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-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/absform.xml3
-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/alt_dist.xml2
-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/erl.xml9
-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/erl_driver.xml19
-rw-r--r--[-rwxr-xr-x]erts/doc/src/erl_ext_fig.gifbin3834 -> 3834 bytes
-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/erl_nif.xml11
-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/erl_prim_loader.xml6
-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/erlang.xml83
-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/erlsrv.xml2
-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/erts_alloc.xml64
-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/make.dep32
-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/notes.xml356
-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/start_erl.xml2
13 files changed, 480 insertions, 109 deletions
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/absform.xml b/erts/doc/src/absform.xml
index 4c84412dd6..88e8b284fb 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/absform.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/absform.xml
@@ -285,7 +285,8 @@
<item>If E is <c><![CDATA[fun Name / Arity]]></c>, then
Rep(E) = <c><![CDATA[{'fun',LINE,{function,Name,Arity}}]]></c>.</item>
<item>If E is <c><![CDATA[fun Module:Name/Arity]]></c>, then
- Rep(E) = <c><![CDATA[{'fun',LINE,{function,Module,Name,Arity}}]]></c>.</item>
+ Rep(E) = <c><![CDATA[{'fun',LINE,{function,Rep(Module),Rep(Name),Rep(Arity)}}]]></c>.
+ (Before the R15 release: Rep(E) = <c><![CDATA[{'fun',LINE,{function,Module,Name,Arity}}]]></c>.)</item>
<item>If E is <c><![CDATA[fun Fc_1 ; ... ; Fc_k end]]></c>
where each <c><![CDATA[Fc_i]]></c> is a function clause then Rep(E) =
<c><![CDATA[{'fun',LINE,{clauses,[Rep(Fc_1), ..., Rep(Fc_k)]}}]]></c>.</item>
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/alt_dist.xml b/erts/doc/src/alt_dist.xml
index c30e04fce7..038950b54d 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/alt_dist.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/alt_dist.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<chapter>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>2000</year><year>2010</year>
+ <year>2000</year><year>2011</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erl.xml b/erts/doc/src/erl.xml
index 02082e57c6..39c79a29df 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erl.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erl.xml
@@ -587,6 +587,13 @@
<p>Enables auto load tracing, displaying info while loading
code.</p>
</item>
+ <tag><c><![CDATA[+L]]></c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>Don't load information about source filenames and line numbers.
+ This will save some memory, but exceptions will not contain
+ information about the filenames and line numbers.
+ </p>
+ </item>
<tag><marker id="erts_alloc"><c><![CDATA[+MFlag Value]]></c></marker></tag>
<item>
<p>Memory allocator specific flags, see
@@ -987,7 +994,7 @@
the <c><![CDATA[-extra]]></c> section, i.e. the end of the command line
following after an <c><![CDATA[-extra]]></c> flag.</p>
</item>
- <tag><c><![CDATA[ERL_ZFLAGS]]></c>and <c><![CDATA[ERL_FLAGS]]></c></tag>
+ <tag><c><![CDATA[ERL_ZFLAGS]]></c> and <c><![CDATA[ERL_FLAGS]]></c></tag>
<item>
<p>The content of these environment variables will be added to the
end of the command line for <c><![CDATA[erl]]></c>.</p>
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erl_driver.xml b/erts/doc/src/erl_driver.xml
index 2fb03954b6..8e18dd6657 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erl_driver.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erl_driver.xml
@@ -1638,12 +1638,19 @@ ERL_DRV_EXT2TERM char *buf, ErlDrvUInt len
<fsummary>Cancel an asynchronous call</fsummary>
<desc>
<marker id="driver_async_cancel"></marker>
- <p>This function cancels an asynchronous operation, by removing
- it from the queue. Only functions in the queue can be
- cancelled; if a function is executing, it's too late to
- cancel it. The <c>async_free</c> function is also called.</p>
- <p>The return value is 1 if the operation was removed from the
- queue, otherwise 0.</p>
+ <p>This function used to cancel a scheduled asynchronous operation,
+ if it was still in the queue. It returned 1 if it succeeded, and
+ 0 if it failed.</p>
+ <p>Since it could not guarantee success, it was more or less useless.
+ The user had to implement synchronization of cancellation anyway.
+ It also unnecessarily complicated the implementation. Therefore,
+ as of OTP-R15B <c>driver_async_cancel()</c> is deprecated, and
+ scheduled for removal in OTP-R16. It will currently always fail,
+ and return 0.</p>
+ <warning><p><c>driver_async_cancel()</c> is deferred and will
+ be removed in the OTP-R16 release.</p>
+ </warning>
+
</desc>
</func>
<func>
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_fig.gif b/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_fig.gif
index 14d6bbc871..14d6bbc871 100755..100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_fig.gif
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_fig.gif
Binary files differ
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erl_nif.xml b/erts/doc/src/erl_nif.xml
index 48839e9081..8daa67aa87 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erl_nif.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erl_nif.xml
@@ -692,6 +692,10 @@ typedef enum {
<fsummary>Determine if a term is an exception</fsummary>
<desc><p>Return true if <c>term</c> is an exception.</p></desc>
</func>
+ <func><name><ret>int</ret><nametext>enif_is_number(ErlNifEnv* env, ERL_NIF_TERM term)</nametext></name>
+ <fsummary>Determine if a term is a number (integer or float)</fsummary>
+ <desc><p>Return true if <c>term</c> is a number.</p></desc>
+ </func>
<func><name><ret>int</ret><nametext>enif_is_fun(ErlNifEnv* env, ERL_NIF_TERM term)</nametext></name>
<fsummary>Determine if a term is a fun</fsummary>
<desc><p>Return true if <c>term</c> is a fun.</p></desc>
@@ -822,6 +826,13 @@ typedef enum {
<desc><p>Create an ordinary list containing the elements of array <c>arr</c>
of length <c>cnt</c>. An empty list is returned if <c>cnt</c> is 0.</p></desc>
</func>
+ <func><name><ret>int</ret><nametext>enif_make_reverse_list(ErlNifEnv* env, ERL_NIF_TERM term, ERL_NIF_TERM *list)</nametext></name>
+ <fsummary>Create the reverse list of the list <c>term</c>.</fsummary>
+ <desc><p>Set <c>*list</c> to the reverse list of the list <c>term</c> and return true,
+ or return false if <c>term</c> is not a list. This function should only be used on
+ short lists as a copy will be created of the list which will not be released until after the
+ nif returns.</p></desc>
+ </func>
<func><name><ret>ERL_NIF_TERM</ret><nametext>enif_make_long(ErlNifEnv* env, long int i)</nametext></name>
<fsummary>Create an integer term from a long int</fsummary>
<desc><p>Create an integer term from a <c>long int</c>.</p></desc>
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erl_prim_loader.xml b/erts/doc/src/erl_prim_loader.xml
index fa3daaeecc..9f5b3f385b 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erl_prim_loader.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erl_prim_loader.xml
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
<c><anno>Bin</anno></c> is the contents of the file as a binary.</p>
<p>The <c><anno>Filename</anno></c> can also be a file in an archive. For example
- <c>/otp/root/lib/mnesia-4.4.7.ez/mnesia-4.4.7/ebin/mnesia_backup.beam</c>.
+ <c>$OTPROOT/lib/</c><c>mnesia-4.4.7.ez/mnesia-4.4.7/ebin/</c><c>mnesia.beam</c>.
See <seealso marker="kernel:code">code(3)</seealso> about archive files.</p>
</desc>
</func>
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@
the names of all the files in the directory. The names are
not sorted.</p>
<p>The <c><anno>Dir</anno></c> can also be a directory in an archive. For example
- <c>/otp/root/lib/mnesia-4.4.7.ez/mnesia-4.4.7/ebin</c>.
+ <c>$OTPROOT/lib/</c><c>mnesia-4.4.7.ez/mnesia-4.4.7/ebin</c>.
See <seealso marker="kernel:code">code(3)</seealso> about archive files.</p>
</desc>
</func>
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@
<p>See <seealso marker="kernel:file">file(3)</seealso> for more info about
the record <c>file_info</c>.</p>
<p>The <c><anno>Filename</anno></c> can also be a file in an archive. For example
- <c>/otp/root/lib/mnesia-4.4.7.ez/mnesia-4.4.7/ebin/mnesia_backup.beam</c>.
+ <c>$OTPROOT/lib/</c><c>mnesia-4.4.7.ez/mnesia-4.4.7/ebin/</c><c>mnesia</c>.
See <seealso marker="kernel:code">code(3)</seealso> about archive files.</p>
</desc>
</func>
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
index 6b9f569eef..2ea144eb3f 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
@@ -550,15 +550,6 @@ false</pre>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
- <name name="concat_binary" arity="1"/>
- <fsummary>Concatenate a list of binaries (deprecated)</fsummary>
- <desc>
- <p>Do not use; use
- <seealso marker="#list_to_binary/1">list_to_binary/1</seealso>
- instead.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
<name>erlang:crc32(Data) -> integer() >= 0</name>
<fsummary>Compute crc32 (IEEE 802.3) checksum</fsummary>
<type>
@@ -811,8 +802,7 @@ false</pre>
<type>
<v>MonitorRef = reference()</v>
<v>OptionList = [Option]</v>
- <v>Option = flush</v>
- <v>Option = info</v>
+ <v>&nbsp;Option = flush | info</v>
</type>
<desc>
<p>The returned value is <c>true</c> unless <c>info</c> is part
@@ -1205,11 +1195,16 @@ true
</item>
<tag><c>{new_uniq, Uniq}</c></tag>
<item>
- <p><c>Uniq</c> (a binary) is a unique value for this fun.</p>
+ <p><c>Uniq</c> (a binary) is a unique value for this fun.
+ It is calculated from the compiled code for the entire module.</p>
</item>
<tag><c>{uniq, Uniq}</c></tag>
<item>
- <p><c>Uniq</c> (an integer) is a unique value for this fun.</p>
+ <p><c>Uniq</c> (an integer) is a unique value for this fun.
+ Starting in the R15 release, this integer is calculated from
+ the compiled code for the entire module. Before R15, this
+ integer was based on only the body of the fun.
+ </p>
</item>
</taglist>
</desc>
@@ -1353,17 +1348,18 @@ true
</desc>
</func>
<func>
- <name>erlang:get_stacktrace() -> [{Module, Function, Arity | Args}]</name>
+ <name>erlang:get_stacktrace() -> [{Module, Function, Arity | Args, Location}]</name>
<fsummary>Get the call stack back-trace of the last exception</fsummary>
<type>
<v>Module = Function = atom()</v>
<v>Arity = arity()</v>
<v>Args = [term()]</v>
+ <v>Location = [{atom(),term()}]</v>
</type>
<desc>
<p>Get the call stack back-trace (<em>stacktrace</em>) of the last
exception in the calling process as a list of
- <c>{Module,Function,Arity}</c> tuples.
+ <c>{Module,Function,Arity,Location}</c> tuples.
The <c>Arity</c> field in the first tuple may be the argument
list of that function call instead of an arity integer,
depending on the exception.</p>
@@ -1373,6 +1369,25 @@ true
<p>The stacktrace is the same data as the <c>catch</c> operator
returns, for example:</p>
<p><c>{'EXIT',{badarg,Stacktrace}} = catch abs(x)</c></p>
+ <p><c>Location</c> is a (possibly empty) list of two-tuples that
+ may indicate the location in the source code of the function.
+ The first element is an atom that describes the type of
+ information in the second element. Currently the following
+ items may occur:</p>
+ <taglist>
+ <tag><c>file</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>The second element of the tuple is a string (list of
+ characters) representing the filename of the source file
+ of the function.</p>
+ </item>
+ <tag><c>line</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>The second element of the tuple is the line number
+ (an integer greater than zero) in the source file
+ where the exception occurred or the function was called.</p>
+ </item>
+ </taglist>
<p>See also
<seealso marker="#error/1">erlang:error/1</seealso> and
<seealso marker="#error/2">erlang:error/2</seealso>.</p>
@@ -2898,11 +2913,11 @@ os_prompt%</pre>
<seealso marker="stdlib:unicode_usage">stdlib users guide
</seealso> for details.</p>
- <note>The characters in the name (if given as a list)
+ <note><p>The characters in the name (if given as a list)
can only be &gt; 255 if the Erlang VM is started in
Unicode file name translation mode, otherwise the name
of the executable is limited to the ISO-latin-1
- character set.</note>
+ character set.</p></note>
<p>If the <c>Command</c> cannot be run, an error
exception, with the posix error code as the reason, is
@@ -3015,11 +3030,11 @@ os_prompt%</pre>
Unicode translation of arguments, they can be supplied as
binaries in whatever encoding is deemed appropriate.</p>
- <note>The characters in the arguments (if given as a
+ <note><p>The characters in the arguments (if given as a
list of characters) can only be &gt; 255 if the Erlang
VM is started in Unicode file name mode,
otherwise the arguments are limited to the
- ISO-latin-1 character set.</note>
+ ISO-latin-1 character set.</p></note>
<p>If one, for any reason, wants to explicitly set the
program name in the argument vector, the <c>arg0</c>
@@ -3874,11 +3889,26 @@ os_prompt%</pre>
catches in this process. This <c>InfoTuple</c> may be
changed or removed without prior notice.</p>
</item>
- <tag><c>{current_function, {Module, Function, Args}}</c></tag>
+ <tag><c>{current_function, {Module, Function, Arity}}</c></tag>
<item>
- <p><c>Module</c>, <c>Function</c>, <c>Args</c> is
+ <p><c>Module</c>, <c>Function</c>, <c>Arity</c> is
the current function call of the process.</p>
</item>
+ <tag><c>{current_location, {Module, Function, Arity, Location}}</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p><c>Module</c>, <c>Function</c>, <c>Arity</c> is
+ the current function call of the process.
+ <c>Location</c> is a list of two-tuples that describes the
+ location in the source code.
+ </p>
+ </item>
+ <tag><c>{current_stacktrace, Stack}</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>Return the current call stack back-trace (<em>stacktrace</em>)
+ of the process. The stack has the same format as returned by
+ <seealso marker="#get_stacktrace/1">erlang:get_stacktrace/0</seealso>.
+ </p>
+ </item>
<tag><c>{dictionary, Dictionary}</c></tag>
<item>
<p><c>Dictionary</c> is the dictionary of the process.</p>
@@ -4145,11 +4175,14 @@ os_prompt%</pre>
equivalent to <c>erlang:Class(Reason)</c>.
<c>Reason</c> is any term and <c>Stacktrace</c> is a list as
returned from <c>get_stacktrace()</c>, that is a list of
- 3-tuples <c>{Module, Function, Arity | Args}</c> where
- <c>Module</c> and <c>Function</c> are atoms and the third
- element is an integer arity or an argument list. The
- stacktrace may also contain <c>{Fun, Args}</c> tuples where
+ 4-tuples <c>{Module, Function, Arity | Args,
+ Location}</c> where <c>Module</c> and <c>Function</c>
+ are atoms and the third element is an integer arity or an
+ argument list. The stacktrace may also contain <c>{Fun,
+ Args, Location}</c> tuples where
<c>Fun</c> is a local fun and <c>Args</c> is an argument list.</p>
+ <p>The <c>Location</c> element at the end is optional.
+ Omitting it is equivalent to specifying an empty list.</p>
<p>The stacktrace is used as the exception stacktrace for the
calling process; it will be truncated to the current
maximum stacktrace depth.</p>
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlsrv.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlsrv.xml
index 919caa9542..c1ecbc7b77 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erlsrv.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erlsrv.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<comref>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>1998</year><year>2010</year>
+ <year>1998</year><year>2011</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erts_alloc.xml b/erts/doc/src/erts_alloc.xml
index 90347824d5..3b5ee5391c 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erts_alloc.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erts_alloc.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<cref>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>2002</year><year>2010</year>
+ <year>2002</year><year>2011</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -58,11 +58,8 @@
<item>Allocator used for memory blocks that are expected to be
long-lived, for example Erlang code.</item>
<tag><c>fix_alloc</c></tag>
- <item>A very fast allocator used for some fix-sized
- data. <c>fix_alloc</c> manages a set of memory pools from
- which memory blocks are handed out. <c>fix_alloc</c>
- allocates memory pools from <c>ll_alloc</c>. Memory pools
- that have been allocated are never deallocated.</item>
+ <item>A fast allocator used for some frequently used
+ fixed size data types.</item>
<tag><c>std_alloc</c></tag>
<item>Allocator used for most memory blocks not allocated via any of
the other allocators described above.</item>
@@ -83,7 +80,7 @@
where only small blocks are placed. Currently this allocator is
disabled by default.</item>
</taglist>
- <p><c>sys_alloc</c> and <c>fix_alloc</c> are always enabled and
+ <p><c>sys_alloc</c> is always enabled and
cannot be disabled. <c>mseg_alloc</c> is always enabled if it is
available and an allocator that uses it is enabled. All other
allocators can be <seealso marker="#M_e">enabled or disabled</seealso>.
@@ -104,7 +101,7 @@
<marker id="alloc_util"></marker>
<title>The alloc_util framework</title>
<p>Internally a framework called <c>alloc_util</c> is used for
- implementing allocators. <c>sys_alloc</c>, <c>fix_alloc</c>, and
+ implementing allocators. <c>sys_alloc</c>, and
<c>mseg_alloc</c> do not use this framework; hence, the
following does <em>not</em> apply to them.</p>
<p>An allocator manages multiple areas, called carriers, in which
@@ -126,9 +123,8 @@
carrier". Main multiblock carriers are never deallocated. The
size of the main multiblock carrier is determined by the value
of the <seealso marker="#M_mmbcs">mmbcs</seealso> parameter.</p>
- <p> <marker id="mseg_mbc_sizes"></marker>
-
- Sizes of multiblock carriers allocated via <c>mseg_alloc</c> are
+ <p><marker id="mseg_mbc_sizes"></marker>Sizes of multiblock carriers
+ allocated via <c>mseg_alloc</c> are
decided based on the values of the largest multiblock carrier
size (<seealso marker="#M_lmbcs">lmbcs</seealso>), the smallest
multiblock carrier size (<seealso marker="#M_smbcs">smbcs</seealso>),
@@ -157,9 +153,8 @@
<p>Coalescing of free blocks are always performed immediately.
Boundary tags (headers and footers) in free blocks are used
which makes the time complexity for coalescing constant.</p>
- <p> <marker id="strategy"></marker>
-
- The memory allocation strategy used for multiblock carriers by an
+ <p><marker id="strategy"></marker>The memory allocation strategy
+ used for multiblock carriers by an
allocator is configurable via the <seealso marker="#M_as">as</seealso>
parameter. Currently the following strategies are available:</p>
<taglist>
@@ -214,6 +209,14 @@
This since it will only cause problems for other allocators.</p>
</item>
</taglist>
+ <p>Apart from the ordinary allocators described above a number of
+ pre-allocators are used for some specific data types. These
+ pre-allocators pre-allocate a fixed amount of memory for certain data
+ types when the run-time system starts. As long as there are available
+ pre-allocated memory, it will be used. When no pre-allocated memory is
+ available, memory will be allocated in ordinary allocators. These
+ pre-allocators are typically much faster than the ordinary allocators,
+ but can only satisfy a limited amount of requests.</p>
</section>
<note><p>
@@ -274,18 +277,6 @@
Max cached segments. The maximum number of memory segments
stored in the memory segment cache. Valid range is
0-30. Default value is 5.</item>
- <tag><marker id="MMcci"><c><![CDATA[+MMcci <time>]]></c></marker></tag>
- <item>
- Cache check interval (in milliseconds). The memory segment
- cache is checked for segments to destroy at an interval
- determined by this parameter. Default value is 1000.</item>
- </taglist>
- <p>The following flags are available for configuration of
- <c>fix_alloc</c>:</p>
- <taglist>
- <tag><marker id="MFe"><c>+MFe true</c></marker></tag>
- <item>
- Enable <c>fix_alloc</c>. Note: <c>fix_alloc</c> cannot be disabled.</item>
</taglist>
<p>The following flags are available for configuration of
<c>sys_alloc</c>:</p>
@@ -324,7 +315,7 @@
based on <c>alloc_util</c>. If <c>u</c> is used as subsystem
identifier (i.e., <c><![CDATA[<S> = u]]></c>) all allocators based on
<c>alloc_util</c> will be effected. If <c>B</c>, <c>D</c>, <c>E</c>,
- <c>H</c>, <c>L</c>, <c>R</c>, <c>S</c>, or <c>T</c> is used as
+ <c>F</c>, <c>H</c>, <c>L</c>, <c>R</c>, <c>S</c>, or <c>T</c> is used as
subsystem identifier, only the specific allocator identified will be
effected:</p>
<taglist>
@@ -443,26 +434,23 @@
kilobytes). See <seealso marker="#mseg_mbc_sizes">the description
on how sizes for mseg_alloc multiblock carriers are decided</seealso>
in "the <c>alloc_util</c> framework" section.</item>
- <tag><marker id="M_t"><c><![CDATA[+M<S>t true|false|<amount>]]></c></marker></tag>
+ <tag><marker id="M_t"><c><![CDATA[+M<S>t true|false]]></c></marker></tag>
<item>
Multiple, thread specific instances of the allocator.
This option will only have any effect on the runtime system
with SMP support. Default behaviour on the runtime system with
- SMP support (<c>N</c> equals the number of scheduler threads):
+ SMP support:
<taglist>
- <tag><c>temp_alloc</c></tag>
- <item><c>N + 1</c> instances.</item>
<tag><c>ll_alloc</c></tag>
<item><c>1</c> instance.</item>
<tag>Other allocators</tag>
- <item><c>N</c> instances when <c>N</c> is less than or equal to
- <c>16</c>. <c>16</c> instances when <c>N</c> is greater than
- <c>16</c>.</item>
+ <item><c>NoSchedulers+1</c> instances. Each scheduler will use
+ a lock-free instance of its own and other threads will use
+ a common instance.</item>
</taglist>
- <c>temp_alloc</c> will always use <c>N + 1</c> instances when
- this option has been enabled regardless of the amount passed.
- Other allocators will use the same amount of instances as the
- amount passed as long as it isn't greater than <c>N</c>.
+ It was previously (before ERTS version 5.9) possible to configure
+ a smaller amount of thread specific instances than schedulers.
+ This is, however, not possible any more.
</item>
</taglist>
<p>Currently the following flags are available for configuration of
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</header>
<p>This document describes the changes made to the ERTS application.</p>
+<section><title>Erts 5.8.5</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Several bugs concerning constant binary constructions
+ such as &lt;&lt;0:4294967295&gt;&gt; have been corrected.
+ Depending on the actual size of the binary and the type
+ of run-time system (32-bit, halfword, 64-bit), such
+ expression could either crash the run-time system or make
+ the loader refuse loading of the module.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9284</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The Erlsrv utility failed to stop the erlang machine if
+ no StopAction was defined when the service was stopped.
+ This is now corrected.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9344</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Due to a bug in glibc the runtime system could abort
+ while trying to destroy a mutex. A fix for this was
+ introduced in R14B02. This fix did, however, not solve
+ the problem. The runtime system will now issue a warning
+ instead of aborting.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9373 Aux Id: OTP-9009 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Replace atom in DRV macro in prim_file with string</p>
+ <p>
+ An experimental version of Dialyzer discovered that the
+ atom that replaced the DRV macro in prim_file ends up in
+ calls to erlang:open_port({spawn, Driver}, Portopts) as
+ the Driver argument. The documentation states that this
+ call requires a string there.</p>
+ <p>
+ This change is also consistent with the one introduced in
+ commit 0f03b1e9d2bef3bc830c31a369261af4c5234727 by Kostis
+ Sagonas.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9377</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix typos in the epmd documentation (Thanks to Holger
+ Wei� )</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9387</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix faulty integer terms created by NIF API from 64-bit
+ integers on halfword emulator. (Thanks to Paolo Negri and
+ Paul Davis)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9394</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix <c>epmd</c> crash on vxworks caused by faulty
+ argument to select() system call.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9427 Aux Id: seq11855 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The ets:test_ms function could in rare cases truncate the
+ error messages. This is now corrected.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9435</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix bug related to hibernate and HiPE (clear
+ F_HIBERNATE_SCHED flag)</p>
+ <p>
+ F_HIBERNATE_SCHED flag that was introduced in
+ b7ecdcd1ae9e11b8f75e must be cleared in hipe_mode_switch
+ as well. Otherwise, processes running HiPE code that
+ hibernate, wake up and then trap into a BIF will not be
+ rescheduled.(Thanks to Paul Guyot)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9452</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix bug in FreeBSD topology detection code (Thanks to
+ Paul Guyot)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9453</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix use of logical operator &amp;&amp; with constant
+ operand instead of bitwise &amp; (Thanks to Cristian
+ Greco)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9454</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ inet: error if fd does not match socket domain</p>
+ <p>
+ If an IPv4 fd is opened as an IPv6 socket, unexpected
+ behaviour can occur. For example, if an IPv4 UDP socket
+ is opened and passed into Erlang as an IPv6 socket, the
+ first 3 bytes (corresponding to 1 byte representing the
+ protocol family, 2 bytes set to the port) are stripped
+ from the payload. The cause of the UDP payload truncation
+ happens in inet_drv.c:packet_inet_input when a call to
+ inet_get_address fails silently because the family is set
+ to PF_INET6 but the buffer len is the size of an IPv4
+ struct sockaddr_in.</p>
+ <p>
+ (Thanks to Andrew Tunnell-Jones for finding the bug and
+ the test case!)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9455</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ erts: use a union to avoid strict aliasing issues</p>
+ <p>
+ Use a union for pointer type conversion to avoid compiler
+ warnings about strict-aliasing violations with gcc-4.1.
+ gcc >= 4.2 does not emit the warning. erts: adapt
+ matrix_nif to R14 erl_nif API changes (Thanks To Tuncer
+ Ayaz)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9487</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ fix 64-bit issues in the garbage collection (Thanks to
+ Richard Carlsson)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9488</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ epmd: fix compiler warnings</p>
+ <p>
+ Suppress compiler warnings about ignored return values.
+ (Thanks to Michael Santos )</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9500</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix non-existing function (erlang:disconnect/1) in
+ distributed reference manual (Thanks to Fabian Kr�l)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9504</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Document fdatasync -lrt requirement (SunOS &lt;= 5.10)
+ (Thanks to Tuncer Ayaz)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9512</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Let epmd ignore empty ERL_EPMD_ADDRESS</p>
+ <p>
+ If the environment variable ERL_EPMD_ADDRESS is set to
+ the empty string, empd now behaves like it does by
+ default when ERL_EPMD_ADDRESS is unset. That is, in this
+ case, epmd now listens on all available interfaces
+ instead of using only the loopback interface, which
+ happened because epmd added the loopback address to the
+ (in this case empty) list of addresses specified via
+ ERL_EPMD_ADDRESS.</p>
+ <p>
+ Also, epmd now ignores ERL_EPMD_ADDRESS if it contains
+ only separator characters (comma and space).</p>
+ <p>
+ The same applies to epmd's -address option.(Thanks to
+ Holger Wei�)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9525</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Remove dead code in erl_compile (Thanks to Tuncer Ayaz)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9527</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Add erlang:external_size/2 BIF</p>
+ <p>
+ This BIF's second parameter is a list of options.
+ Currently the only allowed option is {minor_version,
+ Version} where version is either 0 (default) or 1.
+ (Thanks to Filipe David Manana )</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9528</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix enif_compare on 64bits machines</p>
+ <p>
+ In 64bits machines the Sint type has a size of 8 bytes,
+ while on 32bits machines it has a 4 bytes size.
+ enif_compare was ignoring this and therefore returning
+ incorrect values when the result of the CMP function
+ (which returns a Sint value) doesn't fit in 4 bytes.
+ (Thanks to Filipe David Manana)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9533</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Implement or fix -Werror option</p>
+ <p>
+ If -Werror is enabled and there are warnings no output
+ file is written. Also make sure that error/warning
+ reporting is consistent. (Thanks to Tuncer Ayaz)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9536</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>In some rare cases we did not have a run queue when
+ scheduling misc ops. This is now fixed.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9537</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Remove misc. compiler warnings</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9542</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Two bugs in gen_sctp has been corrected: getopts/setopts
+ hence also send could only be called from socket owner,
+ and options 'linger', 'rcvbuf' and 'sndbuf' was read from
+ wrong protocol layer hence read wrong values by getopts.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9544</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Erlang/OTP can now be built on MacOS X Lion.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9547</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p> XML files have been corrected. </p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9550 Aux Id: OTP-9541 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix potential errors inspired by running cppcheck(1)
+ (Thanks to Christian von Roques)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9557</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>When auxiliary work was enqueued on a scheduler, the
+ wakeup of the scheduler in order to handle this work
+ could be lost. Wakeups in order to handle ordinary work
+ were not effected by this bug. The bug only effected
+ runtime systems with SMP support as follows:</p> <list>
+ <item>Deallocation of some ETS data structures could be
+ delayed.</item> <item>On Linux systems not using the NPTL
+ thread library (typically ancient systems with kernel
+ versions prior to 2.6) and Windows systems, the <c>{Port,
+ {exit_status, Status}}</c> message from a terminating
+ port program could be delayed. That is, it only effected
+ port programs which had been started by passing
+ <c>exit_status</c> as an option to
+ <c>open_port/2</c>.</item> </list>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9567</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Handle rare race in the crypto key server functionality</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9586</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p> Types and specifications have been added. </p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9356</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ New allocator strategy "address order first fit". May
+ ease the emptying of memory carriers and thereby real
+ release of memory back to the OS.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9424</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The new <c>erlang:check_old_code/1</c> BIF checks whether
+ a module has old code.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9495</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p> Update documentation and specifications of some of
+ the zlib functions. </p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9506</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Detect the available CPUs on IRIX</p>
+ <p>
+ Add support for querying the number of configured and
+ online processors on SGI systems running IRIX.(Thanks to
+ Holger Wei�)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9531</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>Erts 5.8.4</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
@@ -1949,6 +2287,24 @@
</section>
+<section><title>Erts 5.7.5.2</title>
+
+ <section><title>Known Bugs and Problems</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Two bugs in gen_sctp has been corrected: getopts/setopts
+ hence also send could only be called from socket owner,
+ and options 'linger', 'rcvbuf' and 'sndbuf' was read from
+ wrong protocol layer hence read wrong values by getopts.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9544</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>Erts 5.7.5.1</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/start_erl.xml b/erts/doc/src/start_erl.xml
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--- a/erts/doc/src/start_erl.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/start_erl.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<comref>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>1998</year><year>2009</year>
+ <year>1998</year><year>2011</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>