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author | Björn Gustavsson <[email protected]> | 2009-12-06 15:59:55 +0000 |
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asn1 documentation: remove unused files
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diff --git a/lib/asn1/doc/src/Makefile b/lib/asn1/doc/src/Makefile index be8755f0ff..d29225f6c9 100644 --- a/lib/asn1/doc/src/Makefile +++ b/lib/asn1/doc/src/Makefile @@ -51,9 +51,7 @@ XML_REF3_FILES = asn1ct.xml \ GEN_XML = \ asn1_spec.xml -XML_PART_FILES = \ - part.xml \ - part_notes.xml +XML_PART_FILES = part.xml XML_HTML_FILE = \ notes_history.xml diff --git a/lib/asn1/doc/src/note.gif b/lib/asn1/doc/src/note.gif Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index 6fffe30419..0000000000 --- a/lib/asn1/doc/src/note.gif +++ /dev/null diff --git a/lib/asn1/doc/src/notes_history.xml b/lib/asn1/doc/src/notes_history.xml deleted file mode 100644 index e6c423e79e..0000000000 --- a/lib/asn1/doc/src/notes_history.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,1782 +0,0 @@ -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="latin1" ?> -<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd"> - -<chapter> - <header> - <copyright> - <year>2006</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>ASN1 Release Notes</title> - <prepared>Bertil Karlsson</prepared> - <responsible></responsible> - <docno></docno> - <approved></approved> - <checked></checked> - <date>06-04-24</date> - <rev></rev> - <file>notes_history.sgml</file> - </header> - <p>This document describes the changes made to the asn1 system - from version to version. The intention of this document is to - list all incompatibilities as well as all enhancements and - bug-fixes for every release of the asn1 application. Each release of asn1 - thus constitutes one section in this document. The title of each - section is the version number of asn1.</p> - - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.4.4.14</title> - - <section> - <title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>Data in info/0 in generated code is moved to attribute - asn1_info, thus vsn value remains the same if compiler - options for asn1-spec differs but the generated code is - the same.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-6462</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Dialyzer warnings on asn1 are removed, i.e. dead code - removed.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-6506</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.4.4.13</title> - - <section> - <title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>Now it is possible to use 'asn1config' and 'inline' - options together. It is also possible to use 'inline' on - a single file like: - <c>asn1ct:compile("MyASN1spec.asn",[inline])</c>.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-6405</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.4.4.12</title> - - <section> - <title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>As a complement to the option "{inline,OutputFile}" it is - now possible to use the option "inline". Then asn1 creates - an output file with the name of the source .set file.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-6314</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.4.4.11</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>When compiling an asn1 source that reference a type in - another source the compiler uses the asn1db file of the - other source to resolve the reference. It also tests - whether the other source has been updated since the - asn1db file was generated. This last test was to brutal - in that it exits compilation when no source was found, - even though a asn1db file existed. Changed behavior from - a brutal exit to a warning.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-6143</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.4.4.10</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>asn1 encoding failed on BIT STRING with constraint - <c>(SIZE (32..MAX))</c>.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-5932</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Race condition removed in server for variable names for - generated code.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-6111</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.4.4.9</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>Now exists a default function clause for table lookup of - a table constraint. This causes a nice error instead of a - crash. Did also remove some obsolete funs ({Mod,Fun}) in - generated code.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-5783</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>ASN1-compiler failed to derive a value out of an external - reference in some certain cases, when compiling specs so - that the spec with the reference was compiled before the - spec with the defined value.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-5812 Aux Id: seq10133 </p> - </item> - <item> - <p>The documentation of how records of embedded types are - named is extended and made clearer by examples and rules. - The section "Naming of Records in .hrl Files" in the - User's Guide is added.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-5831 Aux Id: seq10133 </p> - </item> - <item> - <p>The compiler failed to give right name to record/function - of a parameterized type that was referenced through - another instance of a parameterized type in another - module. The fault occurred when modules were compiled in a - certain order. Now the compiler resolves the name - correctly.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-5832 Aux Id: seq10133 </p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.4.4.8</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>The dynamic sort of SET OF values now correctly handles - values encoded in the "ber_bin, der, optimize" mode, the - value of a SET OF is a list of binaries.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-5687</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Bad code was generated for an INTEGER with value-range. If - the value that was encoded had a lower bound with - negative value it caused a crash. This bug is now - removed.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-5688 Aux Id: seq10049 </p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Compiler now handles wrong include paths by returning an - error if a referenced module is not available.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-5689</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>The bug causing a runtime error when encoding a type - defined by: <c>BIT STRING {a(1),b(2)}</c> with the value - [] in <c>per_bin</c> mode is now removed.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-5710 Aux Id: seq10066 </p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>Better handling of filename paths</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-5701</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.4.4.7</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>Effective constraint for <c>per</c> now corrected. For - instance <c>INTEGER (0|15..269)</c> didn't work properly.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-5477 Aux Id: OTP-5511 </p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Adjusted compiler so that functions in generated code - only are exported once.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-5509</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Fixed the compiler failure when handling a value range - constraint with an extension mark that had the Lower - bound and/or Upper bound values as an external reference - to a defined value.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-5511 Aux Id: OTP-5466 </p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Removed sorting of elements for SEQUENCE OF. It shall - only be done in SET OF.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-5602</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Corrected code that generated code causing badarith - warning.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-5616</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.4.4.6</title> - - <section> - <title>Known Bugs and Problems</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>Compiler now correctly crashes when compiling bad values. - Failed for instance on INTEGER value that was a reference - to a defined value. Also solved problem with a union - constraint on an INTEGER.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-5457</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Additional coverage of object set syntax.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-5466</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.4.4.5</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>A bug due to representation of open_type values is now - fixed. It could cause problem if one used the EXTERNAL - type.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-5302</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Due to an internal error the same code could have been - generated more than one time. This happened for the - exclusive decode functionality.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-5378</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.4.4.4</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>Empty objects caused problems. There was trouble when an - object set referenced imported objects that in turn - referenced imported types. Lacked support of - SelectionType in object. All these have been attended.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-5240</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>Now it is possible to inline asn1 run-time functionality - in the module generated by the asn1 compiler. Thus, it - will be only one module doing all encoding/decoding.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-5243</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.4.4.3</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed errors and malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>A class that was referenced in two steps caused a - compiler failure. It is now corrected.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-5103</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Improvements and new features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>Optionally make it possible to get the un-decoded rest along with - the return value. Compile with option <em>undec_rest</em>.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-5104</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.4.4.2</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed errors and malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>An error due to unchecked referenced imported type resulted - in missing tag in some table constraint cases. This error is - now corrected. Error occurred during decode in - <c>ber_bin optimized</c> version.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-5022</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.4.4.1</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed errors and malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>When a referenced value in another module in turn referenced a - defined value the compilation crashed. This is due to the new - routines for compilation, that external references are resolved - during compilation, and not by the order in which modules are - compiled. This error is now corrected.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4970</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.4.4</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed errors and malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>Functionality for parameterized class is added. Parsing failures on - WithSyntax spec is corrected.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4893</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>The failure due to Parameterized Type when parameter is an object - set is corrected.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4894</p> - <p>Aux Id: OTP-4893</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Object Identifier values with two components and the first was a - value reference failed due to parsing conflicts. Now it is - corrected.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4895</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>The erroneous comparison of file name and asn1 module name could - cause compilation failure. The situation for this failure is rare, - it requires that other processes modifies the compiled file during - the compilation procedure. It is now fixed.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4944</p> - <p>Aux Id: seq8429</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Selective decode was ignored when exclusive decode spec in asn1 - configfile was missing. Selective decode failed when the selected - type was the top type. These bugs are now removed.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4953</p> - <p>Aux Id: seq8436</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>The test interface asn1ct:test/1,2,3 and asn1ct:value/2 failed for - open type and EXTERNAL. The bug is now removed.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4955</p> - <p>Aux Id: seq8438)</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Two equal functions were generated for two components referencing - the same type when they were picked by the action "parts". The bug - is now fixed.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4957</p> - <p>Aux Id: seq8434</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Improvements and new features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>INTEGER with named number list and ENUMERATED can now be sub - constrained with names from the names list.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4917</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Now there is support for SelectionType (X 680 section 29)</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4918</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>The compiler now resolves circular dependencies. When asn1 specs - IMPORTS from each other so that there are circular dependencies.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4919</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Now is the asn1 type UTF8String supported. For user instructions - see documentation.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4965</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.4.3.1</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>The <c>{internal_error,...,{ unrecognized_type,...}}</c> - error occurring for a SET type when compiling with options - <c>[ber_bin,optimize,der]</c> is now corrected.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4866</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>False encode of BIT STRING in PER (per_bin,optimize) is fixed. The error occurred when there was a type like BIT STRING (SIZE(C)) and C > 16.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4869</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.4.3</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed errors and malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>Functionality to handle parameterized object sets have been added.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4832</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Bug causing duplicated function definitions using exclusive decode is removed.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4833)</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>The race condition when loading asn1 driver is solved.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4835</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Improvements and new features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>A specialized decode, <em>selective decode</em> is now available. It decodes a chosen internal sub-type of a constructed type.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4856)</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.4.2.2</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed errors and malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>Release of Asn1 1.4.2.1 on R7B, The functionality is the same, but - the layer between the driver and the asn1 erlang code is different.</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.4.2.1</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed errors and malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>ObjectDescriptor does now work as part of a sequence, set or choice.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4773</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>When a SEQUENCE that have extension mark was decoded inside a - SEQUENCE OF it could cause decode error due to a failure in - restbytes2. It is now corrected.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4791)</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Now the bug is fixed that caused the compiler crash on an untagged - optional open type.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4792</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>The earlier exit caused by bad in-data is now fixed so it will - return an {error,Reason} tuple.</p> - return an {error,Reason} tuple.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4797</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Open type encoded with indefinite length is now correct decoded.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4798</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Now is absent optional open types handled correctly.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4799</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Now is the necessary functions available for sorting in run-time of - SET and SET OF components.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4809</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.4.2</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed errors and malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>When a component in a SEQUENCE is a CHOICE (or reference to a CHOICE) - and the SEQUENCE's component and one of the alternatives in the CHOICE - have identical names, an error may occur if one doesn't use the - 'optimized' versions of the compiler. In the older versions (<c>ber, ber_bin, per, per_bin</c>) one could optionally apply a value of a - component as <c>{ComponentName,Value}</c>, and the generated code - chooses the second element of the tuple. However, a value of a CHOICE - must be applied as a tuple: <c>{AlternativeName,Value}</c>. Thus, - in the rare case described above and if the value to the SEQUENCE's - component is not in a tuple notation the - <c>{AlternativeName,Value}</c> will be peeled off in the SEQUENCE - and the value fed to the CHOICE will only be the <c>Value</c> - part of <c>{AlternativeName,Value}</c>, and the encoder crashes. - The best way to avoid this is to use the optimized version of the - compiler where the unnecessary tuple notation - <c>{ComponentName,Value}</c> no longer is allowed. Since it isn't - possible to solve this bug in the compiler.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4693</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Improvements and new features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>Exclusive decode is enabled by a compiler option and a configuration - file. It makes it possible to leave parts of an ASN.1 encoded message - un-decoded.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4744</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.4.1.1</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed errors and malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>The documentation about how extensibility is handled is now corrected.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4663</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Function in object now calls the exported function</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4665</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Now is tags for ObjectClassFieldType analyzed correctly.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4666</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.4.1</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed errors and malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>Now is the Default value for an ENUMERATED returned as the name from - the NamedList when decoding.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4633</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>It was an internal failure when permitted alphabet constraint existed - together with for instance a size constraint. E.g. when a - referenced type is constrained by a size constraint and the defined - type in turn is constrained by a permitted alphabet constraint.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4559</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Record is generated in hrl file for a CHOICE with extension mark - that has an internal SEQUENCE/SET definition.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4560</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Now is the length of a SEQUENCE/SET OF correctly encoded/decoded (PER).</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4590</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>The problem with unordered decoded terms when a component is a - ObjectClassFieldType has been solved.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4591</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Improvements and new features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>More complex definitions with TableConstraints where the SimpleTable - and ComponentRelation are on different levels is now fully - supported.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4631</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.4</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed errors and malfunctions</title> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Improvements and new features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>Each generated .erl file have now a function info/0 that returns - information about the used compiler version and options.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4373</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>When compiling an ASN.1 module the compiler generates an Erlang module - that is compiled by the Erlang compiler. Earlier it was not possible to - add options to the final step, the Erlang compilation. By adding any - option that is not recognized as a specific ASN.1 option it will be - passed to the final step like: <c>erlc +debug_info Mymodule.asn</c> or - <c>asn1ct:compile('Mymodule',[debug_info])</c>.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4491</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Earlier one couldn't multi file compile modules that had different - tagdefault, which now is possible. Equal Type/Value names in different - modules are resolved by renaming (concatenate type name and module - name): If two types with the same name T exist in module A and module B - they will get the new names TA and TB.</p> - <p>(Own Id: OTP-4492)</p> - <p>Aux Id: OTP-3983</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>BER: Encode/decode of data have been significantly improved. By use of - the compiler options <c>ber_bin</c> and <c>optimize</c>, - optimized code will be generated and the optimized run-time module will - be used.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4493</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.3.3.1</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed errors and malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>Proper length encoding and padding implemented for a <c>BIT STRING</c> with - NamedNumberList and size constraint as value range. This functionality - didn't work in the rare occasion when the NamedNumberList is shorter - than the lower bound of the constraint.As in this example: - <c>TestS ::= BIT STRING {a (0),b (1)} (SIZE (3..8))</c></p> - <p>(Own Id: OTP-4353)</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Bug in compiler, when an <c>OBJECT IDENTIFIER</c> value consisting of - two identifiers (Defined values or Name form identifiers) was falsely - interpreted causing a compiling error is now corrected.</p> - <p>(Own Id: OTP-4354)</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Internal error in check phase that caused crash on - <c>ObjectClassFieldType</c> in ber_bin is corrected.</p> - <p>(Own Id: OTP-4390)</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Tags for open types are handled according to <c>x.680 30.6c</c>, i.e. - open types shall not be tagged <c>IMPLICIT.</c></p> - <p>(Own Id: OTP-4395)</p> - <p>(Aux Id: OTP-4390)</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.3.3</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed errors and malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>Now gives the compiler an appropriate error report when exported - undefined types are detected.</p> - <p>(Own Id: OTP-4129)</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>The type <c>ObjectDescriptor</c> is now supported, previously the - implementation of encode/decode for this rarely used type was - incomplete.</p> - <p>(Own Id: OTP-4161)</p> - <p>(Aux Id: seq7165)</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>In case of per and compact_bit_string the rightmost byte were erroneous - truncated when the rightmost bits of that byte were zeros. This is now - corrected.</p> - <p>(Own Id: OTP-4200)</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Bad match of return-value from decode_length in skipvalue/3 has now been - fixed.</p> - <p>(Own Id: OTP-4232)</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Now is decode of ENUMERATED handled correctly, when tagged EXPLICIT.</p> - <p>(Own Id: OTP-4234)</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>The compiler now parses and handles the ValueFromObject construct.</p> - <p>(Own Id: OTP-4242)</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Now does the compiler handle the case when the object set in simple - table and componentrelation constraints is of a CLASS without a UNIQUE - field. In this case is the octets, which is assumed to be encoded, - encoded as an open type.</p> - <p>(Own Id: OTP-4248)</p> - <p>(Aux Id: OTP-4242)</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Compiler handles objects in AdditionalElementSetSpec in ObjectSetSpec, - i.e. the objects that are referred to after the ellipses in an object set.</p> - <p>(Own Id: OTP-4275)</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Now are values with a component of type CHOICE encoded with indefinite - length correctly decoded.</p> - <p>(Own Id: OTP-4358)</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Improvements and new features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>The language constructs (from the old 1988 standard) <c>ANY</c> - and <c>ANY DEFINED BY</c> are now implemented.</p> - <p>(Own Id: OTP-2741)</p> - <p>(Aux Id: seq 1188)</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Now it is checked in run-time if a <c>OBJECT IDENTIFIER</c> value is invalid</p> - <p>(Own Id: OTP-4235)</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>The ASN.1 types EXTERNAL,EMBEDDED PDV and CHARACTER STRING now have full support in the compiler.</p> - <p>(Own Id: OTP-4247)</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>A driver in C does the final job (complete) of the PER encoding when - files are compiled with <c>per_bin</c> and <c>optimize</c> flags. - It gives significant faster encoding for PER.</p> - <p>(Own Id: OTP-4355)</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Encode and decode of PER encoding has been made faster by moving - analysis done in run-time to compile-time. These optimizations are - available by compiling ASN.1 files with options <c>per_bin</c> and - <c>optimize</c>.</p> - <p>(Own Id: OTP-4381)</p> - <p>(Aux Id: OTP-4355)</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.3.2</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed errors and malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>Now does the compiler check values (including referenced values), and - formats the value so it is suitable to use as input to encoding - functions.</p> - <p>(Own Id: OTP-3277)</p> - <p>(Aux Id: OTP-4103)</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Unnecessary external function calls in generated code are now generated - as internal function calls.</p> - <p>(Own Id: OTP-4073)</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Improvements and new features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>Now is Information Objects supported in BER encoding.</p> - <p>(Own Id: OTP-3980)</p> - <p>(Aux Id: OTP-3979 OTP-3978)</p> - <p></p> - </item> - <item> - <p>PER: A new option <c>per_bin</c> is now supported. When used the - generated encode/decode functions use binaries and the bit syntax to - get better performance than the old <c>per</c> variant which used - lists. All values input to encode and returned from decode are - compatible between <c>per</c> and <c>per_bin</c> except for - open types which are represented as binaries with per_bin and octet - lists with per. We recommend that you use per_bin instead of per from - now on, the use of binaries will be the default in coming versions and - all improvements and optimizations for PER will be concentrated to that - solution.</p> - <p>(Own Id: OTP-4094)</p> - <p></p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Support for DER implemented. Used by flag +der when compiling. Include - the full BER encoding plus: sorting of SET components, sorting of - encoded elements in SET OF, full check of default values in SET and - SEQUENCE. See new documentation on DER in user_guide sections 1.3.1; - 1.4.11; 1.4.12; 1.4.14; 1.4.16 and 1.10, in the reference manual for - asn1ct.</p> - <p>(Own Id: OTP-4103)</p> - <p></p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.3.1</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed errors and malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>Do not generate record in .hrl file for SET types</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4025</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Fixed internal error when using BIT STRINGs with Named Number List in combination with <c>compact_bit_string</c> and <c>ber_bin</c> options.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4026</p> - <p>Aux Id: OTP-3982</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>The atom 'com' can now be used in ENUMERATED as an EnumerationItem.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4037</p> - <p>Aux Id: Seq 7036</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>ber: Now it is possible (again) to encode data format "{Type,Value}" in a SEQUENCE OF RequestParameter, when RequestParameter is of type ENUMERATED. The {Type,Value} - notation is not recommended for use, it is redundant and exist only for very ancient backwards compatibility reasons. The "feature" might be removed in forthcoming versions.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4057</p> - <p>Aux Id: Seq 7066</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>A bug in the parser, that caused failure on COMPONENTS OF is now removed.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4058</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.3</title> - - <section> - <title>Known problems</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>The compiler will now check that a value referenced by name - does exist.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3277</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>BER:Decode of a type T ::= SEQUENCE OF C fails if C is encoded with indefinite length. - This is know corrected.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3811</p> - <p>Aux Id: seq5040</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Fixed errors and malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>The new parser handles imports when one import ends with FROM, a modulename and a reference to a objectidentifier followed by imports from other modules.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3463</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>The compiler did not check that a name mentioned as EXPORTED - actually is defined within the module. - This is now corrected.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3659</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Removed bug caused by use of nested indefinite length</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3994</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Improvements and new features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>Now supporting most common use of parameterization according to X.683</p> - <p>(Own Id: OTP-3978)</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>PER: Now supporting most common use of Information Objects according to X.681. A new parser has been implemented. The error messages due to syntax errors are slightly different than previous. TableConstraint part of X.682 now also supported.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3979</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>New compiler option added: <c>ber_bin</c>. The compiler generates code with new bit syntax. Run time functions uses bit syntax when feasible. Higher encoding/decoding performance in most cases. Se also comments for Asn1 1.2.9.3.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3981</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>A more compact format of BIT STRING in Erlang is now available by use of the compiler option <c>compact_bit_string</c>. It is much faster when large BIT STRINGs are used.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3982</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Now possible to merge many ASN.1 input files to one Erlang file by use of a configuration file that lists the ASN.1 files.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3983</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>New documentation in <em>User's Guide</em> in section:</p> - <p>3.1: New compile-time functions and options are described.</p> - <p>4.6: New compact format of BIT STRING is described.</p> - <p>4.8: Additional comments on character strings.</p> - <p>7: New section describing ASN.1 Information Objects.</p> - <p>8: New section describing Parameterization.</p> - <p><em>Reference Manual/asn1ct</em> New compile options are described.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3984</p> - <p>Aux Id: OTP-3978, OTP-3979, OTP-3981, OTP-3982, OTP-3983</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Added the functionality to invoke ASN1Mod:encode (and decode).</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3985</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Performance improvements by removing not necessary use of apply when calling asn1rt:encode. Also other general improvements.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3988</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.2.9.6</title> - - <section> - <title>Known problems</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>The compiler does not check that an exported name actually exists in the ASN.1 module.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3659</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>The compiler does not check that a value referenced by name does exist.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3277</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>BER: The compiler does not take the extensions into account when checking if - the tags are unique in a SEQUENCE or SET.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3304</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Fixed errors and malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>PER: Trailing zeroes in a BIT STRING declared without named bits - should not be removed in the encodings.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3830</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.2.9.5</title> - - <section> - <title>Known problems</title> - <p>Same as for 1.2.9.3.</p> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Fixed errors and malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>PER: Constraints are not propagated when types are - referring to each other. Example:</p> - <code type="none"> - - TBCD-STRING ::= OCTET STRING - - LAI ::= TBCD-STRING (SIZE(3)) </code> - <p>The size constraint is not passed on during encode,decode - resulting in wrong encoding for PER , it is - coded with a length determinant which should not be there - when the length is fixed. For BER this does not matter because the constraints does - not affect the encodings.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3713</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>The generated code gets wrong if there are several ENUMERATED fields in a SEQUENCE or SET, this is now corrected.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3796</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>BER:Decode of a type T ::= SEQUENCE OF C fails if C is encoded with indefinite length. - This is know corrected.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3811</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.2.9.3</title> - - <section> - <title>Known problems</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>The compiler does not check that an exported name actually exists in the ASN.1 module.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3659</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>The compiler does not check that a value referenced by name does exist.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3277</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>BER: The compiler does not take the extensions into account when checking if - the tags are unique in a SEQUENCE or SET.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3304</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Fixed errors and malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>This version supports soft upgrade from versions 1.2.6 1.2.7.</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>In an ENUMERATED type like this:</p> - <code type="none"> -\011\011T ::= ENUMERATED { blue, green} </code> - <p>The symbols was encoded/decoded with the wrong values, i.e in - reverse order. This is now corrected.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3700</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>PER: OCTET STRING with Size constrained to a single value i.e fixed size - was treated wrong during encode and decode. This is now corrected.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3701</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Improvements and new features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>There is now a new compiler option <c>ber_bin</c> available that can be used to - generate encode/decode functions for BER that uses the new "bit-syntax" to - make the functions more efficient. The <c>ber_bin</c> option is used - as an alternative to the <c>ber</c> and <c>per</c> options.</p> - <p>The encode function then produces a - possibly nested list of binaries and integer lists. The decode function does - in this case require a single binary as input instead of a list. - The modules generated with this option require that you have an R7A or later - system, otherwise they will not compile and the runtime module asn1rt_ber_bin - can not be executed.</p> - <p>The ber_bin option is not officially supported in this version (will be - in a later version) but is provided for those who want to try it. - It should be significantly faster at decode and is slightly faster at encode. - Exactly how performance differs between this binary approach and the - list approach depends highly on the type of input. - Another thing worth noting is that both approaches still have a lot of - solutions in common which can be improved a lot to gain even better - performance.</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.2.9.2</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed errors and malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>BER: Encode/decode of extension components did not work properly. This is now corrected.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3395</p> - <p>Aux Id: </p> - <p>PER:The encode/decode of NULL as an open type has been corrected. An open type must always have a length of at least 1 byte even if the contained - value (e.g NULL) encodes to nothing.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3496</p> - <p>Aux Id: </p> - </item> - <item> - <p>BER:In the current implementation extension components of a SEQUENCE are required - to be present when they are specified as mandatory. This is an error, all extension - components are "optional" even if they are not specified to have the OPTIONAL or - DEFAULT property. This is now corrected.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3278</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Improvements and new features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>The ASN.1 language feature <c>COMPONENTS OF</c> is now implemented.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-2515</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>The encoding and decoding of ENUMERATED and - INTEGER with NamedNumbers is made more efficient and thus - faster in runtime.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3464</p> - <p>Aux Id:</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Added support for encode/decode of open type which is - constrained to a specific type. Previously the value of - an open type had to be a list of octets, but now the Erlang - representation of the specific type used in the constraint - is used both as input to encode and as output from decode.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3569</p> - <p>Aux Id: </p> - </item> - <item> - <p>PER: GeneralString, GraphicalString etc. i.e all strings - that are not so called "known-multiplier character - string types" are now supported by the runtime - encode/decode functions.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3573</p> - <p>Aux Id:</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.2.6</title> - - <section> - <title>Known problems</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>The ASN.1 language feature <c>COMPONENTS OF</c> is not implemented.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-2515</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>The compiler does not check that a value referenced by name does exist.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3277</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>BER:In the current implementation extension components of a SEQUENCE are required - to be present when they are specified as mandatory. This is an error, all extension - components are "optional" even if they are not specified to have the OPTIONAL or - DEFAULT property.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3278</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>BER: The compiler does not take the extensions into account when checking if - the tags are unique in a SEQUENCE or SET.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3304</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Fixed errors and malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>This version supports soft upgrade from versions 1.1.1, 1.1.5 and 1.1.6. - Two new runtime modules <c>asn1rt_ber_v1</c> and - <c>asn1rt_per_v1</c> are delivered together with the old ones. This makes - it possible to continue running applications with modules generated with the - previous version of the asn1 compiler while modules generated by this version - will use the new runtime modules. Note that it is only advice-able to continue - running old generates if they are working perfectly and have no need - for the corrections made in this version of the asn1 application.</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>BER: SEQUENCEs encoded with indefinite length was not correctly decoded. - This in now corrected.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3352</p> - <p>Aux Id: Seq 4100</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.2.4</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed errors and malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>The compiler now detects multiple definitions of values and types and reports this as - an error. Previously this was detected when the generated Erlang module was compiled.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3105</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>BER: An error regarding encoding of <c>ENUMERATED</c> present in asn1-1.1.1 - is corrected. The new version 1.1.2 of asn1 containing this correction is - delivered as a "patch".</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3169</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>BER: Decoding of <c>SEQUENCE OF</c> and <c>SET OF</c> with indefinite length is corrected. - The correction was first delivered in version 1.1.2.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3170</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>BER: Encoding and decoding of <c>ENUMERATED</c> - with extensionmark - "..." did not work (crashed with a runtime error). This - has now been corrected. If an unknown enumerated value is - decoded (for an extensible enumerated type) - it is returned as <c>{asn1_enum,Value}</c> where - <c>Value</c> is an integer. Enumerated values in this format - are also accepted by the encoder. - ASN.1 modules containing - <c>ENUMERATED</c> with extensionmark should be - recompiled with the corrected - version of the compiler. The BER runtime functions are also - corrected. - Note that this correction has already been delivered as a - bugfix for R4B (OTP-2951).</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3202</p> - <p>Aux Id: Seq3745</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>BER: The primitive/constructed bit in the tag byte of an encoding - is not correct when it comes to user defined tags. - For example in </p> - <code type="none"> - T ::= [2] SEQUENCE { a BOOLEAN} </code> - <p>the tag 2 does not get the constructed bit set which it should. - This is now corrected.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3241</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>The decoder can now detect if there are unexpected bytes - remaining when all components of a sequence are decoded. - The decoder will then return <c>{error,{asn1{unexpected,Bytes}}}</c></p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3270</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Values of type <c>OBJECT IDENTIFIER</c> was sometimes returned as an Erlang list - (ASN.1 constants) and sometimes as a tuple (from the decode functions). This is now - changed so that <c>OBJECT IDENTIFIER</c> values always are represented as an Erlang - tuple.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3280</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>PER:The encode/decode functions could not handle integers with - a range greater than 16#7ffffff. This limit is now removed.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3287</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>PER: The encoding/decoding of the length for a SET OF/SEQUENCE OF - was wrong if there was a size constraint. This is now corrected.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3291</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>PER: Encoding of a constrained INTEGER (range > 16 k) was wrong for - the value 0. This is now corrected.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3306</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Improvements and new features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>The ASN.1 module name and the filename where the ASN.1 - specification resides must match each other (has always been the - case). This is now checked by the compiler. The check requires that - the names match in a case or case insensitive way depending on the - characteristics for the current system.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-1843</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>PER: Encode/decode of an extension value (i.e not within the root set) for - <c>ENUMERATED</c> did not work properly. This is now corrected. - If an unknown enumerated value is - decoded (for an extensible enumerated type) - it is returned as <c>{asn1_enum,Value}</c> where - <c>Value</c> is an integer. Enumerated values in this format - are also accepted by the encoder (if the value is >= the number of known - extension values).</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-2930</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Unnecessary printouts from the compiler are removed. - The compiler version and the compiler options are now - printed to stdout.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3276</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>In order to better suite the use of ASN.1 in embedded systems only - the modules needed in runtime are now listed in the <c>.app</c> file.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3279</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>The compiler now supports extensionmarker in constraint specifications. - Example:</p> - <code type="none"> -INTEGER (0..10, ...) </code> - <p>In previous version this was reported as a syntax error.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3281</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>A very limited part of ITU-T recommendation X.681 - Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1): Information - object specification is now implemented. Specifically \011 - TYPE IDENTIFIER is recognized by the compiler.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3325</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Parameterization of ASN.1 specifications (ITU-T X.683) is now - supported to a limited extent.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3326</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.1.3.1</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed errors and malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>BER Encoding and decoding of <c>ENUMERATED</c> - with extensionmark - "..." did not work (crashed with a runtime error). This - has now been corrected. If an unknown enumerated value is - decoded (for an extensible enumerated type) - it is returned as <c>{asn1_enum,Value}</c> where - <c>Value</c> is an integer. Enumerated values in this format - are also accepted by the encoder. - ASN.1 modules containing - <c>ENUMERATED</c> with extensionmark should be - recompiled with the corrected - version of the compiler. The BER runtime functions are also - corrected. - Note that this correction has already been delivered as a - bug-fix for R4B (OTP-2951).</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3202</p> - <p>Aux Id: Seq3745</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.1.1</title> - - <section> - <title>Known problems</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>The syntactic construct <c>COMPONENTS OF</c> is not - implemented.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-2515</p> - </item> - <item> - <p><c>ANY</c> and <c>ANY DEFINED BY</c> are currently not - supported.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-2741</p> - <p>Aux Id: seq 1188</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Multiple definitions of the same Type or Value is not detected - by the compiler. The error occurs when the generated Erlang - module is compiled.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3105</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.1</title> - - <section> - <title>Known problems</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>The primitive/constructed bit in the tag byte of an encoding - is not correct when it comes to user defined tags. - For example in</p> - <code type="none"> - T ::= [2] SEQUENCE { a BOOLEAN} </code> - <p>the tag 2 does not get the constructed bit set which it should. - This is now corrected.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3241</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Fixed errors and malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>The BER decoder failed to decode certain nested data types - where <c>IMPLICIT</c> tags where involved. - This is now corrected.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-2719</p> - <p>Aux Id: seq 1148</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>The handling of types with extension marker "..." is corrected. - Earlier each SEQUENCE and SET with an extension marker got an - extra field named <c>asn1_EXT</c> in the generated record. - This was a mistake and that field is now removed (concerns - both BER and BER).</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-2724</p> - <p>Aux Id: seq 1148, OTP-2719</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>The decoder (both BER and PER) could not handle unnamed - bits of a <c>BIT STRING</c> if the type had any - named bits declared. This is now corrected and the unnamed - bits are returned as <c>{bit,Pos}</c> where Pos is the bit - position. The <c>{bit,Pos}</c> can be used as input to the - encoder too.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-2725</p> - <p>Aux Id: seq 1148,OTP-2719,OTP-2724</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>The functions <c>asn1rt:decode</c> and <c>asn1ct:decode</c> - did not always return <c>{ok,Result}</c> or - <c>{error,Reason}</c> as documented. This is now corrected.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-2730</p> - <p>Aux Id: seq 1158</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>The compiler did not accept CHOICE types as components - of a SEQUENCE or SET when - the modules tag default was IMPLICIT. - Example:</p> - <code type="none"> -C ::= CHOICE { ......} -A ::= SEQUENCE { -a [1] C, -- This was not accepted -..... </code> - <p>This was an error - caused by a misinterpretation of the ASN.1 standard. This - is now corrected.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-2731</p> - <p>Aux Id: seq 1163</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>When decoding a SEQUENCE A which contains an OPTIONAL component - b which is a SEQUENCE with mandatory components, the decoder - does not detect as an error that a mandatory component of b - is missing. The same error could occur also in other cases - with nested types and optional components of SEQUENCE or SET. - This is now corrected.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-2738</p> - <p>Aux Id: seq 1183</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>BER Encoding and decoding of <c>ENUMERATED</c> - with extensionmark - "..." did not work (crashed with a runtime error). This - has now been corrected. If an unknown enumerated value is - decoded (for an extensible enumerated type) - it is returned as <c>{asn1_enum,Value}</c> where - <c>Value</c> is an integer. Enumerated values in this format - are also accepted by the encoder. - ASN.1 modules containing - <c>ENUMERATED</c> with extensionmark should be - recompiled with the corrected - version of the compiler. The BER runtime functions are also - corrected.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-2951</p> - <p>Aux Id: Seq 1446 OTP-2929</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>The compiler does now accept all valid value notations - for the OBJECT IDENTIFIER type. The generated code for - those values is also corrected.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-3059</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Improvements and new features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>The code generated for BER is significantly enhanced resulting - in less code and around 300% better performance in runtime - for the encoding of complex ASN.1 values. The performance of - decoding is unchanged.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-2806</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Asn1 1.0.3</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed errors and malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>The <c>asn1.app</c> file is corrected.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-2640</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>The encoding of integers in BER did not comply with the - standard for all values. The values was not encoded - in the minimum number of octets as required. This is - now corrected in the runtime module <c>asn1rt_ber</c>.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-2666</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Improvements and new features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>The compiler now generates explicit exports directives for - all generated - functions that should be exported (instead of -compile(export_all)). - This eliminates the warnings from the Erlang compiler when - compiling the - generated file.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-1845</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>R3B02 (Asn1 1.0.2)</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed errors and malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>The decoding of a BER encoded SEQUENCE with optional component - of type SEQUENCE (also with optional components) could result - in an error or wrong result if the tags are equal.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-2226</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>The encoding of (PER) SEQUENCE with extensionmark was wrong. - This is now corrected.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-2349</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>R3A (Asn1 0.9)</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed errors and malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>The asn1 compiler now detects the use of an implicit tag before <c>CHOICE</c> as an error (in accordance with the standard)</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-1844</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>An OPTIONAL CHOICE embedded in SEQUENCE when BER coding - caused an error when generating decode code. This is now - corrected.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-1857</p> - <p>Aux Id: OTP-1848</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>1 ASN1 0.8.1</title> - <p>This is the first release of the ASN1 application. This version is - released for beta-testing. Some functionality will be added until the - 1.0 version is released. See the release notes for the latest version - for the exact details about new features. A list of missing features - and restrictions can be found in the chapter below.</p> - - <section> - <title>1.1 Missing features and other restrictions</title> - <p></p> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>The encoding rules BER and PER (aligned) is supported. <em>PER (unaligned) IS NOT SUPPORTED</em>.</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>NOT SUPPORTED types <c>ANY</c> and <c>ANY DEFINED BY</c> - (is not in the standard any more).</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>NOT SUPPORTED types <c>EXTERNAL</c> and <c>EMBEDDED-PDV</c>. </p> - </item> - <item> - <p>NOT SUPPORTED type <c>REAL</c> (planned to be implemented). </p> - </item> - <item> - <p>The code generation support for value definitions in the ASN.1 notation is very limited - (planned to be enhanced).</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>The support for constraints is limited to:</p> - </item> - </list> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>SizeConstraint SIZE(X)</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>SingleValue (1)</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>ValueRange (X..Y)</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>PermittedAlpabet FROM (but not for BMPString and UniversalString when generating PER).</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Complex expressions in constraints is not supported (planned to be extended).</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>The current version of the compiler has very limited error checking:</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Stops at first syntax error.</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Does not stop when a reference to an undefined type is found , - but prints an error message. Compilation of the generated - Erlang module will then fail.</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>A whole number of other semantical controls is currently - missing. This means that the compiler will give little - or bad help to detect what's wrong with an ASN.1 - specification, but will mostly work very well when the - ASN.1 specification is correct.</p> - </item> - </list> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>The maximum INTEGER supported in this version is a - signed 64 bit integer. This limitation is probably quite - reasonable. (Planned to be extended).</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Only AUTOMATIC TAGS supported for PER.</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Only EXPLICIT and IMPLICIT TAGS supported for BER.</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>The compiler supports decoding of BER-data with indefinite - length but it is not possible to produce data with indefinite - length with the encoder.</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> -</chapter> - diff --git a/lib/asn1/doc/src/part_notes.xml b/lib/asn1/doc/src/part_notes.xml deleted file mode 100644 index b0a6887aa5..0000000000 --- a/lib/asn1/doc/src/part_notes.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,39 +0,0 @@ -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="latin1" ?> -<!DOCTYPE part SYSTEM "part.dtd"> - -<part xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> - <header> - <copyright> - <year>2004</year><year>2009</year> - <holder>Ericsson AB. 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See - the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations - under the License. - - </legalnotice> - - <title>Asn1 Release Notes</title> - <prepared>Ingela Anderton Andin</prepared> - <docno></docno> - <date>>2004-09-07</date> - <rev></rev> - <file>part_notes.sgml</file> - </header> - <description> - <p>The <em>Asn1</em> application - contains modules with compile-time and run-time support for ASN.1.</p> - <p>There are also release notes for - <url href="notes_history.html">older versions</url>.</p> - </description> - <xi:include href="notes.xml"/> -</part> - diff --git a/lib/asn1/doc/src/warning.gif b/lib/asn1/doc/src/warning.gif Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index 96af52360e..0000000000 --- a/lib/asn1/doc/src/warning.gif +++ /dev/null |