Changes in Poly/ML Version 5.4
Major New Features
* Major rewrite of the X86 code-generator and combining the 32 and
64-bit versions into a single module. It now supports the floating
point instructions.
* Changes to the way functions with polymorphic equality are
handled to eliminate the "structural equality" code.
* Uses the GMP library if that is available when Poly/ML is
built otherwise falls back to the old Poly/ML code.
Minor Additions and Changes
* Added a SingleAssignment structure
* Support for the Itanium processor using the interpreted version.
* Various bug fixes.
Overhaul buildlink3 processing of Ruby.
* Don't buildlink in ruby/rubyversion.mk any more but define
RUBY_USE_PTHREAD (use of pthread).
* In ruby/buildlink3.mk, buildlink via mk/pthread.buildlink3.mk as to
RUBY_USE_PTHREAD.
* Also the same logic in ruby/Makefile.common.
* Buildlink of bdb, libiconv, zlib, openssl in each ruby*-base/Makefile.
* Don't buildlink in ruby/rubyversion.mk any more but define
RUBY_USE_PTHREAD (use of pthread).
* In ruby/buildlink3.mk, buildlink via mk/pthread.buildlink3.mk as to
RUBY_USE_PTHREAD.
* Also the same logic in ruby/Makefile.common.
* Buildlink of bdb, libiconv, zlib, openssl in each ruby*-base/Makefile.
on pkgsrc-users.
Changes:
Changes from 3.1.8 to 4.0.0
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1. The special files /dev/pid, /dev/ppid, /dev/pgrpid and /dev/user are
now completely gone. Use PROCINFO instead.
2. The POSIX 2008 behavior for `sub' and `gsub' are now the default.
THIS CHANGES BEHAVIOR!!!!
3. The \s and \S escape sequences are now recognized in regular expressions.
4. The split() function accepts an optional fourth argument which is an array
to hold the values of the separators.
5. The new -b / --characters-as-bytes option means "hands off my data"; gawk
won't try to treat input as a multibyte string.
6. There is a new --sandbox option; see the doc.
7. Indirect function calls are now available.
8. Interval expressions are now part of default regular expressions for
GNU Awk syntax.
9. --gen-po is now correctly named --gen-pot.
10. switch / case is now enabled by default. There's no longer a need
for a configure-time option.
11. Gawk now supports BEGINFILE and ENDFILE. See the doc for details.
12. Directories named on the command line now produce a warning, not
a fatal error, unless --posix or --traditional.
13. The new FPAT variable allows you to specify a regexp that matches
the fields, instead of matching the field separator. The new patsplit()
function gives the same capability for splitting.
14. All long options now have short options, for use in `#!' scripts.
15. Support for IPv6 is added via the /inet6/... special file. /inet4/...
forces IPv4 and /inet chooses the system default (probably IPv4).
16. Added a warning for /[:space:]/ that should be /[[:space:]]/.
17. Merged with John Haque's byte code internals. Adds dgawk debugger and
possibly improved performance.
18. `break' and `continue' are no longer valid outside a loop, even with
--traditional.
19. POSIX character classes work with --traditional (BWK awk supports them).
20. Nuked redundant --compat, --copyleft, and --usage long options.
21. Arrays of arrays added. See the doc.
22. Per the GNU Coding Standards, dynamic extensions must now define
a global symbol indicating that they are GPL-compatible. See
the documentation and example extensions.
THIS CHANGES BEHAVIOR!!!!
23. In POSIX mode, string comparisons use strcoll/wcscoll.
THIS CHANGES BEHAVIOR!!!!
24. The option for raw sockets was removed, since it was never implemented.
25. Gawk now treats ranges of the form [d-h] as if they were in the C
locale, no matter what kind of regexp is being used, and even if
--posix. The latest POSIX standard allows this, and the documentation
has been updated. Maybe this will stop all the questions about
[a-z] matching uppercase letters.
THIS CHANGES BEHAVIOR!!!!
26. PROCINFO["strftime"] now holds the default format for strftime().
27. Updated to latest infrastructure: Autoconf 2.68, Automake 1.11.1,
Gettext 0.18.1, Bison 2.5.
28. Many code cleanups. Removed code for many old, unsupported systems:
- Atari
- Amiga
- BeOS
- Cray
- MIPS RiscOS
- MS-DOS with Microsoft Compiler
- MS-Windows with Microsoft Compiler
- NeXT
- SunOS 3.x, Sun 386 (Road Runner)
- Tandem (non-POSIX)
- Prestandard VAX C compiler for VAX/VMS
- Probably others that I've forgotten
29. If PROCINFO["sorted_in"] exists, for(iggy in foo) loops sort the
indices before looping over them. The value of this element
provides control over how the indices are sorted before the loop
traversal starts. See the manual.
30. A new isarray() function exists to distinguish if an item is an array
or not, to make it possible to traverse multidimensional arrays.
31. asort() and asorti() take a third argument specifying how to sort.
See the doc.
- use INSTALL_DATA to install manpages
(prevents pages being marked executable)
- recognise (but ignore) the __returns_twice__ GCC attribute
- Fix bug causing failure when comparing bool pointers.
Fixes Jira#PCC-383 by Nicolas Joly, bugfix by Will Noble on pcc-list.
The maintainers of ruby have changed the shared library naming scheme for
FreeBSD and DragonFly:
For ruby18, it's libruby18.so.18 (last part = RUBY_VER)
For ruby19, it's libruby19.so.19 (last part = RUBY_VER)
for ruby193, it's libruby193.so.191 (last part derived from API, not version)
The rubyversion.mk was never updated to reflect that, and as a result ruby
1.9.3 has never built on DragonFly. This commit will allow
lang/ruby193-base package to build.
GCC 4.4.7 is a bug-fix release containing fixes for regressions and serious
bugs in GCC 4.4.6. This release marks the end of the maintainance of
the GCC 4.4 series.
This is the list of problem reports (PRs) from GCC's bug tracking system
that are known to be fixed in the 4.4.7 release. This list might not be
complete (that is, it is possible that some PRs that have been fixed are
not listed here).
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&resolution=FIXED&target_milestone=4.6.2
on NetBSD; removes two dependencies.
Unlimit before running tests, reduces test failures.
Add t-crtstuff to tmake_file on NetBSD as well.
gcc46 should work much better now on NetBSD.
All from Kai-Uwe Eckhardt in private mail.
Bump PKGREVISION.
Lua 5.1.5 released. This is a bug-fix release.
(no further changelog found)
Remove master site that doesn't have new tarball.
Fix pkglint warning in patch-ac.
Upstream changes:
- Core
+ Shared libraries and installable binaries are now stripped if
built with --optimize on Cygwin, which greatly reduces their
size on disk
+ New experimental PCC-related ops added to core.
- Documentation
+ Revised 'docs/project/release_manager_guide.pod'
- Tests
+ Parrot now uses Travis CI http://travis-ci.org
+ Parrot Continuous Integration (CI) with Travis CI means
every commit of Parrot is now compiled and tested on gcc,
g++ and clang with various Configure.pl options.
+ CI Notifications are sent to parrot-dev, the #parrot
IRC channel and Smolder
+ Cardinal and Rakudo spec tests also on Travis CI
Upstream changes:
- Core
+ Several cleanups to the interp subsystem API
+ Cleanups and documentation additions for green threads and timers
+ Iterator PMC and family now implement the "iterator" role
+ A bug in Parrot_ext_try was fixed where it was not popping a
context correctly
- Documentation
+ Docs for all versions of Parrot ever released are now available
at http://parrot.github.com
- Tests
+ Timer PMC tests were converted from PASM to PIR
Upstream changes:
- Core
+ packfile api and pbc handling improvements
+ smarter recursion tracking across threads
+ new "pop_upto_eh" op for finer-grained exception handling
+ subroutine-level profiling runcore cleanups
+ improved window support
- Languages
+ new math builtins in winxed (abs, sinh, cosh and tanh)
+ better inline support in winxed
+ squaak improvements (sub as expression, new read() builtin)
- Documentation
+ many new man pages thanks to gci students
- Tests
+ updated example code for FileHandle and Iterator
+ coding standards fixes
Pkgsrc changes:
* Adapt to changes in list of installed files
* Remove a now-irrelevant patch, add another as a workaround
for a timing-dependent patch (done differently in later revisions)
Upstream changes:
- Core
+ The mark VTABLE was added to the Select PMC
+ The Parrot::Embed Perl 5 module was removed from parrot.git and now lives
at https://github.com/parrot/parrot-embed
+ A set_random method was added to the Integer PMC, so random numbers can
be generated without needing to load math dynops
+ A new implementation of green threads was added to Parrot, in preparation
for a robust hybrid threading system. Green threads are currently
not available on Windows.
- Languages
+ Winxed
- 'multi' modifier improved
- throw "string" now emits throw instead of die
- several optimizations in generated code
- improved some error dianostics
- Community
+ Parrot Foundation was accepted to Google Code-In 2011. We
could always use more volunteers. Task ideas are on the wiki:
https://github.com/parrot/parrot/wiki/Google-Code-In-Task-Ideas
- Documentation
- Tests
+ Added tests for recently-fixed bugs using return :flat and
ResizableStringArrays.
