Version 20120420

1) ACPICA Core Subsystem:

Implemented support for multiple notify handlers. This change adds support to allow multiple system and device notify handlers on Device, Thermal Zone, and Processor objects. This can simplify the host OS notification implementation.
Also re-worked and restructured the entire notify support code to simplify handler installation, handler removal, notify event queuing, and notify dispatch to handler(s). Note: there can still only be two global notify handlers - one for system notifies and one for device notifies. There are no changes to the existing handler install/remove interfaces. Lin Ming, Bob Moore, Rafael Wysocki.

Fixed a regression in the package repair code where the object reference count was calculated incorrectly. Regression was introduced in the commit "Support to add Package wrappers".

Fixed a couple possible memory leaks in the AML parser, in the error recovery path. Jesper Juhl, Lin Ming.

Example Code and Data Size: These are the sizes for the OS-independent acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 9.0 32-bit compiler. The debug version of the code includes the debug output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data size.

Previous Release:
Non-Debug Version: 92.9K Code, 25.0K Data, 117.9K Total
Debug Version: 172.5K Code, 73.2K Data, 245.7K Total
Current Release:
Non-Debug Version: 92.9K Code, 25.0K Data, 117.9K Total
Debug Version: 172.6K Code, 73.4K Data, 246.0K Total

2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools:

iASL: Fixed a problem with the resource descriptor support where the length of the StartDependentFn and StartDependentFnNoPrio descriptors were not included in cumulative descriptor offset, resulting in incorrect values for resource tags within resource descriptors appearing after a StartDependent* descriptor. Reported by Petr Vandrovec. ACPICA BZ 949.

iASL and Preprocessor: Implemented full support for the #line directive to correctly track original source file line numbers through the .i preprocessor output file - for error and warning messages.

iASL: Expand the allowable byte constants for address space IDs. Previously, the allowable range was 0x80-0xFF (user-defined spaces), now the range is 0x0A-0xFF to allow for custom and new IDs without changing the compiler.

iASL: Add option to treat all warnings as errors (-we). ACPICA BZ 948.

iASL: Add option to completely disable the preprocessor (-Pn).

iASL: Now emit all error/warning messages to standard error (stderr) by default (instead of the previous stdout).

ASL Test Suite (ASLTS): Reduce iASL warnings due to use of Switch().
Update for resource descriptor offset fix above. Update/cleanup error output routines. Enable and send iASL errors/warnings to an error logfile (error.txt). Send all other iASL output to a logfile (compiler.txt). Fixed several extraneous "unrecognized operator" messages.