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+2007-12-31  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* doc/dict.n: Clarified meaning of dictionary values following
+	discussion on comp.lang.tcl.
+
+2007-12-26  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c: More [lsort] data handling streamlines. The
+	function MergeSort is gone, essentially inlined into Tcl_LsortObjCmd.
+	It is not a straight inlining, two loops over all lists elements where
+	merged in the process: the linked list elements are now built and
+	merged into the temporary sublists in the same pass.
+
+2007-12-25  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c: More [lsort] data handling streamlines. Extra
+	mem reqs of latest patches removed, restored to previous mem profile.
+	Improved -unique handling, now eliminating repeated elems immediately
+	instead of marking them to avoid reinsertion at the end.
+
+2007-12-23  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileRegexpCmd):	TCL_REG_NOSUB cannot
+	* tests/regexp.test (regexp-22.2):		be used because it
+	* tests/regexpComp.test:	[Bug 1857126]	disallows backrefs.
+
+2007-12-21  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c: Speed patch for lsort. [Patch 1856994]
+
+2007-12-21  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LsortObjCmd, Tcl_LsearchObjCmd): Avoid
+	calling SelectObjFromSublist when there are no sublists.
+
+2007-12-21  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LsortObjCmd): Preallocate a listObj of
+	sufficient length for the sorted list instead of growing it. Second
+	commit replaces calls to Tcl_ListObjAppenElement with direct access to
+	the internal rep.
+
+2007-12-19  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	*** 8.5.0 TAGGED FOR RELEASE ***
+
+	* changes:		Updated for 8.5.0 release.
+
+2007-12-19  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileSwitchCmd):	update switch -regexp
+	* tests/switch.test-14.*:			compilation to pass
+	the cflags to INST_REGEXP (changed on 12-07). Added tests for switch
+	-regexp compilation (need more). [Bug 1854399]
+
+2007-12-18  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* changes:		Updated for 8.5.0 release.
+
+2007-12-18  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/regguts.h, generic/regc_color.c, generic/regc_nfa.c:
+	Fixes for problems created when processing regular expressions that
+	generate very large automata. An enormous number of thanks to Will
+	Drewry <wad_at_google.com>, Tavis Ormandy <taviso_at_google.com>,
+	and Tom Lane <tgl_at_sss.pgh.pa.us> from the Postgresql crowd for
+	their help in tracking these problems down. [Bug 1810264]
+
+2007-12-17  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* changes:		Updated for 8.5.0 release.
+
+2007-12-17  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclAlloc.c:
+	* generic/tclExecute.c:
+	* generic/tclInt.h:
+	* generic/tclThreadAlloc.c: Fix alignment for memory returned by
+	TclStackAlloc; insure that all memory allocators align to 16-byte
+	boundaries on 64 bit platforms [Bug 1851832, 1851524]
+
+2007-12-14  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/tclIOUtil.c (FsAddMountsToGlobResult): fix the tail
+	conversion of vfs mounts. [Bug 1602539]
+
+	* win/README: updated notes
+
+2007-12-14  Pat Thoyts	<patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* tests/winFile.test: Fixed tests for win2k with long machine name
+
+2007-12-14  Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* win/nmakehlp.c:  Support compilation with MSVC9 for AMD64.
+	* win/makefile.vc:
+
+2007-12-13  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* doc/trace.n: Clarified documentation of enterstep and leavestep
+	traces, including adding example. [Bug 614282, 1701540, 1755984]
+
+2007-12-12  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* doc/IntObj.3:	Update docs for the Tcl_GetBignumAndClearObj() ->
+	Tcl_TakeBignumFromObj() revision [TIP 298]. Added docs for the
+	Tcl_InitBignumFromDouble() routine. [Bug 1446971]
+
+	* changes:		Updated for 8.5.0 release.
+
+2007-12-10  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/tclUtil.c (TclReToGlob): reduce escapes in conversion
+	when not necessary
+
+	* generic/tclInt.decls:	 move TclByteArrayMatch and TclReToGlob
+	* generic/tclIntDecls.h: to tclInt.h from stubs.
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c: Add flags var to TclByteArrayMatch for
+	* generic/tclInt.h:	 future extensibility
+	* generic/tcl.h:  define TCL_MATCH_EXACT doc for Tcl_StringCaseMatch.
+	* doc/StrMatch.3: It is compatible with existing usage.
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (INST_STR_MATCH): flag for TclByteArrayMatch
+	* generic/tclUtil.c (TclByteArrayMatch, TclStringMatchObj):
+	* generic/tclRegexp.c (Tcl_RegExpExecObj):
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (StringMatchCmd): Use TclStringMatchObj
+	* tests/string.test (11.9.* 11.10.*): more tests
+
+2007-12-10  Joe English	 <jenglish@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* doc/string.n, doc/UniCharIsAlpha.3: Fix markup errors.
+	* doc/CrtCommand.3, doc/CrtMathFnc.3, doc/FileSystem.3,
+	* doc/GetStdChan.3, doc/OpenFileChnl.3, doc/SetChanErr.3,
+	* doc/eval.n, doc/filename.n: Consistency: Move "KEYWORDS" section
+	after "SEE ALSO".
+
+2007-12-10  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* tools/genStubs.tcl:		fix numerous issues handling 'macosx',
+					'aqua' or 'x11' entries interleaved
+					with 'unix' entries [Bug 1834288]; add
+					genStubs::export command
+					[Tk FR 1716117]; cleanup formatting.
+
+	* generic/tcl.decls:		use new genstubs 'export' command to
+	* generic/tclInt.decls:		mark exported symbols not in stubs
+	* generic/tclTomMath.decls:	table [Tk FR 1716117]; cleanup
+					formatting.
+
+	* generic/tclDecls.h:		regen with new genStubs.tcl.
+	* generic/tclIntDecls.h:	[Bug 1834288]
+	* generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h:
+	* generic/tclPlatDecls.h:
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c:
+
+2007-12-09  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* tests/io.test, tests/chanio.test (io-73.1): Make sure to invalidate
+	* generic/tclIO.c (SetChannelFromAny):	      internal rep only after
+	validating channel rep. [Bug 1847044]
+
+2007-12-08  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* doc/expr.n, doc/mathop.n: Improved the documentation of the
+	operators. [Bug 1823622]
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c (builtInCmds): Corrected list of hidden and
+	* doc/interp.n (SAFE INTERPRETERS): exposed commands so that the
+	documentation and reality now match. [Bug 1662436]
+
+2007-12-07  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode INST_REGEXP):
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileRegexpCmd): Pass correct RE
+	compile flags at compile time, and use TCL_REG_NOSUB.
+
+	* generic/tclIOCmd.c (FinalizeIOCmdTSD, Tcl_PutsObjCmd): cache
+	stdout channel object for [puts $str] calls.
+
+2007-12-06  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* README:	Remove mention of dead comp.lang.tcl.announce
+	newsgroup. [Bug 1846433]
+
+	* unix/README:	Mention the stub library created by `make` and warn
+	about the effect of embedded paths in the installed binaries.
+	Thanks to Larry Virden. [Bug 1794084]
+
+	* doc/AddErrInfo.3:	Documentation for the new routines in TIP 270.
+	* doc/Interp.3:
+	* doc/StringObj.3:
+
+2007-12-06  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* doc/namespace.n:	Documentation for zero-argument form of
+	[namespace import] (TIP 261) [Bug 1596416]
+
+2007-12-06  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/tclInt.h: add TclGetChannelFromObj decl
+	(TclMatchIsTrivial): simplify TclMatchIsTrivial to remove ] check.
+
+2007-12-06  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_CreateInterp): Simplify the setting up of
+	* generic/tclIOCmd.c (TclInitChanCmd):	 the [chan] ensemble. This
+	* library/init.tcl:			 gets rid of quite a bit of
+	code and makes it possible to understand the whole with less effort.
+
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileEnsemble): Ensure that the right
+	number of tokens are copied. [Bug 1845320]
+
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c (TclMakeEnsemble): Added missing release of a
+	DString. [Bug 1845397]
+
+2007-12-05  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/tclIO.h:    Create Tcl_Obj for Tcl channels to reduce
+	* generic/tclIO.c:    overhead in lookup by Tcl_GetChannel. New
+	* generic/tclIOCmd.c: TclGetChannelFromObj for internal use.
+	* generic/tclIO.c (WriteBytes, WriteChars): add opt check to avoid
+	EOL translation when not linebuffered or using lf. [Bug 1845092]
+
+2007-12-05  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* tests/stack.test: made the tests for stack overflow not care
+	about which mechanism caused the error (interp's recursion limit
+	or C-stack depth detector).
+
+2007-12-05  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* win/configure, win/tcl.m4 (LIBS_GUI): mingw needs -lole32
+	-loleaut32 but not msvc for Tk's [send]. [Bug 1844749]
+
+2007-12-05  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LsearchObjCmd): Prevent shimmering crash
+	when -exact and -integer/-real are mixed. [Bug 1844789]
+
+2007-12-03  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixChan.c (CreateSocketAddress): Add extra #ifdef-fery to
+	make code compile on BSD 5. [Bug 1618235, again]
+
+2007-12-03  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl:	Bump tcltest to version 2.3.0 so that
+	* library/tcltest/pkgIndex.tcl: we release a stable tcltest with a
+	* unix/Makefile.in:	stable Tcl.
+	* win/Makefile.in:
+
+2007-12-03  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* win/configure, win/tcl.m4 (LIBS_GUI): remove ole32.lib oleaut32.lib
+
+2007-12-03  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileSwitchCmd): Adjusted the [switch]
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_SwitchObjCmd):       command so that when
+	passed two arguments, no check for options are performed. This is OK
+	since in the two-arg case, detecting an option would definitely lead
+	to a syntax error. [Patch 1836519]
+
+2007-11-29  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* win/makefile.vc: add ws2_32.lib to baselibs
+	* win/configure, win/tcl.m4: add ws2_32.lib / -lws2_32 to build.
+	* win/tclWinSock.c: remove dyn loading of winsock, assume that it is
+	always available now.
+
+2007-11-29  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclWinSock.c (InitializeHostName):	Correct error in
+	buffer length tracking. After gethostname() writes into a buffer,
+	convert only the written string to internal encoding, not the whole
+	buffer.
+
+2007-11-28  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclConfig.c:	Corrected failure of the [::foo::pkgconfig]
+	command to clean up registered configuration data when the query
+	command is deleted from the interp. [Bug 983501]
+
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c (Tcl_SetEnsembleMappingDict):	Added checks
+	that the dict value passed in is in the format required to make the
+	internals of ensembles work. [Bug 1436096]
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c:	Simplify test and improve accuracy of error
+	message in latest changes.
+
+2007-11-28  Pat Thoyts	<patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c: -eofchar must support no eofchar.
+
+2007-11-27  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c: remove unneeded call in Tcl_CreateInterp, add
+	comments.
+
+2007-11-27  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* win/tclWinSock.c:	Add mising encoding conversion of the [info
+	hostname] value from the system encoding to Tcl's internal encoding.
+
+	* doc/chan.n:		"Fix" the limitation on channel -eofchar
+	* doc/fconfigure.n:	values to single byte characters by
+	* generic/tclIO.c:	documenting it and making it fail loudly.
+	* tests/chan.test:	Thanks to Stuart Cassoff for contributing the
+				fix. [Bug 800753]
+
+2007-11-26  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:
+	* generic/tclInt.h:
+	* unix/tclUnixInit.c:
+	* unix/tclUnixThrd.c: Fix stack checking via workaround for bug in
+	glibc's pthread_attr_get_np, patch from [Bug 1815573]. Many thanks to
+	Sergei Golovan (aka Teo) for detecting the bug and helping diagnose
+	and develop the fix.
+
+2007-11-24  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileDictAppendCmd): Fix bug in [dict
+	append] compiler which caused strange stack corruption. [Bug 1837392]
+
+2007-11-23  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>
+
+	* generic/tclIORChan.c: Fixed a problem with reflected channels. 'chan
+	postevent' is defined to work only from within the interpreter
+	containing the handler command. Sensible, we want only handler
+	commands to use it. It identifies the channel by handle. The channel
+	moves to a different interpreter or thread. The interpreter containing
+	the handler command doesn't know the channel any longer. 'chan
+	postevent' fails, not finding the channel any longer. Uhm.
+
+	Fixed by creating a second per-interpreter channel table, just for
+	reflected channels, where each interpreter remembers for which
+	reflected channels it has the handler command. This info does not move
+	with the channel itself. The table is updated by 'chan create', and
+	used by 'chan postevent'.
+
+	* tests/ioCmd.test: Updated the testsuite.
+
+2007-11-23  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_ArrayObjCmd): handle the right data for
+	* tests/var.test (var-14.2):	      [array names $var -glob $ptn]
+
+2007-11-23  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (String*Cmd, TclInitStringCmd): Rebuilt [string]
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileString*Cmd): as an ensemble.
+
+2007-11-22  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclDictObj.c (Dict*Cmd,TclInitDictCmd): Rebuilt the [dict]
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileDict*Cmd): command as an ensemble.
+
+2007-11-22  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_StringObjCmd): Rewrote the [string] and
+	* generic/tclDictObj.c (Tcl_DictObjCmd): [dict] implementations to be
+	ready for conversion to ensembles.
+
+	* tests/string.test (string-12.22): Flag shimmering bug found in
+	[string range].
+
+2007-11-21  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileEnsemble): Rewrote the ensemble
+	compiler to remove many of the limitations. Can now compile scripts
+	that use unique prefixes of subcommands, and which have mappings of a
+	command to multiple words (provided the first is a compilable command
+	of course).
+
+2007-11-21  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c (TclMakeEnsemble): Factor out the code to set up
+	a core ensemble from a table of information about subcommands, ready
+	for reuse within the core.
+
+	* generic/various: Start to return more useful Error codes, currently
+	mainly on assorted lookup failures.
+
+2007-11-20  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclDictObj.c: Changed the underlying implementation of the
+	hash table used in dictionaries to additionally keep all entries in
+	the hash table in a linked list, which is only ever added to at the
+	end. This makes iteration over all entries in the dictionary in
+	key insertion order a trivial operation, and so cleans up a great deal
+	of complexity relating to dictionary representation and stability of
+	iteration order.
+
+	***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY***
+	For any code that depended on the (strange) old iteration order.
+
+	* generic/tclConfig.c (QueryConfigObjCmd): Correct usage of
+	Tcl_WrongNumArgs.
+
+2007-11-19  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	*** 8.5b3 TAGGED FOR RELEASE ***
+
+	* README:		Bump version number to 8.5b3.
+	* generic/tcl.h:
+	* library/init.tcl:
+	* tools/tcl.wse.in:
+	* unix/configure.in:
+	* unix/tcl.spec:
+	* win/configure.in:
+
+	* unix/configure:	autoconf (2.59)
+	* win/configure:
+
+	* changes:		Updated for 8.5b3 release.
+
+2007-11-19  Kevin Kenny	 <kennykb@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* library/tzdata/Africa/Cairo:
+	* library/tzdata/America/Campo_Grande:
+	* library/tzdata/America/Caracas:
+	* library/tzdata/America/Cuiaba:
+	* library/tzdata/America/Havana:
+	* library/tzdata/America/Sao_Paulo:
+	* library/tzdata/Asia/Damascus:
+	* library/tzdata/Asia/Gaza:
+	* library/tzdata/Asia/Tehran:  Olson's tzdata2007i imported.
+
+2007-11-18  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode:INST_EXIST_*): Fix read
+	traces not firing on non-existent array elements. [Bug 1833522]
+
+2007-11-16  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (TclInitInfoCmd): Rename the implementation
+	commands for [info] to be something more "expected".
+
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileInfoExistsCmd): Compiler for the
+	[info exists] subcommand.
+	(TclCompileEnsemble): Cleaned up version of ensemble compiler that was
+	in TclCompileInfoCmd, but which is now much more generally applicable.
+
+	* generic/tclInt.h (ENSEMBLE_COMPILE): Added flag to allow for cleaner
+	turning on and off of ensemble bytecode compilation.
+
+	* generic/tclCompile.c (TclCompileScript): Add the cmdPtr to the list
+	of arguments passed to command compilers.
+
+2007-11-15  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/regc_nfa.c:	Fixed infinite loop in the regexp compiler.
+	[Bug 1810038]
+
+	* generic/regc_nfa.c:	Corrected looping logic in fixempties() to
+	avoid wasting time walking a list of dead states. [Bug 1832612]
+
+2007-11-15  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c (NamespaceEnsembleCmd): Must pass a non-NULL
+	interp to Tcl_SetEnsemble* functions.
+
+	* doc/re_syntax.n: Try to make this easier to read. It's still a very
+	difficult manual page!
+
+	* unix/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Allow people to turn off the -rpath
+	option to their linker if they so desire. This is a configuration only
+	recommended for (some) vendors. Relates to [Patch 1231022].
+
+2007-11-15  Pat Thoyts	<patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* win/tclWin32Dll.c: Prefer UINT_PTR to DWORD_PTR when casting
+	pointers to integer types for greater portability. [Bug 1831253]
+
+2007-11-15  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: add new chanio.test.
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcode/project.pbxproj:
+
+2007-11-14  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclCompile.c (TclCompileScript): Ensure that we get our
+	count in our INST_START_CMD calls right, even when there's a failure
+	to compile a command directly.
+
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c (Tcl_SetEnsembleSubcommandList)
+	(Tcl_SetEnsembleMappingDict):		Special code to make sure that
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (TclInitInfoCmd):	[info exists] is compiled
+	right while not allowing changes to the ensemble to cause havok.
+
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileInfoCmd): Simple compiler for the
+	[info] command that only handles [info exists].
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode:INST_EXIST_*): New
+	instructions to allow the testing of whether a variable exists.
+
+2007-11-14  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>
+
+	* tests/chanio.test: New file. This is essentially a duplicate of
+	'io.test', with all channel commands converted to their 'chan xxx'
+	notation.
+	* tests/io.test: Fixed typo in test description.
+
+2007-11-14  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/regc*.c: Eliminate multi-char collating element code
+	completely. Simplifies the code quite a bit. If people still want the
+	full code, it will remain on the 8.4 branch. [Bug 1831425]
+
+2007-11-13  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileRegexpCmd): clean up comments, only
+	free dstring on OK from TclReToGlob.
+	(TclCompileSwitchCmd): simplify TclReToGlob usage.
+
+2007-11-14  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/regc*.c: #ifdef/comment out the code that deals with
+	multi-character collating elements, which have never been supported.
+	Cuts the memory consumption of the RE compiler. [Bug 1831425]
+
+2007-11-13  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileSwitchCmd, TclCompileRegexpCmd):
+	Extend [switch] compiler to handle regular expressions as long as
+	things are not too complex. Fix [regexp] compiler so that non-trivial
+	literal regexps get fed to INST_REGEXP.
+
+	* doc/mathop.n: Clarify definitions of some operations.
+
+2007-11-13  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixInit.c: the TCL_NO_STACK_CHECK was being incorrectly
+	undefined here; this should be set (or not) in the compile options, it
+	is used elsewhere and needs to be consistent.
+
+2007-11-13  Pat Thoyts	<patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/tcl.m4:		Added autoconf goo to detect and make use of
+	* unix/configure.in:	getaddrinfo and friends.
+	* unix/configure:	(regenerated)
+
+2007-11-13  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixCompat.c (TclpGetHostByName): The six-argument form of
+	getaddressbyname_r() uses the fifth argument to indicate whether the
+	lookup succeeded or not on at least one platform. [Bug 1618235]
+
+2007-11-13  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/regcomp.c:	Convert optst() from expensive no-op to a
+	cheap no-op.
+
+2007-11-13  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixChan.c (CreateSocketAddress): Rewrote to use the
+	thread-safe version of gethostbyname() by forward-porting the code
+	used in 8.4, and added rudimentary support for getaddrinfo() (not
+	enabled by default, as no autoconf-ery written). Part of fix for [Bug
+	1618235].
+
+2007-11-12  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/tclGet.c (Tcl_Get, Tcl_GetInt): revert use of TclGet* macros
+	due to compiler warning. These cases won't save time either.
+
+	* generic/tclUtil.c (TclReToGlob): add more comments, set interp
+	result if specified on error.
+
+2007-11-12  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:		New macro TclResetResult, new iPtr
+	* generic/tclExecute.c:		flag bit INTERP_RESULT_UNCLEAN:
+	* generic/tclInt.h:		shortcut for Tcl_ResetResult for the
+	* generic/tclProc.c:		"normal" case: TCL_OK, no return
+	* generic/tclResult.c:		options, no errorCode nor errorInfo,
+	* generic/tclStubLib.c:		return at normal level. [Patch
+	* generic/tclUtil.c:		1830184]
+
+	THIS PATCH WAS REVERTED: initial (mis)measurements overstated the
+	perfomance wins, which turn out to be tiny. Not worth the
+	complication.
+
+2007-11-11  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c, generic/tclCompile.c, generic/tclCompile.h:
+	* generic/tclExecute.c, generic/tclInt.decls, generic/tclIntDecls.h:
+	* generic/tclRegexp.c, generic/tclRegexp.h: Add INST_REGEXP and fully
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c, generic/tclUtil.c: compiled [regexp] for the
+	* tests/regexpComp.test:     [Bug 1830166]  simple cases. Also added
+	TclReToGlob function to convert RE to glob patterns and use these in
+	the possible cases.
+
+2007-11-11  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclResult.c (ResetObjResult): clarify the logic.
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:		Increased usage of macros to detect
+	* generic/tclBinary.c:		and take advantage of objTypes. Added
+	* generic/tclClock.c:		macros TclGet(Int|Long)FromObj,
+	* generic/tclCmdAH.c:		TclGetIntForIndexM & TclListObjLength,
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c:		modified TclListObjGetElements.
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c:
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c:	The TclGetInt* macros are only a
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c:	shortcut on platforms where 'long' is
+	* generic/tclCompile.c:		'int'; it may be worthwhile to extend
+	* generic/tclDictObj.c:		their functionality to other cases.
+	* generic/tclExecute.c:
+	* generic/tclGet.c:		As this patch touches many files it
+	* generic/tclIO.c:		has been recorded as [Patch 1830038]
+	* generic/tclIOCmd.c:		in order to facilitate reviewing.
+	* generic/tclIOGT.c:
+	* generic/tclIndexObj.c:
+	* generic/tclInt.h:
+	* generic/tclInterp.c:
+	* generic/tclListObj.c:
+	* generic/tclLiteral.c:
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c:
+	* generic/tclObj.c:
+	* generic/tclParse.c:
+	* generic/tclProc.c:
+	* generic/tclRegexp.c:
+	* generic/tclResult.c:
+	* generic/tclScan.c:
+	* generic/tclStringObj.c:
+	* generic/tclUtil.c:
+	* generic/tclVar.c:
+
+2007-11-11  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixTime.c (TclpWideClicksToNanoseconds): Fix issues with
+	* generic/tclInt.h:				    int64_t overflow.
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:	Fix stack check failure case if stack grows up
+	* unix/tclUnixInit.c:	Simplify non-crosscompiled case.
+
+	* unix/configure:	autoconf-2.59
+	* unix/tclConfig.h.in:	autoheader-2.59
+
+2007-11-10  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: Fast path for INST_LIST_INDEX when the index
+	is not a list.
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:
+	* unix/configure.in:
+	* unix/tclUnixInit.c: Detect stack grwoth direction at compile time,
+	only fall to runtime detection when crosscompiling.
+
+	* unix/configure: autoconf 2.61
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:
+	* generic/tclInt.h:
+	* tests/interp.test:
+	* unix/tclUnixInit.c:
+	* win/tclWin32Dll.c: Restore simpler behaviour for stack checking, not
+	adaptive to stack size changes after a thread is launched. Consensus
+	is that "nobody does that", and so it is not worth the cost. Improved
+	failure comments (mistachkin).
+
+2007-11-10  Kevin Kenny	 <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* win/tclWin32Dll.c: Rewrote the Windows stack checking algorithm to
+	use information from VirtualQuery to determine the bound of the stack.
+	This change fixes a bug where the guard page of the stack was never
+	restored after an overflow. It also eliminates a nasty piece of
+	assembly code for structured exception handling on mingw. It
+	introduces an assumption that the stack is a single memory arena
+	returned from VirtualAlloc, but the code in MSVCRT makes the same
+	assumption, so it should be fairly safe.
+
+2007-11-10  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:
+	* generic/tclInt.h:
+	* unix/tclUnixInit.c:
+	* unix/tclUnixPort.h:
+	* win/tclWin32Dll.c: Modify the stack checking algorithm to recheck in
+	case of failure. The working assumptions are now that (a) a thread's
+	stack is never moved, and (b) a thread's stack can grow but not
+	shrink. Port to windows - could be more efficient, but is already
+	cheaper than it was.
+
+2007-11-09  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclResult.c (ResetObjResult): new shortcut.
+
+	* generic/tclAsync.c:
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:
+	* generic/tclExecute.c:
+	* generic/tclInt.h:
+	* generic/tclUnixInit.c:
+	* generic/tclUnixPort.h: New fields in interp (ekeko!) to cache TSD
+	data that is accessed at each command invocation, access macros to
+	replace Tcl_AsyncReady and TclpCheckStackSpace by much faster variants
+	[Patch 1829248]
+
+2007-11-09  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/tclInt.decls, generic/tclIntDecls.h: Use unsigned char for
+	* generic/tclExecute.c, generic/tclUtil.c:     TclByteArrayMatch and
+	don't allow a nocase option. [Bug 1828296]
+	For INST_STR_MATCH, ignore pattern type for TclByteArrayMatch case.
+
+	* generic/tclBinary.c (Tcl_GetByteArrayFromObj): check type before
+	func jump (perf).
+
+2007-11-07  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c:		     Added TclByteArrayMatch
+	* generic/tclInt.decls:			     for efficient glob
+	* generic/tclIntDecls.h:		     matching of ByteArray
+	* generic/tclUtil.c (TclByteArrayMatch):     Tcl_Objs, used in
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): INST_STR_MATCH. [Bug
+						     1827996]
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c (TclGetsObjBinary): Add an efficient binary path for
+					      [gets].
+	(DoWriteChars): Special case for 1-byte channel write.
+
+2007-11-06  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclEncoding.c: Version of the embedded iso8859-1 encoding
+	handler that is faster (functions to do the encoding know exactly what
+	they're doing instead of pulling it from a table, though the table
+	itself has to be retained for use by shift encodings that depend on
+	iso8859-1). [Patch 1826906], committing for dkf.
+
+2007-11-05  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>
+
+	* generic/tclConfig.c (Tcl_RegisterConfig): Modified to not extend the
+	config database if the encoding provided by the user is not found
+	(venc == NULL). Scripts expecting the data will error out, however we
+	neither crash nor provide bogus information. See [Bug 983509] for more
+	discussion.
+
+	* unix/tclUnixChan.c (TtyGetOptionProc): Accepted [Patch 1823576]
+	provided by Stuart Cassof <stwo@users.sourceforge.net>. The patch adds
+	the necessary utf/external conversions to the handling of the
+	arguments of option -xchar which will allow the use of \0 and similar
+	characters.
+
+2007-11-03  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclTest.c (TestSetCmd2):
+	* generic/tclVar.c (TclObjLookupVarEx):
+	* tests/set.test (set-5.1): Fix error branch when array name looks
+	like array element (code not normally exercised).
+
+2007-11-01  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk>
+
+	* tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl (output-directive): Convert .DS/.DE pairs
+	into tables since that is now all that they are used for.
+
+	* doc/RegExp.3: Clarified documentation of RE flags. [Bug 1167840]
+
+	* doc/refchan.n: Adjust internal name to be consistent with the file
+	name for reduced user confusion. After comment by Dan Steffen.
+
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_StringObjCmd, UniCharIsAscii): Remember, the
+	NUL character is in ASCII too. [Bug 1808258]
+
+	* doc/file.n: Clarified use of [file normalize]. [Bug 1185154]
+
+2007-10-30  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tcl.h:	Bump version number to 8.5b2.1 to distinguish
+	* library/init.tcl:	CVS development snapshots from the 8.5b2
+	* unix/configure.in:	release.
+	* unix/tcl.spec:
+	* win/configure.in:
+
+	* unix/configure:	autoconf (2.59)
+	* win/configure:
+
+2007-10-30  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk>
+
+	* doc/expr.n, doc/mathfunc.n: Improve documentation to try to make
+	clearer what is going on.
+
+	* doc/interp.n: Shorten the basic descriptive text for some interp
+	subcommands so Solaris nroff doesn't truncate them. [Bug 1822268]
+
+2007-10-30  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl (output-widget-options): Enhance the HTML
+	generator so that it can produce multi-line option descriptions.
+
+2007-10-28  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclUtil.c (Tcl_ConcatObj): optimise for some of the
+	concatenees being empty objs. [Bug 1447328]
+
+2007-10-28  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclEncoding.c (TclInitEncodingSubsystem): Hard code the
+	iso8859-1 encoding, as it's needed for more than just text (especially
+	binary encodings...) Note that other encodings rely on the encoding
+	being a table encoding (!) so we can't use more efficient encoding
+	mapping functions.
+
+2007-10-27  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/regc_lex.c (lexescape): Close off one of the problems
+	mentioned in [Bug 1810264].
+
+2007-10-27  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c (Tcl_FindCommand): insure that FQ command names
+	are searched from the global namespace, ie, bypassing resolvers of the
+	current namespace. [Bug 1114355]
+
+	* doc/apply.n: fixed example [Bug 1811791]
+	* doc/namespace.n: improved example [Bug 1788984]
+	* doc/AddErrInfo.3: typo [Bug 1715087]
+	* doc/CrtMathFnc.3: fixed Tcl_ListMathFuncs entry [Bug 1672219]
+
+	* generic/tclCompile.h:
+	* generic/tclInt.h: moved declaration of TclSetCmdNameObj from
+	tclCompile.h to tclInt.h, reverting linker [Bug 1821159] caused by
+	commit of 2007-10-11 (both I and gcc missed one dep).
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c: try to preserve Tcl_Objs when doing variable
+	lookups by name, partially addressing [Bug 1793601].
+
+2007-10-27  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl (make-man-pages, htmlize-text)
+	(process-text): Make the man->HTML scraper work better.
+
+2007-10-26  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	*** 8.5b2 TAGGED FOR RELEASE ***
+
+	* changes:		Updated for 8.5b2 release.
+
+	* doc/*.1:		Revert doc changes that broke
+	* doc/*.3:		`make html` so we can get the release
+	* doc/*.n:		out the door.
+
+	* README:		Bump version number to 8.5b2.
+	* generic/tcl.h:
+	* library/init.tcl:
+	* tools/tcl.wse.in:
+	* unix/configure.in:
+	* unix/tcl.spec:
+	* win/configure.in:
+
+	* unix/configure:	autoconf (2.59)
+	* win/configure:
+
+2007-10-26  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk>
+
+	* tools/man2help2.tcl, tools/man2tcl.c: Made some of the tooling code
+	to do man->other formats work better with current manpage set. Long
+	way still to go.
+
+2007-10-25  Zoran Vasiljevic <vasiljevic@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclThread.c: Added TclpMasterLock/Unlock arround calls to
+	ForgetSyncObject in Tcl_MutexFinalize and Tcl_ConditionFinalize to
+	prevent from garbling the internal lists that track sync objects. [Bug
+	1726873]
+
+2007-10-24  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk>
+
+	* tools/man2html2.tcl (macro): Added support for converting the new
+	macros into HTML.
+
+	* doc/man.macros (QW,PQ,QR,MT): New macros that hide the ugly mess
+	needed to get proper GOOBE quoting in the manual pages.
+	* doc/*.n, doc/*.3, doc/*.1: Lots of changes to take advantage of the
+	new macros.
+
+2007-10-20  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompile.c:	  Fix comments.
+	* generic/tclExecute.c:
+
+2007-10-18  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>
+
+	* tools/mkdepend.tcl: sort the dep list for a more humanly readable
+	output.
+
+2007-10-18  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclResult.c (TclMergeReturnOptions):	Make sure any -code
+	values get pulled out of the dictionary, even if they are integer
+	valued.
+
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileReturnCmd):	Added code to more
+	optimally compile [return -level 0 $x] to "push $x". [RFE 1794073]
+
+	* compat/tmpnam.c (removed):	The routine tmpnam() is no longer
+	* unix/Makefile.in:	called by Tcl source code. Remove autogoo the
+	* unix/configure.in:	supplied a replacement version on systems
+	* win/tcl.dsp:		where the routine was not available. [RFE
+	1811848]
+
+	* unix/configure:	autoconf-2.59
+
+	* generic/tcl.h:	Remove TCL_LL_MODIFIER_SIZE. [RFE 1811837]
+
+2007-10-17  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>
+
+	* tools/mkdepend.tcl:	Improved defense from malformed object list
+	infile.
+
+2007-10-17  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* tools/man2html2.tcl: Convert .DS/.DE into HTML tables, not
+	preformatted text.
+
+2007-10-17  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c: Moved a misplaced declaration that blocked
+				 compilation on VC++.
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: Silenced several VC++ compiler warnings about
+				converting 'long' to 'unsigned short'.
+
+2007-10-16  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>
+
+	* win/makefile.vc: removed old dependency cruft that is no longer
+	needed.
+
+2007-10-15  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclIOCmd.c:	Revise [open] so that it interprets leading
+	zero strings passed as the "permissions" argument as octal numbers,
+	even if Tcl itself no longer parses integers in that way.
+
+	* unix/tclUnixFCmd.c:	Revise the "-permissions" [file attribute] so
+	that it interprets leading zero strings as octal numbers, even if Tcl
+	itself no longer parses integers in that way.
+
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c:	Corrections to code that produces
+	* generic/tclUtil.c:		extended "bad octal" error messages.
+
+	* tests/cmdAH.test:	Test revisions so that tests pass whether or
+	* tests/cmdIL.test:	not Tcl parses leading zero strings as octal.
+	* tests/compExpr-old.test:
+	* tests/compExpr.test:
+	* tests/compile.test:
+	* tests/expr-old.test:
+	* tests/expr.test:
+	* tests/incr.test:
+	* tests/io.test:
+	* tests/lindex.test:
+	* tests/link.test:
+	* tests/mathop.test:
+	* tests/parseExpr.test:
+	* tests/set.test:
+	* tests/string.test:
+	* tests/stringComp.test:
+
+2007-10-15  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>
+
+	* tools/mkdepend.tcl:	Produces usable output. Include path problem
+	* win/makefile.vc:	fixed. Never fight city hall when it comes to
+	levels of quoting issues.
+
+2007-10-15  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclParse.c (Tcl_ParseBraces): fix for possible read after
+	the end of buffer. [Bug 1813528] (Joe Mistachkin)
+
+2007-10-14  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>
+
+	* tools/mkdepend.tcl (new):  Initial stab at generating automatic
+	* win/makefile.vc:	     dependencies.
+
+2007-10-12  Pat Thoyts	<patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* win/makefile.vc:  Mine all version information from headers.
+	* win/rules.vc:	    Sync tcl and tk and bring extension versions
+	* win/nmakehlp.c:   closer together. Try and avoid using tclsh to do
+			    substitutions as we may cross compile.
+	* win/coffbase.txt: Added offsets for snack dlls.
+
+2007-10-11  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>
+
+	* win/makefile.vc:  Fixed my bad spelling mistakes from years back.
+	Dedependency, duh!  Rather funny.
+
+2007-10-11  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c:	Correct [string is (wide)integer] failure
+	* tests/string.test:	to report correct failindex values for
+	non-decimal integer strings. [Bug 1805887]
+
+	* compat/strtoll.c (removed):	The routines strtoll() and strtoull()
+	* compat/strtoull.c (removed):	are no longer called by the Tcl source
+	* generic/tcl.h:	code. (Their functionality has been replaced
+	* unix/Makefile.in:	by TclParseNumber().) Remove outdated comments
+	* unix/configure.in:	and mountains of configury autogoo that
+	* unix/tclUnixPort.h:	allegedly support the mythical systems where
+	* win/Makefile.in:	these routines might not have been available.
+	* win/makefile.bc:
+	* win/makefile.vc:
+	* win/tclWinPort.h:
+
+	* unix/configure:	autoconf-2.59
+
+2007-10-11  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclObj.c: remove superfluous #include of tclCompile.h
+
+2007-10-08  George Peter Staplin <georgeps@xmission.com>
+
+	* doc/Hash.3: Correct the valid usage of the flags member for the
+	Tcl_HashKeyType. It should be 0 or more of the flags mentioned.
+
+2007-10-02  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/tcl.h (Tcl_DecrRefCount): Update change from 2006-05-29 to
+	make macro more warning-robust in unbraced if code.
+
+2007-10-02  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	[core-stabilizer-branch]
+
+	* README:		Bump version number to 8.5.0
+	* generic/tcl.h:
+	* library/init.tcl:
+	* tools/tcl.wse.in:
+	* unix/configure.in:
+	* unix/tcl.spec:
+	* win/configure.in:
+
+	* unix/configure:	autoconf (2.59)
+	* win/configure:
+
+2007-10-02  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>
+
+	* library/tclIndex: Added 'tcl::tm::path' to the tclIndex. This fixes
+	[Bug 1806422] reported by Don Porter.
+
+2007-09-25  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclProc.c (Tcl_DisassembleObjCmd): Define a command,
+	::tcl::unsupported::disassemble, which can disassemble procedures,
+	lambdas and general scripts.
+	* generic/tclCompile.c (TclDisassembleByteCodeObj): Split apart the
+	code to print disassemblies of bytecode so that there is reusable code
+	that spits it out in a Tcl_Obj and then that code is used when doing
+	tracing.
+
+2007-09-20  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	*** 8.5b1 TAGGED FOR RELEASE ***
+
+	* changes: updates for 8.5b1 release.
+
+2007-09-19  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* README:		Bump version number to 8.5b1
+	* generic/tcl.h:	Merge from core-stabilizer-branch.
+	* library/init.tcl:	Stabilizing toward 8.5b1 release now done on
+	* tools/tcl.wse.in:	the HEAD. core-stabilizer-branch is now
+	* unix/configure.in:	suspended.
+	* unix/tcl.spec:
+	* win/configure.in:
+
+2007-09-19  Pat Thoyts	<patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclStubLib.: Replaced isdigit with internal implementation.
+
+2007-09-18  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclStubLib.c:	Remove C library calls from Tcl_InitStubs() so
+	* win/makefile.vc:	that we don't need the C library linked in to
+	libtclStub.
+
+2007-09-17  Pat Thoyts	<patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* win/makefile.vc: Add crt flags for tclStubLib now it uses C-library
+			   functions.
+
+2007-09-17  Joe English	 <jenglish@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* tcl.m4: use '${CC} -shared' instead of 'ld -Bshareable' to build
+	shared libraries on current NetBSDs. [Bug 1749251]
+	* unix/configure: regenerated (autoconf-2.59).
+
+2007-09-17  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in:	Update `make dist` so that tclDTrace.d is
+	included in the source code distribution.
+
+	* generic/tcl.h:	Revised Tcl_InitStubs() to restore Tcl 8.4
+	* generic/tclPkg.c:	source compatibility with callers of
+	* generic/tclStubLib.c:	Tcl_InitStubs(interp, TCL_VERSION, 1). [Bug
+	1578344]
+
+2007-09-17  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclTrace.c (Tcl_TraceObjCmd, TraceExecutionObjCmd)
+	(TraceCommandObjCmd, TraceVariableObjCmd):   Generate literal values
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c (NamespaceCodeCmd):    more efficiently using
+	* generic/tclFCmd.c (CopyRenameOneFile):     TclNewLiteralStringObj
+	* generic/tclEvent.c (TclSetBgErrorHandler): macro.
+
+2007-09-15  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/tcl.m4:	replace all direct references to compiler by ${CC} to
+			enable CC overriding at configure & make time; run
+			check for visibility "hidden" with all compilers;
+			quoting fixes from TEA tcl.m4.
+	(SunOS-5.1x):	replace direct use of '/usr/ccs/bin/ld' in SHLIB_LD by
+			'cc' compiler driver.
+	* unix/configure: autoconf-2.59
+
+2007-09-14  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_CreateObjCommand): Only invalidate along the
+	namespace path once; that is enough. [Bug 1519940]
+
+2007-09-14  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclDTrace.d (new file): Add DTrace provider for Tcl; allows
+	* generic/tclCompile.h:		  tracing of proc and command entry &
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:		  return, bytecode execution, object
+	* generic/tclExecute.c:		  allocation and more; with
+	* generic/tclInt.h:		  essentially zero cost when tracing
+	* generic/tclObj.c:		  is inactive; enable with
+	* generic/tclProc.c:		  --enable-dtrace configure arg
+	* unix/Makefile.in:		  (disabled by default, will only
+	* unix/configure.in:		  enable if DTrace is present). [Patch
+	1793984]
+
+	* macosx/GNUmakefile:		  Enable DTrace support.
+	* macosx/Tcl-Common.xcconfig:
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj:
+
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c:	Factor out core of InfoFrameCmd() into
+				internal TclInfoFrame() for use by DTrace
+				probes.
+
+	* unix/configure: autoconf-2.59
+	* unix/tclConfig.h.in: autoheader-2.59
+
+2007-09-12  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in:	Perform missing updates of the tcltest Tcl
+	* win/Makefile.in:	Module installed filename that should have
+	been part of the bump to tcltest 2.3b1. Thanks Larry Virden.
+
+2007-09-12  Pat Thoyts	<patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* win/makefile.vc, win/rules.vc, win/nmakehlp.c: Use nmakehlp to
+	substitute values for tclConfig.sh (helps cross-compiling).
+
+2007-09-11  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl:	Accept underscores and colons in
+	* library/tcltest/pkgIndex.tcl: constraint names. Properly handle
+	constraint expressions that return non-numeric boolean results like
+	"false". Bump to tcltest 2.3b1. [Bug 1772989; RFE 1071322]
+	* tests/info.test:	Disable fragile tests.
+
+	* doc/package.n:	Restored the functioning of [package require
+	* generic/tclPkg.c:	-exact] to be compatible with Tcl 8.4. [Bug
+	* tests/pkg.test:	1578344]
+
+2007-09-11  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileDictCmd-update):
+	* generic/tclCompile.c (tclInstructionTable):
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (INST_DICT_UPDATE_END): fix stack management in
+	compiled [dict update]. [Bug 1786481]
+
+	***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY***
+	Scripts that were precompiled on earlier versions of 8.5 and use [dict
+	update] will crash. Workaround: recompile.
+
+2007-09-11  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: Corrected an off-by-one error in the setting
+	of MaxBaseWide for certain powers. [Bug 1767293 - problem reported in
+	comments when bug was reopened]
+
+2007-09-10  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/tclLink.c (Tcl_UpdateLinkedVar): guard against var being
+	unlinked. [Bug 1740631] (maros)
+
+2007-09-10  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompile.c: fix tclInstructionTable entry for
+	dictUpdateEnd
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: remove unneeded setting of 'cleanup' variable
+	before jumping to checkForCatch.
+
+2007-09-10  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* doc/package.n:	Restored the document parallel syntax of the
+	* generic/tclPkg.c:	[package present] and [package require]
+	* tests/pkg.test:	commands. [Bug 1723675]
+
+2007-09-09  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclInt.h:	Removed the "nsName" Tcl_ObjType from the
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c:	registered set. Revised the management of the
+	* generic/tclObj.c:	intrep of that Tcl_ObjType. Revised the
+	* tests/obj.test:	TclGetNamespaceFromObj() routine to return
+	TCL_ERROR and write a consistent error message when a namespace is not
+	found. [Bug 1588842. Patch 1686862]
+
+	***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY***
+	For callers of Tcl_GetObjType() on the name "nsName".
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: Update TclGetNamespaceFromObj() callers.
+	* generic/tclProc.c:
+
+	* tests/apply.test:		Updated tests to expect new consistent
+	* tests/namespace-old.test:	error message when a namespace is not
+	* tests/namespace.test:		found.
+	* tests/upvar.test:
+
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c:	Use the new INST_REVERSE instruction
+	* tests/mathop.test:	to correct the compiled versions of math
+	operator commands. [Bug 1724437]
+
+	* generic/tclCompile.c: New bytecode instruction INST_REVERSE to
+	* generic/tclCompile.h: reverse the order of N items at the top of
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: stack.
+
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompilePowOpCmd):	Make a separate
+	routine to compile ** to account for its different associativity.
+
+2007-09-08  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_SetVar2, TclPtrSetVar): [Bug 1710710] fixed
+	correctly, reverted fix of 2007-05-01.
+
+2007-09-08  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclDictObj.c (DictUpdateCmd, DictWithCmd): Plug a hole that
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TEBC,INST_DICT_UPDATE_END): allowed a careful
+	* tests/dict.test (dict-21.16,21.17,22.11): attacker to craft a dict
+	containing a recursive link to itself, violating one of Tcl's
+	fundamental datatype assumptions and causing a stack crash when the
+	dict was converted to a string. [Bug 1786481]
+
+2007-09-07  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclEvent.c ([::tcl::Bgerror]):	Corrections to Tcl's
+	* tests/event.test:	default [interp bgerror] handler so that when
+	it falls back to a hidden [bgerror] in a safe interp, it gets the
+	right error context data. [Bug 1790274]
+
+2007-09-07  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclProc.c (TclInitCompiledLocals): the refCount of resolved
+	variables was being managed without checking if they were Var or
+	VarInHash: itcl [Bug 1790184]
+
+2007-09-06  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclResult.c (Tcl_GetReturnOptions):	Take care that a
+	* tests/init.test:	non-TCL_ERROR code doesn't cause existing
+	-errorinfo, -errorcode, and -errorline entries to be omitted.
+	* generic/tclEvent.c:	With -errorInfo no longer lost, generate more
+	complete ::errorInfo when calling [bgerror] after a non-TCL_ERROR
+	background exception.
+
+2007-09-06  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclInterp.c (Tcl_Init):	Removed constraint on ability
+	to define a custom [tclInit] before calling Tcl_Init(). Until now the
+	custom command had to be a proc. Now it can be any command.
+
+	* generic/tclInt.decls: New internal routine TclBackgroundException()
+	* generic/tclEvent.c:	that for the first time permits non-TCL_ERROR
+	exceptions to trigger [interp bgerror] handling. Closes a gap in TIP
+	221. When falling back to [bgerror] (which is designed only to handle
+	TCL_ERROR), convert exceptions into errors complaining about the
+	exception.
+
+	* generic/tclInterp.c:	Convert Tcl_BackgroundError() callers to call
+	* generic/tclIO.c:	TclBackgroundException().
+	* generic/tclIOCmd.c:
+	* generic/tclTimer.c:
+
+	* generic/tclIntDecls.h:	make genstubs
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c:
+
+2007-09-06  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcode/project.pbxproj: discontinue unmaintained support
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcode/default.pbxuser: for Xcode 1.5; replace by Xcode2
+	project for use on Tiger (with Tcl.xcodeproj to be used on Leopard).
+
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: updates for Xcode 2.5 and 3.0.
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/default.pbxuser:
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcode/project.pbxproj:
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcode/default.pbxuser:
+	* macosx/Tcl-Common.xcconfig:
+
+	* macosx/README: document project changes.
+
+2007-09-05  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:	Removed support for the unmaintained
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: -DTCL_GENERIC_ONLY configuration. [Bug
+	* unix/Makefile.in:	1264623]
+
+2007-09-04  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in:	It's unreliable to count on the release
+	manager to remember to `make genstubs` before `make dist`. Let the
+	Makefile remember the dependency for us.
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in:	Corrections to `make dist` dependencies to be
+	sure that macosx/configure gets generated whenever it does not exist.
+
+2007-09-03  Kevin B, Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* library/tzdata/Africa/Cairo:
+	* library/tzdata/America/Grand_Turk:
+	* library/tzdata/America/Port-au-Prince:
+	* library/tzdata/America/Indiana/Petersburg:
+	* library/tzdata/America/Indiana/Tell_City:
+	* library/tzdata/America/Indiana/Vincennes:
+	* library/tzdata/Antarctica/McMurdo:
+	* library/tzdata/Australia/Adelaide:
+	* library/tzdata/Australia/Broken_Hill:
+	* library/tzdata/Australia/Currie:
+	* library/tzdata/Australia/Hobart:
+	* library/tzdata/Australia/Lord_Howe:
+	* library/tzdata/Australia/Melbourne:
+	* library/tzdata/Australia/Sydney:
+	* library/tzdata/Pacific/Auckland:
+	* library/tzdata/Pacific/Chatham: Olson's tzdata2007g.
+
+	* generic/tclListObj.c (TclLindexFlat):
+	* tests/lindex.test (lindex-17.[01]):	Added code to detect the error
+	when a script does [lindex {} end foo]; an overaggressive optimisation
+	caused this call to return an empty object rather than an error.
+
+2007-09-03  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclObj.c (TclInitObjSubsystem): restore registration of the
+	"wideInt" Tcl_ObjType for compatibility with 8.4 extensions that
+	access the tclWideIntType Tcl_ObjType; add setFromAnyProc for
+	tclWideIntType.
+
+2007-09-02  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* doc/lsearch.n: Added note that order of results with the -all option
+	is that of the input list. It always was, but this makes it crystal.
+
+2007-08-30  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompile.c: Added fflush() calls following all callers of
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: TclPrintByteCodeObj() so that tcl_traceCompile
+	output is less likely to get mangled when writes to stdout interleave
+	with other code.
+
+2007-08-28  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c:	Use a table lookup in ParseLexeme() to
+	determine lexemes with single-byte representations.
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:	Used unions to better clarify overloading of
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c:	the fields of the OpCmdInfo and
+	* generic/tclCompile.h:		TclOpCmdClientData structs.
+
+2007-08-27  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c:	Call TclCompileSyntaxError() when
+	expression syntax errors are found when compiling expressions. With
+	this in place, convert TclCompileExpr to return void, since there's no
+	longer any need to report TCL_ERROR.
+	* generic/tclCompile.c: Update callers.
+	* generic/tclExecute.c:
+
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c:	New routine TclCompileSyntaxError()
+	* generic/tclCompile.h: to directly compile bytecodes that report a
+	* generic/tclCompile.c: syntax error, rather than (ab)use a call to
+	TclCompileReturnCmd. Also, undo the most recent commit that papered
+	over some issues with that (ab)use. New routine produces a new opcode
+	INST_SYNTAX, which is a minor variation of INST_RETURN_IMM. Also a bit
+	of constification.
+
+	* generic/tclCompile.c: Move the deallocation of local LiteralTable
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c:	entries into TclFreeCompileEnv().
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: Update callers.
+
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c:	Force numeric and boolean literals in
+	expressions to register with their intreps intact, even if that means
+	overwriting existing intreps in already registered literals.
+
+2007-08-25  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): Added code to handle
+	* tests/expr.test (expr-23.48-53)	     integer exponentiation
+	that results in 32- and 64-bit integer results, avoiding calls to wide
+	integer exponentiation routines in this common case. [Bug 1767293]
+
+	* library/clock.tcl (ParseClockScanFormat): Modified code to allow
+	* tests/clock.test (clock-60.*):	    case-insensitive matching
+	of time zone and month names. [Bug 1781282]
+
+2007-08-24  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c:	Register literals found in expressions
+	* tests/compExpr.test:	to restore literal sharing. Preserve numeric
+	intreps when literals are created for the first time. Correct memleak
+	in ExecConstantExprTree() and add test for the leak.
+
+2007-08-24  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompile.c: replaced copy loop that tripped some compilers
+	with memmove. [Bug 1780870]
+
+2007-08-23  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* library/init.tcl ([auto_load_index]): Delete stray "]" that created
+	an expr syntax error (masked by a [catch]).
+
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileReturnCmd):	Added crash protection
+	to handle callers other than TclCompileScript() failing to meet the
+	initialization assumptions of the TIP 280 code in CompileWord().
+
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c:	Suppress the attempt to convert to
+	numeric when pre-compiling a constant expresion indicates an error.
+
+2007-08-22  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TEBC): disable the new shortcut to frequent
+	INSTs for debug builds. REVERTED (collision with alternative fix)
+
+2007-08-21  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclMain.c:	Corrected the logic of dropping the last
+	* tests/main.test:	newline from an interactively typed command.
+	[Bug 1775878]
+
+2007-08-21  Pat Thoyts	<patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* tests/thread.test: thread-4.4: clear ::errorInfo in the thread as a
+	message is left here from init.tcl on windows due to no tcl_pkgPath.
+
+2007-08-20  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (INST_SUB): fix usage of the new macro for
+	overflow detection in sums, adapt to subtraction. Lengthy comment
+	added.
+
+2007-08-19  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (Overflowing, TclIncrObj, TclExecuteByteCode):
+	Encapsulate Miguel's last change in a more mnemonic macro.
+
+2007-08-19  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: changed the check for overflow in sums,
+	reducing objsize, number of branches and cache misses (according to
+	cachegrind). Non-overflow for s=a+b:
+	previous
+	  ((a >= 0 || b >= 0 || s < 0) && (s >= 0 || b < 0 || a < 0))
+	now
+	  (((a^s) >= 0) || ((a^b) < 0))
+	This expresses: "a and s have the same sign or else a and b have
+	different sign".
+
+2007-08-19  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* doc/interp.n (RESOURCE LIMITS): Added text to better explain why
+	time limits are described using absolute times. [Bug 1752148]
+
+2007-08-16  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c: improved localVarNameType caching to leverage
+	the new availability of Tcl_Obj in variable names, avoiding string
+	comparisons to verify that the cached value is usable.
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: check the two most frequent instructions
+	before the switch. Reduces both runtime and obj size a tiny bit.
+
+2007-08-16  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c:	Added a "constant" field to the OpNode
+	struct (again "free" due to alignment requirements) to mark those
+	subexpressions that are completely known at compile time. Enhanced
+	CompileExprTree() and its callers to precompute these constant
+	subexpressions at compile time. This resolves the issue raised in [Bug
+	1564517].
+
+2007-08-15  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclIOUtil.c (TclGetOpenModeEx): Only set the O_APPEND flag
+	* tests/ioUtil.test (ioUtil-4.1):	  on a channel for the 'a'
+	mode and not for 'a+'. [Bug 1773127]
+
+2007-08-14  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (INST_INVOKE*): peephole opt, do not get the
+	interp's result if it will be pushed/popped.
+
+2007-08-14  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:	Use fully qualified variable names for
+	* tests/thread.test:	::errorInfo and ::errorCode so that string
+	* tests/trace.test:	reported to variable traces are fully
+	qualified in agreement with Tcl 8.4 operations.
+
+2007-08-14  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/tclLoadDyld.c: use dlfcn API on Mac OS X 10.4 and later; fix
+	issues with loading from memory on intel and 64bit; add debug messages
+
+	* tests/load.test: add test load-10.1 for loading from vfs.
+
+	* unix/dltest/pkga.c:		whitespace & comment cleanup, remove
+	* unix/dltest/pkgb.c:		unused pkgf.c.
+	* unix/dltest/pkgc.c:
+	* unix/dltest/pkge.c:
+	* unix/dltest/pkgf.c (removed):
+	* unix/dltest/pkgua.c:
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj:
+
+2007-08-13  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: Provide DECACHE/CACHE protection to the
+	* tests/trace.test:	Tcl_LogCommandInfo() call. [Bug 1773040]
+
+2007-08-12  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_SplitObjCmd): use TclNewStringObj macro
+	instead of calling the function.
+
+	* generic/tcl_Obj.c (TclAllocateFreeObjects): remove unneeded memset
+	to 0 of all allocated objects.
+
+2007-08-10  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclInt.h: remove redundant ops in TclNewStringObj macro.
+
+2007-08-10  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclInt.h: fix the TclSetVarNamespaceVar macro, was causing a
+	leak.
+
+2007-08-10  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c:	Revise CompileExprTree() to use the
+	OpNode mark field scheme of tree traversal. This eliminates the need
+	to use magic values in the left and right fields for that purpose.
+	Also stop abusing the left field within ParseExpr() to store the
+	number of arguments in a parsed function call. CompileExprTree() now
+	determines that for itself at compile time. Then reorder code to
+	eliminate duplication.
+
+2007-08-09  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclProc.c (TclCreateProc): better comments on the required
+	varflag values when loading precompiled procs.
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (INST_STORE_ARRAY):
+	* tests/trace.test (trace-2.6): whole array write traces on compiled
+	local variables were not firing. [Bug 1770591]
+
+2007-08-08  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/tclProc.c (InitLocalCache): reference firstLocalPtr via
+	procPtr. codePtr->procPtr == NULL exposed by tbcload.
+
+2007-08-08  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: Corrected failure to compile/link in the
+	-DNO_WIDE_TYPE configuration.
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: Corrected improper use of bignum arguments to
+	* tests/expr.test:	*SHIFT operations. [Bug 1770224]
+
+2007-08-07  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclInt.h: remove comments refering to VAR_SCALAR, as that
+	flag bit does not exist any longer.
+	* generic/tclProc.c (InitCompiledLocals): removed optimisation for
+	non-resolved case, as the function is never called in that case.
+	Renamed the function to InitResolvedLocals to calrify the point.
+
+	* generic/tclInt.decls:	  Exporting via stubs to help xotcl adapt to
+	* generic/tclInt.h:	  VarReform.
+	* generic/tclIntDecls.h:
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c:
+
+2007-08-07  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclEnv.c:	improve environ handling on Mac OS X (adapted
+	* unix/tclUnixPort.h:	from Apple changes in Darwin tcl-64).
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in:	add support for compile flags specific to
+				object files linked directly into executables.
+
+	* unix/configure.in (Darwin): only use -seg1addr flag when prebinding;
+	use -mdynamic-no-pic flag for object files linked directly into exes;
+	support overriding TCL_PACKAGE_PATH/TCL_MODULE_PATH in environment.
+
+	* unix/configure: autoconf-2.59
+
+2007-08-06  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* tests/parseExpr.test: Update source file name of expr parser code.
+
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c:	Added a "mark" field to the OpNode
+	struct, which is used to guide tree traversal. This field costs
+	nothing since alignement requirements used the memory already.
+	Rewrote ConvertTreeToTokens() to use the new field, which permitted
+	consolidation of utility routines CopyTokens() and
+	GenerateTokensForLiteral().
+
+2007-08-06  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclGetDate.y: Added a cast to the definition of YYFREE to
+				silence compiler warnings.
+	* generic/tclDate.c:	Regenerated
+	* win/tclWinTest.c:	Added a cast to GetSecurityDescriptorDacl call
+				to silence compiler warnings.
+
+2007-08-04  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclInt.decls:	  Exporting via stubs to help itcl adapt to
+	* generic/tclInt.h:	  VarReform. Added localCache initialization
+	* generic/tclIntDecls.h:  to TclInitCompiledLocals (which only exists
+	* generic/tclProc.c:	  for itcl).
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c:
+	* generic/tclVar.c:
+
+2007-08-01  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* library/word.tcl: Rewrote for greater efficiency. [Bug 1764318]
+
+2007-08-01  Pat Thoyts	<patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclInt.h:	Added a TclOffset macro ala Tk_Offset to
+	* generic/tclVar.c:	abstract out 'offsetof' which may not be
+	* generic/tclExceute.c: defined (eg: msvc6).
+
+2007-08-01  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c (TclCleanupVar): fix [Bug 1765225], thx Larry
+	Virden.
+
+2007-07-31  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* doc/Hash.3:
+	* generic/tclHash.c:
+	* generic/tclObj.c:
+	* generic/tclThreadStorage.c: (changes part of the patch below)
+	Stop Tcl_CreateHashVar from resetting hPtr->clientData to NULL after
+	calling the allocEntryProc for a custom table.
+
+	* generic/tcl.h:
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c:
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c:
+	* generic/tclCompile.c:
+	* generic/tclCompile.h:
+	* generic/tclExecute.c:
+	* generic/tclHash.c:
+	* generic/tclInt.decls:
+	* generic/tclInt.h:
+	* generic/tclIntDecls.h:
+	* generic/tclLiteral.c:
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c:
+	* generic/tclObj.c:
+	* generic/tclProc.c:
+	* generic/tclThreadStorage.c:
+	* generic/tclTrace.c:
+	* generic/tclVar.c: VarReform [Patch 1750051]
+
+	*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** (tclInt.h and tclCompile.h)
+	Extensions that access internals defined in tclInt.h and/or
+	tclCompile.h may lose both binary and source compatibility. The
+	relevant changes are:
+	1. 'struct Var' is completely changed, all acceses to its internals
+	   (either direct or via the TclSetVar* and TclIsVar* macros) will
+	   malfunction. Var flag values and semantics changed too.
+	2. 'struct Bytecode' has an additional field that has to be
+	   initialised to NULL
+	3. 'struct Namespace' is larger, as the varTable is now one pointer
+	   larger than a Tcl_HashTable. Direct access to its fields will
+	   malfunction.
+	4. 'struct CallFrame' grew one more field (the second such growth with
+	   respect to Tcl8.4).
+	5. API change for the functions TclFindCompiledLocal, TclDeleteVars
+	   and many internal functions in tclVar.c
+
+	Additionally, direct access to variable hash tables via the standard
+	Tcl_Hash* interface is to be considered as deprecated. It still works
+	in the present version, but will be broken by further specialisation
+	of these hash tables. This concerns especially the table of array
+	elements in an array, as well as the varTable field in the Namespace
+	struct.
+
+2007-07-31  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* unix/configure.in: allow use of 'inline' in Tcl sources. [Patch
+	* win/configure.in:  1754128]
+	* win/makefile.vc:   Regen with autoconf 2.61
+
+2007-07-31  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixInit.c (TclpSetVariables): Use the thread-safe getpwuid
+	replacement to fill the tcl_platform(user) field as it is not subject
+	to spoofing. [Bug 681877]
+
+	* unix/tclUnixCompat.c: Simplify the #ifdef logic.
+
+	* unix/tclUnixChan.c (FileWatchProc): Fix test failures.
+
+2007-07-30  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixChan.c (SET_BITS, CLEAR_BITS): Added macros to make this
+	file clearer.
+
+2007-07-24  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c (TEOvI, GetCommandSource):
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TEBC, TclGetSrcInfoForCmd):
+	* generic/tclInt.h:
+	* generic/tclTrace.c (TclCheck(Interp|Execution)Traces):
+	Removed the need for TEBC to inspect the command before calling TEOvI,
+	leveraging the TIP 280 infrastructure. Moved the generation of a
+	correct nul-terminated command string away from the trace code, back
+	into TEOvI/GetCommandSource.
+
+2007-07-20  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>
+
+	* library/platform/platform.tcl: Fixed bug in 'platform::patterns'
+	* library/platform/pkgIndex.tcl: where identifiers not matching
+	* unix/Makefile.in: the special linux and solaris forms would not
+	* win/Makefile.in: get 'tcl' as an acceptable platform added to
+	* doc/platform.n: the result. Bumped package to version 1.0.3 and
+	* doc/platform_shell.n: updated documentation and Makefiles. Also
+	fixed bad version info in the documentation of platform::shell.
+
+2007-07-19  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclParse.c:	In contexts where interp and parsePtr->interp
+	might be different, be sure to use the latter for error reporting.
+	Also pulled the interp argument back out of ParseTokens() since we
+	already had a parsePtr->interp to work with.
+
+2007-07-18  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c:	Removed unused arguments and variables
+
+2007-07-17  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c (ParseExpr):	While adding comments to
+	explain the operations of ParseExpr(), made significant revisions to
+	the code so it would be easier to explain, and in the process made the
+	code simpler and clearer as well.
+
+2007-07-15  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c:	More commentary.
+	* tests/parseExpr.test:		Several tests of syntax error messages
+	to check that when expression substrings are truncated they leave
+	visible the context relevant to the reported error.
+
+2007-07-12  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c:	Factored out, corrected, and commented
+	common code for reporting syntax errors in LEAF elements.
+
+2007-07-11  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileWhileCmd):
+	* generic/tclCompile.c (TclCompileScript):
+	Corrected faulty avoidance of INST_START_CMD when the first opcode in
+	a script is within a loop (as produced by 'while 1'), so that the
+	corresponding command is properly counted. [Bug 1752146]
+
+2007-07-11  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c:	Added a "parseOnly" flag argument to
+	ParseExpr() to indicate whether the caller is Tcl_ParseExpr(), with an
+	end goal of filling a Tcl_Parse with Tcl_Tokens representing the
+	parsed expression, or TclCompileExpr() with the goal of compiling and
+	executing the expression. In the latter case, more aggressive
+	conversion of QUOTED and BRACED lexeme to literals is done. In the
+	former case, all such conversion is avoided, since Tcl_Token
+	production would revert it anyway. This enables simplifications to the
+	GenerateTokensForLiteral() routine as well.
+
+2007-07-10  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c:	Added a field for operator precedence
+	to be stored directly in the parse tree. There's no memory cost to
+	this addition, since that memory would have been lost to alignment
+	issues anyway. Also, converted precedence definitions and lookup
+	tables to use symbolic constants instead of raw number for improved
+	readability, and continued extending/improving/correcting comments.
+	Removed some unused counter variables. Renamed some variables for
+	clarity and replaced some cryptic logic with more readable macros.
+
+2007-07-09  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c:	Revision so that the END lexeme never
+	gets inserted into the parse tree. Later tree traversal never reaches
+	it since its location in the tree is not variable. Starting and
+	stopping with the START lexeme (node 0) is sufficient. Also finished
+	lexeme code commentary.
+
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c:	Added missing creation and return of
+	the Tcl_Parse fields that indicate error conditions. [Bug 1749987]
+
+2007-07-05  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* library/init.tcl (unknown):	Corrected inconsistent error message
+	in interactive [unknown] when empty command is invoked. [Bug 1743676]
+
+2007-07-05  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c (SetNsNameFromAny):
+	* generic/tclObj.c (SetCmdNameFromAny): Avoid unnecessary
+	ckfree/ckalloc when the old structs can be reused.
+
+2007-07-04  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c: Fix case where a FQ cmd or ns was being cached
+	* generic/tclObj.c:    in a different interp, tkcon. [Bug 1747512]
+
+2007-07-03  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c:	Revised #define values so that there
+	is now more expansion room to define more BINARY operators.
+
+2007-07-02  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclHash.c (CompareStringKeys): Always use the strcmp()
+	version; the operation is functionally equivalent, the speed is
+	identical (up to measurement limitations), and yet the code is
+	simpler. [FRQ 951168]
+
+2007-07-02  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tcl.h:	Removed TCL_PRESERVE_BINARY_COMPATIBILITY and
+	* generic/tclHash.c:	any code enabled when it is set to 0. We will
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c:	always want to preserve binary compat
+	of the structs that appear in the interface through the 8.* series of
+	releases, so it's pointless to drag around this never-enabled
+	alternative.
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c:	Removed dead code.
+	* unix/tclUnixChan.c:
+
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c:	Removed dead code, old implementations
+	* generic/tclEvent.c:	of expr parsing and compiling, including the
+	* generic/tclInt.h:	routine TclFinalizeCompilation().
+
+2007-06-30  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LsortObjCmd): Plug a memory leak caused by a
+	missing Tcl_DecrRefCount on an error path. [Bug 1717186]
+
+2007-06-30  Zoran Vasiljevic <vasiljevic@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclThread.c: Prevent RemeberSyncObj() from growing the sync
+	object lists by reusing already free'd slots, if possible. See
+	discussion on Bug 1726873 for more information.
+
+2007-06-29  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* doc/DictObj.3 (Tcl_DictObjDone): Improved documentation of this
+	function to make it clearer how to use it. [Bug 1710795]
+
+2007-06-29  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclAlloc.c:		on Darwin, ensure memory allocated by
+	* generic/tclThreadAlloc.c:	the custom TclpAlloc()s is aligned to
+	16 byte boundaries (as is the case with the Darwin system malloc).
+
+	* generic/tclGetDate.y: use ckalloc/ckfree instead of malloc/free.
+	* generic/tclDate.c:	bison 1.875e
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c (TclEvalEx): fix warnings.
+
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: better support for renamed tcl
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/default.pbxuser: source dir; add 10.5 SDK build
+	* macosx/Tcl-Common.xcconfig:		config; remove tclMathOp.c.
+
+	* macosx/README: document Tcl.xcodeproj changes.
+
+2007-06-28  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:		Removed dead code, including the
+	* generic/tclExecute.c:		entire file tclMathOp.c.
+	* generic/tclInt.h:
+	* generic/tclMathOp.c (removed):
+	* generic/tclTestObj.c:
+	* win/tclWinFile.c:
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in:	Updated to reflect deletion of tclMathOp.c.
+	* win/Makefile.in:
+	* win/makefile.bc:
+	* win/makefile.vc:
+
+2007-06-28  Pat Thoyts	<patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:	  Silence constness warnings for TclStackFree
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c:  when building with msvc.
+	* generic/tclFCmd.c:
+	* generic/tclIOCmd.c:
+	* generic/tclTrace.c:
+
+2007-06-28  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c (UnsetVarStruct): fix possible segfault.
+
+2007-06-27  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclTrace.c:	Corrected broken trace reversal logic in
+	* generic/tclTest.c:	TclCheckInterpTraces that led to infinite loop
+	* tests/trace.test:	when multiple Tcl_CreateTrace traces were set
+	and one of them did not fire due to level restrictions. [Bug 1743931]
+
+2007-06-26  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c (TclEvalEx):	Moved some arrays from the C
+	stack to the Tcl stack.
+
+2007-06-26  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c (UnsetVarStruct): more streamlining.
+
+2007-06-25  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: Safety checks to avoid crashes in the
+	TclStack* routines when called with an incompletely initialized
+	interp. [Bug 1743302]
+
+2007-06-25  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c (UnsetVarStruct): fixing incomplete change, more
+	streamlining.
+
+2007-06-24  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c (TclDeleteCompiledLocalVars): removed inlining that
+	ended up not really optimising (limited benchmarks). Now calling
+	UnsetVarStruct (streamlined old code is #ifdef'ed out, in case better
+	benchmarks do show a difference).
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c (UnsetVarStruct): fixed a leak introduced in last
+	commit.
+
+2007-06-23  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c (UnsetVarStruct, TclDeleteVars): made the logic
+	slightly clearer, eliminated some duplicated code.
+
+	*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** (tclInt.h and Var struct users)
+	The core never builds VAR_LINK variable to have traces. Such a
+	"monster", should one exist, will now have its unset traces called
+	*before* it is unlinked.
+
+2007-06-23  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* macosx/tclMacOSXNotify.c (AtForkChild): don't call CoreFoundation
+	APIs after fork() on systems where that would lead to an abort().
+
+2007-06-22  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: Revised TclStackRealloc() signature to better
+	* generic/tclInt.h:	parallel (and fall back on) Tcl_Realloc.
+
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c (TclResetShadowesCmdRefs):	Replaced
+	ckrealloc based allocations with TclStackRealloc allocations.
+
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c:	More conversions to use TclStackAlloc.
+	* generic/tclScan.c:
+
+2007-06-21  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:	 Move most instances of the Tcl_Parse struct
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c: off the C stack and onto the Tcl stack. This
+	* generic/tclCompile.c:	 is a rather large struct (> 3kB).
+	* generic/tclParse.c:
+
+2007-06-21  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c (TEOvI):		Made sure that leave traces
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (INST_INVOKE):	that were created during
+	* tests/trace.test (trace-36.2):	execution of an originally
+	untraced command do not fire [Bug 1740962], partial fix.
+
+2007-06-21  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tcl.h, generic/tclCompile.h, generic/tclCompile.c: Remove
+	references in comments to obsolete {expand} notation. [Bug 1740859]
+
+2007-06-20  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c: streamline namespace vars deletion: only compute
+	the variable's full name if the variable is traced.
+
+2007-06-20  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclInt.decls: Revised the interfaces of the routines
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: TclStackAlloc and TclStackFree to make them
+	easier for callers to use (or more precisely, harder to misuse).
+	TclStackFree now takes a (void *) argument which is the pointer
+	intended to be freed. TclStackFree will panic if that's not actually
+	the memory the call will free. TSA/TSF also now tolerate receiving
+	(interp == NULL), in which case they simply fall back to be calls to
+	Tcl_Alloc/Tcl_Free.
+
+	* generic/tclIntDecls.h:	make genstubs
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:	Updated callers
+	* generic/tclCmdAH.c:
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c:
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c:
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c:
+	* generic/tclCompile.c:
+	* generic/tclFCmd.c:
+	* generic/tclFileName.c:
+	* generic/tclIOCmd.c:
+	* generic/tclIndexObj.c:
+	* generic/tclInterp.c:
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c:
+	* generic/tclProc.c:
+	* generic/tclTrace.c:
+	* unix/tclUnixPipe.c:
+
+2007-06-20  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl: revamp of html doc output to use CSS,
+	standardized headers, subheaders, dictionary sorting of names.
+
+2007-06-18  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl: clean up copyright merging and output.
+	clean up coding constructs.
+
+2007-06-18  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (InfoFrameCmd):
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_SwitchObjCmd):
+	* generic/tclCompile.c (TclInitCompileEnv):
+	* generic/tclProc.c (Tcl_ProcObjCmd, SetLambdaFromAny): Moved the
+	CmdFrame off the C stack and onto the Tcl stack.
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TEBC):	Moved the CmdFrame off the C stack and
+	onto the Tcl stack, between the catch and the execution stacks
+
+2007-06-18  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c (TclEvalEx,TclEvalObjEx):	Moved the CmdFrame off
+	the C stack and onto the Tcl stack.
+
+2007-06-17  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclProc.c (TclObjInterpProcCore): Minor fixes to make
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): compilation debugging
+	builds work again. [Bug 1738542]
+
+2007-06-16  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclProc.c (TclObjInterpProcCore): Use switch instead of a
+	chain of if's for a modest performance gain and a little more clarity.
+
+2007-06-15  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c:  Simplified [variable] compiler and executor.
+	* generic/tclExecute.c:	  Missed updates to "there is always a valid
+	frame".
+
+	* generic/tclCompile.c: reverted TclEvalObjvInternal and INST_INVOKE
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: to essentially what they were previous to the
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:	commit of 2007-04-03 [Patch 1693802] and the
+	subsequent optimisations, as they break the new trace tests described
+	below.
+
+	* generic/trace.test: added tests 36 to 38 for dynamic trace creation
+	and addition. These tests expose a change in dynamics due to a recent
+	round of optimisations. The "correct" behaviour is not described in
+	docs nor TIP 62.
+
+2007-06-14  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclInt.decls:	  Modif to the internals of TclObjInterpProc
+	* generic/tclInt.h:	  to reduce stack consumption and improve task
+	* generic/tclIntDecls.h:  separation. Changes the interface of
+	* generic/tclProc.c:	  TclObjInterpProcCore (patching TclOO
+	simultaneously).
+
+	* generic/tclProc.c (TclObjInterpProcCore): simplified obj management
+	in wrongNumArgs calls.
+
+2007-06-14  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompile.c: SetByteCodeFromAny() can no longer return any
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: code other than TCL_OK, so remove code that
+	* generic/tclProc.c:	formerly handled exceptional codes.
+
+2007-06-13  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TclCompEvalObj): missed update to "there is
+	always a valid frame".
+
+	* generic/tclProc.c (TclObjInterpProcCore): call TEBC directly instead
+	of going through TclCompEvalObj - no need to check the compilation's
+	freshness, this has already been done. This improves speed and should
+	also provide some relief to [Bug 1066755].
+
+2007-06-12  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_CreateInterp): Turn the [info] command into
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (TclInitInfoCmd):	 an ensemble, making it easier
+	for third-party code to plug into.
+
+	* generic/tclIndexObj.c (Tcl_WrongNumArgs):
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c, generic/tclInt.h (tclEnsembleCmdType): Make
+	Tcl_WrongNumArgs do replacement correctly with ensembles and other
+	sorts of complex replacement strategies.
+
+2007-06-11  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c:	 comments added to explain iPtr->numLevels
+	management.
+
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c:	 tweaks to Tcl_GetCommandFromObj and
+	* generic/tclObj.c:	 TclGetNamespaceFromObj; modified the usage of
+	structs ResolvedCmdName and ResolvedNsname so that the field refNsPtr
+	is NULL for fully qualified names.
+
+2007-06-10  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:	 Further TEOvI split, creating a new
+	* generic/tclCompile.h:	 TclEvalObjvKnownCommand() function to handle
+	* generic/tclExecute.c:	 commands that are already known and are not
+	traced. INST_INVOKE now calls into this function instead of inlining
+	parts of TEOvI. Same perf, better isolation.
+
+	***POTENTIAL INCOMPAT*** There is a subtle issue with the timing of
+	execution traces that is changed here - first change appeared in my
+	commit of 2007-04-03 [Patch 1693802], which caused some divergence
+	between compiled and non-compiled code.
+	***THIS CHANGE IS UNDER REVIEW***
+
+2007-06-10  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* README: updated links. [Bug 1715081]
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): restore support for
+	INST_CALL_BUILTIN_FUNC1 and INST_CALL_FUNC1 bytecodes to support 8.4-
+	precompiled sources (math functions). [Bug 1720895]
+
+2007-06-10  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclInt.h:
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c:
+	* generic/tclObj.c:
+	* generic/tclvar.c: new macros TclGetCurrentNamespace() and
+	TclGetGlobalNamespace(); Tcl_GetCommandFromObj and
+	TclGetNamespaceFromObj rewritten to make the logic clearer; slightly
+	faster too.
+
+2007-06-09  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (INST_INVOKE): isolated two vars to the small
+	block where they are actually used.
+
+	* generic/tclObj.c (Tcl_GetCommandFromObj): rewritten to make the
+	logic clearer; slightly faster too.
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:	Split TEOv in two, by separating a processor
+	for non-TCL_OK returns. Also split TEOvI in a full version that
+	handles non-existing and traced commands, and a separate shorter
+	version for the regular case.
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:	Moved the generation of command strings for
+	* generic/tclTrace.c:	traces: previously in Tcl_EvalObjv(), now in
+	TclCheck[Interp|Execution]Traces(). Also insured that the strings are
+	properly NUL terminated at the correct length. [Bug 1693986]
+
+	***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY in internal API***
+	The functions TclCheckInterpTraces() and TclCheckExecutionTraces() (in
+	internal stubs) used to be noops if the command string was NULL, this
+	is not true anymore: if the command string is NULL, they generate an
+	appropriate string from (objc,objv) and use it to call the traces. The
+	caller might as well not call them with a NULL string if he was
+	expecting a noop.
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:	Extend usage of TclLimitReady() and
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: (new) TclLimitExceeded() macros.
+	* generic/tclInt.h:
+	* generic/tclInterp.c:
+
+	* generic/tclInt.h:	New TclCleanupCommandMacro for core usage.
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:
+	* generic/tclExecute.c:
+	* generic/tclObj.c:
+
+2007-06-09 Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: add new Tclsh-Info.plist.in.
+
+2007-06-08  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_StringObjCmd): Changed [string first] and
+	* doc/string.n: [string last] so that they have clearer descriptions
+	for those people who know the adage about needles and haystacks. This
+	follows suggestions on comp.lang.tcl...
+
+2007-06-06  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclParse.c: fix for uninit read. [Bug 1732414]
+
+2007-06-06  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: add settings for Fix&Continue.
+
+	* unix/configure.in (Darwin):		add plist for tclsh; link the
+	* unix/Makefile.in  (Darwin):		Tcl and tclsh plists into
+	* macosx/Tclsh-Info.plist.in (new):	their binaries in all cases.
+	* macosx/Tcl-Common.xcconfig:
+
+	* unix/tcl.m4 (Darwin): fix CF checks in fat 32&64bit builds.
+	* unix/configure: autoconf-2.59
+
+2007-06-05  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:	Added interp flag value ERR_LEGACY_COPY to
+	* generic/tclInt.h:	control the timing with which the global
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c:	variables ::errorCode and ::errorInfo get
+	* generic/tclProc.c:	updated after an error. This keeps more
+	* generic/tclResult.c:	precise compatibility with Tcl 8.4.
+	* tests/result.test (result-6.2):	[Bug 1649062]
+
+2007-06-05  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclInt.h:
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: Tcl-stack reform, [Patch 1701202]
+
+2007-06-03  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in: add datarootdir to silence autoconf-2.6x warning.
+
+2007-05-30  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:	Removed code that dealt with
+	* generic/tclCompile.c: TCL_TOKEN_EXPAND_WORD tokens representing
+	* generic/tclCompile.h: expanded literal words. These sections were
+	mostly in place to enable [info frame] to discover line information in
+	expanded literals. Since the parser now generates a token for each
+	post-expansion word referring to the right location in the original
+	script string, [info frame] gets all the data it needs.
+
+	* generic/tclInt.h:	Revised the parser so that it never produces
+	* generic/tclParse.c:	TCL_TOKEN_EXPAND_WORD tokens when parsing an
+	* tests/parse.test:	expanded literal word; that is, something like
+	{*}{x y z}. Instead, generate the series of TCL_TOKEN_SIMPLE_WORD
+	tokens to represent the words that expansion of the literal string
+	produces. [RFE 1725186]
+
+2007-05-29  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixThrd.c (Tcl_JoinThread): fix for 64-bit handling of
+	pthread_join exit return code storage. [Bug 1712723]
+
+2007-05-22  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	[core-stabilizer-branch]
+
+	* unix/configure:	autoconf-2.59 (FC6 fork)
+	* win/configure:
+
+	* README:		Bump version number to 8.5b1
+	* generic/tcl.h:
+	* library/init.tcl:
+	* tools/tcl.wse.in:
+	* unix/configure.in:
+	* unix/tcl.spec:
+	* win/configure.in:
+
+2007-05-18  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/configure:	autoconf-2.59 (FC6 fork)
+	* win/configure:
+
+	* README:		Bump version number to 8.5a7
+	* generic/tcl.h:
+	* library/init.tcl:
+	* tools/tcl.wse.in:
+	* unix/configure.in:
+	* unix/tcl.spec:
+	* win/configure.in:
+
+	* generic/tclParse.c:	Disable and remove the ALLOW_EXPAND sections
+	* tests/info.test:	that continued to support the deprecated
+	* tests/mathop.test:	{expand} syntax. Updated the few remaining
+	users of that syntax in the test suite.
+
+2007-05-17  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TclLimitReady): Created a macro version of
+	Tcl_LimitReady just for TEBC, to reduce the amount of times that the
+	bytecode engine calls out to external functions on the critical path.
+	* generic/tclInterp.c (Tcl_LimitReady): Added note to remind anyone
+	doing maintenance that there is a macro version to update.
+
+2007-05-17  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tcl.decls: workaround 'make checkstubs' failures from
+	tclStubLib.c MODULE_SCOPE revert. [Bug 1716117]
+
+2007-05-16  Joe English	 <jenglish@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclStubLib.c:	 Change Tcl_InitStubs(), tclStubsPtr, and the
+	auxilliary stubs table pointers back to public visibility.
+
+	These symbols need to be exported so that stub-enabled extensions may
+	be statically linked into an extended tclsh or Big Wish with a
+	dynamically-linked libtcl. [Bug 1716117]
+
+2007-05-15  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* win/configure:	autoconf-2.59 (FC6 fork)
+
+	* library/reg/pkgIndex.tcl:	Bump to registry 1.2.1 to account for
+	* win/configure.in:		[Bug 1682211] fix.
+	* win/makefile.bc:
+	* win/tclWinReg.c:
+
+2007-05-11  Pat Thoyts	<patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclInt.h: Removed TclEvalObjEx and TclGetSrcInfoForPc from
+	tclInt.h now they are in the internal stubs table.
+
+2007-05-09  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclInt.h:	TclFinalizeThreadAlloc() is always defined, so
+	make sure it is also always declared (with MODULE_SCOPE).
+
+2007-05-09  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclInt.h: fix warning when building threaded with -DPURIFY.
+
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: add 'DebugUnthreaded' &
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/default.pbxuser: 'DebugLeaks' configs and env
+	var settings needed to run the 'leaks' tool.
+
+2007-05-07  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	[Tcl Bug 1706140]
+
+	* generic/tclLink.c (LinkTraceProc):	Update Tcl_VarTraceProcs so
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c (Error*Read):	they call Tcl_InterpDeleted()
+	* generic/tclTrace.c (Trace*Proc):	for themselves, and do not
+	* generic/tclUtil.c (TclPrecTraceProc): rely on (frequently buggy)
+	setting of the TCL_INTERP_DESTROYED flag by the trace core.
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c:	Update callers of TclCallVarTraces to not pass
+	in the TCL_INTERP_DESTROYED flag. Also apply filters so that public
+	routines only pass documented flag values down to lower level routines
+
+	* generic/tclTrace.c (TclCallVarTraces):	The setting of the
+	TCL_INTERP_DESTROYED flag is now done entirely within the
+	TclCallVarTraces routine, the only place it can be done right.
+
+2007-05-06  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclInt.h (ExtraFrameInfo): Create a new mechanism for
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (InfoFrameCmd): conveying what information needs
+	to be added to the results of [info frame] to replace the hack that
+	was there before.
+	* generic/tclProc.c (Tcl_ApplyObjCmd): Use the new mechanism for the
+	[apply] command, the only part of Tcl itself that needs it (so far).
+
+	* generic/tclInt.decls (TclEvalObjEx, TclGetSrcInfoForPc): Expose
+	these two functions through the internal stubs table, necessary for
+	extensions that need to integrate deeply with TIP#280.
+
+2007-05-05  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* win/tclWinFile.c (TclpGetUserHome):	Squelch type-pun warnings in
+	* win/tclWinInit.c (TclpSetVariables):	Win-specific code not found
+	* win/tclWinReg.c (AppendSystemError):	during earlier work on Unix.
+
+2007-05-04  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c (TclFinalizeIOSubsystem): Added an initializer to
+	silence a spurious gcc warning about use of an uninitialized
+	variable.
+	* tests/encoding.test: Modified so that encoding tests happen in a
+	private namespace, to avoid polluting the global one. This problem was
+	discovered when running the test suite '-singleproc 1 -skip exec.test'
+	because the 'path' variable in encoding.test conflicted with the one
+	in io.test.
+	* tests/io.test: Made more of the working variables private to the
+	namespace.
+
+2007-05-02  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* generic/tclTest.c (SimpleMatchInDirectory): Corrected a refcount
+	imbalance that affected the filesystem-[147]* tests in the test suite.
+	Thanks to Don Porter for the patch. [Bug 1710707]
+	* generic/tclPathObj.c (Tcl_FSJoinPath, Tcl_FSGetNormalizedPath):
+	Corrected several memory leaks that caused refcount imbalances
+	resulting in memory leaks on Windows. Thanks to Joe Mistachkin for the
+	patch.
+
+2007-05-01  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c (TclPtrSetVar): fixed leak whenever newvaluePtr had
+	refCount 0 and was used for appending (but not lappending). Thanks to
+	mistachkin and kbk. [Bug 1710710]
+
+2007-05-01  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c (DeleteChannelTable): Made changes so that
+	DeleteChannelTable tries to close all open channels, not just the
+	first. [Bug 1710285]
+	* generic/tclThread.c (TclFinalizeSynchronization): Make sure that TSD
+	blocks get freed on non-threaded builds. [Bug 1710825]
+	* tests/utf.test (utf-25.1--utf-25.4): Modified tests to clean up
+	after the 'testobj' extension to avoid spurious reports of memory
+	leaks.
+
+2007-05-01  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (STR_MAP): When [string map] has a pure dict map,
+	a missing Tcl_DictObjDone() call led to a memleak. [Bug 1710709]
+
+2007-04-30  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in: add 'tclsh' dependency to install targets that
+	rely on tclsh, fixes parallel 'make install' from empty build dir.
+
+2007-04-30  Andreas Kupries <andreask@gactivestate.com>
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c (FixLevelCode): Corrected reference count
+	mismanagement of newlevel, newcode. Changed to allocate the Tcl_Obj's
+	as late as possible, and only when actually needed. [Bug 1705778, leak
+	K29]
+
+2007-04-30  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* generic/tclProc.c (Tcl_ProcObjCmd, SetLambdaFromAny): Corrected
+	reference count mismanagement on the name of the source file in the
+	TIP 280 code. [Bug 1705778, leak K02 among other manifestations]
+
+2007-04-25  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	*** 8.5a6 TAGGED FOR RELEASE ***
+
+	* generic/tclProc.c (TclObjInterpProcCore): Only allocate objects for
+	error message generation when associated with argument names that are
+	really used. [Bug 1705778, leak K15]
+
+2007-04-25  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* generic/tclIOUtil.c (Tcl_FSChdir): Changed the memory management so
+	that the path returned from Tcl_FSGetNativePath is not duplicated
+	before being stored as the current directory, to avoid a memory leak.
+	[Bug 1705778, leak K01 among other manifestations]
+
+2007-04-25  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c (ParseExpr):	Revised to be sure that an
+	error return doesn't prevent all literals getting placed on the
+	litList to be returned to the caller for freeing. Corrects some
+	memleaks. [Bug 1705778, leak K23]
+
+2007-04-25  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in (dist): add macosx/*.xcconfig files to src dist;
+	copy license.terms to dist macosx dir; fix autoheader bits.
+
+2007-04-24  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclListObj.c: reverting [Patch 738900] (committed on
+	2007-04-20). Causes some Tk test breakage of unknown importance, but
+	the impact of the patch itself is likely to be so small that it does
+	not warrant investigation at this time.
+
+2007-04-24  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclDictObj.c (DictKeysCmd): Rewrote so that the lock on the
+	internal representation of a dict is only set when necessary. [Bug
+	1705778, leak K04]
+	(DictFilterCmd): Added code to drop the lock in the trivial match
+	case. [Bug 1705778, leak K05]
+
+2007-04-24  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* generic/tclBinary.c: Addressed several code paths where the error
+	return from the 'binary format' command leaked the result buffer.
+	* generic/tclListObj.c (TclLsetFlat): Fixed a bug where the new list
+	under construction was leaked in the error case. [Bug 1705778, leaks
+	K13 and K14]
+
+2007-04-24  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in (dist): add platform library package to src dist
+
+2007-04-24  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c (ParseExpr): Memory leak in error case; the
+	literal Tcl_Obj was not getting freed. [Bug 1705778, leak #1 (new)]
+
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c (Tcl_DeleteNamespace):	Corrected flaw in the
+	flag marking scheme to be sure that global namespaces are freed when
+	their interp is deleted. [Bug 1705778]
+
+2007-04-24  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): Plugged six memory leaks
+	in bignum arithmetic.
+	* generic/tclIOCmd.c (Tcl_ReadObjCmd): Plugged a leak of the buffer
+	object if the physical read returned an error and the bypass area had
+	no message.
+	* generic/tclIORChan.c (TclChanCreateObjCmd): Plugged a leak of the
+	return value from the "initialize" method of a channel handler.
+	(All of the above under [Bug 1705778])
+
+2007-04-23  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCkalloc.c: fix warnings from gcc build configured with
+	* generic/tclCompile.c: --enable-64bit --enable-symbols=all.
+	* generic/tclExecute.c:
+
+	* unix/tclUnixFCmd.c: add workaround for crashing bug in fts_open()
+	* unix/tclUnixInit.c: without FTS_NOSTAT on 64bit Darwin 8 or earlier.
+
+	* unix/tclLoadDyld.c (TclpLoadMemory): fix (void*) arithmetic.
+
+	* macosx/Tcl-Common.xcconfig: enable more warnings.
+
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: add 'DebugMemCompile' build
+	configuration that calls configure with --enable-symbols=all; override
+	configure check for __attribute__((__visibility__("hidden"))) in Debug
+	configuration to restore availability of ZeroLink.
+
+	* macosx/tclMacOSXNotify.c: fix warnings.
+
+	* macosx/tclMacOSXFCmd.c: const fixes.
+
+	* macosx/Tcl-Common.xcconfig:	fix whitespace.
+	* macosx/Tcl-Debug.xcconfig:
+	* macosx/Tcl-Release.xcconfig:
+	* macosx/README:
+
+	* macosx/GNUmakefile:		fix/add copyright and license refs.
+	* macosx/tclMacOSXBundle.c:
+	* macosx/Tcl-Info.plist.in:
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcode/project.pbxproj:
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj:
+
+	* unix/configure.in: install license.terms into Tcl.framework.
+	* unix/configure: autoconf-2.59
+
+2007-04-23  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c (UnsetVarStruct):	Make sure the
+	TCL_INTERP_DESTROYED flags gets passed to unset trace routines so they
+	can respond appropriately. [Bug 1705778, leak #9]
+
+2007-04-23  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompile.c (TclFreeCompileEnv): Tip 280's new field
+	extCmdMapPtr was not being freed. [Bug 1705778, leak #1]
+
+2007-04-23  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileUpvarCmd): Plugged a memory leak in
+	'upvar' when compiling (a) upvar outside a proc, (b) upvar with a
+	syntax error, or (c) upvar where the frame index is not known at
+	compile time.
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c (ParseExpr): Plugged a memory leak when
+	parsing expressions that contain syntax errors.
+	* generic/tclEnv.c (ReplaceString): Clear memory correctly when
+	growing the cache to avoid reads of uninitialised data.
+	* generic/tclIORChan.c (TclChanCreateObjCmd, FreeReflectedChannel):
+	Plugged two memory leaks.
+	* generic/tclStrToD.c (AccumulateDecimalDigit): Fixed a mistake where
+	we'd run beyond the end of the 'pow10_wide' array if a number begins
+	with a string of more than 'maxpow10_wide' zeroes.
+	* generic/tclTest.c (Testregexpobjcmd): Removed an invalid access
+	beyond the end of 'objv' in 'testregexp -about'.
+	All of these issues reported under [Bug 1705778] - detected with the
+	existing test suite, no new regression tests required.
+
+2007-04-22  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c (TclDeleteNamespaceVars): fixed access to freed
+	memory detected by valgrind: Tcl_GetCurrentNamespace was being
+	called after freeing root CallFrame (on interp deletion).
+
+2007-04-20  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclListObj.c (SetListFromAny): avoid discarding internal
+	reps of objects converted to singleton lists. [Patch 738900]
+
+2007-04-20  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* doc/clock.n: Corrected a silly error (transposed 'uppercase' and
+	'lowercase' in clock.n. [Bug 1656002]
+	Clarified that [clock scan] does not recognize a locale's alternative
+	calendar.
+	Deleted an entirely superfluous (and also incorrect) remark about the
+	effect of Daylight Saving Time on relative times in [clock scan]. [Bug
+	1582951]
+	* library/clock.tcl: Corrected an error in skipping over the %Ey field
+	on input.
+	* library/msgs/ja.msg:
+	* tools/loadICU.tcl: Corrected several localisation faults in the
+	Japanese locale (most notably, incorrect dates for the Emperors'
+	eras). Many thanks to SourceForge user 'nyademo' for pointing this out
+	and developing a fix. [Bug 1637471]
+	* generic/tclPathObj.c: Corrected a 'const'ness fault that caused
+	bitter complaints from MSVC.
+	* tests/clock.test (clock-40.1, clock-58.1, clock-59.1): Corrected a
+	test case that depended on ":localtime" being able to handle dates
+	prior to the Posix epoch. [Bug 1618445] Added a test case for the
+	dates of the Japanese emperors. [Bug 1637471] Added a regression test
+	for military time zone input conversion. [Bug 1586828]
+	* generic/tclGetDate.y (MilitaryTable): Fixed an ancient bug where the
+	military NZA time zones had the signs reversed. [Bug 1586828]
+	* generic/tclDate.c: Regenerated.
+	* doc/Notifier.3: Documented Tcl_SetNotifier and Tcl_ServiceModeHook.
+	Quite against my better judgment. [Bug 414933]
+	* generic/tclBasic.c, generic/tclCkalloc.c, generic/tclClock.c:
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c, generic/tclCmdMZ.c, generic/tclFCmd.c:
+	* generic/tclFileName.c, generic/tclInterp.c, generic/tclIO.c:
+	* generic/tclIOUtil.c, generic/tclNamesp.c, generic/tclObj.c:
+	* generic/tclPathObj.c, generic/tclPipe.c, generic/tclPkg.c:
+	* generic/tclResult.c, generic/tclTest.c, generic/tclTestObj.c:
+	* generic/tclVar.c, unix/tclUnixChan.c, unix/tclUnixTest.c:
+	* win/tclWinLoad.c, win/tclWinSerial.c: Replaced commas in varargs
+	with string concatenation where possible. [Patch 1515234]
+	* library/tzdata/America/Tegucigalpa:
+	* library/tzdata/Asia/Damascus: Olson's tzdata 2007e.
+
+2007-04-19  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/regcomp.c, generic/regc_cvec.c, generic/regc_lex.c,
+	* generic/regc_locale.c: Improve the const-correctness of the RE
+	compiler.
+
+2007-04-18  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (INST_LSHIFT): fixed a mistake introduced in
+	version 1.266 ('=' became '=='), which effectively turned the block
+	that handles native shifts into dead code. This explains why the
+	testsuite did not pick this mistake. Rewrote to make the intention
+	clear.
+
+	* generic/tclInt.h (TclDecrRefCount): change the order of the
+	branches, use empty 'if ; else' to handle use in unbraced outer
+	if/else conditions (as already done in tcl.h)
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: slight changes in Tcl_Obj management.
+
+2007-04-17  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* library/clock.tcl: Fixed the naming of
+	::tcl::clock::ReadZoneinfoFile because (yoicks!) it was in the global
+	namespace.
+	* doc/clock.n: Clarified the cases in which legacy time zone is
+	recognized. [Bug 1656002]
+
+2007-04-17  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: fixed checkInterp logic [Bug 1702212]
+
+2007-04-16  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk>
+
+	* various (including generic/tclTest.c): Complete the purge of K&R
+	function definitions from manually-written code.
+
+2007-04-15  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c: added a cast to silence a compiler error on
+	VC2005.
+	* library/clock.tcl: Restored unique-prefix matching of keywords on
+	the [clock] command. [Bug 1690041]
+	* tests/clock.test: Added rudimentary test cases for unique-prefix
+	matching of keywords.
+
+2007-04-14  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: removed some code at INST_EXPAND_SKTOP that
+	duplicates functionality already present at checkForCatch.
+
+2007-04-12  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: new macros OBJ_AT_TOS, OBJ_UNDER_TOS,
+	OBJ_AT_DEPTH(n) and CURR_DEPTH that remove all direct references to
+	tosPtr from TEBC (after initialisation and the code at the label
+	cleanupV_pushObjResultPtr).
+
+2007-04-11  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c: moved all exceptDepth management to the
+	macros - the decreasing half was managed by hand.
+
+2007-04-10  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclInt.h (TclNewLiteralStringObj): New macro to make
+	allocating literal string objects (i.e. objects whose value is a
+	constant string) easier and more efficient, by allowing the omission
+	of the length argument. Based on [Patch 1529526] (afredd)
+	* generic/*.c: Make use of this (in many files).
+
+2007-04-08  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompile (tclInstructionTable): Fixed bugs in description
+	of dict instructions.
+
+2007-04-07  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompile (tclInstructionTable): Fixed bug in description
+	of INST_START_COMMAND.
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TEBC): Small code reduction.
+
+2007-04-06  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TEBC):
+	* generic/tclNamespace.c (NsEnsembleImplementationCmd):
+	* generic/tclProc.c (InitCompiledLocals, ObjInterpProcEx)
+	(TclObjInterpProcCore, ProcCompileProc): Code reordering to reduce
+	branching and improve branch prediction (assume that forward branches
+	are typically not taken).
+
+2007-04-03  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: INST_INVOKE optimisation. [Patch 1693802]
+
+2007-04-03  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c:	Revised ErrorCodeRead and ErrorInfoRead trace
+	routines so they guarantee the ::errorCode and ::errorInfo variable
+	always appear to exist. [Bug 1693252]
+
+2007-04-03  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclInt.decls:	 Moved TclGetNamespaceFromObj() to the
+	* generic/tclInt.h:	 internal stubs table; regen.
+	* generic/tclIntDecls.h:
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c:
+
+2007-04-02  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:	  Added bytecode compilers for the variable
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c:  linking commands: 'global', 'variable',
+	* generic/tclCompile.h:	  'upvar', 'namespace upvar' [Patch 1688593]
+	* generic/tclExecute.c:
+	* generic/tclInt.h:
+	* generic/tclVar.c:
+
+2007-04-02  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:	Replace arrays on the C stack and ckalloc
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: calls with TclStackAlloc calls to use memory
+	* generic/tclFCmd.c:	on Tcl's evaluation stack.
+	* generic/tclFileName.c:
+	* generic/tclIOCmd.c:
+	* generic/tclIndexObj.c:
+	* generic/tclInterp.c:
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c:
+	* generic/tclTrace.c:
+	* unix/tclUnixPipe.c:
+
+2007-04-01  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompile.c (TclCompileScript, TclPrintInstruction):
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): Changed the definition of
+	INST_START_CMD so that it knows how many commands start at the current
+	location. This makes the interpreter command counter correct without
+	requiring a large number of instructions to be issued. (See my change
+	from 2007-01-19 for what triggered this.)
+
+2007-03-30  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompile.c:
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c:
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c:	Replace arrays on the C stack and
+	ckalloc calls with TclStackAlloc calls to use memory on Tcl's
+	evaluation stack.
+
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c:	Revised [string to* $s $first $last]
+	implementation to reduce number of allocs/copies.
+
+	* tests/string.test:  More [string reverse] tests.
+
+2007-03-30  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: optimise the lookup of elements of indexed
+	arrays.
+
+2007-03-29  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclProc.c (Tcl_ApplyObjCmd):
+	* tests/apply.test (9.3): Fixed Tcl_Obj leak on error return; an
+	unneeded ref to lambdaPtr was being set and not released on an error
+	return path.
+
+2007-03-28  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (STR_REVERSE):	Implement the actual [string
+	reverse] command in terms of the new TclStringObjReverse() routine.
+
+	* generic/tclInt.h (TclStringObjReverse):	New internal routine
+	* generic/tclStringObj.c (TclStringObjReverse): that implements the
+	[string reverse] operation, making use of knowledge/surgery of the
+	String intrep to minimize the number of allocs and copies needed to do
+	the job.
+
+2007-03-27  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (STR_MAP): Replace ckalloc calls with
+	TclStackAlloc calls.
+
+2007-03-24  Zoran Vasiljevic <vasiljevic@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* win/tclWinThrd.c: Thread exit handler marks the current thread as
+	un-initialized. This allows exit handlers that are registered later to
+	re-initialize this subsystem in case they need to use some sync
+	primitives (cond variables) from this file again.
+
+2007-03-23  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c (DeleteInterpProc): pop the root frame pointer
+	before deleting the global namespace [Bug 1658572]
+
+2007-03-23  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* win/Makefile.in: Added code to keep a Cygwin path name from leaking
+	into LIBRARY_DIR when doing 'make test' or 'make runtest'.
+
+2007-03-22  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdAH.c (Tcl_ForeachObjCmd):	Replaced arrays on the
+	C stack and ckalloc calls with TclStackAlloc calls to use memory on
+	Tcl's evaluation stack.
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: Revised GrowEvaluationStack to take an
+	argument specifying the growth required by the caller, so that a
+	single reallocation / copy is the most that will ever be needed even
+	when required growth is large.
+
+2007-03-21  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: More ckalloc -> ckrealloc conversions.
+	* generic/tclLiteral.c:
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c:
+	* generic/tclParse.c:
+	* generic/tclPreserve.c:
+	* generic/tclStringObj.c:
+	* generic/tclUtil.c:
+
+2007-03-20  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclEnv.c:	Some more ckalloc -> ckrealloc replacements.
+	* generic/tclLink.c:
+
+2007-03-20  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* generic/tclDate.c: Rebuilt, despite Donal Fellows's comment when
+	committing it that no rebuild was required.
+	* generic/tclGetDate.y: According to Donal Fellows, "Introduce modern
+	formatting standards; no need for rebuild of tclDate.c."
+
+	* library/tzdata/America/Cambridge_Bay:
+	* library/tzdata/America/Havana:
+	* library/tzdata/America/Inuvik:
+	* library/tzdata/America/Iqaluit:
+	* library/tzdata/America/Pangnirtung:
+	* library/tzdata/America/Rankin_Inlet:
+	* library/tzdata/America/Resolute:
+	* library/tzdata/America/Yellowknife:
+	* library/tzdata/Asia/Choibalsan:
+	* library/tzdata/Asia/Dili:
+	* library/tzdata/Asia/Hovd:
+	* library/tzdata/Asia/Jakarta:
+	* library/tzdata/Asia/Jayapura:
+	* library/tzdata/Asia/Makassar:
+	* library/tzdata/Asia/Pontianak:
+	* library/tzdata/Asia/Ulaanbaatar:
+	* library/tzdata/Europe/Istanbul: Upgraded to Olson's tzdata2007d.
+
+	* generic/tclListObj.c (TclLsetList, TclLsetFlat):
+	* tests/lset.test: Changes to deal with shared internal representation
+	for lists passed to the [lset] command. Thanks to Don Porter for
+	fixing this issue. [Bug 1677512]
+
+2007-03-19  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompile.c: Revise the various expansion routines for
+	CompileEnv fields to use ckrealloc() where appropriate.
+
+	* generic/tclBinary.c (Tcl_SetByteArrayLength): Replaced ckalloc() /
+	memcpy() sequence with ckrealloc() call.
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_CreateMathFunc):	Replaced some calls to
+	* generic/tclEvent.c (Tcl_CreateThread):	Tcl_Alloc() with calls
+	* generic/tclObj.c (UpdateStringOfBignum):	to ckalloc(), which
+	* unix/tclUnixTime.c (SetTZIfNecessary):	better supports memory
+	* win/tclAppInit.c (setargv):			debugging.
+
+2007-03-19  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* doc/regsub.n: Corrected example so that it doesn't recommend
+	potentially unsafe practice. Many thanks to Konstantin Kushnir
+	<chpock@gmail.com> for reporting this.
+
+2007-03-17  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* win/tclWinReg.c (GetKeyNames): Size the buffer for enumerating key
+	names correctly, so that Unicode names exceeding 127 chars can be
+	retrieved without crashing. [Bug 1682211]
+	* tests/registry.test (registry-4.9): Added test case for the above
+	bug.
+
+2007-03-15  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclIOUtil.c (Tcl_Stat): Reimplement workaround to avoid gcc
+	warning by using local variables. When the macro argument is of type
+	long long instead of long, the incorrect warning is not generated.
+
+2007-03-15  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* win/Makefile.in: Fully qualify LIBRARY_DIR so that `make test` does
+	not depend on working dir.
+
+2007-03-15  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* tests/parse.test: Add two backslash newline parse tests.
+
+2007-03-12  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (INST_FOREACH_STEP4):	Make private copy of
+	* tests/foreach.test (foreach-10.1):	value list to be assigned to
+	variables so that shimmering of that list doesn't lead to invalid
+	pointers. [Bug 1671087]
+
+	* generic/tclEvent.c (HandleBgErrors):	Make efficient private copy
+	* tests/event.test (event-5.3): of the command prefix for the interp's
+	background error handling command to avoid panics due to pointers to
+	memory invalid after shimmering. [Bug 1670155]
+
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c (NsEnsembleImplementationCmd):	Make efficient
+	* tests/namespace.test (namespace-42.8):	private copy of the
+	command prefix as we invoke the command appropriate to a particular
+	subcommand of a particular ensemble to avoid panic due to shimmering
+	of the List intrep. [Bug 1670091]
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c (TclArraySet):	Make efficient private copy of
+	* tests/var.test (var-17.1):	the "list" argument to [array set] to
+	avoid crash due to shimmering invalidating pointers. [Bug 1669489]
+
+2007-03-12  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LsortObjCmd): Fix problems with declaration
+	positioning and memory leaks. [Bug 1679072]
+
+2007-03-11  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LreverseObjCmd): Ensure that a list is
+	correctly reversed even if its internal representation is shared
+	without the object itself being shared. [Bug 1675044]
+
+2007-03-10  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdIL (Tcl_LsortObjCmd): changed fix to [Bug 1675116] to
+	use the cheaper TclListObjCopy() instead of Tcl_DuplicateObj().
+
+2007-03-09  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>
+
+	* library/platform/shell.tcl: Made more robust if an older platform
+	* library/platform/pkgIndex.tcl: package is present in the inspected
+	* unix/Makefile.in: shell. Package forget it to prevent errors. Bumped
+	* win/Makefile.in: package version to 1.1.3, and updated the Makefiles
+	installing it as Tcl Module.
+
+2007-03-09  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LsortObjCmd): Handle tricky case with loss
+	* tests/cmdIL.test (cmdIL-1.29):	of list rep during sorting due
+	to shimmering. [Bug 1675116]
+
+2007-03-09  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* library/clock.tcl (ReadZoneinfoFile): Added Y2038 compliance to the
+	code for version-2 'zoneinfo' files.
+	* tests/clock.test (clock-56.3): Added a test case for Y2038 and
+	'zoneinfo'. Modified test initialisation to use the
+	'loadTestedCommands' function of tcltest to bring in the correct path
+	for the registry library.
+
+2007-03-08  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclListObj.c (TclLsetList):	Rewrite so that the routine
+	itself does not do any direct intrep surgery. Better isolates those
+	things into the implementation of the "list" Tcl_ObjType.
+
+2007-03-08  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclListObj.c (TclLindexList, TclLindexFlat): Moved these
+	functions to tclListObj.c from tclCmdIL.c to mirror the way that the
+	equivalent functions for [lset]'s guts are arranged.
+
+2007-03-08  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* library/clock.tcl: Further tweaks to the Windows time zone table
+	(restoring missing Mexican time zones). Added rudimentary handling of
+	version-2 'zoneinfo' files. Update US DST rules so that zones such as
+	'EST5EDT' get the correct transition dates.
+	* tests/clock.test: Added rudimentary test cases for 'zoneinfo'
+	parsing. Adjusted several tests that depended on obsolete US DST
+	transition rules.
+
+2007-03-07  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* macosx/tclMacOSXNotify.c: add spinlock debugging and sanity checks.
+
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: ensure gcc version used by
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/default.pbxuser: Xcode and configure/make are
+	* macosx/Tcl-Common.xcconfig:		consistent and independent of
+	gcc_select default and CC env var; fixes for Xcode 3.0.
+
+	* unix/tcl.m4 (Darwin): s/CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS/ in macosx-version-min check
+	* unix/configure: autoconf-2.59
+
+2007-03-07  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (TclLindex*):	Rewrites to make efficient
+	private copies of the list and indexlist arguments, so we can operate
+	on the list elements directly with no fear of shimmering effects.
+	Replaces defensive coding schemes that are otherwise required. End
+	result is that TclLindexList is entirely a wrapper around
+	TclLindexFlat, which is now the core engine of all [lindex]
+	operations.
+
+	* generic/tclObj.c (Tcl_AppendAllObjTypes):	Converted to simpler
+	list validity test.
+
+2007-03-07  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclRegexp.c (TclRegAbout): Generate information about a
+	regexp as a Tcl_Obj instead of as a string, which is more efficient.
+
+2007-03-07  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* library/clock.tcl: Adjusted Windows time zone table to handle new US
+	DST rules by locale rather than as Posix time zone spec.
+	* tests/clock.test (clock-39.6, clock-49.2, testclock::registry):
+	Adjusted tests to simulate new US rules.
+	* library/tzdata/America/Indiana/Winamac:
+	* library/tzdata/Europe/Istanbul:
+	* library/tzdata/Pacific/Easter:
+	Olson's tzdata2007c.
+
+2007-03-05  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>
+
+	* library/platform/shell.tcl (::platform::shell::RUN): In the case of
+	* library/platform/pkgIndex.tcl: a failure put the captured stderr
+	* unix/Makefile.in: into the error message to aid in debugging. Bumped
+	* win/Makefile.in: package version to 1.1.2, and updated the makefiles
+	installing it as Tcl Module.
+
+2007-03-03  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclLink.c (LinkedVar): Added macro to conceal at least some
+	of the pointer hackery.
+
+2007-03-02  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LreverseObjCmd):	Added missing
+	TclInvalidateStringRep() call when we directly manipulate the intrep
+	of an unshared "list" Tcl_Obj. [Bug 1672585]
+
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_JoinObjCmd):	Revised [join] implementation
+	to append Tcl_Obj's instead of strings. [RFE 1669420]
+
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (Info*Cmd):	Code simplifications and
+	optimizations.
+
+2007-03-02  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclCompile.c (TclPrintInstruction): Added a scheme to allow
+	* generic/tclCompile.h (AuxDataPrintProc):    aux-data to be printed
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (Print*Info):	      out for debugging. For
+	this to work, immediate operands referring to aux-data must be
+	identified as such in the instruction descriptor table using
+	OPERAND_AUX4 (all are always 4 bytes).
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): Rewrote the compiled
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileDictCmd): [dict update] so that it
+	* generic/tclCompile.h (DictUpdateInfo):     stores critical
+	* tests/dict.test (dict-21.{14,15}):	     non-varying data in an
+	aux-data value instead of a (shimmerable) literal. [Bug 1671001]
+
+2007-03-01  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LinsertObjCmd):	Code simplifications
+	and optimizations.
+
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LreplaceObjCmd):	Code simplifications
+	and optimizations.
+
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LrangeObjCmd):	Rewrite in the same
+	spirit; avoid shimmer effects rather than react to them.
+
+	* generic/tclCmdAH.c (Tcl_ForeachObjCmd):	Stop throwing away
+	* tests/foreach.test (foreach-1.14):	useful error information when
+	loop variable sets fail.
+
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LassignObjCmd):	Rewrite to make an
+	efficient private copy of the list argument, so we can operate on the
+	list elements directly with no fear of shimmering effects. Replaces
+	defensive coding schemes that are otherwise required.
+
+	* generic/tclCmdAH.c (Tcl_ForeachObjCmd):	Rewrite to make
+	efficient private copies of the variable and value lists, so we can
+	operate on them without any special shimmer defense coding schemes.
+
+2007-03-01  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileForeachCmd): Prevent an unexpected
+	* tests/foreach.test (foreach-9.1):		infinite loop when the
+	variable list is empty and the foreach is compiled. [Bug 1671138]
+
+2007-02-26  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>
+
+	* generic/tclIORChan.c (FreeReflectedChannel): Added the missing
+	refcount release between NewRC and FreeRC for the channel handle
+	object, spotted by Don Porter. [Bug 1667990]
+
+2007-02-26  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdAH.c (Tcl_ForeachObjCmd):	Removed surplus
+	copying of the objv array that used to be a workaround for [Bug
+	404865]. That bug is long fixed.
+
+2007-02-24  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:	Use new interface in Tcl_EvalObjEx so that the
+	recounting logic of the List internal rep need not be repeated there.
+	Better encapsulation of internal details.
+
+	* generic/tclInt.h:	New internal routine TclListObjCopy() used
+	* generic/tclListObj.c: to efficiently do the equivalent of [lrange
+	$list 0 end]. After some experience with this, might be a good
+	candidate for exposure as a public interface. It's useful for callers
+	of Tcl_ListObjGetElements() who want to control the ongoing validity
+	of the returned objv pointer.
+
+2007-02-22  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>
+
+	* tests/pkg.test: Added tests for the case of an alpha package
+	satisfying a require for the regular package, demonstrating a corner
+	case specified in TIP#280. More notes in the comments to the test.
+
+2007-02-20  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclInt.decls: Added "const" specifiers in TclSockGetPort
+	* generic/tclIntDecls.h: regenerated
+	* generic/*.c:
+	* unix/tclUnixChan.c
+	* unix/tclUnixPipe.c
+	* win/tclWinPipe.c
+	* win/tclWinSock.c: Added many "const" specifiers in implementation.
+
+2007-02-20  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* doc/tcltest.n:	Typo fix. [Bug 1663539]
+
+2007-02-20  Pat Thoyts	<patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclFileName.c:  Handle extended paths on Windows NT and
+	* generic/tclPathObj.c:	  above. These have a \\?\ prefix. [Bug
+	* win/tclWinFile.c:	  1479814]
+	* tests/winFCmd.test:	  Tests for extended path handling.
+
+2007-02-19  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* unix/tcl.m4: use SHLIB_SUFFIX=".so" on HP-UX ia64 arch.
+	* unix/configure: autoconf-2.59
+
+	* generic/tclIOUtil.c (Tcl_FSEvalFileEx): safe incr of objPtr ref.
+
+2007-02-18  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* doc/chan.n, doc/clock.n, doc/eval.n, doc/exit.n, doc/expr.n:
+	* doc/interp.n, doc/open.n, doc/platform_shell.n, doc/pwd.n:
+	* doc/refchan.n, doc/regsub.n, doc/scan.n, doc/tclvars.n, doc/tm.n:
+	* doc/unload.n: Apply [Bug 1610310] to fix typos. Thanks to Larry
+	Virden for spotting them.
+
+	* doc/interp.n: Partial fix of [Bug 1662436]; rest requires some
+	policy decisions on what should and shouldn't be safe commands from
+	the "new in 8.5" set.
+
+2007-02-13  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* tools/fix_tommath_h.tcl: Further tweaking for the x86-64. The change
+	is to make 'mp_digit' be an 'unsigned int' on that platform; since
+	we're using only 32 bits of it, there's no reason to make it a 64-bit
+	'unsigned long.'
+	* generic/tclTomMath.h: Regenerated.
+
+2007-02-13  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk>
+
+	* doc/re_syntax.n: Corrected description of 'print' class [Bug
+	1614687] and enhanced description of 'graph' class.
+
+2007-02-12  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* tools/fix_tommath_h.tcl: Added code to patch out a check for
+	__x86_64__ that caused Tommath to use __attributes(TI)__ for the
+	mp_word type. Tetra-int's simply fail on too many gcc-glibc-OS
+	combinations to be ready for shipment today, even if they work for
+	some of us. This change allows reversion of das's change of 2006-08-18
+	that accomplised the same thing on Darwin. [Bugs 1601380, 1603737,
+	1609936, 1656265]
+	* generic/tclTomMath.h: Regenerated.
+	* library/tzdata/Africa/Asmara:
+	* library/tzdata/Africa/Asmera:
+	* library/tzdata/America/Nassau:
+	* library/tzdata/Atlantic/Faeroe:
+	* library/tzdata/Atlantic/Faroe:
+	* library/tzdata/Australia/Eucla:
+	* library/tzdata/Pacific/Easter: Rebuilt from Olson's tzdata2007b.
+
+2007-02-09  Joe Mistachkin  <joe@mistachkin.com>
+
+	* win/nmakehlp.c: Properly cleanup after nmakehlp, including the
+	* win/makefile.vc: vcX0.pch file.
+
+2007-02-08  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixInit.c (TclpCheckStackSpace): do stack size checks with
+	unsigned size_t to correctly validate stackSize in the 2^31+ range.
+	[Bug 1654104]
+
+2007-02-08  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c:	Corrected broken logic in Tcl_DeleteNamespace
+	* tests/namespace.test: introduced in Patch 1577278 that caused
+	[namespace delete ::] to be effective only at level #0. New test
+	namespace-7.7 should prevent similar error in the future [Bug 1655305]
+
+2007-02-06  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c:	Corrected broken implementation of the
+	* tests/namespace.test: TclMatchIsTrivial optimization on [namespace
+	children $namespace $pattern].
+
+2007-02-04  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/tcl.m4: use gcc4's __attribute__((__visibility__("hidden"))) if
+	available to define MODULE_SCOPE effective on all platforms.
+	* unix/configure.in: add caching to -pipe and zoneinfo checks.
+	* unix/configure: autoconf-2.59
+	* unix/tclConfig.h.in: autoheader-2.59
+
+2007-02-03  Joe Mistachkin  <joe@mistachkin.com>
+
+	* win/rules.vc: Fix platform specific file copy macros for downlevel
+	Windows.
+
+2007-01-29  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclResult.c: Added optimization case to TclTransferResult to
+	cover common case where there's big savings over the fully general
+	path. Thanks to Peter MacDonald. [Bug 1626518]
+
+	* generic/tclLink.c:	Broken linked float logic corrected. Thanks to
+	Andy Goth. [Bug 1602538]
+
+	* doc/fcopy.n:	Typo fix. [Bug 1630627]
+
+2007-01-28  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj:	  extract build settings that
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/default.pbxuser:	  were common to multiple
+	* macosx/Tcl-Common.xcconfig (new file):  configurations into external
+	* macosx/Tcl-Debug.xcconfig (new file):	  xcconfig files; add extra
+	* macosx/Tcl-Release.xcconfig (new file): configurations for building
+	with SDKs and 64bit; convert legacy jam-based 'Tcl' target to native
+	target with single script phase; correct syntax of build setting
+	references to use $() throughout.
+
+	* macosx/README: document new Tcl.xcodeproj configurations; other
+	minor updates/corrections.
+
+	* generic/tcl.h: update location of version numbers in macosx files.
+
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcode/project.pbxproj: restore 'tcltest' target to
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcode/default.pbxuser: working order by replicating
+	applicable changes to Tcl.xcodeproj since 2006-07-20.
+
+2007-01-25  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/tcl.m4: integrate CPPFLAGS into CFLAGS as late as possible and
+	move (rather than duplicate) -isysroot flags from CFLAGS to CPPFLAGS
+	to avoid errors about multiple -isysroot flags from some older gcc
+	builds.
+
+	* unix/configure: autoconf-2.59
+
+2007-01-22  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* compat/memcmp.c (memcmp): Reworked so that arithmetic is never
+	performed upon void pointers, since that is illegal. [Bug 1631017]
+
+2007-01-19  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclCompile.c (TclCompileScript): Reduce the frequency with
+	which we issue INST_START_CMD, making bytecode both more compact and
+	somewhat faster. The optimized case is where we would otherwise be
+	issuing a sequence of those instructions; in those cases, it is only
+	ever the first one encountered that could possibly trigger.
+
+2007-01-19  Joe Mistachkin  <joe@mistachkin.com>
+
+	* tools/man2tcl.c: Include stdlib.h for exit() and improve comment
+	detection.
+	* win/nmakehlp.c: Update usage.
+	* win/makefile.vc: Properly build man2tcl.c for MSVC8.
+
+2007-01-19  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* macosx/tclMacOSXFCmd.c (TclMacOSXSetFileAttribute): on some versions
+	of Mac OS X, truncate() fails on resource forks, in that case use
+	open() with O_TRUNC instead.
+
+	* macosx/tclMacOSXNotify.c: accommodate changes to prototypes of
+	OSSpinLock(Un)Lock API.
+
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: ensure HOME and USER env vars
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/default.pbxuser: are defined when running
+						testsuite from Xcode.
+
+	* tests/env.test: add extra system env vars that need to be preserved
+	on some Mac OS X versions for testsuite to work.
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in:  Move libtommath defines into configure.in to
+	* unix/configure.in: avoid replicating them across multiple
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: buildsystems.
+
+	* unix/tcl.m4: ensure CPPFLAGS env var is used when set. [Bug 1586861]
+	(Darwin): add -isysroot and -mmacosx-version-min flags to CPPFLAGS
+	when present in CFLAGS to avoid discrepancies between what headers
+	configure sees during preprocessing tests and compiling tests.
+
+	* unix/configure: autoconf-2.59
+	* unix/tclConfig.h.in: autoheader-2.59
+
+2007-01-18  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclCompile.c (TclCompileScript): Make sure that when parsing
+	an expanded literal fails, a correct bytecode sequence is still
+	issued. [Bug 1638414]. Also make sure that the start of the expansion
+	bytecode sequence falls inside the span of bytecodes for a command.
+	* tests/compile.test (compile-16.24): Added test for [Bug 1638414]
+
+2007-01-17  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c: Added macros to make usage of ChannelBuffers
+	clearer.
+
+2007-01-11  Joe English	 <jenglish@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* win/tcl.m4(CFLAGS_WARNING): Remove "-Wconversion". This was removed
+	from unix/tcl.m4 2004-07-16 but not from here.
+	* win/configure: Regenerated.
+
+2007-01-11  Pat Thoyts	<patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* win/makefile.vc: Fixes to work better on Win98. Read version numbers
+	* win/nmakehlp.c:  from package index file to avoid keeping numbers in
+	* win/rules.vc:	   the makefile where they may become de-synchronized.
+
+2007-01-10  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/regcomp.c (compile, freev):	     Define a strategy for
+	* generic/regexec.c (exec):		     managing the internal
+	* generic/regguts.h (AllocVars, FreeVars):   vars of the RE engine to
+	* generic/regcustom.h (AllocVars, FreeVars): reduce C stack usage.
+	This will make Tcl as a whole much less likely to run out of stack
+	space...
+
+2007-01-09  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileLindexCmd):
+	* tests/lindex.test (lindex-9.2): Fix silly bug that ended up
+	sometimes compiling list arguments in the wrong order. [Bug 1631364]
+
+2007-01-03  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* generic/tclDate.c: Regenerated to recover a lost fix from patthoyts.
+	[Bug 1618523]
+
+2006-12-26  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_GetsObj): Avoid checking for for the LF in a
+	possible CRLF sequence when EOF has already been found.
+
+2006-12-26  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclEncoding.c (EscapeFromUtfProc): Clear the
+	TCL_ENCODING_END flag when end bytes are written. This fix keep this
+	method from writing escape bytes for an encoding like iso2022-jp
+	multiple times when the escape byte overlap with the end of the IO
+	buffer.
+	* tests/io.test: Add test for escape byte overlap issue.
+
+2006-12-19  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixThrd.c (Tcl_GetAllocMutex, TclpNewAllocMutex): Add
+	intermediate variables to shut up unwanted warnings. [Bug 1618838]
+
+2006-12-19  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixThrd.c (TclpInetNtoa): fix for 64 bit.
+
+	* unix/tcl.m4 (Darwin): --enable-64bit: verify linking with 64bit
+	-arch flag succeeds before enabling 64bit build.
+	* unix/configure: autoconf-2.59
+
+2006-12-17  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* tests/macOSXLoad.test (new file): add testing of .bundle loading and
+	* tests/load.test:		    unloading on Darwin (in addition
+	* tests/unload.test:		    to existing tests of .dylib
+	loading).
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: add building of dltest
+	binaries so that testsuite run from Xcode can use them; fix testsuite
+	run script
+	* unix/configure.in:	   add support for building dltest binaries as
+	* unix/dltest/Makefile.in: .bundle (in addition to .dylib) on Darwin.
+	* unix/Makefile.in: add stub lib dependency to dltest target.
+	* unix/configure: autoconf-2.59
+
+	* tests/append.test: fix cleanup failure when all tests are skipped.
+
+	* tests/chan.test (chan-16.9): cleanup chan event handler to avoid
+	causing error in event.test when running testsuite with -singleproc 1.
+
+	* tests/info.test: add !singleTestInterp constraint to tests that fail
+	when running testsuite with -singleproc 1. [Bug 1605269]
+
+2006-12-14  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* doc/string.n: Fix example. [Bug 1615277]
+
+2006-12-12  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c:	Now that the new internal structs are
+	in use to support operator commands, might as well make them the
+	default for [expr] as well and avoid passing every parsed expression
+	through the inefficient Tcl_Token array format. This addresses most
+	issues in [RFE 1517602]. Assuming no performance disasters result from
+	this, much dead code supporting the other implementation might now be
+	removed.
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:	Final step routing all direct evaluation forms
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c: of the operator commands through TEBC,
+	* generic/tclCompile.h: dropping all the routines in tclMathOp.c.
+	* generic/tclMathOp.c:	Still needs Engineering Manual attention.
+
+2006-12-11  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:	Another step with all sorting operator
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c: commands now routing through TEBC via
+	* generic/tclCompile.h: TclSortingOpCmd().
+
+2006-12-08  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:	 Another step down the path of re-using
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c: TclExecuteByteCode to implement the TIP 174
+	* generic/tclCompile.h: commands instead of using a mass of code
+	* generic/tclMathOp.c:	duplication. Now all operator commands that
+	* tests/mathop.test:	demand exactly one operation are implemented
+	via TclSingleOpCmd and a call to TEBC.
+
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c: Revised implementation of TclInvertOpCmd to
+	* generic/tclMathOp.c:	perform a bytecode compile / execute sequence.
+	This demonstrates a path toward avoiding mountains of code duplication
+	in tclMathOp.c and tclExecute.c.
+
+	* generic/tclCompile.h: Change TclExecuteByteCode() from static to
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: MODULE_SCOPE so all files including
+	tclCompile.h may call it.
+
+	* generic/tclMathOp.c:	More revisions to make tests pass.
+	* tests/mathop.test:
+
+2006-12-08  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c (TclTeardownNamespace): Ensure that dying
+	namespaces unstitch themselves from their referents. [Bug 1571056]
+	(NsEnsembleImplementationCmd): Silence GCC warning.
+
+	* tests/mathop.test: Full tests for & | and ^ operators
+
+2006-12-08  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl: use [info frame] for "-verbose line".
+
+2006-12-07  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c:	Additional commits correct most
+	* generic/tclExecute.c:		failing tests illustrating bugs
+	* generic/tclMathOp.c:		uncovered in [Patch 1578137].
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:	Biggest source of TIP 174 failures was that
+	the commands were not [namespace export]ed from the ::tcl::mathop
+	namespace. More bits from [Patch 1578137] correct that.
+
+	* tests/mathop.test:	Commmitted several new tests from Peter Spjuth
+	found in [Patch 1578137]. Many failures now demonstrate issues to fix
+	in the TIP 174 implementation.
+
+2006-12-07  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* tests/mathop.test: Added tests for ! ~ eq operators.
+	* generic/tclMathOp.c (TclInvertOpCmd): Add in check for non-integral
+	numeric values.
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (CompileCompareOpCmd): Factor out the code
+	generation for the chained comparison operators.
+
+2006-12-07  Pat Thoyts	<patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* tests/exec.test: Fixed line endings (caused win32 problems).
+
+2006-12-06  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c:	Revised and consolidated into utility
+	* tests/mathop.test:		routines some of routines that compile
+	the new TIP 174 commands. This corrects some known bugs. More to come.
+
+2006-12-06  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* tests/expr.test (expr-47.12): Improved error reporting in hopes of
+	having more information to pursue [Bug 1609936].
+
+2006-12-05  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>
+
+	TIP#291 IMPLEMENTATION
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c: Define tcl_platform element for pointerSize.
+	* doc/tclvars.n:
+
+	* win/Makefile.in: Added installation instructions for the platform
+	* win/makefile.vc: package. Added the platform package.
+	* win/makefile.bc:
+	* unix/Makefile.in:
+
+	* tests/platform.test:
+	* tests/safe.test:
+
+	* library/platform/platform.tcl:
+	* library/platform/shell.tcl:
+	* library/platform/pkgIndex.tcl:
+
+	* doc/platform.n:
+	* doc/platform_shell.n:
+
+2006-12-05  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclPkg.c:	When no requirements are supplied to a
+	* tests/pkg.test:	[package require $pkg] and [package unknown]
+	is invoked to find a satisfying package, pass the requirement argument
+	"0-" (which means all versions are acceptable). This permits a
+	registered [package unknown] command to call [package vsatisfies
+	$testVersion {*}$args] without any special handling of the empty $args
+	case. This fixes/avoids a bug in [::tcl::tm::UnknownHandler] that was
+	causing old TM versions to be provided in preference to newer TM
+	versions. Thanks to Julian Noble for discovering the issue.
+
+2006-12-04  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	TIP#267 IMPLEMENTATION
+
+	* generic/tclIOCmd.c (Tcl_ExecObjCmd): Added -ignorestderr option,
+	* tests/exec.test, doc/exec.n:	       loosely from [Patch 1476191]
+
+2006-12-04  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c:	Added implementation for the
+	CompileExprTree() routine that can produce expression bytecode
+	directly from internal structures with no need to pass through the
+	Tcl_Token array representation. Still disabled by default. #undef
+	USE_EXPR_TOKENS to try it out.
+
+2006-12-03  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c:	Added expr parsing routines that
+	produce a different set of internal structures representing the parsed
+	expression, as well as routines that go on to convert those structures
+	into the traditional Tcl_Token array format. Use of these routines is
+	currently disabled. #undef PARSE_DIRECT_EXPR_TOKENS to enable them.
+	These routines will only become really useful when more routines that
+	compile directly from the new internal structures are completed.
+
+2006-12-02  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* doc/file.n: Clarification of [file pathtype] docs. [Bug 1606454]
+
+2006-12-01  Kevin B. Kenny	 <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* libtommath/bn_mp_add.c:	Corrected the effects of a
+	* libtommath/bn_mp_div.c:	bollixed 'cvs merge' operation
+	* libtommath/bncore.c:		that inadvertently committed some
+	* libtommath/tommath_class.h:	half-developed code.
+
+	TIP#299 IMPLEMENTATION
+
+	* doc/mathfunc.n:	Added isqrt() function to docs
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:	Added isqrt() math function (ExprIsqrtFunc)
+	* tests/expr.test (expr-47.*): Added tests for isqrt()
+	* tests/info.test (info-20.2): Added isqrt() to expected math funcs.
+
+2006-12-01  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* tests/chan.test:	Correct timing sensitivity in new test. [Bug
+	1606860]
+
+	TIP#287 IMPLEMENTATION
+
+	* doc/chan.n:		New subcommand [chan pending].
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:	Thanks to Michael Cleverly for proposal
+	* generic/tclInt.h:	and implementation.
+	* generic/tclIOCmd.c:
+	* library/init.tcl:
+	* tests/chan.test:
+	* tests/ioCmd.test:
+
+	TIP#298 IMPLEMENTATION
+
+	* generic/tcl.decls: Tcl_GetBignumAndClearObj -> Tcl_TakeBignumFromObj
+	* generic/tclObj.c:
+
+	* generic/tclDecls.h:	make genstubs
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c:
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: Update callers.
+	* generic/tclMathOp.c:
+
+2006-11-30  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* library/tzdata: Olson's tzdata2006p.
+	* libtommath/bn_mp_sqrt.c: Fixed a bug where the initial approximation
+	to the square root could be on the wrong side, causing failure of
+	convergence.
+
+2006-11-29  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_AppendObjToErrorInfo):  Added
+	Tcl_DecrRefCount() on the objPtr argument to plug memory leaks. This
+	makes the routine a consumer, which makes it easiest to use.
+
+2006-11-28  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c: TIP #280 implementation.
+	* generic/tclCmdAH.c:
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c:
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c:
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c:
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c:
+	* generic/tclCompile.c:
+	* generic/tclCompile.h:
+	* generic/tclExecute.c:
+	* generic/tclIOUtil.c:
+	* generic/tclInt.h:
+	* generic/tclInterp.c:
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c:
+	* generic/tclObj.c:
+	* generic/tclProc.c:
+	* tests/compile.test:
+	* tests/info.test:
+	* tests/platform.test:
+	* tests/safe.test:
+
+2006-11-27  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixChan.c (TclUnixWaitForFile):
+	* tests/event.test (event-14.*): Corrected a bug where
+	TclUnixWaitForFile would present select() with the wrong mask on an
+	LP64 machine if a fd number exceeds 32. Thanks to Jean-Luc Fontaine
+	for reporting and diagnosing. [Bug 1602208]
+
+2006-11-27  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TclIncrObj):	Correct failure to detect
+	floating-point increment values. Thanks to William Coleda [Bug
+	1602991]
+
+2006-11-26  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* tests/mathop.test, doc/mathop.n: More bits and pieces of the TIP#174
+	implementation. Note that the test suite is not yet complete.
+
+2006-11-26  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/tcl.m4 (Linux): --enable-64bit support.	[Patch 1597389]
+	* unix/configure: autoconf-2.59			[Bug 1230558]
+
+2006-11-25  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	TIP#174 IMPLEMENTATION
+
+	* generic/tclMathOp.c (new file): Completed the implementation of the
+	interpreted versions of all the tcl::mathop commands. Moved to a new
+	file to make tclCompCmds.c more focused in purpose.
+
+2006-11-23  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (Tcl*OpCmd, TclCompile*OpCmd):
+	* generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_CreateInterp): Partial implementation of
+	TIP#174; the commands are compiled, but (mostly) not interpreted yet.
+
+2006-11-22  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	TIP#269 IMPLEMENTATION
+
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_StringObjCmd): Implementation of the [string
+	* tests/string.test (string-25.*):	 is list] command, based on
+	* doc/string.n:				 work by Joe Mistachkin, with
+	enhancements by Donal Fellows for better failindex behaviour.
+
+2006-11-22  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* tools/genWinImage.tcl (removed):	Removed two files used in
+	* win/README.binary (removed):	production of binary distributions
+	for Windows, a task we no longer perform. [Bug 1476980]
+	* generic/tcl.h:	Remove mention of win/README.binary in comment
+
+	* generic/tcl.h:	Moved TCL_REG_BOSONLY #define from tcl.h to
+	* generic/tclInt.h:	tclInt.h. Only know user is Expect, which
+	already #include's tclInt.h. No need to continue greater exposure.
+	[Bug 926500]
+
+2006-11-20  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_CreateInterp, TclHideUnsafeCommands):
+	* library/init.tcl: Refactored the [chan] command's guts so that it
+	does not use aliases to global commands, making the code more robust.
+
+2006-11-17  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (INST_EXPON):	Corrected crash on
+	[expr 2**(1<<63)]. Was operating on cleared bignum Tcl_Obj.
+
+2006-11-16  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* doc/apply.n, doc/chan.n: Added examples.
+
+2006-11-15  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	TIP#270 IMPLEMENTATION
+
+	* generic/tcl.decls:		New public routines Tcl_ObjPrintf,
+	* generic/tclStringObj.c:	Tcl_AppendObjToErrorInfo, Tcl_Format,
+	* generic/tclInt.h:		Tcl_AppendLimitedToObj,
+	Tcl_AppendFormatToObj and Tcl_AppendPrintfToObj. Former internal
+	versions removed.
+
+	* generic/tclDecls.h:		make genstubs
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c:
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:		Updated callers.
+	* generic/tclCkalloc.c:
+	* generic/tclCmdAH.c:
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c:
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c:
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c:
+	* generic/tclCompile.c:
+	* generic/tclDictObj.c:
+	* generic/tclExecute.c:
+	* generic/tclIORChan.c:
+	* generic/tclIOUtil.c:
+	* generic/tclMain.c:
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c:
+	* generic/tclObj.c:
+	* generic/tclPkg.c:
+	* generic/tclProc.c:
+	* generic/tclStrToD.c:
+	* generic/tclTimer.c:
+	* generic/tclUtil.c:
+	* unix/tclUnixFCmd.c:
+
+	* tools/genStubs.tcl:	Updated script to no longer produce the
+	_ANSI_ARGS_ wrapper in generated declarations. Also revised to accept
+	variadic prototypes with more than one fixed argument. (This is
+	possible since TCL_VARARGS and its limitations are no longer in use).
+	* generic/tcl.h:	Some reordering so that macro definitions do
+	not interfere with the now _ANSI_ARGS_-less stub declarations.
+
+	* generic/tclDecls.h:		make genstubs
+	* generic/tclIntDecls.h:
+	* generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h:
+	* generic/tclPlatDecls.h:
+	* generic/tclTomMathDecls.h:
+
+2006-11-15  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* doc/ChnlStack.3, doc/CrtObjCmd.3, doc/GetIndex.3, doc/OpenTcp.3:
+	* doc/chan.n, doc/fconfigure.n, doc/fcopy.n, doc/foreach.n:
+	* doc/history.n, doc/http.n, doc/library.n, doc/lindex.n:
+	* doc/lrepeat.n, doc/lreverse.n, doc/pkgMkIndex.n, doc/re_syntax.n:
+	Convert \fP to \fR so that man-page scrapers have an easier time.
+
+2006-11-14  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	TIP#261 IMPLEMENTATION
+
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c:	[namespace import] with 0 arguments
+	introspects the list of imported commands.
+
+2006-11-13  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclThreadStorage.c (Tcl_InitThreadStorage):
+	(Tcl_FinalizeThreadStorage): Silence a compiler warning about
+	presenting a volatile pointer to 'memset'.
+
+2006-11-13  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c:	When [gets] on a binary channel needs to use
+	the "iso8859-1" encoding, save a copy of that encoding per-thread to
+	avoid repeated freeing and re-loading of it from the file system. This
+	replaces the cached copy of this encoding that the platform
+	initialization code used to keep in pre-8.5 releases.
+
+2006-11-13  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c:	Fix gcc warnings about 'cast to/from
+	* generic/tclEncoding.c:	pointer from/to integer of different
+	* generic/tclEvent.c:		size' on 64-bit platforms by casting
+	* generic/tclExecute.c:		to intermediate types
+	* generic/tclHash.c:		intptr_t/uintptr_t via new PTR2INT(),
+	* generic/tclIO.c:		INT2PTR(), PTR2UINT() and UINT2PTR()
+	* generic/tclInt.h:		macros. [Patch 1592791]
+	* generic/tclProc.c:
+	* generic/tclTest.c:
+	* generic/tclThreadStorage.c:
+	* generic/tclTimer.c:
+	* generic/tclUtil.c:
+	* unix/configure.in:
+	* unix/tclUnixChan.c:
+	* unix/tclUnixPipe.c:
+	* unix/tclUnixPort.h:
+	* unix/tclUnixTest.c:
+	* unix/tclUnixThrd.c:
+
+	* unix/configure: autoconf-2.59
+	* unix/tclConfig.h.in: autoheader-2.59
+
+2006-11-12  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclInt.h, generic/tclInt.decls: Transfer TclPtrMakeUpvar and
+	TclObjLookupVar to the internal stubs table.
+
+2006-11-10  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* tests/fCmd.test (fCmd-6.26): fix failure when env(HOME) path
+	contains symlinks.
+
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: remove tclParseExpr.c; when
+	running testsuite from inside Xcdoe, skip stack-3.1 (it only fails
+	under those circumstances).
+
+	* unix/tcl.m4 (Darwin): suppress linker arch warnings when building
+	universal for both 32 & 64 bit and no 64bit CoreFoundation is
+	available; sync with tk tcl.m4 change.
+	* unix/configure.in: whitespace.
+	* unix/configure: autoconf-2.59
+
+2006-11-09  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclParseExpr.c (removed):	Moved all the code of
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c:	tclParseExpr.c into tclCompExpr.c.
+	* unix/Makefile.in:	This sets the stage for expr compiling to work
+	* win/Makefile.in:	directly with the full parse tree structures,
+	* win/makefile.bc:	and not have to pass through the information
+	* win/makefile.vc:	lossy format of an array of Tcl_Tokens.
+	* win/tcl.dsp:
+
+2006-11-09  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	TIP#272 IMPLEMENTATION
+
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_StringObjCmd):    Implementation of the
+	* tests/string.test, tests/stringComp.test: [string reverse] command
+	* doc/string.n:				    from TIP#272.
+
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LreverseObjCmd): Implementation of the
+	* generic/tclBasic.c, generic/tclInt.h:	   [lreverse] command from
+	* tests/cmdIL.test (cmdIL-7.*):		   TIP#272.
+	* doc/lreverse.n:
+
+2006-11-08  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c, generic/tclPkg.c: Style & clarity rewrites.
+
+2006-11-07  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixFCmd.c (CopyFile): Added code to fall back to a
+	hardwired default block size should the filesystem report a bogus
+	value. [Bug 1586470]
+
+2006-11-04  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclStringObj.c:	Changed Tcl_ObjPrintf() response to an
+	invalid format specifier string. No longer panics; now produces an
+	error message as output.
+
+	TIP#274 IMPLEMENTATION
+
+	* generic/tclParseExpr.c:	Exponentiation operator is now right
+	* tests/expr.test:		associative. [Patch 1556802]
+
+2006-11-03  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c (TEOVI): fix por possible leak of a Command in
+	the presence of execution traces that delete it.
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c (TEOVI):
+	* tests/trace.test (trace-21.11): fix for [Bug 1590232], execution
+	traces may cause a second command resolution in the wrong namespace.
+
+2006-11-03  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* tests/event.test (event-11.5):	Rewrote tests to stop Tcl from
+	* tests/io.test (multiple tests):	opening sockets that are
+	* tests/ioCmd.test (iocmd-15.1,16,17):	reachable from outside hosts
+	* tests/iogt.test (__echo_srv__.tcl):	where not necessary. This is
+	* tests/socket.test (multiple tests):	noticably annoying on some
+	* tests/unixInit.test (unixInit-1.2):	systems (e.g., Windows).
+
+2006-11-02  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: check autoconf/autoheader exit
+	status and stop build if they fail.
+
+2006-11-02  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* doc/ParseCmd.3, doc/Tcl.n, doc/eval.n, doc/exec.n:
+	* doc/fconfigure.n, doc/interp.n, doc/unknown.n:
+	* library/auto.tcl, library/init.tcl, library/package.tcl:
+	* library/safe.tcl, library/tm.tcl, library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl:
+	* tests/all.tcl, tests/basic.test, tests/cmdInfo.test:
+	* tests/compile.test, tests/encoding.test, tests/execute.test:
+	* tests/fCmd.test, tests/http.test, tests/init.test:
+	* tests/interp.test, tests/io.test, tests/ioUtil.test:
+	* tests/iogt.test, tests/namespace-old.test, tests/namespace.test:
+	* tests/parse.test, tests/pkg.test, tests/pkgMkIndex.test:
+	* tests/proc.test, tests/reg.test, tests/trace.test:
+	* tests/upvar.test, tests/winConsole.test, tests/winFCmd.test:
+	* tools/tclZIC.tcl:
+	* generic/tclParse.c (Tcl_ParseCommand): Replace {expand} with {*}
+	officially (TIP #293). Leave -DALLOW_EXPAND=0|1 option to keep
+	{expand} syntax for transition users. [Bug 1589629]
+
+2006-11-02  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c, generic/tclInterp.c, generic/tclProc.c: Silence
+	warnings from gcc over signed/unsigned and TclStackAlloc().
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c: Update to more compact and clearer coding style.
+
+2006-11-02  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdAH.c:	Further revisions to produce the routines
+	* generic/tclInt.h:	TclFormat() and TclAppendFormatToObj() that
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c:	accept (objc, objv) arguments rather than
+	* generic/tclStringObj.c:	any varargs stuff.
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:	Further revised TclAppendPrintToObj() and
+	* generic/tclCkalloc.c: TclObjPrintf() routines to panic when unable
+	* generic/tclCmdAH.c:	to complete their formatting operations,
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c:	rather than report an error message. This
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c:	means an interp argument for error message
+	* generic/tclDictObj.c: recording is no longer needed, further
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: simplifying the interface for callers.
+	* generic/tclIORChan.c:
+	* generic/tclIOUtil.c:
+	* generic/tclInt.h:
+	* generic/tclMain.c:
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c:
+	* generic/tclParseExpr.c:
+	* generic/tclPkg.c:
+	* generic/tclProc.c:
+	* generic/tclStringObj.c:
+	* generic/tclTimer.c:
+	* generic/tclUtil.c:
+	* unix/tclUnixFCmd.c:
+
+2006-11-02  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* tests/winPipe.test (winpipe-4.[2345]): Made robust when run in
+	directory with spaces in its name.
+
+	* generic/tclCmdAH.c: Clean up uses of cast NULLs.
+
+	* generic/tclInterp.c (AliasObjCmd): Added more explanatory comments.
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c (TclEvalObjvInternal): Rewrote so that comments
+	are relevant and informative once more. Also made the unknown handler
+	processing use the Tcl execution stack for working space, and not the
+	general heap.
+
+2006-11-01  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixPort.h: ensure MODULE_SCOPE is defined before use, so
+	that tclPort.h can once again be included without tclInt.h.
+
+	* generic/tclEnv.c (Darwin): mark _environ symbol as unexported even
+	when MODULE_SCOPE != __private_extern__.
+
+2006-10-31  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:	Refactored and renamed the routines
+	* generic/tclCkalloc.c: TclObjPrintf, TclFormatObj, and
+	* generic/tclCmdAH.c:	TclFormatToErrorInfo to a new set of routines
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c:	TclAppendPrintfToObj, TclAppendFormatToObj,
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c:	TclObjPrintf, and TclObjFormat, with the
+	* generic/tclDictObj.c: intent of making the latter list, plus
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: TclAppendLimitedToObj and
+	* generic/tclIORChan.c: TclAppendObjToErrorInfo, public via a revised
+	* generic/tclIOUtil.c:	TIP 270.
+	* generic/tclInt.h:
+	* generic/tclMain.c:
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c:
+	* generic/tclParseExpr.c:
+	* generic/tclPkg.c:
+	* generic/tclProc.c:
+	* generic/tclStringObj.c:
+	* generic/tclTimer.c:
+	* generic/tclUtil.c:
+	* unix/tclUnixFCmd.c:
+
+2006-10-31  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c, generic/tcl.h, generic/tclInterp.c:
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c: removing the flag bit TCL_EVAL_NOREWRITE, the
+	last remnant of the callObjc/v fiasco. It is not needed, as it is now
+	always set and checked or'ed with TCL_EVAL_INVOKE.
+
+2006-10-31  Pat Thoyts	<patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* win/rules.vc: Fix for [Bug 1582769] - options conflict with VC2003.
+
+2006-10-31  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c, generic/tclNamesp.c, generic/tclProc.c:
+	* generic/tclInt.h: Removed the callObjc and callObjv fields from the
+	Interp structure. They did not function correctly and made other parts
+	of the core amazingly complex, resulting in a substantive change to
+	[info level] behaviour. [Bug 1587618]
+	* library/clock.tcl: Removed use of [info level 0] for calculating the
+	command name as used by the user and replace with a literal. What's
+	there now is sucky, but at least appears to be right to most users.
+	* tests/namespace.test (namespace-42.7,namespace-47.1): Reverted
+	changes to these tests.
+	* tests/info.test (info-9.11,info-9.12): Added knownBug constraint
+	since these tests require a different behaviour of [info level] than
+	is possible because of other dependencies.
+
+2006-10-30  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl (option-toc): handle any kind of options
+	defined toc section (needed for ttk docs)
+
+2006-10-30  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c (TEOVI): insured that the interp's callObjc/v
+	fields are restored after traces run, as they be spoiled. This was
+	causing a segfault in tcllib's profiler tests.
+
+2006-10-30  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (INST_MOD): Corrected improper testing of the
+	* tests/expr.test:		   sign of bignums when applying Tcl's
+	division rules. Thanks to Peter Spjuth. [Bug 1585704]
+
+2006-10-29  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c (EnsembleImplementationCmd):
+	* tests/namespace.test (47.7-8): reverted a wrong "optimisation" that
+	completely broke snit; added two tests.
+
+2006-10-28  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclProc.c (ObjInterpProcEx, TclObjInterpProcCore): Split the
+	core of procedures to make it easier to build procedure-like code
+	without going through horrible contortions. This is the last critical
+	component to make advanced OO systems workable as simple loadable
+	extensions. TOIPC is now in the internal stub table.
+	(MakeProcError, MakeLambdaError): Refactored ProcessProcResultCode to
+	be simpler, some of which goes to TclObjInterpProcCore, and the rest
+	of which is now in these far simpler routines which just do errorInfo
+	stack generation for different types of procedure-like entity.
+	* tests/apply.test (apply-5.1): Updated to expect the more informative
+	form of message.
+
+2006-10-27  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c (HasLocalVars): New macro to make various bits and
+	pieces cleaner.
+
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c (TclSetNsPath): Expose SetNsPath() through
+	internal stubs table with semi-external name.
+
+	* generic/tclInt.h (CallFrame): Add a field for handling context data
+	for extensions (like object systems) that should be tied to a call
+	frame (and not a command or interpreter).
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c (TclRenameCommand): Change to take CONST args;
+	they were only ever used in a constant way anyway, so this appears to
+	be a spot that was missed during TIP#27 work.
+
+2006-10-26  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclProc.c (SetLambdaFromAny): minor change, eliminate
+	redundant call to Tcl_GetString (thanks aku).
+
+	* generic/tclInterp.c (ApplyObjCmd):
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c (EnsembleImplementationCmd): replaced ckalloc
+	(heap) with TclStackAlloc (execution stack).
+
+2006-10-24  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* tests/info.test (info-9.11-12): tests for [Bug 1577492]
+	* tests/apply.test (apply-4.3-5): tests for [Bug 1574835]
+
+	* generic/tclProc.c (ObjInterpProcEx): disable itcl hacks for calls
+	from ApplyObjCmd (islambda==1), as they mess apply's error messages
+	[Bug 1583266]
+
+2006-10-23  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclProc.c (ApplyObjCmd): fix wrong#args for apply by using
+	the ensemble rewrite engine. [Bug 1574835]
+	* generic/tclInterp.c (AliasObjCmd): previous commit missed usage of
+	TCL_EVAL_NOREWRITE for aliases.
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c (TclEvalObjvInternal): removed redundant check
+	for ensembles. [Bug 1577628]
+
+	* library/clock.tcl (format, scan): corrected wrong # args messages to
+	* tests/clock.test (3.1, 34.1):	    make use of the new rewrite
+	capabilities of [info level]
+
+	* generic/tcl.h:	   Lets TEOV update the iPtr->callObj[cv] new
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:	   fields, except when the flag bit
+	* generic/tclInt.h:	   TCL_EVAL_NOREWRITE is present. These values
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c:	   are used by Tcl_PushCallFrame to initialise
+	* generic/tclProc.c:	   the frame's obj[cv] fields, and allows
+	* tests/namespace.test:	   [info level] to know and use ensemble
+	rewrites. [Bug 1577492]
+
+	***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY***
+	The return value from [info level 0] on interp alias calls is changed:
+	previously returned the target command (including curried values), now
+	returns the source - what was actually called.
+
+2006-10-23  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tcl.h:	   Modified the Tcl call stack so there is
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:	   always a valid CallFrame, even at level 0
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c:	   [Patch 1577278]. Most of the changes
+	* generic/tclInt.h:	   involve removing tests for a NULL
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c:	   iPtr->(var)framePtr. There is now a
+	* generic/tclObj.c:	   CallFrame pushed at interp creation with a
+	* generic/tclProc.c:	   pointer to it stored in iPtr->rootFramePtr.
+	* generic/tclTrace.c:	   A second unused field in Interp is
+	* generic/tclVar.c:	   hijacked to enable further functionality,
+	currently unused (but with several FRQs depending on it).
+
+	***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY***
+	Any user that includes tclInt.h and needs to determine if it is
+	running at level 0 should change (iPtr->varFramePtr == NULL) to
+	(iPtr->varFramePtr == iPtr->rootFramePtr).
+
+2006-10-23  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* README:		Bump version number to 8.5a6
+	* generic/tcl.h:
+	* tools/tcl.wse.in:
+	* unix/configure.in:
+	* unix/tcl.spec:
+	* win/README.binary:
+	* win/configure.in:
+
+	* unix/configure:	autoconf-2.59
+	* win/configure:
+
+2006-10-21  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tcl.h, generic/tclHash.c: Tcl_FindHashEntry now calls
+	Tcl_CreateHashEntry with a newPtr set to NULL: this would have caused
+	a segfault previously and eliminates duplicated code. A macro has been
+	added to tcl.h (only used when TCL_PRESERVE_BINARY_COMPATABALITY is
+	not set - i.e., not by default).
+
+2006-10-20  Reinhard Max  <max@tclers.tk>
+
+	* unix/configure.in: Added autodetection for OS-supplied timezone
+	* unix/Makefile.in:  files and configure switches to override the
+	* unix/configure:    detected default.
+
+2006-10-20  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	*** 8.5a5 TAGGED FOR RELEASE ***
+
+	* tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl: add support for alpha & beta versions to
+	useversion glob pattern. [Bug 1579941]
+
+2006-10-18  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* changes:		8.5a5 release date set
+
+	* doc/Encoding.3:	Missing doc updates (mostly Table of
+	* doc/Ensemble.3:	Contents) exposed by `make checkdoc`
+	* doc/FileSystem.3:
+	* doc/GetTime.3:
+	* doc/PkgRequire.3:
+
+2006-10-17  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclInterp.c (ApplyObjCmd): fixed bad error in 2006-10-12
+	commit: interp released too early. Spotted by mistachkin.
+
+2006-10-16  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* tclProc.c (SetLambdaFromAny):
+	* tests/apply.test (9.1-9.2): plugged intrep leak [Bug 1578454],
+	found by mjanssen.
+
+2006-10-16  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c: Moved TIP#219 cleanup to DeleteInterpProc.
+
+2006-10-16  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* changes: updates for 8.5a5 release.
+
+	* unix/tclUnixThrd.c (TclpThreadGetStackSize): Darwin: fix for main
+	thread, where pthread_get_stacksize_np() returns incorrect info.
+
+	* macosx/GNUmakefile: don't redo prebinding of non-prebound binaires.
+
+2006-10-16  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclPkg.c (ExactRequirement):	Plugged memory leak. Also
+	changed Tcl_Alloc()/Tcl_Free() calls to ckalloc()/ckfree() for easier
+	memory debugging in the future. [Bug 1568373]
+
+	* library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl:	Revise tcltest bump to 2.3a1.
+	* library/tcltest/pkgIndex.tcl: This permits more features to be
+	* unix/Makefile.in:	added to tcltest before we reach version 2.3.0
+	* win/Makefile.in:	best timed to match the release of Tcl 8.5.0.
+	* win/makefile.vc:	This also serves as a demo of TIP 268 features
+
+2006-10-13  Colin McCormack <coldstore@users.sf.net>
+
+	* win/tclWinFile.c: corrected erroneous attempt to protect against
+	NULL return from Tcl_FSGetNormalizedPath per [Bug 1548263] causing
+	[Bug 1575837].
+	* win/tclWinFile.c: alfredd supplied patch to fix [Bug 1575837]
+
+2006-10-13  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixThrd.c (TclpThreadGetStackSize): on Darwin, use
+	* unix/tcl.m4: pthread_get_stacksize_np() API to get thread stack size
+	* unix/configure: autoconf-2.59
+	* unix/tclConfig.h.in: autoheader-2.59
+
+2006-10-12  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclInterp.c (ApplyObjCmd):
+	* tests/interp.test (interp-14.5-10): made [interp alias] use the
+	ensemble rewrite machinery to produce better error messages [Bug
+	1576006]
+
+2006-10-12  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>
+
+	* win/nmakehlp.c: Replaced all wnsprintf() calls with snprintf().
+	wnsprintf was not in my shwlapi header file (VC++6)
+
+2006-10-11  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclPkg.c (Tcl_PackageRequireEx):	Corrected crash when
+	argument version=NULL passed in.
+
+2006-10-10  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* changes:	Updates for 8.5a5 release.
+
+	* generic/tclNamespace.c (TclTeardownNamespace):  After the
+	commandPathSourceList of a namespace is cleared, set the
+	commandPathSourceList to NULL so we don't try to walk the list a
+	second time, possibly after it is freed. [Bug 1566526]
+	* tests/namespace.test (namespace-51.16):	Added test.
+
+2006-10-09  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* doc/UpVar.3: brough the docs in accordance to the code. Ever since
+	8.0, Tcl_UpVar(2)? accepts TCL_NAMESPACE_ONLY as a flag value, and
+	var-3.4 tests for proper behaviour. The docs only allowed 0 and
+	TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY. [Bug 1574099]
+
+2006-10-09  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* tests/*.test: updated all tests to refer explicitly to the global
+	variables ::errorInfo, ::errorCode, ::env and ::tcl_platform: many
+	were relying on the alternative lookup in the global namespace, that
+	feature is tested specifically in namespace and variable tests.
+
+	The modified testfiles are: apply.test, basic.test, case.test,
+	cmdIL.test, cmdMZ.test, compExpr-old.test, error.test, eval.test,
+	event.test, expr.test, fileSystem.test, for.test, http.test, if.test,
+	incr-old.test, incr.test, interp.test, io.test, ioCmd.test, load.test,
+	misc.test, namespace.test, parse.test, parseOld.test, pkg.test,
+	proc-old.test, set.test, switch.test, tcltest.test, thread.test,
+	var.test, while-old.test, while.test.
+
+2006-10-06  Pat Thoyts	<patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* win/rules.vc: [Bug 1571954] avoid /RTCc flag with MSVC8
+
+2006-10-06  Pat Thoyts	<patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* doc/binary.n:	       TIP #275: Support unsigned values in binary
+	* generic/tclBinary.c: command. Tests and documentation updated.
+	* tests/binary.test:
+
+2006-10-05  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>
+
+	* library/tm.tcl: Fixed bug in TIP #189 implementation, now allowing
+	'_' in module names.
+
+2006-10-05  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* library/http/http.tcl (http::geturl): only do geturl url rfc 3986
+	validity checking if $::http::strict is true (default true for 8.5).
+	[Bug 1560506]
+
+	* generic/tcl.h: note limitation on changing Tcl_UniChar size
+	* generic/tclEncoding.c (UtfToUnicodeProc, UnicodeToUtfProc):
+	* tests/encoding.test (encoding-16.1): fix alignment issues in
+	unicode <> utf conversion procs. [Bug 1122671]
+
+2006-10-05  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_LappendObjCmd):
+	* tests/append.test(4.21-22): fix for longstanding [Bug 1570718],
+	lappending nothing to non-list. Reported by lvirden
+
+2006-10-04  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* tzdata/: Olson's tzdata2006m.
+
+2006-10-01  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* tests/clock.test (clock-49.2): Removed a locale dependency that
+	caused a spurious failure in the German locale. [Bug 1567956]
+
+2006-10-01  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* doc/Eval.3 (TclEvalObjv): added note on refCount management for the
+	elements of objv. [Bug 730244]
+
+2006-10-01  Pat Thoyts	<patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* win/tclWinFile.c: Handle possible missing define.
+
+	* win/tclWinFile.c (TclpUtime): [Bug 1420432] file mtime fails for
+	* tests/cmdAH.test:		directories on windows
+
+	* tests/winFile.test: Handle Msys environment a little differently in
+	getuser function. [Bug 1567956]
+
+2006-09-30  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclUtil.c (Tcl_SplitList): optimisation, [Patch 1344747] by
+	dgp.
+
+	* generic/tclInt.decls:
+	* generic/tclInt.h:
+	* generic/tclIntDecls.h:
+	* generic/tclObj.c:
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c: added an internal function TclObjBeingDeleted
+	to provide info as to the reason for the loss of an internal rep. [FR
+	1512138]
+
+	* generic/tclCompile.c:
+	* generic/tclHistory.c:
+	* generic/tclInt.h:
+	* generic/tclProc.c: made Tcl_RecordAndEvalObj not call "history" if
+	it has been redefined to an empty proc, in order to reduce the noise
+	when debugging [FR 1190441]. Moved TclCompileNoOp from tclProc.c to
+	tclCompile.c
+
+2006-09-28  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>
+
+	* generic/tclPkg.c (CompareVersions): Bugfix. Check string lengths
+	* tests/pkg.test: before comparison. The shorter string is the smaller
+	number. Added testcases as well. Interestingly all existing test cases
+	for vcompare compared numbers of the same length with each other. [Bug
+	1563836]
+
+2006-09-28  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_GetsObj): added two test'n'panic guards for
+	possible NULL derefs, [Bug 1566382] and coverity #33.
+
+2006-09-27  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: Corrected error in INST_LSHIFT in the
+	* tests/expr.test:	calculation done to determine whether a shift
+	in the (long int) type is possible. The calculation had literal value
+	"1" where it needed a value "1L" to compute the correct result. Error
+	detected via testing with the math::bigfloat package [Bug 1567222]
+
+	* generic/tclPkg.c (CompareVersion):	Flatten strcmp() results to
+	{-1, 0, 1} to match expectations of CompareVersion() callers.
+
+2006-09-27  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/regc_color.c (singleton):
+	* generic/regc_cvec.c (addmcce):
+	* generic/regcomp.c (compile, dovec): the static function addmcce does
+	nothing when called with two NULL pointers; the only call is by
+	compile with two NULL pointers (regcomp.c #includes regc_cvec.c).
+	Large parts (all?) the code for mcce (multi character collating
+	element) that we do not use is ifdef'ed out with the macro
+	REGEXP_MCCE_ENABLE.
+	This silences coverity bugs 7, 16, 80
+
+	* generic/regc_color.c (uncolorchain):
+	* generic/regc_nfa.c (freearc): changed tests and asserts to
+	equivalent formulation, designed to avoid an explicit comparison to
+	NULL and satisfy coverity that 6 and 9 are not bugs.
+
+2006-09-27  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>
+
+	* tests/pkg.test: Added test for version comparison at the 32bit
+	boundary. [Bug 1563836]
+
+	* generic/tclPkg.c: Rewrote CompareVersion to perform string
+	comparison instead of numeric. This breaks through the 32bit limit on
+	version numbers. See code for details (handling of leading zeros,
+	signs, etc.). un-CONSTed some arguments of CompareVersions,
+	RequirementSatisfied, and AllRequirementsSatisfied. The new compare
+	modifies the string (temporary string terminators). All callers use
+	heap-allocated ver-intreps, so we are good with that. [Bug 1563836]
+
+2006-09-27  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclFileName.c (TclGlob): added a panic for a call with
+	TCL_GLOBMODE_TAILS and pathPrefix==NULL. This would cause a segfault,
+	as found by coverity #26.
+
+2006-09-26  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* doc/Encoding.3:	 Added covariant 'const' qualifier for the
+	* generic/tcl.decls:	 Tcl_EncodingType argument to
+	* generic/tclEncoding.c: Tcl_CreateEncoding. [Further TIP#27 work.]
+	* generic/tclDecls.h:	 Reran 'make genstubs'.
+
+2006-09-26  Pat Thoyts	<patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* win/makefile.vc:  Additional compiler flags and amd64 support.
+	* win/nmakehlp.c:
+	* win/rules.vc:
+
+2006-09-26  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tcl.h:	As 2006-09-22 commit from Donal K. Fellows
+	demonstrates, "#define NULL 0" is just wrong, and as a quotable chat
+	figure observed, "If NULL isn't defined, we're not using a C compiler"
+	Improper fallback definition of NULL removed.
+
+2006-09-25  Pat Thoyts	<patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tcl.h:	More fixing which struct stat to refer to.
+	* generic/tclGetDate.y: Some casts from time_t to int required.
+	* generic/tclTimer.c:	Tcl_Time structure members are longs.
+	* win/makefile.vc:	Support for varying compiler options
+	* win/rules.vc:		and build to platform-specific subdirs.
+
+2006-09-25  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_StackChannel): Fixed [Bug 1564642], aka
+	coverity #51. Extended loop condition, added checking for NULL to
+	prevent seg.fault.
+
+2006-09-25  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>
+
+	* doc/package.n: Fixed nits reported by Daniel Steffen in the TIP#268
+	changes.
+
+2006-09-25  Kevin B. Kenny   <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* generic/tclNotify.c (Tcl_DeleteEvents): Simplified the code in hopes
+	of making the invariants clearer and proving to Coverity that the
+	event queue memory is managed correctly.
+
+2006-09-25  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclNotify.c (Tcl_DeleteEvents): Make it clear what happens
+	when the event queue is mismanaged. [Bug 1564677], coverity bug #10.
+
+2006-09-24  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclParse.c (Tcl_ParseCommand): also return an error if
+	start==NULL and numBytes<0. This is coverity's bug #20
+
+	* generic/tclStringObj.c (STRING_SIZE): fix allocation for 0-length
+	strings. This is coverity's bugs #54-5
+
+2006-09-22  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>
+
+	* generic/tclInt.h: Moved TIP#268's field 'packagePrefer' to the end
+	of the structure, for better backward compatibility.
+
+2006-09-22  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>
+
+	TIP#268 IMPLEMENTATION
+
+	* generic/tclDecls.h:	 Regenerated from tcl.decls.
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c:
+
+	* doc/PkgRequire.3: Documentation of extended API, extended testsuite.
+	* doc/package.n:
+	* tests/pkg.test:
+
+	* generic/tcl.decls: Implementation.
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:
+	* generic/tclConfig.c:
+	* generic/tclInt.h:
+	* generic/tclPkg.c:
+	* generic/tclTest.c:
+	* generic/tclTomMathInterface.c:
+	* library/init.tcl:
+	* library/package.tcl:
+	* library/tm.tcl:
+
+2006-09-22  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclThreadTest.c (TclCreateThread): Use NULL instead of 0 as
+	end-of-strings marker to Tcl_AppendResult; the difference matters on
+	64-bit machines. [Bug 1562528]
+
+2006-09-21  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclUtil.c:	Dropped ParseInteger() routine. TclParseNumber
+	covers the task just fine.
+
+2006-09-19  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclEvent.c (Tcl_VwaitObjCmd): Rewrite so that an exceeded
+	limit trapped in a vwait cannot cause a dangerous dangling trace.
+
+2006-09-19  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (INST_EXPON):	Native type overflow detection
+	* tests/expr.test:	was completely broken. Falling back on use of
+	bignums for all non-trivial ** calculations until
+	native-type-constrained special cases can be done carefully and
+	correctly. [Bug 1561260]
+
+2006-09-15  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* library/http/http.tcl:      Change " " -> "+" url encoding mapping
+	* library/http/pkgIndex.tcl:  to " " -> "%20" as per RFC 3986.
+	* tests/http.test (http-5.1): bump http to 2.5.3
+	* unix/Makefile.in:
+	* win/Makefile.in:
+
+2006-09-12  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>
+
+	* unix/configure.in (HAVE_MTSAFE_GETHOST*): Modified to recognize
+	HP-UX 11.00 and beyond as having mt-safe implementations of the
+	gethost functions.
+	* unix/configure: Regenerated, using autoconf 2.59
+
+	* unix/tclUnixCompat.c (PadBuffer): Fixed bug in calculation of the
+	increment needed to align the pointer, and added documentation
+	explaining why the macro is implemented as it is.
+
+2006-09-11  Pat Thoyts	<patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* win/rules.vc:	   Updated to install http, tcltest and msgcat as
+	* win/makefile.vc: Tcl Modules (as per Makefile.in).
+	* win/makefile.vc: Added tommath_(super)class headers.
+
+2006-09-11  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in (install-libraries): Fixed typo tcltest 2.3.9 ->
+	2.3.0.
+
+2006-09-11  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixCompat.c: make compatLock static and only declare it
+	when it will actually be used; #ifdef parts of TSD that are not always
+	needed; adjust #ifdefs to cover all possible cases; fix whitespace.
+
+2006-09-11  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>
+
+	* tests/msgcat.test: Bumped version in auxiliary files as well.
+	* doc/msgcat.n:
+
+2006-09-11  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in:	Bumped msgcat version to 1.4.2 to be
+	* win/Makefile.in:	consistent with dgp's commits of 2006-09-10.
+
+2006-09-11  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl:	Removed some unneeded [uplevel]s.
+
+2006-09-10  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c:		Corrected INST_EXPON flaw that treated
+	* tests/expr.test:		$x**1 as $x**3. [Bug 1555371]
+
+	* doc/tcltest.n:		Bump to version tcltest 2.3.0 to
+	* library/tcltest/pkgIndex.tcl: account for new "-verbose line"
+	* library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl:	feature.
+	* unix/Makefile.in:
+	* win/Makefile.in:
+	* win/makefile.bc:
+	* win/makefile.vc:
+
+	* library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl:	Bump to version msgcat 1.4.2 to
+	* library/msgcat/pkgIndex.tcl:	account for modifications.
+
+2006-09-10  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl (msgcat::Init): on Darwin, add fallback of
+	* tests/msgcat.test:			    default msgcat locale to
+	* unix/tclUnixInit.c (TclpSetVariables):    current CFLocale
+	identifier if available (via private ::tcl::mac::locale global, set at
+	interp init when on Mac OS X 10.3 or later with CoreFoundation).
+
+	* library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl: add 'line' verbose level: prints source
+	* doc/tcltest.n:	       file line information of failing tests.
+
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: add new tclUnixCompat.c file;
+	revise tests target to use new tcltest 'line' verbose level.
+
+	* unix/configure.in: add descriptions to new AC_DEFINEs for MT-safe.
+	* unix/tcl.m4: add caching to new SC_TCL_* macros for MT-safe wrappers
+	* unix/configure: autoconf-2.59
+	* unix/tclConfig.h.in: autoheader-2.59
+
+2006-09-08  Zoran Vasiljevic <vasiljevic@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixCompat.c: Added fallback to gethostbyname() and
+	gethostbyaddr() if the implementation is known to be MT-safe
+	(currently for Darwin 6 or later only).
+
+	* unix/configure.in: Assume gethostbyname() and gethostbyaddr() are
+	MT-safe starting with Darwin 6 (Mac OSX 10.2).
+
+	* unix/configure: Regenerated with autoconf V2.59
+
+2006-09-08  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixCompat.c: Fixed conditions for CopyArray/CopyString, and
+	CopyHostent. Also fixed bad var names in TclpGetHostByName.
+
+2006-09-07  Zoran Vasiljevic <vasiljevic@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixCompat.c: Added fallback to MT-unsafe library calls if
+	TCL_THREADS is not defined.
+	Fixed alignment of arrays copied by CopyArray() to be on the
+	sizeof(char *) boundary.
+
+2006-09-07  Zoran Vasiljevic <vasiljevic@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixChan.c:	Rewritten MT-safe wrappers to return ptrs to
+	* unix/tclUnixCompat.c: TSD storage making them all look like their
+	* unix/tclUnixFCmd.c:	MT-unsafe pendants API-wise.
+	* unix/tclUnixPort.h:
+	* unix/tclUnixSock.c:
+
+2006-09-06  Zoran Vasiljevic <vasiljevic@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixChan.c: Added TCL_THREADS ifdef'ed usage of MT-safe
+	* unix/tclUnixFCmd.c: calls like: getpwuid, getpwnam, getgrgid,
+	* unix/tclUnixSock.c: getgrnam, gethostbyname and gethostbyaddr.
+	* unix/tclUnixPort.h: See [Bug 999544]
+	* unix/Makefile.in:
+	* unix/configure.in:
+	* unix/tcl.m4:
+	* unix/configure: Regenerated.
+
+	* unix/tclUnixCompat.c: New file containing MT-safe implementation of
+	some library calls.
+
+2006-09-04  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c:	Removed much complexity that is no
+	longer needed.
+
+	* tests/main.text (Tcl_Main-4.4):	Test corrected to not be
+	timing sensitive to the Bug 1481986 fix. [Bug 1550858]
+
+2006-09-04  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* doc/package.n: correct package example
+
+2006-08-31  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c:	Corrected flawed logic for disabling
+	the INST_TRY_CVT_TO_NUMERIC instruction at the end of an expression
+	when function arguments contain operators. [Bug 1541274]
+
+	* tests/expr-old.test:	The remaining failing tests reported in
+	* tests/expr.test:	[Bug 1381715] are all new in Tcl 8.5, so
+	there's really no issue of compatibility with Tcl 8.4 result to deal
+	with. Fixed by updating tests to expect 8.5 results.
+
+2006-08-29  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclParseExpr.c:	Dropped the old expr parser.
+
+2006-08-30  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_CreateInterp): init iPtr->threadId
+
+	* win/tclWinChan.c [Bug 819667] Improve logic for identifying COM
+	ports.
+
+	* generic/tclIOGT.c (ExecuteCallback):
+	* generic/tclPkg.c (Tcl_PkgRequireEx): replace Tcl_GlobalEval(Obj)
+	with more efficient Tcl_Eval(Obj)Ex
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in (valgrindshell): add valgrindshell target and
+	update default VALGRINDARGS. User can override, or add to it with
+	VALGRIND_OPTS env var.
+
+	* generic/tclFileName.c (DoGlob): match incrs with decrs.
+
+2006-08-29  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclParseExpr.c:	Use the "parent" field of orphan
+	ExprNodes to store the closure of left pointers. This lets us avoid
+	repeated re-scanning leftward for the left boundary of subexpressions,
+	which in worst case led to near O(N^2) runtime.
+
+2006-08-29  Joe Mistachkin  <joe@mistachkin.com>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixInit.c: Fixed the issue (typo) that was causing
+	* unix/tclUnixThrd.c (TclpThreadGetStackSize): stack.test to fail on
+	FreeBSD (and possibly other Unix platforms).
+
+2006-08-29  Colin McCormack  <coldstore@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclIOUtil.c:	Added test for NULL return from
+	* generic/tclPathObj.c: Tcl_FSGetNormalizedPath which was causing
+	* unix/tclUnixFile.c:	segv's per [Bug 1548263]
+	* win/tclWinFCmd.c:
+	* win/tclWinFile.c:
+
+2006-08-28  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* library/tzdata/America/Havana:      Regenerated from Olson's
+	* library/tzdata/America/Tegucigalpa: tzdata2006k.
+	* library/tzdata/Asia/Gaza:
+
+2006-08-28  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclStringObj.c:	Revised ObjPrintfVA to take care to
+	* generic/tclParseExpr.c:	copy only whole characters when doing
+	%s formatting. This relieves callers of TclObjPrintf() and
+	TclFormatToErrorInfo() from needing to fix arguments to character
+	boundaries. Tcl_ParseExpr() simplified by taking advantage. [Bug
+	1547786]
+
+	* generic/tclStringObj.c:	Corrected TclFormatObj's failure to
+	count up the number of arguments required by examining the format
+	string. [Bug 1547681]
+
+2006-08-27  Joe Mistachkin  <joe@mistachkin.com>
+
+	* generic/tclClock.c (ClockClicksObjCmd): Fix nested macro breakage
+	with TCL_MEM_DEBUG enabled. [Bug 1547662]
+
+2006-08-26  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* doc/namespace.n:
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c:
+	* tests/upvar.test: bugfix, docs clarification and new tests for
+	[namespace upvar] as follow up to [Bug 1546833], reported by Will
+	Duquette.
+
+2006-08-24  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* library/tzdata: Regenerated, including several new files, from
+	Olson's tzdata2006j.
+	* library/clock.tcl:
+	* tests/clock.test: Removed an early testing hack that allowed loading
+	'registry' from the build tree rather than an installed one. This is a
+	workaround for [Bug 15232730], which remains open because it's a
+	symptom of a deeper underlying problem.
+
+2006-08-23  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclParseExpr.c:	Minimal collection of new tests
+	* tests/parseExpr.test:		testing the error messages of the new
+	expr parser. Several bug fixes and code simplifications that appeared
+	during that effort.
+
+2006-08-21  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclIOUtil.c:	Revisions to complete the thread finalization
+	of the cwdPathPtr. [Bug 1536142]
+
+	* generic/tclParseExpr.c:	Revised mistaken call to
+	TclCheckBadOctal(), so both [expr 08] and [expr 08z] have same
+	additional info in error message.
+
+	* tests/compExpr-old.test:	Update existing tests to not fail with
+	* tests/compExpr.test:		the new expr parser.
+	* tests/compile.test:
+	* tests/expr-old.test:
+	* tests/expr.test:
+	* tests/for.test:
+	* tests/if.test:
+	* tests/parseExpr.test:
+	* tests/while.test:
+
+2006-08-21  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* win/Makefile.in (gdb): Make this target work so that debugging an
+	msys build is possible.
+
+2006-08-21  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* macosx/tclMacOSXNotify.c (Tcl_WaitForEvent): if the run loop is
+	already running (e.g. if Tcl_WaitForEvent was called recursively),
+	re-run it in a custom run loop mode containing only the source for the
+	notifier thread, otherwise wakeups from other sources added to the
+	common run loop modes might get lost.
+
+	* unix/tclUnixNotfy.c (Tcl_WaitForEvent): on 64-bit Darwin,
+	pthread_cond_timedwait() appears to have a bug that causes it to wait
+	forever when passed an absolute time which has already been exceeded
+	by the system time; as a workaround, when given a very brief timeout,
+	just do a poll on that platform. [Bug 1457797]
+
+	* generic/tclClock.c (ClockClicksObjCmd): add support for Darwin
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_TimeObjCmd):	  nanosecond resolution timer
+	* generic/tclInt.h:			  to [clock clicks] and [time]
+	* unix/configure.in (Darwin):		  when TCL_WIDE_CLICKS defined
+	* unix/tclUnixTime.c (TclpGetWideClicks, TclpWideClicksToNanoseconds):
+	* unix/configure: autoconf-2.59
+	* unix/tclConfig.h.in: autoheader-2.59
+
+	* unix/tclUnixPort.h (Darwin): override potentially faulty configure
+	detection of termios availability in all cases, since termios is known
+	to be present on all Mac OS X releases since 10.0. [Bug 497147]
+
+2006-08-18  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/tcl.m4 (Darwin): add support for --enable-64bit on x86_64, for
+	universal builds including x86_64, for 64-bit CoreFoundation on
+	Leopard and for use of -mmacosx-version-min instead of
+	MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
+	* unix/configure: autoconf-2.59
+	* unix/tclConfig.h.in: autoheader-2.59
+
+	* generic/tcl.h:	  add fixes for building on Leopard and
+	* unix/tclUnixPort.h:	  support for 64-bit CoreFoundation on Leopard
+	* macosx/tclMacOSXFCmd.c:
+
+	* unix/tclUnixPort.h: on Darwin x86_64, disable use of vfork as it
+	causes execve to fail intermittently. (rdar://4685553)
+
+	* generic/tclTomMath.h: on Darwin 64-bit, for now disable use of
+	128-bit arithmetic through __attribute__ ((mode(TI))), as it leads to
+	link errors due to missing fallbacks. (rdar://4685527)
+
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: add x86_64 to universal build,
+	switch native release targets to use DWARF with dSYM, Xcode 3.0
+	changes
+	* macosx/README: updates for x86_64 and Xcode 2.4.
+
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/default.pbxuser: add test suite target that
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: runs the tcl test suite at
+	build time and shows clickable test suite errors in the GUI build
+	window.
+
+	* tests/macOSXFCmd.test: fix use of deprecated resource fork paths.
+
+	* unix/tclUnixInit.c (TclpInitLibraryPath): move code that is only
+	needed when TCL_LIBRARY is defined to run only in that case.
+
+	* generic/tclLink.c (LinkTraceProc): fix 64-bit signed-with-unsigned
+	comparison warning from gcc4 -Wextra.
+
+	* unix/tclUnixChan.c (TclUnixWaitForFile): with timeout < 0, if
+	select() returns early (e.g. due to a signal), call it again instead
+	of returning a timeout result. Fixes intermittent event-13.8 failures.
+
+2006-08-17  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompile.c:		Revised the new set of expression
+	* generic/tclParseExpr.c:	parse error messages.
+
+2006-08-16  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclParseExpr.c:	Replace PrecedenceOf() function with
+	prec[] static array.
+
+2006-08-14  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* library/clock.tcl (::tcl::clock::add): Added missing braces to
+	clockval validation code. Pointed out on comp.lang.tcl.
+
+2006-08-11  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c: Improvements in buffer management to make
+	namespace creation faster. Plus selected other minor improvements to
+	code quality. [Patch 1352382]
+
+2006-08-10  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	Misc patches to make code more efficient. [Bug 1530474] (afredd)
+	* generic/*.c, macosx/tclMacOSXNotify.c, unix/tclUnixNotfy.c,
+	* win/tclWinThrd.c: Tidy up invokations of Tcl_Panic() to promote
+	string constant sharing and consistent style.
+	* generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_CreateInterp): More efficient handling of
+	* generic/tclClock.c (TclClockInit):	 registration of commands not
+						 in global namespace.
+	* generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_UnsetObjCmd): Remove unreachable clause.
+
+2006-08-09  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclEncoding.c:	Replace buffer copy in for loop with
+	call to memcpy(). Thanks to afredd. [Patch 1530262]
+
+2006-08-09  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LassignObjCmd): Make the wrong#args message
+	a bit more consistent with those used elsewhere. [Bug 1534628]
+
+	* generic/tclDictObj.c (DictForCmd): Stop crash when attempting to
+	iterate over an invalid dictionary. [Bug 1531184]
+
+	* doc/ParseCmd.3, doc/expr.n, doc/set.n, doc/subst.n, doc/switch.n:
+	* doc/tclvars.n: Ensure that uses of [expr] in documentation examples
+	are also good style (with braces) unless otherwise necessary. [Bug
+	1526581]
+
+2006-08-03  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixPipe.c (TclpCreateProcess): for USE_VFORK: ensure
+	standard channels are initialized before vfork() so that the child
+	doesn't potentially corrupt global state in the parent's address space
+
+	* tests/compExpr-old.test: add 'oldExprParser' constraint to all tests
+	* tests/compExpr.test:	   that depend on the exact format of the
+	* tests/compile.test:	   error messages of the pre-2006-07-05
+	* tests/expr-old.test:	   expression parser. The constraint is on by
+	* tests/expr.test:	   default (i.e those tests still fail), but
+	* tests/for.test:	   can be turned off by passing '-constraints
+	* tests/if.test:	   newExprParser' to tcltest, which will skip
+	* tests/parseExpr.test:	   the 196 failing tests in the testsuite that
+	* tests/while.test:	   are caused by the new expression parser
+	error messages.
+
+2006-07-31  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* generic/tclClock.c (ConvertLocalToUTCUsingC): Corrected a regression
+	that caused dates before 1969 to be one day off in the :localtime time
+	zone if TZ is not set. [Bug 1531530]
+
+2006-07-30  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* generic/tclClock.c (GetJulianDayFromEraYearMonthDay): Corrected
+	several errors in converting dates before the Common Era [Bug 1426279]
+	* library/clock.tcl: Corrected syntax errors in generated code for %EC
+	%Ey, and %W format groups [Bug 1505383]. Corrected a bug in cache
+	management for format strings containing [glob] metacharacters [Bug
+	1494664]. Corrected several errors in formatting/scanning of years
+	prior to the Common Era, and added the missing %EE format group to
+	indicate the era.
+	* tools/makeTestCases.tcl: Added code to make sure that %U and %V
+	format groups are included in the tests. (The code depends on %U and
+	%V formatting working correctly when 'makeTestCases.tcl' is run,
+	rather than making a completely independent check.) Added tests for
+	[glob] metacharacters in strings. Added tests for years prior to the
+	Common Era.
+	* tests/clock.test: Rebuilt with new test cases for all the above.
+
+2006-07-30  Joe English	 <jenglish@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* doc/AppInit.3: Fix typo [Bug 1496886]
+
+2006-07-26  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: Corrected flawed overflow detection in
+	* tests/expr.test:	INST_EXPON that caused [expr 2**64] to return
+	0 instead of the same value as [expr 1<<64].
+
+2006-07-24  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* win/tclWinSock.c:	Correct un-initialized Tcl_DString. Thanks to
+	afredd. [Bug 1518166]
+
+2006-07-21  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c:
+	* tests/execute.test (execute-9.1): dgp's fix for [Bug 1522803].
+
+2006-07-20  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* macosx/tclMacOSXNotify.c (Tcl_InitNotifier, Tcl_WaitForEvent):
+	create notifier thread lazily upon first call to Tcl_WaitForEvent()
+	rather than in Tcl_InitNotifier(). Allows calling exeve() in processes
+	where the event loop has not yet been run (Darwin's execve() fails in
+	processes with more than one thread), in particular allows embedders
+	to call fork() followed by execve(), previously the pthread_atfork()
+	child handler's call to Tcl_InitNotifier() would immediately recreate
+	the notifier thread in the child after a fork.
+
+	* macosx/tclMacOSXFCmd.c (TclMacOSXCopyFileAttributes):	   add support
+	* macosx/tclMacOSXNotify.c (Tcl_InitNotifier):		   for weakly
+	* unix/tclUnixInit.c (Tcl_GetEncodingNameFromEnvironment): importing
+	symbols not available on OSX 10.2 or 10.3, enables binaires built on
+	later OSX versions to run on earlier ones.
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: enable weak-linking; turn on
+						extra warnings.
+	* macosx/README: document how to enable weak-linking; cleanup.
+	* unix/tclUnixPort.h: add support for weak-linking; conditionalize
+	AvailabilityMacros.h inclusion; only disable realpath on 10.2 or
+	earlier when threads are enabled.
+	* unix/tclLoadDyld.c (TclpLoadMemoryGetBuffer): change runtime Darwin
+	* unix/tclUnixInit.c (TclpInitPlatform):	release check to use
+							global initialized
+							once
+	* unix/tclUnixFCmd.c (DoRenameFile, TclpObjNormalizePath): add runtime
+	Darwin release check to determine if realpath is threadsafe.
+	* unix/configure.in: add check on Darwin for compiler support of weak
+	* unix/tcl.m4:	     import and for AvailabilityMacros.h header; move
+	Darwin specific checks & defines that are only relevant to the tcl
+	build out of tcl.m4; restrict framework option to Darwin; clean up
+	quoting and help messages.
+	* unix/configure: autoconf-2.59
+	* unix/tclConfig.h.in: autoheader-2.59
+
+	* generic/regc_locale.c (cclass):
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode):
+	* generic/tclIOCmd.c (Tcl_ExecObjCmd):
+	* generic/tclListObj.c (NewListIntRep):
+	* generic/tclObj.c (Tcl_GetLongFromObj, Tcl_GetWideIntFromObj)
+	(FreeBignum, Tcl_SetBignumObj):
+	* generic/tclParseExpr.c (Tcl_ParseExpr):
+	* generic/tclStrToD.c (TclParseNumber):
+	* generic/tclStringObj.c (TclAppendFormattedObjs):
+	* unix/tclLoadDyld.c (TclpLoadMemory):
+	* unix/tclUnixPipe.c (TclpCreateProcess): fix signed-with-unsigned
+	comparison and other warnings from gcc4 -Wextra.
+
+2006-07-13  Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixPort.h: Added the inclusion of <AvailabilityMacros.h>.
+	The missing header caused the upcoming #if conditions to wrongly
+	exclude realpath, causing file normalize to ignore symbolic links in
+	the path.
+
+2006-07-11  Zoran Vasiljevic <vasiljevic@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclAsync.c: Made Tcl_AsyncDelete() more tolerant when called
+	after all thread TSD has been garbage-collected.
+
+2006-07-05  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclParseExpr.c:	Completely new expression parser that
+	builds a parse tree instead of operating with deep recursion. This
+	corrects reports of stack-blowing crashes parsing long expressions
+	[Bug 906201] and replaces a fundamentally O(N^2) algorithm with an
+	O(N) one [RFE 903765]. The new parser is better able to generate error
+	messages that clearly report both the nature and context of the syntax
+	error [Bugs 1029267, 1381715]. For now, the code for the old parser is
+	still present and can be activated with a "#define OLD_EXPR_PARSER
+	1". This is for the sake of a clean implementation patch, and for ease
+	of benchmarking. The new parser is non-recursive, so much lighter in
+	stack consumption, but it does use more heap, so there may be cases
+	where parsing of long expressions that succeeded with the old parser
+	will lead to out of memory panics with the new one. There are still
+	more improvements possible on that point, though significant progress
+	may require changes to the Tcl_Token specifications documented for the
+	public Tcl_Parse*() routines.
+	***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** for any callers that rely on the exact
+	(usually terrible) error messages generated by the old parser. This
+	includes a large number of tests in the test suite.
+
+	* generic/tclInt.h:		Replaced TclParseWhiteSpace() with
+	* generic/tclParse.c:		TclParseAllWhiteSpace() which is what
+	* generic/tclParseExpr.c:	all the callers really needed.
+	Breaking whitespace runs at newlines is useful only to the command
+	parsing function, and it can call the file scoped routine
+	ParseWhiteSpace() to do that.
+
+	* tests/expr-old.test:	Removed knownBug constraints that masked
+	* tests/expr.test:	failures due to revised error messages.
+	* tests/parseExpr.test:
+
+2006-06-20  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclIOUtil.c:	Changed default configuration to
+	* generic/tclInt.decls: #undef USE_OBSOLETE_FS_HOOKS which disables
+	* generic/tclTest.c:	access to the Tcl 8.3 internal routines for
+	hooking into filesystem operations. Everyone ought to have migrated to
+	Tcl_Filesystems by now.
+	***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** for any code still stuck in the
+	pre-Tcl_Filesystem era.
+
+	* generic/tclIntDecls.h:	make genstubs
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c:
+
+	* generic/tclStrToD.c:	Removed dead code that permitted disabling of
+	recognition of the new 0b and 0o numeric formats.
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: Removed dead code that implemented alternative
+	* generic/tclObj.c:	design where numeric values did not
+	automatically narrow to the smallest Tcl_ObjType required to hold them
+
+	* generic/tclCmdAH.c:	Removed dead code that was old implementation
+	of [format].
+
+2006-06-14  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixPort.h (Darwin): support MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED
+	define from AvailabilityMacros.h: override configure detection and
+	only use API available in the indicated OS version or earlier.
+
+2006-06-14  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* doc/format.n, doc/scan.n: Added examples for converting between
+	characters and their numeric interpretations following user prompting.
+
+2006-06-13  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* unix/tclLoadDl.c (TclpDlopen): Workaround for a compiler bug in Sun
+	Forte 6. [Bug 1503729]
+
+2006-06-06  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* doc/GetStdChan.3:	Added recommendation that each call to
+	Tcl_SetStdChannel() be accompanied by a call to Tcl_RegisterChannel().
+
+2006-06-05  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* doc/Alloc.3: Added documentation of promise that Tcl_Realloc(NULL,x)
+	is the same as Tcl_Alloc(x), as discussed in comp.lang.tcl. Also fixed
+	nonsense sentence to say something meaningful.
+
+2006-05-29  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/tcl.h (Tcl_DecrRefCount): use if/else construct to allow
+	placement in unbraced outer if/else conditions. (jcw)
+
+2006-05-27  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* macosx/tclMacOSXNotify.c: implemented pthread_atfork() handler that
+	* unix/tcl.m4 (Darwin):	    recreates CoreFoundation state and
+	notifier thread in the child after a fork(). Note that pthread_atfork
+	is available starting with Tiger only. Because vfork() is used by the
+	core on Darwin, [exec]/[open] are not affected by this fix, only
+	extensions or embedders that call fork() directly (such as TclX).
+	However, this only makes fork() safe from corefoundation tcl with
+	--disable-threads; as on all platforms, forked children may deadlock
+	in threaded tcl due to the potential for stale locked mutexes in the
+	child. [Patch 923072]
+
+	* unix/configure: autoconf-2.59
+	* unix/tclConfig.h.in: autoheader-2.59
+
+2006-05-24  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* unix/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_SYSTEM): Fixed quoting of command script to
+	awk; it was a rarely used branch, but it was wrong. [Bug 1494160]
+
+2006-05-23  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* doc/chan.n, doc/refchan.n: Tighten up the documentation to follow a
+	slightly more consistent style with regard to argument capitalization.
+
+2006-05-13  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclProc.c (ProcCompileProc): When a bump of the compile
+	epoch forces the re-compile of a proc body, take care not to overwrite
+	any Proc struct that may be referred to on the active call stack. Note
+	that the fix will not be effective for code that calls the private
+	routine TclProcCompileProc() directly. [Bug 1482718]
+
+2006-05-13  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclEvent.c (HandleBgErrors): fix leak. [Coverity issue 86]
+
+2006-05-05  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclMain.c (Tcl_Main):		Corrected flaw that required
+	* tests/main.test: (Tcl_Main-4.5):	processing of one interactive
+	command before passing control to the loop routine registered with
+	Tcl_SetMainLoop(). [Bug 1481986]
+
+2006-05-04  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* README:		Bump version number to 8.5a5
+	* generic/tcl.h:
+	* tools/tcl.wse.in:
+	* unix/configure.in:
+	* unix/tcl.spec:
+	* win/README.binary:
+	* win/configure.in:
+
+	* unix/configure:	autoconf-2.59
+	* win/configure:
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c (ExprSrandFunc): Restore acceptance of wide/big
+	* doc/mathfunc.n: integer values by srand(). [Bug 1480509]
+
+2006-04-26  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	*** 8.5a4 TAGGED FOR RELEASE ***
+
+	* changes:	Updates for another RC.
+
+	* generic/tclBinary.c:	Revised the handling of the Q and q format
+	* generic/tclInt.h:	specifiers for [binary] to account for the
+	* generic/tclStrToD.c:	"middle endian" floating point format used in
+	Nokia N770.
+
+2006-04-25  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* doc/DoubleObj.3:	More doc updates for TIP 237.
+	* doc/expr.n:
+	* doc/format.n:
+	* doc/mathfunc.n:
+	* doc/scan.n:
+	* doc/string.n:
+
+	* generic/tclScan.c:	[scan $s %u] is documented to accept only
+	* tests/scan.test:	decimal formatted integers. Fixed to match.
+
+2006-04-19  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* generic/tclStrToD.c: Added code to support the "middle endian"
+	floating point format used in the Nokia N770's software-based floating
+	point. Thanks to Bruce Johnson for reporting this bug, originally on
+	http://wiki.tcl.tk/15408.
+	* library/clock.tcl: Fixed a bug with Daylight Saving Time and Posix
+	time zone specifiers reported by Martin Lemburg in
+	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/9a8b15a4dfc0b7a0
+	(and not at SourceForge).
+	* tests/clock.test: Added test case for the above bug.
+
+2006-04-18  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* doc/IntObj.3: Minor review fixes, including better documentation of
+	the behaviour of Tcl_GetBignumAndClearObj.
+
+2006-04-17  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* doc/IntObj.3: Documentation changes to account for TIP 237 changes.
+	* doc/Object.3: [Bug 1446971]
+
+2006-04-12  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/regc_locale.c (cclass): Redefined the meaning of [:print:]
+	to be exactly UNICODE letters, numbers, punctuation, symbols and
+	spaces (*not* whitespace). [Bug 1376892]
+
+2006-04-11  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclTrace.c:	Stop some interference between enter traces
+	* tests/trace.test:	and enterstep traces. [Bug 1458266]
+
+2006-04-07  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclPathObj.c: Yet another revised fix for the [Bug 1379287]
+	* tests/fileSystem.test:	family of path normalization bugs.
+
+2006-04-06  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/tclRegexp.c (FinalizeRegexp): full reset data to indicate
+	readiness for reinitialization.
+
+2006-04-06  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclIndexObj.c (Tcl_GetIndexFromObjStruct):	It seems there
+	* tests/indexObj.test:	are extensions that rely on the prior behavior
+	* doc/GetIndex.3:	that the empty string cannot succeed as a
+	unique prefix matcher, so I'm restoring Donal Fellows's solution.
+	Added mention of this detail to the documentation. [Bug 1464039]
+
+	* tests/compExpr-old.test:	Updated testmathfunctions constraint
+	* tests/compExpr.test:		to post-TIP-232 world.
+	* tests/expr-old.test:
+	* tests/expr.test:
+	* tests/info.test:
+
+	* tests/indexObj.test:	Corrected other test errors revealed by
+	* tests/upvar.test:	testing outside the tcltest application.
+
+	* generic/tclPathObj.c: Revised fix for the [Bug 1379287] family of
+	path normalization bugs.
+
+2006-04-06  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/tcl.m4: removed TCL_IO_TRACK_OS_FOR_DRIVER_WITH_BAD_BLOCKING
+	define on Darwin. [Bug 1457515]
+	* unix/configure: autoconf-2.59
+	* unix/tclConfig.h.in: autoheader-2.59
+
+2006-04-05  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* win/tclWinInit.c:	More careful calls to Tcl_DStringSetLength()
+	* win/tclWinSock.c:	to avoid creating invalid DString states. Bump
+	* win/tclWinDde.c:	to version 1.3.2. [RFE 1366195]
+	* library/dde/pkgIndex.tcl:
+
+	* library/reg/pkgIndex.tcl:	Bump to registry 1.2 because
+	* win/tclWinReg.c:	Registry_Unload() is a new public routine
+	* win/Makefile.in:	compared to the 1.1.* releases.
+
+	* win/configure.in:	Bump package version numbers.
+	* win/configure:	autoconf 2.59
+
+2006-04-05  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclIndexObj.c (Tcl_GetIndexFromObjStruct): Allow empty
+	strings to be matched by the Tcl_GetIndexFromObj machinery, in the
+	same manner as any other key. [Bug 1464039]
+
+2006-04-03  Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com>
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c (ReadChars): Added check, panic and commentary to a
+	piece of code which relies on BUFFER_PADDING to create enough space at
+	the beginning of each buffer for the insertion of partial multibyte
+	data at the beginning of a buffer. Commentary explains why this code
+	is OK, and the panic is as a precaution if someone twiddled the
+	BUFFER_PADDING into uselessness.
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c (ReadChars): Temporarily suppress the use of
+	TCL_ENCODING_END set when EOF was reached while the buffer we are
+	converting is not truly the last buffer in the queue. Together with
+	the Utf bug below it was possible to completely wreck the buffer data
+	structures, eventually crashing Tcl. [Bug 1462248]
+
+	* generic/tclEncoding.c (UtfToUtfProc): Stop accessing memory beyond
+	the end of the input buffer when TCL_ENCODING_END is set and the last
+	bytes of the buffer start a multi-byte sequence. This bug contributed
+	to [Bug 1462248].
+
+2006-03-30  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: remove unused var and silence gcc warning
+
+2006-03-29  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* win/Makefile.in: convert _NATIVE paths to use / to avoid ".\"
+	path-as-escape issue.
+
+2006-03-29  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* changes:	Updates for another RC.
+
+	* generic/tclPathObj.c:	 More fixes for path normalization when /../
+	* tests/fileSystem.test: tries to go beyond root.[Bug 1379287]
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: Revised INST_MOD implementation to do
+	calculations in native types as much as possible, moving to mp_ints
+	only when necessary.
+
+2006-03-28  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* win/tclWinPipe.c (TclpCreateProcess): change panics to Tcl errors
+	and do proper refcounting of noe objPtr. [Bug 1194429]
+
+	* unix/tcl.m4, win/tcl.m4: []-quote AC_DEFUN functions.
+
+2006-03-28  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcode/default.pbxuser:	add '-singleproc 1' cli arg to
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/default.pbxuser: tcltest to ease test debugging
+
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcode/project.pbxproj:	removed $prefix/share from
+	* macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: TCL_PACKAGE_PATH as per change
+	to unix/configure.in of 2006-03-13.
+
+	* unix/tclUnixFCmd.c (TclpObjNormalizePath): deal with *BSD/Darwin
+	realpath() converting relative paths into absolute paths [Bug 1064247]
+
+2006-03-28  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclIOUtil.c: fix to nativeFilesystemRecord comparisons
+	(lesser part of [Bug 1064247])
+
+2006-03-27  Pat Thoyts	<patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* win/tclWinTest.c:	Fixes for [Bug 1456373] (mingw-gcc issue)
+
+2006-03-27  Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com>
+
+	* doc/CrtChannel.3:    Added TCL_CHANNEL_VERSION_5, made it the
+	* generic/tcl.h:       version where the "truncateProc" is defined at,
+	* generic/tclIO.c:     and moved all channel drivers of Tcl to v5.
+	* generic/tclIOGT.c, generic/tclIORChan.c, unix/tclUnixChan.c:
+	* unix/tclUnixPipe.c, win/tclWinChan.c, win/tclWinConsole.c:
+	* win/tclWinPipe.c, win/tclWinSerial.c, win/tclWinSock.c:
+
+2006-03-27  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: Merge INST_MOD computation in with the
+	INST_?SHIFT instructions, which also operate only on two integral
+	values. Also corrected flaw that made INST_BITNOT of wide values
+	require mp_int calculations. Also corrected type that missed optimized
+	handling of the tclBooleanType by the TclGetBooleanFromObj macro.
+
+	* changes:	Updates for another RC.
+
+2006-03-25  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: Corrections to INST_EXPON detection of
+	overflow to use mp_int calculations.
+
+2006-03-24  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): Added a couple of missing
+	casts to 'int' that were affecting compilablity on VC6.
+
+2006-03-24  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclEncoding.c: Reverted latest change [Bug 506653] since it
+	reportedly killed test performance on Windows.
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: Revised INST_EXPON implementation to do
+	calculations in native types as much as possible, moving to mp_ints
+	only when necessary.
+
+2006-03-23  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: Merged INST_EXPON handling in with the other
+	binary operators that operate on all number types (INST_ADD, etc.).
+
+	* tests/env.test: With case preserved (see 2006-03-21 commit) be sure
+	to do case-insensitive filtering. [Bug 1457065]
+
+2006-03-23  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>
+
+	* unix/tcl.spec: Cleaned up and completed the spec file. An RPM can
+	now be built from the tcl source distribution with "rpmbuild -tb
+	<tarball>"
+
+2006-03-22  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>
+
+	* tests/stack.test: Run the stack tests in subshells, so that they are
+	reported as failed tests rather than bugs in the test suite if the
+	recursion causes a segfault.
+
+2006-03-21  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* changes:	Updates for another RC.
+
+	* generic/tclStrToD.c:	One of the branches of AccumulateDecimalDigit
+	* tests/parseExpr.test: did not. [Bug 1451233]
+
+	* tests/env.test:	Preserve case of saved env vars. [Bug 1409272]
+
+2006-03-21  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclInt.decls:	 implement globbing for HFS creator & type
+	* macosx/tclMacOSXFCmd.c:codes and 'hidden' flag, as documented in
+	* tests/macOSXFCmd.test: glob.n; objectified OSType handling in [glob]
+	* unix/tclUnixFile.c:	 and [file attributes]; fix globbing for
+	hidden files with pattern==NULL arg. [Bug 823329]
+	* generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h:
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c: make genstubs
+
+2006-03-20  Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com>
+
+	* win/Makefile.in (install-libraries): Generate tcl8/8.4 directory
+	under Windows as well (cygwin Makefile). Related entry: 2006-03-07,
+	dgp. This moved the installation of http from 8.2 to 8.4, partially. A
+	fix of the required directory creation was done for unix on Mar 10,
+	without entry in the Changelog. This entry is for the fix of the
+	directory creation under Windows.
+
+	* unix/installManPage: There is always one even more broken "sed".
+	Moved the # comment starting character in the sed script to the
+	beginning of their respective lines. The AIX sed will not recognize
+	them as comments otherwise :( The actual text stays indented for
+	better association with the commands they belong to.
+
+2006-03-20  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* tests/cmdAH.test, tests/fCmd.test, tests/unixFCmd.test:
+	* tests/winFCmd.test: Cleanup of some test constraint handling, and a
+	few other minor issues.
+
+2006-03-18  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclFileName.c:
+	* doc/FileSystem.3:
+	* tests/fileName.test: Fix to [Bug 1084705] so that 'glob -nocomplain'
+	finally agrees with its documentation and doesn't swallow genuine
+	errors.
+
+	***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** for scripts that assumed '-nocomplain'
+	removes the need for 'catch' to deal with non-understood path names.
+
+	Small optimisation to implementation of pattern==NULL case of TclGlob,
+	and clarification to the documentation. [Tclvfs bug 1405317]
+
+2006-03-18  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@sourceforge.net>
+
+	* tests/fCmd.test: added knownBug test case for [Bug 1394972]
+
+	* tests/winFCmd.test:
+	* tests/tcltest.test: corrected tests to better account for behaviour
+	of writable/non-writable directories on Windows 2000/XP. This, with
+	the previous patches, closes [Bug 1193497]
+
+2006-03-17  Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com>
+
+	* doc/chan.n: Updated with documentation for the commands 'chan
+	create' and 'chan postevent' (TIP #219).
+
+	* doc/refchan.n: New file. Documentation of the command handler API
+	for reflected channels (TIP #219).
+
+2006-03-17  Joe Mistachkin <joe@mistachkin.com>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixPort.h: Include pthread.h prior to pthread_np.h [Bug
+	1444692]
+
+	* win/tclWinTest.c: Corrected typo of 'initializeMutex' that prevented
+	successful compilation.
+
+2006-03-16  Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com>
+
+	* doc/open.n: Documented the changed behaviour of 'a'ppend mode.
+
+	* tests/io.test (io-43.1 io-44.[1234]): Rewritten to be self-contained
+	with regard to setup and cleanup. [Bug 681793]
+
+	* generic/tclIOUtil.c (TclGetOpenMode): Added the flag O_APPEND to the
+	list of POSIX modes used when opening a file for 'a'ppend. This
+	enables the proper automatic seek-to-end-on-write by the OS. See [Bug
+	680143] for longer discussion.
+
+	* tests/ioCmd.test (iocmd-13.7.*): Extended the testsuite to check the
+	new handling of 'a'.
+
+2006-03-15  Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com>
+
+	* tests/socket.test: Extended the timeout in socket-11.11 from 10 to
+	40 seconds to allow for really slow machines. Also extended
+	actual/expected results with value of variable 'done' to make it
+	clearer when a test fails due to a timeout. [Bug 792159]
+
+2006-03-15  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@sourceforge.net>
+
+	* win/fCmd.test: add proper test constraints so the new tests don't
+	run on Unix.
+
+2006-03-14  Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com>
+
+	* generic/tclPipe.c (TclCreatePipeline): Modified the processing of
+	pipebars to fail if the last bar is followed only by redirections.
+	[Bug 768659]
+
+2006-03-14  Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com>
+
+	* doc/fconfigure.n: Clarified that -translation is binary is reported
+	as lf when queried, because it is identical to lf, except for the
+	special additional behaviour when setting it. [Bug 666770]
+
+2006-03-14  Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com>
+
+	* doc/clock.n: Removed double-quotes around section title NAME; not
+	needed.
+	* unix/installManpage: Reverted part to handle double-quotes in
+	section NAME, chokes older sed installations.
+
+2006-03-14  Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com>
+
+	* library/tm.tcl (::tcl::tm::Defaults): Fixed handling of environment
+	variable TCLX.y_TM_PATH, bad variable reference. Thanks to Julian
+	Noble. [Bug 1448251]
+
+2006-03-14  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@sourceforge.net>
+
+	* win/tclWinFile.c: updated patch to deal with 'file writable' issues
+	on Windows XP/2000.
+	* generic/tclTest.c:
+	* unix/tclUnixTest.c:
+	* win/tclWinTest.c:
+	* tests/fCmd.test: updated test suite to deal with correct permissions
+	setting and differences between XP/2000 and 95/98 3 tests still fail;
+	to be dealt with shortly
+
+2006-03-13  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclEncoding.c: Report error when an escape encoding is
+	missing one of its sub-encodings. [Bug 506653]
+
+	* unix/configure.in:	Revert change from 2005-07-26 that sometimes
+	* unix/configure:	added $prefix/share to the tcl_pkgPath. See
+	[Patch 1231015]. autoconf-2.59.
+
+2006-03-10  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclProc.c (ObjInterpProcEx):
+	* tests/apply.test (apply-5.1): Fix [apply] error messages so that
+	they quote the lambda expression. [Bug 1447355]
+
+2006-03-10  Zoran Vasiljevic  <vasiljevic@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	-- Summary of changes fixing [Bug 1437595] --
+
+	* generic/tclEvent.c: Cosmetic touches and identation
+	* generic/tclInt.h: Added TclpFinalizeSockets() call.
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c: Calls TclpFinalizeSockets() as part of the
+	TclFinalizeIOSubsystem().
+
+	* unix/tclUnixSock.c: Added no-op TclpFinalizeSockets().
+
+	* win/tclWinPipe.c, win/tclWinSock.c: Finalization of sockets/pipes is
+	now solely done in TclpFinalizeSockets() and TclpFinalizePipes() and
+	not over the thread-exit handler, because the order of actions the Tcl
+	generic core will impose may result in cores/hangs if the thread exit
+	handler tears down corresponding subsystem(s) too early.
+
+2006-03-10  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@sourceforge.net>
+
+	* win/tclWinFile.c: previous patch breaks tests, so removed.
+
+2006-03-09  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@sourceforge.net>
+
+	* win/tclWinFile.c: fix to 'file writable' in certain XP directories.
+	Thanks to fvogel and jfg. [Patch 1344540] Modified patch to make use
+	of existing use of getSecurityProc.
+
+2006-03-08  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: Complete missing bit of TIP 215 implementation
+	* tests/incr.test:
+
+2006-03-07  Joe English	 <jenglish@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/tcl.m4: Set SHLIB_LD_FLAGS='${LIBS}' on NetBSD, as per the
+	other *BSD variants. [Bug 1334613]
+	* unix/configure: Regenerated.
+
+2006-03-07  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* changes:	Update in prep. for 8.5a4 release.
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in:	Package http 2.5.2 requires Tcl 8.4, so the
+	* win/Makefile.in:	*.tm installation has to be placed in an "8.4"
+	directory, not an "8.2" directory.
+
+2006-03-06  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:	Revised handling of TCL_EVAL_* flags to
+	* tests/parse.test:	simplify TclEvalObjvInternal and to correct
+	the auto-loading of alias targets (parse-8.12). [Bug 1444291]
+
+2006-03-03  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclPathObj.c: Revised yesterday's fix for [Bug 1379287] to
+	work on Windows.
+
+	* generic/tclObj.c:	Compatibility support for existing code that
+	calls Tcl_GetObjType("boolean").
+
+2006-03-02  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclPathObj.c:		Fix for failed normalization of paths
+	* tests/fileSystem.test:	with /../ that lead back to the root
+	of the filesystem, like /foo/.. [Bug 1379287]
+
+2006-03-01  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>
+
+	* unix/installManPage: Fix the script for manpages that have quotes
+	around the .SH arguments, as doctools produces them. [Bug 1292145]
+	Some minor cleanups and improvements.
+
+2006-02-28  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:	Corrections to be sure that TCL_EVAL_GLOBAL
+	* tests/namespace.test: evaluations act the same as [uplevel #0]
+	* tests/parse.test:	evaluations, even when execution traces or
+	* tests/trace.test:	invocations of [::unknown] are present. [Bug
+	1439836]
+
+2006-02-22  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:	Corrected a few bugs in how [namespace
+	* tests/namespace.test: unknown] interacts with TCL_EVAL_* flags.
+	[Patch 958222]
+
+2006-02-17  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclIORChan.c: Revised error message generation and handling
+	* tests/ioCmd.test:	of exceptional return codes in the channel
+	reflection layer. [Bug 1372348]
+
+2006-02-16  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclIndexObj.c:	Disallow the "ambiguous" error message
+	* tests/indexObj.test:		when TCL_EXACT matching is requested.
+	* tests/ioCmd.test:
+
+2006-02-15  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c:	Made several routines tolerant of
+	* generic/tclIORChan.c: interp == NULL arguments. [Bug 1380662]
+	* generic/tclIOUtil.c:
+
+2006-02-09  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	TIP#215 IMPLEMENTATION
+
+	* doc/incr.n:		Revised [incr] to auto-initialize when varName
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: argument is unset. [Patch 1413115]
+	* generic/tclVar.c:
+	* tests/compile.test:
+	* tests/incr-old.test:
+	* tests/incr.test:
+	* tests/set.test:
+
+	* tests/main.test (Tcl_Main-6.7):	Improved robustness of
+	command auto-completion test. [Bug 1422736]
+
+2006-02-08  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* doc/Encoding.3, doc/encoding.n: Updates due to review at request of
+	Don Porter. Mostly minor changes.
+
+2006-02-08  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	TIP#258 IMPLEMENTATION
+
+	* doc/Encoding.3:	New subcommand [encoding dirs].
+	* doc/encoding.n:	New routine Tcl_GetEncodingNameFromEnvironment
+	* generic/tcl.decls:	Made public:
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:	TclGetEncodingFromObj
+	* generic/tclCmdAH.c:		-> Tcl_GetEncodingFromObj
+	* generic/tclEncoding.c:TclGetEncodingSearchPath
+	* generic/tclInt.decls:		-> Tcl_GetEncodingSearchPath
+	* generic/tclInt.h:	TclSetEncodingSearchPath
+	* generic/tclTest.c:		-> Tcl_SetEncodingSearchPath
+	* library/init.tcl:	Removed commands:
+	* tests/cmdAH.test:		[tcl::unsupported::EncodingDirs]
+	* tests/encoding.test:		[testencoding path] (Tcltest)
+	* unix/tclUnixInit.c:	[Patch 1413934]
+	* win/tclWinInit.c:
+
+	* generic/tclDecls.h:	make genstubs
+	* generic/tclIntDecls.h:
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c:
+
+2006-02-01  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclProc.c: minor improvements to [apply]
+	* tests/apply.test: new tests; apply-5.1 currently fails to indicate
+	missing work in error reporting
+
+2006-02-01  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	TIP#194 IMPLEMENTATION
+
+	* doc/apply.n:	(New file)	New command [apply]. [Patch 944803]
+	* doc/uplevel.n:
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:
+	* generic/tclInt.h:
+	* generic/tclProc.c:
+	* tests/apply.test: (New file)
+	* tests/proc-old.test:
+	* tests/proc.test:
+
+	TIP#181 IMPLEMENTATION
+
+	* doc/Namespace.3:	New command [namespace unknown]. New public C
+	* doc/namespace.n:	routines Tcl_(Get|Set)NamespaceUnknownHandler.
+	* doc/unknown.n:	[Patch 958222]
+	* generic/tcl.decls:
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:
+	* generic/tclInt.h:
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c:
+	* tests/namespace.test:
+
+	* generic/tclDecls.h:	make genstubs
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c:
+
+	TIP#250 IMPLEMENTATION
+
+	* doc/namespace.n:	New command [namespace upvar]. [Patch 1275435]
+	* generic/tclInt.h:
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c:
+	* generic/tclVar.c:
+	* tests/namespace.test:
+	* tests/upvar.test:
+
+2006-01-26  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* doc/dict.n: Fixed silly bug in example. Thanks to Heiner Marxen
+	<heiner.marxen@unsel.de> for catching this! [Bug 1415725]
+
+2006-01-26  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixChan.c (TclpOpenFileChannel): Tidy up and comment the
+	mess to do with setting up serial channels. This (deliberately) breaks
+	a broken FreeBSD port, indicates what we're really doing, and reduces
+	the amount of conditional compilation sections for better maintenance.
+
+2006-01-25  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixInit.c (TclpInitPlatform): Improved conditions on when
+	to update the FP rounding mode on FreeBSD, taken from FreeBSD port.
+
+2006-01-23  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+	* tests/string.test (string-12.21): Added test for [Bug 1410553] based
+	on original bug report.
+
+2006-01-23  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>
+
+	* generic/tclStringObj.c: fixed incorrect handling of internal rep in
+	Tcl_GetRange. Thanks to twylite and Peter Spjuth. [Bug 1410553]
+
+	* generic/tclProc.c: fixed args handling for precompiled bodies [Bug
+	1412695]; thanks to Uwe Traum.
+
+2006-01-16  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>
+
+	* generic/tclPipe.c (FileForRedirect): Prevent nameString from being
+	freed without having been initialized.
+	* tests/exec.test: Added a test for the above.
+
+2006-01-12  Zoran Vasiljevic  <vasiljevic@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclPathObj.c (Tcl_FSGetInternalRep): backported patch from
+	core-8-4-branch. A freed pointer has been overwritten causing all
+	sorts of coredumps.
+
+2006-01-12  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@sourceforge.net>
+
+	* win/tclWinFile.c: fix to sharing violation [Bug 1366227]
+
+2006-01-11  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:	Moved Tcl_LogCommandInfo from tclBasic.c to
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c:	tclNamesp.c to get access to identifier with
+	* tests/error.test (error-7.0): file scope. Added check for traces on
+	::errorInfo, and when present fall back to contruction of the stack
+	trace in the variable so that write trace notification timings are
+	compatible with earlier Tcl releases. This reduces, but does not
+	completely eliminate the ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** created by
+	the 2004-10-15 commit. [Bug 1397843]
+
+2006-01-10  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/configure:    add caching, use AC_CACHE_CHECK instead of
+	* unix/configure.in: AC_CACHE_VAL where possible, consistent message
+	* unix/tcl.m4:	     quoting, sync relevant tclconfig/tcl.m4 changes
+	and gratuitous formatting differences, fix SC_CONFIG_MANPAGES with
+	default argument, Darwin improvements to SC_LOAD_*CONFIG.
+
+2006-01-09  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c (NamespaceInscopeCmd):	[namespace inscope]
+	* tests/namespace.test: commands were not reported by [info level].
+	[Bug 1400572]
+
+2006-01-09  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclTrace.c: Stop exporting the guts of the trace command;
+	nothing outside this file needs to see it. [Bug 971336]
+
+2006-01-05  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>
+
+	* unix/tcl.m4 (TCL_CONFIG_SYSTEM): Factor out the code to determine
+	the operating system version number, as it was replicated in several
+	places.
+
+2006-01-04  David Gravereaux  <davygrvy@pobox.com>
+
+	* win/tclAppInit.c: WIN32 native console signal handler removed. This
+	was found to be interfering with TWAPI extension one. IMO, special
+	services such as signal handlers should best be done with extensions
+	to the core after discussions on c.l.t. about Roy Terry's tclsh
+	children of a real windows service shell.
+
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