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diff --git a/contrib/tcl/changes b/contrib/tcl/changes index c54526b8a1d6..b8672ef6c62e 100644 --- a/contrib/tcl/changes +++ b/contrib/tcl/changes @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Recent user-visible changes to Tcl: -SCCS: @(#) changes 1.293 97/08/13 17:50:35 +SCCS: @(#) changes 1.338 97/11/25 08:30:52 1. No more [command1] [command2] construct for grouping multiple commands on a single command line. @@ -3101,7 +3101,7 @@ library, is now provided. (DL) 7/1/97 (feature change) compat/getcwd.c removed and changed the only place where getcwd is used so a new USEGETWD flag selects the use of the replacement "getwd". Adding this flag is recommended -for Solaris (because getcwd on solaris uses a pipe to pwd(1)!).(DL) +for SunOS 4 (because getcwd on SunOS 4 uses a pipe to pwd(1)!). (DL) 7/7/97 (feature change) The split command now supports binary data (i.e., null characters in strings). (BL) @@ -3272,4 +3272,182 @@ modify it). This makes the Tcl 8.0 behavior almost identical to 7.6 except that the default precision is 12 instead of 6. (JO) *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** ------------------ Released 8.0, 8/13/97 ----------------------- +----------------- Released 8.0, 8/18/97 ----------------------- + +8/19/97 (bug fix) Minimal fix for glob -nocomplain bugs: +"glob -nocomplain unreadableDir/*" was generating an anonymous +error. More in depth fixes will come with 8.1. (DL). + +8/20/97 (bug fix) Removed check for FLT_MIN in binary command so +underflow conditions are handled by the compiler automatic +conversions. (SS) + +8/20/97 (bug fixes) Fixed several compilation-related bugs: + - Array cmd wasn't detecting arrays that, while compiled, do not yet + exist (e.g., are marked undefined since they haven't been assigned + to yet). + - The GetToken procedure in tclCompExpr.c wasn't recognizing properly + whether an integer token was invalid. For example, "0x$" is not + a valid integer. + - Performance bug in TclExecuteByteCode: the size of its stack frame + was reduced by over 20% by moving errorInfo code elsewhere. + - Uninitialized memory read error in tclCompile.c. (BL) + +8/21/97 (bug fix) safe::interpConfigure now behave like Tk widget's +configure : it changes only the options you provide and you can get +the current value of any single option. New ?-nested boolean? and +?-statics boolean? for all safe::interp* commands but we still +accept (upward compatibility) the previously defined non valued +flags ?-noStatics? and ?-nestedLoadOk?. Improved the documentation. (DL). + +8/22/97 (bug fix) Updated PrintDbl.3 to reflect the fact that the +tcl_precision variable is still used and that it is now shared by all +interpreters. (BL) + +8/25/97 (bug fix) Fixed array access bug in IllegalExprOperandType +procedure in tclExecute.c: it was not properly supporting the || and && +operators. (BL) + +8/27/97 (bug fix) In cases where a channel handler was created with an +empty event mask while data was still buffered in the channel, the +channel code would get stuck spinning on a timer that would starve +idle handlers. This mostly happened in Tk when reading from stdin. (SS) + +9/4/97 (bug fix) Slave interps now inherit the maximum recursion limit +of their parent instead of starting back at the default. {nb: this still +does not prevent stack overflow by multi-interps recursion or aliasing} (DL) + +9/11/97 (bug fix) An uninitialized variable in Tcl_WaitPid caused +pipes to fail to report eof properly under Windows. (SS) + +9/12/97 (bug fix) "exec" was misidentifying some DOS executables as not +executable. (CCS) + +9/14/97 (bug fix) Was using the wrong structure in sizeof operation in +tclUnixChan.c. (JL) + +9/15/97 (bug fix) Fixed notifier to break out of do-one-event loop if +Tcl_WaitForEvent returns 1, so that callers of Tcl_DoOneEvent will get +a chance to check whether the event just handled is significant. This +affected mainly recursive calls to Tcl_VWaitCmd; these did not get a +chance to notice that the variable they were waiting for has been set +and thus they didn't terminate the vwait. (JL, DL, SS) + +9/15/97 (bug fix) Alignment problems in "binary format" would cause a +crash on some platforms when formatting floating point numbers. (SS) + +9/15/97 (bug fix) Fixed bug in Macintosh socket code. Now passes all +tests in socket.test that are not platform specific. (Thanks to Mark +Roseman for the pointer on the fix.) (RJ) + +9/18/97 (bug fix) Fixed bug -dictionary option of lsort that could +cause the compare function to run off the end of an array if the +number only contained 0's. (Thanks to Greg Couch for the report.) (RJ) + +9/18/97 (bug fix) TclFinalizeEnvironment was not cleaning up +properly. (DL, JI) + +9/18/97 (bug fix) Fixed long-standing bug where an "array get" command +did not trigger traces on the array or its elements. (BL) + +9/18/97 (bug fixes) Fixed compilation-related bugs: + - Fixed errorInfo traceback information for toplevel coomands that + contain nested commands. + - In the expr command, && and || now accept boolean operands as well + as numeric ones. (BL) + +9/22/97 (bug fix) Fixed bug that prevented translation modes from being +set independently for input and output on sockets if input was "auto". (JL) + +9/24/97 (bug fix) Tcl_EvalFile(3) and thus source(n) now works fine on +files containing NUL chars. (DL) + +9/26/97 (bug fix) Fixed use of uninitialized memory in the environ array +that later could cause random core dumps. Applies to all platforms. (JL) + +9/26/97 (bug fix) Fixed use of uninitialized memory in socket address data +structure under some circumstances. This could cause random core dumps. +This applies only to Unix. (JL) + +9/26/97 (bug fix) Opening files on PC-NFS volumes would cause a hang +until the system timed after the file was closed. (SS) + +10/6/97 (bug fix) The join(n) command, though objectified, was loosing +NULs in the joinString and in list elements after the 2nd one. +Now you can "join $list \0" for instance. (DL) + +10/9/97 (bug fix) Under windows, if env(TMP) or env(TEMP) referred to a +non-existent directory, exec would fail when trying to create its temporary +files. (CCS) + +10/9/97 (bug fix) Under mac and windows, "info hostname" would crash if +sockets were installed but the hostname could not be determined anyhow. +Tcl_GetHostName() was returning NULL when it should have been returning +an empty string. (CCS) + +10/10/97 (bug fix) "file attribute /" returned error on windows. (CCS) + +10/10/97 (bug fix) Fixed the auto_load procedure to handle procedures +defined in namespaces better. Also fixed pgk_mkIndex so it sees procedures +defined in nested namespaces. Index entries are still only made for +exported procedures. (BW) + +10/13/97 (bug fix) On unix, for files with unknown group or owner +attributes, querying the "file attributes" would return an error rather than +returning the group's or owner's id number, although tha command accepts +numbers when setting the file's group or owner. (CCS) + +10/22/97 (bug fix) "fcopy" did not eval the callback script at the +global scope. (SS) + +10/22/97 (bug fix) Fixed the signature of the CopyDone callback used in +the http package(s) so they can handle error cases properly. (BW) + +10/28/97 (bug fixes) Fixed a problem where lappend would free the Tcl object +in a variable if a Tcl_ObjSetVar2 failed because of an error calling a trace +on the variable. (BL) + +10/28/97 (bug fix) Changed binary scan to properly handle sign +extension of integers on 64-bit or larger machines. (SS) + +11/3/97 (bug fixes) Fixed several bugs: + - expressions such as "expr ($x)" must be compiled out-of-line + (call the expr command procedure at runtime) to ensure the correct + behavior when "$x" is an expression such as "5+10". + - "array set a {}" now creates a new array var with an empty array + value if the var didn't already exist. + - "lreplace $foo end end" no longer returns an error (just an empty + list) if foo is empty. + - upvar will no longer create a variable in a namespace that refers + to a variable in a procedure. + - deleting a command trace within a command trace callback would + make the code that calls traces to reference freed memory. + - significantly sped up "string first" and "string last" (fix from + darrel@gemstone.com). + - seg fault in Tcl_NewStringObj() when a NULL is passed as the byte + pointer argument and Tcl is compiled with -DTCL_MEM_DEBUG. + - documentation and error msg fixes. (BL) + +11/3/97 (bug fix) Fixed a number of I/O bugs related to word sizes on +64-bit machines. (SS) + +11/6/97 (bug fix) The exit code of the first process created by Tcl +on Windows was not properly reported due to an initialization +problem. (SS) + +----------------- Released 8.0p1, 11/7/97 ----------------------- + +11/19/97 (bug fix) Fixed bug in linsert where it sometimes accidently +cleared out a shared argument list object. (BL). + +11/19/97 (bug fix) Autoloading in namespaces was not working properly. +auto_mkindex is still not really namespace aware but most common +cases should now be handled properly (see init.test). (BW, DL) + +11/20/97 (enhancement) Made the changes required by the new Apple +Universal Headers V.3.0, so that Tcl will compile with CW Pro 2. + +11/24/97 (bug fix) Fixed tests in clock test suite that needed the +-gmt flag set. Thanks to Jan Nijtmans for reporting the problem. (RJ) + +----------------- Released 8.0p2, 11/25/97 ----------------------- |