* Fix typos in comment in profiler.h (nrhodes)

        * #include fixes (jyrki)
        * Add missing stddef.h for ptrdiff_t (mec)
        * Add M{,un}mapReplacement hooks into MallocHook (ribrdb)
        * Force big alloc in frag test (ruemmler)
        * PERF: Increase the size class cache to 64K entries (ruemmler)
        * PERF: Increase the transfer cache by 16x (ruemmler)
        * Use windows intrinsic to get the tsc (csilvers)
        * Rename atomicops-internals-x86-msvc.h->windows.h (csilvers)
        * Remove flaky DEATH test in malloc_hook_test (ppluzhnikov)
        * Expose internal ReadStackTraces()/etc (lantran)
        * Refactored system allocator logic (gangren)
        * Include-what-you-use: cleanup tcmalloc #includes (csilvers)
        * Don't set kAddressBits to 48 on 32-bit systems (csilvers)
        * Add declaration for __rdtsc() for windows (koda)
        * Don't revert to system alloc for expected errors (gangren)
        * Add TCMALLOC_SMALL_BUT_SLOW support (ruemmler)
        * Clarify that tcmalloc stats are MiB (robinson)
        * Avoid setting cpuinfo_cycles_per_second to 0 (koda)
        * Fix frag_unittest memory calculations (ruemmler)
        * Remove support for non-tcmalloc debugallocation (blount)
	* Add malloc_hook_test (llib)
	* Change the objcopy -W test to be cross-friendly (mcgrathr)
	* Export __tcmalloc in addition to _tcmalloc, for 86_64 (csilvers)


git-svn-id: http://gperftools.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@109 6b5cf1ce-ec42-a296-1ba9-69fdba395a50

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/README_windows.txt b/README_windows.txt
index 9572f15..660abbb 100644
--- a/README_windows.txt
+++ b/README_windows.txt
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ This project has begun being ported to Windows.  A working solution
 file exists in this directory:

     google-perftools.sln

 

-You can load this solution file into either VC++ 7.1 (Visual Studio

-2003) or VC++ 8.0 (Visual Studio 2005) -- in the latter case, it will

-automatically convert the files to the latest format for you.

+You can load this solution file into VC++ 7.1 (Visual Studio 2003) or

+later -- in the latter case, it will automatically convert the files

+to the latest format for you.

 

 When you build the solution, it will create a number of unittests,

 which you can run by hand (or, more easily, under the Visual Studio

@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ to just build and link your program normally; the tcmalloc support
 comes in a post-processing step.  This is more reliable than the above

 technique (which depends on run-time patching, which is inherently

 fragile), though more work to set up.  For details, see

-https://groups.google.com/group/google-perftools/browse_thread/thread/41cd3710af85e57b

+   https://groups.google.com/group/google-perftools/browse_thread/thread/41cd3710af85e57b

 

 

 --- THE HEAP-PROFILER

@@ -70,6 +70,15 @@ features of perftools, such as the cpu-profiler and leak-checker, have
 not yet been ported to Windows at all.

 

 

+--- WIN64

+

+The function-patcher has to disassemble code, and is very

+x86-specific.  However, the rest of perftools should work fine for

+both x86 and x64.  In particular, if you use the 'statically link with

+libc, and replace its malloc with tcmalloc' approach, mentioned above,

+it should be possible to use tcmalloc with 64-bit windows.

+

+

 --- ISSUES

 

 NOTE FOR WIN2K USERS: According to reports

@@ -101,4 +110,4 @@ them on the google-perftools Google Code site:
 

 -- craig

 

-Last modified: 3 February 2010

+Last modified: 6 April 2011