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Diffstat (limited to 'erts/doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/erl.xml | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/erl_driver.xml | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml | 29 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/erl_nif.xml | 26 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/erlang.xml | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/escript.xml | 23 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/time_correction.xml | 4 |
7 files changed, 84 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erl.xml b/erts/doc/src/erl.xml index 4aa3033f40..9724a1345a 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/erl.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/erl.xml @@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ <tag><marker id="file_name_encoding"></marker><c><![CDATA[+fnl]]></c></tag> <item> <p>The VM works with file names as if they are encoded using the ISO-latin-1 encoding, disallowing Unicode characters with codepoints beyond 255.</p> - <p>See <seealso marker="stdlib:unicode_usage#unicode_file_names">STDLIB User's Guide</seealso> for more infomation about unicode file names.</p> + <p>See <seealso marker="stdlib:unicode_usage#unicode_file_names">STDLIB User's Guide</seealso> for more infomation about unicode file names. Note that this value also applies to command-line parameters and environment variables (see <seealso marker="stdlib:unicode_usage#unicode_in_environment_and_parameters">STDLIB User's Guide</seealso>).</p> </item> <tag><c><![CDATA[+fnu[{w|i|e}]]]></c></tag> <item> @@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ encountered. <c>w</c> is the default. Note that <c>file:read_link/1</c> will always return an error if the link points to an invalid file name.</p> - <p>See <seealso marker="stdlib:unicode_usage#unicode_file_names">STDLIB User's Guide</seealso> for more infomation about unicode file names.</p> + <p>See <seealso marker="stdlib:unicode_usage#unicode_file_names">STDLIB User's Guide</seealso> for more infomation about unicode file names. Note that this value also applies to command-line parameters and environment variables (see <seealso marker="stdlib:unicode_usage#unicode_in_environment_and_parameters">STDLIB User's Guide</seealso>).</p> </item> <tag><c><![CDATA[+fna[{w|i|e}]]]></c></tag> <item> @@ -572,7 +572,7 @@ settings cause the behavior of <c>+fnl</c> to be selected, then <c>w</c>, <c>i</c>, or <c>e</c> will not have any effect.</p> - <p>See <seealso marker="stdlib:unicode_usage#unicode_file_names">STDLIB User's Guide</seealso> for more infomation about unicode file names.</p> + <p>See <seealso marker="stdlib:unicode_usage#unicode_file_names">STDLIB User's Guide</seealso> for more infomation about unicode file names. Note that this value also applies to command-line parameters and environment variables (see <seealso marker="stdlib:unicode_usage#unicode_in_environment_and_parameters">STDLIB User's Guide</seealso>).</p> </item> <tag><c><![CDATA[+hms Size]]></c></tag> <item> diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erl_driver.xml b/erts/doc/src/erl_driver.xml index 8da1836da7..ad37813ac0 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/erl_driver.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/erl_driver.xml @@ -315,10 +315,13 @@ <c>ERL_DRV_EXTENDED_MINOR_VERSION</c> will be incremented when new features are added. The runtime system uses the minor version of the driver to determine what features to use. - The runtime system will refuse to load a driver if the major + The runtime system will normally refuse to load a driver if the major versions differ, or if the major versions are equal and the minor version used by the driver is greater than the one used - by the runtime system.</p> + by the runtime system. Old drivers with lower major versions + will however be allowed after a bump of the major version during + a transition period of two major releases. Such old drivers might + however fail if deprecated features are used.</p> <p>The emulator will refuse to load a driver that does not use the extended driver interface, to allow for 64-bit capable drivers, diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml b/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml index f91ed78122..fa083db4c7 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ <header> <copyright> <year>2007</year> - <year>2013</year> + <year>2014</year> <holder>Ericsson AB, All Rights Reserved</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> @@ -573,6 +573,33 @@ </section> <section> + <marker id="MAP_EXT"/> + <title>MAP_EXT</title> + + <table align="left"> + <row> + <cell align="center">1</cell> + <cell align="center">4</cell> + <cell align="center">N</cell> + </row> + <row> + <cell align="center">116</cell> + <cell align="center">Arity</cell> + <cell align="center">Pairs</cell> + </row> + <tcaption></tcaption></table> + <p> + <c>MAP_EXT</c> encodes a map. The <c>Arity</c> field is an unsigned + 4 byte integer in big endian format that determines the number of + key-value pairs in the map. Key and value pairs (<c>Ki => Vi</c>) + are encoded in the <c>Pairs</c> section in the following order: + <c>K1, V1, K2, V2,..., Kn, Vn</c>. + Duplicate keys are <em>not allowed</em> within the same map. + </p> + <p><em>Since: </em>OTP 17.0</p> + </section> + + <section> <marker id="NIL_EXT"/> <title>NIL_EXT</title> diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erl_nif.xml b/erts/doc/src/erl_nif.xml index 8b19725c02..6b1f4cccf8 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/erl_nif.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/erl_nif.xml @@ -316,6 +316,32 @@ ok <p>The library initialization callbacks <c>load</c>, <c>reload</c> and <c>upgrade</c> are all thread-safe even for shared state data.</p> </item> + + <tag><marker id="version_management"/>Version Management</tag> + <item><p> + When a NIF library is built, information about NIF API version + is compiled into the library. When a NIF library is loaded the + runtime system verifies that the library is of a compatible version. + <c>erl_nif.h</c> defines <c>ERL_NIF_MAJOR_VERSION</c>, and + <c>ERL_NIF_MINOR_VERSION</c>. <c>ERL_NIF_MAJOR_VERSION</c> will be + incremented when NIF library incompatible changes are made to the + Erlang runtime system. Normally it will suffice to recompile the NIF + library when the <c>ERL_NIF_MAJOR_VERSION</c> has changed, but it + could, under rare circumstances, mean that NIF libraries have to + be slightly modified. If so, this will of course be documented. + <c>ERL_NIF_MINOR_VERSION</c> will be incremented when + new features are added. The runtime system uses the minor version + to determine what features to use. + </p><p> + The runtime system will normally refuse to load a NIF library if + the major versions differ, or if the major versions are equal and + the minor version used by the NIF library is greater than the one + used by the runtime system. Old NIF libraries with lower major + versions will however be allowed after a bump of the major version + during a transition period of two major releases. Such old NIF + libraries might however fail if deprecated features are used. + </p></item> + <tag>Dirty NIFs</tag> <item><p><marker id="dirty_nifs"/><em>Note that the dirty NIF functionality is experimental</em> and that you have to enable support for dirty diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml index e06c56daac..7aaded200c 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml @@ -6121,8 +6121,8 @@ ok <c>erlang:system_info()</c> argument giving the exact OTP version. This since the exact OTP version in the general case is hard to determine. For more information see - <seealso marker="doc/installation_guide:otp_version">the - documentation of the OTP version in the installation + <seealso marker="doc/system_principles:versions">the + documentation of versions in the system principles guide</seealso>.</p> </item> <tag><marker id="system_info_port_parallelism"><c>port_parallelism</c></marker></tag> diff --git a/erts/doc/src/escript.xml b/erts/doc/src/escript.xml index d2b09d4515..1abbdb2180 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/escript.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/escript.xml @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <comref> <header> <copyright> - <year>2007</year><year>2013</year> + <year>2007</year><year>2014</year> <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> @@ -92,6 +92,18 @@ $ <input>escript factorial 5</input> </pre> marker="stdlib:epp#encoding">encoding</seealso> it can be located on the second line.</p> + <note><p> + The encoding specified by the above mentioned comment + applies to the script itself. The encoding of the + I/O-server, however, has to be set explicitly like this: +<code>io:setopts([{encoding, unicode}])</code></p> + <p>The default encoding of the I/O-server for <c>standard_io</c> + is <c>latin1</c> + since the script runs in a non-interactive terminal + (see <seealso marker="stdlib:unicode_usage#unicode_options_summary"> + Using Unicode in Erlang</seealso>). + </p></note> + <p>On the third line (or second line depending on the presence of the Emacs directive), it is possible to give arguments to the emulator, such as </p> @@ -141,8 +153,9 @@ halt(1).</pre> -include_lib("kernel/include/file.hrl").</pre> <p>to include the record definitions for the records used by the <c>file:read_link_info/1</c> function. You can also select - encoding here, but if there is a valid encoding comment on - the second line it takes precedence.</p> + encoding by including a encoding comment here, but if there + is a valid encoding comment on the second line it takes + precedence.</p> <p>The script will be checked for syntactic and semantic correctness before being run. If there are warnings (such as @@ -163,7 +176,7 @@ halt(1).</pre> If much of the execution takes place in interpreted code it may be worthwhile to compile it, even though the compilation itself will take a little while. It is also possible to supply - <c>native</c> instead of compile, this will compile the script + <c>native</c> instead of <c>compile</c>, this will compile the script using the native flag, again depending on the characteristics of the escript this could or could not be worth while.</p> @@ -239,7 +252,7 @@ factorial 5 = 120 can either be returned as a binary or written to file.</p> <p>As an example of how the function can be used, we create an - interpreted escript which uses emu_args to set some emulator + interpreted escript which uses <c>emu_args</c> to set some emulator flag. In this case it happens to disable the smp_support. We do also extract the different sections from the newly created script:</p> diff --git a/erts/doc/src/time_correction.xml b/erts/doc/src/time_correction.xml index d52cc7f3e2..7f7c28fc30 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/time_correction.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/time_correction.xml @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf8" ?> +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd"> <chapter> <header> <copyright> - <year>1999</year><year>2013</year> + <year>1999</year><year>2014</year> <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> |