What's cooking in erlang/otp (2010-01-08)

[Björn Gustavsson]

There are no graduations this time, but we expect there
will be a few next week.

We have just got automatic builds and tests based on the
'pu' branch running. That means that in the future,
we can give quicker feedback on branches that does not
build on all platforms.

This time, three branches have been dropped because of
problems found by the automatic tests.

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[New topics]

* egil/binary-gc (erts) (2010-01-07) 4 commits
 - Add documentation for binary heap size settings. (bcd0b64)
 - Add tracing capabilities for binary virtual heap (33a2f7a)
 - Add min heap size start options to beam and erl (bfe4308)
 - Improve binary garbage collection (94f7a20)

* jv/binary_to_term-opts (erts) (2010-01-08) 2 commits
 - document ErtsExternalDist flags and CON_ID mask (be22f53)
 - add options to binary_to_term (77ce185)

Will probably graduate soon.

* wt/ssl-resume-session (ssl) (2010-01-07) 1 commit
 - new_ssl fix session reuse (3918e9c)

* wt/ssl_certreq_send_ca_list (public_key, ssl) (2010-01-06) 1 commit
 - Send CA list during Certificate Request in new_ssl (638ad46)

* yh/fix-re-run-corruption (erts) (2010-01-07) 1 commit
 - Fix re:run/3 sometimes executes on corrupted data by garbage collection (eed3903)

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[Cooking]

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

* bd/http_chunk_fix (inets) (2009-11-27) 1 commit
 - http_chunk data handling/passing improvement. (c2553be)

* bg/otp_build-improvements (otp, stdlib) (2010-01-06) 5 commits
 - Fix spelling, remove obsolete command (74b56ab)
 - Support updating preloaded files in a git repository (bb8cf9b)
 - Support updating the primary bootstrap in a git repository (86e14df)
 - Determine which VCS is being used (12839e1)
 - stdlib makefile: Add explicit rule (b197d92)

* cf/compile_warning_as_error (compiler, erts) (2009-12-15) 3 commits
 - Add option -Werror in erlc(1) (d29a335)
 - compile: add flag warnings_as_errors to treat warnings as errors (13124f5)
 - compile.erl: remove trailing whitespace (8a944af)

* cf/epp-macro-overloading (otp, stdlib) (2009-12-10) 4 commits
 - update the documentation on preprocessor in the reference manual (162ec27)
 - epp: change rules to choose the right version of a macro (8dcc9f8)
 - epp: Add support of macros overloading (f7a8959)
 - epp: fix bug in the function scan_undef (52543e0)

Extend the pre-processor to allow overloading of macros with
the same name but different arities. Now with documentation.

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

We will cook this topic for a while and include it in the next
release unless someone finds a problem with it or a better fix.

* dgud/dbg_mac_menu (debugger) (2009-12-16) 4 commits
 - Dbg: Expand the module listbox when window grows. (85f849c)
 - Dbg: Cut variable bindings after 80 chars. (87f6e4c)
 - Dbg: Fixed documentation links to the new index.html (e27e41b)
 - Dbg Fixed mac gui issues (438d778)

* jp/dependencies_makefile (compiler, erts) (2009-12-14) 1 commit
 - Add dependencies Makefile generation to erlc(1) and compile(3) (c0734e8)

* jp/gcc-detection-in-makefiles (erts) (2009-12-16) 1 commit
 - Fix GCC detection in ERTS configure script and Makefiles (84e0caf)

Corrected by me since it did not work on all versions of autoconf
and/or shells. Will probably graduate soon.

* kj/epmd-port2resp-trunc-extra (erts) (2009-12-20) 1 commit
 - Handle "extra" field according to specs in ALIVE2_REQ and PORT2_RESP. (a841673)

Will probably graduate soon.

* km/http-host-header-fix (inets) (2009-12-21) 1 commit
 - Fix inets HTTP client bug crafting Host header when port is not 80 (75a3f7c)

* 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)

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

* tc/premodern-fpe (erts) (2009-12-08) 2 commits
 - Add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE to CPPFLAGS on Darwin platforms (6e60658)
 - Test for reliable fpes on Darwin platforms without DARWIN_MODERN_MCONTEXT (4160466)

Reliable floating point exceptions is necessary for hipe to
be enabled. I can confirm that hipe can now be enabled on
Snow Leopard (10.6) and that it speeds up building of the
Dialyzer PLT.

This branch depends on functionality that is deprecated
in Mac OS 10.6, so it might be necessary to find another solution
when 10.7 will be released (in case it removes the deprecated
functionality).

We would like to hear about how this patch works on older versions
of Mac OS X. It is known to work on Tiger/PPC.

* uw/shell-tab-completion (stdlib) (2009-12-17) 1 commit
 - Shell tab completion now works for quoted module and function names (1c3a6c8)

* 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)

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[Dropped]

* aq/asn1-incomplete-packet (asn1) (2009-12-16) 1 commit
 . asn1: let decode/2 functions handle incomplete packets (5dbde5a)

Breaks the test test suite for the public_key application.

* fh/common_test-includes (common_test) (2009-12-24) 2 commits
 . change the examples' -include to -include_lib with ct.hrl (3a991e2)
 . change -include for -include_lib to avoid compile errors (48420a4)

The system does not build from scratch when this branch is
included because the common_test application is not included
in the bootstrap.

* jb/atom-table-size-env (erts, otp) (2009-12-21) 1 commit
 . Added ERL_ATOM_TABLE_SIZE environment variable (f1bf944)

Does not build on Windows. (MIN and MAX macros are not defined
on Windows.)