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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="latin1" ?>
+<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd">
+
+<chapter>
+  <header>
+    <copyright>
+      <year>1998</year><year>2009</year>
+      <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
+    </copyright>
+    <legalnotice>
+      The contents of this file are subject to the Erlang Public License,
+      Version 1.1, (the "License"); you may not use this file except in
+      compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the
+      Erlang Public License along with this software. If not, it can be
+      retrieved online at http://www.erlang.org/.
+    
+      Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
+      basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See
+      the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations
+      under the License.
+    
+    </legalnotice>
+
+    <title>IDL Compiler Release Notes</title>
+    <prepared></prepared>
+    <docno></docno>
+    <checked></checked>
+    <date>2004-04-06</date>
+    <rev>AC</rev>
+    <file>notes.xml</file>
+  </header>
+
+   <section>
+    <title>IC 4.2.23</title>
+
+    <section>
+      <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+      <list type="bulleted">
+        <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 Aux Id:</p>
+        </item>
+      </list>
+    </section>
+  </section>
+
+   <section>
+    <title>IC 4.2.22</title>
+
+    <section>
+      <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+      <list type="bulleted">
+        <item>
+          <p>The 64-bit version of libic was not compiled with the -fPIC flag.</p>
+          <p>Own id: OTP-8088</p>
+        </item>
+      </list>
+    </section>
+  </section>
+
+   <section>
+    <title>IC 4.2.21</title>
+
+    <section>
+      <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+      <list type="bulleted">
+        <item>
+          <p>The function print_erlang_binary (oe_ei_code_erlang_binary.c)
+             updated to avoid compiler warning.</p>
+          <p>Own id: OTP-7982</p>
+        </item>
+      </list>
+    </section>
+  </section>
+
+   <section>
+    <title>IC 4.2.20</title>
+
+    <section>
+      <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+      <list type="bulleted">
+        <item>
+          <p>Updated file headers.</p>
+          <p>Own id: OTP-7837</p>
+        </item>
+      </list>
+    </section>
+  </section>
+
+   <section>
+    <title>IC 4.2.19</title>
+
+    <section>
+      <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+      <list type="bulleted">
+        <item>
+          <p>Documentation source included in open source releases.</p>
+          <p>Own id: OTP-7595</p>
+        </item>
+      </list>
+    </section>
+  </section>
+
+   <section>
+     <title>IC 4.2.18</title>
+
+     <section>
+       <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+       <list type="bulleted">
+         <item>
+           <p>Insufficient buffer allocated when passing wide strings
+	      using the C backend on a 64-bit architecture.</p>
+           <p>Own Id: OTP-7313 Aux Id:</p>
+         </item>
+       </list>
+     </section>
+   </section>
+
+   <section>
+    <title>IC 4.2.17</title>
+
+    <section>
+      <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+      <list type="bulleted">
+        <item>
+          <p>Updated file headers.</p>
+          <p>Own id: OTP-7011</p>
+        </item>
+        <item>
+          <p>IC no longer use the obsolete function file:rawopen/2.</p>
+          <p>Own id: OTP-7182</p>
+        </item>
+      </list>
+    </section>
+  </section>
+
+ <section>
+    <title>IC 4.2.16</title>
+
+    <section>
+      <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+      <list type="bulleted">
+        <item>
+          <p>Added links to classes inherited from Jinterface in the
+             User's Guide.</p>
+          <p>Own Id: OTP-6965 Aux Id: </p>
+        </item>
+      </list>
+    </section>
+  </section>
+
+  <section>
+    <title>IC 4.2.15</title>
+
+    <section>
+      <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+      <list type="bulleted">
+        <item>
+          <p>If an inherited function name begun with a capital letter
+             the generated stub/skeleton oe_tc/1 function was incorrect.</p>
+          <p>Own Id: OTP-6855 Aux Id:</p>
+        </item>
+      </list>
+    </section>
+  </section>
+
+  <section>
+    <title>IC 4.2.14</title>
+
+    <section>
+      <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+      <list type="bulleted">
+        <item>
+          <p>The documentation source has been converted from SGML to XML.</p>
+          <p>Own Id: OTP-6754 Aux Id: </p>
+        </item>
+      </list>
+    </section>
+  </section>
+
+  <section>
+    <title>IC 4.2.13</title>
+
+    <section>
+      <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+      <list type="bulleted">
+        <item>
+          <p>Minor Makefile changes.</p>
+          <p>Own Id: OTP-6701 Aux Id: </p>
+        </item>
+      </list>
+    </section>
+  </section>
+
+  <section>
+    <title>IC 4.2.12</title>
+
+    <section>
+      <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+      <list type="bulleted">
+        <item>
+          <p>Dead code was deleted from the following modules:
+            ic_cclient, ic_code, ic_cserver, ic_erlbe, ic_java_type,
+            ic_noc, ic_plainbe, ic_pp, ic_pragma, icscan, icstruct, 
+            ictype, icunion.</p>
+        </item>
+      </list>
+    </section>
+  </section>
+
+  <section>
+    <title>IC 4.2.11</title>
+
+    <section>
+      <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+      <list type="bulleted">
+        <item>
+          <p>Changed code generation to avoid warnings such as unused
+            variables.</p>
+          <p>Own Id: OTP-5930 Aux Id: </p>
+        </item>
+      </list>
+    </section>
+  </section>
+
+  <section>
+    <title>IC 4.2.10</title>
+
+    <section>
+      <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+      <list type="bulleted">
+        <item>
+          <p>The FD_SETSIZE limit has been increased to 2048 for
+            VxWorks/PPC603.</p>
+          <p>Own Id: OTP-5395 Aux Id: seq9751</p>
+        </item>
+      </list>
+    </section>
+  </section>
+
+  <section>
+    <title>IC 4.2.9</title>
+
+    <section>
+      <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+      <list type="bulleted">
+        <item>
+          <p>In C back-ends, the compiler crashed when generating C code
+            for error reports when a scoped name was used as a type
+            in a union.</p>
+          <p>Own Id: OTP-5375 Aux Id: seq9740 </p>
+        </item>
+      </list>
+    </section>
+  </section>
+
+  <section>
+    <title>IC 4.2.8</title>
+
+    <section>
+      <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+      <list type="bulleted">
+        <item>
+          <p>In C back-ends, when decoding a sequence of "small"
+            integers, which from Erlang is sent as a string (i.e.
+            each element between 0 and 255), each string element was
+            considered to be of signed character type. Each such
+            element is now correctly treated as an unsigned character
+            type.</p>
+          <p>Own Id: OTP-5205 Aux Id: seq9241 </p>
+        </item>
+      </list>
+    </section>
+  </section>
+
+  <section>
+    <title>IC 4.2.7</title>
+
+    <section>
+      <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+      <list type="bulleted">
+        <item>
+          <p>A new compiler option <c>c_report</c> has been introduced
+            for C back-ends (client and server). If that option is
+            set, encoding/decoding errors will be reported to
+            <c>stderr</c>.</p>
+          <p>Own Id: OTP-4977</p>
+        </item>
+      </list>
+    </section>
+  </section>
+
+  <section>
+    <title>IC 4.2.6</title>
+
+    <section>
+      <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+      <list type="bulleted">
+        <item>
+          <p>The size of modules, used then registering data in the 
+            IFR DB (e.g., oe_MyModule:oe_register()), can be minimized
+            if the compile option light_ifr is used and Orber is
+            configured to use Light IFR. Requires that orber-3.5.1, or
+            later, is used.</p>
+          <p>Own Id: OTP-5036</p>
+        </item>
+      </list>
+    </section>
+
+    <section>
+      <title>Incompatibilities</title>
+      <list type="bulleted">
+        <item>
+          <p>The compile option <c>multiple_be</c> is no longer supported.</p>
+          <p>Own Id: OTP-5049</p>
+        </item>
+      </list>
+    </section>
+  </section>
+
+  <section>
+    <title>IC 4.2.5</title>
+
+    <section>
+      <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+      <list type="bulleted">
+        <item>
+          <p>Send and receive functions with timeouts have been added
+            to the C back-ends for the standard protocol (i.e. Erlang
+            distribution + gen_server protocol).</p>
+          <p>Accordingly a new compiler option <c>{c_timeout, {SendTimeout, RecvTimeout}}</c> has been added. Timeouts
+            are specified in milliseconds.</p>
+          <p>A user that want to implement its own protocols with
+            function timeouts has to implement the following functions.</p>
+          <p>For C clients the functions <c>int PFX_send_notification(CORBA_Environment *env, unsigned int send_ms)</c>, and <c>int PFX_send_request_and_receive_reply(CORBA_Environment *env, unsigned int send_ms, unsigned int recv_ms)</c>
+            have to be additionally implemented, where PFX is the
+            user defined prefix.</p>
+          <p>For C servers no additional functions have to be
+            implemented, but a clone of the <c>int oe_server_receive_tmo(CORBA_Environment *env, oe_map_t *map, unsigned int send_ms, unsigned int recv_ms)</c>
+            might be handy.</p>
+          <p>Own Id: OTP-4972</p>
+        </item>
+      </list>
+    </section>
+  </section>
+
+  <section>
+    <title>IC 4.2.4</title>
+
+    <section>
+      <title>Improvements and new features</title>
+      <list type="bulleted">
+        <item>
+          <p>The C back-ends has been opened up, so that a user can
+            define his own protocol, differing from the Erlang
+            distribution + gen_server protocol.             <br></br>
+
+            For C clients it means to replace the library functions
+            <c>int oe_prepare_notification_encoding(CORBA_Environment *env)</c>, <c>int oe_send_notification(CORBA_Environment *env)</c>, <c>int oe_prepare_request_encoding(CORBA_Environment *env)</c>,
+            <c>int oe_send_request_and_receive_reply(CORBA_Environment *env)</c>, and <c>int oe_prepare_reply_decoding(CORBA_Environment *env)</c>,
+            with functions of the same signature, but with the prefix
+            "oe" replaced by a user defined prefix.
+            For C servers the functions <c>int oe_prepare_request_decoding(CORBA_Environment *env)</c>,
+            and <c>int oe_prepare_reply_encoding(CORBA_Environment *env)</c>, are similarly replaced.            <br></br>
+
+            The new compiler option <c>{user_protocol, Prefix}</c> has
+            been added.</p>
+          <p>Own Id: OTP-4834</p>
+        </item>
+      </list>
+    </section>
+  </section>
+
+  <section>
+    <title>IC 4.2.3</title>
+
+    <section>
+      <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+      <list type="bulleted">
+        <item>
+          <p>In generated code for the C server back-end, the naming scope
+            was in error for prototypes in C header files for interfaces
+            inheriting base interfaces.</p>
+          <p>Own Id: OTP-4881</p>
+        </item>
+      </list>
+    </section>
+  </section>
+
+  <section>
+    <title>IC 4.2.2</title>
+
+    <section>
+      <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+      <list type="bulleted">
+        <item>
+          <p>IDL long long and unsigned long long could not
+            be used in a struct for the Java backend.</p>
+          <p>All unsigned integer types for the Java backend
+            had broken marshalling for large values.</p>
+          <p>Own Id: OTP-4763</p>
+        </item>
+      </list>
+    </section>
+  </section>
+
+  <section>
+    <title>IC 4.2.1</title>
+
+    <section>
+      <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+      <list type="bulleted">
+        <item>
+          <p>A scoping problem (IC could not find typedefs contained
+            inherited interfaces) in the C-backend solved.</p>
+          <p>Own Id: OTP-4758</p>
+        </item>
+      </list>
+    </section>
+  </section>
+
+  <section>
+    <title>IC 4.2</title>
+
+    <section>
+      <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+      <list type="bulleted">
+        <item>
+          <p>The CORBA stub/skeleton-files generated by IC have been improved,
+            i.e., depending on the IDL-files, reduced the size of the
+            erl- and beam-files and decreased dependencies off Orber's
+            Interface Repository. It is necessary to re-compile all IDL-files
+            and use COS-applications, including Orber, compiled with
+            IC-4.2.</p>
+          <p>Own Id: OTP-4576</p>
+        </item>
+      </list>
+    </section>
+  </section>
+</chapter>
+