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-rw-r--r--system/doc/top/highlights.xml110
-rw-r--r--system/doc/top/incompatible.xml271
3 files changed, 3 insertions, 392 deletions
diff --git a/system/doc/top/Makefile b/system/doc/top/Makefile
index 37466fa2d9..20ef9fe781 100644
--- a/system/doc/top/Makefile
+++ b/system/doc/top/Makefile
@@ -38,13 +38,6 @@ INFO_FILES = ../../README ../../COPYRIGHT PR.template
TOPDOCDIR=.
-TOP_HTML_GEN_FILES = \
- $(HTMLDIR)/incompatible.html \
- $(HTMLDIR)/highlights.html
-
-TOP_HTML_FILES = \
- $(TOP_HTML_GEN_FILES)
-
include ../installation_guide/xmlfiles.mk
include ../system_principles/xmlfiles.mk
include ../embedded/xmlfiles.mk
@@ -229,7 +222,7 @@ $(TOP_PDF_FILE): $(XML_FILES)
pdf: $(TOP_PDF_FILE)
-html: $(INDEX_FILES) $(TOP_HTML_FILES) \
+html: $(INDEX_FILES) \
$(MAN_INDEX) $(JAVASCRIPT)
debug opt:
@@ -237,7 +230,7 @@ debug opt:
clean:
rm -rf ../html/js
rm -f PR.template
- rm -f $(INDEX_FILES) $(TOP_HTML_FILES) $(MAN_INDEX)
+ rm -f $(INDEX_FILES) $(MAN_INDEX)
rm -f $(TOP_PDF_FILE) $(TOP_PDF_FILE:%.pdf=%.fo)
rm -f $(INDEX_SCRIPT) $(GLOSSARY_SCRIPT) \
$(JAVASCRIPT_BUILD_SCRIPT)
@@ -256,11 +249,10 @@ release_docs_spec: docs
$(INSTALL_DIR) $(RELSYSDIR)/pdf
$(INSTALL_DATA) \
$(TOP_PDF_FILE) $(RELSYSDIR)/pdf
- $(INSTALL_DATA) $(TOP_HTML_FILES) $(RELSYSDIR)
$(INSTALL_DIR) $(RELSYSDIR)/js
$(INSTALL_DATA) \
$(JAVASCRIPT) $(RELSYSDIR)/js
- $(INSTALL_DATA) $(INDEX_FILES) $(MAN_INDEX) $(TOP_HTML_FILES) $(RELSYSDIR)
+ $(INSTALL_DATA) $(INDEX_FILES) $(MAN_INDEX) $(RELSYSDIR)
$(INSTALL_DIR) $(RELSYSDIR)/docbuild
$(INSTALL_DATA) $(INDEX_SCRIPT) $(MAN_INDEX_SCRIPT) $(JAVASCRIPT_BUILD_SCRIPT) \
$(INDEX_SRC) $(MAN_INDEX_SRC) $(JAVASCRIPT_BUILD_SCRIPT_SRC) \
diff --git a/system/doc/top/highlights.xml b/system/doc/top/highlights.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 251bb1a47d..0000000000
--- a/system/doc/top/highlights.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,110 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="latin1" ?>
-<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd">
-
-<chapter>
- <header>
- <copyright>
- <year>2006</year><year>2010</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>Highlights</title>
- <prepared></prepared>
- <docno></docno>
- <date></date>
- <rev>A</rev>
- <file>highlights.xml</file>
- </header>
- <p>This document lists some highlights of Erlang 5.8/OTP R14A
- (unpatched), compared to the previous version Erlang 5.7.1/OTP R13B,
- with focus on things not already released as R13B patches.</p>
- <p>Note: This document was compiled at the time when R14A was released
- and does not list any features introduced in R14 patches.</p>
-
- <section>
- <title>Erlang Language and Run-time System</title>
- <section>
- <title>New NIF features</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item><p>Send messages from a NIF, or from thread created by NIF, to
- any local process (enif_send)</p></item>
-
- <item><p>Store terms between NIF calls (enif_alloc_env,
- enif_make_copy)</p></item>
-
- <item><p>Create binary terms with user defined memory management
- (enif_make_resource_binary)</p></item>
-
- <item><p>Some incompatible changes made to the API. For more
- information see the warning text in erl_nif(3).</p></item>
- </list>
- </section>
- <section>
- <title>Receive optimizations</title>
- <p>Receive statements that can only read out a newly created
- reference are now specially optimized so that it will execute
- in constant time regardless of the number of messages in the
- receive queue for the process. That optimization will benefit
- calls to gen_server:call(). (See gen:do_call/4 for an example
- of a receive statement that will be optimized.)</p>
- </section>
- <section>
- <title>Improved eprof</title>
- <p>eprof 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 eprof has been cleaned up and extended.
- See the documentation.</p>
- </section>
- </section>
- <section>
- <title>New features in Existing Applications</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Common_test</title>
-
- <p>
- It is now possible for the user to provide specific callback
- modules that handle test configuration data, so that data on
- arbitray form can be accessed (e.g. by reading files or by
- communicating with a configuration server process). Two
- default callback modules have been introduced in Common Test:
- ct_config_plain and ct_config_xml. The former is used to
- handle the traditional Common Test configuration files (with
- terms on key-value tuple form) and the latter to handle
- configuration data on XML representation.
- </p>
- <p>
- The run_test script has been replaced by a program (with the
- same name) which can be executed without explicit
- installation. The start flags are the same as for the legacy
- start script.
- </p>
- </section>
- <section>
- <title>STDLIB</title>
- <p>
- The module binary from EEP31 (and EEP9) is implemented.
- </p>
- </section>
- </section>
-</chapter>
-
diff --git a/system/doc/top/incompatible.xml b/system/doc/top/incompatible.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index e09fa7272f..0000000000
--- a/system/doc/top/incompatible.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,271 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="latin1" ?>
-<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd">
-
-<chapter>
- <header>
- <copyright>
- <year>2006</year><year>2010</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>Potential Incompatibilities</title>
- <prepared></prepared>
- <docno></docno>
- <date></date>
- <rev></rev>
- <file>incompatible.xml</file>
- </header>
- <p>This document contains a list of potential incompatibilities
- between Erlang 5.8/OTP R14A and Erl 5.7.5/OTP R13B04,
- and is an extract from the release notes for the respective applications.</p>
-
- <section>
- <title>Tools</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>
- Xref has been updated to use the re module instead of the
- deprecated regexp module.</p>
- <p>*** INCOMPATIBILITY with R12B ***</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8472</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>eprof 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 eprof has been cleaned up and extended.
- See the documentation.</p>
- <p>
- *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8706</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Odbc</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>
- Now supports SQL_TYPE_TIMESTAMP on the format {{YY, MM, DD},
- {HH, MM, SS}}. Thanks to Juhani Ränkimies.
- </p>
- <p>
- *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8511</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Ssh</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>
- The configuration parameter ip_v6_disabled is now available,
- which makes it possible for the user to alter the IP version
- SSH shall use.</p>
- <p>
- *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8535</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- Removed deprecated modules (ssh_ssh, ssh_sshd and ssh_cm) and
- functions (ssh_sftp:connect and ssh_sftp:stop).</p>
- <p>
- *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8596</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- Aligned error message with used version (SSH_FX_FAILURE vs
- SSH_FX_NOT_A_DIRECTORY, the latter introduced in version 6).</p>
- <p>
- *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8644</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>ERTS</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>Some incompatible changes made to the NIF API. For more
- information see the warning text in erl_nif(3).</p>
- <p>
- *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8555</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>STDLIB</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>When defining macros the closing right parenthesis before the
- dot is now mandatory.</p>
- <p>
- *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8562</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Compiler and STDLIB</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>
- Local and imported functions now override the auto-imported
- BIFs when the names clash. The pre R14 behaviour was that
- auto-imported BIFs would override local functions. To avoid
- that old programs change behaviour, the following will
- generate an error:</p>
-
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>Doing a call without explicit module name to a local function
- having a name clashing with the name of an auto-imported BIF
- that was present (and auto-imported) before OTP R14A</item>
-
- <item>Explicitly importing a function having a name clashing with
- the name of an autoimported BIF that was present (and
- autoimported) before OTP R14A</item>
-
- <item>Using any form of the old compiler directive nowarn_bif_clash</item>
- </list>
-
- <p>If the BIF was added or auto-imported in OTP R14A or later,
- overriding it with an import or a local function will only
- result in a warning.</p>
-
- <p>To resolve clashes, you can either use the explicit module
- name erlang to call the BIF, or you can remove the
- auto-import of that specific BIF by using the new compiler
- directive -compile({no_auto_import,[F/A]})., which makes all
- calls to the local or imported function without explicit
- module name pass without warnings or errors.</p>
-
- <p>The change makes it possible to add auto-imported BIFs
- without breaking or silently changing old code in the future.
- However some current code ingeniously utilizing the old
- behaviour or the nowarn_bif_clash compiler directive, might
- need changing to be accepted by the compiler.</p>
- <p>
- *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8579</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- The recently added BIFs erlang:min/2, erlang:max/2 and
- erlang:port_command/3 are now auto-imported (as they were
- originally intended to be). Due to the recent compiler change
- (OTP-8579), the only impact on old code defining it's own
- min/2, max/2 or port_command/3 functions will be a warning,
- the local functions will still be used. The warning can be
- removed by using
- -compile({no_auto_import,[min/2,max/2,port_command/3]}). in
- the source file.</p>
- <p>
- *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8669</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- Now, binary_to_term/2 is auto-imported. This will cause a
- compile warning if and only if a module has got a local
- function with that name.</p>
- <p>
- *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8671</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Erl_interface</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>Compact IEEE 754 double encoding in external binary format
- for ei</p>
-
- <p>Implement the compact IEEE 754 double encoding in external
- binary format for ei. Encoding for ei now always produces the
- NEW_FLOAT_EXT format. Decoding and term printing handle both
- the old ERL_FLOAT_EXT encoding and the new NEW_FLOAT_EXT
- encoding.</p>
-
- <p>Legacy erl_interface code also handles the new encoding, but
- still produces the ERL_FLOAT_EXT encoding by default.</p>
-
- <p>Also enable the DFLAG_NEW_FLOATS distribution flag.</p>
-
- <p>ei_get_type() will return ERL_FLOAT_EXT regardless if the
- external format is encoded with ERL_FLOAT_EXT or
- NEW_FLOAT_EXT for doubles.</p>
-
- <p>Reduce the number of copies of the code for encoding and
- decoding doubles throughout ei and erl_interface by instead
- calling the ei encoding and decoding functions wherever
- possible.</p>
-
- <p>Restore commented-out float tests in ei_decode_SUITE and
- ei_encode_SUITE in lib/erl_interface/test. Modify them to
- make them match the style of other tests in the same suites.</p>
-
- <p>These changes are based on an ei float patch from Serge
- Aleynikov originally submitted against R12B-2 in July 2008
- and reworked by Steve Vinoski May 2010.</p>
- <p>
- *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8684</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- <section>
- <title>Debugger and STDLIB</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p> The predefined builtin type tid() has been removed. Instead,
- ets:tid() should be used.</p>
- <p>
- *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8687</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-</chapter>
-
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