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-rw-r--r--lib/tools/doc/src/cover.xml31
-rw-r--r--lib/tools/doc/src/cover_chapter.xml9
-rw-r--r--lib/tools/doc/src/cprof.xml2
-rw-r--r--lib/tools/doc/src/eprof.xml55
-rw-r--r--lib/tools/doc/src/erlang_mode.xml4
-rw-r--r--lib/tools/doc/src/erlang_mode_chapter.xml4
-rw-r--r--lib/tools/doc/src/make.xml2
-rw-r--r--lib/tools/doc/src/notes.xml106
-rw-r--r--lib/tools/doc/src/part_notes_history.xml2
-rw-r--r--lib/tools/doc/src/tags.xml2
-rw-r--r--lib/tools/doc/src/xref.xml18
11 files changed, 196 insertions, 39 deletions
diff --git a/lib/tools/doc/src/cover.xml b/lib/tools/doc/src/cover.xml
index 323bd0dda8..683acc025d 100644
--- a/lib/tools/doc/src/cover.xml
+++ b/lib/tools/doc/src/cover.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
<header>
<copyright>
<year>2001</year>
- <year>2007</year>
+ <year>2011</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB, All Rights Reserved</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -270,6 +270,8 @@
defaults to <c>function</c>.</p>
<p>If <c>Module</c> is not Cover compiled, the function returns
<c>{error,{not_cover_compiled,Module}}</c>.</p>
+ <p>HINT: It is possible to issue multiple analyse_to_file commands at
+ the same time. </p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
@@ -307,6 +309,33 @@
<c>.beam</c> file, or in <c>../src</c> relative to that
directory. If no source code is found,
<c>,{error,no_source_code_found}</c> is returned.</p>
+ <p>HINT: It is possible to issue multiple analyse_to_file commands at
+ the same time. </p>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+ <func>
+ <name>async_analyse_to_file(Module) -> </name>
+ <name>async_analyse_to_file(Module,Options) -> </name>
+ <name>async_analyse_to_file(Module, OutFile) -> </name>
+ <name>async_analyse_to_file(Module, OutFile, Options) -> pid()</name>
+ <fsummary>Asynchronous call to analyse_to_file.</fsummary>
+ <type>
+ <v>Module = atom()</v>
+ <v>OutFile = string()</v>
+ <v>Options = [Option]</v>
+ <v>Option = html</v>
+ <v>Error = {not_cover_compiled,Module} | {file,File,Reason} | no_source_code_found | not_main_node</v>
+ <v>&nbsp;File = string()</v>
+ <v>&nbsp;Reason = term()</v>
+ </type>
+ <desc>
+ <p>This function works exactly the same way as
+ <seealso marker="#analyse_to_file-1">analyse_to_file</seealso> except
+ that it is asynchronous instead of synchronous. The spawned process
+ will link with the caller when created. If an <c>Error</c> occurs
+ while doing the cover analysis the process will crash with the same
+ error reason as <seealso marker="#analyse_to_file-1">analyse_to_file</seealso>
+ would return.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
diff --git a/lib/tools/doc/src/cover_chapter.xml b/lib/tools/doc/src/cover_chapter.xml
index b4f7919183..5083b01f1d 100644
--- a/lib/tools/doc/src/cover_chapter.xml
+++ b/lib/tools/doc/src/cover_chapter.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<chapter>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>2001</year><year>2009</year>
+ <year>2001</year><year>2011</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -403,6 +403,13 @@ ok
database contains information about each executable line in each
Cover compiled module, performance decreases proportionally to
the size and number of the Cover compiled modules.</p>
+ <p>To improve performance when analysing cover results it is possible
+ to do multiple calls to <seealso marker="cover#analyse-1">analyse</seealso>
+ and <seealso marker="cover#analyse_to_file-1">analyse_to_file</seealso>
+ at once. You can also use the
+ <seealso marker="cover#async_analyse_to_file-1">async_analyse_to_file</seealso>
+ convenience function.
+ </p>
</section>
<section>
diff --git a/lib/tools/doc/src/cprof.xml b/lib/tools/doc/src/cprof.xml
index 421ed7875a..2dc419d29c 100644
--- a/lib/tools/doc/src/cprof.xml
+++ b/lib/tools/doc/src/cprof.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
<header>
<copyright>
<year>2002</year>
- <year>2007</year>
+ <year>2011</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB, All Rights Reserved</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
diff --git a/lib/tools/doc/src/eprof.xml b/lib/tools/doc/src/eprof.xml
index ae1033f2d0..6d68c90768 100644
--- a/lib/tools/doc/src/eprof.xml
+++ b/lib/tools/doc/src/eprof.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<erlref>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>1996</year><year>2009</year>
+ <year>1996</year><year>2010</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -13,12 +13,12 @@
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>eprof</title>
@@ -35,8 +35,7 @@
used. The profiling is done using the Erlang trace BIFs. Tracing of
local function calls for a specified set of processes is enabled when
profiling is begun, and disabled when profiling is stopped.</p>
- <p>When using Eprof, expect a significant slowdown in program execution,
- in most cases at least 100 percent.</p>
+ <p>When using Eprof expect a slowdown in program execution.</p>
</description>
<funcs>
<func>
@@ -47,15 +46,19 @@
<v>Reason = {already_started,Pid}</v>
</type>
<desc>
- <p>Starts the Eprof server which owns the Eprof internal database.</p>
+ <p>Starts the Eprof server which holds the internal state of the collected data.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
- <name>start_profiling(Rootset) -> profiling | error</name>
- <name>profile(Rootset) -> profiling | error</name>
+ <name>start_profiling(Rootset) -> profiling | {error, Reason}</name>
+ <name>start_profiling(Rootset,Pattern) -> profiling | {error, Reason}</name>
<fsummary>Start profiling.</fsummary>
<type>
<v>Rootset = [atom() | pid()]</v>
+ <v>Pattern = {Module, Function, Arity}</v>
+ <v>Module = Function = atom()</v>
+ <v>Arity = integer()</v>
+ <v>Reason = term()</v>
</type>
<desc>
<p>Starts profiling for the processes in <c>Rootset</c> (and any new
@@ -64,6 +67,9 @@
<p><c>Rootset</c> is a list of pids and registered names.</p>
<p>The function returns <c>profiling</c> if tracing could be enabled
for all processes in <c>Rootset</c>, or <c>error</c> otherwise.</p>
+ <p>A pattern can be selected to narrow the profiling. For instance ca a specific
+ module be selected and only the code processes executes in that module will be
+ profiled.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
@@ -75,14 +81,20 @@
</desc>
</func>
<func>
- <name>profile(Rootset,Fun) -> {ok,Value} | {error,Reason} | error</name>
- <name>profile(Rootset,Module,Function,Args) -> {ok,Value} | {error,Reason} | error</name>
+ <name>profile(Fun) -> profiling | {error, Reason}</name>
+ <name>profile(Rootset) -> profiling | {error, Reason}</name>
+ <name>profile(Rootset,Fun) -> {ok, Value} | {error,Reason}</name>
+ <name>profile(Rootset,Fun,Pattern) -> {ok, Value} | {error, Reason}</name>
+ <name>profile(Rootset,Module,Function,Args) -> {ok, Value} | {error, Reason}</name>
+ <name>profile(Rootset,Module,Function,Args,Pattern) -> {ok, Value} | {error, Reason}</name>
<fsummary>Start profiling.</fsummary>
<type>
<v>Rootset = [atom() | pid()]</v>
<v>Fun = fun() -> term()</v>
+ <v>Pattern = {Module, Function, Arity}</v>
<v>Module = Function = atom()</v>
<v>Args = [term()]</v>
+ <v>Arity = integer()</v>
<v>Value = Reason = term()</v>
</type>
<desc>
@@ -96,7 +108,7 @@
<c>Rootset</c>, the function returns <c>{ok,Value}</c> when
<c>Fun()</c>/<c>apply</c> returns with the value <c>Value</c>, or
<c>{error,Reason}</c> if <c>Fun()</c>/<c>apply</c> fails with
- exit reason <c>Reason</c>. Otherwise it returns <c>error</c>
+ exit reason <c>Reason</c>. Otherwise it returns <c>{error, Reason}</c>
immediately.</p>
<p>The programmer must ensure that the function given as argument
is truly synchronous and that no work continues after
@@ -104,7 +116,15 @@
</desc>
</func>
<func>
- <name>analyse()</name>
+ <name>analyze() -> ok</name>
+ <name>analyze(Type) -> ok</name>
+ <name>analyze(Type,Options) -> ok</name>
+ <type>
+ <v>Type = procs | total</v>
+ <v>Options = [{filter, Filter} | {sort, Sort}</v>
+ <v>Filter = [{calls, integer()} | {time, float()}]</v>
+ <v>Sort = time | calls | mfa</v>
+ </type>
<fsummary>Display profiling results per process.</fsummary>
<desc>
<p>Call this function when profiling has been stopped to display
@@ -113,17 +133,10 @@
<item>how much time has been used by each process, and</item>
<item>in which function calls this time has been spent.</item>
</list>
- <p>Time is shown as percentage of total time, not as absolute time.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>total_analyse()</name>
- <fsummary>Display profiling results per function call.</fsummary>
- <desc>
- <p>Call this function when profiling has been stopped to display
+ <p>Call <c>analyze</c> with <c>total</c> option when profiling has been stopped to display
the results per function call, that is in which function calls
the time has been spent.</p>
- <p>Time is shown as percentage of total time, not as absolute time.</p>
+ <p>Time is shown as percentage of total time and as absolute time.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
diff --git a/lib/tools/doc/src/erlang_mode.xml b/lib/tools/doc/src/erlang_mode.xml
index 912c442153..794224d601 100644
--- a/lib/tools/doc/src/erlang_mode.xml
+++ b/lib/tools/doc/src/erlang_mode.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<erlref>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>2003</year><year>2009</year>
+ <year>2003</year><year>2011</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@
sum(L) -> sum(L, 0).
sum([H|T], Sum) -> sum(T, Sum + H);
- sum([], Sum) -> Sum."</code>
+ sum([], Sum) -> Sum.</code>
</item>
</list>
</section>
diff --git a/lib/tools/doc/src/erlang_mode_chapter.xml b/lib/tools/doc/src/erlang_mode_chapter.xml
index b22c6b1809..4ffa224ea5 100644
--- a/lib/tools/doc/src/erlang_mode_chapter.xml
+++ b/lib/tools/doc/src/erlang_mode_chapter.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<chapter>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>2003</year><year>2009</year>
+ <year>2003</year><year>2011</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
<section>
<title>Elisp</title>
- <p>There are two Elsip modules include in this tool package
+ <p>There are two Elisp modules included in this tool package
for Emacs. There is erlang.el that defines the actual erlang mode
and there is erlang-start.el that makes some nice initializations.</p>
</section>
diff --git a/lib/tools/doc/src/make.xml b/lib/tools/doc/src/make.xml
index f13514d99f..1c8df67abf 100644
--- a/lib/tools/doc/src/make.xml
+++ b/lib/tools/doc/src/make.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
<header>
<copyright>
<year>1996</year>
- <year>2007</year>
+ <year>2011</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB, All Rights Reserved</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
diff --git a/lib/tools/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/tools/doc/src/notes.xml
index e7d1ae150c..5f9cecd6e4 100644
--- a/lib/tools/doc/src/notes.xml
+++ b/lib/tools/doc/src/notes.xml
@@ -30,6 +30,112 @@
</header>
<p>This document describes the changes made to the Tools application.</p>
+<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>
diff --git a/lib/tools/doc/src/part_notes_history.xml b/lib/tools/doc/src/part_notes_history.xml
index b40b530c02..da637f380a 100644
--- a/lib/tools/doc/src/part_notes_history.xml
+++ b/lib/tools/doc/src/part_notes_history.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
<header>
<copyright>
<year>2006</year>
- <year>2007</year>
+ <year>2011</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB, All Rights Reserved</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
diff --git a/lib/tools/doc/src/tags.xml b/lib/tools/doc/src/tags.xml
index 5e1da25acf..54b5a4914c 100644
--- a/lib/tools/doc/src/tags.xml
+++ b/lib/tools/doc/src/tags.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
<header>
<copyright>
<year>1998</year>
- <year>2007</year>
+ <year>2011</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB, All Rights Reserved</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
diff --git a/lib/tools/doc/src/xref.xml b/lib/tools/doc/src/xref.xml
index 407a7392ad..75ffa25311 100644
--- a/lib/tools/doc/src/xref.xml
+++ b/lib/tools/doc/src/xref.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<erlref>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>2000</year><year>2009</year>
+ <year>2000</year><year>2010</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -13,12 +13,12 @@
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>xref</title>
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ represented by
<item>RegArity ::= RegString | Number | <c>_</c> | <c>-1</c></item>
<item>RegAtom ::= RegString | Atom | <c>_</c></item>
<item>RegString ::= - a regular expression, as described in the
- <c>regexp</c> module, enclosed in double quotes -</item>
+ <c>re</c> module, enclosed in double quotes -</item>
<item>Type ::= <c>Fun</c> | <c>Mod</c> | <c>App</c> | <c>Rel</c></item>
<item>Function ::= Atom</item>
<item>Application ::= Atom</item>
@@ -264,8 +264,7 @@ represented by
Assigning a type to a list or tuple of <c>Constant</c> is
equivalent to assigning the type to each <c>Constant</c>.
</p>
- <p> <marker id="regexp"></marker>
-<em>Regular expressions</em> are used as a
+ <p><marker id="regexp"></marker><em>Regular expressions</em> are used as a
means to select some of the vertices of a graph.
A <c>RegExpr</c> consisting of a <c>RegString</c> and a type -
an example is <c>"xref_.*" : Mod</c> - is interpreted as those
@@ -1546,8 +1545,11 @@ Evaluates a predefined analysis.
</funcs>
<section>
- <title>See Also</title>
- <p>beam_lib(3), digraph(3), digraph_utils(3), regexp(3),
+ <title>See Also</title><p>
+ <seealso marker="stdlib:beam_lib">beam_lib(3)</seealso>,
+ <seealso marker="stdlib:digraph">digraph(3)</seealso>,
+ <seealso marker="stdlib:digraph_utils">digraph_utils(3)</seealso>,
+ <seealso marker="stdlib:re">re(3)</seealso>,
<seealso marker="xref_chapter">TOOLS User's Guide</seealso></p>
</section>
</erlref>