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-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/erl.xml6
-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/erl_driver.xml7
-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml29
-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/erl_nif.xml26
-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/erlang.xml4
-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/escript.xml23
-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/time_correction.xml4
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>