From 5201d142480c417dcb1d508c4c459182a86ef3d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Bj=C3=B6rn=20Gustavsson?= Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:00:48 +0100 Subject: Add What's cooking in erlang/otp (2010-01-27) --- whats/cooking/2010/01/27.txt | 133 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 133 insertions(+) create mode 100644 whats/cooking/2010/01/27.txt diff --git a/whats/cooking/2010/01/27.txt b/whats/cooking/2010/01/27.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..20970a3822 --- /dev/null +++ b/whats/cooking/2010/01/27.txt @@ -0,0 +1,133 @@ +To: erlang patches +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) -- cgit v1.2.1