From 84adefa331c4159d432d22840663c38f155cd4c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erlang/OTP Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:54:40 +0000 Subject: The R13B03 release. --- lib/erl_interface/doc/src/notes_history.xml | 367 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 367 insertions(+) create mode 100644 lib/erl_interface/doc/src/notes_history.xml (limited to 'lib/erl_interface/doc/src/notes_history.xml') diff --git a/lib/erl_interface/doc/src/notes_history.xml b/lib/erl_interface/doc/src/notes_history.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f484f3c04e --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/erl_interface/doc/src/notes_history.xml @@ -0,0 +1,367 @@ + + + + +
+ + 20062009 + Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved. + + + 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. + + + + Erl_Interface Release Notes History + + + + +
+ +
+ Erl_Interface 3.4 + +
+ Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

and could not + previously handle uints. This bug has now been fixed.

+

Own Id: OTP-4061 Aux Id: seq7079

+ + +

was not working correctly for floating + point arguments on some platforms. This is now corrected.

+

Own Id: OTP-4379

+ + +

did not compare the node parts of + pids, ports, and references. This has now been fixed. + Comparison between two pids, ports, or references does now + conform to the Erlang specification.

+

Own Id: OTP-4512 Aux Id: OTP-4511

+ + +
+ +
+ Improvements and New Features + + +

Erl_Interface and EI now supports 64 bit architectures.

+

Own Id: OTP-4772

+ + +

There are new functions that support the GCC and Visual + C++ 64 bit extended integer types.

+ +

Own Id: OTP-4772

+ + +

If you compile the library from source you can use the ei + library together with GMP, the GNU multi precision + library, to convert integers larger than 64 bits from and + to the external format.

+ +

Own Id: OTP-4772

+ + +

Some general code improvements where done like correcting + buffer sizes, added more error checking etc.

+

Own Id: OTP-4772

+ + +

In order to conform to the Erlang specification, + comparison between two pids was changed in the R9B + release. This change did however break a deadlock + prevention algorithm used by Mnesia during release + upgrade. Therefore, comparison between two pids has been + changed back so that R9B nodes are compatible with Erlang + nodes running pre-R9 releases.

+

Pre-R9 comparison between two pids which now is used + again: If t1 and t2 are both pids, t1 will precede t2 if + and only if either

+ + the node local id of t1 precedes the node local id + of t2, or + the node local ids of t1 and t2 are equal, and + node(t1) precedes node(t2), or + the node local ids of t1 and t2 are equal, and also + node(t1) and node(t2) are equal, and node(t1) was + created before node(t2). + +

The node local id consist of two integers; serial which + is most significant, and number.

+

The Erlang specification states: If t1 and t2 are both + refs, both PIDs, or both ports, then t1 precedes t2 if + and only if either

+ + node(t1) precedes node(t2), or + node(t1) equals node(t2) and t1 was created before + t2. + +

Note that comparisons between two refs, or two ports will + still conform to the Erlang specification.

+

*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

+

Own Id: OTP-4715 Aux Id: OTP-4511, OTP-4512

+ + +
+
+ +
+ ErlInterface 3.3 + +
+ Improvements and New Features + + +

Erl_Interface has been rewritten extensively. The library + is now documented and supported. The old + is considered obsolete, and provided + only for backward compatibility.

+ + +

Erl_Interface is now thread-safe, and multiple C-nodes may + run from the same process.

+ + +

New functions are added for connecting and accepting + connections from ; these are documented in + .

+ + +

New functions are added for converting to and from Erlang + binary format; these are documented in .

+ + +
+
+ +
+ Erl_Interface 3.2.9 + +
+ Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

Changed back the return values from and + to 1 (as they used to be). + Incompatible with plain R7, compatible with previous + versions.

+

*** INCOMPATIBILITY with R7B ***

+

Own Id: OTP-3772

+ + +

A race-condition bug in the term allocation routines was + corrected.

+

Own Id: OTP-3809

+ + +

Erl_Interface could not be linked with pthreads.

+

Own Id: OTP-3810 Aux Id: Seq 5032

+ + +

The TCB of VxWorks processes no longer grows when + is accessed. On Pthreads platforms + the use of no longer crashes programs + using multithreading.

+

Own Id: OTP-3820

+ + +

Name clashes between Erlang emulator and Erl_Interface + on VxWorks removed.

+

Own Id: OTP-3824

+ + +
+
+ +
+ Erl_Interface 3.2.3 + +
+ Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

Memory lossage affecting pids, ports and refs fixed.

+ + +
+
+ +
+ Erl_Interface 3.2.2 + +
+ Improvements and New Features + + +

An error reporting facility has been + introduced.

+

Own Id: OTP-3641

+ + +

ETERMs are now shrunk to a more reasonable size.

+

Own Id: OTP-3648

+

+ + +
+
+ +
+ Erl_Interface 3.2.1 + +
+ Fixed Errors and Malfunctions + + +

Lists containing negative numbers were incorrectly + encoded by . This has been corrected.

+

Own Id: OTP-3535

+ + +
+
+ +
+ Erl_Interface 3.2 + +
+ Improvements and New Features + + +

The reference type has been extended from 18 bits to + 82 bits. For compatibility with older nodes, an R6 node + can send a ref to an older node; if the older node sends + it back, it has lost all but its 18 least significant + bits, but still compares equal to the original ref. + The external format has been extended to represent the new + longer refs; that means for example that binaries with + refs, produced on an R6 node, cannot be converted to a + term on an older node. + In , a function + has been added, and macros and + .

+

*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

+

Own Id: OTP-3140 Aux Id: OTP-3139

+ + +

The function has the problem that + a fixed buffer must be given - a larger message than + expected is simply discarded. A function + has been introduced, which + dynamically resizes the buffer given to it, if needed.

+

Own Id: OTP-3313 Aux Id: OTP-2927

+ + +
+
+ +
+ Erl_Interface 3.1.1 + +
+ Improvements and New Features + + +

is added to all the + and files in order to support + use from C++.

+

On Unix the object files are now produced with + the option to make it possible to include + them in a shared library.

+

Own Id: OTP-3138 Aux Id: Seq 1722

+ + +
+
+ +
+ Erl_Interface 3.1 + +
+ Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

A buffer overflow in was causing + C-node crashes on Linux.

+

Own Id: OTP-2743

+ + +

When decoding very long strings (more than 65535 + characters) the terminating 0 was left out.

+

Own Id: OTP-2744

+ + +

was not handshaking properly with + Erlang, causing incoming connection attempts to fail.

+

Own Id: OTP-2862

+ + +

Very large negative numbers are no longer encoded + incorrectly.

+

Own Id: OTP-2897

+ + +

Atoms could sometimes contain an unterminated string. + This is fixed.

+

Own Id: OTP-2956

+ + +

Erl_Interface now uses the SENS resolver functions if + they are available at runtime. This primarily concerns + use on the VxWorks platform.

+

Own Id: OTP-3034 Aux Id: Seq 1559

+ + +

The documentation for no longer + makes erroneous reference to the remote node.

+

Own Id: OTP-3102 Aux Id: Seq 1671

+ + +
+ +
+ Improvements and New Features + + +

Erl_Interface has been moved out of the Erlang runtime + system (ERTS) and is now a separate application. This has + implications for all users of Erl_Interface, who will + need to make changes to the Makefiles used to build + applications based on Erl_Interface. In particular, + header and library files are no longer in + . The and + directories are now located in the directory + (i.e. + the directory name is now version specific).

+

Own Id: OTP-3082

+ + +
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