Merge branch 'maint'

* maint:
  Implement a tab for persistent terms in crashdump viewer
  Add tests of persistent terms for crashdump_viewer
  Add a persistent term storage
  Refactor releasing of literals
  Extend the sharing-preserving routines to optionally copy literals

Conflicts:
	erts/emulator/Makefile.in
	erts/emulator/beam/erl_process_dump.c
	erts/preloaded/ebin/erts_internal.beam
	erts/preloaded/ebin/init.beam
	lib/sasl/src/systools_make.erl

1 files changed, 55 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/erts/preloaded/src/persistent_term.erl b/erts/preloaded/src/persistent_term.erl
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+%%
+%% %CopyrightBegin%
+%%
+%% Copyright Ericsson AB 2018. All Rights Reserved.
+%%
+%% Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+%% you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+%% You may obtain a copy of the License at
+%%
+%%     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+%%
+%% Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+%% distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+%% WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+%% See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+%% limitations under the License.
+%%
+%% %CopyrightEnd%
+%%
+-module(persistent_term).
+
+-export([erase/1,get/0,get/1,info/0,put/2]).
+
+-type key() :: term().
+-type value() :: term().
+
+-spec erase(Key) -> Result when
+      Key :: key(),
+      Result :: boolean().
+erase(_Key) ->
+    erlang:nif_error(undef).
+
+-spec get() -> List when
+      List :: [{key(),value()}].
+get() ->
+    erlang:nif_error(undef).
+
+-spec get(Key) -> Value when
+      Key :: key(),
+      Value :: value().
+get(_Key) ->
+    erlang:nif_error(undef).
+
+-spec info() -> Info when
+      Info :: #{'count':=Count,'memory':=Memory},
+      Count :: non_neg_integer(),
+      Memory :: non_neg_integer().
+info() ->
+    erlang:nif_error(undef).
+
+-spec put(Key, Value) -> 'ok' when
+      Key :: key(),
+      Value :: value().
+put(_Key, _Value) ->
+    erlang:nif_error(undef).