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@@ -23,17 +23,67 @@ register its created channel - that's the responsibility of the caller of Tcl_FSOpenFileChannel - as that leads to reference leaks. +2012-04-15 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclEnsemble.c (NsEnsembleImplementationCmdNR): + * generic/tclIOUtil.c (Tcl_FSEvalFileEx): Cut out levels of the C + stack by going direct to the relevant internal evaluation function. + + * generic/tclZlib.c (ZlibTransformSetOption): [Bug 3517696]: Make + flushing work correctly in a pushed compressing channel transform. + +2012-04-12 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclInt.decls: [Bug 3514475]: Remove TclpGetTimeZone and + * generic/tclIntDecls.h: TclpGetTZName + * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h: + * generic/tclStubInit.c: + * unix/tclUnixTime.c: + * unix/tclWinTilemc: + 2012-04-11 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * win/tclWinInit.c: [Bug 3448512]: clock scan "1958-01-01" fails only - * win/tcl.m4: in debug compilation. + * win/tclWinInit.c: [Bug 3448512]: clock scan "1958-01-01" fails + * win/tcl.m4: only in debug compilation. * win/configure: * unix/tcl.m4: Use NDEBUG consistantly meaning: no debugging. * unix/configure: + * generic/tclBasic.c: + * library/dde/pkgIndex.tcl Use [::tcl::pkgconfig get debug] instead + * library/reg/pkgIndex.tcl of [info exists ::tcl_platform(debug)] + +2012-04-10 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tcl.h (TCL_DEPRECATED_API): [Bug 2458976]: Added macro that + can be used to mark parts of Tcl's API as deprecated. Currently only + used for fields of Tcl_Interp, which TIPs 330 and 336 have deprecated + with a migration strategy; we want to encourage people to move away + from those fields. + +2012-04-09 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclOODefineCmds.c (ClassVarsSet, ObjVarsSet): [Bug 3396896]: + Ensure that the lists of variable names used to drive variable + resolution will never have the same name twice. + + * generic/tclVar.c (AppendLocals): [Bug 2712377]: Fix problem with + reporting of declared variables in methods. It's really a problem with + how [info vars] interacts with variable resolvers; this is just a bit + of a hack so it is no longer a big problem. + +2012-04-04 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclOO.c (Tcl_NewObjectInstance, TclNRNewObjectInstance): + [Bug 3514761]: Fixed bogosity with automated argument description + handling when constructing an instance of a class that is itself a + member of an ensemble. Thanks to Andreas Kupries for identifying that + this was a problem case at all! + (Tcl_CopyObjectInstance): Fix potential bleed-over of ensemble + information into [oo::copy]. 2012-04-04 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * win/tclWinSock.c: [Bug 510001]: TclSockMinimumBuffers needs plat imp + * win/tclWinSock.c: [Bug 510001]: TclSockMinimumBuffers needs plat imp * generic/tclIOSock.c: * generic/tclInt.decls: * generic/tclIntDecls.h: @@ -41,61 +91,126 @@ 2012-04-03 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclStubInit.c Remove the TclpGetTZName implementation for - * generic/tclIntDecls.h: Cygwin (from previous commit) , re-generated + * generic/tclStubInit.c: Remove the TclpGetTZName implementation for + * generic/tclIntDecls.h: Cygwin (from 2012-04-02 commit), re-generated * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h: - * generic/tcl.decls: cleanup unnecessary "generic" argument -2012-03-30 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> +2012-04-02 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclInt.decls: [Bug 3508771] load tclreg.dll in cygwin tclsh - * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h: Implement TclWinGetTclInstance, TclpGetTZName, - * generic/tclStubInit.c: and various more win32-specific internal functions for - Cygwin, so win32 extensions using those can be loaded in the cygwin version of tclsh. + IMPLEMENTATION OF TIP#396. + + * generic/tclBasic.c (builtInCmds, TclNRYieldToObjCmd): Convert the + formerly-unsupported yieldm and yieldTo commands into [yieldto]. + +2012-04-02 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclInt.decls: [Bug 3508771]: load tclreg.dll in cygwin tclsh + * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h: Implement TclWinGetTclInstance, + * generic/tclStubInit.c: TclpGetTZName, and various more + win32-specific internal functions for Cygwin, so win32 extensions + using those can be loaded in the cygwin version of tclsh. 2012-03-30 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * unix/tcl.m4: [Bug 3511806] Compiler checks too early - * unix/configure.in: This change allows to build the cygwin - * unix/tclUnixPort.h: and mingw32 ports of Tcl/Tk to build - * win/tcl.m4: out-of-the-box using a native or cross- - * win/configure.in: compiler. - * win/tclWinPort.h: (autoconf still to be run!) + * unix/tcl.m4: [Bug 3511806]: Compiler checks too early + * unix/configure.in: This change allows to build the cygwin and + * unix/tclUnixPort.h: mingw32 ports of Tcl/Tk to build out-of-the-box + * win/tcl.m4: using a native or cross-compiler. + * win/configure.in: + * win/tclWinPort.h: + * win/README Document how to build win32 or win64 executables + with Linux, Cygwin or Darwin. + +2012-03-29 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (StringIsCmd): Faster mem-leak free + implementation of [string is entier]. + +2012-03-27 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + IMPLEMENTATION OF TIP#395. + + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (StringIsCmd): Implementation of the [string is + entier] check. Code by Jos Decoster. 2012-03-27 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tcl.h: [Bug 3508771] Wrong Tcl_StatBuf used on MinGW - * generic/tclFCmd.c: [Bug 2015723] duplicate inodes from file stat on - windows (but now for cygwin as well) + * generic/tcl.h: [Bug 3508771]: Wrong Tcl_StatBuf used on MinGW. + * generic/tclFCmd.c: [Bug 2015723]: Duplicate inodes from file stat + * generic/tclCmdAH.c: on windows (but now for cygwin as well). + * generic/tclOODefineCmds.c: minor gcc warning + * win/tclWinPort.h: Use lower numbers, preventing integer overflow. + Remove the workaround for mingw-w64 [bug 3407992]. It's long fixed. + +2012-03-27 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + IMPLEMENTATION OF TIP#397. + + * generic/tclOO.c (Tcl_CopyObjectInstance): [Bug 3474460]: Make the + target object name optional when copying classes. [RFE 3485060]: Add + callback method ("<cloned>") so that scripted control over copying is + easier. + ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** + If you'd previously been using the "<cloned>" method name, this now + has a standard semantics and call interface. Only a problem if you are + also using [oo::copy]. + +2012-03-26 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + IMPLEMENTATION OF TIP#380. + + * doc/define.n, doc/object.n, generic/tclOO.c, generic/tclOOBasic.c: + * generic/tclOOCall.c, generic/tclOODefineCmds.c, generic/tclOOInt.h: + * tests/oo.test: Switch definitions of lists of things in objects and + classes to a slot-based approach, which gives a lot more flexibility + and programmability at the script-level. Introduce new [::oo::Slot] + class which is the implementation of these things. + + ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** + The unknown method handler now may be asked to deal with the case + where no method name is provided at all. The default implementation + generates a compatible error message, and any override that forces the + presence of a first argument (i.e., a method name) will continue to + function as at present as well, so this is a pretty small change. + + * generic/tclOOBasic.c (TclOO_Object_Destroy): Made it easier to do a + tailcall inside a normally-invoked destructor; prevented leakage out + to calling command. 2012-03-25 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclInt.decls: [Bug 3508771] load tclreg.dll in cygwin tclsh - * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h: Implement TclWinConvertError, TclWinConvertWSAError, - * generic/tclStubInit.c: and various more win32-specific internal functions for - * unix/Makefile.in: Cygwin, so win32 extensions using those can be - * unix/tcl.m4: loaded in the cygwin version of tclsh. - * unix/configure: - * win/tclWinError.c: + * generic/tclInt.decls: [Bug 3508771]: load tclreg.dll in cygwin + * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h: tclsh. Implement TclWinConvertError, + * generic/tclStubInit.c: TclWinConvertWSAError, and various more + * unix/Makefile.in: win32-specific internal functions for + * unix/tcl.m4: Cygwin, so win32 extensions using those + * unix/configure: can be loaded in the cygwin version of + * win/tclWinError.c: tclsh. 2012-03-23 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclInt.decls Revert some cygwin-related signature changes from - * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h [835f8e1e9d] (2010-02-01). They were an attempt to - * win/tclWinError.c make the cygwin port compile again, but since cygwin - is based on unix this serves no purpose any more. - * unix/Makefile.in Add tclWinError.c to the CYGWIN build. - * unix/tcl.m4 - * unix/configure + * generic/tclInt.decls: Revert some cygwin-related signature + * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h: changes from [835f8e1e9d] (2010-01-22). + * win/tclWinError.c: They were an attempt to make the cygwin + port compile again, but since cygwin is + based on unix this serves no purpose any + more. + * win/tclWinSerial.c: Use EAGAIN in stead of EWOULDBLOCK, + * win/tclWinSock.c: because in VS10+ the value of + EWOULDBLOCK is no longer the same as + EAGAIN. + * unix/Makefile.in: Add tclWinError.c to the CYGWIN build. + * unix/tcl.m4: + * unix/configure: 2012-03-20 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tcl.decls: [Bug 3508771] load tclreg.dll in cygwin tclsh - * generic/tclInt.decls: Implement TclWinGetPlatformId, Tcl_WinUtfToTChar, - * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h: Tcl_WinTCharToUtf (and a dummy TclWinCPUID) for - * generic/tclPlatDecls.h: Cygwin, so win32 extensions using those can be - * generic/tclStubInit.c: loaded in the cygwin version of tclsh. - * unix/tclUnixCompat.c: + * generic/tcl.decls: [Bug 3508771]: load tclreg.dll in cygwin + * generic/tclInt.decls: tclsh. Implement TclWinGetPlatformId, + * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h: Tcl_WinUtfToTChar, Tcl_WinTCharToUtf (and + * generic/tclPlatDecls.h: a dummy TclWinCPUID) for Cygwin, so win32 + * generic/tclStubInit.c: extensions using those can be loaded in + * unix/tclUnixCompat.c: the cygwin version of tclsh. 2012-03-19 Venkat Iyer <venkat@comit.com> @@ -127,9 +242,17 @@ * library/tzdata/Pacific/Fakaofo * library/tzdata/America/Creston: (new) +2012-03-19 Reinhard Max <max@suse.de> + + * unix/tclUnixSock.c (Tcl_OpenTcpServer): Use the values returned + by getaddrinfo() for all three arguments to socket() instead of + only using ai_family. Try to keep the most meaningful error while + iterating over the result list, because using the last error can + be misleading. + 2012-03-15 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tcl.h: [Bug 3288345] Wrong Tcl_StatBuf used on Cygwin + * generic/tcl.h: [Bug 3288345]: Wrong Tcl_StatBuf used on Cygwin * unix/tclUnixFile.c * unix/tclUnixPort.h * win/cat.c: Remove cygwin stuff no longer needed @@ -138,13 +261,22 @@ 2012-03-12 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * win/tclWinFile.c: [Bug 3388350] mingw64 compiler warnings + * win/tclWinFile.c: [Bug 3388350]: mingw64 compiler warnings + +2012-03-11 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * doc/*.n, doc/*.3: A number of small spelling and wording fixes. + +2012-03-08 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * doc/info.n: Various minor fixes (prompted by Andreas Kupries + * doc/socket.n: detecting a spelling mistake). 2012-03-07 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> * library/http/http.tcl: [Bug 3498327]: Generate upper-case * library/http/pkgIndex.tcl: hexadecimal output for compliance - * tests/http.test: with RFC 3986. Bumped version to 2.7.9. + * tests/http.test: with RFC 3986. Bumped version to 2.8.4. * unix/Makefile.in: * win/Makefile.in: @@ -158,15 +290,22 @@ * unix/tcl.m4: * unix/configure: (re-generated) +2012-03-02 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclBinary.c (Tcl_SetByteArrayObj): [Bug 3496014]: Only zero + out the memory block if it is not being immediately overwritten. (Our + caller might still overwrite, but we should at least avoid + known-useless work.) + 2012-02-29 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclIOUtil.c: [Bug 3466099] BOM in Unicode + * generic/tclIOUtil.c: [Bug 3466099]: BOM in Unicode * generic/tclEncoding.c: * tests/source.test 2012-02-23 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * tests/reg.test (14.21-23): Add tests relating to bug 1115587. Actual + * tests/reg.test (14.21-23): Add tests relating to Bug 1115587. Actual bug is characterised by test marked with 'knownBug'. 2012-02-17 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> @@ -174,28 +313,42 @@ * generic/tclIOUtil.c: [Bug 2233954]: AIX: compile error * unix/tclUnixPort.h: +2012-02-16 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclExecute.c (INST_LIST_RANGE_IMM): Enhance implementation + so that shortening a (not multiply-referenced) list by lopping the end + off with [lrange] or [lreplace] is efficient. + 2012-02-15 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileDictForCmd): [Bug 3487626]: Fix - crash in compilation of [dict for] when its implementation command is - used directly rather than through the ensemble. + * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileLreplaceCmd): Added a compilation + strategy for [lreplace] that tackles the cases which are equivalent to + a static [lrange]. + (TclCompileLrangeCmd): Add compiler for [lrange] with constant indices + so we can take advantage of existing TCL_LIST_RANGE_IMM opcode. + (TclCompileLindexCmd): Improve coverage of constant-index-style + compliation using technique developed for [lrange] above. + + (TclCompileDictForCmd): [Bug 3487626]: Fix crash in compilation of + [dict for] when its implementation command is used directly rather + than through the ensemble. 2012-02-09 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclStringObj.c: [Bug 3484402]: Correct Off-By-One - error appending unicode. Thanks to Poor Yorick. Also corrected test - for when growth is needed. + * generic/tclStringObj.c: Converted the memcpy() calls in append + operations to memmove() calls. This adds safety in the case of + overlapping copies, and improves performance on some benchmarks. 2012-02-06 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclCompCmds.c: [Bug 3485022]: TclCompileEnsemble() avoid + * generic/tclEnsemble.c: [Bug 3485022]: TclCompileEnsemble() avoid * tests/trace.test: compile when exec traces set. 2012-02-06 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclTrace.c: Fix for [Bug 3484621]: insure that - * tests/trace.test: execution traces on bytecoded commands bump - the interp's compile epoch. + * generic/tclTrace.c: [Bug 3484621]: Ensure that execution traces on + * tests/trace.test: bytecoded commands bump the interp's compile + epoch. 2012-02-02 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> @@ -205,29 +358,49 @@ 2012-02-02 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> * win/tclWinFile.c: [Bugs 2974459,2879351,1951574,1852572, - 1661378,1613456]: Revisions to the NativeAccess() routine that - queries file permissions on Windows native filesystems. Meant to - fix numerous bugs where [file writable|readable|executable] "lies" - about what operations are possible, especially when the file resides - on a Samba share. Patch merged from the fix-win-native-access branch. + 1661378,1613456]: Revisions to the NativeAccess() routine that queries + file permissions on Windows native filesystems. Meant to fix numerous + bugs where [file writable|readable|executable] "lies" about what + operations are possible, especially when the file resides on a Samba + share. 2012-02-01 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> * doc/AddErrInfo.3: [Bug 3482614]: Documentation nit. +2012-01-30 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileCatchCmd): Added a more efficient + bytecode generator for the case where 'catch' is used without any + variable arguments; don't capture the result just to discard it. + +2012-01-26 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + + * generic/tclCmdAH.c: [Bug 3479689]: New internal routine + * generic/tclFCmd.c: TclJoinPath(). Refactor all the + * generic/tclFileName.c: *Join*Path* routines to give them more + * generic/tclInt.h: useful interfaces that are easier to + * generic/tclPathObj.c: manage getting the refcounts right. + 2012-01-26 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> * generic/tclPathObj.c: [Bug 3475569]: Add checks for unshared values before calls demanding them. [Bug 3479689]: Stop memory corruption when shimmering 0-refCount value to "path" type. +2012-01-25 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclOO.c (Tcl_CopyObjectInstance): [Bug 3474460]: When + copying an object, make sure that the configuration of the variable + resolver is also duplicated. + 2012-01-22 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * tools/uniClass.tcl: [Frq 3473670]: Various Unicode-related - * tools/uniParse.tcl: speedups/robustness. Enhanced tools to - * generic/tclUniData.c: be able to handle characters > 0xffff - * generic/tclUtf.c: Done in all branches in order to simplify - * generic/regc_locale.c: merges for new Unicode versions (such as 6.1) + * tools/uniClass.tcl: [FRQ 3473670]: Various Unicode-related + * tools/uniParse.tcl: speedups/robustness. Enhanced tools to be + * generic/tclUniData.c: able to handle characters > 0xffff. Done in + * generic/tclUtf.c: all branches in order to simplify merges for + * generic/regc_locale.c: new Unicode versions (such as 6.1) 2012-01-22 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> @@ -255,18 +428,15 @@ * doc/dict.n (dict with): [Bug 3474512]: Explain better what is going on when a dictionary key and the dictionary variable collide. -2012-01-17 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * library/http/http.tcl: Bump to version 2.7.8 - * library/http/pkgIndex.tcl: - * unix/Makefile.in: - * win/Makefile.in: - 2012-01-13 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> * library/http/http.tcl (http::Connect): [Bug 3472316]: Ensure that we only try to read the socket error exactly once. +2012-01-12 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * doc/tclvars.n: [Bug 3466506]: Document more environment variables. + 2012-01-09 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> * generic/tclUtf.c: [Bug 3464428]: string is graph \u0120 is wrong @@ -276,12 +446,12 @@ 2012-01-08 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - * library/clock.tcl (ReadZoneinfoFile): Corrected a bug where loading - * tests/clock.test (clock-56.4): zoneinfo would fail if one - timezone abbreviation was a proper tail of another, and zic used the - same bytes of the file to represent both of them. Added a test case - for the bug, using the same data that caused the observed failure - "in the wild." [Bug 3470928] + * library/clock.tcl (ReadZoneinfoFile): [Bug 3470928]: Corrected a bug + * tests/clock.test (clock-56.4): where loading zoneinfo would + fail if one timezone abbreviation was a proper tail of another, and + zic used the same bytes of the file to represent both of them. Added a + test case for the bug, using the same data that caused the observed + failure "in the wild." 2011-12-30 Venkat Iyer <venkat@comit.com> @@ -295,13 +465,19 @@ 2011-12-23 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclUtf.c: [Bug 3464428] string is graph \u0120 is wrong + * generic/tclUtf.c: [Bug 3464428]: string is graph \u0120 is wrong. * generic/tclUniData.c: * generic/regc_locale.c: * tests/utf.test: - * tools/uniParse.tcl: clean up some unused stuff, and be more robust + * tools/uniParse.tcl: Clean up some unused stuff, and be more robust against changes in UnicodeData.txt syntax +2011-12-13 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + + * generic/tclCompile.c (TclInitAuxDataTypeTable): Extended to register + the DictUpdateInfo structure as an AuxData type. For use by tbcload, + tclcompiler. + 2011-12-11 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> * generic/regc_locale.c: [Bug 3457031]: Some Unicode 6.0 chars not @@ -309,79 +485,154 @@ 2011-12-07 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * tools/uniParse.tcl: [Bug 3444754] string tolower \u01c5 is wrong + * tools/uniParse.tcl: [Bug 3444754]: string tolower \u01c5 is wrong * generic/tclUniData.c: * tests/utf.test: 2011-11-30 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl: [Bug 967195]: Make tcltest work - when tclsh is compiled without using the setargv() function on mingw. - (no need to incr the version, since 2.2.10 is never released) + * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl: [Bug 967195]: Make tcltest work when + tclsh is compiled without using the setargv() function on mingw (No + need to incr the version, since 2.2.10 is never released). 2011-11-29 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * doc/tclsh.1: Use the same shebang comment everywhere. - * tools/str2c - * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl * win/Makefile.in: don't install tommath_(super)?class.h * unix/Makefile.in: don't install directories like 8.2 and 8.3 + * generic/tclTomMath.h: [Bug 2991415]: move include tclInt.h from + * generic/tclTomMathInt.h: tclTomMath.h to tclTomMathInt.h + +2011-11-25 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * library/history.tcl (history): Simplify the dance of variable + management used when chaining to the implementation command. + +2011-11-22 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclExecute.c (TclCompileObj): Simplify and de-indent the + logic so that it is easier to comprehend. 2011-11-22 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * win/tclWinPort.h: [Bug 2935503] Windows: file mtime - * win/tclWinFile.c: sets wrong time (VS2005+ only) + * win/tclWinPort.h: [Bug 2935503]: Windows: [file mtime] sets wrong + * win/tclWinFile.c: time (VS2005+ only). * generic/tclTest.c: -2011-11-04 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2011-11-20 Joe Mistachkin <joe@mistachkin.com> - *** 8.5.11 TAGGED FOR RELEASE *** + * tests/thread.test: Remove unnecessary [after] calls from the thread + tests. Make error message matching more robust for tests that may + have built-in race conditions. Test thread-7.26 must first unset all + thread testing related variables. Revise results of the thread-7.28 + through thread-7.31 tests to account for the fact they are canceled + via a script sent to the thread asynchronously, which then impacts the + error message handling. Attempt to manually drain the event queue for + the main thread after joining the test thread to make sure no stray + events are processed at the wrong time on the main thread. Revise all + the synchronization and comparison semantics related to the thread id + and error message. - * generic/tcl.h: Bump to 8.5.11 for release. - * library/init.tcl: - * tools/tcl.wse.in: - * unix/configure.in: - * unix/tcl.spec: - * win/configure.in: - * README: +2011-11-18 Joe Mistachkin <joe@mistachkin.com> - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 - * win/configure: + * tests/thread.test: Remove all use of thread::release from the thread + 7.x tests, replacing it with a script that can easily cause "stuck" + threads to self-destruct for those test cases that require it. Also, + make the error message handling far more robust by keeping track of + every asynchronous error. + +2011-11-17 Joe Mistachkin <joe@mistachkin.com> + + * tests/thread.test: Refactor all the remaining thread-7.x tests that + were using [testthread]. Note that this test file now requires the + very latest version of the Thread package to pass all tests. In + addition, the thread-7.18 and thread-7.19 tests have been flagged as + knownBug because they cannot pass without modifications to the [expr] + command, persuant to TIP #392. + +2011-11-17 Joe Mistachkin <joe@mistachkin.com> + + * generic/tclThreadTest.c: For [testthread cancel], avoid creating a + new Tcl_Obj when the default script cancellation result is desired. + +2011-11-11 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * win/tclWinConsole.c: Refactor common thread handling patterns. - * changes: Update for 8.5.11 release. +2011-11-11 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> + + * tests/zlib.test: [Bug 3428756]: Use nonblocking writes in + single-threaded IO tests to avoid deadlocks when going beyond OS + buffers. Tidy up [chan configure] flags across zlib.test. + +2011-11-03 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * unix/tclUnixCompat.c (TclpGetPwNam, TclpGetPwUid, TclpGetGrNam) + (TclpGetGrGid): Use the elaborate memory management scheme outlined on + http://www.opengroup.org/austin/docs/austin_328.txt to handle Tcl's + use of standard reentrant versions of the passwd/group access + functions so that everything can work on all BSDs. Problem identified + by Stuart Cassoff. 2011-10-20 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * library/http/http.tcl: Bump to version 2.7.7 + * library/http/http.tcl: Bump to version 2.8.3 * library/http/pkgIndex.tcl: * unix/Makefile.in: * win/Makefile.in: - * changes: Updates for 8.5.11 release. + * changes: Updates toward 8.6b3 release. + +2011-10-20 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclLiteral.c (TclInvalidateCmdLiteral): [Bug 3418547]: + Additional code for handling the invalidation of literals. + * generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_CreateObjCommand, Tcl_CreateCommand) + (TclRenameCommand, Tcl_ExposeCommand): The four additional places that + need extra care when dealing with literals. + * generic/tclTest.c (TestInterpResolverCmd): Additional test machinery + for interpreter resolvers. 2011-10-18 Reinhard Max <max@suse.de> - * library/clock.tcl (::tcl::clock::GetSystemTimeZone): Cache the - time zone only if it was detected by one of the expensive - methods. Otherwise after unsetting TCL_TZ or TZ the previous value - will still be used. + * library/clock.tcl (::tcl::clock::GetSystemTimeZone): Cache the time + zone only if it was detected by one of the expensive methods. + Otherwise after unsetting TCL_TZ or TZ the previous value will still + be used. 2011-10-15 Venkat Iyer <venkat@comit.com> + * library/tzdata/America/Sitka : Update to Olson's tzdata2011l * library/tzdata/Pacific/Fiji * library/tzdata/Asia/Hebron (New) 2011-10-11 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * win/tclWinFile.c: [Bug 2935503] Incorrect mode field - returned by file stat command + * win/tclWinFile.c: [Bug 2935503]: Incorrect mode field returned by + [file stat] command. + +2011-10-09 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileDictWithCmd): Corrected handling of + qualified names, and added spacial cases for empty bodies (used when + [dict with] is just used for extracting variables). 2011-10-07 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclIORChan.c: Fix gcc warning - (discovered with latest mingw, based on gcc 4.6.1) - * tests/env.test: Fix env.test, when running - under wine 1.3 (partly backported from Tcl 8.6) + * generic/tcl.h: Fix gcc warnings (discovered with latest + * generic/tclIORChan.c: mingw, based on gcc 4.6.1) + * tests/env.test: Fix env.test, when running under wine 1.3. + +2011-10-06 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclDictObj.c (TclDictWithInit, TclDictWithFinish): + * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileDictWithCmd): Experimental + compilation for the [dict with] subcommand, using parts factored out + from the interpreted version of the command. + +2011-10-05 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + + * win/tclWinInt.h: Remove tclWinProcs, as it is no longer + * win/tclWin32Dll.c: being used. 2011-10-03 Venkat Iyer <venkat@comit.com> @@ -397,6 +648,113 @@ * library/tzdata/Europe/Zaporozhye * library/tzdata/Pacific/Apia +2011-09-29 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl, tools/tcltk-man2html-utils.tcl: More + refactoring so that more of the utility code is decently out of the + way. Adjusted the header-material generator so that version numbers + are only included in locations where there is room. + +2011-09-28 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclOO.h: [RFE 3010352]: make all TclOO API functions + * generic/tclOODecls.h: MODULE_SCOPE + * generic/tclOOIntDecls.h: + +2011-09-27 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclIndexObj.c (Tcl_ParseArgsObjv): [Bug 3413857]: Corrected + the memory management for the code parsing arguments when returning + "large" numbers of arguments. Also unbroke the TCL_ARGV_AUTO_REST + macro in passing. + +2011-09-26 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclCmdAH.c (TclMakeFileCommandSafe): [Bug 3211758]: Also + make the main [file] command hidden by default in safe interpreters, + because that's what existing code expects. This will reduce the amount + which the code breaks, but not necessarily eliminate it... + +2011-09-23 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + + * generic/tclIORTrans.c: More revisions to get finalization of + ReflectedTransforms correct, including adopting a "dead" field as was + done in tclIORChan.c. + + * tests/thread.test: Stop using the deprecated thread management + commands of the tcltest package. The test suite ought to provide + these tools for itself. They do not belong in a testing harness. + +2011-09-22 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + + * generic/tclCmdIL.c: Revise [info frame] so that it stops creating + cycles in the iPtr->cmdFramePtr stack. + +2011-09-22 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * doc/re_syntax.n: [Bug 2903743]: Add more magic so that we can do at + least something sane on Solaris. + * tools/tcltk-man2html-utils.tcl (process-text): Teach the HTML + generator how to handle this magic. + +2011-09-21 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + + * generic/tclThreadTest.c: Revise the thread exit handling of the + [testthread] command so that it properly maintains the per-process + data structures even when the thread exits for reasons other than the + [testthread exit] command. + +2011-09-21 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> + + * unix/tclIO.c: [Bug 3412487]: Now short reads are allowed in + synchronous fcopy, avoid mistaking them as nonblocking ones. + +2011-09-21 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + + * generic/tclIORTrans.c (ForwardOpToOwnerThread): Fixed the missing + initialization of the 'dsti' field. Reported by Don Porter, on chat. + +2011-09-20 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + + * generic/tclIORChan.c: Re-using the "interp" field to signal a dead + channel (via NULL value) interfered with conditional cleanup tasks + testing for "the right interp". Added a new field "dead" to perform + the dead channel signalling task so the corrupted logic is avoided. + + * generic/tclIORTrans.c: Revised ReflectClose() and + FreeReflectedTransform() so that we stop leaking ReflectedTransforms, + yet free all Tcl_Obj values in the same thread that alloced them. + +2011-09-19 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + + * tests/ioTrans.test: Conversion from [testthread] to Thread package + stops most memory leaks. + + * tests/thread.test: Plug most memory leaks in thread.test. + Constrain the rest to be skipped during `make valgrind'. Tests using + the [testthread cancel] testing command are leaky. Corrections wait + for either addition of [thread::cancel] to the Thread package, or + improvements to the [testthread] testing command to make leak-free + versions of these tests possible. + + * generic/tclIORChan.c: Plug all memory leaks in ioCmd.test exposed + * tests/ioCmd.test: by `make valgrind'. + * unix/Makefile.in: + +2011-09-16 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + + IMPLEMENTATION OF TIP #388 + + * doc/Tcl.n + * doc/re_syntax.n + * generic/regc_lex.c + * generic/regcomp.c + * generic/regcustom.h + * generic/tcl.h + * generic/tclParse.c + * tests/reg.test + * tests/utf.test + 2011-09-16 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> * generic/tclProc.c (ProcWrongNumArgs): [Bugs 3400658,3408830]: @@ -409,30 +767,55 @@ 2011-09-16 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclProc.c (ProcWrongNumArgs): [Bugs 3400658,3408830]: + Ensemble-like rewriting of error messages is complex, and TclOO (in + combination with iTcl) hits the most tricky cases. + * library/http/http.tcl (http::geturl): [Bug 3391977]: Ensure that the -headers option overrides the -type option (important because -type has a default that is not always appropriate, and the header must not be duplicated). +2011-09-15 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + + * generic/tclCompExpr.c: [Bug 3408408]: Partial improvement by sharing + as literals the computed values of constant subexpressions when we can + do so without incurring the cost of string rep generation. + 2011-09-13 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclUtil.c: [Bug 3390638] Workaround broken solaris - studio cc optimizer. Thanks to Wolfgang S. Kechel. + * generic/tclUtil.c: [Bug 3390638]: Workaround broken Solaris + Studio cc optimizer. Thanks to Wolfgang S. Kechel. - * generic/tclDTrace.d: [Bug 3405652] Portability workaround for + * generic/tclDTrace.d: [Bug 3405652]: Portability workaround for broken system DTrace support. Thanks to Dagobert Michelson. 2011-09-12 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * win/tclWinPort.h: [Bug 3407070] tclPosixStr.c won't build with + * win/tclWinPort.h: [Bug 3407070]: tclPosixStr.c won't build with EOVERFLOW==E2BIG +2011-09-11 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + + * tests/thread.test: Convert [testthread] use to Thread package use + in thread-6.1. Eliminates a memory leak in `make valgrind`. + + * tests/socket.test: [Bug 3390699]: Convert [testthread] use to + Thread package use in socket_*-13.1. Eliminates a memory leak in + `make valgrind`. + +2011-09-09 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + + * tests/chanio.test: [Bug 3389733]: Convert [testthread] use to + * tests/io.test: Thread package use in *io-70.1. Eliminates a + memory leak in `make valgrind`. + 2011-09-07 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: [Bug 3401704] Allow function names like - * tests/parseExpr.test: influence(), nanobot(), and 99bottles() - that have been parsed as missing operator syntax errors before - with the form NUMBER + FUNCTION. + * generic/tclCompExpr.c: [Bug 3401704]: Allow function names like + * tests/parseExpr.test: influence(), nanobot(), and 99bottles() that + have been parsed as missing operator syntax errors before with the + form NUMBER + FUNCTION. ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** 2011-09-06 Venkat Iyer <venkat@comit.com> @@ -446,9 +829,26 @@ * library/tzdata/Pacific/Honolulu: * library/tzdata/Africa/Juba: (new) +2011-09-06 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tcl.h: [RFE 1711975]: Tcl_MainEx() (like Tk_MainEx()) + * generic/tclDecls.h + * generic/tclMain.c + +2011-09-02 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + + * tests/http.test: Convert [testthread] use to Thread package use. + Eliminates memory leak seen in `make valgrind`. + +2011-09-01 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> + + * unix/tclUnixSock.c: [Bug 3401422]: Cache script-level changes to the + nonblocking flag of an async client socket in progress, and commit + them on completion. + 2011-09-01 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclStrToD.c: [Bug 3402540] Corrections to TclParseNumber() + * generic/tclStrToD.c: [Bug 3402540]: Corrections to TclParseNumber() * tests/binary.test: to make it reject invalid Nan(Hex) strings. * tests/scan.test: [scan Inf %g] is portable; remove constraint. @@ -461,40 +861,78 @@ means that interpreters cannot read their own limits (writing already did not work). +2011-08-30 Reinhard Max <max@suse.de> + + * unix/tclUnixSock.c (TcpWatchProc): [Bug 3394732]: Put back the check + for server sockets. + +2011-08-29 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + + * generic/tclIORTrans.c: Leak of ReflectedTransformMap. + +2011-08-27 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + + * generic/tclStringObj.c: [RFE 3396731]: Revise the [string reverse] + * tests/string.test: implementation to operate on the representation + that comes in, avoid conversion to other reps. + +2011-08-23 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + + * generic/tclIORChan.c: [Bug 3396948]: Leak of ReflectedChannelMap. + +2011-08-19 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + + * generic/tclIORTrans.c: [Bugs 3393279, 3393280]: ReflectClose(.) is + missing Tcl_EventuallyFree() calls at some of its exits. + + * generic/tclIO.c: [Bugs 3394654, 3393276]: Revise FlushChannel() to + account for the possibility that the ChanWrite() call might recycle + the buffer out from under us. + + * generic/tclIO.c: Preserve the chanPtr during FlushChannel so that + channel drivers don't yank it away before we're done with it. + 2011-08-19 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> * generic/tclTest.c: [Bug 2981154]: async-4.3 segfault. * tests/async.test: [Bug 1774689]: async-4.3 sometimes fails. +2011-08-18 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> + + * generic/tclIO.c: [Bug 3096275]: Sync fcopy buffers input. + 2011-08-18 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> * generic/tclUniData.c: [Bug 3393714]: Overflow in toupper delta * tools/uniParse.tcl * tests/utf.test +2011-08-17 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> + + * generic/tclIO.c: [Bug 2946474]: Consistently resume backgrounded + * tests/ioCmd.test: flushes+closes when exiting. + +2011-08-17 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> + + * doc/interp.n: Document TIP 378's one-way-ness. + 2011-08-17 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> * generic/tclGet.c: [Bug 3393150]: Overlooked free of intreps. (It matters for bignums!) -2011-08-16 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> +2011-08-16 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclCmdAH.c: [Bug 3388350]: mingw64 compiler warnings - * generic/tclFCmd.c In mingw, sys/stat.h must be included - * generic/tclFileName.c before winsock2.h, so make sure of that. - * generic/tclIOUtil.c - * generic/tclBasic.c - * generic/tclBinary.c - * generic/tclHash.c - * generic/tclTest.c - * win/tclWinChan.c - * win/tclWinConsole.c - * win/tclWinDde.c - * win/tclWinFile.c - * win/tclWinReg.c - * win/tclWinSerial.c - * win/tclWinSock.c - * win/tclWinThrd.c + * generic/tclCompile.c: [Bug 3392070]: More complete prevention of + Tcl_Obj reference cycles when producing an intrep of ByteCode. + +2011-08-16 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclListObj.c (TclLindexList, TclLsetFlat): Silence warnings + about (unreachable) cases of uninitialized variables. + * generic/tclCmdIL.c (SelectObjFromSublist): Improve the generation of + * generic/tclIndexObj.c (Tcl_ParseArgsObjv): messages through the use + * generic/tclVar.c (ArrayStartSearchCmd): of Tcl_ObjPrintf. 2011-08-15 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> @@ -502,19 +940,44 @@ 2011-08-15 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * win/tclWinPort.h: [Bug 3388350]: mingw64 compiler warnings - * win/tclWinPipe.c - * win/tclWinSock.c + * generic/tclPosixStr.c: [Bug 3388350]: mingw64 compiler warnings + * win/tclWinPort.h: * win/configure.in * win/configure - * generic/tclPosixStr.c - * generic/tclStrToD.c + +2011-08-14 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + + * doc/FindExec.3: [Patch 3124554]: Move WishPanic from Tk to Tcl + * doc/Panic.3 Added Documentation 2011-08-12 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> * generic/tclPathObj.c: [Bug 3389764]: Eliminate possibility that dup of a "path" value can create reference cycle. +2011-08-12 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclZlib.c (ZlibTransformOutput): [Bug 3390073]: Return the + correct length of written data for a compressing transform. + +2011-08-10 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> + + * generic/tclTestObj.c: [Bug 3386721]: Allow multiple [load]ing of the + Tcltest package. + +2011-08-09 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> + + * generic/tclBasic.c: [Bug 2919042]: Restore "valgrindability" of Tcl + * generic/tclEvent.c: that was lost by the streamlining of [exit], by + * generic/tclExecute.c: conditionally forcing a full Finalize: + * generic/tclInt.h: use -DPURIFY or ::env(TCL_FINALIZE_ON_EXIT) + +2011-08-09 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> + + * generic/tclCompCmds.c: [Bug 3386417]: Avoid a reference loop between + * generic/tclInt.h: the bytecode and its companion errostack + * generic/tclResult.c: when compiling a syntax error. + 2011-08-09 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> * win/tclWinConsole.c: [Bug 3388350]: mingw64 compiler warnings @@ -522,13 +985,120 @@ * win/tclWinPipe.c * win/tclWinSerial.c +2011-08-09 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclInt.h: Change the signature of TclParseHex(), such that + * generic/tclParse.c: it can now parse up to 8 hex characters. + +2011-08-08 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclZlib.c (ZlibStreamCmd): Make the -buffersize option to + '$zstream add' function correctly instead of having its value just be + discarded unceremoniously. Also generate error codes from more of the + code, not just the low-level code but also the Tcl infrastructure. + +2011-08-07 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclOOInfo.c (InfoClassCallCmd): [Bug 3387082]: Plug memory + leak in call chain introspection. + +2011-08-06 Kevin B, Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> + + * generic/tclAssemnbly.c: [Bug 3384840]: Plug another memory leak. + * generic/tclStrToD.c: [Bug 3386975]: Plug another memory leak. + 2011-08-05 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> * generic/tclStrToD.c: [Bug 3386975]: Plugged a memory leak in double->string conversion. +2011-08-05 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + + *** 8.6b2 TAGGED FOR RELEASE *** + + * changes: Updates for 8.6b2 release. + +2011-08-05 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclAssembly.c (AssembleOneLine): Ensure that memory isn't + leaked when an unknown instruction is encountered. Also simplify code + through use of Tcl_ObjPrintf in error message generation. + + * generic/tclZlib.c (ZlibTransformClose): [Bug 3386197]: Plug a memory + leak found by Miguel with valgrind, and ensure that the correct + direction's buffers are released. + +2011-08-04 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclVar.c (TclPtrSetVar): Fix valgrind-detected error when + newValuePtr is the interp's result obj. + +2011-08-04 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclAssembly.c (FreeAssemblyEnv): [Bug 3384840]: Plug another + possible memory leak due to over-complex code for freeing the table of + labels. + +2011-08-04 Reinhard Max <max@suse.de> + + * generic/tclIOSock.c (TclCreateSocketAddress): Don't bother using + AI_ADDRCONFIG for now, as it was causing problems in various + situations. + +2011-08-04 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclAssembly.c (AssembleOneLine, GetBooleanOperand) + (GetIntegerOperand, GetListIndexOperand, FindLocalVar): [Bug 3384840]: + A Tcl_Obj is allocated by GetNextOperand, so callers of it must not + hold a reference to one in the 'out' parameter when calling it. This + was causing a great many memory leaks. + * tests/assemble.test (assemble-51.*): Added group of memory leak + tests. + +2011-08-02 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + + * changes: Updates for 8.6b2 release. + * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl: Variable substitution botch. + +2011-08-02 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclObj.c (Tcl_DbIncrRefCount, Tcl_DbDecrRefCount) + (Tcl_DbIsShared): [Bug 3384007]: Fix the panic messages so they share + what should be shared and have the right number of spaces. + +2011-08-01 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclProc.c (TclProcCompileProc): [Bug 3383616]: Fix for leak + of resolveInfo when recompiling procs. Thanks go to Gustaf Neumann for + detecting the bug and providing the fix. + +2011-08-01 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * doc/tclvars.n (EXAMPLES): Added some examples of how some of the + standard global variables can be used, following prompting by a + request by Robert Hicks. + + * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl (plus-pkgs): [Bug 3382474]: Added code to + determine the version number of contributed packages from their + directory names so that HTML documentation builds are less confusing. + +2011-07-29 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl (ensemble_commands, remap_link_target): + Small enhancements to improve cross-linking with contributed packages. + * tools/tcltk-man2html-utils.tcl (insert-cross-references): Enhance to + cope with contributed packages' C API. + +2011-07-28 Reinhard Max <max@suse.de> + + * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_TCL_IPV6): Fix AC_DEFINE invocation for + NEED_FAKE_RFC2553. + * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 + 2011-07-28 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * changes: Updates for 8.6b2 release. + * library/tzdata/Asia/Anadyr: Update to Olson's tzdata2011h * library/tzdata/Asia/Irkutsk: * library/tzdata/Asia/Kamchatka: @@ -548,6 +1118,12 @@ * library/tzdata/America/Kralendijk: (new) * library/tzdata/America/Lower_Princes: (new) +2011-07-26 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclOO.c (initScript): Ensure that TclOO is properly found by + all the various package mechanisms (by adding a dummy ifneeded script) + and not just some of them. + 2011-07-21 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> * win/tclWinPort.h: [Bug 3372130]: Fix hypot math function with MSVC10 @@ -556,16 +1132,68 @@ * generic/tclUtil.c: [Bug 3371644]: Repair failure to properly handle * tests/util.test: (length == -1) scanning in TclConvertElement(). + Thanks to Thomas Sader and Alexandre Ferrieux. + +2011-07-19 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * doc/*.3, doc/*.n: Many small fixes to documentation as part of + project to improve quality of generated HTML docs. + + * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl (remap_link_target): More complete set of + definitions of link targets, especially for major C API types. + * tools/tcltk-man2html-utils.tcl (output-IP-list, cross-reference): + Update to generation to produce proper HTML bulleted and enumerated + lists. + +2011-07-19 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> + + * doc/upvar.n: Undocument long gone limitation of [upvar]. + +2011-07-18 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + + * generic/tcl.h: Bump version number to 8.6b2. + * library/init.tcl: + * unix/configure.in: + * win/configure.in: + * unix/tcl.spec: + * tools/tcl.wse.in: + * README: + + * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 + * win/configure: 2011-07-15 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclCompile.c: Avoid segfaults when RecordByteCodeStats() - is called in a deleted interp. + * generic/tclCompile.c: Avoid segfaults when RecordByteCodeStats() is + called in a deleted interp. + + * generic/tclCompile.c: [Bug 467523, 3357771]: Prevent circular + references in values with ByteCode intreps. They can lead to memory + leaks. + +2011-07-14 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclOOCall.c (TclOORenderCallChain): [Bug 3365156]: Remove + stray refcount bump that caused a memory leak. + +2011-07-12 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + + * generic/tclUnixSock.c: [Bug 3364777]: Stop segfault caused by + reading from struct after it had been freed. + +2011-07-11 Joe Mistachkin <joe@mistachkin.com> + + * generic/tclExecute.c: [Bug 3339502]: Correct cast for CURR_DEPTH to + silence compiler warning. 2011-07-08 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> * doc/http.n: [FRQ 3358415]: State what RFC defines HTTP/1.1. +2011-07-07 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclBasic.c: Add missing INT2PTR + 2011-07-03 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> * doc/FileSystem.3: Corrected statements about ctime field of 'struct @@ -583,21 +1211,19 @@ * unix/Makefile.in: * win/Makefile.in: * win/Makefile.vc: - Fix a bug where bignum->double conversion is "round up" and - not "round to nearest" (causing expr double(1[string repeat 0 23]) - not to be 1e+23). [Bug 3349507] - -2011-06-30 Reinhard Max <max@suse.de> + [Bug 3349507]: Fix a bug where bignum->double conversion is "round up" + and not "round to nearest" (causing expr double(1[string repeat 0 23]) + not to be 1e+23). - * unix/configure.in: Add a volatile declaration to the test for - TCL_STACK_GROWS_UP to prevent gcc 4.6 from producing invalid - results due to aggressive optimisation. +2011-06-28 Reinhard Max <max@suse.de> -2011-06-23 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * unix/tclUnixSock.c (CreateClientSocket): [Bug 3325339]: Fix and + simplify posting of the writable fileevent at the end of an + asynchronous connection attempt. Improve comments for some of the + trickery around [socket -async]. - *** 8.5.10 TAGGED FOR RELEASE *** - - * changes: Update for 8.5.10 release. + * tests/socket.test: Adjust tests to the async code changes. Add more + tests for corner cases of async sockets. 2011-06-22 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> @@ -607,32 +1233,51 @@ * win/Makefile.in: * generic/tclInt.h: Fixed the inadvertently committed disabling of - stack checks, see my 2010-11-15 commit. + stack checks, see my 2010-11-15 commit. + +2011-06-22 Reinhard Max <max@suse.de> + + Merge from rmax-ipv6-branch: + * unix/tclUnixSock.c: Fix [socket -async], so that all addresses + returned by getaddrinfo() are tried, not just the first one. This + requires the event loop to be running while the async connection is in + progress. ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** + * tests/socket.test: Add a test for the above. + * doc/socket: Document the fact that -async needs the event loop + * generic/tclIOSock.c: AI_ADDRCONFIG is broken on HP-UX 2011-06-21 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * changes: Update for 8.5.10 release. + * generic/tclLink.c: [Bug 3317466]: Prevent multiple links to a + single Tcl variable when calling Tcl_LinkVar(). - * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl (loadIntoSlaveInterpreter): - * library/tcltest/pkgIndex.tcl: Backport tcltest 2.3.3 for release - * unix/Makefile.in: with Tcl 8.5.*. - * win/Makefile.in: +2011-06-13 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * tests/init.test: Update test files to use new command. - * tests/pkg.test: + * generic/tclStrToD.c: [Bug 3315098]: Mem leak fix from Gustaf Neumann. - * generic/tclLink.c: Prevent multiple links to a single Tcl - variable when calling Tcl_LinkVar(). [Bug 3317466] +2011-06-08 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> -2011-06-13 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclExecute.c: Reverted the fix for [Bug 3274728] committed + on 2011-04-06 and replaced with one which is 64bit-safe. The existing + fix crashed tclsh on Windows 64bit. + +2011-06-08 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * tests/fileSystem.test: Reduce the amount of use of duplication of + complex code to perform common tests, and convert others to do the + test result check directly using Tcltest's own primitives. - * generic/tclStrToD.c: [Bug 3315098] Mem leak fix from Gustaf Neumann. +2011-06-06 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + + * tests/socket.test: Add test constraint, so 6.2 and 6.3 don't fail + when the machine does not have support for ip6. Follow-up to checkin + from 2011-05-11 by rmax. 2011-06-02 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> * generic/tclBasic.c: Removed TclCleanupLiteralTable(), and old - * generic/tclInt.h: band-aid routine put in place while a fix - * generic/tclLiteral.c: for [Bug 994838] took shape. No longer needed. + * generic/tclInt.h: band-aid routine put in place while a fix for + * generic/tclLiteral.c: [Bug 994838] took shape. No longer needed. 2011-06-02 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> @@ -641,38 +1286,75 @@ created, for a slight performance drop (in some circumstances) and improved semantics. +2011-06-01 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclBasic.c: Using the two free data elements in NRCommand to + store objc and objv - useful for debugging. + 2011-06-01 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclUtil.c: Fix for [Bug 3309871]: Valgrind finds: - invalid read in TclMaxListLength() + * generic/tclUtil.c: Fix for [Bug 3309871]: Valgrind finds: invalid + read in TclMaxListLength(). + +2011-05-31 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + + * generic/tclInt.h: Use a complete growth algorithm for lists so + * generic/tclListObj.c: that length limits do not overconstrain by a + * generic/tclStringObj.c: factor of 2. [Bug 3293874]: Fix includes + * generic/tclUtil.c: rooting all growth routines by default on a + common tunable parameter TCL_MIN_GROWTH. 2011-05-25 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl: Backport improvements to msgcat - * library/msgcat/pkgIndex.tcl: package. Bump to 1.4.4 + * library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl: Bump to msgcat 1.4.4. + * library/msgcat/pkgIndex.tcl: * unix/Makefile.in * win/Makefile.in +2011-05-25 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclOO.h (TCLOO_VERSION): Bump version. + + IMPLEMENTATION OF TIP#381. + + * doc/next.n, doc/ooInfo.n, doc/self.n, generic/tclOO.c, + * generic/tclOOBasic.c, generic/tclOOCall.c, generic/tclOOInfo.c, + * generic/tclOOInt.h, tests/oo.test, tests/ooNext2.test: Added + introspection of call chains ([self call], [info object call], [info + class call]) and ability to skip ahead in chain ([nextto]). + 2011-05-24 Venkat Iyer <venkat@comit.com> * library/tzdata/Africa/Cairo: Update to Olson tzdata2011g +2011-05-24 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl (msgcat::mcset, msgcat::mcmset): Remove + some useless code; [dict set] builds dictionary levels for us. + 2011-05-17 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> * generic/tclCompile.c (TclFixupForwardJump): Tracked down and fixed - * generic/tclBasic.c (TclArgumentBCEnter): the cause of a violation - of my assertion that 'ePtr->nline == objc' in TclArgumentBCEnter. - When a bytecode was grown during jump fixup the pc -> command line - mapping was not updated. When things aligned just wrong the mapping - would direct command A to the data for command B, with a different - number of arguments. + * generic/tclBasic.c (TclArgumentBCEnter): the cause of a violation of + my assertion that 'ePtr->nline == objc' in TclArgumentBCEnter. When a + bytecode was grown during jump fixup the pc -> command line mapping + was not updated. When things aligned just wrong the mapping would + direct command A to the data for command B, with a different number of + arguments. + +2011-05-11 Reinhard Max <max@suse.de> + + * unix/tclUnixSock.c (TcpWatchProc): No need to check for server + sockets here, as the generic server code already takes care of that. + * tests/socket.test (accept): Add tests to make sure that this remains + so. 2011-05-10 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> * generic/tclInt.h: New internal routines TclScanElement() and * generic/tclUtil.c: TclConvertElement() are rewritten guts of - machinery to produce string rep of lists. The new routines avoid - and correct [Bug 3173086]. See comments for much more detail. + machinery to produce string rep of lists. The new routines avoid and + correct [Bug 3173086]. See comments for much more detail. * generic/tclDictObj.c: Update all callers. * generic/tclIndexObj.c: @@ -680,15 +1362,27 @@ * generic/tclUtil.c: * tests/list.test: +2011-05-09 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclNamesp.c (NamespacePathCmd): Convert to use Tcl_Obj API + * generic/tclPkg.c (Tcl_PackageObjCmd): for result generation in + * generic/tclTimer.c (Tcl_AfterObjCmd): [after info], [namespace + path] and [package versions]. + 2011-05-09 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> * generic/tclListObj.c: Revise empty string tests so that we avoid potentially expensive string rep generations, especially for dicts. +2011-05-07 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclLoad.c (TclGetLoadedPackages): Convert to use Tcl_Obj API + for result generation. + 2011-05-07 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclInt.h: fix USE_TCLALLOC so that it can be enabled - * unix/Makefile.in: without editing the Makefile + * generic/tclInt.h: Fix USE_TCLALLOC so that it can be enabled without + * unix/Makefile.in: editing the Makefile. 2011-05-05 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> @@ -700,70 +1394,71 @@ * generic/tclUtil.c: Tighten Tcl_SplitList(). * generic/tclListObj.c: Tighten SetListFromAny(). * generic/tclDictObj.c: Tighten SetDictFromAny(). + * tests/join.test: + * tests/mathop.test: 2011-05-02 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: Revised TclFindElement() interface. The - * generic/tclDictObj.c: final argument had been bracePtr, the address - * generic/tclListObj.c: of a boolean var, where the caller can be told + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: Revised TclFindElement() interface. The final + * generic/tclDictObj.c: argument had been bracePtr, the address of a + * generic/tclListObj.c: boolean var, where the caller can be told * generic/tclParse.c: whether or not the parsed list element was * generic/tclUtil.c: enclosed in braces. In practice, no callers really care about that. What the callers really want to know is whether the list element value exists as a literal substring of the string being parsed, or whether a call to TclCopyAndCollpase() is - needed to produce the list element value. Now the final argument - is changed to do what callers actually need. This is a better fit - for the calls in tclParse.c, where now a good deal of post-processing - checking for "naked backslashes" is no longer necessary. + needed to produce the list element value. Now the final argument is + changed to do what callers actually need. This is a better fit for the + calls in tclParse.c, where now a good deal of post-processing checking + for "naked backslashes" is no longer necessary. ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** - For any callers calling in via the internal stubs table who really - do use the final argument explicitly to check for the enclosing brace + For any callers calling in via the internal stubs table who really do + use the final argument explicitly to check for the enclosing brace scenario. Simply looking for the braces where they must be is the revision available to those callers, and it will backport cleanly. * tests/parse.test: Tests for expanded literals quoting detection. - * generic/tclCompCmds.c: New TclFindElement() is also a better + * generic/tclCompCmdsSZ.c: New TclFindElement() is also a better fit for the [switch] compiler. * generic/tclInt.h: Replace TclCountSpaceRuns() with * generic/tclListObj.c: TclMaxListLength() which is the function we * generic/tclUtil.c: actually want. - * generic/tclCompCmds.c: + * generic/tclCompCmdsSZ.c: - * generic/tclCompCmds.c: Rewrite of parts of the switch compiler to - better use the powers of TclFindElement() and do less parsing on - its own. + * generic/tclCompCmdsSZ.c: Rewrite of parts of the switch compiler to + better use the powers of TclFindElement() and do less parsing on its + own. 2011-04-28 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> * generic/tclInt.h: New utility routines: - * generic/tclParse.c: TclIsSpaceProc() and - * generic/tclUtil.c: TclCountSpaceRuns() + * generic/tclParse.c: TclIsSpaceProc() and TclCountSpaceRuns() + * generic/tclUtil.c: - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: Use new routines to replace calls to - * generic/tclListObj.c: isspace() and their /* INTL */ risk. + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: Use new routines to replace calls to isspace() + * generic/tclListObj.c: and their /* INTL */ risk. * generic/tclStrToD.c: * generic/tclUtf.c: * unix/tclUnixFile.c: -2011-04-27 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclStringObj.c: Improved reaction to out of memory. - * generic/tclListObj.c: FreeListInternalRep() cleanup. +2011-04-27 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclBinary.c: Backport fix for [Bug 2857044]. - * generic/tclDictObj.c: All freeIntRepProcs set typePtr to NULL. - * generic/tclEncoding.c: + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: TclFreeIntRep() correction & cleanup. + * generic/tclExecute.c: * generic/tclIndexObj.c: + * generic/tclInt.h: * generic/tclListObj.c: * generic/tclNamesp.c: - * generic/tclObj.c: - * generic/tclPathObj.c: - * generic/tclProc.c: - * generic/tclRegexp.c: + * generic/tclResult.c: * generic/tclStringObj.c: * generic/tclVar.c: + * generic/tclListObj.c: FreeListInternalRep() cleanup. + 2011-04-21 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> * generic/tclInt.h: Use macro to set List intreps. @@ -772,6 +1467,7 @@ * generic/tclCmdIL.c: Limits on list length were too strict. * generic/tclInt.h: Revised panics to errors where possible. * generic/tclListObj.c: + * tests/lrepeat.test: * generic/tclCompile.c: Make sure SetFooFromAny routines react * generic/tclIO.c: reasonably when passed a NULL interp. @@ -790,14 +1486,6 @@ * win/configure.in: for Tcl_StatBuf - the one used by MSVC6 - * win/configure: in all situations. -2011-04-20 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - - * generic/tclFCmd.c (TclFileAttrsCmd): Added commands to reset the - typePtr of the Tcl_Obj* whose int-rep was just purged. Required to - prevent a dangling IndexRep* to reused, smashing the heap. See - also the entries at 2011-04-16 and 2011-03-24 for the history of - the problem. - 2011-04-19 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> * generic/tclConfig.c: Reduce internals access in the implementation @@ -809,16 +1497,20 @@ * generic/tclConfig.c: * generic/tclListObj.c: - * generic/tclInt.h: Define and use macros that test whether - * generic/tclBasic.c: a Tcl list value is canonical. + * generic/tclInt.h: Define and use macros that test whether a Tcl + * generic/tclBasic.c: list value is canonical. * generic/tclUtil.c: +2011-04-18 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * doc/dict.n: [Bug 3288696]: Command summary was confusingly wrong + when it came to [dict filter] with a 'value' filter. + 2011-04-16 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclFCmd.c (TclFileAttrsCmd): Tidied up the memory management - a bit to try to ensure that the dynamic and static cases don't get - confused while still promoting caching where possible. Added a panic - to trap problems in the case where an extension is misusing the API. + * generic/tclFCmd.c (TclFileAttrsCmd): Add comments to make this code + easier to understand. Added a panic to handle the case where the VFS + layer does something odd. 2011-04-13 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> @@ -836,9275 +1528,5880 @@ * generic/tclVar.c: [Bug 2662380]: Fix crash caused by appending to a variable with a write trace that unsets it. +2011-04-13 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclUtil.c (Tcl_ConcatObj): [Bug 3285375]: Make the crash + less mysterious through the judicious use of a panic. Not yet properly + fixed, but at least now clearer what the failure mode is. + 2011-04-12 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclStringObj.c: [Bug 3285472]: Repair corruption in - * tests/string.test: [string reverse] when string rep invalidation - failed to also reset the bytes allocated for string rep to zero. + * tests/string.test: Test for [Bug 3285472]. Not buggy in trunk. 2011-04-12 Venkat Iyer <venkat@comit.com> * library/tzdata/Atlantic/Stanley: Update to Olson tzdata2011f -2011-04-06 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2011-04-12 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclExecute.c (TclCompEvalObj): Earlier return if Tip280 - gymnastics not needed. + * generic/tclBasic.c: Fix for [Bug 2440625], kbk's patch -2011-04-05 Venkat Iyer <venkat@comit.com> +2011-04-11 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - * library/tzdata/Africa/Casablanca: Update to Olson's tzdata2011e - * library/tzdata/America/Santiago: - * library/tzdata/Pacific/Easter: - * library/tzdata/America/Metlakatla: (new) - * library/tzdata/America/North_Dakota/Beulah: (new) - * library/tzdata/America/Sitka: (new) - -2011-04-04 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * README: Updated README files, repairing broken URLs and - * macosx/README: removing other bits that were clearly wrong. - * unix/README: Still could use more eyeballs on the detailed build - * win/README: advice on various plaforms. [Bug 3202030] - -2011-04-02 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> + * generic/tclBasic.c: + * tests/coroutine.test: [Bug 3282869]: Ensure that 'coroutine eval' + runs the initial command in the proper context. - * generic/tclStrToD.c (QuickConversion): Replaced another couple of - 'double' declarations with 'volatile double' to work around - misrounding issues in mingw-gcc 3.4.5. +2011-04-11 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2011-03-24 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + * generic/tcl.h: Fix for [Bug 3281728]: Tcl sources from 2011-04-06 + * unix/tcl.m4: do not build on GCC9 (RH9) + * unix/configure: - * generic/tclFCmd.c (TclFileAttrsCmd): Ensure that any reference to - temporary index tables is squelched immediately rather than hanging - around to trip us up in the future. +2011-04-08 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2011-03-21 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + * win/tclWinPort.h: Fix for [Bug 3280043]: win2k: unresolved DLL + * win/configure.in: imports. + * win/configure - * unix/tclLoadDl.c: [Bug #3216070]: Loading extension libraries - * unix/tclLoadDyld.c: from embedded Tcl applications. - ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** - For extensions which rely on symbols from other extensions being - present in the global symbol table. For an example and some discussion - of workarounds, see http://stackoverflow.com/q/8330614/301832 +2011-04-06 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> -2011-03-16 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclExecute.c (TclCompileObj): Earlier return if Tip280 + gymnastics not needed. - * generic/tclCkalloc.c: [Bug #3197864]: pointer truncation on Win64 - TCL_MEM_DEBUG builds + * generic/tclExecute.c: Fix for [Bug 3274728]: making *catchTop an + unsigned long. -2011-03-16 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2011-04-06 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclBasic.c: Some rewrites to eliminate calls to - * generic/tclParse.c: isspace() and their /* INTL */ risk. - * generic/tclProc.c: + * unix/tclAppInit.c: Make symbols "main" and "Tcl_AppInit" + MODULE_SCOPE: there is absolutely no reason for exporting them. + * unix/tcl.m4: Don't use -fvisibility=hidden with static + * unix/configure libraries (--disable-shared) -2011-03-16 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> +2011-04-06 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * unix/tcl.m4: Make SHLIB_LD_LIBS='${LIBS}' the default and - * unix/configure: set to "" on per-platform necessary basis. - Backported from TEA, but kept all original platform code which was - removed from TEA. + * generic/tclFCmd.c, macosx/tclMacOSXFCmd.c, unix/tclUnixChan.c, + * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c, win/tclWinChan.c, win/tclWinDde.c, + * win/tclWinFCmd.c, win/tclWinLoad.c, win/tclWinPipe.c, + * win/tclWinReg.c, win/tclWinSerial.c, win/tclWinSock.c: More + generation of error codes (most platform-specific parts not already + using Tcl_PosixError). -2011-03-14 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> +2011-04-05 Venkat Iyer <venkat@comit.com> - * tools/tclZIC.tcl (onDayOfMonth): Allow for leading zeroes - in month and day so that tzdata2011d parses correctly. - * library/tzdata/America/Havana: - * library/tzdata/America/Juneau: + * library/tzdata/Africa/Casablanca: Update to Olson's tzdata2011e * library/tzdata/America/Santiago: - * library/tzdata/Europe/Istanbul: - * library/tzdata/Pacific/Apia: * library/tzdata/Pacific/Easter: - * library/tzdata/Pacific/Honolulu: tzdata2011d - - - * unix/configure.in: [Bug 3205320]: stack space detection defeated by inlining - * unix/configure: (autoconf-2.59) - -2011-03-09 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * library/tzdata/America/Metlakatla: (new) + * library/tzdata/America/North_Dakota/Beulah: (new) + * library/tzdata/America/Sitka: (new) - * generic/tclNamesp.c: Tighten the detector of nested [namespace code] - * tests/namespace.test: quoting that the quoted scripts function - properly even in a namespace that contains a custom "namespace" - command. [Bug 3202171] +2011-04-04 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * doc/tclvars.n: Formatting fix. Thanks to Pat Thotys. + * generic/tclOO.c, generic/tclOOBasic.c, generic/tclOODefineCmds.c + * generic/tclOOInfo.c, generic/tclOOMethod.c: More generation of + error codes (TclOO miscellany). -2011-03-08 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclCmdAH.c, generic/tclCmdIL.c: More generation of error + codes (miscellaneous commands mostly already handled). - * generic/tclBasic.c: Fix gcc warnings: variable set but not used +2011-04-04 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> -2011-03-08 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * README: [Bug 3202030]: Updated README files, repairing broken + * macosx/README:URLs and removing other bits that were clearly wrong. + * unix/README: Still could use more eyeballs on the detailed build + * win/README: advice on various plaforms. - * generic/tclInt.h: Remove TclMarkList() routine, an experimental - * generic/tclUtil.c: dead-end from the 8.5 alpha days. +2011-04-04 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclResult.c (ResetObjResult): Correct failure to clear - invalid intrep. Thanks to Colin McDonald. [Bug 3202905] + * library/init.tcl (tcl::mathfunc::rmmadwiw): Disable by default to + make test suite work. -2011-03-06 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclBasic.c, generic/tclStringObj.c, generic/tclTimer.c, + * generic/tclTrace.c, generic/tclUtil.c: More generation of error + codes ([format], [after], [trace], RE optimizer). - * generic/tclBasic.c: More replacements of Tcl_UtfBackslash() calls - * generic/tclCompile.c: with TclParseBackslash() where possible. - * generic/tclParse.c: - * generic/tclUtil.c: +2011-04-04 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclUtil.c (TclFindElement): Guard escape sequence scans - to not overrun the string end. [Bug 3192636] + * generic/tclCmdAH.c: Better error-message in case of errors + * generic/tclCmdIL.c: related to setting a variable. This fixes + * generic/tclDictObj.c: a warning: "Why make your own error + * generic/tclScan.c: message? Why?" + * generic/tclTest.c: + * test/error.test: + * test/info.test: + * test/scan.test: + * unix/tclUnixThrd.h: Remove this unused header file. -2011-03-05 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2011-04-03 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclParse.c (TclParseBackslash): Correct trunction checks in - * tests/parse.test: \x and \u substitutions. [Bug 3200987] + * generic/tclNamesp.c, generic/tclObj.c, generic/tclPathObj.c: + * generic/tclPipe.c, generic/tclPkg.c, generic/tclProc.c: + * generic/tclScan.c: More generation of error codes (namespace + creation, path normalization, pipeline creation, package handling, + procedures, [scan] formats) -2011-01-26 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2011-04-02 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - * doc/RegExp.3: [Bug 3165108]: Corrected documentation of description - of subexpression info in Tcl_RegExpInfo structure. + * generic/tclStrToD.c (QuickConversion): Replaced another couple + of 'double' declarations with 'volatile double' to work around + misrounding issues in mingw-gcc 3.4.5. -2011-01-25 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> +2011-04-02 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclCkalloc.c: [Bug 3129448]: Possible over-allocation on - * generic/tclHash.c: 64-bit platforms, part 2, backported - * generic/tclProc.c: strcpy->memcpy change but not change in any - struct. + * generic/tclInterp.c, generic/tclListObj.c, generic/tclLoad.c: + More generation of errorCodes ([interp], [lset], [load], [unload]). -2011-01-19 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclEvent.c, generic/tclFileName.c: More generation of + errorCode information (default [bgerror] and [glob]). - * generic/tclExecute.c: [Bug 3138178]: Backport of Miguel's 2010-09-22 - fix on 8.6 branch (decache stack info wherever ::errorInfo may be - updated, for trace sanity). +2011-04-01 Reinhard Max <max@suse.de> -2011-01-19 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + * library/init.tcl: TIP#131 implementation. - * tools/genStubs.tcl: Make sure to use CONST/VOID in stead of - * generic/tclIntDecls.h: const/void when appropriate. This allows to - * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h:use const/void in the *.decls file always, - * generic/tclTomMathDecls.h:genStubs will do the right thing. +2011-03-31 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2011-01-18 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclGetDate.y, generic/tclDate.c (TclClockOldscanObjCmd): + More generation of errorCode information. - * generic/tclBasic.c: Various mismatches between Tcl_Panic - * generic/tclCompCmds.c: format string and its arguments, - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: discovered thanks to [Bug 3159920] - * generic/tclPreserve.c: (Backported) - * generic/tclTest.c: +2011-03-28 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2011-01-17 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c, generic/tclConfig.c, generic/tclUtil.c: More + generation of errorCode information, notably when lists are mis-parsed - * win/tcl.m4: handle --enable-64bit=ia64 for gcc. BACKPORT. - * win/configure: (autoconf-2.59) - * win/tclWin32Dll.c: [Patch 3059922]: fixes for mingw64 - gcc4.5.1 - * generic/tclIOCmd.c: [Bug 3148192]: Commands "read/puts" incorrectly - * tests/chanio.test: interpret parameters. Improved error-message - * tests/io.test regarding legacy form. - * tests/ioCmd.test + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_RegexpObjCmd, Tcl_RegsubObjCmd): Use the + error messages generated by the variable management code rather than + creating our own. -2011-01-15 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@users.sf.net> +2011-03-27 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - * doc/tclvars.n: - * generic/tclStrToD.c: - * generic/tclUtil.c (Tcl_PrintDouble): - * tests/util.test (util-16.*): Restored full Tcl 8.4 compatibility - for the formatting of floating point numbers when $::tcl_precision - is not zero. Added compatibility tests to make sure that excess - trailing zeroes are suppressed for all eight major code paths. - [Bug 3157475] + * generic/tclBasic.c (TclNREvalObjEx): fix performance issue, notably + apparent in tclbench's "LIST lset foreach". Many thanks to Twylite for + patiently researching the issue and explaining it to me: a missing + Tcl_ResetObjResult that causes unwanted sharing of the current result + Tcl_Obj. -2011-01-13 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2011-03-26 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclExecute.c (GrowEvaluationStack): Off-by-one error in - sizing the new allocation - was ok in comment but wrong in the code. - Triggered by [Bug 3142026] which happened to require exactly one more - than what was in existence. BACKPORT. + * generic/tclNamesp.c (Tcl_Export, Tcl_Import, DoImport): More + generation of errorCode information. -2011-01-03 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclCompExpr.c, generic/tclCompile.c, generic/tclExecute.c: + * generic/tclListObj.c, generic/tclNamesp.c, generic/tclObj.c: + * generic/tclStringObj.c, generic/tclUtil.c: Reduce the number of + casts used to manage Tcl_Obj internal representations. - * tools/genStubs.tcl: Fix "make genstubs", which was broken - since 2010-11-30, the TclDoubleDigits backport. +2011-03-24 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> -2010-12-31 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + * generic/tcl.h (ckfree,etc.): Restored C++ usability to the memory + allocation and free macros. - * generic/tclHash.c: [Bug 3007895]: Tcl_(Find|Create)HashEntry - stub entries can never be called. They still cannot be called - (no change in functionality), but at least they now do - exactly the same as the Tcl_(Find|Create)HashEntry macro's, - so the confusion addressed in this Bug report is gone. - (Backported from Tcl 8.6) +2011-03-24 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2010-12-17 Stuart Cassoff <stwo@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclFCmd.c (TclFileAttrsCmd): Ensure that any reference to + temporary index tables is squelched immediately rather than hanging + around to trip us up in the future. - * unix/Makefile.in: Remove unwanted/obsolete 'ddd' target. +2011-03-23 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> -2010-12-17 Stuart Cassoff <stwo@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclObj.c: Exploit HAVE_FAST_TSD for the deletion context in + TclFreeObj() - * unix/Makefile.in: [Bug 2446711]: Remove 'allpatch' target. +2011-03-22 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> -2010-12-17 Stuart Cassoff <stwo@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclThreadAlloc.c: Simpler initialization of Cache under + HAVE_FAST_TSD, from mig-alloc-reform. - * unix/Makefile.in: Use 'rpmbuild', not 'rpm' [Bug 2537626]. +2011-03-21 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2010-12-13 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + * unix/tclLoadDl.c: [Bug #3216070]: Loading extension libraries + * unix/tclLoadDyld.c: from embedded Tcl applications. + ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** + For extensions which rely on symbols from other extensions being + present in the global symbol table. For an example and some discussion + of workarounds, see http://stackoverflow.com/q/8330614/301832 - * unix/tcl.m4: Cross-compile support for Win and UNIX (backported) - * unix/configure: (autoconf-2.59) - * win/tcl.m4: - * win/configure.in: - * win/configure: (autoconf-2.59) +2011-03-21 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> -2010-12-12 Stuart Cassoff <stwo@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclCkAlloc.c: + * generic/tclInt.h: Remove one level of allocator indirection in + non-memdebug builds, imported from mig-alloc-reform. - * unix/tcl.m4: Better building on OpenBSD. - * unix/configure: (autoconf-2.59) +2011-03-20 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> -2010-12-10 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclThreadAlloc.c: Imported HAVE_FAST_TSD support from + mig-alloc-reform. The feature has to be enabled by hand: no autoconf + support has been added. It is not clear how universal a build using + this will be: it also requires some loader support. - * generic/tclIO.c: [backport] Make sure [fcopy -size ... -command ...] always - * tests/io.test: calls the callback asynchronously, even for size zero. +2011-03-17 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2010-12-03 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> + * generic/tclCompExpr.c (ParseExpr): Generate errorCode information on + failure to parse expressions. - * generic/tclUtil.c (TclReToGlob): add extra check for multiple - inner *s that leads to poor recursive glob matching, defer to - original RE instead. tclbench RE var backtrack. +2011-03-17 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2010-12-01 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> + * generic/tclMain.c: [Patch 3124683]: Reorganize the platform-specific + stuff in (tcl|tk)Main.c. - * generic/tclStrToD.c (SetPrecisionLimits, TclDoubleDigits): - Added meaningless initialization of 'i', 'ilim' and 'ilim1' - to silence warnings from the C compiler about possible use of - uninitialized variables, Added a panic to the 'switch' that - assigns them, to assert that the 'default' case is impossible. - [Bug 3124675] +2011-03-16 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2010-11-30 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + * generic/tclCkalloc.c: [Bug 3197864]: Pointer truncation on Win64 + TCL_MEM_DEBUG builds. - * generic/tclInt.decls: Backport of Kevin B. Kenny's work on - * generic/tclInt.h: the Tcl Head, with help from Jeff Hobbs. - * generic/tclStrToD.c: - * generic/tclTest.c: - * generic/tclTomMath.decls: - * generic/tclUtil.c: - * tests/util.test: - * unix/Makefile.in: - * win/Makefile.in: - * win/makefile.vc: Rewrite of Tcl_PrintDouble and TclDoubleDigits - that (a) fixes a severe performance problem with floating point - shimmering reported by Karl Lehenbauer, (b) allows TclDoubleDigits - to generate the digit strings for 'e' and 'f' format, so that it - can be used for tcl_precision != 0 (and possibly later for [format]), - (c) fixes [Bug 3120139] by making TclPrintDouble inherently - locale-independent, (d) adds test cases to util.test for - correct rounding in difficult cases of TclDoubleDigits where fixed- - precision results are requested. (e) adds test cases to util.test for - the controversial aspects of [Bug 3105247]. As a side effect, two - more modules from libtommath (bn_mp_set_int.c and bn_mp_init_set_int.c) - are brought into the build, since the new code uses them. +2011-03-16 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclIntDecls.h: - * generic/tclStubInit.c: - * generic/tclTomMathDecls.h: Regenerated. + * generic/tclBasic.c: Some rewrites to eliminate calls to isspace() + * generic/tclParse.c: and their /* INTL */ risk. + * generic/tclProc.c: -2010-11-30 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> +2011-03-16 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclInt.decls, generic/tclInt.h, generic/tclIntDecls.h: - * generic/tclStubInit.c: TclFormatInt restored at slot 24 - * generic/tclUtil.c (TclFormatInt): restore TclFormatInt func from - 2005-07-05 macro-ization. Benchmarks indicate it is faster, as a - key int->string routine (e.g. int-indexed arrays). + * unix/tcl.m4: Make SHLIB_LD_LIBS='${LIBS}' the default and + * unix/configure: set to "" on per-platform necessary basis. + Backported from TEA, but kept all original platform code which was + removed from TEA. -2010-11-23 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> +2011-03-14 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - * generic/tclVar.c (VarHashInvalidateEntry): Removed obsolete - patch for AIX defining this macro as function. This is not - necessary anymore. See ChangeLog entry 2010-07-28 (Bug 3037525) - for the actual bug and fix the patch was a workaround for. + * tools/tclZIC.tcl (onDayOfMonth): Allow for leading zeroes in month + and day so that tzdata2011d parses correctly. + * library/tzdata/America/Havana: + * library/tzdata/America/Juneau: + * library/tzdata/America/Santiago: + * library/tzdata/Europe/Istanbul: + * library/tzdata/Pacific/Apia: + * library/tzdata/Pacific/Easter: + * library/tzdata/Pacific/Honolulu: tzdata2011d -2010-11-19 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclAssembly.c (BBEmitInstInt1): Changed parameter data types + in an effort to silence a MSVC warning reported by Ashok P. Nadkarni. + Unable to test, since both forms work on my machine in VC2005, 2008, + 2010, in both release and debug builds. + * tests/tclTest.c (TestdstringCmd): Restored MSVC buildability broken + by [5574bdd262], which changed the effective return type of 'ckalloc' + from 'char*' to 'void*'. - * generic/tclInterp.c: fix gcc warning: passing argument 3 of - 'Tcl_GetIndexFromObj' discards qualifiers from pointer target type - * generic/tclWinInit.c: fix gcc warning: dereferencing pointer - 'oemId' does break strict-aliasing rules - * win/tclWin32Dll.c: fix gcc warnings: unused variable 'registration' - * win/tclWinChan.c: - * win/tclWinFCmd.c: - * win/configure.in: Allow cross-compilation by default. (backported) - * win/tcl.m4: Use -pipe for gcc on win32 (backported) - * win/configure: (regenerated) +2011-03-13 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> -2010-11-18 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclExecute.c: remove TEBCreturn() - * doc/file.n: [Bug 3111298]: Typofix. +2011-03-12 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2010-11-16 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + * generic/tcl.h (ckalloc,ckfree,ckrealloc): Moved casts into these + macro so that they work with VOID* (which is a void* on all platforms + which Tcl actually builds on) and unsigned int for the length + parameters, removing the need for MANY casts across the rest of Tcl. + Note that this is a strict source-level-only change, so size_t cannot + be used (would break binary compatibility on 64-bit platforms). - * generic/tclPlatDecls.h: [Bug 3110161]: Extensions using TCHAR don't - compile on VS2005 SP1 +2011-03-12 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2010-11-15 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + * win/tclWinFile.c: [Bug 3185609]: File normalization corner case + of ... broken with -DUNICODE - * doc/interp.n: [Bug 3081184]: TIP #378 backport. - * doc/tclvars.n: Performance fix for TIP #280. - * generic/tclBasic.c: - * generic/tclExecute.c: - * generic/tclInt.h: - * generic/tclInterp.c: - * tests/info.test: - * tests/interp.test: +2011-03-11 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2010-11-03 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> + * tests/unixInit.test: Make better use of tcltest2. - * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileCatchCmd): - * tests/compile.test (compile-3.6): [Bug 3098302]: Reworked the - compilation of the [catch] command so as to avoid placing any code - that might throw an exception (specifically, any initial substitutions - or any stores to result or options variables) between the BEGIN_CATCH - and END_CATCH but outside the exception range. Added a test case that - panics on a stack smash if the change is not made. +2011-03-10 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2010-11-01 Stuart Cassoff <stwo@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclBasic.c, generic/tclCompCmds.c, generic/tclEnsemble.c: + * generic/tclInt.h, generic/tclNamesp.c, library/auto.tcl: + * tests/interp.test, tests/namespace.test, tests/nre.test: + Converted the [namespace] command into an ensemble. This has the + consequence of making it vital for Tcl code that wishes to work with + namespaces to _not_ delete the ::tcl namespace. + ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** - * library/safe.tcl: Improved handling of non-standard module - * tests/safe.test: path lists, empty path lists in particular. + * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl (loadIntoSlaveInterpreter): Added this + command to handle connecting tcltest to a slave interpreter. This adds + in the hook (inside the tcltest namespace) that allows the tests run + in the child interpreter to be reported as part of the main sequence + of test results. Bumped version of tcltest to 2.3.3. + * tests/init.test, tests/package.test: Adapted these test files to use + the new feature. -2010-11-01 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> + * generic/tclAlloc.c, generic/tclCmdMZ.c, generic/tclCompExpr.c: + * generic/tclCompile.c, generic/tclEnv.c, generic/tclEvent.c: + * generic/tclIO.c, generic/tclIOCmd.c, generic/tclIORChan.c: + * generic/tclIORTrans.c, generic/tclLiteral.c, generic/tclNotify.c: + * generic/tclParse.c, generic/tclStringObj.c, generic/tclUtil.c: + * generic/tclZlib.c, unix/tclUnixFCmd.c, unix/tclUnixNotfy.c: + * unix/tclUnixPort.h, unix/tclXtNotify.c: Formatting fixes, mainly to + comments, so code better fits the style in the Engineering Manual. - * library/tzdata/Asia/Hong_Kong: - * library/tzdata/Pacific/Apia: - * library/tzdata/Pacific/Fiji: Olson's tzdata2010o. +2011-03-09 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2010-10-23 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + * tests/incr.test: Update more of the test suite to use Tcltest 2. - * tools/uniParse.tcl: [Bug 3085863]: tclUniData 9 years old - * tools/uniClass.tcl: Upgrade everything to Unicode 6.0, except - * tests/utf.test: non-BMP characters > 0xFFFF - * generic/tclUniData.c: (re-generated) - * generic/regc_locale.c:(re-generated) - * generic/regcomp.c: fix comment - * win/rules.vc Update for VS10 +2011-03-09 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> -2010-10-09 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclNamesp.c: [Bug 3202171]: Tighten the detector of nested + * tests/namespace.test: [namespace code] quoting that the quoted + scripts function properly even in a namespace that contains a custom + "namespace" command. - * generic/tclExecute.c: fix overallocation of exec stack in TEBC - (mixing numwords and numbytes) + * doc/tclvars.n: Formatting fix. Thanks to Pat Thotys. -2010-10-01 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> +2011-03-09 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclExecute.c (EvalStatsCmd): change 'evalstats' to - return data to interp by default, or if given an arg, use that as - filename to output to (accepts 'stdout' and 'stderr'). - Fix output to print used inst count data. - * generic/tclCkalloc.c: change TclDumpMemoryInfo sig to allow - * generic/tclInt.decls: objPtr as well as FILE* as output. - * generic/tclIntDecls.h: + * tests/dstring.test, tests/init.test, tests/link.test: Update more of + the test suite to use Tcltest 2. -2010-09-24 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> +2011-03-08 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * tclWinsock.c: [Bug 3056775]: Fixed race condition between thread - and internal co-thread access of a socket's structure because of - the thread not using the socketListLock in TcpAccept(). Added - documentation on how the module works to the top. + * generic/tclBasic.c: Fix gcc warnings: variable set but not used + * generic/tclProc.c: + * generic/tclIORChan.c: + * generic/tclIORTrans.c: + * generic/tclAssembly.c: Fix gcc warning: comparison between signed + and unsigned integer expressions -2010-09-23 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2011-03-08 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclCmdAH.c: Fix cases where value returned by - * generic/tclEvent.c: Tcl_GetReturnOptions() was leaked. - * generic/tclMain.c: Thanks to Jeff Hobbs for discovery of the - anti-pattern to seek and destroy. + * generic/tclInt.h: Remove TclMarkList() routine, an experimental + * generic/tclUtil.c: dead-end from the 8.5 alpha days. -2010-09-19 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclResult.c (ResetObjResult): [Bug 3202905]: Correct failure + to clear invalid intrep. Thanks to Colin McDonald. - * doc/file.n (file readlink): [Bug 3070580]: Typofix. +2011-03-08 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2010-09-10 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclAssembly.c, tests/assemble.test: Migrate to use a style + more consistent with the rest of Tcl. - * doc/regsub.n: [Bug 3063568]: Fix for gotcha in example due to Tcl's - special handling of backslash-newline. Makes example slightly less - pure, but more useful. +2011-03-06 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> -2010-09-08 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + * generic/tclBasic.c: More replacements of Tcl_UtfBackslash() calls + * generic/tclCompile.c: with TclParseBackslash() where possible. + * generic/tclCompCmdsSZ.c: + * generic/tclParse.c: + * generic/tclUtil.c: - *** 8.5.9 TAGGED FOR RELEASE *** + * generic/tclUtil.c (TclFindElement): [Bug 3192636]: Guard escape + sequence scans to not overrun the string end. - * doc/tm.n: Added underscore to the set of characters accepted in - module names. This is true for quite some time in the code, this - change catches up the documentation. +2011-03-05 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> -2010-09-08 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclParse.c (TclParseBackslash): [Bug 3200987]: Correct + * tests/parse.test: trunction checks in \x and \u substitutions. - * changes: Update for 8.5.9 release. +2011-03-05 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - * win/tclWin32Dll.c: #ifdef protections to permit builds with - * win/tclWinChan.c: mingw on amd64 systems. Thanks to "mescalinum" - * win/tclWinFCmd.c: for reporting and testing. + * generic/tclExecute.c (TclStackFree): insure that the execStack + satisfies "at most one free stack after the current one" when + consecutive reallocs caused the creation of intervening stacks. -2010-09-06 Stuart Cassoff <stwo@users.sourceforge.net> +2011-03-05 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - * unix/configure.in, generic/tclIOUtil.c (Tcl_Stat): Updated so that - we do not assume that all unix systems have the POSIX blkcnt_t type, - since OpenBSD apparently does not. Backported from HEAD (2010-02-16). - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 + * generic/tclAssembly.c (new file): + * generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_CreateInterp): + * generic/tclInt.h: + * tests/assemble.test (new file): + * unix/Makefile.in: + * win/Makefile.in: + * win/makefile.vc: Merged dogeen-assembler-branch into HEAD. Since + all functional changes are in the tcl::unsupported namespace, there's + no reason to sequester this code on a separate branch. -2010-09-02 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> +2011-03-05 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - * doc/glob.n: Fixed documentation ambiguity regarding the handling - of -join. + * generic/tclExecute.c: Cleaner mem management for TEBCdata - * library/safe.tcl (::safe::AliasGlob): Fixed another problem, the - option -join does not stop option processing in the core builtin, - so the emulation must not do that either. + * generic/tclExecute.c: + * tests/nre.test: Renamed BottomData to TEBCdata, so that the name + refers to what it is rather than to its storage location. -2010-09-01 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclBasic.c: Renamed struct TEOV_callback to the more + * generic/tclCompExpr.c: descriptive NRE_callback. + * generic/tclCompile.c: + * generic/tclExecute.c: + * generic/tclInt.decls: + * generic/tclInt.h: + * generic/tclIntDecls.h: + * generic/tclTest.c: - * library/safe.tcl (::safe::AliasGlob): Moved the command - extending the actual glob command with a -directory flag to when - we actually have a proper untranslated path, +2011-03-04 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2010-09-01 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclOOMethod.c (ProcedureMethodCompiledVarConnect) + (ProcedureMethodCompiledVarDelete): [Bug 3185009]: Keep references to + resolved object variables so that an unset doesn't leave any dangling + pointers for code to trip over. - * changes: Update for 8.5.9 release. +2011-03-01 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> -2010-09-01 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + * generic/tclBasic.c (TclNREvalObjv): Missing a variable declaration + in commented out non-optimised code, left for ref in checkin + [b97b771b6d] - * generic/tclExecute.c: [Bug 3057639]. Applied patch by Jeff to - * generic/tclVar.c: make the behaviour of lappend in bytecompiled - * tests/append.test: mode consistent with direct-eval and 'append' - * tests/appendComp.test: generally. Added tests (append*-9.*) - showing the difference. - ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** +2011-03-03 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> -2010-09-01 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclResult.c (Tcl_AppendResultVA): Use the directive + USE_INTERP_RESULT [TIP 330] to force compat with interp->result + access, instead of the improvised hack USE_DIRECT_INTERP_RESULT_ACCESS + from releases past. - * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl: Improve handling of cross-links for - options between Ttk manual pages. +2011-03-01 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - * doc/Tcl.n: Avoid nroff hazards when generating documentation. + * generic/tclCompCmdsSZ.c (TclCompileThrowCmd, TclCompileUnsetCmd): + fix leaks -2010-08-31 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + * generic/tclBasic.c: This is [Patch 3168398], + * generic/tclCompCmdsSZ.c: Joe Mistachkin's optimisation + * generic/tclExecute.c: of Tip #285 + * generic/tclInt.decls: + * generic/tclInt.h: + * generic/tclIntDecls.h: + * generic/tclInterp.c: + * generic/tclOODecls.h: + * generic/tclStubInit.c: + * win/makefile.vc: - * win/tcl.m4: Applied patch by Jeff fixing issues with the - manifest handling on Win64. - * win/configure: Regenerated. + * generic/tclExecute.c (ExprObjCallback): Fix object leak -2010-08-29 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclExecute.c (TEBCresume): Store local var array and + constants in automatic vars to reduce indirection, slight perf + increase - * doc/dict.n: [Bug 3046999]: Corrected cross reference to array - manpage to refer to (correct) existing subcommand. + * generic/tclOOCall.c (TclOODeleteContext): Added missing '*' so that + trunk compiles. -2010-08-26 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> + * generic/tclBasic.c (TclNRRunCallbacks): [Patch 3168229]: Don't do + the trampoline dance for commands that do not have an nreProc. - * unix/configure, unix/tcl.m4: SHLIB_LD_LIBS='${LIBS}' for OSF1-V*. - Add /usr/lib64 to set of auto-search dirs. [Bug 1230554] - (SC_PATH_X): Correct syntax error when xincludes not found. +2011-03-01 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * win/Makefile.in (VC_MANIFEST_EMBED_DLL VC_MANIFEST_EMBED_EXE): - * win/configure, win/configure.in, win/tcl.m4: SC_EMBED_MANIFEST - macro and --enable-embedded-manifest configure arg added to - support manifest embedding where we know the magic. Help prevents - DLL hell with MSVC8+. + * generic/tclOO.c (Tcl_NewObjectInstance, TclNRNewObjectInstance) + (TclOOObjectCmdCore, FinalizeObjectCall): + * generic/tclOOBasic.c (TclOO_Object_Destroy, AfterNRDestructor): + * generic/tclOOCall.c (TclOODeleteContext, TclOOGetCallContext): + Reorganization of call context reference count management so that code + is (mostly) simpler. -2010-08-24 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2011-01-26 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * changes: Update for 8.5.9 release. + * doc/RegExp.3: [Bug 3165108]: Corrected documentation of description + of subexpression info in Tcl_RegExpInfo structure. -2010-08-23 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> +2011-01-25 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * library/tzdata/Africa/Cairo: - * library/tzdata/Asia/Gaza: Olson's tzdata2010l. + * generic/tclPreserve.c: Don't miss 64-bit address bits in panic + message. + * win/tclWinChan.c: Fix various gcc-4.5.2 64-bit warning messages + * win/tclWinConsole.c e.g. by using full 64-bits for socket fd's + * win/tclWinDde.c + * win/tclWinPipe.c + * win/tclWinReg.c + * win/tclWinSerial.c + * win/tclWinSock.c + * win/tclWinThrd.c -2010-08-19 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2011-01-19 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclTrace.c (TraceExecutionObjCmd, TraceCommandObjCmd) - (TraceVariableObjCmd): [Patch 3048354]: Use memcpy() instead of - strcpy() to avoid buffer overflow; we have the correct length of data - to copy anyway since we've just allocated the target buffer. + * tools/genStubs.tcl: [Enh #3159920]: Tcl_ObjPrintf() crashes with + * generic/tcl.decls bad format specifier. + * generic/tcl.h + * generic/tclDecls.h -2010-08-15 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2011-01-18 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net>3159920 - * generic/tclProc.c (ProcWrongNumArgs): [Bug 3045010]: Make the - handling of passing the wrong number of arguments to [apply] somewhat - less verbose when a lambda term is present. + * generic/tclOOMethod.c (PushMethodCallFrame): [Bug 3001438]: Make + sure that the cmdPtr field of the procPtr is correct and relevant at + all times so that [info frame] can report sensible information about a + frame after a return to it from a recursive call, instead of probably + crashing (depending on what else has overwritten the Tcl stack!) -2010-08-12 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2011-01-18 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_RegexpObjCmd): [Bug 2826551, Patch 2948425]: - Backport of updates to make handling of RE line anchors correct. + * generic/tclBasic.c: Various mismatches between Tcl_Panic + * generic/tclCompCmds.c: format string and its arguments, + * generic/tclCompCmdsSZ.c: discovered thanks to [Bug 3159920] + * generic/tclCompExpr.c + * generic/tclEnsemble.c + * generic/tclPreserve.c + * generic/tclTest.c -2010-08-11 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> +2011-01-17 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * unix/ldAix: Remove ancient (pre-4.2) AIX support - * unix/configure: regen with ac-2.59 - * unix/configure.in, unix/tclConfig.sh.in, unix/Makefile.in: - * unix/tcl.m4 (AIX): Remove the need for ldAIX, replace with - -bexpall/-brtl. Remove TCL_EXP_FILE (export file) and other baggage - that went with it. Remove pre-4 AIX build support. + * generic/tclIOCmd.c: [Bug 3148192]: Commands "read/puts" incorrectly + * tests/chanio.test: interpret parameters. Improved error-message + * tests/io.test regarding legacy form. + * tests/ioCmd.test -2010-08-10 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> +2011-01-15 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - * generic/tclUtil.c (TclByteArrayMatch): Patterns may not be - null-terminated, so account for that. + * doc/tclvars.n: + * generic/tclStrToD.c: + * generic/tclUtil.c (Tcl_PrintDouble): + * tests/util.test (util-16.*): [Bug 3157475]: Restored full Tcl 8.4 + compatibility for the formatting of floating point numbers when + $::tcl_precision is not zero. Added compatibility tests to make sure + that excess trailing zeroes are suppressed for all eight major code + paths. + +2011-01-12 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + + * win/tclWinFile.c: Use _vsnprintf in stead of vsnprintf, because + MSVC 6 doesn't have it. Reported by andreask. + * win/tcl.m4: handle --enable-64bit=ia64 for gcc + * win/configure.in: more accurate test for correct <intrin.h> + * win/configure: (autoconf-2.59) + * win/tclWin32Dll.c: VS 2005 64-bit does not have intrin.h, and + * generic/tclPanic.c: does not need it. -2010-08-05 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2011-01-07 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - * changes: Update for 8.5.9 release. + * tests/util.test (util-15.*): Added test cases for floating point + conversion of the largest denormal and the smallest normal number, to + avoid any possibility of the failure suffered by PHP in the last + couple of days. (They didn't fail, so no actual functional change.) -2010-08-04 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> +2011-01-05 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c: Adjust license header as per - ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change + * tests/package.test, tests/pkg.test: Coalesce these tests into one + file that is concerned with the package system. Convert to use + tcltest2 properly. + * tests/autoMkindex.test, tests/pkgMkIndex.test: Convert to use + tcltest2 properly. - * license.terms: Fix DFARs note for number-adjusted rights clause +2011-01-01 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * win/tclWin32Dll.c (asciiProcs, unicodeProcs): - * win/tclWinLoad.c (TclpDlopen): 'load' use LoadLibraryEx with - * win/tclWinInt.h (TclWinProcs): LOAD_WITH_ALTERED_SEARCH_PATH to - prefer dependent DLLs in same dir as loaded DLL. - ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** + * tests/cmdAH.test, tests/cmdMZ.test, tests/compExpr.test, + * tests/compile.test, tests/concat.test, tests/eval.test, + * tests/fileName.test, tests/fileSystem.test, tests/interp.test, + * tests/lsearch.test, tests/namespace-old.test, tests/namespace.test, + * tests/oo.test, tests/proc.test, tests/security.test, + * tests/switch.test, tests/unixInit.test, tests/var.test, + * tests/winDde.test, tests/winPipe.test: Clean up of tests and + conversion to tcltest 2. Target has been to get init and cleanup code + out of the test body and into the -setup/-cleanup stanzas. - * win/Makefile.in (%.${OBJEXT}): better implicit rules support + * tests/execute.test (execute-11.1): [Bug 3142026]: Added test that + fails (with a crash) in an unfixed memdebug build on 64-bit systems. -2010-08-04 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-12-31 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tcl.h: Bump to 8.5.9 for release. - * library/init.tcl: - * tools/tcl.wse.in: - * unix/configure.in: - * unix/tcl.spec: - * win/configure.in: - * README: + * generic/tclCmdIL.c (SortElement): Use unions properly in the + definition of this structure so that there is no need to use nasty + int/pointer type punning. Made it clearer what the purposes of the + various parts of the structure are. - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 - * win/configure: +2010-12-31 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * changes: Update for 8.5.9 release. + * unix/dltest/*.c: [Bug 3148192]: Fix broken [load] tests by ensuring + that the affected files are never compiled with -DSTATIC_BUILD. -2010-08-04 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> +2010-12-30 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclIORChan.c: [Bug 3034840]: Fixed reference counting - * tests/ioCmd.test: in InvokeTclMethod and callers. + * generic/tclExecute.c (GrowEvaluationStack): Off-by-one error in + sizing the new allocation - was ok in comment but wrong in the code. + Triggered by [Bug 3142026] which happened to require exactly one more + than what was in existence. -2010-08-03 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> +2010-12-26 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * tests/var.test (var-19.1): [Bug 3037525]: Added test demonstrating - the local hashtable deletion crash and fix. + * generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LsortObjCmd): Fix crash when multiple -index + options are used. Simplified memory handling logic. - * tests/info.test (info-39.1, test_info_frame): Changed absolute to - relative frame adressing to handle difference between testing with - -singleproc 1 vs. the default -singleproc 0. Plus comment fix. The - test and issue are not relevant to the trunk, forward porting is not - required. +2010-12-20 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2010-08-03 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * win/tclWin32Dll.c: [Patch 3059922]: fixes for mingw64 - gcc4.5.1 + tdm64-1: completed for all environments. - * changes: Update for 8.5.9 release. +2010-12-20 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2010-08-02 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@users.sf.net> + * win/configure.in: Explicitely test for intrinsics support in + compiler, before assuming only MSVC has it. + * win/configure: (autoconf-2.59) + * generic/tclPanic.c: - * library/tzdata/America/Bahia_Banderas: - * library/tzdata/Pacific/Chuuk: - * library/tzdata/Pacific/Pohnpei: - * library/tzdata/Africa/Cairo: - * library/tzdata/Europe/Helsinki: - * library/tzdata/Pacific/Ponape: - * library/tzdata/Pacific/Truk: - * library/tzdata/Pacific/Yap: Olson's tzdata2010k. +2010-12-19 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2010-07-28 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + * win/tclWin32Dll.c: [Patch 3059922]: fixes for mingw64 - gcc4.5.1 + tdm64-1: Fixed for gcc, not yet for MSVC 64-bit. - * generic/tclVar.c: [Bug 3037525]: lose fickle optimisation in - TclDeleteVars (used for runtime-created locals) that caused crashes. +2010-12-17 Stuart Cassoff <stwo@users.sourceforge.net> -2010-07-25 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + * unix/Makefile.in: Remove unwanted/obsolete 'ddd' target. - * generic/tclInt.h: [Bug 3030870]: Make itcl 3.x built with pre-8.6 - * generic/tclBasic.c: work in 8.6 revert tclInt.h to what it was - before, and relax the relation between Tcl_CallFrame and CallFrame. +2010-12-17 Stuart Cassoff <stwo@users.sourceforge.net> -2010-07-17 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + * unix/Makefile.in: Clean up '.PHONY:' targets: Arrange those + common to Tcl and Tk as in Tk's Makefile.in, + add any missing ones and remove duplicates. - * generic/tcl.h: [Bug 3030870]: Make itcl 3.x built with pre-8.6 - * generic/tclInt.h: work in 8.6 +2010-12-17 Stuart Cassoff <stwo@users.sourceforge.net> -2010-07-02 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + * unix/Makefile.in: [Bug 2446711]: Remove 'allpatch' target. - * generic/tclExecute.c (IllegalExprOperandType): [Bug 3024379]: Made - sure that errors caused by an argument to an operator being outside - the domain of the operator all result in ::errorCode being ARITH - DOMAIN and not NONE. +2010-12-17 Stuart Cassoff <stwo@users.sourceforge.net> -2010-07-02 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + * unix/Makefile.in: [Bug 2537626]: Use 'rpmbuild', not 'rpm'. - * generic/tclIntDecls.h: [Bug 803489]: Tcl_FindNamespace problem in - the Stubs table. +2010-12-16 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2010-07-01 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclPanic.c: [Patch 3124554]: Move WishPanic from Tk to Tcl + * win/tclWinFile.c: Better communication with debugger, if present. - * doc/mathop.n: [Bug 3023165]: Fix typo that was preventing proper - rendering of the exclusive-or operator. +2010-12-15 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> -2010-06-28 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + [dogeen-assembler-branch] - * generic/tclPosixStr.c: [Bug 3019634]: errno.h and tclWinPort.h have - conflicting definitions. + * tclAssembly.c: + * assemble.test: Reworked beginCatch/endCatch handling to + enforce the more severe (but more correct) restrictions on catch + handling that appeared in the discussion of [Bug 3098302] and in + tcl-core traffic beginning about 2010-10-29. -2010-06-22 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2010-12-15 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LsetObjCmd): [Bug 3019351]: Corrected wrong - args message. + * generic/tclPanic.c: Restore abort() as it was before. + * win/tclWinFile.c: [Patch 3124554]: Use ExitProcess() here, like + in wish. -2010-06-18 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2010-12-14 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * library/init.tcl (auto_execok): [Bug 3017997]: Add .cmd to the - default list of extensions that we can execute interactively. + * generic/tcl.h: [Bug 3137454]: Tcl CVS HEAD does not build on GCC 3. -2010-06-16 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> +2010-12-14 Reinhard Max <max@suse.de> - * tools/loadICU.tcl: [Bug 3016135]: Traceback using clock format - * library/msgs/he.msg: with locale of he_IL + * win/tclWinSock.c (CreateSocket): Swap the loops over + * unix/tclUnixSock.c (CreateClientSocket): local and remote addresses, + so that the system's address preference for the remote side decides + which family gets tried first. Cleanup and clarify some of the + comments. -2010-06-09 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> +2010-12-13 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * library/platform/platform.tcl: Added OSX Intel 64bit - * library/platform/pkgIndex.tcl: Package updated to version 1.0.9. - * unix/Makefile.in: - * win/Makefile.in: + * generic/tcl.h: [Bug 3135271]: Link error due to hidden + * unix/tcl.m4: symbols (CentOS 4.2) + * unix/configure: (autoconf-2.59) + * win/tclWinFile.c: Undocumented feature, only meant to be used by + Tk_Main. See [Patch 3124554]: Move WishPanic from Tk to Tcl -2010-05-26 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2010-12-12 Stuart Cassoff <stwo@users.sourceforge.net> - * doc/socket.n: [Bug 3007442]: Server sockets never took a host - argument, so the list of options must precede the port argument. + * unix/tcl.m4: Better building on OpenBSD. + * unix/configure: (autoconf-2.59) -2010-05-25 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> +2010-12-10 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * unix/tclUnixPort.h: [Bug 2991415]: tclport.h #included before - * win/tclWinPort.h: limits.h + * generic/tcl.h: [Bug 3129448]: Possible over-allocation on + * generic/tclCkalloc.c: 64-bit platforms, part 2 + * generic/tclCompile.c: + * generic/tclHash.c: * generic/tclInt.h: + * generic/tclIO.h: + * generic/tclProc.c: -2010-05-21 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> +2010-12-10 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> - * tools/installData.tcl: Make sure that copyDir only receives - normalized paths. Backported from trunk. - * generic/tclPlatDecls.h: Fix <tchar.h> inclusion for CYGWIN. - Backported from trunk (although for trunk this was moved to - tclWinPort.h) - * generic/tclPathObj.c: Fix Tcl_SetStringObj usage for CYGWIN. This - function can only be used with unshared objects. This causes a crash - on CYGWIN. (backported from trunk) - * generic/tclFileName.c: Don't declare cygwin_conv_to_win32_path here - * win/tclWinChan.c: Fix various minor other gcc warnings, like - * win/tclWinConsole.c: signed<->unsigned mismatch. Backported from - * win/tclWinDde.c: trunk. - * win/tclWinNotify.c: - * generic/tclStrToD.c: [Bug 3005233]: fix for build on OpenBSD vax + * generic/tclIO.c: Make sure [fcopy -size ... -command ...] always + * tests/io.test: calls the callback asynchronously, even for size + zero. -2010-05-19 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-12-10 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclDictObj.c: Backport of fix for [Bug 3004007], EIAS - * tests/dict.test: violation in list-dict conversions. + * generic/tclBinary.c: Fix gcc -Wextra warning: missing initializer + * generic/tclCmdAH.c: + * generic/tclCmdIL.c: + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: + * generic/tclDictObj.c: + * generic/tclIndexObj.c: + * generic/tclIOCmd.c: + * generic/tclVar.c: + * win/tcl.m4: Fix manifest-generation for 64-bit gcc + (mingw-w64) + * win/configure.in: Check for availability of intptr_t and + uintptr_t + * win/configure: (autoconf-2.59) + * generic/tclInt.decls: Change 1st param of TclSockMinimumBuffers + * generic/tclIntDecls.h: to ClientData, and TclWin(Get|Set)SockOpt + * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h:to SOCKET, because on Win64 those are + * generic/tclIOSock.c: 64-bit, which does not fit. + * win/tclWinSock.c: + * unix/tclUnixSock.c: -2010-05-07 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> +2010-12-09 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * library/platform/platform.tcl: Fix cpu name for Solaris/Intel 64bit. - * library/platform/pkgIndex.tcl: Package updated to version 1.0.8. - * unix/Makefile.in: - * win/Makefile.in: + * tests/fCmd.test: Improve sanity of constraints now that we don't + support anything before Windows 2000. -2010-04-30 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclCmdAH.c (TclInitFileCmd, TclMakeFileCommandSafe, ...): + Break up [file] into an ensemble. Note that the ensemble is safe in + itself, but the majority of its subcommands are not. + * generic/tclFCmd.c (FileCopyRename,TclFileDeleteCmd,TclFileAttrsCmd) + (TclFileMakeDirsCmd): Adjust these subcommand implementations to work + inside an ensemble. + (TclFileLinkCmd, TclFileReadLinkCmd, TclFileTemporaryCmd): Move these + subcommand implementations from tclCmdAH.c, where they didn't really + belong. + * generic/tclIOCmd.c (TclChannelNamesCmd): Move to more appropriate + source file. + * generic/tclEnsemble.c (TclMakeEnsemble): Start of code to make + partially-safe ensembles. Currently does not function as expected due + to various shortcomings in how safe interpreters are constructed. + * tests/cmdAH.test, tests/fCmd.test, tests/interp.test: Test updates + to take into account systematization of error messages. - * generic/tclBinary.c (UpdateStringOfByteArray): [Bug 2994924]: Add - panic when the generated string representation would grow beyond Tcl's - size limits. + * tests/append.test, tests/appendComp.test: Clean up tests so that + they don't leave things in the global environment (detected when doing + -singleproc testing). -2010-04-29 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> +2010-12-07 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * library/platform/platform.tcl: Another stab at getting the /lib, - * library/platform/pkgIndex.tcl: /lib64 difference right for linux. - * unix/Makefile.in: Package updated to version 1.0.7. - * win/Makefile.in: + * tests/fCmd.test, tests/safe.test, tests/uplevel.test, + * tests/upvar.test, tests/var.test: Convert more tests to tcltest2 and + factor them to be easier to understand. -2010-04-29 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> + * generic/tclStrToD.c: Tidy up code so that more #ifdef-fery is + quarantined at the front of the file and function headers follow the + modern Tcl style. - * library/tzdata/Antarctica/Macquarie: - * library/tzdata/Africa/Casablanca: - * library/tzdata/Africa/Tunis: - * library/tzdata/America/Santiago: - * library/tzdata/America/Argentina/San_Luis: - * library/tzdata/Antarctica/Casey: - * library/tzdata/Antarctica/Davis: - * library/tzdata/Asia/Anadyr: - * library/tzdata/Asia/Damascus: - * library/tzdata/Asia/Dhaka: - * library/tzdata/Asia/Gaza: - * library/tzdata/Asia/Kamchatka: - * library/tzdata/Asia/Karachi: - * library/tzdata/Asia/Taipei: - * library/tzdata/Europe/Samara: - * library/tzdata/Pacific/Apia: - * library/tzdata/Pacific/Easter: - * library/tzdata/Pacific/Fiji: Olson's tzdata2010i. - -2010-04-19 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> +2010-12-06 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * win/tclWinPort.h: [Patch 2986105]: Conditionally defining - * win/tclWinFile.c: strcasecmp/strncasecmp + * generic/tclBinary.c: [Bug 3129448]: Possible over-allocation on + * generic/tclCkalloc.c: 64-bit platforms. + * generic/tclTrace.c -2010-04-18 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2010-12-05 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * doc/unset.n: [Bug 2988940]: Fix typo. - -2010-04-14 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - - * library/platform/platform.tcl: Linux platform identification: - * library/platform/pkgIndex.tcl: Check /lib64 for existence of - * unix/Makefile.in: files matching libc* before accepting it as - * win/Makefile.in: base directory. This can happen on weirdly - installed 32bit systems which have an empty or partially filled - /lib64 without an actual libc. Bumped to version 1.0.6. - -2010-04-03 Zoran Vasiljevic <vasiljevic@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclStringObj.c: (SetStringFromAny): avoid trampling - over the tclEmptyStringRep as it is thread-shared. - - * generic/tclThreadStorage.c (ThreadStorageGetHashTable): - avoid accessing shared table index w/o mutex protection - if VALGRIND defined on compilation time. This rules out - helgrind complains about potential race-conditions at - that place. - - Thanks to Gustaf Neumann for the (hard) work. + * unix/tcl.m4: [Patch 3116490]: Cross-compile support for unix + * unix/configure: (autoconf-2.59) -2010-03-31 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2010-12-03 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - * doc/package.n: [Bug 2980210]: Document the arguments taken by - the [package present] command correctly. + * generic/tclUtil.c (TclReToGlob): Add extra check for multiple inner + *s that leads to poor recursive glob matching, defer to original RE + instead. tclbench RE var backtrack. -2010-03-30 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> +2010-12-03 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclIORChan.c (ReflectClose, ReflectInput, ReflectOutput, - ReflectSeekWide, ReflectWatch, ReflectBlock, ReflectSetOption, - ReflectGetOption, ForwardProc): [Bug 2978773]: Preserve - ReflectedChannel* structures across handler invokations, to avoid - crashes when the handler implementation induces nested callbacks - and destruction of the channel deep inside such a nesting. + * generic/tclUtil.c: Silence gcc warning when using -Wwrite-strings + * generic/tclStrToD.c: Silence gcc warning for non-IEEE platforms + * win/Makefile.in: [Patch 3116490]: Cross-compile Tcl mingw32 on unix + * win/tcl.m4: This makes it possible to cross-compile Tcl/Tk for + * win/configure.in: Windows (either 32-bit or 64-bit) out-of-the-box + * win/configure: on UNIX, using mingw-w64 build tools (If Itcl, + tdbc and Thread take over the latest tcl.m4, they can do that too). -2010-03-30 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-12-01 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - * generic/tclObj.c (Tcl_GetCommandFromObj): [Bug 2979402]: Reorder - the validity tests on internal rep of a "cmdName" value to avoid - invalid reads reported by valgrind. + * generic/tclStrToD.c (SetPrecisionLimits, TclDoubleDigits): + [Bug 3124675]: Added meaningless initialization of 'i', 'ilim' and + 'ilim1' to silence warnings from the C compiler about possible use of + uninitialized variables, Added a panic to the 'switch' that assigns + them, to assert that the 'default' case is impossible. -2010-03-29 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-12-01 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclStringObj.c: Fix array overrun in test format-1.12 - caught by valgrind testing. + * generic/tclBasic.c: Fix gcc 64-bit warnings: cast from pointer to + * generic/tclHash.c: integer of different size. + * generic/tclTest.c: + * generic/tclThreadTest.c: + * generic/tclStrToD.c: Fix gcc(-4.5.2) warning: 'static' is not at + beginning of declaration. + * generic/tclPanic.c: Allow Tcl_Panic() to enter the debugger on win32 + * generic/tclCkalloc.c: Use Tcl_Panic() in stead of duplicating the + code. -2010-03-25 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2010-11-30 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c (TclUnixCopyFile): [Bug 2976504]: Corrected - number of arguments to fstatfs() call. + * generic/tclInt.decls, generic/tclInt.h, generic/tclIntDecls.h: + * generic/tclStubInit.c: TclFormatInt restored at slot 24 + * generic/tclUtil.c (TclFormatInt): restore TclFormatInt func from + 2005-07-05 macro-ization. Benchmarks indicate it is faster, as a key + int->string routine (e.g. int-indexed arrays). -2010-03-24 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-11-29 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclResult.c: [Bug 2383005]: Revise [return -errorcode] so - * tests/result.test: that it rejects illegal non-list values. + * generic/tclBasic.c: Patch by Miguel, providing a + [::tcl::unsupported::inject coroname command args], which prepends + ("injects") arbitrary code to a suspended coro's future resumption. + Neat for debugging complex coros without heavy instrumentation. -2010-03-20 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2010-11-29 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - * generic/tclIO.c (CopyData): Allow the total number of bytes copied - by [fcopy] to exceed 2GB. Can happen when no -size parameter given. + * generic/tclInt.decls: + * generic/tclInt.h: + * generic/tclStrToD.c: + * generic/tclTest.c: + * generic/tclTomMath.decls: + * generic/tclUtil.c: + * tests/util.test: + * unix/Makefile.in: + * win/Makefile.in: + * win/makefile.vc: Rewrite of Tcl_PrintDouble and TclDoubleDigits that + (a) fixes a severe performance problem with floating point shimmering + reported by Karl Lehenbauer, (b) allows TclDoubleDigits to generate + the digit strings for 'e' and 'f' format, so that it can be used for + tcl_precision != 0 (and possibly later for [format]), (c) fixes [Bug + 3120139] by making TclPrintDouble inherently locale-independent, (d) + adds test cases to util.test for correct rounding in difficult cases + of TclDoubleDigits where fixed- precision results are requested. (e) + adds test cases to util.test for the controversial aspects of [Bug + 3105247]. As a side effect, two more modules from libtommath + (bn_mp_set_int.c and bn_mp_init_set_int.c) are brought into the build, + since the new code uses them. -2010-03-18 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclIntDecls.h: + * generic/tclStubInit.c: + * generic/tclTomMathDecls.h: Regenerated. - * generic/tclListObj.c: [Bug 2971669]: Prevent in overflow trouble in - * generic/tclTestObj.c: ListObjReplace operations. Thanks to kbk for - * tests/listObj.test: fix and test. +2010-11-24 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2010-03-12 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + * tests/chanio.test, tests/iogt.test, tests/ioTrans.test: Convert more + tests to tcltest2 and factor them to be easier to understand. - * win/makefile.vc: Fix [Bug 2967340]: Static build failure - * win/.cvsignore +2010-11-20 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2010-03-09 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + * tests/chanio.test: Converted many tests to tcltest2 by marking the + setup and cleanup parts as such. - * generic/tclIORChan.c: [Bug 2936225]: Thanks to Alexandre Ferrieux - * doc/refchan.n: <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> for debugging - * tests/ioCmd.test: and fixing the problem. It is the write-side - equivalent to the bug fixed 2009-08-06. +2010-11-19 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2010-03-09 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * win/tclWin32Dll.c: Fix gcc warnings: unused variable 'registration' + * win/tclWinChan.c: + * win/tclWinFCmd.c: - * library/tzdata/America/Matamoros: New locale - * library/tzdata/America/Ojinaga: New locale - * library/tzdata/America/Santa_Isabel: New locale - * library/tzdata/America/Asuncion: - * library/tzdata/America/Tijuana: - * library/tzdata/Antarctica/Casey: - * library/tzdata/Antarctica/Davis: - * library/tzdata/Antarctica/Mawson: - * library/tzdata/Asia/Dhaka: - * library/tzdata/Pacific/Fiji: - Olson tzdata2010c. +2010-11-18 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2010-03-01 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> + * win/tclAppInit.c: [FRQ 491789]: "setargv() doesn't support a unicode + cmdline" now implemented for cygwin and mingw32 too. + * tests/main.test: No longer disable tests Tcl_Main-1.4 and 1.6 on + Windows, because those now work on all supported platforms. + * win/configure.in: Set NO_VIZ=1 when zlib is compiled in libtcl, + this resolves compiler warnings in 64-bit and static builds. + * win/configure (regenerated) - * unix/tclUnixChan.c: [backported] Refrain from a possibly lengthy - reverse-DNS lookup on 0.0.0.0 when calling [fconfigure -sockname] - on an universally-bound (default) server socket. +2010-11-18 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2010-02-27 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + * doc/file.n: [Bug 3111298]: Typofix. - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (StringFirstCmd, StringLastCmd): [Bug 2960021]: - Only search for the needle in the haystack when the needle isn't - larger than the haystack. Prevents an odd crash from sometimes - happening when things get mixed up (a common programming error). + * tests/oo.test: [Bug 3111059]: Added testing that neatly trapped this + issue. -2010-02-21 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> +2010-11-18 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclBasic.c: Fix [Bug 2954959] expr abs(0.0) is -0.0 - * tests/expr.test + * generic/tclNamesp.c: [Bug 3111059]: Fix leak due to bad looping + construct. -2010-02-19 Stuart Cassoff <stwo@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-11-17 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * tcl.m4: Correct compiler/linker flags for threaded builds on OpenBSD - * configure: (regenerated). + * win/tcl.m4: [FRQ 491789]: "setargv() doesn't support a unicode + cmdline" now implemented for mingw-w64 + * win/configure (re-generated) -2010-02-19 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2010-11-16 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * unix/installManPage: [Bug 2954638]: Correct behaviour of manual page - installer. Also added armouring to check that assumptions about the - initial state are actually valid (e.g., look for existing input file). + * win/tclAppInit.c:Bring compilation under mingw-w64 a bit closer + * win/cat.c: to reality. See for what's missing: + * win/tcl.m4: <https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mingw-w64/wiki/Unicode%20apps> + * win/configure: (re-generated) + * win/tclWinPort.h:[Bug #3110161]: Extensions using TCHAR don't compile + on VS2005 SP1 -2010-02-11 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2010-11-15 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - * generic/tclIOCmd.c (Tcl_OpenObjCmd): [Bug 2949740]: Make sure that - we do not try to put a NULL pipeline channel into binary mode. + * doc/interp.n: [Bug 3081184]: TIP #378. + * doc/tclvars.n: Performance fix for TIP #280. + * generic/tclBasic.c: + * generic/tclExecute.c: + * generic/tclInt.h: + * generic/tclInterp.c: + * tests/info.test: + * tests/interp.test: -2010-02-07 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> +2010-11-10 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - * tools/genStubs.tcl Backport various formatting (spacing) - * generic/tcl*.decls changes from HEAD, so diffing - * generic/tcl*Decls.h between 8.5.x and 8.6 shows the - * generic/tclStubInit.c real structural differences again. - (any signature change not backported!) + * changes: Updates for 8.6b2 release. -2010-02-03 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2010-11-09 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_ArrayObjCmd): More corrections for the 'unset' - subcommand. + * generic/tclOOMethod.c (ProcedureMethodVarResolver): [Bug 3105999]: + * tests/oo.test: Make sure that resolver structures that are + only temporarily needed get squelched. -2010-02-02 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> +2010-11-05 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclCompile.c: [Bug 2933089]: A literal sharing problem with - * generic/tclCompile.h: 'info frame' affects not only 8.6 but 8.5 as - * generic/tclExecute.h: well. Backported the fix done in 8.6, without - * tests/info.test: changes. New testcase info-39.1. + * generic/tclMain.c: Thanks, Kevin, for the fix, but this how it was + supposed to be (TCL_ASCII_MAIN is only supposed to be defined on + WIN32). -2010-02-02 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2010-11-05 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - * generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_ArrayObjCmd): [Bug 2939073]: Stop the [array - unset] command from having dangling pointer problems when an unset - trace deletes the element that is going to be processed next. Many - thanks to Alexandre Ferrieux for the bulk of this fix. + * generic/tclMain.c: Added missing conditional on _WIN32 around code + that messes around with the definition of _UNICODE, to correct a badly + broken Unix build from Jan's last commit. -2010-02-01 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2010-11-04 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/regexec.c (ccondissect, crevdissect): [Bug 2942697]: Rework - these functions so that certain pathological patterns are matched much - more rapidly. Many thanks to Tom Lane for dianosing this issue and - providing an initial patch. + * generic/tclDecls.h: [FRQ 491789]: "setargv() doesn't support a + * generic/tclMain.c: unicode cmdline" implemented for Tcl on MSVC++ + * doc/Tcl_Main.3: + * win/tclAppInit.c: + * win/makefile.vc: + * win/Makefile.in: + * win/tclWin32Dll.c: Eliminate minor MSVC warning TCHAR -> char + conversion -2010-02-01 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> +2010-11-04 Reinhard Max <max@suse.de> - * generic/tclInt.decls: Various CYGWIN-related fixes - * generic/tclInt.h: backported from HEAD. Still - * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h: configure script not modified, - * generic/tclPort.h: so CYGWIN build is still - * generic/tclTest.c: disabled. Reason: although the - * win/cat.c: build succeeds with those changes, - * win/tclWinDde.c: many tests still fail. - * win/tclWinError.c: - * win/tclWinFile.c: - * win/tclWinPipe.c: - * win/tclWinPort.h: - * win/tclWinReg.c: - * win/tclWinSerial.c: - * win/tclWinSock.c: - * win/tclWinTest.c: - * win/tclWinThrd.c: + * tests/socket.test: Run the socket tests three times with the address + family set to any, inet, and inet6 respectively. Use constraints to + skip the tests if a family is found to be unsupported or not + configured on the local machine. Adjust the tests to dynamically adapt + to the address family that is being tested. -2010-01-29 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + Rework some of the tests to speed them up by avoiding (supposedly) + unneeded [after]s. - * generic/tcl.h: Use correct TCL_LL_MODIFIER for CYGWIN. - Formatting (all backported from HEAD) - * generic/rege_dfa.c: Fix macro conflict on CYGWIN: don't use - "small". - * generic/tclTest.c: Fix gcc 4.4 warning: ignoring return value of - * unix/tclUnixPipe.c: 'write' - * unix/tclUnixNotify.c: +2010-11-04 Stuart Cassoff <stwo@users.sourceforge.net> -2010-01-19 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + * unix/Makefile.in: [Patch 3101127]: Installer Improvements. + * unix/install-sh: - * doc/dict.n: [Bug 2929546]: Clarify just what [dict with] and [dict - update] are doing with variables. +2010-11-04 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2010-01-18 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + * tests/error.test (error-19.13): Another variation on testing for + issues in [try] compilation. - * generic/tclIO.c (CreateScriptRecord): [Bug 2918110]: Initialize - the EventScriptRecord (esPtr) fully before handing it to - Tcl_CreateChannelHandler for registration. Otherwise a reflected - channel calling 'chan postevent' (== Tcl_NotifyChannel) in its - 'watchProc' will cause the function 'TclChannelEventScriptInvoker' - to be run on an uninitialized structure. + * doc/Tcl.n (Variable substitution): [Bug 3099086]: Increase clarity + of explanation of what characters are actually permitted in variable + substitutions. Note that this does not constitute a change of + behavior; it is just an improvement of explanation. -2010-01-18 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2010-11-04 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclStringObj.c (Tcl_AppendFormatToObj): [Bug 2932421]: Stop - the [format] command from causing argument objects to change their - internal representation when not needed. Thanks to Alexandre Ferrieux - for this fix. + * changes: Updates for 8.6b2 release. (Thanks Andreas Kupries) -2010-01-06 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> +2010-11-03 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: Warning: array subscript has type 'char' - * generic/tclPkg.c: - * libtommath/bn_mp_read_radix.c: - * unix/tclUnixCompat.c: Fix gcc warning: signed and unsigned type - in conditional expression. - * unix/tcl.m4: Add support for Haiku and CYGWIN dynamical loading - * unix/configure: (regenerated) - * unix/Makefile.in: - * unix/.cvsignore: - * tests/stack.test: Reduced minimum required C-stack size to 2034: - CYGWIN has this stack size and the test runs fine! - * generic/tclEnv.c: Fix environment tests under CYGWIN - * generic/tclPort.h: - * tests/env.test: + * win/tclWinFcmd.c: [FRQ 2965056]: Windows build with -DUNICODE + * win/tclWinFile.c: (more clean-ups for pre-win2000 stuff) + * win/tclWinReg.c: -2010-01-05 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-11-03 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclPathObj.c (TclPathPart): [Bug 2918610]: Correct - * tests/fileName.test (filename-14.31): inconsistency between the - string rep and the intrep of a path value created by [file rootname]. - Thanks to Vitaly Magerya for reporting. + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (TryPostBody): Ensure that errors when setting + * tests/error.test (error-19.1[12]): message/opt capture variables get + reflected properly to the caller. -2010-01-03 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2010-11-03 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): [Bug 1636685]: Use the configuration - for modern FreeBSD suggested by the FreeBSD porter. + * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileCatchCmd): [Bug 3098302]: + * tests/compile.test (compile-3.6): Reworked the compilation of the + [catch] command so as to avoid placing any code that might throw an + exception (specifically, any initial substitutions or any stores to + result or options variables) between the BEGIN_CATCH and END_CATCH but + outside the exception range. Added a test case that panics on a stack + smash if the change is not made. -2009-12-30 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2010-11-01 Stuart Cassoff <stwo@users.sourceforge.net> - * library/safe.tcl (AliasSource): [Bug 2923613]: Make the safer - * tests/safe.test (safe-8.9): [source] handle a [return] at the - end of the file correctly. + * library/safe.tcl: Improved handling of non-standard module path + * tests/safe.test: lists, empty path lists in particular. -2009-12-29 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2010-11-01 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - * generic/tclInterp.c (Tcl_MakeSafe): [Bug 2895741]: Make sure that - the min() and max() functions are supported in safe interpreters. + * library/tzdata/Asia/Hong_Kong: + * library/tzdata/Pacific/Apia: + * library/tzdata/Pacific/Fiji: Olson's tzdata2010o. -2009-12-28 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2010-10-29 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> - * unix/configure.in: [Bug 942170]: Detect the st_blocks field of - * generic/tclCmdAH.c (StoreStatData): 'struct stat' correctly. - * generic/tclIOUtil.c (Tcl_Stat, Tcl_FSStat): - * generic/tclTest.c (PretendTclpStat): + * generic/tclTimer.c: [Bug 2905784]: Stop small [after]s from + wasting CPU while keeping accuracy. - * generic/tclInterp.c (TimeLimitCallback): [Bug 2891362]: Ensure that - * tests/interp.test (interp-34.13): the granularity ticker is - reset when we check limits because of the time limit event firing. +2010-10-28 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> -2009-12-27 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + [dogeen-assembler-branch] + * generic/tclAssembly.c: + * tests/assembly.test (assemble-31.*): Added jump tables. - * doc/namespace.n (SCOPED SCRIPTS): [Bug 2921538]: Updated example to - not be quite so ancient. +2010-10-28 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> -2009-12-23 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + * tests/http.test: [Bug 3097490]: Make http-4.15 pass in + isolation. - * library/safe.tcl (AliasSource, AliasExeName): [Bug 2913625]: Stop - information about paths from leaking through [info script] and [info - nameofexecutable]. + * unix/tclUnixSock.c: [Bug 3093120]: Prevent calls of + freeaddrinfo(NULL) which can crash some + systems. Thanks Larry Virden. -2009-12-16 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2010-10-26 Reinhard Max <max@suse.de> - * library/safe.tcl (::safe::AliasGlob): Upgrade to correctly support a - larger fraction of [glob] functionality, while being stricter about - directory management. + * Changelog.2008: Split off from Changelog. + * generic/tclIOSock.c (TclCreateSocketAddress): The interp != NULL + check is needed for ::tcl::unsupported::socketAF as well. - * doc/tm.n: [Bug 1911342]: Formatting rewrite to avoid bogus crosslink - to the list manpage when generating HTML. +2010-10-26 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl (Init): [Bug 2913616]: Do not use platform - tests that are not needed and which don't work in safe interpreters. + * unix/tclUnixSock.c (TcpGetOptionProc): Prevent crash if interp is + * win/tclWinSock.c (TcpGetOptionProc): NULL (a legal situation). -2009-12-12 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2010-10-26 Reinhard Max <max@suse.de> - * generic/tclTest.c (TestconcatobjCmd): [Bug 2895367]: Stop memory - leak when testing. We don't need extra noise of this sort when - tracking down real problems! + * unix/tclUnixSock.c (TcpGetOptionProc): Added support for + ::tcl::unsupported::noReverseDNS, which if set to any value, prevents + [fconfigure -sockname] and [fconfigure -peername] from doing + reverse DNS queries. -2009-12-10 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> +2010-10-24 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - * generic/tclObj.c (TclContinuationsEnter): [Bug 2895323]: Updated - comments to describe when the function can be entered for the same - Tcl_Obj* multiple times. This is a continuation of the 2009-11-10 - entry where a memory leak was plugged, but where not sure if that was - just a band-aid to paper over some other error. It isn't, this is a - legal situation. + [dogeen-assembler-branch] + * generic/tclAssembly.c: + * tests/assembly.test (assemble-17.15): Reworked branch handling so that + forward branches can use jump1 (jumpTrue1, jumpFalse1). Added test + cases that the forward branches will expand to jump4, jumpTrue4, + jumpFalse4 when needed. -2009-12-09 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> +2010-10-23 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - * library/safe.tcl: Backport of the streamlined safe base from - * tests/safe.test: head to the 8.5 branch (See head changelog entries - 2009-11-05, 2009-11-06, 2009-12-03). + [dogeen-assembler-branch] + * generic/tclAssembly.h (removed): + Removed file that was included in only one + source file. + * generictclAssembly.c: Inlined tclAssembly.h. -2009-12-07 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-10-17 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclStrToD.c: [Bug 2902010]: Correct conditional compile - directives to better detect the toolchain that needs extra work for - proper underflow treatment instead of merely detecting the MIPS - platform. + * doc/info.n: [Patch 2995655]: + * generic/tclBasic.c: Report inner contexts in [info errorstack] + * generic/tclCompCmds.c: + * generic/tclCompile.c: + * generic/tclCompile.h: + * generic/tclExecute.c: + * generic/tclInt.h: + * generic/tclNamesp.c: + * tests/error.test: + * tests/result.test: -2009-12-02 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> +2010-10-20 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * tools/genStubs.tcl: Add support for win32 CALLBACK functions (needed - for Tk bugfix). + * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileDictForCmd): Update the compilation + * generic/tclCompile.c (tclInstructionTable): of [dict for] so that + * generic/tclExecute.c (TEBCresume): it no longer makes any + use of INST_DICT_DONE now that's not needed, and make it clearer in + the implementation of the instruction that it's just a deprecated form + of unset operation. Followup to my commit of 2010-10-16. -2009-11-30 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2010-10-19 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * doc/Tcl.n: [Bug 2901433]: Improved description of expansion to - mention that it is using list syntax. + * generic/tclZlib.c (Tcl_ZlibStreamGet): [Bug 3081008]: Ensure that + when a bytearray gets its internals entangled with zlib for more than + a passing moment, that bytearray will never be shimmered away. This + increases the amount of copying but is simple to get right, which is a + reasonable trade-off. -2009-11-27 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclStringObj.c (Tcl_AppendObjToObj): Added some special + cases so that most of the time when you build up a bytearray by + appending, it actually ends up being a bytearray rather than + shimmering back and forth to string. - * doc/BoolObj.3, doc/CrtChannel.3, doc/DictObj.3, doc/DoubleObj.3: - * doc/Ensemble.3, doc/Environment.3, doc/FileSystem.3, doc/Hash.3: - * doc/IntObj.3, doc/Limit.3, doc/ObjectType.3, doc/PkgRequire.3: - * doc/SetChanErr.3, doc/SetResult.3: [Patch 2903921]: Many small - spelling fixes from Larry Virden. + * tests/http11.test (check_crc): Use a simpler way to express the + functionality of this procedure. -2009-11-25 Stuart Cassoff <stwo@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclZlib.c: Purge code that wrote to the object returned by + Tcl_GetObjResult, as we don't want to do that anti-pattern no more. - * unix/configure.in: [Patch 2892871]: Remove unneeded - * unix/tcl.m4: AC_STRUCT_TIMEZONE and use - * unix/tclConfig.h.in: AC_CHECK_MEMBERS([struct stat.st_blksize]) - * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c: instead of AC_STRUCT_ST_BLKSIZE. - * unix/configure: Regenerated with autoconf-2.59. +2010-10-18 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2009-11-16 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> + * tools/uniParse.tcl: [Bug 3085863]: tclUniData was 9 years old; + Ignore non-BMP characters and fix comment about UnicodeData.txt file. + * generic/regcomp.c: Fix comment + * tests/utf.test: Add some Unicode 6 testcases - * generic/tclEncoding.c: Fix [Bug 2891556] and improve test to detect - * tests/decoding.test: similar manifestations in the future. +2010-10-17 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> -2009-11-12 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * doc/info.n: Document [info errorstack] faithfully. - *** 8.5.8 TAGGED FOR RELEASE *** +2010-10-16 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * changes: Update for 8.5.8 release. + * generic/tclExecute.c (ReleaseDictIterator): Factored out the release + of the bytecode-level dictionary iterator information so that the + side-conditions on instruction issuing are simpler. - * generic/tclClock.c (TclClockInit): Do not create [clock] support - commands in safe interps. +2010-10-15 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * tests/io.test: New test io-53.11 to test for [Bug 2895565]. + * generic/reg_locale.c: [Bug 3085863]: tclUniData 9 years old: Updated + * generic/tclUniData.c: Unicode tables to latest UnicodeData.txt, + * tools/uniParse.tcl: corresponding with Unicode 6.0 (except for + out-of-range chars > 0xFFFF) -2009-11-12 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> +2010-10-13 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclIO.c (CopyData): [Bug 2895565]: Dropped bogosity which - used the number of _written_ bytes or character to update the counters - for the read bytes/characters. See last entry for the test case. + * generic/tclCompile.c: Alternative fix for [Bugs 467523,983660] where + * generic/tclExecute.c: sharing of empty scripts is allowed again. -2009-11-11 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-10-13 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * tests/fCmd.test: Fixed a number of issues for Vista and Win7 - * tests/registry.test: that are due to restricted permissions. - * tests/winFCmd.test: + * win/tclWinThrd.h: (removed) because it is just empty en used nowhere + * win/tcl.dsp -2009-11-11 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-10-12 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * library/http/http.tcl: [Bug 2891171]: Update the URL syntax - check to RFC 3986 compliance on the subject of non-encoded question - mark characters. + * tools/uniClass.tcl: Spacing and comments: let uniClass.tcl + * generic/regc_locale.c: generation match better the current + (hand-modified) regc_locale.c + * tools/uniParse.tcl: Generate proper const qualifiers for + * generic/tclUniData.c: tclUniData.c - * library/http/pkgIndex.tcl: Bump to http 2.7.5 to avoid any - * unix/Makefile.in: confusion with snapshot "releases" - * win/Makefile.in: that might be in ActiveTcl, etc. +2010-10-12 Reinhard Max <max@suse.de> -2009-11-11 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> + * unix/tclUnixSock.c (CreateClientSocket): [Bug 3084338]: Fix a + memleak and refactor the calls to freeaddrinfo(). - * generic/tclIO.c: Backported fix for [Bug 2888099] (close discards - ENOSPC error) by saving the errno from the first of two - FlushChannel()s. Uneasy to test; might need specific channel drivers. - Four-hands with aku. +2010-10-11 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2009-11-10 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * win/tclWinDde.c: [FRQ 2965056]: Windows build with -DUNICODE + * win/tclWinReg.c: + * win/tclWinTest.c: More cleanups + * win/tclWinFile.c: Add netapi32 to the link line, so we no longer + * win/tcl.m4: have to use LoadLibrary to access those functions. + * win/makefile.vc: + * win/configure: (Re-generate with autoconf-2.59) + * win/rules.vc Update for VS10 - * generic/tclBasic.c: Plug another leak in TCL_EVAL_DIRECT - evaluation. +2010-10-09 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclObj.c: Plug memory leak in TclContinuationsEnter(). - [Bug 2895323] + * generic/tclExecute.c: Fix overallocation of exec stack in TEBC (due + to mixing numwords and numbytes) -2009-11-09 Stuart Cassoff <stwo@users.sf.net> +2010-10-08 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * win/README: [bug 2459744]: Removed outdated Msys + Mingw info. + * generic/tclIOSock.c: On Windows, use gai_strerrorA -2009-11-09 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-10-06 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclBasic.c (TclEvalObjEx): Plug memory leak in - TCL_EVAL_DIRECT evaluation. + * tests/winPipe.test: Test hygiene with makeFile and removeFile. - * tests/info.test: Resolve ambiguous resolution of variable "res". + * generic/tclCompile.c: [Bug 3081065]: Prevent writing to the intrep + * tests/subst.test: fields of a freed Tcl_Obj. -2009-11-03 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-10-06 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - * generic/tcl.h: Bump to 8.5.8 for release. - * library/init.tcl: - * tools/tcl.wse.in: - * unix/configure.in: - * unix/tcl.spec: - * win/configure.in: - * README: + [dogeen-assembler-branch] - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 - * win/configure: + * generic/tclAssembly.c: + * generic/tclAssembly.h: + * tests/assemble.test: Added catches. Still needs a lot of testing. - * changes: Update for 8.5.8 release. +2010-10-02 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> -2009-11-03 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + [dogeen-assembler-branch] - * library/safe.tcl (::safe::InterpSetConfig): [Bug 2854929]: Added - code to recursively find deeper paths which may contain modules. - Required to handle modules with names like 'platform::shell', which - translate into 'platform/shell-X.tm', i.e arbitrarily deep - subdirectories. + * generic/tclAssembly.c: + * generic/tclAssembly.h: + * tests/assemble.test: Added dictAppend, dictIncrImm, dictLappend, + dictSet, dictUnset, nop, regexp, nsupvar, upvar, and variable. -2009-11-03 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> +2010-10-02 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * library/tzdata/Asia/Novokuznetsk: New tzdata locale for Kemerovo - oblast', which now keeps Novosibirsk time and not Kranoyarsk time. - * library/tzdata/Asia/Damascus: Syrian DST changes. - * library/tzdata/Asia/Hong_Kong: Hong Kong historic DST corrections. - Olson tzdata2009q. + * generic/tclExecute.c (TEBCresume): [Bug 3079830]: Added invalidation + of string representations of dictionaries in some cases. -2009-11-03 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-10-01 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - * tests/tcltest.test: Backport permissions fix for Win7. + * generic/tclExecute.c (EvalStatsCmd): change 'evalstats' to return + data to interp by default, or if given an arg, use that as filename to + output to (accepts 'stdout' and 'stderr'). Fix output to print used + inst count data. + * generic/tclCkalloc.c: Change TclDumpMemoryInfo sig to allow objPtr + * generic/tclInt.decls: as well as FILE* as output. + * generic/tclIntDecls.h: -2009-10-31 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2010-10-01 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclBasic.c (ExprRoundFunc): [Bug 2889593]: Correctly report - the expected number of arguments when generating an error for round(). + * generic/tclBasic.c, generic/tclClock.c, generic/tclEncoding.c, + * generic/tclEnv.c, generic/tclLoad.c, generic/tclNamesp.c, + * generic/tclObj.c, generic/tclRegexp.c, generic/tclResolve.c, + * generic/tclResult.c, generic/tclUtil.c, macosx/tclMacOSXFCmd.c: + More purging of strcpy() from locations where we already know the + length of the data being copied. -2009-10-29 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-10-01 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - * generic/tcl.h: [Bug 2800740]: Changed the typedef for the - mp_digit type from: - typedef unsigned long mp_digit; - to: - typedef unsigned int mp_digit; - For 32-bit builds where "long" and "int" are two names for the same - thing, this is no change at all. For 64-bit builds, though, this - causes the dp[] array of an mp_int to be made up of 32-bit elements - instead of 64-bit elements. This is a huge improvement because details - elsewhere in the mp_int implementation cause only 28 bits of each - element to be actually used storing number data. Without this change - bignums are over 50% wasted space on 64-bit systems. + [dogeen-assembler-branch] - ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** - For 64-bit builds, callers of routines with (mp_digit) or (mp_digit *) - arguments *will*, and callers of routines with (mp_int *) arguments - *may* suffer both binary and stubs incompatibilities with Tcl releases - 8.5.0 - 8.5.7. Such possibilities should be checked, and if such - incompatibilities are present, suitable [package require] requirements - on the Tcl release should be put in place to keep such built code - [load]-ing only in Tcl interps that are compatible. + * tests/assemble.test: + * generic/tclAssemble.h: + * generic/tclAssemble.c: Added listIn, listNotIn, and dictGet. -2009-10-29 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> +2010-09-30 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - * library/clock.tcl (LocalizeFormat): - * tests/clock.test (clock-67.1): [Bug 2819334]: - Corrected a problem where '%%' followed by a letter in a format group - could expand recursively: %%R would turn into %%H:%M:%S. + [dogeen-assembler-branch] -2009-10-28 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * tests/assemble.test: Added tryCvtToNumeric and several more list + * generic/tclAssemble.c: operations. + * generic/tclAssemble.h: - * generic/tclLiteral.c: Backport fix for [Bug 2888044]. +2010-09-29 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> -2009-10-28 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> + [dogeen-assembler-branch] - * tests/fileName.test (fileName-20.[78]): Corrected poor test - hygiene (failure to save and restore the working directory) that - caused these two tests to fail on Windows (and [Bug 2806250] to be - reopened). + * tests/assemble.test: Completed conversion of tests to a + * generic/tclAssemble.c: "white box" structure that follows the + C code. Added missing safety checks on the operands of 'over' and + 'reverse' so that negative operand counts don't smash the stack. -2009-10-27 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-09-29 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclPathObj.c: [Bug 2884203]: Missing refcount on cached - normalized path caused crashes. + * unix/configure: Re-generate with autoconf-2.59 + * win/configure: + * generic/tclMain.c: Make compilable with -DUNICODE as well + +2010-09-28 Reinhard Max <max@suse.de> + + TIP #162 IMPLEMENTATION + + * doc/socket.n: Document the changes to the [socket] and + [fconfigure] commands. + + * generic/tclInt.h: Introduce TclCreateSocketAddress() as a + * generic/tclIOSock.c: replacement for the platform-dependent + * unix/tclUnixSock.c: TclpCreateSocketAddress() functions. Extend + * unix/tclUnixChan.c: the [socket] and [fconfigure] commands to + * unix/tclUnixPort.h: behave as proposed in TIP #162. This is the + * win/tclWinSock.c: core of what is required to support the use of + * win/tclWinPort.h: IPv6 sockets in Tcl. + + * compat/fake-rfc2553.c: A compat implementation of the APIs defined + * compat/fake-rfc2553.h: in RFC-2553 (getaddrinfo() and friends) on + top of the existing gethostbyname() etc. + * unix/configure.in: Test whether the fake-implementation is + * unix/tcl.m4: needed. + * unix/Makefile.in: Add a compile target for fake-rfc2553. + + * win/configure.in: Allow cross-compilation by default. + + * tests/socket.test: Improve the test suite to make more use of + * tests/remote.tcl: randomized ports to reduce interference with + tests running in parallel or other services on + the machine. + +2010-09-28 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> + + [dogeen-assembler-branch] + + * tests/assemble.test: Added more "white box" tests. + * generic/tclAssembly.c: Added the error checking and reporting + for undefined labels. Revised code so that no pointers into the + bytecode sequence are held (because the sequence can move!), + that no Tcl_HashEntry pointers are held (because the hash table + doesn't guarantee their stability!) and to eliminate the BBHash + table, which is merely additional information indexed by jump + labels and can just as easily be held in the 'label' structure. + Renamed shared structures to CamelCase, and renamed 'label' to + JumpLabel because other types of labels may eventually be possible. + +2010-09-27 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> + + [dogeen-assembler-branch] + + * tests/assemble.test: Added more "white box" tests. + * generic/tclAssembly.c: Fixed bugs exposed by the new tests. + (a) [eval] and [expr] had incorrect stack balance computed if + the arg was not a simple word. (b) [concat] accepted a negative + operand count. (c) [invoke] accepted a zero or negative operand + count. (d) more misspelt error messages. + Also replaced a funky NRCallTEBC with the new call + TclNRExecuteByteCode, necessitated by a merge with changes on the + HEAD. + +2010-09-26 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclBasic.c: [Patch 3072080] (minus the itcl + * generic/tclCmdIL.c: update): a saner NRE. + * generic/tclCompExpr.c: + * generic/tclCompile.c: This makes TclNRExecuteByteCode (ex TEBC) + * generic/tclCompile.h: to be a normal NRE citizen: it loses its + * generic/tclExecute.c: special status. + * generic/tclInt.decls: The logic flow within the BC engine is + * generic/tclInt.h: simplified considerably. + * generic/tclIntDecls.h: + * generic/tclObj.c: + * generic/tclProc.c: + * generic/tclTest.c: -2009-10-27 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> + * generic/tclVar.c: Use the macro HasLocalVars everywhere - * library/clock.tcl (ParseClockScanFormat): [Bug 2886852]: - Corrected a problem where [clock scan] didn't load the timezone soon - enough when processing a time format that lacked a complete date. - * tests/clock.test (clock-66.1): - Added a test case for the above bug. - * library/tzdata/America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires: - * library/tzdata/America/Argentina/Cordoba: - * library/tzdata/America/Argentina/San_Luis: - * library/tzdata/America/Argentina/Tucuman: - New DST rules for Argentina. (Olson's tzdata2009p.) +2010-09-26 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> -2009-10-24 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> + * generic/tclOOMethod.c (ProcedureMethodVarResolver): avoid code + duplication, let the runtime var resolver call the compiled var + resolver. - * library/clock.tcl (ProcessPosixTimeZone): - Corrected a regression in the fix to [Bug 2207436] that caused [clock] - to apply EU daylight saving time rules in the US. Thanks to Karl - Lehenbauer for reporting this regression. - * tests/clock.test (clock-52.4): - Added a regression test for the above regression. - * library/tzdata/Asia/Dhaka: - * library/tzdata/Asia/Karachi: - New DST rules for Bangladesh and Pakistan. (Olson's tzdata2009o.) +2010-09-26 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> -2009-10-23 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + [dogeen-assembler-branch] - * generic/tclIO.c (FlushChannel): Skip OutputProc for low-level - 0-length writes. When closing pipes which have already been closed not - skipping leads to spurious SIG_PIPE signals. Reported by Mikhail - Teterin <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com>. + * tests/assemble.test: Added many new tests moving toward a more + comprehensive test suite for the assembler. + * generic/tclAssembly.c: Fixed bugs exposed by the new tests: + (a) [bitnot] and [not] had incorrect operand counts. (b) + INST_CONCAT cannot concatenate zero objects. (c) misspelt error + messages. (d) the "assembly code" internal representation lacked + a duplicator, which caused double-frees of the Bytecode object + if assembly code ever was duplicated. -2009-10-21 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2010-09-25 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - * generic/tclPosixStr.c: [Bug 2882561]: Work around oddity on Haiku OS - where SIGSEGV and SIGBUS are the same value. + [dogeen-assembler-branch] -2009-10-19 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclAssembly.c: Massive refactoring of the assembler + * generic/tclAssembly.h: to use a Tcl-like syntax (and use + * tests/assemble.test: Tcl_ParseCommand to parse it). The + * tests/assemble1.bench: refactoring also ensures that + Tcl_Tokens in the assembler have string ranges inside the source + code, which allows for [eval] and [expr] assembler directives + that simply call TclCompileScript and TclCompileExpr recursively. - * generic/tclIO.c: Revised ReadChars and FilterInputBytes - routines to permit reads to continue up to the string limits of Tcl - values. Before revisions, large read attempts could panic when as - little as half the limiting value length was reached. [Patch 2107634] - Thanks to Sean Morrison and Bob Parker for their roles in the fix. +2010-09-24 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> -2009-10-18 Joe Mistachkin <joe@mistachkin.com> + * tests/stringComp.test: improved string eq/cmp test coverage + * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): merge INST_STR_CMP and + INST_STR_EQ/INST_STR_NEQ paths. Speeds up eq/ne/[string eq] with + obj-aware comparisons and eq/==/ne/!= with length equality check. - * tests/thread.test (thread-4.[345]): [Bug 1565466]: Correct tests to - save their error state before the final call to threadReap just in - case it triggers an "invalid thread id" error. This error can occur - if one or more of the target threads has exited prior to the attempt - to send it an asynchronous exit command. - - * doc/memory.n: [Bug 988703]: Add mechanism for finding what Tcl_Objs - * generic/tclCkalloc.c (MemoryCmd): are allocated when built for - * generic/tclInt.decls: memory debugging. This was previously - * generic/tclInt.h: backported from Tcl 8.6 with the corrections to - * generic/tclObj.c (ObjData, TclFinalizeThreadObjects): fix [Bug - 2871908]. However, there were key elements missing. These changes make - things consistent between branches. +2010-09-24 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> -2009-10-17 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + * tclWinsock.c: [Bug 3056775]: Fixed race condition between thread and + internal co-thread access of a socket's structure because of the + thread not using the socketListLock in TcpAccept(). Added + documentation on how the module works to the top. - * generic/tclVar.c (TclDeleteCompiledLocalVars, UnsetVarStruct) - (TclDeleteNamespaceVars): - * generic/tclTrace.c (Tcl_UntraceVar2): [Bug 2629338]: Stop traces - that are deleted part way through (a feature used by tdom) from - causing freed memory to be accessed. +2010-09-23 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2009-10-08 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclDecls.h: Make Tcl_SetPanicProc and Tcl_GetStringResult + * unix/tclAppInit.c: callable without stubs, just as Tcl_SetVar. + * win/tclAppInit.c: - * generic/tclDictObj.c (DictIncrCmd): [Bug 2874678]: Don't leak any - bignums when doing [dict incr] with a value. - * tests/dict.test (dict-19.3): Memory leak detection code. +2010-09-23 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> -2009-10-07 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + * generic/tclCmdAH.c: Fix cases where value returned by + * generic/tclEvent.c: Tcl_GetReturnOptions() was leaked. + * generic/tclMain.c: Thanks to Jeff Hobbs for discovery of the + anti-pattern to seek and destroy. - * generic/tclObj.c: [Bug 2871908]: Plug memory leaks of the - objThreadMap and lineCLPtr hashtables. Also make the names of the - continuation line information initialization and finalization - functions more consistent. Patch supplied by Joe Mistachkin - <joe@mistachkin.com>. +2010-09-23 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclIORChan.c (ErrnoReturn): Replace the hardwired constant - 11 with the proper errno define, EAGAIN. What was I thinking? The - BSD's have a different errno assignment and break with the hardwired - number. Reported by emiliano on the chat. + * unix/tclAppInit.c: Make compilable with -DUNICODE (not activated + * win/tclAppInit.c: yet), many clean-ups in comments. -2009-10-06 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-09-22 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclTomMathInt.h (new): Public header tclTomMath.h had - * generic/tclTomMath.h: dependence on private headers, breaking use - * generic/tommath.h: by extensions [Bug 1941434]. + * generic/tclExecute: [Bug 3072640]: One more DECACHE_STACK_INFO() was + missing. -2009-10-05 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * tests/execute.test: Added execute-10.3 for [Bug 3072640]. The test + causes a mem failure. - * changes: Update for 8.5.8 release. + * generic/tclExecute: Protect all possible writes to ::errorInfo or + ::errorCode with DECACHE_STACK_INFO(), as they could run traces. The + new calls to be protected are Tcl_ResetResult(), Tcl_SetErrorCode(), + IllegalExprOperandType(), TclExprFloatError(). The error was triggered + by [Patch 3072080]. -2009-10-04 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-09-22 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * macosx/tclMacOSXBundle.c: Workaround CF memory managment bug in - * unix/tclUnixInit.c: Mac OS X 10.4 & earlier. [Bug 2569449] + * win/tcl.m4: Add kernel32 to LIBS, so the link line for + * win/configure: mingw is exactly the same as for MSVC++. -2009-10-02 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> +2010-09-21 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - * library/tzdata/Africa/Cairo: - * library/tzdata/Asia/Gaza: - * library/tzdata/Asia/Karachi: - * library/tzdata/Pacific/Apia: Olson's tzdata2009n. - -2009-09-29 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): + * generic/tclOOMethod.c (ProcedureMethodCompiledVarConnect): + * generic/tclVar.c (TclLookupSimpleVar, CompareVarKeys): + * generic/tclPathObj.c (Tcl_FSGetNormalizedPath, Tcl_FSEqualPaths): + * generic/tclIOUtil.c (TclFSCwdPointerEquals): peephole opt + * generic/tclResult.c (TclMergeReturnOptions): Use memcmp where + applicable as possible speedup on some libc variants. - * generic/tclAlloc.c: Cleaned up various routines in the - * generic/tclCkalloc.c: call stacks for memory allocation to - * generic/tclInt.h: guarantee that any size values computed - * generic/tclThreadAlloc.c: are within the domains of the routines - they get passed to. [Bugs 2557696 and 2557796]. +2010-09-21 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> -2009-09-11 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + [BRANCH: dogeen-assembler-branch] - * library/http/http.tcl: Bump to http 2.7.4 to account for - * library/http/pkgIndex.tcl: [Bug 2849860] fix. + * generic/tclAssembly.c (new file): + * generic/tclAssembly.h: + * generic/tclBasic.c (builtInCmds, Tcl_CreateInterp): + * generic/tclInt.h: + * tests/assemble.test (new file): + * tests/assemble1.bench (new file): * unix/Makefile.in: * win/Makefile.in: + * win/Makefile.vc: + Initial commit of Ozgur Dogan Ugurlu's (SF user: dogeen) + assembler for the Tcl bytecode language. -2009-09-10 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2010-09-21 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * library/http/http.tcl (http::Event): [Bug 2849860]: Handle charset - names in double quotes; some servers like generating them like that. + * win/tclWinFile.c: Fix declaration after statement. + * win/tcl.m4: Add -Wdeclaration-after-statement, so this + * win/configure: mistake cannot happen again. + * win/tclWinFCmd.c: [Bug 3069278]: Breakage on head Windows + * win/tclWinPipe.c: triggered by install-tzdata, final fix -2009-09-01 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-09-20 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl: Bump to tcltest 2.3.2 after revision - * library/tcltest/pkgIndex.tcl: to verbose error message. - * unix/Makefile.in: - * win/Makefile.in: + * win/tclWinFCmd.c: Eliminate tclWinProcs->useWide everywhere, since + * win/tclWinFile.c: the value is always "1" on platforms >win95 + * win/tclWinPipe.c: -2009-08-27 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-09-19 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclStringObj.c: [Bug 2845535]: A few more string - overflow cases in [format]. + * doc/file.n (file readlink): [Bug 3070580]: Typofix. -2009-08-25 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> +2010-09-18 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_CreateInterp, Tcl_EvalTokensStandard) - (EvalTokensStandard, Tcl_EvalEx, EvalEx, TclAdvanceContinuations) - (TclEvalObjEx): - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_SwitchObjCmd, TclListLines): - * generic/tclCompCmds.c (*): - * generic/tclCompile.c (TclSetByteCodeFromAny, TclInitCompileEnv) - (TclFreeCompileEnv, TclCompileScript): - * generic/tclCompile.h (CompileEnv): - * generic/tclInt.h (ContLineLoc, Interp): - * generic/tclObj.c (ThreadSpecificData, ContLineLocFree) - (TclThreadFinalizeObjects, TclInitObjSubsystem, TclContinuationsEnter) - (TclContinuationsEnterDerived, TclContinuationsCopy) - (TclContinuationsGet, TclFreeObj): - * generic/tclParse.c (TclSubstTokens, Tcl_SubstObj): - * generic/tclProc.c (TclCreateProc): - * generic/tclVar.c (TclPtrSetVar): - * tests/info.test (info-30.0-24): + * win/tclWinFCmd.c [Bug 3069278]: Breakage on head Windows triggered + by install-tzdata. Temporary don't compile this with -DUNICODE, while + investigating this bug. - Extended parser, compiler, and execution with code and attendant data - structures tracking the positions of continuation lines which are not - visible in script Tcl_Obj*'s, to properly account for them while - counting lines for #280. +2010-09-16 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> -2009-08-24 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> + * win/tclWinFile.c: Remove define of FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS as all + supported versions of compilers should now have it. - * macosx/tclMacOSXNotify.c: Fix multiple issues with nested event - loops when CoreFoundation notifier is running in embedded mode. (Fixes - problems in TkAqua Cocoa reported by Youness Alaoui on tcl-mac) + * unix/Makefile.in: Do not pass current build env vars when using + NATIVE_TCLSH in targets. -2009-08-21 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-09-16 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclFileName.c: Correct regression in [Bug 2837800] fix. - * tests/fileName.test: + * generic/tclDecls.h: Make Tcl_FindExecutable() work in UNICODE + * generic/tclEncoding.c: compiles (windows-only) as well as ASCII. + * generic/tclStubInit.c: Needed for [FRQ 491789]: setargv() doesn't + support a unicode cmdline. -2009-08-20 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-09-15 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclFileName.c: [Bug 2837800]: Get the correct result from - [glob */test] when * matches something like ~foo. + * generic/tclBinary.c (TclAppendBytesToByteArray): [Bug 3067036]: Make + sure we never try to double zero repeatedly to get a buffer size. Also + added a check for sanity on the size of buffer being appended. - * generic/tclPathObj.c: [Bug 2806250]: Prevent the storage of strings - starting with ~ in the "tail" part (normPathPtr field) of the path - intrep when PATHFLAGS != 0. This establishes the assumptions relied - on elsewhere that the name stored there is a relative path. Also - refactored to make an AppendPath() routine instead of the cut/paste - stanzas that were littered throughout. +2010-09-15 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> -2009-08-20 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + * unix/Makefile.in: Revise `make dist` target to tolerate the + case of zero bundled packages. - * generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LsortObjCmd): Plug memory leak. +2010-09-15 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2009-08-18 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * tools/genStubs.tcl: [Patch 3034251]: Backport ttkGenStubs.tcl + * generic/tcl.decls: features to genStubs.tcl. Make the "generic" + * generic/tclInt.decls: argument in the *.decls files optional + * generic/tclOO.decls: (no change to any tcl*Decls.h files) + * generic/tclTomMath.decls: + This allows genStubs.tcl to generate the ttk stub files as well, while + keeping full compatibility with existing *.decls files. - * generic/tclPathObj.c: [Bug 2837800]: Added NULL check to prevent - * tests/fileName.test: crashes during [glob]. +2010-09-14 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2009-08-06 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + * win/tclWinPort.h: Allow all Win2000+ API entries in Tcl + * win/tclWin32Dll.c: Eliminate dynamical loading of advapi23 and + kernel32 symbols. - * doc/refchan.n [Bug 2827000]: Extended the implementation of - * generic/tclIORChan.c: reflective channels (TIP 219, method 'read'), - * tests/ioCmd.test: enabling handlers to signal EAGAIN to indicate 'no - data, but not at EOF either', and other system errors. Updated - documentation, extended testsuite (New test cases iocmd*-23.{9,10}). +2010-09-13 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2009-08-02 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - - * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c (GetOwnerAttribute, SetOwnerAttribute) - (GetGroupAttribute, SetGroupAttribute): [Bug 1942222]: Stop calling - * unix/tclUnixFile.c (TclpGetUserHome): endpwent() and endgrent(); - they've been unnecessary for ages. - -2009-07-31 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * win/tclWinChan.c: Various clean-ups, converting from + * win/tclWinConsole.c: tclWinProc->xxxProc directly to Xxx + * win/tclWinInit.c: (no change in functionality) + * win/tclWinLoad.c: + * win/tclWinSerial.c: + * win/tclWinSock.c: + * tools/genStubs.tcl: Add scspec feature from ttkGenStubs.tcl + (no change in output for *Decls.h files) - * generic/tclStringObj.c: [Bug 2830354]: Corrected failure to - * tests/format.test: grow buffer when format spec request - large width floating point values. Thanks to Clemens Misch. +2010-09-10 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2009-07-24 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + * win/tclWin32Dll.c: Partly revert yesterday's change, to make it work + on VC++ 6.0 again. - * generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_GetChannelHandle): [Bug 2826248]: Do not crash - * generic/tclPipe.c (FileForRedirect): for getHandleProc == NULL, this - is allowed. Provide a nice error message in the bypass area. Updated - caller to check the bypass for a mesage. Bug reported by Andy - Sonnenburg <andy22286@users.sourceforge.net>. Backported from CVS - head. +2010-09-10 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2009-07-23 Joe Mistachkin <joe@mistachkin.com> + * doc/regsub.n: [Bug 3063568]: Fix for gotcha in example due to Tcl's + special handling of backslash-newline. Makes example slightly less + pure, but more useful. - * generic/tclNotify.c: [Bug 2820349]: Ensure that queued events are - freed once processed. +2010-09-09 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2009-07-21 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> + * win/makefile.vc: Mingw should always link with -ladvapi32. + * win/tcl.m4: + * win/configure: (regenerated) + * win/tclWinInt.h: Remove ascii variant of tkWinPocs table, it is + * win/tclWin32Dll.c: no longer necessary. Fix CreateProcess signature + * win/tclWinPipe.c: and remove unused GetModuleFileName and lstrcpy. + * win/tclWinPort.h: Mingw/cygwin fixes: <tchar.h> should always be + included, and fix conflict in various macro values: Always force the + same values as in VC++. - * library/tzdata/Asia/Dhaka: - * library/tzdata/Indian/Mauritius: Olson's tzdata2009k. +2010-09-08 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> -2009-07-20 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + * win/tclWinChan.c: [Bug 3059922]: #ifdef protections to permit + * win/tclWinFCmd.c: builds with mingw on amd64 systems. Thanks to + "mescalinum" for reporting and testing. - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (StringIsCmd): Reorganize so that [string is] is - more efficient when parsing things that are correct, at a cost of - making the empty string test slightly more costly. With this, the cost - of doing [string is integer -strict $x] matches [catch {expr {$x+0}}] - in the successful case, and greatly outstrips it in the failing case. +2010-09-08 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> -2009-07-16 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * doc/tm.n: Added underscore to the set of characters accepted in + module names. This is true for quite some time in the code, this + change catches up the documentation. - * generic/tclCmdIL.c: Removed unused variables. - * generic/tclCompile.c: - * generic/tclVar.c: - * unix/tclUnixChan.c: +2010-09-03 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclScan.c: Typo in ACCEPT_NAN configuration. + * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl (plus-pkgs): Improve the package + documentation search pattern to support the doctoos-generated + directory structure. + * tools/tcltk-man2html-utils.tcl (output-name): Made this more + resilient against misformatted NAME sections, induced by import of + Thread package documentation into Tcl doc tree. - * generic/tclStrToD.c: [Bug 2819200]: Set floating point control - register on MIPS systems so that the gradual underflow expected by Tcl - is in effect. +2010-09-02 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> -2009-07-14 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + * doc/glob.n: Fixed documentation ambiguity regarding the handling + of -join. - * generic/tclBasic.c (DeleteInterpProc,TclArgumentBCEnter, - (TclArgumentBCRelease, TclArgumentGet): - * generic/tclCompile.c (EnterCmdWordIndex, TclCleanupByteCode, - (TclInitCompileEnv, TclCompileScript): - * generic/tclCompile.h (ExtCmdLoc): - * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): - * generic/tclInt.h (ExtIndex, CFWordBC): - * tests/info.test (info-39.0): + * library/safe.tcl (safe::AliasGlob): Fixed another problem, the + option -join does not stop option processing in the core builtin, so + the emulation must not do that either. - Backport of some changes made to the Tcl head, to handle literal - sharing better. The code here is much simpler (trimmed down) compared - to the head as the 8.5 branch is not bytecode compiling whole files, - and doesn't compile eval'd code either. +2010-09-01 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> - Reworked the handling of literal command arguments in bytecode to be - saved (compiler) and used (execution) per command (see the - TCL_INVOKE_STK* instructions), and not per the whole bytecode. This - removes the problems with location data caused by literal sharing in - proc bodies. Simplified the associated datastructures (ExtIndex is - gone, as is the function EnterCmdWordIndex). + * library/safe.tcl (safe::AliasGlob): Moved the command extending the + actual glob command with a -directory flag to when we actually have a + proper untranslated path, -2009-07-01 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-09-01 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - * win/tclWinInt.h: [Bug 2806622]: Handle the GetUserName API call - * win/tclWin32Dll.c: via the tclWinProcs indirection structure. This - * win/tclWinInit.c: fixes a problem obtaining the username when the - USERNAME environment variable is unset. + * generic/tclExecute.c: [Bug 3057639]: Applied patch by Jeff to make + * generic/tclVar.c: the behaviour of lappend in bytecompiled mode + * tests/append.test: consistent with direct-eval and 'append' + * tests/appendComp.test: generally. Added tests (append*-9.*) + showing the difference. -2009-06-15 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-08-31 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclStringObj.c: sprintf() -> Tcl_ObjPrintf() conversion. + * win/rules.vc: Typo (thanks to Twylite discovering + this) + * generic/tclStubLib.c: Revert to previous version: MSVC++ 6.0 + * generic/tclTomMathStubLib.c:cannot handle the new construct. + * generic/tcl.decls [Patch 2997642]: Many type casts needed + * generic/tclDecls.h: when using Tcl_Pkg* API. Remaining part. + * generic/tclPkg.c: + * generic/tclBasic.c: + * generic/tclTomMathInterface.c: + * doc/PkgRequire.3 -2009-06-13 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-08-31 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - * generic/tclCompile.c: The value stashed in iPtr->compiledProcPtr - * generic/tclProc.c: when compiling a proc survives too long. We - * tests/execute.test: only need it there long enough for the right - TclInitCompileEnv() call to re-stash it into envPtr->procPtr. Once - that is done, the CompileEnv controls. If we let the value of - iPtr->compiledProcPtr linger, though, then any other bytecode compile - operation that takes place will also have its CompileEnv initialized - with it, and that's not correct. The value is meant to control the - compile of the proc body only, not other compile tasks that happen - along. Thanks to Carlos Tasada for discovering and reporting the - problem. [Bug 2802881]. + * win/tcl.m4: Applied patch by Jeff fixing issues with the manifest + handling on Win64. + * win/configure: Regenerated. -2009-06-10 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-08-30 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclStringObj.c: Revised [format] to not overflow the - integer calculations computing the length of the %ll formats of - really big integers. Also added protections so that [format]s that - would produce results overflowing the maximum string length of Tcl - values throw a normal Tcl error instead of a panic. [Bug 2801413] + * generic/tclBasic.c: [Bugs 3046594,3047235,3048771]: New + * generic/tclCmdAH.c: implementation for [tailcall] command: it now + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: schedules the command and returns TCL_RETURN. + * generic/tclExecute.c: This fixes all issues with [catch] and [try]. + * generic/tclInt.h: Thanks dgp for exploring the dark corners. + * generic/tclNamesp.c: More thorough testing is required. + * tests/tailcall.test: -2006-06-09 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> +2010-08-30 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclGetDate.y: Fixed a thread safety bug in the generated - * library/clock.tcl: Bison parser (needed a %pure-parser - * tests/clock.test: declaration to avoid static variables). - Discovered that the %pure-parser declaration - allowed for returning the Bison error message - to the Tcl caller in the event of a syntax - error, so did so. - * generic/tclDate.c: bison 2.3 + * win/Makefile.in: [FRQ 2965056]: Windows build with -DUNICODE + * win/rules.vc: + * win/tclWinFCmd.c: Make sure that allocated TCHAR arrays are + * win/tclWinFile.c: always properly aligned as wchar_t, and + * win/tclWinPipe.c: not bigger than necessary. + * win/tclWinSock.c: + * win/tclWinDde.c: Those 3 files are not converted yet to be + * win/tclWinReg.c: built with -DUNICODE, so add a TODO. + * win/tclWinTest.c: + * generic/tcl.decls: [Patch 2997642]: Many type casts needed when + * generic/tclDecls.h: using Tcl_Pkg* API. Partly. + * generic/tclPkg.c: + * generic/tclStubLib.c: Demonstration how this change can benefit + code. + * generic/tclTomMathStubLib.c: + * doc/PkgRequire.3: -2006-06-08 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> +2010-08-29 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * library/tzdata/Asia/Dhaka: New DST rule for Bangladesh. - (Olson's tzdata2009i.) + * doc/dict.n: [Bug 3046999]: Corrected cross reference to array + manpage to refer to (correct) existing subcommand. -2009-06-02 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-08-26 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - * generic/tclExecute.c: Replace dynamically-initialized table with - a table of static constants in the lookup table for exponent operator - computations that fit in a 64 bit integer result. + * unix/configure, unix/tcl.m4: SHLIB_LD_LIBS='${LIBS}' for OSF1-V*. + Add /usr/lib64 to set of auto-search dirs. [Bug 1230554] + (SC_PATH_X): Correct syntax error when xincludes not found. - * generic/tclExecute.c: Corrected implementations and selection - logic of the INST_EXPON instruction to fix [Bug 2798543]. + * win/Makefile.in (VC_MANIFEST_EMBED_DLL VC_MANIFEST_EMBED_EXE): + * win/configure, win/configure.in, win/tcl.m4: SC_EMBED_MANIFEST + macro and --enable-embedded-manifest configure arg added to support + manifest embedding where we know the magic. Help prevents DLL hell + with MSVC8+. -2009-06-01 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-08-24 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * tests/expr.test: Added many tests demonstrating the broken - cases of [Bug 2798543]. + * generic/tcl.decls: [Bug 3007895]: Tcl_(Find|Create)HashEntry + * generic/tclHash.c: stub entries can never be called. + * generic/tclDecls.h: + * generic/tclStubInit.c: [Patch 2994165]: Change signature of + Tcl_FSGetNativePath and TclpDeleteFile follow-up: move stub entry back + to original location. -2009-05-30 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> +2010-08-23 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> * library/tzdata/Africa/Cairo: - * library/tzdata/Asia/Amman: Olson's tzdata2009h. - -2009-05-29 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - - * library/platform/platform.tcl: Fixed handling of cpu ia64, - * library/platform/pkgIndex.tcl: taking ia64_32 into account - * unix/Makefile.in: now. Bumped version to 1.0.5. Updated the - * win/Makefile.in: installation commands. - -2009-05-07 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclObj.c (Tcl_GetCommandFromObj): fix for bug [2785893], - insure that a command in a deleted namespace cannot be found - through a cached name. + * library/tzdata/Asia/Gaza: Olson's tzdata2010l. -2009-05-06 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-08-22 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: Improve overflow error message from - [string repeat]. [Bug 2582327] + * generic/tclBasic.c: [Patch 3009403]: Signature of Tcl_GetHashKey, + * generic/tclBinary.c: Tcl_(Create|Find)HashEntry follow-up: + * generic/tclCmdIL.c: Remove many type casts which are no longer + * generic/tclCompile.c:necessary as a result of this signature change. + * generic/tclDictObj.c: + * generic/tclEncoding.c: + * generic/tclExecute.c: + * generic/tclInterp.c: + * generic/tclIOCmd.c: + * generic/tclObj.c: + * generic/tclProc.c: + * generic/tclTest.c: + * generic/tclTrace.c: + * generic/tclUtil.c: + * generic/tclVar.c: -2009-04-28 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> +2010-08-21 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * unix/tcl.m4, unix/configure (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): harden the check - to add _r to CC on AIX with threads. + * doc/linsert.n: [Bug 3045123]: Make description of what is actually + happening more accurate. -2009-04-27 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-08-21 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclInt.h: Backport fix for [Bug 1028264]: WSACleanup() too early. - * generic/tclEvent.c: The fix introduces "late exit handlers" - * win/tclWinSock.c: for similar late process-wide cleanups. + * tools/genStubs.tcl: [Patch 3034251]: Backport ttkGenStubs.tcl + features to genStubs.tcl, partly: Use void (*reserved$i)(void) = 0 + instead of void *reserved$i = NULL for unused stub entries, in case + pointer-to-function and pointer-to-object are different sizes. + * generic/tcl*Decls.h: (regenerated) + * generic/tcl*StubInit.c:(regenerated) -2009-04-27 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-08-20 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * win/tclWinSock.c: Backport fix for [Bug 2446662]: resync Win - behavior on RST with that of unix (EOF). + * doc/Method.3: Fix definition of Tcl_MethodType. -2009-04-27 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2010-08-19 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * doc/concat.n (EXAMPLES): [Bug 2780680]: Rewrote so that the spacing - of result messages is correct. (The exact way they were wrong was - different when rendered through groff or as HTML, but it was still - wrong both ways.) + * generic/tclTrace.c (TraceExecutionObjCmd, TraceCommandObjCmd) + (TraceVariableObjCmd): [Patch 3048354]: Use memcpy() instead of + strcpy() to avoid buffer overflow; we have the correct length of data + to copy anyway since we've just allocated the target buffer. -2009-04-24 Stuart Cassoff <stwo@users.sf.net> +2010-08-18 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * unix/Makefile.in: [Patch 2769530]: Don't chmod/exec installManPage. + * tools/genStubs.tcl: [Patch 3034251]: Backport ttkGenStubs.tcl + features to genStubs.tcl, partly: remove unneeded ifdeffery and put + C++ guard around stubs pointer definition. + * generic/*Decls.h: (regenerated) -2009-04-15 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-08-18 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclBasic.c: New redesign of [tailcall]: find + * generic/tclExecute.c: errors early on, so that errorInfo + * generic/tclInt.h: contains the proper info [Bug 3047235] + * generic/tclNamesp.c: - *** 8.5.7 TAGGED FOR RELEASE *** + * generic/tclCmdAH.c (TclNRTryObjCmd): [Bug 3046594]: Block + tailcalling out of the body of a non-bc'ed [try]. - * generic/tclStringObj.c: AppendUnicodeToUnicodeRep failed - to set stringPtr->allocated to 0, leading to crashes. + * generic/tclBasic.c: Redesign of [tailcall] to + * generic/tclCmdAH.c: (a) fix [Bug 3047235] + * generic/tclCompile.h: (b) enable fix for [Bug 3046594] + * generic/tclExecute.c: (c) enable recursive tailcalls + * generic/tclInt.h: + * generic/tclNamesp.c: + * tests/tailcall.test: - * changes: Update for 8.5.7 release. +2010-08-18 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2009-04-14 Stuart Cassoff <stwo@users.sourceforge.net> + * library/safe.tcl (AliasGlob): [Bug 3004191]: Restore safe [glob] to + working condition. - * unix/tcl.m4: Removed -Wno-implicit-int from CFLAGS_WARNING. +2010-08-15 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2008-04-14 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> + * generic/tclProc.c (ProcWrongNumArgs): [Bug 3045010]: Make the + handling of passing the wrong number of arguments to [apply] somewhat + less verbose when a lambda term is present. - * library/tzdata/Asia/Karachi: Updated rules for Pakistan Summer - Time (Olson's tzdata2009f) +2010-08-14 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2009-04-10 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * compat/unicows: Remove completely, see [FRQ 2819611]. + * doc/FileSystem.3: [Patch 2994165]: Change signature of + * generic/tcl.decls Tcl_FSGetNativePath and TclpDeleteFile + * generic/tclDecls.h: + * generic/tclIOUtil.c: + * generic/tclStubInit.c: + * generic/tclInt.h: + * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c: + * win/tclWinFCmd.c: + * doc/Hash.3: [Patch 3009403]: Signature of Tcl_GetHashKey, + * generic/tcl.h: Tcl_(Create|Find)HashEntry - * changes: Update for 8.5.7 release. +2010-08-11 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - * generic/tcl.h: Bump to 8.5.7 for release. - * library/init.tcl: - * tools/tcl.wse.in: - * unix/configure.in: - * unix/tcl.spec: - * win/configure.in: - * README: + * unix/ldAix: Remove ancient (pre-4.2) AIX support + * unix/configure: Regen with ac-2.59 + * unix/configure.in, unix/tclConfig.sh.in, unix/Makefile.in: + * unix/tcl.m4 (AIX): Remove the need for ldAIX, replace with + -bexpall/-brtl. Remove TCL_EXP_FILE (export file) and other baggage + that went with it. Remove pre-4 AIX build support. - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 - * win/configure: +2010-08-11 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclStringObj.c (UpdateStringOfString): Fix bug detected - by compiler warning about undefined "dst". + * generic/tclBasic.c (TclNRYieldToObjCmd): + * tests/coroutine.test: Fixed bad copypasta snafu. Thanks to Andy Goth + for finding the bug. - * tests/httpd: Backport new tests for http 2.7.3. - * tests/http.tcl: +2010-08-10 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> -2009-04-10 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclUtil.c (TclByteArrayMatch): Patterns may not be + null-terminated, so account for that. - * unix/tclUnixChan.c: TclUnixWaitForFile(): use FD_* macros - * macosx/tclMacOSXNotify.c: to manipulate select masks (Cassoff). - [Freq 1960647] [Bug 3486554] +2010-08-09 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * unix/tclLoadDyld.c: use RTLD_GLOBAL instead of RTLD_LOCAL. - [Bug 1961211] + * changes: Updates for 8.6b2 release. - * macosx/tclMacOSXNotify.c: revise CoreFoundation notifier to allow - embedding into applications that - already have a CFRunLoop running and - want to run the tcl event loop via - Tcl_ServiceModeHook(TCL_SERVICE_ALL). +2010-08-04 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - * macosx/tclMacOSXNotify.c: add CFRunLoop based Tcl_Sleep() and - * unix/tclUnixChan.c: TclUnixWaitForFile() implementations - * unix/tclUnixEvent.c: and disable select() based ones in - CoreFoundation builds. + * win/Makefile.in, win/makefile.bc, win/makefile.vc, win/tcl.dsp: + * win/tclWinPipe.c (TclpCreateProcess): + * win/stub16.c (removed): Removed Win9x tclpip8x.dll build and 16-bit + application loader stub support. Win9x is no longer supported. - * unix/tclUnixNotify.c: simplify, sync with tclMacOSXNotify.c. + * win/tclWin32Dll.c (TclWinInit): Hard-enforce Windows 9x as an + unsupported platform with a panic. Code to support it still exists in + other files (to go away in time), but new APIs are being used that + don't exist on Win9x. - * generic/tclInt.decls: add TclMacOSXNotifierAddRunLoopMode() - * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h: internal API, regen. - * generic/tclStubInit.c: + * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c: Adjust license header as per + ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change - * unix/configure.in (Darwin): use Darwin SUSv3 extensions if - available; remove /Network locations - from default tcl package search path - (NFS mounted locations and thus slow). - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 - * unix/tclConfig.h.in: autoheader-2.59 + * license.terms: Fix DFARs note for number-adjusted rights clause - * macosx/tclMacOSXBundle.c: on Mac OS X 10.4 and later, replace - deprecated NSModule API by dlfcn API. + * win/tclWin32Dll.c (asciiProcs, unicodeProcs): + * win/tclWinLoad.c (TclpDlopen): 'load' use LoadLibraryEx with + * win/tclWinInt.h (TclWinProcs): LOAD_WITH_ALTERED_SEARCH_PATH to + prefer dependent DLLs in same dir as loaded DLL. -2009-04-09 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> + * win/Makefile.in (%.${OBJEXT}): better implicit rules support - * tools/tclZIC.tcl: Always emit Unix-style line terminators. - * library/tzdata: Olson's tzdata2009e. +2010-08-04 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> -2009-04-09 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclIORChan.c: [Bug 3034840]: Fixed reference counting in + * generic/tclIORTrans.c: InvokeTclMethod and callers. + * tests/ioTrans.test: - * library/http/http.tcl: Backport http 2.7.3 from HEAD for - * library/http/pkgIndex.tcl: bundling with the Tcl 8.5.7 release. - * unix/Makefile.in: - * win/Makefile.in: +2010-08-03 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> -2009-04-08 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + * tests/var.test (var-19.1): [Bug 3037525]: Added test demonstrating + the local hashtable deletion crash and fix. - * library/platform/platform.tcl: Extended the darwin sections to - * library/platform/pkgIndex.tcl: add a kernel version number to - * unix/Makefile.in: the identifier for anything from Leopard (10.5) - * win/Makefile.in: on up. Extended patterns for same. Extended cpu - * doc/platform.n: recognition for 64bit Tcl running on a 32bit - kernel on a 64bit processor (By Daniel Steffen). Bumped version to - 1.0.4. Updated Makefiles. + * tests/info.test (info-39.1): Added forward copy of test in 8.5 + branch about [Bug 2933089]. Should not fail, and doesn't, after + updating the line numbers to the changed position. -2009-04-08 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-08-02 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@users.sf.net> - * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl: Converted [eval]s (some unsafe!) to - * library/tcltest/pkgIndex.tcl: {*} in tcltest package. [Bug 2570363] - * unix/Makefile.in: => tcltest 2.3.1 - * win/Makefile.in: + * library/tzdata/America/Bahia_Banderas: + * library/tzdata/Pacific/Chuuk: + * library/tzdata/Pacific/Pohnpei: + * library/tzdata/Africa/Cairo: + * library/tzdata/Europe/Helsinki: + * library/tzdata/Pacific/Ponape: + * library/tzdata/Pacific/Truk: + * library/tzdata/Pacific/Yap: Olson's tzdata2010k. -2009-04-07 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-08-02 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclStringObj.c: Completed backports of fixes for - [Bug 2494093] and [Bug 2553906]. + * generic/tclVar.c: Correcting bad port of [Bug 3037525] fix -2009-03-30 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-07-28 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - * doc/Alloc.3: Size argument is "unsigned int". [Bug 2556263] + * generic/tclVar.c: [Bug 3037525]: Lose fickle optimisation in + TclDeleteVars (used for runtime-created locals) that caused crash. - * generic/tclStringObj.c: Added protections from invalid memory - * generic/tclTestObj.c: accesses when we append (some part of) - * tests/stringObj.test: a Tcl_Obj to itself. Added the - appendself and appendself2 subcommands to the [teststringobj] testing - command and added tests to the test suite. [Bug 2603158] +2010-07-29 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2009-03-27 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * compat/zlib/win32/README.txt: Official build of zlib1.dll 1.2.5 is + * compat/zlib/win32/USAGE.txt: finally available, so put it in. + * compat/zlib/win32/zlib1.dll: - * generic/tclPathObj.c (TclPathPart): TclPathPart() was computing - * tests/fileName.test: the wrong results for both [file dirname] and - [file tail] on "path" arguments with the PATHFLAGS != 0 intrep and - with an empty string for the "joined-on" part. [Bug 2710920] +2010-07-25 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2009-03-20 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * doc/http.n: Corrected description of location of one of the entries + in the state array. - * generic/tclStringObj.c: Test stringObj-6.9 checks that - * tests/stringObj.test: Tcl_AppendStringsToObj() no longer - crashes when operating on a pure unicode value. [Bug 2597185] +2010-07-24 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclExecute.c (INST_CONCAT1): Panic when appends overflow - the max length of a Tcl value. [Bug 2669109] + * generic/tclDecls.h: [Bug 3029891]: Functions that don't belong in + * generic/tclTest.c: the stub table. + * generic/tclBasic.c: From [Bug 3030870] make itcl 3.x built with + pre-8.6 work in 8.6: Relax the relation between Tcl_CallFrame and + CallFrame. -2009-03-18 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-07-16 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * win/tclWinFile.c (TclpObjNormalizePath): Corrected Tcl_Obj leak. - Thanks to Joe Mistachkin for detection and patch. [Bug 2688184]. + * generic/tclBasic.c: Added more errorCode setting. -2009-03-15 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2010-07-15 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclPosixStr.c (Tcl_SignalId,Tcl_SignalMsg): [Patch 1513655]: - Added support for SIGINFO, which is present on BSD platforms. + * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): Ensure that [dict get] + * generic/tclDictObj.c (DictGetCmd): always generates an errorCode on + a failure to look up an entry. -2009-02-20 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-07-11 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclPathObj.c: Fixed mistaken logic in TclFSGetPathType() - * tests/fileName.test: that assumed (not "absolute" => "relative"). - This is a false assumption on Windows, where "volumerelative" is - another possibility. [Bug 2571597]. + * unix/configure: (regenerated) + * unix/configure.in: For the NATIVE_TCLSH variable use the autoconf + * unix/Makefile.in: SC_PROG_TCLSH to try and find a locally installed + native binary. This avoids manually fixing up when cross compiling. If + there is not one, revert to using the build product. -2009-02-17 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> +2010-07-02 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * win/tcl.m4, win/configure: Check if cl groks _WIN64 already to - avoid CC manipulation that can screw up later configure checks. - Use 'd'ebug runtime in 64-bit builds. + * generic/tclInt.decs: Reverted to the original TIP 337 + implementation on what to do with the obsolete internal stub for + TclBackgroundException() (eliminate it!) + * generic/tclIntDecls.h: make genstubs + * generic/tclStubInit.c: -2009-02-05 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-07-02 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclStringObj.c: Added overflow protections to the - AppendUtfToUtfRep routine to either avoid invalid arguments and - crashes, or to replace them with controlled panics. [Bug 2561794] + * generic/tclInt.decls: [Bug 803489]: Tcl_FindNamespace problem in the + * generic/tclIntDecls.h: Stubs table + * generic/tclStubInit.c: -2009-02-04 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-07-02 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclStringObj.c (SetUnicodeObj): Corrected failure of - Tcl_SetUnicodeObj() to panic on a shared object. [Bug 2561488]. Also - factored out common code to reduce duplication. + * generic/tclExecute.c (IllegalExprOperandType): [Bug 3024379]: Made + sure that errors caused by an argument to an operator being outside + the domain of the operator all result in ::errorCode being ARITH + DOMAIN and not NONE. - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: Prevent crashes due to int overflow of the - length of the result of [string repeat]. [Bug 2561746] +2010-07-01 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2009-01-29 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + * win/rules.vc: [Bug 3020677]: wish can't link reg1.2 + * tools/checkLibraryDoc.tcl: formatting, spacing, cleanup unused + * tools/eolFix.tcl: variables; no change in generated output + * tools/fix_tommath_h.tcl: + * tools/genStubs.tcl: + * tools/index.tcl: + * tools/man2help2.tcl: + * tools/regexpTestLib.tcl: + * tools/tsdPerf.tcl: + * tools/uniClass.tcl: + * tools/uniParse.tcl: - * generic/tclNamesp.c (Tcl_FindCommand): [Bug 2519474]: Ensure that - the path is not searched when the TCL_NAMESPACE_ONLY flag is given. +2010-07-01 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2009-01-22 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> + * doc/mathop.n: [Bug 3023165]: Fix typo that was preventing proper + rendering of the exclusive-or operator. - * unix/tcl.m4: Corrected a typo ($(SHLIB_VERSION) should be - ${SHLIB_VERSION}). - * unix/configure: Autoconf 2.59 +2010-06-28 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2009-01-21 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + * generic/tclPosixStr.c: [Bug 3019634]: errno.h and tclWinPort.h have + conflicting definitions. Added messages for ENOTRECOVERABLE, EOTHER, + ECANCELED and EOWNERDEAD, and fixed various typing mistakes in other + messages. - * generic/tclIORChan.c (ReflectClose): Fix for [Bug 2458202]. - Closing a channel may supply NULL for the 'interp'. Test for - finalization needs to be different, and one place has to pull the - interp out of the channel instead. +2010-06-25 Reinhard Max <max@suse.de> -2009-01-19 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> + * tests/socket.test: Prevent a race condition during shutdown of the + remote test server that can cause a hang when the server is being run + in verbose mode. - * unix/Makefile.in: Added a CONFIG_INSTALL_DIR parameter so that - * unix/tcl.m4: distributors can control where tclConfig.sh goes. - Made the installation of 'ldAix' conditional - upon actually being on an AIX system. Allowed for downstream - packagers to customize SHLIB_VERSION on BSD-derived systems. - Thanks to Stuart Cassoff for [Patch 907924]. - * unix/configure: Autoconf 2.59 +2010-06-24 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2009-01-09 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * win/tclWinPort.h: [Bug 3019634]: errno.h and tclWinPort.h have + conflicting definitions. - * generic/tclStringObj.c (STRING_SIZE): Corrected failure to limit - memory allocation requests to the sizes that can be supported by - Tcl's memory allocation routines. [Bug 2494093]. + ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** + On win32, the correspondence between errno and the related error + message, as handled by Tcl_ErrnoMsg() changes. The error message is + kept the same, but the corresponding errno value might change. -2009-01-08 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-06-22 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclStringObj.c (STRING_UALLOC): Added missing parens - required to get correct results out of things like - STRING_UALLOC(num + append). [Bug 2494093]. + * generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LsetObjCmd): [Bug 3019351]: Corrected wrong + args message. -2009-01-06 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2010-06-21 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclDictObj.c (DictIncrCmd): Corrected twiddling in internals - of dictionaries so that literals can't get destroyed. + * unix/tclLoadDl.c: Eliminate various unnecessary type casts, use + * unix/tclLoadNext.c: function typedefs whenever possible + * unix/tclUnixChan.c: + * unix/tclUnixFile.c: + * unix/tclUnixNotfy.c: + * unix/tclUnixSock.c: + * unix/tclUnixTest.c: + * unix/tclXtTest.c: + * generic/tclZlib.c: Remove hack needed for zlib 1.2.3 on win32 - * tests/expr.test, tests/string.test: Eliminate non-ASCII characters. - [Bugs 2006884, 2006879] +2010-06-18 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2009-01-03 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org>: + * library/init.tcl (auto_execok): [Bug 3017997]: Add .cmd to the + default list of extensions that we can execute interactively. - * library/clock.tcl (tcl::clock::add): Fixed error message formatting - in the case where [clock add] is presented with a bad switch. - * tests/clock.test (clock-65.1) Added a test case for the above - problem [Bug 2481670]. +2010-06-16 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2008-12-21 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * tools/loadICU.tcl: [Bug 3016135]: Traceback using clock format + * library/msgs/he.msg: with locale of he_IL. + + * generic/tcl.h: Simplify Tcl_AppInit and *_Init definitions, + * generic/tclInt.h: spacing. Change TclpThreadCreate and + * generic/tcl.decls: Tcl_CreateThread signature, making clear that + * generic/tclDecls.h: "proc" is a function pointer, as in all other + * generic/tclEvent.c: "proc" function parameters. + * generic/tclTestProcBodyObj.c: + * win/tclWinThrd.c: + * unix/tclUnixThrd.c: + * doc/Thread.3: + * doc/Class.3: Fix Tcl_ObjectMetadataType definition. - *** 8.5.6 TAGGED FOR RELEASE *** +2010-06-14 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tcl.h: Bump to 8.5.6 for release. + * unix/Makefile.in: Fix compilation of xttest with 8.6 changes + * unix/tclXtNotify.c: + * unix/tclXtTest.c: + * generic/tclPipe.c: Fix gcc warning (with -fstrict-aliasing=2) + * library/auto.tcl: Spacing and style fixes. + * library/history.tcl: * library/init.tcl: - * tools/tcl.wse.in: - * unix/configure.in: - * unix/tcl.spec: - * win/configure.in: - * README: - - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 - * win/configure: - - * changes: Update for 8.5.6 release. - - * library/tclIndex: Removed reference to no-longer-extant procedure - 'tclLdAout'. - * doc/library.n: Corrected mention of 'auto_exec' to 'auto_execok'. - [Patch 2114900] thanks to Stu Cassoff <stwo@users.sf.net> - Backport of 2008-11-26 commit from Kevin Kenny. - - * win/tclWinThrd.c (TclpThreadCreate): We need to initialize the - thread id variable to 0 as on 64 bit windows this is a pointer sized - field while windows only fills it with a 32 bit value. The result is - an inability to join the threads as the ids cannot be matched. - Backport of 2008-10-13 commit from Pat Thoyts. - -2008-12-15 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> - - * generic/tclExecute.c (TEBC:INST_DICT_GET): Make sure that the result - is empty when generating an error message. [Bug 2431847] - -2008-12-12 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + * library/package.tcl: + * library/safe.tcl: + * library/tm.tcl: - * library/clock.tcl (ProcessPosixTimeZone): Fix time change in Eastern - Europe (not 3:00 but 4:00 local time) [Bug 2207436] +2010-06-13 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2008-12-11 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl (make-man-pages): [Bug 3015327]: Make the + title of a manual page be stored relative to its resulting directory + name as well as its source filename. This was caused by both Tcl and a + contributed package ([incr Tcl]) defining an Object.3. Also corrected + the joining of strings in titles to avoid extra braces. - * generic/tclIO.c (SetChannelFromAny and related): Modified the - * tests/io.test: internal representation of the tclChannelType to - contain not only the ChannelState pointer, but also a reference to the - interpreter it was made in. Invalidate and recompute the internal - representation when it is used in a different interpreter (like - cmdName intrep's). Added testcase. [Bug 2407783] +2010-06-09 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> -2008-12-11 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + * library/platform/platform.tcl: Added OSX Intel 64bit + * library/platform/pkgIndex.tcl: Package updated to version 1.0.9. + * unix/Makefile.in: + * win/Makefile.in: - * library/clock.tcl (ProcessPosixTimeZone): Fallback to European time - zone DST rules, when the timezone is between 0 and -12. [Bug 2207436] - * tests/clock.test (clock-52.[23]): Test cases. +2010-06-09 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2008-12-10 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> + * tools/tsdPerf.c: Fix export of symbol Tsdperf_Init, when using + -fvisibility=hidden. Make two functions static, eliminate some + unnecessary type casts. + * tools/configure.in: Update to Tcl 8.6 + * tools/configure: (regenerated) + * tools/.cvsignore new file - * library/tzdata/*: Update from Olson's tzdata2008i. +2010-06-07 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> -2008-12-04 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclExecute.c: Ensure proper reset of [info errorstack] even + * generic/tclNamesp.c: when compiling constant expr's with errors. - * generic/tclPathObj.c (Tcl_FSGetNormalizedPath): Added another - flag value TCLPATH_NEEDNORM to mark those intreps which need more - complete normalization attention for correct results. [Bug 2385549] +2010-06-05 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> -2008-12-03 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclBasic.c: [Bug 3008307]: make callerPtr chains be + * generic/tclExecute.c: traversable accross coro boundaries. Add the + special coroutine CallFrame (partially reverting commit of + 2009-12-10), as it is needed for coroutines that do not push a CF, eg, + those with [eval] as command. Thanks to Colin McCormack (coldstore) + and Alexandre Ferrieux for the hard work on this. - * generic/tclFileName.c (DoGlob): One of the Tcl_FSMatchInDirectory - calls did not have its return code checked. This caused error messages - returned by some Tcl_Filesystem drivers to be swallowed. +2010-06-03 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> -2008-12-02 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + * generic/tclNamesp.c: Safer (and faster) computation of [uplevel] + * tests/error.test: offsets in TIP 348. Toplevel offsets no longer + * tests/result.test: overestimated. - * generic/tclIO.c (TclFinalizeIOSubsystem): Replaced Alexandre - Ferrieux's first patch for [Bug 2270477] with a gentler version, also - supplied by him. +2010-06-02 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2008-12-01 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclOO.h: BUILD_tcloo is never defined (leftover) + * win/makefile.bc: Don't set BUILD_tcloo (leftover) + See also entry below: 2008-06-01 Joe Mistachkin - * generic/tclParse.c: Backport fix for [Bug 2251175]. +2010-06-01 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> -2008-11-30 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> + * generic/tclNamesp.c: Fix computation of [uplevel] offsets in TIP 348 + * tests/error.test: Only depend on callerPtr chaining now. + * tests/result.test: Needed for upcoming coro patch. - * library/clock.tcl (format, ParseClockScanFormat): Added a [string - map] to get rid of namespace delimiters before caching a scan or - format procedure. [Bug 2362156] - * tests/clock.test (clock-64.[12]): Added test cases for the bug that - was tickled by a namespace delimiter inside a format string. +2010-05-31 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2008-11-25 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + * generic/tclVar.c: Eliminate some casts to (Tcl_HashTable *) + * generic/tclExecute.c: + * tests/fileSystem.test: Fix filesystem-5.1 test failure on CYGWIN - * generic/tclIO.c (TclFinalizeIOSubsystem): Applied Alexandre - Ferrieux's patch for [Bug 2270477] to prevent infinite looping during - finalization of channels not bound to interpreters. +2010-05-28 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2008-08-23 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + * generic/tclInt.h: [Patch 3008541]: Order of TIP #348 fields in + Interp structure - * generic/tclIO.c: Backport of fix for [Bug 2333466]. +2010-05-28 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2008-11-18 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclCompCmdsSZ.c (IssueTryFinallyInstructions): [3007374]: + Corrected error in handling of catch contexts to prevent crash with + chained handlers. - * generic/tcl.decls: Fix signature and implementation of - * generic/tclDecls.h: Tcl_HashStats, such that it conforms - * generic/tclHash.c: to the documentation. [Bug 2308236] - * doc/Hash.3: + * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): Restore correct operation + of instruction-level execution tracing (had been broken by NRE). -2008-11-13 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> +2010-05-27 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclInt.h: Rename static function FSUnloadTempFile to - * generic/tclIOUtil.c: TclFSUnloadTempFile, needed in tclLoad.c + * library/opt/optParse.tcl: Don't generate spaces at the end of a + * library/opt/pkgIndex.tcl: line, eliminate ';' at line end, bump to + * tools/uniParse.tcl: v0.4.6 + * generic/tclUniData.c: + * tests/opt.test: + * tests/safe.test: - * generic/tclLoad.c: Fixed [Bug 2269431]: load of shared - objects leaves temporary files on windows +2010-05-21 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2008-11-10 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + * tools/installData.tcl: Make sure that copyDir only receives + normalized paths, otherwise it might result in a crash on CYGWIN. + Restyle according to the Tcl style guide. + * generic/tclStrToD.c: [Bug 3005233]: Fix for build on OpenBSD vax - * doc/platform_shell.n: Fixed [Bug 2255235], reported by Ulrich - * library/platform/pkgIndex.tcl: Ring <uring@users.sourceforge.net>. - * library/platform/shell.tcl: Updated the LOCATE command in the - * library/tm.tcl: package 'platform::shell' to handle the new form - * unix/Makefile.in: of 'provide' commands generated by tm.tcl. Bumped - * win/Makefile.in: package to version 1.1.4. Added cross-references - to the relevant parts of the code to avoid future desynchronization. +2010-05-19 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> -2008-11-04 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> + * tests/dict.test: Add missing tests for [Bug 3004007], fixed under + the radar on 2010-02-24 (dkf): EIAS violation in + list-dict conversions. - * generic/tclPort.h: remove the ../win/ header dir as the build system - already has it, and it confuses builds when used with private headers - installed. +2010-05-19 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2008-10-24 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/regcomp.c: Don't use arrays of length 1, just use a + * generic/tclFileName.c: single element then, it makes code more + * generic/tclLoad.c: readable. (Here it even prevents a type cast) - * library/http/http.tcl: Backported a fix for reading HTTP-like - protocols that used to work and were broken with http 2.7. Now http - 2.7.2 +2010-05-17 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2008-10-23 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclStrToD.c: [Bug 2996549]: Failure in expr.test on Win32 - * generic/tcl.h: Bump version number to 8.5.6b1 to distinguish - * library/init.tcl: CVS development snapshots from the 8.5.5 and - * unix/configure.in: 8.5.6 releases. - * unix/tcl.spec: - * win/configure.in: - * tools/tcl.wse.in: - * README +2010-05-17 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * unix/configure: autoconf (2.59) - * win/configure: + * generic/tclCmdIL.c (TclInfoFrame): Change this code to use + Tcl_GetCommandFullName rather than rolling its own. Discovered during + the hunting of [Bug 3001438] but unlikely to be a fix. -2008-10-19 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-05-11 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclProc.c: Reset -level and -code values to defaults - after they are used. [Bug 2152286] + * win/tclWinConsole.c: [Patch 2997087]: Unnecessary type casts. + * win/tclWinDde.c: + * win/tclWinLoad.c: + * win/tclWinNotify.c: + * win/tclWinSerial.c: + * win/tclWinSock.c: + * win/tclWinTime.c: + * win/tclWinPort.h: Don't duplicate CYGWIN timezone #define from + tclPort.h -2008-10-16 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-05-07 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - * library/init.tcl: Revised [unknown] so that it carefully - preserves the state of the ::errorInfo and ::errorCode variables at - the start of auto-loading and restores that state before the - autoloaded command is evaluated. [Bug 2140628] + * library/platform/platform.tcl: Fix cpu name for Solaris/Intel 64bit. + * library/platform/pkgIndex.tcl: Package updated to version 1.0.8. + * unix/Makefile.in: + * win/Makefile.in: -2008-10-10 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-05-06 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclPkg.c: Unnecessary type casts, see [Patch 2997087] + +2010-05-04 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + + * win/tclWinNotify.c: TCHAR-related fixes, making those two files + * win/tclWinSock.c: compile fine when TCHAR != char. Please see + comments in [FRQ 2965056] (2965056-1.patch). + +2010-05-03 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclIORChan.c: Use "tclIO.h" and "tclTomMathDecls.h" + * generic/tclIORTrans.c: everywhere + * generic/tclTomMath.h: + * tools/fix_tommath_h.tcl: + * libtommath/tommath.h: Formatting (# should always be first char on + line) + * win/tclAppInit.c: For MINGW/CYGWIN, use GetCommandLineA + explicitly. + * unix/.cvsignore: Add pkg, *.dll + + * libtommath/tommath.h: CONSTify various useful internal + * libtommath/bn_mp_cmp_d.c: functions (TclBignumToDouble, TclCeil, + * libtommath/bn_mp_cmp_mag.c: TclFloor), and related tommath functions + * libtommath/bn_mp_cmp.c: + * libtommath/bn_mp_copy.c: + * libtommath/bn_mp_count_bits.c: + * libtommath/bn_mp_div_2d.c: + * libtommath/bn_mp_mod_2d.c: + * libtommath/bn_mp_mul_2d.c: + * libtommath/bn_mp_neg.c: + * generic/tclBasic.c: Handle TODO: const correctness ? + * generic/tclInt.h: + * generic/tclStrToD.c: + * generic/tclTomMath.decls: + * generic/tclTomMath.h: + * generic/tclTomMathDecls.h: - *** 8.5.5 TAGGED FOR RELEASE *** +2010-04-30 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tcl.h: Bump to 8.5.5 for release. - * library/init.tcl: - * tools/tcl.wse.in: - * unix/configure.in: - * unix/tcl.spec: + * generic/tcl.h: Bump patchlevel to 8.6b1.2 to distinguish + * library/init.tcl: CVS snapshots from earlier snapshots as well + * unix/configure.in: as the 8.6b1 and 8.6b2 releases. * win/configure.in: * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 * win/configure: - * changes: Update for 8.5.5 release. - -2008-10-08 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclTrace.c: Corrected handling of errors returned by - variable traces so that the errorInfo value contains the original - error message. [Bug 2151707] - - * generic/tclVar.c: Revised implementation of TclObjVarErrMsg so - that error message construction does not disturb an existing - iPtr->errorInfo that may be in progress. - -2008-10-06 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - - * tclWinTest.c: Fix compiler warning when compiling this file with - mingw gcc: - tclWinTest.c:706: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will - break strict-aliasing rules - * generic/tclLoad.c: Make sure that any library which doesn't have an - unloadproc is only really unloaded when no library code is executed - yet. [Bug 2059262] - -2008-10-06 Joe Mistachkin <joe@mistachkin.com> - - * tools/man2tcl.c: Added missing line from patch by Harald Oehlmann. - [Bug 1934200] - -2008-10-05 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - - * libtommath/bn_mp_sqrt.c (bn_mp_sqrt): Handle the case where a - * tests/expr.test (expr-47.13): number's square root is - between n<<DIGIT_BIT and n<<DIGIT_BIT+1. [Bug 2143288] - Thanks to Malcolm Boffey (malcolm.boffey@virgin.net) for the patch. - -2008-10-02 Joe Mistachkin <joe@mistachkin.com> - - * tools/man2help2.tcl: Integrated patches from Harald Oehlmann. - * tools/man2tcl.c: [Bug 1934200, 1934272] - -2008-09-27 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> - - * generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LrepeatObjCmd): Improve the handling of the - case where the combination of number of elements and repeat count - causes the resulting list to be too large. [Bug 2130992] - -2008-09-25 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * doc/global.n: Correct false claim about [info locals]. + * generic/tclBinary.c (TclAppendBytesToByteArray): Add comments + * generic/tclInt.h (TclAppendBytesToByteArray): placing overflow + protection responsibility on caller. Convert "len" argument to signed + int which any value already vetted for overflow issues will fit into. + * generic/tclStringObj.c: Update caller; standardize panic msg. -2008-09-17 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclInt.h: Correct the TclGetLongFromObj, - TclGetIntFromObj, and TclGetIntForIndexM macros so that they - retrieve the internalRep.longValue field instead of casting the - internalRep.otherValuePtr field to type long. - -2008-09-17 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * library/init.tcl: export min and max commands from the mathfunc - namespace [Bug 2116053] - -2008-09-10 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> - - * generic/tclListObj.c (Tcl_ListObjGetElements): Make this list->dict - transformation - encountered when using [foreach] with dicts - not as - expensive as it was before. Spotted by Kieran Elby and reported on - tcl-core. - -2008-09-07 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * doc/namespace.n: fix [Bug 2098441] - -2008-08-28 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tcl.h: Bump version number to 8.5.5b1 to distinguish - * library/init.tcl: CVS development snapshots from the 8.5.4 and - * unix/configure.in: 8.5.5 releases. - * unix/tcl.spec: - * win/configure.in: - * tools/tcl.wse.in: - * README - - * unix/configure: autoconf (2.59) - * win/configure: - -2008-08-22 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclUtil.c (TclReToGlob): Added missing set of the - *exactPtr value to really fix [Bug 2065115]. Also avoid possible - DString overflow. - * tests/regexpComp.test: Correct duplicate test names. - -2008-08-21 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - - * tests/regexp.test, tests/regexpComp.test: correct re2glob ***= - * generic/tclUtil.c (TclReToGlob): translation from exact - to anywhere-in-string match. [Bug 2065115] - -2008-08-20 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclTest.c (TestconcatobjCmd): fix use of internal-only - TclInvalidateStringRep macro. - [Bug 2057479] - -2008-08-17 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclTest.c (TestconcatobjCmd): - * generic/tclUtil.c (Tcl_ConcatObj): - * tests/util.test (util-4.7): - fix [Bug 1447328]; the original "fix" turned Tcl_ConcatObj() into - a hairy monster. This was exposed by [Bug 2055782]. Additionally, - Tcl_ConcatObj could corrupt its input under certain conditions! - - *** NASTY BUG FIXED *** - -2008-08-14 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclBinary.c (UpdateStringOfByteArray): [Bug 2994924]: Add + panic when the generated string representation would grow beyond Tcl's + size limits. - *** 8.5.4 TAGGED FOR RELEASE *** +2010-04-30 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * tests/fileName.test: Revise new tests for portability to case - insensitive filesystems. + * generic/tclBinary.c (TclAppendBytesToByteArray): Add extra armour + against buffer overflows. -2008-08-14 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclBasic.c (NRInterpCoroutine): Corrected handling of + * tests/coroutine.test (coroutine-6.4): arguments to deal with + trickier cases. - * generic/tclCompile.h: Add support for debug logging of DTrace - * generic/tclBasic.c: 'proc', 'cmd' and 'inst' probes (does - _not_ require a platform with DTrace). +2010-04-30 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclCmdIL.c (TclInfoFrame): Check fPtr->line before - dereferencing as line info may - not exists when TclInfoFrame() - is called from a DTrace probe. + * tests/coroutine.test: testing coroutine arguments after [yield]: + check that only 0/1 allowed - * tests/msgcat.test: Fix for ::tcl::mac::locale with - @modifier (HEAD backport 2008-06-01). +2010-04-30 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * tests/fCmd.test (fCmd-6.23): Made result matching robust when test - workdir and /tmp are not on same FS. + * generic/tclBasic.c (NRInterpCoroutine): Corrected handling of + arguments to deal with trickier cases. - * unix/Makefile.in: Ensure Makefile shell is /bin/bash for - * unix/configure.in (SunOS): DTrace-enabled build on Solaris. - (followup to 2008-06-12) [Bug 2016584] + * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileVariableCmd): Slightly tighter + issuing of instructions. - * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_PATH_X): Check for libX11.dylib in addition to - libX11.so et al. + * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): Add peephole optimization + of the fact that INST_DICT_FIRST and INST_DICT_NEXT always have a + conditional jump afterwards. - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 + * generic/tclBasic.c (TclNRYieldObjCmd, TclNRYieldmObjCmd) + (NRInterpCoroutine): Replace magic values for formal argument counts + for coroutine command implementations with #defines, for an increase + in readability. -2008-08-13 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-04-30 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclFileName.c: Fix for errors handling -types {} - * tests/fileName.test: option to [glob]. [Bug 1750300] - Thanks to Matthias Kraft and George Peter Staplin. + * generic/tclMain.c: Unnecessary TCL_STORAGE_CLASS re-definition. It + was used for an ancient dummy reference to Tcl_LinkVar(), but that's + already gone since 2002-05-29. -2008-08-12 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-04-29 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - * changes: Update for 8.5.4 release. + * generic/tclCompExpr.c: Slight change in the literal sharing + * generic/tclCompile.c: mechanism to avoid shimmering of + * generic/tclCompile.h: command names. + * generic/tclLiteral.c: -2008-08-11 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-04-29 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - * library/http/http.tcl: Remove 8.5 requirement. - * library/http/pkgIndex.tcl: - * unix/Makefile.in: + * library/platform/platform.tcl: Another stab at getting the /lib, + * library/platform/pkgIndex.tcl: /lib64 difference right for linux. + * unix/Makefile.in: Package updated to version 1.0.7. * win/Makefile.in: - * win/makefile.vc: - -2008-08-11 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - - * library/tm.tcl: Added a 'package provide' command to the generated - ifneeded scripts of Tcl Modules, for early detection of conflicts - between the version specified through the file name and a 'provide' - command in the module implementation, if any. Note that this change - also now allows Tcl Modules to not provide a 'provide' command at all, - and declaring their version only through their filename. - - * generic/tclProc.c (Tcl_ProcObjCmd): Fixed memory leak triggered - * tests/proc.test: by procbody::test::proc. See [Bug 2043636]. Added a - test case demonstrating the leak before the fix. Fixed a few spelling - errors in test descriptions as well. - -2008-08-11 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * library/http/http.tcl: Bump http version to 2.7.1 to account - * library/http/pkgIndex.tcl: for [Bug 2046486] bug fix. This - * unix/Makefile.in: release of http now requires a - * win/Makefile.in: dependency on Tcl 8.5 to be able to - * win/makefile.bc: use the unsigned formats in the - * win/makefile.vc: [binary scan] command. - -2008-08-11 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> - - * library/http/http.tcl: crc field from zlib data should be treated as - unsigned for 64bit support [Bug 2046846] -2008-08-08 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tcl.h: Bump to 8.5.4 for release. - * library/init.tcl: - * tools/tcl.wse.in: - * unix/configure.in: - * unix/tcl.spec: - * win/configure.in: - - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 - * win/configure: - - * changes: Update for 8.5.4 release. - -2008-08-08 Kevin Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> +2010-04-29 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - * library/tzdata/CET: - * library/tzdata/MET: + * library/tzdata/Antarctica/Macquarie: * library/tzdata/Africa/Casablanca: - * library/tzdata/America/Eirunepe: - * library/tzdata/America/Santarem: - * library/tzdata/America/Rio_Branco: + * library/tzdata/Africa/Tunis: + * library/tzdata/America/Santiago: * library/tzdata/America/Argentina/San_Luis: + * library/tzdata/Antarctica/Casey: + * library/tzdata/Antarctica/Davis: + * library/tzdata/Asia/Anadyr: + * library/tzdata/Asia/Damascus: + * library/tzdata/Asia/Dhaka: + * library/tzdata/Asia/Gaza: + * library/tzdata/Asia/Kamchatka: * library/tzdata/Asia/Karachi: - * library/tzdata/Europe/Belgrade: - * library/tzdata/Europe/Berlin: - * library/tzdata/Europe/Budapest: - * library/tzdata/Europe/Sofia: - * library/tzdata/Indian/Mauritius: Olson's tzdata2008e. - -2008-08-06 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclVar.c (TclLookupSimpleVar): Retrieve the number of - locals in the localCache from the CallFrame and not from the Proc - which may have been mangled by a (broken?) recompile. Backport from - the HEAD. - -2008-08-04 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclExecute.c: Stopped faulty double-logging of errors to - * tests/execute.test: stack trace when a compile epoch bump triggers - fallback to direct evaluation of commands in a compiled script. - [Bug 2037338] - -2008-07-30 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclBasic.c: Corrected the timing of when the flag - TCL_ALLOW_EXCEPTIONS is tested. - -2008-07-29 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclExecute.c: fix [Bug 2030670] that cause - TclStackRealloc to panic on rare corner cases. Thx ajpasadyn for - diagnose and patch. - -2008-07-28 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + * library/tzdata/Asia/Taipei: + * library/tzdata/Europe/Samara: + * library/tzdata/Pacific/Apia: + * library/tzdata/Pacific/Easter: + * library/tzdata/Pacific/Fiji: Olson's tzdata2010i. - * generic/tclBasic.c: Added missing ref count when creating an empty - string as path (TclEvalEx). In 8.4 the missing code caused panics in - the testsuite. It doesn't in 8.5. I am guessing that the code path - with the missing the incr-refcount is not invoked any longer. Because - the bug in itself is certainly the same. +2010-04-29 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclBinary.c (TclAppendBytesToByteArray): [Bug 2992970]: Make + * generic/tclStringObj.c (Tcl_AppendObjToObj): an append of a byte + array to another into an efficent operation. The problem was the (lack + of) a proper growth management strategy for the byte array. + +2010-04-29 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + + * compat/dirent2.h: Include "tcl.h", not <tcl.h>, like everywhere + * compat/dlfcn.h: else, to ensure that the version in the Tcl + * compat/stdlib.h: distribution is used, not some version from + * compat/string.h: somewhere else. + * compat/unistd.h: + +2010-04-28 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + + * win/Makefile.in: Remove unused @MAN2TCLFLAGS@ + * win/tclWinPort.h: Move <limits.h> include from tclInt.h to + * generic/tclInt.h: tclWinPort.h, and eliminate unneeded + * generic/tclEnv.c: <stdlib.h>, <stdio.h> and <string.h>, which + are already in tclInt.h + * generic/regcustom.h: Move "tclInt.h" from regcustom.h up to + * generic/regex.h: regex.h. + * generic/tclAlloc.c: Unneeded <stdio.h> include. + * generic/tclExecute.c: Fix gcc warning: comparison between signed and + unsigned. + +2010-04-28 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclInt.h (TclIsVarDirectUnsettable): Corrected flags so that + deletion of traces is not optimized out... + + * generic/tclExecute.c (ExecuteExtendedBinaryMathOp) + (TclCompareTwoNumbers,ExecuteExtendedUnaryMathOp,TclExecuteByteCode): + [Patch 2981677]: Move the less common arithmetic operations (i.e., + exponentiation and operations on non-longs) out of TEBC for a big drop + in the overall size of the stack frame for most code. Net effect on + speed is minimal (slightly faster overall in tclbench). Also extended + the number of places where TRESULT handling is replaced with a jump to + dedicated code. + +2010-04-27 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): Rearrange location of an + assignment to shorten the object code. + +2010-04-27 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclIOUtil.c (Tcl_FSGetNativePath): [Bug 2992292]: + tclIOUtil.c assignment type mismatch compiler warning + * generic/regguts.h: If tclInt.h or tclPort.h is already + * generic/tclBasic.c: included, don't include <limits.h> + * generic/tclExecute.c: again. Follow-up to [Bug 2991415]: + * generic/tclIORChan.c: tclport.h #included before limits.h + * generic/tclIORTrans.c: See comments in [Bug 2991415] + * generic/tclObj.c: + * generic/tclOOInt.h: + * generic/tclStrToD.c: + * generic/tclTomMath.h: + * generic/tclTomMathInterface.c: + * generic/tclUtil.c: + * compat/strtod.c: + * compat/strtol.c: -2008-07-25 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-04-27 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - * tests/info.test (info-37.0): Add !singleTestInterp constraint; - (info-22.8, info-23.0): switch to glob matching to avoid sensitivity - to tcltest.tcl line number changes, remove knownBug constraint, fix - expected result. [Bug 1605269] + * unix/tclLoadDl.c (FindSymbol): [Bug 2992295]: Simplified the logic + so that the casts added in Donal Fellows's change for the same bug are + no longer necessary. -2008-07-25 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> +2010-04-26 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * tests/info.test: Tests 38.* added, exactly testing the tracking of - location for uplevel scripts. + * unix/tclLoadDl.c (FindSymbol): [Bug 2992295]: Added an explicit cast + because auto-casting between function and non-function types is never + naturally warning-free. - * generic/tclCompile.c (TclInitCompileEnv): Reorganized the - initialization of the #280 location information to match the flow in - TclEvalObjEx to get more absolute contexts. + * generic/tclStubInit.c: Add a small amount of gcc-isms (with #ifdef + * generic/tclOOStubInit.c: guards) to ensure that warnings are issued + when these files are older than the various *.decls files. - * generic/tclBasic.c (TclEvalObjEx): Moved the pure-list optimization - out of the eval-direct code path to be done always, i.e. even when a - compile is requested. This way we do not loose the association between - #280 location information and the list elements, if any. +2010-04-25 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> -2008-07-23 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + * generic/tclBasic.c: Add unsupported [yieldm] command. Credit + * generic/tclInt.h: Lars Hellstrom for the basic idea. - * tests/info.test: Reordered the tests to have monotonously - increasing numbers. +2010-04-24 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclBasic.c: Modified TclArgumentGet to reject pure lists - * generic/tclCmdIL.c: immediately, without search. Reworked setup - * generic/tclCompile.c: of eoFramePtr, doesn't need the line - * tests/info.test: information, more sensible to have everything on - line 1 when eval'ing a pure list. Updated the users of the line - information to special case this based on the frame type (i.e. - TCL_LOCATION_EVAL_LIST). Added a testcase demonstrating the new - behaviour. + * generic/tclBasic.c: Modify api of TclSpliceTailcall() to fix + * generic/tclExecute.c: [yieldTo], which had not survived the latest + * generic/tclInt.h: mods to tailcall. Thanks kbk for detecting + the problem. -2008-07-22 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> +2010-04-23 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclBasic.c: Added missing function comments. + * unix/tclUnixPort.h: [Bug 2991415]: tclport.h #included before + limits.h - * generic/tclCompile.c: Made the new TclEnterCmdWordIndex - * generic/tclCompile.h: static, and ansified. +2010-04-22 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclBasic.c: Reworked the handling of bytecode literals - * generic/tclCompile.c: for #280 to fix the abysmal performance - * generic/tclCompile.h: for deep recursion, replaced the linear - * generic/tclExecute.c: search through the whole stack with another - * generic/tclInt.h: hashtable and simplified the data structure used - by the compiler (array instead of hashtable). Incidentially this also - fixes the memory leak reported via [Bug 2024937]. + * generic/tclPlatDecls.h: Move TCHAR fallback typedef from tcl.h to + * generic/tcl.h: tclPlatDecls.h (as suggested by dgp) + * generic/tclInt.h: fix typo + * generic/tclIOUtil.c: Eliminate various unnecessary + * unix/tclUnixFile.c: type casts. + * unix/tclUnixPipe.c: + * win/tclWinChan.c: + * win/tclWinFCmd.c: + * win/tclWinFile.c: + * win/tclWinLoad.c: + * win/tclWinPipe.c: -2008-07-21 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-04-20 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * tests/encoding.test: Make failing tests pass again. [Bug 1972867] + * generic/tclTest.c: Use function prototypes from the FS API. + * compat/zlib/*: Upgrade to zlib 1.2.5 -2008-07-21 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> +2010-04-19 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclBasic.c: Extended the existing TIP #280 system (info - * generic/tclCmdAH.c: frame), added the ability to track the - * generic/tclCompCmds.c: absolute location of literal procedure - * generic/tclCompile.c: arguments, and making this information - * generic/tclCompile.h: available to uplevel, eval, and - * generic/tclInterp.c: siblings. This allows proper tracking of - * generic/tclInt.h: absolute location through custom (Tcl-coded) - * generic/tclNamesp.c: control structures based on uplevel, etc. - * generic/tclProc.c: + * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): Improve commenting and + reduce indentation for the Invocation Block. -2008-07-21 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-04-18 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclFCmd.c: Inodes on windows are unreliable [Bug 2015723] + * doc/unset.n: [Bug 2988940]: Fix typo. -2008-07-20 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> +2010-04-15 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclDictObj.c (SetDictFromAny): Make the list->dict - transformation a bit more efficient; modern dicts are ordered and so - we can round-trip through lists without needing the string rep at all. - * generic/tclListObj.c (SetListFromAny): Make the dict->list - transformation not lossy of internal representations and hence more - efficient. [Bug 2008248] (ajpasadyn) but using a more efficient patch. + * win/tclWinPort.h: Move inclusion of <tchar.h> from + * generic/tcl.h: tclPlatDecls.h to tclWinPort.h, where it + * generic/tclPlatDecls.h: belongs. Add fallback in tcl.h, so TCHAR is + available in win32 always. -2008-07-15 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> +2010-04-15 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * doc/DictObj.3: Fix error in example. [Bug 2016740] + * doc/try.n: [Bug 2987551]: Fix typo. -2008-07-08 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-04-14 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - * generic/tclGet.c: Corrected out of date comments. + * library/platform/platform.tcl: Linux platform identification: + * library/platform/pkgIndex.tcl: Check /lib64 for existence of files + * unix/Makefile.in: matching libc* before accepting it as base + * win/Makefile.in: directory. This can happen on weirdly installed + 32bit systems which have an empty or partially filled /lib64 without + an actual libc. Bumped to version 1.0.6. -2008-07-07 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> +2010-04-13 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclCmdIL.c (InfoFrameCmd): Fixed unsafe idiom of setting the - interp result found by Don Porter. + * win/tclWinPort.h: Fix [Patch 2986105]: conditionally defining + * win/tclWinFile.c: strcasecmp/strncasecmp + * win/tclWinLoad.c: Fix gcc warning: comparison of unsigned expression + >= 0 is always true -2008-07-07 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> +2010-04-08 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * doc/regexp.n, doc/regsub.n: Correct examples. [Bug 1982642] + * generic/tclCompCmdsSZ.c (TclSubstCompile): If the first token does + not result in a *guaranteed* push of a Tcl_Obj on the stack, we must + push an empty object. Otherwise it is possible to get to a 'concat1' + or 'done' without enough values on the stack, resulting in a crash. + Thanks to Joe Mistachkin for identifying a script that could trigger + this case. -2008-07-04 Joe English <jenglish@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-04-07 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclEncoding.c(UtfToUtfProc): Avoid unwanted sign extension - when converting incomplete UTF-8 sequences. See [Bug 1908443] for - details. + * doc/catch.n, doc/info.n, doc/return.n: Formatting. -2008-07-03 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> +2010-04-06 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclIORChan.c (InvokeTclMethod): Fixed the memory leak - reported in [Bug 1987821]. Thanks to Miguel for the rpeort and Don - Porter for tracking the cause down. + * doc/Load.3: Minor corrections of formatting and cross links. -2008-07-03 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-04-06 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * library/package.tcl: Removed [file readable] testing from - [tclPkgUnknown] and friends. We find out soon enough whether a file is - readable when we try to [source] it, and not testing before allows us - to workaround the bugs on some common filesystems where [file - readable] lies to us. [Patch 1969717] + * win/configure: (regenerate with autoconf-2.59) + * unix/configure: + * unix/installManPage: [Bug 2982540]: configure and install* script + * unix/install-sh: files should always have LF line ending. + * doc/Load.3: Fix signature of Tcl_LoadFile in documentation. -2008-06-29 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-04-05 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> - *** 8.5.3 TAGGED FOR RELEASE *** + TIP #348 IMPLEMENTATION - * generic/tcl.h: Bump to 8.5.3 for release. - * library/init.tcl: - * tools/tcl.wse.in: - * unix/configure.in: - * unix/tcl.spec: - * win/configure.in: + * generic/tclBasic.c: [Patch 2868499]: Substituted error stack + * generic/tclCmdIL.c: + * generic/tclInt.h: + * generic/tclNamesp.c: + * generic/tclResult.c: + * doc/catch.n: + * doc/info.n: + * doc/return.n: + * tests/cmdMZ.test: + * tests/error.test: + * tests/execute.test: + * tests/info.test: + * tests/init.test: + * tests/result.test: - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 - * win/configure: +2010-04-05 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * doc/ObjectType.3: Updated documentation of the Tcl_ObjType - struct to match expectations of Tcl 8.5 [Bug 1917650]. + * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_ENABLE_THREADS): Flip the default for whether to + * win/tcl.m4 (SC_ENABLE_THREADS): build in threaded mode. Part of + * win/rules.vc: TIP #364. - * generic/tclPathObj.c: Plug memory leak in [Bug 1999176] fix. Thanks - Rolf Ade for detecting. + * unix/tclLoadDyld.c (FindSymbol): Better human-readable error message + generation to match code in tclLoadDl.c. -2008-06-28 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-04-04 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclPathObj.c: Plug memory leak in [Bug 1972879] fix. Thanks - Rolf Ade for detecting and Dan Steffen for the fix [Bug 2004654]. + * generic/tclIOUtil.c, unix/tclLoadDl.c: Minor changes to enforce + Engineering Manual style rules. -2008-06-26 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + * doc/FileSystem.3, doc/Load.3: Documentation for TIP#357. - * unix/Makefile.in: Followup to my change of 2008-06-25, make code - generated by the Makefile and put into the installd tm.tcl conditional - on interpreter safeness as well. Thanks to Daniel Steffen for - reminding me of that code. + * macosx/tclMacOSXBundle.c (OpenResourceMap): [Bug 2981528]: Only + define this function when HAVE_COREFOUNDATION is defined. -2008-06-25 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-04-02 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * changes: Update for 8.5.3 release. + * generic/tcl.decls (Tcl_LoadFile): Add missing "const" in signature, + * generic/tclIOUtil.c (Tcl_LoadFile): and some formatting fixes + * generic/tclDecls.h: (regenerated) -2008-06-25 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> +2010-04-02 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * library/tm.tcl: Modified the handling of Tcl Modules and of the - * library/safe.tcl: Safe Base to interact nicely with each other, - * library/init.tcl: enabling requiring Tcl Modules in safe - * tests/safe.test: interpreters. Fixes [Bug 1999119]. + * generic/tclIOUtil.c (Tcl_LoadFile): Corrections to previous commit + * unix/tclLoadDyld.c (TclpDlopen): to make it build on OSX. -2008-06-25 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-04-02 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - * win/rules.vc: Backported fix for dde/registry versions and - * win/makefile.vc: the staticpkg build option + TIP #357 IMPLEMENTATION + TIP #362 IMPLEMENTATION -2008-06-24 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclStrToD.c: [Bug 2952904]: Defer creation of the smallest + floating point number until it is actually used. (This change avoids a + bogus syslog message regarding a 'floating point software assist + fault' on SGI systems.) - * generic/tclPathObj.c: Fixed some internals management in the "path" - Tcl_ObjType for the empty string value. Problem led to a crash in the - command [glob -dir {} a]. [Bug 1999176]. + * library/reg/pkgIndex.tcl: [TIP #362]: Fixed first round of bugs + * tests/registry.test: resulting from the recent commits of + * win/tclWinReg.c: changes in support of the referenced + TIP. -2008-06-23 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tcl.decls: [TIP #357]: First round of changes + * generic/tclDecls.h: to export Tcl_LoadFile, + * generic/tclIOUtil.c: Tcl_FindSymbol, and Tcl_FSUnloadFile + * generic/tclInt.h: to the public API. + * generic/tclLoad.c: + * generic/tclLoadNone.c: + * generic/tclStubInit.c: + * tests/fileSystem.test: + * tests/load.test: + * tests/unload.test: + * unix/tclLoadDl.c: + * unix/tclLoadDyld.c: + * unix/tclLoadNext.c: + * unix/tclLoadOSF.c: + * unix/tclLoadShl.c: + * unix/tclUnixPipe.c: + * win/Makefile.in: + * win/tclWinLoad.c: - * generic/tclPathObj.c: Fixed bug in Tcl_GetTranslatedPath() when - operating on the "Special path" variant of the "path" Tcl_ObjType - intrep. A full normalization was getting done, in particular, coercing - relative paths to absolute, contrary to what the function of - producing the "translated path" is supposed to do. [Bug 1972879] +2010-03-31 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2008-06-19 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * doc/registry.n: Added missing documentation of TIP#362 flags. - * changes: Update for 8.5.3 release. + * doc/package.n: [Bug 2980210]: Document the arguments taken by + the [package present] command correctly. - * generic/tclInterp.c: Fixed completely boneheaded mistake that - * tests/interp.test: [interp bgerror $slave] and [$slave bgerror] - would always act like [interp bgerror {}]. [Bug 1999035] + * doc/Thread.3: Added some better documentation of how to create and + use a thread using the C-level thread API, based on realization that + no such tutorial appeared to exist. - * tests/chanio.test: Corrected flawed tests revealed by a -debug 1 - * tests/event.test: -singleproc 1 test suite run. - * tests/io.test: +2010-03-31 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2008-06-19 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * test/cmdMZ.test: [FRQ 2974744]: share exception codes (ObjType?): + * test/error.test: Revised test cases, making sure that abbreviated + * test/proc-old.test: codes are checked resulting in an error, and + checking for the exact error message. - * changes: Updates for 8.5.3 release. +2010-03-30 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> -2008-06-17 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + * generic/tclIORChan.c (ReflectClose, ReflectInput, ReflectOutput, + (ReflectSeekWide, ReflectWatch, ReflectBlock, ReflectSetOption, + (ReflectGetOption, ForwardProc): [Bug 2978773]: Preserve + ReflectedChannel* structures across handler invokations, to avoid + crashes when the handler implementation induces nested callbacks and + destruction of the channel deep inside such a nesting. - * generic/tclClock.c (ClockConvertlocaltoutcObjCmd): Removed left - over debug output. +2010-03-30 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> -2008-06-17 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + * generic/tclObj.c (Tcl_GetCommandFromObj): [Bug 2979402]: Reorder + the validity tests on internal rep of a "cmdName" value to avoid + invalid reads reported by valgrind. - * doc/tm.n: Followup to changelog entry 2008-03-18 regarding - ::tcl::tm::Defaults. Updated the documentation to not only mention - the new (underscored) form of environment variable names, but make - it the encouraged form as well. See [Bug 1914604]. +2010-03-30 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2008-06-17 Kevin Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> + * generic/tclIndexObj: [FRQ 2974744]: share exception codes + * generic/tclResult.c: further optimization, making use of indexType. + * generic/tclZlib.c: [Bug 2979399]: uninitialized value troubles - * generic/tclClock.c (ConvertLocalToUTC): - * tests/clock.test (clock-63.1): Fixed a bug where the - internal ConvertLocalToUTC command segfaulted if passed a - dictionary without the 'localSeconds' key. To the best of - my knowledge, the bug was not observable in the [clock] - command itself. +2010-03-30 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2008-06-16 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + TIP #362 IMPLEMENTATION - * generic/tclCmdIL.c (TclInfoFrame): Backport of fix made on the - * tests/info.test: head branch :: Moved the code looking up the - information for key 'proc' out of the TCL_LOCATION_BC branch to - after the switch, this is common to all frame types. Updated the - testsuite to match. This was exposed by the 2008-06-08 commit - (Miguel), switching uplevel from direct eval to compilation. Fixes - [Bug 1987851]. + * win/tclWinReg.c: [Patch 2960976]: Apply patch from Damon Courtney to + * tests/registry.test: allow the registry command to be told to work + * win/Makefile.in: with both 32-bit and 64-bit registries. Bump + * win/configure.in: version of registry package to 1.3. + * win/makefile.bc: + * win/makefile.vc: + * win/configure: autoconf-2.59 -2008-06-12 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-03-29 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * unix/Makefile.in: add complete deps on tclDTrace.h. + * unix/tcl.m4: Only test for -visibility=hidden with gcc + (Second remark in [Bug 2976508]) + * unix/configure: regen - * unix/Makefile.in: clean generated tclDTrace.h file. - * unix/configure.in (SunOS): fix static DTrace-enabled build. +2010-03-29 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * unix/tcl.m4 (SunOS-5.11): fix 64bit amd64 support with gcc & Sun cc. - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 + * generic/tclStringObj.c: Fix array overrun in test format-1.12 + caught by valgrind testing. - * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: add debug configs with gcov, - and with corefoundation disabled; updates and cleanup for Xcode 3.1 and - for Leopard. - * macosx/Tcl.xcode/project.pbxproj: sync Tcl.xcodeproj changes. - * macosx/README: document new build configs. +2010-03-27 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2008-05-26 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> + * generic/tclInt.h: [FRQ 2974744]: share exception codes + * generic/tclResult.c: (ObjType?) + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: + * generic/tclCompCmdsSZ.c: - * tests/io.test (io-53.9): need to close chan before removing file. +2010-03-26 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2008-05-23 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + * generic/tclExecute.c: [Bug 2976508]: Tcl HEAD fails on HP-UX - * win/tclWinChan.c (FileWideSeekProc): Accepted a patch by - Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> to fix the - [Bug 1965787]. 'tell' now works for locations > 2 GB as well - instead of going negative. +2010-03-25 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_SetChannelBufferSize): Accepted a patch by - * tests/io.test: Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> - * tests/chanio.test: to fix the [Bug 1969953]. Buffersize outside - of the supported range are now clipped to nearest boundary instead - of ignored. + * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c (TclUnixCopyFile): [Bug 2976504]: Corrected + number of arguments to fstatfs() call. -2008-05-22 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * macosx/tclMacOSXBundle.c, macosx/tclMacOSXFCmd.c: + * macosx/tclMacOSXNotify.c: Reduce the level of ifdeffery in the + functions of these files to improve readability. They need to be + audited for whether complexity can be removed based on the minimum + supported version of OSX, but that requires a real expert. - * generic/tclNamesp.c (Tcl_LogCommandInfo): Restored ability to - handle the argument value length = -1. Thanks to Chris Darroch for - discovering the bug and providing the fix. [Bug 1968245]. +2010-03-24 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> -2008-05-21 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclResult.c: [Bug 2383005]: Revise [return -errorcode] so + * tests/result.test: that it rejects illegal non-list values. - * generic/tclParse.c (ParseComment): The new TclParseAllWhiteSpace - * tests/parse.test (parse-15.60): routine has no mechanism to - return the "incomplete" status of "\\\n" so calling this routine - anywhere that can be reached within a Tcl_ParseCommand call is a - mistake. In particular, ParseComment must not use it. [Bug 1968882] +2010-03-24 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2008-05-21 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> + * generic/tclOOInfo.c (InfoObjectMethodTypeCmd) + (InfoClassMethodTypeCmd): Added introspection of method types so that + it is possible to find this info out without using errors. + * generic/tclOOMethod.c (procMethodType): Now that introspection can + reveal the name of method types, regularize the name of normal methods + to be the name of the definition type used to create them. - * generic/tclNamesp.c (Tcl_SetNamespaceUnknownHandler): Corrected odd - logic for handling installation of namespace unknown handlers which - could lead too very strange things happening in the error case. + * tests/async.test (async-4.*): Reduce obscurity of these tests by + putting the bulk of the code for them inside the test body with the + help of [apply]. -2008-05-16 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (TryPostBody, TryPostHandler): Make sure that the + [try] command does not trap unwinding due to limits. - * generic/tclCompile.c: Fix crash with tcl_traceExec. Found and - fixed by Alexander Pasadyn [Bug 1964803]. +2010-03-23 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> -2008-05-07 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: [Bug 2973361]: Revised fix for computing + indices of script arguments to [try]. - * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileDictAppendCmd): Fix silly - off-by-one error that caused a crash every time a compiled 'dict - append' with more than one value argument was used. Found by Colin - McCormack. +2010-03-23 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2008-04-26 Zoran Vasiljevic <vasiljevic@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: Make error message in "try" implementation + * generic/tclCompCmdsSZ.c: exactly the same as the one in "return" + * tests/error.test: + * libtommath/mtests/mpi.c: Single "const" addition - * generic/tclAsync.c: Tcl_AsyncDelete(): panic if attempt to locate - handler token fails. Happens when some other thread attempts to delete - somebody else's token. +2010-03-22 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - Also, panic early if we find out the wrong thread attempting to delete - the async handler (common trap). As, only the one that created the - handler is allowed to delete it. + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: [Bug 2973361]: Compute the correct integer + values to identify the argument indices of the various script + arguments to [try]. Passing in -1 led to invalid memory reads. -2008-04-24 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> +2010-03-20 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * tests/ioCmd.test: Extended testsuite for reflected channel - implementation. Added test cases about how it handles if the rug is - pulled out from under a channel (= killing threads, interpreters - containing the tcl command for a channel, and channel sitting in a - different interpreter/thread.) + * doc/exec.n: Make it a bit clearer that there is an option to run a + pipeline in the background. - * generic/tclIORChan.c: Fixed the bugs exposed by the new testcases, - redone most of the cleanup and exit handling. + * generic/tclIOCmd.c (Tcl_FcopyObjCmd): Lift the restriction + * generic/tclIO.c (TclCopyChannel, CopyData): on the [fcopy] command + * generic/tclIO.h (CopyState): that forced it to only + copy up to 2GB per script-level callback. Now it is anything that can + fit in a (signed) 64-bit integer. Problem identified by Frederic + Bonnet on comp.lang.tcl. Note that individual low-level reads and + writes are still smaller as the optimal buffer size is smaller. -2008-04-15 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> +2010-03-20 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclIO.c (CopyData): Applied another patch by Alexandre - * io.test (io-53.8a): Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>, - * chanio.test (chan-io-53.8a): to shift EOF handling to the async - part of the command if a callback is specified, should the channel - be at EOF already when fcopy is called. Testcase by myself. + * win/stub16.c: Don't hide that we use the ASCII API here. + (does someone still use that?) + * win/tclWinPipe.c: 2 unnecessary type casts. -2008-04-14 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> +2010-03-19 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * unix/tclUnixTime.c (NativeGetTime): Removed obsolete use of - 'struct timezone' in the call to 'gettimeofday'. [Bug 1942197]. - * tests/clock.test (clock-33.5, clock-33.5a, clock-33.8, clock-33.8a): - Added comments to the test that it can fail on a heavily loaded - system. + * generic/tclCompCmdsSZ.c (TclCompileThrowCmd): Added compilation for + the [throw] command. -2008-04-11 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-03-18 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tcl.h: Bump version number to 8.5.3b1 to distinguish - * library/init.tcl: CVS development snapshots from the 8.5.2 and - * unix/configure.in: 8.5.3 releases. - * unix/tcl.spec: - * win/configure.in: - * README + * generic/tclListObj.c: [Bug 2971669]: Prevent in overflow trouble in + * generic/tclTestObj.c: ListObjReplace operations. Thanks to kbk for + * tests/listObj.test: fix and test. - * unix/configure: autoconf (2.59) - * win/configure: +2010-03-18 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2008-04-10 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + * generic/tclCompCmdsSZ.c (IssueTryFinallyInstructions): + [Bug 2971921]: Corrected jump so that it doesn't skip into the middle + of an instruction! Tightened the instruction issuing. Moved endCatch + calls closer to their point that they guard, ensuring correct ordering + of result values. - * generic/tclIOCmd.c (Tcl_FcopyObjCmd): Keeping check for negative - values, changed to not be an error, but behave like the special - value -1 (copy all, default). +2010-03-17 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - * tests/iocmd.test (iocmd-15.{12,13}): Removed. + * generic/tclIORTrans.c (ReflectInput, ReflectOutput) + (ReflectSeekWide): [Bug 2921116]: Added missing TclEventuallyFree + calls for preserved ReflectedTransform* structures. Reworked + ReflectInput to preserve the structure for its whole life, not only in + InvokeTclMethod. - * tests/io.test (io-52.5{,a,b}): Reverted last change, added - * tests/chanio.test (chan-io-52.5{,a,b}): comment regarding the - meaning of -1, added two more testcases for other negative values, - and input wrapped to negative. + * generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_GetsObj): [Bug 2921116]: Regenerate topChan, + may have been changed by a self-modifying transformation. -2008-04-09 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + * tests/ioTrans/test (iortrans-4.8, iortrans-4.9, iortrans-5.11) + (iortrans-7.4, iortrans-8.3): New test cases. - * tests/chanio.test (chan-io-52.5): Removed '-size -1' from test, - * tests/io.test (io-52.5): does not seem to have any bearing, and - was an illegal value. +2010-03-16 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclIOCmd.c (Tcl_FcopyObjCmd): Added checking of -size - * tests/ioCmd.test (iocmd-15.{13,14}): value to reject negative - values, and values overflowing 32-bit signed. [Bug 1557855]. Basic - patch by Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>, with - modifications from me to separate overflow from true negative - value. Extended testsuite. + * compat/zlib/*: Upgrade zlib to version 1.2.4. + * win/makefile.vc: + * unix/Makefile.in: + * win/tclWinChan.c: Don't cast away "const" without reason. -2008-04-08 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> +2010-03-12 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * tests/io.test (io-53.8): Fixed ordering of vwait and after - cancel. cancel has to be done after the vwait completes. + * win/makefile.vc: [Bug 2967340]: Static build was failing. + * win/.cvsignore: -2008-04-09 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-03-10 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * tests/chanio.test (chan-io-53.8,53.9,53.10): fix typo & quoting for - * tests/io.test (io-53.8,53.9,53.10): spaces in builddir path + * generic/tclTest.c: Remove unnecessary '&' decoration for + * generic/tclIOUtil.c: function pointers + * win/tclWin32Dll.c: Double declaration of TclNativeDupInternalRep + * unix/tclIOUtil.c: + * unix/dltest/.cvsignore: Ignore *.so here -2008-04-07 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> +2010-03-09 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - * tests/io.test (io-53.10): Testcase for bi-directionaly fcopy. - * tests/chanio.test: - * generic/tclIO.c: Additional changes to data structures for fcopy - * generic/tclIO.h: and channels to perform proper cleanup in case - of a channel having two background copy operations running as is - now possible. + * generic/tclIORChan.c: [Bug 2936225]: Thanks to Alexandre Ferrieux + * doc/refchan.n: <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> for debugging and + * tests/ioCmd.test: fixing the problem. It is the write-side + equivalent to the bug fixed 2009-08-06. - * tests/io.test (io-53.10): Testcase for bi-directionaly fcopy. - * generic/tclIO.c: Additional changes to data structures for fcopy - and channels to perform proper cleanup in case of a channel having - two background copy operations running as is now possible. +2010-03-09 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> -2008-04-07 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + * library/tzdata/America/Matamoros: New locale + * library/tzdata/America/Ojinaga: New locale + * library/tzdata/America/Santa_Isabel: New locale + * library/tzdata/America/Asuncion: + * library/tzdata/America/Tijuana: + * library/tzdata/Antarctica/Casey: + * library/tzdata/Antarctica/Davis: + * library/tzdata/Antarctica/Mawson: + * library/tzdata/Asia/Dhaka: + * library/tzdata/Pacific/Fiji: + Olson tzdata2010c. - * generic/tclIO.c (BUSY_STATE, CheckChannelErrors, - TclCopyChannel): New macro, and the places using it. This change - allows for bi-directional fcopy on channels. [Bug 1350564]. Thanks - to Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> for the - patch. +2010-03-07 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2008-04-07 Reinhard Max <max@suse.de> + * generic/tclTest.c: Test that tclOO stubs are present in stub + library + * generic/tclOOMethod.c: Applied missing part of [Patch 2961556] + * win/tclWinInt.h: Change all tclWinProcs signatures to use + * win/tclWin32Dll.c: TCHAR* in stead of WCHAR*. This is meant + * win/tclWinDde.c: as preparation to make [Enh 2965056] + * win/tclWinFCmd.c: possible at all. + * win/tclWinFile.c: + * win/tclWinPipe.c: + * win/tclWinSock.c: - * generic/tclStringObj.c (Tcl_AppendFormatToObj): Fix [format {% d}] - so that it behaves the same way as in 8.4 and as C's printf(). - * tests/format.test: Add a test for '% d' and '%+d'. +2010-03-06 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2008-04-05 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> + * generic/tclStubLib.c: Remove presence of tclTomMathStubsPtr here. + * generic/tclTest.c: Test that tommath stubs are present in stub + library. - * tests/chanio.test (chan-io-53.9): - * tests/io.test (io-53.9): Made test cleanup robust against the - possibility of slow process shutdown on Windows. +2010-03-05 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * win/tcl.m4: Added -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and - -DCRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE to the MSVC compilation flags so that - the compilation doesn't barf on perfectly reasonable Posix system - calls. - * win/configure: Manually patched (don't have the right autoconf - to hand). + * generic/tclIORTrans.c (ForwardProc): [Bug 2964425]: When cleaning + the stables, it is sometimes necessary to do more than the minimum. In + this case, rationalizing the variables for a forwarded limit? method + required removing an extra Tcl_DecrRefCount too. - * win/tclWinFile.c: (WinSymLinkDirectory): Fixed a problem that - Tcl was creating an NTFS junction point (IO_REPARSE_TAG_MOUNT_POINT) - but filling in the union member for a Vista symbolic link. We had - gotten away with this error because the union member - (SymbolicLinkReparseBuffer) was misdefined in this file and in the - 'winnt.h' in early versions of MinGW. MinGW 3.4.2 has the correct - definition of SymbolicLinkReparseBuffer, exposing the mismatch, - and making tests cmdAH-19.4.1, fCmd-28.*, and filename-11.* fail. + * generic/tclOO.h, generic/tclOOInt.h: [Patch 2961556]: Change TclOO + to use the same style of function typedefs as Tcl, as this is about + the last chance to get this right. -2008-04-04 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** + Source code that uses function typedefs from TclOO will need to update + variables and argument definitions so that pointers to the function + values are used instead. Binary compatibility is not affected. + + * generic/*.c, generic/tclInt.h, unix/*.c, macosx/*.c: Applied results + of doing a Code Audit. Principal changes: + * Use do { ... } while (0) in macros + * Avoid shadowing one local variable with another + * Use clearer 'foo.bar++;' instead of '++foo.bar;' where result not + required (i.e., semantically equivalent); clarity is increased + because it is bar that is incremented, not foo. + * Follow Engineering Manual rules on spacing and declarations + +2010-03-04 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclOO.c (ObjectRenamedTrace): [Bug 2962664]: Add special + handling so that when the class of classes is deleted, so is the class + of objects. Immediately. + + * generic/tclOOInt.h (ROOT_CLASS): Add new flag for specially marking + the root class. Simpler and more robust than the previous technique. + +2010-03-04 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclGetDate.y: 3 unnecessary MODULE_SCOPE + * generic/tclDate.c: symbols + * generic/tclStubLib.c: Split tommath stub lib + * generic/tclTomMathStubLib.c: in separate file. + * win/makefile.bc: + * win/Makefile.in: + * win/makefile.vc: + * win/tcl.dsp: + * unix/Makefile.in: + * unix/tcl.m4: Cygwin only gives warning + * unix/configure: using -fvisibility=hidden + * compat/strncasecmp.c: A few more const's + * compat/strtod.c: + * compat/strtoul.c: - * tests/io.test (io-53.9): Added testcase for [Bug 780533], based - * tests/chanio.test: on Alexandre's test script. Also fixed - problem with timer in preceding test, was not canceled properly in - the ok case. +2010-03-03 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> -2008-04-04 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + * doc/refchan.n: Followup to ChangeLog entry 2009-10-07 + (generic/tclIORChan.c). Fixed the documentation to explain that errno + numbers are operating system dependent, and reworked the associated + example. - * generic/tclIORChan.c (ReflectOutput): Allow zero return from - write when input was zero-length anyway. Otherwise keept it an - error, and separate the message from 'written too much'. +2010-03-02 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * tests/ioCmd.test (iocmd-24.6): Testcase updated for changed - message. + * unix/tcl.m4: [FRQ 2959069]: Support for -fvisibility=hidden + * unix/configure (regenerated with autoconf-2.59) - * generic/tclIORChan.c (ReflectClose): Added missing removal of - the now closed channel from the reflection map. Before we could - crash the system by invoking 'chan postevent' on a closed - reflected channel, dereferencing the dangling pointer in the map. +2010-03-01 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> - * tests/ioCmd.test (iocmd-31.8): Testcase for the above. + * unix/tclUnixSock.c: Refrain from a possibly lengthy reverse-DNS + lookup on 0.0.0.0 when calling [fconfigure -sockname] on an + universally-bound (default) server socket. -2008-04-03 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + * generic/tclIndexObj.c: fix [AT 86258]: special-casing of empty + tables when generating error messages for [::tcl::prefix match]. - * generic/tclIO.c (CopyData): Applied patch [Bug 1932639] to - * tests/io.test: prevent fcopy from calling -command synchronously - * tests/chanio.test: the first time. Thanks to Alexandre Ferrieux - <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> for report and patch. +2010-02-28 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2008-04-02 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + * generic/tclCmdIL.c: More additions of {TCL LOOKUP} error-code + generation to various subcommands of [info] as part of long-term + project to classify all Tcl's generated errors. - * generic/tclIO.c (CopyData): Applied patch for the fcopy problem - [Bug 780533], with many thanks to Alexandre Ferrieux - <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> for tracking it down and - providing a solution. Still have to convert his test script into a - proper test case. +2010-02-28 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2008-04-01 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + * generic/tclStubInit.c: [Bug 2959713]: Link error with gcc 4.1 - * generic/tclStrToD.c: Applied patch for [Bug 1839067] (fp - * unix/tcl.m4: rounding setup on solaris x86, native cc), provided - * unix/configure: by Michael Schlenker. configure regen'd. +2010-02-27 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2008-04-01 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (StringFirstCmd, StringLastCmd): [Bug 2960021]: + Only search for the needle in the haystack when the needle isn't + larger than the haystack. Prevents an odd crash from sometimes + happening when things get mixed up (a common programming error). - * generic/tclStubLib.c (Tcl_InitStubs): Added missing error message. - * generic/tclPkg.c (Tcl_PkgInitStubsCheck): + * generic/tclMain.c (Tcl_Main): [Bug 801429]: Factor out the holding + of the client-installed main loop function into thread-specific data. -2008-03-30 Kevin Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> + ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** + Code that previously tried to set the main loop from another thread + will now fail. On the other hand, there is a fairly high probability + that such programs would have been failing before due to the lack of + any kind of inter-thread memory barriers guarding accesses to this + part of Tcl's state. - * generic/tclInt.h (TclIsNaN): - * unix/configure.in: Added code to the configurator to check for - a standard isnan() macro and use it if one - is found. This change avoids bugs where - the test of ((d) != (d)) is optimized away - by an overaggressive compiler. [Bug 1783544] - * generic/tclObj.c: Added missing #include <math.h> needed to - locate isnan() after the above change. +2010-02-26 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.61 + * generic/tclCompCmds.c: Split this file into two pieces to make it + * generic/tclCompCmdsSZ.c: easier to work with. It's still two very + long files even after the split. - * tests/mathop.test (mathop-25.9, mathop-25.14): Modified tests - to deal with (slightly buggy) math libraries in which pow() - returns an incorrectly rounded result. [Bug 1808174] +2010-02-26 Reinhard Max <max@suse.de> -2008-03-26 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * doc/safe.n: Name the installed file after the command it documents. + Use "Safe Tcl" instead of the "Safe Base", "Safe Tcl" mixture. - *** 8.5.2 TAGGED FOR RELEASE *** +2010-02-26 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tcl.h: Bump to 8.5.2 for release. - * library/init.tcl: - * tools/tcl.wse.in: - * unix/configure.in: - * unix/tcl.spec: - * win/configure.in: + * unix/Makefile.in (NATIVE_TCLSH): Added this variable to allow for + better control of what tclsh to use for various scripts when doing + cross compiling. An imperfect solution, but works. - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 - * win/configure: + * unix/installManPage: Remap non-alphanumeric sequences in filenames + to single underscores (especially colons). - * changes: Updated for 8.5.2 release. +2010-02-26 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> -2008-03-28 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + * tests/zlib.test: Add tests for [Bug 2818131] which was crashing with + mismatched zlib algorithms used in combination with gets. This issue + has been fixed by Andreas's last commit. - * tests/fCmd.test: Substantial rewrite to use many more tcltest - features. Great reduction in quantity of [catch] gymnastics. Several - buggy tests fixed, including one where the result of the previous test - was being checked! +2010-02-25 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2008-03-27 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> + * generic/tclHash.c: [FRQ 2958832]: Further speed-up of the + * generic/tclLiteral.c: ouster-hash function. + * generic/tclObj.c: + * generic/tclCkalloc.c: Eliminate various unnecessary (ClientData) + * generic/tclTest.c: type casts. + * generic/tclTestObj.c: + * generic/tclTestProcBodyObj.c: + * unix/tclUnixTest.c: + * unix/tclUnixTime.c: + * unix/tclXtTest.c: - * library/tzdata/America/Marigot: - * library/tztata/America/St_Barthelemy: - * library/tzdata/America/Argentina/San_Luis: - * library/tzdata/Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh: - * library/tzdata/Asia/Kolkata: (new files) - * library/tzdata/America/Caracas: - * library/tzdata/America/Havana: - * library/tzdata/America/Santiago: - * library/tzdata/America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires: - * library/tzdata/America/Argentina/Catamarca: - * library/tzdata/America/Argentina/Cordoba: - * library/tzdata/America/Argentina/Jujuy: - * library/tzdata/America/Argentina/La_Rioja: - * library/tzdata/America/Argentina/Mendoza: - * library/tzdata/America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos: - * library/tzdata/America/Argentina/San_Juan: - * library/tzdata/America/Argentina/Tucuman: - * library/tzdata/America/Argentina/Ushuaia: - * library/tzdata/Asia/Baghdad: - * library/tzdata/Asia/Calcutta: - * library/tzdata/Asia/Damascus: - * library/tzdata/Asia/Saigon: - * library/tzdata/Pacific/Easter: - Changes up to and including Olson's tzdata2008b. +2010-02-24 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2008-03-27 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclDictObj.c (SetDictFromAny): Prevent the list<->dict + * generic/tclListObj.c (SetListFromAny): conversion code from taking + too many liberties. Stops loss of duplicate keys in some scenarios. + Many thanks to Jean-Claude Wippler for finding this. - * unix/tcl.m4 (SunOS-5.1x): fix 64bit support for Sun cc. [Bug 1921166] + * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): Reduce ifdef-fery and + size of activation record. More variables shared across instructions + than before. - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 + * doc/socket.n: [Bug 2957688]: Clarified that [socket -server] works + with a command prefix. Extended example to show this in action. -2008-03-26 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-02-22 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - * changes: Updated for 8.5.2 release. + * generic/tclZlib.c (ZlibTransformInput): [Bug 2762041]: Added a hack + to work around the general problem, early EOF recognition based on the + base-channel, instead of the data we have ready for reading in the + transform. Long-term we need a proper general fix (likely tracking EOF + on each level of the channel stack), with attendant complexity. + Furthermore, Z_BUF_ERROR can be ignored, and must be when feeding the + zlib code with single characters. -2008-03-24 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-02-22 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclBinary.c: [Bug 1923966] - crash in binary format - * tests/binary.test: Added tests for the above crash condition. + * unix/tclUnixPort.h: Remove unnecessary EXTERN's, which already are + in the global stub table. + * unix/configure.in: Use @EXEEXT@ in stead of @EXT_SUFFIX@ + * unix/tcl.m4: + * unix/Makefile.in: Use -DBUILD_tcl for CYGWIN + * unix/configure: (regenerated) + * unix/dltest/pkg*.c: Use EXTERN to control CYGWIN exported symbols + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: Remove some unnecessary type casts. + * generic/tclCompCmds.c: + * generic/tclTest.c: + * generic/tclUtil.c: -2008-03-21 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2010-02-21 Mo DeJong <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net> - * doc/switch.n: Clarified documentation in respect of two-argument - invokation. [Bug 1899962] + * tests/regexp.test: Add test cases back ported from Jacl regexp work. - * tests/switch.test: Added more tests of regexp-mode compilation of - the [switch] command. [Bug 1854435] +2010-02-21 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2008-03-20 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclDate.c: Some more const tables. + * generic/tclGetDate.y: + * generic/regc_lex.c: + * generic/regerror.c: + * generic/tclStubLib.c: + * generic/tclBasic.c: Fix [Bug 2954959] expr abs(0.0) is -0.0 + * tests/expr.test: - * generic/tcl.h, generic/tclThreadAlloc.c: Tidied up the declarations - of Tcl_GetMemoryInfo so that it is always defined. Will panic when - called against a Tcl that was previously built without it at all, - which is OK because that also indicates a serious mismatch between - memory configuration options. +2010-02-20 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2008-03-19 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileStringLenCmd): Make [string length] + of a constant string be handled better (i.e., handle backslashes too). - * generic/tcl.h, generic/tclThreadAlloc.c (Tcl_GetMemoryInfo): Make - sure this function is available when direct linking. [Bug 1868171] +2010-02-19 Stuart Cassoff <stwo@users.sourceforge.net> - * tests/reg.test (reg-33.14): Marked nonPortable because some - environments have small default stack sizes. [Bug 1905562] + * tcl.m4: Correct compiler/linker flags for threaded builds on + OpenBSD. + * configure: (regenerated). -2008-03-18 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> +2010-02-19 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * library/tm.tcl (::tcl::tm::UnknownHandler): Changed 'source' to - 'source -encoding utf-8'. This fixes a portability problem of Tcl - Modules pointed out by Don Porter. By using plain 'source' we were at - the mercy of 'encoding system', making modules less portable than they - could be. The exact scenario: A writes a TM in some weird encoding - which is A's system encoding, distributes it, and somewhere else it - cannot be read/used because the system encoding is different. Forcing - the use of utf-8 makes the module portable. + * unix/installManPage: [Bug 2954638]: Correct behaviour of manual page + installer. Also added armouring to check that assumptions about the + initial state are actually valid (e.g., look for existing input file). - ***INCOMPATIBILITY*** for all Tcl Modules already written in non-utf-8 - compatible encodings. +2010-02-17 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2008-03-18 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclHash.c (HashStringKey): Restore these hash functions + * generic/tclLiteral.c (HashString): to use the classic algorithm. + * generic/tclObj.c (TclHashObjKey): Community felt normal case + speed to be more important than resistance to malicious cases. For + now, hashes that need to deal with the malicious case can use a custom + hash table and install their own hash function, though that is not + functionality exposed to the script level. - * generic/tclExecute.c: Patch from Miguel Sofer to correct the - alignment of memory allocated by GrowEvaluationStack(). [Bug 1914503] + * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileDictUpdateCmd): Stack depth must be + correctly described when compiling a body to prevent crashes in some + debugging modes. -2008-03-18 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> +2010-02-16 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * library/tm.tcl (::tcl::tm::Defaults): Modified handling of - environment variables. See [Bug 1914604]. Solution slightly different - than proposed in the report. Using the underscored form TCLX_y_TM_PATH - even if TCLX.y_TM_PATH exists. Also using a loop to cut prevent code - replication. + * generic/tclInt.h: Change order of various struct members, + fixing potential binary incompatibility with Tcl 8.5 -2008-03-16 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2010-02-16 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileDictForCmd): Correct the handling - of stack space calculation (the jump pattern used was confusing the - simple-minded code doing the calculations). [Bug 1903325] + * unix/configure.in, generic/tclIOUtil.c (Tcl_Stat): Updated so that + we do not assume that all unix systems have the POSIX blkcnt_t type, + since OpenBSD apparently does not. - * doc/lreplace.n: Clarified documentation of what happens with - negative indices. [Bug 1905809] Added example, tidied up formatting. + * generic/tclLiteral.c (HashString): Missed updating to FNV in one + place; the literal table (a copy of the hash table code...) -2008-03-14 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-02-15 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclBasic.c (OldMathFuncProc): Same workaround protection - from bad TclStackAlloc() alignment. Thanks George Peter Staplin. + * tools/genStubs.tcl: Reverted earlier rename from tcl*Stubs to + * generic/tclBasic.c: tcl*ConstStubs, it's not necessary at all. + * generic/tclOO.c: + * generic/tclTomMathInterface.c: + * generic/tclStubInit.c: (regenerated) + * generic/tclOOStubInit.c: (regenerated) + * generic/tclEnsemble.c:Fix signed-unsigned mismatch + * win/tclWinInt.h: make tclWinProcs "const" + * win/tclWin32Dll.c: + * win/tclWinFCmd.c: Eliminate all internal Tcl_WinUtfToTChar + * win/tclWinFile.c: and Tcl_WinTCharToUtf calls, needed + * win/tclWinInit.c: for mslu support. + * win/tclWinLoad.c: + * win/tclWinPipe.c: + * win/tclWinSerial.c: + * win/.cvsignore: + * compat/unicows/readme.txt: [FRQ 2819611]: Add first part of MSLU + * compat/unicows/license.txt: support. + * compat/unicows/unicows.lib: - * generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LsortObjCmd): Use ckalloc() to allocate - SortElement arrays instead of TclStackAlloc() which isn't getting - alignment right. Workaround for [Bug 1914503]. +2010-02-15 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2008-03-14 Reinhard Max <max@suse.de> + * generic/tclOO.c (AllocObject, SquelchedNsFirst, ObjectRenamedTrace): + * generic/tclNamesp.c (Tcl_DeleteNamespace): [Bug 2950259]: Revised + the namespace deletion code to provide an additional internal callback + that gets triggered early enough in namespace deletion to allow TclOO + destructors to run sanely. Adjusted TclOO to take advantage of this, + so making tearing down an object by killing its namespace appear to + work seamlessly, which is needed for Itcl. (Note that this is not a + feature that will ever be backported to 8.5, and it remains not a + recommended way of deleting an object.) - * generic/tclTest.c: Ignore the return value of write() when we are - * unix/tclUnixPipe.c: about to exit anyways. +2010-02-13 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2008-03-13 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileSwitchCmd): Divided the [switch] + compiler into three pieces (after the model of [try]): a parser, an + instruction-issuer for chained tests, and an instruction-issuer for + jump tables. - * unix/configure.in: Use backslash-quoting instead of double-quoting - * unix/tcl.m4: for lib paths in tclConfig.sh. [Bug 1913622] - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 + * generic/tclEnsemble.c: Split the ensemble engine out into its own + file rather than keeping it mashed together with the namespace code. -2008-03-13 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-02-12 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * changes: Updated for 8.5.2 release. + * win/tcl.m4: Use -pipe for gcc on win32 + * win/configure: (mingw/cygwin) (regenerated) + * win/.cvsignore: Add .lib, .exp and .res here - * generic/tclStrToD.c: Resolve identifier conflict over "pow10" with - libm in Cygwin and DJGPP. Thanks to Gordon Schumacher and Philip - Moore. [Patch 1800636] +2010-02-11 Mo DeJong <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net> -2008-03-12 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> + * tests/list.test: Add tests for explicit \0 in a string argument to + the list command. - * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: Add support for Xcode 3.1 - * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/default.pbxuser: CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY and - * macosx/Tcl-Common.xcconfig: 'xcodebuild install'. +2010-02-11 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2008-03-12 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + * generic/tclIOCmd.c (Tcl_OpenObjCmd): [Bug 2949740]: Make sure that + we do not try to put a NULL pipeline channel into binary mode. - * doc/info.n: Replaced {expand} with {*}. +2010-02-11 Mo DeJong <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net> -2008-03-12 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> + [Bug 2826551, Patch 2948425]: Assorted regexp bugs related to -all, + -line and -start options and newlines. + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_RegexpObjCmd): If -offset is given, treat it + as the start of the line if the previous character was a newline. Fix + nasty edge case where a zero length match would not advance the index. + * tests/regexp.test: Add regression tests back ported from Jacl. + Checks for a number of issues related to -line and newline handling. A + few of tests were broken before the patch and continue to be broken, + marked as knownBug. - * unix/Makefile.in (install-libraries): Bump http to 2.7 - * win/Makefile.in (install-libraries): Added -myaddr option to allow - * library/http/http.tcl (http::geturl): control of selected socket - * library/http/pkgIndex.tcl: interface. [Bug 559898] - * doc/http.n, tests/http.test: Added -keepalive and - -protocol 1.1 with chunked transfer encoding support. [Bug 1063703, - 1470377, 219225] (default keepalive is 0) - Added ability to override Host in -headers. [Bug 928154] - Added -strict option to control URL validation on per-call basis. - [Bug 1560506] +2010-02-11 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2008-03-11 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> + * generic/tclOO.c (ObjectRenamedTrace): [Bug 2949397]: Prevent + destructors from running on the two core class objects when the whole + interpreter is being destroyed. - * library/http/http.tcl (http::geturl): Add -method option to support - * tests/http.test (http-3.1): http PUT and DELETE requests. - * doc/http.n: [Bug 1599901, 862554] +2010-02-09 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * library/http/http.tcl: Whitespace changes, code cleanup. Allow http - to be re-sourced without overwriting http state. + * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileTryCmd, IssueTryInstructions) + (IssueTryFinallyInstructions): Added compiler for the [try] command. + It is split into three pieces that handle the parsing of the tokens, + the issuing of instructions for finally-free [try], and the issuing of + instructions for [try] with finally; there are enough differences + between the all cases that it was easier to split the code rather than + have a single function do the whole thing. -2008-03-11 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-02-09 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclEncoding.c (LoadEscapeEncoding): Avoid leaking escape - sub-encodings, fixes encoding-11.1 failing after iso2022-jp loaded. - [Bug 1893053] + * tools/genStubs.tcl: Remove dependency on 8.5+ idiom "in" in + expressions. - * macosx/tclMacOSXNotify.c: Avoid using CoreFoundation after fork() on - Darwin 9 even when TclpCreateProcess() uses vfork(). +2010-02-08 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: Add support for Xcode 3.1 and - * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/default.pbxuser: configs for building with - * macosx/Tcl-Common.xcconfig: gcc-4.2 and llvm-gcc-4.2. + * generic/tclZlib.c (Tcl_ZlibDeflate, Tcl_ZlibInflate): [Bug 2947783]: + Make sure that the result is an unshared object before appending to it + so that nothing crashes if it is shared (use in Tcl code was not + affected by this, but use from C was an issue). - * unix/tclUnixPort.h: Workaround vfork() problems - in llvm-gcc-4.2.1 -O4 build. +2010-02-06 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * unix/tclUnixPort.h: Move MODULE_SCOPE compat define - to top [Bug 1911102]. + * generic/tclHash.c (HashStringKey): Replace Tcl's crusty old hash + * generic/tclObj.c (TclHashObjKey): function with the algorithm + due to Fowler, Noll and Vo. This is slightly faster (assuming the + presence of hardware multiply) and has somewhat better distribution + properties of the resulting hash values. Note that we only ever used + the 32-bit version of the FNV algorithm; Tcl's core hash engine + assumes that hash values are simple unsigned ints. - * macosx/GNUmakefile: Fix quoting to allow paths to - * macosx/Tcl-Common.xcconfig: ${builddir} and ${INSTALL_ROOT} - * unix/Makefile.in: to contain spaces. - * unix/configure.in: - * unix/install-sh: - * unix/tcl.m4: - * tests/ioCmd.test: + ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** + Code that depends on hash iteration order (especially tests) may well + be disrupted by this. Where a definite order is required, the fix is + usually to just sort the results after extracting them from the hash. + Where this is insufficient, the code that has ceased working was + always wrong and was only working by chance. - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 +2010-02-05 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * unix/Makefile.in (install-strip): Strip non-global symbols from - dynamic library. + * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileErrorCmd): Added compilation of the + [error] command. No new bytecodes. - * unix/tclUnixNotfy.c: Fix warning. +2010-02-05 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * tests/exec.test (exec-9.7): Reduce timing sensitivity - * tests/socket.test (socket-2.11): (esp. on multi-proc machines). + * tools/genStubs.tcl: Follow-up to earlier commit today: + Eliminate the need for an extra Stubs Pointer for adressing + a static stub table: Just change the exported table from + static to MODULE_SCOPE. + * generic/tclBasic.c + * generic/tclOO.c + * generic/tclTomMathInterface.c + * generic/tcl*Decls.h (regenerated) + * generic/tclStubInit.c (regenerated) + * generic/tclOOStubInit.c (regenerated) + * generic/tclTest.c (minor formatting) + +2010-02-05 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclVar.c: More consistency in errorcode generation. + + * generic/tclOOBasic.c (TclOO_Object_Destroy): Rewrote to be NRE-aware + when calling destructors. Note that there is no guarantee that + destructors will always be called in an NRE context; that's a feature + of the 'destroy' method only. + + * generic/tclEncoding.c: Add 'const' to many function-internal vars + that are never pointing to things that are written to. + +2010-02-05 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + + * tools/genStubs.tcl: Follow-up to [2010-01-29] commit: + prevent space within stub table function parameters if the + parameter type is a pointer. + * win/tclWinInt.h: Minor Formatting + * generic/tcl.h: VOID -> void and other formatting + * generic/tclInt.h: Minor formatting + * generic/tclInt.decls: Change signature of TclNRInterpProcCore, + * generic/tclOO.decls: and TclOONewProc(Instance|)MethodEx, + * generic/tclProc.c: indicating that errorProc is a function, + * generic/tclOOMethod.c:pointer, and other formatting + * generic/tcl*Decls.h: (regenerated) + * generic/tclVar.c: gcc warning(line 3703): 'pattern' may be used + uninitialized in this function + gcc warning(line 3788): 'matched' may be used + uninitialized in this function + +2010-02-04 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclVar.c: Added more use of error-codes and reduced the + stack overhead of older interfaces. + (ArrayGetCmd): Stop silly crash when using a trivial pattern due to + error in conversion to ensemble. + (ArrayNamesCmd): Use the object RE interface for faster matching. - * tests/fCmd.test (fCmd-9.4): Skip on Darwin 9 (xfail). +2010-02-03 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2008-03-11 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclVar.c (ArrayUnsetCmd): More corrections. - * generic/tclVar.c (TclDeleteNamespaceVars): - * tests/var.test (var-8.2): Unset traces on vars should be called with - a FQ named during namespace deletion. This was causing infinite loops - when unset traces recreated the var, as reported by Julian Noble. [Bug - 1911919] +2010-02-02 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2008-03-10 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclVar.c: Turned the [array] command into a true ensemble. - * changes: Updated for 8.5.2 release. + * generic/tclOO.c (AllocObject, MyDeleted): A slightly faster way to + handle the deletion of [my] is with a standard delete callback. This + is because it doesn't require an additional memory allocation during + object creation. Also reduced the amount of string manipulation + performed during object creation to further streamline memory + handling; this is not backported to the 8.5 package as it breaks a + number of abstractions. - * doc/http.n: Revised to indicate that [package require http 2.5.5] - is needed to get all the documented commands ([http::meta]). + * generic/tclOOBasic.c (TclOO_Object_Destroy): [Bug 2944404]: Do not + crash when a destructor deletes the object that is executing that + destructor. - * generic/tclEvent.c (TclDefaultBgErrorHandlerObjCmd): Added error - * tests/event.test (event-5.*): checking to protect against callers - passing invalid return options dictionaries. [Bug 1901113] +2010-02-01 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclBasic.c (ExprAbsFunc): Revised so that the abs() - * tests/expr.test: function and the [::tcl::mathfunc::abs] - command do not return the value of -0, or equivalent values with more - alarming string reps like -1e-350. [Bug 1893815] + * generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_ArrayObjCmd): [Bug 2939073]: Stop the [array + unset] command from having dangling pointer problems when an unset + trace deletes the element that is going to be processed next. Many + thanks to Alexandre Ferrieux for the bulk of this fix. -2008-03-07 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + * generic/regexec.c (ccondissect, crevdissect): [Bug 2942697]: Rework + these functions so that certain pathological patterns are matched much + more rapidly. Many thanks to Tom Lane for dianosing this issue and + providing an initial patch. - * generic/tclResult.c (ReleaseKeys): Workaround for [Bug 1904907]. - Reset the return option keys to NULL to allow full re-initialization - by GetKeys(). This introduces a memory leak for the key objects, but - gets us around a crash in the finalization of reflected channels when - handling returns, either at compile- or runtime. In both cases we - access the keys after they have been released by their thread exit - handler. A proper fix is entangled with the untangling of the - finalization ordering and attendant issues. For now we choose the - lesser evil. +2010-01-30 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2008-03-07 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclCompile.c (tclInstructionTable): Bytecode instructions + * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileUnsetCmd): to allow the [unset] + * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): command to be compiled + with the compiler being a complete compilation for all compile-time + decidable uses. - * generic/tclExecute.c (Tcl_ExprObj): Revised expression bytecode - compiling so that bytecodes invalid due to changing context or due to - the difference between expressions and scripts are not reused. [Bug - 1899164] + * generic/tclVar.c (TclPtrUnsetVar): Var reference version of the code + to unset a variable. Required for INST_UNSET bytecodes. - * generic/tclCmdAH.c: Revised direct evaluation implementation of - [expr] so that [expr $e] caches compiled bytecodes for the expression - as the intrep of $e. +2010-01-29 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * tests/execute.test (execute-6.*): More tests checking that - script bytecode is invalidated in the right situations. + * generic/tcl.h: [Bug 2942081]: Reverted Tcl_ThreadDataKey type change + Changed some Tcl_CallFrame fields from "char *" + to "void *". This saves unnecessary space on + Cray's (and it's simply more correct). + + * tools/genStubs.tcl: No longer generate a space after "*" and + immediately after a function name, so the + format of function definitions in tcl*Decls.h + match all other tcl*.h header files. + * doc/ParseArgs.3: Change Tcl_ArgvFuncProc, Tcl_ArgvGenFuncProc + * generic/tcl.h: and GetFrameInfoValueProc to be function + * generic/tclInt.h: definitions, not pointers, for consistency + * generic/tclOOInt.h: with all other Tcl function definitions. + * generic/tclIndexObj.c: + * generic/regguts.h: CONST -> const + * generic/tcl.decls: Formatting + * generic/tclTomMath.decls: Formatting + * generic/tclDecls.h: (regenerated) + * generic/tclIntDecls.h: + * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h: + * generic/tclOODecls.h: + * generic/tclOOIntDecls.h: + * generic/tclPlatDecls.h: + * generic/tclTomMathDecls.h: -2008-03-07 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> +2010-01-28 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * win/configure.in: Add AC_HEADER_STDC to support msys/win64. + * generic/tclOOBasic.c (TclOO_Object_Destroy): Move the execution of + destructors to a point where they can produce an error. This will not + work for all destructors, but it does mean that more failing calls of + them will be caught. + * generic/tclOO.c (AllocObject, MyDeletedTrace, ObjectRenamedTrace): + (ObjectNamespaceDeleted): Stop various ways of getting at commands + with dangling pointers to the object. Also increases the reliability + of calling of destructors (though most destructors won't benefit; when + an object is deleted namespace-first, its destructors are not run in a + nice state as the namespace is partially gone). -2008-03-06 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2010-01-25 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * doc/namespace.n: Minor tidying up. [Bug 1909019] + * generic/tclOOStubInit.c: Remove double includes (which causes a + * generic/tclOOStubLib.c: warning in CYGWIN compiles) + * unix/.cvsignore: add confdefs.h -2008-03-04 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-01-22 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * tests/execute.test (6.3,4): Added tests for [Bug 1899164]. + * doc/proc.n: [Bug 1970629]: Define a bit better what the current + namespace of a procedure is. -2008-03-03 Reinhard Max <max@suse.de> +2010-01-22 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * unix/tclUnixChan.c: Fix mark and space parity on Linux, which uses - CMSPAR instead of PAREXT. + * generic/tclInt.decls: Don't use DWORD and HANDLE here. + * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h: + * generic/tcl.h: Revert [2009-12-21] change, instead + * generic/tclPort.h: resolve the CYGWIN inclusion problems by + * win/tclWinPort.h: re-arranging the inclusions at other + places. + * win/tclWinError.c + * win/tclWinPipe.c + * win/tcl.m4: Make cygwin configuration error into + * win/configure.in: a warning: CYGWIN compilation works + * win/configure: although there still are test failures. -2008-03-02 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2010-01-22 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclNamesp.c (GetNamespaceFromObj): - * tests/interp.test (interp-28.2): Spoil the intrep of an nsNameType - obj when the reference crosses interpreter boundaries. + * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): Improve error code + generation from some of the tailcall-related bits of TEBC. -2008-02-29 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-01-21 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclResult.c (Tcl_SetReturnOptions): Revised the refcount - management of Tcl_SetReturnOptions to become that of a conventional - Consumer routine. Thanks to Peter Spjuth for pointing out the - difficulties calling Tcl_SetReturnOptions with non-0-count value for - options. - * generic/tclExecute.c (INST_RETURN_STK): Revised the one caller - within Tcl itself which passes a non-0-count value to - Tcl_SetReturnOptions(). + * generic/tclCompile.h: NRE-enable direct eval on BC spoilage + * generic/tclExecute.c: [Bug 2910748] + * tests/nre.test: - * generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_AppendObjToErrorInfo): Revised the - refcount management of Tcl_AppendObjToErrorInfo to become that of a - conventional Consumer routine. This preserves the ease of use for the - overwhelming common callers who pass in a 0-count value, but makes the - proper call with a non-0-count value less surprising. - * generic/tclEvent.c (TclDefaultBgErrorHandlerObjCmd): Revised the - one caller within Tcl itself which passes a non-0-count value to - Tcl_AppendObjToErrorInfo(). +2010-01-19 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2008-02-28 Joe English <jenglish@users.sourceforge.net> + * doc/dict.n: [Bug 2929546]: Clarify just what [dict with] and [dict + update] are doing with variables. - * unix/tclPort.h, unix/tclCompat.h, unix/tclUnixChan.h: Reduce scope - of <sys/filio.h> and <sys/ioctl.h> #includes. [Patch 1903339] +2010-01-18 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> -2008-02-28 Joe English <jenglish@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclIO.c (CreateScriptRecord): [Bug 2918110]: Initialize + the EventScriptRecord (esPtr) fully before handing it to + Tcl_CreateChannelHandler for registration. Otherwise a reflected + channel calling 'chan postevent' (== Tcl_NotifyChannel) in its + 'watchProc' will cause the function 'TclChannelEventScriptInvoker' + to be run on an uninitialized structure. - * unix/tclUnixChan.c, unix/tclUnixNotfy.c, unix/tclUnixPipe.c: - Consolidate all code conditionalized on -DUSE_FIONBIO into one place. - * unix/tclUnixPort.h, unix/tclUnixCompat.c: New routine - TclUnixSetBlockingMode() [Patch 1903339]. +2010-01-18 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2008-02-28 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclStringObj.c (Tcl_AppendFormatToObj): [Bug 2932421]: Stop + the [format] command from causing argument objects to change their + internal representation when not needed. Thanks to Alexandre Ferrieux + for this fix. - * generic/tclBasic.c (TclEvalObjvInternal): Plug memory leak when - an enter trace deletes or changes the command, prompting a reparsing. - Don't let the second pass lose commandPtr value allocated during the - first pass. +2010-01-13 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclCompExpr.c (ParseExpr): Plug memory leak in error - message generation. + * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl: More factoring out of special cases + * tools/tcltk-man2html-utils.tcl: so that they are described outside + the engine file. Now there is only one real set of special cases in + there, to handle the .SO/.OP/.SE directives. - * generic/tclStringObj.c (Tcl_AppendFormatToObj): [format %llx $big] - leaked an mp_int. +2010-01-13 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileReturnCmd): The 2007-10-18 commit - to optimize compiled [return -level 0 $x] [RFE 1794073] introduced a - memory leak of the return options dictionary. Fixing that. + * generic/tcl.h: Fix TCL_LL_MODIFIER for Cygwin + * generic/tclEnv.c: Fix CYGWIN compilation problems, + * generic/tclInt.h: and remove some unnecessary + * generic/tclPort.h: double includes. + * generic/tclPlatDecls.h: + * win/cat.c: + * win/tclWinConsole.c: + * win/tclWinFCmd.c: + * win/tclWinFile.c: + * win/tclWinPipe.c: + * win/tclWinSerial.c: + * win/tclWinThrd.c: + * win/tclWinPort.h: Put win32 includes first + * unix/tclUnixChan.c: Forgot one CONST change -2008-02-27 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-01-12 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * library/http/http.tcl: [Bug 705956] - fix inverted logic when - cleaning up socket error in geturl. + * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl: Make the generation of the list of things + to process the docs from simpler and more flexible. Also factored out + the lists of special cases. -2008-02-27 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> +2010-01-10 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * doc/clock.n: Corrected minor indentation gaffe in the penultimate - paragraph. [Bug 1898025] - * generic/tclClock.c (ParseClockFormatArgs): Changed to check that the - clock value is in the range of a 64-bit integer. [Bug 1862555] - * library/clock.tcl (::tcl::clock::format, ::tcl::clock::scan, - (::tcl::clock::add, ::tcl::clock::LocalizeFormat): Fixed bugs in - caching of localized strings that caused weird results when localized - date/time formats were used. [Bug 1902423] - * tests/clock.test (clock-61.*, clock-62.1): Regression tests for [Bug - 1862555] and [Bug 1902423]. + * win/tclWinDde.c: VC++ 6.0 doesn't have + * win/tclWinReg.c: PDWORD_PTR + * win/tclWinThrd.c: Fix various minor gcc warnings. + * win/tclWinTime.c: + * win/tclWinConsole.c: Put channel type definitions + * win/tclWinChan.c: in static const memory + * win/tclWinPipe.c: + * win/tclWinSerial.c: + * win/tclWinSock.c: + * generic/tclIOGT.c: + * generic/tclIORChan.c: + * generic/tclIORTrans.c: + * unix/tclUnixChan.c: + * unix/tclUnixPipe.c: + * unix/tclUnixSock.c: + * unix/configure: (regenerated with autoconf 2.59) + * tests/info.test: Make test independant from + tcltest implementation. -2008-02-26 Joe English <jenglish@users.sourceforge.net> +2010-01-10 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclIOUtil.c, unix/tclUnixPort.h, unix/tclUnixChan.c: - Remove dead/unused portability-related #defines and unused conditional - code. See [Patch 1901828] for discussion. + * tests/namespace.test (namespace-51.17): [Bug 2898722]: Demonstrate + that there are still bugs in the handling of resolution epochs. This + bug is not yet fixed. -2008-02-26 Joe English <jenglish@users.sourceforge.net> + * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl: Split the man->html converter into + * tools/tcltk-man2html-utils.tcl: two pieces for easier maintenance. + Also made it much less verbose in its printed messages by default. - * generic/tclIORChan.c (enum MethodName), - * generic/tclCompExpr.c (enum Marks): More stray trailing ","s +2010-01-09 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2008-02-26 Joe English <jenglish@users.sourceforge.net> + * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl: Added basic support for building the docs + for contributed packages into the HTML versions. Prompted by question + on Tcler's Chat by Tom Krehbiel. Note that there remain problems in + the documentation generated due to errors in the contributed docs. - * unix/configure.in(socklen_t test): Define socklen_t as "int" if - missing, not "unsigned". Use AC_TRY_COMPILE instead of - AC_EGREP_HEADER. - * unix/configure: regenerated. +2010-01-05 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> -2008-02-26 Joe English <jenglish@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclPathObj.c (TclPathPart): [Bug 2918610]: Correct + * tests/fileName.test (filename-14.31): inconsistency between the + string rep and the intrep of a path value created by [file rootname]. + Thanks to Vitaly Magerya for reporting. - * generic/tclCompile.h: Remove stray trailing "," from enum - InstOperandType definition (C99ism). +2010-01-03 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2008-02-26 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> + * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): [Bug 1636685]: Use the configuration + for modern FreeBSD suggested by the FreeBSD porter. - * generic/tclUtil.c (TclReToGlob): Fix the handling of the last star - * tests/regexpComp.test: possibly being escaped in - determining right anchor. [Bug 1902436] +2010-01-03 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> -2008-02-26 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclBasic.c: [Bug 2724403]: Fix leak of coroutines on + * generic/tclCompile.h: namespace deletion. Added a test for this + * generic/tclNamesp.c: leak, and also a test for leaks on namespace + * tests/coroutine.test: deletion. + * tests/namespace.test: - * library/http/pkgIndex.tcl: Set version 2.5.5 - * library/http/http.tcl: It is better to do the [eof] check after - trying to read from the socket. No clashes found in testing. Added - http::meta command to access the http headers. [Bug 1868845] +2009-12-30 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2008-02-22 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> + * library/safe.tcl (AliasSource): [Bug 2923613]: Make the safer + * tests/safe.test (safe-8.9): [source] handle a [return] at the + end of the file correctly. - * library/http/pkgIndex.tcl: Set version 2.5.4 - * library/http/http.tcl: Always check that the state array exists - in the http::status command. [Bug 1818565] +2009-12-30 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> -2008-02-13 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * library/init.tcl (unknown): [Bug 2824981]: Fix infinite recursion of + ::unknown when [set] is undefined. - * generic/tcl.h: Bump version number to 8.5.2b1 to distinguish - * library/init.tcl: CVS development snapshots from the 8.5.1 and - * unix/configure.in: 8.5.2 releases. - * unix/tcl.spec: - * win/configure.in: - * README +2009-12-29 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * unix/configure: autoconf (2.59) - * win/configure: + * generic/tclHistory.c (Tcl_RecordAndEvalObj): Reduce the amount of + allocation and deallocation of memory by caching objects in the + interpreter assocData table. -2008-02-12 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> + * generic/tclObj.c (Tcl_GetCommandFromObj): Rewrite the logic so that + it does not require making assignments part way through an 'if' + condition, which was deeply unclear. - * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileSwitchCmd): Corrected logic for - * tests/switch.test (switch-10.15): handling -nocase compilation; the - -exact -nocase option cannot be compiled currently. [Bug 1891827] + * generic/tclInterp.c (Tcl_MakeSafe): [Bug 2895741]: Make sure that + the min() and max() functions are supported in safe interpreters. - * unix/README: Documented missing configure flags. [Bug 1799011] +2009-12-29 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> -2008-02-06 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> + * generic/tclBinary.c: [Bug 2922555]: Handle completely invalid input + * tests/binary.test: to the decode methods. - * doc/clock.n (%N): Corrected an error in the explanation of the %N - format group. - * generic/tclClock.c (ClockParseformatargsObjCmd): - * library/clock.tcl (::tcl::clock::format): - * tests/clock.test (clock-1.0, clock-1.4): - Performance enhancements in [clock format] (moving the analysis of - $args into C code, holding on to Tcl_Objs with resolved command names, - [lassign] in place of [foreach], avoiding [namespace which] for - command resolution). +2009-12-28 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2008-02-04 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * unix/Makefile.in (trace-shell, trace-test): [FRQ 1083288]: Added + targets to allow easier tracing of shell and test invokations. - *** 8.5.1 TAGGED FOR RELEASE *** + * unix/configure.in: [Bug 942170]: Detect the st_blocks field of + * generic/tclCmdAH.c (StoreStatData): 'struct stat' correctly. + * generic/tclFileName.c (Tcl_GetBlocksFromStat): + * generic/tclIOUtil.c (Tcl_Stat): - * changes: Updated for 8.5.1 release. + * generic/tclInterp.c (TimeLimitCallback): [Bug 2891362]: Ensure that + * tests/interp.test (interp-34.13): the granularity ticker is + reset when we check limits because of the time limit event firing. - * generic/tcl.h: Bump to 8.5.1 for release. - * library/init.tcl: - * tools/tcl.wse.in: - * unix/configure.in: - * unix/tcl.spec: - * win/configure.in: +2009-12-27 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 - * win/configure: + * doc/namespace.n (SCOPED SCRIPTS): [Bug 2921538]: Updated example to + not be quite so ancient. -2008-02-04 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2009-12-25 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclExecute.c (INST_CONCAT1): Fix optimisation for in-place - concatenation (was going over String type) + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: CONST -> const + * generic/tclParse.c -2008-02-02 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-12-23 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * unix/configure.in (Darwin): Correct Info.plist year substitution in - non-framework builds. + * library/safe.tcl (AliasSource, AliasExeName): [Bug 2913625]: Stop + information about paths from leaking through [info script] and [info + nameofexecutable]. - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 +2009-12-23 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2008-01-30 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + * unix/tcl.m4: Install libtcl8.6.dll in bin directory + * unix/Makefile.in: + * unix/configure: (regenerated) - * generic/tclInterp.c (Tcl_GetAlias): Fix for [Bug 1882373], thanks go - to an00na. +2009-12-22 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LsortObjCmd): [Bug 2918962]: Stop crash when + -index and -stride are used together. + +2009-12-21 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclThreadStorage.c: Fix gcc warning, using gcc-4.3.4 on + cygwin: missing initializer + * generic/tclOOInt.h: Prevent conflict with DUPLICATE + definition in WINAPI's nb30.h + * generic/rege_dfa.c: Fix macro conflict on CYGWIN: don't use + "small". + * generic/tcl.h: Include <winsock2.h> before <stdio.h> on + CYGWIN + * generic/tclPathObj.c + * generic/tclPort.h + * tests/env.test: Don't unset WINDIR and TERM, it has a + special meaning on CYGWIN (both in UNIX + and WIN32 mode!) + * generic/tclPlatDecls.h: Include <tchar.h> through tclPlatDecls.h + * win/tclWinPort.h: stricmp -> strcasecmp + * win/tclWinDde.c: _wcsicmp -> wcscasecmp + * win/tclWinFile.c + * win/tclWinPipe.c + * win/tclWinSock.c + * unix/tcl.m4: Add dynamic loading support to CYGWIN + * unix/configure (regenerated) + * unix/Makefile.in -2008-01-30 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> +2009-12-19 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl: Reworked manual page scraper to do a - proper job of handling references to Ttk options. [Tk Bug 1876493] + * generic/tclBasic.c: [Bug 2917627]: Fix for bad cmd resolution by + * tests/coroutine.test: coroutines. Thanks to schelte for finding it. -2008-01-29 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> +2009-12-16 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * doc/man.macros (SO, SE): Adjusted macros so that it is possible for - Ttk to have its "standard options" on a manual page that is not called - "options". [Tk Bug 1876493] + * library/safe.tcl (::safe::AliasGlob): Upgrade to correctly support a + larger fraction of [glob] functionality, while being stricter about + directory management. -2008-01-25 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-12-11 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * changes: Updated for 8.5.1 release. + * generic/tclTest.c: Fix gcc warning: ignoring return value of + * unix/tclUnixNotify.c: "write", declared with attribute + * unix/tclUnixPipe.c: warn_unused_result. + * generic/tclInt.decls: CONSTify functions TclpGetUserHome and + * generic/tclIntDecls.h:TclSetPreInitScript (TIP #27) + * generic/tclInterp.c: + * win/tclWinFile.c: + * unix/tclUnixFile.c: -2008-01-23 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-12-16 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclInt.h: New macro TclGrowParseTokenArray() to - * generic/tclCompCmds.c: simplify code that might need to grow - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: an array of Tcl_Tokens in the parsePtr - * generic/tclParse.c: field of a Tcl_Parse. Replaces the - TclExpandTokenArray() routine via replacing: - int needed = parsePtr->numTokens + growth; - while (needed > parsePtr->tokensAvailable) { - TclExpandTokenArray(parsePtr); - } - with: - TclGrowParseTokenArray(parsePtr, growth); - This revision merged over from dgp-refactor branch. + * doc/tm.n: [Bug 1911342]: Formatting rewrite to avoid bogus crosslink + to the list manpage when generating HTML. - * generic/tclCompile.h: Demote TclCompEvalObj() from internal stubs to - * generic/tclInt.decls: a MODULE_SCOPE routine declared in - tclCompile.h. + * library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl (Init): [Bug 2913616]: Do not use platform + tests that are not needed and which don't work in safe interpreters. - * generic/tclIntDecls.h: make genstubs - * generic/tclStubInit.c: +2009-12-14 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2008-01-22 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * doc/file.n (file tempfile): [Bug 2388866]: Note that this only ever + creates files on the native filesystem. This is a design feature. - * generic/tclTimer.c (AfterProc): Replace Tcl_EvalEx() with - Tcl_EvalObjEx() to evaluate [after] callbacks. Part of trend to favor - compiled execution over direct evaluation. +2009-12-13 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> -2008-01-22 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclBasic.c: Release TclPopCallFrame() from its + * generic/tclExecute.c: tailcall-management duties + * generic/tclNamesp.c: - * generic/tclCmdIl.c (Tcl_LreverseObjCmd): - * tests/cmdIL.test (cmdIL-7.7): Fix crash on reversing an empty list. - [Bug 1876793] + * generic/tclBasic.c: Moving TclBCArgumentRelease call from + * generic/tclExecute.c: TclNRTailcallObjCmd to TEBC, so that the + pairing of the Enter and Release calls is clearer. -2008-01-20 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> +2009-12-12 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * unix/README: Minor typo fixes [Bug 1853072] + * generic/tclTest.c (TestconcatobjCmd): [Bug 2895367]: Stop memory + leak when testing. We don't need extra noise of this sort when + tracking down real problems! - * generic/tclIO.c (TclGetsObjBinary): Operate on topmost channel. - [Bug 1869405] (Ficicchia) +2009-12-11 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2008-01-17 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclBinary.c: Fix gcc warning, using gcc-4.3.4 on cygwin + * generic/tclCompExpr.c:warning: array subscript has type 'char' + * generic/tclPkg.c: + * libtommath/bn_mp_read_radix.c: + * win/makefile.vc: [Bug 2912773]: Revert to version 1.203 + * unix/tclUnixCompat.c: Fix gcc warning: signed and unsigned type + in conditional expression. - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: Revision to preserve parsed intreps of - numeric and boolean literals when compiling expressions with (optimize - == 1). +2009-12-11 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2008-01-15 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl (long-toc, cross-reference): [FRQ 2897296]: + Added cross links to sections within manual pages. - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: Add an 'optimize' argument to - * generic/tclCompile.c: TclCompileExpr() to profit from better - * generic/tclCompile.h: literal management according to usage. - * generic/tclExecute.c: +2009-12-11 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: Fix literal leak in exprs [Bug 1869989] (dgp) + * generic/tclBasic.c: [Bug 2806407]: Full nre-enabling of coroutines * generic/tclExecute.c: - * tests/compExpr.test: - - * doc/proc.n: Changed wording for access to non-local variables; added - mention to [namespace upvar]. Lame attempt at dealing with - documentation. [Bug 1872708] - -2008-01-15 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclBasic.c: Replacing 'operator' by 'op' in the def of - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: struct TclOpCmdClientData to accommodate C++ - * generic/tclCompile.h: compilers. [Bug 1855644] - -2008-01-13 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - - * win/tclWinSerial.c (SerialCloseProc, TclWinOpenSerialChannel): Use - critical section for read & write side. [Bug 1353846] (newman) - -2008-01-11 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * unix/tclUnixThrd.c (TclpThreadGetStackSize): Restore stack checking - functionality in freebsd. [Bug 1850424] - - * unix/tclUnixThrd.c (TclpThreadGetStackSize): Fix for crash in - freebsd. [Bug 1860425] - -2008-01-10 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclStringObj.c (Tcl_AppendFormatToObj): Correct failure to - * tests/format.test: account for big.used == 0 corner case in the - %ll(idox) format directives. [Bug 1867855] - -2008-01-09 George Peter Staplin <georgeps@xmission.com> - * doc/vwait.n: Add a missing be to fix a typo. + * generic/tclBasic.c: Small cleanup -2008-01-04 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> + * generic/tclExecute.c: Fix panic in http11.test caused by buggy + earlier commits in coroutine management. - * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl (make-man-pages): Make man page title use - more specific info on lhs to improve tabbed browser view titles. - -2008-01-02 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - - * doc/binary.n: Fixed documentation bug reported on tcl-core, and - reordered documentation to discourage people from using the hex - formatter that is hardly ever useful. - -2008-01-02 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tcl.h: Bump version number to 8.5.1b1 to distinguish - * library/init.tcl: CVS development snapshots from the 8.5.0 and - * unix/configure.in: 8.5.1 releases. - * unix/tcl.spec: - * win/configure.in: - * README - - * unix/configure: autoconf (2.59) - * win/configure: +2009-12-10 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> -2007-12-31 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclObj.c (TclContinuationsEnter): [Bug 2895323]: Updated + comments to describe when the function can be entered for the same + Tcl_Obj* multiple times. This is a continuation of the 2009-11-10 + entry where a memory leak was plugged, but where not sure if that was + just a band-aid to paper over some other error. It isn't, this is a + legal situation. - * doc/dict.n: Clarified meaning of dictionary values following - discussion on comp.lang.tcl. +2009-12-10 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> -2007-12-26 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclBasic.c: Reducing the # of moving parts for coroutines + * generic/tclExecute.c: by delegating more to tebc; eliminate the + special coroutine CallFrame. - * generic/tclCmdIL.c: More [lsort] data handling streamlines. The - function MergeSort is gone, essentially inlined into Tcl_LsortObjCmd. - It is not a straight inlining, two loops over all lists elements where - merged in the process: the linked list elements are now built and - merged into the temporary sublists in the same pass. +2009-12-09 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> -2007-12-25 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclIO.c: [Bug 2901998]: Applied Alexandre Ferrieux's patch + fixing the inconsistent buffered I/O. Tcl's I/O now flushes buffered + output before reading, discards buffered input before writing, etc. - * generic/tclCmdIL.c: More [lsort] data handling streamlines. Extra - mem reqs of latest patches removed, restored to previous mem profile. - Improved -unique handling, now eliminating repeated elems immediately - instead of marking them to avoid reinsertion at the end. +2009-12-09 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> -2007-12-23 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> + * generic/tclBasic.c: Ensure right lifetime of varFrame's (objc,objv) + for coroutines. - * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileRegexpCmd): TCL_REG_NOSUB cannot - * tests/regexp.test (regexp-22.2): be used because it - * tests/regexpComp.test: [Bug 1857126] disallows backrefs. + * generic/tclExecute.c: Code regrouping -2007-12-21 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2009-12-09 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclCmdIL.c: Speed patch for lsort [Patch 1856994]. + * generic/tclBasic.c: Added some of the missing setting of errorcode + values. -2007-12-21 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2009-12-08 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LsortObjCmd, Tcl_LsearchObjCmd): Avoid - calling SelectObjFromSublist when there are no sublists. + * generic/tclExecute.c (TclStackFree): Improved panic msg. -2007-12-21 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2009-12-08 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LsortObjCmd): Preallocate a listObj of - sufficient length for the sorted list instead of growing it. Second - commit replaces calls to Tcl_ListObjAppenElement with direct access to - the internal rep. + * generic/tclBasic.c: Partial nre-enabling of coroutines. The + * generic/tclExecute.c: initial call still requires its own + * generic/tclInt.h: instance of tebc, but on resume coros can + execute in the caller's tebc. -2007-12-19 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclExecute.c (TEBC): Silence warning about pcAdjustment. - *** 8.5.0 TAGGED FOR RELEASE *** +2009-12-08 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * changes: Updated for 8.5.0 release. + * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): Make the dict opcodes + more sparing in their use of C variables, to reduce size of TEBC + activiation record a little bit. -2007-12-19 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> +2009-12-07 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileSwitchCmd): update switch -regexp - * tests/switch.test-14.*: compilation to pass - the cflags to INST_REGEXP (changed on 12-07). Added tests for - switch -regexp compilation (need more). [Bug 1854399] + * generic/tclExecute.c (TEBC): Grouping "slow" variables into structs, + to reduce register pressure and help the compiler with variable + allocation. -2007-12-18 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-12-07 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - * changes: Updated for 8.5.0 release. + * generic/tclExecute.c: Start cleaning the TEBC stables + * generic/tclInt.h: -2007-12-18 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> + * generic/tclCmdIL.c: [Bug 2910094]: Fix by aku + * tests/coroutine.test: - * generic/regguts.h, generic/regc_color.c, generic/regc_nfa.c: - Fixes for problems created when processing regular expressions that - generate very large automata. An enormous number of thanks to Will - Drewry <wad_at_google.com>, Tavis Ormandy <taviso_at_google.com>, - and Tom Lane <tgl_at_sss.pgh.pa.us> from the Postgresql crowd for - their help in tracking these problems down. [Bug 1810264] + * generic/tclBasic.c: Arrange for [tailcall] to be created with the + other builtins: was being created in a separate call, leftover from + pre-tip days. -2007-12-17 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-12-07 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * changes: Updated for 8.5.0 release. + * generic/tclStrToD.c: [Bug 2902010]: Correct conditional compile + directives to better detect the toolchain that needs extra work for + proper underflow treatment instead of merely detecting the MIPS + platform. -2007-12-17 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2009-12-07 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclAlloc.c: - * generic/tclExecute.c: + * generic/tclBasic.c: [Patch 2910056]: Add ::tcl::unsupported::yieldTo * generic/tclInt.h: - * generic/tclThreadAlloc.c: Fix alignment for memory returned by - TclStackAlloc; insure that all memory allocators align to 16-byte - boundaries on 64 bit platforms [Bug 1851832, 1851524] -2007-12-14 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> +2009-12-07 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclIOUtil.c (FsAddMountsToGlobResult): fix the tail - conversion of vfs mounts. [Bug 1602539] + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (TryPostBody): [Bug 2910044]: Close off memory + leak in [try] when a variable-free handler clause is present. - * win/README: updated notes +2009-12-05 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> -2007-12-14 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclBasic.c: Small changes for clarity in tailcall + * generic/tclExecute.c: and coroutine code. + * tests/coroutine.test: - * tests/winFile.test: Fixed tests for win2k with long machine name + * tests/tailcall.test: Remove some old unused crud; improved the + stack depth tests. -2007-12-14 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> - - * win/nmakehlp.c: Support compilation with MSVC9 for AMD64. - * win/makefile.vc: + * generic/tclBasic.c: Fixed things so that you can tailcall + * generic/tclNamesp.c: properly out of a coroutine. + * tests/tailcall.test: -2007-12-13 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> + * generic/tclInterp.c: Fixed tailcalls for same-interp aliases (no + test) - * doc/trace.n: Clarified documentation of enterstep and leavestep - traces, including adding example. [Bug 614282, 1701540, 1755984] +2009-12-03 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2007-12-12 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * library/safe.tcl (::safe::AliasEncoding): Make the safe encoding + command behave more closely like the unsafe one (for safe ops). + (::safe::AliasGlob): [Bug 2906841]: Clamp down on evil use of [glob] + in safe interpreters. + * tests/safe.test: Rewrite to use tcltest2 better. - * doc/IntObj.3: Update docs for the Tcl_GetBignumAndClearObj() -> - Tcl_TakeBignumFromObj() revision [TIP 298]. Added docs for the - Tcl_InitBignumFromDouble() routine. [Bug 1446971]. - - * changes: Updated for 8.5.0 release. +2009-12-02 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2007-12-10 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> + * tools/genStubs.tcl: Add support for win32 CALLBACK functions and + remove obsolete "emitStubs" and "genStubs" functions. + * win/Makefile.in: Use tcltest86.dll for all tests, and add + .PHONY rules to preemptively stop trouble that plagued Tk from hitting + Tcl too. - * generic/tclUtil.c (TclReToGlob): reduce escapes in conversion - when not necessary +2009-11-30 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclInt.decls: move TclByteArrayMatch and TclReToGlob - * generic/tclIntDecls.h: to tclInt.h from stubs. - * generic/tclStubInit.c: Add flags var to TclByteArrayMatch for - * generic/tclInt.h: future extensibility - * generic/tcl.h: define TCL_MATCH_EXACT doc for Tcl_StringCaseMatch. - * doc/StrMatch.3: It is compatible with existing usage. - * generic/tclExecute.c (INST_STR_MATCH): flag for TclByteArrayMatch - * generic/tclUtil.c (TclByteArrayMatch, TclStringMatchObj): - * generic/tclRegexp.c (Tcl_RegExpExecObj): - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (StringMatchCmd): Use TclStringMatchObj - * tests/string.test (11.9.* 11.10.*): more tests + * generic/tcl.h: Don't use EXPORT for Tcl_InitStubs + * win/Makefile.in: Better dependancies in case of static build. -2007-12-10 Joe English <jenglish@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-11-30 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * doc/string.n, doc/UniCharIsAlpha.3: Fix markup errors. - * doc/CrtCommand.3, doc/CrtMathFnc.3, doc/FileSystem.3, - * doc/GetStdChan.3, doc/OpenFileChnl.3, doc/SetChanErr.3, - * doc/eval.n, doc/filename.n: Consistency: Move "KEYWORDS" section - after "SEE ALSO". + * doc/Tcl.n: [Bug 2901433]: Improved description of expansion to + mention that it is using list syntax. -2007-12-10 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-11-27 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - * tools/genStubs.tcl: fix numerous issues handling 'macosx', - 'aqua' or 'x11' entries interleaved - with 'unix' entries [Bug 1834288]; add - genStubs::export command - [Tk FR 1716117]; cleanup formatting. + * win/tclAppInit.c (Tcl_AppInit): [Bug 2902965]: Reverted Jan's change + that added a call to Tcl_InitStubs. The 'tclsh' and 'tcltest' programs + are providers, not consumers of the Stubs table, and should not link + with the Stubs library, but only with the main Tcl library. (In any + case, the presence of Tcl_InitStubs broke the build.) - * generic/tcl.decls: use new genstubs 'export' command to - * generic/tclInt.decls: mark exported symbols not in stubs - * generic/tclTomMath.decls: table [Tk FR 1716117]; cleanup - formatting. +2009-11-27 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclDecls.h: regen with new genStubs.tcl. - * generic/tclIntDecls.h: [Bug 1834288] - * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h: - * generic/tclPlatDecls.h: - * generic/tclStubInit.c: + * doc/BoolObj.3, doc/Class.3, doc/CrtChannel.3, doc/DictObj.3: + * doc/DoubleObj.3, doc/Ensemble.3, doc/Environment.3: + * doc/FileSystem.3, doc/Hash.3, doc/IntObj.3, doc/Limit.3: + * doc/Method.3, doc/NRE.3, doc/ObjectType.3, doc/PkgRequire.3: + * doc/SetChanErr.3, doc/SetResult.3: [Patch 2903921]: Many small + spelling fixes from Larry Virden. -2007-12-09 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> + BUMP VERSION OF TCLOO TO 0.6.2. Too many people need accumulated small + versions and bugfixes, so the version-bump removes confusion. - * tests/io.test, tests/chanio.test (io-73.1): Make sure to invalidate - * generic/tclIO.c (SetChannelFromAny): internal rep only after - validating channel rep. [Bug 1847044] + * generic/tclOOBasic.c (TclOO_Object_LinkVar): [Bug 2903811]: Remove + unneeded restrictions on who can usefully call this method. -2007-12-08 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2009-11-26 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * doc/expr.n, doc/mathop.n: Improved the documentation of the - operators. [Bug 1823622] + * unix/Makefile.in: Add .PHONY rules and documentation to preemptively + stop trouble that plagued Tk from hitting Tcl too, and to make the + overall makefile easier to understand. Some reorganization too to move + related rules closer together. - * generic/tclBasic.c (builtInCmds): Corrected list of hidden and - * doc/interp.n (SAFE INTERPRETERS): exposed commands so that the - documentation and reality now match. [Bug 1662436] +2009-11-26 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2007-12-07 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> + * win/Makefile.in: [Bug 2902965]: Fix stub related changes that + * win/makefile.vc: caused tclkit build to break. + * win/tclAppInit.c + * unix/tcl.m4 + * unix/Makefile.in + * unix/tclAppInit.c + * unix/configure: (regenerated) - * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode INST_REGEXP): - * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileRegexpCmd): Pass correct RE - compile flags at compile time, and use TCL_REG_NOSUB. +2009-11-25 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - * generic/tclIOCmd.c (FinalizeIOCmdTSD, Tcl_PutsObjCmd): cache - stdout channel object for [puts $str] calls. + * win/Makefile.in: Added a 'test-tcl' rule that is identical to + 'test' except that it does not go spelunking in 'pkgs/'. (This rule + has existed in unix/Makefile.in for some time.) -2007-12-06 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-11-25 Stuart Cassoff <stwo@users.sf.net> - * README: Remove mention of dead comp.lang.tcl.announce - newsgroup. [Bug 1846433]. + * unix/configure.in: [Patch 2892871]: Remove unneeded + * unix/tcl.m4: AC_STRUCT_TIMEZONE and use + * unix/tclConfig.h.in: AC_CHECK_MEMBERS([struct stat.st_blksize]) + * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c: instead of AC_STRUCT_ST_BLKSIZE. + * unix/configure: Regenerated with autoconf-2.59. - * unix/README: Mention the stub library created by `make` and warn - about the effect of embedded paths in the installed binaries. - Thanks to Larry Virden. [Bug 1794084] +2009-11-24 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - * doc/AddErrInfo.3: Documentation for the new routines in TIP 270. - * doc/Interp.3: - * doc/StringObj.3: + * library/tclIndex: Manually redone the part of tclIndex dealing with + safe.tcl and tm.tcl. This part passes the testsuite. Note that + automatic regeneration of this part is not possible because it wrongly + puts 'safe::Setup' on the list, and wrongly leaves out 'safe::Log' + which is more dynamically created than the generator expects. -2007-12-06 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + Further note that the file "clock.tcl" is explicitly loaded by + "init.tcl", the first time the clock command is invoked. The relevant + code can be found at line 172ff, roughly, the definition of the + procedure 'clock'. This means none of the procedures of this file + belong in the tclIndex. Another indicator that automatic regeneration + of tclIndex is ill-advised. - * doc/namespace.n: Documentation for zero-argument form of - [namespace import] (TIP 261) [Bug 1596416] +2009-11-24 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2007-12-06 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> + * generic/tclOO.c (FinalizeAlloc, Tcl_NewObjectInstance): + [Bug 2903011]: Make it an error to destroy an object in a constructor, + and also make sure that an object is not deleted twice in the error + case. - * generic/tclInt.h: add TclGetChannelFromObj decl - (TclMatchIsTrivial): simplify TclMatchIsTrivial to remove ] check. +2009-11-24 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> -2007-12-06 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> + * tests/fCmd.test: [Bug 2893771]: Teach [file stat] to handle locked + * win/tclWinFile.c: files so that [file exists] no longer lies. +2009-11-23 Kevin Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - * generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_CreateInterp): Simplify the setting up of - * generic/tclIOCmd.c (TclInitChanCmd): the [chan] ensemble. This - * library/init.tcl: gets rid of quite a bit of - code and makes it possible to understand the whole with less effort. + * tests/fCmd.test (fCmd-30.1): Changed registry location of the 'My + Documents' folder to the one that's correct for Windows 2000, XP, + Server 2003, Vista, Server 2008, and Windows 7. (See + http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310746) - * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileEnsemble): Ensure that the right - number of tokens are copied. [Bug 1845320] +2009-11-23 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclNamesp.c (TclMakeEnsemble): Added missing release of a - DString. [Bug 1845397] + * win/tclWinDde.c: #undef STATIC_BUILD, in order to make sure + * win/tclWinReg.c: that Xxxxx_Init is always exported even when + * generic/tclTest.c: Tcl is built static (otherwise we cannot + create a DLL). + * generic/tclThreadTest.c: Make all functions static, except + TclThread_Init. + * tests/fCmd.test: Enable fCmd-30.1 when registry is available. + * win/tcl.m4: Fix ${SHLIB_LD_LIBS} definition, fix conflicts + * win/Makefile.in: Simplifications related to tcl.m4 changes. + * win/configure.in: Between static libraries and import library on + windows. + * win/configure: (regenerated) + * win/makefile.vc: Add stub library to necessary link lines. -2007-12-05 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> +2009-11-23 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - * generic/tclIO.h: Create Tcl_Obj for Tcl channels to reduce - * generic/tclIO.c: overhead in lookup by Tcl_GetChannel. New - * generic/tclIOCmd.c: TclGetChannelFromObj for internal use. - * generic/tclIO.c (WriteBytes, WriteChars): add opt check to avoid - EOL translation when not linebuffered or using lf. [Bug 1845092] + * generic/tclThreadTest.c (NewTestThread): [Bug 2901803]: Further + machinations to get NewTestThread actually to launch the thread, not + just compile. -2007-12-05 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2009-11-22 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * tests/stack.test: made the tests for stack overflow not care - about which mechanism caused the error (interp's recursion limit - or C-stack depth detector). + * generic/tclThreadTest.c (NewTestThread): [Bug 2901803]: Fix small + error in function naming which blocked a threaded test build. -2007-12-05 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> +2009-11-19 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * win/configure, win/tcl.m4 (LIBS_GUI): mingw needs -lole32 - -loleaut32 but not msvc for Tk's [send]. [Bug 1844749] + * win/Makefile.in: Create tcltest86.dll as dynamic Tcltest + package. + * generic/tclTest.c: Remove extraneous prototypes, follow-up to + * generic/tclTestObj.c: [Bug 2883850] + * tests/chanio.test: Test-cases for fixed [Bug 2849797] + * tests/io.test: + * tests/safe.test: Fix safe-10.1 and safe-10.4 test cases, making + the wrong assumption that Tcltest is a static + package. + * generic/tclEncoding.c:[Bug 2857044]: Updated freeIntRepProc routines + * generic/tclVar.c: so that they set the typePtr field to NULL so + that the Tcl_Obj is not left in an + inconsistent state. + * unix/tcl.m4: [Patch 2883533]: tcl.m4 support for Haiku OS + * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 -2007-12-05 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> +2009-11-19 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LsearchObjCmd): Prevent shimmering crash - when -exact and -integer/-real are mixed. [Bug 1844789] + * unix/tclAppInit.c: [Bug 2883850, 2900542]: Repair broken build of + * win/tclAppInit.c: the tcltest executable. -2007-12-03 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2009-11-19 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * unix/tclUnixChan.c (CreateSocketAddress): Add extra #ifdef-fery to - make code compile on BSD 5. [Bug 1618235, again] + * library/auto.tcl (tcl_findLibrary): + * library/clock.tcl (MakeUniquePrefixRegexp, MakeParseCodeFromFields) + (SetupTimeZone, ProcessPosixTimeZone): Restored the use of a literal + * library/history.tcl (HistAdd): 'then' when following a multi- + * library/safe.tcl (interpConfigure): line test expresssion. It's an + * library/tm.tcl (UnknownHandler): aid to readability then. -2007-12-03 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-11-19 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl: Bump tcltest to version 2.3.0 so that - * library/tcltest/pkgIndex.tcl: we release a stable tcltest with a - * unix/Makefile.in: stable Tcl. + * generic/tclInt.h: Make all internal initialization + * generic/tclTest.c: routines MODULE_SCOPE + * generic/tclTestObj.c: + * generic/tclTestProcBodyObj.c: + * generic/tclThreadTest.c: + * unix/Makefile.in: Fix [Bug 2883850]: pkgIndex.tcl doesn't + * unix/tclAppInit.c: get created with static Tcl build + * unix/tclXtTest.c: + * unix/tclXtNotify.c: + * unix/tclUnixTest.c: * win/Makefile.in: + * win/tcl.m4: + * win/configure: (regenerated) + * win/tclAppInit.c: + * win/tclWinDde.c: Always compile with Stubs. + * win/tclWinReg.c: + * win/tclWinTest.c: -2007-12-03 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - - * win/configure, win/tcl.m4 (LIBS_GUI): remove ole32.lib oleaut32.lib - -2007-12-03 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> - - * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileSwitchCmd): Adjusted the [switch] - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_SwitchObjCmd): command so that when - passed two arguments, no check for options are performed. This is OK - since in the two-arg case, detecting an option would definitely lead - to a syntax error. [Patch 1836519] - -2007-11-29 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - - * win/makefile.vc: add ws2_32.lib to baselibs - * win/configure, win/tcl.m4: add ws2_32.lib / -lws2_32 to build. - * win/tclWinSock.c: remove dyn loading of winsock, assume that it is - always available now. - -2007-11-29 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclWinSock.c (InitializeHostName): Correct error in - buffer length tracking. After gethostname() writes into a buffer, - convert only the written string to internal encoding, not the whole - buffer. - -2007-11-28 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-11-18 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclConfig.c: Corrected failure of the [::foo::pkgconfig] - command to clean up registered configuration data when the query - command is deleted from the interp. [Bug 983501] + * doc/CrtChannel.3: [Bug 2849797]: Fix channel name inconsistences + * generic/tclIORChan.c: as suggested by DKF. + * generic/tclIO.c: Minor *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + because Tcl_CreateChannel() and derivatives + now sometimes ignore their "chanName" + argument. - * generic/tclNamesp.c (Tcl_SetEnsembleMappingDict): Added checks - that the dict value passed in is in the format required to make the - internals of ensembles work. [Bug 1436096] + * generic/tclAsync.c: Eliminate various gcc warnings (with -Wextra) + * generic/tclBasic.c + * generic/tclBinary.c + * generic/tclCmdAH.c + * generic/tclCmdIL.c + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c + * generic/tclCompile.c + * generic/tclDate.c + * generic/tclExecute.c + * generic/tclDictObj.c + * generic/tclIndexObj.c + * generic/tclIOCmd.c + * generic/tclIOUtil.c + * generic/tclIORTrans.c + * generic/tclOO.c + * generic/tclZlib.c + * generic/tclGetDate.y + * win/tclWinInit.c + * win/tclWinChan.c + * win/tclWinConsole.c + * win/tclWinNotify.c + * win/tclWinReg.c + * library/auto.tcl: Eliminate "then" keyword + * library/clock.tcl + * library/history.tcl + * library/safe.tcl + * library/tm.tcl + * library/http/http.tcl: Eliminate unnecessary spaces + * library/http1.0/http.tcl + * library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl + * library/opt/optparse.tcl + * library/platform/platform.tcl + * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl + * tools/tclZIC.tcl + * tools/tsdPerf.c - * generic/tclIO.c: Simplify test and improve accuracy of error - message in latest changes. +2009-11-17 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> -2007-11-28 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> + * unix/tclUnixChan.c (TtyParseMode): Partial undo of Donal's tidy-up + from a few days ago (2009-11-9, not in ChangeLog). It seems that + strchr is apparently a macro on AIX and reacts badly to pre-processor + directives in its arguments. - * generic/tclIO.c: -eofchar must support no eofchar. +2009-11-16 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> -2007-11-27 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclEncoding.c: [Bug 2891556]: Fix and improve test to + * generic/tclTest.c: detect similar manifestations in the future. + * tests/encoding.test: Add tcltest support for finalization. - * generic/tclBasic.c: remove unneeded call in Tcl_CreateInterp, add - comments. +2009-11-15 Mo DeJong <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net> -2007-11-27 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * win/tclWinDde.c: Avoid gcc compiler warning by explicitly casting + DdeCreateStringHandle argument. - * win/tclWinSock.c: Add mising encoding conversion of the [info - hostname] value from the system encoding to Tcl's internal encoding. +2009-11-12 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - * doc/chan.n: "Fix" the limitation on channel -eofchar - * doc/fconfigure.n: values to single byte characters by documenting - * generic/tclIO.c: it and making it fail loudly. Thanks to Stuart - * tests/chan.test: Cassoff for contributing the fix. [Bug 800753] + * generic/tclIO.c (CopyData): [Bug 2895565]: Dropped bogosity which + * tests/io.test: used the number of _written_ bytes or character to + update the counters for the read bytes/characters. New test io-53.11. + This is a forward port from the 8.5 branch. -2007-11-26 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2009-11-11 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclBasic.c: - * generic/tclInt.h: - * unix/tclUnixInit.c: - * unix/tclUnixThrd.c: Fix stack checking via workaround for bug in - glibc's pthread_attr_get_np, patch from [Bug 1815573]. Many thanks to - Sergei Golovan (aka Teo) for detecting the bug and helping diagnose - and develop the fix. + * generic/tclClock.c (TclClockInit): Do not create [clock] support + commands in safe interps. -2007-11-24 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2009-11-11 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileDictAppendCmd): Fix bug in [dict - append] compiler which caused strange stack corruption. [Bug 1837392] + * library/http/http.tcl (http::geturl): [Bug 2891171]: URL checking + too strict when using multiple question marks. + * tests/http.test + * library/http/pkgIndex.tcl: Bump to http 2.8.2 + * unix/Makefile.in: + * win/Makefile.in: -2007-11-23 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> +2009-11-11 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclIORChan.c: Fixed a problem with reflected channels. 'chan - postevent' is defined to work only from within the interpreter - containing the handler command. Sensible, we want only handler - commands to use it. It identifies the channel by handle. The channel - moves to a different interpreter or thread. The interpreter containing - the handler command doesn't know the channel any longer. 'chan - postevent' fails, not finding the channel any longer. Uhm. + * generic/tclIO.c: Fix [Bug 2888099] (close discards ENOSPC error) + by saving the errno from the first of two + FlushChannel()s. Uneasy to test; might need + specific channel drivers. Four-hands with aku. - Fixed by creating a second per-interpreter channel table, just for - reflected channels, where each interpreter remembers for which - reflected channels it has the handler command. This info does not move - with the channel itself. The table is updated by 'chan create', and - used by 'chan postevent'. +2009-11-10 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> - * tests/ioCmd.test: Updated the testsuite. + * tests/winFCmd.test: Cleanup directories that have been set chmod + 000. On Windows7 and Vista we really have no access and these were + getting left behind. + A few tests were changed to reflect the intent of the test where + setting a directory chmod 000 should prevent any modification. This + restriction was ignored on XP but is honoured on Vista -2007-11-23 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> +2009-11-10 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - * generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_ArrayObjCmd): handle the right data for - * tests/var.test (var-14.2): [array names $var -glob $ptn] + * generic/tclBasic.c: Plug another leak in TCL_EVAL_DIRECT evaluation. + Forward port from Tcl 8.5 branch, change by Don Porter. -2007-11-23 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> + * generic/tclObj.c: [Bug 2895323]: Plug memory leak in + TclContinuationsEnter(). Forward port from Tcl 8.5 branch, change by + Don Porter. - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (String*Cmd, TclInitStringCmd): Rebuilt [string] - * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileString*Cmd): as an ensemble. +2009-11-09 Stuart Cassoff <stwo@users.sf.net> -2007-11-22 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + * win/README: [bug 2459744]: Removed outdated Msys + Mingw info. - * generic/tclDictObj.c (Dict*Cmd,TclInitDictCmd): Rebuilt the [dict] - * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileDict*Cmd): command as an ensemble. +2009-11-09 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + + * generic/tclBasic.c (TclEvalObjEx): Moved the #280 decrement of + refCount for the file path out of the branch after the whole + conditional, closing a memory leak. Added clause on structure type to + prevent seg.faulting. Forward port from valgrinding the Tcl 8.5 + branch. + + * tests/info.test: Resolve ambiguous resolution of variable "res". + Forward port from 8.5 + +2009-11-08 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * doc/string.n (bytelength): Noted that this command is not a good + thing to use, and suggested a better alternatve. Also factored out the + description of the indices into its own section. + +2009-11-07 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> + + * tests/fCmd.test: [Bug 2891026]: Exclude tests using chmod 555 + directories on vista and win7. The current user has access denied and + so cannot rename the directory without admin privileges. + +2009-11-06 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + + * library/safe.tcl (::safe::Setup): Added documentation of the + contents of the state array. Also killed the 'InterpState' procedure + with its upleveled variable/upvar combination, and replaced all uses + with 'namespace upvar'. + +2009-11-05 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + + * library/safe.tcl: A series of patches which bring the SafeBase up to + date with code guidelines, Tcl's features, also eliminating a number + of inefficiencies along the way. + (1) Changed all procedure names to be fully qualified. + (2) Moved the procedures out of the namespace eval. Kept their + locations. IOW, broke the namespace eval apart into small sections not + covering the procedure definitions. + (3) Reindented the code. Just lots of whitespace changes. + Functionality unchanged. + (4) Moved the multiple namespace eval's around. Command export at the + top, everything else (var decls, argument parsing setup) at the + bottom. + (5) Moved the argument parsing setup into a procedure called when the + code is loaded. Easier management of temporary data. + (6) Replaced several uses of 'Set' with calls to the new procedure + 'InterpState' and direct access to the per-slave state array. + (7) Replaced the remaining uses of 'Set' and others outside of the + path/token handling, and deleted a number of procedures related to + state array access which are not used any longer. + (8) Converted the path token system to cache normalized paths and path + <-> token conversions. Removed more procedures not used any longer. + Removed the test cases 4.3 and 4.4 from safe.test. They were testing + the now deleted command "InterpStateName". + (9) Changed the log command setup so that logging is compiled out + completely when disabled (default). + (10) Misc. cleanup. Inlined IsInterp into CheckInterp, its only user. + Consistent 'return -code error' for error reporting. Updated to use + modern features (lassign, in/ni, dicts). The latter are used to keep a + reverse path -> token map and quicker check of existence. + (11) Fixed [Bug 2854929]: Recurse into all subdirs under all TM root + dirs and put them on the access path. + +2009-11-02 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> -2007-11-22 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> + * library/tzdata/Asia/Novokuznetsk: New tzdata locale for Kemerovo + oblast', which now keeps Novosibirsk time and not Kranoyarsk time. + * library/tzdata/Asia/Damascus: Syrian DST changes. + * library/tzdata/Asia/Hong_Kong: Hong Kong historic DST corrections. + Olson tzdata2009q. - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_StringObjCmd): Rewrote the [string] and - * generic/tclDictObj.c (Tcl_DictObjCmd): [dict] implementations to be - ready for conversion to ensembles. +2009-11-02 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * doc/object.n (DESCRIPTION): Substantive revision to make it clearer + what the fundamental semantics of an object actually are. + +2009-11-01 Joe Mistachkin <joe@mistachkin.com> + + * doc/Cancel.3: Minor cosmetic fixes. + * win/makefile.vc: Make htmlhelp target work again. An extra set of + double quotes around the definition of the HTML help compiler tool + appears to be required. Previously, there was one set of double + quotes around the definition of the tool and one around the actual + invocation. This led to confusion because it was the only such tool + path to include double quotes around its invocation. Also, it was + somewhat inflexible in the event that somebody needed to override the + tool command to include arguments. Therefore, even though it may look + "wrong", there are now two double quotes on either side of the tool + path definition. This fixes the problem that currently prevents the + htmlhelp target from building and maintains flexibility in case + somebody needs to override it via the command line or an environment + variable. - * tests/string.test (string-12.22): Flag shimmering bug found in - [string range]. +2009-11-01 Joe English <jenglish@users.sourceforge.net> -2007-11-21 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + * doc/Eval.3, doc/Cancel.3: Move TIP#285 routines out of Eval.3 into + their own manpage. - * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileEnsemble): Rewrote the ensemble - compiler to remove many of the limitations. Can now compile scripts - that use unique prefixes of subcommands, and which have mappings of a - command to multiple words (provided the first is a compilable command - of course). +2009-10-31 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2007-11-21 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> + * generic/tclBasic.c (ExprRoundFunc): [Bug 2889593]: Correctly report + the expected number of arguments when generating an error for round(). - * generic/tclNamesp.c (TclMakeEnsemble): Factor out the code to set up - a core ensemble from a table of information about subcommands, ready - for reuse within the core. +2009-10-30 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/various: Start to return more useful Error codes, currently - mainly on assorted lookup failures. + * tests/tcltest.test: When creating the notwritabledir we deny the + current user access to delete the file. We must grant this right when + we cleanup. Required on Windows 7 when the user does not automatically + have administrator rights. -2007-11-20 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2009-10-29 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclDictObj.c: Changed the underlying implementation of the - hash table used in dictionaries to additionally keep all entries in - the hash table in a linked list, which is only ever added to at the - end. This makes iteration over all entries in the dictionary in - key insertion order a trivial operation, and so cleans up a great deal - of complexity relating to dictionary representation and stability of - iteration order. + * generic/tcl.h: Changed the typedef for the mp_digit type + from: + typedef unsigned long mp_digit; + to: + typedef unsigned int mp_digit; + For 32-bit builds where "long" and "int" are two names for the same + thing, this is no change at all. For 64-bit builds, though, this + causes the dp[] array of an mp_int to be made up of 32-bit elements + instead of 64-bit elements. This is a huge improvement because details + elsewhere in the mp_int implementation cause only 28 bits of each + element to be actually used storing number data. Without this change + bignums are over 50% wasted space on 64-bit systems. [Bug 2800740]. ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** - For any code that depended on the (strange) old iteration order. - - * generic/tclConfig.c (QueryConfigObjCmd): Correct usage of - Tcl_WrongNumArgs. - -2007-11-19 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - *** 8.5b3 TAGGED FOR RELEASE *** - - * README: Bump version number to 8.5b3. - * generic/tcl.h: - * library/init.tcl: - * tools/tcl.wse.in: - * unix/configure.in: - * unix/tcl.spec: - * win/configure.in: - - * unix/configure: autoconf (2.59) - * win/configure: - - * changes: Updated for 8.5b3 release. - -2007-11-19 Kevin Kenny <kennykb@users.sourceforge.net> - - * library/tzdata/Africa/Cairo: - * library/tzdata/America/Campo_Grande: - * library/tzdata/America/Caracas: - * library/tzdata/America/Cuiaba: - * library/tzdata/America/Havana: - * library/tzdata/America/Sao_Paulo: - * library/tzdata/Asia/Damascus: - * library/tzdata/Asia/Gaza: - * library/tzdata/Asia/Tehran: Olson's tzdata2007i imported. - -2007-11-18 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode:INST_EXIST_*): Fix read - traces not firing on non-existent array elements. [Bug 1833522] - -2007-11-16 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> - - * generic/tclCmdIL.c (TclInitInfoCmd): Rename the implementation - commands for [info] to be something more "expected". - - * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileInfoExistsCmd): Compiler for the - [info exists] subcommand. - (TclCompileEnsemble): Cleaned up version of ensemble compiler that was - in TclCompileInfoCmd, but which is now much more generally applicable. + For 64-bit builds, callers of routines with (mp_digit) or (mp_digit *) + arguments *will*, and callers of routines with (mp_int *) arguments + *may* suffer both binary and stubs incompatibilities with Tcl releases + 8.5.0 - 8.5.7. Such possibilities should be checked, and if such + incompatibilities are present, suitable [package require] requirements + on the Tcl release should be put in place to keep such built code + [load]-ing only in Tcl interps that are compatible. - * generic/tclInt.h (ENSEMBLE_COMPILE): Added flag to allow for cleaner - turning on and off of ensemble bytecode compilation. +2009-10-29 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclCompile.c (TclCompileScript): Add the cmdPtr to the list - of arguments passed to command compilers. + * tests/dict.test: Make variable-clean and simplify tests by utilizing + the fact that dictionaries have defined orders. -2007-11-15 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclZlib.c (TclZlibCmd): Remove accidental C99-ism which + reportedly makes the AIX native compiler choke. - * generic/regc_nfa.c: Fixed infinite loop in the regexp compiler. - [Bug 1810038] +2009-10-29 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - * generic/regc_nfa.c: Corrected looping logic in fixempties() to - avoid wasting time walking a list of dead states. [Bug 1832612] + * library/clock.tcl (LocalizeFormat): + * tests/clock.test (clock-67.1): + [Bug 2819334]: Corrected a problem where '%%' followed by a letter in + a format group could expand recursively: %%R would turn into %%H:%M:%S -2007-11-15 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> +2009-10-28 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclNamesp.c (NamespaceEnsembleCmd): Must pass a non-NULL - interp to Tcl_SetEnsemble* functions. + * generic/tclLiteral.c: [Bug 2888044]: Fixed 2 bugs. + * tests/info.test: First, as noted in the comments of the + TclCleanupLiteralTable routine, since the teardown of the intrep of + one Tcl_Obj can cause the teardown of others in the same table, the + full table cleanup must be done with care, but the code did not + contain the same care demanded in the comment. Second, recent + additions to the info.test file had poor hygiene, leaving an array + variable ::a lying around, which breaks later interp.test tests during + a -singleproc 1 run of the test suite. - * doc/re_syntax.n: Try to make this easier to read. It's still a very - difficult manual page! +2009-10-28 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Allow people to turn off the -rpath - option to their linker if they so desire. This is a configuration only - recommended for (some) vendors. Relates to [Patch 1231022]. + * tests/fileName.test (fileName-20.[78]): Corrected poor test + hygiene (failure to save and restore the working directory) that + caused these two tests to fail on Windows (and [Bug 2806250] to be + reopened). -2007-11-15 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-10-27 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * win/tclWin32Dll.c: Prefer UINT_PTR to DWORD_PTR when casting pointers - to integer types for greater portability. [Bug 1831253] + * generic/tclPathObj.c: [Bug 2884203]: Missing refcount on cached + normalized path caused crashes. -2007-11-15 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-10-27 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: add new chanio.test. - * macosx/Tcl.xcode/project.pbxproj: + * library/clock.tcl (ParseClockScanFormat): [Bug 2886852]: Corrected a + problem where [clock scan] didn't load the timezone soon enough when + processing a time format that lacked a complete date. + * tests/clock.test (clock-66.1): + Added a test case for the above bug. + * library/tzdata/America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires: + * library/tzdata/America/Argentina/Cordoba: + * library/tzdata/America/Argentina/San_Luis: + * library/tzdata/America/Argentina/Tucuman: + New DST rules for Argentina. (Olson's tzdata2009p.) -2007-11-14 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> +2009-10-26 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclCompile.c (TclCompileScript): Ensure that we get our count - in our INST_START_CMD calls right, even when there's a failure to - compile a command directly. + * unix/Makefile.in: Remove $(PACKAGE).* and prototype from the + `make distclean` target. Completes 2009-10-20 commit. - * generic/tclNamesp.c (Tcl_SetEnsembleSubcommandList) - (Tcl_SetEnsembleMappingDict): Special code to make sure that - * generic/tclCmdIL.c (TclInitInfoCmd): [info exists] is compiled right - while not allowing changes to the ensemble to cause havok. +2009-10-24 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileInfoCmd): Simple compiler for the - [info] command that only handles [info exists]. + * library/clock.tcl (ProcessPosixTimeZone): + Corrected a regression in the fix to [Bug 2207436] that caused + [clock] to apply EU daylight saving time rules in the US. + Thanks to Karl Lehenbauer for reporting this regression. + * tests/clock.test (clock-52.4): + Added a regression test for the above bug. + * library/tzdata/Asia/Dhaka: + * library/tzdata/Asia/Karachi: + New DST rules for Bangladesh and Pakistan. (Olson's tzdata2009o.) - * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode:INST_EXIST_*): New - instructions to allow the testing of whether a variable exists. +2009-10-23 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> -2007-11-14 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + * generic/tclIO.c (FlushChannel): Skip OutputProc for low-level + 0-length writes. When closing pipes which have already been closed + not skipping leads to spurious SIG_PIPE signals. Reported by + Mikhail Teterin <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com>. - * tests/chanio.test: New file. This is essentially a duplicate of - 'io.test', with all channel commands converted to their 'chan xxx' - notation. - * tests/io.test: Fixed typo in test description. +2009-10-22 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2007-11-14 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> + * generic/tclOOBasic.c (TclOO_Object_VarName): [Bug 2883857]: Allow + the passing of array element names through this method. - * generic/regc*.c: Eliminate multi-char collating element code - completely. Simplifies the code quite a bit. If people still want the - full code, it will remain on the 8.4 branch. [Bug 1831425] +2009-10-21 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2007-11-13 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> + * generic/tclPosixStr.c: [Bug 2882561]: Work around oddity on Haiku OS + where SIGSEGV and SIGBUS are the same value. - * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileRegexpCmd): clean up comments, only - free dstring on OK from TclReToGlob. - (TclCompileSwitchCmd): simplify TclReToGlob usage. + * generic/tclTrace.c (StringTraceProc): [Bug 2881259]: Added back cast + to work around silly bug in MSVC's handling of auto-casting. -2007-11-14 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2009-10-20 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/regc*.c: #ifdef/comment out the code that deals with - multi-character collating elements, which have never been supported. - Cuts the memory consumption of the RE compiler. [Bug 1831425] + * unix/Makefile.in: Removed the long outdated and broken targets + package-* that were for building Solaris packages. Appears that the + pieces needed for these targets to function have never been present in + the current era of Tcl development and belong completely to Tcl + pre-history. -2007-11-13 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2009-10-19 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileSwitchCmd, TclCompileRegexpCmd): - Extend [switch] compiler to handle regular expressions as long as - things are not too complex. Fix [regexp] compiler so that non-trivial - literal regexps get fed to INST_REGEXP. + * generic/tclIO.c: [Patch 2107634]: Revised ReadChars and + FilterInputBytes routines to permit reads to continue up to the string + limits of Tcl values. Before revisions, large read attempts could + panic when as little as half the limiting value length was reached. + Thanks to Sean Morrison and Bob Parker for their roles in the fix. - * doc/mathop.n: Clarify definitions of some operations. +2009-10-18 Joe Mistachkin <joe@mistachkin.com> -2007-11-13 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclObj.c (TclDbDumpActiveObjects, TclDbInitNewObj) + (Tcl_DbIncrRefCount, Tcl_DbDecrRefCount, Tcl_DbIsShared): + [Bug 2871908]: Enforce separation of concerns between the lineCLPtr + and objThreadMap thread specific data members. - * unix/tclUnixInit.c: the TCL_NO_STACK_CHECK was being incorrectly - undefined here; this should be set (or not) in the compile options, it - is used elsewhere and needs to be consistent. +2009-10-18 Joe Mistachkin <joe@mistachkin.com> -2007-11-13 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> + * tests/thread.test (thread-4.[345]): [Bug 1565466]: Correct tests to + save their error state before the final call to threadReap just in case + it triggers an "invalid thread id" error. This error can occur if one + or more of the target threads has exited prior to the attempt to send + it an asynchronous exit command. - * unix/tcl.m4: Added autoconf goo to detect and make use of - * unix/configure.in: getaddrinfo and friends. - * unix/configure: (regenerated) +2009-10-17 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2007-11-13 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> + * generic/tclVar.c (UnsetVarStruct, TclDeleteNamespaceVars) + (TclDeleteCompiledLocalVars, DeleteArray): + * generic/tclTrace.c (Tcl_UntraceVar2): [Bug 2629338]: Stop traces + that are deleted part way through (a feature used by tdom) from + causing freed memory to be accessed. - * unix/tclUnixCompat.c (TclpGetHostByName): The six-argument form of - getaddressbyname_r() uses the fifth argument to indicate whether the - lookup succeeded or not on at least one platform. [Bug 1618235] +2009-10-08 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2007-11-13 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclDictObj.c (DictIncrCmd): [Bug 2874678]: Don't leak any + bignums when doing [dict incr] with a value. + * tests/dict.test (dict-19.3): Memory leak detection code. - * generic/regcomp.c: Convert optst() from expensive no-op to a - cheap no-op. +2009-10-07 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> -2007-11-13 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> + * generic/tclObj.c: [Bug 2871908]: Plug memory leaks of objThreadMap + and lineCLPtr hashtables. Also make the names of the continuation + line information initialization and finalization functions more + consistent. Patch supplied by Joe Mistachkin <joe@mistachkin.com>. - * unix/tclUnixChan.c (CreateSocketAddress): Rewrote to use the - thread-safe version of gethostbyname() by forward-porting the code used - in 8.4, and added rudimentary support for getaddrinfo() (not enabled by - default, as no autoconf-ery written). Part of fix for [Bug 1618235]. + * generic/tclIORChan.c (ErrnoReturn): Replace hardwired constant 11 + with proper errno #define, EAGAIN. What was I thinking? The BSD's have + a different errno assignment and break with the hardwired number. + Reported by emiliano on the chat. -2007-11-12 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> +2009-10-06 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclGet.c (Tcl_Get, Tcl_GetInt): revert use of TclGet* macros - due to compiler warning. These cases won't save time either. + * generic/tclInterp.c (SlaveEval): Agressive stomping of internal reps + was added as part of the NRE patch of 2008-07-13. This doesn't appear + to actually be needed, and it hurts quite a bit when large lists lose + their intreps and require reparsing. Thanks to Ashok Nadkarni for + reporting the problem. - * generic/tclUtil.c (TclReToGlob): add more comments, set interp result - if specified on error. + * generic/tclTomMathInt.h (new): Public header tclTomMath.h had + * generic/tclTomMath.h: dependence on private headers, breaking use + * generic/tommath.h: by extensions [Bug 1941434]. -2007-11-12 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2009-10-05 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - * generic/tclBasic.c: New macro TclResetResult, new iPtr flag - * generic/tclExecute.c: bit INTERP_RESULT_UNCLEAN: shortcut for - * generic/tclInt.h: Tcl_ResetResult for the "normal" case: - * generic/tclProc.c: TCL_OK, no return options, no errorCode - * generic/tclResult.c: nor errorInfo, return at normal level. - * generic/tclStubLib.c: [Patch 1830184] - * generic/tclUtil.c: + * library/safe.tcl (AliasGlob): Fixed conversion of catch to + try/finally, it had an 'on ok msg' branch missing, causing a + silent error immediately, and bogus glob results, breaking + search for Tcl modules. - THIS PATCH WAS REVERTED: initial (mis)measurements overstated the - perfomance wins, which turn out to be tiny. Not worth the complication. +2009-10-04 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> -2007-11-11 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> + * macosx/tclMacOSXBundle.c: Workaround CF memory managment bug in + * unix/tclUnixInit.c: Mac OS X 10.4 & earlier. [Bug 2569449] - * generic/tclCompCmds.c, generic/tclCompile.c, generic/tclCompile.h: - * generic/tclExecute.c, generic/tclInt.decls, generic/tclIntDecls.h: - * generic/tclRegexp.c, generic/tclRegexp.h: Add INST_REGEXP and fully - * generic/tclStubInit.c, generic/tclUtil.c: compiled [regexp] for the - * tests/regexpComp.test: [Bug 1830166] simple cases. Also added - TclReToGlob function to convert RE to glob patterns and use these in - the possible cases. +2009-10-02 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> -2007-11-11 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + * library/tzdata/Africa/Cairo: + * library/tzdata/Asia/Gaza: + * library/tzdata/Asia/Karachi: + * library/tzdata/Pacific/Apia: Olson's tzdata2009n. - * generic/tclResult.c (ResetObjResult): clarify the logic. +2009-09-29 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclBasic.c: Increased usage of macros to detect - * generic/tclBinary.c: and take advantage of objTypes. Added - * generic/tclClock.c: macros TclGet(Int|Long)FromObj, - * generic/tclCmdAH.c: TclGetIntForIndexM & TclListObjLength, - * generic/tclCmdIL.c: modified TclListObjGetElements. - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: - * generic/tclCompCmds.c: The TclGetInt* macros are only a - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: shortcut on platforms where 'long' is - * generic/tclCompile.c: 'int'; it may be worthwhile to extend - * generic/tclDictObj.c: their functionality to other cases. - * generic/tclExecute.c: - * generic/tclGet.c: As this patch touches many files it has - * generic/tclIO.c: been recorded as [Patch 1830038] in - * generic/tclIOCmd.c: order to facilitate reviewing. - * generic/tclIOGT.c: - * generic/tclIndexObj.c: + * generic/tclDictObj.c: [Bug 2857044]: Updated freeIntRepProc + * generic/tclExecute.c: routines so that they set the typePtr + * generic/tclIO.c: field to NULL so that the Tcl_Obj is + * generic/tclIndexObj.c: not left in an inconsistent state. * generic/tclInt.h: - * generic/tclInterp.c: * generic/tclListObj.c: - * generic/tclLiteral.c: * generic/tclNamesp.c: + * generic/tclOOCall.c: * generic/tclObj.c: - * generic/tclParse.c: + * generic/tclPathObj.c: * generic/tclProc.c: * generic/tclRegexp.c: - * generic/tclResult.c: - * generic/tclScan.c: * generic/tclStringObj.c: - * generic/tclUtil.c: - * generic/tclVar.c: - -2007-11-11 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - - * unix/tclUnixTime.c (TclpWideClicksToNanoseconds): Fix issues with - * generic/tclInt.h: int64_t overflow. - - * generic/tclBasic.c: Fix stack check failure case if stack grows up - * unix/tclUnixInit.c: Simplify non-crosscompiled case. - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 - * unix/tclConfig.h.in: autoheader-2.59 - -2007-11-10 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclExecute.c: Fast path for INST_LIST_INDEX when the index is - not a list. - - * generic/tclBasic.c: - * unix/configure.in: - * unix/tclUnixInit.c: Detect stack grwoth direction at compile time, - only fall to runtime detection when crosscompiling. + * generic/tclAlloc.c: Cleaned up various routines in the + * generic/tclCkalloc.c: call stacks for memory allocation to + * generic/tclInt.h: guarantee that any size values computed + * generic/tclThreadAlloc.c: are within the domains of the routines + they get passed to. [Bugs 2557696 and 2557796]. - * unix/configure: autoconf 2.61 +2009-09-28 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclBasic.c: - * generic/tclInt.h: - * tests/interp.test: - * unix/tclUnixInit.c: - * win/tclWin32Dll.c: Restore simpler behaviour for stack checking, not - adaptive to stack size changes after a thread is launched. Consensus is - that "nobody does that", and so it is not worth the cost. Improved - failure comments (mistachkin). + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: Replaced TclProcessReturn() calls with + * tests/error.test: Tcl_SetReturnOptions() calls as a simple fix + for [Bug 2855247]. Thanks to Anton Kovalenko for the report and fix. + Additional fixes for other failures demonstrated by new tests. -2007-11-10 Kevin Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> +2009-09-27 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * win/tclWin32Dll.c: Rewrote the Windows stack checking algorithm to - use information from VirtualQuery to determine the bound of the stack. - This change fixes a bug where the guard page of the stack was never - restored after an overflow. It also eliminates a nasty piece of - assembly code for structured exception handling on mingw. It introduces - an assumption that the stack is a single memory arena returned from - VirtualAlloc, but the code in MSVCRT makes the same assumption, so it - should be fairly safe. + * tests/error.test (error-15.8.*): Coverage tests illustrating + flaws in the propagation of return options by [try]. -2007-11-10 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2009-09-26 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclBasic.c: - * generic/tclInt.h: - * unix/tclUnixInit.c: - * unix/tclUnixPort.h: - * win/tclWin32Dll.c: Modify the stack checking algorithm to recheck in - case of failure. The working assumptions are now that (a) a thread's - stack is never moved, and (b) a thread's stack can grow but not shrink. - Port to windows - could be more efficient, but is already cheaper than - it was. + * unix/tclooConfig.sh, win/tclooConfig.sh: [Bug 2026844]: Added dummy + versions of tclooConfig.sh that make it easier to build extensions + against both Tcl8.5+TclOO-standalone and Tcl8.6. -2007-11-09 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2009-09-24 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclResult.c (ResetObjResult): new shortcut. + TIP #356 IMPLEMENTATION - * generic/tclAsync.c: - * generic/tclBasic.c: - * generic/tclExecute.c: + * generic/tcl.decls: Promote internal routine TclNRSubstObj() + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: to public Tcl_NRSubstObj(). Still needs docs. + * generic/tclCompile.c: * generic/tclInt.h: - * generic/tclUnixInit.c: - * generic/tclUnixPort.h: New fields in interp (ekeko!) to cache TSD - data that is accessed at each command invocation, access macros to - replace Tcl_AsyncReady and TclpCheckStackSpace by much faster variants. - [Patch 1829248] - -2007-11-09 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - * generic/tclInt.decls, generic/tclIntDecls.h: Use unsigned char for - * generic/tclExecute.c, generic/tclUtil.c: TclByteArrayMatch and - don't allow a nocase option. [Bug 1828296] - For INST_STR_MATCH, ignore pattern type for TclByteArrayMatch case. + * generic/tclDecls.h: make genstubs + * generic/tclStubInit.c: - * generic/tclBinary.c (Tcl_GetByteArrayFromObj): check type before - func jump (perf). +2009-09-23 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> -2007-11-07 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> + * doc/namespace.n: the description of [namespace unknown] failed + to mention [namespace path]: fixed. Thx emiliano. - * generic/tclStubInit.c: Added TclByteArrayMatch - * generic/tclInt.decls: for efficient glob - * generic/tclIntDecls.h: matching of ByteArray - * generic/tclUtil.c (TclByteArrayMatch): Tcl_Objs, used in - * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): INST_STR_MATCH. [Bug - 1827996] +2009-09-21 Mo DeJong <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclIO.c (TclGetsObjBinary): Add an efficient binary path for - [gets]. - (DoWriteChars): Special case for 1-byte channel write. + * tests/regexp.test: Added check for error message from + unbalanced [] in regexp. Added additional simple test cases + of basic regsub command. -2007-11-06 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2009-09-21 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclEncoding.c: Version of the embedded iso8859-1 encoding - handler that is faster (functions to do the encoding know exactly what - they're doing instead of pulling it from a table, though the table - itself has to be retained for use by shift encodings that depend on - iso8859-1). [Patch 1826906], committing for dkf. + * generic/tclCompile.c: Correct botch in the conversion of + Tcl_SubstObj(). Thanks to Kevin Kenny for detection and report. -2007-11-05 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> +2009-09-17 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclConfig.c (Tcl_RegisterConfig): Modified to not extend the - config database if the encoding provided by the user is not found - (venc == NULL). Scripts expecting the data will error out, however we - neither crash nor provide bogus information. See [Bug 983509] for more - discussion. + * generic/tclCompile.c: Re-implement Tcl_SubstObj() as a simple + * generic/tclParse.c: wrapper around TclNRSubstObj(). This has + * tests/basic.test: the effect of caching compiled bytecode in + * tests/parse.test: the value to be substituted. Note that + Tcl_SubstObj() now exists only for extensions. Tcl itself no longer + makes any use of it. Note also that TclSubstTokens() is now reachable + only by Tcl_EvalEx() and Tcl_ParseVar() so tests aiming to test its + functioning needed adjustment to still have the intended effect. - * unix/tclUnixChan.c (TtyGetOptionProc): Accepted [Patch 1823576] - provided by Stuart Cassof <stwo@users.sourceforge.net>. The patch adds - the necessary utf/external conversions to the handling of the arguments - of option -xchar which will allow the use of \0 and similar characters. +2009-09-16 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> -2007-11-03 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclObj.c: Extended ::tcl::unsupported::representation. - * generic/tclTest.c (TestSetCmd2): - * generic/tclVar.c (TclObjLookupVarEx): - * tests/set.test (set-5.1): Fix error branch when array name looks - like array element (code not normally exercised). +2009-09-11 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> -2007-11-01 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> + * generic/tclBasic.c: Completed the NR-enabling of [subst]. + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: [Bug 2314561]. + * generic/tclCompCmds.c: + * generic/tclCompile.c: + * generic/tclInt.h: + * tests/coroutine.test: + * tests/parse.test: - * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl (output-directive): Convert .DS/.DE pairs - into tables since that is now all that they are used for. +2009-09-11 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * doc/RegExp.3: Clarified documentation of RE flags. [Bug 1167840] + * tests/http.test: Added in cleaning up of http tokens for each test + to reduce amount of global-variable pollution. - * doc/refchan.n: Adjust internal name to be consistent with the file - name for reduced user confusion. After comment by Dan Steffen. +2009-09-10 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_StringObjCmd, UniCharIsAscii): Remember, the - NUL character is in ASCII too. [Bug 1808258] + * library/http/http.tcl (http::Event): [Bug 2849860]: Handle charset + names in double quotes; some servers like generating them like that. - * doc/file.n: Clarified use of [file normalize]. [Bug 1185154] +2009-09-07 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> -2007-10-30 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclParse.c: [Bug 2850901]: Corrected line counting error + * tests/into.test: in multi-command script substitutions. - * generic/tcl.h: Bump version number to 8.5b2.1 to distinguish - * library/init.tcl: CVS development snapshots from the 8.5b2 - * unix/configure.in: release. - * unix/tcl.spec: - * win/configure.in: +2009-09-07 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - * unix/configure: autoconf (2.59) - * win/configure: + * generic/tclExecute.c: Fix potential uninitialized variable use and + * generic/tclFCmd.c: null dereference flagged by clang static + * generic/tclProc.c: analyzer. + * generic/tclTimer.c: + * generic/tclUtf.c: -2007-10-30 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> + * generic/tclExecute.c: Silence false positives from clang static + * generic/tclIO.c: analyzer about potential null dereference. + * generic/tclScan.c: + * generic/tclCompExpr.c: - * doc/expr.n, doc/mathfunc.n: Improve documentation to try to make - clearer what is going on. +2009-09-04 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * doc/interp.n: Shorten the basic descriptive text for some interp - subcommands so Solaris nroff doesn't truncate them. [Bug 1822268] + * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileSubstCmd): [Bug 2314561]: + * generic/tclBasic.c: Added a bytecode compiler routine for the + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: [subst] command. This is a partial solution to + * generic/tclCompile.c: the need to NR-enable [subst] since bytecode + * generic/tclCompile.h: execution is already NR-enabled. Two new + * generic/tclExecute.c: bytecode instructions, INST_NOP and + * generic/tclInt.h: INST_RETURN_CODE_BRANCH were added to support + * generic/tclParse.c: the new routine. INST_RETURN_CODE_BRANCH is + * tests/basic.test: likely to be useful in any future effort to + * tests/info.test: add a bytecode compiler routine for [try]. + * tests/parse.test: -2007-10-30 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2009-09-03 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl (output-widget-options): Enhance the HTML - generator so that it can produce multi-line option descriptions. + * doc/LinkVar.3: [Bug 2844962]: Added documentation of issues relating + to use of this API in a multi-threaded environment. -2007-10-28 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2009-09-01 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - * generic/tclUtil.c (Tcl_ConcatObj): optimise for some of the - concatenees being empty objs. [Bug 1447328] + * generic/tclIORTrans.c (ReflectInput): Remove error response to + 0-result from method 'limit?' of transformations. Return the number of + copied bytes instead, which is possibly nothing. The latter then + triggers EOF handling in the higher layers, making the 0-result of + limit? the way to inject artificial EOF's into the data stream. -2007-10-28 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2009-09-01 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclEncoding.c (TclInitEncodingSubsystem): Hard code the - iso8859-1 encoding, as it's needed for more than just text (especially - binary encodings...) Note that other encodings rely on the encoding - being a table encoding (!) so we can't use more efficient encoding - mapping functions. + * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl: Bump to tcltest 2.3.2 after revision + * library/tcltest/pkgIndex.tcl: to verbose error message. + * unix/Makefile.in: + * win/Makefile.in: -2007-10-27 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2009-08-27 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/regc_lex.c (lexescape): Close off one of the problems - mentioned in [Bug 1810264]. + * generic/tclStringObj.c: [Bug 2845535]: A few more string + overflow cases in [format]. -2007-10-27 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2009-08-25 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - * generic/tclNamesp.c (Tcl_FindCommand): insure that FQ command names - are searched from the global namespace, ie, bypassing resolvers of the - current namespace. [Bug 1114355] + * generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_CreateInterp, Tcl_EvalTokensStandard) + (Tcl_EvalEx, TclEvalEx, TclAdvanceContinuations, TclNREvalObjEx): + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_SwitchObjCmd, TclListLines): + * generic/tclCompCmds.c (*): + * generic/tclCompile.c (TclSetByteCodeFromAny, TclInitCompileEnv) + (TclFreeCompileEnv, TclCompileScript, TclCompileTokens): + * generic/tclCompile.h (CompileEnv): + * generic/tclInt.h (ContLineLoc, Interp): + * generic/tclObj.c (ThreadSpecificData, ContLineLocFree) + (TclThreadFinalizeObjects, TclInitObjSubsystem, TclContinuationsEnter, + (TclContinuationsEnterDerived, TclContinuationsCopy, TclFreeObj) + (TclContinuationsGet): + * generic/tclParse.c (TclSubstTokens, Tcl_SubstObj): + * generic/tclProc.c (TclCreateProc): + * generic/tclVar.c (TclPtrSetVar): + * tests/info.test (info-30.0-24): - * doc/apply.n: fixed example [Bug 1811791] - * doc/namespace.n: improved example [Bug 1788984] - * doc/AddErrInfo.3: typo [Bug 1715087] - * doc/CrtMathFnc.3: fixed Tcl_ListMathFuncs entry [Bug 1672219] + Extended the parser, compiler, and execution engine with code and + attendant data structures tracking the position of continuation lines + which are not visible in the resulting script Tcl_Obj*'s, to properly + account for them while counting lines for #280. - * generic/tclCompile.h: - * generic/tclInt.h: moved declaration of TclSetCmdNameObj from - tclCompile.h to tclInt.h, reverting linker [Bug 1821159] caused by - commit of 2007-10-11 (both I and gcc missed one dep). +2009-08-24 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclVar.c: try to preserve Tcl_Objs when doing variable - lookups by name, partially addressing [Bug 1793601]. + * generic/tclInt.h: Annotate Tcl_Panic as noreturn for clang static + analyzer in PURIFY builds, replacing preprocessor/assert technique. -2007-10-27 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + * macosx/tclMacOSXNotify.c: Fix multiple issues with nested event loops + when CoreFoundation notifier is running in embedded mode. (Fixes + problems in TkAqua Cocoa reported by Youness Alaoui on tcl-mac) - * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl (make-man-pages, htmlize-text) - (process-text): Make the man->HTML scraper work better. +2009-08-21 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> -2007-10-26 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclFileName.c: Correct regression in [Bug 2837800] fix. + * tests/fileName.test: - *** 8.5b2 TAGGED FOR RELEASE *** +2009-08-20 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * changes: Updated for 8.5b2 release. + * generic/tclFileName.c: [Bug 2837800]: Correct the result produced by + [glob */test] when * matches something like ~foo. - * doc/*.1: Revert doc changes that broke - * doc/*.3: `make html` so we can get the release - * doc/*.n: out the door. + * generic/tclPathObj.c: [Bug 2806250]: Prevent the storage of strings + starting with ~ in the "tail" part (normPathPtr field) of the path + intrep when PATHFLAGS != 0. This establishes the assumptions relied + on elsewhere that the name stored there is a relative path. Also + refactored to make an AppendPath() routine instead of the cut/paste + stanzas that were littered throughout. - * README: Bump version number to 8.5b2. - * generic/tcl.h: - * library/init.tcl: - * tools/tcl.wse.in: - * unix/configure.in: - * unix/tcl.spec: - * win/configure.in: +2009-08-20 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * unix/configure: autoconf (2.59) - * win/configure: + * generic/tclCmdIL.c (TclNRIfObjCmd): [Bug 2823276]: Make [if] + NRE-safe on all arguments when interpreted. + (Tcl_LsortObjCmd): Close off memory leak. -2007-10-26 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> +2009-08-19 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * tools/man2help2.tcl, tools/man2tcl.c: Made some of the tooling code - to do man->other formats work better with current manpage set. Long - way still to go. + * generic/tclCmdAH.c (TclNRForObjCmd, etc.): [Bug 2823276]: Make [for] + and [while] into NRE-safe commands, even when interpreted. -2007-10-25 Zoran Vasiljevic <vasiljevic@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-08-18 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclThread.c: Added TclpMasterLock/Unlock arround calls to - ForgetSyncObject in Tcl_MutexFinalize and Tcl_ConditionFinalize to - prevent from garbling the internal lists that track sync objects. [Bug - 1726873] + * generic/tclPathObj.c: [Bug 2837800]: Added NULL check to prevent + * tests/fileName.test: crashes during [glob]. -2007-10-24 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> +2009-08-16 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * tools/man2html2.tcl (macro): Added support for converting the new - macros into HTML. + * unix/dltest/pkge.c: const addition + * unix/tclUnixThrd.c: Use <pthread.h> in stead of "pthread.h" + * win/tclWinDde.c: Eliminate some more gcc warnings + * win/tclWinReg.c: + * generic/tclInt.h: Change ForIterData, make it const-safe. + * generic/tclCmdAH.c: - * doc/man.macros (QW,PQ,QR,MT): New macros that hide the ugly mess - needed to get proper GOOBE quoting in the manual pages. - * doc/*.n, doc/*.3, doc/*.1: Lots of changes to take advantage of the - new macros. +2009-08-12 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> -2007-10-20 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + TIP #353 IMPLEMENTATION - * generic/tclCompile.c: Fix comments. + * doc/NRE.3: New public routine Tcl_NRExprObj() permits + * generic/tcl.decls: extension commands to evaluate Tcl expressions + * generic/tclBasic.c: in NR-enabled command procedures. + * generic/tclCmdAH.c: * generic/tclExecute.c: - -2007-10-18 David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com> - - * tools/mkdepend.tcl: sort the dep list for a more humanly readable - output. - -2007-10-18 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclResult.c (TclMergeReturnOptions): Make sure any -code - values get pulled out of the dictionary, even if they are integer - valued. - - * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileReturnCmd): Added code to more - optimally compile [return -level 0 $x] to "push $x". [RFE 1794073] - - * compat/tmpnam.c (removed): The routine tmpnam() is no longer - * unix/Makefile.in: called by Tcl source code. Remove autogoo the - * unix/configure.in: supplied a replacement version on systems - * win/tcl.dsp: where the routine was not available. [RFE - 1811848] - - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 - - * generic/tcl.h: Remove TCL_LL_MODIFIER_SIZE. [RFE 1811837] - -2007-10-17 David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com> - - * tools/mkdepend.tcl: Improved defense from malformed object list - infile. - -2007-10-17 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> - - * tools/man2html2.tcl: Convert .DS/.DE into HTML tables, not - preformatted text. - -2007-10-17 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: Moved a misplaced declaration that blocked - compilation on VC++. - * generic/tclExecute.c: Silenced several VC++ compiler warnings about - converting 'long' to 'unsigned short'. - -2007-10-16 David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com> - - * win/makefile.vc: removed old dependency cruft that is no longer - needed. - -2007-10-15 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclIOCmd.c: Revise [open] so that it interprets leading - zero strings passed as the "permissions" argument as octal numbers, - even if Tcl itself no longer parses integers in that way. - - * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c: Revise the "-permissions" [file attribute] so - that it interprets leading zero strings as octal numbers, even if Tcl - itself no longer parses integers in that way. - - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: Corrections to code that produces - * generic/tclUtil.c: extended "bad octal" error messages. - - * tests/cmdAH.test: Test revisions so that tests pass whether or - * tests/cmdIL.test: not Tcl parses leading zero strings as octal. - * tests/compExpr-old.test: - * tests/compExpr.test: - * tests/compile.test: - * tests/expr-old.test: + * generic/tclInt.h: + * generic/tclObj.c: * tests/expr.test: - * tests/incr.test: - * tests/io.test: - * tests/lindex.test: - * tests/link.test: - * tests/mathop.test: - * tests/parseExpr.test: - * tests/set.test: - * tests/string.test: - * tests/stringComp.test: - -2007-10-15 David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com> - - * tools/mkdepend.tcl: Produces usable output. Include path problem - * win/makefile.vc: fixed. Never fight city hall when it comes to - levels of quoting issues. - -2007-10-15 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclParse.c (Tcl_ParseBraces): fix for possible read after - the end of buffer. [Bug 1813528] (Joe Mistachkin) - -2007-10-14 David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com> - - * tools/mkdepend.tcl (new): Initial stab at generating automatic - * win/makefile.vc: dependencies. - -2007-10-12 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> - - * win/makefile.vc: Mine all version information from headers. - * win/rules.vc: Sync tcl and tk and bring extension versions - * win/nmakehlp.c: closer together. Try and avoid using tclsh to do - substitutions as we may cross compile. - * win/coffbase.txt: Added offsets for snack dlls. - -2007-10-11 David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com> - - * win/makefile.vc: Fixed my bad spelling mistakes from years back. - Dedependency, duh! Rather funny. - -2007-10-11 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: Correct [string is (wide)integer] failure - * tests/string.test: to report correct failindex values for - non-decimal integer strings. [Bug 1805887] - - * compat/strtoll.c (removed): The routines strtoll() and strtoull() - * compat/strtoull.c (removed): are no longer called by the Tcl source - * generic/tcl.h: code. (Their functionality has been replaced - * unix/Makefile.in: by TclParseNumber().) Remove outdated comments - * unix/configure.in: and mountains of configury autogoo that - * unix/tclUnixPort.h: allegedly support the mythical systems where - * win/Makefile.in: these routines might not have been available. - * win/makefile.bc: - * win/makefile.vc: - * win/tclWinPort.h: - - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 - -2007-10-11 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclObj.c: remove superfluous #include of tclCompile.h - -2007-10-08 George Peter Staplin <georgeps@xmission.com> - - * doc/Hash.3: Correct the valid usage of the flags member for the - Tcl_HashKeyType. It should be 0 or more of the flags mentioned. - -2007-10-02 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - - * generic/tcl.h (Tcl_DecrRefCount): Update change from 2006-05-29 to - make macro more warning-robust in unbraced if code. - -2007-10-02 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - [core-stabilizer-branch] - - * README: Bump version number to 8.5.0 - * generic/tcl.h: - * library/init.tcl: - * tools/tcl.wse.in: - * unix/configure.in: - * unix/tcl.spec: - * win/configure.in: - - * unix/configure: autoconf (2.59) - * win/configure: - -2007-10-02 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - - * library/tclIndex: Added 'tcl::tm::path' to the tclIndex. This fixes - [Bug 1806422] reported by Don Porter. - -2007-09-25 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> - - * generic/tclProc.c (Tcl_DisassembleObjCmd): Define a command, - ::tcl::unsupported::disassemble, which can disassemble procedures, - lambdas and general scripts. - * generic/tclCompile.c (TclDisassembleByteCodeObj): Split apart the - code to print disassemblies of bytecode so that there is reusable code - that spits it out in a Tcl_Obj and then that code is used when doing - tracing. - -2007-09-20 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - *** 8.5b1 TAGGED FOR RELEASE *** - - * changes: updates for 8.5b1 release. - -2007-09-19 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * README: Bump version number to 8.5b1 - * generic/tcl.h: Merge from core-stabilizer-branch. - * library/init.tcl: Stabilizing toward 8.5b1 release now done on - * tools/tcl.wse.in: the HEAD. core-stabilizer-branch is now - * unix/configure.in: suspended. - * unix/tcl.spec: - * win/configure.in: - -2007-09-19 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclStubLib.: Replaced isdigit with internal implementation. - -2007-09-18 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclStubLib.c: Remove C library calls from Tcl_InitStubs() so - * win/makefile.vc: that we don't need the C library linked in to - libtclStub. - -2007-09-17 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> - - * win/makefile.vc: Add crt flags for tclStubLib now it uses C-library - functions. - -2007-09-17 Joe English <jenglish@users.sourceforge.net> - - * tcl.m4: use '${CC} -shared' instead of 'ld -Bshareable' to build - shared libraries on current NetBSDs. [Bug 1749251] - * unix/configure: regenerated (autoconf-2.59). - -2007-09-17 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * unix/Makefile.in: Update `make dist` so that tclDTrace.d is - included in the source code distribution. - - * generic/tcl.h: Revised Tcl_InitStubs() to restore Tcl 8.4 - * generic/tclPkg.c: source compatibility with callers of - * generic/tclStubLib.c: Tcl_InitStubs(interp, TCL_VERSION, 1). [Bug - 1578344] - -2007-09-17 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> - - * generic/tclTrace.c (Tcl_TraceObjCmd, TraceExecutionObjCmd) - (TraceCommandObjCmd, TraceVariableObjCmd): Generate literal values - * generic/tclNamesp.c (NamespaceCodeCmd): more efficiently using - * generic/tclFCmd.c (CopyRenameOneFile): TclNewLiteralStringObj - * generic/tclEvent.c (TclSetBgErrorHandler): macro. - -2007-09-15 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - - * unix/tcl.m4: replace all direct references to compiler by ${CC} to - enable CC overriding at configure & make time; run - check for visibility "hidden" with all compilers; - quoting fixes from TEA tcl.m4. - (SunOS-5.1x): replace direct use of '/usr/ccs/bin/ld' in SHLIB_LD by - 'cc' compiler driver. - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 - -2007-09-14 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> - - * generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_CreateObjCommand): Only invalidate along the - namespace path once; that is enough. [Bug 1519940] - -2007-09-14 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclDTrace.d (new file): Add DTrace provider for Tcl; allows - * generic/tclCompile.h: tracing of proc and command entry & - * generic/tclBasic.c: return, bytecode execution, object - * generic/tclExecute.c: allocation and more; with - * generic/tclInt.h: essentially zero cost when tracing - * generic/tclObj.c: is inactive; enable with - * generic/tclProc.c: --enable-dtrace configure arg - * unix/Makefile.in: (disabled by default, will only - * unix/configure.in: enable if DTrace is present). [Patch - 1793984] - - * macosx/GNUmakefile: Enable DTrace support. - * macosx/Tcl-Common.xcconfig: - * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: - - * generic/tclCmdIL.c: Factor out core of InfoFrameCmd() into - internal TclInfoFrame() for use by DTrace - probes. - - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 - * unix/tclConfig.h.in: autoheader-2.59 - -2007-09-12 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * unix/Makefile.in: Perform missing updates of the tcltest Tcl - * win/Makefile.in: Module installed filename that should have - been part of the bump to tcltest 2.3b1. Thanks Larry Virden. - -2007-09-12 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> - - * win/makefile.vc, win/rules.vc, win/nmakehlp.c: Use nmakehlp to - substitute values for tclConfig.sh (helps cross-compiling). - -2007-09-11 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl: Accept underscores and colons in - * library/tcltest/pkgIndex.tcl: constraint names. Properly handle - constraint expressions that return non-numeric boolean results like - "false". Bump to tcltest 2.3b1. [Bug 1772989; RFE 1071322] - * tests/info.test: Disable fragile tests. - - * doc/package.n: Restored the functioning of [package require - * generic/tclPkg.c: -exact] to be compatible with Tcl 8.4. [Bug - * tests/pkg.test: 1578344] - -2007-09-11 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileDictCmd-update): - * generic/tclCompile.c (tclInstructionTable): - * generic/tclExecute.c (INST_DICT_UPDATE_END): fix stack management in - compiled [dict update]. [Bug 1786481] - - ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** - Scripts that were precompiled on earlier versions of 8.5 and use [dict - update] will crash. Workaround: recompile. - -2007-09-11 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - - * generic/tclExecute.c: Corrected an off-by-one error in the setting - of MaxBaseWide for certain powers. [Bug 1767293 - problem reported in - comments when bug was reopened] - -2007-09-10 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - - * generic/tclLink.c (Tcl_UpdateLinkedVar): guard against var being - unlinked. [Bug 1740631] (maros) - -2007-09-10 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclCompile.c: fix tclInstructionTable entry for - dictUpdateEnd - - * generic/tclExecute.c: remove unneeded setting of 'cleanup' variable - before jumping to checkForCatch. - -2007-09-10 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * doc/package.n: Restored the document parallel syntax of the - * generic/tclPkg.c: [package present] and [package require] - * tests/pkg.test: commands. [Bug 1723675] - -2007-09-09 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclInt.h: Removed the "nsName" Tcl_ObjType from the - * generic/tclNamesp.c: registered set. Revised the management of the - * generic/tclObj.c: intrep of that Tcl_ObjType. Revised the - * tests/obj.test: TclGetNamespaceFromObj() routine to return - TCL_ERROR and write a consistent error message when a namespace is not - found. [Bug 1588842. Patch 1686862] - - ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** - For callers of Tcl_GetObjType() on the name "nsName". - - * generic/tclExecute.c: Update TclGetNamespaceFromObj() callers. - * generic/tclProc.c: - - * tests/apply.test: Updated tests to expect new consistent - * tests/namespace-old.test: error message when a namespace is not - * tests/namespace.test: found. - * tests/upvar.test: - - * generic/tclCompCmds.c: Use the new INST_REVERSE instruction - * tests/mathop.test: to correct the compiled versions of math - operator commands. [Bug 1724437] - - * generic/tclCompile.c: New bytecode instruction INST_REVERSE to - * generic/tclCompile.h: reverse the order of N items at the top of - * generic/tclExecute.c: stack. - - * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompilePowOpCmd): Make a separate - routine to compile ** to account for its different associativity. - -2007-09-08 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_SetVar2, TclPtrSetVar): [Bug 1710710] fixed - correctly, reverted fix of 2007-05-01. - -2007-09-08 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclDictObj.c (DictUpdateCmd, DictWithCmd): Plug a hole that - * generic/tclExecute.c (TEBC,INST_DICT_UPDATE_END): allowed a careful - * tests/dict.test (dict-21.16,21.17,22.11): attacker to craft a dict - containing a recursive link to itself, violating one of Tcl's - fundamental datatype assumptions and causing a stack crash when the - dict was converted to a string. [Bug 1786481] - -2007-09-07 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclEvent.c ([::tcl::Bgerror]): Corrections to Tcl's - * tests/event.test: default [interp bgerror] handler so that when - it falls back to a hidden [bgerror] in a safe interp, it gets the - right error context data. [Bug 1790274] - -2007-09-07 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclProc.c (TclInitCompiledLocals): the refCount of resolved - variables was being managed without checking if they were Var or - VarInHash: itcl [Bug 1790184] - -2007-09-06 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclResult.c (Tcl_GetReturnOptions): Take care that a - * tests/init.test: non-TCL_ERROR code doesn't cause existing - -errorinfo, -errorcode, and -errorline entries to be omitted. - * generic/tclEvent.c: With -errorInfo no longer lost, generate more - complete ::errorInfo when calling [bgerror] after a non-TCL_ERROR - background exception. - -2007-09-06 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclInterp.c (Tcl_Init): Removed constraint on ability - to define a custom [tclInit] before calling Tcl_Init(). Until now the - custom command had to be a proc. Now it can be any command. - - * generic/tclInt.decls: New internal routine TclBackgroundException() - * generic/tclEvent.c: that for the first time permits non-TCL_ERROR - exceptions to trigger [interp bgerror] handling. Closes a gap in TIP - 221. When falling back to [bgerror] (which is designed only to handle - TCL_ERROR), convert exceptions into errors complaining about the - exception. - - * generic/tclInterp.c: Convert Tcl_BackgroundError() callers to call - * generic/tclIO.c: TclBackgroundException(). - * generic/tclIOCmd.c: - * generic/tclTimer.c: - - * generic/tclIntDecls.h: make genstubs + * generic/tclDecls.h: make genstubs * generic/tclStubInit.c: -2007-09-06 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - - * macosx/Tcl.xcode/project.pbxproj: discontinue unmaintained support - * macosx/Tcl.xcode/default.pbxuser: for Xcode 1.5; replace by Xcode2 - project for use on Tiger (with Tcl.xcodeproj to be used on Leopard). - - * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: updates for Xcode 2.5 and 3.0. - * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/default.pbxuser: - * macosx/Tcl.xcode/project.pbxproj: - * macosx/Tcl.xcode/default.pbxuser: - * macosx/Tcl-Common.xcconfig: - - * macosx/README: document project changes. - -2007-09-05 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclBasic.c: Removed support for the unmaintained - * generic/tclExecute.c: -DTCL_GENERIC_ONLY configuration. [Bug - * unix/Makefile.in: 1264623] - -2007-09-04 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * unix/Makefile.in: It's unreliable to count on the release - manager to remember to `make genstubs` before `make dist`. Let the - Makefile remember the dependency for us. - - * unix/Makefile.in: Corrections to `make dist` dependencies to be - sure that macosx/configure gets generated whenever it does not exist. - -2007-09-03 Kevin B, Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - - * library/tzdata/Africa/Cairo: - * library/tzdata/America/Grand_Turk: - * library/tzdata/America/Port-au-Prince: - * library/tzdata/America/Indiana/Petersburg: - * library/tzdata/America/Indiana/Tell_City: - * library/tzdata/America/Indiana/Vincennes: - * library/tzdata/Antarctica/McMurdo: - * library/tzdata/Australia/Adelaide: - * library/tzdata/Australia/Broken_Hill: - * library/tzdata/Australia/Currie: - * library/tzdata/Australia/Hobart: - * library/tzdata/Australia/Lord_Howe: - * library/tzdata/Australia/Melbourne: - * library/tzdata/Australia/Sydney: - * library/tzdata/Pacific/Auckland: - * library/tzdata/Pacific/Chatham: Olson's tzdata2007g. - - * generic/tclListObj.c (TclLindexFlat): - * tests/lindex.test (lindex-17.[01]): Added code to detect the error - when a script does [lindex {} end foo]; an overaggressive optimisation - caused this call to return an empty object rather than an error. - -2007-09-03 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclObj.c (TclInitObjSubsystem): restore registration of the - "wideInt" Tcl_ObjType for compatibility with 8.4 extensions that - access the tclWideIntType Tcl_ObjType; add setFromAnyProc for - tclWideIntType. - -2007-09-02 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - - * doc/lsearch.n: Added note that order of results with the -all option - is that of the input list. It always was, but this makes it crystal. - -2007-08-30 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclCompile.c: Added fflush() calls following all callers of - * generic/tclExecute.c: TclPrintByteCodeObj() so that tcl_traceCompile - output is less likely to get mangled when writes to stdout interleave - with other code. - -2007-08-28 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: Use a table lookup in ParseLexeme() to - determine lexemes with single-byte representations. - - * generic/tclBasic.c: Used unions to better clarify overloading of - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: the fields of the OpCmdInfo and - * generic/tclCompile.h: TclOpCmdClientData structs. - -2007-08-27 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: Call TclCompileSyntaxError() when - expression syntax errors are found when compiling expressions. With - this in place, convert TclCompileExpr to return void, since there's no - longer any need to report TCL_ERROR. - * generic/tclCompile.c: Update callers. - * generic/tclExecute.c: - - * generic/tclCompCmds.c: New routine TclCompileSyntaxError() - * generic/tclCompile.h: to directly compile bytecodes that report a - * generic/tclCompile.c: syntax error, rather than (ab)use a call to - TclCompileReturnCmd. Also, undo the most recent commit that papered - over some issues with that (ab)use. New routine produces a new opcode - INST_SYNTAX, which is a minor variation of INST_RETURN_IMM. Also a bit - of constification. - - * generic/tclCompile.c: Move the deallocation of local LiteralTable - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: entries into TclFreeCompileEnv(). - * generic/tclExecute.c: Update callers. - - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: Force numeric and boolean literals in - expressions to register with their intreps intact, even if that means - overwriting existing intreps in already registered literals. - -2007-08-25 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - - * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): Added code to handle - * tests/expr.test (expr-23.48-53) integer exponentiation - that results in 32- and 64-bit integer results, avoiding calls to wide - integer exponentiation routines in this common case. [Bug 1767293] - - * library/clock.tcl (ParseClockScanFormat): Modified code to allow - * tests/clock.test (clock-60.*): case-insensitive matching - of time zone and month names. [Bug 1781282] - -2007-08-24 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: Register literals found in expressions - * tests/compExpr.test: to restore literal sharing. Preserve numeric - intreps when literals are created for the first time. Correct memleak - in ExecConstantExprTree() and add test for the leak. - -2007-08-24 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclCompile.c: replaced copy loop that tripped some compilers - with memmove. [Bug 1780870] - -2007-08-23 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * library/init.tcl ([auto_load_index]): Delete stray "]" that created - an expr syntax error (masked by a [catch]). - - * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileReturnCmd): Added crash protection - to handle callers other than TclCompileScript() failing to meet the - initialization assumptions of the TIP 280 code in CompileWord(). - - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: Suppress the attempt to convert to - numeric when pre-compiling a constant expresion indicates an error. - -2007-08-22 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclExecute.c (TEBC): disable the new shortcut to frequent - INSTs for debug builds. REVERTED (collision with alternative fix) - -2007-08-21 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclMain.c: Corrected the logic of dropping the last - * tests/main.test: newline from an interactively typed command. - [Bug 1775878] - -2007-08-21 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> - - * tests/thread.test: thread-4.4: clear ::errorInfo in the thread as a - message is left here from init.tcl on windows due to no tcl_pkgPath. - -2007-08-20 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclExecute.c (INST_SUB): fix usage of the new macro for - overflow detection in sums, adapt to subtraction. Lengthy comment - added. - -2007-08-19 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclExecute.c (Overflowing, TclIncrObj, TclExecuteByteCode): - Encapsulate Miguel's last change in a more mnemonic macro. - -2007-08-19 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclExecute.c: changed the check for overflow in sums, - reducing objsize, number of branches and cache misses (according to - cachegrind). Non-overflow for s=a+b: - previous - ((a >= 0 || b >= 0 || s < 0) && (s >= 0 || b < 0 || a < 0)) - now - (((a^s) >= 0) || ((a^b) < 0)) - This expresses: "a and s have the same sign or else a and b have - different sign". - -2007-08-19 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - - * doc/interp.n (RESOURCE LIMITS): Added text to better explain why - time limits are described using absolute times. [Bug 1752148] - -2007-08-16 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclVar.c: improved localVarNameType caching to leverage - the new availability of Tcl_Obj in variable names, avoiding string - comparisons to verify that the cached value is usable. - - * generic/tclExecute.c: check the two most frequent instructions - before the switch. Reduces both runtime and obj size a tiny bit. - -2007-08-16 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: Added a "constant" field to the OpNode - struct (again "free" due to alignment requirements) to mark those - subexpressions that are completely known at compile time. Enhanced - CompileExprTree() and its callers to precompute these constant - subexpressions at compile time. This resolves the issue raised in [Bug - 1564517]. - -2007-08-15 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> - - * generic/tclIOUtil.c (TclGetOpenModeEx): Only set the O_APPEND flag - * tests/ioUtil.test (ioUtil-4.1): on a channel for the 'a' - mode and not for 'a+'. [Bug 1773127] - -2007-08-14 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclExecute.c (INST_INVOKE*): peephole opt, do not get the - interp's result if it will be pushed/popped. - -2007-08-14 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclBasic.c: Use fully qualified variable names for - * tests/thread.test: ::errorInfo and ::errorCode so that string - * tests/trace.test: reported to variable traces are fully - qualified in agreement with Tcl 8.4 operations. - -2007-08-14 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - - * unix/tclLoadDyld.c: use dlfcn API on Mac OS X 10.4 and later; fix - issues with loading from memory on intel and 64bit; add debug messages - - * tests/load.test: add test load-10.1 for loading from vfs. - - * unix/dltest/pkga.c: whitespace & comment cleanup, remove - * unix/dltest/pkgb.c: unused pkgf.c. - * unix/dltest/pkgc.c: - * unix/dltest/pkge.c: - * unix/dltest/pkgf.c (removed): - * unix/dltest/pkgua.c: - * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: - -2007-08-13 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclExecute.c: Provide DECACHE/CACHE protection to the - * tests/trace.test: Tcl_LogCommandInfo() call. [Bug 1773040] - -2007-08-12 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_SplitObjCmd): use TclNewStringObj macro - instead of calling the function. - - * generic/tcl_Obj.c (TclAllocateFreeObjects): remove unneeded memset - to 0 of all allocated objects. +2009-08-06 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> -2007-08-10 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + * doc/refchan.n [Bug 2827000]: Extended the implementation of + * generic/tclIORChan.c: reflective channels (TIP 219, method + * tests/ioCmd.test: 'read'), enabling handlers to signal EAGAIN to + indicate 'no data, but not at EOF either', and other system + errors. Updated documentation, extended testsuite (New test cases + iocmd*-23.{9,10}). - * generic/tclInt.h: remove redundant ops in TclNewStringObj macro. +2009-08-02 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> -2007-08-10 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + * tests/coroutine.test: fix testfile cleanup - * generic/tclInt.h: fix the TclSetVarNamespaceVar macro, was causing a - leak. +2009-08-02 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2007-08-10 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclObj.c (Tcl_RepresentationCmd): Added an unsupported + command for reporting the representation of an object. Result string + is deliberately a bit obstructive so that people are not encouraged to + make code that depends on it; it's a debugging tool only! - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: Revise CompileExprTree() to use the - OpNode mark field scheme of tree traversal. This eliminates the need - to use magic values in the left and right fields for that purpose. - Also stop abusing the left field within ParseExpr() to store the - number of arguments in a parsed function call. CompileExprTree() now - determines that for itself at compile time. Then reorder code to - eliminate duplication. + * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c (GetOwnerAttribute, SetOwnerAttribute) + (GetGroupAttribute, SetGroupAttribute): [Bug 1942222]: Stop calling + * unix/tclUnixFile.c (TclpGetUserHome): endpwent() and endgrent(); + they've been unnecessary for ages. -2007-08-09 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2009-08-02 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclProc.c (TclCreateProc): better comments on the required - varflag values when loading precompiled procs. + * win/tclWin32Dll.c: Eliminate TclWinResetInterfaceEncodings, since it + * win/tclWinInit.c: does exactly the same as TclWinEncodingsCleanup, + * win/tclWinInt.h: make sure that tclWinProcs and + tclWinTCharEncoding are always set and reset + concurrently. + * win/tclWinFCmd.c: Correct check for win95 - * generic/tclExecute.c (INST_STORE_ARRAY): - * tests/trace.test (trace-2.6): whole array write traces on compiled - local variables were not firing. [Bug 1770591] +2009-07-31 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> -2007-08-08 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> + * generic/tclStringObj.c: [Bug 2830354]: Corrected failure to + * tests/format.test: grow buffer when format spec request + large width floating point values. Thanks to Clemens Misch. - * generic/tclProc.c (InitLocalCache): reference firstLocalPtr via - procPtr. codePtr->procPtr == NULL exposed by tbcload. +2009-07-26 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2007-08-08 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * library/auto.tcl (tcl_findLibrary, auto_mkindex): + * library/package.tcl (pkg_mkIndex, tclPkgUnknown, MacOSXPkgUnknown): + * library/safe.tcl (interpAddToAccessPath, interpDelete, AliasGlob): + (AliasSource, AliasLoad, AliasEncoding): + * library/tm.tcl (UnknownHandler): Simplify by swapping some [catch] + gymnastics for use of [try]. - * generic/tclExecute.c: Corrected failure to compile/link in the - -DNO_WIDE_TYPE configuration. +2009-07-26 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclExecute.c: Corrected improper use of bignum arguments to - * tests/expr.test: *SHIFT operations. [Bug 1770224] + * tools/genStubs.tcl: Forced LF translation when generating .h's to + avoid spurious diffs when regenerating on a Windows box. -2007-08-07 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2009-07-26 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclInt.h: remove comments refering to VAR_SCALAR, as that - flag bit does not exist any longer. - * generic/tclProc.c (InitCompiledLocals): removed optimisation for - non-resolved case, as the function is never called in that case. - Renamed the function to InitResolvedLocals to calrify the point. + * win/Makefile.in: [Bug 2827066]: msys build --enable-symbols broken + * win/tcl.m4: And modified the same for unicows.dll, as a + * win/configure: preparation for [Enh 2819611]. - * generic/tclInt.decls: Exporting via stubs to help xotcl adapt to - * generic/tclInt.h: VarReform. - * generic/tclIntDecls.h: - * generic/tclStubInit.c: +2009-07-25 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2007-08-07 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> + * library/history.tcl (history): Reworked the history mechanism in + terms of ensembles, rather than the ad hoc ensemble-lite mechanism + used previously. - * generic/tclEnv.c: improve environ handling on Mac OS X (adapted - * unix/tclUnixPort.h: from Apple changes in Darwin tcl-64). +2009-07-24 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * unix/Makefile.in: add support for compile flags specific to - object files linked directly into executables. + * doc/self.n (self class): [Bug 2704302]: Add some text to make it + clearer how to get the name of the current object's class. - * unix/configure.in (Darwin): only use -seg1addr flag when prebinding; - use -mdynamic-no-pic flag for object files linked directly into exes; - support overriding TCL_PACKAGE_PATH/TCL_MODULE_PATH in environment. +2009-07-23 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 + * generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_GetChannelHandle): [Bug 2826248]: Do not crash + * generic/tclPipe.c (FileForRedirect): for getHandleProc == NULL, this + is allowed. Provide a nice error message in the bypass area. Updated + caller to check the bypass for a mesage. Bug reported by Andy + Sonnenburg <andy22286@users.sourceforge.net> -2007-08-06 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-07-23 Joe Mistachkin <joe@mistachkin.com> - * tests/parseExpr.test: Update source file name of expr parser code. + * generic/tclNotify.c: [Bug 2820349]: Ensure that queued events are + freed once processed. - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: Added a "mark" field to the OpNode - struct, which is used to guide tree traversal. This field costs - nothing since alignement requirements used the memory already. - Rewrote ConvertTreeToTokens() to use the new field, which permitted - consolidation of utility routines CopyTokens() and - GenerateTokensForLiteral(). +2009-07-22 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2007-08-06 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@users.sf.net> + * macosx/tclMacOSXFCmd.c: CONST -> const + * generic/tclGetDate.y: + * generic/tclDate.c: + * generic/tclLiteral.c: (char *) cast in ckfree call + * generic/tclPanic.c: [Feature Request 2814786]: remove TclpPanic + * generic/tclInt.h + * unix/tclUnixPort.h + * win/tclWinPort.h - * generic/tclGetDate.y: Added a cast to the definition of YYFREE to - silence compiler warnings. - * generic/tclDate.c: Regenerated - * win/tclWinTest.c: Added a cast to GetSecurityDescriptorDacl call - to silence compiler warnings. +2009-07-22 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> -2007-08-04 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclEvent.c: [Bug 2001201 again]: Refined the 20090617 patch + on [exit] streamlining, so that it now correctly calls thread exit + handlers for the calling thread, including <Destroy> bindings in Tk. - * generic/tclInt.decls: Exporting via stubs to help itcl adapt to - * generic/tclInt.h: VarReform. Added localCache initialization - * generic/tclIntDecls.h: to TclInitCompiledLocals (which only exists - * generic/tclProc.c: for itcl). - * generic/tclStubInit.c: - * generic/tclVar.c: +2009-07-21 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> -2007-08-01 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> + * library/tzdata/Asia/Dhaka: + * library/tzdata/Indian/Mauritius: Olson's tzdata2009k. - * library/word.tcl: Rewrote for greater efficiency. [Bug 1764318] +2009-07-20 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2007-08-01 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (StringIsCmd): Reorganize so that [string is] is + more efficient when parsing things that are correct, at a cost of + making the empty string test slightly more costly. With this, the cost + of doing [string is integer -strict $x] matches [catch {expr {$x+0}}] + in the successful case, and greatly outstrips it in the failing case. - * generic/tclInt.h: Added a TclOffset macro ala Tk_Offset to - * generic/tclVar.c: abstract out 'offsetof' which may not be - * generic/tclExceute.c: defined (eg: msvc6). +2009-07-19 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2007-08-01 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclOO.decls, generic/tclOO.c (Tcl_GetObjectName): Expose a + function for efficiently returning the current name of an object. - * generic/tclVar.c (TclCleanupVar): fix [Bug 1765225], thx Larry - Virden. +2009-07-18 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> -2007-07-31 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + * unix/Makefile.in: Define NDEBUG in optimized (non-symbols) build to + disable NRE assert()s and threaded allocator range checks. - * doc/Hash.3: - * generic/tclHash.c: - * generic/tclObj.c: - * generic/tclThreadStorage.c: (changes part of the patch below) - Stop Tcl_CreateHashVar from resetting hPtr->clientData to NULL after - calling the allocEntryProc for a custom table. +2009-07-16 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tcl.h: - * generic/tclBasic.c: + * generic/tclBinary.c: Removed unused variables. * generic/tclCmdIL.c: - * generic/tclCompCmds.c: * generic/tclCompile.c: - * generic/tclCompile.h: * generic/tclExecute.c: * generic/tclHash.c: - * generic/tclInt.decls: - * generic/tclInt.h: - * generic/tclIntDecls.h: - * generic/tclLiteral.c: - * generic/tclNamesp.c: - * generic/tclObj.c: - * generic/tclProc.c: - * generic/tclThreadStorage.c: - * generic/tclTrace.c: - * generic/tclVar.c: VarReform [Patch 1750051] - - *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** (tclInt.h and tclCompile.h) - Extensions that access internals defined in tclInt.h and/or - tclCompile.h may lose both binary and source compatibility. The - relevant changes are: - 1. 'struct Var' is completely changed, all acceses to its internals - (either direct or via the TclSetVar* and TclIsVar* macros) will - malfunction. Var flag values and semantics changed too. - 2. 'struct Bytecode' has an additional field that has to be - initialised to NULL - 3. 'struct Namespace' is larger, as the varTable is now one pointer - larger than a Tcl_HashTable. Direct access to its fields will - malfunction. - 4. 'struct CallFrame' grew one more field (the second such growth with - respect to Tcl8.4). - 5. API change for the functions TclFindCompiledLocal, TclDeleteVars - and many internal functions in tclVar.c + * generic/tclIOUtil.c: + * generic/tclVar.c: - Additionally, direct access to variable hash tables via the standard - Tcl_Hash* interface is to be considered as deprecated. It still works - in the present version, but will be broken by further specialisation - of these hash tables. This concerns especially the table of array - elements in an array, as well as the varTable field in the Namespace - struct. + * generic/tclBasic.c: Silence compiler warnings about ClientData. + * generic/tclProc.c: -2007-07-31 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclScan.c: Typo in ACCEPT_NAN configuration. - * unix/configure.in: allow use of 'inline' in Tcl sources. [Patch - * win/configure.in: 1754128] - * win/makefile.vc: Regen with autoconf 2.61 + * generic/tclStrToD.c: [Bug 2819200]: Set floating point control + register on MIPS systems so that the gradual underflow expected by Tcl + is in effect. -2007-07-31 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> +2009-07-15 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * unix/tclUnixInit.c (TclpSetVariables): Use the thread-safe getpwuid - replacement to fill the tcl_platform(user) field as it is not subject - to spoofing. [Bug 681877] + * generic/tclInt.h (Namespace): Added machinery to allow + * generic/tclNamesp.c (many functions): reduction of memory used + * generic/tclResolve.c (BumpCmdRefEpochs): by namespaces. Currently + #ifdef'ed out because of compatibility concerns. - * unix/tclUnixCompat.c: Simplify the #ifdef logic. + * generic/tclInt.decls: Added four functions for better integration + with itcl-ng. - * unix/tclUnixChan.c (FileWatchProc): Fix test failures. +2009-07-14 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> -2007-07-30 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> + * generic/tclInt.h (TclNRSwitchObjCmd): + * generic/tclBasic.c (builtInCmds): + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_SwitchObjCmd): + * tests/switch.test (switch-15.1): + [Bug 2821401]: Make non-bytecoded [switch] command aware of NRE. + +2009-07-13 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + + * generic/tclCompile.c (TclInitCompileEnv, EnterCmdWordIndex) + (TclCleanupByteCode, TclCompileScript): + * generic/tclExecute.c (TclCompileObj, TclExecuteByteCode): + * tclCompile.h (ExtCmdLoc): + * tclInt.h (ExtIndex, CFWordBC, CmdFrame): + * tclBasic.c (DeleteInterpProc, TclArgumentBCEnter) + (TclArgumentBCRelease, TclArgumentGet, SAVE_CONTEXT) + (RESTORE_CONTEXT, NRCoroutineExitCallback, TclNRCoroutineObjCmd): + * generic/tclCmdAH.c (TclNRForObjCmd, TclNRForIterCallback, + (ForNextCallback): + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (TclNRWhileObjCmd): + + Extended the bytecode compiler initialization to recognize the + compilation of whole files (NRE enabled 'source' command) and switch + to the counting of absolute lines in that case. + + Further extended the bytecode compiler to track the start line in the + generated information, and modified the bytecode execution to + recompile an object if the location as per the calling context doesn't + match the location saved in the bytecode. This part could be optimized + more by using more memory to keep all possibilities which occur + around, or by just adjusting the location information instead of a + total recompile. - * unix/tclUnixChan.c (SET_BITS, CLEAR_BITS): Added macros to make this - file clearer. + Reworked the handling of literal command arguments in bytecode to be + saved (compiler) and used (execution) per command (See the + TCL_INVOKE_STK* instructions), and not per the whole bytecode. This, + and the previous change remove the problems with location data caused + by literal sharing (across whole files, but also proc bodies). + Simplified the associated datastructures (ExtIndex is gone, as is the + function EnterCmdWordIndex). -2007-07-24 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + The last change causes the hashtable 'lineLABCPtr' to be state which + has to be kept per coroutine, like the CmdFrame stack. Reworked the + coroutine support code to create, delete and switch the information as + needed. Further reworked the tailcall command as well, it has to pop + its own arguments when run in a bytecode context to keep a proper + stack in 'lineLABCPtr'. - * generic/tclBasic.c (TEOvI, GetCommandSource): - * generic/tclExecute.c (TEBC, TclGetSrcInfoForCmd): - * generic/tclInt.h: - * generic/tclTrace.c (TclCheck(Interp|Execution)Traces): - Removed the need for TEBC to inspect the command before calling TEOvI, - leveraging the TIP 280 infrastructure. Moved the generation of a - correct nul-terminated command string away from the trace code, back - into TEOvI/GetCommandSource. + Fixed the mishandling of line information in the NRE-enabled 'for' and + 'while' commands introduced when both were made to share their + iteration callbacks without taking into account that the loop body is + found in different words of the command. Introduced a separate data + structure to hold all the callback information, as we went over the + limit of 4 direct client-data values for NRE callbacks. -2007-07-20 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + The above fixes [Bug 1605269]. - * library/platform/platform.tcl: Fixed bug in 'platform::patterns' - * library/platform/pkgIndex.tcl: where identifiers not matching - * unix/Makefile.in: the special linux and solaris forms would not - * win/Makefile.in: get 'tcl' as an acceptable platform added to - * doc/platform.n: the result. Bumped package to version 1.0.3 and - * doc/platform_shell.n: updated documentation and Makefiles. Also - fixed bad version info in the documentation of platform::shell. +2009-07-12 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2007-07-19 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (StringIndexCmd, StringEqualCmd, StringCmpCmd): + * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): [Bug 2637173]: Factor out + * generic/tclInt.h (TclIsPureByteArray): the code to determine if + * generic/tclUtil.c (TclStringMatchObj): it is safe to work with + byte arrays directly, so that we get the check correct _once_. - * generic/tclParse.c: In contexts where interp and parsePtr->interp - might be different, be sure to use the latter for error reporting. - Also pulled the interp argument back out of ParseTokens() since we - already had a parsePtr->interp to work with. + * generic/tclOOCall.c (TclOOGetCallContext): [Bug 1895546]: Changed + * generic/tclOO.c (TclOOObjectCmdCore): the way that the cache is + managed so that when itcl does cunning things, those cunning things + can be cached properly. -2007-07-18 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-07-11 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: Removed unused arguments and variables + * doc/vwait.n: Substantially increased the discussion of issues and + work-arounds relating to nested vwaits, following discussion on the + tcl-core mailing list on the topic. -2007-07-17 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-07-10 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclCompExpr.c (ParseExpr): While adding comments to - explain the operations of ParseExpr(), made significant revisions to - the code so it would be easier to explain, and in the process made the - code simpler and clearer as well. + * tests/zlib.test: ZlibTransformClose may be called with a NULL + * generic/tclZlib.c: interpreter during finalization and + Tcl_SetChannelError requires a list. Added some tests to ensure error + propagation from the zlib library to the interp. -2007-07-15 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-07-09 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: More commentary. - * tests/parseExpr.test: Several tests of syntax error messages - to check that when expression substrings are truncated they leave - visible the context relevant to the reported error. + * tests/zlib.test: [Bug 2818131]: Added tests and fixed a typo that + broke [zlib push] for deflate format. -2007-07-12 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-07-09 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: Factored out, corrected, and commented - common code for reporting syntax errors in LEAF elements. + * compat/mkstemp.c (mkstemp): [Bug 2819227]: Use rand() for random + numbers as it is more portable. -2007-07-11 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2009-07-05 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileWhileCmd): - * generic/tclCompile.c (TclCompileScript): - Corrected faulty avoidance of INST_START_CMD when the first opcode in - a script is within a loop (as produced by 'while 1'), so that the - corresponding command is properly counted. [Bug 1752146] + * generic/tclZlib.c (ZlibTransformWatch): Correct the handling of + events so that channel transforms work with things like an asynch + [chan copy]. Problem reported by Pat Thoyts. -2007-07-11 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-07-01 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: Added a "parseOnly" flag argument to - ParseExpr() to indicate whether the caller is Tcl_ParseExpr(), with an - end goal of filling a Tcl_Parse with Tcl_Tokens representing the - parsed expression, or TclCompileExpr() with the goal of compiling and - executing the expression. In the latter case, more aggressive - conversion of QUOTED and BRACED lexeme to literals is done. In the - former case, all such conversion is avoided, since Tcl_Token - production would revert it anyway. This enables simplifications to the - GenerateTokensForLiteral() routine as well. + * win/tclWinInt.h: [Bug 2806622]: Handle the GetUserName API call + * win/tclWin32Dll.c: via the tclWinProcs indirection structure. This + * win/tclWinInit.c: fixes a problem obtaining the username when the + USERNAME environment variable is unset. -2007-07-10 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-06-30 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: Added a field for operator precedence - to be stored directly in the parse tree. There's no memory cost to - this addition, since that memory would have been lost to alignment - issues anyway. Also, converted precedence definitions and lookup - tables to use symbolic constants instead of raw number for improved - readability, and continued extending/improving/correcting comments. - Removed some unused counter variables. Renamed some variables for - clarity and replaced some cryptic logic with more readable macros. + * generic/tclInt.h: Add assert macros for clang static + * generic/tclPanic.c: analyzer and redefine Tcl_Panic to + * generic/tclStubInit.c: assert after panic in clang PURIFY + builds. -2007-07-09 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclCmdIL.c: Add clang assert for false positive + from static analyzer. - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: Revision so that the END lexeme never - gets inserted into the parse tree. Later tree traversal never reaches - it since its location in the tree is not variable. Starting and - stopping with the START lexeme (node 0) is sufficient. Also finished - lexeme code commentary. +2009-06-26 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: Added missing creation and return of - the Tcl_Parse fields that indicate error conditions. [Bug 1749987] + * macosx/Tcl-Common.xcconfig: Update projects for Xcode 3.1 and + * macosx/Tcl.xcode/*: 3.2, standardize on gcc 4.2, remove + * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/*: obsolete configurations and pre-Xcode + * macosx/Tcl.pbproj/* (removed): project. -2007-07-05 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * macosx/README: Update project docs, cleanup. - * library/init.tcl (unknown): Corrected inconsistent error message - in interactive [unknown] when empty command is invoked. [Bug 1743676] + * unix/Makefile.in: Update dist target for project + changes. -2007-07-05 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2009-06-24 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclNamesp.c (SetNsNameFromAny): - * generic/tclObj.c (SetCmdNameFromAny): Avoid unnecessary - ckfree/ckalloc when the old structs can be reused. + * tests/oo.test (oo-19.1): [Bug 2811598]: Make more resilient. -2007-07-04 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2009-06-24 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclNamesp.c: Fix case where a FQ cmd or ns was being cached - * generic/tclObj.c: in a different interp, tkcon. [Bug 1747512] + * tests/http11.test: [Bug 2811492]: Clean up procs after testing. -2007-07-03 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-06-18 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: Revised #define values so that there - is now more expansion room to define more BINARY operators. + * generic/tclCkalloc.c (MemoryCmd): [Bug 988703]: + * generic/tclObj.c (ObjData, TclFinalizeThreadObjects): Add mechanism + for discovering what Tcl_Objs are allocated when built for memory + debugging. Developed by Joe Mistachkin. -2007-07-02 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2009-06-17 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclHash.c (CompareStringKeys): Always use the strcmp() - version; the operation is functionally equivalent, the speed is - identical (up to measurement limitations), and yet the code is - simpler. [FRQ 951168] + * generic/tclEvent.c: Applied a patch by George Peter Staplin + drastically reducing the ambition of [exit] wrt finalization, and + thus solving many multi-thread teardown issues. [Bugs 2001201, + 486399, and possibly 597575, 990457, 1437595, 2750491] -2007-07-02 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-06-15 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tcl.h: Removed TCL_PRESERVE_BINARY_COMPATIBILITY and - * generic/tclHash.c: any code enabled when it is set to 0. We will - * generic/tclStubInit.c: always want to preserve binary compat - of the structs that appear in the interface through the 8.* series of - releases, so it's pointless to drag around this never-enabled - alternative. + * generic/tclStringObj.c: sprintf() -> Tcl_ObjPrintf() conversion. - * generic/tclIO.c: Removed dead code. - * unix/tclUnixChan.c: +2009-06-15 Reinhard Max <max@suse.de> - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: Removed dead code, old implementations - * generic/tclEvent.c: of expr parsing and compiling, including the - * generic/tclInt.h: routine TclFinalizeCompilation(). + * unix/tclUnixPort.h: Move all socket-related code from tclUnixChan.c + * unix/tclUnixChan.c: to tclUnixSock.c. + * unix/tclUnixSock.c: -2007-06-30 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2009-06-15 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LsortObjCmd): Plug a memory leak caused by a - missing Tcl_DecrRefCount on an error path. [Bug 1717186] + * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl (make-man-pages): [Patch 557486]: Apply + last remaining meaningful part of this patch, a clean up of some + closing tags. -2007-06-30 Zoran Vasiljevic <vasiljevic@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-06-13 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclThread.c: Prevent RemeberSyncObj() from growing the sync - object lists by reusing already free'd slots, if possible. See - discussion on Bug 1726873 for more information. + * generic/tclCompile.c: [Bug 2802881]: The value stashed in + * generic/tclProc.c: iPtr->compiledProcPtr when compiling a proc + * tests/execute.test: survives too long. We only need it there long + enough for the right TclInitCompileEnv() call to re-stash it into + envPtr->procPtr. Once that is done, the CompileEnv controls. If we + let the value of iPtr->compiledProcPtr linger, though, then any other + bytecode compile operation that takes place will also have its + CompileEnv initialized with it, and that's not correct. The value is + meant to control the compile of the proc body only, not other compile + tasks that happen along. Thanks to Carlos Tasada for discovering and + reporting the problem. -2007-06-29 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2009-06-10 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * doc/DictObj.3 (Tcl_DictObjDone): Improved documentation of this - function to make it clearer how to use it. [Bug 1710795] + * generic/tclStringObj.c: [Bug 2801413]: Revised [format] to not + overflow the integer calculations computing the length of the %ll + formats of really big integers. Also added protections so that + [format]s that would produce results overflowing the maximum string + length of Tcl values throw a normal Tcl error instead of a panic. -2007-06-29 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclStringObj.c: [Bug 2803109]: Corrected failures to + deal with the "pure unicode" representation of an empty string. + Thanks to Julian Noble for reporting the problem. - * generic/tclAlloc.c: on Darwin, ensure memory allocated by - * generic/tclThreadAlloc.c: the custom TclpAlloc()s is aligned to - 16 byte boundaries (as is the case with the Darwin system malloc). +2006-06-09 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - * generic/tclGetDate.y: use ckalloc/ckfree instead of malloc/free. - * generic/tclDate.c: bison 1.875e + * generic/tclGetDate.y: Fixed a thread safety bug in the generated + * library/clock.tcl: Bison parser (needed a %pure-parser + * tests/clock.test: declaration to avoid static variables). + Discovered that the %pure-parser declaration + allowed for returning the Bison error message + to the Tcl caller in the event of a syntax + error, so did so. + * generic/tclDate.c: bison 2.3 - * generic/tclBasic.c (TclEvalEx): fix warnings. +2006-06-08 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: better support for renamed tcl - * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/default.pbxuser: source dir; add 10.5 SDK build - * macosx/Tcl-Common.xcconfig: config; remove tclMathOp.c. + * library/tzdata/Asia/Dhaka: New DST rule for Bangladesh. (Olson's + tzdata2009i.) - * macosx/README: document Tcl.xcodeproj changes. +2009-06-08 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2007-06-28 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * doc/copy.n: Fix error in example spotted by Venkat Iyer. - * generic/tclBasic.c: Removed dead code, including the - * generic/tclExecute.c: entire file tclMathOp.c. - * generic/tclInt.h: - * generic/tclMathOp.c (removed): - * generic/tclTestObj.c: - * win/tclWinFile.c: - - * unix/Makefile.in: Updated to reflect deletion of tclMathOp.c. - * win/Makefile.in: - * win/makefile.bc: - * win/makefile.vc: - -2007-06-28 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclBasic.c: Silence constness warnings for TclStackFree - * generic/tclCompCmds.c: when building with msvc. - * generic/tclFCmd.c: - * generic/tclIOCmd.c: - * generic/tclTrace.c: +2009-06-02 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> -2007-06-28 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclExecute.c: Replace dynamically-initialized table with a + table of static constants in the lookup table for exponent operator + computations that fit in a 64 bit integer result. - * generic/tclVar.c (UnsetVarStruct): fix possible segfault. + * generic/tclExecute.c: [Bug 2798543]: Corrected implementations and + selection logic of the INST_EXPON instruction. -2007-06-27 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-06-01 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclTrace.c: Corrected broken trace reversal logic in - * generic/tclTest.c: TclCheckInterpTraces that led to infinite loop - * tests/trace.test: when multiple Tcl_CreateTrace traces were set - and one of them did not fire due to level restrictions. [Bug 1743931] + * tests/expr.test: [Bug 2798543]: Added many tests demonstrating + the broken cases. -2007-06-26 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +009-05-30 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - * generic/tclBasic.c (TclEvalEx): Moved some arrays from the C - stack to the Tcl stack. + * library/tzdata/Africa/Cairo: + * library/tzdata/Asia/Amman: Olson's tzdata2009h. -2007-06-26 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2009-05-29 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - * generic/tclVar.c (UnsetVarStruct): more streamlining. + * library/platform/platform.tcl: Fixed handling of cpu ia64, + * library/platform/pkgIndex.tcl: taking ia64_32 into account + * unix/Makefile.in: now. Bumped version to 1.0.5. Updated the + * win/Makefile.in: installation commands. -2007-06-25 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-05-26 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclExecute.c: Safety checks to avoid crashes in the - TclStack* routines when called with an incompletely initialized - interp. [Bug 1743302] + * doc/expr.n: Fixed documentation of the right-associativity of + the ** operator. (spotted by kbk) -2007-06-25 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2009-05-14 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclVar.c (UnsetVarStruct): fixing incomplete change, more - streamlining. + * generic/tclOOInfo.c (InfoObjectNsCmd): Added introspection mechanism + for finding out what an object's namespace is. Experience suggests + that it is just too useful to be able to do without it. -2007-06-24 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2009-05-12 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclVar.c (TclDeleteCompiledLocalVars): removed inlining that - ended up not really optimising (limited benchmarks). Now calling - UnsetVarStruct (streamlined old code is #ifdef'ed out, in case better - benchmarks do show a difference). + * doc/vwait.n: Added more words to make it clear just how bad it is to + nest [vwait]s. - * generic/tclVar.c (UnsetVarStruct): fixed a leak introduced in last - commit. + * compat/mkstemp.c: Add more headers to make this file build on IRIX + 6.5. Thanks to Larry McVoy for this. -2007-06-23 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2009-05-08 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclVar.c (UnsetVarStruct, TclDeleteVars): made the logic - slightly clearer, eliminated some duplicated code. + * generic/tclOO.c (TclNRNewObjectInstance): [Bug 2414858]: Add a + * generic/tclBasic.c (TclPushTailcallPoint): marker to the stack of + NRE callbacks at the right point so that tailcall works correctly in a + constructor. - *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** (tclInt.h and Var struct users) - The core never builds VAR_LINK variable to have traces. Such a - "monster", should one exist, will now have its unset traces called - *before* it is unlinked. + * tests/exec.test (cat): [Bug 2788468]: Adjust the scripted version of + cat so that it does not perform transformations on the data it is + working with, making it more like the standard Unix 'cat' program. -2007-06-23 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-05-07 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - * macosx/tclMacOSXNotify.c (AtForkChild): don't call CoreFoundation - APIs after fork() on systems where that would lead to an abort(). + * generic/tclObj.c (Tcl_GetCommandFromObj): [Bug 2785893]: Ensure that + a command in a deleted namespace can't be found through a cached name. -2007-06-22 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclBasic.c: Let coroutines start with a much smaller + * generic/tclCompile.h: stack: 200 words (previously was 2000, the + * generic/tclExecute.c: same as interps). - * generic/tclExecute.c: Revised TclStackRealloc() signature to better - * generic/tclInt.h: parallel (and fall back on) Tcl_Realloc. +2009-05-07 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclNamesp.c (TclResetShadowesCmdRefs): Replaced - ckrealloc based allocations with TclStackRealloc allocations. + * tests/env.test (printenvScript, env-4.3, env-4.5): [Bug 1513659]: + * tests/exec.test (exec-2.6): These tests had subtle dependencies on + being on platforms that were either ISO 8859-1 or UTF-8. Stabilized + the results by forcing the encoding. - * generic/tclCmdIL.c: More conversions to use TclStackAlloc. - * generic/tclScan.c: +2009-05-06 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> -2007-06-21 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: [Bug 2582327]: Improve overflow error message + from [string repeat]. - * generic/tclBasic.c: Move most instances of the Tcl_Parse struct - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: off the C stack and onto the Tcl stack. This - * generic/tclCompile.c: is a rather large struct (> 3kB). - * generic/tclParse.c: + * tests/interp.test: interp-20.50 test for Bug 2486550. -2007-06-21 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2009-05-04 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclBasic.c (TEOvI): Made sure that leave traces - * generic/tclExecute.c (INST_INVOKE): that were created during - * tests/trace.test (trace-36.2): execution of an originally - untraced command do not fire [Bug 1740962], partial fix. + * generic/tclOO.c (InitFoundation, AllocObject, AllocClass): + * generic/tclOODefineCmds.c (InitDefineContext): Make sure that when + support namespaces are deleted, nothing bad can subsequently happen. + Issue spotted by Don Porter. -2007-06-21 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> +2009-05-03 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tcl.h, generic/tclCompile.h, generic/tclCompile.c: Remove - references in comments to obsolete {expand} notation. [Bug 1740859] + * doc/Tcl.n: [Bug 2538432]: Clarified exact treatment of ${arr(idx)} + form of variable substitution. This is not a change of behavior, just + an improved description of the current situation. -2007-06-20 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2009-04-30 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclVar.c: streamline namespace vars deletion: only compute - the variable's full name if the variable is traced. + * generic/tclBasic.c (TclObjInvoke): [Bug 2486550]: Make sure that a + null objProc is not used, use Tcl_NRCallObjProc instead. -2007-06-20 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-05-01 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclInt.decls: Revised the interfaces of the routines - * generic/tclExecute.c: TclStackAlloc and TclStackFree to make them - easier for callers to use (or more precisely, harder to misuse). - TclStackFree now takes a (void *) argument which is the pointer - intended to be freed. TclStackFree will panic if that's not actually - the memory the call will free. TSA/TSF also now tolerate receiving - (interp == NULL), in which case they simply fall back to be calls to - Tcl_Alloc/Tcl_Free. + * win/configure.in Fix 64-bit detection for zlib on Win64 + * win/configure (regenerated) - * generic/tclIntDecls.h: make genstubs +2009-04-28 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - * generic/tclBasic.c: Updated callers - * generic/tclCmdAH.c: - * generic/tclCmdIL.c: - * generic/tclCompCmds.c: - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: - * generic/tclCompile.c: - * generic/tclFCmd.c: - * generic/tclFileName.c: - * generic/tclIOCmd.c: - * generic/tclIndexObj.c: - * generic/tclInterp.c: - * generic/tclNamesp.c: - * generic/tclProc.c: - * generic/tclTrace.c: - * unix/tclUnixPipe.c: + * unix/tcl.m4, unix/configure (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): harden the check to + add _r to CC on AIX with threads. -2007-06-20 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> +2009-04-27 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl: revamp of html doc output to use CSS, - standardized headers, subheaders, dictionary sorting of names. + * doc/concat.n (EXAMPLES): [Bug 2780680]: Rewrote so that the spacing + of result messages is correct. (The exact way they were wrong was + different when rendered through groff or as HTML, but it was still + wrong both ways.) -2007-06-18 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> +2009-04-27 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl: clean up copyright merging and output. - clean up coding constructs. + * generic/tclIndexObj.c: Reset internal INTERP_ALTERNATE_WRONG_ARGS + * generic/tclIOCmd.c: flag inside the Tcl_WrongNumArgs function, + so the caller no longer has to do the reset. -2007-06-18 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2009-04-24 Stuart Cassoff <stwo@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclCmdIL.c (InfoFrameCmd): - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_SwitchObjCmd): - * generic/tclCompile.c (TclInitCompileEnv): - * generic/tclProc.c (Tcl_ProcObjCmd, SetLambdaFromAny): Moved the - CmdFrame off the C stack and onto the Tcl stack. + * unix/Makefile.in: [Patch 2769530]: Don't chmod/exec installManPage. - * generic/tclExecute.c (TEBC): Moved the CmdFrame off the C stack and - onto the Tcl stack, between the catch and the execution stacks +2009-04-19 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> -2007-06-18 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * library/http/http.tcl: [Bug 2715421]: Removed spurious newline added + * tests/http11.test: after POST and added tests to detect excess + * tests/httpd11.tcl: bytes being POSTed. + * library/http/pkgIndex.tcl: + * makefiles: package version now 2.8.1 - * generic/tclBasic.c (TclEvalEx,TclEvalObjEx): Moved the CmdFrame off - the C stack and onto the Tcl stack. +2009-04-15 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2007-06-17 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + * doc/chan.n, doc/close.n: Tidy up documentation of TIP #332. - * generic/tclProc.c (TclObjInterpProcCore): Minor fixes to make - * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): compilation debugging - builds work again. [Bug 1738542] +2009-04-14 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> -2007-06-16 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + * library/tzdata/Asia/Karachi: Updated rules for Pakistan Summer + Time (Olson's tzdata2009f) - * generic/tclProc.c (TclObjInterpProcCore): Use switch instead of a - chain of if's for a modest performance gain and a little more clarity. +2009-04-11 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2007-06-15 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclOOMethod.c (InvokeForwardMethod): Clarify the resolution + behaviour of the name of the command that is forwarded to: it's now + resolved using the object's namespace as context, which is much more + useful than the previous (somewhat random) behaviour of using the + caller's current namespace. - * generic/tclCompCmds.c: Simplified [variable] compiler and executor. - * generic/tclExecute.c: Missed updates to "there is always a valid - frame". +2009-04-10 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclCompile.c: reverted TclEvalObjvInternal and INST_INVOKE - * generic/tclExecute.c: to essentially what they were previous to the - * generic/tclBasic.c: commit of 2007-04-03 [Patch 1693802] and the - subsequent optimisations, as they break the new trace tests described - below. + * library/http/http.tcl: Improved HTTP/1.1 support and added + * library/http/pkgIndex.tcl: specific HTTP/1.1 testing to ensure + * tests/http11.test: we handle chunked+gzip for the various + * tests/httpd11.test: modes (normal, -channel and -handler) + * makefiles: package version set to 2.8.0 - * generic/trace.test: added tests 36 to 38 for dynamic trace creation - and addition. These tests expose a change in dynamics due to a recent - round of optimisations. The "correct" behaviour is not described in - docs nor TIP 62. +2009-04-10 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> -2007-06-14 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + * unix/tclUnixChan.c: TclUnixWaitForFile(): use FD_* macros + * macosx/tclMacOSXNotify.c: to manipulate select masks (Cassoff). + [Freq 1960647] [Bug 3486554] - * generic/tclInt.decls: Modif to the internals of TclObjInterpProc - * generic/tclInt.h: to reduce stack consumption and improve task - * generic/tclIntDecls.h: separation. Changes the interface of - * generic/tclProc.c: TclObjInterpProcCore (patching TclOO - simultaneously). + * unix/tclLoadDyld.c: use RTLD_GLOBAL instead of RTLD_LOCAL. + [Bug 1961211] - * generic/tclProc.c (TclObjInterpProcCore): simplified obj management - in wrongNumArgs calls. + * macosx/tclMacOSXNotify.c: revise CoreFoundation notifier to allow + embedding into applications that + already have a CFRunLoop running and + want to run the tcl event loop via + Tcl_ServiceModeHook(TCL_SERVICE_ALL). -2007-06-14 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * macosx/tclMacOSXNotify.c: add CFRunLoop based Tcl_Sleep() and + * unix/tclUnixChan.c: TclUnixWaitForFile() implementations + * unix/tclUnixEvent.c: and disable select() based ones in + CoreFoundation builds. - * generic/tclCompile.c: SetByteCodeFromAny() can no longer return any - * generic/tclExecute.c: code other than TCL_OK, so remove code that - * generic/tclProc.c: formerly handled exceptional codes. + * unix/tclUnixNotify.c: simplify, sync with tclMacOSXNotify.c. -2007-06-13 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclInt.decls: add TclMacOSXNotifierAddRunLoopMode() + * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h: internal API, regen. + * generic/tclStubInit.c: - * generic/tclExecute.c (TclCompEvalObj): missed update to "there is - always a valid frame". + * unix/configure.in (Darwin): use Darwin SUSv3 extensions if + available; remove /Network locations + from default tcl package search path + (NFS mounted locations and thus slow). + * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 + * unix/tclConfig.h.in: autoheader-2.59 - * generic/tclProc.c (TclObjInterpProcCore): call TEBC directly instead - of going through TclCompEvalObj - no need to check the compilation's - freshness, this has already been done. This improves speed and should - also provide some relief to [Bug 1066755]. + * macosx/tclMacOSXBundle.c: on Mac OS X 10.4 and later, replace + deprecated NSModule API by dlfcn API. -2007-06-12 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> +2009-04-10 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_CreateInterp): Turn the [info] command into - * generic/tclCmdIL.c (TclInitInfoCmd): an ensemble, making it easier - for third-party code to plug into. + * doc/StringObj.3: [Bug 2089279]: Corrected example so that it works + on 64-bit machines as well. - * generic/tclIndexObj.c (Tcl_WrongNumArgs): - * generic/tclNamesp.c, generic/tclInt.h (tclEnsembleCmdType): Make - Tcl_WrongNumArgs do replacement correctly with ensembles and other - sorts of complex replacement strategies. +2009-04-10 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> -2007-06-11 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + * tests/http.test: [Bug 26245326]: Added specific check for problem + * tests/httpd: (return incomplete HTTP response header). - * generic/tclExecute.c: comments added to explain iPtr->numLevels - management. +2009-04-08 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - * generic/tclNamesp.c: tweaks to Tcl_GetCommandFromObj and - * generic/tclObj.c: TclGetNamespaceFromObj; modified the usage of - structs ResolvedCmdName and ResolvedNsname so that the field refNsPtr - is NULL for fully qualified names. + * tools/tclZIC.tcl: Always emit files with Unix line termination. + * library/tzdata: Olson's tzdata2009e -2007-06-10 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2009-04-09 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclBasic.c: Further TEOvI split, creating a new - * generic/tclCompile.h: TclEvalObjvKnownCommand() function to handle - * generic/tclExecute.c: commands that are already known and are not - traced. INST_INVOKE now calls into this function instead of inlining - parts of TEOvI. Same perf, better isolation. + * library/http/http.tcl: [Bug 26245326]: Handle incomplete + lines in the "connecting" state. Thanks to Sergei Golovan. - ***POTENTIAL INCOMPAT*** There is a subtle issue with the timing of - execution traces that is changed here - first change appeared in my - commit of 2007-04-03 [Patch 1693802], which caused some divergence - between compiled and non-compiled code. - ***THIS CHANGE IS UNDER REVIEW*** +2009-04-08 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> -2007-06-10 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> + * library/platform/platform.tcl: Extended the darwin sections to add + * library/platform/pkgIndex.tcl: a kernel version number to the + * unix/Makefile.in: identifier for anything from Leopard (10.5) on up. + * win/Makefile.in: Extended patterns for same. Extended cpu + * doc/platform.n: recognition for 64bit Tcl running on a 32bit kernel + on a 64bit processor (By Daniel Steffen). Bumped version to 1.0.4. + Updated Makefiles. - * README: updated links. [Bug 1715081] +2009-04-08 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): restore support for - INST_CALL_BUILTIN_FUNC1 and INST_CALL_FUNC1 bytecodes to support 8.4- - precompiled sources (math functions). [Bug 1720895] + * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl: [Bug 2570363]: Converted [eval]s (some + * library/tcltest/pkgIndex.tcl: unsafe!) to {*} in tcltest package. + * unix/Makefile.in: => tcltest 2.3.1 + * win/Makefile.in: -2007-06-10 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2009-04-07 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclInt.h: - * generic/tclNamesp.c: - * generic/tclObj.c: - * generic/tclvar.c: new macros TclGetCurrentNamespace() and - TclGetGlobalNamespace(); Tcl_GetCommandFromObj and - TclGetNamespaceFromObj rewritten to make the logic clearer; slightly - faster too. - -2007-06-09 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclExecute.c (INST_INVOKE): isolated two vars to the small - block where they are actually used. - - * generic/tclObj.c (Tcl_GetCommandFromObj): rewritten to make the - logic clearer; slightly faster too. - - * generic/tclBasic.c: Split TEOv in two, by separating a processor - for non-TCL_OK returns. Also split TEOvI in a full version that - handles non-existing and traced commands, and a separate shorter - version for the regular case. - - * generic/tclBasic.c: Moved the generation of command strings for - * generic/tclTrace.c: traces: previously in Tcl_EvalObjv(), now in - TclCheck[Interp|Execution]Traces(). Also insured that the strings are - properly NUL terminated at the correct length. [Bug 1693986] - - ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY in internal API*** - The functions TclCheckInterpTraces() and TclCheckExecutionTraces() (in - internal stubs) used to be noops if the command string was NULL, this - is not true anymore: if the command string is NULL, they generate an - appropriate string from (objc,objv) and use it to call the traces. The - caller might as well not call them with a NULL string if he was - expecting a noop. - - * generic/tclBasic.c: Extend usage of TclLimitReady() and - * generic/tclExecute.c: (new) TclLimitExceeded() macros. - * generic/tclInt.h: - * generic/tclInterp.c: + * generic/tclStringObj.c: Correction so that value of + TCL_GROWTH_MIN_ALLOC is everywhere expressed in bytes as comment + claims. - * generic/tclInt.h: New TclCleanupCommandMacro for core usage. - * generic/tclBasic.c: - * generic/tclExecute.c: - * generic/tclObj.c: +2009-04-04 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2007-06-09 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> + * doc/vwait.n: [Bug 1910136]: Extend description and examples to make + it clearer just how this command interprets variable names. - * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: add new Tclsh-Info.plist.in. +2009-03-30 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> -2007-06-08 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + * doc/Alloc.3: [Bug 2556263]: Size argument is "unsigned int". - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_StringObjCmd): Changed [string first] and - * doc/string.n: [string last] so that they have clearer descriptions - for those people who know the adage about needles and haystacks. This - follows suggestions on comp.lang.tcl... +2009-03-27 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> -2007-06-06 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclPathObj.c (TclPathPart): [Bug 2710920]: TclPathPart() + * tests/fileName.test: was computing the wrong results for both [file + dirname] and [file tail] on "path" arguments with the PATHFLAGS != 0 + intrep and with an empty string for the "joined-on" part. - * generic/tclParse.c: fix for uninit read. [Bug 1732414] +2009-03-25 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2007-06-06 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> + * doc/tclsh.1: Bring doc and tools in line with + * tools/installData.tcl: http://wiki.tcl.tk/812 + * tools/str2c + * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl - * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: add settings for Fix&Continue. +2009-03-25 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * unix/configure.in (Darwin): add plist for tclsh; link the - * unix/Makefile.in (Darwin): Tcl and tclsh plists into - * macosx/Tclsh-Info.plist.in (new): their binaries in all cases. - * macosx/Tcl-Common.xcconfig: + * doc/coroutine.n: [Bug 2152285]: Added basic documentation for the + coroutine and yield commands. - * unix/tcl.m4 (Darwin): fix CF checks in fat 32&64bit builds. - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 +2009-03-24 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2007-06-05 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclOOBasic.c (TclOOSelfObjCmd): [Bug 2704302]: Make 'self + class' better defined in the context of objects that change class. - * generic/tclBasic.c: Added interp flag value ERR_LEGACY_COPY to - * generic/tclInt.h: control the timing with which the global - * generic/tclNamesp.c: variables ::errorCode and ::errorInfo get - * generic/tclProc.c: updated after an error. This keeps more - * generic/tclResult.c: precise compatibility with Tcl 8.4. - * tests/result.test (result-6.2): [Bug 1649062] + * generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_UpvarObjCmd): [Bug 2673163] (ferrieux) + * generic/tclProc.c (TclObjGetFrame): Make the upvar command more able + to handle its officially documented syntax. -2007-06-05 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2009-03-22 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclInt.h: - * generic/tclExecute.c: Tcl-stack reform, [Patch 1701202] + * generic/tclBasic.c: [Bug 2502037]: NR-enable the handling of unknown + commands. -2007-06-03 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-03-21 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - * unix/Makefile.in: add datarootdir to silence autoconf-2.6x warning. + * generic/tclBasic.c: Fixed "leaks" in aliases, imports and + * generic/tclInt.h: ensembles. Only remaining known leak is in + * generic/tclInterp.c: ensemble unknown dispatch (as it not + * generic/tclNamesp.c: NR-enabled) + * tests/tailcall.test: -2007-05-30 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * tclInt.h: comments - * generic/tclBasic.c: Removed code that dealt with - * generic/tclCompile.c: TCL_TOKEN_EXPAND_WORD tokens representing - * generic/tclCompile.h: expanded literal words. These sections were - mostly in place to enable [info frame] to discover line information in - expanded literals. Since the parser now generates a token for each - post-expansion word referring to the right location in the original - script string, [info frame] gets all the data it needs. + * tests/tailcall.test: Added tests to show that [tailcall] does not + currently always execute in constant space: interp-alias, ns-imports + and ensembles "leak" as of this commit. - * generic/tclInt.h: Revised the parser so that it never produces - * generic/tclParse.c: TCL_TOKEN_EXPAND_WORD tokens when parsing an - * tests/parse.test: expanded literal word; that is, something like - {*}{x y z}. Instead, generate the series of TCL_TOKEN_SIMPLE_WORD - tokens to represent the words that expansion of the literal string - produces. [RFE 1725186] + * tests/nre.test: [foreach] has been NR-enabled for a while, the test + was marked 'knownBug': unmark it. -2007-05-29 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> + * generic/tclBasic.c: Fix for (among others) [Bug 2699087] + * generic/tclCmdAH.c: Tailcalls now perform properly even from + * generic/tclExecute.c: within [eval]ed scripts. + * generic/tclInt.h: More tests missing, as well as proper + exploration and testing of the interaction with "redirectors" like + interp-alias (suspect that it does not happen in constant space) + and pure-eval commands. - * unix/tclUnixThrd.c (Tcl_JoinThread): fix for 64-bit handling of - pthread_join exit return code storage. [Bug 1712723] + * generic/tclExecute.c: Proper fix for [Bug 2415422]. Reenabled + * tests/nre.test: the failing assertion that was disabled on + 2008-12-18: the assertion is correct, the fault was in the + management of expansions. -2007-05-22 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclExecute.c: Fix both test and code for tailcall + * tests/tailcall.test: from within a compiled [eval] body. - [core-stabilizer-branch] + * tests/tailcall.test: Slightly improved tests - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 (FC6 fork) - * win/configure: +2009-03-20 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * README: Bump version number to 8.5b1 - * generic/tcl.h: - * library/init.tcl: - * tools/tcl.wse.in: - * unix/configure.in: - * unix/tcl.spec: - * win/configure.in: + * tests/stringObj.test: [Bug 2597185]: Test stringObj-6.9 + checks that Tcl_AppendStringsToObj() no longer crashes when operating + on a pure unicode value. -2007-05-18 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclExecute.c (INST_CONCAT1): [Bug 2669109]: Panic when + appends overflow the max length of a Tcl value. - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 (FC6 fork) - * win/configure: +2009-03-19 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - * README: Bump version number to 8.5a7 * generic/tcl.h: - * library/init.tcl: - * tools/tcl.wse.in: - * unix/configure.in: - * unix/tcl.spec: - * win/configure.in: - - * generic/tclParse.c: Disable and remove the ALLOW_EXPAND sections - * tests/info.test: that continued to support the deprecated - * tests/mathop.test: {expand} syntax. Updated the few remaining - users of that syntax in the test suite. - -2007-05-17 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclExecute.c (TclLimitReady): Created a macro version of - Tcl_LimitReady just for TEBC, to reduce the amount of times that the - bytecode engine calls out to external functions on the critical path. - * generic/tclInterp.c (Tcl_LimitReady): Added note to remind anyone - doing maintenance that there is a macro version to update. - -2007-05-17 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tcl.decls: workaround 'make checkstubs' failures from - tclStubLib.c MODULE_SCOPE revert. [Bug 1716117] - -2007-05-16 Joe English <jenglish@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclStubLib.c: Change Tcl_InitStubs(), tclStubsPtr, and the - auxilliary stubs table pointers back to public visibility. - - These symbols need to be exported so that stub-enabled extensions may - be statically linked into an extended tclsh or Big Wish with a - dynamically-linked libtcl. [Bug 1716117] - -2007-05-15 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * win/configure: autoconf-2.59 (FC6 fork) - - * library/reg/pkgIndex.tcl: Bump to registry 1.2.1 to account for - * win/configure.in: [Bug 1682211] fix. - * win/makefile.bc: - * win/tclWinReg.c: - -2007-05-11 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclInt.h: Removed TclEvalObjEx and TclGetSrcInfoForPc from - tclInt.h now they are in the internal stubs table. - -2007-05-09 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclInt.h: TclFinalizeThreadAlloc() is always defined, so - make sure it is also always declared (with MODULE_SCOPE). - -2007-05-09 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclInt.h: fix warning when building threaded with -DPURIFY. - - * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: add 'DebugUnthreaded' & - * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/default.pbxuser: 'DebugLeaks' configs and env - var settings needed to run the 'leaks' tool. - -2007-05-07 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - [Tcl Bug 1706140] - - * generic/tclLink.c (LinkTraceProc): Update Tcl_VarTraceProcs so - * generic/tclNamesp.c (Error*Read): they call Tcl_InterpDeleted() - * generic/tclTrace.c (Trace*Proc): for themselves, and do not - * generic/tclUtil.c (TclPrecTraceProc): rely on (frequently buggy) - setting of the TCL_INTERP_DESTROYED flag by the trace core. - - * generic/tclVar.c: Update callers of TclCallVarTraces to not pass - in the TCL_INTERP_DESTROYED flag. Also apply filters so that public - routines only pass documented flag values down to lower level routines - - * generic/tclTrace.c (TclCallVarTraces): The setting of the - TCL_INTERP_DESTROYED flag is now done entirely within the - TclCallVarTraces routine, the only place it can be done right. - -2007-05-06 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclInt.h (ExtraFrameInfo): Create a new mechanism for - * generic/tclCmdIL.c (InfoFrameCmd): conveying what information needs - to be added to the results of [info frame] to replace the hack that - was there before. - * generic/tclProc.c (Tcl_ApplyObjCmd): Use the new mechanism for the - [apply] command, the only part of Tcl itself that needs it (so far). + * generic/tclInt.h: + * generic/tclBasic.c: + * generic/tclExecute.c: + * generic/tclNamesp.c (Tcl_PopCallFrame): Rewritten tailcall + implementation, ::unsupported::atProcExit is (temporarily?) gone. The + new approach is much simpler, and also closer to being correct. This + commit fixes [Bug 2649975] and [Bug 2695587]. - * generic/tclInt.decls (TclEvalObjEx, TclGetSrcInfoForPc): Expose - these two functions through the internal stubs table, necessary for - extensions that need to integrate deeply with TIP#280. + * tests/coroutine.test: Moved the tests to their own files, + * tests/tailcall.test: removed the unsupported.test. Added + * tests/unsupported.test: tests for the fixed bugs. -2007-05-05 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2009-03-19 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * win/tclWinFile.c (TclpGetUserHome): Squelch type-pun warnings in - * win/tclWinInit.c (TclpSetVariables): Win-specific code not found - * win/tclWinReg.c (AppendSystemError): during earlier work on Unix. + * doc/tailcall.n: Added documentation for tailcall command. -2007-05-04 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> +2009-03-18 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclIO.c (TclFinalizeIOSubsystem): Added an initializer to - silence a spurious gcc warning about use of an uninitialized - variable. - * tests/encoding.test: Modified so that encoding tests happen in a - private namespace, to avoid polluting the global one. This problem was - discovered when running the test suite '-singleproc 1 -skip exec.test' - because the 'path' variable in encoding.test conflicted with the one - in io.test. - * tests/io.test: Made more of the working variables private to the - namespace. - -2007-05-02 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - - * generic/tclTest.c (SimpleMatchInDirectory): Corrected a refcount - imbalance that affected the filesystem-[147]* tests in the test suite. - Thanks to Don Porter for the patch. [Bug 1710707] - * generic/tclPathObj.c (Tcl_FSJoinPath, Tcl_FSGetNormalizedPath): - Corrected several memory leaks that caused refcount imbalances - resulting in memory leaks on Windows. Thanks to Joe Mistachkin for the + * win/tclWinFile.c (TclpObjNormalizePath): [Bug 2688184]: + Corrected Tcl_Obj leak. Thanks to Joe Mistachkin for detection and patch. -2007-05-01 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclVar.c (TclPtrSetVar): fixed leak whenever newvaluePtr had - refCount 0 and was used for appending (but not lappending). Thanks to - mistachkin and kbk. [Bug 1710710] - -2007-05-01 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - - * generic/tclIO.c (DeleteChannelTable): Made changes so that - DeleteChannelTable tries to close all open channels, not just the - first. [Bug 1710285] - * generic/tclThread.c (TclFinalizeSynchronization): Make sure that TSD - blocks get freed on non-threaded builds. [Bug 1710825] - * tests/utf.test (utf-25.1--utf-25.4): Modified tests to clean up - after the 'testobj' extension to avoid spurious reports of memory - leaks. - -2007-05-01 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (STR_MAP): When [string map] has a pure dict map, - a missing Tcl_DictObjDone() call led to a memleak. [Bug 1710709] - -2007-04-30 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - - * unix/Makefile.in: add 'tclsh' dependency to install targets that - rely on tclsh, fixes parallel 'make install' from empty build dir. - -2007-04-30 Andreas Kupries <andreask@gactivestate.com> - - * generic/tclIO.c (FixLevelCode): Corrected reference count - mismanagement of newlevel, newcode. Changed to allocate the Tcl_Obj's - as late as possible, and only when actually needed. [Bug 1705778, leak - K29] - -2007-04-30 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - - * generic/tclProc.c (Tcl_ProcObjCmd, SetLambdaFromAny): Corrected - reference count mismanagement on the name of the source file in the - TIP 280 code. [Bug 1705778, leak K02 among other manifestations] - -2007-04-25 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - - *** 8.5a6 TAGGED FOR RELEASE *** - - * generic/tclProc.c (TclObjInterpProcCore): Only allocate objects for - error message generation when associated with argument names that are - really used. [Bug 1705778, leak K15] - -2007-04-25 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - - * generic/tclIOUtil.c (Tcl_FSChdir): Changed the memory management so - that the path returned from Tcl_FSGetNativePath is not duplicated - before being stored as the current directory, to avoid a memory leak. - [Bug 1705778, leak K01 among other manifestations] - -2007-04-25 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclCompExpr.c (ParseExpr): Revised to be sure that an - error return doesn't prevent all literals getting placed on the - litList to be returned to the caller for freeing. Corrects some - memleaks. [Bug 1705778, leak K23] - -2007-04-25 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - - * unix/Makefile.in (dist): add macosx/*.xcconfig files to src dist; - copy license.terms to dist macosx dir; fix autoheader bits. - -2007-04-24 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclListObj.c: reverting [Patch 738900] (committed on - 2007-04-20). Causes some Tk test breakage of unknown importance, but - the impact of the patch itself is likely to be so small that it does - not warrant investigation at this time. - -2007-04-24 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclDictObj.c (DictKeysCmd): Rewrote so that the lock on the - internal representation of a dict is only set when necessary. [Bug - 1705778, leak K04] - (DictFilterCmd): Added code to drop the lock in the trivial match - case. [Bug 1705778, leak K05] - -2007-04-24 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> + * generic/tclVar.c (TclLookupSimpleVar): [Bug 2689307]: Shift + all calls to Tcl_SetErrorCode() out of TclLookupSimpleVar and onto its + callers, where control with TCL_LEAVE_ERR_MSG flag is more easily + handled. - * generic/tclBinary.c: Addressed several code paths where the error - return from the 'binary format' command leaked the result buffer. - * generic/tclListObj.c (TclLsetFlat): Fixed a bug where the new list - under construction was leaked in the error case. [Bug 1705778, leaks - K13 and K14] +2009-03-16 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2007-04-24 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (TryPostBody): [Bug 2688063]: Extract information + from list before getting rid of last reference to it. - * unix/Makefile.in (dist): add platform library package to src dist +2009-03-15 Joe Mistachkin <joe@mistachkin.com> -2007-04-24 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclThread.c: Modify fix for TSD leak to match Tcl 8.5 + * generic/tclThreadStorage.c: (and prior) allocation semantics. [Bug + 2687952] - * generic/tclCompExpr.c (ParseExpr): Memory leak in error case; the - literal Tcl_Obj was not getting freed. [Bug 1705778, leak #1 (new)] - - * generic/tclNamesp.c (Tcl_DeleteNamespace): Corrected flaw in the - flag marking scheme to be sure that global namespaces are freed when - their interp is deleted. [Bug 1705778] - -2007-04-24 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - - * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): Plugged six memory leaks - in bignum arithmetic. - * generic/tclIOCmd.c (Tcl_ReadObjCmd): Plugged a leak of the buffer - object if the physical read returned an error and the bypass area had - no message. - * generic/tclIORChan.c (TclChanCreateObjCmd): Plugged a leak of the - return value from the "initialize" method of a channel handler. - (All of the above under [Bug 1705778]) +2009-03-15 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2007-04-23 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclThreadStorage.c (TSDTableDelete): [Bug 2687952]: Ensure + * generic/tclThread.c (Tcl_GetThreadData): that structures in + Tcl's TSD system are all freed. Use the correct matching allocator. - * generic/tclCkalloc.c: fix warnings from gcc build configured with - * generic/tclCompile.c: --enable-64bit --enable-symbols=all. - * generic/tclExecute.c: + * generic/tclPosixStr.c (Tcl_SignalId,Tcl_SignalMsg): [Patch 1513655]: + Added support for SIGINFO, which is present on BSD platforms. - * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c: add workaround for crashing bug in fts_open() - * unix/tclUnixInit.c: without FTS_NOSTAT on 64bit Darwin 8 or earlier. +2009-03-14 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * unix/tclLoadDyld.c (TclpLoadMemory): fix (void*) arithmetic. + * unix/tcl.pc.in (new file): [Patch 2243948] (hat0) + * unix/configure.in, unix/Makefile.in: Added support for reporting + Tcl's public build configuration via the pkg-config system. TEA is + still the official mechanism though, in part because pkg-config is not + universally supported across all Tcl's supported platforms. - * macosx/Tcl-Common.xcconfig: enable more warnings. +2009-03-11 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: add 'DebugMemCompile' build - configuration that calls configure with --enable-symbols=all; override - configure check for __attribute__((__visibility__("hidden"))) in Debug - configuration to restore availability of ZeroLink. + * generic/tclBasic.c (TclNRCoroutineObjCmd): fix Tcl_Obj leak. + Diagnosis and fix thanks to GPS. - * macosx/tclMacOSXNotify.c: fix warnings. +2009-03-09 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * macosx/tclMacOSXFCmd.c: const fixes. + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_TryObjCmd, TclNRTryObjCmd): Moved the + implementation of [try] from Tcl code into C. Still lacks a bytecode + version, but should be better than what was before. - * macosx/Tcl-Common.xcconfig: fix whitespace. - * macosx/Tcl-Debug.xcconfig: - * macosx/Tcl-Release.xcconfig: - * macosx/README: +2009-03-04 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * macosx/GNUmakefile: fix/add copyright and license refs. - * macosx/tclMacOSXBundle.c: - * macosx/Tcl-Info.plist.in: - * macosx/Tcl.xcode/project.pbxproj: - * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: + * generic/tclZlib.c (TclZlibCmd): Checksums are defined to be unsigned + 32-bit integers, use Tcl_WideInt to pass to scripts. [Bug 2662434] + (ZlibStreamCmd, ChanGetOption): A few other related corrections. - * unix/configure.in: install license.terms into Tcl.framework. - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 - -2007-04-23 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclVar.c (UnsetVarStruct): Make sure the - TCL_INTERP_DESTROYED flags gets passed to unset trace routines so they - can respond appropriately. [Bug 1705778, leak #9] - -2007-04-23 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclCompile.c (TclFreeCompileEnv): Tip 280's new field - extCmdMapPtr was not being freed. [Bug 1705778, leak #1] - -2007-04-23 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - - * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileUpvarCmd): Plugged a memory leak in - 'upvar' when compiling (a) upvar outside a proc, (b) upvar with a - syntax error, or (c) upvar where the frame index is not known at - compile time. - * generic/tclCompExpr.c (ParseExpr): Plugged a memory leak when - parsing expressions that contain syntax errors. - * generic/tclEnv.c (ReplaceString): Clear memory correctly when - growing the cache to avoid reads of uninitialised data. - * generic/tclIORChan.c (TclChanCreateObjCmd, FreeReflectedChannel): - Plugged two memory leaks. - * generic/tclStrToD.c (AccumulateDecimalDigit): Fixed a mistake where - we'd run beyond the end of the 'pow10_wide' array if a number begins - with a string of more than 'maxpow10_wide' zeroes. - * generic/tclTest.c (Testregexpobjcmd): Removed an invalid access - beyond the end of 'objv' in 'testregexp -about'. - All of these issues reported under [Bug 1705778] - detected with the - existing test suite, no new regression tests required. - -2007-04-22 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclVar.c (TclDeleteNamespaceVars): fixed access to freed - memory detected by valgrind: Tcl_GetCurrentNamespace was being - called after freeing root CallFrame (on interp deletion). - -2007-04-20 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclListObj.c (SetListFromAny): avoid discarding internal - reps of objects converted to singleton lists. [Patch 738900] - -2007-04-20 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - - * doc/clock.n: Corrected a silly error (transposed 'uppercase' and - 'lowercase' in clock.n. [Bug 1656002] - Clarified that [clock scan] does not recognize a locale's alternative - calendar. - Deleted an entirely superfluous (and also incorrect) remark about the - effect of Daylight Saving Time on relative times in [clock scan]. [Bug - 1582951] - * library/clock.tcl: Corrected an error in skipping over the %Ey field - on input. - * library/msgs/ja.msg: - * tools/loadICU.tcl: Corrected several localisation faults in the - Japanese locale (most notably, incorrect dates for the Emperors' - eras). [Bug 1637471]. Many thanks to SourceForge user 'nyademo' for - pointing this out and developing a fix. - * generic/tclPathObj.c: Corrected a 'const'ness fault that caused - bitter complaints from MSVC. - * tests/clock.test (clock-40.1, clock-58.1, clock-59.1): Corrected a - test case that depended on ":localtime" being able to handle dates - prior to the Posix epoch. [Bug 1618445] Added a test case for the - dates of the Japanese emperors. [Bug 1637471] Added a regression test - for military time zone input conversion. [Bug 1586828] - * generic/tclGetDate.y (MilitaryTable): Fixed an ancient bug where the - military NZA time zones had the signs reversed. [Bug 1586828] - * generic/tclDate.c: Regenerated. - * doc/Notifier.3: Documented Tcl_SetNotifier and Tcl_ServiceModeHook. - Quite against my better judgment. [Bug 414933] - * generic/tclBasic.c, generic/tclCkalloc.c, generic/tclClock.c: - * generic/tclCmdIL.c, generic/tclCmdMZ.c, generic/tclFCmd.c: - * generic/tclFileName.c, generic/tclInterp.c, generic/tclIO.c: - * generic/tclIOUtil.c, generic/tclNamesp.c, generic/tclObj.c: - * generic/tclPathObj.c, generic/tclPipe.c, generic/tclPkg.c: - * generic/tclResult.c, generic/tclTest.c, generic/tclTestObj.c: - * generic/tclVar.c, unix/tclUnixChan.c, unix/tclUnixTest.c: - * win/tclWinLoad.c, win/tclWinSerial.c: Replaced commas in varargs - with string concatenation where possible. [Patch 1515234] - * library/tzdata/America/Tegucigalpa: - * library/tzdata/Asia/Damascus: Olson's tzdata 2007e. +2009-02-27 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2007-04-19 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> + * generic/tcl.decls: [Bug 218977]: Tcl_DbCkfree needs return value + * generic/tclCkalloc.c + * generic/tclDecls.h: (regenerated) + * generic/tclInt.decls: don't use CONST84/CONST86 here + * generic/tclCompile.h: don't use CONST86 here, comment fixing. + * generic/tclIO.h: don't use CONST86 here, comment fixing. + * generic/tclIntDecls.h (regenerated) - * generic/regcomp.c, generic/regc_cvec.c, generic/regc_lex.c, - * generic/regc_locale.c: Improve the const-correctness of the RE - compiler. +2009-02-25 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> -2007-04-18 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclUtil.c (TclStringMatchObj): [Bug 2637173]: Revised + the branching on the strObj->typePtr so that untyped values get + converted to the "string" type and pass through the Unicode matcher. + [Bug 2613766]: Also added checks to only perform "bytearray" + optimization on pure bytearray values. - * generic/tclExecute.c (INST_LSHIFT): fixed a mistake introduced in - version 1.266 ('=' became '=='), which effectively turned the block - that handles native shifts into dead code. This explains why the - testsuite did not pick this mistake. Rewrote to make the intention - clear. + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: Since Tcl_GetCharLength() has its own + * generic/tclExecute.c: optimizations for the tclByteArrayType, stop + having the callers do them. - * generic/tclInt.h (TclDecrRefCount): change the order of the - branches, use empty 'if ; else' to handle use in unbraced outer - if/else conditions (as already done in tcl.h) +2009-02-24 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclExecute.c: slight changes in Tcl_Obj management. + * doc/clock.n, doc/fblocked.n, doc/format.n, doc/lsort.n, + * doc/pkgMkIndex.n, doc/regsub.n, doc/scan.n, doc/tclvars.n: + General minor documentation improvements. -2007-04-17 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - - * library/clock.tcl: Fixed the naming of - ::tcl::clock::ReadZoneinfoFile because (yoicks!) it was in the global - namespace. - * doc/clock.n: Clarified the cases in which legacy time zone is - recognized. [Bug 1656002] - -2007-04-17 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclExecute.c: fixed checkInterp logic [Bug 1702212] - -2007-04-16 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> - - * various (including generic/tclTest.c): Complete the purge of K&R - function definitions from manually-written code. - -2007-04-15 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - - * generic/tclCompCmds.c: added a cast to silence a compiler error on - VC2005. - * library/clock.tcl: Restored unique-prefix matching of keywords on - the [clock] command. [Bug 1690041] - * tests/clock.test: Added rudimentary test cases for unique-prefix - matching of keywords. + * library/http/http.tcl (geturl, Eof): Added support for 8.6's built + in zlib routines. -2007-04-14 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2009-02-22 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclExecute.c: removed some code at INST_EXPAND_SKTOP that - duplicates functionality already present at checkForCatch. + * tests/lrange.test: Revert commits of 2008-07-23. Those were speed + * tests/binary.test: tests, that are inherently brittle. -2007-04-12 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2009-02-21 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclExecute.c: new macros OBJ_AT_TOS, OBJ_UNDER_TOS, - OBJ_AT_DEPTH(n) and CURR_DEPTH that remove all direct references to - tosPtr from TEBC (after initialisation and the code at the label - cleanupV_pushObjResultPtr). + * generic/tclStringObj.c: Several revisions to the shimmering + patterns between Unicode and UTF string reps. Most notably the + call: objPtr = Tcl_NewUnicodeObj(...,0); followed by a loop of calls: + Tcl_AppendUnicodeToObj(objPtr, u, n); will now grow and append to + the Unicode representation. Before this commit, the sequence would + convert each append to UTF and perform the append to the UTF rep. + This is puzzling and likely a bug. The performance of [string map] + is significantly improved by this change (according to the MAP + collection of benchmarks in tclbench). Just in case there was some + wisdom in the old ways that I missed, I left in the ability to restore + the old patterns with a #define COMPAT 1 at the top of the file. -2007-04-11 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2009-02-20 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclCompCmds.c: moved all exceptDepth management to the - macros - the decreasing half was managed by hand. - -2007-04-10 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> + * generic/tclPathObj.c: Fixed mistaken logic in TclFSGetPathType() + * tests/fileName.test: that assumed (not "absolute" => "relative"). + This is a false assumption on Windows, where "volumerelative" is + another possibility. [Bug 2571597] - * generic/tclInt.h (TclNewLiteralStringObj): New macro to make - allocating literal string objects (i.e. objects whose value is a - constant string) easier and more efficient, by allowing the omission - of the length argument. Based on [Patch 1529526] (afredd) - * generic/*.c: Make use of this (in many files). +2009-02-18 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> -2007-04-08 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclStringObj.c: Simplify the logic of the + Tcl_*SetObjLength() routines. - * generic/tclCompile (tclInstructionTable): Fixed bugs in description - of dict instructions. + * generic/tclStringObj.c: Rewrite GrowStringBuffer() so that it + has parallel structure with GrowUnicodeBuffer(). The revision permits + allocation attempts to continue all the way up to failure, with no + gap. It also directly manipulates the String and Tcl_Obj internals + instead of inefficiently operating via Tcl_*SetObjLength() with all of + its extra protections and underdocumented special cases. -2007-04-07 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclStringObj.c: Another round of simplification on + the allocation macros. - * generic/tclCompile (tclInstructionTable): Fixed bug in description - of INST_START_COMMAND. +2009-02-17 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - * generic/tclExecute.c (TEBC): Small code reduction. + * win/tcl.m4, win/configure: Check if cl groks _WIN64 already to + avoid CC manipulation that can screw up later configure checks. + Use 'd'ebug runtime in 64-bit builds. -2007-04-06 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2009-02-17 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclExecute.c (TEBC): - * generic/tclNamespace.c (NsEnsembleImplementationCmd): - * generic/tclProc.c (InitCompiledLocals, ObjInterpProcEx) - (TclObjInterpProcCore, ProcCompileProc): Code reordering to reduce - branching and improve branch prediction (assume that forward branches - are typically not taken). + * generic/tclStringObj.c: Pare back the length of the unicode + array in a non-extended String struct to one Tcl_UniChar, meant to + hold the terminating NUL character. Non-empty unicode strings are + then stored by extending the String struct by stringPtr->maxChars + additional slots in that array with sizeof(Tcl_UniChar) bytes per + slot. This revision makes the allocation macros much simpler. -2007-04-03 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclStringObj.c: Factor out common GrowUnicodeBuffer() + and solve overflow and growth algorithm fallbacks in it. - * generic/tclExecute.c: INST_INVOKE optimisation. [Patch 1693802] + * generic/tclStringObj.c: Factor out common GrowStringBuffer(). -2007-04-03 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclStringObj.c: Convert Tcl_AppendStringsToObj into + * tests/stringObj.test: a radically simpler implementation + where we just loop over calls to Tcl_AppendToObj. This fixes [Bug + 2597185]. It also creates a *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** in + that T_ASTO can now allocate more space than is strictly required, + like all the other Tcl_Append* routines. The incompatibility was + detected by test stringObj-6.5, which I've updated to reflect the + new behavior. - * generic/tclNamesp.c: Revised ErrorCodeRead and ErrorInfoRead trace - routines so they guarantee the ::errorCode and ::errorInfo variable - always appear to exist. [Bug 1693252] + * generic/tclStringObj.c: Revise buffer growth implementation + in ExtendStringRepWithUnicode. Use cheap checks to determine that + no reallocation is necessary without cost of computing the precise + number of bytes needed. Also make use of the string growth algortihm + in the case of repeated appends. -2007-04-03 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2009-02-16 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclInt.decls: Moved TclGetNamespaceFromObj() to the - * generic/tclInt.h: internal stubs table; regen. - * generic/tclIntDecls.h: - * generic/tclStubInit.c: + * generic/tclZlib.c: hack needed for official zlib1.dll build. + * win/configure.in: fix [Feature Request 2605263] use official + * win/Makefile.in: zlib build. + * win/configure: (regenerated) + * compat/zlib/zdll.lib: new files + * compat/zlib/zlib1.dll: -2007-04-02 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + * win/Makefile.in: fix [Bug 2605232] tdbc doesn't build when + Tcl is compiled with --disable-shared. - * generic/tclBasic.c: Added bytecode compilers for the variable - * generic/tclCompCmds.c: linking commands: 'global', 'variable', - * generic/tclCompile.h: 'upvar', 'namespace upvar' [Patch 1688593] - * generic/tclExecute.c: - * generic/tclInt.h: - * generic/tclVar.c: +2009-02-15 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> -2007-04-02 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclStringObj.c: Added protections from invalid memory + * generic/tclTestObj.c: accesses when we append (some part of) + * tests/stringObj.test: a Tcl_Obj to itself. Added the + appendself and appendself2 subcommands to the [teststringobj] testing + command and added tests to the test suite. [Bug 2603158] - * generic/tclBasic.c: Replace arrays on the C stack and ckalloc - * generic/tclExecute.c: calls with TclStackAlloc calls to use memory - * generic/tclFCmd.c: on Tcl's evaluation stack. - * generic/tclFileName.c: - * generic/tclIOCmd.c: + * generic/tclStringObj.c: Factor out duplicate code from + Tcl_AppendObjToObj. + + * generic/tclStringObj.c: Replace the 'size_t uallocated' field + of the String struct, storing the number of bytes allocated to store + the Tcl_UniChar array, with an 'int maxChars' field, storing the + number of Tcl_UniChars that may be stored in the allocated space. + This reduces memory requirement a small bit, and makes some range + checks simpler to code. + * generic/tclTestObj.c: Replace the [teststringobj ualloc] testing + * tests/stringObj.test: command with [teststringobj maxchars] and + update the tests. + + * generic/tclStringObj.c: Removed limitation in + Tcl_AppendObjToObj where the char length of the result was only + computed if the appended string was all single byte characters. + This limitation was in place to dodge a bug in Tcl_GetUniChar. + With that bug gone, we can take advantage of always recording the + length of append results when we know it. + +2009-02-14 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + + * generic/tclStringObj.c: Revisions so that we avoid creating + the strange representation of an empty string with + objPtr->bytes == NULL and stringPtr->hasUnicode == 0. Instead in + the situations where that was being created, create a traditional + two-legged stork representation (objPtr->bytes = tclEmptyStringRep + and stringPtr->hasUnicode = 1). In the situations where the strange + rep was treated differently, continue to do so by testing + stringPtr->numChars == 0 to detect it. These changes make the code + more conventional so easier for new maintainers to pick up. Also + sets up further simplifications. + + * generic/tclTestObj.c: Revise updates to [teststringobj] so we don't + get blocked by MODULE_SCOPE limits. + +2009-02-12 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + + * generic/tclStringObj.c: Rewrites of the routines + Tcl_GetCharLength, Tcl_GetUniChar, Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj, + Tcl_GetRange, and TclStringObjReverse to use the new macro, and + to more simply and clearly split the cases depending on whether + a valid unicode rep is present or needs to be created. + New utility routine UnicodeLength(), to compute the length of unicode + buffer arguments when no length is passed in, with built-in + overflow protection included. Update three callers to use it. + + * generic/tclInt.h: New macro TclNumUtfChars meant to be a faster + replacement for a full Tcl_NumUtfChars() call when the string has all + single-byte characters. + + * generic/tclStringObj.c: Simplified Tcl_GetCharLength by + * generic/tclTestObj.c: removing code that did nothing. + Added early returns from Tcl_*SetObjLength when the desired length + is already present; adapted test command to the change. + + * generic/tclStringObj.c: Re-implemented AppendUtfToUnicodeRep + so that we no longer pass through Tcl_DStrings which have their own + sets of problems when lengths overflow the int range. Now AUTUR and + FillUnicodeRep share a common core routine. + +2009-02-12 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclOODefineCmds.c (TclOOGetDefineCmdContext): Use the + correct field in the Interp structure for retrieving the frame to get + the context object so that people can extend [oo::define] without deep + shenanigans. Bug found by Federico Ferri. + +2009-02-11 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + + * generic/tclStringObj.c: Re-implemented AppendUnicodeToUtfRep + so that we no longer pass through Tcl_DStrings which have their own + sets of problems when lengths overflow the int range. Now AUTUR and + UpdateStringOfString share a common core routine. + + * generic/tclStringObj.c: Changed type of the 'allocated' field + * generic/tclTestObj.c: of the String struct (and the + TestString counterpart) from size_t to int since only int values are + ever stored in it. + +2009-02-10 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> + + * generic/tclEncoding.c: Eliminate some unnessary type casts + * generic/tclEvent.c: some internal const decorations + * generic/tclExecute.c: spacing * generic/tclIndexObj.c: * generic/tclInterp.c: - * generic/tclNamesp.c: - * generic/tclTrace.c: - * unix/tclUnixPipe.c: - -2007-04-01 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclCompile.c (TclCompileScript, TclPrintInstruction): - * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): Changed the definition of - INST_START_CMD so that it knows how many commands start at the current - location. This makes the interpreter command counter correct without - requiring a large number of instructions to be issued. (See my change - from 2007-01-19 for what triggered this.) - -2007-03-30 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclCompile.c: - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: - * generic/tclCompCmds.c: Replace arrays on the C stack and - ckalloc calls with TclStackAlloc calls to use memory on Tcl's - evaluation stack. - - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: Revised [string to* $s $first $last] - implementation to reduce number of allocs/copies. - - * tests/string.test: More [string reverse] tests. - -2007-03-30 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclExecute.c: optimise the lookup of elements of indexed - arrays. - -2007-03-29 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclProc.c (Tcl_ApplyObjCmd): - * tests/apply.test (9.3): Fixed Tcl_Obj leak on error return; an - unneeded ref to lambdaPtr was being set and not released on an error - return path. - -2007-03-28 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (STR_REVERSE): Implement the actual [string - reverse] command in terms of the new TclStringObjReverse() routine. - - * generic/tclInt.h (TclStringObjReverse): New internal routine - * generic/tclStringObj.c (TclStringObjReverse): that implements the - [string reverse] operation, making use of knowledge/surgery of the - String intrep to minimize the number of allocs and copies needed to do - the job. - -2007-03-27 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (STR_MAP): Replace ckalloc calls with - TclStackAlloc calls. - -2007-03-24 Zoran Vasiljevic <vasiljevic@users.sourceforge.net> - - * win/tclWinThrd.c: Thread exit handler marks the current thread as - un-initialized. This allows exit handlers that are registered later to - re-initialize this subsystem in case they need to use some sync - primitives (cond variables) from this file again. - -2007-03-23 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclBasic.c (DeleteInterpProc): pop the root frame pointer - before deleting the global namespace [Bug 1658572] - -2007-03-23 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - - * win/Makefile.in: Added code to keep a Cygwin path name from leaking - into LIBRARY_DIR when doing 'make test' or 'make runtest'. - -2007-03-22 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclCmdAH.c (Tcl_ForeachObjCmd): Replaced arrays on the - C stack and ckalloc calls with TclStackAlloc calls to use memory on - Tcl's evaluation stack. - - * generic/tclExecute.c: Revised GrowEvaluationStack to take an - argument specifying the growth required by the caller, so that a - single reallocation / copy is the most that will ever be needed even - when required growth is large. - -2007-03-21 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclExecute.c: More ckalloc -> ckrealloc conversions. - * generic/tclLiteral.c: - * generic/tclNamesp.c: - * generic/tclParse.c: - * generic/tclPreserve.c: - * generic/tclStringObj.c: - * generic/tclUtil.c: - -2007-03-20 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclEnv.c: Some more ckalloc -> ckrealloc replacements. - * generic/tclLink.c: - -2007-03-20 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - - * generic/tclDate.c: Rebuilt, despite Donal Fellows's comment when - committing it that no rebuild was required. - * generic/tclGetDate.y: According to Donal Fellows, "Introduce modern - formatting standards; no need for rebuild of tclDate.c." - - * library/tzdata/America/Cambridge_Bay: - * library/tzdata/America/Havana: - * library/tzdata/America/Inuvik: - * library/tzdata/America/Iqaluit: - * library/tzdata/America/Pangnirtung: - * library/tzdata/America/Rankin_Inlet: - * library/tzdata/America/Resolute: - * library/tzdata/America/Yellowknife: - * library/tzdata/Asia/Choibalsan: - * library/tzdata/Asia/Dili: - * library/tzdata/Asia/Hovd: - * library/tzdata/Asia/Jakarta: - * library/tzdata/Asia/Jayapura: - * library/tzdata/Asia/Makassar: - * library/tzdata/Asia/Pontianak: - * library/tzdata/Asia/Ulaanbaatar: - * library/tzdata/Europe/Istanbul: Upgraded to Olson's tzdata2007d. - - * generic/tclListObj.c (TclLsetList, TclLsetFlat): - * tests/lset.test: Changes to deal with shared internal representation - for lists passed to the [lset] command. Thanks to Don Porter for - fixing this issue. [Bug 1677512] - -2007-03-19 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclCompile.c: Revise the various expansion routines for - CompileEnv fields to use ckrealloc() where appropriate. - - * generic/tclBinary.c (Tcl_SetByteArrayLength): Replaced ckalloc() / - memcpy() sequence with ckrealloc() call. - - * generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_CreateMathFunc): Replaced some calls to - * generic/tclEvent.c (Tcl_CreateThread): Tcl_Alloc() with calls - * generic/tclObj.c (UpdateStringOfBignum): to ckalloc(), which - * unix/tclUnixTime.c (SetTZIfNecessary): better supports memory - * win/tclAppInit.c (setargv): debugging. - -2007-03-19 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> - - * doc/regsub.n: Corrected example so that it doesn't recommend - potentially unsafe practice. Many thanks to Konstantin Kushnir - <chpock@gmail.com> for reporting this. - -2007-03-17 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - - * win/tclWinReg.c (GetKeyNames): Size the buffer for enumerating key - names correctly, so that Unicode names exceeding 127 chars can be - retrieved without crashing. [Bug 1682211] - * tests/registry.test (registry-4.9): Added test case for the above - bug. - -2007-03-15 Mo DeJong <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclIOUtil.c (Tcl_Stat): Reimplement workaround to avoid gcc - warning by using local variables. When the macro argument is of type - long long instead of long, the incorrect warning is not generated. - -2007-03-15 Mo DeJong <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net> - - * win/Makefile.in: Fully qualify LIBRARY_DIR so that `make test` does - not depend on working dir. - -2007-03-15 Mo DeJong <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net> - - * tests/parse.test: Add two backslash newline parse tests. - -2007-03-12 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclExecute.c (INST_FOREACH_STEP4): Make private copy of - * tests/foreach.test (foreach-10.1): value list to be assigned to - variables so that shimmering of that list doesn't lead to invalid - pointers. [Bug 1671087] - - * generic/tclEvent.c (HandleBgErrors): Make efficient private copy - * tests/event.test (event-5.3): of the command prefix for the interp's - background error handling command to avoid panics due to pointers to - memory invalid after shimmering. [Bug 1670155] - - * generic/tclNamesp.c (NsEnsembleImplementationCmd): Make efficient - * tests/namespace.test (namespace-42.8): private copy of the - command prefix as we invoke the command appropriate to a particular - subcommand of a particular ensemble to avoid panic due to shimmering - of the List intrep. [Bug 1670091] - - * generic/tclVar.c (TclArraySet): Make efficient private copy of - * tests/var.test (var-17.1): the "list" argument to [array set] to - avoid crash due to shimmering invalidating pointers. [Bug 1669489] - -2007-03-12 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> - - * generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LsortObjCmd): Fix problems with declaration - positioning and memory leaks. [Bug 1679072] - -2007-03-11 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LreverseObjCmd): Ensure that a list is - correctly reversed even if its internal representation is shared - without the object itself being shared. [Bug 1675044] - -2007-03-10 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclCmdIL (Tcl_LsortObjCmd): changed fix to [Bug 1675116] to - use the cheaper TclListObjCopy() instead of Tcl_DuplicateObj(). - -2007-03-09 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - - * library/platform/shell.tcl: Made more robust if an older platform - * library/platform/pkgIndex.tcl: package is present in the inspected - * unix/Makefile.in: shell. Package forget it to prevent errors. Bumped - * win/Makefile.in: package version to 1.1.3, and updated the Makefiles - installing it as Tcl Module. - -2007-03-09 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> - - * generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LsortObjCmd): Handle tricky case with loss - * tests/cmdIL.test (cmdIL-1.29): of list rep during sorting due - to shimmering. [Bug 1675116] - -2007-03-09 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - - * library/clock.tcl (ReadZoneinfoFile): Added Y2038 compliance to the - code for version-2 'zoneinfo' files. - * tests/clock.test (clock-56.3): Added a test case for Y2038 and - 'zoneinfo'. Modified test initialisation to use the - 'loadTestedCommands' function of tcltest to bring in the correct path - for the registry library. - -2007-03-08 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclListObj.c (TclLsetList): Rewrite so that the routine - itself does not do any direct intrep surgery. Better isolates those - things into the implementation of the "list" Tcl_ObjType. - -2007-03-08 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> - - * generic/tclListObj.c (TclLindexList, TclLindexFlat): Moved these - functions to tclListObj.c from tclCmdIL.c to mirror the way that the - equivalent functions for [lset]'s guts are arranged. - -2007-03-08 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - - * library/clock.tcl: Further tweaks to the Windows time zone table - (restoring missing Mexican time zones). Added rudimentary handling of - version-2 'zoneinfo' files. Update US DST rules so that zones such as - 'EST5EDT' get the correct transition dates. - * tests/clock.test: Added rudimentary test cases for 'zoneinfo' - parsing. Adjusted several tests that depended on obsolete US DST - transition rules. - -2007-03-07 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - - * macosx/tclMacOSXNotify.c: add spinlock debugging and sanity checks. - - * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: ensure gcc version used by - * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/default.pbxuser: Xcode and configure/make are - * macosx/Tcl-Common.xcconfig: consistent and independent of - gcc_select default and CC env var; fixes for Xcode 3.0. - - * unix/tcl.m4 (Darwin): s/CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS/ in macosx-version-min check - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 - -2007-03-07 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclCmdIL.c (TclLindex*): Rewrites to make efficient - private copies of the list and indexlist arguments, so we can operate - on the list elements directly with no fear of shimmering effects. - Replaces defensive coding schemes that are otherwise required. End - result is that TclLindexList is entirely a wrapper around - TclLindexFlat, which is now the core engine of all [lindex] - operations. - - * generic/tclObj.c (Tcl_AppendAllObjTypes): Converted to simpler - list validity test. - -2007-03-07 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> - - * generic/tclRegexp.c (TclRegAbout): Generate information about a - regexp as a Tcl_Obj instead of as a string, which is more efficient. - -2007-03-07 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - - * library/clock.tcl: Adjusted Windows time zone table to handle new US - DST rules by locale rather than as Posix time zone spec. - * tests/clock.test (clock-39.6, clock-49.2, testclock::registry): - Adjusted tests to simulate new US rules. - * library/tzdata/America/Indiana/Winamac: - * library/tzdata/Europe/Istanbul: - * library/tzdata/Pacific/Easter: - Olson's tzdata2007c. - -2007-03-05 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - - * library/platform/shell.tcl (::platform::shell::RUN): In the case of - * library/platform/pkgIndex.tcl: a failure put the captured stderr - * unix/Makefile.in: into the error message to aid in debugging. Bumped - * win/Makefile.in: package version to 1.1.2, and updated the makefiles - installing it as Tcl Module. - -2007-03-03 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclLink.c (LinkedVar): Added macro to conceal at least some - of the pointer hackery. - -2007-03-02 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LreverseObjCmd): Added missing - TclInvalidateStringRep() call when we directly manipulate the intrep - of an unshared "list" Tcl_Obj. [Bug 1672585] - - * generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_JoinObjCmd): Revised [join] implementation - to append Tcl_Obj's instead of strings. [RFE 1669420] - - * generic/tclCmdIL.c (Info*Cmd): Code simplifications and - optimizations. - -2007-03-02 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> - - * generic/tclCompile.c (TclPrintInstruction): Added a scheme to allow - * generic/tclCompile.h (AuxDataPrintProc): aux-data to be printed - * generic/tclCompCmds.c (Print*Info): out for debugging. For - this to work, immediate operands referring to aux-data must be - identified as such in the instruction descriptor table using - OPERAND_AUX4 (all are always 4 bytes). - - * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): Rewrote the compiled - * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileDictCmd): [dict update] so that it - * generic/tclCompile.h (DictUpdateInfo): stores critical - * tests/dict.test (dict-21.{14,15}): non-varying data in an - aux-data value instead of a (shimmerable) literal. [Bug 1671001] - -2007-03-01 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LinsertObjCmd): Code simplifications - and optimizations. - - * generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LreplaceObjCmd): Code simplifications - and optimizations. - - * generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LrangeObjCmd): Rewrite in the same - spirit; avoid shimmer effects rather than react to them. - - * generic/tclCmdAH.c (Tcl_ForeachObjCmd): Stop throwing away - * tests/foreach.test (foreach-1.14): useful error information when - loop variable sets fail. - - * generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LassignObjCmd): Rewrite to make an - efficient private copy of the list argument, so we can operate on the - list elements directly with no fear of shimmering effects. Replaces - defensive coding schemes that are otherwise required. - - * generic/tclCmdAH.c (Tcl_ForeachObjCmd): Rewrite to make - efficient private copies of the variable and value lists, so we can - operate on them without any special shimmer defense coding schemes. - -2007-03-01 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> - - * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileForeachCmd): Prevent an unexpected - * tests/foreach.test (foreach-9.1): infinite loop when the - variable list is empty and the foreach is compiled. [Bug 1671138] - -2007-02-26 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - - * generic/tclIORChan.c (FreeReflectedChannel): Added the missing - refcount release between NewRC and FreeRC for the channel handle - object, spotted by Don Porter. [Bug 1667990] - -2007-02-26 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclCmdAH.c (Tcl_ForeachObjCmd): Removed surplus - copying of the objv array that used to be a workaround for [Bug - 404865]. That bug is long fixed. - -2007-02-24 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclBasic.c: Use new interface in Tcl_EvalObjEx so that the - recounting logic of the List internal rep need not be repeated there. - Better encapsulation of internal details. - - * generic/tclInt.h: New internal routine TclListObjCopy() used - * generic/tclListObj.c: to efficiently do the equivalent of [lrange - $list 0 end]. After some experience with this, might be a good - candidate for exposure as a public interface. It's useful for callers - of Tcl_ListObjGetElements() who want to control the ongoing validity - of the returned objv pointer. - -2007-02-22 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - - * tests/pkg.test: Added tests for the case of an alpha package - satisfying a require for the regular package, demonstrating a corner - case specified in TIP#280. More notes in the comments to the test. - -2007-02-20 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclInt.decls: Added "const" specifiers in TclSockGetPort - * generic/tclIntDecls.h: regenerated - * generic/*.c: - * unix/tclUnixChan.c - * unix/tclUnixPipe.c - * win/tclWinPipe.c - * win/tclWinSock.c: Added many "const" specifiers in implementation. - -2007-02-20 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * doc/tcltest.n: Typo fix. [Bug 1663539] - -2007-02-20 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclFileName.c: Handle extended paths on Windows NT and - * generic/tclPathObj.c: above. These have a \\?\ prefix. [Bug - * win/tclWinFile.c: 1479814] - * tests/winFCmd.test: Tests for extended path handling. - -2007-02-19 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - - * unix/tcl.m4: use SHLIB_SUFFIX=".so" on HP-UX ia64 arch. - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 - - * generic/tclIOUtil.c (Tcl_FSEvalFileEx): safe incr of objPtr ref. - -2007-02-18 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - - * doc/chan.n, doc/clock.n, doc/eval.n, doc/exit.n, doc/expr.n: - * doc/interp.n, doc/open.n, doc/platform_shell.n, doc/pwd.n: - * doc/refchan.n, doc/regsub.n, doc/scan.n, doc/tclvars.n, doc/tm.n: - * doc/unload.n: Apply [Bug 1610310] to fix typos. Thanks to Larry - Virden for spotting them. - - * doc/interp.n: Partial fix of [Bug 1662436]; rest requires some - policy decisions on what should and shouldn't be safe commands from - the "new in 8.5" set. - -2007-02-13 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - - * tools/fix_tommath_h.tcl: Further tweaking for the x86-64. The change - is to make 'mp_digit' be an 'unsigned int' on that platform; since - we're using only 32 bits of it, there's no reason to make it a 64-bit - 'unsigned long.' - * generic/tclTomMath.h: Regenerated. - -2007-02-13 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> - - * doc/re_syntax.n: Corrected description of 'print' class [Bug - 1614687] and enhanced description of 'graph' class. - -2007-02-12 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - - * tools/fix_tommath_h.tcl: Added code to patch out a check for - __x86_64__ that caused Tommath to use __attributes(TI)__ for the - mp_word type. Tetra-int's simply fail on too many gcc-glibc-OS - combinations to be ready for shipment today, even if they work for - some of us. This change allows reversion of das's change of 2006-08-18 - that accomplised the same thing on Darwin. [Bugs 1601380, 1603737, - 1609936, 1656265] - * generic/tclTomMath.h: Regenerated. - * library/tzdata/Africa/Asmara: - * library/tzdata/Africa/Asmera: - * library/tzdata/America/Nassau: - * library/tzdata/Atlantic/Faeroe: - * library/tzdata/Atlantic/Faroe: - * library/tzdata/Australia/Eucla: - * library/tzdata/Pacific/Easter: Rebuilt from Olson's tzdata2007b. - -2007-02-09 Joe Mistachkin <joe@mistachkin.com> - - * win/nmakehlp.c: Properly cleanup after nmakehlp, including the - * win/makefile.vc: vcX0.pch file. - -2007-02-08 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - - * unix/tclUnixInit.c (TclpCheckStackSpace): do stack size checks with - unsigned size_t to correctly validate stackSize in the 2^31+ range. - [Bug 1654104] - -2007-02-08 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclNamesp.c: Corrected broken logic in Tcl_DeleteNamespace - * tests/namespace.test: introduced in Patch 1577278 that caused - [namespace delete ::] to be effective only at level #0. New test - namespace-7.7 should prevent similar error in the future [Bug 1655305] - -2007-02-06 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclNamesp.c: Corrected broken implementation of the - * tests/namespace.test: TclMatchIsTrivial optimization on [namespace - children $namespace $pattern]. - -2007-02-04 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - - * unix/tcl.m4: use gcc4's __attribute__((__visibility__("hidden"))) if - available to define MODULE_SCOPE effective on all platforms. - * unix/configure.in: add caching to -pipe and zoneinfo checks. - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 - * unix/tclConfig.h.in: autoheader-2.59 - -2007-02-03 Joe Mistachkin <joe@mistachkin.com> - - * win/rules.vc: Fix platform specific file copy macros for downlevel - Windows. - -2007-01-29 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclResult.c: Added optimization case to TclTransferResult to - cover common case where there's big savings over the fully general - path. Thanks to Peter MacDonald. [Bug 1626518] - - * generic/tclLink.c: Broken linked float logic corrected. Thanks to - Andy Goth. [Bug 1602538] - - * doc/fcopy.n: Typo fix. [Bug 1630627] - -2007-01-28 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - - * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: extract build settings that - * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/default.pbxuser: were common to multiple - * macosx/Tcl-Common.xcconfig (new file): configurations into external - * macosx/Tcl-Debug.xcconfig (new file): xcconfig files; add extra - * macosx/Tcl-Release.xcconfig (new file): configurations for building - with SDKs and 64bit; convert legacy jam-based 'Tcl' target to native - target with single script phase; correct syntax of build setting - references to use $() throughout. - - * macosx/README: document new Tcl.xcodeproj configurations; other - minor updates/corrections. - - * generic/tcl.h: update location of version numbers in macosx files. - - * macosx/Tcl.xcode/project.pbxproj: restore 'tcltest' target to - * macosx/Tcl.xcode/default.pbxuser: working order by replicating - applicable changes to Tcl.xcodeproj since 2006-07-20. - -2007-01-25 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - - * unix/tcl.m4: integrate CPPFLAGS into CFLAGS as late as possible and - move (rather than duplicate) -isysroot flags from CFLAGS to CPPFLAGS - to avoid errors about multiple -isysroot flags from some older gcc - builds. - - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 - -2007-01-22 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> - - * compat/memcmp.c (memcmp): Reworked so that arithmetic is never - performed upon void pointers, since that is illegal. [Bug 1631017] - -2007-01-19 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> - - * generic/tclCompile.c (TclCompileScript): Reduce the frequency with - which we issue INST_START_CMD, making bytecode both more compact and - somewhat faster. The optimized case is where we would otherwise be - issuing a sequence of those instructions; in those cases, it is only - ever the first one encountered that could possibly trigger. - -2007-01-19 Joe Mistachkin <joe@mistachkin.com> - - * tools/man2tcl.c: Include stdlib.h for exit() and improve comment - detection. - * win/nmakehlp.c: Update usage. - * win/makefile.vc: Properly build man2tcl.c for MSVC8. - -2007-01-19 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - - * macosx/tclMacOSXFCmd.c (TclMacOSXSetFileAttribute): on some versions - of Mac OS X, truncate() fails on resource forks, in that case use - open() with O_TRUNC instead. - - * macosx/tclMacOSXNotify.c: accommodate changes to prototypes of - OSSpinLock(Un)Lock API. - - * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: ensure HOME and USER env vars - * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/default.pbxuser: are defined when running - testsuite from Xcode. - - * tests/env.test: add extra system env vars that need to be preserved - on some Mac OS X versions for testsuite to work. - - * unix/Makefile.in: Move libtommath defines into configure.in to - * unix/configure.in: avoid replicating them across multiple - * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: buildsystems. - - * unix/tcl.m4: ensure CPPFLAGS env var is used when set. [Bug 1586861] - (Darwin): add -isysroot and -mmacosx-version-min flags to CPPFLAGS - when present in CFLAGS to avoid discrepancies between what headers - configure sees during preprocessing tests and compiling tests. - - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 - * unix/tclConfig.h.in: autoheader-2.59 - -2007-01-18 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> - - * generic/tclCompile.c (TclCompileScript): Make sure that when parsing - an expanded literal fails, a correct bytecode sequence is still - issued. [Bug 1638414]. Also make sure that the start of the expansion - bytecode sequence falls inside the span of bytecodes for a command. - * tests/compile.test (compile-16.24): Added test for [Bug 1638414] - -2007-01-17 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclIO.c: Added macros to make usage of ChannelBuffers - clearer. - -2007-01-11 Joe English <jenglish@users.sourceforge.net> - - * win/tcl.m4(CFLAGS_WARNING): Remove "-Wconversion". This was removed - from unix/tcl.m4 2004-07-16 but not from here. - * win/configure: Regenerated. - -2007-01-11 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> - - * win/makefile.vc: Fixes to work better on Win98. Read version numbers - * win/nmakehlp.c: from package index file to avoid keeping numbers in - * win/rules.vc: the makefile where they may become de-synchronized. - -2007-01-10 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> - - * generic/regcomp.c (compile, freev): Define a strategy for - * generic/regexec.c (exec): managing the internal - * generic/regguts.h (AllocVars, FreeVars): vars of the RE engine to - * generic/regcustom.h (AllocVars, FreeVars): reduce C stack usage. - This will make Tcl as a whole much less likely to run out of stack - space... - -2007-01-09 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> - - * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileLindexCmd): - * tests/lindex.test (lindex-9.2): Fix silly bug that ended up - sometimes compiling list arguments in the wrong order. [Bug 1631364] - -2007-01-03 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - - * generic/tclDate.c: Regenerated to recover a lost fix from patthoyts. - [Bug 1618523] - -2006-12-26 Mo DeJong <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_GetsObj): Avoid checking for for the LF in a - possible CRLF sequence when EOF has already been found. - -2006-12-26 Mo DeJong <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclEncoding.c (EscapeFromUtfProc): Clear the - TCL_ENCODING_END flag when end bytes are written. This fix keep this - method from writing escape bytes for an encoding like iso2022-jp - multiple times when the escape byte overlap with the end of the IO - buffer. - * tests/io.test: Add test for escape byte overlap issue. - -2006-12-19 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> - - * unix/tclUnixThrd.c (Tcl_GetAllocMutex, TclpNewAllocMutex): Add - intermediate variables to shut up unwanted warnings. [Bug 1618838] - -2006-12-19 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - - * unix/tclUnixThrd.c (TclpInetNtoa): fix for 64 bit. - - * unix/tcl.m4 (Darwin): --enable-64bit: verify linking with 64bit - -arch flag succeeds before enabling 64bit build. - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 - -2006-12-17 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - - * tests/macOSXLoad.test (new file): add testing of .bundle loading and - * tests/load.test: unloading on Darwin (in addition - * tests/unload.test: to existing tests of .dylib - loading). - * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: add building of dltest - binaries so that testsuite run from Xcode can use them; fix testsuite - run script - * unix/configure.in: add support for building dltest binaries as - * unix/dltest/Makefile.in: .bundle (in addition to .dylib) on Darwin. - * unix/Makefile.in: add stub lib dependency to dltest target. - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 - - * tests/append.test: fix cleanup failure when all tests are skipped. - - * tests/chan.test (chan-16.9): cleanup chan event handler to avoid - causing error in event.test when running testsuite with -singleproc 1. - - * tests/info.test: add !singleTestInterp constraint to tests that fail - when running testsuite with -singleproc 1. [Bug 1605269] - -2006-12-14 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> - - * doc/string.n: Fix example. [Bug 1615277] - -2006-12-12 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: Now that the new internal structs are - in use to support operator commands, might as well make them the - default for [expr] as well and avoid passing every parsed expression - through the inefficient Tcl_Token array format. This addresses most - issues in [RFE 1517602]. Assuming no performance disasters result from - this, much dead code supporting the other implementation might now be - removed. - - * generic/tclBasic.c: Final step routing all direct evaluation forms - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: of the operator commands through TEBC, - * generic/tclCompile.h: dropping all the routines in tclMathOp.c. - * generic/tclMathOp.c: Still needs Engineering Manual attention. - -2006-12-11 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclBasic.c: Another step with all sorting operator - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: commands now routing through TEBC via - * generic/tclCompile.h: TclSortingOpCmd(). - -2006-12-08 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclBasic.c: Another step down the path of re-using - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: TclExecuteByteCode to implement the TIP 174 - * generic/tclCompile.h: commands instead of using a mass of code - * generic/tclMathOp.c: duplication. Now all operator commands that - * tests/mathop.test: demand exactly one operation are implemented - via TclSingleOpCmd and a call to TEBC. - - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: Revised implementation of TclInvertOpCmd to - * generic/tclMathOp.c: perform a bytecode compile / execute sequence. - This demonstrates a path toward avoiding mountains of code duplication - in tclMathOp.c and tclExecute.c. - - * generic/tclCompile.h: Change TclExecuteByteCode() from static to - * generic/tclExecute.c: MODULE_SCOPE so all files including - tclCompile.h may call it. - - * generic/tclMathOp.c: More revisions to make tests pass. - * tests/mathop.test: - -2006-12-08 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> - - * generic/tclNamesp.c (TclTeardownNamespace): Ensure that dying - namespaces unstitch themselves from their referents. [Bug 1571056] - (NsEnsembleImplementationCmd): Silence GCC warning. - - * tests/mathop.test: Full tests for & | and ^ operators - -2006-12-08 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - - * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl: use [info frame] for "-verbose line". - -2006-12-07 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclCompCmds.c: Additional commits correct most - * generic/tclExecute.c: failing tests illustrating bugs - * generic/tclMathOp.c: uncovered in [Patch 1578137]. - - * generic/tclBasic.c: Biggest source of TIP 174 failures was that - the commands were not [namespace export]ed from the ::tcl::mathop - namespace. More bits from [Patch 1578137] correct that. - - * tests/mathop.test: Commmitted several new tests from Peter Spjuth - found in [Patch 1578137]. Many failures now demonstrate issues to fix - in the TIP 174 implementation. - -2006-12-07 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> - - * tests/mathop.test: Added tests for ! ~ eq operators. - * generic/tclMathOp.c (TclInvertOpCmd): Add in check for non-integral - numeric values. - * generic/tclCompCmds.c (CompileCompareOpCmd): Factor out the code - generation for the chained comparison operators. - -2006-12-07 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> - - * tests/exec.test: Fixed line endings (caused win32 problems). - -2006-12-06 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclCompCmds.c: Revised and consolidated into utility - * tests/mathop.test: routines some of routines that compile - the new TIP 174 commands. This corrects some known bugs. More to come. - -2006-12-06 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - - * tests/expr.test (expr-47.12): Improved error reporting in hopes of - having more information to pursue [Bug 1609936]. - -2006-12-05 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - - TIP#291 IMPLEMENTATION - - * generic/tclBasic.c: Define tcl_platform element for pointerSize. - * doc/tclvars.n: - - * win/Makefile.in: Added installation instructions for the platform - * win/makefile.vc: package. Added the platform package. - * win/makefile.bc: - * unix/Makefile.in: - - * tests/platform.test: - * tests/safe.test: - - * library/platform/platform.tcl: - * library/platform/shell.tcl: - * library/platform/pkgIndex.tcl: - - * doc/platform.n: - * doc/platform_shell.n: - -2006-12-05 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclPkg.c: When no requirements are supplied to a - * tests/pkg.test: [package require $pkg] and [package unknown] - is invoked to find a satisfying package, pass the requirement argument - "0-" (which means all versions are acceptable). This permits a - registered [package unknown] command to call [package vsatisfies - $testVersion {*}$args] without any special handling of the empty $args - case. This fixes/avoids a bug in [::tcl::tm::UnknownHandler] that was - causing old TM versions to be provided in preference to newer TM - versions. Thanks to Julian Noble for discovering the issue. - -2006-12-04 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - - TIP#267 IMPLEMENTATION - - * generic/tclIOCmd.c (Tcl_ExecObjCmd): Added -ignorestderr option, - * tests/exec.test, doc/exec.n: loosely from [Patch 1476191] - -2006-12-04 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: Added implementation for the - CompileExprTree() routine that can produce expression bytecode - directly from internal structures with no need to pass through the - Tcl_Token array representation. Still disabled by default. #undef - USE_EXPR_TOKENS to try it out. - -2006-12-03 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: Added expr parsing routines that - produce a different set of internal structures representing the parsed - expression, as well as routines that go on to convert those structures - into the traditional Tcl_Token array format. Use of these routines is - currently disabled. #undef PARSE_DIRECT_EXPR_TOKENS to enable them. - These routines will only become really useful when more routines that - compile directly from the new internal structures are completed. - -2006-12-02 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - - * doc/file.n: Clarification of [file pathtype] docs. [Bug 1606454] - -2006-12-01 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - - * libtommath/bn_mp_add.c: Corrected the effects of a - * libtommath/bn_mp_div.c: bollixed 'cvs merge' operation - * libtommath/bncore.c: that inadvertently committed some - * libtommath/tommath_class.h: half-developed code. - - TIP#299 IMPLEMENTATION - - * doc/mathfunc.n: Added isqrt() function to docs - * generic/tclBasic.c: Added isqrt() math function (ExprIsqrtFunc) - * tests/expr.test (expr-47.*): Added tests for isqrt() - * tests/info.test (info-20.2): Added isqrt() to expected math funcs. - -2006-12-01 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * tests/chan.test: Correct timing sensitivity in new test. [Bug - 1606860] - - TIP#287 IMPLEMENTATION - - * doc/chan.n: New subcommand [chan pending]. - * generic/tclBasic.c: Thanks to Michael Cleverly for proposal - * generic/tclInt.h: and implementation. + * generic/tclIO.c: * generic/tclIOCmd.c: - * library/init.tcl: - * tests/chan.test: - * tests/ioCmd.test: - - TIP#298 IMPLEMENTATION - - * generic/tcl.decls: Tcl_GetBignumAndClearObj -> Tcl_TakeBignumFromObj - * generic/tclObj.c: - - * generic/tclDecls.h: make genstubs - * generic/tclStubInit.c: - - * generic/tclExecute.c: Update callers. - * generic/tclMathOp.c: - -2006-11-30 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - - * library/tzdata: Olson's tzdata2006p. - * libtommath/bn_mp_sqrt.c: Fixed a bug where the initial approximation - to the square root could be on the wrong side, causing failure of - convergence. - -2006-11-29 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_AppendObjToErrorInfo): Added - Tcl_DecrRefCount() on the objPtr argument to plug memory leaks. This - makes the routine a consumer, which makes it easiest to use. - -2006-11-28 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - - * generic/tclBasic.c: TIP #280 implementation. - * generic/tclCmdAH.c: - * generic/tclCmdIL.c: - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: - * generic/tclCompCmds.c: - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: - * generic/tclCompile.c: - * generic/tclCompile.h: - * generic/tclExecute.c: - * generic/tclIOUtil.c: - * generic/tclInt.h: - * generic/tclInterp.c: - * generic/tclNamesp.c: - * generic/tclObj.c: - * generic/tclProc.c: - * tests/compile.test: - * tests/info.test: - * tests/platform.test: - * tests/safe.test: - -2006-11-27 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - - * unix/tclUnixChan.c (TclUnixWaitForFile): - * tests/event.test (event-14.*): Corrected a bug where - TclUnixWaitForFile would present select() with the wrong mask on an - LP64 machine if a fd number exceeds 32. Thanks to Jean-Luc Fontaine - for reporting and diagnosing [Bug 1602208]. - -2006-11-27 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclExecute.c (TclIncrObj): Correct failure to detect - floating-point increment values. Thanks to William Coleda [Bug - 1602991] - -2006-11-26 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - - * tests/mathop.test, doc/mathop.n: More bits and pieces of the TIP#174 - implementation. Note that the test suite is not yet complete. - -2006-11-26 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - - * unix/tcl.m4 (Linux): --enable-64bit support. [Patch 1597389] - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 [Bug 1230558] - -2006-11-25 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - - TIP#174 IMPLEMENTATION - - * generic/tclMathOp.c (new file): Completed the implementation of the - interpreted versions of all the tcl::mathop commands. Moved to a new - file to make tclCompCmds.c more focused in purpose. - -2006-11-23 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclCompCmds.c (Tcl*OpCmd, TclCompile*OpCmd): - * generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_CreateInterp): Partial implementation of - TIP#174; the commands are compiled, but (mostly) not interpreted yet. - -2006-11-22 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - - TIP#269 IMPLEMENTATION - - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_StringObjCmd): Implementation of the [string - * tests/string.test (string-25.*): is list] command, based on - * doc/string.n: work by Joe Mistachkin, with - enhancements by Donal Fellows for better failindex behaviour. - -2006-11-22 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * tools/genWinImage.tcl (removed): Removed two files used in - * win/README.binary (removed): production of binary distributions - for Windows, a task we no longer perform. [Bug 1476980] - * generic/tcl.h: Remove mention of win/README.binary in comment - - * generic/tcl.h: Moved TCL_REG_BOSONLY #define from tcl.h to - * generic/tclInt.h: tclInt.h. Only know user is Expect, which - already #include's tclInt.h. No need to continue greater exposure. - [Bug 926500] - -2006-11-20 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_CreateInterp, TclHideUnsafeCommands): - * library/init.tcl: Refactored the [chan] command's guts so that it - does not use aliases to global commands, making the code more robust. - -2006-11-17 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclExecute.c (INST_EXPON): Corrected crash on - [expr 2**(1<<63)]. Was operating on cleared bignum Tcl_Obj. - -2006-11-16 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - - * doc/apply.n, doc/chan.n: Added examples. - -2006-11-15 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - TIP#270 IMPLEMENTATION - - * generic/tcl.decls: New public routines Tcl_ObjPrintf, - * generic/tclStringObj.c: Tcl_AppendObjToErrorInfo, Tcl_Format, - * generic/tclInt.h: Tcl_AppendLimitedToObj, - Tcl_AppendFormatToObj and Tcl_AppendPrintfToObj. Former internal - versions removed. - - * generic/tclDecls.h: make genstubs - * generic/tclStubInit.c: - - * generic/tclBasic.c: Updated callers. - * generic/tclCkalloc.c: - * generic/tclCmdAH.c: - * generic/tclCmdIL.c: - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: - * generic/tclCompile.c: - * generic/tclDictObj.c: - * generic/tclExecute.c: * generic/tclIORChan.c: * generic/tclIOUtil.c: - * generic/tclMain.c: + * generic/tclListObj.c: + * generic/tclLiteral.c: * generic/tclNamesp.c: * generic/tclObj.c: + * generic/tclOOBasic.c: + * generic/tclPathObj.c: * generic/tclPkg.c: * generic/tclProc.c: - * generic/tclStrToD.c: - * generic/tclTimer.c: - * generic/tclUtil.c: - * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c: - - * tools/genStubs.tcl: Updated script to no longer produce the - _ANSI_ARGS_ wrapper in generated declarations. Also revised to accept - variadic prototypes with more than one fixed argument. (This is - possible since TCL_VARARGS and its limitations are no longer in use). - * generic/tcl.h: Some reordering so that macro definitions do - not interfere with the now _ANSI_ARGS_-less stub declarations. - - * generic/tclDecls.h: make genstubs - * generic/tclIntDecls.h: - * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h: - * generic/tclPlatDecls.h: - * generic/tclTomMathDecls.h: - -2006-11-15 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - - * doc/ChnlStack.3, doc/CrtObjCmd.3, doc/GetIndex.3, doc/OpenTcp.3: - * doc/chan.n, doc/fconfigure.n, doc/fcopy.n, doc/foreach.n: - * doc/history.n, doc/http.n, doc/library.n, doc/lindex.n: - * doc/lrepeat.n, doc/lreverse.n, doc/pkgMkIndex.n, doc/re_syntax.n: - Convert \fP to \fR so that man-page scrapers have an easier time. - -2006-11-14 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - TIP#261 IMPLEMENTATION - - * generic/tclNamesp.c: [namespace import] with 0 arguments - introspects the list of imported commands. - -2006-11-13 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclThreadStorage.c (Tcl_InitThreadStorage): - (Tcl_FinalizeThreadStorage): Silence a compiler warning about - presenting a volatile pointer to 'memset'. - -2006-11-13 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclIO.c: When [gets] on a binary channel needs to use - the "iso8859-1" encoding, save a copy of that encoding per-thread to - avoid repeated freeing and re-loading of it from the file system. This - replaces the cached copy of this encoding that the platform - initialization code used to keep in pre-8.5 releases. - -2006-11-13 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: Fix gcc warnings about 'cast to/from - * generic/tclEncoding.c: pointer from/to integer of different - * generic/tclEvent.c: size' on 64-bit platforms by casting - * generic/tclExecute.c: to intermediate types - * generic/tclHash.c: intptr_t/uintptr_t via new PTR2INT(), - * generic/tclIO.c: INT2PTR(), PTR2UINT() and UINT2PTR() - * generic/tclInt.h: macros. [Patch 1592791] - * generic/tclProc.c: - * generic/tclTest.c: - * generic/tclThreadStorage.c: - * generic/tclTimer.c: - * generic/tclUtil.c: - * unix/configure.in: - * unix/tclUnixChan.c: - * unix/tclUnixPipe.c: - * unix/tclUnixPort.h: - * unix/tclUnixTest.c: - * unix/tclUnixThrd.c: - - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 - * unix/tclConfig.h.in: autoheader-2.59 - -2006-11-12 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclInt.h, generic/tclInt.decls: Transfer TclPtrMakeUpvar and - TclObjLookupVar to the internal stubs table. - -2006-11-10 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - - * tests/fCmd.test (fCmd-6.26): fix failure when env(HOME) path - contains symlinks. - - * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: remove tclParseExpr.c; when - running testsuite from inside Xcdoe, skip stack-3.1 (it only fails - under those circumstances). - - * unix/tcl.m4 (Darwin): suppress linker arch warnings when building - universal for both 32 & 64 bit and no 64bit CoreFoundation is - available; sync with tk tcl.m4 change. - * unix/configure.in: whitespace. - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 - -2006-11-09 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclParseExpr.c (removed): Moved all the code of - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: tclParseExpr.c into tclCompExpr.c. - * unix/Makefile.in: This sets the stage for expr compiling to work - * win/Makefile.in: directly with the full parse tree structures, - * win/makefile.bc: and not have to pass through the information - * win/makefile.vc: lossy format of an array of Tcl_Tokens. - * win/tcl.dsp: - -2006-11-09 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> - - TIP#272 IMPLEMENTATION - - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_StringObjCmd): Implementation of the - * tests/string.test, tests/stringComp.test: [string reverse] command - * doc/string.n: from TIP#272. - - * generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LreverseObjCmd): Implementation of the - * generic/tclBasic.c, generic/tclInt.h: [lreverse] command from - * tests/cmdIL.test (cmdIL-7.*): TIP#272. - * doc/lreverse.n: - -2006-11-08 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclIO.c, generic/tclPkg.c: Style & clarity rewrites. - -2006-11-07 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - - * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c (CopyFile): Added code to fall back to a - hardwired default block size should the filesystem report a bogus - value. [Bug 1586470] - -2006-11-04 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclStringObj.c: Changed Tcl_ObjPrintf() response to an - invalid format specifier string. No longer panics; now produces an - error message as output. - - TIP#274 IMPLEMENTATION - - * generic/tclParseExpr.c: Exponentiation operator is now right - * tests/expr.test: associative. [Patch 1556802] - -2006-11-03 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclBasic.c (TEOVI): fix por possible leak of a Command in - the presence of execution traces that delete it. - - * generic/tclBasic.c (TEOVI): - * tests/trace.test (trace-21.11): fix for [Bug 1590232], execution - traces may cause a second command resolution in the wrong namespace. - -2006-11-03 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> - - * tests/event.test (event-11.5): Rewrote tests to stop Tcl from - * tests/io.test (multiple tests): opening sockets that are - * tests/ioCmd.test (iocmd-15.1,16,17): reachable from outside hosts - * tests/iogt.test (__echo_srv__.tcl): where not necessary. This is - * tests/socket.test (multiple tests): noticably annoying on some - * tests/unixInit.test (unixInit-1.2): systems (e.g., Windows). - -2006-11-02 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - - * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: check autoconf/autoheader exit - status and stop build if they fail. - -2006-11-02 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - - * doc/ParseCmd.3, doc/Tcl.n, doc/eval.n, doc/exec.n: - * doc/fconfigure.n, doc/interp.n, doc/unknown.n: - * library/auto.tcl, library/init.tcl, library/package.tcl: - * library/safe.tcl, library/tm.tcl, library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl: - * tests/all.tcl, tests/basic.test, tests/cmdInfo.test: - * tests/compile.test, tests/encoding.test, tests/execute.test: - * tests/fCmd.test, tests/http.test, tests/init.test: - * tests/interp.test, tests/io.test, tests/ioUtil.test: - * tests/iogt.test, tests/namespace-old.test, tests/namespace.test: - * tests/parse.test, tests/pkg.test, tests/pkgMkIndex.test: - * tests/proc.test, tests/reg.test, tests/trace.test: - * tests/upvar.test, tests/winConsole.test, tests/winFCmd.test: - * tools/tclZIC.tcl: - * generic/tclParse.c (Tcl_ParseCommand): Replace {expand} with {*} - officially (TIP #293). Leave -DALLOW_EXPAND=0|1 option to keep - {expand} syntax for transition users. [Bug 1589629] - -2006-11-02 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> - - * generic/tclBasic.c, generic/tclInterp.c, generic/tclProc.c: Silence - warnings from gcc over signed/unsigned and TclStackAlloc(). - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: Update to more compact and clearer coding style. - -2006-11-02 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclCmdAH.c: Further revisions to produce the routines - * generic/tclInt.h: TclFormat() and TclAppendFormatToObj() that - * generic/tclNamesp.c: accept (objc, objv) arguments rather than - * generic/tclStringObj.c: any varargs stuff. - - * generic/tclBasic.c: Further revised TclAppendPrintToObj() and - * generic/tclCkalloc.c: TclObjPrintf() routines to panic when unable - * generic/tclCmdAH.c: to complete their formatting operations, - * generic/tclCmdIL.c: rather than report an error message. This - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: means an interp argument for error message - * generic/tclDictObj.c: recording is no longer needed, further - * generic/tclExecute.c: simplifying the interface for callers. - * generic/tclIORChan.c: - * generic/tclIOUtil.c: - * generic/tclInt.h: - * generic/tclMain.c: - * generic/tclNamesp.c: - * generic/tclParseExpr.c: - * generic/tclPkg.c: - * generic/tclProc.c: - * generic/tclStringObj.c: - * generic/tclTimer.c: - * generic/tclUtil.c: - * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c: - -2006-11-02 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> - - * tests/winPipe.test (winpipe-4.[2345]): Made robust when run in - directory with spaces in its name. - - * generic/tclCmdAH.c: Clean up uses of cast NULLs. - - * generic/tclInterp.c (AliasObjCmd): Added more explanatory comments. - - * generic/tclBasic.c (TclEvalObjvInternal): Rewrote so that comments - are relevant and informative once more. Also made the unknown handler - processing use the Tcl execution stack for working space, and not the - general heap. - -2006-11-01 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - - * unix/tclUnixPort.h: ensure MODULE_SCOPE is defined before use, so - that tclPort.h can once again be included without tclInt.h. - - * generic/tclEnv.c (Darwin): mark _environ symbol as unexported even - when MODULE_SCOPE != __private_extern__. - -2006-10-31 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclBasic.c: Refactored and renamed the routines - * generic/tclCkalloc.c: TclObjPrintf, TclFormatObj, and - * generic/tclCmdAH.c: TclFormatToErrorInfo to a new set of routines - * generic/tclCmdIL.c: TclAppendPrintfToObj, TclAppendFormatToObj, - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: TclObjPrintf, and TclObjFormat, with the - * generic/tclDictObj.c: intent of making the latter list, plus - * generic/tclExecute.c: TclAppendLimitedToObj and - * generic/tclIORChan.c: TclAppendObjToErrorInfo, public via a revised - * generic/tclIOUtil.c: TIP 270. - * generic/tclInt.h: - * generic/tclMain.c: - * generic/tclNamesp.c: - * generic/tclParseExpr.c: - * generic/tclPkg.c: - * generic/tclProc.c: + * generic/tclRegexp.c: + * generic/tclScan.c: * generic/tclStringObj.c: + * generic/tclTest.c: + * generic/tclTestProcBodyObj.c: + * generic/tclThread.c: + * generic/tclThreadTest.c: * generic/tclTimer.c: + * generic/tclTrace.c: * generic/tclUtil.c: - * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c: - -2006-10-31 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclBasic.c, generic/tcl.h, generic/tclInterp.c: - * generic/tclNamesp.c: removing the flag bit TCL_EVAL_NOREWRITE, the - last remnant of the callObjc/v fiasco. It is not needed, as it is now - always set and checked or'ed with TCL_EVAL_INVOKE. - -2006-10-31 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> - - * win/rules.vc: Fix for [Bug 1582769] - options conflict with VC2003. - -2006-10-31 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclBasic.c, generic/tclNamesp.c, generic/tclProc.c: - * generic/tclInt.h: Removed the callObjc and callObjv fields from the - Interp structure. They did not function correctly and made other parts - of the core amazingly complex, resulting in a substantive change to - [info level] behaviour. [Bug 1587618] - * library/clock.tcl: Removed use of [info level 0] for calculating the - command name as used by the user and replace with a literal. What's - there now is sucky, but at least appears to be right to most users. - * tests/namespace.test (namespace-42.7,namespace-47.1): Reverted - changes to these tests. - * tests/info.test (info-9.11,info-9.12): Added knownBug constraint - since these tests require a different behaviour of [info level] than - is possible because of other dependencies. - -2006-10-30 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - - * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl (option-toc): handle any kind of options - defined toc section (needed for ttk docs) - -2006-10-30 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclBasic.c (TEOVI): insured that the interp's callObjc/v - fields are restored after traces run, as they be spoiled. This was - causing a segfault in tcllib's profiler tests. - -2006-10-30 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclExecute.c (INST_MOD): Corrected improper testing of the - * tests/expr.test: sign of bignums when applying Tcl's - division rules. Thanks to Peter Spjuth. [Bug 1585704] - -2006-10-29 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclNamesp.c (EnsembleImplementationCmd): - * tests/namespace.test (47.7-8): reverted a wrong "optimisation" that - completely broke snit; added two tests. - -2006-10-28 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclProc.c (ObjInterpProcEx, TclObjInterpProcCore): Split the - core of procedures to make it easier to build procedure-like code - without going through horrible contortions. This is the last critical - component to make advanced OO systems workable as simple loadable - extensions. TOIPC is now in the internal stub table. - (MakeProcError, MakeLambdaError): Refactored ProcessProcResultCode to - be simpler, some of which goes to TclObjInterpProcCore, and the rest - of which is now in these far simpler routines which just do errorInfo - stack generation for different types of procedure-like entity. - * tests/apply.test (apply-5.1): Updated to expect the more informative - form of message. - -2006-10-27 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclVar.c (HasLocalVars): New macro to make various bits and - pieces cleaner. - - * generic/tclNamesp.c (TclSetNsPath): Expose SetNsPath() through - internal stubs table with semi-external name. - - * generic/tclInt.h (CallFrame): Add a field for handling context data - for extensions (like object systems) that should be tied to a call - frame (and not a command or interpreter). - - * generic/tclBasic.c (TclRenameCommand): Change to take CONST args; - they were only ever used in a constant way anyway, so this appears to - be a spot that was missed during TIP#27 work. - -2006-10-26 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclProc.c (SetLambdaFromAny): minor change, eliminate - redundant call to Tcl_GetString (thanks aku). - - * generic/tclInterp.c (ApplyObjCmd): - * generic/tclNamesp.c (EnsembleImplementationCmd): replaced ckalloc - (heap) with TclStackAlloc (execution stack). - -2006-10-24 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * tests/info.test (info-9.11-12): tests for [Bug 1577492] - * tests/apply.test (apply-4.3-5): tests for [Bug 1574835] - - * generic/tclProc.c (ObjInterpProcEx): disable itcl hacks for calls - from ApplyObjCmd (islambda==1), as they mess apply's error messages - [Bug 1583266] - -2006-10-23 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclProc.c (ApplyObjCmd): fix wrong#args for apply by using - the ensemble rewrite engine. [Bug 1574835] - * generic/tclInterp.c (AliasObjCmd): previous commit missed usage of - TCL_EVAL_NOREWRITE for aliases. - - * generic/tclBasic.c (TclEvalObjvInternal): removed redundant check - for ensembles. [Bug 1577628] - - * library/clock.tcl (format, scan): corrected wrong # args messages to - * tests/clock.test (3.1, 34.1): make use of the new rewrite - capabilities of [info level] - - * generic/tcl.h: Lets TEOV update the iPtr->callObj[cv] new - * generic/tclBasic.c: fields, except when the flag bit - * generic/tclInt.h: TCL_EVAL_NOREWRITE is present. These values - * generic/tclNamesp.c: are used by Tcl_PushCallFrame to initialise - * generic/tclProc.c: the frame's obj[cv] fields, and allows - * tests/namespace.test: [info level] to know and use ensemble - rewrites. [Bug 1577492] - - ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** - The return value from [info level 0] on interp alias calls is changed: - previously returned the target command (including curried values), now - returns the source - what was actually called. - -2006-10-23 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tcl.h: Modified the Tcl call stack so there is - * generic/tclBasic.c: always a valid CallFrame, even at level 0 - * generic/tclCmdIL.c: [Patch 1577278]. Most of the changes - * generic/tclInt.h: involve removing tests for a NULL - * generic/tclNamesp.c: iPtr->(var)framePtr. There is now a - * generic/tclObj.c: CallFrame pushed at interp creation with a - * generic/tclProc.c: pointer to it stored in iPtr->rootFramePtr. - * generic/tclTrace.c: A second unused field in Interp is - * generic/tclVar.c: hijacked to enable further functionality, - currently unused (but with several FRQs depending on it). - - ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** - Any user that includes tclInt.h and needs to determine if it is - running at level 0 should change (iPtr->varFramePtr == NULL) to - (iPtr->varFramePtr == iPtr->rootFramePtr). - -2006-10-23 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * README: Bump version number to 8.5a6 - * generic/tcl.h: - * tools/tcl.wse.in: - * unix/configure.in: - * unix/tcl.spec: - * win/README.binary: - * win/configure.in: - - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 - * win/configure: - -2006-10-21 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tcl.h, generic/tclHash.c: Tcl_FindHashEntry now calls - Tcl_CreateHashEntry with a newPtr set to NULL: this would have caused - a segfault previously and eliminates duplicated code. A macro has been - added to tcl.h (only used when TCL_PRESERVE_BINARY_COMPATABALITY is - not set - i.e., not by default). - -2006-10-20 Reinhard Max <max@tclers.tk> - - * unix/configure.in: Added autodetection for OS-supplied timezone - * unix/Makefile.in: files and configure switches to override the - * unix/configure: detected default. - -2006-10-20 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - - *** 8.5a5 TAGGED FOR RELEASE *** - - * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl: add support for alpha & beta versions to - useversion glob pattern. [Bug 1579941] - -2006-10-18 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * changes: 8.5a5 release date set - - * doc/Encoding.3: Missing doc updates (mostly Table of - * doc/Ensemble.3: Contents) exposed by `make checkdoc` - * doc/FileSystem.3: - * doc/GetTime.3: - * doc/PkgRequire.3: - -2006-10-17 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclInterp.c (ApplyObjCmd): fixed bad error in 2006-10-12 - commit: interp released too early. Spotted by mistachkin. - -2006-10-16 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * tclProc.c (SetLambdaFromAny): - * tests/apply.test (9.1-9.2): plugged intrep leak [Bug 1578454], - found by mjanssen. - -2006-10-16 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - - * generic/tclBasic.c: Moved TIP#219 cleanup to DeleteInterpProc. - -2006-10-16 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - - * changes: updates for 8.5a5 release. - - * unix/tclUnixThrd.c (TclpThreadGetStackSize): Darwin: fix for main - thread, where pthread_get_stacksize_np() returns incorrect info. - - * macosx/GNUmakefile: don't redo prebinding of non-prebound binaires. - -2006-10-16 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclPkg.c (ExactRequirement): Plugged memory leak. Also - changed Tcl_Alloc()/Tcl_Free() calls to ckalloc()/ckfree() for easier - memory debugging in the future. [Bug 1568373] - - * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl: Revise tcltest bump to 2.3a1. - * library/tcltest/pkgIndex.tcl: This permits more features to be - * unix/Makefile.in: added to tcltest before we reach version 2.3.0 - * win/Makefile.in: best timed to match the release of Tcl 8.5.0. - * win/makefile.vc: This also serves as a demo of TIP 268 features - -2006-10-13 Colin McCormack <coldstore@users.sf.net> - - * win/tclWinFile.c: corrected erroneous attempt to protect against - NULL return from Tcl_FSGetNormalizedPath per [Bug 1548263] causing - [Bug 1575837]. - * win/tclWinFile.c: alfredd supplied patch to fix [Bug 1575837] - -2006-10-13 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - - * unix/tclUnixThrd.c (TclpThreadGetStackSize): on Darwin, use - * unix/tcl.m4: pthread_get_stacksize_np() API to get thread stack size - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 - * unix/tclConfig.h.in: autoheader-2.59 - -2006-10-12 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclInterp.c (ApplyObjCmd): - * tests/interp.test (interp-14.5-10): made [interp alias] use the - ensemble rewrite machinery to produce better error messages [Bug - 1576006] - -2006-10-12 David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com> - - * win/nmakehlp.c: Replaced all wnsprintf() calls with snprintf(). - wnsprintf was not in my shwlapi header file (VC++6) - -2006-10-11 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclPkg.c (Tcl_PackageRequireEx): Corrected crash when - argument version=NULL passed in. - -2006-10-10 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * changes: Updates for 8.5a5 release. - - * generic/tclNamespace.c (TclTeardownNamespace): After the - commandPathSourceList of a namespace is cleared, set the - commandPathSourceList to NULL so we don't try to walk the list a - second time, possibly after it is freed. [Bug 1566526] - * tests/namespace.test (namespace-51.16): Added test. - -2006-10-09 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * doc/UpVar.3: brough the docs in accordance to the code. Ever since - 8.0, Tcl_UpVar(2)? accepts TCL_NAMESPACE_ONLY as a flag value, and - var-3.4 tests for proper behaviour. The docs only allowed 0 and - TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY. [Bug 1574099] - -2006-10-09 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * tests/*.test: updated all tests to refer explicitly to the global - variables ::errorInfo, ::errorCode, ::env and ::tcl_platform: many - were relying on the alternative lookup in the global namespace, that - feature is tested specifically in namespace and variable tests. - - The modified testfiles are: apply.test, basic.test, case.test, - cmdIL.test, cmdMZ.test, compExpr-old.test, error.test, eval.test, - event.test, expr.test, fileSystem.test, for.test, http.test, if.test, - incr-old.test, incr.test, interp.test, io.test, ioCmd.test, load.test, - misc.test, namespace.test, parse.test, parseOld.test, pkg.test, - proc-old.test, set.test, switch.test, tcltest.test, thread.test, - var.test, while-old.test, while.test. - -2006-10-06 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> - - * win/rules.vc: [Bug 1571954] avoid /RTCc flag with MSVC8 - -2006-10-06 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> - - * doc/binary.n: TIP #275: Support unsigned values in binary - * generic/tclBinary.c: command. Tests and documentation updated. - * tests/binary.test: - -2006-10-05 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - - * library/tm.tcl: Fixed bug in TIP #189 implementation, now allowing - '_' in module names. - -2006-10-05 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - - * library/http/http.tcl (http::geturl): only do geturl url rfc 3986 - validity checking if $::http::strict is true (default true for 8.5). - [Bug 1560506] - - * generic/tcl.h: note limitation on changing Tcl_UniChar size - * generic/tclEncoding.c (UtfToUnicodeProc, UnicodeToUtfProc): - * tests/encoding.test (encoding-16.1): fix alignment issues in - unicode <> utf conversion procs. [Bug 1122671] - -2006-10-05 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_LappendObjCmd): - * tests/append.test(4.21-22): fix for longstanding [Bug 1570718], - lappending nothing to non-list. Reported by lvirden - -2006-10-04 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - - * tzdata/: Olson's tzdata2006m. - -2006-10-01 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - - * tests/clock.test (clock-49.2): Removed a locale dependency that - caused a spurious failure in the German locale. [Bug 1567956] - -2006-10-01 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * doc/Eval.3 (TclEvalObjv): added note on refCount management for the - elements of objv. [Bug 730244] - -2006-10-01 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> - - * win/tclWinFile.c: Handle possible missing define. - - * win/tclWinFile.c (TclpUtime): [Bug 1420432] file mtime fails for - * tests/cmdAH.test: directories on windows - - * tests/winFile.test: Handle Msys environment a little differently in - getuser function. [Bug 1567956] - -2006-09-30 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclUtil.c (Tcl_SplitList): optimisation, [Patch 1344747] by - dgp. - - * generic/tclInt.decls: - * generic/tclInt.h: - * generic/tclIntDecls.h: - * generic/tclObj.c: - * generic/tclStubInit.c: added an internal function TclObjBeingDeleted - to provide info as to the reason for the loss of an internal rep. [FR - 1512138] - - * generic/tclCompile.c: - * generic/tclHistory.c: - * generic/tclInt.h: - * generic/tclProc.c: made Tcl_RecordAndEvalObj not call "history" if - it has been redefined to an empty proc, in order to reduce the noise - when debugging [FR 1190441]. Moved TclCompileNoOp from tclProc.c to - tclCompile.c - -2006-09-28 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - - * generic/tclPkg.c (CompareVersions): Bugfix. Check string lengths - * tests/pkg.test: before comparison. The shorter string is the smaller - number. Added testcases as well. Interestingly all existing test cases - for vcompare compared numbers of the same length with each other. [Bug - 1563836] - -2006-09-28 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_GetsObj): added two test'n'panic guards for - possible NULL derefs, [Bug 1566382] and coverity #33. - -2006-09-27 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclExecute.c: Corrected error in INST_LSHIFT in the - * tests/expr.test: calculation done to determine whether a shift - in the (long int) type is possible. The calculation had literal value - "1" where it needed a value "1L" to compute the correct result. Error - detected via testing with the math::bigfloat package [Bug 1567222] - - * generic/tclPkg.c (CompareVersion): Flatten strcmp() results to - {-1, 0, 1} to match expectations of CompareVersion() callers. - -2006-09-27 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/regc_color.c (singleton): - * generic/regc_cvec.c (addmcce): - * generic/regcomp.c (compile, dovec): the static function addmcce does - nothing when called with two NULL pointers; the only call is by - compile with two NULL pointers (regcomp.c #includes regc_cvec.c). - Large parts (all?) the code for mcce (multi character collating - element) that we do not use is ifdef'ed out with the macro - REGEXP_MCCE_ENABLE. - This silences coverity bugs 7, 16, 80 - - * generic/regc_color.c (uncolorchain): - * generic/regc_nfa.c (freearc): changed tests and asserts to - equivalent formulation, designed to avoid an explicit comparison to - NULL and satisfy coverity that 6 and 9 are not bugs. - -2006-09-27 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - - * tests/pkg.test: Added test for version comparison at the 32bit - boundary. [Bug 1563836] - - * generic/tclPkg.c: Rewrote CompareVersion to perform string - comparison instead of numeric. This breaks through the 32bit limit on - version numbers. See code for details (handling of leading zeros, - signs, etc.). un-CONSTed some arguments of CompareVersions, - RequirementSatisfied, and AllRequirementsSatisfied. The new compare - modifies the string (temporary string terminators). All callers use - heap-allocated ver-intreps, so we are good with that. [Bug 1563836] - -2006-09-27 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclFileName.c (TclGlob): added a panic for a call with - TCL_GLOBMODE_TAILS and pathPrefix==NULL. This would cause a segfault, - as found by coverity #26. - -2006-09-26 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - - * doc/Encoding.3: Added covariant 'const' qualifier for the - * generic/tcl.decls: Tcl_EncodingType argument to - * generic/tclEncoding.c: Tcl_CreateEncoding. [Further TIP#27 work.] - * generic/tclDecls.h: Reran 'make genstubs'. - -2006-09-26 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> - - * win/makefile.vc: Additional compiler flags and amd64 support. - * win/nmakehlp.c: - * win/rules.vc: - -2006-09-26 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tcl.h: As 2006-09-22 commit from Donal K. Fellows - demonstrates, "#define NULL 0" is just wrong, and as a quotable chat - figure observed, "If NULL isn't defined, we're not using a C compiler" - Improper fallback definition of NULL removed. - -2006-09-25 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tcl.h: More fixing which struct stat to refer to. - * generic/tclGetDate.y: Some casts from time_t to int required. - * generic/tclTimer.c: Tcl_Time structure members are longs. - * win/makefile.vc: Support for varying compiler options - * win/rules.vc: and build to platform-specific subdirs. - -2006-09-25 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - - * generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_StackChannel): Fixed [Bug 1564642], aka - coverity #51. Extended loop condition, added checking for NULL to - prevent seg.fault. - -2006-09-25 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - - * doc/package.n: Fixed nits reported by Daniel Steffen in the TIP#268 - changes. - -2006-09-25 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - - * generic/tclNotify.c (Tcl_DeleteEvents): Simplified the code in hopes - of making the invariants clearer and proving to Coverity that the - event queue memory is managed correctly. - -2006-09-25 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclNotify.c (Tcl_DeleteEvents): Make it clear what happens - when the event queue is mismanaged. [Bug 1564677], coverity bug #10. - -2006-09-24 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclParse.c (Tcl_ParseCommand): also return an error if - start==NULL and numBytes<0. This is coverity's bug #20 - - * generic/tclStringObj.c (STRING_SIZE): fix allocation for 0-length - strings. This is coverity's bugs #54-5 - -2006-09-22 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - - * generic/tclInt.h: Moved TIP#268's field 'packagePrefer' to the end - of the structure, for better backward compatibility. - -2006-09-22 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - - TIP#268 IMPLEMENTATION - - * generic/tclDecls.h: Regenerated from tcl.decls. - * generic/tclStubInit.c: - - * doc/PkgRequire.3: Documentation of extended API, extended testsuite. - * doc/package.n: - * tests/pkg.test: - - * generic/tcl.decls: Implementation. - * generic/tclBasic.c: - * generic/tclConfig.c: - * generic/tclInt.h: - * generic/tclPkg.c: - * generic/tclTest.c: - * generic/tclTomMathInterface.c: - * library/init.tcl: - * library/package.tcl: - * library/tm.tcl: - -2006-09-22 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> - - * generic/tclThreadTest.c (TclCreateThread): Use NULL instead of 0 as - end-of-strings marker to Tcl_AppendResult; the difference matters on - 64-bit machines. [Bug 1562528] - -2006-09-21 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclUtil.c: Dropped ParseInteger() routine. TclParseNumber - covers the task just fine. - -2006-09-19 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclEvent.c (Tcl_VwaitObjCmd): Rewrite so that an exceeded - limit trapped in a vwait cannot cause a dangerous dangling trace. - -2006-09-19 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclExecute.c (INST_EXPON): Native type overflow detection - * tests/expr.test: was completely broken. Falling back on use of - bignums for all non-trivial ** calculations until - native-type-constrained special cases can be done carefully and - correctly. [Bug 1561260] - -2006-09-15 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - - * library/http/http.tcl: Change " " -> "+" url encoding mapping - * library/http/pkgIndex.tcl: to " " -> "%20" as per RFC 3986. - * tests/http.test (http-5.1): bump http to 2.5.3 - * unix/Makefile.in: - * win/Makefile.in: - -2006-09-12 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - - * unix/configure.in (HAVE_MTSAFE_GETHOST*): Modified to recognize - HP-UX 11.00 and beyond as having mt-safe implementations of the - gethost functions. - * unix/configure: Regenerated, using autoconf 2.59 - - * unix/tclUnixCompat.c (PadBuffer): Fixed bug in calculation of the - increment needed to align the pointer, and added documentation - explaining why the macro is implemented as it is. - -2006-09-11 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> - - * win/rules.vc: Updated to install http, tcltest and msgcat as - * win/makefile.vc: Tcl Modules (as per Makefile.in). - * win/makefile.vc: Added tommath_(super)class headers. - -2006-09-11 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - - * unix/Makefile.in (install-libraries): Fixed typo tcltest 2.3.9 -> - 2.3.0. - -2006-09-11 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - - * unix/tclUnixCompat.c: make compatLock static and only declare it - when it will actually be used; #ifdef parts of TSD that are not always - needed; adjust #ifdefs to cover all possible cases; fix whitespace. - -2006-09-11 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - - * tests/msgcat.test: Bumped version in auxiliary files as well. - * doc/msgcat.n: - -2006-09-11 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - - * unix/Makefile.in: Bumped msgcat version to 1.4.2 to be - * win/Makefile.in: consistent with dgp's commits of 2006-09-10. - -2006-09-11 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl: Removed some unneeded [uplevel]s. - -2006-09-10 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclExecute.c: Corrected INST_EXPON flaw that treated - * tests/expr.test: $x**1 as $x**3. [Bug 1555371] - - * doc/tcltest.n: Bump to version tcltest 2.3.0 to - * library/tcltest/pkgIndex.tcl: account for new "-verbose line" - * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl: feature. - * unix/Makefile.in: - * win/Makefile.in: - * win/makefile.bc: - * win/makefile.vc: - - * library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl: Bump to version msgcat 1.4.2 to - * library/msgcat/pkgIndex.tcl: account for modifications. - -2006-09-10 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - - * library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl (msgcat::Init): on Darwin, add fallback of - * tests/msgcat.test: default msgcat locale to - * unix/tclUnixInit.c (TclpSetVariables): current CFLocale - identifier if available (via private ::tcl::mac::locale global, set at - interp init when on Mac OS X 10.3 or later with CoreFoundation). - - * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl: add 'line' verbose level: prints source - * doc/tcltest.n: file line information of failing tests. - - * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: add new tclUnixCompat.c file; - revise tests target to use new tcltest 'line' verbose level. - - * unix/configure.in: add descriptions to new AC_DEFINEs for MT-safe. - * unix/tcl.m4: add caching to new SC_TCL_* macros for MT-safe wrappers - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 - * unix/tclConfig.h.in: autoheader-2.59 - -2006-09-08 Zoran Vasiljevic <vasiljevic@users.sourceforge.net> - - * unix/tclUnixCompat.c: Added fallback to gethostbyname() and - gethostbyaddr() if the implementation is known to be MT-safe - (currently for Darwin 6 or later only). - - * unix/configure.in: Assume gethostbyname() and gethostbyaddr() are - MT-safe starting with Darwin 6 (Mac OSX 10.2). - - * unix/configure: Regenerated with autoconf V2.59 - -2006-09-08 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - - * unix/tclUnixCompat.c: Fixed conditions for CopyArray/CopyString, and - CopyHostent. Also fixed bad var names in TclpGetHostByName. - -2006-09-07 Zoran Vasiljevic <vasiljevic@users.sourceforge.net> - - * unix/tclUnixCompat.c: Added fallback to MT-unsafe library calls if - TCL_THREADS is not defined. - Fixed alignment of arrays copied by CopyArray() to be on the - sizeof(char *) boundary. - -2006-09-07 Zoran Vasiljevic <vasiljevic@users.sourceforge.net> - - * unix/tclUnixChan.c: Rewritten MT-safe wrappers to return ptrs to - * unix/tclUnixCompat.c: TSD storage making them all look like their - * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c: MT-unsafe pendants API-wise. - * unix/tclUnixPort.h: - * unix/tclUnixSock.c: - -2006-09-06 Zoran Vasiljevic <vasiljevic@users.sourceforge.net> - - * unix/tclUnixChan.c: Added TCL_THREADS ifdef'ed usage of MT-safe - * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c: calls like: getpwuid, getpwnam, getgrgid, - * unix/tclUnixSock.c: getgrnam, gethostbyname and gethostbyaddr. - * unix/tclUnixPort.h: See [Bug 999544] - * unix/Makefile.in: - * unix/configure.in: - * unix/tcl.m4: - * unix/configure: Regenerated. - - * unix/tclUnixCompat.c: New file containing MT-safe implementation of - some library calls. - -2006-09-04 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: Removed much complexity that is no - longer needed. - - * tests/main.text (Tcl_Main-4.4): Test corrected to not be - timing sensitive to the Bug 1481986 fix. [Bug 1550858] - -2006-09-04 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - - * doc/package.n: correct package example - -2006-08-31 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclCompExpr.c: Corrected flawed logic for disabling - the INST_TRY_CVT_TO_NUMERIC instruction at the end of an expression - when function arguments contain operators. [Bug 1541274] - - * tests/expr-old.test: The remaining failing tests reported in - * tests/expr.test: [Bug 1381715] are all new in Tcl 8.5, so - there's really no issue of compatibility with Tcl 8.4 result to deal - with. Fixed by updating tests to expect 8.5 results. - -2006-08-29 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclParseExpr.c: Dropped the old expr parser. - -2006-08-30 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - - * generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_CreateInterp): init iPtr->threadId - - * win/tclWinChan.c [Bug 819667] Improve logic for identifying COM - ports. - - * generic/tclIOGT.c (ExecuteCallback): - * generic/tclPkg.c (Tcl_PkgRequireEx): replace Tcl_GlobalEval(Obj) - with more efficient Tcl_Eval(Obj)Ex - - * unix/Makefile.in (valgrindshell): add valgrindshell target and - update default VALGRINDARGS. User can override, or add to it with - VALGRIND_OPTS env var. - - * generic/tclFileName.c (DoGlob): match incrs with decrs. - -2006-08-29 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclParseExpr.c: Use the "parent" field of orphan - ExprNodes to store the closure of left pointers. This lets us avoid - repeated re-scanning leftward for the left boundary of subexpressions, - which in worst case led to near O(N^2) runtime. - -2006-08-29 Joe Mistachkin <joe@mistachkin.com> - - * unix/tclUnixInit.c: Fixed the issue (typo) that was causing - * unix/tclUnixThrd.c (TclpThreadGetStackSize): stack.test to fail on - FreeBSD (and possibly other Unix platforms). - -2006-08-29 Colin McCormack <coldstore@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclIOUtil.c: Added test for NULL return from - * generic/tclPathObj.c: Tcl_FSGetNormalizedPath which was causing - * unix/tclUnixFile.c: segv's per [Bug 1548263] - * win/tclWinFCmd.c: - * win/tclWinFile.c: - -2006-08-28 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - - * library/tzdata/America/Havana: Regenerated from Olson's - * library/tzdata/America/Tegucigalpa: tzdata2006k. - * library/tzdata/Asia/Gaza: - -2006-08-28 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclStringObj.c: Revised ObjPrintfVA to take care to - * generic/tclParseExpr.c: copy only whole characters when doing - %s formatting. This relieves callers of TclObjPrintf() and - TclFormatToErrorInfo() from needing to fix arguments to character - boundaries. Tcl_ParseExpr() simplified by taking advantage. [Bug - 1547786] - - * generic/tclStringObj.c: Corrected TclFormatObj's failure to - count up the number of arguments required by examining the format - string. [Bug 1547681] - -2006-08-27 Joe Mistachkin <joe@mistachkin.com> - - * generic/tclClock.c (ClockClicksObjCmd): Fix nested macro breakage - with TCL_MEM_DEBUG enabled. [Bug 1547662] - -2006-08-26 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * doc/namespace.n: - * generic/tclNamesp.c: - * tests/upvar.test: bugfix, docs clarification and new tests for - [namespace upvar] as follow up to [Bug 1546833], reported by Will - Duquette. - -2006-08-24 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - - * library/tzdata: Regenerated, including several new files, from - Olson's tzdata2006j. - * library/clock.tcl: - * tests/clock.test: Removed an early testing hack that allowed loading - 'registry' from the build tree rather than an installed one. This is a - workaround for [Bug 15232730], which remains open because it's a - symptom of a deeper underlying problem. - -2006-08-23 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclParseExpr.c: Minimal collection of new tests - * tests/parseExpr.test: testing the error messages of the new - expr parser. Several bug fixes and code simplifications that appeared - during that effort. - -2006-08-21 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclIOUtil.c: Revisions to complete the thread finalization - of the cwdPathPtr. [Bug 1536142] - - * generic/tclParseExpr.c: Revised mistaken call to - TclCheckBadOctal(), so both [expr 08] and [expr 08z] have same - additional info in error message. - - * tests/compExpr-old.test: Update existing tests to not fail with - * tests/compExpr.test: the new expr parser. - * tests/compile.test: - * tests/expr-old.test: - * tests/expr.test: - * tests/for.test: - * tests/if.test: - * tests/parseExpr.test: - * tests/while.test: - -2006-08-21 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> - - * win/Makefile.in (gdb): Make this target work so that debugging an - msys build is possible. - -2006-08-21 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - - * macosx/tclMacOSXNotify.c (Tcl_WaitForEvent): if the run loop is - already running (e.g. if Tcl_WaitForEvent was called recursively), - re-run it in a custom run loop mode containing only the source for the - notifier thread, otherwise wakeups from other sources added to the - common run loop modes might get lost. - - * unix/tclUnixNotfy.c (Tcl_WaitForEvent): on 64-bit Darwin, - pthread_cond_timedwait() appears to have a bug that causes it to wait - forever when passed an absolute time which has already been exceeded - by the system time; as a workaround, when given a very brief timeout, - just do a poll on that platform. [Bug 1457797] - - * generic/tclClock.c (ClockClicksObjCmd): add support for Darwin - * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_TimeObjCmd): nanosecond resolution timer - * generic/tclInt.h: to [clock clicks] and [time] - * unix/configure.in (Darwin): when TCL_WIDE_CLICKS defined - * unix/tclUnixTime.c (TclpGetWideClicks, TclpWideClicksToNanoseconds): - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 - * unix/tclConfig.h.in: autoheader-2.59 - - * unix/tclUnixPort.h (Darwin): override potentially faulty configure - detection of termios availability in all cases, since termios is known - to be present on all Mac OS X releases since 10.0. [Bug 497147] - -2006-08-18 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - - * unix/tcl.m4 (Darwin): add support for --enable-64bit on x86_64, for - universal builds including x86_64, for 64-bit CoreFoundation on - Leopard and for use of -mmacosx-version-min instead of - MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 - * unix/tclConfig.h.in: autoheader-2.59 - - * generic/tcl.h: add fixes for building on Leopard and - * unix/tclUnixPort.h: support for 64-bit CoreFoundation on Leopard - * macosx/tclMacOSXFCmd.c: - - * unix/tclUnixPort.h: on Darwin x86_64, disable use of vfork as it - causes execve to fail intermittently. (rdar://4685553) + * generic/tclVar.c: + * generic/tclStubInit.c: (regenerated) - * generic/tclTomMath.h: on Darwin 64-bit, for now disable use of - 128-bit arithmetic through __attribute__ ((mode(TI))), as it leads to - link errors due to missing fallbacks. (rdar://4685527) +2009-02-10 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: add x86_64 to universal build, - switch native release targets to use DWARF with dSYM, Xcode 3.0 - changes - * macosx/README: updates for x86_64 and Xcode 2.4. + * unix/tcl.m4: [Bug 2502365]: Building of head on HPUX is broken when + using the native CC. + * unix/configure: (autoconf-2.59) - * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/default.pbxuser: add test suite target that - * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: runs the tcl test suite at - build time and shows clickable test suite errors in the GUI build - window. +2009-02-10 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * tests/macOSXFCmd.test: fix use of deprecated resource fork paths. + * generic/tclObj.c (Tcl_GetString): Added comments and validity + checks following the call to an UpdateStringProc. - * unix/tclUnixInit.c (TclpInitLibraryPath): move code that is only - needed when TCL_LIBRARY is defined to run only in that case. + * generic/tclStringObj.c: Reduce code duplication in Tcl_GetUnicode*. + Restrict AppendUtfToUtfRep to non-negative length appends. + Convert all Tcl_InvalidateStringRep() calls into macros. + Simplify Tcl_AttemptSetObjLength by removing unreachable code. + Simplify SetStringFromAny() by removing unreachable and duplicate code. + Simplify Tcl_SetObjLength by removing unreachable code. + Removed handling of (objPtr->bytes != NULL) from UpdateStringOfString, + which is only called when objPtr->bytes is NULL. - * generic/tclLink.c (LinkTraceProc): fix 64-bit signed-with-unsigned - comparison warning from gcc4 -Wextra. +2009-02-09 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * unix/tclUnixChan.c (TclUnixWaitForFile): with timeout < 0, if - select() returns early (e.g. due to a signal), call it again instead - of returning a timeout result. Fixes intermittent event-13.8 failures. + * generic/tclCompile.c: fix [Bug 2555129] const compiler warning (as + error) in tclCompile.c -2006-08-17 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-02-07 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclCompile.c: Revised the new set of expression - * generic/tclParseExpr.c: parse error messages. + * generic/tclZlib.c (TclZlibCmd): [Bug 2573172]: Ensure that when + invalid subcommand name is given, the list of valid subcommands is + produced. This gives a better experience when using the command + interactively. -2006-08-16 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-02-05 Joe Mistachkin <joe@mistachkin.com> - * generic/tclParseExpr.c: Replace PrecedenceOf() function with - prec[] static array. + * generic/tclInterp.c: Fix argument checking for [interp cancel]. [Bug + 2544618] + * unix/Makefile.in: Fix build issue with zlib on FreeBSD (and possibly + other platforms). -2006-08-14 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> +2009-02-05 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * library/clock.tcl (::tcl::clock::add): Added missing braces to - clockval validation code. Pointed out on comp.lang.tcl. + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (StringIndexCmd, StringRangeCmd, StringLenCmd): + Simplify the implementation of some commands now that the underlying + string API knows more about bytearrays. -2006-08-11 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> + * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): [Bug 2568434]: Make sure + that INST_CONCAT1 will not lose string reps wrongly. - * generic/tclNamesp.c: Improvements in buffer management to make - namespace creation faster. Plus selected other minor improvements to - code quality. [Patch 1352382] + * generic/tclStringObj.c (Tcl_AppendObjToObj): Special-case the + appending of one bytearray to another, which can be extremely rapid. + Part of scheme to address [Bug 1665628] by making the basic string + operations more efficient on byte arrays. + (Tcl_GetCharLength, Tcl_GetUniChar, Tcl_GetRange): More special casing + work for bytearrays. -2006-08-10 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> +2009-02-04 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - Misc patches to make code more efficient. [Bug 1530474] (afredd) - * generic/*.c, macosx/tclMacOSXNotify.c, unix/tclUnixNotfy.c, - * win/tclWinThrd.c: Tidy up invokations of Tcl_Panic() to promote - string constant sharing and consistent style. - * generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_CreateInterp): More efficient handling of - * generic/tclClock.c (TclClockInit): registration of commands not - in global namespace. - * generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_UnsetObjCmd): Remove unreachable clause. + * generic/tclStringObj.c: Added overflow protections to the + AppendUtfToUtfRep routine to either avoid invalid arguments and + crashes, or to replace them with controlled panics. [Bug 2561794] -2006-08-09 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: Prevent crashes due to int overflow of the + length of the result of [string repeat]. [Bug 2561746] - * generic/tclEncoding.c: Replace buffer copy in for loop with - call to memcpy(). Thanks to afredd. [Patch 1530262] +2009-02-03 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> -2006-08-09 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> + * macosx/tclMacOSXFCmd.c: Eliminate some unnessary type casts + * unix/tclLoadDyld.c: some internal const decorations + * unix/tclUnixCompat.c: spacing + * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c + * unix/tclUnixFile.c + * win/tclWinDde.c + * win/tclWinFCmd.c + * win/tclWinInit.c + * win/tclWinLoad.c + * win/tclWinPipe.c + * win/tclWinReg.c + * win/tclWinTest.c + * generic/tclBasic.c + * generic/tclBinary.c + * generic/tclCmdAH.c + * generic/tclCmdIL.c + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c + * generic/tclCompCmds.c + * generic/tclDictObj.c - * generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LassignObjCmd): Make the wrong#args message - a bit more consistent with those used elsewhere. [Bug 1534628] +2009-02-03 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclDictObj.c (DictForCmd): Stop crash when attempting to - iterate over an invalid dictionary. [Bug 1531184] + * generic/tclObj.c (tclCmdNameType): [Bug 2558422]: Corrected the type + of this structure so that extensions that write it (yuk!) will still + be able to function correctly. - * doc/ParseCmd.3, doc/expr.n, doc/set.n, doc/subst.n, doc/switch.n: - * doc/tclvars.n: Ensure that uses of [expr] in documentation examples - are also good style (with braces) unless otherwise necessary. [Bug - 1526581] +2009-02-03 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> -2006-08-03 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclStringObj.c (SetUnicodeObj): Corrected failure of + Tcl_SetUnicodeObj() to panic on a shared object. [Bug 2561488]. Also + factored out common code to reduce duplication. - * unix/tclUnixPipe.c (TclpCreateProcess): for USE_VFORK: ensure - standard channels are initialized before vfork() so that the child - doesn't potentially corrupt global state in the parent's address space + * generic/tclObj.c (Tcl_GetStringFromObj): Reduce code duplication. - * tests/compExpr-old.test: add 'oldExprParser' constraint to all tests - * tests/compExpr.test: that depend on the exact format of the - * tests/compile.test: error messages of the pre-2006-07-05 - * tests/expr-old.test: expression parser. The constraint is on by - * tests/expr.test: default (i.e those tests still fail), but - * tests/for.test: can be turned off by passing '-constraints - * tests/if.test: newExprParser' to tcltest, which will skip - * tests/parseExpr.test: the 196 failing tests in the testsuite that - * tests/while.test: are caused by the new expression parser - error messages. +2009-02-02 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> -2006-07-31 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> + * generic/tclInterp.c: Reverted the conversion of [interp] into an + * tests/interp.test: ensemble. Such conversion is not necessary + * tests/nre.test: (or even all that helpful) in the NRE-enabling + of [interp invokehidden], and it has other implications -- including + significant forkage of the 8.5 and 8.6 implementations -- that are + better off avoided if there's no gain. - * generic/tclClock.c (ConvertLocalToUTCUsingC): Corrected a regression - that caused dates before 1969 to be one day off in the :localtime time - zone if TZ is not set. [Bug 1531530] + * generic/tclStringObj.c (STRING_NOMEM): [Bug 2494093]: Add missing + cast of NULL to (char *) that upsets some compilers. -2006-07-30 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> + * generic/tclStringObj.c (Tcl_(Attempt)SetObjLength): [Bug 2553906]: + Added protections against callers asking for negative lengths. It is + likely when this happens that an integer overflow is to blame. - * generic/tclClock.c (GetJulianDayFromEraYearMonthDay): Corrected - several errors in converting dates before the Common Era [Bug 1426279] - * library/clock.tcl: Corrected syntax errors in generated code for %EC - %Ey, and %W format groups [Bug 1505383]. Corrected a bug in cache - management for format strings containing [glob] metacharacters [Bug - 1494664]. Corrected several errors in formatting/scanning of years - prior to the Common Era, and added the missing %EE format group to - indicate the era. - * tools/makeTestCases.tcl: Added code to make sure that %U and %V - format groups are included in the tests. (The code depends on %U and - %V formatting working correctly when 'makeTestCases.tcl' is run, - rather than making a completely independent check.) Added tests for - [glob] metacharacters in strings. Added tests for years prior to the - Common Era. - * tests/clock.test: Rebuilt with new test cases for all the above. +2009-02-01 David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com> -2006-07-30 Joe English <jenglish@users.sourceforge.net> + * win/makefile.vc: Allow nmake flags such as -a (rebuild all) to pass + down to the pkgs targets, too. - * doc/AppInit.3: Fix typo [Bug 1496886] +2009-01-30 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2006-07-26 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * doc/chan.n: [Bug 1216074]: Added another extended example. - * generic/tclExecute.c: Corrected flawed overflow detection in - * tests/expr.test: INST_EXPON that caused [expr 2**64] to return - 0 instead of the same value as [expr 1<<64]. + * doc/refchan.n: Added an example of how to build a scripted channel. -2006-07-24 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-01-29 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * win/tclWinSock.c: Correct un-initialized Tcl_DString. Thanks to - afredd. [Bug 1518166] + * tests/stringObj.test: [Bug 2006888]: Remove non-ASCII chars from + non-comment locations in the file, making it work more reliably in + locales with a non-Latin-1 default encoding. -2006-07-21 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclNamesp.c (Tcl_FindCommand): [Bug 2519474]: Ensure that + the path is not searched when the TCL_NAMESPACE_ONLY flag is given. - * generic/tclExecute.c: - * tests/execute.test (execute-9.1): dgp's fix for [Bug 1522803]. - -2006-07-20 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - - * macosx/tclMacOSXNotify.c (Tcl_InitNotifier, Tcl_WaitForEvent): - create notifier thread lazily upon first call to Tcl_WaitForEvent() - rather than in Tcl_InitNotifier(). Allows calling exeve() in processes - where the event loop has not yet been run (Darwin's execve() fails in - processes with more than one thread), in particular allows embedders - to call fork() followed by execve(), previously the pthread_atfork() - child handler's call to Tcl_InitNotifier() would immediately recreate - the notifier thread in the child after a fork. - - * macosx/tclMacOSXFCmd.c (TclMacOSXCopyFileAttributes): add support - * macosx/tclMacOSXNotify.c (Tcl_InitNotifier): for weakly - * unix/tclUnixInit.c (Tcl_GetEncodingNameFromEnvironment): importing - symbols not available on OSX 10.2 or 10.3, enables binaires built on - later OSX versions to run on earlier ones. - * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: enable weak-linking; turn on - extra warnings. - * macosx/README: document how to enable weak-linking; cleanup. - * unix/tclUnixPort.h: add support for weak-linking; conditionalize - AvailabilityMacros.h inclusion; only disable realpath on 10.2 or - earlier when threads are enabled. - * unix/tclLoadDyld.c (TclpLoadMemoryGetBuffer): change runtime Darwin - * unix/tclUnixInit.c (TclpInitPlatform): release check to use - global initialized - once - * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c (DoRenameFile, TclpObjNormalizePath): add runtime - Darwin release check to determine if realpath is threadsafe. - * unix/configure.in: add check on Darwin for compiler support of weak - * unix/tcl.m4: import and for AvailabilityMacros.h header; move - Darwin specific checks & defines that are only relevant to the tcl - build out of tcl.m4; restrict framework option to Darwin; clean up - quoting and help messages. - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 - * unix/tclConfig.h.in: autoheader-2.59 - - * generic/regc_locale.c (cclass): - * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): - * generic/tclIOCmd.c (Tcl_ExecObjCmd): - * generic/tclListObj.c (NewListIntRep): - * generic/tclObj.c (Tcl_GetLongFromObj, Tcl_GetWideIntFromObj) - (FreeBignum, Tcl_SetBignumObj): - * generic/tclParseExpr.c (Tcl_ParseExpr): - * generic/tclStrToD.c (TclParseNumber): - * generic/tclStringObj.c (TclAppendFormattedObjs): - * unix/tclLoadDyld.c (TclpLoadMemory): - * unix/tclUnixPipe.c (TclpCreateProcess): fix signed-with-unsigned - comparison and other warnings from gcc4 -Wextra. - -2006-07-13 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - - * unix/tclUnixPort.h: Added the inclusion of <AvailabilityMacros.h>. - The missing header caused the upcoming #if conditions to wrongly - exclude realpath, causing file normalize to ignore symbolic links in - the path. - -2006-07-11 Zoran Vasiljevic <vasiljevic@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclAsync.c: Made Tcl_AsyncDelete() more tolerant when called - after all thread TSD has been garbage-collected. - -2006-07-05 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclParseExpr.c: Completely new expression parser that - builds a parse tree instead of operating with deep recursion. This - corrects reports of stack-blowing crashes parsing long expressions - [Bug 906201] and replaces a fundamentally O(N^2) algorithm with an - O(N) one [RFE 903765]. The new parser is better able to generate error - messages that clearly report both the nature and context of the syntax - error [Bugs 1029267, 1381715]. For now, the code for the old parser is - still present and can be activated with a "#define OLD_EXPR_PARSER - 1". This is for the sake of a clean implementation patch, and for ease - of benchmarking. The new parser is non-recursive, so much lighter in - stack consumption, but it does use more heap, so there may be cases - where parsing of long expressions that succeeded with the old parser - will lead to out of memory panics with the new one. There are still - more improvements possible on that point, though significant progress - may require changes to the Tcl_Token specifications documented for the - public Tcl_Parse*() routines. - ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** for any callers that rely on the exact - (usually terrible) error messages generated by the old parser. This - includes a large number of tests in the test suite. - - * generic/tclInt.h: Replaced TclParseWhiteSpace() with - * generic/tclParse.c: TclParseAllWhiteSpace() which is what - * generic/tclParseExpr.c: all the callers really needed. - Breaking whitespace runs at newlines is useful only to the command - parsing function, and it can call the file scoped routine - ParseWhiteSpace() to do that. - - * tests/expr-old.test: Removed knownBug constraints that masked - * tests/expr.test: failures due to revised error messages. - * tests/parseExpr.test: - -2006-06-20 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclIOUtil.c: Changed default configuration to - * generic/tclInt.decls: #undef USE_OBSOLETE_FS_HOOKS which disables - * generic/tclTest.c: access to the Tcl 8.3 internal routines for - hooking into filesystem operations. Everyone ought to have migrated to - Tcl_Filesystems by now. - ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** for any code still stuck in the - pre-Tcl_Filesystem era. + * generic/tclOODecls.h (Tcl_OOInitStubs): [Bug 2537839]: Make the + declaration of this macro work correctly in the non-stub case. - * generic/tclIntDecls.h: make genstubs - * generic/tclStubInit.c: +2009-01-29 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclStrToD.c: Removed dead code that permitted disabling of - recognition of the new 0b and 0o numeric formats. + * generic/tclInterp.c: Convert the [interp] command into a + * tests/interp.test: [namespace ensemble]. Work in progress + * tests/nre.test: to NRE-enable the [interp invokehidden] + subcommand. - * generic/tclExecute.c: Removed dead code that implemented alternative - * generic/tclObj.c: design where numeric values did not - automatically narrow to the smallest Tcl_ObjType required to hold them +2009-01-29 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclCmdAH.c: Removed dead code that was old implementation - of [format]. + * generic/tclNamesp.c (TclMakeEnsemble): [Bug 2529117]: Make this + function behave more sensibly when presented with a fully-qualified + name, rather than doing strange stuff. -2006-06-14 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-01-28 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * unix/tclUnixPort.h (Darwin): support MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED - define from AvailabilityMacros.h: override configure detection and - only use API available in the indicated OS version or earlier. + * generic/tclBasic.c (TclInvokeObjectCommand): Made this understand + what to do if it ends up being used on a command with no objProc; that + shouldn't happen, but... -2006-06-14 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> + * generic/tclNamesp.c (TclMakeEnsemble): [Bug 2529157]: Made this + understand NRE command implementations better. + * generic/tclDictObj.c (DictForCmd): Eliminate unnecessary command + implementation. - * doc/format.n, doc/scan.n: Added examples for converting between - characters and their numeric interpretations following user prompting. +2009-01-27 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2006-06-13 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + * generic/tclOODefineCmds.c (Tcl_ClassSetConstructor): + [Bug 2531577]: Ensure that caches of constructor chains are cleared + when the constructor is changed. - * unix/tclLoadDl.c (TclpDlopen): Workaround for a compiler bug in Sun - Forte 6. [Bug 1503729] +2009-01-26 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> -2006-06-06 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclInt.h: Fix [Bug 1028264]: WSACleanup() too early. + * generic/tclEvent.c: The fix introduces "late exit handlers" + * win/tclWinSock.c: for similar late process-wide cleanups. - * doc/GetStdChan.3: Added recommendation that each call to - Tcl_SetStdChannel() be accompanied by a call to Tcl_RegisterChannel(). +2009-01-26 Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> -2006-06-05 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> + * win/tclWinSock.c: Fix [Bug 2446662]: resync Win behavior on RST + with that of unix (EOF). - * doc/Alloc.3: Added documentation of promise that Tcl_Realloc(NULL,x) - is the same as Tcl_Alloc(x), as discussed in comp.lang.tcl. Also fixed - nonsense sentence to say something meaningful. +2009-01-26 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2006-05-29 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> + * generic/tclZlib.c (ChanClose): Only generate error messages in the + interpreter when the thread is not being closed down. [Bug 2536400] - * generic/tcl.h (Tcl_DecrRefCount): use if/else construct to allow - placement in unbraced outer if/else conditions. (jcw) +2009-01-23 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2006-05-27 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> + * doc/zlib.n: Added a note that 'zlib push' is reversed by 'chan pop'. - * macosx/tclMacOSXNotify.c: implemented pthread_atfork() handler that - * unix/tcl.m4 (Darwin): recreates CoreFoundation state and - notifier thread in the child after a fork(). Note that pthread_atfork - is available starting with Tiger only. Because vfork() is used by the - core on Darwin, [exec]/[open] are not affected by this fix, only - extensions or embedders that call fork() directly (such as TclX). - However, this only makes fork() safe from corefoundation tcl with - --disable-threads; as on all platforms, forked children may deadlock - in threaded tcl due to the potential for stale locked mutexes in the - child. [Patch 923072] +2009-01-22 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 - * unix/tclConfig.h.in: autoheader-2.59 + * generic/tclCompile.h: CONSTify TclPrintInstruction (TIP #27) + * generic/tclCompile.c + * generic/tclInt.h: CONSTify TclpNativeJoinPath (TIP #27) + * generic/tclFileName.c + * generic/tcl.decls: {unix win} is equivalent to {generic} + * generic/tclInt.decls + * generic/tclDecls.h: (regenerated) + * generic/tclIntDecls.h + * generic/tclGetDate.y: Single internal const decoration. + * generic/tclDate.c: -2006-05-24 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> +2009-01-22 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_SYSTEM): Fixed quoting of command script to - awk; it was a rarely used branch, but it was wrong. [Bug 1494160] + * unix/tcl.m4: Corrected a typo ($(SHLIB_VERSION) should be + ${SHLIB_VERSION}). + * unix/configure: Autoconf 2.59 -2006-05-23 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> +2009-01-21 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - * doc/chan.n, doc/refchan.n: Tighten up the documentation to follow a - slightly more consistent style with regard to argument capitalization. + * generic/tclIORChan.c (ReflectClose): Fix for [Bug 2458202]. + * generic/tclIORTrans.c (ReflectClose): Closing a channel may supply + NULL for the 'interp'. Test for finalization needs to be different, + and one place has to pull the interp out of the channel instead. -2006-05-13 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-01-21 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclProc.c (ProcCompileProc): When a bump of the compile - epoch forces the re-compile of a proc body, take care not to overwrite - any Proc struct that may be referred to on the active call stack. This - fixes [Bug 1482718]. Note that the fix will not be effective for code - that calls the private routine TclProcCompileProc() directly. + * generic/tclStringObj.c: New fix for [Bug 2494093] replaces the + flawed attempt committed 2009-01-09. -2006-05-13 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-01-19 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - * generic/tclEvent.c (HandleBgErrors): fix leak. [Coverity issue 86] + * unix/Makefile.in: Added a CONFIG_INSTALL_DIR parameter so that + * unix/tcl.m4: distributors can control where tclConfig.sh goes. + Made the installation of 'ldAix' conditional upon actually being on an + AIX system. Allowed for downstream packagers to customize + SHLIB_VERSION on BSD-derived systems. Thanks to Stuart Cassoff for + [Patch 907924]. + * unix/configure: Autoconf 2.59 -2006-05-05 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-01-19 David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com> - * generic/tclMain.c (Tcl_Main): Corrected flaw that required - * tests/main.test: (Tcl_Main-4.5): processing of one interactive - command before passing control to the loop routine registered with - Tcl_SetMainLoop(). [Bug 1481986] + * win/build.vc.bat: Improved tools detection and error message + * win/makefile.vc: Reorganized the $(TCLOBJ) file list into seperate + parts for easier maintenance. Matched all sources built using -GL to + both $(lib) and $(link) to use -LTCG and avoid a warning message. + Addressed the over-building nature of the htmlhelp target by moving + from a pseudo target to a real target dependent on the entire docs/ + directory contents. + * win/nmakehlp.c: Removed -g option and GrepForDefine() func as it + isn't being used anymore. The -V option method is much better. -2006-05-04 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-01-16 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * README: Bump version number to 8.5a5 - * generic/tcl.h: - * tools/tcl.wse.in: - * unix/configure.in: - * unix/tcl.spec: - * win/README.binary: - * win/configure.in: + * generic/tcl.h: Bump patchlevel to 8.6b1.1 to distinguish + * library/init.tcl: CVS snapshots from the 8.6b1 and 8.6b2 releases + * unix/configure.in: and to deal with the fact that the 8.6b1 + * win/configure.in: version of init.tcl will not [source] in the + HEAD version of Tcl. * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 * win/configure: - * generic/tclBasic.c (ExprSrandFunc): Restore acceptance of wide/big - * doc/mathfunc.n: integer values by srand(). [Bug 1480509] - -2006-04-26 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - *** 8.5a4 TAGGED FOR RELEASE *** - - * changes: Updates for another RC. - - * generic/tclBinary.c: Revised the handling of the Q and q format - * generic/tclInt.h: specifiers for [binary] to account for the - * generic/tclStrToD.c: "middle endian" floating point format used in - Nokia N770. - -2006-04-25 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * doc/DoubleObj.3: More doc updates for TIP 237. - * doc/expr.n: - * doc/format.n: - * doc/mathfunc.n: - * doc/scan.n: - * doc/string.n: - - * generic/tclScan.c: [scan $s %u] is documented to accept only - * tests/scan.test: decimal formatted integers. Fixed to match. - -2006-04-19 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - - * generic/tclStrToD.c: Added code to support the "middle endian" - floating point format used in the Nokia N770's software-based floating - point. Thanks to Bruce Johnson for reporting this bug, originally on - http://wiki.tcl.tk/15408. - * library/clock.tcl: Fixed a bug with Daylight Saving Time and Posix - time zone specifiers reported by Martin Lemburg in - http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/9a8b15a4dfc0b7a0 - (and not at SourceForge). - * tests/clock.test: Added test case for the above bug. - -2006-04-18 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - - * doc/IntObj.3: Minor review fixes, including better documentation of - the behaviour of Tcl_GetBignumAndClearObj. - -2006-04-17 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * doc/IntObj.3: Documentation changes to account for TIP 237 changes. - * doc/Object.3: [Bug 1446971] - -2006-04-12 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> - - * generic/regc_locale.c (cclass): Redefined the meaning of [:print:] - to be exactly UNICODE letters, numbers, punctuation, symbols and - spaces (*not* whitespace). [Bug 1376892] - -2006-04-11 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclTrace.c: Stop some interference between enter traces - * tests/trace.test: and enterstep traces. [Bug 1458266] - -2006-04-07 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclPathObj.c: Yet another revised fix for the [Bug 1379287] - * tests/fileSystem.test: family of path normalization bugs. - -2006-04-06 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - - * generic/tclRegexp.c (FinalizeRegexp): full reset data to indicate - readiness for reinitialization. - -2006-04-06 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclIndexObj.c (Tcl_GetIndexFromObjStruct): It seems there - * tests/indexObj.test: are extensions that rely on the prior behavior - * doc/GetIndex.3: that the empty string cannot succeed as a - unique prefix matcher, so I'm restoring Donal Fellows's solution. - Added mention of this detail to the documentation. [Bug 1464039] - - * tests/compExpr-old.test: Updated testmathfunctions constraint - * tests/compExpr.test: to post-TIP-232 world. - * tests/expr-old.test: - * tests/expr.test: - * tests/info.test: - - * tests/indexObj.test: Corrected other test errors revealed by - * tests/upvar.test: testing outside the tcltest application. - - * generic/tclPathObj.c: Revised fix for the [Bug 1379287] family of - path normalization bugs. - -2006-04-06 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - - * unix/tcl.m4: removed TCL_IO_TRACK_OS_FOR_DRIVER_WITH_BAD_BLOCKING - define on Darwin. [Bug 1457515] - * unix/configure: autoconf-2.59 - * unix/tclConfig.h.in: autoheader-2.59 - -2006-04-05 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * win/tclWinInit.c: More careful calls to Tcl_DStringSetLength() - * win/tclWinSock.c: to avoid creating invalid DString states. Bump - * win/tclWinDde.c: to version 1.3.2. [RFE 1366195] - * library/dde/pkgIndex.tcl: - - * library/reg/pkgIndex.tcl: Bump to registry 1.2 because - * win/tclWinReg.c: Registry_Unload() is a new public routine - * win/Makefile.in: compared to the 1.1.* releases. - - * win/configure.in: Bump package version numbers. - * win/configure: autoconf 2.59 - -2006-04-05 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> - - * generic/tclIndexObj.c (Tcl_GetIndexFromObjStruct): Allow empty - strings to be matched by the Tcl_GetIndexFromObj machinery, in the - same manner as any other key. [Bug 1464039] - -2006-04-03 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - - * generic/tclIO.c (ReadChars): Added check, panic and commentary to a - piece of code which relies on BUFFER_PADDING to create enough space at - the beginning of each buffer for the insertion of partial multibyte - data at the beginning of a buffer. Commentary explains why this code - is OK, and the panic is as a precaution if someone twiddled the - BUFFER_PADDING into uselessness. - - * generic/tclIO.c (ReadChars): Temporarily suppress the use of - TCL_ENCODING_END set when EOF was reached while the buffer we are - converting is not truly the last buffer in the queue. Together with - the Utf bug below it was possible to completely wreck the buffer data - structures, eventually crashing Tcl. [Bug 1462248] - - * generic/tclEncoding.c (UtfToUtfProc): Stop accessing memory beyond - the end of the input buffer when TCL_ENCODING_END is set and the last - bytes of the buffer start a multi-byte sequence. This bug contributed - to [Bug 1462248]. - -2006-03-30 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclExecute.c: remove unused var and silence gcc warning - -2006-03-29 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - - * win/Makefile.in: convert _NATIVE paths to use / to avoid ".\" - path-as-escape issue. - -2006-03-29 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * changes: Updates for another RC. - - * generic/tclPathObj.c: More fixes for path normalization when /../ - * tests/fileSystem.test: tries to go beyond root.[Bug 1379287] - - * generic/tclExecute.c: Revised INST_MOD implementation to do - calculations in native types as much as possible, moving to mp_ints - only when necessary. - -2006-03-28 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - - * win/tclWinPipe.c (TclpCreateProcess): change panics to Tcl errors - and do proper refcounting of noe objPtr. [Bug 1194429] - - * unix/tcl.m4, win/tcl.m4: []-quote AC_DEFUN functions. - -2006-03-28 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - - * macosx/Tcl.xcode/default.pbxuser: add '-singleproc 1' cli arg to - * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/default.pbxuser: tcltest to ease test debugging - - * macosx/Tcl.xcode/project.pbxproj: removed $prefix/share from - * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: TCL_PACKAGE_PATH as per change - to unix/configure.in of 2006-03-13. - - * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c (TclpObjNormalizePath): deal with *BSD/Darwin - realpath() converting relative paths into absolute paths [Bug 1064247] - -2006-03-28 Vince Darley <vincentdarley@sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclIOUtil.c: fix to nativeFilesystemRecord comparisons - (lesser part of [Bug 1064247]) - -2006-03-27 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> - - * win/tclWinTest.c: Fixes for [Bug 1456373] (mingw-gcc issue) - -2006-03-27 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - - * doc/CrtChannel.3: Added TCL_CHANNEL_VERSION_5, made it the - * generic/tcl.h: version where the "truncateProc" is defined at, - * generic/tclIO.c: and moved all channel drivers of Tcl to v5. - * generic/tclIOGT.c, generic/tclIORChan.c, unix/tclUnixChan.c: - * unix/tclUnixPipe.c, win/tclWinChan.c, win/tclWinConsole.c: - * win/tclWinPipe.c, win/tclWinSerial.c, win/tclWinSock.c: - -2006-03-27 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclExecute.c: Merge INST_MOD computation in with the - INST_?SHIFT instructions, which also operate only on two integral - values. Also corrected flaw that made INST_BITNOT of wide values - require mp_int calculations. Also corrected type that missed optimized - handling of the tclBooleanType by the TclGetBooleanFromObj macro. - - * changes: Updates for another RC. - -2006-03-25 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclExecute.c: Corrections to INST_EXPON detection of - overflow to use mp_int calculations. - -2006-03-24 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> - - * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): Added a couple of missing - casts to 'int' that were affecting compilablity on VC6. - -2006-03-24 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclEncoding.c: Reverted latest change [Bug 506653] since it - reportedly killed test performance on Windows. - - * generic/tclExecute.c: Revised INST_EXPON implementation to do - calculations in native types as much as possible, moving to mp_ints - only when necessary. - -2006-03-23 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclExecute.c: Merged INST_EXPON handling in with the other - binary operators that operate on all number types (INST_ADD, etc.). - - * tests/env.test: With case preserved (see 2006-03-21 commit) be sure - to do case-insensitive filtering. [Bug 1457065] - -2006-03-23 Reinhard Max <max@suse.de> - - * unix/tcl.spec: Cleaned up and completed the spec file. An RPM can - now be built from the tcl source distribution with "rpmbuild -tb - <tarball>" - -2006-03-22 Reinhard Max <max@suse.de> - - * tests/stack.test: Run the stack tests in subshells, so that they are - reported as failed tests rather than bugs in the test suite if the - recursion causes a segfault. - -2006-03-21 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * changes: Updates for another RC. - - * generic/tclStrToD.c: One of the branches of AccumulateDecimalDigit - * tests/parseExpr.test: did not. [Bug 1451233] - - * tests/env.test: Preserve case of saved env vars. [Bug 1409272] - -2006-03-21 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclInt.decls: implement globbing for HFS creator & type - * macosx/tclMacOSXFCmd.c:codes and 'hidden' flag, as documented in - * tests/macOSXFCmd.test: glob.n; objectified OSType handling in [glob] - * unix/tclUnixFile.c: and [file attributes]; fix globbing for - hidden files with pattern==NULL arg. [Bug 823329] - * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h: - * generic/tclStubInit.c: make genstubs - -2006-03-20 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - - * win/Makefile.in (install-libraries): Generate tcl8/8.4 directory - under Windows as well (cygwin Makefile). Related entry: 2006-03-07, - dgp. This moved the installation of http from 8.2 to 8.4, partially. A - fix of the required directory creation was done for unix on Mar 10, - without entry in the Changelog. This entry is for the fix of the - directory creation under Windows. - - * unix/installManPage: There is always one even more broken "sed". - Moved the # comment starting character in the sed script to the - beginning of their respective lines. The AIX sed will not recognize - them as comments otherwise :( The actual text stays indented for - better association with the commands they belong to. - -2006-03-20 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> - - * tests/cmdAH.test, tests/fCmd.test, tests/unixFCmd.test: - * tests/winFCmd.test: Cleanup of some test constraint handling, and a - few other minor issues. - -2006-03-18 Vince Darley <vincentdarley@sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclFileName.c: - * doc/FileSystem.3: - * tests/fileName.test: Fix to [Bug 1084705] so that 'glob -nocomplain' - finally agrees with its documentation and doesn't swallow genuine - errors. - - ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** for scripts that assumed '-nocomplain' - removes the need for 'catch' to deal with non-understood path names. - - Small optimisation to implementation of pattern==NULL case of TclGlob, - and clarification to the documentation. [Tclvfs bug 1405317] - -2006-03-18 Vince Darley <vincentdarley@sourceforge.net> - - * tests/fCmd.test: added knownBug test case for [Bug 1394972] - - * tests/winFCmd.test: - * tests/tcltest.test: corrected tests to better account for behaviour - of writable/non-writable directories on Windows 2000/XP. This, with - the previous patches, closes [Bug 1193497] +2009-01-14 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> -2006-03-17 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + * generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_DeleteCommandFromToken): Reverted most + of the substance of my 2009-01-12 commit. NULLing the objProc field of + a Command when deleting it is important so that tests for certain + classes of commands don't return false positives when applied to + deleted command tokens. Overall change is now just replacement of a + false comment with a true one. - * doc/chan.n: Updated with documentation for the commands 'chan - create' and 'chan postevent' (TIP #219). +2009-01-13 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net> - * doc/refchan.n: New file. Documentation of the command handler API - for reflected channels (TIP #219). + * unix/tcl.m4: fix [tcl-Bug 2502365] Building of head on HPUX is + broken when using the native CC. + * unix/configure (autoconf-2.59) -2006-03-17 Joe Mistachkin <joe@mistachkin.com> +2009-01-13 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * unix/tclUnixPort.h: Include pthread.h prior to pthread_np.h [Bug - 1444692] + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_ThrowObjCmd): Move implementation of [throw] + * library/init.tcl (throw): to C from Tcl. - * win/tclWinTest.c: Corrected typo of 'initializeMutex' that prevented - successful compilation. +2009-01-12 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> -2006-03-16 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> + * generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_DeleteCommandFromToken): One consequence of + the NRE rewrite is that there are now situations where a NULL objProc + field in a Command struct is perfectly normal. Removed an outdated + comment in Tcl_DeleteCommandFromToken that claimed we use + cmdPtr->objPtr==NULL as a test of command validity. In fact we use + cmdPtr->flags&CMD_IS_DELETED to perform that test. Also removed the + setting to NULL, since any extension following the advice of the old + comment is going to be broken by NRE anyway, and needs to shift to + flag-based testing (or stop intruding into such internal matters). + Part of [Bug 2486550]. - * doc/open.n: Documented the changed behaviour of 'a'ppend mode. - - * tests/io.test (io-43.1 io-44.[1234]): Rewritten to be self-contained - with regard to setup and cleanup. [Bug 681793] - - * generic/tclIOUtil.c (TclGetOpenMode): Added the flag O_APPEND to the - list of POSIX modes used when opening a file for 'a'ppend. This - enables the proper automatic seek-to-end-on-write by the OS. See [Bug - 680143] for longer discussion. - - * tests/ioCmd.test (iocmd-13.7.*): Extended the testsuite to check the - new handling of 'a'. - -2006-03-15 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - - * tests/socket.test: Extended the timeout in socket-11.11 from 10 to - 40 seconds to allow for really slow machines. Also extended - actual/expected results with value of variable 'done' to make it - clearer when a test fails due to a timeout. [Bug 792159] - -2006-03-15 Vince Darley <vincentdarley@sourceforge.net> - - * win/fCmd.test: add proper test constraints so the new tests don't - run on Unix. - -2006-03-14 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - - * generic/tclPipe.c (TclCreatePipeline): Modified the processing of - pipebars to fail if the last bar is followed only by redirections. - [Bug 768659] - -2006-03-14 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - - * doc/fconfigure.n: Clarified that -translation is binary is reported - as lf when queried, because it is identical to lf, except for the - special additional behaviour when setting it. [Bug 666770] - -2006-03-14 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - - * doc/clock.n: Removed double-quotes around section title NAME; not - needed. - * unix/installManpage: Reverted part to handle double-quotes in - section NAME, chokes older sed installations. - -2006-03-14 Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> - - * library/tm.tcl (::tcl::tm::Defaults): Fixed handling of environment - variable TCLX.y_TM_PATH, bad variable reference. Thanks to Julian - Noble. [Bug 1448251] - -2006-03-14 Vince Darley <vincentdarley@sourceforge.net> - - * win/tclWinFile.c: updated patch to deal with 'file writable' issues - on Windows XP/2000. - * generic/tclTest.c: - * unix/tclUnixTest.c: - * win/tclWinTest.c: - * tests/fCmd.test: updated test suite to deal with correct permissions - setting and differences between XP/2000 and 95/98 3 tests still fail; - to be dealt with shortly - -2006-03-13 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclEncoding.c: Report error when an escape encoding is - missing one of its sub-encodings. [Bug 506653] - - * unix/configure.in: Revert change from 2005-07-26 that sometimes - * unix/configure: added $prefix/share to the tcl_pkgPath. See - [Patch 1231015]. autoconf-2.59. - -2006-03-10 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclProc.c (ObjInterpProcEx): - * tests/apply.test (apply-5.1): Fix [apply] error messages so that - they quote the lambda expression. [Bug 1447355] - -2006-03-10 Zoran Vasiljevic <vasiljevic@users.sourceforge.net> - - -- Summary of changes fixing [Bug 1437595] -- - - * generic/tclEvent.c: Cosmetic touches and identation - * generic/tclInt.h: Added TclpFinalizeSockets() call. - - * generic/tclIO.c: Calls TclpFinalizeSockets() as part of the - TclFinalizeIOSubsystem(). - - * unix/tclUnixSock.c: Added no-op TclpFinalizeSockets(). - - * win/tclWinPipe.c, win/tclWinSock.c: Finalization of sockets/pipes is - now solely done in TclpFinalizeSockets() and TclpFinalizePipes() and - not over the thread-exit handler, because the order of actions the Tcl - generic core will impose may result in cores/hangs if the thread exit - handler tears down corresponding subsystem(s) too early. - -2006-03-10 Vince Darley <vincentdarley@sourceforge.net> - - * win/tclWinFile.c: previous patch breaks tests, so removed. - -2006-03-09 Vince Darley <vincentdarley@sourceforge.net> - - * win/tclWinFile.c: fix to 'file writable' in certain XP directories. - Thanks to fvogel and jfg. [Patch 1344540] Modified patch to make use - of existing use of getSecurityProc. - -2006-03-08 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclExecute.c: Complete missing bit of TIP 215 implementation - * tests/incr.test: - -2006-03-07 Joe English <jenglish@users.sourceforge.net> - - * unix/tcl.m4: Set SHLIB_LD_FLAGS='${LIBS}' on NetBSD, as per the - other *BSD variants. [Bug 1334613] - * unix/configure: Regenerated. - -2006-03-07 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * changes: Update in prep. for 8.5a4 release. - - * unix/Makefile.in: Package http 2.5.2 requires Tcl 8.4, so the - * win/Makefile.in: *.tm installation has to be placed in an "8.4" - directory, not an "8.2" directory. - -2006-03-06 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclBasic.c: Revised handling of TCL_EVAL_* flags to - * tests/parse.test: simplify TclEvalObjvInternal and to correct - the auto-loading of alias targets (parse-8.12). [Bug 1444291] - -2006-03-03 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclPathObj.c: Revised yesterday's fix for [Bug 1379287] to - work on Windows. - - * generic/tclObj.c: Compatibility support for existing code that - calls Tcl_GetObjType("boolean"). - -2006-03-02 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclPathObj.c: Fix for failed normalization of paths - * tests/fileSystem.test: with /../ that lead back to the root - of the filesystem, like /foo/.. [Bug 1379287] - -2006-03-01 Reinhard Max <max@suse.de> - - * unix/installManPage: Fix the script for manpages that have quotes - around the .SH arguments, as doctools produces them. [Bug 1292145] - Some minor cleanups and improvements. - -2006-02-28 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclBasic.c: Corrections to be sure that TCL_EVAL_GLOBAL - * tests/namespace.test: evaluations act the same as [uplevel #0] - * tests/parse.test: evaluations, even when execution traces or - * tests/trace.test: invocations of [::unknown] are present. [Bug - 1439836] - -2006-02-22 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclBasic.c: Corrected a few bugs in how [namespace - * tests/namespace.test: unknown] interacts with TCL_EVAL_* flags. - [Patch 958222] - -2006-02-17 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclIORChan.c: Revised error message generation and handling - * tests/ioCmd.test: of exceptional return codes in the channel - reflection layer. [Bug 1372348] - -2006-02-16 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclIndexObj.c: Disallow the "ambiguous" error message - * tests/indexObj.test: when TCL_EXACT matching is requested. - * tests/ioCmd.test: - -2006-02-15 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - * generic/tclIO.c: Made several routines tolerant of - * generic/tclIORChan.c: interp == NULL arguments. [Bug 1380662] - * generic/tclIOUtil.c: - -2006-02-09 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - TIP#215 IMPLEMENTATION - - * doc/incr.n: Revised [incr] to auto-initialize when varName - * generic/tclExecute.c: argument is unset. [Patch 1413115] - * generic/tclVar.c: - * tests/compile.test: - * tests/incr-old.test: - * tests/incr.test: - * tests/set.test: - - * tests/main.test (Tcl_Main-6.7): Improved robustness of - command auto-completion test. [Bug 1422736] - -2006-02-08 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - - * doc/Encoding.3, doc/encoding.n: Updates due to review at request of - Don Porter. Mostly minor changes. - -2006-02-08 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - TIP#258 IMPLEMENTATION - - * doc/Encoding.3: New subcommand [encoding dirs]. - * doc/encoding.n: New routine Tcl_GetEncodingNameFromEnvironment - * generic/tcl.decls: Made public: - * generic/tclBasic.c: TclGetEncodingFromObj - * generic/tclCmdAH.c: -> Tcl_GetEncodingFromObj - * generic/tclEncoding.c:TclGetEncodingSearchPath - * generic/tclInt.decls: -> Tcl_GetEncodingSearchPath - * generic/tclInt.h: TclSetEncodingSearchPath - * generic/tclTest.c: -> Tcl_SetEncodingSearchPath - * library/init.tcl: Removed commands: - * tests/cmdAH.test: [tcl::unsupported::EncodingDirs] - * tests/encoding.test: [testencoding path] (Tcltest) - * unix/tclUnixInit.c: [Patch 1413934] - * win/tclWinInit.c: - - * generic/tclDecls.h: make genstubs - * generic/tclIntDecls.h: - * generic/tclStubInit.c: - -2006-02-01 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> - - * generic/tclProc.c: minor improvements to [apply] - * tests/apply.test: new tests; apply-5.1 currently fails to indicate - missing work in error reporting - -2006-02-01 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - - TIP#194 IMPLEMENTATION - - * doc/apply.n: (New file) New command [apply]. [Patch 944803] - * doc/uplevel.n: - * generic/tclBasic.c: - * generic/tclInt.h: - * generic/tclProc.c: - * tests/apply.test: (New file) - * tests/proc-old.test: - * tests/proc.test: - - TIP#181 IMPLEMENTATION - - * doc/Namespace.3: New command [namespace unknown]. New public C - * doc/namespace.n: routines Tcl_(Get|Set)NamespaceUnknownHandler. - * doc/unknown.n: [Patch 958222] - * generic/tcl.decls: - * generic/tclBasic.c: - * generic/tclInt.h: - * generic/tclNamesp.c: - * tests/namespace.test: - - * generic/tclDecls.h: make genstubs - * generic/tclStubInit.c: - - TIP#250 IMPLEMENTATION - - * doc/namespace.n: New command [namespace upvar]. [Patch 1275435] - * generic/tclInt.h: - * generic/tclNamesp.c: - * generic/tclVar.c: - * tests/namespace.test: - * tests/upvar.test: - -2006-01-26 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - - * doc/dict.n: Fixed silly bug in example. Thanks to Heiner Marxen - <heiner.marxen@unsel.de> for catching this! [Bug 1415725] - -2006-01-26 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> - - * unix/tclUnixChan.c (TclpOpenFileChannel): Tidy up and comment the - mess to do with setting up serial channels. This (deliberately) breaks - a broken FreeBSD port, indicates what we're really doing, and reduces - the amount of conditional compilation sections for better maintenance. - -2006-01-25 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2009-01-09 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * unix/tclUnixInit.c (TclpInitPlatform): Improved conditions on when - to update the FP rounding mode on FreeBSD, taken from FreeBSD port. + * generic/tclStringObj.c (STRING_SIZE): Corrected failure to limit + memory allocation requests to the sizes that can be supported by Tcl's + memory allocation routines. [Bug 2494093] -2006-01-23 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> +2009-01-09 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * tests/string.test (string-12.21): Added test for [Bug 1410553] based - on original bug report. + * generic/tclNamesp.c (NamespaceEnsembleCmd): Error out when someone + gives wrong # of args to [namespace ensemble create]. [Bug 1558654] -2006-01-23 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net> +2009-01-08 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * generic/tclStringObj.c: fixed incorrect handling of internal rep in - Tcl_GetRange. Thanks to twylite and Peter Spjuth. [Bug 1410553] + * generic/tclStringObj.c (STRING_UALLOC): Added missing parens + required to get correct results out of things like + STRING_UALLOC(num + append). [Bug 2494093] - * generic/tclProc.c: fixed args handling for precompiled bodies [Bug - 1412695]; thanks to Uwe Traum. +2009-01-08 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2006-01-16 Reinhard Max <max@suse.de> + * generic/tclDictObj.c, generic/tclIndexObj.c, generic/tclListObj.c, + * generic/tclObj.c, generic/tclStrToD.c, generic/tclUtil.c, + * generic/tclVar.c: Generate errorcodes for the error cases which + approximate to "I can't interpret that string as one of those" and + "You gave me the wrong number of arguments". - * generic/tclPipe.c (FileForRedirect): Prevent nameString from being - freed without having been initialized. - * tests/exec.test: Added a test for the above. +2009-01-07 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2006-01-12 Zoran Vasiljevic <vasiljevic@users.sourceforge.net> + * doc/dict.n: Added more examples. [Tk Bug 2491235] - * generic/tclPathObj.c (Tcl_FSGetInternalRep): backported patch from - core-8-4-branch. A freed pointer has been overwritten causing all - sorts of coredumps. + * tests/oo.test (oo-22.1): Adjusted test to be less dependent on the + specifics of how [info frame] reports general frame information, and + instead to focus on what methods add to it; that's really what the + test is about anyway. -2006-01-12 Vince Darley <vincentdarley@sourceforge.net> +2009-01-06 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> - * win/tclWinFile.c: fix to sharing violation [Bug 1366227] + * tests/stringObj.test: Revise tests that demand a NULL Tcl_ObjType + in certain values to construct those values with [testdstring] so + there's no lack of robustness depending on the shimmer history of + shared literals. -2006-01-11 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> +2009-01-06 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> - * generic/tclBasic.c: Moved Tcl_LogCommandInfo from tclBasic.c to - * generic/tclNamesp.c: tclNamesp.c to get access to identifier with - * tests/error.test (error-7.0): file scope. Added check for traces on - ::errorInfo, and when present fall back to contruction of the stack - trace in the variable so that write trace notification timings are - compatible with earlier Tcl releases. This reduces, but does not - completely eliminate the ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** created by - the 2004-10-15 commit. [Bug 1397843] + * generic/tclDictObj.c (DictIncrCmd): Corrected twiddling in internals + of dictionaries so that literals can't get destroyed. -2006-01-10 Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net> + * tests/expr.test: Eliminate non-ASCII char. [Bug 2006879] - * unix/configure: add caching, use AC_CACHE_CHECK instead of - * unix/configure.in: AC_CACHE_VAL where possible, consistent message - * unix/tcl.m4: quoting, sync relevant tclconfig/tcl.m4 changes - and gratuitous formatting differences, fix SC_CONFIG_MANPAGES with - default argument, Darwin improvements to SC_LOAD_*CONFIG. + * generic/tclOOInfo.c (InfoObjectMethodsCmd,InfoClassMethodsCmd): Only + delete pointers that were actually allocated! [Bug 2489836] -2006-01-09 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * generic/tclOO.c (TclNRNewObjectInstance, Tcl_NewObjectInstance): + Perform search for existing commands in right context. [Bug 2481109] - * generic/tclNamesp.c (NamespaceInscopeCmd): [namespace inscope] - * tests/namespace.test: commands were not reported by [info level]. - [Bug 1400572] +2009-01-05 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2006-01-09 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> + * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (TclNRSourceObjCmd): Make implementation of the + * generic/tclIOUtil.c (TclNREvalFile): [source] command be NRE + enabled so that [yield] inside a script sourced in a coroutine can + work. [Bug 2412068] - * generic/tclTrace.c: Stop exporting the guts of the trace command; - nothing outside this file needs to see it. [Bug 971336] +2009-01-04 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> -2006-01-05 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> + * generic/tclCmdAH.c: Tidy up spacing and code style. - * unix/tcl.m4 (TCL_CONFIG_SYSTEM): Factor out the code to determine - the operating system version number, as it was replicated in several - places. +2009-01-03 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> -2006-01-04 David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com> + * library/clock.tcl (tcl::clock::add): Fixed error message formatting + in the case where [clock add] is presented with a bad switch. + * tests/clock.test (clock-65.1) Added a test case for the above + problem [Bug 2481670]. - * win/tclAppInit.c: WIN32 native console signal handler removed. This - was found to be interfering with TWAPI extension one. IMO, special - services such as signal handlers should best be done with extensions - to the core after discussions on c.l.t. about Roy Terry's tclsh - children of a real windows service shell. +2009-01-02 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Force the use of the compatibility + version of mkstemp() on IRIX. [Bug 878333] + * unix/configure.in, unix/Makefile.in (mkstemp.o): + * compat/mkstemp.c (new file): Added a compatibility implementation of + the mkstemp() function, which is apparently needed on some platforms. + [Bug 741967] + + ****************************************************************** + *** CHANGELOG ENTRIES FOR 2008 IN "ChangeLog.2008" *** + *** CHANGELOG ENTRIES FOR 2006-2007 IN "ChangeLog.2007" *** + *** CHANGELOG ENTRIES FOR 2005 IN "ChangeLog.2005" *** + *** CHANGELOG ENTRIES FOR 2004 IN "ChangeLog.2004" *** + *** CHANGELOG ENTRIES FOR 2003 IN "ChangeLog.2003" *** + *** CHANGELOG ENTRIES FOR 2002 IN "ChangeLog.2002" *** + *** CHANGELOG ENTRIES FOR 2001 IN "ChangeLog.2001" *** + *** CHANGELOG ENTRIES FOR 2000 IN "ChangeLog.2000" *** + *** CHANGELOG ENTRIES FOR 1999 AND EARLIER IN "ChangeLog.1999" *** + ****************************************************************** - ****************************************************************** - *** CHANGELOG ENTRIES FOR 2005 IN "ChangeLog.2005" *** - *** CHANGELOG ENTRIES FOR 2004 IN "ChangeLog.2004" *** - *** CHANGELOG ENTRIES FOR 2003 IN "ChangeLog.2003" *** - *** CHANGELOG ENTRIES FOR 2002 IN "ChangeLog.2002" *** - *** CHANGELOG ENTRIES FOR 2001 IN "ChangeLog.2001" *** - *** CHANGELOG ENTRIES FOR 2000 IN "ChangeLog.2000" *** - *** CHANGELOG ENTRIES FOR 1999 AND EARLIER IN "ChangeLog.1999" *** - ****************************************************************** |