What's cooking in erlang/otp (2010-02-02)

[Björn Gustavsson]

Provided you have the latest development branch
(ccase/r13b04) it should now be possible to build the
documentation. (Topic branches based on earlier revisions
of the development branch need to be rebased.)

The description for building the documentation can
be found here:

  http://wiki.github.com/erlang/otp/documentation

R13B04 will be released at the end of February. There
will be a feature freeze for the erts, kernel, stdlib,
and compiler applications on February 10. After that,
only bug fixes will be included in those applications.

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[Graduated]

* bg/cleanup-tests (eunit, kernel, stdlib) (2010-01-24) 5 commits
 + file_SUITE: eliminate a warning for an unused variable (a656a27)
 + kernel tests: modernize guard tests (fc1ddbb)
 + unicode_SUITE: replace deprecated concat_binary/1 with list_to_binary/1 (0cd1623)
 + stdlib tests: modernize guard tests (ac3d53f)
 + Test suites: fix creation of Emakefiles (b8b3a8c)

* bg/hipe-fixes (compiler, stdlib) (2010-01-25) 3 commits
 + compiler: make ignore_native_errors also handle internal hipe errors (9e2ac0d)
 + re tests: disable native-code compilation for huge modules (24e2773)
 + Teach the compiler the no_native option (fe14832)

* cf/epp-macro-overloading (otp, parsetools, stdlib) (2010-02-01) 8 commits
 + yecc_SUITE: Adjustment for modified error tuple (1ab56cb)
 + epp_SUITE: Increase code coverage (77a1272)
 + Minor corrections and clean-ups (ec618ee)
 + documentation: Macros overloading partly rewritten (c416896)
 + update the documentation on preprocessor in the reference manual (4c18274)
 + epp: change rules to choose the right version of a macro (27d7ca0)
 + epp: Add support of macros overloading (5023556)
 + epp: fix bug in the function scan_undef (0d15f8a)

* sf/erl_match-longlong (erl_interface) (2010-01-20) 1 commit
 + erl_interface: Allow erl_match() to match ERL_LONGLONG and ERL_U_LONGLONG terms (938ccfe)

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[New topics]

* bg/erl_bif_types (hipe) (2010-01-31) 1 commit
 - erl_bif_types: add 'http_bin' as a valid packet option (7c72a77)

* bg/temp-hipe-fixes (compiler, hipe, kernel) (2010-01-31) 4 commits
 - Crudely fix return type for the lists:key{search,find,member}/3 (5c9a017)
 - seq_trace_SUITE: Don't native-compile (c569f85)
 - Disable native code if on_load is used (101dcc8)
 - andor_SUITE: Don't native-compile (cb44959)

This branch contains temporary workarounds to avoid failing test
cases and is never intended to graduate.

* dgud/wx_list_ctrl (wx) (2010-02-02) 5 commits
 - Generate without trailing spaces (cfd2ba4)
 - Fix correct starting copyright year (5b585a4)
 - Do not emit trailing whitespace (ce3cd31)
 - Added tests for wxListCtrl:getItem/2. (aa17e2b)
 - Added wxListCtrl:getEditCtrl (not available on Mac) (e6433fc)

* egil/lcnt (erts, tools) (2010-02-01) 6 commits
 - Add test suite for lcnt in tools (e26bedd)
 - Add lcnt:rt_opt/1 bindings to erts_debug (c24d153)
 - Add runtime option to enable/disable lcnt stats (dd665ed)
 - Add auto width on string output (12990af)
 - Add lcnt documentation (41d4913)
 - Add lock profiling tool (c41fa05)

* rani/inet_gethostbyname_fixes (erts, kernel) (2010-01-28) 1 commit
 - inet:gethostbyname improved to parse IP strings and look up own hostname (3fbd6e6)

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[Stalled]

* sc/sctp-connect-nowait (kernel) (2009-12-21) 1 commit
 - Implement a non-blocking SCTP connect (ae3d819)

Approved in principle, but the implementation needs some
finish touches as pointed out by Raimo, and also
documentation and test cases.

* jn/supervisor_child_count_only (stdlib) (2010-01-25) 1 commit
 - Add count_children/1 to supervisor.erl to determine the number of children being managed without the memory impact of which_children/1 (10ef53f)

Test cases fail when the emulator has been started with the +Meamin
option.

* va/rb-improvements (sasl) (2009-12-25) 4 commits
 - New function to filter reports by date (5391383)
 - New rb:filter/1 function to ease report filtering (ed28348)
 - Add rb:re/1 to grep reports using the re module (e5bd091)
 - Fix minor typo in read_report/1 (07c6ad4)

There is no need to introduce a new function rb:re/1, but
rb:grep/1 can be modified to use the 're' module. Also,
it should not be necessary to compile the regular expression
beforehand.

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[Cooking]

* at/odbc_osx_fix (odbc) (2009-11-30) 1 commit
 - Workaround broken ODBC implementation on OSX 10.5 (88c71c9)

* db/tv_nthtail_fix (tv) (2009-12-01) 1 commit
 - Fix for tv which restarts while trying to open a table (abe0759)

The author of this topic branch has found the real reason for
the problem and has made some progress in resolving it.

* dgud/emacs-mode (tools) (2010-01-26) 2 commits
 - Added the old style skeletons, and a variable to change. (2cbe853)
 - Move code skeletons to a separate file. Use the updated skeletons from the Erlware Mode. (b4fd161)

* gc/hipe_darwin_amd64 (erts) (2010-01-12) 4 commits
 - Fix hipe memory allocation problems on darwin/amd64. (32ca14f)
 - Porting x86 darwin fixes to amd64 darwin hipe asm/m4 code. (427f1db)
 - Automatically enable hipe for darwin/amd64 builds. (43ae4b7)
 - Allow configure to enable_hipe for darwin/amd64 builds. (733ce7a)

* is/mnesia-send-compressed (mnesia) (2010-01-10) 1 commit
 - Add option to compress data when copying tables between Mnesia nodes (3757d8f)

Should graduate soon.

* jb/atom-table-size (erts) (2010-01-29) 1 commit
 - Add the +t emulator option to change the maximum number of atoms (4895776)

Should graduate soon.

* jn/sasl-format_report (sasl) (2010-01-27) 1 commit
 - Added sasl_report:format_report/3 to return a string rather than send an io (ee8f29f)

* jp/dependencies_makefile (compiler, erts) (2010-01-12) 2 commits
 - squash! fix snprintf for Windows (bf2708d)
 - Add dependencies Makefile generation to erlc(1) and compile(3) (7cbc437)

Approved in principle by the OTP Technical Board; now awaits a closer
review of the implementation.

* ks/bsl_system_limit (hipe) (2010-01-26) 1 commit
 - Fix a HiPE compiler bug evaluating an expression that throws system_limit. (dcada69)

* pan/enable_m32_build (erts, otp) (2009-12-08) 1 commit
 - Teach configure --enable-m32-build for forcing a 32-bit build (15c7817)

* po/odbc-update-delete-no-rows (odbc) (2009-11-26) 1 commit
 - SQL_NO_DATA and SQLSTATE 00000 indicate success for updates/deletes that affect no rows (1a564f8)