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authorErlang/OTP <[email protected]>2015-05-12 18:18:55 +0200
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</header>
<p>This document describes the changes made to the Tools application.</p>
+<section><title>Tools 2.8</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ In order to improve performance of the cover tool, new
+ functions are added for cover compilation and analysis on
+ multiple files. This allows for more parallelisation.</p>
+ <p>
+ Some improvements of the data base access is also done in
+ order to improve the performance when analysing and
+ resetting cover data.</p>
+ <p>
+ Minor incompatibility: An error reason from
+ analyse_to_file is changed from no_source_code_found to
+ {no_source_code_found,Module}.</p>
+ <p>
+ *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12330 Aux Id: seq12757 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Allow maps for supervisor flags and child specs</p>
+ <p>
+ Earlier, supervisor flags and child specs were given as
+ tuples. While this is kept for backwards compatibility,
+ it is now also allowed to give these parameters as maps,
+ see <seealso
+ marker="stdlib:supervisor#sup_flags">sup_flags</seealso>
+ and <seealso
+ marker="stdlib:supervisor#child_spec">child_spec</seealso>.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-11043</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Remove Mnemosyne rules support.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12511</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Add printout of total number of calls and time in eprof</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12681</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>Tools 2.7.2</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>