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The bug was introduced in R13B03. (Thanks to Matthew Sackman.)</p> <p>Own Id: OTP-8340</p> </li> </ul> <h4>Improvements and New Features</h4> <ul> <li> <p> Add lock profiling tool.</p> <p> The Lock profiling tool, lcnt, can make use of the internal lock statistics when the runtime system is built with this feature enabled.</p> <p> This provides a mechanism to examine potential lock bottlenecks within the runtime itself.</p> <p> - Add erts_debug:lock_counters({copy_save, bool()}). This option enables or disables statistics saving for destroyed processes and ets-tables. Enabling this might consume a lot of memory.</p> <p> - Add id-numbering for lock classes which is otherwise undefined.</p> <p> Own Id: OTP-8424</p> </li> <li> <p> emacs: Moved code skeletons to a separate file and and added a configurable variable to choose skeleton. Thanks Dave Peticolas.</p> <p> Own Id: OTP-8446</p> </li> </ul> <h3><a name="id2269012">1.2 Tools 2.6.5</a></h3> <h4>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</h4> <ul> <li> <p>The coverage analysis tool <span class="code">cover</span> has been improved when it comes to handling list and bit string comprehensions (a counter for each qualifier), bit syntax expressions (the Value and Size expressions), and try expressions (the body called <span class="code">Exprs</span> in the Reference Manual). A few (not all) situations where several expressions are put on the same line are also handled better than before.</p> <p>Own Id: OTP-8188 Aux Id: seq11397</p> </li> <li> <p>When loading Cover compiled code on remote nodes running code in the loaded module, a <span class="code">badarg</span> failure was sometimes the result. This bug has been fixed.</p> <p>Own Id: OTP-8270 Aux Id: seq11423</p> </li> <li> <p>The short-circuit operators <span class="code">andalso</span> and <span class="code">orelse</span> are now handled correctly by the coverage analysis tool <span class="code">cover</span> (it is no longer checked that the second argument returns a Boolean value.)</p> <p>Own Id: OTP-8273</p> </li> </ul> <h3><a name="id2271318">1.3 Tools 2.6.4</a></h3> <h4>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</h4> <ul> <li> <p><span class="code">cover</span> now properly escapes greater-than and less-than characters in comments in HTML reports. (Thanks to Magnus Henoch.)</p> <p> Own Id: OTP-7939</p> </li> </ul> <h3><a name="id2271352">1.4 Tools 2.6.3</a></h3> <h4>Improvements and New Features</h4> <ul> <li> <p> xref:start/1 does now allow anonymous XREF processes to be started</p> <p> Own Id: OTP-7831</p> </li> </ul> <h3><a name="id2271383">1.5 Tools 2.6.2</a></h3> <h4>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</h4> <ul> <li> <p>A bug in the Xref scanner has been fixed.</p> <p> Own Id: OTP-7423</p> </li> <li> <p>A bug in Fprof where the function 'undefined' appeared to call 'undefined' has been corrected.</p> <p> Own Id: OTP-7509</p> </li> </ul> <h3><a name="id2251628">1.6 Tools 2.6.1</a></h3> <h4>Improvements and New Features</h4> <ul> <li> <p>The documentation has been updated so as to reflect the last updates of the Erlang shell as well as the minor modifications of the control sequence <span class="code">p</span> of the <span class="code">io_lib</span> module.</p> <p>Superfluous empty lines have been removed from code examples and from Erlang shell examples.</p> <p> Own Id: OTP-6944 Aux Id: OTP-6554, OTP-6911 </p> </li> <li> <p><span class="code">tuple_size/1</span> and <span class="code">byte_size/1</span> have been substituted for <span class="code">size/1</span>.</p> <p> Own Id: OTP-7009</p> </li> <li> <p>The coverage analysis tool <span class="code">cover</span> now handles the short-circuit Boolean expressions <span class="code">andalso/2</span> and <span class="code">orelse/2</span> properly.</p> <p> Own Id: OTP-7095</p> </li> </ul> <h3><a name="id2251718">1.7 Tools 2.6</a></h3> <h4>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</h4> <ul> <li> <p> The <span class="code">cover</span> tool could use huge amounts of memory when used in a distributed system.</p> <p> Own Id: OTP-6758</p> </li> </ul> <h3><a name="id2251755">1.8 Tools 2.5.5</a></h3> <h4>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</h4> <ul> <li> <p>Missing buffer-local declaration in erlang.el has been added. Before this fix there could arise problems in other emacs modes after visiting a buffer using the erlang mode.</p> <p>Own Id: OTP-6721</p> </li> <li> <p>Key-map for 'backward-delete-char-untabif updated to work properly with Xemacs.</p> <p>Own Id: OTP-6723</p> </li> </ul> <h4>Improvements and New Features</h4> <ul> <li> <p>Minor updates of Xref.</p> <p>Own Id: OTP-6586</p> </li> <li> <p>Minor Makefile changes.</p> <p>Own Id: OTP-6689 Aux Id: OTP-6742 </p> </li> <li> <p>"C-u C-c C-k" now does a compile with both "debug_info" and "export_all".</p> <p>Own Id: OTP-6741</p> </li> </ul> <h3><a name="id2257618">1.9 Tools 2.5.4.1</a></h3> <h4>Improvements and New Features</h4> <ul> <li> <p>Changes due to internal interface changes in the erts application which are needed at compile-time. No functionality has been changed.</p> <p>Own Id: OTP-6611 Aux Id: OTP-6580 </p> </li> </ul> <h3><a name="id2257653">1.10 Tools 2.5.4</a></h3> <h4>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</h4> <ul> <li> <p>Made change to support the function erlang-find-tag for xemacs and emacs-21.</p> <p>Own Id: OTP-6512</p> </li> </ul> <h4>Improvements and New Features</h4> <ul> <li> <p>Minor updates of xref for future compatibility.</p> <p>Own Id: OTP-6513</p> </li> </ul> <h3><a name="id2257713">1.11 Tools 2.5.3</a></h3> <h4>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</h4> <ul> <li> <p><span class="code">eprof</span> did not work reliably in the SMP emulator, because the trace receiver process could not process the trace messages fast enough. Therefore, <span class="code">eprof</span> now blocks the other schedulers while profiling.</p> <p>Own Id: OTP-6373</p> </li> </ul> <h3><a name="id2257755">1.12 Tools 2.5.2</a></h3> <h4>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</h4> <ul> <li> <p>Fprof traces could become truncated for the SMP emulator. This bug has now been corrected.</p> <p>Own Id: OTP-6246</p> </li> </ul> <h3><a name="id2253901">1.13 Tools 2.5.1</a></h3> <h4>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</h4> <ul> <li> <p>eprof now works somewhat better in the SMP emulator.</p> <p>Own Id: OTP-6152</p> </li> </ul> <h3><a name="id2253934">1.14 Tools 2.5</a></h3> <h4>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</h4> <ul> <li> <p>Fixed some bugs in <span class="code">make</span>:</p> <p><span class="code">make:files/1,2</span> can now handle a file in another directory as argument, similar to <span class="code">make:all/0,1</span>.</p> <p>When specifying a file name including the <span class="code">.erl</span> extension in <span class="code">Emakefile</span>, <span class="code">make:all/0,1</span> looked for the object code in the wrong place.</p> <p>When specifying a file name including the <span class="code">.erl</span> extension in <span class="code">Emakefile</span> and some compile options for the file, <span class="code">make:files/0,1</span> did not use the options as it should do.</p> <p>Own Id: OTP-6057 Aux Id: seq10299</p> </li> <li> <p><span class="code">cover</span>: When <span class="code">cover:stop()</span> was called, the cover compiled code was not unloaded (as stated in the documentation) but simply marked as 'old'. This meant that processes lingering in (or with funs referencing to) the cover compiled code would survive even when the cover server and its ETS tables was terminated.</p> <p>Now the cover compiled code is unloaded, meaning that processes lingering in/with references to it will be killed when <span class="code">cover:stop</span> is called, instead of later crashing with <span class="code">badarg</span> when trying to bump counters in ETS tables no longer existing.</p> </li> </ul> <h4>Improvements and New Features</h4> <ul> <li> <p>Replaced call to deprecated function <span class="code">file:file_info/1</span> with call to <span class="code">filelib:is_dir/1</span> and <span class="code">filelib:is_regular/1</span> in <span class="code">tags.erl</span>.</p> <p>Own Id: OTP-6079</p> </li> </ul> <h3><a name="id2254090">1.15 Tools 2.4.7</a></h3> <h4>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</h4> <ul> <li> <p>A bug in <span class="code">fprof</span> profiling causing erroneous inconsistent trace failure has been corrected.</p> <p>Own Id: OTP-5922 Aux Id: seq10203 </p> </li> </ul> <h3><a name="id2254128">1.16 Tools 2.4.6</a></h3> <h4>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</h4> <ul> <li> <p>Emacs: <span class="code">erlang-man-function</span> and <span class="code">erlang-man-module</span> used a pattern matching to find the requested module that sometimes yielded unexpected results. For example, <span class="code">erlang-man-module file</span> would display the man page for <span class="code">CosFileTransfer_File</span>.</p> <p>Own Id: OTP-5746 Aux Id: seq10096</p> </li> <li> <p>Some compiler warnings and Dialyzer warnings were eliminated in the Tools application.</p> <p>When tracing to a port (which <span class="code">fprof</span> does), there could be fake schedule out/schedule in messages sent for a process that had exited.</p> <p>Own Id: OTP-5757</p> </li> </ul> <h3><a name="id2261172">1.17 Tools 2.4.5</a></h3> <h4>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</h4> <ul> <li> <p>The cross reference tool <span class="code">xref</span> did not handle the new <span class="code">fun M:F/A</span> construct properly. This problem has been fixed.</p> <p>Own Id: OTP-5653</p> </li> </ul> <h3><a name="id2261213">1.18 Tools 2.4.4</a></h3> <h4>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</h4> <ul> <li> <p>The <span class="code">cover</span> tool did not escape '<' and '>' not being part of HTML tags in HTML log files.</p> <p>Own Id: OTP-5588</p> </li> </ul> <h3><a name="id2261251">1.19 Tools 2.4.3</a></h3> <h4>Improvements and New Features</h4> <ul> <li> <p>It is now possible to encrypt the debug information in beam files, to help keep the source code secret. See <span class="code">compile(3)</span> for how to provide the key for encrypting, and <span class="code">beam_lib(3)</span> for how to provide the key for decryption so that tools such as Debugger, <span class="code">xref</span>, or <span class="code">cover</span> can be used.</p> <p>The <span class="code">beam_lib:chunks/2</span> functions now accepts an additional chunk type '<span class="code">compile_info</span>' to retrieve the compilation information directly as a term. (Thanks to Tobias Lindahl.)</p> <p>Own Id: OTP-5460 Aux Id: seq9787</p> </li> </ul> <h3><a name="id2261317">1.20 Tools 2.4.2</a></h3> <h4>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</h4> <ul> <li> <p>The <span class="code">cover</span> tool could not analyze empty modules on module level.</p> <p>Own Id: OTP-5418</p> </li> </ul> <h3><a name="id2261354">1.21 Tools 2.4.1</a></h3> <h4>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</h4> <ul> <li> <p>The <span class="code">xref</span> analysis <span class="code">locals_not_used</span> could return too many functions. This problem has been fixed.</p> <p>Own Id: OTP-5071</p> </li> <li> <p>The <span class="code">cover</span> tool could not always compile parse transformed modules. This problem has been fixed.</p> <p>Own Id: OTP-5305</p> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="footer"> <hr> <p>Copyright © 1997-2010 Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</p> </div> </div> </div></body> </html>