From 835b8213905b315645bc60ff5f2ab99340d075a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thiago Macieira Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 17:58:25 -0800 Subject: Announce the deprecation of platforms still using qoldbasicatomic.h Change-Id: I480e182c2923754142bc54ff44f798b13bbe71e4 Reviewed-by: Tuukka Turunen Reviewed-by: Thiago Macieira --- dist/changes-5.2.0 | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) (limited to 'dist') diff --git a/dist/changes-5.2.0 b/dist/changes-5.2.0 index 659bb21370..4dd1604fcc 100644 --- a/dist/changes-5.2.0 +++ b/dist/changes-5.2.0 @@ -56,6 +56,25 @@ information about a particular change. directory; all headers are located in the frameworks. This may affect 3rd party build systems not based on qmake or cmake. +**************************************************************************** +* Platform deprecation notice * +**************************************************************************** + + - The support for the old implementation of QAtomicInt and + QAtomicPointer is deprecated in Qt 5.2 and will be removed in Qt + 5.3. Building with the following compilers or environments will not + be possible in Qt 5.3 or the build will suffer greatly in + performance, unless support is revived by writing new atomics code. + * Green Hills compiler for INTEGRITY + * Sun Studio compiler suite for Solaris + * IBM Visual Age compiler suite for AIX + * Kernel-mode VxWorks + + Developers interested in picking up support should contact the + development mailing list at development@qt-project.org for more + information. Note that those platforms are currently not tested. Most + likely, they have further problems than just the atomics code. + **************************************************************************** * Library * **************************************************************************** -- cgit v1.2.3