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<chapter>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>2004</year><year>2010</year>
+ <year>2004</year><year>2011</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -30,6 +30,228 @@
</header>
<p>This document describes the changes made to the Tools application.</p>
+<section><title>Tools 2.6.6.4</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Change make:files to behave more like erlc</p>
+ <p>
+ This change removes the unnecessary checks on the files
+ when make:files is called and allows the error checking
+ to be done in compile:file, where the error messages are
+ produced. It does not affect the return value.</p>
+ <p>
+ (Thanks to Sam bobroff)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9179</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ add user specified compiler options on form reloading</p>
+ <p>
+ In order to be able to test non-exported functions from
+ another (test) module it is necessary to compile the
+ specific module (at least during the test phase) with the
+ export_all compiler option. This allows complete
+ separation of testing and productive code. At the moment
+ it is not possible to combine this with a test code
+ coverage using the cover module. The problem is that when
+ cover compiling a module using cover:compile_* the code
+ is reloaded into the emulator omitting/filtering the
+ passed user options. In my example above the export_all
+ option would be removed and the non-exported functions
+ cannot be called any more. (Thanks to Tobias Schlager)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9204</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Inhibit electric newline after "-&gt;" when inside a type
+ spec</p>
+ <p>
+ The Erlang mode for Emacs inserts a newline after every
+ "-&gt;", which saves you one keystroke when writing a
+ function, but that is inappropriate when writing a type
+ spec, as you'd normally keep the spec on one line. This
+ change inhibits the automatic insertion when the current
+ line starts with "-spec" or "-type".(Thanks to Magnus
+ Henoch)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9255</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Add a check logic to prevent file descriptor leak</p>
+ <p>
+ cover module handle files as raw in export and import.
+ Assert counts of ports are the same at the beginning and
+ at the end of the test case.(Thanks to Shunichi
+ Shinohara)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9300</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Tools 2.6.6.3</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Declare indentation options as "safe" in erlang-mode for
+ Emacs</p>
+ <p>
+ Emacs has a facility for setting options on a per-file
+ basis based on comments in the source file. By default,
+ all options are considered "unsafe", and the user is
+ queried before the variable is set. This patch declares
+ the variables erlang-indent-level, erlang-indent-guard
+ and erlang-argument-indent to be safe, if the value
+ specified in the source file is valid.</p>
+ <p>
+ Such declarations usually look like this:</p>
+ <p>
+ %% -*- erlang-indent-level: 2 -*-</p>
+ <p>
+ and appear on the first line of the file. (thanks to
+ Magnus Henoch)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9122</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Cover has been improved to take less memory and allow
+ parallel analysis of cover data. Data collection from
+ nodes is now done in parallel and it is now possible to
+ issue multiple analyse and analyse_to_file requests at
+ the same time. A new function call async_analyse_to_file
+ has also been introduced, see the documentation for more
+ details.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9043 Aux Id: seq11771 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Tools 2.6.6.2</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>eprof: API sort mismatch has now been fixed. </p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8853</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ eprof: fix division by zero in statistics</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8963</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Tools 2.6.6.1</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ <c>cover</c> will now show ampersand characters in the
+ source code correctly. (Thanks to Tom Moertel.)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8776</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Tools 2.6.6</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>A race condition affecting Cover has been removed.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8469</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Emacs improvements:</p>
+ <p>
+ Fixed emacs-mode installation problems.</p>
+ <p>
+ Fixed a couple of -spec and -type indentation and
+ font-lock problems.</p>
+ <p>
+ Fixed error messages on emacs-21.</p>
+ <p>
+ Magnus Henoch fixed several issues.</p>
+ <p>
+ Ralf Doering, Klas Johansson and Chris Bernard
+ contributed various emacs-eunit improvements.</p>
+ <p>
+ Klas Johansson and Dave Peticolas added emacs-flymake
+ support.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8530</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>Xref has been updated to use the <c>re</c> module
+ instead of the deprecated <c>regexp</c> module.</p>
+ <p>
+ *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8472</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>When given the option <c>{builtins,true}</c> Xref now
+ adds calls to operators.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8647</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p><c>eprof</c> has been reimplemented with support in
+ the Erlang virtual machine and is now both faster (i.e.
+ slows down the code being measured less) and scales much
+ better. In measurements we saw speed-ups compared to the
+ old eprof ranging from 6 times (for sequential code that
+ only uses one scheduler/core) up to 84 times (for
+ parallel code that uses 8 cores).</p>
+ <p>Note: The API for the <c>eprof</c> has been cleaned up
+ and extended. See the documentation.</p>
+ <p>
+ *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8706</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>Tools 2.6.5.1</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>