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<title>Debugger Release Notes</title>
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<p>This document describes the changes made to the Debugger
application.</p>
<section><title>Debugger 3.2.10</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
The +pc flag to erl can be used to set the range of
characters considered printable. This affects how the
shell and io:format("~tp",...) functionality does
heuristic string detection. More can be read in STDLIB
users guide.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10884</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Debugger 3.2.9</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Fix Debugger settings dialog due to changed behavior in
wxFileDialog (Thanks to Håkan Mattsson)</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10621</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> Support for Unicode has been implemented. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10302</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Where necessary a comment stating encoding has been
added to Erlang files. The comment is meant to be removed
in Erlang/OTP R17B when UTF-8 becomes the default
encoding. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10630</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Integer lists and utf-8 binaries in variables are now
displayed as strings.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10679</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Debugger 3.2.8</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Fixed disappearing breakpoints bug, reported by Ricardo
Catalinas Jiménez.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9950</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Debugger 3.2.7</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Fix "OK" spelling in debugger messages and variables</p>
<p>
Simple code refactor in the debugger: renames all the
occurrences of "Ok" to "OK" in the code, variable names
and strings. This improves the consistency of the code
and follows the GTK UI where "OK" is always used.(Thanks
to Ricardo Catalinas Jiménez)</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9699</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>Variables are now now allowed in '<c>fun M:F/A</c>' as
suggested by Richard O'Keefe in EEP-23.</p>
<p>The representation of '<c>fun M:F/A</c>' in the
abstract format has been changed in an incompatible way.
Tools that directly read or manipulate the abstract
format (such as parse transforms) may need to be updated.
The compiler can handle both the new and the old format
(i.e. extracting the abstract format from a pre-R15 BEAM
file and compiling it using compile:forms/1,2 will work).
The <c>syntax_tools</c> application can also handle both
formats.</p>
<p>
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9643</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Debugger 3.2.6</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Fix issues reported by dialyzer.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9107</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Debugger 3.2.5</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>Miscellaneous updates</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8976</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Debugger 3.2.4</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Type specs have been added/cleaned up. (Thanks to Kostis
Sagonas.)</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8757</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Debugger 3.2.3</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Warnings due to new autoimported BIFs removed</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8674 Aux Id: OTP-8579 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
The predefined builtin type tid() has been removed.
Instead, ets:tid() should be used.</p>
<p>
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8687</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Debugger 3.2.2</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Bugs have been fixed in the evaluation of comprehensions
and short-circuit expressions in guards.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8310</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Miscellaneous corrections of the WX version of the
debugger.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8346</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Debugger 3.2.1</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
The documentation is now built with open source tools
(xsltproc and fop) that exists on most platforms. One
visible change is that the frames are removed.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8201</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Debugger 3.2</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Added a new gui, start with debugger:start(gs) for old
gui.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7366</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
The undocumented, unsupported, and deprecated guard BIF
<c>is_constant/1</c> has been removed.</p>
<p>
*** INCOMPATIBILITY with R12B ***</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7673</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Debugger 3.1.1.4</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
There is now experimental support for loading of code
from archive files. See the documentation of <c>code</c>,
<c>init</c>, <c>erl_prim_loader </c> and <c>escript</c>
for more info.</p>
<p>
The error handling of <c>escripts</c> has been improved.</p>
<p>
An <c>escript</c> may now set explicit arguments to the
emulator, such as <c>-smp enabled</c>.</p>
<p>
An <c>escript</c> may now contain a precompiled beam
file.</p>
<p>
An <c>escript</c> may now contain an archive file
containing one or more applications (experimental).</p>
<p>
The internal module <c>code_aux</c> has been removed.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7548 Aux Id: otp-6622 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Debugger 3.1.1.3</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Minor changes.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7388</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Debugger 3.1.1.2</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>The documentation has been updated so as to reflect
the last updates of the Erlang shell as well as the minor
modifications of the control sequence <c>p</c> of the
<c>io_lib</c> module.</p> <p>Superfluous empty lines have
been removed from code examples and from Erlang shell
examples.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-6944 Aux Id: OTP-6554, OTP-6911 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Debugger 3.1.1.1</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Minor Makefile changes.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-6689</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Obsolete guard tests (such as list()) have been replaced
with the modern guard tests (such as is_list()).</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-6725</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Debugger 3.1.1</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Removed some dead code from <c>dbg_ieval</c>.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-6552</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Debugger 3.1</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
The interpreter could not handle the case where an
expression that should evaluate to a fun referred to
uninterpreted code.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-6061 Aux Id: seq10295</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Timeout for <c>gen_server</c> calls within Debugger is
now set to <c>infinity</c>.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-6103</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Notification windows are now centered over a parent
window.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-6011 Aux Id: OTP-5987</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
When interpreting a module, it is now checked that the
module does not belong to the Kernel, STDLIB, GS or
Debugger application, as interpreting a module used by
the debugger/interpreter itself will lead to a deadlock
or emulator crash.</p>
<p>
Also <c>int:interpretable(Mod)</c> has been extended to
return <c>{error,{app,App}}</c> if <c>Mod</c> belongs to
one of the above applications.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-6020</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
<c>andalso</c>/<c>orelse</c> is now supported.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-6021 Aux Id: OTP-5894</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Debugger 3.0.1</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
When evaluating a guard expression for a fun function
clause, the environment variable bindings were not taken
into account.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-5837</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>A number of smaller improvements to the GUI:</p>
<list>
<item>Multiple choices now possible in Function Break
Dialog Window.</item>
<item>Right-clicking the Module entry in a Break Dialog
Window will open a popup menu from which the appropriate
(interpreted) module can be selected.</item>
<item>Auto Attach options can now be changed using
the buttons in the left part of the Monitor Window, not
only by the corresponding menu buttons.</item>
<item>Buttons for enabling and disabling all breakpoints
have been added.</item>
<item>View Module Window keyboard shortcuts corrected.
</item>
</list>
Own Id: OTP-4284
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Debugger 3.0</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Debugger can now handle <c>try-catch</c>. This meant
large parts of the interpreter had to be rewritten. Also,
some small changes to the GUI have been made.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-5730</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Debugger 2.3.3</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>It is now possible to encrypt the debug information in
Beam files, to help keep the source code secret. See the
documentation for compile on how to provide the key for
encrypting, and the documentation for beam_lib on how to
provide the key for decryption so that tools such as the
Debugger, Xref, or Cover can be used.</p>
<p>The <c>beam_lib:chunks/2</c> functions now accepts an
additional chunk type '<c>compile_info</c>' to retrieve
the compilation information directly as a term. (Thanks
to Tobias Lindahl.)</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-5460 Aux Id: seq9787</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Debugger 2.3.2</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
The graphic applications now search for HTML
documentation in the correct place.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-5381</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Debugger 2.3.1</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Package support has been added to the debugger. Thanks to
Richard Carlsson in the HiPE project.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-5255</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Updated to handle the latest version of the compiler.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-5265</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
</chapter>
