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diff --git a/lib/ic/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/ic/doc/src/notes.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 217f7ab740..0000000000 --- a/lib/ic/doc/src/notes.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,844 +0,0 @@ -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> -<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd"> - -<chapter> - <header> - <copyright> - <year>1998</year><year>2016</year> - <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> - </copyright> - <legalnotice> - Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); - you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. - You may obtain a copy of the License at - - http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 - - Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software - distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, - WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. - See the License for the specific language governing permissions and - limitations under the License. - - </legalnotice> - - <title>IDL Compiler Release Notes</title> - <prepared></prepared> - <docno></docno> - <checked></checked> - <date>2004-04-06</date> - <rev>AC</rev> - <file>notes.xml</file> - </header> - - <section><title>IC 4.4.4.2</title> - - <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list> - <item> - <p> - Fixed potential buffer overflow bugs in - oe_ei_encode_long/ulong/longlong/ulonglong functions on - 64-bit architectures. These functions expect 32 bit - integers as the IDL type "long" is defined as 32 bits. - But there is nothing preventing user code from "breaking" - the interface and pass larger values on 64-bit - architectures where the C type "long" is 64 bits.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-15179 Aux Id: ERIERL-208 </p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - -</section> - -<section><title>IC 4.4.4.1</title> - - <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list> - <item> - <p> - Fixed bug in <c>ic</c> causing potential buffer overrun - in funtion <c>oe_ei_encode_atom</c>. Bug exists since - ic-4.4.4 (OTP-20.3.4).</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-15160 Aux Id: ERIERL-191 </p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - -</section> - -<section><title>IC 4.4.4</title> - - <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list> - <item> - <p> - Optimize encoding/decoding for pure 7-bit ascii atoms.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-15023 Aux Id: ERIERL-150 </p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - -</section> - -<section><title>IC 4.4.3</title> - - <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list> - <item> - <p> Removed all old unused files in the documentation. - </p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-14475 Aux Id: ERL-409, PR-1493 </p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - -</section> - -<section><title>IC 4.4.2</title> - - <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list> - <item> - <p> Correct bugs when path to mib or idl spec files - contains UTF-8 characters. </p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-13718 Aux Id: ERL-179 </p> - </item> - <item> - <p> - Update build scripts to not make assumtions about where - env, cp and perl are located.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-13800</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - -</section> - -<section><title>IC 4.4.1</title> - - <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list> - <item> - <p> - Internal changes</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-13551</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - -</section> - -<section><title>IC 4.4</title> - - <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list> - <item> - <p> - Change license text from Erlang Public License to Apache - Public License v2</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-12845</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - -</section> - -<section><title>IC 4.3.6</title> - - <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list> - <item> - <p> - Fix compiler warnings reported by LLVM</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-12138</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - -</section> - -<section><title>IC 4.3.5</title> - - <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list> - <item> - <p> Added Latin-1 code directive in the generated files - to keep old behaviour. Updated IC so it can handle - Unicode characters in the path. </p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-11783</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - -</section> - -<section><title>IC 4.3.4</title> - - <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list> - <item> - <p> - Fix two small silent rules omissions. Thanks to Anthony - Ramine.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-11351</p> - </item> - <item> - <p> - Silence warnings (Thanks to Anthony Ramine)</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-11517</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - -</section> - -<section><title>IC 4.3.3</title> - - <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list> - <item> - <p> - Header and library files from ic and erl_interface are - now installed into usr/{include,lib}. Note that these - directories are unversioned, so the latest installed - version will be the one in the directory.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-11284</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - -</section> - -<section><title>IC 4.3.2</title> - - <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list> - <item> - <p> - Fixed some compilation warnings on miscellaneous - platforms. Thanks to Anthony Ramine.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-11086</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - -</section> - -<section><title>IC 4.3.1</title> - - <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list> - <item> - <p> - Revert the structs <c>erlang_pid</c>, <c>erlang_port</c> - and <c>erlang_ref</c> as they were before R16A (without - <c>node_org_enc</c>) in order to be backward compatible - with user code that accesses the fields of these structs.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-10885 Aux Id: seq12256 </p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - -</section> - -<section><title>IC 4.3</title> - - <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list> - <item> - <p> - Misc build updates</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-10784</p> - </item> - <item> - <p> - Adapt ic for changes in erl_interface and jinterface due - to utf8 atom support. This change makes ic dependent on - erl_interface-3.7.10 (R16) or later in order to build.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-10785</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - -</section> - -<section><title>IC 4.2.31</title> - - <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list> - <item> - <p> - Fix bug where the ic pre-processor would ignore - whitespace quoting.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-10109</p> - </item> - <item> - <p> A bug regarding spaces in C function prototypes has - been fixed. (Thanks to Richard O'Keefe.) </p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-10138</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - -</section> - -<section><title>IC 4.2.30</title> - - <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list> - <item> - <p> - Add generation of Erlang callback functions to generated - Erlang source code to avoid compiler warnings.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-9998</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - -</section> - -<section><title>IC 4.2.29</title> - - <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list> - <item> - <p>Erlang/OTP can now be built using parallel make if you - limit the number of jobs, for instance using '<c>make - -j6</c>' or '<c>make -j10</c>'. '<c>make -j</c>' does not - work at the moment because of some missing - dependencies.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-9451</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - -</section> - -<section> - <title>IC 4.2.28</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p> - Incorrect use of ets:match changed to ets:match_object.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-9630 </p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>IC 4.2.27</title> - - <section> - <title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p> - Reduced compile overhead (Thanks to Haitao Li).</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-9460 </p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>IC 4.2.26</title> - - <section> - <title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p> - Partial support for recursive structs and unions. Only available - for the erl_corba backend and requires that Light IFR is used. - I.e. the IC option {light_ifr, true} and that Orber is configured - in such a way that Light IFR is activated. Recursive TypeCode is - currently not supported.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-8868 Aux Id: seq11633</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>IC 4.2.25</title> - - <section> - <title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p> - The documentation can now be built and installed without Java.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-8639 Aux Id:</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>IC 4.2.24</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>Removed superfluous VT in the documentation.</p> - <p>Own id: OTP-8353 Aux Id:</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>The option c_timeout was not correctly documented.</p> - <p>Own id: OTP-8307 Aux Id: seq11390</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>Removed superfluous backslash in the documentation.</p> - <p>Own id: OTP-8354 Aux Id:</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>The documentation EIX file was not generated.</p> - <p>Own id: OTP-8355 Aux Id:</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>IC 4.2.23</title> - - <section> - <title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p> - The documentation is now built with open source tools (xsltproc and fop) - that exists on most platforms. One visible change is that the frames are removed.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-8201 Aux Id:</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>IC 4.2.22</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>The 64-bit version of libic was not compiled with the -fPIC flag.</p> - <p>Own id: OTP-8088</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>IC 4.2.21</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>The function print_erlang_binary (oe_ei_code_erlang_binary.c) - updated to avoid compiler warning.</p> - <p>Own id: OTP-7982</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>IC 4.2.20</title> - - <section> - <title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>Updated file headers.</p> - <p>Own id: OTP-7837</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>IC 4.2.19</title> - - <section> - <title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>Documentation source included in open source releases.</p> - <p>Own id: OTP-7595</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>IC 4.2.18</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>Insufficient buffer allocated when passing wide strings - using the C backend on a 64-bit architecture.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-7313 Aux Id:</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>IC 4.2.17</title> - - <section> - <title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>Updated file headers.</p> - <p>Own id: OTP-7011</p> - </item> - <item> - <p>IC no longer use the obsolete function file:rawopen/2.</p> - <p>Own id: OTP-7182</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>IC 4.2.16</title> - - <section> - <title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>Added links to classes inherited from Jinterface in the - User's Guide.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-6965 Aux Id: </p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>IC 4.2.15</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>If an inherited function name begun with a capital letter - the generated stub/skeleton oe_tc/1 function was incorrect.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-6855 Aux Id:</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>IC 4.2.14</title> - - <section> - <title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>The documentation source has been converted from SGML to XML.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-6754 Aux Id: </p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>IC 4.2.13</title> - - <section> - <title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>Minor Makefile changes.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-6701 Aux Id: </p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>IC 4.2.12</title> - - <section> - <title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>Dead code was deleted from the following modules: - ic_cclient, ic_code, ic_cserver, ic_erlbe, ic_java_type, - ic_noc, ic_plainbe, ic_pp, ic_pragma, icscan, icstruct, - ictype, icunion.</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>IC 4.2.11</title> - - <section> - <title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>Changed code generation to avoid warnings such as unused - variables.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-5930 Aux Id: </p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>IC 4.2.10</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>The FD_SETSIZE limit has been increased to 2048 for - VxWorks/PPC603.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-5395 Aux Id: seq9751</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>IC 4.2.9</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>In C back-ends, the compiler crashed when generating C code - for error reports when a scoped name was used as a type - in a union.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-5375 Aux Id: seq9740 </p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>IC 4.2.8</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>In C back-ends, when decoding a sequence of "small" - integers, which from Erlang is sent as a string (i.e. - each element between 0 and 255), each string element was - considered to be of signed character type. Each such - element is now correctly treated as an unsigned character - type.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-5205 Aux Id: seq9241 </p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>IC 4.2.7</title> - - <section> - <title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>A new compiler option <c>c_report</c> has been introduced - for C back-ends (client and server). If that option is - set, encoding/decoding errors will be reported to - <c>stderr</c>.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4977</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>IC 4.2.6</title> - - <section> - <title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>The size of modules, used then registering data in the - IFR DB (e.g., oe_MyModule:oe_register()), can be minimized - if the compile option light_ifr is used and Orber is - configured to use Light IFR. Requires that orber-3.5.1, or - later, is used.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-5036</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Incompatibilities</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>The compile option <c>multiple_be</c> is no longer supported.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-5049</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>IC 4.2.5</title> - - <section> - <title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>Send and receive functions with timeouts have been added - to the C back-ends for the standard protocol (i.e. Erlang - distribution + gen_server protocol).</p> - <p>Accordingly a new compiler option <c>{c_timeout, {SendTimeout, RecvTimeout}}</c> has been added. Timeouts - are specified in milliseconds.</p> - <p>A user that want to implement its own protocols with - function timeouts has to implement the following functions.</p> - <p>For C clients the functions <c>int PFX_send_notification(CORBA_Environment *env, unsigned int send_ms)</c>, and <c>int PFX_send_request_and_receive_reply(CORBA_Environment *env, unsigned int send_ms, unsigned int recv_ms)</c> - have to be additionally implemented, where PFX is the - user defined prefix.</p> - <p>For C servers no additional functions have to be - implemented, but a clone of the <c>int oe_server_receive_tmo(CORBA_Environment *env, oe_map_t *map, unsigned int send_ms, unsigned int recv_ms)</c> - might be handy.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4972</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>IC 4.2.4</title> - - <section> - <title>Improvements and new features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>The C back-ends has been opened up, so that a user can - define his own protocol, differing from the Erlang - distribution + gen_server protocol. <br></br> - - For C clients it means to replace the library functions - <c>int oe_prepare_notification_encoding(CORBA_Environment *env)</c>, <c>int oe_send_notification(CORBA_Environment *env)</c>, <c>int oe_prepare_request_encoding(CORBA_Environment *env)</c>, - <c>int oe_send_request_and_receive_reply(CORBA_Environment *env)</c>, and <c>int oe_prepare_reply_decoding(CORBA_Environment *env)</c>, - with functions of the same signature, but with the prefix - "oe" replaced by a user defined prefix. - For C servers the functions <c>int oe_prepare_request_decoding(CORBA_Environment *env)</c>, - and <c>int oe_prepare_reply_encoding(CORBA_Environment *env)</c>, are similarly replaced. <br></br> - - The new compiler option <c>{user_protocol, Prefix}</c> has - been added.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4834</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>IC 4.2.3</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>In generated code for the C server back-end, the naming scope - was in error for prototypes in C header files for interfaces - inheriting base interfaces.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4881</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>IC 4.2.2</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>IDL long long and unsigned long long could not - be used in a struct for the Java backend.</p> - <p>All unsigned integer types for the Java backend - had broken marshalling for large values.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4763</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>IC 4.2.1</title> - - <section> - <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>A scoping problem (IC could not find typedefs contained - inherited interfaces) in the C-backend solved.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4758</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> - - <section> - <title>IC 4.2</title> - - <section> - <title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>The CORBA stub/skeleton-files generated by IC have been improved, - i.e., depending on the IDL-files, reduced the size of the - erl- and beam-files and decreased dependencies off Orber's - Interface Repository. It is necessary to re-compile all IDL-files - and use COS-applications, including Orber, compiled with - IC-4.2.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-4576</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - </section> -</chapter> - |