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<p>Android NDK ChangeLog:</p>
<hr />
<h1>android-ndk-r9d</h1>
<h2>IMPORTANT CHANGES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Added Clang 3.4; <code>NDK_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION=clang</code> now picks Clang 3.4.
GCC 4.6 remains the default.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>For ARM: Added <code>APP_ABI=armeabi-v7a-hard.</code> All ARM toolchain are rebuilt with
additional multilib option <code>-mfloat-abi=hard.</code> With "APP_ABI=armeabi-v7a-hard",</p>
<blockquote>
<ol>
<li>ndk-build add "TARGET_CFLAGS += <code>-mhard-float</code> <code>-D_NDK_MATH_NO_SOFTFP=1"</code> and
"TARGET_LDFLAGS += <code>-Wl,--no-warn-mismatch</code> <code>-lm_hard"</code> on top of the existing
flags for armeabi-v7a. The final library is installed at libs/armeabi-v7a,
(ie. can't coexist with armeabi-v7a in the same <code>APP_ABI</code>). Also note that <code>APP_ABI=all</code>
expands to "armeabi armeabi-v7a x86 mips" as before.</li>
<li><code>make-standalone-toolchain.sh</code> copies additional libaries under /hard directories.
Add the above CFLAGS and LFLAGS in your makefile for GCC/clang to link with
libraries in /hard</li>
</ol>
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<p>For X86: Added yasm and <code>LOCAL_ASMFLAGS</code>/EXPORT_ASMFLAGS.
ndk-build use prebuilts/<em>/bin/yasm</em> to compile source specified in <code>LOCAL_SRC_FILES</code>
with .asm extension </p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Updated mclinker to 2.6.0 with <code>-gc-sections</code> support</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Added experimental libc++ support (upstream r201101). To use it:</p>
<blockquote>
<ol>
<li>Add "APP_STL := c++_static" or "APP_STL := c++_shared" in Application.mk.
You may rebuild from source via "LIBCXX_FORCE_REBUILD := true"</li>
<li><code>"make-standalone-toolchain.sh</code> --stl=libc++" to create standalone
toolchain with libc++ headers/lib
See b.android.com/36496 and <a href="CPLUSPLUS-SUPPORT.html">CPLUSPLUS-SUPPORT</a></li>
</ol>
</blockquote>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>IMPORTANT BUG FIXES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Fixed GCC 4.6/4.8 ARM EABI uncaught throw from unexpected exception
handler.
See <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59392">http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59392</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed GCC 4.8 not correctly resolve partial specialization of template with
dependent non-type template argument.
See <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59052">http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59052</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Added more modules to prebuilt python</p>
<blockquote>
<ol>
<li>linux: zlib, nis, crypt, _curses and _curses_panel</li>
<li>darwin: zlib, bz2, _curses, _curses_panel, _hashlib, _ssl
See b.android.com/59902</li>
</ol>
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed X86/MIPS' gdbserver event_getmsg_helper</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed numerous issues in the RenderScript NDK toolchain, including issues with
compatibility across older devices and C++ reflection.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>OTHER BUG FIXES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Fixed headers</p>
<blockquote>
<ol>
<li>Fixed typo in sources/android/support/include/iconv.h.<br />
See <a href="http://b.android.com/63806">b/63806</a></li>
<li>Fixed missing #include <sys/types.h> in android/asset_manager.h for API &gt;= 13
See <a href="http://b.android.com/64988">b/64988</a></li>
<li>Fixed missing #include <stdint.h> in android/rect_manager.h for API &gt;= 14</li>
<li>Added JNICALL to JNI_OnLoad and JNI_OnUnload in jni.h. Note that JNICALL
is defined to <code>__NDK_FPABI__</code> (see sys/cdefs.h)</li>
<li>Fixed the following headers to be inclued alone: android/tts.h, EGL/eglext.h,
fts.h GLES/glext.h, GLES2/gl2ext.h, OMXAL/OpenMAXSL_Android.h, SLES/OpenSLES_Android.h,
sys/prctl.h, sys/utime.h. See <a href="http://b.android.com/64679">b/64679</a></li>
<li>Added sys/cachectl.h for all archs. Only has effect to mips, but
developers no longer need to put #ifdef <strong>mips</strong> around it</li>
<li>Fixed platforms/android-18/include/android/input.h by adding
<code>__NDK_FPABI__</code> to functions taking/returning float/double.</li>
<li>Fixed MIPS' "struct stat" which was incorrectly set to its 64-bit
counterpart for API&gt;=12 (regression in the last r9c release)</li>
<li>Define <code>__PTHREAD_MUTEX_INIT_VALUE,</code> <code>__PTHREAD_RECURSIVE_MUTEX_INIT_VALUE,</code>
and <code>__PTHREAD_ERRORCHECK_MUTEX_INIT_VALUE</code> for API &lt; 9</li>
<li>Added scalbln, scalblnf, and scalblnl to x86's libm.so for API &gt;= 18</li>
</ol>
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed gabi++ std::unexpected() to call std::terminate() so that
user-defined std::terminate() handler have chance to run</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed gabi++ to catch std::nullptr</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed samples Teapot and MoreTeapots to</p>
<blockquote>
<ol>
<li>Rendering issue in Tegra2/3. Now having medium precision for specular
variable, so that specular power can be &lt;1.0</li>
<li>Workaround an issue where SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_IMMERSIVE_STICKY is invalidated
when a volume button is pressed. Issue remains: Immersive mode still does
not recover when the screen has been rotated, due to onSystemUiVisibilityChange
is not triggered when screen is rotated.</li>
</ol>
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed ndk-build to add <code>-rpath-link=$SYSROOT/usr/lib</code> and <code>-rpath-link=$TARGET_OUT</code>
for linking executable with ld.bfd. See b.android.com/64266</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Removed <code>-Bsymbolic</code> from all STL build</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed ndk-gdb-py.cmd by setting SHELL as env. var. instead of passing it to
python.exe which can't understand it.
See b.android.com/63054</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed <code>"make-standalone-toolchain.sh</code> --stl=stlport" to copy instead of symlink
gabi++ headers, otherwise the one created in cygwin wont' be understood by
cmd.exe and MinGW shell</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>OTHER CHANGES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>"chmod a+x" all *cmd scripts previously intended for use in CMD.exe only,
in case developers prefer to use ndk-build.cmd in cygwin instead of the
recommended ndk-build</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Speed up <code>make-standalone-toolchain.sh</code> by moving instead of copying if
destination directory (eg. --install-dir=<dir>) doesn't exist.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<h1>android-ndk-r9c</h1>
<h2>IMPORTANT CHANGES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>This is a bug-fix-only release.</li>
</ul>
<h2>IMPORTANT BUG FIXES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Fixed GCC 4.8 ARM where stack pointer is restored too early than access
to varaible in stack frame via frame pointer.
See <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58854">http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58854</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed GCC 4.8 libstdc++ where the generated code random segfault on std::nth_element
See <a href="http://b.android.com/62910">b/62910</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed GCC 4.8 ICE in cc1/cc1plus with <code>-fuse-ld=mcld.</code> Message reads:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>cc1: internal compiler error: in common_handle_option, at opts.c:1774</p>
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed <code>-mhard-float</code> support for __builtin math functions.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/62496">b/62496</a>. Please track comment of <a href="http://b.android.com/61784">b/61784</a>
for on-going fixes for <code>-mhard-float</code> with STL</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>OTHER BUG FIXES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Fixed headers</p>
<blockquote>
<ol>
<li>Fixed prototype of poll to poll(struct pollfd *, nfds_t, int); in poll.h</li>
<li>Added utimensat and futimens to libc.so to API level &gt;=12 and &gt;=19, respectively.</li>
<li>Added missing clock_settime() and clock_nanosleep() in time.h for API&gt;=8.</li>
<li>Added CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW, CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE, CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE,
CLOCK_BOOTTIME, CLOCK_REALTIME_ALARM, and CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM in time.h.
Removed obsolete CLOCK_REALTIME_HR and CLOCK_MONOTONIC_HR.</li>
</ol>
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<p>Refactored samples Teapot, MoreTeapots and source/android/ndk_helper.
Use hard float-abi for armeabi-v7a, added immersive mode in android-19, etc.
Also fix crash on X86 device in /system/lib/libdvm.so Check_ReleaseStringUTFChars</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed ndk-build fails in cygwin if NDK package is referenced via symlink</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed ndk-build.cmd fails in windows cmd.exe if <code>LOCAL_SRC_FILES</code>
contain absolute path.
See <a href="https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/69992">r/69992</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed ndk-stack to proceed even when it can't parse a frame due to
unable to locate routine, filename, or line number, in which case "??"
is printed.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed ndk-stack windows-x64_64 erroneously matches frame line with in "stack:"
section even when the line has no word "pc", "eip", or "ip" in it, eg.</p>
<blockquote>
<pre><code>I/DEBUG ( 1151): #00 5f09db68 401f01c4 /system/lib/libc.so
</code></pre>
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed gabi++ to not use malloc() to allocate C++ thread-local
objects, and avoid dead-lock in gabi++ when libc.debug.malloc is non-zero in
userdebug/eng Android platform builds</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>OTHER CHANGES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Added <code>LOCAL_EXPORT_LDFLAGS</code></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Introducing <code>NDK_PROJECT_PATH=null</code> for use in an integrated build system
where options are explicitly passed to ndk-build. With it ndk-build
make no attempt to look for <code>NDK_PROJECT_PATH</code>, and as a result the following
variables depending on <code>NDK_PROJECT_PATH</code> to be explicitly specified
(since they can on longer derive default value from <code>NDK_PROJECT_PATH</code> when it's null):
<code>NDK_OUT</code>, <code>NDK_LIBS_OUT</code>, <code>APP_BUILD_SCRIPT</code>, <code>NDK_DEBUG</code> (optional, default to 0),
and other <code>APP_</code>* used to be in Application.mk</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Allow <code>APP_ABI</code> to be comma-delimited list, eg. <code>APP_ABI</code> := "armeabi,armeabi-v7a"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Rebuild all STL with debugging info (ie. "-g") in separate optional package
android-ndk-r9c-cxx-stl-libs-with-debugging-info.zip.
This helps ndk-stack to provide better stack dump across STL.
The code/size of the final stripped shouldn't be affected.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Enhanced hello-jni samples to report <code>APP_ABI</code> at compilation</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Static libraries are built with Deterministic (option D) mode of ar
tool. See <a href="http://b.android.com/60705">b/60705</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<h1>android-ndk-r9b</h1>
<h2>IMPORTANT CHANGES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Updated include/android/*h and math.h for all API up to 18, add API level 13,
15, 16 and 17 in the process.
See commit message in <a href="https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/68012">r/68012</a>
and <a href="https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/68014">r/68014</a> for added APIs.
Issues <a href="http://b.android.com/47150">b/47150</a>, <a href="http://b.android.com/58528">b/58528</a>, and
<a href="http://b.android.com/38423">b/38423</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Added API19 for Renderscript binding support</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Supported <code>-mhard-float</code> in the existing "armeabi-v7a" ABI. See
tests/device/hard-float/jni/Android.mk for details and current
restriction on Clang.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Rebased GCC 4.8 to 4.8.2, and add diagnostic color support. To enable
it, set <code>-fdiagnostics-color=auto</code> or <code>-fdiagnostics-color=always,</code> or
simply export GCC_COLORS, eg.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>export <code>GCC_COLORS='error=01;31:warning=01;35:note=01;36:caret=01;32:locus=01:quote=01'</code></p>
</blockquote>
</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>See <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Language-Independent-Options.html">http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Language-Independent-Options.html</a></p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Added two new samples to demostrate OpenGL ES3 features: Teapot and MoreTeapots.
Run on devices with API&gt;=16 (Don't run on emulator)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Both GCC 4.7 and Clang 3.2 are deprecated, and will be removed from the next release.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>IMPORTANT BUG FIXES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Fixed ARM GCC 4.6 thumb2 fails to generate 16bit relative jump table.
See <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48328">http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48328</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed GCC 4.8 ICE on g++.dg/cpp0x/lambda/lambda-defarg3.C
See <a href="https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/62770">r/62770</a> and <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2013-07/msg00424.html">http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2013-07/msg00424.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed Windows 32-bit *-gdb.exe fail to launch.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/58975">b/58975</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed GCC 4.8 ICE when building bullet library with error message reads:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>internal compiler error: verify_flow_info failed</p>
</blockquote>
</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>See <a href="http://b.android.com/58916">b/58916</a> and <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58165">http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58165</a></p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Fixed GDB/ARM to skip ARM.exidx data for unwinding in prologue code.
Add a command "set arm exidx-unwinding" to control exidx-based stack
unwinding.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/55826">b/55826</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed Clang 3.3 MIPS where HI and LO registers are incorrectly reused.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed MIPS 4.7 ICE with erro reads:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>external/icu4c/i18n/decimfmt.cpp:1322:1: internal compiler error: in dbx_reg_number, at dwarf2out.c:10185</p>
</blockquote>
</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>See <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2012-12/msg00830.html">http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2012-12/msg00830.html</a></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>OTHER BUG FIXES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Fixed headers</p>
<blockquote>
<ol>
<li>Fixed ARM's WCHAR_MIN / WCHAR_MAX to be unsigned according to spec. (X86/MIPS'
are signed). Define _WCHAR_IS_ALWAYS_SIGNED to restore old behavior.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/57749">b/57749</a></li>
<li>Fixed include/netinet/tcp.h to contain TCP_INFO state enum.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/38881">b/38881</a></li>
<li>Fixed cdefs_elh.h _C_LABEL_STRING macro which causes warnings with gcc 4.8 toolchain in c++11 mode.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/58135">b/58135</a>, <a href="http://b.android.com/58652">b/58652</a></li>
<li>Removed non-existence functions imaxabs and imaxdiv from header inttypes.h</li>
<li>Marked pthread_exit() as <strong>noreturn, and pthread_self() as </strong>pure2.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/60686">b/60686</a></li>
<li>Added missing mkdtemp() already exists in bionic in stdlib.h</li>
</ol>
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed samples/gles3jni build with Clang at android-11</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed mclinker to allow mulitple occurrences of the following options: <code>-gc-sections</code> and --eh-frame-hdr.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed mclinker to accept --no-warn-mismatch</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed cpu-features not to assume all VFPv4 devices support IDIV.
Now it only adds IDIV to white-listed devices (Nexus 4 at this moment)
<a href="http://b.android.com/57637">b/57637</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed android_native_app_glue.c to stop errors being logged erroneously on event predispatch</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed all operations on gabi++ terminate and unexpected_handler to be thread-safe</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>More fixes on Clang <code>-integrated-as</code> to pass tests ssax-instructions and fenv</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed GCC 4.6/4.7/4.8 to pass linker option --eh-frame-hdr even for
static executable. See <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2012-09/msg00969.html">http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2012-09/msg00969.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed extra apostrophe in <a href="CPU-ARCH-ABIS.html">CPU-ARCH-ABIS</a>
See <a href="NDK-DEPENDS.html">NDK-DEPENDS</a>, <a href="http://b.android.com/60142">b/60142</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed extra quotes in ndk-build output on Windows
See <a href="http://b.android.com/60649">b/60649</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed Clang 3.3 to compile ARM atomic builtin <code>__atomic_fetch_add</code>/sub/or/...</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed Clang 3.3 ICE on customized vfprintf. See
<a href="http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=16344">http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=16344</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>OTHER CHANGES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Enabled OpenMP for all GCC: Add the following flags: "LOCAL_CFLAGS += <code>-fopenmp"</code>
and "LOCAL_LDFLAGS += <code>-fopenmp".</code>
Please find examples in tests/device/test-openmp</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Significantly reduced the size of ld.mcld (1.5MB vs. ld.bfd 3.5MB and ld.gold 7.5MB)
and result in ~20% speed up too.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Added <code>LOCAL_CONLYFLAGS</code> and <code>APP_CONLYFLAGS</code> to specify options applicable to C only
but not C++. The reason being that the existing <code>LOCAL_CFLAGS</code> and <code>APP_CFLAGS</code> are
also used for C++ compilation (to save trouble of specifying most options twice),
option like <code>-std=gnu99</code> may fail g++ (warning) and clang++ (error).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Added gabi++ array helper functions</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>All libgcc.a in gcc are built with <code>-funwind-tables</code> to allow stack to unwind past <code>__aeabi_idiv0</code>
for example</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Added Ingenic MXU support in MIPS GCC 4.6/4.7/4.8 with new option <code>-mmxu</code></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Extended MIPS GCC 4.6/4.7/4.8 <code>-mldc1-sdc1</code> to control ldxc1/sdxc1 too</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Added crazy linker. See sources/android/crazy_linker/README.TXT</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed bitmap-plasma to draw on full screen rather than 200x200</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Reduced linux and darwin toolchain size by 25% (by symlink to
identical files)</p>
</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<h1>android-ndk-r9</h1>
<h2>IMPORTANT CHANGES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Added GLES3 headers/libraries and new API level 18.
See <a href="STABLE-APIS.html">STABLE-APIS</a> and the new samples/gles3jni/README</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Added GCC 4.8 compiler. Since GCC 4.6 is still the default,
you need to explicitly enable it:</p>
<blockquote>
<ol>
<li>For ndk-build: Either export <code>NDK_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION=4.8</code> or add it
in Application.mk.</li>
<li>For standalone: Use "--toolchain=" option in <code>make-standalone-toolchain.sh</code>.
eg. "--toolchain=arm-linux-androideabi-4.8"</li>
</ol>
</blockquote>
</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>Note that:</p>
<ol>
<li><code>-Wunused-local-typedefs</code> is enabled by <code>-Wall.</code> Be sure to add "__attribute__((unused))"
if you use compile-time assert like sources/cxx-stl/stlport/stlport/stl/config/features.h
line #311.
See <a href="https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/55460">r/55460</a></li>
<li>Since 4.7 <code>-munaligned-access</code> is default for ARMv6+. You may
compile with <code>-mno-unaligned-access</code> for kernel not supporting it.</li>
</ol>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Added Clang 3.3; <code>NDK_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION=clang</code> now picks Clang 3.3.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Both GCC 4.4.3 and Clang 3.1 are deprecated, and will be removed
from the next release.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Gdb is now built with python 2.7.5 support.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Added mclinker for Windows host. Since ld.gold is the default
where available, you need to add <code>-fuse-ld=mcld</code> in <code>LOCAL_LDFLAGS</code> or
<code>APP_LDFLAGS</code> to explicitly enable it.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>New tool ndk-depends to print ELF library dependencies.
See <a href="NDK-DEPENDS.html">NDK-DEPENDS</a>, <a href="http://b.android.com/53486">b/53486</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>IMPORTANT BUG FIXES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Fixed potential event handling issue in android_native_app_glue.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/41755">b/41755</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed ARM/GCC-4.7 to generates sufficient alignment for NEON
instruction vst/vld.
See <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57271">http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57271</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed GCC 4.4.3/4.6/4.7 ICE at const negative index to string literal
See <a href="http://b.android.com/54623">b/54623</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed GCC 4.7 segfault on const init to object address.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/56508">b/56508</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed GCC 4.6 ARM broken <code>-Os</code> on boost 1.52.0.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/42891">b/42891</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed libc.so and libc.a to contain wait4 already exist in header.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/19854">b/19854</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed x86's libc.so and libc.a to contain clone()</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed <code>LOCAL_SHORT_COMMANDS</code> bug where linker.list file is empty and not
used.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/57105">b/57105</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed GCC MIPS on darwin to use CFI directives. Without this,
"ld.mcld --eh-frame-hdr" fail very often.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed Clang 3.2 X86/MIPS ICE in llvm/lib/VMCore/Value.cpp.
See <a href="https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/59021">r/59021</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed GCC 4.7 64-bit Windows assembler crash with error message reads:
"out of memory allocating 4294967280 bytes"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>ndk-gdb "--start" or "--launch" now has application waits for gdbserver to
attach, which allows breakpoints set in early execution path (eg. JNI) to
be hit more reliably. It does needs jdb and produces warning about pending
breakpoints. You may specify "--nowait" to restore previous behavior.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/41278">b/41278</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed GDB crashes when library list is empty</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed GDB crashes when "stepi" past a "bx pc" or "blx pc" Thumb instruction
See <a href="http://b.android.com/56962">b/56962</a> and <a href="http://b.android.com/36149">b/36149</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed MIPS gdbserver to look for DT_MIPS_RLD_MAP instead of DT_DEBUG.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/56586">b/56586</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed ndk-build circular dependency, eg. A-&gt;B, B-&gt;B, then B was dropped from build.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/56690">b/56690</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>OTHER BUG FIXES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Fixed ndk-build to be able to replace <code>NDK_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION=clang</code> specified at
commandline to clang3.2. (Fine if it's specified in environment variable).
Error message reads</p>
<p>... ndk/toolchains/arm-linux-androideabi-clang/prebuilt/linux-x86/bin/arm-linux-androideabi-gcc
Command not found</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed gabi++ sizeof(_Unwind_Exception) to be 24 for MIPS in Clang.
See <a href="https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/54141">r/54141</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed ndk-build to ensure that built libraries actually are removed on
ndk-build clean, from projects that include prebuilt static libraries.
See See <a href="http://b.android.com/53527">b/53527</a>,
<a href="https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/54461">r/54461</a>/ and
<a href="https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/54480">r/54480</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed <code>NDK_ANALYZE=1</code> to be less verbose</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed gnu-libstdc++/Android.mk to include /backward path.
Error message reads:</p>
<p>sources/cxx-stl/gnu-libstdc++/4.6/include/ext/hash_map:61:30: fatal
error: backward_warning.h: No such file or directory</p>
</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>See <a href="http://b.android.com/53404">b/53404</a></p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Fixed stlport new somtimes return randon values</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed ndk-gdb to match in the order of CPU_ABIS, not <code>APP_ABIS</code>.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/54033">b/54033</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed NDK 64-bit on MacOSX choses wrong path for compiler.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/53769">b/53769</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed to detect 64-bit Windows Vista.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/54485">b/54485</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed X86 ntonl/swap32. Error message reads:
error: invalid 'asm': operand number out of range"</p>
</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>See <a href="http://b.android.com/54465">b/54465</a> and
<a href="https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/57242">r/57242</a></p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Fixed ld.gold to merge string literals</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed ld.gold to handle large symbol alignemnt</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed ld.gold to enable "--sort-section=name" option</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed GCC 4.4.3/4.6/4.7 to supress <code>-export-dynamic</code> for statically linked
programs. GCC no longer adds .interp section for statically linked programs.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed GCC 4.4.3 stlport compilation error about inconsistent typedef of
_Unwind_Control_Block.
See <a href="https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/54426">r/54426</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed awk scripts to handle AndroidManifest.xml created on Windows
which may contain trailing \r, and cause error message reads.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/42548">b/42548</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>__gmsl:512: *** non-numeric second argument to wordlist' function: ''. Stop.</p>
<p>Invalid attribute name:
package</p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Fixed <code>make-standalone-toolchain.sh</code> to probe the prebuilts/ dir to detect the
appropriate default host bitness.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed clang3.2 <code>-integrated-as</code></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed clang3.2 ARM EHABI compact model pr1/pr2 handlerdata</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed clang error with option "-mllvm <code>-arm-enable-ehabi"</code> which reads</p>
</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>clang: for the <code>-arm-enable-ehabi</code> option: may only occur zero or one times!</p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>Fixed NDK fails to build if there's no uses-sdk element in AndroidManifest.xml.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/57015">b/57015</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>OTHER CHANGES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Fixed headers</p>
<blockquote>
<ol>
<li>__set_errno in errno.h is deprecated, and libc.so no longer exports it.
To be compatible in the meantime, __set_errno becomes an inlined function in header</li>
<li>#include "stdint.h" in elf.h.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/55443">b/55443</a></li>
<li>Fixed sys/un.h to be included on its own.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/53646">b/53646</a></li>
<li>Fixed MotionEvent_getHistorical family of APIs in usr/include/android/input.h to
all take const AInputEvent* motion_event.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/55873">b/55873</a></li>
<li>Fixed malloc_usable_size to take "const void*".
See <a href="http://b.android.com/55725">b/55725</a></li>
<li>Fixed stdint.h to be more compatible with C99.
See <a href="https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/46821">r/46821</a></li>
<li>Fixed wchar.h not to redefine WCHAR_MAX/WCHAR_MIN</li>
<li>Fixed <inttypes.h> declaration for pointer-related PRI/SCN macros.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/57218">b/57218</a></li>
<li>Changed sys/cdefs.h so <code>__WCHAR_TYPE__</code> is 32-bit even for API &lt; 9,
ie. wchat_t is 32-bit for all API level.
Define _WCHAR_IS_8BIT to restore old behavior.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/57267">b/57267</a></li>
</ol>
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<p>Added more fomatting in NDK docs/, and misc docs/ fixes including callbacks/threads and others.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Support "thin-archive" for building static libraries.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/40303">b/40303</a> and <a href="ANDROID-MK.html">ANDROID-MK</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Script <code>make-standalone-toolchain.sh</code> now supports stlport
in addition to gnustl, with --stl=stlport.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/53472">b/53472</a> and <a href="STANDALONE-TOOLCHAIN.html">STANDALONE-TOOLCHAIN</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Script <code>make-standalone-toolchain.sh</code> --llvm-version= now also
creates scripts $TOOLCHAIN_PREFIX-clang and $TOOLCHAIN_PREFIX-clang++
in addition to clang and clang++, to avoid using host's clang/clang++
by accident.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Added two flags to re-enable two optimizations in upstream Clang
but disabled in NDK for better compatibility with code used to be
compiled by GCC:</p>
<blockquote>
<ol>
<li>Added a flags <code>-fcxx-missing-return-semantics</code> to re-enable "missing
return semantics" in clang 3.2+. Normally for a value-returning
function all paths should terminate with a return statment. If not,
clang inserts undefined instruction (or trap in debug mode) at path
w/o return statement. If you are sure your code is correct, use
this flag for optimizer to take advantage of the undefined behavior.
If you are not sure, don't use this flag. The caller may still receiver
random incorrect value, but optimizer won't exploit it and make thing
even worse to debug.</li>
<li>Added a flag <code>-fglobal-ctor-const-promotion</code> to re-enable promoting
global variables with static constructor to constant. With this
flag, the global variable optimization pass of LLVM will try to
evalutate the global variables with static constructors, and promote
the global constants. Although this optimization is correct, it may
cause some incompatability with code compiled by gcc. For example,
code may do const_cast to cast the constant to mutable and modify it.
In GCC the variable is in read-write and the code run by accident. But
in Clang the const variable will be in read-only memory and crash</li>
</ol>
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<p>Added <code>-mldc1-sdc1</code> to MIPS GCC and Clang compilers. By default
compilers align 8-byte objects properly and emit instructions
ldc1/sdc1 to move them around. If your app use custom allocator
which doesn't always align new object 8-byte boundary like the default
one does, your app may crashes due to ldc1/sdc1 on unaligned memory.
In this case you may use <code>-mno-ldc1-sdc1</code> to workaround.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Downgrade warning to "info" if <code>APP_PLATFORM_LEVEL</code> is larger than <code>APP_MIN_PLATFORM_LEVEL</code>.
<code>APP_PLATFORM_LEVEL</code> may be lower than <code>APP_PLATFORM</code> in jni/Application.mk
because NDK doesn't have headers for all level, and the actual level is
shifted downward. <code>APP_MIN_PLATFORM_LEVEL</code> is retrieved from android:minSdkVersion
in AndroidManifest.xml.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/39752">b/39752</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>cpu-features.c: add android_getCpuIdArm() and android_setCpuArm()
This allows retrieving the ARM CPUID information easily.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/53689">b/53689</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Clang now compiles with GCC 4.8's as/ld in ndk-build.
Note that from GCC 4.7, "monotonic_clock" and "is_monotonic" are
renamed to "steady_clock" and "is_steady", respectively</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Added new warnings in ndk-build:</p>
<blockquote>
<ol>
<li>if <code>LOCAL_LDLIBS</code>/LDFLAGS are used in static library modules</li>
<li>if there is no module to build</li>
<li>non-system libraries used in <code>LOCAL_LDLIBS</code>/LDFLAGS of shared library
or executable modules</li>
</ol>
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<p>Updated ndk-build so that if <code>APP_MODULES</code> is not defined and only static libraries
are listed in Android.mk, force-build all of them.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/53502">b/53502</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>ndk-build now supports absolute paths in <code>LOCAL_SRC_FILES</code></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Executable "<code>*-gdbtui", which is equivalent to "</code>*-gdb <code>-tui",</code> is removed for the sake of space.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Issue warning when EDG front-end turns _STLP_HAS_INCLUDE_NEXT
back on.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/53646">b/53646</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Added <code>NDK_LIBS_OUT</code> to override path for libraries/gdbserver from the default
$PROJECT/libs. See <a href="OVERVIEW.html">OVERVIEW</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Changed ndk-build defaults to compile code with format string protection
"-Wformat <code>-Werror=format-security".</code> You may set
<code>LOCAL_DISABLE_FORMAT_STRING_CHECKS=true</code> to disable it.
See <a href="ANDROID-MK.html">ANDROID-MK</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Added STL pretty-print support in ndk-gdb-py.
See <a href="NDK-GDB.html">NDK-GDB</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Misc build/test</p>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li>Added tests based on googletest frameworks</li>
<li>toolchain build script warns if shell isn't bash</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<h1>android-ndk-r8e</h1>
<h2>IMPORTANT CHANGES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>NDK now delivers additional 64-bit host toolchain set (package name suffix
<code>*-x86_64.*</code>)</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<ol>
<li>
<p>The ndk-build script uses 64-bit toolchain if it's present and your OS
supports it. If you install both 32-bit and 64-bit toolchain on 64-bit
OS, you may export <code>NDK_HOST_32BIT=1</code> or add it to the command-line to
always use the 32-bit host toolchain.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>For standalone: add to <code>make-standalone-toolchain.sh</code> "--system=linux-x86_64"
on Linux or "--system=darwin-x86_64" on MacOSX to generate 64-bit host
toolchain instead of the default 32-bit</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p>See <a href="NDK-BUILD.html">NDK-BUILD</a></p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>Added Clang 3.2 compiler. Since GCC 4.6 is still the default, you need to
explicitly enable it:</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<ol>
<li>
<p>For ndk-build: Either export <code>NDK_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION=clang3.2</code> (or
<code>NDK_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION=clang</code> which picks the most recent among the
clang compilers in the package) or add it in Application.mk.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>For standalone: Add "--llvm-version=3.2" to <code>make-standalone-toolchain.sh</code>
and replace CC and CXX in your makefile with <tool-path>/bin/clang
and <tool-path>/bin/clang++.</p>
</li>
</ol>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>Added static code analyzer for Linux/MacOSX hosts</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<ol>
<li>
<p>For ndk-build, either export <code>NDK_ANALYZE=1</code> or add it to the command-line.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>For standalone, please refer to ndk-build for example to run scan-build
using /path/to/standalone/bin/<arch>/analyzer.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p>This feature is experimental now but welcome to try and report issues.</p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>Added MCLinker for Linux/MacOSX hosts. Since ld.gold is the default
where available, you need to add <code>-fuse-ld=mcld</code> in <code>LOCAL_LDFLAGS</code> or
<code>APP_LDFLAGS</code> to explicitly enable it.</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>This feature is experimental now but welcome to try and report issues.
Please find project page: <a href="https://code.google.com/p/mclinker/">https://code.google.com/p/mclinker/</a></p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>ndk-build now uses topological sort for module dependencies, ie.
it automatically sorts out the order of libraries specified in
<code>LOCAL_STATIC_LIBRARIES</code>, <code>LOCAL_WHOLE_STATIC_LIBRARIES</code> and
<code>LOCAL_SHARED_LIBRARIES</code>.</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>See <a href="http://b.android.com/39378">b/39378</a> and an example in tests/build/topological-sort.</p>
</blockquote>
<h2>IMPORTANT BUG FIXES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Fixed build script to build all toolchains in <code>-O2.</code> Toolchains
in previous releases were incorrectly built without optimization.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed build script which unconditionally builds Clang/llvm for MacOSX
in 64-bit</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed GCC 4.6/4.7 ICE gen_thumb_movhi_clobber at config/arm/arm.md:5832.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/52732">b/52732</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed GCC/ARM 4.6/4.7 fails to link code using 64-bit atomic built-in
functions.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/41297">b/41297</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed GCC 4.7 linker error reads like
.../arm-linux-androideabi/bin/ld: error: DIV usage mismatch between
out/target/product/generic/obj/STATIC_LIBRARIES/ds_intermediates/ds.a(ak.o)
and output.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>See <a href="http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2012-12/msg00202.html">http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2012-12/msg00202.html</a></p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Fixed GCC 4.7 ICE in build_data_member_initialization, at
cp/semantics.c:5790</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed GCC 4.7 ICE in redirect_eh_edge_1, at tree-eh.c:2214.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/52909">b/52909</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed a GCC 4.7 segfault.
See <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55245">http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55245</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed to <chrono> clock resolution and enable steady_clock.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/39680">b/39680</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed to enable _GLIBCXX_HAS_GTHREADS for GCC 4.7 libstdc++.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/41770">b/41770</a> and <a href="http://b.android.com/41859">b/41859</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed X86 MXX/SSE code fails to link due to missing posix_memalign.
See <a href="https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/51872">r/51872</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed GCC4.7/X86 segfault in i386.c distance_non_agu_define_in_bb().
See <a href="https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/50383">r/50383</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed GCC4.7/X86 to resotre earlier cmov behavior.
See <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs?view=revision&amp;revision=193554">http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs?view=revision&amp;revision=193554</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>More fixes to handle NULL return value of setlocale() in
libstdc++/GCC4.7.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/46718">b/46718</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed ld.gold runtime undefined reference to __exidx_start/_end.
See <a href="https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/52134">r/52134</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed Clang3.1 ICE using Eigen library.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/41246">b/41246</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed Clang3.1 ICE including <chrono> in C++11 mode.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/39600">b/39600</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed Clang3.1 ICE when generating object code for a method
call to a uniform initialized rvalue.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/41387">b/41387</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed Clang3.1/X86 stack realignment.
See <a href="https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/52154">r/52154</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed GDB SIGILL when debugging on platform 4.1.2.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/40941">b/40941</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed GDB cannot set "source:line" breakpoints when symbols contain
frankenpaths.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/42448">b/42448</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed GDB read_program_header for MIPS PIE executables.
See <a href="https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/49592">r/49592</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed STLport segfault in uncaught_exception().
See <a href="https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/50236">r/50236</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed STLport Bus error in exception handling due
to unaligned access of DW_EH_PE_udata2, 4 and 8.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed Gabi++ nothrow new[] infinite recursion.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/52833">b/52833</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed Gabi++ wrong offset to EH pointer.
See <a href="https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/53446">r/53446</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Removed Gabi++ redundant free on exception object.
See <a href="https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/53447">r/53447</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>OTHER BUG FIXES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Fix NDK headers</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<ol>
<li>Remove redundant definitions of size_t, ssize_t, and ptrdiff_t</li>
<li>Fixed MIPS and ARM fenv.h</li>
<li>Fixed stddef.h to not re-define offsetof already exists
in toolchain</li>
<li>Fixed elf.h to contain Elf32_auxv_t and Elf64_auxv_t.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/38441">b/38441</a></li>
<li>Fixed the #ifdef C++ in OpenSLES_AndroidConfiguration.h.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/53163">b/53163</a></li>
</ol>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Fixed STLport to abort after OOM instead of (silent) exit</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed 'system' and 'Gabi++' headers to be able to compile
with API level &lt; 9</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed cpufeatures to not parse /proc/self/auxv.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/43055">b/43055</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed ld.gold to not depending on host libstdc++, and in case
of windows, library libgcc_sjlj_1.dll</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed Clang3.1 which emits inconsistent register list in .vsave
and fails assembler. eg.
.vsave {d8, d9, d10, d11, d12, d13, d14, s20, s21, s22}
See <a href="https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/49930">r/49930</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed Clang3.1 to be able to compile libgabi++ and pass test-stlport
on MIPS.
See <a href="https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/51961">r/51961</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed Clang3.1 to only enable exception by default for C++,
not for C</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Misc fixes in Clang3.1 to pass most GNU exception tests</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed script clang/clang++ in standalone NDK compiler to
detect <code>-cc1</code> and don't specify "-target" when found</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed ndk-build to observe <code>NDK_APP_OUT</code> set in Application.mk
See <a href="http://b.android.com/42477">b/42477</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed X86 libc.so/lib.a missing sigsetjmp/siglongjmp already
declared in setjmp.h.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/19851">b/19851</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Patched GCC 4.4.3/4.6/4.7 libstdc++ to work with Clang in C++11.
See <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html">http://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed cygwin path in argument passed to HOST_AWK</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed ndk-build warning in windows when running from project's jni/
directory.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/40192">b/40192</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed ndk-build won't build if makefile has tailing whitespace in
<code>LOCAL_PATH</code> definition.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/42841">b/42841</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>OTHER CHANGES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Enabled threading support in GCC/MIPS toolchain</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Unhided GCC EH helpers <code>__cxa_begin_cleanup</code> and <code>__cxa_type_match</code>
in GNU libstdc++.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>See tests/build/b8247455-hidden-cxa/jni/Android.mk</p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Gabi++ and STLport static libraries are now built with hidden
visibility except for EH helpers</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>STLport in ARM is now built in thumb mode</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Added support for std::set_new_handler in Gabi++.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/52805">b/52805</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Enabled FUTEX in GNU libstdc++</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>ndk-build no longer copies prebuilt static library to project's
obj/local/<abi>/directory.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/40302">b/40302</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Removed <code>__ARM_ARCH_5*__</code> from ARM toolchains/*/setup.mk.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/21132">b/21132</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Built additional GNU libstdc++ libaries in thumb mode for ARM</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Enabled MIPS floating-point madd/msub/nmadd/nmsub/recip/rsqrt
instructions with 32-bit FPU</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Enabled graphite in GCC 4.6 and 4.7. Allow more loop optimizations:
<code>-fgraphite,</code> <code>-fgraphite-identity,</code> <code>-floop-block,</code> <code>-floop-flatten,</code>
<code>-floop-interchange,</code> <code>-floop-strip-mine,</code> <code>-floop-parallelize-all,</code>
and <code>-ftree-loop-linear.</code></p>
</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>See <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Optimize-Options.html">http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Optimize-Options.html</a></p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>Enabled polly for clang3.1/3.2 on Linux/MacOSX 32-bit hosts which analyzes
and optimizes memory access pattern.</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>See <a href="http://polly.llvm.org">http://polly.llvm.org</a></p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Enabled <code>-flto</code> in GCC 4.7, 4.6, clang3.2 and Clang3.1 on linux (Clang LTO
via LLVMgold.so, ie. no MIPS because it doesn't have ld.gold)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Enabled --plugin and --plugin-opt for ld.gold in GCC 4.6/4.7</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Enabled --text-reorder for ld.gold in GCC 4.7</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>GNU libstdc++ is now configured with _GLIBCXX_USE_C99_MATH which will undef
isinf, etc (*1), in bionic header. If you have code which does the following</p>
<pre><code>#include &lt;math.h&gt;
... use isinf
#include &lt;cmath&gt;
#include &lt;math.h&gt;
... use isinf // fails
</code></pre>
</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>The 2nd use of isinf may fail because cmath undefined isinf</p>
</blockquote>
<p>(*1) Math macro in bionic undefined by cmath: fpclassify, isfinite, isinf,
isnan, isnormal, isgreater, isgreaterequal, isless, islessequal,
islessgreater, isunordered, signbit</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Added <code>APP_LDFLAGS</code>. See <a href="ANDROID-MK.html">ANDROID-MK</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Allow <code>NDK_LOG=0,</code> <code>NDK_HOST_32BIT=0</code> to disable <code>NDK_LOG</code> and host 32-bit toolchain,
respectively.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Changed the default GCC/X86 <code>-march=/-mtune=</code> from pentiumpro/generic to i686/atom</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Misc toolchain build script enhancements:</p>
</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<ol>
<li>Fixed a race condition in <code>build-gcc.sh</code> mingw build which used to prevent
high degree of parallel build</li>
<li><code>build-gabi++.sh</code> and <code>build-stlport.sh</code> can now run from NDK package.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/52835">b/52835</a></li>
<li>Fixed <code>run-tests.sh</code> in MSys</li>
<li>Better 64-bit host toolchain and canadian build supports</li>
<li>Updated <code>build-mingw64-toolchain.sh</code> for modern versions</li>
<li>Option to build libgnustl_static.a and stlport_static.a without hidden
visibility</li>
</ol>
</blockquote>
<hr />
<h1>android-ndk-r8d</h1>
<h2>IMPORTANT CHANGES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Added GCC 4.7 compiler. Since GCC 4.6 is still the default,
you need to explicitly enable it:</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<ol>
<li>For ndk-build: Either export <code>NDK_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION=4.7</code> or add it
in Application.mk.</li>
<li>For standalone: Use "--toolchain=" option in <code>make-standalone-toolchain.sh</code>.
eg. "--toolchain=arm-linux-androideabi-4.7"</li>
</ol>
<p>This feature is experimental now but welcome to try and report issues.</p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>Added stlport exception support via gabi++. Note that the new gabi++
depends on dlopen, etc, meaning that:</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<ol>
<li>libstlport_static.a can no longer be used in "static" executable (-static,
only possible with standalone toolchain). "dynamic" executable (eg.
include $(BUILD_EXECUTABLE)) can link fine because compiler impliciently adds <code>-ldl</code></li>
<li>If your project links with "-nostdlib <code>-Wl,--no-undefined",</code> you need to provide
your own <code>-ldl</code></li>
</ol>
<p>See <a href="CPLUSPLUS-SUPPORT.html">CPLUSPLUS-SUPPORT</a>.</p>
<p>This feature is experimental now and works better with GCC 4.6/4.7
than with GCC 4.4.3 and clang3.1. Welcome to try and report issues.</p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Add <code>-mstack-protector-guard=</code> option for x86 to choose between "global"
(default, compatible with older bionic) and "tls" (new %gs:20) for
<code>-fstack-protector,</code> <code>-fstack-protector-all,</code> and <code>-fstack-protector-strong</code>
(GCC 4.6+). Note that this alone doesn't enable any <code>-fstack-protector*</code></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Add android_setCpu() to sources/android/cpufeatures/cpu-features.c
when auto-detection via /proc isn't possible in and after JB.
See <a href="http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=164154">http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=164154</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>IMPORTANT BUG FIXES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Fixed un-needed rebuild of object files via ndk-build.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/39810">b/39810</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed r8c linker fail in MacOSX 10.6.x with error reads:</p>
<pre><code>dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: _memmem
Referenced from: ...../arm-linux-androideabi/bin/ld
Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
</code></pre>
</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>r8c was packaged on 10.7 machine which produced binaries not
compatible with 10.6 SDK/NDK still supports. Will build it
on 10.6 from now on.</p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Removed '-x c++' from clang++ in standalone.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/39089">b/39089</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed issues using <code>NDK_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION=clang3.1</code> in cygwin.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/39585">b/39585</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed <code>make-standalone-toolchain.sh</code> to create standalone toolchain
on cygwin and MinGW, which works for all cygwin, MingGW, and CMD.exe.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/39915">b/39915</a> and
<a href="http://b.android.com/39585">b/39585</a> (again)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Added missing SL_IID_ANDROIDBUFFERQUEUESOURCE in android-14 for
ARM/X86.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/40625">b/40625</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed x86 cpu detection for MOVBE.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/39317">b/39317</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed an issue preventing STL dependencies to C++ sources not
in .cpp extension.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed GCC 4.6 ARM ICE at reload1.c:1061.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/20862">b/20862</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed GCC 4.4.3 ARM ICE at emit-rtl.c:1954.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/22336">b/22336</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed GCC 4.4.3 ARM ICE at postreload.c:396.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/22345">b/22345</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed GCC 4.6/4.7 elides lambdas.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/35933">b/35933</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>OTHER BUG FIXES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Fixed NDK headers</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<ol>
<li>Fixed <code>__WINT_TYPE__</code> and wint_t to be the same type</li>
<li>Corrected typo in <android/bitmap.h>.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/15134">b/15134</a></li>
<li>Corrected typo in <errno.h>.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/15134">b/15134</a></li>
<li>Check the presence of <code>__STDC_VERSION__</code> in <sys/cdefs.h>.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/14627">b/14627</a></li>
<li>Re-org headers byteswap.h and dirent.h</li>
<li>Fixed limits.h to include page.h which provides PAGE_SIZE.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/39983">b/39983</a></li>
<li>Fixed return type of glGetAttribLocation and glGetUniformLocation
from int to GLint.</li>
<li>Fixed <code>__BYTE_ORDER</code> for x86.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/39824">b/39824</a></li>
</ol>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Fixed ndk-build to not overwrite <code>-Os</code> with <code>-O2</code> in ARM</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed to allow overwriting HOST_AWK, HOST_SED, and HOST_MAKE.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed ld.gold issue on fsck_msdos build linking objects built by ICC</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed ARM EHABI support in clang conforming to spec.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed GDB to shorten the time spending on walking target's link map upon
solib events.
See <a href="http://b.android.com/38402">b/38402</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed missing libgcc.a when linking shared libraries</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>OTHER CHANGES:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Backported 64-bit built-in atomic functions for ARM to GCC 4.6</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Documentation for audio output latency, other misc docs/ fixes</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Non-void functions in debug build by Clang now raise SIGILL on path w/o
return statement</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code>make-standalone-toolchain.sh</code> now accepts surffix "-clang3.1" which is
equivalent to adding "--llvm-version=3.1" on GCC 4.6 toolchain.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Changed GCC and Clang bug report URL to <a href="http://source.android.com/source/report-bugs.html">http://source.android.com/source/report-bugs.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Added ARM ELF support to llvm-objdump.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Suppressed warning "treating c input as c++" in clang.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Only 32-bit of libiberty.a is built (placed at lib32/)</p>
</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<h1>android-ndk-r8c</h1>
<h2>IMPORTANT CHANGES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Added Clang 3.1 compiler. Since GCC 4.6 is still the default,
you need to explicitly enable it:</li>
<li>For ndk-build: Either export <code>NDK_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION=clang3.1</code> or add it
in Application.mk.</li>
<li>For standalone: Add "--llvm-version=3.1" to <code>make-standalone-toolchain.sh</code>
and replace CC and CXX in your makefile with <tool-path>/bin/clang
and <tool-path>/bin/clang++.</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>See <a href="STANDALONE-TOOLCHAIN.html">STANDALONE-TOOLCHAIN</a> for details.
This feature is experimental now but welcome to try and report issues.</p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Gold linker ld.gold is now available in Windows toolchain. Gold is also the
default linker for ARM/X86 on all hosts. You may override it to use ld.bfd
linker by adding <code>LOCAL_LDFLAGS</code> += <code>-fuse-ld=bfd</code> in Android.mk, or pass
<code>-fuse-ld=bfd</code> to g++/clang++ commandline which does the linking.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>ndk-build[.cmd] and ndk-gdb now check and bail out if NDK path contains space.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Changes in API level</p>
</li>
<li>Projects with android-10 .. 13 specified in <code>APP_PLATFORM</code>, project.properties or
default.properties will link against android-9 instead of android-14.</li>
<li>Executable in project with android-16 (Jelly Bean) or higher is compiled
with <code>-fPIE</code> (position-independent executables). A new <code>APP_PIE</code> allow manual control
of this behavior. See <a href="APPLICATION-MK.html">APPLICATION-MK</a> for details. Note that all API level
above 14 still link against platforms/android-14. ie. no new platforms/android-N
is added.</li>
<li>
<p>ndk-build now warns about the adjusted API level is larger than android:minSdkVersion
in project's AndroidManifest.xml.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>ARM: Updated 'cpu-features' helper library to include 9 more ARM-specific features.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>See sources/android/cpufeatures/cpu-features.h for details.</p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>
<p>X86: long double is still a distinct type but it's 8-byte in size now (same as double)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code>APP_ABI=armeabi-v7a:</code> </p>
</li>
<li><code>-march=armv7-a</code> is also passed to linker to link v7-specific libraries and crt*.o</li>
<li><code>-mfpu=vfpv3-d16</code> is added by ndk-build instead of <code>-mfpu=vfp</code> in the previous releases.</li>
</ul>
<h2>IMPORTANT BUG FIXES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Fixed an issue when <code>make-standalone-toolchain.sh</code> is run under root privilege resulting
in standalone toolchain inaccessible to some.</li>
<li>All files/executables attributes in NDK release package are set to readable/executable to all</li>
<li>The ownership/group of file libstdc++.a is now preserved when copied</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>See <a href="http://b.android.com/35279">b/35279</a></p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>Removed redundant \r from Windows prebuilt echo.exe. The redundant \r in gdb.setup fails
GDB because it incorrectly becomes part of the path.</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>See <a href="http://b.android.com/36054">b/36054</a></p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>Fixed windows parallel builds that sometimes failed due to timing issues in the host-mkdir
implementation.</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>See <a href="http://b.android.com/25875">b/25875</a></p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>Fixed GCC 4.4.3 GNU libstdc++ to NOT merge typeinfo names by default.</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>See toolchain repo gcc/gcc-4.4.3/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/typeinfo,
<a href="http://b.android.com/22165">b/22165</a>, and
<a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/android-ndk/FlnuAOIKHOo/kLEwaBso7KYJ%5B1-25%5D">https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/android-ndk/FlnuAOIKHOo/kLEwaBso7KYJ%5B1-25%5D</a></p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Fixed crash on null context in GCC 4.6 cp/mangle.c::write_unscoped_name, where gcc
may crash when context == NULL and dereferenced in TREE_CODE</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed GCC 4.4.3 crashes on NEON specific typedef for float</p>
</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>See <a href="http://b.android.com/34613">b/34613</a></p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>Fixed the STLport internal _IteWrapper::operator*() implementation where stale
stack location holding the dereferenced value is returned and leads to runtime crashes</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>See <a href="http://b.android.com/38630">b/38630</a></p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>
<p>ARM: Fixed ARM GCC 4.4.3/4.6 g++ to not warn about "the mangling of <va_list> has
changed in GCC 4.4". Switch <code>-Wno-psabi</code> is no longer needed to workaround.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>ARM: Fix an issue when project with .arm/.neon suffixes in <code>LOCAL_SRC_FILES</code> also
uses <code>APP_STL</code>. With <code>APP_STL</code>, ndk-build searches for C++ file in <code>LOCAL_SRC_FILES</code> before
adding STL header/lib paths to compilation. Fix ndk-build to filter out .arm and .neon
suffixes before the search, otherwise item in <code>LOCAL_SRC_FILES</code>file like myfile.cpp.arm.neon
won't be considered C++.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>ARM: Fixed binutils-2.21/ld.bfd to be capable of linking object from older binutils w/o
tag_FP_arch, which used to produce error message reads</p>
<p>BFD (GNU Binutils) 2.21 assertion fail
...../binutils/binutils-2.21/bfd/elf32-arm.c:10190</p>
</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>The root cause is that ARM's binutils-2.21/ld.bfd performs sanity check and asserts
when "tag_FP_arch==0 &amp;&amp; tag_ABI_HardFP_use !=0". This can happen in object using FP
linked by older binutils when tag_FP_arch isn't produced at all (thus gets the default
"zero" in new linker).</p>
<p>See <a href="http://b.android.com/35209">b/35209</a></p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>
<p>ARM: Removed warning when binutils-2.19/ld links prebuilt object by newer binutils-2.21
which reads</p>
<p>Unknown EABI object attribute 44</p>
</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>The reason is that all prebuilt crt*.o and C++ STL are built with later GCC 4.6/binutils-2.21
and contain new tag "DIV_use" with value set to "Not allowed". This tag can be safely ignored
by the original GCC4.4.3/binutils-2.19 toolchain since it is only for sanity check.</p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>ARM: Fixed an issue in GNU stdc++ compilation with both <code>-mthumb</code> and <code>-march=armv7-a,</code> by
making <code>make-standalone-toolchain.sh</code> to also populate headers/libs in sub-directory
"armv7-a/thumb".</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>See <a href="http://b.android.com/35616">b/35616</a></p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>ARM: Fix error: unresolvable R_ARM_THM_CALL relocation</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>See <a href="http://b.android.com/35342">b/35342</a> and
<a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/android-ndk/HaLycHImqL8">https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/android-ndk/HaLycHImqL8</a></p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>ARM: Fixed internal compiler error at "reload1.c:3633". The reason is that ARM back-end
expects wrong operand type when sign-extend from char.</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>Back port fix from <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50099">http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50099</a></p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>ARM: Fixed internal compiler error with negative shift amount.
int foo(int a, int b)
{
return a | (b &lt;&lt; -3);
}</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>See <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-10/msg00594.html">http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-10/msg00594.html</a></p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>
<p>X86: Fixed <code>-fstack-protector,</code> which is also the default for ndk-build x86 ABI</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>MIPS: Fixed stlport endianess by setting <em>STLP_LITTLE_ENDIAN to 1 when compiling
MIPS' libstlport</em>*</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>MIPS: Fixed GCC __builtin_unreachable issue compiling LLVM</p>
</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>See Bug 54369: <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54369">http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54369</a></p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>MIPS: Backport fix to bug 50380: cc1 hangs eating 100% CPU</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>See <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50380">http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50380</a> and
<a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/trunk/gcc/cse.c?r1=177852&amp;r2=182498&amp;pathrev=182498">http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/trunk/gcc/cse.c?r1=177852&amp;r2=182498&amp;pathrev=182498</a></p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>GDB: Disable python support in gdb-7.x at build, otherwise gdb-7.x/configure may
pick up whatever python in host and build gdb with hard-wired dependency to specific
version of python.</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>See <a href="http://b.android.com/36120">b/36120</a></p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>GDB: Fixed ndk-gdb when <code>APP_ABI</code> contains "all" and matches none of known architecture</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>See <a href="http://b.android.com/35392">b/35392</a></p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>GDB: Fixed Windows pathname support. Keep ':' if it looks like it could be part of
a Windows path starting with a drive letter.</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>See <a href="http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2011-06/msg00030.html">http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2011-06/msg00030.html</a> and
<a href="http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12843">http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12843</a></p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>GDB: Fixed add HW breakpoint support for ARM in gdbserver</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>See <a href="http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-09/msg00200.html">http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-09/msg00200.html</a></p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>GDB: Fixed to only read current solibs when linker is consistent. Speeds up solib
event handling.</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>See <a href="http://b.android.com/37677">b/37677</a></p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>GDB: Fixed to make repeated attempts to find solib breakpoint. GDB will retry enable_break()
during every call to svr4_current_sos() until it succeeds.</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>See <a href="https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/43563">r/43563</a></p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>GDB: Fixed an issue where gdb cannot stop on breakpoints placed on dlopen-ed
libraries.</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>See <a href="http://b.android.com/34856">b/34856</a></p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>GDB: Fixed SIGILL in dynamic linker when calling dlopen(), on system
where /system/bin/linker is stripped of symbols and rtld_db_dlactivity()
is implemented as Thumb, due to not preserving LSB of sym_addr</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>See <a href="http://b.android.com/37147">b/37147</a></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>OTHER BUG FIXES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Fixed NDK headers</li>
<li>Fixed arch-mips/include/asm/* previously incorrectly cleaned from original kernel
See <a href="https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/43335">r/43335</a></li>
<li>Replace struct member data "<code>__unused</code>" with "<code>__linux_unused</code>" in linux/sysctl.h
and linux/icmp.h to avoid conflict with "#define __unused" in sys/cdefs.h</li>
<li>Fixed fenv.h to enclosed C functions with <code>__BEGIN_DECLS/__END_DECLS</code></li>
<li>Removed unimplemented functions in malloc.h</li>
<li>Fixed stdint.h. See <a href="http://b.android.com/1952">b/1952</a></li>
<li>Fixed preprocessor macros in <arch>/include/machine/*</li>
<li>Replaced link.h for mips with new version for all platforms</li>
<li>Remove linux-unistd.h</li>
<li>
<p>Move GLibc-specific macros LONG_LONG_MIN, LONG_LONG_MAX and ULONG_LONG_MAX from
<pthread.h> to <limits.h>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed a buffer overflow in ndk-stack-parser.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed _STLP_USE_EXCEPTIONS, when not defined, to omit all declarations
and uses of <code>__Named_exception.</code> Compile and use <code>__Named_exception</code> only
when STLport is being allowed to use exceptions.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed to build Linux-only NDK packages (invoked as follow) w/o also building windows</p>
<p><code>./build/tools/make-release.sh</code> --force --systems=linux-x86</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed libc.so to not export atexit() and __do_handler. These symbols are exported
on ARM by the system version of the C library to support legacy native libraries.
NDK-generated should never reference them directly. Instead, each shared library or
executable should embed its own version of these symbols, provided by crtbegin_*.o</p>
</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>If your project is linked with "-nostdlib <code>-Wl,--no-undefined",</code> you need to provide
your own <code>__dso_handle</code> because crtbegin_so.o isn't linked. The content of <code>__dso_handle</code>
doesn't matter. eg.</p>
</blockquote>
<pre><code>extern "C" {
extern void *__dso_handle __attribute__((__visibility__ ("hidden")));
void *__dso_handle;
}
</code></pre>
<ul>
<li>
<p>ARM: Fixed symbol decoder (used in objdump) for plt entries to generate more
readable form function@plt</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>X86: Removed the following symbols introduced in GCC 4.6/libgcc.a from X86's libc.so:
<code>__aeabi_idiv0</code>, <code>__aeabi_ldiv0</code>, <code>__aeabi_unwind_cpp_pr1</code>, and <code>__aeabi_unwind_cpp_pr2</code></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>MIPS: Removed unused .ctors, .dtors, and .eh_frame in MIPS crt*_so.S.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>GDB: ndk-gdb now only takes the last line of output for ndk-build DUMP_XXXX. This
ensures that if Application.mk or Android.mk do print something with $(info ...),
it doesn't get injected into the result of DUMP_XXX.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>See <a href="https://groups.google.com/d/msg/android-ndk/-/ew0lTWGr1UEJ">https://groups.google.com/d/msg/android-ndk/-/ew0lTWGr1UEJ</a></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>OTHER CHANGES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Removed arch-x86 and arch-mips headers from platforms/android-{3,4,5,8}.
Those headers are incomplete to begin with, since both X86 and MIPS ABIs are only
supported at API &ge; 9</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Simplified c++ include path in standalone package, eg. change</p>
<p><path>/arm-linux-androideabi/include/c++/4.6.x-google
to
<path>/include/c++/4.6/</p>
</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>See <a href="http://b.android.com/35279">b/35279</a></p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Enhanced ndk-build to recognize more C++ file extensions by default:</p>
<p>.cc .cp .cxx .cpp .CPP .c++ .C</p>
</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>You may still use <code>LOCAL_CPP_EXTENSION</code> to override it</p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Fixed an issue in samples/san-angeles about black/freeze frame
at re-launch.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Replaced deprecated APIs in NDK samples</p>
</li>
<li>hello-gl2 from android-5 to android-7</li>
<li>native-activity from android-9 to android-10</li>
<li>native-audio from android-9 to android-10</li>
<li>native-plasma from android-9 to android-10</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>See <a href="http://b.android.com/20017">b/20017</a></p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>Added new branding for Android executables with a simpler scheme in section
.note.android.ident (defined in crtbegin_static/dynamic.o) so that debugging
tools can act accordingly.</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>The structure member and values are defined as follows:</p>
</blockquote>
<pre><code>static const struct {
int32_t namesz; /* = 8, sizeof ("Android") */
int32_t descsz; /* = 1 * sizeof(int32_t) */
int32_t type; /* = 1, ABI_NOTETYPE */
char name[sizeof "Android"]; /* = "Android" */
int32_t android_api; /* = 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 14 */
}
</code></pre>
<blockquote>
<p>Previous branding in section .note.ABI-tag is deprecated.</p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>Added a new script <code>run-tests-all.sh</code> which calls <code>run-tests.sh</code> and <code>standalone/run.sh</code>
with various conditions. Script <code>run-tests.sh</code> w/o --abi is also enhanced to compile
most of tests for all supported ABI and run on all attached devices</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<h1>android-ndk-r8b</h1>
<h2>IMPORTANT BUG FIXES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Fixed <code>LOCAL_SHORT_COMMANDS</code> issues on darwin-x86 and windows cygwin environment
and for static libraries. List file generation is sped up, and it is no longer
regenerated and causes whole project to be rebuilt every time.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed several issues in ndk-gdb</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>to pass flags "-e", "-d", "-s" to adb more consistently</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>to accept device serial name containing space</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>to also pull /system/bin/link, so gdb on host can set a breakpoint in
__dl_rtld_db_dlactivity and be aware of linker activity (eg. rescan solib symbols
when dlopen() is called)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed "ndk-build clean" in windows which failed to remove ./libs/*/lib*.so</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed ndk-build.cmd to return non-zero ERRORLEVEL when make fails</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed libc.so to no longer incorrectly export <strong>exidx_start and </strong>exidx_end symbols</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed SEGV when unwinding stack pasts __libc_init for ARM and MIPS.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed __start (in crtbegin_dynamic/static.o) to "call <strong>libc_init" instead of
"jump </strong>libc_init", otherwise stack unwinding past <strong>libc_init may get wrong return
address and crash the program or do wield things. With "call", return address is pushed
on stack and unwinding stops correctly at _start. Note that </strong>libc_init never returns, so
this fix wonʼt affect normal program execution. But just in case it "does" return,
jump to address 0 and halt.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>IMPORTANT CHANGES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>GCC 4.6 toolchain</li>
</ul>
<p>Add GCC 4.6 toolchain (binutils 2.21 with gold + GDB 7.3.x) to co-exists with
the original GCC 4.4.3 toolchain (binutils 2.19 + GDB 6.6). Note:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>GCC 4.6 is the default. You may set <code>NDK_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION=4.4.3</code> in Application.mk
to select the original one.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Gold linker support is only available for ARM and x86 architectures on linux-86
and darwin-x86 hosts. It's not turned on by default. Add
"LOCAL_LDFLAGS += <code>-fuse-ld=gold"</code> in Android.mk to enable it.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>You will need the new GDB to debug program compiled with <code>-fPIE</code> (including
binaries in Jelly Bean image)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The binutils 2.21 ld also contain back-port of fixes from 2.22</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed "ld --gc-sections" which incorrectly retain zombie references to external
libraries. See <a href="http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13177">http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13177</a> for detail.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed ARM "strip" to preserve the original p_align and p_flags in GNU_RELRO section
if they are valid. Otherwise program built with <code>-fPIE</code> can't be debugged.
<a href="http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/bfd/elf.c.diff?cvsroot=src&amp;r1=1.552&amp;r2=1.553">http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/bfd/elf.c.diff?cvsroot=src&amp;r1=1.552&amp;r2=1.553</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Sincos optimization is not enabled for compatibility with old platforms which don't have
it.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>NX and relro/bind_now protections are enabled by default</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Add "--noexecstack" for assembler and "-z noexecstack" for linker to enable NX
protection against buffer overflow attacks by enabling NX bit on stack and heap.</p>
<p>Add "-z relro -z now" for linker to harden internal data sections after linking
against security vulnerabilities due to memory corruption. See</p>
<p><a href="http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/nonselsec.pdf">http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/nonselsec.pdf</a> (section 6)
<a href="http://tk-blog.blogspot.com/2009/02/relro-not-so-well-known-memory.html">http://tk-blog.blogspot.com/2009/02/relro-not-so-well-known-memory.html</a></p>
<p>For those who really needs it, these features can be disabled by
1. Passing "--execstack" to assembler and "-z execstack" to linker to
disable NX protection.
Passing "-z norelro -z lazy" to linker to disable second protection.
2. In NDK jni/Android.mk, set the following
<code>LOCAL_DISABLE_NO_EXECUTE=true:</code> to disable "--noexecstack" and "-z noexecstack"
<code>LOCAL_DISABLE_RELRO=true:</code> to disable "-z relro -z now"
see <a href="ANDROID-MK.html">ANDROID-MK</a> for details</p>
<ul>
<li>Brand executables with .note.ABI-tag section</li>
</ul>
<p>Brand Android executable with .note.ABI-tag (in crtbegin_static/dynamic.o) for debugging
tools to act accordingly. The structure member and values are defined as follow.</p>
<pre><code>static const struct {
int32_t namesz; /* = 4, sizeof ("GNU") */
int32_t descsz; /* = 6 * sizeof(int32_t) */
int32_t type; /* = 1 */
char name[sizeof "GNU"]; /* = "GNU" */
int32_t os; /* = 0 */
int32_t major; /* = 2 */
int32_t minor; /* = 6 */
int32_t teeny; /* = 15 */
int32_t os_variant; /* = 1 */
int32_t android_api; /* = 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 14 */
}
</code></pre>
<h2>OTHER BUG FIXES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Backport several patches to fix MIPS issues.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12637">http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12637</a>
mips-linux-gnu: relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_TLS_LDM</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12845">http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12845</a>
ld segfaults when using --gc-sections</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2011-05/msg00198.html">http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2011-05/msg00198.html</a>
Refix MIPS GOT_PAGE counting</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Follow warning symbol link in mips_elf_count_got_symbols.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Follow warning symbol link in mips_elf_allocate_lazy_stub.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Move MIPS .dynamic to the data segment, so that it is writable.
Replace hard-coded 4096 with symbols for correct segment sizes for MIPS.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Remove <code>-mno-shared</code> as default in MIPS toolchain. <code>-fPIC</code> (or <code>-fpic</code> if supported)
is default for Android toolchain. Without explicitly specifying one of
<code>-mshared,</code> <code>-fpic,</code> <code>-fPIC,</code> <code>-fpie,</code> or <code>-fPIE,</code> MIPS compiler adds <code>-mno-shared</code>
which turns off PIC. Fixed it not to add <code>-mno-shared</code> as default.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed wrong package names in samples hello-jni and two-libs so tests project
underneath can compile</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>OTHER CHANGES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>New binaries locations</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>gdbserver is moved from toolchain/<arch-os-ver>/prebuilt/gdbserver to
prebuilt/android-<arch>/gdbserver/gdbserver</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>x86 toolchain prefix is renamed from i686-android-linux- to i686-linux-android-</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>sources/cxx-stl/gnu-libstdc++/include and lib are moved to
sources/cxx-stl/gnu-libstdc++/4.4.3 when compiled with 4.4.3 GCC, or
sources/cxx-stl/gnu-libstdc++/4.6 when compiled with 4.6 GCC</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>libbfd.a and libintl.a are moved from lib/ to lib32/</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Header if_dl.h is removed from all platforms and architectures. AF_LINK and sockaddr_dl
it describes are specpfic to BSD (ie. don't exist in Linux)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Various scripts to rebuild/test NDK toolchain</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Add <code>build-mingw64-toolchain.sh</code> to generate a new Linux-hosted toolchain that generates
Win32 and Win64 executables.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Speed up <code>download-toolchain-sources.sh</code> by "clone" but only "checkout" the directories
that we need to build the NDK toolchain binaries.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>New <code>build-host-gcc.sh</code> and <code>build-host-gdb.sh</code></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Add <code>tests/check-release.sh</code> to check the content of a given NDK installation directory,
or an existing NDK package.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Rewrite standalone tests: <code>tests/standalone/run.sh</code></p>
</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<h1>android-ndk-r8</h1>
<h2>IMPORTANT BUG FIXES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Fixed a typo in GAbi++ implementation where result of dynamic_cast<D>(b)
of base class object 'b' to derived class D is adjusted wrong
(in the opposite direction from base class). See
<a href="http://b.android.com/28721">b/28721</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed an issue in <code>make-standalone-toolchain.sh</code> which fails to copy
libsupc++.*.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>IMPORTANT CHANGES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Added support for the mips ABI.</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>This release of the Android NDK contains support for 'mips' ABI.
To generate machine runs on MIPS-based Android devices, please add 'mips' to
<code>APP_ABI</code> definition in your Application.mk, or 'all' to generate binaries for
all currently supported ABI. See <a href="CPU-MIPS.html">CPU-MIPS</a> for details.</p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>You can build a standalone mips toolchain using the
--toolchain=mipsel-linux-android-4.4.3 option when calling
<code>make-standalone-toolchain.sh</code>. See <a href="STANDALONE-TOOLCHAIN.html">STANDALONE-TOOLCHAIN</a> for more details.</li>
</ul>
<h2>OTHER BUG FIXES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Fixed ndk-build.cmd to ensure that ndk-build.cmd works correctly even if
the user has redefined the SHELL environment variable (which can happen under
the hood when installing a variety of development tools on Windows)</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<h1>android-ndk-r7c</h1>
<p>This release of the NDK includes an important fix for Tegra2-based devices,
and a few additional fixes and improvements:</p>
<h2>IMPORTANT BUG FIXES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Fixed GNU STL armeabi-v7a binaries to not crash on non-NEON devices.
The files provided with NDK r7b where not configured properly, resulting
in crashes on Tegra2-based devices and others when trying to use certain
floating-point functions (e.g., cosf, sinf, expf).</li>
</ul>
<h2>IMPORTANT CHANGES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Added support for custom output directories through the <code>NDK_OUT</code>
environment variable. When defined, this variable is used to store all
intermediate generated files, instead of $PROJECT_PATH/obj.</li>
</ul>
<p>The variable is also recognized by ndk-gdb.</p>
<ul>
<li>Added support for building modules with hundreds or even thousand of source
files by defining <code>LOCAL_SHORT_COMMANDS</code> to true in your Android.mk.</li>
</ul>
<p>This change forces the NDK build system to put most linker or archiver
options into list files, to work-around command-line length limitations
(particularly on Windows). See <a href="ANDROID-MK.html">ANDROID-MK</a> for details.</p>
<h2>OTHER BUG FIXES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Fixed android_getCpuCount() implementation in the cpufeatures helper
library. The previous implementation only listed the cores that were
active the first time the function was called. This behavior could
provide results that were too low on devices that disable and enable
cores dynamically.</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<h1>android-ndk-r7b</h1>
<h2>IMPORTANT BUG FIXES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Updated <sys/atomics.h> to avoid correctness issues on some multi-core
ARM-based devices. Rebuild your unmodified sources with this version of the
NDK and this problem should completely be eliminated. For more details, read
<a href="ANDROID-ATOMICS.html">ANDROID-ATOMICS</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Reverted to binutils 2.19 to try to fix debugging issues that
appeared in NDK r7 (which switched to binutils 2.20.1).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed ndk-build on 32-bit Linux. A packaging error put a 64-bit version
of the 'awk' executable under prebuilt/linux-x86/bin in NDK r7.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed native Windows build (ndk-build.cmd). Other build modes were not
affected. The fixes include:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Removed an infinite loop / stack overflow bug that happened when trying
to call ndk-build.cmd from a directory that was <em>not</em> the top of your
project path (e.g. any sub-directory of it).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed a problem where the auto-generated dependency files were ignored.
This meant that updating a header didn't trigger recompilation of sources
that included it.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed a problem where special characters in files or paths, other than
spaces and quotes, were not correctly handled.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed the standalone toolchain to generate proper binaries when using
<code>-lstdc++</code> (i.e. linking against the GNU libstdc++ C++ runtime). You should
use <code>-lgnustl_shared</code> if you want to link against the shared library
version or <code>-lstdc++</code> for the static version.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>See <a href="STANDALONE-TOOLCHAIN.html">STANDALONE-TOOLCHAIN</a> for more details about this fix.</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Fixed gnustl_shared on Cygwin. The linker complained that it couldn't find
libsupc++.a while the file was at the right location.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed cygwin C++ link when not using any specific C++ runtime through
<code>APP_STL</code>.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>OTHER CHANGES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>When your application uses the GNU libstdc++ runtime, the compiler will
no longer forcibly enable exceptions and RTTI. This change results in smaller
code. If you need these features, you need to do either one of these:</p>
<p>1/ Enable exceptions and/or RTTI explicitly in your modules or
Application.mk. (recommended)</p>
<p>2/ Define <code>APP_GNUSTL_FORCE_CPP_FEATURES</code> to 'exceptions', 'rtti' or both
in your Application.mk. See docs/APPLICATION-MK.html for more details.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>ndk-gdb now works properly when your application has private services
running in independent processes. It debugs the main application process,
instead of the first process listed by 'ps', which is usually a service
process.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed a rare bug where NDK r7 would fail to honor the <code>LOCAL_ARM_MODE</code> value
and always compile certain source files (but not all) to 32-bit instructions.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>stlport: Refresh the sources to match the Android platform version. This
update fixes a few minor bugs:</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed instantiation of an incomplete type.</p>
</li>
<li>Fixed minor == versus = typo</li>
<li>Use memmove instead of memcpy in string::assign</li>
<li>Added better handling of IsNANorINF, IsINF, IsNegNAN, etc..</li>
</ul>
<p>For complete details, see the commit log.</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>stlport: Removed 5 un-necessary static initializers from the library.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The GNU libstdc++ libraries for armeabi-v7a were mistakenly compiled for
armeabi instead. This had no impact on correctness, but using the right
ABI should provide for slightly better performance.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>the 'cpu-features' helper library was updated to report three optional
x86 CPU features (SSSE3, MOVBE and POPCNT). See <a href="CPU-FEATURES.html">CPU-FEATURES</a>
for more details.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="NDK-BUILD.html">NDK-BUILD</a> was updated to mention <code>NDK_APPLICATION_MK</code> instead
of <code>NDK_APP_APPLICATION_MK</code> to select a custom Application.mk file.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>cygwin: ndk-build no longer creates an empty "NUL" file in the current
directory when invoked.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>cygwin: better automatic dependency detection. It previously didn't work
properly in the following case:</p>
<ul>
<li>When the cygwin drive prefix was not /cygdrive</li>
<li>When using drive-less mounts, e.g. when Cygwin would translate /home
to \server\subdir instead of C:\Some\Dir.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>cygwin: ndk-build does not try to use the native Windows tools under
$NDK/prebuilt/windows/bin with certain versions of Cygwin and/or
GNU Make.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<h1>android-ndk-r7</h1>
<h2>IMPORTANT CHANGES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>New official NDK APIs for Android 4.0 (a.k.a. API level 14),
which adds the following native features to the platform:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Native multimedia API based on the Khronos Group OpenMAX AL&#0153;
1.0.1 Standard. New headers <OMXAL/OpenMAXAL.h> and
<OMXAL/OpenMAXAL_Android.h> are provided to allow
applications targeting this API level to perform multimedia output
directly from native code using a new Android-specific buffer
queue interface. For more details, see docs/openmaxal/index.html
and <a href="http://www.khronos.org/openmax/.">http://www.khronos.org/openmax/.</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Updated the native audio API based on the Khronos Group OpenSL ES
1.0.1&#0153; Standard. API Level 14 can now decode compressed
audio (e.g. MP3, AAC, Vorbis) to PCM. For more details, see
docs/opensles/index.html and <a href="http://www.khronos.org/opensles/.">http://www.khronos.org/opensles/.</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>CCache support. To speed up large rebuilds, simply define the <code>NDK_CCACHE</code>
environment variable to 'ccache' (or the path to your ccache binary), as in:</p>
<pre><code>export NDK_CCACHE=ccache
</code></pre>
</li>
</ul>
<p>The NDK build system will automatically use it when compiling any source
file. For more information about CCache, see <a href="http://ccache.samba.org">http://ccache.samba.org</a><br />
</p>
<ul>
<li>You can now set your <code>APP_ABI</code> to 'all' to indicate that you want to build
your NDK modules for all the ABIs supported by your given NDK release.</li>
</ul>
<p>This means that either one of these two lines in your Application.mk are
equivalent with this release:</p>
<pre><code> APP_ABI := all
APP_ABI := armeabi armeabi-v7a x86
</code></pre>
<p>This also works if you define <code>APP_ABI</code> on the command-line, as in:</p>
<pre><code> ndk-build APP_ABI=all
</code></pre>
<p>Which is a quick way to check that your project builds for all supported
ABIs without changing its Application.mk file.</p>
<ul>
<li>Shorter paths to source and object files used in build commands.
When invoking $NDK/ndk-build from your project path, the paths to the
source, object and binary files passed to the build commands will be
significantly shorter now because they are now passed relative to the
current directory.</li>
</ul>
<p>This is useful when building projects with a lot of source files, to
avoid limits on the maximum command line length supported by your host
operating system.</p>
<p>The behaviour is unchanged if you invoked ndk-build from a sub-directory
of your project tree, or if you define <code>NDK_PROJECT_PATH</code> to point to a
specific directory.</p>
<ul>
<li>New <code>LOCAL_CPP_FEATURES</code> variable in Android.mk, used to declare which C++
features (RTTI or Exceptions) your module uses. This is especially handy
if you have prebuilt modules that depend on them since this will ensure
the final link will work correctly.</li>
</ul>
<p>See <a href="ANDROID-MK.html">ANDROID-MK</a> and <a href="CPLUSPLUS-SUPPORT.html">CPLUSPLUS-SUPPORT</a> for more details</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>WARNING: VERY EXPERIMENTAL!!</p>
<p>You can now build your NDK sources on Windows <em>without</em> Cygwin.
Simply call the script 'ndk-build.cmd' from the Windows cmd.exe
command-line, when in your project path.</p>
<p>The script takes exactly the same arguments than the original
ndk-build one.</p>
<p>Note that the Windows NDK package comes with its own prebuilt
binaries for GNU Make, Awk and other tools required by the build,
i.e. you shouldn't need to install anything else to get a working
build system.</p>
<p>IMPORTANT: ndk-gdb doesn't work. You still need Cygwin to debug
at the moment!</p>
<p>This feature is still very experimental, but feel free to try it
and report issues on the public forum (android-ndk@googlegroups.com)
or the public bug database (http://b.android.com).</p>
<p>Note that all samples and unit tests successfully compile with it.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>IMPORTANT BUG FIXES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Imported shared libraries are now installed by default to the target
installation location (i.e. libs/%lt;abi%gt;) if <code>APP_MODULES</code> is not
defined in your Application.mk.</li>
</ul>
<p>This means that if a top-level module "foo" imports a module "bar", then
both libfoo.so and libbar.so will be copied to the install location.</p>
<p>Previously, only libfoo.so was, unless you listed 'bar' in your <code>APP_MODULES</code>
too.</p>
<p>If you define <code>APP_MODULES</code> explicitly, the behaviour is unchanged.</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Static library imports are now properly transitive. If top-level module
'foo' imports static library 'bar' which imports static library 'zoo',
the libfoo.so will now be linked against both libbar.a and libzoo.a.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>ndk-gdb now works correctly for activities with multiple categories
in their MAIN intent filters.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>OTHER CHANGES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="STABLE-APIS.html">STABLE-APIS</a>: Added missing documentation listing EGL
as a supported stable API, starting from API level 9.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Add a new C++ support runtime named "gabi++". More details about it
are available in the updated <a href="CPLUSPLUS-SUPPORT.html">CPLUSPLUS-SUPPORT</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The STLport C++ runtimes now support RTTI (no exceptions yet though).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Add a new C++ support runtime named "gnustl_shared" corresponding to the
shared library version of GNU libstdc++ v3 (GPLv3 license). See more
info at <a href="CPLUSPLUS-SUPPORT.html">CPLUSPLUS-SUPPORT</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>You can now list several file extensions in <code>LOCAL_CPP_EXTENSION</code>. As in:</p>
<pre><code>LOCAL_CPP_EXTENSION := .cpp .cxx
</code></pre>
</li>
</ul>
<p>To compile both foo.cpp and bar.cxx as C++ sources.</p>
<ul>
<li>Refreshed the EGL and OpenGLES Khronos headers to support more extensions.
Note that this does <em>not</em> change the NDK ABIs for the corresponding
libraries, since each extension must be probed at runtime by the client
application.</li>
</ul>
<p>Which extensions are available depends on your actual device (and GPU
drivers), not the version of the platform it provides.</p>
<p>The header changes simply add new constants and types to make it easier
to use the extensions why they have been probed with eglGetProcAddress() or
glGetProcAddress(). Here is the list of newly supported extensions:</p>
<pre><code>GLES 1.x
--------
GL_OES_vertex_array_object
GL_OES_EGL_image_external
GL_APPLE_texture_2D_limited_npot
GL_EXT_blend_minmax
GL_EXT_discard_framebuffer
GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays
GL_EXT_read_format_bgra
GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic
GL_EXT_texture_format_BGRA8888
GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias
GL_IMG_read_format
GL_IMG_texture_compression_pvrtc
GL_IMG_texture_env_enhanced_fixed_function
GL_IMG_user_clip_plane
GL_IMG_multisampled_render_to_texture
GL_NV_fence
GL_QCOM_driver_control
GL_QCOM_extended_get
GL_QCOM_extended_get2
GL_QCOM_perfmon_global_mode
GL_QCOM_writeonly_rendering
GL_QCOM_tiled_rendering
GLES 2.0
--------
GL_OES_element_index_uint
GL_OES_get_program_binary
GL_OES_mapbuffer
GL_OES_packed_depth_stencil
GL_OES_texture_3D
GL_OES_texture_float
GL_OES_texture_float_linear
GL_OES_texture_half_float_linear
GL_OES_texture_npot
GL_OES_vertex_array_object
GL_OES_EGL_image_external
GL_AMD_program_binary_Z400
GL_EXT_blend_minmax
GL_EXT_discard_framebuffer
GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays
GL_EXT_read_format_bgra
GL_EXT_texture_format_BGRA8888
GL_EXT_texture_compression_dxt1
GL_IMG_program_binary
GL_IMG_read_format
GL_IMG_shader_binary
GL_IMG_texture_compression_pvrtc
GL_IMG_multisampled_render_to_texture
GL_NV_coverage_sample
GL_NV_depth_nonlinear
GL_QCOM_extended_get
GL_QCOM_extended_get2
GL_QCOM_writeonly_rendering
GL_QCOM_tiled_rendering
EGL:
----
EGL_ANDROID_recordable
EGL_NV_system_time
</code></pre>
<ul>
<li>
<p>docs/NATIVE-ACTIVITY.HTML: Fixed typo, the minimum API level
should be 9, not 8 for native activities.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>removed many unwanted exported symbols from the link-time shared
system libraries provided by the NDK. This ensures that code generated
with the standalone toolchain doesn't risk to accidentally depend
on a non-stable ABI symbol (e.g. any libgcc.a symbol that changes
each time the toolchain used to build the platform is changed).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code>download-toolchain-sources.sh</code>: Script was updated to download the toolchain
sources from android.googlesource.com, the new location for AOSP servers.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<h1>android-ndk-r6b</h1>
<p>This is a bug-fix release for NDK r6, no new features are provided.</p>
<h2>IMPORTANT BUG FIXES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Fixed the multi-architecture build, i.e. when using <code>APP_ABI="armeabi</code> x86"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed location of prebuilt STLport binaries in the NDK release package.
(A bug in the packaging script placed them in the wrong location).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed atexit() usage in shared libraries with the x86 standalone toolchain.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed <code>make-standalone-toolchain.sh</code> --arch=x86 (it failed to copy the
proper GNU libstdc++ binaries to the right location).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed standalone toolchain linker warnings about missing definition and
size for '__dso_handle' symbol (arm only).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed the inclusion order of $(SYSROOT)/usr/include for x86 builds,
see <a href="http://b.android.com/18540">b/18540</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed the definitions of ptrdiff_t and size_t in x86-specific system
when used with the x86 standalone toolchain.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<h1>android-ndk-r6</h1>
<h2>IMPORTANT CHANGES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Official support for the x86 ABI.</li>
</ul>
<p>This release of the Android NDK now provides support for the 'x86' ABI.
This allows you to generate machine code that runs on future x86-based
Android devices.</p>
<p>Note that by default, code is still generated for ARM-based devices.
You can however add 'x86' to your <code>APP_PLATFORM</code> definition in your
Application.mk. For example, the following line instructs ndk-build
to build your code for three distinct ABIs:</p>
<pre><code>`APP_ABI` := armeabi armeabi-v7a x86
</code></pre>
<p>Unless you rely on ARM-based assembly sources, you shouldn't need to touch
your Android.mk files to build x86 machine code.</p>
<p>For all details regarding x86 support, please read the new documentation
file named <a href="CPU-X86.html">CPU-X86</a>.</p>
<p>Don't hesitate to file NDK bugs related to x86 at <a href="http://b.android.com">http://b.android.com</a></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>You can build a standalone x86 toolchain using the --toolchain=x86-4.4.3
option when calling <code>make-standalone-toolchain.sh</code>. See
<a href="STANDALONE-TOOLCHAIN.html">STANDALONE-TOOLCHAIN</a> for more details.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The new 'ndk-stack' tool can be used to translate stack traces
(as reported by adb logcat in case of crash in native code) into
something more readable, i.e. containing function / source file /
line number information corresponding to each stack frame.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>For more information and usage example, see the new documentation
file <a href="NDK-STACK.html">NDK-STACK</a></p>
<h2>OTHER FIXES &amp; CHANGES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>The arm-eabi-4.4.0, which had been deprecated since NDK r5, has been
finally removed from the NDK distribution.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Support a project.properties file in the application's directory
instead of default.properties. This is in preparation for future SDK Tools
changes.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<h1>android-ndk-r5c</h1>
<p>This release fixes a few bugs in r5b. There are no new features.</p>
<h2>IMPORTANT BUG FIXES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Fixed a typo that prevented <code>LOCAL_WHOLE_STATIC_LIBRARIES</code> to work correctly
with the new toolchain. Also properly document this variable in
<a href="ANDROID-MK.html">ANDROID-MK</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed a bug where code linked against gnustl_static would crash when run
on Android platform releases older than 2.2.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><android/input.h>: Two functions in this header file, introduced
by API level 9 (a.k.a. 2.3) were incorrect and have been fixed. While
this breaks the source API, the binary interface to the system is
unchanged.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>The functions missing a third 'history_index' parameter. They correct
definition is now:</p>
<pre><code> float AMotionEvent_getHistoricalRawX(const AInputEvent* motion_event,
size_t pointer_index,
size_t history_index);
float AMotionEvent_getHistoricalRawY(const AInputEvent* motion_event,
size_t pointer_index,
size_t history_index);
</code></pre>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Updated the android-9 C library arm binary to correctly expose at link time
new functions that were added to it in Gingerbread (e.g. pthread_rwlock_init).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed a bug that made gdbserver crash on misc. Honeycomb devices (e.g.
the Motorola Xoom).</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>OTHER FIXES &amp; CHANGES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Object files are now always linked in the order they appear in
<code>LOCAL_SRC_FILES</code>. This was not the case previously because the files
were grouped by source extensions instead.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code>download-toolchain-sources.sh</code>: Fixed a silly bug that prevented the
--git-date option to work properly when downloading the master branch.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fix an issue where a module could import itself, resulting in an infinite
loop in GNU Make.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>When import-module fails, it now prints the list of directories
that were searched. This is useful to check that the <code>NDK_MODULE_PATH</code>
definition used by the build system is correct.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>When import-module succeeds, it now prints the directory where the module
was found to the log (visible with <code>NDK_LOG=1).</code></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><pthread.h>: Fixed the definition of PTHREAD_RWLOCK_INITIALIZER for
android-9 API level and higher.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed a bug where <code>LOCAL_ARM_NEON</code> was defined to true would make the build
fail (typo in build/core/build-binary.mk)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed a bug that prevented the compilation of .s assembly files
(.S files were ok).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Speed-up the build of debuggable applications when there is a very
large number of include directories in a project.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>ndk-gdb: Better detection of 'adb shell' failures (improves error messages).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>ndk-build: Fix a rare bug that appeared when trying to perform parallel
builds of debuggable projects.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<h1>android-ndk-r5b</h1>
<p>This release fixes a few bugs in r5. There are no new features.</p>
<h2>IMPORTANT BUG FIXES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Fix a compiler bug in the arm-linux-androideabi-4.4.3 toolchain.
The previous binary generated invalid thumb instruction sequences when
dealing with signed chars. This problem was first reported on the
android-ndk forum and fixed by the following change in the toolchain
sources:</p>
<pre><code>https://review.source.android.com/#change,19474
</code></pre>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="CPLUSPLUS-SUPPORT.html">CPLUSPLUS-SUPPORT</a>: Add missing documentation for the
"gnustl_static" value for <code>APP_STL</code>, that allows you to link against
a static library version of GNU libstdc++.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>ndk-build: Fix a bug that created inconsistent dependency files when a
compilation error occurred on Windows, preventing building properly after
the error was fixed in the source code.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>ndk-build: Fix a Cygwin-specific bug where using very short paths for
the Android NDK installation or the project path could lead to the
generation of invalid dependency files, making incremental builds
impossible.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fix a typo that prevented the cpufeatures library to work correctly
with the new NDK toolchain.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Linux toolchain binaries now run on Ubuntu 8.04 or higher.
More specifically, the r5 binaries did require GLibc 2.11 on the host
system, and refused to run with previous releases due to an ABI mismatch
in the GNU C Library. The r5b binaries are generated with a special
toolchain that instead targets GLibc 2.7 or higher.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>GNU libstdc++ will not crash anymore when printing floating-point values
through i/o streams.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>OTHER FIXES &amp; CHANGES:</p>
<ul>
<li>ndk-build: Speed-up the Cygwin build by avoiding calling "cygpath <code>-m"</code>
from GNU Make for each and every source or object file. This was a problem
for users with very large source trees.</li>
</ul>
<p>In case this doesn't work properly, define <code>NDK_USE_CYGPATH=1</code> in your
environment to use 'cygpath <code>-m'</code> as usual.</p>
<p>Also, if 'cygpath' is not in your path, completely ignore it
(seems to be enough to run the NDK under MSys).</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>ndk-build: Handle installation paths containing spaces when checking
cygwin installation. Before that, the script complained that the user
was using an incorrect version of GNU Make (even if he had the right one).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed a typo that prevented several <code>NDK_MODULE_PATH</code> to work properly when
it contained multiple directories separated with ":"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code>prebuilt-common.sh</code>: Make the script check the compiler directly for 64-bit
generated machine code, instead of relying on the host tag. That should
allow the 32-bit toolchain to rebuild properly on Snow Leopard.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code>prebuilt-common.sh</code>: Fix the toolchain rebuild scripts to work when
using a 32-bit host toolchain.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><netinet/in.h>: Add missing declaration for INET_ADDRSTRLEN</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><netinet/in6.h>: Add missing declaration for IN6_IS_ADDR_MC_NODELOCAL
and IN6_IS_ADDR_MC_GLOBAL.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><asm/byteorder.>: Replaced 'asm' with '<strong>asm</strong>' to allow compilation
with <code>-std=c99.</code> See <a href="https://review.source.android.com/#change,20076">https://review.source.android.com/#change,20076</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>standalone toolchain: The <code>-fpic</code> flag is now the default for the
arm-linux-androideabi toolchain, instead of <code>-fPIC.</code> This avoids a performance
degradation when compared to the old android-eabi configuration.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>This only affects users of the standalone toolchain. The NDK build script
always enforced <code>-fpic</code> implicitly.</p>
<hr />
<h1>android-ndk-r5</h1>
<h2>IMPORTANT BUG FIXES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Allow dlclose() to properly call static C++ destructors when unloading
a shared library. This requires changes in both the C library and the
build system. IMPORTANT: This feature is only available for API level 9.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fix packaging error for system libraries of level 5 and 8. The libraries
bundled with the NDK and used at link time were not the correct version,
and this prevented linking against certain symbols appropriately.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>ndk-gdb: do not start activity unless --start or --launch is used.
(the documentation was correct, the implementation wrong)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The system headers for all API levels have been cleaned up and will
not provide the declarations of functions that are not available in
the corresponding system libraries.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>IMPORTANT CHANGES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Support for API level 9, (a.k.a. Android 2.3) which adds the following
native features to the platform:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Native audio API based on the Khronos Group OpenSL ES&#0153; 1.0.1 Standard.
New headers <SLES/OpenSLES.h> and <SLES/OpenSLES_Android.h>
are provided to allow applications targeting this API level to perform
audio input, output and processing directly from native code.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Native activity support, i.e. the ability to build applications that
are coded entirely in C or C++. More precisely, such applications still
run inside a VM, and will have to access most of the platform's features
using JNI (i.e. native code calling VM methods). However, this also
comes with a series of headers and libraries to implement the following
directly from native code:</p>
<ul>
<li>activity lifecycle management.</li>
<li>user input handling (touch, keyboard, trackball, ...).</li>
<li>window management (including accessing the pixel buffer).</li>
<li>sensor listeners (e.g. accelerometer, compass, ...).</li>
<li>hardware configuration management.</li>
<li>easily reading assets out of an APK from native code.</li>
<li>access to the storage manager, a new feature of Android X.X
that allows one to provide Opaque Binary Objects containing
large amounts of data outside of the APK.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>See the documentation in <a href="STABLE-APIS.html">STABLE-APIS</a> for more details.</p>
<p>Note that most of these new features are targeted at game developers.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Improved gdbserver binary to allow debugging <em>threaded</em> programs properly
with ndk-gdb (the previous binary could only set breakpoints on the main
thread).</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>IMPORTANT: THIS ONLY WORKS IF YOU RUN ON ANDROID 2.3 OR HIGHER.</p>
<p>The root cause of the problem is a platform bug that was only fixed in
2.3. If you try to debug on a previous platform, the gdbserver binary
will only be able to set breakpoints on the main thread.</p>
<p>For more information, see the specific section in <a href="NDK-GDB.html">NDK-GDB</a>.</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Easier debuggable builds: just invoke ndk-build while defining the
<code>NDK_DEBUG</code> variable to 1, as in:</p>
<p>$NDK/ndk-build <code>NDK_DEBUG=1</code></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>This will have the same result that setting the android:debuggable="true"
in the <application> element of your AndroidManifest.xml file. See the
file <a href="NDK-BUILD.html">NDK-BUILD</a> for more details.</p>
<p>Note that you will need to use the SDKr8 build tools to use this feature
properly!</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Refresh of system C++ headers:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Headers have been moved out of the platform directory hierarchy.
This is to prevent conflicts with other STLs like STLport or the
GNU libstdc++ which provide their own version of the headers, but
does not affect your builds.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The list of headers has grown to include the following:</p>
<pre><code>cassert, cctype, cerrno, cfloat, climits, cmath,
csetjmp, csignal, cstddef, cstdint, cstdio, cstdlib,
cstring, ctime, cwchar, new, typeinfo, utility
</code></pre>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Note that they still correspond to our minimal C++ runtime, no new feature
was introduced here.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Support for C++ exceptions and RTTI. See <a href="CPLUSPLUS-SUPPORT.html">CPLUSPLUS-SUPPORT</a> for
all details (and limitations).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>STLport implementation: Add sources and prebuilt binaries for a port of
the STLport C++ Standard Library (www.stlport.org), and an easy way to use
it at build time by defining <code>APP_STL</code> in your Application.mk. See
<a href="APPLICATION-MK.html">APPLICATION-MK</a> and <a href="CPLUSPLUS-SUPPORT.html">CPLUSPLUS-SUPPORT</a> for all details.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>GNU libstdc++ implementation: Available as a static library that you can
select for your application through <code>APP_STL</code>. See <a href="CPLUSPLUS-SUPPORT.html">CPLUSPLUS-SUPPORT</a>
for all details.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Add support for prebuilt libraries with the PREBUILT_SHARED_LIBRARY and
PREBUILT_STATIC_LIBRARIES build scripts. See the new documentation
file named <a href="PREBUILTS.html">PREBUILTS</a> for explanations and usage examples.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Support for module exports: A module can now define a set of compiler or
linker flags that will be automatically 'imported' by any other module that
depends on it, through <code>LOCAL_STATIC_LIBRARIES</code> or <code>LOCAL_SHARED_LIBRARIES</code>.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>This is achieved with the help of new Android.mk variables named
<code>LOCAL_EXPORT_CFLAGS</code>, <code>LOCAL_EXPORT_CPPFLAGS</code>, <code>LOCAL_EXPORT_C_INCLUDES</code> and
<code>LOCAL_EXPORT_LDLIBS</code>. See <a href="ANDROID-MK.html">ANDROID-MK</a> for mode documentation, and
a 'samples/module-exports' for a sample project that uses this.</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Add support to specify a different file name for generated files, through
the new <code>LOCAL_MODULE_FILENAME</code> variable. See <a href="ANDROID-MK.html">ANDROID-MK</a> for an
example.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Add support for module imports, through the <code>NDK_MODULE_PATH</code> environment
variable and the new 'import-module' function. This allows you to avoid
hard-coding the path of third-party modules into your project files.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>See <a href="IMPORT-MODULE.html">IMPORT-MODULE</a> for details.</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Add the content of <code>LOCAL_C_INCLUDES</code> to gdb.setup to make native debugging
easier. Also fixes an issue that prevented clean parallel builds of
debuggable applications to work correctly. This fixes an error message that
said:</p>
<p>/bin/sh: <project>/libs/armeabi/gdb.setup: No such file or directory</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>When doing a "ndk-build <code>-j&lt;number&gt;",</code> with <number> bigger than 1.</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Add support for assembly-level source filtering. See the description of
<code>LOCAL_FILTER_ASM</code> in <a href="ANDROID-MK.html">ANDROID-MK</a> for more details. This can be useful
for certain kinds of obfuscation tasks.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>This NDK comes with a new toolchain (named arm-linux-androideabi-4.4.3)
which provides many benefits, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>Better code generation than the previous one (gcc-4.4.0)</li>
<li>On Windows, the binaries do not depend on Cygwin anymore.</li>
<li>The ability to use it as a stand-alone cross-compiler
(see <a href="STANDALONE-TOOLCHAIN.html">STANDALONE-TOOLCHAIN</a> for all details).</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>The binaries for gcc-4.4.0 are still provided for backwards compatibility.
Use <code>NDK_TOOLCHAIN=arm-eabi-4.4.0</code> in your environment to force its usage.
Note that it is now deprecated and will be removed in a future NDK release.</p>
<p>IMPORTANT: The old toolchain doesn't properly support exceptions, RTTI,
STLport and GNU libstdc++.</p>
<p>The binaries for the already-deprecated gcc-4.2.1 have been removed.</p>
<ul>
<li>The 'cpufeatures' library has been updated to provide better architecture
and features detection (including a work-around for buggy ARMv6 kernels
which report an architecture version of 7).</li>
</ul>
<p>The library is now also available as an import module, to simplify its
usage in your build scripts. See the updated <a href="CPU-FEATURES.html">CPU-FEATURES</a> file
for details.</p>
<p>NOTE: Please update your Android.mk to use module imports as soon as
possible. The location $NDK/source/cpufeatures/ is deprecated
and will be removed in a future NDK release. Avoid referencing
it directly in your build scripts!</p>
<h2>OTHER FIXES AND CHANGES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Reduced the size of generated binaries by using --strip-unneeded
instead of --strip-debug. This gets rid of mor symbol table entries
in release shared libraries and executables, without impacting
runtime execution.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fix bad automatic dependency tracking when using multiple source
sub-directories.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The path to system headers is now included last in the compilation command
line. This prevents conflicts with source code that define their own headers
with similar names (e.g. a custom "err.h" was ignored, because the system
<err.h> was used instead).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Update documentation for 'my-dir' function to explain that, due to the
way GNU Make works, it really returns the path of the last included
Makefile (instead of the current one). Also provide examples on how
to deal with it.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code>make-release.sh</code>: Now has an --out-dir=<path> option to specify the
output directory where the packages are going to be copied. Also
ensure that generated packages have go+r permissions.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>ndk-build will now properly escape arguments. This means that something
like this:</p>
<p>ndk-build <code>MY_CFLAGS="-DFOO</code> <code>-DBAR"</code></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>will now work correctly.</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Add --git-http option to <code>download-toolchain-sources.sh</code> and
<code>rebuild-all-prebuilt.sh</code> in order to download sources from
android.git.kernel.org through HTTP.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>ndk-gdb: properly launch activities for which name does not contain any dot.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>ndk-gdb: add --delay=<timeout> option to specify a delay in seconds
between activity launch and gdbserver attach. This is needed because certain
activities can take a long time to properly launch. The default delay is
also increased to 2 seconds (instead of 1).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code>build/tools/build-gcc.sh</code>: copy the sysroot to the build directory. This
avoids the generated toolchain binaries from hard-coding host build paths.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Platform files are now under $NDK/platforms instead of $NDK/build/platforms</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Toolchain files are now under $NDK/toolchains instead of
$NDK/build/toolchains and $NDK/build/prebuilt.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Release and debug objects are stored under two different directories now
(i.e. obj/local/<abi>/objs and obj/local/<abi>/objs-debug). This
prevents rebuilding <em>everything</em> when you switch between these two modes,
which can be a real time-saver for complex projects.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed a bug that duplicated the <code>LOCAL_LDFLAGS</code> in the final link command
when <code>LOCAL_ALLOW_UNDEFINED_SYMBOLS</code> was not set to 'true'</p>
</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<h1>android-ndk-r4b</h1>
<p>This release fixes a few bugs in r4 scripts. There are no new features.</p>
<h2>OTHER FIXES &amp; CHANGES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p><code>build/tools/rebuild-all-prebuilt.sh</code>: mktemp expects 'XXXXXX' instead of 'XXX'.
Fix the script (and others in the same directory) to do that properly.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>ndk-gdb: check the target device's API level, and dump an error message if
it is not at least 8 (Android 2.2 a.k.a. Froyo). Fix script to properly
remove control characters like '\r' from adb shell's output. Also fix
script to work properly with OS X's BSD awk.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>ndk-build: Make AndroidManifest.xml optional. Now the build scripts will try
to look for jni/Android.mk if no manifest is found. If you don't use this,
you can also define <code>NDK_PROJECT_PATH</code> to point to your tree.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Also, on Windows, check that a Cygwin-compatible make executable is being
used, and dump a readable help message to solve the issue if this is not
the case.</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Place generated binaries under $PROJECT_PATH/obj/ instead of
$PROJECT_PATH/bin/ndk/. The 'bin' directory is sometimes cleaned
by the JDT, resulting in the inability to properly load symbol versions
of the shared libraries when running ndk-gdb.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Warn when sources with unsupported extensions are used in <code>LOCAL_SRC_FILES</code>.
Previous behaviour was to silently ignore them.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Set the optimization mode to 'debug' automatically if the manifest sets
android:debuggable to 'true'. You can override this by using
'APP_OPTIM := release' in your Application.mk, or by adding '-O2' to
your <code>LOCAL_CFLAGS</code>.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Note that even in release mode, the NDK build scripts will produce
binaries with symbols under obj/local/<abi>/ that will be used for
debugging with gdb. However, the debugger will have a harder time to
print proper local variable values that have been optimized out or
even set breakpoints properly.</p>
<hr />
<h1>android-ndk-r4</h1>
<h2>IMPORTANT BUG FIXES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>The <fenv.h> header was not placed in the correct location and could not
be found by normal builds.</li>
</ul>
<h2>IMPORTANT CHANGES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>On Windows, Cygwin 1.7 or higher is now required. The NDK will not
work properly with Cygwin 1.5 which is now officially obsolete
anyway.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Simplified build system: You no longer need to run <code>build/host-setup.sh</code>
or modify anything under $NDK_ROOT/apps/. Instead, just invoke the
new 'ndk-build' script from your application's project directory, or
one of its sub-directories.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>See <a href="OVERVIEW.html">OVERVIEW</a> and <a href="NDK-BUILD.html">NDK-BUILD</a> for more details.</p>
<p>NOTE: For compatibility purpose, you can still define projects
through $NDK_ROOT/apps/<name> though.</p>
<pre><code> However, not that sample applications have moved from
'apps/&lt;name&gt;/project' to 'samples/&lt;name&gt;' and now must
be built with 'ndk-build'. The source code of pre-existing
samples didn't change though.
</code></pre>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Easy native debugging support when running debuggable applications
on Android 2.2 or higher, through the new 'ndk-gdb' helper script.
See <a href="NDK-GDB.html">NDK-GDB</a> for details.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Support for hardware FPU. This is through the new 'armeabi-v7a' ABI
corresponding to ARMv7-a class devices.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Note that by default, the NDK will still generate machine code for the old
'armeabi' ABI (ARMv5TE based) which is supported by all official Android
system images to date.</p>
<p>You will need to define <code>APP_ABI</code> in your Application.mk file to change this.
See <a href="APPLICATION-MK.html">APPLICATION-MK</a></p>
<p>More details about ABIs is now available in <a href="CPU-ARCH-ABIS.html">CPU-ARCH-ABIS</a></p>
<ul>
<li>A small static library named 'cpufeatures' is provided with source code
and can be used at runtime to determine the CPU features supported by the
target device. It should run on all Android platforms, starting from 1.5.</li>
</ul>
<p>For more information, see <a href="CPU-FEATURES.html">CPU-FEATURES</a></p>
<ul>
<li>Support for the optional ARM Advanced SIMD (a.k.a. NEON) instruction set
extension through the use the <code>LOCAL_ARM_NEON</code> variable in Android.mk, or
the '.neon' suffix when listing source files.</li>
</ul>
<p>Neon is an <em>optional</em> instruction set extension, and not all Android ARMv7
devices will support it. You will need to use the 'cpufeatures' library to
determine if such code can be used at runtime, and provide alternate code
paths if this is not the case. This is similar to MMX/SSE/3DNow on x86
platforms.</p>
<p>For more information, see <a href="CPU-ARM-NEON.html">CPU-ARM-NEON</a></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Added a new sample (hello-neon) to demonstrate usage of 'cpufeatures'
and NEON intrinsics and build support.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Added <android/bitmap.h>, a new stable API available from android-8
(a.k.a. Android 2.2) to reliably access the pixel buffer of an
android.graphics.Bitmap object from native code. See <a href="STABLE-API.html">STABLE-API</a>
and the new sample program under 'samples/bitmap-plasma' for details
and usage example.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Support the NX (No Execute) security feature, where special sections
are added to the generated shared libraries to instruct the kernel
that code shall not be executed from the heap and stack by default.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>See <a href="ANDROID-MK.html">ANDROID-MK</a> to see how to disable this, plus reference
links for more information.</p>
<h2>OTHER FIXES AND CHANGES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>support the .s extension for raw assembly sources (.S is already supported
but the input files are parsed by the C-preprocessor before being sent to
the assembler).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code>build/host-setup.sh</code> has been removed. There is no need for a 'setup' step
when using the NDK for the first time. All host-specific autodetection and
basic tool sanity checking have been moved to the build scripts themselves.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code>APP_MODULES</code> in Application.mk is now optional. If not defined, the NDK
will simply build <em>all</em> the modules that are declared from your Android.mk.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>You can still use <code>APP_MODULES</code> to restrict the set of modules you want to
build. Note that the NDK now computes the transitive dependencies of these
modules for you now. See <a href="APPLICATION-MK.html">APPLICATION-MK</a> for details.</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="STABLE-APIS.html">STABLE-APIS</a>: Add missing section for Dynamic Linker Library
(libdl.so). It is actually supported by all API levels.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code>build/tools/download-toolchain-sources.sh</code>: Use 'master' branch by default
instead of the 'eclair' one.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code>build-toolchain.sh</code>: Allow ad-hoc patching of toolchain sources when rebuilding
them. This is primarily to ease development. All you need to do is put a patch
under build/tools/toolchain-patches/<foo>/<name>.patch, and it will be applied
with 'patch <code>-p1'</code> into the <foo> directory of the unpacked toolchain sources
before the configure step.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="CPU-ARCH-ABIS.html">CPU-ARCH-ABIS</a>: Mention the experimental 'x86' ABI.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code>build/core/mkdeps.sh</code>: Removed obsolete script.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>the NDK build script now only parses the Application.mk and Android.mk of
the applications listed by APP. The error messages when APP is empty or
malformed have also been improved.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>removed the annoying 'the mangling of 'va_list' has changed in GCC 4.4'
warning when building with GCC 4.4.0 for ARM.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>C Library header fixes:</p>
<p>For all platforms:</p>
<pre><code>- &lt;arpa/inet.h&gt;: no longer includes &lt;netinet/in6.h&gt;.
- &lt;ctype.h&gt;: better inlining with -ansi option.
- &lt;mntent.h&gt;: add missing include for &lt;stdio.h&gt;.
- &lt;netinet/in.h&gt;: include &lt;netinet/in6.h&gt; and define in6addr_any +
in6addr_loopback.
- &lt;netinet/in6.h&gt;: add IPV6_JOIN_GROUP, IPV6_LEAVE_GROUP,
IN6ADDR_ANY_INIT, ipv6mr_interface.
- &lt;sys/epoll.h&gt;: add missing C++ inclusion guards.
- &lt;sys/resource.h&gt;: add missing rlim_t declaration.
- &lt;sys/system_properties.h&gt;: add missing C++ inclusion guards.
- &lt;time64.h&gt;: add missing C++ inclusion guards.
- &lt;netdb.h&gt;: move h_errno declaration inside C++ inclusion guards.
</code></pre>
</li>
<li>
<p>C Library changes:</p>
<p>For android-8 (a.k.a. Android 2.2):</p>
<pre><code>- &lt;dlfcn.h&gt;: add DL_info and dladdr().
- &lt;err.h&gt;: add err(), warn() and other variants.
- &lt;regex.h&gt;, &lt;fts.h&gt;, &lt;sys/queue.h&gt;: added
- &lt;pthread.h&gt;: add pthread_condattr_t
- &lt;sched.h&gt;: added proper clone() declaration (and implementation).
- &lt;signal.h&gt;: added killpg().
- &lt;stdio.h&gt;: add fdprintf() and vfdprintf().
- &lt;stdlib.h&gt;: fix ptsname_r() signature in declaration. previous
implementation was broken anyway.
- &lt;unistd.h&gt;: add getusershell(), setusershell(), endusershell(),
ttyname(), ttyname_r(), TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY. Fix usleep() signature
(now returns int).
- &lt;wchar.h&gt;: add fake mbstowcs() and wcstombs().
</code></pre>
</li>
</ul>
<p>More details available under docs/system/libc/CHANGES.html</p>
<hr />
<h1>android-ndk-r3</h1>
<h2>IMPORTANT BUG FIXES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Fix <code>build/host-setup.sh</code> to execute as a Bourne shell script (again)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Make target shared libraries portable to systems that don't use the exact
same toolchain. This is needed due to differences in libgcc.a implementations
between gcc 4.2.1 and 4.4.0. This change ensures that generated machine
code doesn't depend on helper functions provided by the Android platform
runtime.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>IMPORTANT CHANGES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>GCC 4.4.0 is now used by default by the NDK. It generates better code than
GCC 4.2.1, which was used in previous releases. However, the compiler's C++
frontend is also a lot more pedantic regarding certain template constructs
and will even refuse to build some of them.</li>
</ul>
<p>For this reason, the NDK also comes with GCC 4.2.1 prebuilt binaries, and
you can force its usage by defining <code>NDK_TOOLCHAIN</code> in your environment to
the value 'arm-eabi-4.2.1'. For example:</p>
<pre><code> export NDK_TOOLCHAIN=arm-eabi-4.2.1
make APP=hello-jni
</code></pre>
<p>Note that only the 'armeabi' ABI is supported by the 4.2.1 toolchain. We
recommend switching to 4.2.1 <em>only</em> if you encounter compilation problems
with 4.4.0.</p>
<p>The 4.2.1 prebuilt binaries will probably be removed from a future release
of the Android NDK, we thus <em>strongly</em> invite you to fix your code if such
problems happen.</p>
<ul>
<li>Support for OpenGL ES 2.0. This is through the new 'android-5' platform to
reflect Android 2.0 (previously the Eclair branch). This is merely a copy
of android-4 that also includes headers and libraries for OpenGL ES 2.0.</li>
</ul>
<p>See the sample named "hello-gl2" for a <em>very</em> basic demonstration. Note that
OpenGL ES 2.0 is currently <em>not</em> available from Java, and must be used
through native code exclusively.</p>
<p>IMPORTANT: OpenGL ES 2.0 is not supported in the Android emulator at this
time. Running/testing any native code that depends on it thus
requires a real device.</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>The NDK build script will now remove installed binaries from the application
project's path before starting the build. This ensures that:</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>if the build fails for some reason, a stale/obsolete file is not left in
your application project tree by mistake.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>if you change the target ABI, a stale/obsolete file is not left into the
folder corresponding to the old ABI.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Updated the <a href="STABLE-APIS.html">STABLE-APIS</a> document to clarify the OpenGL ES 1.0/1.1/2.0
issues regarding specific devices (i.e. 1.0 supported everywhere, 1.1 and
2.0 on specific devices only, need for <uses-feature> tag in manifest).</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>OTHER FIXES AND CHANGES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Actually use the awk version detected by <code>host-setup.sh</code> during the build.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Only allow undefined symbols when <code>LOCAL_ALLOW_UNDEFINED_SYMBOLS</code> is set
to 'true', just like the documentation says it works. Also fix a typo
in CLEAR_VARS that prevented this variable from being cleared properly.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Simplified <code>build/tools/make-release.sh</code>, the --prebuilt-dir option is
gone, and --help will dump a clearer description of expected options
and input files.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Added --prebuilt-ndk=FILE option to <code>build/tools/make-release.sh</code> script to
package a new experimental NDK package archive from the current source tree
plus the toolchain binaries of an existing NDK release package. E.g.:</p>
<p><code>build/tools/make-release.sh</code> \
--prebuilt-ndk=/path/to/android-ndk-1.6_r1-linux-x86.zip</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>will generate a new NDK package in /tmp/ndk-release that contains the most
up-to-date build scripts, plus the toolchain binaries from 1.6_r1 (which
are not in the git repository).</p>
<p>Also added the --no-git option to collect all sources from the current
NDK root directory, instead of the list given by 'git ls-files'. This can
be useful if you don't want to checkout the whole 'platform/development'
project from repo and still work on the NDK.</p>
<p>This change is to help people easily package experimental NDK releases to
test and distribute fixes and improvements.</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Remove bash-isms from <code>build/tools/build-toolchain.sh</code>. Now it's possible to
build it with the 'dash' shell on Debian-based systems (tested on Ubuntu 8.04)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Remove bash-ism from <code>build/tools/build-ndk-sysroot.sh</code></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Refresh C library headers for all platforms:</p>
<ul>
<li>make <endian.h> simply include <sys/endian.h></li>
<li>make <stdint.h> properly declare 64-bit integer types with a C99 compiler</li>
<li>add missing <sys/types.h> to <strings.h></li>
<li>add GLibc-compatible macro aliases (st_atimensec, st_mtimensec and
st_ctimensec) to <stat.h></li>
<li>add missing declaration for tzset() in <time.h></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>Added <code>build/tools/download-toolchain-sources.sh</code>, a script that allows you
to download the toolchain sources from the official open-source repository
at android.git.kernel.org and nicely package them into a tarball that can
later be used by <code>build/tools/build-toolchain.sh</code> to rebuild the prebuilt
binaries for your system.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Updated <code>build/tools/build-toolchain.sh</code> to support the tarballs generated
by <code>download-toolchain-sources.sh</code> with the --package=<file> option. This
also builds both gcc 4.2.1 and 4.4.0, adding support for armeabi-v7a to
gcc 4.4.0.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<h1>android-ndk-1.6_r1</h1>
<h2>IMPORTANT BUG FIXES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Fix <code>build/host-setup.sh</code> to:</li>
<li>execute as a Bourne shell script</li>
<li>remove unused host gcc dependency</li>
<li>improve Windows host auto-detection</li>
<li>add GNU Make version check</li>
<li>add Nawk/Gawk check</li>
<li>ensure that the script is run from $NDKROOT as <code>build/host-setup.sh</code></li>
<li>
<p>add --help, --verbose, --no-awk-check and --no-make-check options</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Properly add sysroot library search path at build time. This makes a line
in Android.mk like:</p>
<p><code>LOCAL_LDLIBS</code> := <code>-lz</code></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Actually work correctly, instead of having the linker complaining that it
could not find the corresponding libz.so library. Also clear <code>LOCAL_LDLIBS</code>
in $(CLEAR_VARS) script.</p>
<h2>IMPORTANT CHANGES:</h2>
<ul>
<li>The 'sources' directory is gone. The NDK build system now looks for
$(APP_PROJECT_PATH)/jni/Android.mk by default. You can override this with
the new <code>APP_BUILD_SCRIPT</code> variable in Application.mk</li>
</ul>
<p>For example, the 'hello-jni' sample uses the following files:</p>
<pre><code>apps/hello-jni/project/jni/Android.mk
apps/hello-jni/project/jni/hello-jni.c
</code></pre>
<p>The 'apps/<name>' directory is still needed in this release though.</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Change <code>LOCAL_CFLAGS</code> / <code>LOCAL_CPPFLAGS</code> to work as in the full Android build
system. This means that:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>LOCAL_CFLAGS</code> is now used for <em>both</em> C and C++ sources (was only for C)</li>
<li><code>LOCAL_CPPFLAGS</code> is now used for C++ sources only (was for both C and C++)</li>
<li><code>LOCAL_CXXFLAGS</code> is used like <code>LOCAL_CPPFLAGS</code> but is considered obsolete.
(will disappear in next release)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Also fixed <code>APP_CPPFLAGS</code> / <code>APP_CFLAGS</code> / <code>APP_CXXFLAGS</code> correspondingly.</p>
<ul>
<li>Rename build/platforms/android-1.5 to build/platforms/android-3 to match
the Android API level instead of the marketing speak.</li>
</ul>
<p>Also add a new build/platforms/android-4, and make the build system select
which platform to use based on the content of the project file named
$(APP_PROJECT_PATH)/default.properties.</p>
<ul>
<li>Add OpenGL ES 1.x headers and libraries to the android-4 stable APIs.
(NOTE: they are <em>not</em> available for android-3)</li>
</ul>
<p>Also provide a small port of the "San Angeles Observation" demo to show
how to make a simple Android application that uses them.</p>
<h2>OTHER FIXES AND CHANGES</h2>
<ul>
<li>Ensure that the <code>__ANDROID__</code> macro is always defined when building code
with the NDK. Normally, the macro must be defined by the toolchain
automatically to indicate that you're targeting the Android runtime.</li>
</ul>
<p>This works for the new arm-linux-androideabi toolchain, but there is
a bug in the way we built the arm-eabi one, so add the flag manually
through the NDK build script for it.</p>
<p>Note that the ANDROID macro, is now deprecated. While it is still defined
by the NDK, you should modify your code to test against <code>__ANDROID__</code> instead!</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Generate thumb binaries by default.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Add support for <code>LOCAL_ARM_MODE</code> in Android.mk.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Add support for the '.arm' suffix in source file names to force the
compilation of a single source in ARM (32-bit) mode.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Generate proper unoptimized versions of binaries when <code>APP_OPTIM</code> := debug</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Add support for <code>LOCAL_C_INCLUDES</code> in Android.mk</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fix compilation of assembler files (e.g. foo.S)</p>
</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<h1>android-ndk-1.5_r1 released.</h1>