diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f6ea085..badea69 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,19 +1,45 @@
 
-Fri Jun  6 14:44:13 PDT 2008  Valient Gough <vgough@pobox.com>
+Sat Nov 28 2009 Valient Gough <vgough@pobox.com>
+	* fix printf arg warning
+	* add configure argument to disable variable clustering
+	* check for two-argument section attribute support
+
+Sun Nov 22 2009 Valient Gough <vgough@pobox.com>
+	* avoid doc build failure if not building docs
+
+Tue Aug 18 2009 Valient Gough <vgough@pobox.com>
+	* single char path length test
+
+Thu Nov 6 2008 Valient Gough <vgough@pobox.com>
+	* fix off-by-one which cause single-char paths to be ignored
+
+Fri Jun 27 2008 Valient Gough <vgough@pobox.com>
+	* simplify macros in rlog-c99
+	* add test for gcc section attribute to configure
+
+Sat Jun 14 2008 Valient Gough <vgough@pobox.com>
+	* add warning if timer isn't accurate enough to get good benchmark
+	  results
+	* no longer use RDTSC function unless specifically requested during
+	  configuration
+	* update configure using autoupdate
+	* bump version to 1.4
+	* add global lock to RLog_Register function, to avoid race in threaded
+	  apps
+
+Sat Jun 7 2008 Valient Gough <vgough@pobox.com>
+	* add missing RLOG_SECTION definition
+
+Fri Jun 6 2008 Valient Gough <vgough@pobox.com>
+	* update changelog
 	* bump version to 1.3.8, lib version to 5
-
-Fri Jun  6 14:33:37 PDT 2008  Valient Gough <vgough@pobox.com>
 	* import Windows VC80 patch from David Wolfe
-
-Fri Jun  6 14:31:01 PDT 2008  Valient Gough <vgough@pobox.com>
 	* minor fixes for Windows compile
-
-Fri Jun  6 14:16:04 PDT 2008  Valient Gough <vgough@pobox.com>
 	* use inline functions for modifying PublishLoc
-
-Fri Jun  6 14:14:17 PDT 2008  Valient Gough <vgough@pobox.com>
 	* add PublishLoc destructor.  Struct initialization check hidden in
 	  out-of-band code.
+	* move enable flag to separate data segment for better cache locality
+	* minor code cleanup for enabled flag
 
 Fri Jun  6 13:45:00 PDT 2008  Valient Gough <vgough@pobox.com>
 	* move enable flag to separate data segment for better cache locality
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 409a7e9..379e202 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -100,30 +100,46 @@ fi
 AC_SUBST(HAVE_PRINTF_FP_PROTOTYPE)
 
 
-# check if we can use printf attribute on a function..
-AC_MSG_CHECKING(if section attribute works)
-AC_COMPILE_IFELSE( [[
-        extern void test(int val);
-
-        int main()
-        {
-            static int foo __attribute__ (( section("RLOG_DATA") )) = 0;
-
-            test( foo );
-
-            return 0;
-        }
-     ]],
-    with_section_attr="yes",
-    with_section_attr="no")
-AC_MSG_RESULT($with_section_attr)
-if test "x$with_section_attr" = "xyes"; then
-    HAVE_GCC_SECTION_ATTRIBUTE="1"
-else
-    HAVE_GCC_SECTION_ATTRIBUTE="0"
+AC_ARG_ENABLE(variable-clustering,
+    AS_HELP_STRING([--disable-variable-clustering],
+	    [disables rlog variable clustering via separate data section]),
+    with_var_cluster=$enableval,with_var_cluster="test")
+
+        
+HAVE_GCC_DATA_SECTION_ATTRIBUTE="0"
+HAVE_GCC_SIMPLE_SECTION_ATTRIBUTE="0"
+if test "x$with_var_cluster" = "xtest"; then
+    # check if we can specify data section for variables
+    AC_MSG_CHECKING(if section attribute works)
+    with_section_attr="no"
+    AC_COMPILE_IFELSE( [[
+            extern void test(int val);
+
+            int main()
+            {
+                static int foo __attribute__ (( section("__DATA, RLOG_DATA") )) = 0;
+                test( foo );
+                return 0;
+            }
+         ]],
+        [[HAVE_GCC_DATA_SECTION_ATTRIBUTE="1"
+          with_section_attr="yes"]])
+    AC_COMPILE_IFELSE( [[
+            extern void test(int val);
+
+            int main()
+            {
+                static int foo __attribute__ (( section("RLOG_DATA") )) = 0;
+                test( foo );
+                return 0;
+            }
+         ]],
+        [[HAVE_GCC_SIMPLE_SECTION_ATTRIBUTE="1"
+          with_section_attr="yes"]])
+    AC_MSG_RESULT($with_section_attr)
 fi
-AC_SUBST(HAVE_GCC_SECTION_ATTRIBUTE)
-
+AC_SUBST(HAVE_GCC_DATA_SECTION_ATTRIBUTE)
+AC_SUBST(HAVE_GCC_SIMPLE_SECTION_ATTRIBUTE)
 
 AC_ARG_ENABLE(vararg,
     AS_HELP_STRING([--disable-vararg],
diff --git a/rlog/StdioNode.cpp b/rlog/StdioNode.cpp
index de2cd94..26e4c06 100644
--- a/rlog/StdioNode.cpp
+++ b/rlog/StdioNode.cpp
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ StdioNode::publish( const RLogData &data )
 #ifndef _WIN32
     if (outputThreadId) {
         char tid[16] = "";
-        snprintf(tid,15,"%lu",pthread_self());
+        snprintf(tid,15,"%p",pthread_self());
         ss << "[tid:" << tid << "] ";
     }
 #endif
diff --git a/rlog/common.h.in b/rlog/common.h.in
index e06bc0c..3304ff2 100644
--- a/rlog/common.h.in
+++ b/rlog/common.h.in
@@ -53,7 +53,9 @@
 # define PRINTF(FMT,X) __attribute__ (( __format__ ( __printf__, FMT, X)))
 # define HAVE_PRINTF_ATTR 1
 
-#if @HAVE_GCC_SECTION_ATTRIBUTE@
+#if @HAVE_GCC_DATA_SECTION_ATTRIBUTE@
+# define RLOG_SECTION __attribute__ (( section("__DATA, RLOG_DATA") ))
+#elif @HAVE_GCC_SIMPLE_SECTION_ATTRIBUTE@
 # define RLOG_SECTION __attribute__ (( section("RLOG_DATA") ))
 #else
 # define RLOG_SECTION