. - -2007-04-23 Jb Evain <jb@nurv.fr> - - * Mono.Linker/CleanStep.cs: - Clean some special cases of MemberRef. - -2007-03-19 Jb Evain <jbevain@gmail.com> - - * Fix a bug when an assembly references two - versions of an assembly with the same name. - * do some refactorings - -2007-03-16 Jb Evain <jbevain@gmail.com> - - * rename linker.exe to monolinker.exe - -2006-11-08 Jb Evain <jbevain@gmail.com> - - * Mono.Linker/AssemblyMarker.cs: - Fix a bug in method resolution. - * Mono.Linker/Driver.cs: - Fix a bug in assembly action processing. - -2006-11-02 Jb Evain <jbevain@gmail.com> - - * check-in patches adapted from contributions by: - Alex Prudkiy <prudkiy@mail.ru> - -2006-08-21 Jb Evain <jbevain@gmail.com> - - * mark types used within the runtime - -2006-08-20 Jb Evain <jbevain@gmail.com> - - * mark the custom attributes from the assemblies, modules and - generic parameters - - * mark the methods used by an event - - * mark the custom attributes on the properties and the events - which are used. - - * preserve the fields of the value types - - * clean also nested types in a proper way. - - * clean events as well - -2006-08-17 Jb Evain <jbevain@gmail.com> - - * provide a Makefile - -2006-08-16 Jb Evain <jbevain@gmail.com> - - * work on generics assemblies linking - - * use the resolver from Cecil. - - * when marking a type, also mark its virtual methods - -2006-08-15 Jb Evain <jbevain@gmail.com> - - * clean properties - - * mark interfaces as well - - * work in progress + unit tests. - -2006-07-27 Jb Evain <jbevain@gmail.com> - - * begin work on the sweep step. - -2006-07-20 Jb Evain <jbevain@gmail.com> - - * very first commit. - draft implementation of the mark phase of the linker. |