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<h1>1 IDL Compiler Release Notes</h1>
  

   <h3><a name="id2253236">1.1 
        IC 4.2.24</a></h3>
    

    <h4>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</h4>
      
      <ul>
        <li>
          <p>Removed superfluous VT in the documentation.</p>
          <p>Own id: OTP-8353 Aux Id:</p>
        </li>
        <li>
          <p>The option c_timeout was not correctly documented.</p>
          <p>Own id: OTP-8307 Aux Id: seq11390</p>
        </li>
        <li>
          <p>Removed superfluous backslash in the documentation.</p>
          <p>Own id: OTP-8354 Aux Id:</p>
        </li>
        <li>
          <p>The documentation EIX file was not generated.</p>
          <p>Own id: OTP-8355 Aux Id:</p>
        </li>
      </ul>
    
   

   <h3><a name="id2261979">1.2 
        IC 4.2.23</a></h3>
    

    <h4>Improvements and New Features</h4>
      
      <ul>
        <li>
          <p>
            The documentation is now built with open source tools (xsltproc and fop) 
            that exists on most platforms. One visible change is that the frames are removed.</p>
          <p>
            Own Id: OTP-8201 Aux Id:</p>
        </li>
      </ul>
    
  

   <h3><a name="id2262014">1.3 
        IC 4.2.22</a></h3>
    

    <h4>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</h4>
      
      <ul>
        <li>
          <p>The 64-bit version of libic was not compiled with the -fPIC flag.</p>
          <p>Own id: OTP-8088</p>
        </li>
      </ul>
    
  

   <h3><a name="id2261224">1.4 
        IC 4.2.21</a></h3>
    

    <h4>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</h4>
      
      <ul>
        <li>
          <p>The function print_erlang_binary (oe_ei_code_erlang_binary.c)
             updated to avoid compiler warning.</p>
          <p>Own id: OTP-7982</p>
        </li>
      </ul>
    
  

   <h3><a name="id2261257">1.5 
        IC 4.2.20</a></h3>
    

    <h4>Improvements and New Features</h4>
      
      <ul>
        <li>
          <p>Updated file headers.</p>
          <p>Own id: OTP-7837</p>
        </li>
      </ul>
    
  

   <h3><a name="id2261288">1.6 
        IC 4.2.19</a></h3>
    

    <h4>Improvements and New Features</h4>
      
      <ul>
        <li>
          <p>Documentation source included in open source releases.</p>
          <p>Own id: OTP-7595</p>
        </li>
      </ul>
    
  

   <h3><a name="id2261321">1.7 
        IC 4.2.18</a></h3>
     

     <h4>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</h4>
       
       <ul>
         <li>
           <p>Insufficient buffer allocated when passing wide strings
	      using the C backend on a 64-bit architecture.</p>
           <p>Own Id: OTP-7313 Aux Id:</p>
         </li>
       </ul>
     
   

   <h3><a name="id2261355">1.8 
        IC 4.2.17</a></h3>
    

    <h4>Improvements and New Features</h4>
      
      <ul>
        <li>
          <p>Updated file headers.</p>
          <p>Own id: OTP-7011</p>
        </li>
        <li>
          <p>IC no longer use the obsolete function file:rawopen/2.</p>
          <p>Own id: OTP-7182</p>
        </li>
      </ul>
    
  

 <h3><a name="id2252760">1.9 
        IC 4.2.16</a></h3>
    

    <h4>Improvements and New Features</h4>
      
      <ul>
        <li>
          <p>Added links to classes inherited from Jinterface in the
             User's Guide.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-6965 Aux Id: </p>
        </li>
      </ul>
    
  

  <h3><a name="id2252794">1.10 
        IC 4.2.15</a></h3>
    

    <h4>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</h4>
      
      <ul>
        <li>
          <p>If an inherited function name begun with a capital letter
             the generated stub/skeleton oe_tc/1 function was incorrect.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-6855 Aux Id:</p>
        </li>
      </ul>
    
  

  <h3><a name="id2252829">1.11 
        IC 4.2.14</a></h3>
    

    <h4>Improvements and New Features</h4>
      
      <ul>
        <li>
          <p>The documentation source has been converted from SGML to XML.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-6754 Aux Id: </p>
        </li>
      </ul>
    
  

  <h3><a name="id2252863">1.12 
        IC 4.2.13</a></h3>
    

    <h4>Improvements and New Features</h4>
      
      <ul>
        <li>
          <p>Minor Makefile changes.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-6701 Aux Id: </p>
        </li>
      </ul>
    
  

  <h3><a name="id2253906">1.13 
        IC 4.2.12</a></h3>
    

    <h4>Improvements and New Features</h4>
      
      <ul>
        <li>
          <p>Dead code was deleted from the following modules:
            ic_cclient, ic_code, ic_cserver, ic_erlbe, ic_java_type,
            ic_noc, ic_plainbe, ic_pp, ic_pragma, icscan, icstruct, 
            ictype, icunion.</p>
        </li>
      </ul>
    
  

  <h3><a name="id2253938">1.14 
        IC 4.2.11</a></h3>
    

    <h4>Improvements and New Features</h4>
      
      <ul>
        <li>
          <p>Changed code generation to avoid warnings such as unused
            variables.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-5930 Aux Id: </p>
        </li>
      </ul>
    
  

  <h3><a name="id2253972">1.15 
        IC 4.2.10</a></h3>
    

    <h4>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</h4>
      
      <ul>
        <li>
          <p>The FD_SETSIZE limit has been increased to 2048 for
            VxWorks/PPC603.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-5395 Aux Id: seq9751</p>
        </li>
      </ul>
    
  

  <h3><a name="id2254006">1.16 
        IC 4.2.9</a></h3>
    

    <h4>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</h4>
      
      <ul>
        <li>
          <p>In C back-ends, the compiler crashed when generating C code
            for error reports when a scoped name was used as a type
            in a union.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-5375 Aux Id: seq9740 </p>
        </li>
      </ul>
    
  

  <h3><a name="id2254041">1.17 
        IC 4.2.8</a></h3>
    

    <h4>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</h4>
      
      <ul>
        <li>
          <p>In C back-ends, when decoding a sequence of "small"
            integers, which from Erlang is sent as a string (i.e.
            each element between 0 and 255), each string element was
            considered to be of signed character type. Each such
            element is now correctly treated as an unsigned character
            type.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-5205 Aux Id: seq9241 </p>
        </li>
      </ul>
    
  

  <h3><a name="id2254079">1.18 
        IC 4.2.7</a></h3>
    

    <h4>Improvements and New Features</h4>
      
      <ul>
        <li>
          <p>A new compiler option <span class="code">c_report</span> has been introduced
            for C back-ends (client and server). If that option is
            set, encoding/decoding errors will be reported to
            <span class="code">stderr</span>.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-4977</p>
        </li>
      </ul>
    
  

  <h3><a name="id2254122">1.19 
        IC 4.2.6</a></h3>
    

    <h4>Improvements and New Features</h4>
      
      <ul>
        <li>
          <p>The size of modules, used then registering data in the 
            IFR DB (e.g., oe_MyModule:oe_register()), can be minimized
            if the compile option light_ifr is used and Orber is
            configured to use Light IFR. Requires that orber-3.5.1, or
            later, is used.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-5036</p>
        </li>
      </ul>
    

    <h4>Incompatibilities</h4>
      
      <ul>
        <li>
          <p>The compile option <span class="code">multiple_be</span> is no longer supported.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-5049</p>
        </li>
      </ul>
    
  

  <h3><a name="id2258868">1.20 
        IC 4.2.5</a></h3>
    

    <h4>Improvements and New Features</h4>
      
      <ul>
        <li>
          <p>Send and receive functions with timeouts have been added
            to the C back-ends for the standard protocol (i.e. Erlang
            distribution + gen_server protocol).</p>
          <p>Accordingly a new compiler option <span class="code">{c_timeout, {SendTimeout, RecvTimeout}}</span> has been added. Timeouts
            are specified in milliseconds.</p>
          <p>A user that want to implement its own protocols with
            function timeouts has to implement the following functions.</p>
          <p>For C clients the functions <span class="code">int PFX_send_notification(CORBA_Environment *env, unsigned int send_ms)</span>, and <span class="code">int PFX_send_request_and_receive_reply(CORBA_Environment *env, unsigned int send_ms, unsigned int recv_ms)</span>
            have to be additionally implemented, where PFX is the
            user defined prefix.</p>
          <p>For C servers no additional functions have to be
            implemented, but a clone of the <span class="code">int oe_server_receive_tmo(CORBA_Environment *env, oe_map_t *map, unsigned int send_ms, unsigned int recv_ms)</span>
            might be handy.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-4972</p>
        </li>
      </ul>
    
  

  <h3><a name="id2258944">1.21 
        IC 4.2.4</a></h3>
    

    <h4>Improvements and new features</h4>
      
      <ul>
        <li>
          <p>The C back-ends has been opened up, so that a user can
            define his own protocol, differing from the Erlang
            distribution + gen_server protocol.             <br>

            For C clients it means to replace the library functions
            <span class="code">int oe_prepare_notification_encoding(CORBA_Environment *env)</span>, <span class="code">int oe_send_notification(CORBA_Environment *env)</span>, <span class="code">int oe_prepare_request_encoding(CORBA_Environment *env)</span>,
            <span class="code">int oe_send_request_and_receive_reply(CORBA_Environment *env)</span>, and <span class="code">int oe_prepare_reply_decoding(CORBA_Environment *env)</span>,
            with functions of the same signature, but with the prefix
            "oe" replaced by a user defined prefix.
            For C servers the functions <span class="code">int oe_prepare_request_decoding(CORBA_Environment *env)</span>,
            and <span class="code">int oe_prepare_reply_encoding(CORBA_Environment *env)</span>, are similarly replaced.            <br>

            The new compiler option <span class="code">{user_protocol, Prefix}</span> has
            been added.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-4834</p>
        </li>
      </ul>
    
  

  <h3><a name="id2259024">1.22 
        IC 4.2.3</a></h3>
    

    <h4>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</h4>
      
      <ul>
        <li>
          <p>In generated code for the C server back-end, the naming scope
            was in error for prototypes in C header files for interfaces
            inheriting base interfaces.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-4881</p>
        </li>
      </ul>
    
  

  <h3><a name="id2259060">1.23 
        IC 4.2.2</a></h3>
    

    <h4>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</h4>
      
      <ul>
        <li>
          <p>IDL long long and unsigned long long could not
            be used in a struct for the Java backend.</p>
          <p>All unsigned integer types for the Java backend
            had broken marshalling for large values.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-4763</p>
        </li>
      </ul>
    
  

  <h3><a name="id2259099">1.24 
        IC 4.2.1</a></h3>
    

    <h4>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</h4>
      
      <ul>
        <li>
          <p>A scoping problem (IC could not find typedefs contained
            inherited interfaces) in the C-backend solved.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-4758</p>
        </li>
      </ul>
    
  

  <h3><a name="id2254287">1.25 
        IC 4.2</a></h3>
    

    <h4>Improvements and New Features</h4>
      
      <ul>
        <li>
          <p>The CORBA stub/skeleton-files generated by IC have been improved,
            i.e., depending on the IDL-files, reduced the size of the
            erl- and beam-files and decreased dependencies off Orber's
            Interface Repository. It is necessary to re-compile all IDL-files
            and use COS-applications, including Orber, compiled with
            IC-4.2.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-4576</p>
        </li>
      </ul>
    
  
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