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<p>This document describes the changes made to the Compiler
application.</p>
+<section><title>Compiler 7.3.2</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>An expression such as <c>(A / B) band 16#ff</c> would
+ crash the compiler.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-15518 Aux Id: ERL-829 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>There could be an incorrect warning when the
+ <c>tuple_calls</c> option was given. The generated code
+ would be correct. Here is an example of code that would
+ trigger the warning:</p>
+ <p><c>(list_to_atom("prefix_" ++
+ atom_to_list(suffix))):doit(X)</c>.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-15552 Aux Id: ERL-838 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Optimize (again) Dialyzer's handling of
+ left-associative use of <c>andalso</c> and <c>orelse</c>
+ in guards.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-15577 Aux Id: ERL-851, PR-2141, PR-1944 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Compiler 7.3.1</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>An optimization that avoided allocation of a stack
+ frame for some <c>case</c> expressions was introduced in
+ OTP 21. (ERL-504/OTP-14808) It turns out that in rare
+ circumstances, this optimization is not safe. Therefore,
+ this optimization has been disabled.</p>
+ <p>A similar optimization will be included in OTP 22 in a
+ safe way.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-15501 Aux Id: ERL-807, ERL-514, OTP-14808 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Compiler 7.3</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>Fixed a rare internal consistency failure caused by a
+ bug in the <c>beam_jump</c> pass. (Thanks to Simon
+ Cornish for reporting this bug.)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-15400 Aux Id: ERL-759 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>The compiler could fail with an internal consistency
+ check failure when compiling code that used the
+ <c>is_function/2</c> BIF.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-15435 Aux Id: ERL-778 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>When an external fun was used, warnings for unused
+ variables could be suppressed.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-15437 Aux Id: ERL-762 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>The compiler would crash when compiling an
+ <c>after</c> block that called <c>erlang:raise/3</c> like
+ this: <c>erlang:raise(Class, Stacktrace,
+ Stacktrace)</c></p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-15481</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>When specified, the <c>+{source,Name}</c> option will
+ now override the actual file name in stack traces,
+ instead of only affecting the return value of
+ <c>Mod:module_info()</c>.</p>
+ <p>The <c>+deterministic</c> flag will also affect stack
+ traces now, omitting all path information except the file
+ name, fixing a long-standing issue where deterministic
+ builds required deterministic paths.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-15245 Aux Id: ERL-706 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Compiler 7.2.7</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>Fixed a bug where incorrect code was generated
+ following a binary match guard.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-15353 Aux Id: ERL-753 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Compiler 7.2.6</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>In rare circumstances, the matched out tail of a
+ binary could be the entire original binary. (There was
+ partial correction to this problem in version 7.2.5 of
+ the compiler application.)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-15335 Aux Id: ERL-689, OTP-15219 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Compiler 7.2.5</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>Fixed a bug that prevented certain variable-sized
+ binary comprehensions from compiling.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-15186 Aux Id: ERL-665 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>When compiling from Core Erlang, funs created in
+ certain expressions that were only used for their
+ side-effects were subtly broken.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-15188 Aux Id: ERL-658 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>There could be an internal consistency failure when a
+ <c>receive</c> was nested in a
+ <c>try</c>/<c>catch</c>.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-15218 Aux Id: ERL-684 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>In rare circumstances, the matched out tail of a
+ binary could be the entire original binary.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-15219 Aux Id: ERL-689 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>When <c>is_map_key/2</c> was used in a guard together
+ with the <c>not/1</c> or <c>or/2</c> operators, the error
+ behavior could be wrong when <c>is_map_key/2</c> was
+ passed a non-map as the second argument. </p>
+ <p>In rare circumstances, compiling code that uses
+ <c>is_map_key/2</c> could cause an internal consistency
+ check failure.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-15227 Aux Id: ERL-699 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>The compiler could crash when compiling a function
+ with multiple receives in multiple clauses.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-15235 Aux Id: ERL-703 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Compiler 7.2.4</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>Fix a regression in OTP-15204 that removed
+ <c>.beam</c> file metadata that some external build tools
+ relied on.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-15292</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Compiler 7.2.3</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>Fixed an issue where files compiled with the
+ <c>+deterministic</c> option differed if they were
+ compiled in a different directory but were otherwise
+ identical.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-15204 Aux Id: ERL-679 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Compiler 7.2.2</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>In rare cases involving matching of binary literal
+ strings, the compiler could optimize away code that
+ should be executed.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-15156 Aux Id: ERL-655 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>There could be an internal consistency check failure
+ when compiling code that called <c>map_get(Key, Map)</c>
+ and then updated the same map.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-15157</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>In rare circumstances, the compiler could crash in
+ <c>beam_jump</c> when compiling a floating point
+ operation.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-15166 Aux Id: ERL-660 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Compiler 7.2.1</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>The could could crash when compiling a complicated
+ function that used the binary syntax.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-15150 Aux Id: ERL-650 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>Compiler 7.2</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
@@ -252,6 +521,39 @@
</section>
+<section><title>Compiler 7.1.5.2</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>Fix a regression in OTP-15204 that removed
+ <c>.beam</c> file metadata that some external build tools
+ relied on.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-15292</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Compiler 7.1.5.1</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>Fixed an issue where files compiled with the
+ <c>+deterministic</c> option differed if they were
+ compiled in a different directory but were otherwise
+ identical.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-15204 Aux Id: ERL-679 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>Compiler 7.1.5</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>