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+To: erlang patches <[email protected]>
+Subject: What's cooking in erlang/otp (2009-12-11)
+X-dev-at: 9c35f074a9a8c2b713b53fb13cedc0746b1da150
+
+The .gitignore files have been updated, so that
+the output of "git status" is now much cleaner. To also
+exclude directories with target dependent names
+created by the "configure" script (such as
+"i386-apple-darwin10.2.0"), add the name of the
+directory to the file .git/info/exclude.
+
+If you have forked the erlang/otp repository and cloned
+your fork, you might be asking yourself: "How do I pull
+in the latest changes from the erlang/otp repository?"
+The answer can be found here:
+
+  http://help.github.com/forking/
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+[Graduated]
+
+* bg/slimmer-history (compiler, erts) (2009-12-02) 2 commits
+ + beam_makepos: Do not put any dates in generated files (47bd30c)
+ + compiler: Teach 'slim' to omit compilation info (12ce303)
+
+* po/blowfish_ecb_cbc_ofb (crypto) (2009-12-03) 2 commits
+ + Add Blowfish tests (b113de7)
+ + Add Blowfish ECB, CBC and OFB modes (8ca11d9)
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+[New topics]
+
+* bg/compiler-bopt-bug (compiler) (2009-12-10) 1 commit
+ - Fix crash in beam_bool (af198c4)
+
+* bg/on_load (erts, kernel, otp) (2009-12-10) 2 commits
+ - Test on_load functions that don't return 'ok' (d523ce8)
+ - Change the expected return value for on_load functions (7390bb7)
+
+A backwards-incompatible improvement of the experimental
+on_load mechanism. It will soon be graduated to the development
+branch.
+
+* bw/win32-address-space-fix (erts) (2009-12-10) 1 commit
+ -  win32 mmap emulation for mseg support + largeaddressaware linking (357167e)
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+[Cooking]
+
+* as/c_nc-fix (stdlib) (2009-11-29) 1 commit
+ - Fix c:nc to use outdir or cwd to find compiled object file (0d4f83c)
+
+I think there should be a test case before we graduate this topic,
+so that we'll know that it will continue to work.
+
+
+* at/odbc_osx_fix (odbc) (2009-11-30) 1 commit
+ - Workaround broken ODBC implementation on OSX 10.5 (88c71c9)
+
+* bd/http_chunk_fix (inets) (2009-11-27) 1 commit
+ - http_chunk data handling/passing improvement. (c2553be)
+
+* bg/otp_build-improvements (otp, stdlib) (2009-12-02) 3 commits
+ - Support updating the primary bootstrap in a git repository (6840b32)
+ - Determine which VCS is being used (5770b7b)
+ - stdlib makefile: Add explicit rule (b197d92)
+
+* cf/epp-macro-overloading (otp, stdlib) (2009-12-10) 4 commits
+ - update the documentation on preprocessor in the reference manual (162ec27)
+ - epp: change rules to choose the right version of a macro (8dcc9f8)
+ - epp: Add support of macros overloading (f7a8959)
+ - epp: fix bug in the function scan_undef (52543e0)
+
+Extend the pre-processor to allow overloading of macros with
+the same name but different arities. Now with documentation.
+
+
+* db/tv_nthtail_fix (tv) (2009-12-01) 1 commit
+ - Fix for tv which restarts while trying to open a table (bfc18a8)
+
+We will cook this topic for a while and include it in the next
+release unless someone finds a problem with it or a better fix.
+
+
+* po/odbc-update-delete-no-rows (odbc) (2009-11-26) 1 commit
+ - SQL_NO_DATA and SQLSTATE 00000 indicate success for updates/deletes that affect no rows (1a564f8)
+
+* sc/sctp_connect_enhancement (erts, kernel) (2009-12-02) 2 commits
+ - Implement a non-blocking gen_sctp:connect (92f3cee)
+ - Correctly type sctp_assoc_id as signed, not unsigned (2666b68)
+
+Raimo (the maintainer of the sctp code in OTP) is quite busy
+with the new erlang.org site (demo.erlang.org), so there might
+be a while before he will look at this branch, but it will
+definitely happen before the next release.
+
+
+* sc/ssl_pkix_extensions (ssl) (2009-12-02) 1 commit
+ - Fix crash when decoding commercial certificates (31ccb1d)
+
+The pkix stuff is in the ssl application is deprecated and has
+been replaced with public key application. That functionality
+in public_key is also documented.
+
+It seems unlikely that we will include this branch in OTP, but we will
+keep it in 'pu' for a little while longer.
+
+
+* tc/premodern-fpe (erts) (2009-12-08) 2 commits
+ - Add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE to CPPFLAGS on Darwin platforms (ea2fae6)
+ - Test for reliable fpes on Darwin platforms without DARWIN_MODERN_MCONTEXT (b95cf92)
+
+Reliable floating point exceptions is necessary for hipe to
+be enabled. I can confirm that hipe can now be enabled on
+Snow Leopard (10.6) and that it speeds up building of the
+Dialyzer PLT.
+
+This branch depends on functionality that is deprecated
+in Mac OS 10.6, so it might be necessary to find another solution
+when 10.7 will be released (in case it removes the deprecated
+functionality).
+
+We would like to hear about how this patch works on older versions
+of Mac OS X. It is known to work on Tiger/PPC.