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diff --git a/ChangeLog.2001 b/ChangeLog.2001 index 2c8b4d7..6579651 100644 --- a/ChangeLog.2001 +++ b/ChangeLog.2001 @@ -1,20 +1,20 @@ 2001-12-28 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - * library/init.tcl: make sure env(COMSPEC) on Windows is executed - with the right case, as it may otherwise fail inexplicably. + * library/init.tcl: make sure env(COMSPEC) on Windows is executed with + the right case, as it may otherwise fail inexplicably. 2001-12-28 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclCkalloc.c (MemoryCmd, TclFinalizeMemorySubsystem): - Added the [memory onexit] command, intended to replace [checkmem]. + * generic/tclCkalloc.c (MemoryCmd, TclFinalizeMemorySubsystem): Added + the [memory onexit] command, intended to replace [checkmem]. - * doc/DumpActiveMemory.3: + * doc/DumpActiveMemory.3: * doc/memory.n: Updated documentation for [memory] and related - matters. [Bug 487677] + matters. [Bug 487677] * mac/tclMacBOAMain.c (Tcl_Main, CheckmemCmd): Removed all the - machinery for the [checkmem] command that is completely duplicated - by code in generic/tclCkalloc.c. + machinery for the [checkmem] command that is completely duplicated by + code in generic/tclCkalloc.c. * generic/tclBinary.c: * generic/tclListObj.c: @@ -27,12 +27,11 @@ * mac/tclMacInit.c: * mac/tclMacTclCode.r: synced up tclInit features to unix/win: - implemented TclSetPreInitScript support, use of existing tclInit - proc if defined, check of default encoding dir if set. Changed - script library resource names to lowercase (i.e. same as - corresponding files). Used Tcl_JoinPath instead of string append. - Check that system encoding could be loaded before utf translating - the LibraryPath. + implemented TclSetPreInitScript support, use of existing tclInit proc + if defined, check of default encoding dir if set. Changed script + library resource names to lowercase (i.e. same as corresponding + files). Used Tcl_JoinPath instead of string append. Check that system + encoding could be loaded before utf translating the LibraryPath. * mac/tclMacApplication.r: * mac/tclMacLibrary.r: * mac/tclMacOSA.r: @@ -41,147 +40,138 @@ 2001-12-21 Mo DeJong <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net> * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_PATH_TCLCONFIG, SC_PATH_TKCONFIG): - Search for config file using exec_prefix instead of - prefix when no --with-tcl or --with-tk argument is used. [Bug 492418] + Search for config file using exec_prefix instead of prefix when no + --with-tcl or --with-tk argument is used. [Bug 492418] 2001-12-21 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - * unix/tcl.m4: fixed incorrect SHLIB_LD_LIBS - setting for MacOSX / Darwin. + * unix/tcl.m4: fixed incorrect SHLIB_LD_LIBS setting for MacOSX / + Darwin. * unix/configure: Regen. - * unix/mkLinks.tcl: improved case-insensitive - filesystem support. + * unix/mkLinks.tcl: improved case-insensitive filesystem support. * unix/mkLinks: Regen. 2001-12-19 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * unix/Makefile.in (dist): corrected use of eolFix.tcl on - working files. It should operate on distributed files. [Bug 495120] + * unix/Makefile.in (dist): corrected use of eolFix.tcl on working + files. It should operate on distributed files. [Bug 495120] 2001-12-19 David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com> - * tools/tcl.wse.in: Fix for #495120. tcl.wse.in was - stored in cvs with improper <eol>. This resulted in - corrupted <eol> when checked-out on translating CVS - clients such as windows (CRCRLF) and mac (CRCR). + * tools/tcl.wse.in: Fix for [Bug 495120]. tcl.wse.in was stored in cvs + with improper <eol>. This resulted in corrupted <eol> when checked-out + on translating CVS clients such as windows (CRCRLF) and mac (CRCR). 2001-12-19 Mo DeJong <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net> * unix/configure: - * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Update - SunOS 5.[0-6] target so that correct linker - options are passed to gcc or ld. [Tk Bug 220863] + * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Update SunOS 5.[0-6] target so that + correct linker options are passed to gcc or ld. [Tk Bug 220863] 2001-12-19 Mo DeJong <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net> - * unix/README: Update to account for changes - in the unix/dltest directory, the way autoconf - is run, and the new "make shell" target. + * unix/README: Update to account for changes in the unix/dltest + directory, the way autoconf is run, and the new "make shell" target. 2001-12-19 Mo DeJong <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net> - * unix/Makefile.in: Rename dltest to dlpkgs to - fix problem where lib files were not getting - built because dltest/ directory already existed. + * unix/Makefile.in: Rename dltest to dlpkgs to fix problem where lib + files were not getting built because dltest/ directory already + existed. 2001-12-19 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - * win/tclWinSerial.c (SerialCheckProc): corrected time - calculations to be unsigned. (schroedter) + * win/tclWinSerial.c (SerialCheckProc): corrected time calculations to + be unsigned. (schroedter) 2001-12-18 Mo DeJong <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net> - * unix/Makefile.in: Define new dltest target that - simply does a cd to dltest/ before running make. - There is no need for the separate configure - script that was previously being used. + * unix/Makefile.in: Define new dltest target that simply does a cd to + dltest/ before running make. There is no need for the separate + configure script that was previously being used. * unix/configure: Regen. * unix/configure.in: Subst into dltest/Makefile. - * unix/dltest/Makefile.in: Define LIBS using - DL_LIBS, LIBS, and MATH_LIBS variables instead - of TCL_LIBS variable from tclConfig.sh. - * unix/dltest/README: Update readme to account for new - configure free implementation. + * unix/dltest/Makefile.in: Define LIBS using DL_LIBS, LIBS, and + MATH_LIBS variables instead of TCL_LIBS variable from tclConfig.sh. + * unix/dltest/README: Update readme to account for new configure free + implementation. * unix/dltest/configure: Removed. * unix/dltest/configure.in: Removed. 2001-12-18 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> - * generic/tcl.h (TCL_STUB_MAGIC): Added cast to force type to be - an int and get rid of a persistent and pointless warning with - SunPro compiler. + * generic/tcl.h (TCL_STUB_MAGIC): Added cast to force type to be an + int and get rid of a persistent and pointless warning with SunPro + compiler. - * generic/tclCkalloc.c (Tcl_AttemptDbCkalloc,Tcl_AttemptDbCkrealloc): + * generic/tclCkalloc.c (Tcl_AttemptDbCkalloc,Tcl_AttemptDbCkrealloc): * generic/tcl.decls (Tcl_AttemptDbCkalloc,Tcl_AttemptDbCkrealloc): - Made the file parameters to these functions into CONST char *, - like they always should have been to match the other Tcl*Db* API - functions. + Made the file parameters to these functions into CONST char *, like + they always should have been to match the other Tcl*Db* API functions. -2001-12-17 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> +2001-12-17 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> - * Applied #219311 on behalf of Rolf Schroedter - <schroedter@users.sourceforge.net> to prevent fcopy on serial - ports from flooding the event queue. + * Applied [Bug 219311] on behalf of Rolf Schroedter + <schroedter@users.sourceforge.net> to prevent fcopy on serial ports + from flooding the event queue. 2001-12-11 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> * doc/CrtInterp.3: - * generic/tclBasic.c: docs and comments corrections [Bug 493412] - Bug & patch by Don Porter. + * generic/tclBasic.c: docs and comments corrections. [Bug 493412] + Bug & patch by Don Porter. 2001-12-14 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> - * win/tclWinNotify.c (Tcl_FinalizeNotifier): Stop Tcl on Windows - from crashing when shutdown from a non-Tcl thread. Fixes Bug - #217982 [orig. 5804] reported by Hugh Vu and Gene Leache. I'm - not convinced that the shutdown process is right even with this, - but it was definitely wrong without... + * win/tclWinNotify.c (Tcl_FinalizeNotifier): Stop Tcl on Windows from + crashing when shutdown from a non-Tcl thread. Fixes [Bug 217982] + [orig. 5804] reported by Hugh Vu and Gene Leache. I'm not convinced + that the shutdown process is right even with this, but it was + definitely wrong without... -2001-12-13 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> +2001-12-13 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> - * win/tclWinSock.c (TcpGetOptionProc): Fix for tcl bug item - #478565 reported by an unknown person. Bypasses all calls to - "gethostbyaddr" for address "0.0.0.0" to prevent delays on - Win/NT. + * win/tclWinSock.c (TcpGetOptionProc): Fix for [Bug 478565] reported + by an unknown person. Bypasses all calls to "gethostbyaddr" for + address "0.0.0.0" to prevent delays on Win/NT. 2001-12-12 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - * doc/Preserve.3: doc'd TCL_DYNAMIC use. [Patch #483989] (porter) + * doc/Preserve.3: doc'd TCL_DYNAMIC use. [Patch 483989] (porter) -2001-12-12 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> +2001-12-12 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_GetsObj): Applied patch for bug #491341 as - provided by Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>. Fixes the - assumption of having an empty Tcl_Obj to work with. + * generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_GetsObj): Applied patch for [Bug 491341] as + provided by Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>. Fixes the + assumption of having an empty Tcl_Obj to work with. 2001-12-11 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> * generic/tclCompCmds.c: * generic/tclCompile.c: - * generic/tclExecute.c: consistency patch, to make all - instructions that pop a variable number of Tcl_Obj's off the - execution stack take the number of popped objects as first - operand. Modified *only* the new instructions - INST_LIST_INDEX_MULTI and INST_LSET_FLAT, so this has no effect - on bytecodes generated up to tcl8.4a3 inclusive. + * generic/tclExecute.c: consistency patch, to make all instructions + that pop a variable number of Tcl_Obj's off the execution stack take + the number of popped objects as first operand. Modified *only* the new + instructions INST_LIST_INDEX_MULTI and INST_LSET_FLAT, so this has no + effect on bytecodes generated up to tcl8.4a3 inclusive. - * generic/tclExecute.c: fix debug messages in INST_LSET_LIST. + * generic/tclExecute.c: fix debug messages in INST_LSET_LIST. * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileLindexCmd): - * generic/tclCompExpr.c (CompileMathFuncCall): removed the last - two overestimates of the necessary stack depth for bytecodes in - the fix of [Bug 483611]. + * generic/tclCompExpr.c (CompileMathFuncCall): removed the last two + overestimates of the necessary stack depth for bytecodes in the fix of + [Bug 483611] -2001-12-10 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> +2001-12-10 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> - * unix/tclUnixPipe.c (TclpCreateProcess): Applied Don Porter's - patch fixing bug #437489. + * unix/tclUnixPipe.c (TclpCreateProcess): Applied Don Porter's patch + fixing [Bug 437489]. 2001-12-10 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> * generic/tclEvent.c: - * tests/event.test: fix background error reporting in the absence - of a bgerror proc [Bug 219142]. + * tests/event.test: fix background error reporting in the absence of a + bgerror proc [Bug 219142]. 2001-12-10 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> @@ -198,7 +188,7 @@ * doc/Utf.3: * doc/file.n: * doc/tclsh.1: Several typo and formatting corrections discovered - during conversion to TMML. Thanks to Joe English. [Patch 490514] + during conversion to TMML. Thanks to Joe English. [Patch 490514] * unix/mkLinks: 'make mklinks' 2001-12-10 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> @@ -208,14 +198,14 @@ * generic/tclCompile.c: * generic/tclCompile.h: * generic/tclExecute.c: - * generic/tclProc.c: fixed the calculation of the maximal stack - depth required by bytecodes [Bug 483611]. + * generic/tclProc.c: fixed the calculation of the maximal stack depth + required by bytecodes. [Bug 483611] 2001-12-07 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclVar.c: + * generic/tclVar.c: * tests/trace.test: restored consistency in refCount accounting by - array traces [Bug #4484339], submitted by Don Porter. + array traces [Bug 4484339], submitted by Don Porter. 2001-12-06 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> @@ -225,19 +215,19 @@ * generic/tclParseExpr.c (ParsePrimaryExpr): Rewrote to give even better syntax errors in the fairly common case of an identifier without decorations by guessing based on the currently available - functions. Also made messages consistent between memdebug and - ordinary builds. + functions. Also made messages consistent between memdebug and ordinary + builds. 2001-12-05 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclVar.c: - * tests/trace.test: new algorithm for [array get], safe when there - are traces that modify the array [Bug #449893]. + * generic/tclVar.c: + * tests/trace.test: new algorithm for [array get], safe when there are + traces that modify the array. [Bug 449893] 2001-12-04 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> - * tests/compExpr-old.test, tests/compExpr.test, tests/compile.test: - * tests/expr-old.test, tests/expr.test, tests/for.test: + * tests/compExpr-old.test, tests/compExpr.test, tests/compile.test: + * tests/expr-old.test, tests/expr.test, tests/for.test: * tests/while.test, tests/if.test: Rewrite to handle more specific syntax errors. * tests/parseExpr.test: Rewrite to get rid of dup test numbers and @@ -246,26 +236,25 @@ argument to help explain what the syntax error is. (Tcl_ParseExpr, ParseCondExpr, ParsePrimaryExpr): Added detail messages. - (UNKNOWN_CHAR): New lexeme for characters that are always illegal - in expressions outside strings. + (UNKNOWN_CHAR): New lexeme for characters that are always illegal in + expressions outside strings. 2001-12-03 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> - * doc/expr.n: Various documentation improvements in relation to - the function calls. Includes fix for Bug #487704 submitted by - Devin Eyre. + * doc/expr.n: Various documentation improvements in relation to the + function calls. Includes fix for [Bug 487704] submitted by Devin Eyre. 2001-12-03 David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com> * win/makefile.vc: Some install target bugs repaired along with $(TCLSTUBLIB) added to the dependencies rather than implicit through - the dde and reg extensions which don't happen to always require it - for some build types. + the dde and reg extensions which don't happen to always require it for + some build types. 2001-11-30 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclVar.c: Tcl_Preserve'ing VarTrace structures to avoid - memory corruption. Patch for [Bug: 484334] provided by Don Porter + * generic/tclVar.c: Tcl_Preserve'ing VarTrace structures to avoid + memory corruption. Patch for [Bug 484334] provided by Don Porter 2001-11-29 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> @@ -275,16 +264,15 @@ 2001-11-29 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> * tests/namespace.test: added namespace-41.2, a simpler test for - [Bug: 231259] + [Bug 231259] 2001-11-29 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> * generic/tclBinary.c (BINARY_SCAN_MAX_CACHE, Tcl_BinaryObjCmd, - ScanNumber): Added caching scheme to reduce number of object - allocations when doing scans of large repetitive binary strings. - See comments in file for reasoning behind implementation. - Suggested by Miguel Sofer in Patch #429916, but independently - implemented. + (ScanNumber): Added caching scheme to reduce number of object + allocations when doing scans of large repetitive binary strings. See + comments in file for reasoning behind implementation. Suggested by + Miguel Sofer in [Patch 429916], but independently implemented. 2001-11-28 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> @@ -293,8 +281,8 @@ 2001-11-27 D. Richard Hipp <drh@hwaci.com> - * win/tclWinFCmd.c: Fix a coredump in the filename normalizer - code for Win95/98. + * win/tclWinFCmd.c: Fix a coredump in the filename normalizer code for + Win95/98. 2001-11-27 David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com> @@ -305,37 +293,36 @@ 2001-11-27 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> * tests/cmdAH.test (cmdAH-24.2): Made test less sensitive to OS - preemption, but perfection isn't practical [Bug 463189, reported - by Don Porter.] + preemption, but perfection isn't practical. [Bug 463189, reported by + Don Porter] - * tests/switch.test (switch-9.*): Added tests to exercise more of - the argument checking. (switch-7.2,switch-7.3): Test changed - behaviour slightly. - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_SwitchObjCmd): Reworked argument parsing - to be stricter about what it accepts. This should make uses of - the [switch] command be more maintainable. [Bug 475397, reported - by Don Porter.] + * tests/switch.test (switch-9.*): Added tests to exercise more of the + argument checking. (switch-7.2,switch-7.3): Test changed behaviour + slightly. + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_SwitchObjCmd): Reworked argument parsing to + be stricter about what it accepts. This should make uses of the + [switch] command be more maintainable. [Bug 475397, reported by Don + Porter] 2001-11-26 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h: 'make genstubs' after changes - in 2001-11-23 commit from Daniel Steffen. + * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h: 'make genstubs' after changes in + 2001-11-23 commit from Daniel Steffen. 2001-11-24 Mo DeJong <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net> - * unix/Makefile.in: Add comments to better describe - TCL_EXE and when it should be available. - * win/Makefile.in: Add TCL_EXE variable to be used - by rules like `make genstubs`. Don't set TCL_LIBRARY - before running `make genstubs` since we will be running - with a tclsh from the PATH not the one we build. + * unix/Makefile.in: Add comments to better describe TCL_EXE and when + it should be available. + * win/Makefile.in: Add TCL_EXE variable to be used by rules like `make + genstubs`. Don't set TCL_LIBRARY before running `make genstubs` since + we will be running with a tclsh from the PATH not the one we build. 2001-11-24 Mo DeJong <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net> * win/configure: Regen. - * win/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Add comctl32.lib - to wish link libs. This change was originally added - to Tk on 2001-11-09 but was not committed to Tcl. + * win/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Add comctl32.lib to wish link libs. + This change was originally added to Tk on 2001-11-09 but was not + committed to Tcl. 2001-11-23 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> @@ -346,17 +333,17 @@ * unix/mkLinks.tcl: * unix/tclLoadDyld.c: * unix/tclMtherr.c: Mac OSX support: build system, dynamic code loading - and support for case-insensitive filesystems in mkLinks (patch #435258) + and support for case-insensitive filesystems in mkLinks. [Patch 435258] 2001-11-23 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - Up-port to 8.4 of mac code changes for 8.3.3 & various new - changes for 8.4, some already backported to 8.3.4 (patch #435658) + Up-port to 8.4 of mac code changes for 8.3.3 & various new changes for + 8.4, some already backported to 8.3.4. [Patch 435658] * generic/tclObj.c: added #include to fix missing prototype errors * generic/tcl.h: MAC_TCL: addition of ConditionalMacros.h and use of - DLLIMPORT and DLLEXPORT like on other platforms. ( => no longer need + DLLIMPORT and DLLEXPORT like on other platforms. ( => no longer need the .exp files and can remove use of #pragma export that never worked well) removed line continuation in #if clause as this breaks the mac @@ -364,10 +351,10 @@ * mac/tclMacFile.c: fixed bug in permission checking code - * mac/tclMacLoad.c: corrected utf8 handling, comparison of - package names to code fragment names changed to only match on the - length of package name, this allows for fragment names with version - numbers appended + * mac/tclMacLoad.c: corrected utf8 handling, comparison of package + names to code fragment names changed to only match on the length of + package name, this allows for fragment names with version numbers + appended. * mac/tclMacInt.h: * generic/tclInt.h: @@ -402,7 +389,7 @@ platforms, removed use of #pragma export. * mac/tcltkMacBuildSupport.sea.hqx: new archive of mac build support - files & suggested build environment directory hierarchy: + files & suggested build environment directory hierarchy: 'Building MacTclTk' & 'CW Pro6 changes' readme's. projects for MoreFiles 1.5.2 static & shared libraries. project & sources for 'pseudoCarbonSupport', see below. @@ -430,13 +417,13 @@ Highly experimental "pseudoCarbon" support for Tcl only on OS 8/9: binaries in "Build:(Carbon):" link against CarbonLib instead of InterfaceLib, however the actual code has not been carbonized! i.e. it - will not run on OSX and may not even run properly with CarbonLib. + will not run on OSX and may not even run properly with CarbonLib. This should in principle allow you to build & test OS9 CFM Carbon - binaries that need to link with Tcl.shlb. On OSX you can use the + binaries that need to link with Tcl.shlb. On OSX you can use the native Tcl.framework, but you have to build a MachO binary as there is no CFM glue lib for Tcl.framework. - the library pseudoCarbonSupport.shlb manually loads the symbols - from InterfaceLib that are not in CarbonLib but are needed by the + the library pseudoCarbonSupport.shlb manually loads the symbols from + InterfaceLib that are not in CarbonLib but are needed by the uncarbonized code in Tcl.shlb and TclShell. * generic/tclMain.c: MAC_TCL: workaround for broken/non-standard isatty @@ -461,10 +448,10 @@ strings; updated version strings to standard usage; added support for '(Support Libraries)' subfolder for shared runtime libraries in unmerged binaries; commented out demo setting of "Tcl Environment - Variables"; reorganized resources among these files to avoid - multiple copies in applications and shared libraries, the script - libraries are now no longer duplicated in Tclsh but are only included - in the resources of Tcl.shlb. + Variables"; reorganized resources among these files to avoid multiple + copies in applications and shared libraries, the script libraries are + now no longer duplicated in Tclsh but are only included in the + resources of Tcl.shlb. * mac/tclMacChan.c: * mac/tclMacSock.c: cast for *BlockMode @@ -497,52 +484,51 @@ * mac/tclMacUnix.c: added missing (Tcl_Obj ***) cast to Tcl_ListObjGetElements call - * mac/tclMacAlloc.c: modernized TclpSysAlloc() to use temporary - memory instead of system heap memory when available (MacOS - >= 7.5 and possibly earlier, use of system heap has been - discouraged for a long time and has many disadvantages, e.g. memory - isn't paged out, and errors can very easily bring the system down); - fixed crashing bug in TclpSysRealloc() and CleanUpExitProc() where - memory was being accessed after having been deallocated; fixed - memory leak in (de)allocation code (for every block ever allocated - with TclpSysAlloc, a Ptr was leaked), if temporary memory is - available, don't track allocated memory, instead use - RecoverHandle() to get Handle from Ptr, otherwise use doubly linked - list to correctly track memory and free all allocated memory; added - new option for ConfigureMemory: MEMORY_DONT_USE_TEMPMEM, disables - use of temporary memory even when it would be available, only - necessary when writing e.g. a driver (using tcl??); increased - fraction of application heap reserved for OS routines to 512K - - * compat/strftime.c: + * mac/tclMacAlloc.c: modernized TclpSysAlloc() to use temporary memory + instead of system heap memory when available (MacOS >= 7.5 and + possibly earlier, use of system heap has been discouraged for a long + time and has many disadvantages, e.g. memory isn't paged out, and + errors can very easily bring the system down); fixed crashing bug in + TclpSysRealloc() and CleanUpExitProc() where memory was being accessed + after having been deallocated; fixed memory leak in (de)allocation + code (for every block ever allocated with TclpSysAlloc, a Ptr was + leaked), if temporary memory is available, don't track allocated + memory, instead use RecoverHandle() to get Handle from Ptr, otherwise + use doubly linked list to correctly track memory and free all + allocated memory; added new option for ConfigureMemory: + MEMORY_DONT_USE_TEMPMEM, disables use of temporary memory even when it + would be available, only necessary when writing e.g. a driver (using + tcl??); increased fraction of application heap reserved for OS + routines to 512K + + * compat/strftime.c: * mac/tclMacTime.c: * mac/tclMacPort.h: - * generic/tclInt.decls: + * generic/tclInt.decls: * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h: - * generic/tclStubInit.c: timezone support for mac via - TclpGetTZName() like on windows, using an inverse timezone table - adapted from tclDate.c to map gmtoffset in seconds gotten from - the MacOS APIs to a timezone string, as there is no good way to get - this info from MacOS. I had to make up some unusual timezones and - arbitrarily decide on the most standard of the multiple choices - available for every timezone. - - * generic/tclExecute.c: workaround for a MSL bug/misfeature: for - very small floats, MSL can return errno ERANGE but a - non-zero value ( < LDBL_MIN however) - - * mac/tclMacAppInit.c: support for WASTE text library using - temporary memory, setting has no effect if WASTE is not used. - + * generic/tclStubInit.c: timezone support for mac via TclpGetTZName() + like on windows, using an inverse timezone table adapted from + tclDate.c to map gmtoffset in seconds gotten from the MacOS APIs to a + timezone string, as there is no good way to get this info from MacOS. + I had to make up some unusual timezones and arbitrarily decide on the + most standard of the multiple choices available for every timezone. + + * generic/tclExecute.c: workaround for a MSL bug/misfeature: for very + small floats, MSL can return errno ERANGE but a non-zero value (< + LDBL_MIN however) + + * mac/tclMacAppInit.c: support for WASTE text library using temporary + memory, setting has no effect if WASTE is not used. + * mac/tclMacPanic.c: removed duplicate code from generic/tclPanic.c and added that file to projects instead. * tests/all.tcl: set tcltest::singleProcess 1 as multiple processes are not available on the mac. - - * tests/cmdAH.test: access time not available on the mac, skip the + + * tests/cmdAH.test: access time not available on the mac, skip the atime touch test - + * tests/appendComp.test: * tests/cmdMZ.test: * tests/compile.test: @@ -550,20 +536,20 @@ * tests/fileName.test: * tests/lset.test: * tests/namespace.test: - * tests/tcltest.test: added missing cleanups/tests/catches that - caused tests to fail on the mac. + * tests/tcltest.test: added missing cleanups/tests/catches that caused + tests to fail on the mac. * doc/tclvars.n: doc bug, env(PWD) should be env(HOME) [Bug 463834] - + 2001-11-21 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> * tests/trace.test (trace-8.8): Corrected test for Bug 219393. * generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_DeleteCommandFromToken,CallCommandTraces): * generic/tclCmdMZ>c (Tcl_UntraceCommand): Added Tcl_Preserve and - Tcl_Release calls to prevent deletion of CommandTrace structures - until all callers are done using them, preventing memory corruption. - [Bug 453805] + Tcl_Release calls to prevent deletion of CommandTrace structures until + all callers are done using them, preventing memory corruption. [Bug + 453805] 2001-11-20 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@users.sourceforge.net> @@ -575,7 +561,7 @@ * generic/tclUtil.c (TclpGetTime): * generic/tclTest.c (GetTimesCmd): * generic/tclTimer.c (Tcl_CreateTimerHandler, TimerSetupProc, - TimerCheckProc, TimerHandlerEventProc): + (TimerCheckProc, TimerHandlerEventProc): * mac/tclMacNotify.c (Tcl_SetTimer): * mac/tclMacShLib.exp (Tcl_GetTime): * mac/tclMacTime.c (Tcl_GetTime): @@ -586,72 +572,72 @@ * win/tclWinNotify.c (Tcl_Sleep): * win/tclWinTest.c (TestwinclockCmd): * win/tclWinTime.c (TclpGetSeconds, TclpGetClicks, Tcl_GetTime): - Changed all uses of TclpGetTime to Tcl_GetTime. Added Tcl_GetTime - to the Stubs table and the library documentation. Added a - TclpGetTime in tclUtil.c for backward compatibility of - extensions. [Patch #483500, TIP#73] + Changed all uses of TclpGetTime to Tcl_GetTime. Added Tcl_GetTime to + the Stubs table and the library documentation. Added a TclpGetTime in + tclUtil.c for backward compatibility of extensions. [Patch 483500, + TIP#73] * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_TimeObjCmd): Corrected an error in the [time] command that caused incorrect results to be returned if the - total duration of all iterations exceeded 2**31 microseconds. - [Bug #478847] + total duration of all iterations exceeded 2**31 microseconds. [Bug + 478847] * generic/tclInt.decls: * generic/tclInt.h: * generic/tclStubInit.h: Reran 'make genstubs' - + 2001-11-20 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> * generic/tclBasic.c - * generic/tclCompile.h: + * generic/tclCompile.h: * generic/tclExecute.c: moving all code relative to bytecodes from tclBasic.c to tclExecute.c - the functions RecordTracebackInfo and Tcl_ExprObj went to tclExecute.c, and new interface function was defined (TclCompEvalObj). - The final objective of this sequence of moves is to provide a - clean, clear-cut interface between Tcl's core and the - compiler/engine subsystem. + The final objective of this sequence of moves is to provide a clean, + clear-cut interface between Tcl's core and the compiler/engine + subsystem. 2001-11-20 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> * generic/tclBasic.c - * generic/tclCompile.h: + * generic/tclCompile.h: * generic/tclExecute.c: factoring out of common code in tclBasic.c - (new function TclInterpReady defined: it resets the interp's - result, then checks that it hasn't been deleted and that the - nesting level is acceptable). Passed the responsibility of calling - it to the *callers* of TclEvalObjvInternal. + (new function TclInterpReady defined: it resets the interp's result, + then checks that it hasn't been deleted and that the nesting level is + acceptable). Passed the responsibility of calling it to the *callers* + of TclEvalObjvInternal. 2001-11-20 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> * generic/tclBasic.c * generic/tclExecute.c: a better variant of the previous-to-last - commit (restoring numLevels computations). The managing of the - levels now has to be done by the *callers* of TclEvalObjvInternal + commit (restoring numLevels computations). The managing of the levels + now has to be done by the *callers* of TclEvalObjvInternal 2001-11-20 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> * generic/tclExecute.c: missing variable declaration under - TCL_COMPILE_DEBUG. + TCL_COMPILE_DEBUG. 2001-11-20 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> * generic/tclExecute.c: - * generic/tclProc.c: restoring the computations of iPtr->numLevels - to the original logic (previous to buggy modifs on 2001-11-16). + * generic/tclProc.c: restoring the computations of iPtr->numLevels to + the original logic (previous to buggy modifs on 2001-11-16). 2001-11-20 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> * tools/eolFix.tcl (new-file): * unix/Makefile.in: added EOL correction for Windows bat files to - dist target. [Bug #219409] (davygrvy) + dist target. [Bug 219409] (davygrvy) - * unix/tclUnixInit.c (TclpSetInitialEncodings): update of patch - from 2001-11-16 that uses the old Tcl encoding check mechanism as - a fallback to the original. Also added a TCL_DEFAULT_ENCODING - #define (defaults to iso8859-1). Tcl will first try setlocale and - nl_langinfo, and if that fails, guess based on certain LANG|LC_* - env vars. [Patch #418645] + * unix/tclUnixInit.c (TclpSetInitialEncodings): update of patch from + 2001-11-16 that uses the old Tcl encoding check mechanism as a + fallback to the original. Also added a TCL_DEFAULT_ENCODING #define + (defaults to iso8859-1). Tcl will first try setlocale and nl_langinfo, + and if that fails, guess based on certain LANG|LC_* env vars. [Patch + 418645] 2001-11-19 David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com> @@ -667,42 +653,42 @@ * win/tclWinFCmd.c: * win/tclWin32Dll.c: * doc/file.n: - * tests/winFCmd.test: improved speed of file normalization - for Win95/98, and clarified docs on differences in file - normalization between NT/2000 and the older operating systems. - Added test to ensure normalization is correct. - + * tests/winFCmd.test: improved speed of file normalization for + Win95/98, and clarified docs on differences in file normalization + between NT/2000 and the older operating systems. Added test to ensure + normalization is correct. + 2001-11-19 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> * generic/tclBasic.c: * generic/tclParse.c: Code reorganisation. Moved all evaluation - functions from tclParse.c to tclBasic.c, so that now tclParse.c - deals exclusively with parsing and all evaluations are done by - code in tclBasic.c. The functions moved are: TclEvalObjvInternal, + functions from tclParse.c to tclBasic.c, so that now tclParse.c deals + exclusively with parsing and all evaluations are done by code in + tclBasic.c. The functions moved are: TclEvalObjvInternal, Tcl_EvalObjv, Tcl_LogCommandInfo, Tcl_EvalTokensStandard, Tcl_EvalTokens, Tcl_EvalEx, Tcl_Eval, Tcl_EvalObj and - Tcl_GlobalEvalObj. + Tcl_GlobalEvalObj. 2001-11-19 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> - * tests/trace.test (trace-8.8): Added adapted version of Bug - #219393 as new test; the test won't reliably show up the old - problem unless it is being run under something like Purify, but - something is better than nothing... + * tests/trace.test (trace-8.8): Added adapted version of [Bug 219393] + as new test; the test won't reliably show up the old problem unless it + is being run under something like Purify, but something is better than + nothing... * generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_TraceVar2, Tcl_UntraceVar2): Added missing mask bits for trace result type and a check for a nonsense flag combination. - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (TraceVarProc): Added missing test for NULL - when deleting a trace that doesn't cause an error. + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (TraceVarProc): Added missing test for NULL when + deleting a trace that doesn't cause an error. * doc/TraceVar.3: Added documentation for change due to TIP#68. - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (TraceVarInfo): Removed problematic errMsg - field from structure. + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (TraceVarInfo): Removed problematic errMsg field + from structure. (TraceVarProc): Removed references to errMsg field and changed handling of errors so that they returned a Tcl_Obj* containing the - error string. This minimizes the number of calls to the memory + error string. This minimizes the number of calls to the memory management subsystem. (TclTraceCommandObjCmd, TraceCommandProc): Removed references to errMsg field which was never used in command traces in any case. @@ -710,14 +696,14 @@ errMsg field and made variable traces register with TCL_TRACE_RESULT_OBJECT bit set. - * generic/tcl.h (TCL_TRACE_RESULT_DYNAMIC,TCL_TRACE_RESULT_OBJECT): - New constants to define how to handle the strings returned from - trace callbacks [TIP#68] + * generic/tcl.h (TCL_TRACE_RESULT_DYNAMIC,TCL_TRACE_RESULT_OBJECT): + New constants to define how to handle the strings returned from trace + callbacks [TIP#68] * generic/tclVar.c (CallTraces, Tcl_GetVar2Ex, TclGetIndexedScalar, - TclGetElementOfIndexedArray, Tcl_SetVar2Ex, TclSetIndexedScalar, - TclSetElementOfIndexedArray, Tcl_UnsetVar2, Tcl_ArrayObjCmd, - TclDeleteVars, TclDeleteCompiledLocalVars, DeleteArray, - TclVarTraceExists): Support for those new trace flags. + (TclGetElementOfIndexedArray, Tcl_SetVar2Ex, TclSetIndexedScalar, + (TclSetElementOfIndexedArray, Tcl_UnsetVar2, Tcl_ArrayObjCmd, + (TclDeleteVars, TclDeleteCompiledLocalVars, DeleteArray, + (TclVarTraceExists): Support for those new trace flags. 2001-11-19 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> @@ -725,14 +711,14 @@ 2001-11-16 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclListObj.c: removed a C++-style comment that - was inadvertently left in the source code. + * generic/tclListObj.c: removed a C++-style comment that was + inadvertently left in the source code. 2001-11-16 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - * tests/interp.test: - * generic/tclInterp.c (SlaveObjCmd): Corrected argument checking - for '$interp alias|aliases|issafe'. [Patch #479560] (thoyts, hobbs) + * tests/interp.test: + * generic/tclInterp.c (SlaveObjCmd): Corrected argument checking for + '$interp alias|aliases|issafe'. [Patch 479560] (thoyts, hobbs) * unix/tclUnixInit.c: added HAVE_LANGINFO code block. * unix/configure: regened @@ -740,17 +726,17 @@ * unix/tcl.m4: made SHLIB_LD_LIBS='${LIBS}' for FreeBSD* (meyer) Added modified version of Wagner patch to make use of nl_langinfo where possible to determine Unix platform encoding, instead of the - inflexible built-in system. This is used by default when - possible, and can be disabled with --enable-langinfo=no. - [Patch #418645] (hobbs, wagner) + inflexible built-in system. This is used by default when possible, and + can be disabled with --enable-langinfo=no. [Patch 418645] (hobbs, + wagner) 2001-11-16 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> * generic/tclCompile.h: * generic/tclExecute.c: - * generic/tclObj.c: moved Tcl_GetCommandFromObj and all defining - code for tclCmdNameType objects to tclObj.c (from tclExecute.c). - This code has nothing to do with bytecodes. + * generic/tclObj.c: moved Tcl_GetCommandFromObj and all defining code + for tclCmdNameType objects to tclObj.c (from tclExecute.c). This code + has nothing to do with bytecodes. 2001-11-16 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> @@ -760,18 +746,17 @@ * generic/tclParse.c: * generic/tclProc.c: * tests/stack.test: consolidation of duplicated code (in - TclExecuteByteCode and EvalObjv); renaming of EvalObjv to - TclEvalObjv as it is not static anymore; restored consistency of - level counts between compiled and directly evaled code. - [Bug 480896] + TclExecuteByteCode and EvalObjv); renaming of EvalObjv to TclEvalObjv + as it is not static anymore; restored consistency of level counts + between compiled and directly evaled code. [Bug 480896] 2001-11-12 David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com> * win/makefile.vc: * win/rules.vc: Small bug fixes. - * win/README: added some docs pointing to the docs in makefile.vc - for it's use. + * win/README: added some docs pointing to the docs in makefile.vc for + it's use. 2001-10-17 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@users.sourceforge.net> @@ -806,17 +791,17 @@ * tests/obj.test: * tests/string.test: * tests/stringComp.test: - Reference implementation of TIP's #22, #33 and #45. Adds the - ability of the [lindex] command to have multiple index arguments, - and adds the [lset] command. Both commands are byte-code compiled. - [Patch #471874] (work by Kenny, commited by Hobbs) + Reference implementation of TIP's #22, #33 and #45. Adds the ability + of the [lindex] command to have multiple index arguments, and adds the + [lset] command. Both commands are byte-code compiled. [Patch 471874] + (work by Kenny, commited by Hobbs) 2001-11-12 David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com> * win/buildall.vc.bat(new): * win/makefile.vc: Small fix with deriving the "OriginalFilename" - string in the .rc scripts. Added a quick batchfile for building - the entire thing. + string in the .rc scripts. Added a quick batchfile for building the + entire thing. 2001-11-12 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> @@ -827,8 +812,8 @@ 2001-11-10 Mo DeJong <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net> * unix/Makefile.in: - * win/Makefile.in: Add "make gdb" target. This target - can run tclsh inside either gdb or insight. + * win/Makefile.in: Add "make gdb" target. This target can run tclsh + inside either gdb or insight. 2001-11-10 David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com> @@ -837,20 +822,19 @@ * win/mkd.bat: * win/rmd.bat: Changes from Llyod Lim for better stability. - [Patch #456759] + [Patch 456759] 2001-11-09 David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com> * win/makefile.vc: - * win/tcl.dsp: winhelp target fixes for non-NT systems. It - seems NMAKE under these remembers changed directories during - commands. A new tcltest feature from Peter Spjuth - <peter.spjuth@space.se> to specify a pattern file from the - commandline and redirecting output to a file when not under - NT with it's scrollback console. Then it replays it, piped - through more. Added 2 new static "configurations" to tcl.dsp. - I could keep adding more, but I think we should leave it up to - the user for customizing it. + * win/tcl.dsp: winhelp target fixes for non-NT systems. It seems + NMAKE under these remembers changed directories during commands. A new + tcltest feature from Peter Spjuth <peter.spjuth@space.se> to specify a + pattern file from the commandline and redirecting output to a file + when not under NT with it's scrollback console. Then it replays it, + piped through more. Added 2 new static "configurations" to tcl.dsp. + I could keep adding more, but I think we should leave it up to the + user for customizing it. Sticky-points left: 'profile' option. @@ -860,9 +844,9 @@ * doc/StdChannels.3: * doc/file.n: * doc/tcltest.n: - * tools/man2help.tcl: + * tools/man2help.tcl: * tools/man2help2.tcl: fixed winhelp generation problems - [Patch #480268] + [Patch 480268] * unix/configure: * unix/tcl.m4: added -lc to AIX libs, fixed path to ldAix @@ -870,68 +854,64 @@ 2001-11-09 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> * tests/var.test: - * generic/tclVar.c: Corrected bug in [global] when dealing - with variable names matching :*. [Bug 480176] + * generic/tclVar.c: Corrected bug in [global] when dealing with + variable names matching :*. [Bug 480176] 2001-11-08 Mo DeJong <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net> - Fixup stack size under OSF1. [Tcl patch 474790] + Fixup stack size under OSF1. [Patch 474790] * unix/configure: Regen. - * unix/tcl.m4: Add HAVE_PTHREAD_ATTR_SETSTACKSIZE define - to EXTRA_CFLAGS to adjust initial stack size. + * unix/tcl.m4: Add HAVE_PTHREAD_ATTR_SETSTACKSIZE define to + EXTRA_CFLAGS to adjust initial stack size. 2001-11-08 Mo DeJong <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net> - Enable thread support under FreeBSD. [Tcl bug 473708] + Enable thread support under FreeBSD. [Bug 473708] * unix/configure: Regen. - * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_ENABLE_THREADS): Check for pthread functions - in libc_r and enable thread support if found. - * unix/dltest/Makefile.in: Set SHLIB_LD_LIBS and use it in - the Makefile to properly link a shared library. + * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_ENABLE_THREADS): Check for pthread functions in + libc_r and enable thread support if found. + * unix/dltest/Makefile.in: Set SHLIB_LD_LIBS and use it in the + Makefile to properly link a shared library. 2001-11-08 Mo DeJong <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net> * unix/Makefile.in: - * unix/dltest/Makefile.in: - Avoid adding libc to the LIBS variable since it - is not needed when linking with CC. If required - when linking with LD it should be done on a case - by case basis in tcl.m4. + * unix/dltest/Makefile.in: Avoid adding libc to the LIBS variable + since it is not needed when linking with CC. If required when linking + with LD it should be done on a case by case basis in tcl.m4. 2001-11-08 David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com> * win/rules.vc: - * win/makefile.vc: Fixed install target to adjust for the - different build types. Added a 'linkexten' option to link the - win extensions inside the shell when built static. Placed - win/tclAppInit.c patch in SF patch DB for approval. 'profile' - option not hooked in yet. Everything else know is done. + * win/makefile.vc: Fixed install target to adjust for the different + build types. Added a 'linkexten' option to link the win extensions + inside the shell when built static. Placed win/tclAppInit.c patch in + SF patch DB for approval. 'profile' option not hooked in yet. + Everything else know is done. * win/tcl.dsp(new): * win/tcl.dsw(new): Simple MsDev stub project files that calls - makefile.vc. Will help run Tcl in the debugger easier without + makefile.vc. Will help run Tcl in the debugger easier without confusing MsDev for where the .pdb files are. 2001-11-07 Mo DeJong <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net> * unix/Makefile.in: - * win/Makefile.in: - Print a message indicating that the user should - run "make genstubs" when the generated tclStubInit.c - file is out of date. We can't regenerate automatically - since there may be no tclsh on the system and that - would cause bootstrap problems. [Tcl bug 465874] + * win/Makefile.in: Print a message indicating that the user should run + "make genstubs" when the generated tclStubInit.c file is out of date. + We can't regenerate automatically since there may be no tclsh on the + system and that would cause bootstrap problems. [Bug 465874] 2001-11-07 Mo DeJong <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net> - Define TCL_INCLUDE_SPEC in tclConfig.sh. It should be - included by extensions that need to find Tcl include - headers in the install location. The user can override - the include install dir with --includedir so we need - to record this information for extensions. [Tcl bug 421835] - + Define TCL_INCLUDE_SPEC in tclConfig.sh. It should be included by + extensions that need to find Tcl include headers in the install + location. The user can override the include install dir with + --includedir so we need to record this information for extensions. + [Bug 421835] + * unix/configure: Regen. * unix/configure.in: Define TCL_INCLUDE_SPEC. * unix/tclConfig.sh.in: Define TCL_INCLUDE_SPEC. @@ -942,45 +922,41 @@ 2001-11-07 David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com> * win/rules.vc: - * win/makefile.vc: Dropped the NOMSVCRT macro and put it on the - option list instead. It makes more sense to me this way as - NOMSVCRT=0 would only be the valid setting. Fixed the dde and reg - extension for building static. Improved, but not perfected, the - winhelp target. + * win/makefile.vc: Dropped the NOMSVCRT macro and put it on the option + list instead. It makes more sense to me this way as NOMSVCRT=0 would + only be the valid setting. Fixed the dde and reg extension for + building static. Improved, but not perfected, the winhelp target. 2001-11-07 Mo DeJong <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net> - * win/README: Change minimum VC++ version to 5.X since - 4.X is known not to work. - Indicate that Mingw is required and building with Cygwin - gcc is not supported. Include instructions that indicate - how to install Mingw and what URLs folks should use to - download the supported version of Mingw. + * win/README: Change minimum VC++ version to 5.X since 4.X is known + not to work. + Indicate that Mingw is required and building with Cygwin gcc is not + supported. Include instructions that indicate how to install Mingw and + what URLs folks should use to download the supported version of Mingw. * win/configure: Regen. - * win/configure.in: Error out if user tries to compile the - Windows version of Tcl with Cygwin gcc. Users should compile - with Mingw gcc instead. + * win/configure.in: Error out if user tries to compile the Windows + version of Tcl with Cygwin gcc. Users should compile with Mingw gcc + instead. 2001-11-06 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclIO.c (ReadChars): Fixed bug #478856 reported by - Stuart Cassoff <stwo@users.sourceforge.net>. The bug caused loss - of fileevents when [read]ing less data from the channel than - buffered. Due to an empty input buffer the flag - CHANNEL_NEED_MORE_DATA was set but never reset, causing the I/O - system to wait for more data instead of using a timer to - synthesize fileevents and to flush the pending data out of the - buffers. + * generic/tclIO.c (ReadChars): Fixed [Bug 478856] reported by Stuart + Cassoff <stwo@users.sourceforge.net>. The bug caused loss of + fileevents when [read]ing less data from the channel than buffered. + Due to an empty input buffer the flag CHANNEL_NEED_MORE_DATA was set + but never reset, causing the I/O system to wait for more data instead + of using a timer to synthesize fileevents and to flush the pending + data out of the buffers. 2001-11-06 David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com> * win/rules.vc (new): * win/makefile.vc: Complete over/under rewrite to support numerous - build options all from the commandline itself without needing to - edit the makefile. Now requires vcvars32.bat to be run prior to - running nmake for bootstraping the environment. Fully doc'd usage - for it is in makefile.vc. Commentary welcome. Sticky points left - are: + build options all from the commandline itself without needing to edit + the makefile. Now requires vcvars32.bat to be run prior to running + nmake for bootstraping the environment. Fully doc'd usage for it is in + makefile.vc. Commentary welcome. Sticky points left are: 1) winhelp target shows errors in the converting script. 2) .rc scripts aren't getting the right #defines to build the correct @@ -992,158 +968,153 @@ 2001-11-04 Vince Darley <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net> - * library/init.tcl: made filesystem fallback proc - ::tcl::CopyDirectory more robust to vagaries of non-native - filesystems. - + * library/init.tcl: made filesystem fallback proc ::tcl::CopyDirectory + more robust to vagaries of non-native filesystems. + 2001-11-02 Vince Darley <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net> * doc/file.n: - * generic/tclIOUtil.c: updated documentation and comments - to clarify behaviour of 'file copy' wrt soft links. - + * generic/tclIOUtil.c: updated documentation and comments to clarify + behaviour of 'file copy' wrt soft links. + 2001-10-29 Vince Darley <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net> - * win/tclWinFile.c: fix to '-types {f r}' bug in - TclpMatchInDirectory (which could cause a UMR, as well as - returning wrong results). Also improved API for 'stat' - to resolve [Bug#219258]. + * win/tclWinFile.c: fix to '-types {f r}' bug in TclpMatchInDirectory + (which could cause a UMR, as well as returning wrong results). Also + improved API for 'stat' to resolve [Bug 219258]. * win/tclWin32Dll.c - * win/tclWinInt.h: addition of improved stat API to internal - lookup table. + * win/tclWinInt.h: addition of improved stat API to internal lookup + table. * tests/fileName.test: two new tests for the above bug. * generic/tclIOUtil.c: some cleanup of comments and #ifdefs - + 2001-10-29 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> - * unix/tclUnixFile.c (TclpMatchInDirectory): Argument to access() - was entryPtr->d_name instead of nativeEntry which failed when - trying to check access for files in other than the current - directory. [Bug 475941, reported by Georgios Petasis] + * unix/tclUnixFile.c (TclpMatchInDirectory): Argument to access() was + entryPtr->d_name instead of nativeEntry which failed when trying to + check access for files in other than the current directory. [Bug + 475941, reported by Georgios Petasis] 2001-10-25 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> * unix/tclUnixChan.c: Added stateUpdated member to struct TtyState. - (TtyCloseProc,TtySetOptionProc,TtyInit): Use stateUpdated member - of TtyState to decide whether it is necessary to reset a serial - port when Tcl closes it. Blindly resetting can cause Tcl to be - sent an unexpected SIGTSTP when it is executing in the background - [Bug 471374, reported by Chris Nelson] + (TtyCloseProc,TtySetOptionProc,TtyInit): Use stateUpdated member of + TtyState to decide whether it is necessary to reset a serial port when + Tcl closes it. Blindly resetting can cause Tcl to be sent an + unexpected SIGTSTP when it is executing in the background [Bug 471374, + reported by Chris Nelson] -2001-10-22 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> +2001-10-22 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> - * doc/ObjectType.3: Minor documentation fix, reported by David - N. Welton <davidw@users.sourceforge.net> directly to me. + * doc/ObjectType.3: Minor documentation fix, reported by David N. + Welton <davidw@users.sourceforge.net> directly to me. 2001-10-22 Vince Darley <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net> - * win/tclWinFCmd.c: fix to stop test suite from hanging process - under some versions of WinNT. [Bug #466102] (Kevin Kenny) - + * win/tclWinFCmd.c: fix to stop test suite from hanging process under + some versions of WinNT. [Bug 466102] (Kevin Kenny) + 2001-10-18 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - * tests/clock.test (clock-8.1): - * generic/tclDate.c (RelativeMonth): - * generic/tclGetDate.y (RelativeMonth): corrected off-by-one-day - error in clock scan with relative months and years during swing - hours. [Bug #413397, Patch #414024] (lavana) + * tests/clock.test (clock-8.1): + * generic/tclDate.c (RelativeMonth): + * generic/tclGetDate.y (RelativeMonth): corrected off-by-one-day error + in clock scan with relative months and years during swing hours. [Bug + 413397, Patch 414024] (lavana) 2001-10-18 Vince Darley <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclIOUtil.c: fix to bug in Tcl_FSChdir shown up - by recent tclkit builds. + * generic/tclIOUtil.c: fix to bug in Tcl_FSChdir shown up by recent + tclkit builds. 2001-10-17 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> * unix/tclUnixPipe.c (PipeInputProc, PipeOutputProc): do immediate - retry when error is returned with errno == EINTR. - [Bug #415131] (leger) + retry when error is returned with errno == EINTR. [Bug 415131] (leger) 2001-10-16 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - * unix/tclLoadAout.c (TclGuessPackageName): removed unused vars - and fixed warnings. [Bug #446622] (lim) + * unix/tclLoadAout.c (TclGuessPackageName): removed unused vars and + fixed warnings. [Bug 446622] (lim) 2001-10-15 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> * generic/tclProc.c: changing a memcmp to strncmp to avoid a memory - error detected by purify (thanks Jeff); modify style to agrre with - the style guide. - -2001-10-15 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> + error detected by purify (thanks Jeff); modify style to agrre with the + style guide. + +2001-10-15 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> * generic/tclInt.decls (TclExpandCodeArray,TclGetInstructionTable): - Added to internal stubs table. Tclcompiler (Tclpro project) - needs them if used as loadable package under Windows. Changed - signatures. We don't want to describe compiler internal - structures in "tclInt.h". + Added to internal stubs table. Tclcompiler (Tclpro project) needs them + if used as loadable package under Windows. Changed signatures. We + don't want to describe compiler internal structures in "tclInt.h". * generic/tclCompile.h: S.a. Removed function declarations. * generic/tclCompile.c: S.a. Adapted to changed signatures. 2001-10-15 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - * unix/configure: - * unix/configure.in: - * win/configure: - * win/configure.in: - * win/tcl.m4: reworked to be a little cleaner in comparison to - each other, and to AC_SUBST even empty vars for win/tclConfig.sh + * unix/configure: + * unix/configure.in: + * win/configure: + * win/configure.in: + * win/tcl.m4: reworked to be a little cleaner in comparison to each + other, and to AC_SUBST even empty vars for win/tclConfig.sh * generic/tclFileName.c: minor code cleanup - * generic/tcl.h: moved #define of WIN32 to tcl.h where __WIN32__ - is defined and added #ifndef check. + * generic/tcl.h: moved #define of WIN32 to tcl.h where __WIN32__ is + defined and added #ifndef check. * doc/open.n: moved all fconfigure option docs to fconfigure.n * doc/fconfigure.n: added serial config options * win/tclWinChan.c: * win/tclWinPort.h: - * win/tclWinSerial.c: added TIP #35 Windows enhancements for - serial configuration. [Patch #438509] (schroedter) + * win/tclWinSerial.c: added TIP #35 Windows enhancements for serial + configuration. [Patch 438509] (schroedter) 2001-10-15 Vince Darley <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net> * generic/tclFCmd.c: fix to memory leak in TclFileDeleteCmd on certain error conditions. * doc/FileSystem.3: fix to typo. - + 2001-10-12 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> * library/encoding/ebcdic.enc: * tools/encoding/ebcdic.txt: EBCDIC charset mapping. - [Patch #219323] (nijtmans) + [Patch 219323] (nijtmans) * library/encoding/tis-620.enc: * tools/encoding/tis-620.txt: TIS-620 charset mapping. - [Patch #467423] (poonlap) + [Patch 467423] (poonlap) * tests/http.test: added removeFile for outdata - * tests/ioCmd.test: added catch around file removal, as Windows - file locking throws errors. + * tests/ioCmd.test: added catch around file removal, as Windows file + locking throws errors. * tests/socket.test (socket-7.2): corrected to work on Win2K. 2001-10-12 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> - + * tests/compile.test: new tests for [Bug 467523]; they are only effective if TCL_MEM_DEBUG was set during compilation. 2001-10-11 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> - + * generic/tclLiteral.c (TclReleaseLiteral): insured that self-referential bytecodes are properly cleaned up on interpreter deletion [Bug 467523] (Ronnie Brunner) 2001-10-10 David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com> - * win/tclWinPort.h: #include <winsock2.h> needed to get moved - to after #include <windows.h> or wierd misunderstandings took - place when -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0400 is set for outside code that - requires knowledge of Tcl innards. General header macro magic - applied liberally... + * win/tclWinPort.h: #include <winsock2.h> needed to get moved to + after #include <windows.h> or wierd misunderstandings took place when + -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0400 is set for outside code that requires knowledge + of Tcl innards. General header macro magic applied liberally... 2001-10-10 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> @@ -1151,20 +1122,20 @@ 2001-10-09 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - * generic/tclFileName.c (Tcl_SplitPath): corrected mem leak - intro'd with VFS code where the result obj from Tcl_FSSplitPath - was not getting freed. + * generic/tclFileName.c (Tcl_SplitPath): corrected mem leak intro'd + with VFS code where the result obj from Tcl_FSSplitPath was not + getting freed. 2001-10-09 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclLiteral.c: (TclReleaseLiteral) reverted previous - patch for [Bug 467523] - cure is worse than the illness. + + * generic/tclLiteral.c: (TclReleaseLiteral) reverted previous patch + for [Bug 467523] - cure is worse than the illness. 2001-10-05 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> - + * generic/tclLiteral.c: (TclReleaseLiteral) insured that self-referential bytecodes are properly cleaned up on interpreter - deletion [Bug 467523] (Ronnie Brunner) + deletion. [Bug 467523] (Ronnie Brunner) 2001-10-04 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> @@ -1217,18 +1188,18 @@ * tools/encoding/macIceland.txt: * tools/encoding/macRoman.txt: * tools/encoding/macTurkish.txt: - Updated encodings with latest mappings from www.unicode.org. This - did not include some Mac encodings that have special multi-unichar - translations now (like symbols, dingbats and japanese). Also does - not include big5, gb or euc* as those have different formats in - the latest Unicode version that need new conversion tools. Not - all related .enc files changed as some had been updates separately. + Updated encodings with latest mappings from www.unicode.org. This did + not include some Mac encodings that have special multi-unichar + translations now (like symbols, dingbats and japanese). Also does not + include big5, gb or euc* as those have different formats in the latest + Unicode version that need new conversion tools. Not all related .enc + files changed as some had been updates separately. 2001-10-03 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> * generic/tclEvent.c (Tcl_FinalizeThread): moved freeing of - tclLibraryPath to before the thread exit handlers are called. - Slight modification to change on 2001-09-24. + tclLibraryPath to before the thread exit handlers are called. Slight + modification to change on 2001-09-24. 2001-10-01 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> @@ -1245,45 +1216,44 @@ * generic/tclCmdIL.c: * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: * generic/tclParseExpr.c: removed unnecessary inclusion of - tclCompile.h and made a small modification in (InfoBodyCmd) to - improve the isolation of the compiler/engine subsystem. + tclCompile.h and made a small modification in (InfoBodyCmd) to improve + the isolation of the compiler/engine subsystem. 2001-09-29 Vince Darley <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net> * generic/tclIOUtil.c: - * doc/FileSystem.3: corrected and clarified documentation - for 'Tcl_FSListVolumes(Proc)'. No code changes. - + * doc/FileSystem.3: corrected and clarified documentation for + 'Tcl_FSListVolumes(Proc)'. No code changes. + 2001-09-28 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> - * doc/FindExec.3: added a comment not to change the working - directory before calling Tcl_GetNameOfExecutable [Bug 219215] + * doc/FindExec.3: added a comment not to change the working directory + before calling Tcl_GetNameOfExecutable. [Bug 219215] 2001-09-28 Kevin Kenny <kennykb@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclIO.c: added two more '(ClientData)' casts - on calls to Tcl_Preserve and Tcl_Release -- ones that - Vince apparently missed. - + * generic/tclIO.c: added two more '(ClientData)' casts on calls to + Tcl_Preserve and Tcl_Release -- ones that Vince apparently missed. + 2001-09-28 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> * doc/lsort.n: Improved doc... * generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LsortObjCmd, SortCompare): Made - offset-from-end indexing work, and factored out some "magic - numbers" for easier understanding. [Bug #465674] + offset-from-end indexing work, and factored out some "magic numbers" + for easier understanding. [Bug 465674] * tests/cmdIL.test (cmdIL-1.26): Added test for offset-from-end indexing for lsort. 2001-09-28 Vince Darley <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net> * win/tclWinFCmd.c: - * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c: fix to performance issue reported - by jcw in which 'access("")' is called unnecessarily when - normalizing any absolute path. + * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c: fix to performance issue reported by jcw in + which 'access("")' is called unnecessarily when normalizing any + absolute path. * generic/tclIO.c: added '(ClientData)' cast to calls to - Tcl_(Preserve|Release) newly introduced, fixing compile - error on Windows. - + Tcl_(Preserve|Release) newly introduced, fixing compile error on + Windows. + 2001-09-27 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> * doc/FileSystem.3 (Tcl_FSLoadFile): @@ -1305,70 +1275,67 @@ * unix/tclLoadShl.c (TclpLoadFile): * win/tclWinLoad.c (TclpLoadFile): * win/tclWinFCmd.c (DoRemoveJustDirectory): More CONST poisoning - fixes from the 2001-09-24 TIP 27 changes. CONST-ified - Tcl_FSLoadFile and TclpLoadFile. Report and patch from Kevin - Kenny. [Bug 465833] + fixes from the 2001-09-24 TIP 27 changes. CONST-ified Tcl_FSLoadFile + and TclpLoadFile. Report and patch from Kevin Kenny. [Bug 465833] - * generic/tclIO.c (ChannelTimerProc): Added Tcl_Preserve() - and Tcl_Release() to fix segfault introduced by the 2001-09-26 - changes. [Bug 465494] + * generic/tclIO.c (ChannelTimerProc): Added Tcl_Preserve() and + Tcl_Release() to fix segfault introduced by the 2001-09-26 changes. + [Bug 465494] - * doc/TCL_MEM_DEBUG.3: Updated out-of-date reference to - #define GUARD_SIZE. + * doc/TCL_MEM_DEBUG.3: Updated out-of-date reference to #define + GUARD_SIZE. * doc/UpVar.3 (Tcl_UpVar,Tcl_UpVar2): * generic/tcl.decls (Tcl_UpVar,Tcl_UpVar2): * generic/tclInt.decls (TclFindProc,TclGetFrame): * generic/tclInt.h (TclFindProc,TclGetFrame,TclLookupVar, - TclPrecTraceProc,TclProcInterpProc}): + (TclPrecTraceProc,TclProcInterpProc}): * generic/tclProc.c (TclGetFrame,TclFindProc): * generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_UpVar,Tcl_UpVar2,MakeUpvar): Updated APIs in - generic/tclProc.c and generic/tclVar.c according to the guidelines - of TIP 27. [Patch 465442] + generic/tclProc.c and generic/tclVar.c according to the guidelines of + TIP 27. [Patch 465442] * generic/tclDecls.h: * generic/tclIntDecls.h: make genstubs -2001-09-26 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> - - * doc/fileevent.n: Accepted [Patch #465279] adding an example to - the fileevent manpage. Minor modifications to get a better - formatting. Report and patch by David N. Welton - <davidw@users.sourceforge.net>. - - * The changes below fix [Bug #462317] where Expect tried to read - more than was in the buffers and then blocked in the OS call as - its pty channel driver provides no blockmodeproc through which - the OS could be notified of blocking-behaviour. Because of this - the general I/O core has to take more care than usual to - preserve the semantics of non-blocking channels. - - The problem was reported by "Kevin O'Gorman" - <kevin@kosmanor.com>. - - * generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_ReadRaw): Do not read from the driver if - the channel is non-blocking and the fileevent causing the read - was generated by a timer. We do not know if there is data - available from the OS. Instead of going to the OS for more and - potentially blocking we simply signal EWOULDBLOCK to the higher - levels to cause the system to wait for true fileevents. - (GetInput): Same as before. - (ChannelTimerProc): Added set and clear of CHANNEL_TIMER_FEV. - - * generic/tclIO.h (CHANNEL_TIMER_FEV): New flag for channels. Is - set if a fileevent was generated by a timer, the channel is not - blocking and the driver did not provide a blockmodeproc. In that - case the I/O core has to be especially careful about going to - the driver for more data. +2001-09-26 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> + + * doc/fileevent.n: Accepted [Patch 465279] adding an example to the + fileevent manpage. Minor modifications to get a better formatting. + Report and patch by David N. Welton <davidw@users.sourceforge.net>. + + * The changes below fix [Bug 462317] where Expect tried to read more + than was in the buffers and then blocked in the OS call as its pty + channel driver provides no blockmodeproc through which the OS could be + notified of blocking-behaviour. Because of this the general I/O core + has to take more care than usual to preserve the semantics of + non-blocking channels. + + The problem was reported by "Kevin O'Gorman" <kevin@kosmanor.com>. + + * generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_ReadRaw): Do not read from the driver if the + channel is non-blocking and the fileevent causing the read was + generated by a timer. We do not know if there is data available from + the OS. Instead of going to the OS for more and potentially blocking + we simply signal EWOULDBLOCK to the higher levels to cause the system + to wait for true fileevents. + (GetInput): Same as before. + (ChannelTimerProc): Added set and clear of CHANNEL_TIMER_FEV. + + * generic/tclIO.h (CHANNEL_TIMER_FEV): New flag for channels. Is set + if a fileevent was generated by a timer, the channel is not blocking + and the driver did not provide a blockmodeproc. In that case the I/O + core has to be especially careful about going to the driver for more + data. 2001-09-26 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> * doc/SplitPath.3 (Tcl_GetPathType): * generic/tcl.decls (Tcl_GetPathType): * generic/tclFileName.c (Tcl_GetPathType): - * win/tclWinFile.c (TclpMatchInDirectory, NativeStat): Vince - Darley reports the 2001-09-24 TIP 27 changes left the win - directory CONST poisoned. These changes should fix that. + * win/tclWinFile.c (TclpMatchInDirectory, NativeStat): Vince Darley + reports the 2001-09-24 TIP 27 changes left the win directory CONST + poisoned. These changes should fix that. * generic/tclDecls.h: make genstubs @@ -1378,17 +1345,17 @@ * generic/tclInt.h (TclGetLong deleted): * generic/tcl.decls: * generic/tclInt.decls: - * generic/tclGet.c: Updated APIs in generic/tclGet.c - according to the guidelines of TIP 27. [Patch 464674] + * generic/tclGet.c: Updated APIs in generic/tclGet.c according to the + guidelines of TIP 27. [Patch 464674] - * generic/tclDecls.h: + * generic/tclDecls.h: * generic/tclIntDecls.h: make genstubs 2001-09-25 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> * generic/tclVar.c: removed comments referring to unused flag - TCL_PARSE_PART1. - + TCL_PARSE_PART1. + 2001-09-24 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> * doc/Concat.3: @@ -1400,37 +1367,34 @@ * generic/tclEncoding.c (OpenEncodingFile): * generic/tclMain.c (Tcl_Main): * generic/tclUtil.c: - * unix/tclLoadDl.c (TclpLoadFile): Updated APIs in - generic/tclUtil.c according to the guidelines of TIP 27. - [Patch 464553] + * unix/tclLoadDl.c (TclpLoadFile): Updated APIs in generic/tclUtil.c + according to the guidelines of TIP 27. [Patch 464553] - * generic/tclDecls.h: + * generic/tclDecls.h: * generic/tclIntDecls.h: make genstubs 2001-09-24 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> - * The change below fixes [Bug #464380]. The bug was reported by - Ronnie Brunner <rbrunner@users.sourceforge.net>. He also - provided the patch. - - * generic/tclEvent.c (Tcl_Finalize): Moved release of - 'tclLibraryPath' to Tcl_FinalizeThread. - (Tcl_FinalizeThread): See above, new place for release of - 'tclLibraryPath'. + The change below fixes [Bug 464380]. The bug was reported by Ronnie + Brunner <rbrunner@users.sourceforge.net>. He also provided the patch. + + * generic/tclEvent.c (Tcl_Finalize): Moved release of 'tclLibraryPath' + to Tcl_FinalizeThread. + (Tcl_FinalizeThread): See above, new place for release of + 'tclLibraryPath'. 2001-09-24 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> * tools/encoding/cp1252.txt: File was missing part of the encoding - [euro, ZCaron and zcaron]. + [euro, ZCaron and zcaron]. - * doc/OpenFileChnl.3: Add docs for Tcl_OutputBuffered; remove some - old changebars. + * doc/OpenFileChnl.3: Add docs for Tcl_OutputBuffered; remove some old + changebars. 2001-09-21 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): corrected - INST_STR_CMP else case for strings to pass true utf char length - to Tcl_UtfNCmp. + * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): corrected INST_STR_CMP + else case for strings to pass true utf char length to Tcl_UtfNCmp. 2001-09-20 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> @@ -1439,30 +1403,30 @@ * win/tclWinSock.c (SocketThread): corrected pointer cast for _WIN64. * win/tclWinNotify.c: removed unnecessary winsock include (it is - already in from tclWinPort.h). + already in from tclWinPort.h). - * win/tclWinPort.h: changed winsock.h include to winsock2.h. - Reverses change from 2000-11-16, but is necessary for WIN64. - Extensions should comply with defined OS words, or use #ifndef. + * win/tclWinPort.h: changed winsock.h include to winsock2.h. Reverses + change from 2000-11-16, but is necessary for WIN64. Extensions should + comply with defined OS words, or use #ifndef. 2001-09-20 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> - * tests/socket.test: removed dependence on being run from same dir - as remote.tcl, which only now needs to be in the same dir as - this file. [Bug #219326] + * tests/socket.test: removed dependence on being run from same dir as + remote.tcl, which only now needs to be in the same dir as this file. + [Bug 219326] 2001-09-19 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> * generic/tclTest.c (TestcmdtokenCmd): corrected pointer - storage/retrieval for 64bit machines. + storage/retrieval for 64bit machines. * generic/tclCmdAH.c (Tcl_FormatObjCmd): - * generic/tclScan.c (Tcl_ScanObjCmd): corrected handling of format - and scan on 64-bit machines. [Bug #412696] (rmax) + * generic/tclScan.c (Tcl_ScanObjCmd): corrected handling of format and + scan on 64-bit machines. [Bug 412696] (rmax) * unix/configure: regen'ed - * unix/tcl.m4: added --enable-64bit support for HP-11 with the - 64-bit kernel. + * unix/tcl.m4: added --enable-64bit support for HP-11 with the 64-bit + kernel. * tests/basic.test: * tests/cmdInfo.test: improved skip reporting of missing commands @@ -1471,10 +1435,10 @@ * tests/winPipe.test: removed obsolete cat16 tests - * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): fixed invalid usage - of valuePtr in TRACE_WITH_OBJ in INST_EVAL_STK case. [Bug #462594] - Changed INST_STR_CMP instruction to promote to Unicode strings - only when one of the strings is already of Unicode type. + * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): fixed invalid usage of + valuePtr in TRACE_WITH_OBJ in INST_EVAL_STK case. [Bug 462594] Changed + INST_STR_CMP instruction to promote to Unicode strings only when one + of the strings is already of Unicode type. * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): * generic/tclCompile.c (instructionTable): @@ -1486,77 +1450,75 @@ * tests/{for.test,foreach.test,if.test,while.test}: * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileForCmd, TclCompileForeachCmd, TclCompileIfCmd, TclCompileWhileCmd): Corrected the overaggressive - compiling of loop bodies enclosed in ""s. [Bug #219166] (msofer) + compiling of loop bodies enclosed in ""s. [Bug 219166] (msofer) 2001-09-19 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclExecute.c: insured that execution stack errors are - also detected at abnormal returns. + + * generic/tclExecute.c: insured that execution stack errors are also + detected at abnormal returns. 2001-09-19 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> * doc/socket.n: Added documentation to mention what happens when a - server socket is created with port=0. Removed an old change bar, - and no new change bar because Tcl has always behaved this way as - it is really a poorly-documented standards-defined OS feature. + server socket is created with port=0. Removed an old change bar, and + no new change bar because Tcl has always behaved this way as it is + really a poorly-documented standards-defined OS feature. * tests/util.test (util-8.1): Test derived from code to detect the - problem, but the test always works in the C locale, so beware if - you are maintaining the code. - * generic/tclUtil.c (TclNeedSpace): Rewrote to be UTF-8 aware. - [Bug 411825, but not that patch which would have added extra - spaces if there was a real non-ASCII space involved. ] + problem, but the test always works in the C locale, so beware if you + are maintaining the code. + * generic/tclUtil.c (TclNeedSpace): Rewrote to be UTF-8 aware. [Bug + 411825, but not that patch which would have added extra spaces if + there was a real non-ASCII space involved.] -2001-09-18 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> +2001-09-18 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> * generic/tclIOCmd.c (Tcl_PutsObjCmd): Rewritten to have saner and - faster argument handling. Fixes bug #123552. Patch provided by - Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>: #402564. + faster argument handling. [Bug 123552], [Patch 402564] (fellows) 2001-09-18 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> * unix/configure: Regen. - * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): On Linux, disable inlining when - one of the compat/*.c routines is to be linked in. [Patch 440891] + * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): On Linux, disable inlining when one + of the compat/*.c routines is to be linked in. [Patch 440891] 2001-09-17 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - * generic/tcl.h: removed forced #define USE_TCLALLOC 1 for - Windows. This means the native system allocator will be used by - default. This should be binary and source compatible with - extensions, as Tcl_Alloc is a properly stubbed function. + * generic/tcl.h: removed forced #define USE_TCLALLOC 1 for Windows. + This means the native system allocator will be used by default. This + should be binary and source compatible with extensions, as Tcl_Alloc + is a properly stubbed function. 2001-09-17 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclExecute.c: corrected small bug in [Patch 456668] - - the varFramePtr was not restored in one possible exit. + + * generic/tclExecute.c: corrected small bug in [Patch 456668] - the + varFramePtr was not restored in one possible exit. 2001-09-17 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> - + * doc/tclvars.n: * generic/tclCompile.c: * generic/tclCompile.h: * generic/tclExecute.c: * generic/tclProc.c: disabled all compile and execution tracing - functionality in standard builds; TCL_COMPILE_DEBUG is now - necessary to enable it. [Bug 451858] + functionality in standard builds; TCL_COMPILE_DEBUG is now necessary + to enable it. [Bug 451858] 2001-09-14 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> - * doc/gets.n: - * doc/read.n: - * doc/puts.n: - * doc/flush.n: - * doc/fconfigure.n: - * doc/flush.n: - * doc/eof.n: - * doc/seek.n: - * doc/tell.n: - * doc/close.n: - * doc/fileevent.n: Added references to the Tcl standard - channels. Item [219250], reported by David LeBlanc - <whisper@oz.net>. Thanks to Christopher Nelson - <chris@pinebush.com> for doing editorial work. + * doc/gets.n: + * doc/read.n: + * doc/puts.n: + * doc/flush.n: + * doc/fconfigure.n: + * doc/flush.n: + * doc/eof.n: + * doc/seek.n: + * doc/tell.n: + * doc/close.n: + * doc/fileevent.n: Added references to the Tcl standard channels. Item + [219250], reported by David LeBlanc <whisper@oz.net>. Thanks to + Christopher Nelson <chris@pinebush.com> for doing editorial work. 2001-09-13 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> @@ -1565,56 +1527,52 @@ * win/makefile.bc: * win/makefile.vc: * library/dde/pkgIndex.tcl: Fixed version numbers from bogus tcl - versions to independent versions for dde and registry packages. + versions to independent versions for dde and registry packages. 2001-09-13 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> * tests/regexp.test (regexp-20.1): * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_RegsubObjCmd): had to adjust fix from - 2001-08-06 to actually duplicate the objects in certain cases. - This is really a place where feather would have been essential. - [Bug #461322] + 2001-08-06 to actually duplicate the objects in certain cases. This is + really a place where feather would have been essential. [Bug 461322] * generic/tclUtf.c (Tcl_UtfPrev): corrected to return the proper - location when the middle of a UTF-8 byte was passed in. - [Tk Bug #450504] + location when the middle of a UTF-8 byte was passed in [Tk Bug 450504] * ChangeLog.1999: * ChangeLog: broke changes from 199x into ChangeLog.1999 to reduce - size of the main ChangeLog. + size of the main ChangeLog. 2001-09-13 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> * tests/ioCmd.test: Changed the computation of the result for - iocmd-8.1[123] so that the tests work for single- and - multi-process execution of the testsuite. Depending on the - choice of the user stdout is a tty or not and thus reports - different channel options. Fixes [460993] reported by Don - Porter. + iocmd-8.1[123] so that the tests work for single- and multi-process + execution of the testsuite. Depending on the choice of the user stdout + is a tty or not and thus reports different channel options. Fixes + [460993] reported by Don Porter. 2001-09-13 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> - * doc/ParseCmd.3: + * doc/ParseCmd.3: * generic/tcl.decls: * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_SubstObjCmd): * generic/tclDecls.h: * generic/tclParse.c: * generic/tclStubInit.c: - * tests/parse.test: Deprecate the use of Tcl_EvalTokens, replaced - by the new Tcl_EvalTokensStandard. The new function performs the - same duties but adheres to the standard return convention for Tcl + * tests/parse.test: Deprecate the use of Tcl_EvalTokens, replaced by + the new Tcl_EvalTokensStandard. The new function performs the same + duties but adheres to the standard return convention for Tcl evaluations; the deprecated function could only return TCL_OK or - TCL_ERROR, which caused [Bug 219384] and [Bug 455151]. - This patch implements [TIP 56]. - + TCL_ERROR, which caused [Bug 219384] and [Bug 455151]. This patch + implements [TIP 56]. + 2001-09-12 Mo DeJong <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net> * unix/configure: Regen. - * unix/tcl.m4: Invert the logic that checks for $GCC. - Instead of checking for "$GCC" = "no" we check for - "$GCC" != "yes" or simply swap the true and false - blocks of code in an if statement. That way if - GCC is set to "" everything will still work. [Bug 460991] + * unix/tcl.m4: Invert the logic that checks for $GCC. Instead of + checking for "$GCC" = "no" we check for "$GCC" != "yes" or simply swap + the true and false blocks of code in an if statement. That way if GCC + is set to "" everything will still work. [Bug 460991] 2001-09-12 Don Porter <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> @@ -1622,8 +1580,8 @@ * tests/lsearch.test: * tests/namespace.test: * tests/rename.test: - * tests/split.test: Corrected tests to better isolate tests in - one file from influencing tests in other files. [Bug 460591] + * tests/split.test: Corrected tests to better isolate tests in one + file from influencing tests in other files. [Bug 460591] 2001-09-12 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> @@ -1633,181 +1591,170 @@ 2001-09-11 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> * doc/OpenFileChnl.3: Added documentation for Tcl_WriteRaw and - Tcl_ReadRaw [#414929]. - - * doc/CrtChannel.3: Added documentation for Tcl_ChannelBuffered - and Tcl_GetTopChannel [#414929]. + Tcl_ReadRaw [Bug 414929]. + + * doc/CrtChannel.3: Added documentation for Tcl_ChannelBuffered and + Tcl_GetTopChannel [Bug 414929]. - * The changes below are a fix for [219253]. + * The changes below are a fix for [Bug 219253]. * tests/socket.test: Removed _most_ instances of hardwired port - numbers for listening sockets. Remaining are the ports in all - tests with constraint 'doTestsWithRemoteServer'. These seem to - be designed for a more controlled environment and are usually - skipped when running the testsuite. + numbers for listening sockets. Remaining are the ports in all tests + with constraint 'doTestsWithRemoteServer'. These seem to be designed + for a more controlled environment and are usually skipped when running + the testsuite. - * tests/io.test: Removed all instances of hardwired port numbers - for listening sockets. + * tests/io.test: Removed all instances of hardwired port numbers for + listening sockets. 2001-09-10 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - * generic/tclEvent.c (TclInExit): Corrected handling of tsd in - late stages of finalization. [Bug #419449] (darley) + * generic/tclEvent.c (TclInExit): Corrected handling of tsd in late + stages of finalization. [Bug 419449] (darley) * tests/stack.test: * generic/tclInterp.c (AliasObjCmd): Check the numLevels to ensure - that we aren't hitting some alias loop condition. [Bug #443184] + that we aren't hitting some alias loop condition. [Bug 443184] 2001-09-10 Mo DeJong <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net> * unix/configure: Regen. - * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Don't include . characters - in the Tcl library name when building on FreeBSD 3.X and later - systems. [Patch 450725] + * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Don't include . characters in the + Tcl library name when building on FreeBSD 3.X and later systems. + [Patch 450725] 2001-09-10 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> * doc/tclsh.1: - * doc/Tcl_Main.3: - * doc/CrtChannel.3: - * doc/OpenFileChnl.3: + * doc/Tcl_Main.3: + * doc/CrtChannel.3: + * doc/OpenFileChnl.3: * doc/GetStdChan.3: Enhanced the manpages with cross-references to - the new manpage and more explanations how these functions deal - with the standard channels in various situations. + the new manpage and more explanations how these functions deal with + the standard channels in various situations. - * doc/StdChannels.3: New manpage describing handling of the - standard channels by the Tcl library [402725]. + * doc/StdChannels.3: New manpage describing handling of the standard + channels by the Tcl library. [Bug 402725] 2001-09-10 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * unix/mkLinks (Tcl_FSLink): Updated to reflect 2001-08-23 - file system changes. + * unix/mkLinks (Tcl_FSLink): Updated to reflect 2001-08-23 file system + changes. * unix/tclLoadShl.c: Added #include of tclInt.h; access to Tcl - internals, notably TclpUnloadFile(), is required. Thanks to - Bob Techentin for report and patch. [Bug 459305] + internals, notably TclpUnloadFile(), is required. Thanks to Bob + Techentin for report and patch. [Bug 459305] * generic/tclInitScript.h (initScript): * win/tclWinInit.c (TCL_REGISTRY_KEY, TclpSetVariables): Removed - vestiges of Tcl's old initialization from registry variables. - [Bug 455645] + vestiges of Tcl's old initialization from registry variables. [Bug + 455645] 2001-09-10 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclInt.decls: Also added 'TclWinFlushDirtyChannels' to - the internal platform specific stub table. + * generic/tclInt.decls: Also added 'TclWinFlushDirtyChannels' to the + internal platform specific stub table. * win/tclWinFile.c (TclpObjStat): Now added the call to - 'TclWinFlushDirtyChannels' to this function. I don't know where - my head was last thursday (2001-09-06), but the call was - actually added to 'TclpObjChdir', i.e. the implementation of - [cd]. Corrected this now. Thanks to Vince Darley for spotting - this. + 'TclWinFlushDirtyChannels' to this function. I don't know where my + head was last thursday (2001-09-06), but the call was actually added + to 'TclpObjChdir', i.e. the implementation of [cd]. Corrected this + now. Thanks to Vince Darley for spotting this. 2001-09-10 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> * generic/tclProc.c: - * tests/proc.test: made [proc] bytecompile a no-op for procs - defined with _args_ as single argument and an empty body. - [FQ 451441] - + * tests/proc.test: made [proc] bytecompile a no-op for procs defined + with _args_ as single argument and an empty body. [FRQ 451441] + 2001-09-09 Mo DeJong <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net> * unix/Makefile.in: - * win/Makefile.in: Use () around variable name - instead of {}. Use TCLTEST variable directly - instead of depending on the tcltest alias. + * win/Makefile.in: Use () around variable name instead of {}. Use + TCLTEST variable directly instead of depending on the tcltest alias. 2001-09-09 David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com> * generic/tcl.h: - * generic/tclPlatDecls.h: Reminder from David Cuthbert <dacut@kanga.org> - that I hadn't finished the Borland compatibility stuff. - [Patch: 436116] + * generic/tclPlatDecls.h: Reminder from David Cuthbert + <dacut@kanga.org> that I hadn't finished the Borland compatibility + stuff. [Patch 436116] 2001-09-09 Mo DeJong <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net> - * tests/cmdAH.test: Modify cmdAH-20.5 and cmdAH-24.8 - to display the file atime or mtime results if - the test fails. + * tests/cmdAH.test: Modify cmdAH-20.5 and cmdAH-24.8 to display the + file atime or mtime results if the test fails. 2001-09-08 David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com> * win/mkd.bat: - * win/rmd.bat: made these text files, text files again. - [Patch: 451333] + * win/rmd.bat: made these text files, text files again. [Patch 451333] 2001-09-08 Mo DeJong <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net> * win/mkd.bat: - * win/rmd.bat: - Apply binary property (cvs admin -kb) to files and convert - to CRLF linefeed format to fix the VC++ build. [Bug #219409] + * win/rmd.bat: Apply binary property (cvs admin -kb) to files and + convert to CRLF linefeed format to fix the VC++ build. [Bug 219409] 2001-09-08 Vince Darley <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclInt.h: + * generic/tclInt.h: * generic/tclFCmd.c: * doc/FileSystem.3: - * generic/tclIOUtil.c: removed Tcl_FSCopyFile fallback - to channel copying, since the channels will not have - access to interpreters and the channel copying currently - requires an interp. Code which required cross-platform - copies always has interpreters, so that solves the problem. - Fixes bug in TclKit. - + * generic/tclIOUtil.c: removed Tcl_FSCopyFile fallback to channel + copying, since the channels will not have access to interpreters and + the channel copying currently requires an interp. Code which required + cross-platform copies always has interpreters, so that solves the + problem. Fixes bug in TclKit. + 2001-09-07 David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com> - * win/tcl.m4: Added -link50compat option so a VC6 linker makes - a VC5 (pre sp3) compatible import library. - [Bug: 219257] + * win/tcl.m4: Added -link50compat option so a VC6 linker makes a VC5 + (pre sp3) compatible import library. [Bug 219257] 2001-09-07 Mo DeJong <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net> * win/tclWinThrd.c (TclpThreadExit): Cast status argument to - _endthreadex to unsigned instead of DWORD to match the Win32 - function prototype. + _endthreadex to unsigned instead of DWORD to match the Win32 function + prototype. 2001-09-06 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> - * All the changes below serve to fix bug [219148] which reports a - 80x performance hit for file I/O on Win* systems. On my system - it was closer to a 120x hit. Problem report by Uwe Traum <no - email address available>. + * All the changes below serve to fix bug [219148] which reports a 80x + performance hit for file I/O on Win* systems. On my system it was + closer to a 120x hit. Problem report by Uwe Traum <no email address + available>. - The fix goes like this: The obstacle is 'FlushFileBuffers', - executed whenever Tcl writes data to the OS, as Tcl has to wait - for the disk to complete I/O, and disks are slow. We remove that - obstacle. This opens another problem, [file size] reports back - wrong numbers. So for [file size] we add the call back in. As - optimization we keep track of the channels which were written to - and flush only these. + The fix goes like this: The obstacle is 'FlushFileBuffers', executed + whenever Tcl writes data to the OS, as Tcl has to wait for the disk to + complete I/O, and disks are slow. We remove that obstacle. This opens + another problem, [file size] reports back wrong numbers. So for [file + size] we add the call back in. As optimization we keep track of the + channels which were written to and flush only these. * win/tclWinFile.c (TclpObjStat): Added a call to - 'TclWinFlushDirtyChannels'. This ensures that [file size] and - related commands report the correct size of a file even if Tcl - has recently written to it. Unixoid OS's always report the - correct size even for files with pending data, but Win* - syssystem don't. They only report what is actually on disk. + 'TclWinFlushDirtyChannels'. This ensures that [file size] and related + commands report the correct size of a file even if Tcl has recently + written to it. Unixoid OS's always report the correct size even for + files with pending data, but Win* syssystem don't. They only report + what is actually on disk. - * win/tclWinInt.h: Added declaration of - 'TclWinFlushDirtyChannels', making it available to other parts - of the tcl core. + * win/tclWinInt.h: Added declaration of 'TclWinFlushDirtyChannels', + making it available to other parts of the tcl core. * win/tclWinChan.c (TclWinFlushDirtyChannels): New, internal, - procedure. Goes through the list of open file channels and - forces the OS to flush its file buffers for all which were - written to since the last call of this function. This is an - expensive operation as Tcl has to wait for the OS to complete - actual writes to the disk. + procedure. Goes through the list of open file channels and forces the + OS to flush its file buffers for all which were written to since the + last call of this function. This is an expensive operation as Tcl has + to wait for the OS to complete actual writes to the disk. - (FileInfo): Added dirty flag required by the procedure above. + (FileInfo): Added dirty flag required by the procedure above. - (FileOutputProc): Removed flushing of file buffers, setting the - dirty flag instead. This means that the previously incurred - delays do not happen anymore. + (FileOutputProc): Removed flushing of file buffers, setting the dirty + flag instead. This means that the previously incurred delays do not + happen anymore. - (TclWinOpenFileChannel): Added initialization of 'dirty' flag. + (TclWinOpenFileChannel): Added initialization of 'dirty' flag. 2001-09-06 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> @@ -1815,48 +1762,48 @@ * tests/http.test: * library/http/pkgIndex.tcl: * library/http/http.tcl (geturl): correctly get charset parameter - and convert text according to specified encoding (if known). RFC - iso8859-1 is used by default. Also recognize Content-encoding to - see if we should do binary translation. Added a CYA -binary - switch for the cases that were missed. [Bug #219211 #219399] + and convert text according to specified encoding (if known). RFC + iso8859-1 is used by default. Also recognize Content-encoding to see + if we should do binary translation. Added a CYA -binary switch for the + cases that were missed. [Bugs 219211, 219399] * tests/ioUtil.test: changed to make better use of constraints and remove knownBug constraints that weren't valid. 2001-09-06 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * tests/unixInit.test (unixInit-3.2): Updated test to support - newer HP-UX releases that properly report euc-jp as the system - encoding for Japanese. Bug report and patch verification by Bob - Techentin. [Bug 453883] + * tests/unixInit.test (unixInit-3.2): Updated test to support newer + HP-UX releases that properly report euc-jp as the system encoding for + Japanese. Bug report and patch verification by Bob Techentin. [Bug + 453883] * doc/http.n: * library/http/*.tcl: * tools/tcl.wse.in: * tools/tclmin.wse: * unix/Makefile.in: - * win/{Mm}akefile.*: Updated http package to version 2.4, - reflecting the new features just added. + * win/{Mm}akefile.*: Updated http package to version 2.4, reflecting + the new features just added. 2001-09-06 Vince Darley <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclTest.c: tests of old-fs hooks no longer cause problems - in threaded builds. Also removed unused unload proc. + * generic/tclTest.c: tests of old-fs hooks no longer cause problems in + threaded builds. Also removed unused unload proc. * generic/tcl.decls: - * generic/tclIOUtilc: added Tcl_FSMountsChanged so that a vfs - can inform the filesystem that the filesystem epoch must be - changed (since cached filesystems may now be incorrect). Fixes - problem running tclvfs extension. - * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl: if tests aren't in a native - filesystem, then don't use pipes to run them. [Bug 458741] - + * generic/tclIOUtilc: added Tcl_FSMountsChanged so that a vfs can + inform the filesystem that the filesystem epoch must be changed (since + cached filesystems may now be incorrect). Fixes problem running tclvfs + extension. + * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl: if tests aren't in a native filesystem, + then don't use pipes to run them. [Bug 458741] + 2001-09-06 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> - * generic/tcl.decls (479 generic): - * generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_Seek,Tcl_Tell,Tcl_OutputBuffered): Added - public function to return the size of the output buffer and - reworked other channel functions to use this shared functionality - and that of Tcl_InputBuffered() too. [TIP#49, Rolf Schroedter] + * generic/tcl.decls (479 generic): + * generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_Seek,Tcl_Tell,Tcl_OutputBuffered): Added public + function to return the size of the output buffer and reworked other + channel functions to use this shared functionality and that of + Tcl_InputBuffered() too. [TIP#49, Rolf Schroedter] 2001-09-05 David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com> @@ -1864,39 +1811,36 @@ support. * win/tclWinPipe.c: - * win/tclWinPort.h: More Borland compatibility fixes. Changed - EDQUOT #define from 49 to 69. Borland had a clash as it was already - using this number. Upon advice from Helmut Giese, EDQUOT has been - found in other header files #defined as 69. - [Patch: 436116] + * win/tclWinPort.h: More Borland compatibility fixes. Changed EDQUOT + #define from 49 to 69. Borland had a clash as it was already using + this number. Upon advice from Helmut Giese, EDQUOT has been found in + other header files #defined as 69. [Patch 436116] * win/.cvsignore: A few more glob patterns added. * win/makefile.bc (new): Borland lives once more! rejoice.. * generic/tclAlloc.c: Small Borland compatibility fix. - * win/tclWinTime.c: More Borland compatibility fixes. - [Patch: 436116] + * win/tclWinTime.c: More Borland compatibility fixes. [Patch 436116] 2001-09-05 Vince Darley <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net> - * tests/winFCmd.test: made notWin2000 constraint false if not - running on Windows at all. - + * tests/winFCmd.test: made notWin2000 constraint false if not running + on Windows at all. + 2001-09-04 David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com> - * win/tclWinThrd.c: Revisited _beginthreadex() stuff. Instead - of assuming a c-runtime implimentation of _beginthreadex normal, - I reversed the logic to not assume, and use when is by explicitly + * win/tclWinThrd.c: Revisited _beginthreadex() stuff. Instead of + assuming a c-runtime implimentation of _beginthreadex normal, I + reversed the logic to not assume, and use when is by explicitly needing to add runtimes that support it such as Borland. * generic/tcl.h: - * generic/tclPlatDecls.h: Borland compatibility change so - ClientData was properly typed as a void* and TCHAR would not be - defined twice. + * generic/tclPlatDecls.h: Borland compatibility change so ClientData + was properly typed as a void* and TCHAR would not be defined twice. - * generic/tcl.h: Removed a small mistake from before. Changes to - the EXTERN macro for proper Borland compatibility will have to see - a TIP. What's this with the MS compiler: + * generic/tcl.h: Removed a small mistake from before. Changes to the + EXTERN macro for proper Borland compatibility will have to see a TIP. + What's this with the MS compiler: __declspec(dllexport) int func (int a, int b); @@ -1908,115 +1852,110 @@ 2001-09-04 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * compat/strtod.c (strtod): Fixed failure to handle expressions - like 3eq2 and failure to set errno on overflow. [Bug 440894] + * compat/strtod.c (strtod): Fixed failure to handle expressions like + 3eq2 and failure to set errno on overflow. [Bug 440894] 2001-09-04 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> * generic/tclProc.c: - * tests/proc.test: made [proc] check that formal args have - simple names [Bug 458548] + * tests/proc.test: made [proc] check that formal args have simple + names. [Bug 458548] 2001-09-04 Vince Darley <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net> - Minor bug fixes in filesystem, plus small vfs changes as a - result of enabling the test filesystem to work properly. + Minor bug fixes in filesystem, plus small vfs changes as a result of + enabling the test filesystem to work properly. * tests/fileName.test: ensure new test cleans up after itself - * doc/filename.n: - * generic/tclFileName.c: improved Mac path handling and document - why [Bug: 421842] on Windows handling of UNC paths is not valid. - Documentation and code now much clearer on what is and is not a - UNC path. + * doc/filename.n: + * generic/tclFileName.c: improved Mac path handling and document why + [Bug 421842] on Windows handling of UNC paths is not valid. + Documentation and code now much clearer on what is and is not a UNC + path. * doc/FileSystem.3: * unix/tclUnixPipe.c: * generic/tclFCmd.c: - * generic/tclIOUtil.c: fixed error message, fixed [Bug: 453512] - about dangerous use of tmpnam, replaced with mkstemp. - Documented all the changes. - * generic/tclTest.c: made test vfs fully functional as a - 'reporting filesystem'. + * generic/tclIOUtil.c: fixed error message, fixed [Bug 453512] about + dangerous use of tmpnam, replaced with mkstemp. Documented all the + changes. + * generic/tclTest.c: made test vfs fully functional as a 'reporting + filesystem'. * generic/tcl.stubs: * generic/tcl.h: - * generic/tclInt.h: + * generic/tclInt.h: * generic/tclIOUtil.c: * doc/file.n: - * various platform-specific 'TclpLoadFile': fixed comments about - unload behaviour, and completed objectification of loading. - Required change to Tcl_Filesystem lookup table, so incompatible - with 8.4a3, but not older versions of Tcl. The change also - allows 'link' and 'reporting' filesystems to function correctly - when loading files. Implementation of 'file delete -force' - copes with case where cwd is inside the directory. Moved - overlooked Tcl_FSGetPathType from internal to external API. - Made sure filesystems which are registered and then unregistered - are only freed when all references to them are gone. + * various platform-specific 'TclpLoadFile': fixed comments about + unload behaviour, and completed objectification of loading. Required + change to Tcl_Filesystem lookup table, so incompatible with 8.4a3, but + not older versions of Tcl. The change also allows 'link' and + 'reporting' filesystems to function correctly when loading files. + Implementation of 'file delete -force' copes with case where cwd is + inside the directory. Moved overlooked Tcl_FSGetPathType from internal + to external API. Made sure filesystems which are registered and then + unregistered are only freed when all references to them are gone. Documented changes. - * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c: when deleting directories recursively, - make sure permissions are ok. Together with the above, this - fixes [Bug: 219139] - * tests/winFCmd.test: differentiated test results for win2k - versus not. This fixes [Bug: 219239] - * tests/fCmd.test: added tests for 'file delete -force' where - the cwd is inside, and when permissions are inadequate. - + * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c: when deleting directories recursively, make sure + permissions are ok. Together with the above, this fixes [Bug 219139] + * tests/winFCmd.test: differentiated test results for win2k versus + not. This fixes [Bug: 219239] + * tests/fCmd.test: added tests for 'file delete -force' where the cwd + is inside, and when permissions are inadequate. + 2001-09-04 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclCompile.c: fixed incorrect operands for INST_LIST - [Bug: 458241] (David Cuthbert, dacut@users.sourceforge.net) + * generic/tclCompile.c: fixed incorrect operands for INST_LIST [Bug + 458241] (David Cuthbert, dacut@users.sourceforge.net) 2001-09-03 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): fixed missing comma - in debug macro. + * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): fixed missing comma in + debug macro. 2001-09-03 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> - * doc/ExprLongObj.3: Fixed error in documentation of argument type - to Tcl_ExprObj [Bug: 457435] + * doc/ExprLongObj.3: Fixed error in documentation of argument type to + Tcl_ExprObj [Bug 457435] 2001-09-02 David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com> * win/tclWinThrd.c: Portability fix for Cygwin who's c-runtime, not surprisingly, doesn't have the MSVCRT specific _beginthreadex / - _endthreadex pair. This might have to be revisited for proper - Borland, lcc32, Watcom and other support as well. - [Patch: 444255] + _endthreadex pair. This might have to be revisited for proper Borland, + lcc32, Watcom and other support as well. [Patch 444255] * win/tclWinThrd.c: Moved FinalizeConditionEvent() proto to within the main #ifdef TCL_THREADS block to avoid mingw warning about it being there but unused. - * win/makefile.vc: Added -Zl (zee el) to tclStubLib.c compile line - to make sure the tclstub84.lib static library is built without - requiring a specific C-runtime library at link-time for the end-use - developer. It has been noted on c.l.t that this trips many first - time users trying to make extensions. - [Patch: 403533] + * win/makefile.vc: Added -Zl (zee el) to tclStubLib.c compile line to + make sure the tclstub84.lib static library is built without requiring + a specific C-runtime library at link-time for the end-use developer. + It has been noted on c.l.t that this trips many first time users + trying to make extensions. [Patch 403533] 2001-08-31 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> * generic/tclInt.h: added TclCompileListCmd header * generic/tclBasic.c: added TclCompileListCmd compile proc - * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileListCmd): function to compile - the 'list' command at parse time. - * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): definition of - INST_LIST bytecode. + * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileListCmd): function to compile the + 'list' command at parse time. + * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): definition of INST_LIST + bytecode. - * doc/StringObj.3: added words of warning to use Tcl_ResetResult - with the Tcl_Append* functions. + * doc/StringObj.3: added words of warning to use Tcl_ResetResult with + the Tcl_Append* functions. * tests/compile.test: added compile-11.* interp result checks - * generic/tclUtil.c (TclGetIntForIndex): added Tcl_ResetResult - before Tcl_AppendStringsToObj to prevent shared object crash when - called from bcc instruction. The Tcl_Append* calls that append to - the result object that are invoked by bcc insts must remember to - call Tcl_ResetResult because the bcc doesn't do this for us. - [Bug #456892] + * generic/tclUtil.c (TclGetIntForIndex): added Tcl_ResetResult before + Tcl_AppendStringsToObj to prevent shared object crash when called from + bcc instruction. The Tcl_Append* calls that append to the result + object that are invoked by bcc insts must remember to call + Tcl_ResetResult because the bcc doesn't do this for us. [Bug 456892] 2001-08-30 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - * generic/tclIndexObj.c: fixed some casting problems that upset - Crays. [Bug #419528] (andreasen) + * generic/tclIndexObj.c: fixed some casting problems that upset Crays. + [Bug 419528] (andreasen) 2001-08-30 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> @@ -2024,120 +1963,116 @@ 2001-08-30 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclExecute.c: allow cached fully-qualified command names - to be usable from different namespaces within the same interpreter - without forcing a new lookup. This speeds up scripts that pass - command names in variables ("this" in some OO packages). - [Patch 456668]. + * generic/tclExecute.c: allow cached fully-qualified command names to + be usable from different namespaces within the same interpreter + without forcing a new lookup. This speeds up scripts that pass command + names in variables ("this" in some OO packages). [Patch 456668] 2001-08-30 Vince Darley <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net> - Further fs updates. After examining the most common Tcl - extensions (TclX, BLT, Tk, TclPro, Mktclapp), it has been - determined that only TclpGetCwd and the Access/Stat/Open - insert/delete hooks of the internal fs functions are ever used. - The remaining functions from Tcl's internal interfaces have - therefore been removed, since Tcl now exports a more suitable - public API (Tcl_FS...) - + Further fs updates. After examining the most common Tcl extensions + (TclX, BLT, Tk, TclPro, Mktclapp), it has been determined that only + TclpGetCwd and the Access/Stat/Open insert/delete hooks of the + internal fs functions are ever used. The remaining functions from + Tcl's internal interfaces have therefore been removed, since Tcl now + exports a more suitable public API (Tcl_FS...) + * generic/tclInt.stubs: - * generic/tclInt.h: updated for removed internal functions. - Some new internal functions have been put in tclInt.h (and - not exported in the stub table because good public equivalents - exist). - * generic/tclTest.c: some test functions used the internal private - APIs. These tests have been retained, but modified to use - public APIs. Also objectified the internal filesystem tests. - * win/tclWinFile.c: removed TclpStat, TclpAccess and refactored - code to use NativeAccess, NativeStat. This should speed up - stat, access and glob commands. - * win/tclWinFCmd.c: removed all TclpCopy/Rename/Delete - File/Directory string-based procedures which aren't used any more. - Improved efficiency of some other procedures. Ensure that filename - conversions with a NULL interp do not crash Tcl. + * generic/tclInt.h: updated for removed internal functions. Some new + internal functions have been put in tclInt.h (and not exported in the + stub table because good public equivalents exist). + * generic/tclTest.c: some test functions used the internal private + APIs. These tests have been retained, but modified to use public APIs. + Also objectified the internal filesystem tests. + * win/tclWinFile.c: removed TclpStat, TclpAccess and refactored code + to use NativeAccess, NativeStat. This should speed up stat, access and + glob commands. + * win/tclWinFCmd.c: removed all TclpCopy/Rename/Delete File/Directory + string-based procedures which aren't used any more. Improved + efficiency of some other procedures. Ensure that filename conversions + with a NULL interp do not crash Tcl. * mac/tclMacFCmd.c: wrapped long lines and cleaned up - TclpObjNormalizePath, removed all TclpCopy/Rename/Delete + TclpObjNormalizePath, removed all TclpCopy/Rename/Delete File/Directory string-based procedures which aren't used any more. * mac/tclMacFile.c: removed obsolete TclpStat, TclpAccess, TclpChdir, etc. * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c: removed use of TclpAccess, removed all TclpCopy/Rename/Delete File/Directory string-based procedures which aren't used any more. - * unix/tclUnixFile.c: removed obsolete TclpStat, TclpAccess, TclpChdir, - etc. + * unix/tclUnixFile.c: removed obsolete TclpStat, TclpAccess, + TclpChdir, etc. * tcl(Unix|Mac|Win)Chan.c: objectified TclpOpenFileChannel. * various 'load' implementations all objectified. * generic/tclFileName.c: removed redundant code. * generic/tclIOUtil.c: removed TclStat, TclAccess, TclpListVolumes. - Fix to MatchInDirectory at the root of a volume. Also improved - some documentation, and improved default path joining behaviour - for virtual filesystems, especially regarding '~'. + Fix to MatchInDirectory at the root of a volume. Also improved some + documentation, and improved default path joining behaviour for virtual + filesystems, especially regarding '~'. * tests/fileName.test: added tests to check for bugs fixed above. * doc/FileName.3: improved documentation - + 2001-08-30 David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com> * generic/tclAsync.c: * generic/tclEvent.c: * generic/tclInt.h: Improper cleanup of asyncMutex in tclAsync.c - repaired. TclFinalizeSynchronization() was trying to remove a - registered mutex that was dumped earlier when the TSD it was stored - in was cleared. This was only surfacing on *nix. Windows was being - masked by mutexes not actually being returned to the system! That - was repaired in a previous patch. Needed to add a private + repaired. TclFinalizeSynchronization() was trying to remove a + registered mutex that was dumped earlier when the TSD it was stored in + was cleared. This was only surfacing on *nix. Windows was being masked + by mutexes not actually being returned to the system! That was + repaired in a previous patch. Needed to add a private TclFinalizeAsync() to tclAsync.c and called from Tcl_FinalizeThread(). - Pheww.. Is this done yet? - [Bug: 414419] requested by Rob Ratcliff <rrr6399@futuretek.com> + Pheww.. Is this done yet? [Bug 414419] requested by Rob Ratcliff + <rrr6399@futuretek.com> 2001-08-28 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclPushVarName): noted 'static' defn. - [Bug #453872] + [Bug 453872] 2001-08-26 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> * library/auto.tcl (tcl_findLibrary): * tests/unixInit.test (unixInit-2.{1,9}): * unix/tclUnixInit.c (TclpInitLibraryPath): - * win/tclWinInit.c (TclpInitLibraryPath): Corrected - inconsistency between the search path for script libraries and - the directory name $DISTNAME into which distributions built - by 'make test' unpack. [Bug 455642] + * win/tclWinInit.c (TclpInitLibraryPath): Corrected inconsistency + between the search path for script libraries and the directory name + $DISTNAME into which distributions built by 'make test' unpack. [Bug + 455642] 2001-08-24 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> * tests/stringComp.test: added string-1.3 * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileStringCmd): changed to return TCL_OUT_LINE_COMPILE instead of TCL_ERROR when compiling and an - unknown string method is called. This is necessary as the string + unknown string method is called. This is necessary as the string command may be never called, or not until 'string' is redefined. 2001-08-24 Vince Darley <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net> * doc/glob.n: documented windows-style path issue with glob. - [Bug: 219392] + [Bug 219392] * doc/filename.n: documented windows path/file length limitation. - [Bug: 454597] + [Bug 454597] 2001-08-24 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * tests/unixInit.test (unixInit-2.9): Corrected expected result - to match Tcl's quirky construction of its init library path. + * tests/unixInit.test (unixInit-2.9): Corrected expected result to + match Tcl's quirky construction of its init library path. 2001-08-23 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> - * win/tclWinPipe.c (BuildCommandLine): Fixed tcl Bug - [432499]. Part of the code used the non-absolute path to the - executable to determine quoting. This failed if the absolute - path contained spaces, but the application name itself not. This - bug caused no trouble on Win NT 5, but does for other variants - in the Win* family. Report and fix due to Ken Poole - <kenpoole@users.sourceforge.net>. + * win/tclWinPipe.c (BuildCommandLine): Fixed [Bug 432499]. Part of the + code used the non-absolute path to the executable to determine + quoting. This failed if the absolute path contained spaces, but the + application name itself not. This bug caused no trouble on Win NT 5, + but does for other variants in the Win* family. Report and fix due to + Ken Poole <kenpoole@users.sourceforge.net>. 2001-08-23 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> * unix/configure: - * unix/tcl.m4: added QNX-6 build support. [Bug #219410] (loverso) + * unix/tcl.m4: added QNX-6 build support. [Bug 219410] (loverso) * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c: * generic/tclIOUtil.c: @@ -2145,97 +2080,93 @@ 2001-08-23 Vince Darley <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net> - Variety of small filesystem and vfs issues fixed or improved. - The new fs code allows many new opportunities for efficiency - improvements through the objectified API. The main changes - integrated here are such efficiency improvements. Some - limitations of the original implementation have also now been - lifted. Meanwhile a variety of fs bugs (some old, some new) - have also been fixed. - - * generic/tclFileName.c: Made Tcl_FSSplitPath more efficient, - and removed some static string-based procedures which are no - longer used. Much more objectification. Tcl_FSJoinPath - is now very efficient and more aware of virtual filesystems. - Clarified where the Mac-specific code attempts to interpret - Unix-style paths. Modified TclDoGlob to use lstat not - access to fix [Bug: 434876, L. Virden] + Variety of small filesystem and vfs issues fixed or improved. The new + fs code allows many new opportunities for efficiency improvements + through the objectified API. The main changes integrated here are such + efficiency improvements. Some limitations of the original + implementation have also now been lifted. Meanwhile a variety of fs + bugs (some old, some new) have also been fixed. + + * generic/tclFileName.c: Made Tcl_FSSplitPath more efficient, and + removed some static string-based procedures which are no longer used. + Much more objectification. Tcl_FSJoinPath is now very efficient and + more aware of virtual filesystems. Clarified where the Mac-specific + code attempts to interpret Unix-style paths. Modified TclDoGlob to use + lstat not access to fix [Bug 434876] (L. Virden) + * tcl(Win|Unix|Mac)FCmd.c: * tcl(Win|Unix|Mac)File.c: replaced TclpListVolumes with - TclpObjListVolumes with different signature, updated code due - to more efficient signature of Tcl_FSGetTranslatedPath. Used - cached native paths where possible to improve efficiency -- - this was completed on MacOS, but on Unix and Win the traversal - functions make the task much more complex, so there are still - some improvements possible there. Removed unused - TclpNormalizePath which had been left in tclWinFCmd.c. - Objectified all 'file attributes' functions. Fixed the new - [Bug:451571, Bruce Stephens] which is most obvious on Unix, - but could occur on MacOS or Windows. This bug actually existed - in Tcl 8.3.x but was only made obvious by the recent filesystem - overhaul when the code was exercised more heavily. - * tests/fileName.test: Three new tests to exercise the above bug, - and make sure it is fixed correctly. - * unix/tclUnixFile.c: avoid panic in glob when a link - doesn't point anywhere. It would probably be good to define - exactly what Tcl should do in circumstances like these, and - make sure mac/win/unix all behave accordingly. [Bug: 417111, - Hemang Lavana]. Also fixed misleading/obsolete comment in the code. - * generic/tcl.stubs: changed signature of Tcl_FSGetTranslatedPath - and added Tcl_FSGetTranslatedStringPath. + TclpObjListVolumes with different signature, updated code due to more + efficient signature of Tcl_FSGetTranslatedPath. Used cached native + paths where possible to improve efficiency -- this was completed on + MacOS, but on Unix and Win the traversal functions make the task much + more complex, so there are still some improvements possible there. + Removed unused TclpNormalizePath which had been left in tclWinFCmd.c. + Objectified all 'file attributes' functions. Fixed the new [Bug + 451571, Bruce Stephens] which is most obvious on Unix, but could occur + on MacOS or Windows. This bug actually existed in Tcl 8.3.x but was + only made obvious by the recent filesystem overhaul when the code was + exercised more heavily. + * tests/fileName.test: Three new tests to exercise the above bug, and + make sure it is fixed correctly. + * unix/tclUnixFile.c: avoid panic in glob when a link doesn't point + anywhere. It would probably be good to define exactly what Tcl should + do in circumstances like these, and make sure mac/win/unix all behave + accordingly. [Bug 417111] (Hemang Lavana). Also fixed + misleading/obsolete comment in the code. + * generic/tcl.stubs: changed signature of Tcl_FSGetTranslatedPath and + added Tcl_FSGetTranslatedStringPath. These changes allow further optimisations in the FS code. - * generic/tcl.h: changed signature of Tcl_FSListVolumes so that - it doesn't require a Tcl interpreter plus result. Renamed - Tcl_FSReadLink to Tcl_FSLink with additional argument so - we can support making links in the future. [Patch: 450340] - * generic/tclInt.h: - added declaration for TclpObjListVolumes. Objectified - internal call signatures for 'file attributes' functions, and - added an internal objectified get path type function. - * generic/tclIOUtil.c: added the moved function TclpListVolumes - which calls platform specific code (needed for backwards - compatibility), and improved efficiency of parts of the FS - (particularly file normalization). Much less copying and - memory allocation is required now. added new GetPathType - so that changes in 'file volumes' can actually affect files' - types, and objectified more code. Made current code work - with test suite artificially changing current platform. + * generic/tcl.h: changed signature of Tcl_FSListVolumes so that it + doesn't require a Tcl interpreter plus result. Renamed Tcl_FSReadLink + to Tcl_FSLink with additional argument so we can support making links + in the future. [Patch: 450340] + * generic/tclInt.h: added declaration for TclpObjListVolumes. + Objectified internal call signatures for 'file attributes' functions, + and added an internal objectified get path type function. + * generic/tclIOUtil.c: added the moved function TclpListVolumes which + calls platform specific code (needed for backwards compatibility), and + improved efficiency of parts of the FS (particularly file + normalization). Much less copying and memory allocation is required + now. added new GetPathType so that changes in 'file volumes' can + actually affect files' types, and objectified more code. Made current + code work with test suite artificially changing current platform. Added 'static' keywords where required. * generic/tclIO.c: - * generic/tclTest.c: Added 'static' keywords, fixing - [Bug: 453872, Bob Techentin] - * generic/tclCmdAH.c: file command implementation updated for - API changes, removed unnecessary special-case SplitPath static - function, since it no longer helps prevent code duplication. - Moved setting of interpreter result to each individual location - that actually required it, to avoid very large code separation - between reading and setting the result. - * doc/FileSystem.3: updated documentation for the new or - changed APIs, and clarified some issues. + * generic/tclTest.c: Added 'static' keywords, fixing [Bug 453872] (Bob + Techentin) + * generic/tclCmdAH.c: file command implementation updated for API + changes, removed unnecessary special-case SplitPath static function, + since it no longer helps prevent code duplication. Moved setting of + interpreter result to each individual location that actually required + it, to avoid very large code separation between reading and setting + the result. + * doc/FileSystem.3: updated documentation for the new or changed APIs, + and clarified some issues. * doc/SplitPath.3: added pointer to newer APIs in FileSystem.3 - * doc/filename.n: clarified current implementation of tilde - support on Mac/Win. [Bug:453514, Sergey Kuzmin] - * doc/glob.n: improved documentation for '-directory' and '-path' + * doc/filename.n: clarified current implementation of tilde support on + Mac/Win. [Bug 453514] (Sergey Kuzmin) + * doc/glob.n: improved documentation for '-directory' and '-path' options. - - There are now many private, obsolete, platform-specific 'Tclp' - string-based filesystem APIs which could be removed. We should - check whether any of these are used by extensions and, at least - in Tcl 9, remove them. - - The above changes signify a ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** - with 8.4a3, since signatures of two functions in the new API - have changed, but not with older versions of Tcl. + + There are now many private, obsolete, platform-specific 'Tclp' + string-based filesystem APIs which could be removed. We should check + whether any of these are used by extensions and, at least in Tcl 9, + remove them. + + The above changes signify a ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** with + 8.4a3, since signatures of two functions in the new API have changed, + but not with older versions of Tcl. 2001-08-23 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> - * generic/tclBinary.c (FormatNumber): Extract a long from the - object and not an int, to stop [binary format] from being unable - to format some input numbers on architectures where sizeof(int) is - less than sizeof(long) (particularly Alpha.) [tiprender Bug #441861] + * generic/tclBinary.c (FormatNumber): Extract a long from the object + and not an int, to stop [binary format] from being unable to format + some input numbers on architectures where sizeof(int) is less than + sizeof(long) (particularly Alpha). [tiprender Bug 441861] - * tests/format.test: Converted conditional execution of tests into - a test constraint. + * tests/format.test: Converted conditional execution of tests into a + test constraint. 2001-08-22 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> @@ -2243,90 +2174,88 @@ * win/makefile.vc: updated install target for dde1.2 * doc/dde.n: fixed dde man page (which was totally incorrect). * tests/winDde.test: - * win/tclWinDde.c (Tcl_DdeObjCmd): added -binary option to dde - request command to allow for returning binary data. [Bug #227482] + * win/tclWinDde.c (Tcl_DdeObjCmd): added -binary option to dde request + command to allow for returning binary data. [Bug 227482] Updated dde to 1.2 - * tests/tcltest.test: added unixExecs constraint to files that - used 'grep' in the test. [Bug #453143] + * tests/tcltest.test: added unixExecs constraint to files that used + 'grep' in the test. [Bug 453143] + + * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl: fixed stdio constraint test. [Patch + 454050] (stanton) + Simplified unixExecs constraint test. - * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl: fixed stdio constraint test. - [Patch #454050] (stanton) - Simplified unixExecs constraint test. - 2001-08-22 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * tests/ioUtil.test (ioUtil-3.*): Corrected errors in tests - revealed by fix of overagressive compiler. [Bug 451200] + * tests/ioUtil.test (ioUtil-3.*): Corrected errors in tests revealed + by fix of overagressive compiler. [Bug 451200] 2001-08-21 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> * generic/tclCompCmds.c: - * tests/compile.test: Fixed overagressive compilation of [catch]: - it was catching errors at substitution time. [Bug #219184] - + * tests/compile.test: Fixed overagressive compilation of [catch]: it + was catching errors at substitution time. [Bug 219184] + 2001-08-21 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - * tests/tcltest.test (tcltest-12.2): fixed test that would break - when env vars weren't Tcl list friendly [Patch #454046] (stanton) + * tests/tcltest.test (tcltest-12.2): fixed test that would break when + env vars weren't Tcl list friendly [Patch 454046] (stanton) 2001-08-20 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - * library/http/http.tcl (geturl): added port number to Host: - header to comply with HTTP/1.1 spec (RFC 2068). [Bug #452217] + * library/http/http.tcl (geturl): added port number to Host: header to + comply with HTTP/1.1 spec (RFC 2068). [Bug 452217] 2001-08-16 David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com> * tools/tcl.wse.in: * tools/tcl.hpj.in: * win/tcl.hpj.in: Removed -kb storage in CVS to ensure these text - files are checked-out in the translation mode CVS is in. Setting - these as binary as part of an effort to make sure they are always - in CRLF, no matter what the CVS translation, is bypassing how CVS - works and is confusing. + files are checked-out in the translation mode CVS is in. Setting these + as binary as part of an effort to make sure they are always in CRLF, + no matter what the CVS translation, is bypassing how CVS works and is + confusing. - * tools/genStubs.tcl: Removed LF-only output. Having to reconvert - back to CRLF before committing to CVS was giving me a headache. - [Bug: 451333] + * tools/genStubs.tcl: Removed LF-only output. Having to reconvert + back to CRLF before committing to CVS was giving me a headache. [Bug + 451333] * win/makefile.vc: replaced $(WINDIR) with $(include32) for the - .rc.res inference rule. winver.h wasn't getting included. - [Bug: 445630] + .rc.res inference rule. winver.h wasn't getting included. [Bug 445630] 2001-08-14 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> * generic/tclBasic.c: make the intial maxNestingDepth of an - interpreter be MAX_NESTING_DEPTH instead of a hardwired value - [Bug: 232564] + interpreter be MAX_NESTING_DEPTH instead of a hardwired value. [Bug + 232564] 2001-08-13 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> - * tests/trace.test: Corrected test numbers [Bug: 449794] + * tests/trace.test: Corrected test numbers. [Bug 449794] 2001-08-12 Mo DeJong <mdejong@redhat.com> * unix/configure: Regen. * unix/configure.in: - * unix/tcl.m4: Use GCC variable set by AC_PROG_CC instead - of defining our own using_gcc variable. + * unix/tcl.m4: Use GCC variable set by AC_PROG_CC instead of defining + our own using_gcc variable. 2001-08-11 Vince Darley <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net> Variety of small issues introduced by the vfs code fixed: * generic/tclIOUtil.c: uninitialised read. - * generic/tclFCmd.c: possible memory leak in file delete - with error condition. + * generic/tclFCmd.c: possible memory leak in file delete with error + condition. 2001-08-10 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclVar.c: + * generic/tclVar.c: * tests/trace.test: Insure that [array] traces work correctly for - undefined variables [Bug: 449094] + undefined variables. [Bug 449094] 2001-08-09 Mo DeJong <mdejong@redhat.com> - * unix/Makefile.in: Delete the unused getcwd.o - target. This fixes bug #440942. + * unix/Makefile.in: Delete the unused getcwd.o target. [Bug 440942] 2001-08-08 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> @@ -2340,8 +2269,8 @@ * library/reg/pkgIndex.tcl: * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl: * library/tcltest/pkgIndex.tcl: Added checks for package dependencies. - Bumped patchlevels of changed packages: http 2.3.2, msgcat 1.2.2, - opt 0.4.3, tcltest 2.0.1. [Patch 448931] + Bumped patchlevels of changed packages: http 2.3.2, msgcat 1.2.2, + opt 0.4.3, tcltest 2.0.1. [Patch 448931] * README: * generic/tcl.h: @@ -2351,9 +2280,9 @@ * unix/tcl.spec: * win/README.binary: * win/configure: - * win/configure.in: Bumped up patchlevel to 8.4a4 to distinguish - CVS snapshots from the 8.4a3 release. This does not necessarily - mean there will be an 8.4a4 release. [Bug 448938]. + * win/configure.in: Bumped up patchlevel to 8.4a4 to distinguish CVS + snapshots from the 8.4a3 release. This does not necessarily mean there + will be an 8.4a4 release. [Bug 448938] 2001-08-06 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> @@ -2361,64 +2290,63 @@ * changes: * README: - * mac/README: + * mac/README: * unix/README: * win/README.binary: updated for 8.4a3 release - * generic/tclFileName.c (Tcl_FSSplitPath): update to Tcl style - guide. + * generic/tclFileName.c (Tcl_FSSplitPath): update to Tcl style guide. - * generic/tclFCmd.c (FileCopyRename): fixed mem leak in - introduction of vfs code where a new Tcl_Obj wasn't freed. + * generic/tclFCmd.c (FileCopyRename): fixed mem leak in introduction + of vfs code where a new Tcl_Obj wasn't freed. - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_RegexpObjCmd, Tcl_RegsubObjCmd): - reordered the retrieval of arguments to avoid shimmering bug when - the pattern and string referenced the same object. + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_RegexpObjCmd, Tcl_RegsubObjCmd): reordered + the retrieval of arguments to avoid shimmering bug when the pattern + and string referenced the same object. * unix/configure: regenerated - * unix/tcl.m4: added GNU (HURD) configuration target. (brinkmann) - [Patch: #442974] + * unixE/tcl.m4: added GNU (HURD) configuration target. + [Patch 442974] (brinkmann) * win/README: made note of URL for Windows compilation notes - * win/tclWinThrd.c (TclpFinalizeMutex, TclpFinalizeCondition): - added DeleteCriticalSection calls for cleanup [Patch: #419683] + * win/tclWinThrd.c (TclpFinalizeMutex, TclpFinalizeCondition): added + DeleteCriticalSection calls for cleanup [Patch 419683] * unix/tclUnixPipe.c (TclpCreateTempFile): fixed use of tmpnam, - which is dangerous. [Patch: #442636] (lim) + which is dangerous. [Patch 442636] (lim) The use of tmpnam in TclpTempFileName must still be changed. * tests/http.test (http-4.14): fixed variable error return. - [Bug: 424252] + [Bug 424252] 2001-08-03 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> * win/configure: regenerated * win/tcl.m4: fixed DLLSUFFIX definition to always be ${DBGX}.dll. - This is necessary for TEA compliant builds that build shared - against a static-built Tcl. + This is necessary for TEA compliant builds that build shared against a + static-built Tcl. * win/Makefile.in ($(TCLSH)): added $(TCL_STUB_LIB_FILE) to build target, otherwise it wouldn't get generated in a static build. 2001-08-06 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclIOCmd.c (Tcl_GetsObjCmd): Applied patch from SF item - [442665] to fix the bug reported by it. The function can corrupt - a freed object if it is called with objc == 3. This is because - it retrieves resultPtr and does not increment its reference - count, but then calls Tcl_ObjSetVar2, which causes the retrieved - resultPtr object to be released. - + * generic/tclIOCmd.c (Tcl_GetsObjCmd): Applied patch from [Bug 442665] + to fix the bug reported by it. The function can corrupt a freed object + if it is called with objc == 3. This is because it retrieves resultPtr + and does not increment its reference count, but then calls + Tcl_ObjSetVar2, which causes the retrieved resultPtr object to be + released. + 2001-08-06 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * doc/tclsh.1: Added note that the tclsh program is frequently - installed with the Tcl version numer as part of the name. - [Patch 402725] + * doc/tclsh.1: Added note that the tclsh program is frequently + installed with the Tcl version numer as part of the name. [Patch + 402725] * generic/tclPkg.c: - * tests/pkg.test: [package forget] now forgets all of the - package arguments it receives, not stopping when a package is - not found. [Bug 415273] + * tests/pkg.test: [package forget] now forgets all of the package + arguments it receives, not stopping when a package is not found. [Bug + 415273] 2001-08-02 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> @@ -2428,141 +2356,133 @@ 2001-08-02 Mo DeJong <mdejong@redhat.com> * generic/tclPlatDecls.h: - * win/tclWinPort.h: - Revert <tchar.h> related changes made to improve - Cygwin support on 2001-07-18. This change ended - up breaking the VC++ build because of conflicts - between Windows APIs and internal Tk APIs. + * win/tclWinPort.h: Revert <tchar.h> related changes made to improve + Cygwin support on 2001-07-18. This change ended up breaking the VC++ + build because of conflicts between Windows APIs and internal Tk APIs. 2001-08-01 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c: minor casts to eliminate warnings. (lim) - [Patch: #440218] + [Patch 440218] - * tests/parseOld.test: changed some tests that required - testwordend to exist to skip in a proper tcltest manner. - [Bug: #442663] + * tests/parseOld.test: changed some tests that required testwordend to + exist to skip in a proper tcltest manner. [Bug 442663] - * library/http/http.tcl (http::mapReply): the regsub'ing of \n and - \t to escape them was unnecessary. + * library/http/http.tcl (http::mapReply): the regsub'ing of \n and \t + to escape them was unnecessary. 2001-07-31 Vince Darley <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net> Changes from TIP#17 "Redo Tcl's filesystem" The following files were impacted: - * doc/Access.3: - * doc/FileSystem.3: - * doc/OpenFileChnl.3: - * doc/file.n: - * doc/glob.n: - * generic/tcl.decls: - * generic/tcl.h: - * generic/tclCmdAH.c: - * generic/tclCmdIL.c: - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: - * generic/tclDate.c: - * generic/tclDecls.h: - * generic/tclEncoding.c: - * generic/tclFCmd.c: - * generic/tclFileName.c: - * generic/tclGetDate.y: - * generic/tclIO.c: - * generic/tclIOCmd.c: - * generic/tclIOUtil.c: - * generic/tclInt.decls: - * generic/tclInt.h: - * generic/tclIntDecls.h: - * generic/tclLoad.c: - * generic/tclStubInit.c: - * generic/tclTest.c: - * generic/tclUtil.c: - * library/init.tcl: - * mac/tclMacFCmd.c: - * mac/tclMacFile.c: - * mac/tclMacInit.c: - * mac/tclMacPort.h: - * mac/tclMacResource.c: - * mac/tclMacTime.c: - * tests/cmdAH.test: - * tests/event.test: - * tests/fCmd.test: - * tests/fileName.test: - * tests/io.test: - * tests/ioCmd.test: - * tests/proc-old.test: - * tests/registry.test: - * tests/unixFCmd.test: - * tests/winDde.test: - * tests/winFCmd.test: - * unix/mkLinks: - * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c: - * unix/tclUnixFile.c: - * unix/tclUnixInit.c: - * unix/tclUnixPipe.c: - * win/tclWinFCmd.c: - * win/tclWinFile.c: - * win/tclWinInit.c: - * win/tclWinPipe.c + * doc/Access.3: + * doc/FileSystem.3: + * doc/OpenFileChnl.3: + * doc/file.n: + * doc/glob.n: + * generic/tcl.decls: + * generic/tcl.h: + * generic/tclCmdAH.c: + * generic/tclCmdIL.c: + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: + * generic/tclDate.c: + * generic/tclDecls.h: + * generic/tclEncoding.c: + * generic/tclFCmd.c: + * generic/tclFileName.c: + * generic/tclGetDate.y: + * generic/tclIO.c: + * generic/tclIOCmd.c: + * generic/tclIOUtil.c: + * generic/tclInt.decls: + * generic/tclInt.h: + * generic/tclIntDecls.h: + * generic/tclLoad.c: + * generic/tclStubInit.c: + * generic/tclTest.c: + * generic/tclUtil.c: + * library/init.tcl: + * mac/tclMacFCmd.c: + * mac/tclMacFile.c: + * mac/tclMacInit.c: + * mac/tclMacPort.h: + * mac/tclMacResource.c: + * mac/tclMacTime.c: + * tests/cmdAH.test: + * tests/event.test: + * tests/fCmd.test: + * tests/fileName.test: + * tests/io.test: + * tests/ioCmd.test: + * tests/proc-old.test: + * tests/registry.test: + * tests/unixFCmd.test: + * tests/winDde.test: + * tests/winFCmd.test: + * unix/mkLinks: + * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c: + * unix/tclUnixFile.c: + * unix/tclUnixInit.c: + * unix/tclUnixPipe.c: + * win/tclWinFCmd.c: + * win/tclWinFile.c: + * win/tclWinInit.c: + * win/tclWinPipe.c: 2001-07-24 Mo DeJong <mdejong@redhat.com> - * win/tclWinThrd.c (Tcl_CreateThread): Close Windows - HANDLE returned by _beginthreadex. The MS documentation - states that this handle is not closed by a later call to - _endthreadex. + * win/tclWinThrd.c (Tcl_CreateThread): Close Windows HANDLE returned + by _beginthreadex. The MS documentation states that this handle is not + closed by a later call to _endthreadex. 2001-07-21 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> * doc/pkgMkindex.n: - * library/package.tcl: Corrected documentation and usage - message of [pkg_mkIndex]. + * library/package.tcl: Corrected documentation and usage message of + [pkg_mkIndex]. 2001-07-18 Mo DeJong <mdejong@redhat.com> - * generic/tclPlatDecls.h: Define TCHAR by including - windows.h instead of tchar.h since Cygwin does not - support the tchar.h header. Include CHECK_UNICODE_CALLS - logic from tclWinPort.h. - * win/tclWinPort.h: Remove CHECK_UNICODE_CALLS logic. - Remove include of windows.h since this now done it - tclPlatDecls.h. + * generic/tclPlatDecls.h: Define TCHAR by including windows.h instead + of tchar.h since Cygwin does not support the tchar.h header. Include + CHECK_UNICODE_CALLS logic from tclWinPort.h. + * win/tclWinPort.h: Remove CHECK_UNICODE_CALLS logic. Remove include + of windows.h since this now done it tclPlatDecls.h. * win/tclWinReg.c: Remove duplicate include of windows.h. 2001-07-18 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclIO.c: Aftermath to [SF #427196]. Squash empty buffers - if they are smaller than the requested buffersize, to prevent - reusage of old buffers and to honor changes in the requested - buffersize made by the user. + * generic/tclIO.c: Aftermath to [Bug 427196]. Squash empty buffers if + they are smaller than the requested buffersize, to prevent reusage of + old buffers and to honor changes in the requested buffersize made by + the user. 2001-07-17 Mo DeJong <mdejong@redhat.com> - * win/tclWinFile.c (TclpReadlink): Add Cygwin specific definition - for the TclpReadlink function. This method implements reading of - symbolic links when build with Cygwin. + * win/tclWinFile.c (TclpReadlink): Add Cygwin specific definition for + the TclpReadlink function. This method implements reading of symbolic + links when build with Cygwin. 2001-07-17 Mo DeJong <mdejong@redhat.com> - * win/tclWinPort.h: Add Cygwin specific defines for environ - and timezone variables. + * win/tclWinPort.h: Add Cygwin specific defines for environ and + timezone variables. 2001-07-17 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclIO.c (GetInput): Fixed [SF #427196]. Memory was - overwritten because a buffer was used after a change of the - requested buffersize together with that requested buffersize and - not its actual size, which was smaller. Note that the continous - reuse of the smaller buffer negatively impacts performance. The - system never allocates a buffer with the newly requested bigger - buffersize. + * generic/tclIO.c (GetInput): Fixed [Bug 427196]. Memory was + overwritten because a buffer was used after a change of the requested + buffersize together with that requested buffersize and not its actual + size, which was smaller. Note that the continous reuse of the smaller + buffer negatively impacts performance. The system never allocates a + buffer with the newly requested bigger buffersize. 2001-07-16 Mo DeJong <mdejong@redhat.com> - * generic/tcl.h: Define __WIN32__ when - __CYGWIN__ or __MINGW32__ is defined. - * generic/tclAlloc.c: Define caddr_t when - compiling with VC++ or mingw. This type is - already defined when compiling with Cygwin. + * generic/tcl.h: Define __WIN32__ when __CYGWIN__ or __MINGW32__ is + defined. + * generic/tclAlloc.c: Define caddr_t when compiling with VC++ or + mingw. This type is already defined when compiling with Cygwin. 2001-07-16 Mo DeJong <mdejong@redhat.com> @@ -2571,9 +2491,9 @@ * win/tclWinPort.h: * win/tclWinSerial.c: * win/tclWinThrd.c: - Remove unnecessary #includes of dos.h, direct.h, - and tchar.h. This will help the Cygwin porting - effort since these headers do not exist under Cygwin. + Remove unnecessary #includes of dos.h, direct.h, and tchar.h. This + will help the Cygwin porting effort since these headers do not exist + under Cygwin. 2001-07-16 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> @@ -2581,74 +2501,70 @@ just the TerminateThread call and waiting for termination. (jsmith) * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: Removed extra copy of the SCAN_* macros - #defined in generic/tclScan.c. (porter) [Bug 441230] + #defined in generic/tclScan.c. [Bug 441230] (porter) 2001-07-12 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> * tests/unixInit.test (unixInit-2.8): Added extra constraint, - notInstalledInTmp, to stop this test from damaging installations - in /tmp; not much fun to have to reinstall the Tcl library every - time you run the test suite! + notInstalledInTmp, to stop this test from damaging installations in + /tmp; not much fun to have to reinstall the Tcl library every time you + run the test suite! - * tests/subst.test (subst-10.*): Updated tests to check new - behaviour for 'break' in command substitutions. + * tests/subst.test (subst-10.*): Updated tests to check new behaviour + for 'break' in command substitutions. (subst-1.2,subst-7.1): Error messages changed. * doc/SubstObj.3: New file, to document Tcl_SubstObj. - * doc/subst.n: Improved and updated documentation for 'subst' to - help support the changed behaviour. + * doc/subst.n: Improved and updated documentation for 'subst' to help + support the changed behaviour. * generic/tcl.decls (generic-437): Declaration for Tcl_SubstObj * generic/tcl.h (TCL_SUBST_*): Added flags for Tcl_SubstObj. - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_SubstObj,Tcl_SubstObjCmd): Divided into - two parts to allow people to access the innards of 'subst' and - changed the behaviour when command substitutions do a 'break' to - be different from 'continue'. Also now works with objects, which - allows for some nifty optimisations with variable substitutions - and a slight improvement with command substitutions. [TIP#36] + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_SubstObj,Tcl_SubstObjCmd): Divided into two + parts to allow people to access the innards of 'subst' and changed the + behaviour when command substitutions do a 'break' to be different from + 'continue'. Also now works with objects, which allows for some nifty + optimisations with variable substitutions and a slight improvement + with command substitutions. [TIP#36] 2001-07-10 Mo DeJong <mdejong@redhat.com> * unix/Makefile.in: Add AR variable for use in STLIB_LD. * unix/configure: Regen. - * unix/configure.in: Use STLIB_LD when defining MAKE_LIB - and MAKE_STUB_LIB. Subst RANLIB and AR. - * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Add doc comment about - STLIB_LD command. Check ${AR} env var when setting - STLIB_LD and delay evaluation until make time. + * unix/configure.in: Use STLIB_LD when defining MAKE_LIB and + MAKE_STUB_LIB. Subst RANLIB and AR. + * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Add doc comment about STLIB_LD + command. Check ${AR} env var when setting STLIB_LD and delay + evaluation until make time. * win/configure: Regen. - * win/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Delay evaluation of - ${AR} in STLIB_LD and add flags to better match the - Unix implementation. Don't bother defining AR when - using VC++ since it is not used. + * win/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Delay evaluation of ${AR} in STLIB_LD + and add flags to better match the Unix implementation. Don't bother + defining AR when using VC++ since it is not used. 2001-07-06 Mo DeJong <mdejong@redhat.com> * win/configure: Regen. - * win/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Pass -e _WinMain@16 in - addition to the -mwindows flag to work around a problem - with ld when it incorrectly use main() as the executable - entry point when both WinMain() and main() are available. + * win/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Pass -e _WinMain@16 in addition to + the -mwindows flag to work around a problem with ld when it + incorrectly use main() as the executable entry point when both + WinMain() and main() are available. 2001-07-06 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> - * tests/cmdAH.test: Added leading zero to file modes to work - around fault in HPUX strtol() which ignores the base parameter - [Bug #438808] + * tests/cmdAH.test: Added leading zero to file modes to work around + fault in HPUX strtol() which ignores the base parameter. [Bug 438808] 2001-07-05 Mo DeJong <mdejong@redhat.com> - * win/Makefile.in: Subst DEPARG directly instead - of relying on a variable. This will make Cygwin - builds faster since an extra exec will be avoided. + * win/Makefile.in: Subst DEPARG directly instead of relying on a + variable. This will make Cygwin builds faster since an extra exec will + be avoided. * win/configure: Regen. * win/configure.in: Subst DEPARG. - * win/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Move AC_MSG_CHECKING - after the AC_CHECK_PROG so that status messages do - not get mixed together. Set DEPARG based on the - results of the cygpath check so that we avoid using - an extra exec when it is not needed. Use ac_cv_cygwin - status flag instead of looking at the output of - gcc -v, which works in the case where -mno-cygwin is - set in the CFLAGS. + * win/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Move AC_MSG_CHECKING after the + AC_CHECK_PROG so that status messages do not get mixed together. Set + DEPARG based on the results of the cygpath check so that we avoid + using an extra exec when it is not needed. Use ac_cv_cygwin status + flag instead of looking at the output of gcc -v, which works in the + case where -mno-cygwin is set in the CFLAGS. 2001-07-04 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> @@ -2663,32 +2579,30 @@ * win/Makefile.in: Remove PATHTYPE variable. * win/configure: Regen. * win/configure.in: Don't subst PATHTYPE. - * win/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Remove PATHTYPE - variable. Set CYGPATH to "cygpath -w" if the - cygpath executable is found on the path. This - approach works for native Cygwin builds and - cross compiles. + * win/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Remove PATHTYPE variable. Set CYGPATH + to "cygpath -w" if the cygpath executable is found on the path. This + approach works for native Cygwin builds and cross compiles. 2001-07-03 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> * tests/var.test: * generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_VariableObjCmd): added patch to check for - number of args. [Patch #426038] + number of args. [Patch 426038] * generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_GetVar2Ex): added ability to recognize - TCL_TRACE_READS flags to cause creation of part1 in TclLookupVar - to make sure newly created array will get read traces triggered - appropriately. This is called by Tcl_ObjGetVar2, Tcl_GetVar, and + TCL_TRACE_READS flags to cause creation of part1 in TclLookupVar to + make sure newly created array will get read traces triggered + appropriately. This is called by Tcl_ObjGetVar2, Tcl_GetVar, and Tcl_GetVar2. - (TclSetIndexedScalar, TclSetElementOfIndexedArray): added read - trace triggering for lappend case. - (Tcl_LappendObjCmd): pass TCL_TRACE_READS to Tcl_ObjGetVar2 to - trigger possible read traces for new arrays. + (TclSetIndexedScalar, TclSetElementOfIndexedArray): added read trace + triggering for lappend case. + (Tcl_LappendObjCmd): pass TCL_TRACE_READS to Tcl_ObjGetVar2 to trigger + possible read traces for new arrays. * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): added TCL_TRACE_READS - flag to INST_LAPPEND(_ARRAY)_STK case to trigger read traces for - newly created arrays. Removed unnecessary #ifdef for - TCL_COMPILE_DEBUG in INST_LOAD_SCALAR1 case. + flag to INST_LAPPEND(_ARRAY)_STK case to trigger read traces for newly + created arrays. Removed unnecessary #ifdef for TCL_COMPILE_DEBUG in + INST_LOAD_SCALAR1 case. * tests/append.test: * tests/appendComp.test: added tests for read trace triggering for @@ -2696,98 +2610,96 @@ 2001-07-03 Mo DeJong <mdejong@redhat.com> - * tests/clock.test (clock-2.5): Adjust test so that it passes - when the time slice is 60 msecs, now passes under Windows 98. + * tests/clock.test (clock-2.5): Adjust test so that it passes when the + time slice is 60 msecs, now passes under Windows 98. 2001-07-03 Mo DeJong <mdejong@redhat.com> - * win/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Don't pass the v flag - to ${AR} when using gcc, verbose output is not needed. + * win/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Don't pass the v flag to ${AR} when + using gcc, verbose output is not needed. 2001-07-03 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> * tests/unixInit.test (unixInit-2.8): Changed test back to using - installation layout, adding comments explaining why the test writes - to the directories it does, and checks to avoid destroying other - files in /tmp. + installation layout, adding comments explaining why the test writes to + the directories it does, and checks to avoid destroying other files in + /tmp. 2001-07-03 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> * tests/unixInit.test (unixInit-1.2): Fixed faults reported in - Bug#438070 - well, at least enough to work on Solaris - and added + [Bug 438070] - well, at least enough to work on Solaris - and added comments that should make what is going on in the test clearer. 2001-07-02 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> * tests/util.test: added util-4.6 - * generic/tclUtil.c (Tcl_ConcatObj): Corrected walking backwards - over utf-8 chars. [Bug #227512] + * generic/tclUtil.c (Tcl_ConcatObj): Corrected walking backwards over + utf-8 chars. [Bug 227512] 2001-07-02 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * tests/unixInit.test (unixInit-2.8): Corrected test for all - absolute pathnames in library path when executable is installed - near root directory to use correct development directory layout. - [Bug 438014] + * tests/unixInit.test (unixInit-2.8): Corrected test for all absolute + pathnames in library path when executable is installed near root + directory to use correct development directory layout. [Bug 438014] - * tests/unixInit.test (unixInit-2.9): + * tests/unixInit.test (unixInit-2.9): * unix/tclUnixInit.c (TclpInitLibraryPath): * win/tclWinInit.c (TclpInitLibraryPath): Corrected buggy - construction of search path entries relative to executable. - Added test for bad construction. [Bug 438014] + construction of search path entries relative to executable. Added test + for bad construction. [Bug 438014] 2001-06-28 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclNamesp.c: Correction to faulty patch from [Bug: 231259] + * generic/tclNamesp.c: Correction to faulty patch from [Bug 231259] 2001-06-28 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> - * tests/unixInit.test (unixInit-1.2): Modified so as not to - require a local echo service, which fails on many systems which - have that turned off for security reasons... + * tests/unixInit.test (unixInit-1.2): Modified so as not to require a + local echo service, which fails on many systems which have that turned + off for security reasons... 2001-06-27 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> * generic/tclInt.h: * generic/tclObj.c: * unix/Makefile.in: added a -DPURIFY mode that makes Tcl_Obj's - allocated and free singularly (instead of in alloc in blocks and - never free) to allow checkers like Purify to operate better. + allocated and free singularly (instead of in alloc in blocks and never + free) to allow checkers like Purify to operate better. * library/encoding/koi8-u.enc: added koi8-u (Ukranian variant) encoding. * tests/subst.test: - * generic/tclUtf.c (Tcl_UtfBackslash): Corrected backslash - handling of multibyte utf-8 chars. [Bug #217987] + * generic/tclUtf.c (Tcl_UtfBackslash): Corrected backslash handling of + multibyte utf-8 chars. [Bug 217987] - * generic/tclCmdIL.c (InfoProcsCmd): fixed potential mem leak in - info procs that created objects without using them. + * generic/tclCmdIL.c (InfoProcsCmd): fixed potential mem leak in info + procs that created objects without using them. * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileStringCmd): fixed mem leak when string command failed to parse the subcommand. * doc/interp.n: - * doc/unknown.n: updated notes about what is in a safe interp. - [Bug #218605] + * doc/unknown.n: updated notes about what is in a safe interp. [Bug + 218605] 2001-06-27 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> - * tests/event.test (event-11.5): Removed hard-coded port number - which could fail on some systems. [Bug #436727] + * tests/event.test (event-11.5): Removed hard-coded port number which + could fail on some systems. [Bug 436727] 2001-06-26 Mo DeJong <mdejong@redhat.com> * unix/Makefile.in: - * win/Makefile.in: Add `make shell` target. This target - will set the proper env vars before invoking tclsh - from the build directory. + * win/Makefile.in: Add `make shell` target. This target will set the + proper env vars before invoking tclsh from the build directory. 2001-06-26 Mo DeJong <mdejong@redhat.com> - * win/Makefile.in: Use : to separate VPATH entries. This - works for both Cygwin builds and cross builds, the VPSEP - variable is simply unneeded complexity. + * win/Makefile.in: Use : to separate VPATH entries. This works for + both Cygwin builds and cross builds, the VPSEP variable is simply + unneeded complexity. * win/configure: Regen. * win/configure.in: Don't subst VPSEP. * win/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Remove VPSEP variable. @@ -2795,17 +2707,17 @@ 2001-06-26 Mo DeJong <mdejong@redhat.com> * unix/configure: Regen. - * unix/configure.in: Fix last checkin by removing - export since that only works in bash. + * unix/configure.in: Fix last checkin by removing export since that + only works in bash. * win/configure: Regen. * win/configure.in: Ditto. 2001-06-26 Mo DeJong <mdejong@redhat.com> * unix/configure: Regen. - * unix/configure.in: Set CFLAGS to "" if the user - did not set CFLAGS in the env. This keeps AC_PROG_CC - from adding "-g -O2" to the CFLAGS by default. + * unix/configure.in: Set CFLAGS to "" if the user did not set CFLAGS + in the env. This keeps AC_PROG_CC from adding "-g -O2" to the CFLAGS + by default. * win/configure: Regen. * win/configure.in: Ditto. @@ -2813,28 +2725,27 @@ * win/configure: Regen. * win/configure.in: Use RC_DEFINE flag from tcl.m4. - * win/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Set RC_DEFINE - flag based on the compiler in use. - + * win/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Set RC_DEFINE flag based on the + compiler in use. + 2001-06-25 Mo DeJong <mdejong@redhat.com> - * win/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Link to the - imm32 library when building with mingw gcc. + * win/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Link to the imm32 library when + building with mingw gcc. 2001-06-25 Mo DeJong <mdejong@redhat.com> * win/configure: Regen. - * win/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): When building with - gcc, don't attempt to link with LD or support dllwrap. - Simply require a recent version of Cygwin gcc or Mingw - gcc that supports -shared. When linking, use gcc instead - of ld since gcc automatically includes libs like -lmsvcrt. + * win/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): When building with gcc, don't attempt + to link with LD or support dllwrap. Simply require a recent version of + Cygwin gcc or Mingw gcc that supports -shared. When linking, use gcc + instead of ld since gcc automatically includes libs like -lmsvcrt. 2001-06-22 Mo DeJong <mdejong@redhat.com> * win/configure: Regen. - * win/configure.in: Add resource compiler fix from - 8.3.3 to fix compiling with mingw. + * win/configure.in: Add resource compiler fix from 8.3.3 to fix + compiling with mingw. 2001-06-22 Mo DeJong <mdejong@redhat.com> @@ -2843,63 +2754,61 @@ 2001-06-22 Mo DeJong <mdejong@redhat.com> - * unix/Makefile.in: Set CFLAGS to @CFLAGS@ and @CFLAGS_DEFAULT@. - Set LDFLAGS to @LDFLAGS@ and @LDFLAGS_DEFAULT@. Add LDFLAGS_DEBUG - and LDFLAGS_OPTIMIZE to match the way CFLAGS_DEFAULT works. - This will support user set CFLAGS or LDFLAGS at configure time. + * unix/Makefile.in: Set CFLAGS to @CFLAGS@ and @CFLAGS_DEFAULT@. Set + LDFLAGS to @LDFLAGS@ and @LDFLAGS_DEFAULT@. Add LDFLAGS_DEBUG and + LDFLAGS_OPTIMIZE to match the way CFLAGS_DEFAULT works. This will + support user set CFLAGS or LDFLAGS at configure time. * unix/configure: Regen. * unix/configure.in: Don't set CFLAGS to CFLAGS_DEFAULT, instead - subst CFLAGS_DEFAULT into the Makefile. Add AC_SUBST for CFLAGS_DEFAULT, - LDFLAGS_DEFAULT, LDFLAGS_DEBUG, and LDFLAGS_OPTIMIZE. - * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_ENABLE_SYMBOLS): Modify LDFLAGS_DEFAULT so that - it uses a Makefile variable just like CFLAGS_DEFAULT. - * win/Makefile.in: Set CFLAGS to @CFLAGS@ and @CFLAGS_DEFAULT@. - Set LDFLAGS to @LDFLAGS@ and @LDFLAGS_DEFAULT@. - This will support user set CFLAGS or LDFLAGS at configure time. + subst CFLAGS_DEFAULT into the Makefile. Add AC_SUBST for + CFLAGS_DEFAULT, LDFLAGS_DEFAULT, LDFLAGS_DEBUG, and LDFLAGS_OPTIMIZE. + * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_ENABLE_SYMBOLS): Modify LDFLAGS_DEFAULT so that it + uses a Makefile variable just like CFLAGS_DEFAULT. + * win/Makefile.in: Set CFLAGS to @CFLAGS@ and @CFLAGS_DEFAULT@. Set + LDFLAGS to @LDFLAGS@ and @LDFLAGS_DEFAULT@. This will support user set + CFLAGS or LDFLAGS at configure time. * win/configure: Regen. * win/configure.in: Don't set CFLAGS or LDFLAGS, instead subst CFLAGS_DEFAULT and LDFLAGS_DEFAULT into the Makefile. - * win/tcl.m4 (SC_ENABLE_SYMBOLS): Modify LDFLAGS_DEFAULT so that - it uses a Makefile variable just like CFLAGS_DEFAULT. + * win/tcl.m4 (SC_ENABLE_SYMBOLS): Modify LDFLAGS_DEFAULT so that it + uses a Makefile variable just like CFLAGS_DEFAULT. 2001-06-22 Mo DeJong <mdejong@redhat.com> * win/configure: - * win/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Don't set LDFLAGS_DEBUG - to -g or LDFLAGS_OPTIMIZE to -O when compiling with gcc. - These flags are not needed and can cause problems with - the Cygwin version of ld. + * win/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Don't set LDFLAGS_DEBUG to -g or + LDFLAGS_OPTIMIZE to -O when compiling with gcc. These flags are not + needed and can cause problems with the Cygwin version of ld. 2001-06-18 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> - * tests/unixInit.test (unixInit-1.2,unixInit-2.8): Added test for - code described below, and fixed a couple of errors that caused - problems during testing; the code to determine the installedTcl - constraint was wrong, and test unixInit-2.8 assumed that /tmp/lib - was free for use and could be deleted, which clashed nastily with - my installation and made other tests fail unnecessarily! + * tests/unixInit.test (unixInit-1.2,unixInit-2.8): Added test for code + described below, and fixed a couple of errors that caused problems + during testing; the code to determine the installedTcl constraint was + wrong, and test unixInit-2.8 assumed that /tmp/lib was free for use + and could be deleted, which clashed nastily with my installation and + made other tests fail unnecessarily! * unix/tclUnixChan.c (TtyInit,TclpOpenFileChannel, - Tcl_MakeFileChannel,TclpGetDefaultStdChannel): Alterations so that - the standard channels - stdin, stdout and stderr - have the - correct type and fconfigure options. This required making the - initialisation of serial lines a little more sophisticated to - make the console behave correctly in interactive mode... [Bug - #219137 and duplicates] + (Tcl_MakeFileChannel,TclpGetDefaultStdChannel): Alterations so that + the standard channels - stdin, stdout and stderr - have the correct + type and fconfigure options. This required making the initialisation + of serial lines a little more sophisticated to make the console behave + correctly in interactive mode... [Bug 219137 and duplicates] 2001-06-16 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> * generic/tclInt.decls: - * generic/tclInt.h: + * generic/tclInt.h: * generic/tclPanic.c (Tcl_PanicVA): * mac/tclMacAppInit.c (main): * mac/tclMacPanic.c (TclpPanic): * unix/tclUnixPort.h: - * win/tclWinPort.h: Replaced TclMacSetPanic with TclpPanic - for setting a platform-specific panic handler. TclpPanic - is NULL on Unix and Windows. Fixes broken wish on Mac due - to earlier patches. [Patch 415648] - + * win/tclWinPort.h: Replaced TclMacSetPanic with TclpPanic for setting + a platform-specific panic handler. TclpPanic is NULL on Unix and + Windows. Fixes broken wish on Mac due to earlier patches. [Patch + 415648] + * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h: * generic/tclStubInit.c: `make gentubs` after above changes. @@ -2912,9 +2821,9 @@ 2001-06-12 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> - * tests/regexp.test (regexp-18.12): + * tests/regexp.test (regexp-18.12): * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_RegexpObjCmd): Fixed so that submatches - that do not match always have index pair {-1 -1} [Bug #219232] + that do not match always have index pair {-1 -1} [Bug 219232] 2001-06-08 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> @@ -2927,11 +2836,10 @@ * mac/tclMacAppInit.c (main): * mac/tclMacBOAAppInit.c (main): * mac/tclMacPanic.c: Modified special Mac implementations of - Tcl_*Panic* to be exact copies of the generic implementations. - Added TclMacSetPanic. The generic implementations should be - used directly, rather than copies, but that requires further - changes by someone familiar with the Mac build systems. - [Patch 415648] + Tcl_*Panic* to be exact copies of the generic implementations. Added + TclMacSetPanic. The generic implementations should be used directly, + rather than copies, but that requires further changes by someone + familiar with the Mac build systems. [Patch 415648] * generic/tclDecls.h: * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h: @@ -2939,24 +2847,24 @@ * doc/Panic.3: * unix/mkLinks: New file documenting Tcl_*Panic* public interfaces, - followed by `make mklinks`. [Patch 415648, Bug 219170, Bug 414936] + followed by `make mklinks`. [Patch 415648, Bug 219170, Bug 414936] 2001-06-03 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> * generic/tclUtil.c (Tcl_DStringAppendElement): patch to save an - extra strlen call. [Bug #428572] + extra strlen call. [Bug 428572] 2001-05-30 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): Added two casts to - INST_STR_CMP implementation to get rid of a couple warnings from - the SUNWspro C compiler. - - * generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_GetMathFuncInfo,Tcl_ListMathFuncs): - * generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_InfoObjCmd,InfoFunctionsCmd): - * generic/tcl.decls (generic table, positions 435+436): - * tests/info.test: - * doc/CrtMathFnc.3: + INST_STR_CMP implementation to get rid of a couple warnings from the + SUNWspro C compiler. + + * generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_GetMathFuncInfo,Tcl_ListMathFuncs): + * generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_InfoObjCmd,InfoFunctionsCmd): + * generic/tcl.decls (generic table, positions 435+436): + * tests/info.test: + * doc/CrtMathFnc.3: * doc/info.n: Changes due to TIP #15 "Functions to List and Detail Math Functions" @@ -2968,32 +2876,31 @@ * generic/regc_locale.c: updated character class range data for Unicode v3.1.0 compliance. - * generic/tclUniData.c: regenerated from Unicode v3.1.0 data file - (new as of 2001-05-16). This brings Tcl to current unicode - compliance. + * generic/tclUniData.c: regenerated from Unicode v3.1.0 data file (new + as of 2001-05-16). This brings Tcl to current unicode compliance. * tests/utf.test: added tests to check unicode 3 compliance * unix/Makefile.in (tclUtf.o): added tclUniData.c dependency. - * tools/uniClass.tcl: added comments to output format and the - script for clarification. + * tools/uniClass.tcl: added comments to output format and the script + for clarification. - * tools/uniParse.tcl: corrected filename output and GetDelta macro - to use 'info' as param (was 'infO') + * tools/uniParse.tcl: corrected filename output and GetDelta macro to + use 'info' as param (was 'infO') 2001-05-26 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> * generic/tclVar.c (tclArraySearchType,SetArraySearchObj, - ParseSearchId): Added code to speed up array searching by reducing + (ParseSearchId): Added code to speed up array searching by reducing the amount of parsing needed for searchIds. - * generic/tclObj.c (TclInitObjSubsystem): - * generic/tclIndexObj.c (Tcl_GetIndexFromObjStruct): - * generic/tclNamesp.c (TclInitNamespaceSubsystem): + * generic/tclObj.c (TclInitObjSubsystem): + * generic/tclIndexObj.c (Tcl_GetIndexFromObjStruct): + * generic/tclNamesp.c (TclInitNamespaceSubsystem): * generic/tclInt.h: Moved some Tcl_ObjType initialisation to - TclInitObjSubsystem to be with the bulk of the rest. - [Patch 424851] Committed by Miguel Sofer <mig@utdt.edu> + TclInitObjSubsystem to be with the bulk of the rest. [Patch 424851] + Committed by Miguel Sofer <mig@utdt.edu> 2001-05-23 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> @@ -3015,31 +2922,29 @@ * library/encoding/iso8859-8.enc: * library/encoding/iso8859-10.enc (new): * library/encoding/iso8859-13.enc (new): - * library/encoding/iso8859-14.enc (new): updated encoding tables - based on http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/. (kuhn) + * library/encoding/iso8859-14.enc (new): updated encoding tables based + on http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/. (kuhn) 2001-05-23 Mo DeJong <mdejong@redhat.com> - * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_PATH_TCLCONFIG): Fix comments, - and typo in cached variable name. + * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_PATH_TCLCONFIG): Fix comments, and typo in cached + variable name. 2001-05-23 Mo DeJong <mdejong@redhat.com> - * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_LOAD_TKCONFIG): - Remove use of undefined TCLCONFIG variable and - call AC_MSG_RESULT to print the checking result. + * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_LOAD_TKCONFIG): Remove use of undefined TCLCONFIG + variable and call AC_MSG_RESULT to print the checking result. * win/tcl.m4: Ditto. 2001-05-22 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> * generic/tclObj.c (TclAllocateFreeObjects): simplified - objSizePlusPadding to use sizeof(Tcl_Obj) (max) - Corrected use of tclObjsAlloced/Freed/Shared in TCL_MEM_DEBUG - compile. + objSizePlusPadding to use sizeof(Tcl_Obj) (max) Corrected use of + tclObjsAlloced/Freed/Shared in TCL_MEM_DEBUG compile. 2001-05-22 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclExecute.c: removed Tcl_DuplicateObj in INST_DUP + * generic/tclExecute.c: removed Tcl_DuplicateObj in INST_DUP 2001-05-21 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> @@ -3047,13 +2952,13 @@ getting affected by Windows env handling of empty valued elements. * unix/tcl.m4: added more common install directories in which to - search for *Config.sh [Bug #419812] + search for *Config.sh. [Bug 419812] - * tests/cmdMZ.test (cmdMZ-1.4): added notLinux constraint to test - to prevent failure message on Linux due to OS caching bug. + * tests/cmdMZ.test (cmdMZ-1.4): added notLinux constraint to test to + prevent failure message on Linux due to OS caching bug. - * tests/httpd (httpdRespond): added response to timeout value in - query string. + * tests/httpd (httpdRespond): added response to timeout value in query + string. * tests/http.test: removed unused notLinux constraint setting @@ -3063,61 +2968,58 @@ 2001-05-19 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> * Note that "tclbench" (see project "tcllib") was extended with - performance benchmarks for [fcopy] too. + performance benchmarks for [fcopy] too. * doc/fcopy.n: Updated to reflect the extended behaviour of 'fcopy'. - * tests/io.test: Added tests 'io-52.9', 'io-52.10' and 'io-52.11' - to test the handling of encodings by 'fcopy' / 'TclCopychannel' - [Bug #209210]. + * tests/io.test: Added tests 'io-52.9', 'io-52.10' and 'io-52.11' to + test the handling of encodings by 'fcopy' / 'TclCopychannel'. [Bug + 209210] - * generic/tclIO.c: Split of both 'Tcl_ReadChars' and - 'Tcl_WriteChars' into a public error checking and an internal - working part. The public functions now use the new internal - ones. The new functions are 'DoReadChars' and 'DoWriteChars'. - Extended 'CopyData' to use the new functions 'DoXChars' when - required by the encodings on the input and output channels - [Bug #209210]. + * generic/tclIO.c: Split of both 'Tcl_ReadChars' and 'Tcl_WriteChars' + into a public error checking and an internal working part. The public + functions now use the new internal ones. The new functions are + 'DoReadChars' and 'DoWriteChars'. Extended 'CopyData' to use the new + functions 'DoXChars' when required by the encodings on the input and + output channels. [Bug 209210] 2001-05-16 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - * library/history.tcl (tcl::HistAdd): prevent empty calls from - being added to the history (arndt) + * library/history.tcl (tcl::HistAdd): prevent empty calls from being + added to the history (arndt) - * tests/error.test: updated error-1.3 message to account for - string index being compiled at toplevel. + * tests/error.test: updated error-1.3 message to account for string + index being compiled at toplevel. * tests/appendComp.test: * tests/stringComp.test: new files for extended bytecode testing * generic/tclBasic.c: added new CompileProc invocations to basic command initialization. * generic/tclCompCmds.c: added new compile commands for append, - lappend, lindex and llength. Refactored set and incr compile - commands to use new TclPushVarName function for handling the - varname component during compilation (also used by append and - lappend). Changed string compile command to compile toplevel code - as well (when possible). + lappend, lindex and llength. Refactored set and incr compile commands + to use new TclPushVarName function for handling the varname component + during compilation (also used by append and lappend). Changed string + compile command to compile toplevel code as well (when possible). * generic/tclCompile.c: added new instruction enums * generic/tclCompile.h: added debug info for new instructions - * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): moved elemPtr to - toplevel var (oft-used). Added definitions for new bytecode - instructions INST_LIST_INDEX, INST_LIST_LENGTH, INST_APPEND_SCALAR1, + * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): moved elemPtr to toplevel + var (oft-used). Added definitions for new bytecode instructions + INST_LIST_INDEX, INST_LIST_LENGTH, INST_APPEND_SCALAR1, INST_APPEND_SCALAR4, INST_APPEND_ARRAY1, INST_APPEND_ARRAY4, INST_APPEND_ARRAY_STK, INST_APPEND_STK, INST_LAPPEND_SCALAR1, INST_LAPPEND_SCALAR4, INST_LAPPEND_ARRAY1, INST_LAPPEND_ARRAY4, INST_LAPPEND_ARRAY_STK, INST_LAPPEND_STK. Refactored repititious code for reuse with INST_LOAD_STK (same as - INST_LOAD_SCALAR_STK), INST_STORE_STK (same as - INST_STORE_SCALAR_STK). + INST_LOAD_SCALAR_STK), INST_STORE_STK (same as INST_STORE_SCALAR_STK). Updated INST_STR_CMP with style of fix of 2001-04-06 Fellows - [Bug #219201] as that fix only affected the runtime eval'ed - "string" (string compare is normally byte-compiled now). We - may want to back these out for speed in the future, noting the - problems with \x00 comparisons in the docs. + [Bug 219201] as that fix only affected the runtime eval'ed "string" + (string compare is normally byte-compiled now). We may want to back + these out for speed in the future, noting the problems with \x00 + comparisons in the docs. * generic/tclInt.h: declarations for new compile commands. * generic/tclVar.c: change TclGetIndexedScalar, TclGetElementOfIndexedArray, TclSetElementOfIndexedArray and - TclSetIndexedScalar to use flags. The Set functions now support + TclSetIndexedScalar to use flags. The Set functions now support TCL_APPEND_ELEMENT and TCL_LIST_ELEMENT as well. * generic/tclInt.decls: * generic/tclIntDecls.h: minor signature changes for above. @@ -3126,7 +3028,7 @@ 2001-05-16 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> - * doc/console.n: Deleted. Put it in the wrong source tree! D'oh! + * doc/console.n: Deleted. Put it in the wrong source tree! D'oh! 2001-05-15 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> @@ -3136,8 +3038,8 @@ * generic/tclStringObj.c (Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj): new function to parallel Tcl_GetStringFromObj (fix of an API oversight). - * unix/tclUnixPipe.c: updated pipeChannelType to - TCL_CHANNEL_VERSION_2 type specification. + * unix/tclUnixPipe.c: updated pipeChannelType to TCL_CHANNEL_VERSION_2 + type specification. * tests/fileName.test: corrected tests not to fail on win when a C:/test dir exists. @@ -3146,82 +3048,80 @@ 2001-05-15 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> - * tests/lindex.test: added test for nested braces [Patch: 423617] + * tests/lindex.test: added test for nested braces [Patch 423617] 2001-05-15 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclInt.h - * generic/tclNamesp.c: invalidate all bytecodes in a namespace if - a new command shadows a bytecoded command. - * tests/namespace.test - Patched from [Bug: 231259] + * generic/tclInt.h: + * generic/tclNamesp.c: invalidate all bytecodes in a namespace if a + new command shadows a bytecoded command. + * tests/namespace.test: + Patched from [Bug 231259] 2001-05-15 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> - * doc/console.n: Created. It seems very odd to me that the - console implementation is part of the Tcl distribution and not - part of Tk, but given the location of the source, the - documentation must obviously match up... + * doc/console.n: Created. It seems very odd to me that the console + implementation is part of the Tcl distribution and not part of Tk, but + given the location of the source, the documentation must obviously + match up... 2001-05-14 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_StringObjCmd): - * tests/string.test (string-4.14): Negative string indices should - not be added as offsets to the result of [string first] but - instead be treated as referring to the start of the string. - [Bug: 423581] + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_StringObjCmd): + * tests/string.test (string-4.14): Negative string indices should not + be added as offsets to the result of [string first] but instead be + treated as referring to the start of the string. [Bug 423581] 2001-05-11 Mo DeJong <mdejong@redhat.com> - * unix/Makefile.in: Add a LDFLAGS variable to the - Makefile instead of directly substing @LDFLAGS@. + * unix/Makefile.in: Add a LDFLAGS variable to the Makefile instead of + directly substing @LDFLAGS@. * unix/configure: Regen. - * unix/tcl.m4: Fix CFLAGS_DEFAULT so that the name - of a Makefile variable is passed as @CFLAGS@. - * win/Makefile.in: Move the setting of CFLAGS - higher up in the Makefile. + * unix/tcl.m4: Fix CFLAGS_DEFAULT so that the name of a Makefile + variable is passed as @CFLAGS@. + * win/Makefile.in: Move the setting of CFLAGS higher up in the + Makefile. * win/configure: Regen. - * win/configure.in: Use dnl to comment out macros - so that they are not accidently expanded. - * win/tcl.m4: Fix CFLAGS_DEFAULT so that the name - of a Makefile variable is passed as @CFLAGS@. + * win/configure.in: Use dnl to comment out macros so that they are not + accidently expanded. + * win/tcl.m4: Fix CFLAGS_DEFAULT so that the name of a Makefile + variable is passed as @CFLAGS@. 2001-05-07 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> * generic/tclExecute.c: insure different rand() seeds in different - threads [Bug 416643] + threads. [Bug 416643] 2001-05-03 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> * tests/tcltest.test: removed extraneous 'c' (doh!) [Bug: 414031] - * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl: removed use of 'exec' for portability - and fixed up code. + * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl: removed use of 'exec' for portability and + fixed up code. 2001-05-03 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> * doc/library.n: * library/init.tcl: - * tests/autoMkindex.t*: Modified [auto_import] to apply - pattern matching in the [namespace import] style. [Bug 420186] - ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** for any callers of [auto_import] - from outside Tcl that expect the pattern matching to be like that - of [string match]. + * tests/autoMkindex.t*: Modified [auto_import] to apply pattern + matching in the [namespace import] style. [Bug 420186] + ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** for any callers of [auto_import] from + outside Tcl that expect the pattern matching to be like that of + [string match]. 2001-05-03 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclParse.c: - * tests/namespace.test: Insure consistent behaviour of the - [unknown] command: when a command is unknown, it is always - processed by [::unknown], ignoring any namespace proc which - happens to be called "unknown" [Patch #421166, Bug #420507] + * generic/tclParse.c: + * tests/namespace.test: Insure consistent behaviour of the [unknown] + command: when a command is unknown, it is always processed by + [::unknown], ignoring any namespace proc which happens to be called + "unknown" [Patch 421166, Bug 420507] 2001-05-02 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * tools/genStubs.tcl: Add a package require of Tcl 8 - at the beginning of the script so that the script - will print a descriptive error message when run - in an old Tcl 7 shell. + * tools/genStubs.tcl: Add a package require of Tcl 8 at the beginning + of the script so that the script will print a descriptive error + message when run in an old Tcl 7 shell. 2001-04-27 Kevin Kenny <kennykb@crd.ge.com> @@ -3229,10 +3129,10 @@ * generic/tclInt.h: * generic/tclCmdIL.c: * generic/tclProc.c: - * generic/tclVar.c: Added another collection of missing CONSTs - related to TclGetNamespaceForQualName. + * generic/tclVar.c: Added another collection of missing CONSTs related + to TclGetNamespaceForQualName. * generic/tclIntDecls.h: Regenerated. - + 2001-04-25 Mo DeJong <mdejong@redhat.com> * unix/configure: Regen. @@ -3245,9 +3145,9 @@ 2001-04-25 Mo DeJong <mdejong@redhat.com> * unix/configure: Regen. - * unix/configure.in: Use $@ in MAKE_LIB and MAKE_STUB_LIB - commands instead of using a delayed subst variable. Replace - instances of STUB_LIB_FILE with TCL_STUB_LIB_FILE. + * unix/configure.in: Use $@ in MAKE_LIB and MAKE_STUB_LIB commands + instead of using a delayed subst variable. Replace instances of + STUB_LIB_FILE with TCL_STUB_LIB_FILE. 2001-04-25 Mo DeJong <mdejong@redhat.com> @@ -3259,19 +3159,20 @@ 2001-04-25 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> * tools/encoding/iso8859-15.txt: - * library/encoding/iso8859-15.enc: Oops! Got the full encoding - wrong. Should be fixed now... + * library/encoding/iso8859-15.enc: Oops! Got the full encoding wrong. + Should be fixed now... * tools/encoding/iso8859-15.txt: * library/encoding/iso8859-15.enc: - * tools/tcl.wse.in: Added ISO 8859-15 (a.k.a. Latin-1 + Euro - currency symbol) support. + * tools/tcl.wse.in: Added ISO 8859-15 (a.k.a. Latin-1 + Euro currency + symbol) support. * generic/tclNamesp.c: - * generic/tclBasic.c (TclRenameCommand): Missing CONST from - several declarations relating to use of TclGetNamespaceForQualName + * generic/tclBasic.c (TclRenameCommand): Missing CONST from several + declarations relating to use of TclGetNamespaceForQualName 2001-04-24 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> + * doc/AssocData.3: * doc/CrtCommand.3: * doc/CrtMathFnc.3: @@ -3285,18 +3186,18 @@ * generic/tcl.h: * generic/tclInt.decls: * generic/tclInt.h: (TIP #27) Another round of CONST changes, this - time adding CONST to the API's exported from tclBasic.c. - [Patch #415179] - ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** from 8.4a2, in which Vince - Darley's changes to command tracing were added. A const has been - added to the type signature of one of the parameters to - Tcl_CommandTraceProc. + time adding CONST to the API's exported from tclBasic.c. [Patch + 415179] + ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** from 8.4a2, in which Vince Darley's + changes to command tracing were added. A const has been added to the + type signature of one of the parameters to Tcl_CommandTraceProc. 2001-04-10 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> + * unix/tclUnixTime.c: Altered code to use memcpy instead of structure assigments in an effort to achieve better K&R compatibility. - + 2001-04-10 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> * unix/tclUnixTime.c: Fixed silly typo in calls to 'gmtime' and @@ -3304,125 +3205,122 @@ 2001-04-09 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - * unix/tclLoadShl.c: Added DYNAMIC_PATH to the load flags so that - the SHLIB_PATH will be searched for other libraries. [Bug #219140] - + * unix/tclLoadShl.c: Added DYNAMIC_PATH to the load flags so that the + SHLIB_PATH will be searched for other libraries. [Bug 219140] + 2001-04-09 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - * unix/tcl.m4: Added _REENTRANT to Solaris build so that thread - safe library routines are included. + * unix/tcl.m4: Added _REENTRANT to Solaris build so that thread safe + library routines are included. * unix/configure: Re-ran 'autoconf' with changed tcl.m4 * tclUnixTime.c: Modified for thread safety of 'gmtime' and - 'localtime' system calls [Bugs #219136 and #232558] - + 'localtime' system calls. [Bugs 219136 and 232558] + 2001-04-09 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> * tests/expr.test (expr-21.*): Tests to check below fix. * generic/tclParseExpr.c (GetLexeme): Now recognises the non-numeric boolean literals for what they are. It no longer makes sense for anyone to create functions with the same name as one of - them, but this was true in 7.* as well [Bug #217777; finally!] + them, but this was true in 7.* as well [Bug 217777; finally!] 2001-04-07 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclExecute.c: Avoid panic when there are extra items in - the tcl stack [Bug #406709, Patch #414470] + * generic/tclExecute.c: Avoid panic when there are extra items in the + tcl stack. [Bug 406709, Patch 414470] * tests/foreach.test: test to exercise the patch 2001-04-07 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> * doc/namespace.n: document correct functionality * generic/tclNamesp.c: corrected behaviour of [namespace code] - (Bug #219385, Patch #403530) + [Bug 219385, Patch 403530] * library/init.tcl: * tests/namespace-old.test: test correct functionality * tests/namespace.test: test correct functionality 2001-04-07 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> - * unix/Makefile.in (checkdoc): New target, checking the - definitions as found in the compiled library against the - manpages to find undocumented public functionality. + * unix/Makefile.in (checkdoc): New target, checking the definitions as + found in the compiled library against the manpages to find + undocumented public functionality. * unix/mkLinks: Updated to include the new manpage. * doc/UniCharIsAlpha.3: New manpage documenting the Unicode - character classification APIs [Bug #218720]. + character classification APIs. [Bug 218720] 2001-04-07 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> * unix/mkLinks: Updated to incorporate the changes below. * doc/StringObj.3: Added 'Tcl_AttemptSetObjLength' to the NAME - section. [Bug #414435]. + section. [Bug 414435] - * doc/Alloc.3: Added both 'Tcl_AttemptAlloc' and - 'Tcl_AttemptRealloc' to the NAME section. [Bug #414435]. + * doc/Alloc.3: Added both 'Tcl_AttemptAlloc' and 'Tcl_AttemptRealloc' + to the NAME section. [Bug 414435] * doc/Utf.3: Added both 'Tcl_UniCharCaseMatch' and - 'Tcl_UniCharNcasecmp' to the NAME section. [Bug #414435]. + 'Tcl_UniCharNcasecmp' to the NAME section. [Bug 414435] 2001-04-06 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> * library/init.tcl: - * tests/init.test: Modified processing of $::errorInfo by - [unknown] when the auto-loaded command throws an error to better - cover the tracks of auto-loading. [Bug 219280, Patch 403551] + * tests/init.test: Modified processing of $::errorInfo by [unknown] + when the auto-loaded command throws an error to better cover the + tracks of auto-loading. [Bug 219280, Patch 403551] 2001-04-06 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> * doc/read.n: Added section on "USE WITH SERIAL PORTS" to resolve - [Bug #219402] + [Bug 219402] * tests/string.test (string-2.30): Test for this case * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_StringObjCmd, STR_COMPARE branch): Fixed problem caused by Utf-rep of \x00 being more than Utf-rep of \x01 - fooling memcmp by forcing everything through Utf-based - comparisons. Added optimizations for case where objects have a - string/unicode-rep or a bytearray-rep (i.e. where we can perform - comparisons on fixed-size units.) [Bug #219201] + fooling memcmp by forcing everything through Utf-based comparisons. + Added optimizations for case where objects have a string/unicode-rep + or a bytearray-rep (i.e. where we can perform comparisons on + fixed-size units). [Bug 219201] * generic/tclUtf.c (Tcl_UtfNcmp): Corrected seriously erroneous comment. 2001-04-05 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> - * doc/Macintosh.3: Removed duplicates from .SH line - [Bug #413983]. + * doc/Macintosh.3: Removed duplicates from .SH line. [Bug 413983] 2001-04-05 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_StringObjCmd): Fixed so will compile - with K&R compilers [Patch #413844, Bug #413847] + with K&R compilers. [Patch 413844, Bug 413847] 2001-04-04 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> * generic/tclMain.c: Patch from Kevin Kenny to restore support of - pre-ANSI compilers. [Bug 413846, Patch 413842] + pre-ANSI compilers. [Bug 413846, Patch 413842] 2001-04-04 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> * unix/mkLinks: Updated to contain the new manpage. - * doc/Environment.3: New manpage, describes Tcl_PutEnv - [Bug #219171]. + * doc/Environment.3: New manpage, describes Tcl_PutEnv. [Bug 219171] - * doc/Macintosh.3: New manpage describing the macintosh specific - parts of the public API [Bug #219169]. + * doc/Macintosh.3: New manpage describing the macintosh specific parts + of the public API. [Bug 219169] 2001-04-04 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> * unix/configure: * unix/tcl.m4: extended test of termios vs. termio vs. sgtty to better detect result on Linux and when certain configure - redirections are being used. (max) [Patch #402923; Bug #227412, - #219194] + redirections are being used. [Patch 402923; Bug 227412, 219194] (max) 2001-04-04 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> * generic/tclTest.c: * tests/io.tests: TIP #10 followup correcting a problem with the - original patch because of the lack of 'testthread id' for a - non-threaded compilation. + original patch because of the lack of 'testthread id' for a + non-threaded compilation. 2001-04-04 Kevin Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> @@ -3440,24 +3338,24 @@ * generic/tclObj.c: * generic/tclPkg.c: * generic/tclStringObj.c: - * generic/tclStubLib.c: - (TIP#27) Changed a number of Tcl API's to accept "CONST char*" - in place of simple "char*". (kennykb) [Patch #404026] + * generic/tclStubLib.c: (TIP#27) Changed a number of Tcl API's to + accept "CONST char*" in place of simple "char*". (kennykb) [Patch + 404026] 2001-04-04 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> * generic/tclListObj.c (Tcl_SetListObj): set objPtr->length = 0 in empty object case to maintain sanctity of Tcl_Obj bytes/length - pairing. (porter) [Patch #405998] + pairing. [Patch 405998] (porter) 2001-04-03 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> * unix/mkLinks: Added 'Signal.3', 'Tcl_WaitPid'. - * doc/DetachPids.3: Added description of 'Tcl_WaitPid' [Bug #219173]. + * doc/DetachPids.3: Added description of 'Tcl_WaitPid' [Bug 219173]. * doc/Signal.3: New man page describing the public API procedures - 'Tcl_SignalId' and 'Tcl_SignalMsg' [Bug #219172]. + 'Tcl_SignalId' and 'Tcl_SignalMsg'. [Bug 219172] 2001-04-02 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> @@ -3466,7 +3364,7 @@ * win/README.binary: further notes corrections. * win/configure: - * win/tcl.m4 (SHLIB_LD): added -incremental:no. [Bug #219381] + * win/tcl.m4 (SHLIB_LD): added -incremental:no. [Bug 219381] 2001-04-01 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> @@ -3474,8 +3372,8 @@ * mac/README: * win/README: * win/README.binary: - * unix/README: updated patchlevel information to 8.4a3 and - updated links and notes. + * unix/README: updated patchlevel information to 8.4a3 and updated + links and notes. * generic/tcl.h: * tools/tcl.wse.in: @@ -3489,18 +3387,17 @@ * generic/tclCkalloc.c (TclFinalizeMemorySubsystem): set curTagPtr to NULL to allow for reuse. - * generic/tclEvent.c (Tcl_Finalize): moved the tsdPtr - initialization inside the subsystemsInitialized check to prevent - it potentially getting called twice during finalization. (wu) - [Patch #403532, Bug #219391] + * generic/tclEvent.c (Tcl_Finalize): moved the tsdPtr initialization + inside the subsystemsInitialized check to prevent it potentially + getting called twice during finalization. + [Patch 403532, Bug 219391] (wu) * generic/tclThreadTest.c (Tcl_ThreadObjCmd): cast fixes - * generic/tclTest.c (TestChannelCmd): added cast to mollify - Windows debug build. + * generic/tclTest.c (TestChannelCmd): added cast to mollify Windows + debug build. * win/tclWinSock.c (SocketEventProc): Fixed race condition in - readability of socket on Windows. - [Patch #410674, Bug #219205 #219333] + readability of socket on Windows. [Patch 410674, Bug 219205, 219333] * win/tcl.m4: added imm32.lib to LIBS_GUI for Tk IME support. @@ -3512,38 +3409,36 @@ 2001-03-30 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> * All of the changes below belong to TIP #10 [Tcl I/O Enhancement: - Thread-Aware Channels]. See also [Patch #403358] at SF. + Thread-Aware Channels]. See also [Patch 403358] at SF. * generic/tclIO.h (struct ChannelState, line 236f): Extended the - structure with a new field of type 'Tcl_ThreadId' to hold the id - of the thread currently managing all channels with this state. + structure with a new field of type 'Tcl_ThreadId' to hold the id of + the thread currently managing all channels with this state. - Note: This structure is shared by all channels in a stack of - transformations. + Note: This structure is shared by all channels in a stack of + transformations. - * generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_CreateChannel, lines 1058-1065): Modified - to store the Id of the current thread in the 'ChannelState' of - the new channel. + * generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_CreateChannel, lines 1058-1065): Modified to + store the Id of the current thread in the 'ChannelState' of the new + channel. - * generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_SpliceChannel, lines 2265-2270): Modified - in the same manner as 'Tcl_CreateChannel' as the channel will be - managed by the current thread afterward. + * generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_SpliceChannel, lines 2265-2270): Modified in + the same manner as 'Tcl_CreateChannel' as the channel will be managed + by the current thread afterward. * generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_GetChannelThread, lines 1478-1503): - * generic/tcl.decls (Tcl_GetChannelThread, lines 1504-1506): New - API function to retrieve the Id of the managing thread from a - channel. Implementation and declaration. + * generic/tcl.decls (Tcl_GetChannelThread, lines 1504-1506): New API + function to retrieve the Id of the managing thread from a channel. + Implementation and declaration. * generic/tclTest.c (TestChannelCmd, lines 4520-4532): Added - subcommand 'mthread' to query a channel about its managing - thread. + subcommand 'mthread' to query a channel about its managing thread. 2001-03-29 Mo DeJong <mdejong@redhat.com> - * tests/interp.test: Print out warning when - testinterpdelete command is not defined. - Add tests that checks to make sure a - child interp inherits the parent's cwd. + * tests/interp.test: Print out warning when testinterpdelete command + is not defined. Add tests that checks to make sure a child interp + inherits the parent's cwd. 2001-03-29 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@gimlet.activestate.com> @@ -3553,35 +3448,34 @@ * unix/tclUnixPipe.c (TclpCreateTempFile): prevent potential race condition and security leak in tmp filename creation. - (max) [Patch #402924] + [Patch 402924] (max) * unix/configure: * unix/tcl.m4: corrected IRIX-5.x config to not use -n32. - (english) [Patch #403626] + [Patch 403626] (english) - * unix/tclUnixThrd.c (Tcl_ConditionWait): fixed handling of - timeout for threads (corrects excessive CPU usage issue for Tk on - Unix in threaded Tcl environment). (ruppert) [Bug #411603] + * unix/tclUnixThrd.c (Tcl_ConditionWait): fixed handling of timeout + for threads (corrects excessive CPU usage issue for Tk on Unix in + threaded Tcl environment). [Bug 411603] (ruppert) 2001-03-29 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> * doc/lsort.n: Added some notes that clarify the behaviour of - [lsort] as well as a whole bunch of examples. [Bug #219202] + [lsort] as well as a whole bunch of examples. [Bug 219202] 2001-03-27 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@gimlet.activestate.com> - * doc/Alloc.3: corrected docs to note that Tcl_Attempt* return - char *'s, not ints. [Bug #411388] + * doc/Alloc.3: corrected docs to note that Tcl_Attempt* return char + *'s, not ints. [Bug 411388] * tests/regexp.test (regexp-19.1): - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_RegsubObjCmd): fixed handling of nulls - in subspec value. + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_RegsubObjCmd): fixed handling of nulls in + subspec value. 2001-03-26 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclDecls.h (Tcl_InitCustomHashTable): Correction to - patch from 2001-01-18; tclDecls.h was not generated using - 'make genstubs'. + * generic/tclDecls.h (Tcl_InitCustomHashTable): Correction to patch + from 2001-01-18; tclDecls.h was not generated using 'make genstubs'. 2001-03-26 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> @@ -3590,11 +3484,11 @@ 2001-03-23 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@activestate.com> - * generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_ArrayObjCmd): Corrected retrieval of - resultPtr to prevent possible corruption. + * generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_ArrayObjCmd): Corrected retrieval of resultPtr + to prevent possible corruption. * generic/tclNamesp.c (Tcl_Import): Correctly freed a DString. - (lavana) [Patch #403755] + [Patch 403755] (lavana) 2001-03-15 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> @@ -3603,134 +3497,131 @@ 2001-03-14 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * library/package.tcl (pkg_mkIndex): Added patch from Vince - Darley to make [pkg_mkIndex -verbose] even more verbose. - [Bug 219349, Patch 403529] + * library/package.tcl (pkg_mkIndex): Added patch from Vince Darley to + make [pkg_mkIndex -verbose] even more verbose. [Bug 219349, Patch + 403529] 2001-03-13 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> - * doc/info.n: Improved documentation for [info hostname]. - [Bug #403840] + * doc/info.n: Improved documentation for [info hostname]. [Bug 403840] * generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_UnsetObjCmd): Made command behave as - documented [issue remaining from bug #405769] + documented [issue remaining from Bug 405769] - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_StringObjCmd): A missing - {return TCL_OK;} was causing memory corruption. [Bug #408002] + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_StringObjCmd): A missing {return TCL_OK;} + was causing memory corruption. [Bug 408002] * generic/tclExecute.c (TclDeleteExecEnv, GrowEvaluationStack, - TclExecuteByteCode): Added some casts to ClientData that are + (TclExecuteByteCode): Added some casts to ClientData that are apparently needed on some architectures. 2001-03-12 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> * tests/string.test: Fixed some test numberings and added a test. - [Patch #403229] + [Patch 403229] 2001-03-06 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> - * generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_UnsetObjCmd): Rewrote argument parser to - avoid a read off the end of the argument array that could occur - when executing something like [unset -nocomplain] was executed. - Improved the error message given when too few arguments are given - (-nocomplain should obviously be *before* --, not after it) and - also modified the test suite to take account of that and the - documentation to use the same improvement. [Bug 405769] + * generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_UnsetObjCmd): Rewrote argument parser to avoid + a read off the end of the argument array that could occur when + executing something like [unset -nocomplain] was executed. Improved + the error message given when too few arguments are given (-nocomplain + should obviously be *before* --, not after it) and also modified the + test suite to take account of that and the documentation to use the + same improvement. [Bug 405769] 2001-03-02 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> - * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): Fixed bug that could - pass pointers to freed memory to command implementations, which - most obviously caused some weird behaviour with [info level], but - could have caused problems with user code and command traces too. - [Bug 404865, Patch 405436] + * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): Fixed bug that could pass + pointers to freed memory to command implementations, which most + obviously caused some weird behaviour with [info level], but could + have caused problems with user code and command traces too. [Bug + 404865, Patch 405436] 2001-02-23 msofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net> + * no changes; fixing up the missing comment in the previous one. Sorry. 2001-02-23 msofer <msofer@ant.utdt> - * /cvsroot/tcl/tcl/tests/execute.test: - added test for evaluation of an expression in a variable; evals once - by compiling, second time using the previous compilation + * /cvsroot/tcl/tcl/tests/execute.test: added test for evaluation of an + expression in a variable; evals once by compiling, second time using + the previous compilation 2001-02-18 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> * doc/clock.n: Updated documentation to reflect the addition of - compat/strftime.c, including the correct formatting of - ISO-8601:1988 fiscal week number (%V). - + compat/strftime.c, including the correct formatting of ISO-8601:1988 + fiscal week number (%V). + 2001-02-15 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_SplitObjCmd): Improved efficiency of - splitting strings into individual characters by adding hash so - that only one Tcl_Obj per character is created. Improves - performance of splitting of short strings and makes a huge - difference to splitting of long strings, such as is done in the - mime package in tcllib. [Bug #131523] + splitting strings into individual characters by adding hash so that + only one Tcl_Obj per character is created. Improves performance of + splitting of short strings and makes a huge difference to splitting of + long strings, such as is done in the mime package in tcllib. [Bug + 131523] 2001-01-31 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * win/makefile.vc (install-libraries): Corrected misdirected - install directory for the msgcat 1.2 package. + * win/makefile.vc (install-libraries): Corrected misdirected install + directory for the msgcat 1.2 package. 2001-01-30 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclIO.c (CopyData): Moved code that updates the count - of how many bytes are left to copy. Corrects bug that when - writing occurs in the background, the copy loop could be - escaped without updating the count, causing CopyData() to try - to copy more bytes than the toRead value originally passed to - TclCopyChannel(), leading to hangs and misreporting of number - of bytes copied. [Bug 118203, Patch 103432] + * generic/tclIO.c (CopyData): Moved code that updates the count of how + many bytes are left to copy. Corrects bug that when writing occurs in + the background, the copy loop could be escaped without updating the + count, causing CopyData() to try to copy more bytes than the toRead + value originally passed to TclCopyChannel(), leading to hangs and + misreporting of number of bytes copied. [Bug 118203, Patch 103432] 2001-01-18 Andreas Kupries <a.kupries@westend.com> - * Everything below belongs together, it fixes bug #123153. + Everything below belongs together, it fixes [Bug 123153] - * generic/tcl.h (line 342): A bit more explanation about the - default value for TCL_PRESERVE_BINARY_COMPATABILITY. + * generic/tcl.h (line 342): A bit more explanation about the default + value for TCL_PRESERVE_BINARY_COMPATABILITY. - * generic/tcl.h (line 1208): Define the macro 'Tcl_InitHashTable' - only when TCL_PRESERVE_BINARY_COMPATIBILITY is not set - as it kills binary compatibility to 8.3 and earlier - versions. This is the main part of the patch/change. + * generic/tcl.h (line 1208): Define the macro 'Tcl_InitHashTable' only + when TCL_PRESERVE_BINARY_COMPATIBILITY is not set as it kills binary + compatibility to 8.3 and earlier versions. This is the main part of + the patch/change. * generic/tcl.decls (line 1469): * generic/tclHash.c (Tcl_InitHashTable): * generic/tclHash.c (Tcl_InitHashTableEx): * generic/tclObj.c (Tcl_InitObjHashTable): Changed - 'Tcl_InitHashTableEx' to 'Tcl_InitCustomHashTable'. This change - is more of an estethical nature, replacing the ubiquitous 'Ex' - suffix with a more meaningful name. The introduced binary - incompatibility is deemed acceptable as it is between alpha - versions. Updated callers. + 'Tcl_InitHashTableEx' to 'Tcl_InitCustomHashTable'. This change is + more of an estethical nature, replacing the ubiquitous 'Ex' suffix + with a more meaningful name. The introduced binary incompatibility is + deemed acceptable as it is between alpha versions. Updated callers. * doc/Hash.3: * unix/mkLinks: Changed 'Tcl_InitHashTableEx' to - 'Tcl_InitCustomHashTable'. + 'Tcl_InitCustomHashTable'. 2001-01-10 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> - * tests/winPipe.test (winpipe-1.20): - * tests/winDde.test (createChildProcess): - * tests/pkgMkIndex.test (pkgtest::createIndex): Removed - assumption that paths contain no spaces which causes problems with - both [eval] and [open |...] due to the well-known differences - between lists and strings. Fixes bug #119406 + * tests/winPipe.test (winpipe-1.20): + * tests/winDde.test (createChildProcess): + * tests/pkgMkIndex.test (pkgtest::createIndex): Removed assumption + that paths contain no spaces which causes problems with both [eval] + and [open |...] due to the well-known differences between lists and + strings. Fixes [Bug 119406] 2001-01-04 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> * tests/unixInit.test: * unix/tclUnixInit.c (TclpInitLibraryPath): - * win/tclWinInit.c (TclpInitLibraryPath): Several entries in - the library path ($tcl_libPath) are determined relative to the - absolute path of the executable. When the executable is - installed in or near the root directory of the file system, - relative pathnames were being incorrectly generated, and in - the worst case, memory access violations were crashing the program. - [Bug 119416, Patch 102972] + * win/tclWinInit.c (TclpInitLibraryPath): Several entries in the + library path ($tcl_libPath) are determined relative to the absolute + path of the executable. When the executable is installed in or near + the root directory of the file system, relative pathnames were being + incorrectly generated, and in the worst case, memory access violations + were crashing the program. [Bug 119416, Patch 102972] ****************************************************************** *** CHANGELOG ENTRIES FOR 2000 IN "ChangeLog.2000" *** |