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</header>
<p>This document describes the changes made to the ERTS application.</p>
+<section><title>Erts 6.4</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix missing quotation in the <c>LM_FIND_EMU_CC</c>
+ <c>autoconf</c> macro which could cause build failures.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12388</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix erroneous printout of monitors in crashdump file.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12537</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The runtime system without SMP support could crash in the
+ BIF <c>port_control/3</c> if the port that was being
+ accessed died during the call to the BIF.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12544 Aux Id: Seq12777 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Avoid corrupt oversized integer to be created from binary
+ matching. Instead throw system_limit exception which is
+ the correct behavior. A peculiar symptom of this bug was
+ that bitwise operations (band, bor, bxor) on such
+ oversized integers could return the empty list [].
+ Credit: Mikael Pettersson, Nico Kruber</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12556</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ A race condition when calling <c>port_info/1</c> could
+ cause a memory fault has been fixed.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12587</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix comparison of exact terms. An overflow that could
+ cause faulty comparisons has been fixed. Comparison of
+ exact terms is exclusively used within Maps.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12623</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix bug in <c>list_to_integer/1</c> for very long lists
+ that could cause VM crash.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12624</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Introduced a runtime system internal 64-bit API for
+ atomic memory operations.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12351</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Add command line argument option for the initial size of
+ process dictionaries.</p>
+ <p>
+ Use '+hpds &lt;size&gt;' to set initial process
+ dictionary size for spawned processes.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12535 Aux Id: seq12809 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix documentation on $char for Unicode</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12545</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>Erts 6.3.1</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>