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authorHans Bolinder <[email protected]>2015-11-04 13:04:49 +0100
committerHans Bolinder <[email protected]>2015-11-04 13:04:49 +0100
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Merge branch 'hb/correct_doc_tags' into maint
* hb/correct_doc_tags: [erl_docgen] Correct documentation [dialyzer] Correct documentation [hipe] Correct documentation [test_server] Correct documentation [tools] Correct documentation [erts] Correct documentation [stdlib] Correct documentation [kernel] Correct documentation
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diff --git a/erts/doc/src/notes.xml b/erts/doc/src/notes.xml
index 3f6d5b1d89..f27e73b9d3 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/notes.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/notes.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<chapter>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>2004</year><year>2013</year>
+ <year>2004</year><year>2015</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -708,19 +708,20 @@
</item>
<item>
<p>
- Use persistent hashmaps for large Maps <p>Maps will use a
+ Use persistent hashmaps for large Maps</p>
+ <p>Maps will use a
persistent hashmap implementation when the number of
pairs in a Map becomes sufficiently large. The change
will occur when a Map reaches 33 pairs in size but this
- limit might change in the future.</p></p>
- <p>The most significant impact for the user by this
+ limit might change in the future.</p>
+ <p>The most significant impact for the user by this
change is speed, and to a lesser degree memory
consumption and introspection of Maps. Memory consumption
size is probalistic but lesser than <c>gb_trees</c> or
<c>dict</c> for instance. Any other impacts will be
transparent for the user except for the following
changes.</p>
- <p>Semantics of Maps have changed in two incompatible
+ <p>Semantics of Maps have changed in two incompatible
ways compared to the experimental implementation in OTP
17:</p> <list> <item>Hashing of maps is done different by
<c>erlang:phash2/1,2</c>, <c>erlang:phash/1</c> and
@@ -1368,7 +1369,7 @@
<p>
Improved support for atomic memory operations provided by
the <url
- href="https://github.com/ivmai/libatomic_ops/"><c>libatomic_ops</c></url>
+ href="https://github.com/ivmai/libatomic_ops/">libatomic_ops</url>
library. Most importantly support for use of native
double word atomics when implemented by
<c>libatomic_ops</c> (for example, implemented for ARM).</p>
@@ -2335,22 +2336,28 @@
<p>
EEP43: New data type - Maps</p>
<p>
- With Maps you may for instance: <taglist> <item><c>M0 =
- #{ a =&gt; 1, b =&gt; 2}, % create
- associations</c></item> <item><c>M1 = M0#{ a := 10 }, %
- update values</c></item> <item><c>M2 = M1#{ "hi" =&gt;
- "hello"}, % add new associations</c></item> <item><c>#{
- "hi" := V1, a := V2, b := V3} = M2. % match keys with
- values</c></item> </taglist></p>
+ With Maps you may for instance:</p>
+ <taglist>
+ <tag/> <item><c>M0 = #{ a =&gt; 1, b =&gt; 2}, % create
+ associations</c></item>
+ <tag/><item><c>M1 = M0#{ a := 10 }, % update values</c></item>
+ <tag/><item><c>M2 = M1#{ "hi" =&gt;
+ "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: <taglist> <item>No variable keys</item>
- <item>No single value access</item> <item>No map
- comprehensions</item> </taglist></p>
+ 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>
@@ -4510,8 +4517,7 @@
<p>
Fix erl_prim_loader errors in handling of primary
archive. The following errors have been corrected:</p>
- <p>
- <list> <item> If primary archive was named "xxx", then a
+ <list> <item> If primary archive was named "xxx", then a
file in the same directory named "xxxyyy" would be
interpreted as a file named "yyy" inside the archive.
</item> <item> erl_prim_loader did not correctly create
@@ -4526,7 +4532,8 @@
erl_prim_loader:list_dir/1 would sometimes return an
empty string inside the file list. This was a virtual
element representing the top directory of the archive.
- This has been removed. </item> </list></p>
+ This has been removed. </item>
+ </list>
<p>
Thanks to Tuncer Ayaz and Shunichi Shinohara for
reporting and co-authoring corrections.</p>
@@ -6969,12 +6976,12 @@
Own Id: OTP-8726 Aux Id: seq11617 </p>
</item>
<item>
- <p>Fix libm linking with --as-needed flag
+ <p>Fix libm linking with --as-needed flag</p>
<p>
When building with "--as-needed" linker flags on Linux
the build will fail. This has now been fixed.</p>
<p>
- (Thanks to Christian Faulhammer)</p></p>
+ (Thanks to Christian Faulhammer)</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8728</p>
</item>