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<p>This document describes the changes made to the Dialyzer
application.</p>
<section><title>Dialyzer 3.3.1</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> Optimize Dialyzer's handling of left-associative use
of <c>andalso</c> and <c>orelse</c> in guards. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-15268 Aux Id: ERL-680 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 3.3</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>Changed the default behaviour of <c>.erlang</c>
loading: <c>.erlang</c> is no longer loaded from the
current directory. <c>c:erlangrc(PathList)</c> can be
used to search and load an <c>.erlang</c> file from user
specified directories.</p> <p><c>escript</c>,
<c>erlc</c>, <c>dialyzer</c> and <c>typer</c> no longer
load an <c>.erlang</c> at all.</p>
<p>
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-14439</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> Dialyzer can no longer read BEAM files created with
OTP 19 or earlier. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-14493 Aux Id: PR-1434 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p> Speed up the computation of MD5 sums. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-14937 Aux Id: PR-1719 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p> Fix a situation where Dialyzer unnecessarily
discarded contract information, resulting in missed
warnings. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-14970 Aux Id: PR-1722 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p> The (not recommended) option <c>-Woverspecs</c> is
somewhat refined, and generates warnings in a few more
cases. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-14982 Aux Id: OTP-14970, PR-1722 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p> Do not emit warnings for fun expressions residing in
code that cannot be run. This is consistent with how
Dialyzer treats other code that cannot be run. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-15079 Aux Id: ERL-593 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 3.2.4</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> Fix bugs concerning <c>erlang:abs/1</c> and
<c>erlang:bsl/2</c>. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-14858 Aux Id: ERL-551 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p> Fix a bug that caused Dialyzer to crash instead of
emitting a warning. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-14911</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> Fix a bug concerning parameterized opaque types. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-14925 Aux Id: ERL-565 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 3.2.3</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> The error message returned from Dialyzer when, for
example, a modified record field type is not a subtype of
the declared type, no longer includes a call stack. The
bug was introduced in Erlang/OTP 19.3. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-14742</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> A bug relating to maps and never returning functions
has been fixed. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-14743</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 3.2.2</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> Fix a bug regarding map types that caused Dialyzer to
go into an infinite loop. A consequence of the fix is
that compound map keys such as maps and tuples sometimes
are handled with less precision than before. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-14572 Aux Id: seq13319 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
General Unicode improvements.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-14462</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> The check for unknown remote types is improved. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-14606 Aux Id: OTP-14218 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 3.2.1</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> Fix a bug where merging PLT:s could lose info. The
bug was introduced in Erlang/OTP 20.0. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-14558 Aux Id: ERIERL-53 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 3.2</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> The check of bad type variables in type declarations
was mistakingly removed in Erlang/OTP 18, and is now
re-introduced. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-14423 Aux Id: OTP-14323 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Analyzing modules with binary construction with huge
strings is now much faster. The compiler also compiles
such modules slightly faster.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-14125 Aux Id: ERL-308 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p> The peak memory consumption is reduced. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-14127</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> Warnings about unknown types are now also generated
for types not used by any function specification. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-14218 Aux Id: OTP-14127 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p>TypEr has been removed as separate application and is
now a part of the Dialyzer application. Documentation for
TypEr has been added in the Dialyzer application.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-14336</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>The format of debug information that is stored in BEAM
files (when <c>debug_info</c> is used) has been changed.
The purpose of the change is to better support other
BEAM-based languages such as Elixir or LFE.</p>
<p>All tools included in OTP (dialyzer, debugger, cover,
and so on) will handle both the new format and the
previous format. Tools that retrieve the debug
information using <c>beam_lib:chunk(Beam,
[abstract_code])</c> will continue to work with both the
new and old format. Tools that call
<c>beam_lib:chunk(Beam, ["Abst"])</c> will not work with
the new format.</p>
<p>For more information, see the description of
<c>debug_info</c> in the documentation for
<c>beam_lib</c> and the description of the
<c>{debug_info,{Backend,Data}}</c> option in the
documentation for <c>compile</c>.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-14369 Aux Id: PR-1367 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 3.1.1</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> Report unknown types properly. A bug was introduced
in Erlang/OTP 19.3, where warnings about unknown types
were simply discarded. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-14368</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 3.1</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> Fix a bug concerning parameterized opaque types. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-14130</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> Improve a few warnings. One of them could cause a
crash. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-14177</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>The dialyzer and observer applications will now use a
portable way to find the home directory. That means that
there is no longer any need to manually set the HOME
environment variable on Windows.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-14249 Aux Id: ERL-161 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> The peak memory consumption is reduced. </p><p> The
evaluation of huge SCCs in <c>dialyzer_typesig</c> is
optimized. </p><p> Analyzing modules with binary
construction with huge strings is now much faster. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-14126 Aux Id: ERL-308 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 3.0.3</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> Fix bugs regarding opaque types. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-13693</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> Fix error handling of bad <c>-dialyzer()</c>
attributes. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-13979 Aux Id: ERL-283 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> A few warning messages have been improved. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-11403</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 3.0.2</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> The translation of forms to types is improved for
opaque types in a few cases. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-13682</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> Add warning suppression to compiler-generated case
statements. Warnings about clauses that cannot match and
are also compiler generated are suppressed unless none of
the clauses return. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-13723 Aux Id: ERL-159, PR-1121 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 3.0.1</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>Fix a map related bug.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-13709 Aux Id: ERL-177, PR-1115 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 3.0</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> Fix a bug in the translation of forms to types. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-13520</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Correct misspelling in Dialyzer's acronym definition.
</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-13544 Aux Id: PR-1007 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Dialyzer no longer crashes when there is an invalid
function call such as <c>42(7)</c> in a module being
analyzed. The compiler will now warn for invalid function
calls such as <c>X = 42, x(7)</c>.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-13552 Aux Id: ERL-138 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p> Fix a bug that caused Dialyzer to go into an infinite
loop. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-13653 Aux Id: ERL-157 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Fix a bug in Dialyzer related to call-site
analysis.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-13655 Aux Id: PR-1092 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> The evaluation of SCCs in <c>dialyzer_typesig</c> is
optimized. </p> <p> Maps are used instead of Dicts to
further optimize the evaluation. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10349</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> Since Erlang/OTP R14A, when support for parameterized
modules was added, <c>module()</c> has included
<c>tuple()</c>, but that part is removed; the type
<c>module()</c> is now the same as <c>atom()</c>, as
documented in the Reference Manual. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-13244</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> The type specification syntax for Maps is improved:
</p> <list> <item> <p> The association type <c>KeyType :=
ValueType</c> denotes an association that must be
present. </p> </item> <item> <p> The shorthand <c>...</c>
stands for the association type <c>any() => any()</c>.
</p> </item> </list> <p> An incompatible change is that
<c>#{}</c> stands for the empty map. The type
<c>map()</c> (a map of any size) can be written as
<c>#{...}</c>. </p>
<p>
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-13542 Aux Id: PR-1014 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p>The translation of forms to types is improved. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-13547</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 2.9</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> Dialyzer no longer asserts that files and directories
to be removed from a PLT exist. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-13103 Aux Id: ERL-40 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p> Fix a bug concerning parameterized opaque types. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-13237</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Fix pretty printing of Core Maps</p>
<p>
Literal maps could cause Dialyzer to crash when pretty
printing the results.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-13238</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
If a behavior module contains an non-exported function
with the same name as one of the behavior's callbacks,
the callback info was inadvertently deleted from the PLT
as the <c>dialyzer_plt:delete_list/2</c> function was
cleaning up the callback table.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-13287</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> Correct the contract for <c>erlang:byte_size/1</c>
</p> <p> Correct the handling of comparison operators for
map and bit string operands. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-13312</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Dialyzer recognizes calls to <c>M:F/A</c> where <c>M</c>,
<c>F</c>, and <c>A</c> are all literals.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-13217</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 2.8.2</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Reintroduce the <c>erlang:make_fun/3</c> BIF in
erl_bif_types.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-13068</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 2.8.1</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>Improve the translation of forms to types. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-12865</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> Fix a bug concerning parameterized opaque types. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-12866</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> Fix a bug concerning parameterized opaque types. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-12940</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> Fix bugs concerning <c>erlang:abs/1</c>. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-12948</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> Fix a bug concerning <c>lists:keydelete/3</c> with
union and opaque types. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-12949</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Use new function <c>hipe:erts_checksum</c> to get correct
runtime checksum for cached beam files.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-12964 Aux Id: OTP-12963, OTP-12962 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 2.8</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> The translation of Erlang forms to the type
representation used by Dialyzer has been improved in
several ways. The most important change is that deeply
nested records can be handled. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-12350</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> Fix a bug that could cause bogus warnings for opaque
types. </p> <p>In Erlang/OTP 18 two parameterized types
declared in the same module always result in a
contradiction (<c>none()</c>) when combined outside of
the module where they are declared, unless they have the
same number of parameters. </p> <p> The behaviour is
different from Erlang/OTP 17 where, for instance,
<c>dict:dict()</c> and <c>dict:dict(_, _)</c>, which are
both opaque, can be combined outside of the <c>dict</c>
module. </p> <p> In Erlang/OTP 18, <c>dict:dict()</c> and
<c>dict:dict(_, _)</c> can still be combined outside of
the <c>dict</c> module. That has been made possible by
not declaring <c>dict:dict()</c> as opaque. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-12493</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> Update the PLT properly when a module is changed.
(Thanks to James Fish for the bug report, and to Stavros
Aronis for fixing the bug.) </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-12637</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
An argument of '*'/2 is not constraind if the other
operand can be zero.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-12725</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> Mention the option <c>check_plt</c> among the
<c>dialyzer:gui()</c> options. (Thanks to James Fish.)
</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-12750</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Fix a bug which could cause an infinite loop in
Dialyzer.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-12826</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> The <c>-dialyzer()</c> attribute can be used for
suppressing warnings in a module by specifying functions
or warning options. It can also be used for requesting
warnings in a module. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10280</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> The pre-defined types <c>array()</c>, <c>dict()</c>,
<c>digraph()</c>, <c>gb_set()</c>, <c>gb_tree()</c>,
<c>queue()</c>, <c>set()</c>, and <c>tid()</c> have been
removed. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-11445 Aux Id: OTP-10342, OTP-9352 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p> A few type names that have been used for representing
certain predefined types can now be used for user-defined
types. This affects the types <c>product/_</c>,
<c>union/_</c>, and <c>range/2</c> as well as
<c>tuple/N</c> (N > 0), <c>map/N</c> (N > 0),
<c>atom/1</c>, <c>integer/1</c>, <c>binary/2</c>,
<c>record/_,</c> and <c>'fun'/_</c>. A consequence is
that, for example, it is no longer possible to refer to a
record type with <c>record(r)</c>; instead the usual
record notation, <c>#r{}</c>, is to be used. </p>
<p>
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-11851</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> When implementing user-defined behaviours it is now
possible to specify optional callback functions. See OTP
Design Principles User's Guide, Sys and Proc_Lib,
User-Defined Behaviours, for details. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-11861</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Add two options to the Dialyzer:
<c>no_missing_calls</c> suppresses warnings about calls
to missing or unexported functions; <c>unknown</c> lets
warnings about unknown functions or types affect the exit
status. See also dialyzer(3). </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-12682</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>By default, dialyzer will now cache native versions of
dialyzer modules to avoid having to re-compile them each
time dialyzer is started. Caching can be disabled using
the option <c>--no_native_cache</c>.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-12779</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 2.7.4</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> A bug concerning <c>map()</c> types has been fixed.
</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-12472</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 2.7.3</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> When compiling Erlang source, Dialyzer now ignores
the environment variable ERL_COMPILER_OPTIONS as well as
skips the Erlang Compiler option
<c>warnings_as_errors</c>. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-12225</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> Dialyzer did not check the type of record elements
when updating them. The bug, introduced in Erlang/OTP
17.1, has been corrected. (Thanks to Nicolas Dudebout for
pointing it out.) </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-12319</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Coalesce map keys in dialyzer mode</p>
<p>
This fixes a regression introduced in commit
805f9c89fc01220bc1bb0f27e1b68fd4eca688ba The problem
occurred with compounded map keys compiled with dialyzer
option turned on, '+dialyzer'.</p>
<p>
Reported by: Ivan Uemlianin</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-12347</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 2.7.2</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> A bug concerning <c>is_record/2,3</c> has been fixed,
as well as some cases where Dialyzer could crash due to
reaching system limits. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-12018</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> When given the <c>-Wunderspecs</c> flag Dialyzer
sometimes output bogus warnings for parametrized types.
This bug has been fixed. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-12111</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Dialyzer now fetch the compile options from beam
files, and use them when creating core from the abstract
code. Previously the options were ignored. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-12150</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 2.7.1</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> Fix a bug concerning opaque types. Thanks to Shayan
Pooya for pointing out the bug.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-11869</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> A bug where Dialyzer failed to handle typed records
with fields containing remote types has been fixed.
Thanks to Erik Søe Sørensen for reporting the bug. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-11918</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> Make sure that only literal records are checked
against the types of record definitions. Until now the
elements of tuples have been checked against record field
types if the tag och size of the tuple matches the record
definition, often with surprising results. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-11935 Aux Id: seq12590 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
A Dialyzer crash involving analysis of Map types has now
been fixed.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-11947</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 2.7</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> Dialyzer will no longer emit warnings when inspecting
or modifying opaque types within the scope of a module.
</p> <p> Hitherto the shape of terms (tuple, list, etc.)
has been used to determine the opaque terms, but now the
contracts are used for decorating types with opacity.
</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10397</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
With <c>--Wunmatched_returns</c>, dialyzer will no longer
warn when the value of a list comprehension is ignored,
provided that the each value in the list would be an
atomic value (such as integer or atoms, as opposed to
tuples and lists). Example: ignoring '<c>[io:format(...)
|| ...]</c>' will not cause a warning, while ignoring
'<c>[file:close(Fd) || ...]</c>' will.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-11626</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
The man page for dialyzer now contains correct
information regarding -Wno_behaviours. (Thanks to Steve
Vinosky.)</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-11706</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> Fix handling of 'on_load' attribute. (Thanks to
Kostis Sagonas.) </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-11743</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Application upgrade (appup) files are corrected for the
following applications: </p>
<p>
<c>asn1, common_test, compiler, crypto, debugger,
dialyzer, edoc, eldap, erl_docgen, et, eunit, gs, hipe,
inets, observer, odbc, os_mon, otp_mibs, parsetools,
percept, public_key, reltool, runtime_tools, ssh,
syntax_tools, test_server, tools, typer, webtool, wx,
xmerl</c></p>
<p>
A new test utility for testing appup files is added to
test_server. This is now used by most applications in
OTP.</p>
<p>
(Thanks to Tobias Schlager)</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-11744</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> The generalization of guard constraints has been
modified. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-11798 Aux Id: seq12547 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p> Dialyzer now plays nicely with funs that come as
"external" arguments. (Thanks to Stavros Aronis for
fixing the bug.) </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-11826</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> The pre-defined types <c>array/0</c>, <c>dict/0</c>,
<c>digraph/0</c>, <c>gb_set/0</c>, <c>gb_tree/0</c>,
<c>queue/0</c>, <c>set/0</c>, and <c>tid/0</c> have been
deprecated. They will be removed in Erlang/OTP 18.0. </p>
<p> Instead the types <c>array:array/0</c>,
<c>dict:dict/0</c>, <c>digraph:graph/0</c>,
<c>gb_set:set/0</c>, <c>gb_tree:tree/0</c>,
<c>queue:queue/0</c>, <c>sets:set/0</c>, and
<c>ets:tid/0</c> can be used. (Note: it has always been
necessary to use <c>ets:tid/0</c>.) </p> <p> It is
allowed in Erlang/OTP 17.0 to locally re-define the types
<c>array/0</c>, <c>dict/0</c>, and so on. </p> <p> New
types <c>array:array/1</c>, <c>dict:dict/2</c>,
<c>gb_sets:set/1</c>, <c>gb_trees:tree/2</c>,
<c>queue:queue/1</c>, and <c>sets:set/1</c> have been
added. </p> <p> A compiler option,
<c>nowarn_deprecated_type</c>, has been introduced. By
including the attribute </p> <c>
-compile(nowarn_deprecated_type).</c> <p> in an Erlang
source file, warnings about deprecated types can be
avoided in Erlang/OTP 17.0. </p> <p> The option can also
be given as a compiler flag: </p> <c> erlc
+nowarn_deprecated_type file.erl</c>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10342</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Removed gs based applications and gs based backends. The
<c>observer</c> application replaces the removed
applications.</p>
<p>
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10915</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Forbid unsized fields in patterns of binary generators
and simplified v3_core's translation of bit string
generators. (Thanks to Anthony Ramine.)</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-11186</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
EEP43: New data type - Maps</p>
<p>
With Maps you may for instance:</p>
<taglist>
<tag/> <item><c>M0 = #{ a => 1, b => 2}, % create
associations</c></item>
<tag/><item><c>M1 = M0#{ a := 10 }, % update values</c></item>
<tag/><item><c>M2 = M1#{ "hi" =>
"hello"}, % add new associations</c></item>
<tag/><item><c>#{ "hi" := V1, a := V2, b := V3} = M2.
% match keys with values</c></item>
</taglist>
<p>
For information on how to use Maps please see Map Expressions in the
<seealso marker="doc/reference_manual:expressions#map_expressions">
Reference Manual</seealso>.</p>
<p>
The current implementation is without the following
features:</p>
<taglist>
<tag/><item>No variable keys</item>
<tag/><item>No single value access</item>
<tag/><item>No map comprehensions</item>
</taglist>
<p>
Note that Maps is <em>experimental</em> during OTP 17.0.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-11616</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> Parameterized opaque types have been introduced. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-11625</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Some function specs are corrected or moved and some edoc
comments are corrected in order to allow use of edoc.
(Thanks to Pierre Fenoll)</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-11702</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 2.6.1</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> A bug that made it impossible to do any analyses from
the GUI has been fixed. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-11057 Aux Id: seq12313 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Include module, function and arity in Dialyzer's
"overlapping domain" warnings. Thanks to Magnus Henoch.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10918</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Improve Dialyzer output for scan errors. Thanks to Magnus
Henoch.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10996</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Integrate elliptic curve contribution from Andreas
Schultz </p>
<p>
In order to be able to support elliptic curve cipher
suites in SSL/TLS, additions to handle elliptic curve
infrastructure has been added to public_key and crypto.</p>
<p>
This also has resulted in a rewrite of the crypto API to
gain consistency and remove unnecessary overhead. All OTP
applications using crypto has been updated to use the new
API.</p>
<p>
Impact: Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) offers
equivalent security with smaller key sizes than other
public key algorithms. Smaller key sizes result in
savings for power, memory, bandwidth, and computational
cost that make ECC especially attractive for constrained
environments.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-11009</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Bitstring type inference and duplicate module error
message fixes. Thanks to Stavros Aronis.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-11027</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Erlang source files with non-ASCII characters are now
encoded in UTF-8 (instead of latin1).</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-11041 Aux Id: OTP-10907 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 2.6</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> Miscellaneous updates due to Unicode support. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10820</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
User defined types with same name and different arity and
documentation inconsistencies. Thanks Stavros Aronis.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10861</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Native code compilation changes. Thanks to Kostis
Sagonas.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10865</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 2.5.4</title>
<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> Dialyzer no longer outputs warnings for unused
anonymous functions ("funs"). Warnings are still output
for unused functions. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10433</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> Some examples overflowing the width of PDF pages have
been corrected. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10665</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Fix precision of record creation violation warnings.
Thanks to Stavros Aronis</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10681</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Report spec discrepancy on mismatching lists. Thanks to
Stavros Aronis.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10740</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Properly support functions with arbitrary arity in type
specs. Thanks to Stavros Aronis.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10772</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 2.5.3</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>Fix a crash in race condition detection</p> <p>Remove
old untested experimental extension</p> <p>Respect
{plt_check,false} option when using dialyzer:run/1</p>
<p>Fix handling of tuple set remote types appearing in
tuple sets</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10464</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 2.5.2</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> Correct handling of type names in contracts. Fix
crash related to contract checking. Do not rewrite
unchanged PLT. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10083</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Stop a forgotten server process</p>
<p>
Dialyzer forgot to stop a server process before finishing
its analysis. This is a concurrency error detected by
Concuerror. Changes to fix warnings identified by running
dialyzer -Wunmatched_returns. Thanks to Kostis Sagonas.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10231</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> Bug fixes and improvements of
<c>dialyzer_typesig</c>. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10082</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Add parallel dialyzer support</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10103</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> An alternative implementation of the solver in
<c>dialyzer_typesig</c> has been introduced. It is faster
than the original implementation. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10110</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> Bugs in <c>erl_types:t_inf()</c> (HiPE) and in
<c>dialyzer_dataflow</c> (Dialyzer) have been fixed. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10191</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 2.5.1</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> Handle <c>nowarn_unused_function</c> the same way as
the compiler does. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9833</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 2.5</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Fix false warning about closure application</p>
<p>
Whenever a variable that could hold one of two or more
possible closures was used in a particular application,
the application was assumed to fail if ONE of the
closures would fail in this application. This has been
corrected to infer failing application if ALL possible
closures would fail in the particular application.</p>
<p>
Change category of 'might also return' warnings</p>
<p>
Dialyzer emits warnings like the following "The
specification for _ states that the function might also
return _ but the inferred return is _", which are
actually underspecifications and not wrong type
specifications. This patch makes sure that they are filed
under the appropriate category.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9707</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Wrap up behaviours patch for Dialyzer</p> <list>
<item><p>Enable warnings by default, add two options for
suppressing them</p></item> <item><p>Fix warning
formatting and update testsuites.</p></item>
<item><p>Detection of callback-spec
discrepancies</p></item> <item><p>Allow none() as return
value in callbacks</p></item> <item><p>Behaviour callback
discrepancy detection for Dialyzer</p></item>
<item><p>Add lookup function for callbacks</p></item>
<item><p>Store callbacks in codeserver and PLT</p></item>
<item><p>Collect callback definitions during
compilation</p></item> <item><p>Update inets
results</p></item> </list>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9731</p>
</item>
<item>
<list> <item><p>No warnings for underspecs with remote
types</p></item> <item><p> Fix crash in Typer</p></item>
<item><p>Fix Dialyzer's warning for its own
code</p></item> <item><p>Fix Dialyzer's warnings in
HiPE</p></item> <item><p>Add file/line info in a
particular Dialyzer crash</p></item> <item><p>Update
inets test results</p></item> </list>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9758</p>
</item>
<item>
<list> <item><p>Correct callback spec in application
module</p></item> <item><p>Refine warning about callback
specs with extra ranges</p></item> <item><p>Cleanup
autoimport compiler directives</p></item> <item><p>Fix
Dialyzer's warnings in typer</p></item> <item><p>Fix
Dialyzer's warning for its own code</p></item>
<item><p>Fix bug in Dialyzer's behaviours
analysis</p></item> <item><p>Fix crash in
Dialyzer</p></item> <item><p>Variable substitution was
not generalizing any unknown variables.</p></item>
</list>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9776</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> Optimize the joining of maps in
<c>dialyzer_dataflow</c>. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9761</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 2.4.4</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Update results of race_SUITE/extract_translations Update
results of small_SUITE/flatten Add codec_can and
list_to_bitstring tests Fix bug when reporting unused
functions Update Dialyzer r9c_suite results Fix dialyzer
warning on default clause for binary comprehension
(Thanks to Ivan Dubrov)</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9483</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Fix server loop detection</p>
<p>
Dialyzer does not normally emit warnings for functions
that implement non-terminating server loops. This
detection failed when some of the elements in an SCC
terminated normally (being for example list
comprehensions or other generic anonymous functions that
were included in the SCC). This patch fixes that.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9489</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Add a proplist() type</p>
<p>
Recently I was adding specs to an API and found that
there is no canonical proplist() type defined. (Thanks to
Ryan Zezeski)</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9499</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Suppress some warnings about generation of non-returning
funs</p>
<p>
No warnings are emitted for funs that are non-returning
when the function that generates them has a contract that
specifies that it will return such a non-returning fun.</p>
<p>
Enhance Dialyzer's inference on comparisons</p>
<p>
This patch makes Dialyzer aware of Erlang's total
ordering of terms, enabling discrepancy detection in
cases where e.g. integer() < tuple() is treated as a
comparison that might also return false (when it is
certain to always return true).</p>
<p>
Minor fix in dead code</p>
<p>
Fix infinite loop in dataflow</p>
<p>
Update r9c/{inets,mnesia} results in dialyzer's test
suite</p>
<p>
Add origin information to #fun_var closures</p>
<p>
(Thanks to Tuncer Ayaz and Maria Christakis)</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9529</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Quote atoms if necessary in types</p>
<p>
Atoms in some occurrences were not correctly quoted when
formatted to strings, for instance by the typer program
(Thanks to Tomas Abrahamsson)</p>
<p>
Update Dialyzer's reference results</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9560</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Fix typer's crash for nonexisting files Remove unused
macro Fix bug in dataflow Decrease tuple arity limit This
fixes a memory related crash.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9597</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Types for several BIFs have been extended/corrected. Also
the types for types for <c>lists:keyfind/3</c>,
<c>lists:keysearch/3</c>, and <c>lists:keyemember/3</c>
have been corrected. The incorrect/incomplete types could
cause false dialyzer warnings.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9496</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 2.4.3</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Fix the name of an error function(Thanks to Maria
christakis)</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9175</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Fix crash related with the contract blame assignment
patch</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9219</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
dialyzer/doc: synchronize manual.txt and dialyzer.xml
(Thanks to Tuncer Ayaz)</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9226</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Simplify Dialyzer's test suite structure</p>
<p>
*_SUITE.erl files are now automatically generated by the
respective data directories by the Makefile.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9278</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 2.4.2</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Add a --fullpath option to Dialyzer</p>
<p>
This change adds a --fullpath option to Dialyzer, which
makes the warning messages contain the full path of the
corresponding file.</p>
<p>
Original patch submitted by Magnus Henoch (legoscia) on
15/9/2010 and cooked to death in the 'pu' branch all this
time.</p>
<p>
The patch was essentially correct and most of it has been
used as is, but there have been some changes to make the
code slightly prettier, avoid some code duplication, and
add documentation to dialyzer's doc files and to its help
message.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9098</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Fix warnings about guards containing not</p>
<p>
The wording of warnings about unsatisfiable guards that
used 'not' was incorrect (the 'not' was not mentioned and
it appeared as "Guard test is_atom(atom()) can never
succeed") (thanks to Stavros Aronis).</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9099</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Version 2.4.2 (in Erlang/OTP R14B02)
------------------------------------ - Added --fullpath
option to display files with warnings with their full
file names (thanks to Magnus Henoch for the original
patch). - Better handling of 'and'/'or'/'not' guards that
generate warnings (thanks to Stavros Aronis). - Better
blame assignment for cases when a function's spec is
erroneous (thanks to Stavros Aronis). - More descriptive
warnings when a tuple/record pattern contains subterms
that violate the declared types of record fields (thanks
to Matthias Lang for the test case and for Stavros Aronis
for the actual fix).</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9126</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Add spec to dialyzer_cl_parse:get_lib_dir/1</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9129</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Test suites for Dialyzer</p>
<p>
This is a transcription of most of the
cvs.srv.it.uu.se:/hipe repository dialyzer_tests into
test suites that use the test server framework.</p>
<p>
See README for information on how to use the included
scripts for modifications and updates.</p>
<p>
When testing Dialyzer it's important that several OTP
modules are included in the plt. The suites takes care of
that too.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9116</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 2.4.0</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> - Fixed pretty rare infinite loop when refining the
types of an SCC whose functions all returned none()
(thanks to Stavros Aronis). </p><p> - Fixed pretty rare
crash when taking the infimum of two tuple_sets. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8979</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> - Added ability to supply multiple PLTs for the
analysis (option --plts). Currently these PLTs must be
independent (i.e., no module appears in more than one
PLT) and there must not include files with module name
clashes.</p><p> - Strengthened and streamlined hard-coded
type information for some BIFs and key library
functions.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8962</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 2.3.1</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Eliminated warnings for auto-imported BIF clashes.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8840</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 2.3.0</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Various changes to dialyzer-related files for R14.</p>
<p>
- Dialyzer properly supports the new attribute
-export_type and checks that remote types only refer to
exported types. A warning is produced if some
files/applications refer to types defined in modules
which are neither in the PLT nor in the analyzed
applications.</p>
<p>
- Support for detecting data races involving whereis/1
and unregister/1.</p>
<p>
- More precise identification of the reason(s) why a
record construction violates the types declared for its
fields.</p>
<p>
- Fixed bug in the handling of the 'or' guard.</p>
<p>
- Better handling of the erlang:element/2 BIF.</p>
<p>
- Complete handling of Erlang BIFs.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8699</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 2.2.0</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>Much better support for opaque types (thanks to Manouk
Manoukian).</p>
<p>Added support for recursive types (experimental).</p>
<p>Added support for parameterized modules.</p>
<p>Dialyzer now warns when -specs state that a function
returns some type when in fact it does not.</p>
<p>Added <c>--no_native</c> (<c>-nn</c>) option so that
the user can bypass the native code compilation that
dialyzer heuristically performs when dialyzing many
files.</p>
<p>Fixed minor bug in the dialyzer script allowing the
--wx option to bring up the wx-based GUI regardless of
its placement in the options list.</p>
<p>Options --apps and -Wrace_conditions, which were added
in the previous version, are now properly documented in
the manual.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8464</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 2.1.0</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>
<item>
<p>
Dialyzer can statically detect some kinds of data races
in Erlang programs. Use the new option -Wrace_conditions
to enable the race analysis. The technique is described
in a paper which is available at:
http://www.it.uu.se/research/group/hipe/dialyzer/publications/races.pdf</p>
<p>
Added support for packages (thanks to Maria Christakis).</p>
<p>
There has been a major change in the default mode of
Dialyzer. Previously, the default mode was the GUI, while
now it is the command line. As a result of this change,
it is now possible to analyze a set of files/dirs with
the command: </p><list> <item>dialyzer file1 ...
fileN</item> </list><p> In other words, the -c
(--command-line) option is no longer necessary, though it
will be retained for some time for backwards
compatibility. To start dialyzer's GUI use either of the
following commands: </p><list> <item>dialyzer --gui %%
for the old gs-based GUI</item> <item>dialyzer --wx %%
for the new wx-based GUI (where available)</item>
</list><p></p>
<p>
There is a new option --apps which allows the user to
easily refer to Erlang/OTP applications and include them
in the analysis or in the building of the PLT. For
example, we recommend building the PLT with: </p><list>
<item>dialyzer --build_plt --apps erts kernel stdlib
mnesia ...</item> </list><p></p>
<p>
The new option can also take absolute file names as well
as applications. Note that the application versions that
will be included in the PLT are those that correspond to
the Erlang/OTP system which is used.</p>
<p>
Dialyzer has a new wxWidgets based GUI (thanks to Elli
Frangaki) for platforms where the wx application is
available.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8300</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 2.0.0</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>There is a major addition to the capabilities of
dialyzer, worthy of bumping the version number. Starting
with this version, dialyzer not only accepts but also
properly processes remote types (i.e., types of the form
ModuleName:TypeName()). Previous dialyzer versions only
accepted this notation in -type and -spec declarations,
but effectively ignored its information by mapping remote
types to the type any(). In contrast, starting with this
version, remote types are used in the analysis and are
also stored in the PLTs. (This addition changes the
format of PLTs and requires rebuilding any PLTs created
by an older dialyzer version.) Note that dialyzer will
complain and abort the analysis of a set of modules if it
needs to process a remote type without a definition
(either because the module does not include a definition
of the type or the module is not included in the
analysis). We may relax this restriction in a future
version.</p>
<p>Fixed minor issue with dialyzer:run/1 crashing (upon
its return) when used for adding type information to an
existing PLT.</p>
<p>Fixed minor but quite annoying issues in dialyzer's
GUI.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8187</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 1.9.2</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>Fixed problem with type inference going into an
infinite loop when analyzing a strongly connected
component of functions that do not return but also
contain an erroneous call which makes them fail and be
assigned the type none() instead of the type unit().</p>
<p>More accurate type information for some BIFs and
library files.</p>
<p>Introduced boolean() as the `official' name for the
type was so far known as bool(). The latter is still
accepted as well as boolean().</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8037</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 1.9.1</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>Has better handling of opaque types.</p>
<p>The handling of UTF segments of bitstreams has been
significantly strengthened and revised. In all
probability, now it is correct.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7958</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 1.9.0</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>The analysis accepts opaque type declarations and
detects violations of opacity of terms of such types.
Starting with R13, many Erlang/OTP standard libraries
(array, dict, digraph, ets, gb_sets, gb_trees, queue, and
sets) contain opaque type declarations of their main data
types. Dialyzer will spit out warnings in code that
explicitly depends on the structure of these terms.</p>
<p>Added support for handling UTF segments in bitstreams
and for detecting obvious type errors in these segments.
Warning: This code is not terribly tested though since
there are very few Erlang programs which use
Unicode-based binaries - not surprising since this is a
new language feature of R13.</p>
<p>Strengthened the discrepancy identification when
testing for equality and matching between terms of
different types. This detects more bugs in code.</p>
<p>Added warning for M:F(...) calls where M is not a
module term and F is not an atom. Previously, such calls
where found to fail but the reason for the failure was
not reported.</p>
<p>Added a convenient shorthand for the --no_check_plt
option (-n).</p>
<p>Added the --dump_callgraph option for dumping the
callgraph of all files that are analyzed into a specified
file. The callgraph either be dumped in raw format, in
.dot format, or converted to a .ps (postscript) file.
Note that in large callgraphs the generated postscript
file might not be interpretable by Ghostview. (Thanks to
Ilya Khlopotov for the initial version of this
functionality.)</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7864</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 1.8.3</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>Added the <c>--no_check_plt</c> option that makes the
startup time faster when working with stable PLTs that do
not change.</p>
<p>Changed the phrasing of some warnings so that they do
not cause confusion to some users and correspond better
to reality.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7632</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 1.8.2</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Minor updates.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7522</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 1.8.1</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
There is new <c>--raw</c> option for Dialyzer to output
the result of the analysis in Erlang term, to facilitate
later filtering and/or formatting.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7386</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>The return type of the Erlang interface dialyzer:run/1
has changed to only return a list of warnings. If
something goes wrong dialyzer dies with an exception.</p>
<p>The handling of the PLT is now more flexible. There is
no longer any default PLT included with OTP. Please
consult the manual for the changes.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7389</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 1.8.0</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>Dialyzer's analysis is from now on exclusively based
on success typings. In particular, support for options
<c>--old_style</c> and <c>--dataflow</c> has been
discontinued.</p>
<p>Better and more aggressive handling of type
information in records.</p>
<p>Dialyzer has a new warning option
<c>-Wunmatched_returns</c> which warns for function calls
that ignore the return value. This catches many common
programming errors (e.g. calling <c>file:close/1</c> and
not checking for the absence of errors), interface
discrepancies (e.g. a function returning multiple values
when in reality the function is void and only called for
its side-effects), calling the wrong function (e.g.
<c>io_lib:format/1</c> instead of <c>io:format/1</c>),
and even possible performance defects (e.g. unnecessarily
constructing a list using a list comprehension instead of
using <c>lists:foreach/2</c>). Whenever a function
returns a single atomic value (e.g. 'ok' or pid()), the
warning is suppressed. This allows for "void" functions
(returning a single atom like 'ok') or for calls to
certain builtins like <c>spawn</c>. Because not all calls
which ignore the return value are discrepancies, the
option is off by default and has to be explicitly
requested by the user. But we recommend it
nevertheless.</p>
<p>Some warning options (<c>-Wno_comp</c>,
<c>-Wno_guards</c>, <c>-Wno_unsafe_beam</c>, etc.) which
could be used when analyzing bytecode produced by an old
BEAM compiler have been removed.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7241</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 1.7.2</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
The warnings returned by the Erlang interface now
contains a tag describing the type of warning.</p>
<p>
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7134</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Dialyzer 1.7.1</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>Use of success typings is now default, is robust and
detects significantly more errors than in previous
versions.</p>
<p>Dialyzer now accepts and takes into account type
information in record declarations and in contracts --
see related paper in Erlang'07 workshop. Various OTP
applications (e.g. stdlib and kernel) are partially
annotated with appropriate contracts specifying types
information for their functions.</p>
<p>The type previously known as unit() has been renamed
to no_return(). Its use in a contract as the return type
of a function now silences off the "function has no local
return" dialyzer warning without use of the corresponding
option.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-6997</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Dialyzer 1.7.0</title>
<section>
<title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Minor Makefile changes.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6689</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Dialyzer can now use success typings to find
discrepancies. As a consequence significantly more
discrepancies are detected. The downside is that the
analysis takes about 2 to 2.5 times longer than in
previous versions, and may also result in some warnings
that might be harder to interpret even though they are
correct. This has been a major change, worth of
increasing the version number.</p>
<p>New command-line options:</p>
<p>--succ_typings Use the success typings analysis.</p>
<p>--dataflow (default) Use the previous analysis.</p>
<p>The new type unit() has been introduced to handle the
return type of non-terminating functions such as
servers.</p>
<p>Dialyzer's code server uses a compressed
representation and the analysis requires significantly
less memory than in previous versions.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6736</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Dialyzer 1.6.0</title>
<section>
<title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Dialyzer (in the modes where either source or BEAM
code which contains debug_info is analyzed) spits out
line information for all discrepancies. This has been a
major change, worth of increasing the version number.</p>
<p>We warn users that *considerably* more discrepancies
are identified by this version of Dialyzer compared with
previous ones and applications. If, for some reason,
warnings generated by previous versions of Dialyzer are
preferable, the command line option --old_style can be
employed.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6546</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Dialyzer handles term comparison operators more
precisely and is able to identify more discrepancies in
'if' or 'case' statements with comparisons.</p>
<p></p>
<p>Dialyzer has more precise type information for many
standard OTP functions.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6547</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Dialyzer 1.5.1</title>
<section>
<title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Updated the chapter "More on the Persistent Lookup Table
(PLT)" in Dialyzer User's Guide and added information on
how to use Dialyzer from Erlang to <c><![CDATA[dialyzer(3)]]></c>.
Also, the Dialyzer text files used by its GUI are now
included in the Erlang/OTP release.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6361</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>New options <c><![CDATA[--check_init_plt]]></c> and
<c><![CDATA[--verbose]]></c>.</p>
<p>Improvements in the analysis (meaning that this
version can find more discrepancies than the previous
version).</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6421</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Dialyzer 1.5.0</title>
<section>
<title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Dialyzer's building of PLT is based on a different
type inference algorithm. More specifically, Dialyzer
uses inference of refined success typings to infer
function prototypes. As a result, Dialyzer bases its
analysis on a significantly more powerful basis and thus
is able to detect more discrepancies. The downside is
that building the PLT is a considerably slower process.
We will work on improving that.</p>
<p>Dialyzer takes into account the BEAM compiler
directive <c><![CDATA[-compile({nowarn_unused_function, {F,A}}).]]></c> and then suppresses the warning that
function F/A will never be called.</p>
<p>Dialyzer's default initial PLT now also includes
"mnesia".</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6304</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Dialyzer 1.4.2</title>
<section>
<title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Improvements in PLT management.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6128</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Dialyzer 1.4.1</title>
<section>
<title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Some minor changes.</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section>
<title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Some minor changes.</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Dialyzer 1.4.0</title>
<section>
<title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Changes for Dialyzer to work with Erlang/OTP R10B-10.</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section>
<title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Dialyzer's analysis is significantly faster as it uses a global function
call-graph for obtaining type signatures for all analyzed functions.</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Dialyzer 1.3.1</title>
<section>
<title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Small changes for Dialyzer to work with Erlang/OTP R10B-5.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Fixed a small buglet in the analysis; this affected one of HiPE's files.</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section>
<title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Modified setup script for execution under Cygwin (patch by Vlad Dumitrescu).</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Added command line option --no_warn_on_inline.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Dialyzer now explicitly warns when modules with the same name
but from different dirs are being analyzed (contribution by Ulf Wiger).</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Dialyzer 1.3.0</title>
<section>
<title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Fixed a number of false positives that Dialyzer 1.2.0 was spitting out.</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section>
<title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Requires the presence of an Erlang/OTP R10B-4 system.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Dialyzer is significantly (approx 40%) faster since it now uses 'ets'
rather than 'dets' for its PLT.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Slightly improved the precision of the analysis.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>In the GUI version, Dialyzer now reports the list of modules that should
be included in the modules to analyze in order to possibly improve
the accuracy of the reported results.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Some more information is displayed when calling a function or closure
with arguments of the wrong type.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>The record guard now allows discrepancies involving tuples that are known
to be records to be displayed as #rec{} rather than {'rec',_,...,_}</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Added -q option which makes the command-line version of Dialyzer
a bit more silent.</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Dialyzer 1.2.0</title>
<section>
<title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Dialyzer works with the open source and commercial versions of Erlang/OTP
R10B-2 on all platforms (i.e., HiPE support is not a prerequisite anymore).</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Whenever a .beam file contains abstract code (i.e., has been compiled
with the +debug_info option), the analysis starts from this code rather
than from BEAM bytecode -- this makes the results identical to those
obtained by analysis starting from source code.
(This is a contribution from Bjorn Gustavsson - Thanks!)</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Added -pa command line option for easier handling of -include_lib()
directives in source code.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Includes all changes added in v1.1.1; see below. The "Add Recursively"
functionality is also available in the command-line mode (-r option).</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Dialyzer 1.1.1</title>
<section>
<title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Fixed problems using the shell script on Solaris machines.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Fixed small inconsistencies in Dialyzer's documentation and help.</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section>
<title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>The command-line mode of Dialyzer spits discrepancies in stdout
by default and returns a numeric value indicating its exit status.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Added "Add Recursively" button contributed by Martin Bjorklund (thanks!).</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Dialyzer 1.1.0</title>
<section>
<title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Dialyzer works with the open source version of Erlang/OTP R10B-1 (on
platforms where HiPE support is available) and it does not require
installation of a customized Erlang/OTP system anymore.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Dialyzer comes with an extensive command-line interface, in addition
to an enhanced GUI.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Analysis can start from source code (through Core Erlang) as well as
from BEAM bytecode.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Dialyzer finds considerably more discrepancies in Erlang code than
previous versions.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Added ability to selectively turn on/off different warning categories.</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Dialyzer 1.0.1</title>
<section>
<title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Fixed major bug of v1.0.0 which caused the analysis to stop prematurely
(i.e., without properly reaching fixpoint) when analyzing more than one
module. This did not affect correctness of the results, but lost many
opportunities to detect discrepancies.</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section>
<title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Performance improvements in the analysis.</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Dialyzer 1.0.0</title>
<section>
<title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Initial Dialyzer version: Analysis starts from BEAM bytecode only and
only a GUI version is available. Dialyzer reports discrepancies in the
use of the "sequential" part of Erlang. To be used, Dialyzer requires
the presence of a specific snapshot of Erlang/OTP which can be obtained
from Dialyzer's homepage.</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
</chapter>
