Upstream changes:
What's new in version 7.0:
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+ Fixed a bug in "GCD2()" in "BitVector.c" with null-size vectors
+ Added more test cases for "GCD()" in "t/17_________gcd.t"
+ Almost completely rewrote "BitVector_Boot()" in "BitVector.c"
in order to fix the problem that it calculated an unsigned
long to have 33 bits under MacOS X (Darwin), leading to
failing tests in "t/28___chunklist.t"
+ BEWARE that the type "ErrCode", which is part of the inter-
face of the C library "BitVector.c", has been changed!
+ Added more tests and a debugging aid to "t/28___chunklist.t"
+ Removed the two example files showing how to freeze/thaw
"Bit::Vector" objects using "Data::Dumper", because after
closer inspection this proved to be a can of worms
Upstream changes:
Version 6.9 12.08.2009
+ Replaced Storable::freeze by Storable::nfreeze
+ Added more test cases for Storable
+ Added two example files showing how to freeze/thaw
using Data::Dumper
Version 6.8 10.08.2009
+ Fixed the bug of Storable not reconstructing nested data
structures properly which contain several references to
the same Bit::Vector object
+ Fixed hard-coded table size MASKTABSIZE in BitVector.c
+ Small cosmetic fixes to the documentation
pkgsrc changes:
- Re-add dependency to devel/p5-Storable - desired version will be in
Perl CORE not before 5.10.1
Upstream changes:
Version 6.7 08.08.2009
+ Replaced STORABLE_thaw by STORABLE_attach
pkgsrc changes:
- Adding license (perl 5)
- Adjusting Carp::Clan version in depedencies
Upstream changes:
Version 6.6 27.07.2009
+ Made the module thread-safe and MacOS X compatible
Version 6.5 27.07.2009
+ Added automatic support for module "Storable"
+ Added compiler directives for C++.
+ Improved the method "Norm()".
+ Removed "Carp::Clan" from the distribution (available separately).
+ Added "Bit::Vector::String" for generic string import/export functions.
+ Added a new test file "t/40__auxiliary.t" for "Bit::Vector::String".
+ Fixed a bug in method "Copy()" concerning sign (MSB) extension.
+ Added "Create_List()" and "GCD2()" in "BitVector.c".
+ "new()" now can optionally return a list of bit vectors.
+ "GCD()" now can optionally return the two integer factors
"x" and "y" for the linear combination of its input values
"a" and "b" so that gcd(a,b) = x * a + y * b.
+ Changed the test files "t/01________new.t" and "t/09_parameters.t"
as well as the documentation accordingly.
+ Added a new test file "t/17________gcd.t".
+ Further simplified the error handlers in "Vector.xs", making the
resulting object library file substantially smaller (about 20%!)
and thus faster to load.
+ Fixed missing "\" in regular expression in "t/00____version.t".
+ Overhauled the error handlers in "BitVector.c" and "Vector.xs".
+ Added a demo "examples/test.c" to play around with the C library.
+ Attempted to fix all compiler warnings.
+ Fixed a problem in test "t/01________new.t" with Perl using
64 bit integers; now contains "use integer;" to avoid failure.
+ Synchronized "Carp::Clan" and "ToolBox.h" with "Date::Calc" 5.2.
+ Revealed common method aliases (Or, And, etc.) in the documentation.
+ Fixed GCD(), now GCD(z,0) == GCD(0,z) == z and negative values
are handled correctly.
Changes since 5.8:
+ Added the module "Carp::Clan" to the distribution.
+ Splitted the Vector.pm module; separated XS and overloaded Perl
part for improved performance (reduces loading time for XS part).
+ Corrected the handling of numerical overflow in arithmetic methods
("add()", "subtract()", "Multiply()", "from_Dec()", "new_Dec()").
+ Methods "add()" and "subtract()" now return the carry as well as
the overflow flag if called in list context (only the carry in
scalar context, as before).
+ Added two new methods "inc()" and "dec()", which return the overflow
flag (whereas "increment()" and "decrement()" return the carry flag).
The new methods also allow to copy-and-increment/decrement in addition
to in-place operation.
+ Methods "from_Dec()" and "new_Dec()" now allow you to enter large
positive numbers which will have the MSB set (this was forbidden
previously because these numbers are considered to be negative in
two's complement binary representation).
and some bugfixes and compatibility changes.
