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diff --git a/whats/cooking/2009/12/17.txt b/whats/cooking/2009/12/17.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..68501665f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/whats/cooking/2009/12/17.txt @@ -0,0 +1,137 @@ +To: erlang patches <erlang-patches@erlang.org> +Subject: What's cooking in erlang/otp (2009-12-17) +X-dev-at: ebaa01050deb2bbc4cf4e1279e3d8ffe220080d9 + +There might be one more issue of "What's cooking in erlang/otp" +in the beginning of next week. After that, there will +be no more updates of the 'pu' branch until Jan 7, 2010. + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[Graduated] + +* at/windows_build_fixes (erts, otp) (2009-12-15) 2 commits + + Updated README.win32 for compiling with VS2008 and issues with mc.exe (346b530) + + Allow mc.sh and rc.sh to work when path to mc/rc.exe has spaces (98751d5) + +* sc/darwin_build_rm_dSYMN (erts) (2009-12-14) 1 commit + + Fix 'make clean' in erts with debug builds under Darwin (2468a47) + +* sc/ei_decode_skip_fun (erl_interface) (2009-12-14) 1 commit + + Fix ei_skip_term() handling of funs encoded as NEW_FUN_EXT (d0db866) + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[New topics] + +* aq/asn1-incomplete-packet (asn1) (2009-12-16) 1 commit + - Change asn1 : generated decode/2 functions return {error,incomplete} when argument packet is incomplete. (59d7f7f) + +* cf/compile_warning_as_error (compiler, erts) (2009-12-15) 3 commits + - Add option -Werror in erlc(1) (d29a335) + - compile: add flag warnings_as_errors to treat warnings as errors (13124f5) + - compile.erl: remove trailing whitespace (8a944af) + +* dgud/dbg_mac_menu (debugger) (2009-12-16) 4 commits + - Dbg: Expand the module listbox when window grows. (25c200b) + - Dbg: Cut variable bindings after 80 chars. (a488613) + - Dbg: Fixed documentation links to the new index.html (776ab02) + - Dbg Fixed mac gui issues (b7c6db6) + +* jp/dependencies_makefile (compiler, erts) (2009-12-14) 1 commit + - Add dependencies Makefile generation to erlc(1) and compile(3) (c0734e8) + +* jp/gcc-detection-in-makefiles (Makefile.in +, asn1, crypto, erts, ic, orber, os_mon, runtime_tools, ssl, tools) (2009-12-16) 2 commits + - Replace the $(CC_IS_GCC) flag by more generic $(CC_NAME) variable (51be25f) + - Fix GCC detection in ERTS configure script and Makefiles (34fb108) + +This seems to be a worthwhile change, but only Makefiles that +can actually gain anything should be updated. Also there does +not seem to be any reason that there are two commits rather +than just one. + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[Cooking] + +* at/odbc_osx_fix (odbc) (2009-11-30) 1 commit + - Workaround broken ODBC implementation on OSX 10.5 (88c71c9) + +* bd/http_chunk_fix (inets) (2009-11-27) 1 commit + - http_chunk data handling/passing improvement. (c2553be) + +* bg/otp_build-improvements (otp, stdlib) (2009-12-02) 3 commits + - Support updating the primary bootstrap in a git repository (6840b32) + - Determine which VCS is being used (5770b7b) + - stdlib makefile: Add explicit rule (b197d92) + +* bw/win32-address-space-fix (erts) (2009-12-10) 1 commit + - win32 mmap emulation for mseg support + largeaddressaware linking (357167e) + +The branch in its current shape cannot be included in OTP because +it includes copyrighted code with an unknown license. It is also +overkill to emulate mmap() (and it could cause other problems in +the future); the easiest and most straightforward solution is to +implement mseg_create()/mseg_destroy() (in erl_mseg.c) using +VirtualAlloc()/VirtualFree(). + + +* cf/epp-macro-overloading (otp, stdlib) (2009-12-10) 4 commits + - update the documentation on preprocessor in the reference manual (162ec27) + - epp: change rules to choose the right version of a macro (8dcc9f8) + - epp: Add support of macros overloading (f7a8959) + - epp: fix bug in the function scan_undef (52543e0) + +Extend the pre-processor to allow overloading of macros with +the same name but different arities. Now with documentation. + + +* db/tv_nthtail_fix (tv) (2009-12-01) 1 commit + - Fix for tv which restarts while trying to open a table (bfc18a8) + +We will cook this topic for a while and include it in the next +release unless someone finds a problem with it or a better fix. + +* 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) + +* tc/premodern-fpe (erts) (2009-12-08) 2 commits + - Add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE to CPPFLAGS on Darwin platforms (ea2fae6) + - Test for reliable fpes on Darwin platforms without DARWIN_MODERN_MCONTEXT (b95cf92) + +Reliable floating point exceptions is necessary for hipe to +be enabled. I can confirm that hipe can now be enabled on +Snow Leopard (10.6) and that it speeds up building of the +Dialyzer PLT. + +This branch depends on functionality that is deprecated +in Mac OS 10.6, so it might be necessary to find another solution +when 10.7 will be released (in case it removes the deprecated +functionality). + +We would like to hear about how this patch works on older versions +of Mac OS X. It is known to work on Tiger/PPC. + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[Dropped] + +* sc/sctp_connect_enhancement (erts, kernel) (2009-12-02) 2 commits + . Implement a non-blocking gen_sctp:connect (92f3cee) + . Correctly type sctp_assoc_id as signed, not unsigned (2666b68) + +We have solved "Correctly type sctp_assoc_id..." in a different +way (now included in the development branch). + +We are waiting for a replacement for "Implement a non-blocking +gen_sctp:connect". + +* sc/ssl_pkix_extensions (ssl) (2009-12-02) 1 commit + . Fix crash when decoding commercial certificates (31ccb1d) + +The pkix stuff is in the ssl application is deprecated and has +been replaced with public key application. That functionality +in public_key is also documented. + +* vd/eep8_doc (otp) (2009-12-14) 1 commit + . add reference to EEP8 (36d251b) + +Replaced by a revised version now included in the development +branch. |