diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'changes')
| -rw-r--r-- | changes | 125 |
1 files changed, 124 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Recent user-visible changes to Tcl: -RCS: @(#) $Id: changes,v 1.50 1999/08/13 18:30:24 redman Exp $ +RCS: @(#) $Id: changes,v 1.51 1999/12/22 01:27:57 hobbs Exp $ 1. No more [command1] [command2] construct for grouping multiple commands on a single command line. @@ -4640,3 +4640,126 @@ error code. [Bug: 2535] (stanton) --------------- Released 8.2.0, August 17, 1999 ---------------------- +9/21/99 (config fixes) fixed several AIX configuration issues. gcc and +threading may still cause problems on AIX. (hobbs) + +9/21/99 (bug fix) fixed expr double-eval problem. [Bug: 732] (hobbs) + +9/21/99 (bug fix) fixed static buffer overflow problem. [Bug: 2483] (hobbs) + +9/21/99 (bug fix) fixed end-int linsert interpretation. [Bug: 2693] (hobbs) + +9/21/99 (bug fix) fixed bug when setting array in non-existent +namespace. [Bug: 2613] (hobbs) + +--- Released 8.2.1, October 04, 1999 --- See ChangeLog for details --- + +10/30/99 (feature enhancement) new regexp engine from Henry Spencer +was patched in - should greatly reduce stack space usage. (spencer) + +10/30/99 (bug fix) fixed Purify reported memory leaks in findexecutable +test command, TclpCreateProcess on Unix, in handling of C environ array, +and in testthread code. No more known (reported) mem leaks for Tcl +built using gcc on Solaris 2.5.1. Also none reported for Tcl on NT +(using Purify 6.0). (hobbs) + +10/30/99 (bug fix) fixed improper bytecode handling of +'eval {set array($unknownvar) 5}' (also for incr) (hobbs) + +10/30/99 (bug fix) fixed event/io threading problems by making +triggerPipe non-blocking (nick kisserbeth) + +10/30/99 (bug fix) fixed Tcl_AppendStringsToObjVA and Tcl_AppendResultVA +to only iterates once over the va_list (avoiding non-portable memcpy). +(joe english, hobbs) + +10/30/99 (bug fix) removed savedChar trick in tclCompile.c that appeared +to be causing a segv when the literal table was released. +[Bug: 2459, 2515] (David Whitehouse) + +10/30/99 (bug fix) fixed [string index] to return ByteArrayObj +when indexing into one (test case string-5.16) [Bug: 2871] (hobbs) + +10/30/99 (bug fix) fixes for mac UTF filename handling (ingham) + +--- Released 8.2.2, November 04, 1999 --- See ChangeLog for details --- + +11/19/99 (feature enhancement) bug fixes for http package as well as +patch required by TLS (SSL) extension that adds http::(un)register +and -type to http::geturl. Up'd http pkg version to 2.2. + +11/19/99 (bug fix) removed extra decr of numLevels in Tcl_EvalObjEx +that could cause seg fault (mjansen@wendt.de) + +11/19/99 (bug fixes) numerous minor big fixes, including correcting the +installation of the koi8-r encoding and tcltest1.0 on Windows. + +11/30/99 (bug fix) fixes scan where %[..] didn't match anything + +11/30/99 (bug fix) fixed setting of isNonBlocking flag in PipeBlockModeProc +so you can now close a non-blocking channel without waiting. + +11/30/99 (bug work-around) prevented the unloading of DLLs for Unix in +TclFinalizeLoad. This stops the seg fault on exit that some users would +see (ie with oratcl) when using DLLs that do nasty things like register +atexit handlers. + +12/07/99 (bug fix) fixes for 'expr + {[incr]}' and 'expr + {[error]}' +cases (different causes). + +--- Released 8.2.3, December 16, 1999 --- See ChangeLog for details --- + +1999-09-14 (feature enhancement) added -start switch to regexp and regsub. + +1999-09-15 (feature enhancement) add 'array unset' command. + +1999-09-15 (feature enhancement) rewrote runtime libraries to use new +string functions + +1999-08-18 (feature enhancement) added 'file channels' command, along with +Tcl_GetChannelNames(Ex) public C APIs. + +1999-10-19 (feature enhancement) enhanced tcltest package + +1999-09-16 (feature enhancement) added -milliseconds switch to 'clock clicks' + +1999-10-28 (feature enhancement) added support for inline 'scan' + +1999-10-28 (feature enhancement) added support for touch functionality by +extendeding 'file atime' and 'file mtime' to take an optional time argument + +1999-11-24 (feature enhancement) added 'fconfigure $sock -lasterror' +command to Windows to query the last error received on a serial socket. + +1999-11-30 (bug fix) fixed handling of %Z on NT for timezones that don't +have DST + +1999-12-03 (feature enhancement) improved error message in bad octal cases +and improper use of comments. + +1999-12-07 (bug fix) fixed Tcl_ScanCountedElement to not step +beyond the end of the counted string + +1999-12-09 (feature enhancement) removed all references to 16 bit +compatibility code for Windows + +1999-12-10 (bug fix) removed check for vfork - Tcl now uses only fork in exec. + +1999-12-10 (optimization) changed Tcl_ConcatObj to return a list +object when it receives all pure list objects as input (used by 'concat'), +added optimizations in Tcl_EvalObjEx for pure list case, and optimized +INST_TRY_CVT_TO_NUMERIC in TclExecuteByteCode for boolean objects. + +1999-12-12 (feature enhancement) enhanced glob command with -type, -path, +-directory and -join switches. + +1999-12-21 (bug fix) changed CreateThread to _beginthreadex and +ExitThread to _endthreadex to prevent 4K mem leak + +1999-12-21 (bug fix) fixed applescript for I18N + +1999-12-21 (feature enhancement) added -unique option to lsort + +1999-12-21 (bug fix) changed thread ids to longs (for 64bit systems) + +--- Released 8.3b1, December 21, 1999 --- See ChangeLog for details --- |