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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Recent user-visible changes to Tcl: -RCS: @(#) $Id: changes,v 1.65 2002/03/01 21:26:14 dgp Exp $ +RCS: @(#) $Id: changes,v 1.66 2002/03/04 23:12:25 hobbs Exp $ 1. No more [command1] [command2] construct for grouping multiple commands on a single command line. @@ -5252,7 +5252,7 @@ interpreter deletion (sofer, rbrunner) 2001-10-16 (new feature, Mac) change in binary extension format from MachO bundles to standard .dylib dynamic libraries like on other unices. - **POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** + *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 2001-10-18 (bug fix) corrected off-by-one-day error in clock scan with relative months and years during swing hours. (lavana) @@ -5287,7 +5287,7 @@ compiles to 0 bytecodes (sofer) 2001-09-17 (new feature) compiling with TCL_COMPILE_DEBUG now required to enable all compile and execution tracing (sofer) - **POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** + *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 2001-09-19 (bug fix)[411825] made TclNeedSpace UTF-8 aware (fellows) @@ -5303,11 +5303,12 @@ enable all compile and execution tracing (sofer) 2001-11-06 (new feature) revitalized makefile.vc (gravereaux) 2001-11-07 (new feature) Cygwin gcc support dropped. Use mingw (dejong) - **POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** + *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 2001-11-07 (new feature) Support --include-dir= and --libdir= options to -configure. Store in tclConfig.sh as TCL_INCLUDE_SPEC and TCL_LIB_SPEC. (dejong) - **POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** +configure. Store in tclConfig.sh as TCL_INCLUDE_SPEC and TCL_LIB_SPEC. +(dejong) + *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 2001-11-08 (new feature) Enable --enable-threads on FreeBSD (dejong) @@ -5335,12 +5336,12 @@ or a dynamic string as well as a static string to indicate an error (fellows) 2001-12-05 (new feature) new algorithm for [array get] adds safety when read traces modify the array. (sofer) - **POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** + *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 2001-12-10 (bug fix)[490514] doc fixes (porter,english) -2001-12-18 (new feature) removed unix/dltest/configure; unix/configure does all -(dejong) +2001-12-18 (new feature) removed unix/dltest/configure; unix/configure does +all (dejong) 2001-12-19 (new feature) New make target 'make shell' (dejong) @@ -5348,7 +5349,7 @@ traces modify the array. (sofer) 2001-12-28 (new feature) new command [memory onexit] replaces [checkmem] when compiled with TCL_MEM_DEBUG. Added documentation. (porter) - **POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** + *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 2001-12-28 (bug fix) proper case in [auto_execok] use of $env(COMPSPEC) (hobbs) @@ -5376,46 +5377,49 @@ that amount to string matching. Also -nocase and --. (hobbs) 2002-02-05 (bug fix) [http::error] called when [::error] intended => http 2.4.2 (porter) -2002-02-05 (bug fix)[465765] avoid zero-byte writes to STREAMs (talcott,kupries) +2002-02-05 (bug fix)[465765] avoid zero-byte writes to STREAMs +(talcott,kupries) 2002-02-06 (performance enhancement) [regsub] special cases that map to [string map] detected. (hobbs) -2002-02-06 (bug fix)[495213] [scan] accept 0x as prefix of base 16 value (hobbs) +2002-02-06 (bug fix)[495213] [scan] accept 0x as prefix of base 16 value +(hobbs) 2002-02-10 (new feature)[TIP 32,79] Tcl_CreateObjTrace API (kenny) 2002-02-12 (new feature) partial support for DJGPP Tcl on DOS (gravereaux) -2002-02-14 (mem leak) An error in [gets $chan] leaks an empty Tcl_Obj. fixed. -(kupries, sofer) +2002-02-14 (mem leak) Fixed leaking an empty Tcl_Obj when [gets $chan] +errored out. (kupries, sofer) -2002-02-15 (new feature)[TIP 72] support for 64-bit integer values on 32-bit -platforms and ability to work with >2GiB files. Extends many +2002-02-15 (new feature)[TIP 72] support for 64-bit integer values on +32-bit platforms and ability to work with >2GiB files. Extends many commands. See ChangeLog and TIP for details. - **POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** + *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 2002-02-22 (bug fix)[476537] Fix panic when loading shared library without proper use of stubs on platform without backlinking (porter) 2002-02-22 (new feature) 64-bit support for xlc compiler on AIX-4 (hobbs) -2002-02-22 (new feature)[521560] Removed limits on filename length and format -[source]able through the Safe Base (hobbs) +2002-02-22 (new feature)[521560] Removed limits on filename length and +format [source]able through the Safe Base (hobbs) 2002-02-22 (performance enhancement) optimized bytecodes for [if], [for], [while] and constant conditions (sofer) 2002-02-22 (new feature)[TIP 76] [regsub] can now return result (fellows) -2002-02-25 (bug fix)[495207] buffer overrun when closing ] left out of argument -to [subst] (sofer, english) +2002-02-25 (bug fix)[495207] buffer overrun when closing ] left out of +argument to [subst] (sofer, english) 2002-02-25 (bug fix)[514392] [load] updated for Mac OS X 10.1 (steffen) 2002-02-26 (bug fix) [info hostname] choked on names >31 characters (hobbs) -2002-02-26 (new feature)[TIP 35] serial channel configuration: Unix (schroedter) +2002-02-26 (new feature)[TIP 35] serial channel configuration: Unix +(schroedter, hobbs) 2002-02-25 (bug fix)[483575] [fconfigure ... -error] now no-op on Mac (kupries) @@ -5426,5 +5430,10 @@ cached Command for all namespaces, avoiding repeated lookups (sofer) Added compiler macro USE_NON_CONST to keep using those old API prototypes that present irreconcilable source incompatibilities with header files of prior Tcl releases. Others will need to be reconciled. - **POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** + *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +2002-03-04 (bug fix)[474358, 218099, 219314, 524674] fixed several problems +related to the handling of iso2022 text and finalization of escape-based +encodings. (taguchi, takahashi, hobbs) +--- Released 8.4a4, March 5, 2002 --- See ChangeLog for details --- |