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2013-01-25Update copyright yearsBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2012-12-12Merge branch 'egil/enforce-tuple-specification-size/OTP-10633'Björn-Egil Dahlberg
* egil/enforce-tuple-specification-size/OTP-10633: erts: Use memcpy instead of while in setelement/3 test: Refactor away ?line macro in tuple_SUITE erts: Enforce tuple max size on BIFs erts: Define max tuple size to 24 bits
2012-12-03Improve configuration of process and port tablesRickard Green
2012-12-03Remove R9 compatibility featuresRickard Green
2012-11-27erts: Define max tuple size to 24 bitsBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
Erlang specification 4.7.3 defines max tuple size to 65535 elements It is now defined to 16777215 elements (24 bits)
2011-12-02Get cerl and distribution working in Win64Patrik Nyblom
Can still not setup -a, but cerl works.
2011-12-02Build Win64 Erlang emulator using MSYSunknown
Still does not run, just compiles.
2011-10-26erts-hipe: Change THE_NON_VALUE for HiPE enabled debug emulatorSverker Eriksson
This is a work-around as there are hipe BIFs that return untagged integers that may be intepreted as THE_NON_VALUE (24). Hipe bifs that return offsets as untagged integers: hipe_bs_put_utf8 hipe_bs_put_utf16be hipe_bs_put_utf16le Hipe bifs that return raw pointers: hipe_find_na_or_make_stub hipe_nonclosure_address
2011-02-03HALFWORD Make more allocators use high mem (binary, fixed and driver)Sverker Eriksson
2011-02-03HALFWORD ETS 32-bit arch fixes and other cleanupsSverker Eriksson
2011-02-03HALFWORD ETS relative termsSverker Eriksson
In halfword emulator, make ETS use a variant of the internal term format that uses relative offsets instead of absolute pointers. This will allow storage in high memory (>4G). Preprocessor macros (like list_val_rel(TERM,BASE)) are used to make normal (fullword) emulator almost completely unchanged while still reusing most of the code.
2010-12-15Remove stray semicolons in erl_term.hRickard Green
2010-07-22Mending halfword heap emulatorSverker Eriksson
2010-07-20One off-heap list, to eliminate two words per ETS object.Sverker Eriksson
Merging the three off-heap lists (binaries, funs and externals) into one list. This reduces memory consumption by two words (pointers) per ETS object.
2010-03-10Make tracing and distribution workPatrik Nyblom
Rewrite trace code and external coding. Also slightly correct the interface to the match-spec engine to make tracing work. That will make the test suites runnable.
2010-03-10Add the BeamInstr data type for loaded BEAM codePatrik Nyblom
For cleanliness, use BeamInstr instead of the UWord data type to any machine-sized words that are used for BEAM instructions. Only use UWord for untyped words in general.
2010-03-10Store pointers to heap data in 32-bit wordsPatrik Nyblom
Store Erlang terms in 32-bit entities on the heap, expanding the pointers to 64-bit when needed. This works because all terms are stored on addresses in the 32-bit address range (the 32 most significant bits of pointers to term data are always 0). Introduce a new datatype called UWord (along with its companion SWord), which is an integer having the exact same size as the machine word (a void *), but might be larger than Eterm/Uint. Store code as machine words, as the instructions are pointers to executable code which might reside outside the 32-bit address range. Continuation pointers are stored on the 32-bit stack and hence must point to addresses in the low range, which means that loaded beam code much be placed in the low 32-bit address range (but, as said earlier, the instructions themselves are full words). No Erlang term data can be stored on C stacks (enforced by an earlier commit). This version gives a prompt, but test cases still fail (and dump core). The loader (and emulator loop) has instruction packing disabled. The main issues has been in rewriting loader and actual virtual machine. Subsystems (like distribution) does not work yet.
2010-03-10Fit all heap data into the 32-bit address rangePatrik Nyblom
This is the first step in the implementation of the half-word emulator, a 64-bit emulator where all pointers to heap data will be stored in 32-bit words. Code specific for this emulator variant is conditionally compiled when the HALFWORD_HEAP define has a non-zero value. First force all pointers to heap data to fall into a single 32-bit range, but still store them in 64-bit words. Temporary term data stored on C stack is moved into scheduler specific storage (allocated as heaps) and macros are added to make this happen only in emulators where this is needed. For a vanilla VM the temporary terms are still stored on the C stack.
2010-02-08OTP-8412 Fixed numerous compiler warnings generated by gcc 4.4.1 andRickard Green
tile-cc 2.0.1.78377 when compiling the runtime system.
2009-11-20The R13B03 release.OTP_R13B03Erlang/OTP