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While enif_make_binary will create heap-binaries from ErlNifBinaries
when possible now, enif_alloc_binary still allocates a Binary* off-heap
which is avoided entirely with enif_make_new_binary.
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This introduces a way to retrieve erlang terms from NIF IO queues
without having to resort to copying.
OTP-14797
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* sverker/nif-resource-doc:
erts: Update docs for enif_make_resource
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to include new defined properties in OTP-20
regarding comparison and serialization.
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#### Why do we need this new feature?
There are cases when a NIF needs to send a message, using `enif_send()`, to a long-lived process with a registered name.
A common use-case is logging, where asynchronous fire-and-forget messages are the norm.
There can also be cases where a yielding or dirty NIF or background thread may request a callback from a service with additional information it needs to complete its operation, yielding or waiting (with suitable timeouts, etc) until its state has been updated through the NIF module's API.
NIFs can only send messages to pids, and the lack of name resolution leaves a complicated dance between separate monitoring processes and the NIF as the only way to keep a NIF informed of the whereabouts of such long-lived processes.
Providing a reliable, built-in facility for NIFs to resolve process (or port) names simplifies these use cases considerably.
#### Risks or uncertain artifacts?
Testing has not exposed any significant risk.
The implementation behaves as expected on regular and dirty scheduler threads as well as non-scheduler threads.
By constraining the `enif_whereis_...()` functions to their minimal scopes and using patterns consistent with related functions, the implementation, testing, and maintenance burden is low.
The API and behavior of existing functions is unchanged.
#### How did you solve it?
While extending `enif_send()` to operate on a pid or an atom (as `erlang:send/2` does) was attractive, it would have entailed changing the type of its `to_pid` parameter and thereby breaking backward compatibility.
The same consideration applies to `enif_port_command()`.
That leaves a choice between 1, 2, or 3 new functions:
1. `enif_whereis()`
2. `enif_whereis_pid()` and `enif_whereis_port()`
3. All of the above.
While option (1), directly mimicking the behavior of `erlang:whereis/1`, is appealing, it poses potential problems if `pid()` or `port()` are subsequently implemented as non-integral types that must be bound to an owning `ErlNifEnv` instance.
Therefore, option (2) has been chosen to use `ErlNifPid`/`ErlNifPort` structures in the API to maintain proper term ownership semantics.
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Allow for expanding support to 64-bit hashes without breaking the
interface.
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A more generic hashing function which can also hash terms based on
`make_internal_hash'.
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These allow one to hash VM terms from NIF code.
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Conflicts:
erts/emulator/beam/erl_binary.h
erts/emulator/beam/erl_monitors.c
erts/emulator/beam/erl_nif.c
erts/emulator/beam/global.h
erts/emulator/test/nif_SUITE_data/nif_SUITE.c
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to negative int as error and positive as success.
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* sverker/remove-nif-reload:
erts: Cuddle nif_SUITE:consume_timeslice
erts: Remove old doc note for erlang:load_nif
erts: Remove deprecated nif 'reload' feature
erts: Fix trace_nif_SUITE to load nif lib only once
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Anywhere but the beam sources we shouldn't #include "erl_nif.h", because
what "erl_nif.h" does is: (1) fail to find it outside of -I dirs, (2)
then treat it as if it was written like <erl_nif.h>. Using <erl_nif.h>
skips (1).
More information can be found in 6.10.2 of the C standard.
Because the examples use "erl_nif.h", NIF projects in the Erlang
ecosystem copy this verbatim and make the same mistake.
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and instead let erlang:load_nif/2 return {error, {reload, _}}
before even trying to load the library
if a NIF library has already been successfully loaded
for the calling module instance.
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Fix some older errors as well.
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* rickard/ds-purge-module/OTP-13808:
Perform check_process_code while process is executing dirty
Conflicts:
erts/doc/src/erl_nif.xml
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This commit only changes the order of functions and does some
other rearrangements to that the diff with the next commit will
be easier to follow. No content or XML tags are changed.
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* rickard/ds-doc/OTP-13123:
minor fixes
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