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+To: erlang patches <[email protected]>
+Subject: What's cooking in erlang/otp (2009-12-22)
+X-dev-at: 5149d9a729255e8d900d70deb688a51ecd3e1cf1
+
+This is the last What's cooking this year.
+
+Since most of the OTP team has left for vacation, there
+will probably not be any updates of the git repository
+until Jan 7, 2010.
+
+Happy Holidays!
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+[New topics]
+
+* jb/atom-table-size-env (erts, otp) (2009-12-21) 1 commit
+ - Added ERL_ATOM_TABLE_SIZE environment variable (5d78b19)
+
+* kj/epmd-port2resp-trunc-extra (erts) (2009-12-20) 1 commit
+ - Handle "extra" field according to specs in ALIVE2_REQ and PORT2_RESP. (a841673)
+
+* km/http-host-header-fix (inets) (2009-12-21) 1 commit
+ - Fix inets HTTP client bug crafting Host header when port is not 80 (75a3f7c)
+
+* sc/sctp-connect-nowait (kernel) (2009-12-21) 1 commit
+ - Implement a non-blocking SCTP connect (ae3d819)
+
+* uw/shell-tab-completion (stdlib) (2009-12-17) 1 commit
+ - Shell tab completion now works for quoted module and function names (226a6e0)
+
+* va/rb-improvements (sasl) (2009-12-21) 2 commits
+ - Add rb:re/1 to grep reports using the re module (e5bd091)
+ - Fix minor typo in read_report/1 (07c6ad4)
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+[Cooking]
+
+* aq/asn1-incomplete-packet (asn1) (2009-12-16) 1 commit
+ - asn1: let decode/2 functions handle incomplete packets (5dbde5a)
+
+* at/odbc_osx_fix (odbc) (2009-11-30) 1 commit
+ - Workaround broken ODBC implementation on OSX 10.5 (88c71c9)
+
+* bd/http_chunk_fix (inets) (2009-11-27) 1 commit
+ - http_chunk data handling/passing improvement. (c2553be)
+
+* bg/otp_build-improvements (otp, stdlib) (2009-12-02) 3 commits
+ - Support updating the primary bootstrap in a git repository (6840b32)
+ - Determine which VCS is being used (5770b7b)
+ - stdlib makefile: Add explicit rule (b197d92)
+
+* cf/compile_warning_as_error (compiler, erts) (2009-12-15) 3 commits
+ - Add option -Werror in erlc(1) (d29a335)
+ - compile: add flag warnings_as_errors to treat warnings as errors (13124f5)
+ - compile.erl: remove trailing whitespace (8a944af)
+
+* cf/epp-macro-overloading (otp, stdlib) (2009-12-10) 4 commits
+ - update the documentation on preprocessor in the reference manual (162ec27)
+ - epp: change rules to choose the right version of a macro (8dcc9f8)
+ - epp: Add support of macros overloading (f7a8959)
+ - epp: fix bug in the function scan_undef (52543e0)
+
+Extend the pre-processor to allow overloading of macros with
+the same name but different arities. Now with documentation.
+
+* db/tv_nthtail_fix (tv) (2009-12-01) 1 commit
+ - Fix for tv which restarts while trying to open a table (abe0759)
+
+We will cook this topic for a while and include it in the next
+release unless someone finds a problem with it or a better fix.
+
+* dgud/dbg_mac_menu (debugger) (2009-12-16) 4 commits
+ - Dbg: Expand the module listbox when window grows. (85f849c)
+ - Dbg: Cut variable bindings after 80 chars. (87f6e4c)
+ - Dbg: Fixed documentation links to the new index.html (e27e41b)
+ - Dbg Fixed mac gui issues (438d778)
+
+* jp/dependencies_makefile (compiler, erts) (2009-12-14) 1 commit
+ - Add dependencies Makefile generation to erlc(1) and compile(3) (c0734e8)
+
+* jp/gcc-detection-in-makefiles (erts) (2009-12-16) 1 commit
+ - Fix GCC detection in ERTS configure script and Makefiles (d65c21e)
+
+Will probably be graduated as soon as we have tested it on all
+platforms in our daily builds.
+
+* po/odbc-update-delete-no-rows (odbc) (2009-11-26) 1 commit
+ - SQL_NO_DATA and SQLSTATE 00000 indicate success for updates/deletes that affect no rows (1a564f8)
+
+* tc/premodern-fpe (erts) (2009-12-08) 2 commits
+ - Add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE to CPPFLAGS on Darwin platforms (6e60658)
+ - Test for reliable fpes on Darwin platforms without DARWIN_MODERN_MCONTEXT (4160466)
+
+Reliable floating point exceptions is necessary for hipe to
+be enabled. I can confirm that hipe can now be enabled on
+Snow Leopard (10.6) and that it speeds up building of the
+Dialyzer PLT.
+
+This branch depends on functionality that is deprecated
+in Mac OS 10.6, so it might be necessary to find another solution
+when 10.7 will be released (in case it removes the deprecated
+functionality).
+
+We would like to hear about how this patch works on older versions
+of Mac OS X. It is known to work on Tiger/PPC.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+[Dropped]
+
+* bw/win32-address-space-fix (erts) (2009-12-10) 1 commit
+ .  win32 mmap emulation for mseg support + largeaddressaware linking (357167e)
+
+The branch in its current shape cannot be included in OTP because
+it includes copyrighted code with an unknown license. It is also
+overkill to emulate mmap() (and it could cause other problems in
+the future); the easiest and most straightforward solution is to
+implement mseg_create()/mseg_destroy() (in erl_mseg.c) using
+VirtualAlloc()/VirtualFree().
+