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diff --git a/lib/tools/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/tools/doc/src/notes.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..59f600145e --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/tools/doc/src/notes.xml @@ -0,0 +1,475 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="latin1" ?> +<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd"> + +<chapter> + <header> + <copyright> + <year>2004</year><year>2009</year> + <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> + </copyright> + <legalnotice> + The contents of this file are subject to the Erlang Public License, + Version 1.1, (the "License"); you may not use this file except in + compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the + Erlang Public License along with this software. If not, it can be + retrieved online at http://www.erlang.org/. + + Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" + basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See + the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations + under the License. + + </legalnotice> + + <title>Tools Release Notes</title> + <prepared></prepared> + <docno></docno> + <date></date> + <rev></rev> + <file>notes.xml</file> + </header> + <p>This document describes the changes made to the Tools application.</p> + +<section><title>Tools 2.6.5</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p>The coverage analysis tool <c>cover</c> has been + improved when it comes to handling list and bit string + comprehensions (a counter for each qualifier), bit syntax + expressions (the Value and Size expressions), and try + expressions (the body called <c>Exprs</c> in the Reference + Manual). A few (not all) situations where several + expressions are put on the same line are also handled + better than before.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-8188 Aux Id: seq11397</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>When loading Cover compiled code on remote nodes + running code in the loaded module, a <c>badarg</c> + failure was sometimes the result. This bug has been fixed.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-8270 Aux Id: seq11423</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>The short-circuit operators <c>andalso</c> and + <c>orelse</c> are now handled correctly by the coverage + analysis tool <c>cover</c> (it is no longer checked + that the second argument returns a Boolean value.)</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-8273</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Tools 2.6.4</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p><c>cover</c> now properly escapes greater-than and + less-than characters in comments in HTML reports. (Thanks + to Magnus Henoch.)</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-7939</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Tools 2.6.3</title> + + <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + xref:start/1 does now allow anonymous XREF processes to + be started</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-7831</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Tools 2.6.2</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p>A bug in the Xref scanner has been fixed.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-7423</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>A bug in Fprof where the function 'undefined' appeared + to call 'undefined' has been corrected.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-7509</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Tools 2.6.1</title> + + <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list> + <item> + <p>The documentation has been updated so as to reflect + the last updates of the Erlang shell as well as the minor + modifications of the control sequence <c>p</c> of the + <c>io_lib</c> module.</p> <p>Superfluous empty lines have + been removed from code examples and from Erlang shell + examples.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-6944 Aux Id: OTP-6554, OTP-6911 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p><c>tuple_size/1</c> and <c>byte_size/1</c> have been + substituted for <c>size/1</c>.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-7009</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>The coverage analysis tool <c>cover</c> now handles + the short-circuit Boolean expressions <c>andalso/2</c> + and <c>orelse/2</c> properly.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-7095</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Tools 2.6</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + The <c>cover</c> tool could use huge amounts of memory + when used in a distributed system.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-6758</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + + + <section> + <title>Tools 2.5.5</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>Missing buffer-local declaration in erlang.el has been + added. Before this fix there could arise problems in + other emacs modes after visiting a buffer using the + erlang mode.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6721</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>Key-map for 'backward-delete-char-untabif updated to work + properly with Xemacs.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6723</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>Minor updates of Xref.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6586</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>Minor Makefile changes.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6689 Aux Id: OTP-6742 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p>"C-u C-c C-k" now does a compile with both "debug_info" + and "export_all".</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6741</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Tools 2.5.4.1</title> + + <section> + <title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>Changes due to internal interface changes in the erts + application which are needed at compile-time. No + functionality has been changed.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6611 Aux Id: OTP-6580 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Tools 2.5.4</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>Made change to support the function erlang-find-tag for + xemacs and emacs-21.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6512</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>Minor updates of xref for future compatibility.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6513</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Tools 2.5.3</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p><c>eprof</c> did not work reliably in the SMP emulator, + because the trace receiver process could not process the + trace messages fast enough. Therefore, <c>eprof</c> now + blocks the other schedulers while profiling.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6373</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Tools 2.5.2</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>Fprof traces could become truncated for the SMP emulator. + This bug has now been corrected.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6246</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Tools 2.5.1</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>eprof now works somewhat better in the SMP emulator.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6152</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Tools 2.5</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>Fixed some bugs in <c>make</c>:</p> + <p><c>make:files/1,2</c> can now handle a file in another + directory as argument, similar to <c>make:all/0,1</c>.</p> + <p>When specifying a file name including the <c>.erl</c> + extension in <c>Emakefile</c>, <c>make:all/0,1</c> looked + for the object code in the wrong place.</p> + <p>When specifying a file name including the <c>.erl</c> + extension in <c>Emakefile</c> and some compile options + for the file, <c>make:files/0,1</c> did not use the + options as it should do.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6057 Aux Id: seq10299</p> + </item> + <item> + <p><c>cover</c>: When <c>cover:stop()</c> was called, + the cover compiled code was not unloaded (as stated in + the documentation) but simply marked as 'old'. This + meant that processes lingering in (or with funs + referencing to) the cover compiled code would survive + even when the cover server and its ETS tables was + terminated.</p> + <p>Now the cover compiled code is unloaded, meaning that + processes lingering in/with references to it will be + killed when <c>cover:stop</c> is called, instead of + later crashing with <c>badarg</c> when trying to bump + counters in ETS tables no longer existing.</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>Replaced call to deprecated function + <c>file:file_info/1</c> with call to + <c>filelib:is_dir/1</c> and <c>filelib:is_regular/1</c> + in <c>tags.erl</c>.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6079</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Tools 2.4.7</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>A bug in <c>fprof</c> profiling causing erroneous + inconsistent trace failure has been corrected.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5922 Aux Id: seq10203 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Tools 2.4.6</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>Emacs: <c>erlang-man-function</c> and + <c>erlang-man-module</c> used a pattern matching to find + the requested module that sometimes yielded unexpected + results. For example, <c>erlang-man-module file</c> would + display the man page for <c>CosFileTransfer_File</c>.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5746 Aux Id: seq10096</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>Some compiler warnings and Dialyzer warnings were + eliminated in the Tools application.</p> + <p>When tracing to a port (which <c>fprof</c> does), + there could be fake schedule out/schedule in messages + sent for a process that had exited.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5757</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Tools 2.4.5</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>The cross reference tool <c>xref</c> did not handle the new + <c>fun M:F/A</c> construct properly. This problem has been + fixed.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5653</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Tools 2.4.4</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>The <c>cover</c> tool did not escape '<' and '>' not + being part of HTML tags in HTML log files.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5588</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Tools 2.4.3</title> + + <section> + <title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>It is now possible to encrypt the debug information in + beam files, to help keep the source code secret. See + <c>compile(3)</c> for how to provide the key for encrypting, + and <c>beam_lib(3)</c> for how to provide the key for + decryption so that tools such as Debugger, <c>xref</c>, or + <c>cover</c> can be used.</p> + <p>The <c>beam_lib:chunks/2</c> functions now accepts an + additional chunk type '<c>compile_info</c>' to retrieve + the compilation information directly as a term. (Thanks + to Tobias Lindahl.)</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5460 Aux Id: seq9787</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Tools 2.4.2</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>The <c>cover</c> tool could not analyze empty modules on + module level.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5418</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Tools 2.4.1</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>The <c>xref</c> analysis <c>locals_not_used</c> could + return too many functions. This problem has been fixed.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5071</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>The <c>cover</c> tool could not always compile parse + transformed modules. This problem has been fixed.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5305</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> +</chapter> + |