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-rw-r--r--doc/Notifier.32
-rw-r--r--doc/coroutine.n56
-rw-r--r--doc/platform.n24
4 files changed, 80 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/doc/FileSystem.3 b/doc/FileSystem.3
index cf785ae..52eeb23 100644
--- a/doc/FileSystem.3
+++ b/doc/FileSystem.3
@@ -582,7 +582,7 @@ In addition, if \fIinterp\fR is non-NULL, \fBTcl_FSOpenFileChannel\fR
leaves an error message in \fIinterp\fR's result after any error.
.PP
The newly created channel is not registered in the supplied interpreter; to
-register it, use \fBTcl_RegisterChannel\fR, described below.
+register it, use \fBTcl_RegisterChannel\fR.
If one of the standard channels, \fBstdin\fR, \fBstdout\fR or \fBstderr\fR was
previously closed, the act of creating the new channel also assigns it as a
replacement for the standard channel.
@@ -1218,8 +1218,9 @@ In addition, if \fIinterp\fR is non-NULL, the
\fBTcl_FSOpenFileChannelProc\fR leaves an error message in \fIinterp\fR's
result after any error.
.PP
-The newly created channel is not registered in the supplied
-interpreter; to register it, use \fBTcl_RegisterChannel\fR. If one of
+The newly created channel must not registered in the supplied
+interpreter; that task is up to the caller of
+\fBTcl_FSOpenFileChannel\fR (if necessary). If one of
the standard channels, \fBstdin\fR, \fBstdout\fR or \fBstderr\fR was
previously closed, the act of creating the new channel also assigns it
as a replacement for the standard channel.
diff --git a/doc/Notifier.3 b/doc/Notifier.3
index 435f779..f65d580 100644
--- a/doc/Notifier.3
+++ b/doc/Notifier.3
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
.TH Notifier 3 8.1 Tcl "Tcl Library Procedures"
.BS
.SH NAME
-Tcl_CreateEventSource, Tcl_DeleteEventSource, Tcl_SetMaxBlockTime, Tcl_QueueEvent, Tcl_ThreadQueueEvent, Tcl_ThreadAlert, Tcl_GetCurrentThread, Tcl_DeleteEvents, Tcl_InitNotifier, Tcl_FinalizeNotifier, Tcl_WaitForEvent, Tcl_AlertNotifier, Tcl_SetTimer, Tcl_ServiceAll, Tcl_ServiceEvent, Tcl_GetServiceMode, Tcl_SetServiceMode \- the event queue and notifier interfaces
+Tcl_CreateEventSource, Tcl_DeleteEventSource, Tcl_SetMaxBlockTime, Tcl_QueueEvent, Tcl_ThreadQueueEvent, Tcl_ThreadAlert, Tcl_GetCurrentThread, Tcl_DeleteEvents, Tcl_InitNotifier, Tcl_FinalizeNotifier, Tcl_WaitForEvent, Tcl_AlertNotifier, Tcl_SetTimer, Tcl_ServiceAll, Tcl_ServiceEvent, Tcl_GetServiceMode, Tcl_SetServiceMode, Tcl_ServiceModeHook, Tcl_SetNotifier \- the event queue and notifier interfaces
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
\fB#include <tcl.h>\fR
diff --git a/doc/coroutine.n b/doc/coroutine.n
index f4b5d5b..035d58a 100644
--- a/doc/coroutine.n
+++ b/doc/coroutine.n
@@ -9,12 +9,15 @@
.BS
'\" Note: do not modify the .SH NAME line immediately below!
.SH NAME
-coroutine, yield \- Create and produce values from coroutines
+coroutine, yield, yieldto \- Create and produce values from coroutines
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
\fBcoroutine \fIname command\fR ?\fIarg...\fR?
\fByield\fR ?\fIvalue\fR?
-\fIname\fR ?\fIvalue\fR?
+.VS TIP396
+\fByieldto\fR \fIcommand\fR ?\fIarg...\fR?
+\fIname\fR ?\fIvalue...\fR?
+.VE TIP396
.fi
.BE
.SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -30,11 +33,37 @@ Within the context, values may be generated as results by using the
When that is called, the context will suspend execution and the
\fBcoroutine\fR command will return the argument to \fByield\fR. The execution
of the context can then be resumed by calling the context command, optionally
-passing in the value to use as the result of the \fByield\fR call that caused
+passing in the \fIsingle\fR value to use as the result of the \fByield\fR call
+that caused
the context to be suspended. If the coroutine context never yields and instead
returns conventionally, the result of the \fBcoroutine\fR command will be the
result of the evaluation of the context.
.PP
+.VS TIP396
+The coroutine may also suspend its execution by use of the \fByieldto\fR
+command, which instead of returning, cedes execution to some command called
+\fIcommand\fR (resolved in the context of the coroutine) and to which \fIany
+number\fR of arguments may be passed. Since every coroutine has a context
+command, \fByieldto\fR can be used to transfer control directly from one
+coroutine to another (this is only advisable if the two coroutines are
+expecting this to happen) but \fIany\fR command may be the target. If a
+coroutine is suspended by this mechanism, the coroutine processing can be
+resumed by calling the context command optionally passing in an arbitrary
+number of arguments. The return value of the \fByieldto\fR call will be the
+list of arguments passed to the context command; it is up to the caller to
+decide what to do with those values.
+.PP
+The recommended way of writing a version of \fByield\fR that allows resumption
+with multiple arguments is by using \fByieldto\fR and the \fBreturn\fR
+command, like this:
+.PP
+.CS
+proc yieldm {value} {
+ \fByieldto\fR return -level 0 $value
+}
+.CE
+.VE TIP396
+.PP
The coroutine can also be deleted by destroying the command \fIname\fR, and
the name of the current coroutine can be retrieved by using
\fBinfo coroutine\fR.
@@ -108,6 +137,27 @@ for {set i 1} {$i <= 20} {incr i} {
puts "prime#$i = [\fIeratosthenes\fR]"
}
.CE
+.PP
+.VS TIP396
+This example shows how a value can be passed around a group of three
+coroutines that yield to each other:
+.PP
+.CS
+proc juggler {name target {value ""}} {
+ if {$value eq ""} {
+ set value [\fByield\fR [info coroutine]]
+ }
+ while {$value ne ""} {
+ puts "$name : $value"
+ set value [string range $value 0 end-1]
+ lassign [\fByieldto\fR $target $value] value
+ }
+}
+\fBcoroutine\fR j1 juggler Larry [
+ \fBcoroutine\fR j2 juggler Curly [
+ \fBcoroutine\fR j3 juggler Moe j1]] "Nyuck!Nyuck!Nyuck!"
+.CE
+.VE TIP396
.SS "DETAILED SEMANTICS"
.PP
This example demonstrates that coroutines start from the global namespace, and
diff --git a/doc/platform.n b/doc/platform.n
index 053448d..1553698 100644
--- a/doc/platform.n
+++ b/doc/platform.n
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
platform \- System identification support code and utilities
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
-\fBpackage require platform ?1.0.4?\fR
+\fBpackage require platform ?1.0.10?\fR
.sp
\fBplatform::generic\fR
\fBplatform::identify\fR
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ architecture a Tcl program is running on.
.SH COMMANDS
.TP
\fBplatform::identify\fR
+.
This command returns an identifier describing the platform the Tcl
core is running on. The returned identifier has the general format
\fIOS\fR-\fICPU\fR. The \fIOS\fR part of the identifier may contain
@@ -53,14 +54,33 @@ may contain dashes as well. The \fICPU\fR part will not contain
dashes, making the preceding dash the last dash in the result.
.TP
\fBplatform::generic\fR
+.
This command returns a simplified identifier describing the platform
the Tcl core is running on. In contrast to \fBplatform::identify\fR it
leaves out details like kernel version, libc version, etc. The
returned identifier has the general format \fIOS\fR-\fICPU\fR.
.TP
-\fBplatform::patterns \fIidentifier\fR
+\fBplatform::patterns \fIidentifier\fR
+.
This command takes an identifier as returned by
\fBplatform::identify\fR and returns a list of identifiers describing
compatible architectures.
+.SH EXAMPLE
+.PP
+This can be used to allow an application to be shipped with multiple builds of
+a shared library, so that the same package works on many versions of an
+operating system. For example:
+.PP
+.CS
+\fBpackage require platform\fR
+# Assume that app script is .../theapp/bin/theapp.tcl
+set binDir [file dirname [file normalize [info script]]]
+set libDir [file join $binDir .. lib]
+set platLibDir [file join $libDir [\fBplatform::identify\fR]]
+load [file join $platLibDir support[info sharedlibextension]]
+.CE
.SH KEYWORDS
operating system, cpu architecture, platform, architecture
+'\" Local Variables:
+'\" mode: nroff
+'\" End: