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author | Joseph Hunkeler <jhunkeler@gmail.com> | 2015-07-08 20:46:52 -0400 |
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committer | Joseph Hunkeler <jhunkeler@gmail.com> | 2015-07-08 20:46:52 -0400 |
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diff --git a/vendor/x11iraf/obm/Tcl/changes b/vendor/x11iraf/obm/Tcl/changes new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d920add2 --- /dev/null +++ b/vendor/x11iraf/obm/Tcl/changes @@ -0,0 +1,958 @@ +Recent user-visible changes to Tcl: + +1. No more [command1] [command2] construct for grouping multiple +commands on a single command line. + +2. Semi-colon now available for grouping commands on a line. + +3. For a command to span multiple lines, must now use backslash-return +at the end of each line but the last. + +4. "Var" command has been changed to "set". + +5. Double-quotes now available as an argument grouping character. + +6. "Return" may be used at top-level. + +7. More backslash sequences available now. In particular, backslash-newline +may be used to join lines in command files. + +8. New or modified built-in commands: case, return, for, glob, info, +print, return, set, source, string, uplevel. + +9. After an error, the variable "errorInfo" is filled with a stack +trace showing what was being executed when the error occurred. + +10. Command abbreviations are accepted when parsing commands, but +are not recommended except for purely-interactive commands. + +11. $, set, and expr all complain now if a non-existent variable is +referenced. + +12. History facilities exist now. See Tcl.man and Tcl_RecordAndEval.man. + +13. Changed to distinguish between empty variables and those that don't +exist at all. Interfaces to Tcl_GetVar and Tcl_ParseVar have changed +(NULL return value is now possible). *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +14. Changed meaning of "level" argument to "uplevel" command (1 now means +"go up one level", not "go to level 1"; "#1" means "go to level 1"). +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +15. 3/19/90 Added "info exists" option to see if variable exists. + +16. 3/19/90 Added "noAbbrev" variable to prohibit command abbreviations. + +17. 3/19/90 Added extra errorInfo option to "error" command. + +18. 3/21/90 Double-quotes now only affect space: command, variable, +and backslash substitutions still occur inside double-quotes. +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +19. 3/21/90 Added support for \r. + +20. 3/21/90 List, concat, eval, and glob commands all expect at least +one argument now. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +21. 3/22/90 Added "?:" operators to expressions. + +22. 3/25/90 Fixed bug in Tcl_Result that caused memory to get trashed. + +------------------- Released version 3.1 --------------------- + +23. 3/29/90 Fixed bug that caused "file a.b/c ext" to return ".b/c". + +24. 3/29/90 Semi-colon is not treated specially when enclosed in +double-quotes. + +------------------- Released version 3.2 --------------------- + +25. 4/16/90 Rewrote "exec" not to use select or signals anymore. +Should be more Sys-V compatible, and no slower in the normal case. + +26. 4/18/90 Rewrote "glob" to eliminate GNU code (there's no GNU code +left in Tcl, now), and added Tcl_TildeSubst procedure. Added automatic +tilde-substitution in many commands, including "glob". + +------------------- Released version 3.3 --------------------- + +27. 7/11/90 Added "Tcl_AppendResult" procedure. + +28. 7/20/90 "History" with no options now defaults to "history info" +rather than to "history redo". Although this is a backward incompatibility, +it should only be used interactively and thus shouldn't present any +compatibility problems with scripts. + +29. 7/20/90 Added "Tcl_GetInteger", "Tcl_GetDouble", and "Tcl_GetBoolean" +procedures. + +30. 7/22/90 Removed "Tcl_WatchInterp" procedure: doesn't seem to be +necessary, since the same effect can be achieved with the deletion +callbacks on individual commands. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +31. 7/23/90 Added variable tracing: Tcl_TraceVar, Tcl_UnTraceVar, +and Tcl_VarTraceInfo procedures, "trace" command. + +32. 8/9/90 Mailed out list of all bug fixes since 3.3 release. + +33. 8/29/90 Fixed bugs in Tcl_Merge relating to backslashes and +semi-colons. Mailed out patch. + +34. 9/3/90 Fixed bug in tclBasic.c: quotes weren't quoting ]'s. +Mailed out patch. + +35. 9/19/90 Rewrote exec to always use files both for input and +output to the process. The old pipe-based version didn't work if +the exec'ed process forked a child and then exited: Tcl waited +around for stdout to get closed, which didn't happen until the +grandchild exited. + +36. 11/5/90 ERR_IN_PROGRESS flag wasn't being cleared soon enough +in Tcl_Eval, allowing error messages from different commands to +pile up in $errorInfo. Fixed by re-arranging code in Tcl_Eval that +re-initializes result and ERR_IN_PROGRESS flag. Didn't mail out +patch: changes too complicated to describe. + +37. 12/19/90 Added Tcl_VarEval procedure as a convenience for +assembling and executing Tcl commands. + +38. 1/29/91 Fixed core leak in Tcl_AddErrorInfo. Also changed procedure +and Tcl_Eval so that first call to Tcl_AddErrorInfo need not come from +Tcl_Eval. + +----------------- Released version 5.0 with Tk ------------------ + +39. 4/3/91 Removed change bars from manual entries, leaving only those +that came after version 3.3 was released. + +40. 5/17/91 Changed tests to conform to Mary Ann May-Pumphrey's approach. + +41. 5/23/91 Massive revision to Tcl parser to simplify the implementation +of string and floating-point support in expressions. Newlines inside +[] are now treated as command separators rather than word separators +(this makes newline treatment consistent throughout Tcl). +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +42. 5/23/91 Massive rewrite of expression code to support floating-point +values and simple string comparisons. The C interfaces to expression +routines have changed (Tcl_Expr is replaced by Tcl_ExprLong, Tcl_ExprDouble, +etc.), but all old Tcl expression strings should be accepted by the new +expression code. +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +43. 5/23/91 Modified tclHistory.c to check for negative "keep" value. + +44. 5/23/91 Modified Tcl_Backslash to handle backslash-newline. It now +returns 0 to indicate that a backslash sequence should be replaced by +no character at all. +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +45. 5/29/91 Modified to use ANSI C function prototypes. Must set +"USE_ANSI" switch when compiling to get prototypes. + +46. 5/29/91 Completed test suite by providing tests for all of the +built-in Tcl commands. + +47. 5/29/91 Changed Tcl_Concat to eliminate leading and trailing +white-space in each of the things it concatenates and to ignore +elements that are empty or have only white space in them. This +produces cleaner output from the "concat" command. +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +48. 5/31/91 Changed "set" command and Tcl_SetVar procedure to return +new value of variable. + +49. 6/1/91 Added "while" and "cd" commands. + +50. 6/1/91 Changed "exec" to delete the last character of program +output if it is a newline. In most cases this makes it easier to +process program-generated output. +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +51. 6/1/91 Made sure that pointers are never used after freeing them. + +52. 6/1/91 Fixed bug in TclWordEnd where it wasn't dealing with +[] inside quotes correctly. + +53. 6/8/91 Fixed exec.test to accept return values of either 1 or +255 from "false" command. + +54. 7/6/91 Massive overhaul of variable management. Associative +arrays now available, along with "unset" command (and Tcl_UnsetVar +procedure). Variable traces have been completely reworked: +interfaces different both from Tcl and C, and multiple traces may +exist on same variable. Can no longer redefine existing local +variable to be global. Calling sequences have changed slightly +for Tcl_GetVar and Tcl_SetVar ("global" is now "flags"). Tcl_SetVar +can fail and return a NULL result. New forms of variable-manipulation +procedures: Tcl_GetVar2, Tcl_SetVar2, etc. Syntax of variable +$-notation changed to support array indexing. +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +55. 7/6/91 Added new list-manipulation procedures: Tcl_ScanElement, +Tcl_ConvertElement, Tcl_AppendElement. + +56. 7/12/91 Created new procedure Tcl_EvalFile, which does most of the +work of the "source" command. + +57. 7/20/91 Major reworking of "exec" command to allow pipelines, +more redirection, background. Added new procedures Tcl_Fork, +Tcl_WaitPids, Tcl_DetachPids, and Tcl_CreatePipeline. The old +"< input" notation has been replaced by "<< input" ("<" is for +redirection from a file). Also handles error returns and abnormal +terminations (e.g. signals) differently. +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +58. 7/21/91 Added "append" and "lappend" commands. + +59. 7/22/91 Reworked error messages and manual entries to use +?x? as the notation for an optional argument x, instead of [x]. The +bracket notation was often confused with the use of brackets for +command substitution. Also modified error messages to be more +consistent. + +60. 7/23/91 Tcl_DeleteCommand now returns an indication of whether +or not the command actually existed, and the "rename" command uses +this information to return an error if an attempt is made to delete +a non-existent command. +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +61. 7/25/91 Added new "errorCode" mechanism, along with procedures +Tcl_SetErrorCode, Tcl_UnixError, and Tcl_ResetResult. Renamed +Tcl_Return to Tcl_SetResult, but left a #define for Tcl_Return to +avoid compatibility problems. + +62. 7/26/91 Extended "case" command with alternate syntax where all +patterns and commands are together in a single list argument: makes +it easier to write multi-line case statements. + +63. 7/27/91 Changed "print" command to perform tilde-substitution on +the file name. + +64. 7/27/91 Added "tolower", "toupper", "trim", "trimleft", and "trimright" +options to "string" command. + +65. 7/29/91 Added "atime", "mtime", "size", and "stat" options to "file" +command. + +66. 8/1/91 Added "split" and "join" commands. + +67. 8/11/91 Added commands for file I/O, including "open", "close", +"read", "gets", "puts", "flush", "eof", "seek", and "tell". + +68. 8/14/91 Switched to use a hash table for command lookups. Command +abbreviations no longer have direct support in the Tcl interpreter, but +it should be possible to simulate them with the auto-load features +described below. The "noAbbrev" variable is no longer used by Tcl. +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +68.5 8/15/91 Added support for "unknown" command, which can be used to +complete abbreviations, auto-load library files, auto-exec shell +commands, etc. + +69. 8/15/91 Added -nocomplain switch to "glob" command. + +70. 8/20/91 Added "info library" option and TCL_LIBRARY #define. Also +added "info script" option. + +71. 8/20/91 Changed "file" command to take "option" argument as first +argument (before file name), for consistency with other Tcl commands. +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +72. 8/20/91 Changed format of information in $errorInfo variable: +comments such as + ("while" body line 1) +are now on separate lines from commands being executed. +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +73. 8/20/91 Changed Tcl_AppendResult so that it (eventually) frees +large buffers that it allocates. + +74. 8/21/91 Added "linsert", "lreplace", "lsearch", and "lsort" +commands. + +75. 8/28/91 Added "incr" and "exit" commands. + +76. 8/30/91 Added "regexp" and "regsub" commands. + +77. 9/4/91 Changed "dynamic" field in interpreters to "freeProc" (procedure +address). This allows for alternative storage managers. +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +78. 9/6/91 Added "index", "length", and "range" options to "string" +command. Added "lindex", "llength", and "lrange" commands. + +79. 9/8/91 Removed "index", "length", "print" and "range" commands. +"Print" is redundant with "puts", but less general, and the other +commands are replaced with the new commands described in change 78 +above. +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +80. 9/8/91 Changed history revision to occur even when history command +is nested; needed in order to allow "history" to be invoked from +"unknown" procedure. + +81. 9/13/91 Changed "panic" not to use vfprintf (it's uglier and less +general now, but makes it easier to run Tcl on systems that don't +have vfprintf). Also changed "strerror" not to redeclare sys_errlist. + +82. 9/19/91 Lots of changes to improve portability to different UNIX +systems, including addition of "config" script to adapt Tcl to the +configuration of the system it's being compiled on. + +83. 9/22/91 Added "pwd" command. + +84. 9/22/91 Renamed manual pages so that their filenames are no more +than 14 characters in length, moved to "doc" subdirectory. + +85. 9/24/91 Redid manual entries so they contain the supplemental +macros that they need; can just print with "troff -man" or "man" +now. + +86. 9/26/91 Created initial version of script library, including +a version of "unknown" that does auto-loading, auto-execution, and +abbreviation expansion. This library is used by tclTest +automatically. See the "library" manual entry for details. + +----------------- Released version 6.0, 9/26/91 ------------------ + +87. 9/30/91 Made "string tolower" and "string toupper" check case +before converting: on some systems, "tolower" and "toupper" assume +that character already has particular case. + +88. 9/30/91 Fixed bug in Tcl_SetResult: wasn't always setting freeProc +correctly when called with NULL value. This tended to cause memory +allocation errors later. + +89. 10/3/91 Added "upvar" command. + +90. 10/4/91 Changed "format" so that internally it converts %D to %ld, +%U to %lu, %O to %lo, and %F to %f. This eliminates some compatibility +problems on some machines without affecting behavior. + +91. 10/10/91 Fixed bug in "regsub" that caused core dumps with the -all +option when the last match wasn't at the end of the string. + +92. 10/17/91 Fixed problems with backslash sequences: \r support was +incomplete and \f and \v weren't supported at all. + +93. 10/24/91 Added Tcl_InitHistory procedure. + +94. 10/24/91 Changed "regexp" to store "-1 -1" in subMatchVars that +don't match, rather than returning an error. + +95. 10/27/91 Modified "regexp" to return actual strings in matchVar +and subMatchVars instead of indices. Added "-indices" switch to cause +indices to be returned. +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +96. 10/27/91 Fixed bug in "scan" where it used hardwired constants for +sizes of floats and doubles instead of using "sizeof". + +97. 10/31/91 Fixed bug in tclParse.c where parse-related error messages +weren't being storage-managed correctly, causing spurious free's. + +98. 10/31/91 Form feed and vertical tab characters are now considered +to be space characters by the parser. + +99. 10/31/91 Added TCL_LEAVE_ERR_MSG flag to procedures like Tcl_SetVar. + +100. 11/7/91 Fixed bug in "case" where "in" argument couldn't be omitted +if all case branches were embedded in a single list. + +101. 11/7/91 Switched to use "pid_t" and "uid_t" and other official +POSIC types and function prototypes. + +----------------- Released version 6.1, 11/7/91 ------------------ + +102. 12/2/91 Modified Tcl_ScanElement and Tcl_ConvertElement in several +ways. First, allowed caller to request that only backslashes be used +(no braces). Second, made Tcl_ConvertElement more aggressive in using +backslashes for braces and quotes. + +103. 12/5/91 Added "type", "lstat", and "readlink" options to "file" +command, plus added new "type" element to output of "stat" and "lstat" +options. + +104. 12/10/91 Manual entries had first lines that caused "man" program +to try weird preprocessor. Added blank comment lines to fix problem. + +105. 12/16/91 Fixed a few bugs in auto_mkindex proc: wasn't handling +errors properly, and hadn't been upgraded for new "regexp" syntax. + +106. 1/2/92 Fixed bug in "file" command where it didn't properly handle +a file names containing tildes where the indicated user doesn't exist. + +107. 1/2/92 Fixed lots of cases in tclUnixStr.c where two different +errno symbols (e.g. EWOULDBLOCK and EAGAIN) have the same number; Tcl +will only use one of them. + +108. 1/2/92 Lots of changes to configuration script to handle many more +systems more gracefully. E.g. should now detect the bogus strtoul that +comes with AIX and substitute Tcl's own version instead. + +----------------- Released version 6.2, 1/10/92 ------------------ + +109. 1/20/92 Config didn't have code to actually use "uid_t" variable +to set TCL_UIT_T #define. + +110. 2/10/92 Tcl_Eval didn't properly reset "numLevels" variable when +too-deep recursion occurred. + +111. 2/29/92 Added "on" and "off" to keywords accepted by Tcl_GetBoolean. + +112. 3/19/92 Config wasn't installing default version of strtod.c for +systems that don't have one in libc.a. + +113. 3/23/92 Fixed bug in tclExpr.c where numbers with leading "."s, +like 0.75, couldn't be properly substituted into expressions with +variable or command substitution. + +114. 3/25/92 Fixed bug in tclUnixAZ.c where "gets" command wasn't +checking to make sure that it was able to write the variable OK. + +115. 4/16/92 Fixed bug in tclUnixAZ.c where "read" command didn't +compute file size right for device files. + +116. 4/23/92 Fixed but in tclCmdMZ.c where "trace vinfo" was overwriting +the trace command. + +----------------- Released version 6.3, 5/1/92 ------------------ + +117. 5/1/92 Added Tcl_GlobalEval. + +118. 6/1/92 Changed auto-load facility to source files at global level. + +119. 6/8/92 Tcl_ParseVar wasn't always setting termPtr after errors, which +sometimes caused core dumps. + +120. 6/21/92 Fixed bug in initialization of regexp pattern cache. This +bug caused segmentation violations in regexp commands under some conditions. + +121. 6/22/92 Changed implementation of "glob" command to eliminate +trailing slashes on directory names: they confuse some systems. There +shouldn't be any user-visible changes in functionality except for names +in error messages not having trailing slashes. + +122. 7/2/92 Fixed bug that caused 'string match ** ""' to return 0. + +123. 7/2/92 Fixed bug in Tcl_CreateCmdBuf where it wasn't initializing +the buffer to an empty string. + +124. 7/6/92 Fixed bug in "case" command where it used NULL pattern string +after errors in the "default" clause. + +125. 7/25/92 Speeded up auto_load procedure: don't reread all the index +files unless the path has changed. + +126. 8/3/92 Changed tclUnix.h to define MAXPATHLEN from PATH_MAX, not +_POSIX_PATH_MAX. + +----------------- Released version 6.4, 8/7/92 ------------------ + +127. 8/10/92 Changed tclBasic.c so that comment lines can be continued by +putting a backslash before the newline. + +128. 8/21/92 Modified "unknown" to allow the source-ing of a file for +an auto-load to trigger other nested auto-loads, as long as there isn't +any recursion on the same command name. + +129. 8/25/92 Modified "format" command to allow " " and "+" flags, and +allow flags in any order. + +130. 9/14/92 Modified Tcl_ParseVar so that it doesn't actually attempt +to look up the variable if "noEval" mode is in effect in the interpreter +(it just parses the name). This avoids the errors that used to occur +in statements like "expr {[info exists foo] && $foo}". + +131. 9/14/92 Fixed bug in "uplevel" command where it didn't output the +correct error message if a level was specified but no command. + +132. 9/14/92 Renamed manual entries to have extensions like .3 and .n, +and added "install" target to Makefile. + +133. 9/18/92 Modified "unknown" command to emulate !!, !<num>, and +^<old>^<new> csh history substitutions. + +134. 9/21/92 Made the config script cleverer about figuring out which +switches to pass to "nm". + +135. 9/23/92 Fixed tclVar.c to be sure to copy flags when growing variables. +Used to forget about traces in progress and make extra recursive calls +on trace procs. + +136. 9/28/92 Fixed bug in auto_reset where it was unsetting variables +that might not exist. + +137. 10/7/92 Changed "parray" library procedure to print any array +accessible to caller, local or global. + +138. 10/15/92 Fixed bug where propagation of new environment variable +values among interpreters took N! time if there exist N interpreters. + +139. 10/16/92 Changed auto_reset procedure so that it also deletes any +existing procedures that are in the auto_load index (the assumption is +that they should be re-loaded to get the latest versions). + +140. 10/21/92 Fixed bug that caused lists to be incorrectly generated +for elements that contained backslash-newline sequences. + +141. 12/9/92 Added support for TCL_LIBRARY environment variable: use +it as library location if it's present. + +142. 12/9/92 Added "info complete" command, Tcl_CommandComplete procedure. + +143. 12/16/92 Changed the Makefile to check to make sure "config" has been +run (can't run config directly from the Makefile because it modifies the +Makefile; thus make has to be run again after running config). + +----------------- Released version 6.5, 12/17/92 ------------------ + +144. 12/21/92 Changed config to look in several places for libc file. + +145. 12/23/92 Added "elseif" support to if. Also, "then", "else", and +"elseif" may no longer be abbreviated. +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +146. 12/28/92 Changed "puts" and "read" to support initial "-nonewline" +switch instead of additional "nonewline" argument. The old form is +still supported, but it is discouraged and is no longer documented. +Also changed "puts" to make the file argument default to stdout: e.g. +"puts foo" will print foo on standard output. + +147. 1/6/93 Fixed bug whereby backslash-newline wasn't working when +typed interactively, or in "info complete". + +148. 1/22/93 Fixed bugs in "lreplace" and "linsert" where close +quotes were being lost from last element before replacement or +insertion. + +149. 1/29/93 Fixed bug in Tcl_AssembleCmd where it wasn't requiring +a newline at the end of a line before considering a command to be +complete. The bug caused some very long lines in script files to +be processed as multiple separate commands. + +150. 1/29/93 Various changes in Makefile to add more configuration +options, simplify installation, fix bugs (e.g. don't use -f switch +for cp), etc. + +151. 1/29/93 Changed "name1" and "name2" identifiers to "part1" and +"part2" to avoid name conflicts with stupid C++ implementations that +use "name1" and "name2" in a reserved way. + +152. 2/1/93 Added "putenv" procedure to replace the standard system +version so that it will work correctly with Tcl's environment handling. + +----------------- Released version 6.6, 2/5/93 ------------------ + +153. 2/10/93 Fixed bugs in config script: missing "endif" in libc loop, +and tried to use strncasecmp.c instead of strcasecmp.c. + +154. 2/10/93 Makefile improvements: added RANLIB variable for easier +Sys-V configuration, added SHELL variable for SGI systems. + +----------------- Released version 6.7, 2/11/93 ------------------ + +153. 2/6/93 Changes in backslash processing: + - \Cx, \Mx, \CMx, \e sequences no longer special + - \<newline> also eats up any space after the newline, replacing + the whole sequence with a single space character + - Hex sequences like \x24 are now supported, along with ANSI C's \a. + - "format" no longer does backslash processing on its format string + - there is no longer any special meaning to a 0 return value from + Tcl_Backslash + - unknown backslash sequences, like (e.g. \*), are replaced with + the following character (e.g. *), instead of just treating the + backslash as an ordinary character. +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +154. 2/6/93 Updated all copyright notices. The meaning hasn't changed +at all but the wording does a better job of protecting U.C. from +liability (according to U.C. lawyers, anyway). + +155. 2/6/93 Changed "regsub" so that it overwrites the result variable +in all cases, even if there is no match. +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +156. 2/8/93 Added support for XPG3 %n$ conversion specifiers to "format" +command. + +157. 2/17/93 Fixed bug in Tcl_Eval where errors due to infinite +recursion could result in core dumps. + +158. 2/17/93 Improved the auto-load mechanism to deal gracefully (i.e. +return an error) with a situation where a library file that supposedly +defines a procedure doesn't actually define it. + +159. 2/17/93 Renamed Tcl_UnixError procedure to Tcl_PosixError, and +changed errorCode variable usage to use POSIX as keyword instead of +UNIX. +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +160. 2/19/93 Changes to exec and process control: + - Added support for >>, >&, >>&, |&, <@, >@, and >&@ forms of redirection. + - When exec puts processes into background, it returns a list of + their pids as result. + - Added support for <file, >file, etc. (i.e. no space between + ">" and file name. + - Added -keepnewline option. + - Deleted Tcl_Fork and Tcl_WaitPids procedures (just use fork and + waitpid instead). + - Added waitpid compatibility procedure for systems that don't have + it. + - Added Tcl_ReapDetachedProcs procedure. + - Changed "exec" to return an error if there is stderr output, even + if the command returns a 0 exit status (it's always been documented + this way, but the implementation wasn't correct). + - If a process returns a non-zero exit status but doesn't generate + any diagnostic output, then Tcl generates an error message for it. +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +161. 2/25/93 Fixed two memory-management problems having to do with +managing the old result during variable trace callbacks. + +162. 3/1/93 Added dynamic string library: Tcl_DStringInit, Tcl_DStringAppend, +Tcl_DStringFree, Tcl_DStringResult, etc. + +163. 3/1/93 Modified glob command to only return the names of files that +exist, and to only return names ending in "/" if the file is a directory. +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +164. 3/19/93 Modified not to use system calls like "read" directly, +but instead to use special Tcl procedures that retry automatically +if interrupted by signals. + +165. 4/3/93 Eliminated "noSep" argument to Tcl_AppendElement, plus +TCL_NO_SPACE flag for Tcl_SetVar and Tcl_SetVar2. +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +166. 4/3/93 Eliminated "flags" and "termPtr" arguments to Tcl_Eval. +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +167. 4/3/93 Changes to expressions: + - The "expr" command now accepts multiple arguments, which are + concatenated together with space separators. + - Integers aren't automatically promoted to floating-point if they + overflow the word size: errors are generated instead. + - Tcl can now handle "NaN" and other special values if the underlying + library procedures handle them. + - When printing floating-point numbers, Tcl ensures that there is a "." + or "e" in the number, so it can't be treated as an integer accidentally. + The procedure Tcl_PrintDouble is available to provide this function + in other contexts. Also, the variable "tcl_precision" can be used + to set the precision for printing (must be a decimal number giving + digits of precision). + - Expressions now support transcendental and other functions, e.g. sin, + acos, hypot, ceil, and round. Can add new math functions with + Tcl_CreateMathFunc(). + - Boolean expressions can now have any of the string values accepted + by Tcl_GetBoolean, such as "yes" or "no". +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +168. 4/5/93 Changed Tcl_UnsetVar and Tcl_UnsetVar2 to return TCL_OK +or TCL_ERROR instead of 0 or -1. +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +169. 4/5/93 Eliminated Tcl_CmdBuf structure and associated procedures; +can use Tcl_DStrings instead. +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +170. 4/8/93 Changed interface to Tcl_TildeSubst to use a dynamic +string for buffer space. This makes the procedure re-entrant and +thread-safe, whereas it wasn't before. +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +171. 4/14/93 Eliminated tclHash.h, and moved everything from it to +tcl.h +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +172. 4/15/93 Eliminated Tcl_InitHistory, made "history" command always +be part of interpreter. +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +173. 4/16/93 Modified "file" command so that "readable" option always +exists, even on machines that don't support symbolic links (always returns +same error as if the file wasn't a symbolic link). + +174. 4/26/93 Fixed bugs in "regsub" where ^ patterns didn't get handled +right (pretended not to match when it really did, and looped infinitely +if -all was specified). + +175. 4/29/93 Various improvements in the handling of variables: + - Can create variables and array elements during a read trace. + - Can delete variables during traces (note: unset traces will be + invoked when this happens). + - Can upvar to array elements. + - Can retarget an upvar to another variable by re-issuing the + upvar command with a different "other" variable. + +176. 5/3/93 Added Tcl_GetCommandInfo, which returns info about a Tcl +command such as whether it exists and its ClientData. Also added +Tcl_SetCommandInfo, which allows any of this information to be modified +and also allows a command's delete procedure to have a different +ClientData value than its command procedure. + +177. 5/5/93 Added Tcl_RegExpMatch procedure. + +178. 5/6/93 Fixed bug in "scan" where it didn't properly handle +%% conversion specifiers. Also changed "scan" to use Tcl_PrintDouble +for printing real values. + +179. 5/7/93 Added "-exact", "-glob", and "-regexp" options to "lsearch" +command to allow different kinds of pattern matching. + +180. 5/7/93 Added many new switches to "lsort" to control the sorting +process: "-ascii", "-integer", "-real", "-command", "-increasing", +and "-decreasing". + +181. 5/10/93 Changes to file I/O: + - Modified "open" command to support a list of POSIX access flags + like {WRONLY CREAT TRUNC} in addition to current fopen-style + access modes. Also added "permissions" argument to set permissions + of newly-created files. + - Fixed Scott Bolte's bug (can close stdin etc. in application and + then re-open them with Tcl commands). + - Exported access to Tcl's file table with new procedures Tcl_EnterFile + and Tcl_GetOpenFile. + +182. 5/15/93 Added new "pid" command, which can be used to retrieve +either the current process id or a list of the process ids in a +pipeline opened with "open |..." + +183. 6/3/93 Changed to use GNU autoconfig for configuration instead of +the home-brew "config" script. Also made many other configuration-related +changes, such as using <unistd.h> instead of explicitly declaring system +calls in tclUnix.h. + +184. 6/4/93 Fixed bug where core-dumps could occur if a procedure +redefined itself (the memory for the procedure's body could get +reallocated in the middle of evaluating the body); implemented +simple reference count mechanism. + +185. 6/5/93 Changed tclIndex file format in two ways: (a) it's now +eval-ed instead of parsed, which makes it 3-4x faster; (b) the entries +in auto_index are now commands to evaluate, which allows commands to +be loaded in different ways such as dynamic-loading of C code. The +old tclIndex file format is still supported. + +186. 6/7/93 Eliminated tclTest program, added new "tclsh" program +that is more like wish (allows script files to be invoked automatically +using "#!/usr/local/bin/tclsh", makes arguments available to script, +etc.). Added support for Tcl_AppInit plus default version; this +allows new Tcl applications to be created without modifying the +main program for tclsh. + +187. 6/7/93 Fixed bug in TclWordEnd that kept backslash-newline from +working correctly in some cases during interactive input. + +188. 6/9/93 Added Tcl_LinkVar and related procedures, which automatically +keep a Tcl variable in sync with a C variable. + +189. 6/16/93 Increased maximum nesting depth from 100 to 1000. + +190. 6/16/93 Modified "trace var" command so that error messages from +within traces are returned properly as the result of the variable +access, instead of the generic "access disallowed by trace command" +message. + +191. 6/16/93 Added Tcl_CallWhenDeleted to provide callbacks when an +interpreter is deleted (same functionality as Tcl_WatchInterp, which +used to exist in versions before 6.0). + +193. 6/16/93 Added "-code" argument to "return" command; it's there +primarily for completeness, so that procedures implementing control +constructs can reflect exceptional conditions back to their callers. + +194. 6/16/93 Split up Tcl.n to make separate manual entries for each +Tcl command. Tcl.n now contains a summary of the language syntax. + +195. 6/17/93 Added new "switch" command to replace "case": allows +alternate forms of pattern matching (exact, glob, regexp), replaces +pattern lists with single patterns (but you can use "-" bodies to +share one body among several patterns), eliminates "in" noise word. +"Case" command is now obsolete. + +196. 6/17/93 Changed the "exec", "glob", "regexp", and "regsub" commands +to include a "--" switch. All initial arguments starting with "-" are now +treated as switches unless a "--" switch is present to end the list. +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +197. 6/17/93 Changed auto-exec so that the subprocess gets stdin, stdout, +and stderr from the parent. This allows truly interactive sub-processes +(e.g. vi) to be auto-exec'ed from a tcl shell command line. + +198. 6/18/93 Added patchlevel.h, for use in coordinating future patch +releases, and also added "info patchlevel" command to make the patch +level available to Tcl scripts. + +199. 6/19/93 Modified "glob" command so that a leading "//" in a name +gets left as is (this is needed for systems like Apollos where "//" is +the super-root; Tcl used to collapse the two slashes into a single +slash). + +200. 7/7/93 Added Tcl_SetRecursionLimit procedure so that the maximum +allowable nesting depth can be controlled for an interpreter from C. + +----------------- Released version 7.0 Beta 1, 7/9/93 ------------------ + +201. 7/12/93 Modified Tcl_GetInt and tclExpr.c so that full-precision +unsigned integers can be specified without overflow errors. + +202. 7/12/93 Configuration changes: eliminate leading blank line in +configure script; provide separate targets in Makefile for installing +binary and non-binary information; check for size_t and a few other +potentially missing typedefs; don't put tclAppInit.o into libtcl.a; +better checks for matherr support. + +203. 7/14/93 Changed tclExpr.c to check the termination pointer before +errno after strtod calls, to avoid problems with some versions of +strtod that set errno in unexpected ways. + +204. 7/16/93 Changed "scan" command to be more ANSI-conformant: +eliminated %F, %D, etc., added code to ignore "l", "h", and "L" +modifiers but always convert %e, %f, and %g with implicit "l"; +also added support for %u and %i. Also changed "format" command +to eliminate %D, %U, %O, and add %i. +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +205. 7/17/93 Changed "uplevel" and "upvar" so that they can be used +from global level to global level: this used to generate an error. + +206. 7/19/93 Renamed "setenv", "putenv", and "unsetenv" procedures +to avoid conflicts with system procedures with the same names. If +you want Tcl's procedures to override the system procedures, do it +in the Makefile (instructions are in the Makefile). +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +----------------- Released version 7.0 Beta 2, 7/21/93 ------------------ + +207. 7/21/93 Fixed bug in tclVar.c where freed memory was accidentally +used if a procedure returned an element of a local array. + +208. 7/22/93 Fixed bug in "unknown" where it didn't properly handle +errors occurring in the "auto_load" procedure, leaving its state +inconsistent. + +209. 7/23/93 Changed exec's ">2" redirection operator to "2>" for +consistency with sh. This is incompatible with earlier beta releases +of 7.0 but not with pre-7.0 releases, which didn't support either +operator. + +210. 7/28/93 Changed backslash-newline handling so that the resulting +space character *is* treated as a word separator unless the backslash +sequence is in quotes or braces. This is incompatible with 7.0b1 +and 7.0b2 but is more compatible with pre-7.0 versions that the b1 +and b2 releases were. + +211. 7/28/93 Eliminated Tcl_LinkedVarWritable, added TCL_LINK_READ_ONLY to +Tcl_LinkVar to accomplish same purpose. This change is incompatible +with earlier beta releases, but not with releases before Tcl 7.0. + +212. 7/29/93 Renamed regexp C functions so they won't clash with POSIX +regexp functions that use the same name. + +213. 8/3/93 Added "-errorinfo" and "-errorcode" options to "return" +command: these allow for much better handling of the errorInfo +and errorCode variables in some cases. + +214. 8/12/93 Changed "expr" so that % always returns a remainder with +the same sign as the divisor and absolute value smaller than the +divisor. + +215. 8/14/93 Turned off auto-exec in "unknown" unless the command +was typed interactively. This means you must use "exec" when +invoking subprocesses, unless it's a command that's typed interactively. +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +216. 8/14/93 Added support for tcl_prompt1 and tcl_prompt2 variables +to tclMain.c: makes prompts user-settable. + +217. 8/14/93 Added asynchronous handlers (Tcl_AsyncCreate etc.) so +that signals can be taken cleanly by Tcl applications. + +218. 8/16/93 Moved information about open files from the interpreter +structure to global variables so that a file can be opened in one +interpreter and read or written in another. + +219. 8/16/93 Removed ENV_FLAGS from Makefile, so that there's no +official support for overriding setenv, unsetenv, and putenv. + +220. 8/20/93 Various configuration improvements: coerce chars +to unsigned chars before using macros like isspace; source ~/.tclshrc +file during initialization if it exists and program is running +interactively; allow there to be directories in auto_path that don't +exist or don't have tclIndex files (ignore them); added Tcl_Init +procedure and changed Tcl_AppInit to call it. + +221. 8/21/93 Fixed bug in expr where "+", "-", and " " were all +getting treated as integers with value 0. + +222. 8/26/93 Added "tcl_interactive" variable to tclsh. + +223. 8/27/93 Added procedure Tcl_FilePermissions to return whether a +given file can be read or written or both. Modified Tcl_EnterFile +to take a permissions mask rather than separate read and write arguments. + +224. 8/28/93 Fixed performance bug in "glob" command (unnecessary call +to "access" for each file caused a 5-10x slow-down for big directories). + +----------------- Released version 7.0 Beta 3, 8/28/93 ------------------ + +225. 9/9/93 Renamed regexp.h to tclRegexp.h to avoid conflicts with system +include file by same name. + +226. 9/9/93 Added Tcl_DontCallWhenDeleted. + +227. 9/16/93 Changed not to call exit C procedure directly; instead +always invoke "exit" Tcl command so that application can redefine the +command to do additional cleanup. + +228. 9/17/93 Changed auto-exec to handle names that contain slashes +(i.e. don't use PATH for them). + +229. 9/23/93 Fixed bug in "read" and "gets" commands where they didn't +clear EOF conditions. + +----------------- Released version 7.0, 9/29/93 ------------------ + +230. 10/7/93 "Scan" command wasn't properly aligning things in memory, +so segmentation faults could arise under some circumstances. + +231. 10/7/93 Fixed bug in Tcl_ConvertElement where it forgot to +backslash leading curly brace when creating lists. + +232. 10/7/93 Eliminated dependency of tclMain.c on tclInt.h and +tclUnix.h, so that people can copy the file out of the Tcl source +directory to make modified private versions. + +233. 10/8/93 Fixed bug in auto-loader that reversed the priority order +of entries in auto_path for new-style index files. Now things are +back to the way they were before 3.0: first in auto_path is always +highest priority. + +234. 10/13/93 Fixed bug where Tcl_CommandComplete didn't recognize +comments and treat them as such. Thus if you typed the line + # { +interactively, Tcl would think that the command wasn't complete and +wait for more input before evaluating the script. + +235. 10/14/93 Fixed bug where "regsub" didn't set the output variable +if the input string was empty. + +236. 10/23/93 Fixed bug where Tcl_CreatePipeline didn't close off enough +file descriptors in child processes, causing children not to exit +properly in some cases. + +237. 10/28/93 Changed "list" and "concat" commands not to generate +errors if given zero arguments, but instead to just return an empty +string. + +----------------- Released version 7.1, 11/4/93 ------------------ + +Note: there is no 7.2 release. It was flawed and was thus withdrawn +shortly after it was released. + +238. 11/10/93 TclMain.c didn't compile on some systems because of +R_OK in call to "access". Changed to eliminate call to "access". + +----------------- Released version 7.3, 11/26/93 ------------------ |