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+To: erlang patches <erlang-patches@erlang.org>
+Subject: What's cooking in erlang/otp (2010-01-27)
+X-dev-at: fabf2e7b08fedd7e8e8cfcebd0cca059eee92658
+
+We hope to soon have building of documentation working in a
+git repository or source directory. We will soon update the
+wiki with build instructions.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+[Graduated]
+
+* kj/epmd_port2resp-trunc-extra-tests (erts) (2010-01-24) 1 commit
+ + Test that "extra" is handled according to specs in ALIVE2_REQ and PORT2_RESP (ec181b5)
+
+* rb/stdlib_re_unicode_fixes (erts, stdlib) (2010-01-25) 5 commits
+ + Fix lost unicode option in re:compile() (6b83b64)
+ + Refactor out repeated block in re module (ff65b85)
+ + Fix re:replace/4 to handle unicode charlist Replacement argument (cf7e585)
+ + Fix re:replace/4 to handle unicode charlist RE argument (1d2a481)
+ + Fix re:replace/4 to handle binary unicode output when nothing replaced (98cb178)
+
+Patrik Nyblom (the implementator/maintainer of the re module) fixed one
+of the found bugs in a different way, and corrected another rebport bug
+in a separate commit.
+
+* ta/os_timestamp_no_mutex (erts) (2010-01-23) 1 commit
+ + Remove mutex lock around sys_gettimeofday() in os:timestamp/0 (ed188cb)
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+[New topics]
+
+* bg/cleanup-tests (eunit, kernel, stdlib) (2010-01-24) 5 commits
+ - file_SUITE: eliminate a warning for an unused variable (3deaf78)
+ - kernel tests: modernize guard tests (2085a15)
+ - unicode_SUITE: replace deprecated concat_binary/1 with list_to_binary/1 (19f0ce0)
+ - stdlib tests: modernize guard tests (1001c05)
+ - Test suites: fix creation of Emakefiles (3aad381)
+
+* bg/hipe-fixes (compiler, stdlib) (2010-01-25) 3 commits
+ - compiler: make ignore_native_errors also handle internal hipe errors (a44b1f9)
+ - re tests: disable native-code compilation for huge modules (9f78cfe)
+ - Teach the compiler the {native,false} option (af6c948)
+
+* jn/supervisor_child_count_only (stdlib) (2010-01-25) 1 commit
+ - Add count_children/1 to supervisor.erl to determine the number of children being managed without the memory impact of which_children/1 (10ef53f)
+
+* ks/bsl_system_limit (hipe) (2010-01-26) 1 commit
+ - Fix a HiPE compiler bug evaluating an expression that throws system_limit. (dcada69)
+
+* mp/hipe-smp-fixes (erts, kernel) (2010-01-27) 2 commits
+ - work around hipe_mfa_info_table lock omission (24146d3)
+ - fix hipe loader SMP non-atomicity error (38cec58)
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+[Stalled]
+
+* jb/atom_table_size_env (erts, otp) (2009-12-21) 1 commit
+ - Added ERL_ATOM_TABLE_SIZE environment variable (ca57c14)
+
+The OTP Technical Board approves adding a mechanism for
+adjusting the size of the atom table (downwards and upwards),
+but the mechanism should be an emulator option (similar to
+how other limits such as the minimum heap size can be changed)
+rather than a new environment variable. Since any emulator option
+can be set in the ERL_FLAGS environment variable, there is
+no need to introduce a new environment variable.
+
+* sc/sctp-connect-nowait (kernel) (2009-12-21) 1 commit
+ - Implement a non-blocking SCTP connect (ae3d819)
+
+Approved in principle, but the implementation needs some
+finish touches as pointed out by Raimo, and also
+documentation and test cases.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+[Cooking]
+
+* at/odbc_osx_fix (odbc) (2009-11-30) 1 commit
+ - Workaround broken ODBC implementation on OSX 10.5 (88c71c9)
+
+* cf/epp-macro-overloading (otp, stdlib) (2009-12-10) 4 commits
+ - update the documentation on preprocessor in the reference manual (218d912)
+ - epp: change rules to choose the right version of a macro (2b3416e)
+ - epp: Add support of macros overloading (9966991)
+ - epp: fix bug in the function scan_undef (9a63fb0)
+
+Extend the pre-processor to allow overloading of macros with
+the same name but different arities.
+
+Approved by the OTP Technical Board. Will probably graduate
+before the R13B04 release.
+
+* db/tv_nthtail_fix (tv) (2009-12-01) 1 commit
+ - Fix for tv which restarts while trying to open a table (abe0759)
+
+The author of this topic branch has found the real reason for
+the problem and has made some progress in resolving it.
+
+* gc/hipe_darwin_amd64 (erts) (2010-01-12) 4 commits
+ - Fix hipe memory allocation problems on darwin/amd64. (32ca14f)
+ - Porting x86 darwin fixes to amd64 darwin hipe asm/m4 code. (427f1db)
+ - Automatically enable hipe for darwin/amd64 builds. (43ae4b7)
+ - Allow configure to enable_hipe for darwin/amd64 builds. (733ce7a)
+
+* is/mnesia-send-compressed (mnesia) (2010-01-11) 2 commits
+ - Update documentation to describe the new Mnesia option "send_compressed" (583d00b)
+ - Add option to compress data when copying tables between Mnesia nodes (86f786e)
+
+* jp/dependencies_makefile (compiler, erts) (2010-01-12) 2 commits
+ - squash! fix snprintf for Windows (bf2708d)
+ - Add dependencies Makefile generation to erlc(1) and compile(3) (7cbc437)
+
+Approved in principle by the OTP Technical Board; now awaits a closer
+review of the implementation.
+
+* pan/enable_m32_build (erts, otp) (2009-12-08) 1 commit
+ - Teach configure --enable-m32-build for forcing a 32-bit build (15c7817)
+
+* po/odbc-update-delete-no-rows (odbc) (2009-11-26) 1 commit
+ - SQL_NO_DATA and SQLSTATE 00000 indicate success for updates/deletes that affect no rows (1a564f8)
+
+* sf/erl_match-longlong (erl_interface) (2010-01-20) 1 commit
+ - erl_interface: Allow erl_match() to match ERL_LONGLONG and ERL_U_LONGLONG terms (938ccfe)
+
+* ta/ensure_dir_eexist (stdlib) (2010-01-23) 2 commits
+ - filelib_SUITE: strenghten tests of filelib:ensure_dir/1 (67657ed)
+ - Don't return a false {error,eexist} in filelib:ensure_dir/1 (ecd339d)
+
+* va/rb-improvements (sasl) (2009-12-25) 4 commits
+ - New function to filter reports by date (5391383)
+ - New rb:filter/1 function to ease report filtering (ed28348)
+ - Add rb:re/1 to grep reports using the re module (e5bd091)
+ - Fix minor typo in read_report/1 (07c6ad4)