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A NOTE ON THE CHANGELOG:
Starting in early 2011, Tcl source code has been under the management of
fossil, hosted at https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/ .  Fossil presents a "Timeline"
view of changes made that is superior in every way to a hand edited log file.
Because of this, many Tcl developers are now out of the habit of maintaining
this log file.  You may still find useful things in it, but the Timeline is
a better first place to look now.
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2013-09-19  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        *** 8.6.1 TAGGED FOR RELEASE ***

        * generic/tcl.h:        Bump version number to 8.6.1.
        * library/init.tcl:
        * unix/configure.in:
        * win/configure.in:
        * unix/tcl.spec:
        * README:

        * unix/configure:       autoconf-2.59
        * win/configure:

2013-09-19  Donal Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/next.n (METHOD SEARCH ORDER): Bug [3606943]: Corrected
        description of method search order.

2013-09-18  Donal Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        Bump TclOO version to 1.0.1 for release.

2013-09-17  Donal Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBinary.c (BinaryEncodeUu, BinaryDecodeUu): [Bug 2152292]:
        Corrected implementation of the core of uuencode handling so that the
        line length processing is correctly applied.
        ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY***
        Existing code that was using the old versions and working around the
        limitations will now need to do far less. The -maxlen option now has
        strict limits on the range of supported lengths; this is a limitation
        of the format itself.

2013-09-09  Donal Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclOOMethod.c (CloneProcedureMethod): [Bug 3609693]: Strip
        the internal representation of method bodies during cloning in order
        to ensure that any bound references to instance variables are removed.

2013-09-01  Donal Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBinary.c (BinaryDecodeHex): [Bug b98fa55285]: Ensure that
        whitespace at the end of a string don't cause the decoder to drop the
        last decoded byte.

2013-08-03  Donal Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * library/auto.tcl: [Patch 3611643]: Allow TclOO classes to be found
        by the autoloading mechanism.

2013-08-02  Donal Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclOODefineCmds.c (ClassSuperSet): Bug [9d61624b3d]: Stop
        crashes when emptying the superclass slot, even when doing elaborate
        things with metaclasses.

2013-08-01  Harald Oehlmann  <oehhar@users.sf.net>

        * tclUnixNotify.c (Tcl_InitNotifier): Bug [a0bc856dcd]: Start notifier
        thread again if we were forked, to solve Rivet bug 55153.

2013-07-05  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * library/tzdata/Africa/Casablanca:
        * library/tzdata/America/Asuncion:
        * library/tzdata/Antarctica/Macquarie:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Gaza:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Hebron:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Jerusalem:
        http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2013d.tar.gz

2013-07-03  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * unix/tclXtNotify.c: Bug [817249]: bring tclXtNotify.c up to date with
        Tcl_SetNotifier() change.

2013-07-02  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * unix/tcl.m4:  Bug [32afa6e256]: dirent64 check is incorrect in tcl.m4
        * unix/configure: (thanks to Brian Griffin)

2013-06-27  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclConfig.c: Bug [9b2e636361]: Tcl_CreateInterp() needs
        * generic/tclMain.c:   initialized encodings.

2013-06-18  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclEvent.c: Bug [3611974]: InitSubsystems multiple thread
        issue.

2013-06-17  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/regc_locale.c: Bug [a876646efe]: re_expr character class
        [:cntrl:] should contain \u0000 - \u001f

2013-06-09  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCompCmdsSZ.c (TclCompileTryCmd): [Bug 779d38b996]:
        Rewrote the [try] compiler to generate better code in some cases and
        to behave correctly in others; when an error happens during the
        processing of an exception-trap clause or a finally clause, the
        *original* return options are now captured in a -during option, even
        when fully compiled.

2013-06-05  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c (INST_EXPAND_DROP): [Bugs 2835313, 3614226]:
        New opcode to allow resetting the stack to get rid of an expansion,
        restoring the stack to a known state in the process.
        * generic/tclCompile.c, generic/tclCompCmds.c: Adjusted the compilers
        for [break] and [continue] to get stack cleanup right in the majority
        of cases.
        * tests/for.test (for-7.*): Set of tests for these evil cases.

2013-06-04  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * unix/tcl.m4: Eliminate NO_VIZ macro as current zlib uses HAVE_HIDDEN
        instead. One more last-moment fix for FreeBSD by Pietro Cerutti

2013-06-03  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c: fix for perf bug detected by Kieran
        (https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/comp.lang.tcl/vfpI3bc-DkQ),
        diagnosed by dgp to be a close relative of [Bug 781585], which was
        fixed by commit [f46fb50cb3]. This bug was introduced by myself in
        commit [cbfe055d8c].

2013-06-03  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileBreakCmd, TclCompileContinueCmd):
        Added code to allow [break] and [continue] to be issued as a jump (in
        the most common cases) rather than using the more expensive exception
        processing path in the bytecode engine. [Bug 3614226]: Partial fix for
        the issues relating to cleaning up the stack when dealing with [break]
        and [continue].

2013-05-27 Harald Oehlmann  <oehhar@users.sf.net>

        * library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl: [Bug 3036566]: Also get locale from
        registry key HCU\Control Panel\Desktop : PreferredUILanguages to honor
        installed language packs on Vista+.
        Bumped msgcat version to 1.5.2

2013-05-22  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * tclCompile.c: Removed duplicate const qualifier causing the HP
        native cc to error out.

2013-05-22  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclUtf.c (TclUtfCasecmp): [Bug 3613609]: Replace problematic
        uses of strcasecmp with a proper UTF-8-aware version. Affects both
        [lsearch -nocase] and [lsort -nocase].

2013-05-22  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/file.n: [Bug 3613671]: Added note to portability section on the
        fact that [file owned] does not produce useful results on Windows.

2013-05-20  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c (DefaultTempDir): [Bug 3613567]: Corrected logic
        for checking return code of access() system call, which was inverted.

2013-05-19  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * unix/tcl.m4:     Fix for FreeBSD, and remove support for older
        * unix/configure:  FreeBSD versions. Patch by Pietro Cerutti.

2013-05-18  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCompCmdsGR.c: Split tclCompCmds.c again to keep size of
        code down.

2013-05-16  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c: Add panic in order to detect incompatible
        mingw32 sys/stat.h and sys/time.h headers.

2013-05-13  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * compat/zlib/*: Upgrade to zlib 1.2.8

2013-05-10  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        Optimizations and general bytecode generation improvements.
        * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileAppendCmd, TclCompileLappendCmd):
        (TclCompileReturnCmd): Make these generate bytecode in more cases.
        (TclCompileListCmd): Make this able to push a literal when it can.
        * generic/tclCompile.c (TclSetByteCodeFromAny, PeepholeOptimize):
        Added checks to see if we can apply some simple cross-command-boundary
        optimizations, and defined a small number of such optimizations.
        (TclCompileScript): Added the special ability to compile the list
        command with expansion ([list {*}blah]) into bytecode that does not
        call an external command.

2013-05-06  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclStubInit.c: Add support for Cygwin64, which has a 64-bit
        * generic/tclDecls.h: "long" type. Binary compatibility with win64
        requires that all stub entries use 32-bit long's, therefore the need
        for various wrapper functions/macros. For Tcl 9 a better solution is
        needed, but that cannot be done without introducing binary
        incompatibility.

2013-04-30  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * library/platform/platform.tcl (::platform::LibcVersion):
        * library/platform/pkgIndex.tcl: Followup to the 2013-01-30 change.
        The RE become too restrictive again. SuSe added a timestamp after the
        version. Loosened up a bit. Bumped package to version 1.0.12.

2013-04-29  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileArraySetCmd): Generate better code
        when the list of things to set is a literal.

2013-04-25  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclDecls.h: Implement Tcl_NewBooleanObj, Tcl_DbNewBooleanObj
        and Tcl_SetBooleanObj as macros using Tcl_NewIntObj, Tcl_DbNewLongObj
        and Tcl_SetIntObj. Starting with Tcl 8.5, this is exactly the same, it
        only eliminates code duplication.
        * generic/tclInt.h: Eliminate use of NO_WIDE_TYPE everywhere: It's
        exactly the same as TCL_WIDE_INT_IS_LONG

2013-04-19  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclDecls.h: Implement many Tcl_*Var* functions and
        Tcl_GetIndexFromObj as (faster/stack-saving) macros around resp their
        Tcl_*Var*2 equivalent and Tcl_GetIndexFromObjStruct.

2013-04-12  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclDecls.h: Implement Tcl_Pkg* functions as
        (faster/stack-saving) macros around Tcl_Pkg*Ex functions.

2013-04-08  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/regc_color.c: [Bug 3610026]: Stop crash when the number of
        * generic/regerrs.h:    "colors" in a regular expression overflows a
        * generic/regex.h:      short int.  Thanks to Heikki Linnakangas for
        * generic/regguts.h:    the report and the patch.
        * tests/regexp.test:

2013-04-04  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>

        * library/http/http.tcl (http::geturl): Allow URLs that don't have a
        path, but a query query, e.g. http://example.com?foo=bar
        * Bump the http package to 2.8.7.

2013-03-22  Venkat Iyer <venkat@comit.com>
        * library/tzdata/Africa/Cairo: Update to tzdata2013b.
        * library/tzdata/Africa/Casablanca:
        * library/tzdata/Africa/Gaborone:
        * library/tzdata/Africa/Tripoli:
        * library/tzdata/America/Asuncion:
        * library/tzdata/America/Barbados:
        * library/tzdata/America/Bogota:
        * library/tzdata/America/Costa_Rica:
        * library/tzdata/America/Curacao:
        * library/tzdata/America/Nassau:
        * library/tzdata/America/Port-au-Prince:
        * library/tzdata/America/Santiago:
        * library/tzdata/Antarctica/Palmer:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Aden:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Hong_Kong:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Muscat:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Rangoon:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Shanghai:
        * library/tzdata/Atlantic/Bermuda:
        * library/tzdata/Europe/Vienna:
        * library/tzdata/Pacific/Easter:
        * library/tzdata/Pacific/Fiji:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Khandyga: (new)
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Ust-Nera: (new)
        * library/tzdata/Europe/Busingen: (new)

2013-03-21  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * library/auto.tcl: [Bug 2102614]: Add ensemble indexing support to
        * tests/autoMkindex.test: [auto_mkindex].  Thanks Brian Griffin.

2013-03-19  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclFCmd.c: [Bug 3597000]: Consistent [file copy] result.
        * tests/fileSystem.test:

2013-03-19  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinFile.c: [Bug 3608360]: Incompatible behaviour of "file
        exists".

2013-03-18  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * tests/cmdAH.test (cmdAH-19.12): [Bug 3608360]: Added test to ensure
        that we never ever allow [file exists] to do globbing.

2013-03-12  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * unix/tcl.m4: Patch by Andrew Shadura, providing better support for
        three architectures they have in Debian.

2013-03-11  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCompile.c: [Bugs 3607246,3607372]: Unbalanced refcounts
        * generic/tclLiteral.c: of literals in the global literal table.

2013-03-06  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/regc_nfa.c:   [Bugs 3604074,3606683]: Rewrite of the
        * generic/regcomp.c:    fixempties() routine (and supporting routines)
        to completely eliminate the infinite loop hazard. Thanks to Tom Lane
        for the much improved solution.

2013-02-28  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclLiteral.c: Revise TclReleaseLiteral() to tolerate a NULL
        interp argument.

        * generic/tclCompile.c: Update callers and revise mistaken comments.
        * generic/tclProc.c:

2013-02-27  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/regcomp.c:    [Bug 3606139]: missing error check allows
        * tests/regexp.test:    regexp to crash Tcl. Thanks to Tom Lane for
        providing the test-case and the patch.

2013-02-26  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * tests/chanio.test (chan-io-28.7): [Bug 3605120]: Stop test from
        hanging when run standalone.

2013-02-26  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclObj.c: Don't panic if Tcl_ConvertToType is called for a
        type that doesn't have a setFromAnyProc, create a proper error message.

2013-02-25  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * tests/binary.test (binary-41.*): [Bug 3605721]: Test independence
        fixes. Thanks to Rolf Ade for pointing out the problem.

2013-02-25  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/assocd.test:    [Bugs 3605719,3605720]: Test independence.
        * tests/basic.test:     Thanks Rolf Ade for patches.

2013-02-23  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * compat/fake-rfc2553.c: [Bug 3599194]: compat/fake-rfc2553.c is
        broken.

2013-02-22  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclAssembly.c:        Shift more burden of smart cleanup
        * generic/tclCompile.c:         onto the TclFreeCompileEnv() routine.
        Stop crashes when the hookProc raises an error.

2013-02-20  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclNamesp.c:  [Bug 3605447]: Make sure the -clear option
        * tests/namespace.test: to [namespace export] always clears, whether
        or not new export patterns are specified.

2013-02-20  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinDde.c: [Bug 3605401]: Compiler error with latest mingw-w64
        headers.

2013-02-19  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclTrace.c:  [Bug 2438181]: Incorrect error reporting in
        * tests/trace.test:    traces. Test-case and fix provided by Poor
        Yorick.

2013-02-15  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/regc_nfa.c:   [Bug 3604074]: Fix regexp optimization to
        * tests/regexp.test:    stop hanging on the expression
        ((((((((a)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)* .  Thanks to Bjørn Grathwohl for discovery.

2013-02-14  Harald Oehlmann  <oehhar@users.sf.net>

        * library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl: [Bug 3604576]: Catch missing registry
        entry "HCU\Control Panel\International".
        Bumped msgcat version to 1.5.1

2013-02-11  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclZlib.c (ZlibTransformOutput): [Bug 3603553]: Ensure that
        data gets written to the underlying stream by compressing transforms
        when the amount of data to be written is one buffer's-worth; problem
        was particularly likely to occur when compressing large quantities of
        not-very-compressible data. Many thanks to Piera Poggio (vampiera) for
        reporting.

2013-02-09  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclOOBasic.c (TclOO_Object_VarName): [Bug 3603695]: Change
        the way that the 'varname' method is implemented so that there are no
        longer problems with interactions due to the resolver. Thanks to
        Taylor Venable <tcvena@gmail.com> for identifying the problem.

2013-02-08  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/regc_nfa.c (duptraverse): [Bug 3603557]: Increase the
        maximum depth of recursion used when duplicating an automaton in
        response to encountering a "wild" RE that hit the previous limit.
        Allow the limit (DUPTRAVERSE_MAX_DEPTH) to be set by defining its
        value in the Makefile. Problem reported by Jonathan Mills.

2013-02-05  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * win/tclWinFile.c:     [Bug 3603434]: Make sure TclpObjNormalizePath()
        properly declares "a:/" to be normalized, even when no "A:" drive is
        present on the system.

2013-02-05  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclLoadNone.c (TclpLoadMemory): [Bug 3433012]: Added dummy
        version of this function to use in the event that a platform thinks it
        can load from memory but cannot actually do so due to it being
        disabled at configuration time.

2013-02-04  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileArraySetCmd): [Bug 3603163]: Stop
        crash in weird case where [eval] is used to make [array set] get
        confused about whether there is a local variable table or not. Thanks
        to Poor Yorick for identifying a reproducible crashing case.

2013-01-30  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * library/platform/platform.tcl (::platform::LibcVersion): See
        * library/platform/pkgIndex.tcl: [Bug 3599098]: Fixed the RE
        * unix/Makefile.in: extracting the version to avoid issues with
        * win/Makefile.in: recent changes to the glibc banner. Now targeting a
        less variable part of the string. Bumped package to version 1.0.11.

2013-01-28  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileArraySetCmd)
        (TclCompileArrayUnsetCmd, TclCompileDictAppendCmd)
        (TclCompileDictCreateCmd, CompileDictEachCmd, TclCompileDictIncrCmd)
        (TclCompileDictLappendCmd, TclCompileDictMergeCmd)
        (TclCompileDictUnsetCmd, TclCompileDictUpdateCmd)
        (TclCompileDictWithCmd, TclCompileInfoCommandsCmd):
        * generic/tclCompCmdsSZ.c (TclCompileStringMatchCmd)
        (TclCompileStringMapCmd): Improve the code generation in cases where
        full compilation is impossible but a full ensemble invoke is provably
        not necessary.

2013-01-26  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * unix/tclUnixCompat.c: [Bug 3601804]: platformCPUID segmentation
        fault on Darwin.

2013-01-23  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * library/http/http.tcl (http::geturl): [Bug 2911139]: Do not do vwait
        for connect to avoid reentrancy problems (except when operating
        without a -command option). Internally, this means that all sockets
        created by the http package will always be operated in asynchronous
        mode.

2013-01-21  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclInt.decls: Put back Tcl[GS]etStartupScript(Path|FileName)
        in private stub table, so extensions using this (like Tk 8.4) will
        continue to work in all Tcl 8.x versions. Extensions using this
        still cannot be compiled against Tcl 8.6 headers.

2013-01-18  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclPort.h: [Bug 3598300]: unix: tcl.h does not include
        sys/stat.h

2013-01-17  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCompCmds.c (PushVarName): [Bug 3600328]: Added mechanism
        for suppressing compilation of variables when we couldn't cope with
        the results. Useful for some [array] subcommands.
        * generic/tclEnsemble.c (CompileToCompiledCommand): Must restore the
        compilation environment when a command compiler fails.

2013-01-16  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclZlib.c (TclZlibInit): [Bug 3601086]: Register the config
        info in the iso8859-1 encoding as that is guaranteed to be present.

2013-01-16  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * Makefile.in:   Allow win32 build with -DTCL_NO_DEPRECATED, just as
        * generic/tcl.h: in the UNIX build. Define Tcl_EvalObj and
        * generic/tclDecls.h: Tcl_GlobalEvalObj as macros, even when
        * generic/tclBasic.c: TCL_NO_DEPRECATED is defined, so Tk can benefit
        from it too.

2013-01-14  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tcl.m4: More flexible search for win32 tclConfig.sh, backported
        from TEA (not actually used in Tcl, only for Tk)

2013-01-14  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclInt.decls: Put back Tcl_[GS]etStartupScript in internal
        stub table, so extensions using this, compiled against 8.5 headers
        still run in Tcl 8.6.

2013-01-13  Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/fileevent.n: [Bug 3436609]: Clarify readable fileevent "false
        positives" in the case of multibyte encodings/transforms.

2013-01-13  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclIntDecls.h: If TCL_NO_DEPRECATED is defined, make sure
        that TIP #139 functions all are taken from the public stub table, even
        if the inclusion is through tclInt.h.

2013-01-12  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclInt.decls: Put back TclBackgroundException in internal
        stub table, so extensions using this, compiled against 8.5 headers
        still run in Tcl 8.6.

2013-01-09  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * library/http/http.tcl: [Bug 3599395]: http assumes status line is a
        proper Tcl list.

2013-01-08  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinFile.c: [Bug 3092089]: [file normalize] can remove path
        components.     [Bug 3587096]: win vista/7: "can't find init.tcl" when
        called via junction without folder list access.

2013-01-07  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclOOStubLib.c: Restrict the stub library to only use
        * generic/tclTomMathStubLib.c: Tcl_PkgRequireEx, Tcl_ResetResult and
        Tcl_AppendResult, not any other function. This puts least restrictions
        on eventual Tcl 9 stubs re-organization, and it works on the widest
        range of Tcl versions.

2013-01-06  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * library/http/http.tcl: Don't depend on Spencer-specific regexp
        * tests/env.test: syntax (/u and /U) any more in unrelated places.
        * tests/exec.test:
        Bump http package to 2.8.6.

2013-01-04  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclEnsemble.c (CompileBasicNArgCommand): Added very simple
        compiler (which just compiles to a normal invoke of the implementation
        command) for many ensemble subcommands where we can prove that there
        is no way for scripts to detect the difference even through error
        handling or [info level]/[info frame]. This improves the code produced
        from some ensembles (e.g., [info], [string]) to the point where the
        ensemble is now not normally seen at the bytecode level at all.

2013-01-04  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclInt.h:      Insure that PURIFY builds cannot exploit the
        * generic/tclExecute.c:  Tcl stack to hide mem defects.

2013-01-03  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/fconfigure.n, doc/CrtChannel.3: Updated to reflect the fact that
        the minimum buffer size is one byte, not ten. Identified by Schelte
        Bron on the Tcler's Chat.

        * generic/tclExecute.c (TEBCresume:INST_INVOKE_REPLACE):
        * generic/tclEnsemble.c (TclCompileEnsemble): Added new mechanism to
        allow for more efficient dispatch of non-bytecode-compiled subcommands
        of bytecode-compiled ensembles. This can provide substantial speed
        benefits in some cases.

2013-01-02  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclEnsemble.c:  Remove stray calls to Tcl_Alloc and friends:
        * generic/tclExecute.c:   the core should only use ckalloc to allow
        * generic/tclIORTrans.c:  MEM_DEBUG to work properly.
        * generic/tclTomMathInterface.c:

2012-12-31  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/string.n: Noted the obsolescence of the 'bytelength',
        'wordstart' and 'wordend' subcommands, and moved them to later in the
        file.

2012-12-27  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclListObj.c: [Bug 3598580]: Tcl_ListObjReplace may release
        deleted elements too early.

2012-12-22  Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclUtil.c: [Bug 3598150]: Stop leaking allocated space when
        objifying a zero-length DString. Spotted by afredd.

2012-12-21  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * unix/dltest/pkgb.c:  Inline compat Tcl_GetDefaultEncodingDir.
        * generic/tclStubLib.c: Eliminate unnecessary static HasStubSupport()
        and isDigit() functions, just do the same inline.

2012-12-18  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCompCmdsSZ.c (TclSubstCompile): Improved the sequence of
        instructions issued for [subst] when dealing with simple variable
        references.

2012-12-14  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        *** 8.6.0 TAGGED FOR RELEASE ***

        * changes: updates for 8.6.0

2012-12-13  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclZlib.c:    Repair same issue with misusing the
        * tests/zlib.test:      'fire and forget' nature of Tcl_ObjSetVar2
        in the new TIP 400 implementation.

2012-12-13  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCmdAH.c:   (CatchObjCmdCallback): do not decrRefCount
        * tests/cmdAH.test:     the newValuePtr sent to Tcl_ObjSetVar2:
        TOSV2 is 'fire and forget', it decrs on its own.
        Fix for [Bug 3595576], found by andrewsh.

2012-12-13  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tcl.h: Fix Tcl_DecrRefCount macro such that it doesn't
        access its objPtr parameter twice any more.

2012-12-11  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tcl.h:        Bump version number to 8.6.0.
        * library/init.tcl:
        * unix/configure.in:
        * win/configure.in:
        * unix/tcl.spec:
        * README:

        * unix/configure:       autoconf-2.59
        * win/configure:

2012-12-10  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl (plus-pkgs): Increased robustness of
        version number detection code to deal with packages whose names are
        prefixes of other packages.
        * unix/Makefile.in (dist): Added pkgs/package.list.txt to distribution
        builds to ensure that 'make html' will work better.

2012-12-09  Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/chan.test: Clean up unwanted eofchar side-effect of chan-4.6
        leading to a spurious "'" at end of chan.test under certain conditions
        (see [Bug 3389289] and [Bug 3389251]).

        * doc/expr.n: [Bug 3594188]: Clarifications about commas.

2012-12-08  Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclIO.c: Fix busyloop at exit under TCL_FINALIZE_ON_EXIT
        when there are unflushed nonblocking channels.  Thanks Miguel for
        spotting.

2012-12-07  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * unix/dltest/pkgb.c:  Turn pkgb.so into a Tcl9 interoperability test
        library: Whatever Tcl9 looks like, loading pkgb.so in Tcl 9 should
        either result in an error-message, either succeed, but never crash.

2012-11-28  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclZlib.c (ZlibStreamSubcmd): [Bug 3590483]: Use a mechanism
        for complex option resolution that has fewer problems with more
        finicky compilers.

2012-11-26  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>

        * unix/tclUnixSock.c: Factor out creation of the -sockname and
        -peername lists from TcpGetOptionProc() to TcpHostPortList().  Make it
        robust against implementations of getnameinfo() that error out if
        reverse mapping fails instead of falling back to the numeric
        representation.

2012-11-20  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBinary.c (BinaryDecode64): [Bug 3033307]: Corrected
        handling of trailing whitespace when decoding base64. Thanks to Anton
        Kovalenko for reporting, and Andy Goth for the fix and tests.

2012-11-19  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c (INST_STR_RANGE_IMM): [Bug 3588366]: Corrected
        implementation of bounds restriction for end-indexed compiled [string
        range]. Thanks to Emiliano Gavilan for diagnosis and fix.

2012-11-15  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        IMPLEMENTATION OF TIP#416

        New Options for 'load': -global and -lazy

        * generic/tcl.h:
        * generic/tclLoad.c
        * unix/tclLoadDl.c
        * unix/tclLoadDyld.c
        * tests/load.test
        * doc/Load.3
        * doc/load.n

2012-11-14  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c (TclUnixOpenTemporaryFile): [Bug 2933003]: Factor
        out all the code to do temporary file creation so that it is possible
        to make it correct in one place. Allow overriding of the back-stop
        default temporary file location at compile time by setting the
        TCL_TEMPORARY_FILE_DIRECTORY #def to a string containing the directory
        name (defaults to "/tmp" as that is the most common default).

2012-11-13  Joe Mistachkin  <joe@mistachkin.com>

        * win/tclWinInit.c: also search for the library directory (init.tcl,
        encodings, etc) relative to the build directory associated with the
        source checkout.

2012-11-10  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c:   re-enable bcc-tailcall, after fixing an
        * generic/tclExecute.c: infinite loop in the TCL_COMPILE_DEBUG mode


2012-11-07  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * library/tzdata/Africa/Casablanca:
        * library/tzdata/America/Araguaina:
        * library/tzdata/America/Bahia:
        * library/tzdata/America/Havana:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Amman:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Gaza:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Hebron:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Jerusalem:
        * library/tzdata/Pacific/Apia:
        * library/tzdata/Pacific/Fakaofo:
        * library/tzdata/Pacific/Fiji:          Import tzdata2012i.

2012-11-06  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * library/http/http.tcl (http::Finish): [Bug 3581754]: Ensure that
        callbacks are done at most once to prevent problems with timeouts on a
        keep-alive connection (combined with reentrant http package use)
        causing excessive stack growth. Not a fix for the underlying problem,
        but ensures that pain will be mostly kept away from users.
        Bump http package to 2.8.5.

2012-11-05  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        Added bytecode compilation of many Tcl commands. Some of these are
        total compilations and some are only partial (i.e., only compile in
        some cases). The (sub-)commands affected are:
        * array: exists, set, unset
        * dict: create, exists, merge
        * format: (simple cases only)
        * info: commands, coroutine, level, object
        * info object: class, isa object, namespace
        * namespace: current, code, qualifiers, tail, which
        * regsub: (only cases convertable to simple [string map])
        * self: (only no-argument and [self object] cases)
        * string: first, last, map, range
        * tailcall:
        * yield:

        [This was work originally done on the 'dkf-compile-misc-info' branch.]

2012-11-05  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        IMPLEMENTATION OF TIP#413

        Align the [string trim] and [string is space] commands, such that
        [string trim] by default trims all characters for which [string is
        space] returns 1, augmented with the NUL character.

        * generic/tclUtf.c: Add NEL, BOM and two more characters to [string is
        space]
        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: Modify [string trim] for Unicode modifications.
        * generic/regc_locale.c: Regexp engine must match [string is space]
        * doc/string.n
        * tests/string.test
        ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY***
        Code that relied on characters not previously trimmed being not
        removed will notice a difference; it is believed that this is rare,
        but a workaround to get the behavior in Tcl 8.5 is to use " \t\n\r" as
        an explicit trim set.

2012-10-31  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/Makefile.in:   Dde version number to 1.4.0, ready for Tcl 8.6.0rc1
        * win/makefile.vc
        * win/tclWinDde.c
        * library/dde/pkgIndex.tcl
        * tests/winDde.test

2012-10-24  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileDictUnsetCmd): Added compilation of
        the [dict unset] command (for scalar var in LVT only).

2012-10-23  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclInt.h:       Add "flags" parameter from Tcl_LoadFile to
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c:    to various internal functions, so these
        * generic/tclLoadNone.c:  flags are available through the whole
        * unix/tclLoad*.c:        filesystem for (future) internal use.
        * win/tclWinLoad.c:

2012-10-17  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c (TclNRCoroutineObjCmd): insure that numlevels
        are properly set, fix bug discovered by dkf and reported at
        http://code.activestate.com/lists/tcl-core/12213/

2012-10-16  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        IMPLEMENTATION OF TIP#405

        New commands for applying a transformation to the elements of a list
        to produce another list (the [lmap] command) and to the mappings of a
        dictionary to produce another dictionary (the [dict map] command). In
        both cases, a [continue] will cause the skipping of an element/pair,
        and a [break] will terminate the construction early and successfully.

        * generic/tclCmdAH.c (Tcl_LmapObjCmd, TclNRLmapCmd): Implementation of
        the new [lmap] command, based on (and sharing much of) [foreach].
        * generic/tclDictObj.c (DictMapNRCmd): Implementation of the new [dict
        map] subcommand, based on (and sharing much of) [dict for].
        * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileLmapCmd, TclCompileDictMapCmd):
        Compilation engines for [lmap] and [dict map].

        IMPLEMENTATION OF TIP#400

        * generic/tclZlib.c: Allow the specification of a compression
        dictionary (a binary blob used to seed the compression engine) in both
        streams and channel transformations. Also some reorganization to allow
        for getting gzip header dictionaries and controlling buffering levels
        in channel transformations (allowing a trade-off between formal
        correctness and speed).
        (Tcl_ZlibStreamSetCompressionDictionary): New C API to allow setting
        the compression dictionary without using a Tcl script.

2012-10-14  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclDictObj.c: [Bug 3576509]: ::tcl::Bgerror crashes with
        * generic/tclEvent.c:    invalid arguments. Better fix, which helps
        for all Tcl_DictObjGet() calls in Tcl's source code.

2012-10-13  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclEvent.c: [Bug 3576509]: tcl::Bgerror crashes with invalid
        arguments

2012-10-06  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/Makefile.in: [Bug 2459774]: tcl/win/Makefile.in not compatible
        with msys 0.8.

2012-10-03  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclIO.c:      When checking for std channels being closed,
        compare the channel state, not the channel itself so that stacked
        channels do not cause trouble.

2012-09-26  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>

        * generic/tclIOSock.c (TclCreateSocketAddress): Work around a bug in
        getaddrinfo() on OSX that caused name resolution to fail for [socket
        -server foo -myaddr localhost 0].

2012-09-20  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/configure.in: New import libraries for zlib 1.2.7, usable for
        * win/configure:    all win32/win64 compilers
        * compat/zlib/win32/zdll.lib:
        * compat/zlib/win64/zdll.lib:

        * win/tclWinDde.c: [FRQ 3527238]: Full unicode support for dde. Dde
        version is now 1.4.0b2.
        ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY***

2012-09-19  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tcl.h:  Make Tcl_Interp a fully opaque structure if
        TCL_NO_DEPRECATED is set (TIP 330 and 336).
        * win/nmakehlp.c: Let "nmakehlp -V" start searching digits after the
        found match (suggested by Harald Oehlmann).

2012-09-19  Harald Oehlmann  <oehhar@users.sf.net>

        IMPLEMENTATION OF TIP#412.

        * library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl:    dynamic locale change with mc file
        * library/clock.tcl:            load on locale change.
        clock uses new msgcat features.

2012-09-07  Harald Oehlmann  <oehhar@users.sf.net>

        *** 8.6b3 TAGGED FOR RELEASE ***

        IMPLEMENTATION OF TIP#404.

        * library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl:    [FRQ 3544988]: New commands [mcflset]
        * library/msgcat/pkgIndex.tcl:  and [mcflmset] to set mc entries with
        * unix/Makefile.in:             implicit message file locale.
        * win/Makefile.in:              Bump to 1.5.0.

2012-08-25  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * library/msgs/uk.msg: [Bug 3561330]: Use the correct full name of
        March in Ukrainian. Thanks to Mikhail Teterin for reporting.

2012-08-23  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBinary.c: [Bug 3496014]: Unecessary memset() in
        Tcl_SetByteArrayObj().

2012-08-20  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclPathObj.c: [Bug 3559678]: Fix bad filename normalization
        when the last component is the empty string.

2012-08-20  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinPort.h:  Remove wrapper macro for ntohs(): unnecessary,
        because it doesn't require an initialized winsock_2 library. See:
        <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms740075%28v=vs.85%29.aspx>
        * win/tclWinSock.c:
        * generic/tclStubInit.c:

2012-08-17  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/nmakehlp.c: Add "-V<num>" option, in order to be able to detect
        partial version numbers.

2012-08-15  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/buildall.vc.bat: Only build the threaded builds by default
        * win/rules.vc:        Some code cleanup

2010-08-13  Stuart Cassoff  <stwo@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/tclUnixCompat.c: [Bug 3555454]: Rearrange a bit to quash
        'declared but never defined' compiler warnings.

2012-08-13  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * compat/zlib/win64/zlib1.dll:  Add 64-bit build of zlib1.dll, and use
        * compat/zlib/win64/zdll.lib:   it for the dynamic mingw-w64 build.
        * win/Makefile.in:
        * win/configure.in:
        * win/configure:

2012-08-09  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>

        * tests/http.test: Fix http-3.29 for machines without IPv6 support.

2010-08-08  Stuart Cassoff  <stwo@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/tclUnixCompat.c: Change one '#ifdef' to '#if defined()' for
        improved consistency within the file.

2012-08-08  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclfileName.c: [Bug #1536227]: Cygwin network pathname
        * tests/fileName.test:   support

2012-08-07  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclIOUtil.c:  [Bug 3554250]: Overlooked one field of cleanup
        in the thread exit handler for the filesystem subsystem.

2012-07-31  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclInterp.c (Tcl_GetInterpPath):
        * unix/tclUnixPipe.c (TclGetAndDetachPids, Tcl_PidObjCmd):
        * win/tclWinPipe.c (TclGetAndDetachPids, Tcl_PidObjCmd):
        Purge use of Tcl_AppendElement, and corrected conversion of PIDs to
        integer objects.

2012-07-31  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/nmakehlp.c:  Add -Q option from sampleextension.
        * win/Makefile.in: [FRQ 3544967]: Missing objectfiles in static lib
        * win/makefile.vc: (Thanks to Jos Decoster).

2012-07-29  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/Makefile.in:  No longer build tcltest.exe to run the tests,
        but use tclsh86.exe in combination with tcltest86.dll to do that.
        * tests/*.test:     load tcltest86.dll if necessary.

2012-07-28  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * tests/clock.test:    [Bug 3549770]: Multiple test failures running
        * tests/registry.test: tcltest outside build tree
        * tests/winDde.test:

2012-07-27  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclUniData.c:   Support Unicode 6.2 (Add Turkish lira sign)
        * generic/regc_locale.c:

2012-07-25  Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * win/tclWinPipe.c: [Bug 3547994]: Abandon the synchronous Windows
        pipe driver to its fate when needed to honour TIP#398.

2012-07-24  Trevor Davel  <twylite@crypt.co.za>

        * win/tclWinSock.c: [Bug: 3545363]: Loop over multiple underlying file
        descriptors for a socket where required (TcpCloseProc, SocketProc).
        Refactor socket/descriptor setup to manage linked list operations in
        one place. Fix memory leak in socket close (TcpCloseProc) and related
        dangling pointers in SocketEventProc.

2012-07-19  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>

        * win/tclWinSock.c (TcpAccept): [Bug: 3545363]: Use a large enough
        buffer for accept()ing IPv6 connections. Fix conversion of host and
        port for passing to the accept proc to be independent of the IP
        version.

2012-07-23  Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclIO.c: [Bug 3545365]: Never try a bg-flush  on a dead
        channel, just like before 2011-08-17.

2012-07-19  Joe Mistachkin  <joe@mistachkin.com>

        * generic/tclTest.c: Fix several more missing mutex-locks in
        TestasyncCmd.

2012-07-19  Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclTest.c: [Bug 3544685]: Missing mutex-lock in
        TestasyncCmd since 2011-08-19. Unbounded gratitude to Stuart
        Cassoff for spotting it.

2012-07-17  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/makefile.vc: [Bug 3544932]: Visual studio compiler check fails

2012-07-16  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclUtil.c (UpdateStringOfEndOffset): [Bug 3544658]: Stop
        1-byte overrun in memcpy, that object placement rules made harmless
        but which still caused compiler complaints.

2012-07-16  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * library/reg/pkgIndex.tcl:  Make registry 1.3 package dynamically
        loadable when ::tcl::pkgconfig is available.

2012-07-11  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinReg.c: [Bug 3362446]: registry keys command fails
        with 8.5/8.6. Follow Microsofts example better in order to prevent
        problems when using HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA.

2012-07-10  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * unix/tclUnixNotfy.c: [Bug 3541646]: Don't panic on triggerPipe
        overrun.

2012-07-10  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinSock.c (InitializeHostName): Corrected logic that
        extracted the name of the computer from the gethostname call so that
        it would use the name on success, not failure. Also ensured that the
        buffer size is exactly that recommended by Microsoft.

2012-07-08  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>

        * library/http/http.tcl: [Bug 3531209]: Add fix and test for URLs that
        * tests/http.test:       contain literal IPv6 addresses.

2012-07-05  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/tclUnixPipe.c:   [Bug 1189293]: Make "<<" binary safe.
        * win/tclWinPipe.c:

2012-07-03  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclUtil.c (TclDStringAppendObj, TclDStringAppendDString):
        * generic/tclInt.h (TclDStringAppendLiteral, TclDStringClear):
        * generic/tclCompile.h (TclDStringAppendToken): Added wrappers to make
        common cases of appending to Tcl_DStrings simpler to write. Prompted
        by looking at [FRQ 1357401] (these are an _internal_ implementation of
        that FRQ).

2012-06-29  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl:   Add tn, ro_MO and ru_MO to msgcat.

2012-06-29  Harald Oehlmann <oehhar@users.sf.net>

        * library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl:    [Bug 3536888]: Locale guessing of
        * library/msgcat/pkgIndex.tcl:  msgcat fails on (some) Windows 7. Bump
        * unix/Makefile.in:             to 1.4.5
        * win/Makefile.in:

2012-06-29  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/GetIndex.3: Reinforced the description of the requirement for
        the tables of names to index over to be static, following posting to
        tcl-core by Brian Griffin about a bug caused by Tktreectrl not obeying
        this rule correctly. This does not represent a functionality change,
        merely a clearer documentation of a long-standing constraint.

2012-06-26  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * unix/tcl.m4:       Let Cygwin shared build link with
        * unix/configure.in: zlib1.dll, not cygz.dll (two less
        * unix/configure:    dependencies on cygwin-specific dll's)
        * unix/Makefile.in:

2012-06-26  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>

        * generic/tclIOSock.c: Use EAI_SYSTEM only if it exists.
        * unix/tclUnixSock.c:

2012-06-25  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclFileSystem.h:      [Bug 3024359]: Make sure that the
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c:  per-thread cache of the list of file systems
        * generic/tclPathObj.c: currently registered is only updated at times
        when no active loops are traversing it.  Also reduce the amount of
        epoch storing and checking to where it can make a difference.

2012-06-25  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCmdAH.c (EncodingDirsObjCmd): [Bug 3537605]: Do the right
        thing when reporting errors with the number of arguments.

2012-06-25  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclfileName.c: [Patch 1536227]: Cygwin network pathname
        * tests/fileName.test:   support.

2012-06-23  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * unix/tclUnixNotfy.c: [Bug 3508771]: Cygwin notifier for handling
        win32 events.

2012-06-22  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>

        * generic/tclIOSock.c: Rework the error message generation of [socket],
        * unix/tclUnixSock.c:  so that the error code of getaddrinfo is used
        * win/tclWinSock.c:    instead of errno unless it is EAI_SYSTEM.

2012-06-21  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinReg.c:      [Bug 3362446]: registry keys command fails
        * tests/registry.test:  with 8.5/8.6

2012-06-11  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c:   [Bug 3532959]: Make sure the lifetime
        * generic/tclProc.c:    management of entries in the linePBodyPtr
        * tests/proc.test:      hash table can tolerate either order of
        teardown, interp first, or Proc first.

2012-06-08  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/configure.in:    Update autogoo for gettimeofday().
        * unix/tclUnixPort.h:   Thanks Joe English.
        * unix/configure:       autoconf 2.13

        * unix/tclUnixPort.h:   [Bug 3530533]: Centralize #include <pthread.h>
        * unix/tclUnixThrd.c:   in the tclUnixPort.h header so that old unix
        systems that need inclusion in all compilation units are supported.

2012-06-08  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinDde.c:    Revise the "null data" check: null strings are
        possible, but empty binary arrays are not.
        * tests/winDde.test:  Add test-case (winDde-9.4) for transferring
        null-strings with dde. Convert tests to tcltest-2 syntax.

2012-06-06  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclZlib.c (TclZlibInit): Declare that Tcl is publishing the
        zlib package (version 2.0) as part of its bootstrap process. This will
        have an impact on tclkit (which includes zlib 1.1) but otherwise be
        very low impact.

2012-06-06  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * unix/tclUnixInit.c: On Cygwin, use win32 API in stead of uname()
        to determine the tcl_platform variables.

2012-05-31  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclZlib.c:  [Bug 3530536]: zlib-7.4 fails on IRIX64
        * tests/zlib.test:
        * doc/zlib.n:         Document that [stream checksum] doesn't do
        what's expected for "inflate" and "deflate" formats

2012-05-31  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * library/safe.tcl (safe::AliasFileSubcommand): Don't assume that
        slaves have corresponding commands, as that is not true for
        sub-subinterpreters (used in Tk's test suite).

        * doc/safe.n: [Bug 1997845]: Corrected formatting so that generated
        HTML can link properly.

        * tests/socket.test (socket*-13.1): Prevented intermittent test
        failure due to race condition.

2012-05-29  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/expr.n, doc/mathop.n: [Bug 2931407]: Clarified semantics of
        division and remainder operators.

2012-05-29  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinDde.c:    [Bug 3525762]: Encoding handling in dde.
        * win/Makefile.in:    Fix "make genstubs" when cross-compiling on UNIX

2012-05-28  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * library/safe.tcl (safe::AliasFileSubcommand): [Bug 3529949]: Made a
        more sophisticated method for preventing information leakage; it
        changes references to "~user" into "./~user", which is safe.

2012-05-25  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/namespace.n, doc/Ensemble.3: [Bug 3528418]: Document what is
        going on with respect to qualification of command prefixes in ensemble
        subcommand maps.

        * generic/tclIO.h (SYNTHETIC_EVENT_TIME): Factored out the definition
        of the amount of time that should be waited before firing a synthetic
        event on a channel.

2012-05-25  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinDde.c: [Bug 473946]: Special characters were not correctly
        sent, now for XTYP_EXECUTE as well as XTYP_REQUEST.
        * win/Makefile.in: Fix "make genstubs" when cross-compiling on UNIX

2012-05-24  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * tools/genStubs.tcl:  Take cygwin handling of X11 into account.
        * generic/tcl*Decls.h: re-generated
        * generic/tclStubInit.c:  Implement TclpIsAtty, Cygwin only.
        * doc/dde.n: Doc fix: "dde execute iexplore" doesn't work
        without -async, because iexplore doesn't return a value

2012-05-24  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * tools/genStubs.tcl:   Let cygwin share stub table with win32
        * win/tclWinSock.c:     implement TclpInetNtoa for win32
        * generic/tclInt.decls: Revert most of [3caedf05df], since when
          we let cygwin share the win32 stub table this is no longer necessary
        * generic/tcl*Decls.h:  re-generated
        * doc/dde.n:            1.3 -> 1.4

2012-05-23  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclZlib.c (ZlibTransformInput): [Bug 3525907]: Ensure that
        decompressed input is flushed through the transform correctly when the
        input stream gets to the end. Thanks to Alexandre Ferrieux and Andreas
        Kupries for their work on this.

2012-05-21  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclFileName.c:        When using Tcl_SetObjLength() calls to
        * generic/tclPathObj.c:         grow and shrink the objPtr->bytes
        buffer, care must be taken that the value cannot possibly become pure
        Unicode.  Calling Tcl_AppendToObj() has the possibility of making such
        a conversion.  Bug found while valgrinding the trunk.

2012-05-21  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        IMPLEMENTATION OF TIP#106

        * win/tclWinDde.c:              Added encoding-related abilities to
        * library/dde/pkgIndex.tcl:     the [dde] command. The dde package's
        * tests/winDde.test:            version is now 1.4.0.
        * doc/dde.n:

2012-05-20  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclOOBasic.c (TclOO_Class_Constructor): [Bug 2023112]: Cut
        the amount of hackiness in class constructors, and refactor some of
        the error message handling from [oo::define] to be saner in the face
        of odd happenings.

2012-05-17  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_SwitchObjCmd): [Bug 3106532]: Corrected
        resulting indexes from -indexvar option to be usable with [string
        range]; this was always the intention (and is consistent with [regexp
        -indices] too).
        ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY***
        Uses of [switch -regexp -indexvar] that previously compensated for the
        wrong offsets (by subtracting 1 from the end indices) now do not need
        to do so as the value is correct.

        * library/safe.tcl (safe::InterpInit): Ensure that the module path is
        constructed in the correct order.
        (safe::AliasGlob): [Bug 2964715]: More extensive handling of what
        globbing is required to support package loading.

        * doc/expr.n: [Bug 3525462]: Corrected statement about what happens
        when comparing "0y" and "0x12"; the previously documented behavior was
        actually a subtle bug (now long-corrected).

2012-05-16  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCmdAH.c (TclMakeFileCommandSafe): [Bug 3445787]: Improve
        the compatibility of safe interpreters' version of 'file' with that of
        unsafe interpreters.
        * library/safe.tcl (::safe::InterpInit): Teach the safe-interp scripts
        about how to expose 'file' properly.

2012-05-13  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinDde.c:   Protect against receiving strings without ending
        \0, as external applications (or Tcl with TIP #106) could generate
        that.

2012-05-10  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinDde.c: [Bug 473946]: Special characters not correctly sent
        * library/dde/pkgIndex.tcl:  Increase version to 1.3.3

2012-05-10  Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * {win,unix}/configure{,.in}: [Bug 2812981]: Clean up bundled
        packages' build directory from within Tcl's ./configure, to avoid
        stale configuration.

2012-05-09  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * generic/tclIORChan.c: [Bug 3522560]: Fixed the crash, enabled the
        test case. Modified [chan postevent] to properly inject the event(s)
        into the owner thread's event queue for execution in the correct
        context. Renamed the ForwardOpTo...Thread() function to match with our
        terminology.

        * tests/ioCmd.test: [Bug 3522560]: Added a test which crashes the core
        if it were not disabled as knownBug. For a reflected channel
        transfered to a different thread the [chan postevent] run in the
        handler thread tries to execute the owner threads's fileevent scripts
        by itself, wrongly reaching across thread boundaries.

2012-04-28  Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclIO.c: Properly close nonblocking channels even when
        not flushing them.

2012-05-03  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * compat/zlib/*: Upgrade to zlib 1.2.7 (pre-built dll is still 1.2.5,
        will be upgraded as soon as the official build is available)

2012-05-03  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/socket.test:    [Bug 3428754]: Test socket-14.2 tolerate
        [socket -async] connection that connects synchronously.

        * unix/tclUnixSock.c:   [Bug 3428753]: Fix [socket -async] connections
        that manage to connect synchronously.

2012-05-02  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/configure.in:    Better detection and implementation for
        * generic/configure:       cpuid instruction on Intel-derived
        * generic/tclUnixCompat.c: processors, both 32-bit and 64-bit.
        * generic/tclTest.c:       Move cpuid testcase from win-specific to
        * win/tclWinTest.c:        generic tests, as it should work on all
        * tests/platform.test:     Intel-related platforms now.

2012-04-30  Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/ioCmd.test: [Bug 3522560]: Tame deadlocks in broken refchan
        tests.

2012-04-28  Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        IMPLEMENTATION OF TIP#398

        * generic/tclIO.c: Quickly Exit with Non-Blocking Blocked Channels
        * tests/io.test  : *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
        * doc/close.n    : (compat flag available)

2012-04-27  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclPort.h:    Move CYGWIN-specific stuff from tclPort.h to
        * generic/tclEnv.c:     tclUnixPort.h, where it belongs.
        * unix/tclUnixPort.h:
        * unix/tclUnixFile.c:

2012-04-27  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * library/init.tcl (auto_execok): Allow shell builtins to be detected
        even if they are upper-cased.

2012-04-26  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclStubInit.c:    Get rid of _ANSI_ARGS_ and CONST
        * generic/tclIO.c:
        * generic/tclIOCmd.c:
        * generic/tclTest.c:
        * unix/tclUnixChan.c:

2012-04-25  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclUtil.c (TclDStringToObj): Added internal function to make
        the fairly-common operation of converting a DString into an Obj a more
        efficient one; for long strings, it can just transfer the ownership of
        the buffer directly. Replaces this:
           obj=Tcl_NewStringObj(Tcl_DStringValue(&ds),Tcl_DStringLength(&ds));
           Tcl_DStringFree(&ds);
        with this:
           obj=TclDStringToObj(&ds);

2012-04-24  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclInt.decls:      [Bug 3508771]: load tclreg.dll in cygwin
                                     tclsh
        * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h: Implement TclWinGetSockOpt,
        * generic/tclStubInit.c:     TclWinGetServByName and TclWinCPUID for
        * generic/tclUnixCompat.c:   Cygwin.
        * unix/configure.in:
        * unix/configure:
        * unix/tclUnixCompat.c:

2012-04-18  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * library/tzdata/Africa/Casablanca:
        * library/tzdata/America/Port-au-Prince:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Damascus:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Gaza:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Hebron: tzdata2012c

2012-04-16  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/FileSystem.3 (Tcl_FSOpenFileChannelProc): [Bug 3518244]: Fixed
        documentation of this filesystem callback function; it must not
        register its created channel - that's the responsibility of the caller
        of Tcl_FSOpenFileChannel - as that leads to reference leaks.

2012-04-15  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclEnsemble.c (NsEnsembleImplementationCmdNR):
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c (Tcl_FSEvalFileEx): Cut out levels of the C
        stack by going direct to the relevant internal evaluation function.

        * generic/tclZlib.c (ZlibTransformSetOption): [Bug 3517696]: Make
        flushing work correctly in a pushed compressing channel transform.

2012-04-12  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclInt.decls:      [Bug 3514475]: Remove TclpGetTimeZone and
        * generic/tclIntDecls.h:     TclpGetTZName
        * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h:
        * generic/tclStubInit.c:
        * unix/tclUnixTime.c:
        * unix/tclWinTilemc:

2012-04-11  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinInit.c:     [Bug 3448512]: clock scan "1958-01-01" fails
        * win/tcl.m4:           only in debug compilation.
        * win/configure:
        * unix/tcl.m4:          Use NDEBUG consistantly meaning: no debugging.
        * unix/configure:
        * generic/tclBasic.c:
        * library/dde/pkgIndex.tcl:  Use [::tcl::pkgconfig get debug] instead
        * library/reg/pkgIndex.tcl:  of [info exists ::tcl_platform(debug)]

2012-04-10  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tcl.h (TCL_DEPRECATED_API): [Bug 2458976]: Added macro that
        can be used to mark parts of Tcl's API as deprecated. Currently only
        used for fields of Tcl_Interp, which TIPs 330 and 336 have deprecated
        with a migration strategy; we want to encourage people to move away
        from those fields.

2012-04-09  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclOODefineCmds.c (ClassVarsSet, ObjVarsSet): [Bug 3396896]:
        Ensure that the lists of variable names used to drive variable
        resolution will never have the same name twice.

        * generic/tclVar.c (AppendLocals): [Bug 2712377]: Fix problem with
        reporting of declared variables in methods. It's really a problem with
        how [info vars] interacts with variable resolvers; this is just a bit
        of a hack so it is no longer a big problem.

2012-04-04  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclOO.c (Tcl_NewObjectInstance, TclNRNewObjectInstance):
        [Bug 3514761]: Fixed bogosity with automated argument description
        handling when constructing an instance of a class that is itself a
        member of an ensemble. Thanks to Andreas Kupries for identifying that
        this was a problem case at all!
        (Tcl_CopyObjectInstance): Fix potential bleed-over of ensemble
        information into [oo::copy].

2012-04-04  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinSock.c:     [Bug 510001]: TclSockMinimumBuffers needs
        * generic/tclIOSock.c:  platform implementation.
        * generic/tclInt.decls:
        * generic/tclIntDecls.h:
        * generic/tclStubInit.c:

2012-04-03  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclStubInit.c: Remove the TclpGetTZName implementation for
        * generic/tclIntDecls.h: Cygwin (from 2012-04-02 commit), re-generated
        * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h:

2012-04-02  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        IMPLEMENTATION OF TIP#396.

        * generic/tclBasic.c (builtInCmds, TclNRYieldToObjCmd): Convert the
        formerly-unsupported yieldm and yieldTo commands into [yieldto].

2012-04-02  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclInt.decls: [Bug 3508771]: load tclreg.dll in cygwin tclsh
        * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h: Implement TclWinGetTclInstance,
        * generic/tclStubInit.c:     TclpGetTZName, and various more
        win32-specific internal functions for Cygwin, so win32 extensions
        using those can be loaded in the cygwin version of tclsh.

2012-03-30  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * unix/tcl.m4:        [Bug 3511806]: Compiler checks too early
        * unix/configure.in:  This change allows to build the cygwin and
        * unix/tclUnixPort.h: mingw32 ports of Tcl/Tk to build out-of-the-box
        * win/tcl.m4:         using a native or cross-compiler.
        * win/configure.in:
        * win/tclWinPort.h:
        * win/README          Document how to build win32 or win64 executables
        with Linux, Cygwin or Darwin.

2012-03-29  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (StringIsCmd): Faster mem-leak free
        implementation of [string is entier].

2012-03-27  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        IMPLEMENTATION OF TIP#395.

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (StringIsCmd): Implementation of the [string is
        entier] check. Code by Jos Decoster.

2012-03-27  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tcl.h:      [Bug 3508771]: Wrong Tcl_StatBuf used on MinGW.
        * generic/tclFCmd.c:  [Bug 2015723]: Duplicate inodes from file stat
        * generic/tclCmdAH.c: on windows (but now for cygwin as well).
        * generic/tclOODefineCmds.c: minor gcc warning
        * win/tclWinPort.h:   Use lower numbers, preventing integer overflow.
        Remove the workaround for mingw-w64 [Bug 3407992]. It's long fixed.

2012-03-27  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        IMPLEMENTATION OF TIP#397.

        * generic/tclOO.c (Tcl_CopyObjectInstance): [Bug 3474460]: Make the
        target object name optional when copying classes. [RFE 3485060]: Add
        callback method ("<cloned>") so that scripted control over copying is
        easier.
        ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY***
        If you'd previously been using the "<cloned>" method name, this now
        has a standard semantics and call interface. Only a problem if you are
        also using [oo::copy].

2012-03-26  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        IMPLEMENTATION OF TIP#380.

        * doc/define.n, doc/object.n, generic/tclOO.c, generic/tclOOBasic.c:
        * generic/tclOOCall.c, generic/tclOODefineCmds.c, generic/tclOOInt.h:
        * tests/oo.test: Switch definitions of lists of things in objects and
        classes to a slot-based approach, which gives a lot more flexibility
        and programmability at the script-level. Introduce new [::oo::Slot]
        class which is the implementation of these things.

        ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY***
        The unknown method handler now may be asked to deal with the case
        where no method name is provided at all. The default implementation
        generates a compatible error message, and any override that forces the
        presence of a first argument (i.e., a method name) will continue to
        function as at present as well, so this is a pretty small change.

        * generic/tclOOBasic.c (TclOO_Object_Destroy): Made it easier to do a
        tailcall inside a normally-invoked destructor; prevented leakage out
        to calling command.

2012-03-25  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclInt.decls:      [Bug 3508771]: load tclreg.dll in cygwin
        * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h: tclsh. Implement TclWinConvertError,
        * generic/tclStubInit.c:     TclWinConvertWSAError, and various more
        * unix/Makefile.in:          win32-specific internal functions for
        * unix/tcl.m4:               Cygwin, so win32 extensions using those
        * unix/configure:            can be loaded in the cygwin version of
        * win/tclWinError.c:         tclsh.

2012-03-23  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclInt.decls:       Revert some cygwin-related signature
        * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h:  changes from [835f8e1e9d] (2010-01-22).
        * win/tclWinError.c:          They were an attempt to make the cygwin
                                      port compile again, but since cygwin is
                                      based on unix this serves no purpose any
                                      more.
        * win/tclWinSerial.c:         Use EAGAIN in stead of EWOULDBLOCK,
        * win/tclWinSock.c:           because in VS10+ the value of
                                      EWOULDBLOCK is no longer the same as
                                      EAGAIN.
        * unix/Makefile.in:           Add tclWinError.c to the CYGWIN build.
        * unix/tcl.m4:
        * unix/configure:

2012-03-20  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tcl.decls:         [Bug 3508771]: load tclreg.dll in cygwin
        * generic/tclInt.decls:      tclsh. Implement TclWinGetPlatformId,
        * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h: Tcl_WinUtfToTChar, Tcl_WinTCharToUtf (and
        * generic/tclPlatDecls.h:    a dummy TclWinCPUID) for Cygwin, so win32
        * generic/tclStubInit.c:     extensions using those can be loaded in
        * unix/tclUnixCompat.c:      the cygwin version of tclsh.

2012-03-19  Venkat Iyer <venkat@comit.com>

        * library/tzdata/America/Atikokan: Update to tzdata2012b.
        * library/tzdata/America/Blanc-Sablon:
        * library/tzdata/America/Dawson_Creek:
        * library/tzdata/America/Edmonton:
        * library/tzdata/America/Glace_Bay:
        * library/tzdata/America/Goose_Bay:
        * library/tzdata/America/Halifax:
        * library/tzdata/America/Havana:
        * library/tzdata/America/Moncton:
        * library/tzdata/America/Montreal:
        * library/tzdata/America/Nipigon:
        * library/tzdata/America/Rainy_River:
        * library/tzdata/America/Regina:
        * library/tzdata/America/Santiago:
        * library/tzdata/America/St_Johns:
        * library/tzdata/America/Swift_Current:
        * library/tzdata/America/Toronto:
        * library/tzdata/America/Vancouver:
        * library/tzdata/America/Winnipeg:
        * library/tzdata/Antarctica/Casey:
        * library/tzdata/Antarctica/Davis:
        * library/tzdata/Antarctica/Palmer:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Yerevan:
        * library/tzdata/Atlantic/Stanley:
        * library/tzdata/Pacific/Easter:
        * library/tzdata/Pacific/Fakaofo:
        * library/tzdata/America/Creston: (new)

2012-03-19  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>

        * unix/tclUnixSock.c (Tcl_OpenTcpServer): Use the values returned
        by getaddrinfo() for all three arguments to socket() instead of
        only using ai_family. Try to keep the most meaningful error while
        iterating over the result list, because using the last error can
        be misleading.

2012-03-15  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tcl.h: [Bug 3288345]: Wrong Tcl_StatBuf used on Cygwin
        * unix/tclUnixFile.c:
        * unix/tclUnixPort.h:
        * win/cat.c:           Remove cygwin stuff no longer needed
        * win/tclWinFile.c:
        * win/tclWinPort.h:

2012-03-12  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinFile.c: [Bug 3388350]: mingw64 compiler warnings

2012-03-11  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/*.n, doc/*.3: A number of small spelling and wording fixes.

2012-03-08  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/info.n:   Various minor fixes (prompted by Andreas Kupries
        * doc/socket.n: detecting a spelling mistake).

2012-03-07  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * library/http/http.tcl: [Bug 3498327]: Generate upper-case
        * library/http/pkgIndex.tcl: hexadecimal output for compliance
        * tests/http.test: with RFC 3986. Bumped version to 2.8.4.
        * unix/Makefile.in:
        * win/Makefile.in:

2012-03-06  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinPort.h: Compatibility with older Visual Studio versions.

2012-03-04  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclLoad.c: Patch from the cygwin folks
        * unix/tcl.m4:
        * unix/configure: (re-generated)

2012-03-02  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBinary.c (Tcl_SetByteArrayObj): [Bug 3496014]: Only zero
        out the memory block if it is not being immediately overwritten. (Our
        caller might still overwrite, but we should at least avoid
        known-useless work.)

2012-02-29  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclIOUtil.c:  [Bug 3466099]: BOM in Unicode
        * generic/tclEncoding.c:
        * tests/source.test:

2012-02-23  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * tests/reg.test (14.21-23): Add tests relating to Bug 1115587. Actual
        bug is characterised by test marked with 'knownBug'.

2012-02-17  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclIOUtil.c: [Bug 2233954]: AIX: compile error
        * unix/tclUnixPort.h:

2012-02-16  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c (INST_LIST_RANGE_IMM): Enhance implementation
        so that shortening a (not multiply-referenced) list by lopping the end
        off with [lrange] or [lreplace] is efficient.

2012-02-15  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileLreplaceCmd): Added a compilation
        strategy for [lreplace] that tackles the cases which are equivalent to
        a static [lrange].
        (TclCompileLrangeCmd): Add compiler for [lrange] with constant indices
        so we can take advantage of existing TCL_LIST_RANGE_IMM opcode.
        (TclCompileLindexCmd): Improve coverage of constant-index-style
        compliation using technique developed for [lrange] above.

        (TclCompileDictForCmd): [Bug 3487626]: Fix crash in compilation of
        [dict for] when its implementation command is used directly rather
        than through the ensemble.

2012-02-09  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclStringObj.c:       Converted the memcpy() calls in append
        operations to memmove() calls.  This adds safety in the case of
        overlapping copies, and improves performance on some benchmarks.

2012-02-06  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclEnsemble.c: [Bug 3485022]: TclCompileEnsemble() avoid
        * tests/trace.test:     compile when exec traces set.

2012-02-06  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclTrace.c:  [Bug 3484621]: Ensure that execution traces on
        * tests/trace.test:    bytecoded commands bump the interp's compile
        epoch.

2012-02-02  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclUniData.c: [FRQ 3464401]: Support Unicode 6.1
        * generic/regc_locale.c:

2012-02-02  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * win/tclWinFile.c:     [Bugs 2974459,2879351,1951574,1852572,
        1661378,1613456]: Revisions to the NativeAccess() routine that queries
        file permissions on Windows native filesystems.  Meant to fix numerous
        bugs where [file writable|readable|executable] "lies" about what
        operations are possible, especially when the file resides on a Samba
        share.

2012-02-01  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/AddErrInfo.3: [Bug 3482614]: Documentation nit.

2012-01-30  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileCatchCmd): Added a more efficient
        bytecode generator for the case where 'catch' is used without any
        variable arguments; don't capture the result just to discard it.

2012-01-26  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCmdAH.c:           [Bug 3479689]: New internal routine
        * generic/tclFCmd.c:            TclJoinPath(). Refactor all the
        * generic/tclFileName.c:        *Join*Path* routines to give them more
        * generic/tclInt.h:             useful interfaces that are easier to
        * generic/tclPathObj.c:         manage getting the refcounts right.

2012-01-26  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclPathObj.c: [Bug 3475569]: Add checks for unshared values
        before calls demanding them.  [Bug 3479689]: Stop memory corruption
        when shimmering 0-refCount value to "path" type.

2012-01-25  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclOO.c (Tcl_CopyObjectInstance): [Bug 3474460]: When
        copying an object, make sure that the configuration of the variable
        resolver is also duplicated.

2012-01-22  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * tools/uniClass.tcl:    [FRQ 3473670]: Various Unicode-related
        * tools/uniParse.tcl:    speedups/robustness. Enhanced tools to be
        * generic/tclUniData.c:  able to handle characters > 0xFFFF. Done in
        * generic/tclUtf.c:      all branches in order to simplify merges for
        * generic/regc_locale.c: new Unicode versions (such as 6.1)

2012-01-22  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclDictObj.c (DictExistsCmd): [Bug 3475264]: Ensure that
        errors only ever happen when insufficient arguments are supplied, and
        not when a path doesn't exist or a dictionary is poorly formatted (the
        two cases can't be easily distinguished).

2012-01-21  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tcl.h:        [Bug 3474726]: Eliminate detection of struct
        * generic/tclWinPort.h: _stat32i64, just use _stati64 in combination
        * generic/tclFCmd.c:    with _USE_32BIT_TIME_T, which is the same
        * generic/tclTest.c:    then. Only keep _stat32i64 usage for cygwin,
        * win/configure.in:     so it will not conflict with cygwin's own
        * win/configure:        struct stat.

2012-01-21  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c:   [Bug 3475667]: Prevent buffer read overflow.
        Thanks to "sebres" for the report and fix.

2012-01-17  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/dict.n (dict with): [Bug 3474512]: Explain better what is going
        on when a dictionary key and the dictionary variable collide.

2012-01-13  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * library/http/http.tcl (http::Connect): [Bug 3472316]: Ensure that we
        only try to read the socket error exactly once.

2012-01-12  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/tclvars.n: [Bug 3466506]: Document more environment variables.

2012-01-09  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclUtf.c:      [Bug 3464428]: [string is graph \u0120] was
        * generic/regc_locale.c: wrong. Add table for Unicode [:cntrl:] class.
        * tools/uniClass.tcl:    Generate Unicode [:cntrl:] class table.
        * tests/utf.test:

2012-01-08  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * library/clock.tcl (ReadZoneinfoFile): [Bug 3470928]: Corrected a bug
        * tests/clock.test (clock-56.4):        where loading zoneinfo would
        fail if one timezone abbreviation was a proper tail of another, and
        zic used the same bytes of the file to represent both of them. Added a
        test case for the bug, using the same data that caused the observed
        failure "in the wild."

2011-12-30  Venkat Iyer <venkat@comit.com>

        * library/tzdata/America/Bahia:         Update to Olson's tzdata2011n
        * library/tzdata/America/Havana:
        * library/tzdata/Europe/Kiev:
        * library/tzdata/Europe/Simferopol:
        * library/tzdata/Europe/Uzhgorod:
        * library/tzdata/Europe/Zaporozhye:
        * library/tzdata/Pacific/Fiji:

2011-12-23  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclUtf.c: [Bug 3464428]: [string is graph \u0120] is wrong.
        * generic/tclUniData.c:
        * generic/regc_locale.c:
        * tests/utf.test:
        * tools/uniParse.tcl:   Clean up some unused stuff, and be more robust
        against changes in UnicodeData.txt syntax

2011-12-13  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * generic/tclCompile.c (TclInitAuxDataTypeTable): Extended to register
        the DictUpdateInfo structure as an AuxData type. For use by tbcload,
        tclcompiler.

2011-12-11  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/regc_locale.c: [Bug 3457031]: Some Unicode 6.0 chars not
        * tests/utf.test:        in [:print:] class

2011-12-07  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * tools/uniParse.tcl:    [Bug 3444754]: string tolower \u01c5 is wrong
        * generic/tclUniData.c:
        * tests/utf.test:

2011-11-30  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl: [Bug 967195]: Make tcltest work
        when tclsh is compiled without using the setargv() function on mingw.

2011-11-29  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/Makefile.in: don't install tommath_(super)?class.h
        * unix/Makefile.in: don't install directories like 8.2 and 8.3
        * generic/tclTomMath.h: [Bug 2991415]: move include tclInt.h from
        * generic/tclTomMathInt.h: tclTomMath.h to tclTomMathInt.h

2011-11-25  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * library/history.tcl (history): Simplify the dance of variable
        management used when chaining to the implementation command.

2011-11-22  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c (TclCompileObj): Simplify and de-indent the
        logic so that it is easier to comprehend.

2011-11-22  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinPort.h: [Bug 3354324]: Windows: [file mtime] sets wrong
        * win/tclWinFile.c: time (VS2005+ only).
        * generic/tclTest.c:

2011-11-20  Joe Mistachkin  <joe@mistachkin.com>

        * tests/thread.test: Remove unnecessary [after] calls from the thread
        tests.  Make error message matching more robust for tests that may
        have built-in race conditions.  Test thread-7.26 must first unset all
        thread testing related variables.  Revise results of the thread-7.28
        through thread-7.31 tests to account for the fact they are canceled
        via a script sent to the thread asynchronously, which then impacts the
        error message handling.  Attempt to manually drain the event queue for
        the main thread after joining the test thread to make sure no stray
        events are processed at the wrong time on the main thread.  Revise all
        the synchronization and comparison semantics related to the thread id
        and error message.

2011-11-18  Joe Mistachkin  <joe@mistachkin.com>

        * tests/thread.test: Remove all use of thread::release from the thread
        7.x tests, replacing it with a script that can easily cause "stuck"
        threads to self-destruct for those test cases that require it.  Also,
        make the error message handling far more robust by keeping track of
        every asynchronous error.

2011-11-17  Joe Mistachkin  <joe@mistachkin.com>

        * tests/thread.test: Refactor all the remaining thread-7.x tests that
        were using [testthread].  Note that this test file now requires the
        very latest version of the Thread package to pass all tests.  In
        addition, the thread-7.18 and thread-7.19 tests have been flagged as
        knownBug because they cannot pass without modifications to the [expr]
        command, persuant to TIP #392.

2011-11-17  Joe Mistachkin  <joe@mistachkin.com>

        * generic/tclThreadTest.c: For [testthread cancel], avoid creating a
        new Tcl_Obj when the default script cancellation result is desired.

2011-11-11  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinConsole.c: Refactor common thread handling patterns.

2011-11-11  Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/zlib.test: [Bug 3428756]: Use nonblocking writes in
        single-threaded IO tests to avoid deadlocks when going beyond OS
        buffers.  Tidy up [chan configure] flags across zlib.test.

2011-11-03  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * unix/tclUnixCompat.c (TclpGetPwNam, TclpGetPwUid, TclpGetGrNam)
        (TclpGetGrGid): Use the elaborate memory management scheme outlined on
        http://www.opengroup.org/austin/docs/austin_328.txt to handle Tcl's
        use of standard reentrant versions of the passwd/group access
        functions so that everything can work on all BSDs. Problem identified
        by Stuart Cassoff.

2011-10-20  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * library/http/http.tcl:        Bump to version 2.8.3
        * library/http/pkgIndex.tcl:
        * unix/Makefile.in:
        * win/Makefile.in:

        * changes:      Updates toward 8.6b3 release.

2011-10-20  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclLiteral.c (TclInvalidateCmdLiteral): [Bug 3418547]:
        Additional code for handling the invalidation of literals.
        * generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_CreateObjCommand, Tcl_CreateCommand)
        (TclRenameCommand, Tcl_ExposeCommand): The four additional places that
        need extra care when dealing with literals.
        * generic/tclTest.c (TestInterpResolverCmd): Additional test machinery
        for interpreter resolvers.

2011-10-18  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>

        * library/clock.tcl (::tcl::clock::GetSystemTimeZone): Cache the time
        zone only if it was detected by one of the expensive methods.
        Otherwise after unsetting TCL_TZ or TZ the previous value will still
        be used.

2011-10-15  Venkat Iyer <venkat@comit.com>

        * library/tzdata/America/Sitka: Update to Olson's tzdata2011l
        * library/tzdata/Pacific/Fiji:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Hebron: (New)

2011-10-11  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinFile.c:    [Bug 2935503]: Incorrect mode field returned by
        [file stat] command.

2011-10-09  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileDictWithCmd): Corrected handling of
        qualified names, and added spacial cases for empty bodies (used when
        [dict with] is just used for extracting variables).

2011-10-07  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tcl.h:        Fix gcc warnings (discovered with latest
        * generic/tclIORChan.c: mingw, based on gcc 4.6.1)
        * tests/env.test:       Fix env.test, when running under wine 1.3.

2011-10-06  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclDictObj.c (TclDictWithInit, TclDictWithFinish):
        * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileDictWithCmd): Experimental
        compilation for the [dict with] subcommand, using parts factored out
        from the interpreted version of the command.

2011-10-05  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinInt.h:   Remove tclWinProcs, as it is no longer
        * win/tclWin32Dll.c: being used.

2011-10-03  Venkat Iyer <venkat@comit.com>

        * library/tzdata/Africa/Dar_es_Salaam: Update to Olson's tzdata2011k
        * library/tzdata/Africa/Kampala:
        * library/tzdata/Africa/Nairobi:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Gaza:
        * library/tzdata/Europe/Kaliningrad:
        * library/tzdata/Europe/Kiev:
        * library/tzdata/Europe/Minsk:
        * library/tzdata/Europe/Simferopol:
        * library/tzdata/Europe/Uzhgorod:
        * library/tzdata/Europe/Zaporozhye:
        * library/tzdata/Pacific/Apia:

2011-09-29  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl, tools/tcltk-man2html-utils.tcl: More
        refactoring so that more of the utility code is decently out of the
        way. Adjusted the header-material generator so that version numbers
        are only included in locations where there is room.

2011-09-28  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclOO.h:      [RFE 3010352]: make all TclOO API functions
        * generic/tclOODecls.h: MODULE_SCOPE
        * generic/tclOOIntDecls.h:

2011-09-27  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclIndexObj.c (Tcl_ParseArgsObjv): [Bug 3413857]: Corrected
        the memory management for the code parsing arguments when returning
        "large" numbers of arguments. Also unbroke the TCL_ARGV_AUTO_REST
        macro in passing.

2011-09-26  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCmdAH.c (TclMakeFileCommandSafe): [Bug 3211758]: Also
        make the main [file] command hidden by default in safe interpreters,
        because that's what existing code expects. This will reduce the amount
        which the code breaks, but not necessarily eliminate it...

2011-09-23  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclIORTrans.c: More revisions to get finalization of
        ReflectedTransforms correct, including adopting a "dead" field as was
        done in tclIORChan.c.

        * tests/thread.test:    Stop using the deprecated thread management
        commands of the tcltest package.  The test suite ought to provide
        these tools for itself.  They do not belong in a testing harness.

2011-09-22  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCmdIL.c:   Revise [info frame] so that it stops creating
        cycles in the iPtr->cmdFramePtr stack.

2011-09-22  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/re_syntax.n: [Bug 2903743]: Add more magic so that we can do at
        least something sane on Solaris.
        * tools/tcltk-man2html-utils.tcl (process-text): Teach the HTML
        generator how to handle this magic.

2011-09-21  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclThreadTest.c: Revise the thread exit handling of the
        [testthread] command so that it properly maintains the per-process
        data structures even when the thread exits for reasons other than the
        [testthread exit] command.

2011-09-21  Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/tclIO.c: [Bug 3412487]: Now short reads are allowed in
        synchronous fcopy, avoid mistaking them as nonblocking ones.

2011-09-21  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * generic/tclIORTrans.c (ForwardOpToOwnerThread): Fixed the missing
        initialization of the 'dsti' field. Reported by Don Porter, on chat.

2011-09-20  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclIORChan.c: Re-using the "interp" field to signal a dead
        channel (via NULL value) interfered with conditional cleanup tasks
        testing for "the right interp". Added a new field "dead" to perform
        the dead channel signalling task so the corrupted logic is avoided.

        * generic/tclIORTrans.c: Revised ReflectClose() and
        FreeReflectedTransform() so that we stop leaking ReflectedTransforms,
        yet free all Tcl_Obj values in the same thread that alloced them.

2011-09-19  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/ioTrans.test:   Conversion from [testthread] to Thread package
        stops most memory leaks.

        * tests/thread.test:    Plug most memory leaks in thread.test.
        Constrain the rest to be skipped during `make valgrind'.  Tests using
        the [testthread cancel] testing command are leaky.  Corrections wait
        for either addition of [thread::cancel] to the Thread package, or
        improvements to the [testthread] testing command to make leak-free
        versions of these tests possible.

        * generic/tclIORChan.c: Plug all memory leaks in ioCmd.test exposed
        * tests/ioCmd.test:     by `make valgrind'.
        * unix/Makefile.in:

2011-09-16  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        IMPLEMENTATION OF TIP #388

        * doc/Tcl.n:
        * doc/re_syntax.n:
        * generic/regc_lex.c:
        * generic/regcomp.c:
        * generic/regcustom.h:
        * generic/tcl.h:
        * generic/tclParse.c:
        * tests/reg.test:
        * tests/utf.test:

2011-09-16  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclProc.c (ProcWrongNumArgs): [Bugs 3400658,3408830]:
        Corrected the handling of procedure error messages (found by TclOO).

2011-09-16  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tcl.h:        Don't change Tcl_UniChar type when
        * generic/regcustom.h:  TCL_UTF_MAX == 4 (not supported anyway)

2011-09-16  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclProc.c (ProcWrongNumArgs): [Bugs 3400658,3408830]:
        Ensemble-like rewriting of error messages is complex, and TclOO (in
        combination with iTcl) hits the most tricky cases.

        * library/http/http.tcl (http::geturl): [Bug 3391977]: Ensure that the
        -headers option overrides the -type option (important because -type
        has a default that is not always appropriate, and the header must not
        be duplicated).

2011-09-15  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCompExpr.c: [Bug 3408408]: Partial improvement by sharing
        as literals the computed values of constant subexpressions when we can
        do so without incurring the cost of string rep generation.

2011-09-13  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclUtil.c:    [Bug 3390638]: Workaround broken Solaris
        Studio cc optimizer.  Thanks to Wolfgang S. Kechel.

        * generic/tclDTrace.d:  [Bug 3405652]: Portability workaround for
        broken system DTrace support.  Thanks to Dagobert Michelson.

2011-09-12  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinPort.h: [Bug 3407070]: tclPosixStr.c won't build with
        EOVERFLOW==E2BIG

2011-09-11  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/thread.test:    Convert [testthread] use to Thread package use
        in thread-6.1.  Eliminates a memory leak in `make valgrind`.

        * tests/socket.test:    [Bug 3390699]: Convert [testthread] use to
        Thread package use in socket_*-13.1.  Eliminates a memory leak in
        `make valgrind`.

2011-09-09  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/chanio.test:    [Bug 3389733]: Convert [testthread] use to
        * tests/io.test:        Thread package use in *io-70.1.  Eliminates a
        memory leak in `make valgrind`.

2011-09-07  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCompExpr.c: [Bug 3401704]: Allow function names like
        * tests/parseExpr.test:  influence(), nanobot(), and 99bottles() that
        have been parsed as missing operator syntax errors before with the
        form NUMBER + FUNCTION.
        ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY***

2011-09-06  Venkat Iyer <venkat@comit.com>

        * library/tzdata/America/Goose_Bay: Update to Olson's tzdata2011i
        * library/tzdata/America/Metlakatla:
        * library/tzdata/America/Resolute:
        * library/tzdata/America/St_Johns:
        * library/tzdata/Europe/Kaliningrad:
        * library/tzdata/Pacific/Apia:
        * library/tzdata/Pacific/Honolulu:
        * library/tzdata/Africa/Juba: (new)

2011-09-06  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tcl.h:   [RFE 1711975]: Tcl_MainEx() (like Tk_MainEx())
        * generic/tclDecls.h:
        * generic/tclMain.c:

2011-09-02  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/http.test:      Convert [testthread] use to Thread package use.
        Eliminates memory leak seen in `make valgrind`.

2011-09-01  Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/tclUnixSock.c: [Bug 3401422]: Cache script-level changes to the
        nonblocking flag of an async client socket in progress, and commit
        them on completion.

2011-09-01  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclStrToD.c:  [Bug 3402540]: Corrections to TclParseNumber()
        * tests/binary.test:    to make it reject invalid Nan(Hex) strings.

        * tests/scan.test:      [scan Inf %g] is portable; remove constraint.

2011-08-30  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclInterp.c (SlaveCommandLimitCmd, SlaveTimeLimitCmd):
        [Bug 3398794]: Ensure that low-level conditions in the limit API are
        enforced at the script level through errors, not a Tcl_Panic. This
        means that interpreters cannot read their own limits (writing already
        did not work).

2011-08-30  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>

        * unix/tclUnixSock.c (TcpWatchProc): [Bug 3394732]: Put back the check
        for server sockets.

2011-08-29  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclIORTrans.c: Leak of ReflectedTransformMap.

2011-08-27  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclStringObj.c:  [RFE 3396731]: Revise the [string reverse]
        * tests/string.test:    implementation to operate on the representation
        that comes in, avoid conversion to other reps.

2011-08-23  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclIORChan.c: [Bug 3396948]: Leak of ReflectedChannelMap.

2011-08-19  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclIORTrans.c: [Bugs 3393279, 3393280]: ReflectClose(.) is
        missing Tcl_EventuallyFree() calls at some of its exits.

        * generic/tclIO.c: [Bugs 3394654, 3393276]: Revise FlushChannel() to
        account for the possibility that the ChanWrite() call might recycle
        the buffer out from under us.

        * generic/tclIO.c: Preserve the chanPtr during FlushChannel so that
        channel drivers don't yank it away before we're done with it.

2011-08-19  Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclTest.c: [Bug 2981154]: async-4.3 segfault.
        * tests/async.test:  [Bug 1774689]: async-4.3 sometimes fails.

2011-08-18  Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclIO.c: [Bug 3096275]: Sync fcopy buffers input.

2011-08-18  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclUniData.c: [Bug 3393714]: Overflow in toupper delta
        * tools/uniParse.tcl:
        * tests/utf.test:

2011-08-17  Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclIO.c:  [Bug 2946474]: Consistently resume backgrounded
        * tests/ioCmd.test: flushes+closes when exiting.

2011-08-17  Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/interp.n: Document TIP 378's one-way-ness.

2011-08-17  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclGet.c: [Bug 3393150]: Overlooked free of intreps.
        (It matters for bignums!)

2011-08-16  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCompile.c: [Bug 3392070]: More complete prevention of
        Tcl_Obj reference cycles when producing an intrep of ByteCode.

2011-08-16  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclListObj.c (TclLindexList, TclLsetFlat): Silence warnings
        about (unreachable) cases of uninitialized variables.
        * generic/tclCmdIL.c (SelectObjFromSublist): Improve the generation of
        * generic/tclIndexObj.c (Tcl_ParseArgsObjv): messages through the use
        * generic/tclVar.c (ArrayStartSearchCmd):    of Tcl_ObjPrintf.

2011-08-15  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c: [Bug 3390272]: Leak of [info script] value.

2011-08-15  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclPosixStr.c:    [Bug 3388350]: mingw64 compiler warnings
        * win/tclWinPort.h:
        * win/configure.in:
        * win/configure:

2011-08-14  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * doc/FindExec.3: [Patch 3124554]: Move WishPanic from Tk to Tcl
        * doc/Panic.3     Added Documentation

2011-08-12  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclPathObj.c: [Bug 3389764]: Eliminate possibility that dup
        of a "path" value can create reference cycle.

2011-08-12  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclZlib.c (ZlibTransformOutput): [Bug 3390073]: Return the
        correct length of written data for a compressing transform.

2011-08-10 Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclTestObj.c: [Bug 3386721]: Allow multiple [load]ing of the
        Tcltest package.

2011-08-09 Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c: [Bug 2919042]: Restore "valgrindability" of Tcl
        * generic/tclEvent.c: that was lost by the streamlining of [exit], by
        * generic/tclExecute.c: conditionally forcing a full Finalize:
        * generic/tclInt.h:  use -DPURIFY or ::env(TCL_FINALIZE_ON_EXIT)

2011-08-09 Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCompCmds.c: [Bug 3386417]: Avoid a reference loop between
        * generic/tclInt.h:      the bytecode and its companion errostack
        * generic/tclResult.c:   when compiling a syntax error.

2011-08-09  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinConsole.c: [Bug 3388350]: mingw64 compiler warnings
        * win/tclWinDde.c:
        * win/tclWinPipe.c:
        * win/tclWinSerial.c:

2011-08-09  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclInt.h: Change the signature of TclParseHex(), such that
        * generic/tclParse.c: it can now parse up to 8 hex characters.

2011-08-08  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclZlib.c (ZlibStreamCmd): Make the -buffersize option to
        '$zstream add' function correctly instead of having its value just be
        discarded unceremoniously. Also generate error codes from more of the
        code, not just the low-level code but also the Tcl infrastructure.

2011-08-07  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclOOInfo.c (InfoClassCallCmd): [Bug 3387082]: Plug memory
        leak in call chain introspection.

2011-08-06  Kevin B, Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * generic/tclAssemnbly.c: [Bug 3384840]: Plug another memory leak.
        * generic/tclStrToD.c: [Bug 3386975]: Plug another memory leak.

2011-08-05  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * generic/tclStrToD.c: [Bug 3386975]: Plugged a memory leak in
        double->string conversion.

2011-08-05  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        *** 8.6b2 TAGGED FOR RELEASE ***

        * changes:      Updates for 8.6b2 release.

2011-08-05  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclAssembly.c (AssembleOneLine): Ensure that memory isn't
        leaked when an unknown instruction is encountered. Also simplify code
        through use of Tcl_ObjPrintf in error message generation.

        * generic/tclZlib.c (ZlibTransformClose): [Bug 3386197]: Plug a memory
        leak found by Miguel with valgrind, and ensure that the correct
        direction's buffers are released.

2011-08-04  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclVar.c (TclPtrSetVar): Fix valgrind-detected error when
        newValuePtr is the interp's result obj.

2011-08-04  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclAssembly.c (FreeAssemblyEnv): [Bug 3384840]: Plug another
        possible memory leak due to over-complex code for freeing the table of
        labels.

2011-08-04  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>

        * generic/tclIOSock.c (TclCreateSocketAddress): Don't bother using
        AI_ADDRCONFIG for now, as it was causing problems in various
        situations.

2011-08-04  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclAssembly.c (AssembleOneLine, GetBooleanOperand)
        (GetIntegerOperand, GetListIndexOperand, FindLocalVar): [Bug 3384840]:
        A Tcl_Obj is allocated by GetNextOperand, so callers of it must not
        hold a reference to one in the 'out' parameter when calling it. This
        was causing a great many memory leaks.
        * tests/assemble.test (assemble-51.*): Added group of memory leak
        tests.

2011-08-02  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * changes:      Updates for 8.6b2 release.
        * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl: Variable substitution botch.

2011-08-02  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclObj.c (Tcl_DbIncrRefCount, Tcl_DbDecrRefCount)
        (Tcl_DbIsShared): [Bug 3384007]: Fix the panic messages so they share
        what should be shared and have the right number of spaces.

2011-08-01  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclProc.c (TclProcCompileProc): [Bug 3383616]: Fix for leak
        of resolveInfo when recompiling procs. Thanks go to Gustaf Neumann for
        detecting the bug and providing the fix.

2011-08-01  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/tclvars.n (EXAMPLES): Added some examples of how some of the
        standard global variables can be used, following prompting by a
        request by Robert Hicks.

        * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl (plus-pkgs): [Bug 3382474]: Added code to
        determine the version number of contributed packages from their
        directory names so that HTML documentation builds are less confusing.

2011-07-29  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl (ensemble_commands, remap_link_target):
        Small enhancements to improve cross-linking with contributed packages.
        * tools/tcltk-man2html-utils.tcl (insert-cross-references): Enhance to
        cope with contributed packages' C API.

2011-07-28  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>

        * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_TCL_IPV6): Fix AC_DEFINE invocation for
        NEED_FAKE_RFC2553.
        * unix/configure:       autoconf-2.59

2011-07-28  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * changes:      Updates for 8.6b2 release.

        * library/tzdata/Asia/Anadyr: Update to Olson's tzdata2011h
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Irkutsk:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Kamchatka:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Krasnoyarsk:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Magadan:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Novokuznetsk:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Novosibirsk:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Omsk:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Sakhalin:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Vladivostok:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Yakutsk:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Yekaterinburg:
        * library/tzdata/Europe/Kaliningrad:
        * library/tzdata/Europe/Moscow:
        * library/tzdata/Europe/Samara:
        * library/tzdata/Europe/Volgograd:
        * library/tzdata/America/Kralendijk: (new)
        * library/tzdata/America/Lower_Princes: (new)

2011-07-26  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclOO.c (initScript): Ensure that TclOO is properly found by
        all the various package mechanisms (by adding a dummy ifneeded script)
        and not just some of them.

2011-07-21  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinPort.h: [Bug 3372130]: Fix hypot math function with MSVC10

2011-07-19  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclUtil.c:    [Bug 3371644]: Repair failure to properly handle
        * tests/util.test: (length == -1) scanning in TclConvertElement().
        Thanks to Thomas Sader and Alexandre Ferrieux.

2011-07-19  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/*.3, doc/*.n: Many small fixes to documentation as part of
        project to improve quality of generated HTML docs.

        * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl (remap_link_target): More complete set of
        definitions of link targets, especially for major C API types.
        * tools/tcltk-man2html-utils.tcl (output-IP-list, cross-reference):
        Update to generation to produce proper HTML bulleted and enumerated
        lists.

2011-07-19 Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/upvar.n: Undocument long gone limitation of [upvar].

2011-07-18  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tcl.h:        Bump version number to 8.6b2.
        * library/init.tcl:
        * unix/configure.in:
        * win/configure.in:
        * unix/tcl.spec:
        * tools/tcl.wse.in:
        * README:

        * unix/configure:       autoconf-2.59
        * win/configure:

2011-07-15  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCompile.c: Avoid segfaults when RecordByteCodeStats() is
        called in a deleted interp.

        * generic/tclCompile.c: [Bug 467523, 3357771]: Prevent circular
        references in values with ByteCode intreps.  They can lead to memory
        leaks.

2011-07-14  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclOOCall.c (TclOORenderCallChain): [Bug 3365156]: Remove
        stray refcount bump that caused a memory leak.

2011-07-12  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclUnixSock.c:  [Bug 3364777]: Stop segfault caused by
        reading from struct after it had been freed.

2011-07-11  Joe Mistachkin  <joe@mistachkin.com>

        * generic/tclExecute.c: [Bug 3339502]: Correct cast for CURR_DEPTH to
        silence compiler warning.

2011-07-08  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/http.n: [FRQ 3358415]: State what RFC defines HTTP/1.1.

2011-07-07  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c: Add missing INT2PTR

2011-07-03  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/FileSystem.3: Corrected statements about ctime field of 'struct
        stat'; that was always the time of the last metadata change, not the
        time of creation.

2011-07-02  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * generic/tclStrToD.c:
        * generic/tclTomMath.decls:
        * generic/tclTomMathDecls.h:
        * macosx/Tcl.xcode/project.pbxproj:
        * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj:
        * tests/util.test:
        * unix/Makefile.in:
        * win/Makefile.in:
        * win/Makefile.vc:
        [Bug 3349507]: Fix a bug where bignum->double conversion is "round up"
        and not "round to nearest" (causing expr double(1[string repeat 0 23])
        not to be 1e+23).

2011-06-28  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>

        * unix/tclUnixSock.c (CreateClientSocket): [Bug 3325339]: Fix and
        simplify posting of the writable fileevent at the end of an
        asynchronous connection attempt. Improve comments for some of the
        trickery around [socket -async].

        * tests/socket.test: Adjust tests to the async code changes. Add more
        tests for corner cases of async sockets.

2011-06-22  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * library/platform/pkgIndex.tcl: Updated to platform 1.0.10. Added
        * library/platform/platform.tcl: handling of the DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH
        * unix/Makefile.in: location change for libc.
        * win/Makefile.in:

        * generic/tclInt.h: Fixed the inadvertently committed disabling of
        stack checks, see my 2010-11-15 commit.

2011-06-22  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>

        Merge from rmax-ipv6-branch:
        * unix/tclUnixSock.c: Fix [socket -async], so that all addresses
        returned by getaddrinfo() are tried, not just the first one. This
        requires the event loop to be running while the async connection is in
        progress. ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY***
        * tests/socket.test: Add a test for the above.
        * doc/socket: Document the fact that -async needs the event loop
        * generic/tclIOSock.c: AI_ADDRCONFIG is broken on HP-UX

2011-06-21  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclLink.c:    [Bug 3317466]: Prevent multiple links to a
        single Tcl variable when calling Tcl_LinkVar().

2011-06-13  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclStrToD.c:  [Bug 3315098]: Mem leak fix from Gustaf
        Neumann.

2011-06-08  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * generic/tclExecute.c: Reverted the fix for [Bug 3274728] committed
        on 2011-04-06 and replaced with one which is 64bit-safe. The existing
        fix crashed tclsh on Windows 64bit.

2011-06-08  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * tests/fileSystem.test: Reduce the amount of use of duplication of
        complex code to perform common tests, and convert others to do the
        test result check directly using Tcltest's own primitives.

2011-06-06  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * tests/socket.test: Add test constraint, so 6.2 and 6.3 don't fail
        when the machine does not have support for ip6. Follow-up to checkin
        from 2011-05-11 by rmax.

2011-06-02  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c:   Removed TclCleanupLiteralTable(), and old
        * generic/tclInt.h:     band-aid routine put in place while a fix for
        * generic/tclLiteral.c: [Bug 994838] took shape.  No longer needed.

2011-06-02  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclInt.h (TclInvalidateNsCmdLookup): [Bug 3185407]: Extend
        the set of epochs that are potentially bumped when a command is
        created, for a slight performance drop (in some circumstances) and
        improved semantics.

2011-06-01  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c: Using the two free data elements in NRCommand to
        store objc and objv - useful for debugging.

2011-06-01  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclUtil.c:   Fix for [Bug 3309871]: Valgrind finds: invalid
        read in TclMaxListLength().

2011-05-31  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclInt.h:       Use a complete growth algorithm for lists so
        * generic/tclListObj.c:   that length limits do not overconstrain by a
        * generic/tclStringObj.c: factor of 2.  [Bug 3293874]: Fix includes
        * generic/tclUtil.c:      rooting all growth routines by default on a
        common tunable parameter TCL_MIN_GROWTH.

2011-05-25  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl:    Bump to msgcat 1.4.4.
        * library/msgcat/pkgIndex.tcl:
        * unix/Makefile.in:
        * win/Makefile.in:

2011-05-25  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclOO.h (TCLOO_VERSION): Bump version.

        IMPLEMENTATION OF TIP#381.

        * doc/next.n, doc/ooInfo.n, doc/self.n, generic/tclOO.c,
        * generic/tclOOBasic.c, generic/tclOOCall.c, generic/tclOOInfo.c,
        * generic/tclOOInt.h, tests/oo.test, tests/ooNext2.test: Added
        introspection of call chains ([self call], [info object call], [info
        class call]) and ability to skip ahead in chain ([nextto]).

2011-05-24  Venkat Iyer <venkat@comit.com>

        * library/tzdata/Africa/Cairo: Update to Olson tzdata2011g

2011-05-24  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl (msgcat::mcset, msgcat::mcmset): Remove
        some useless code; [dict set] builds dictionary levels for us.

2011-05-17  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * generic/tclCompile.c (TclFixupForwardJump): Tracked down and fixed
        * generic/tclBasic.c (TclArgumentBCEnter): the cause of a violation of
        my assertion that 'ePtr->nline == objc' in TclArgumentBCEnter.  When a
        bytecode was grown during jump fixup the pc -> command line mapping
        was not updated. When things aligned just wrong the mapping would
        direct command A to the data for command B, with a different number of
        arguments.

2011-05-11  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>

        * unix/tclUnixSock.c (TcpWatchProc): No need to check for server
        sockets here, as the generic server code already takes care of that.
        * tests/socket.test (accept): Add tests to make sure that this remains
        so.

2011-05-10  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclInt.h:     New internal routines TclScanElement() and
        * generic/tclUtil.c:    TclConvertElement() are rewritten guts of
        machinery to produce string rep of lists.  The new routines avoid and
        correct [Bug 3173086].  See comments for much more detail.

        * generic/tclDictObj.c:         Update all callers.
        * generic/tclIndexObj.c:
        * generic/tclListObj.c:
        * generic/tclUtil.c:
        * tests/list.test:

2011-05-09  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclNamesp.c (NamespacePathCmd): Convert to use Tcl_Obj API
        * generic/tclPkg.c (Tcl_PackageObjCmd):   for result generation in
        * generic/tclTimer.c (Tcl_AfterObjCmd):   [after info], [namespace
        path] and [package versions].

2011-05-09  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclListObj.c: Revise empty string tests so that we avoid
        potentially expensive string rep generations, especially for dicts.

2011-05-07  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclLoad.c (TclGetLoadedPackages): Convert to use Tcl_Obj API
        for result generation.

2011-05-07  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclInt.h: Fix USE_TCLALLOC so that it can be enabled without
        * unix/Makefile.in: editing the Makefile.

2011-05-05  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclListObj.c: Stop generating string rep of dict when
        converting to list.  Tolerate NULL interps more completely.

2011-05-03  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclUtil.c:    Tighten Tcl_SplitList().
        * generic/tclListObj.c: Tighten SetListFromAny().
        * generic/tclDictObj.c: Tighten SetDictFromAny().
        * tests/join.test:
        * tests/mathop.test:

2011-05-02  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c:   Revised TclFindElement() interface. The final
        * generic/tclDictObj.c: argument had been bracePtr, the address of a
        * generic/tclListObj.c: boolean var, where the caller can be told
        * generic/tclParse.c:   whether or not the parsed list element was
        * generic/tclUtil.c:    enclosed in braces.  In practice, no callers
        really care about that.  What the callers really want to know is
        whether the list element value exists as a literal substring of the
        string being parsed, or whether a call to TclCopyAndCollpase() is
        needed to produce the list element value.  Now the final argument is
        changed to do what callers actually need. This is a better fit for the
        calls in tclParse.c, where now a good deal of post-processing checking
        for "naked backslashes" is no longer necessary.
        ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY***
        For any callers calling in via the internal stubs table who really do
        use the final argument explicitly to check for the enclosing brace
        scenario.  Simply looking for the braces where they must be is the
        revision available to those callers, and it will backport cleanly.

        * tests/parse.test:     Tests for expanded literals quoting detection.

        * generic/tclCompCmdsSZ.c:      New TclFindElement() is also a better
        fit for the [switch] compiler.

        * generic/tclInt.h:     Replace TclCountSpaceRuns() with
        * generic/tclListObj.c: TclMaxListLength() which is the function we
        * generic/tclUtil.c:    actually want.
        * generic/tclCompCmdsSZ.c:

        * generic/tclCompCmdsSZ.c: Rewrite of parts of the switch compiler to
        better use the powers of TclFindElement() and do less parsing on its
        own.

2011-04-28  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclInt.h:     New utility routines:
        * generic/tclParse.c:   TclIsSpaceProc() and TclCountSpaceRuns()
        * generic/tclUtil.c:

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c:   Use new routines to replace calls to isspace()
        * generic/tclListObj.c: and their /* INTL */ risk.
        * generic/tclStrToD.c:
        * generic/tclUtf.c:
        * unix/tclUnixFile.c:

        * generic/tclStringObj.c:       Improved reaction to out of memory.

2011-04-27  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c:   TclFreeIntRep() correction & cleanup.
        * generic/tclExecute.c:
        * generic/tclIndexObj.c:
        * generic/tclInt.h:
        * generic/tclListObj.c:
        * generic/tclNamesp.c:
        * generic/tclResult.c:
        * generic/tclStringObj.c:
        * generic/tclVar.c:

        * generic/tclListObj.c: FreeListInternalRep() cleanup.

2011-04-21  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclInt.h:     Use macro to set List intreps.
        * generic/tclListObj.c:

        * generic/tclCmdIL.c:   Limits on list length were too strict.
        * generic/tclInt.h:     Revised panics to errors where possible.
        * generic/tclListObj.c:
        * tests/lrepeat.test:

        * generic/tclCompile.c: Make sure SetFooFromAny routines react
        * generic/tclIO.c:      reasonably when passed a NULL interp.
        * generic/tclIndexObj.c:
        * generic/tclListObj.c:
        * generic/tclNamesp.c:
        * generic/tclObj.c:
        * generic/tclProc.c:
        * macosx/tclMacOSXFCmd.c:

2011-04-21  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tcl.h:       fix for [Bug 3288345]: Wrong Tcl_StatBuf
        * generic/tclInt.h:    used on MinGW. Make sure that all _WIN32
        * win/tclWinFile.c:    compilers use exactly the same layout
        * win/configure.in:    for Tcl_StatBuf - the one used by MSVC6 -
        * win/configure:       in all situations.

2011-04-19  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclConfig.c:  Reduce internals access in the implementation
        of [<foo>::pkgconfig list].

2011-04-18  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCmdIL.c:   Use ListRepPtr(.) and other cleanup.
        * generic/tclConfig.c:
        * generic/tclListObj.c:

        * generic/tclInt.h:     Define and use macros that test whether a Tcl
        * generic/tclBasic.c:   list value is canonical.
        * generic/tclUtil.c:

2011-04-18  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/dict.n: [Bug 3288696]: Command summary was confusingly wrong
        when it came to [dict filter] with a 'value' filter.

2011-04-16  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclFCmd.c (TclFileAttrsCmd): Add comments to make this code
        easier to understand. Added a panic to handle the case where the VFS
        layer does something odd.

2011-04-13  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclUtil.c:    [Bug 3285375]: Rewrite of Tcl_Concat*()
        routines to prevent segfaults on buffer overflow.  Build them out of
        existing primitives already coded to handle overflow properly.  Uses
        the new TclTrim*() routines.

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c:   New internal utility routines TclTrimLeft()
        * generic/tclInt.h:     and TclTrimRight().  Refactor the
        * generic/tclUtil.c:    [string trim*] implementations to use them.

2011-04-13  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclVar.c: [Bug 2662380]: Fix crash caused by appending to a
        variable with a write trace that unsets it.

2011-04-13  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclUtil.c (Tcl_ConcatObj): [Bug 3285375]: Make the crash
        less mysterious through the judicious use of a panic. Not yet properly
        fixed, but at least now clearer what the failure mode is.

2011-04-12  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/string.test:    Test for [Bug 3285472]. Not buggy in trunk.

2011-04-12  Venkat Iyer <venkat@comit.com>

        * library/tzdata/Atlantic/Stanley: Update to Olson tzdata2011f

2011-04-12  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c: Fix for [Bug 2440625], kbk's patch

2011-04-11  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c:
        * tests/coroutine.test: [Bug 3282869]: Ensure that 'coroutine eval'
        runs the initial command in the proper context.

2011-04-11  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tcl.h:    Fix for [Bug 3281728]: Tcl sources from 2011-04-06
        * unix/tcl.m4:      do not build on GCC9 (RH9)
        * unix/configure:

2011-04-08  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinPort.h: Fix for [Bug 3280043]: win2k: unresolved DLL
        * win/configure.in: imports.
        * win/configure

2011-04-06  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c (TclCompileObj): Earlier return if Tip280
        gymnastics not needed.

        * generic/tclExecute.c: Fix for [Bug 3274728]: making *catchTop an
        unsigned long.

2011-04-06  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * unix/tclAppInit.c:  Make symbols "main" and "Tcl_AppInit"
        MODULE_SCOPE: there is absolutely no reason for exporting them.
        * unix/tcl.m4:        Don't use -fvisibility=hidden with static
        * unix/configure      libraries (--disable-shared)

2011-04-06  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclFCmd.c, macosx/tclMacOSXFCmd.c, unix/tclUnixChan.c,
        * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c, win/tclWinChan.c, win/tclWinDde.c,
        * win/tclWinFCmd.c, win/tclWinLoad.c, win/tclWinPipe.c,
        * win/tclWinReg.c, win/tclWinSerial.c, win/tclWinSock.c: More
        generation of error codes (most platform-specific parts not already
        using Tcl_PosixError).

2011-04-05  Venkat Iyer <venkat@comit.com>

        * library/tzdata/Africa/Casablanca: Update to Olson's tzdata2011e
        * library/tzdata/America/Santiago:
        * library/tzdata/Pacific/Easter:
        * library/tzdata/America/Metlakatla: (new)
        * library/tzdata/America/North_Dakota/Beulah: (new)
        * library/tzdata/America/Sitka: (new)

2011-04-04  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclOO.c, generic/tclOOBasic.c, generic/tclOODefineCmds.c
        * generic/tclOOInfo.c, generic/tclOOMethod.c: More generation of
        error codes (TclOO miscellany).

        * generic/tclCmdAH.c, generic/tclCmdIL.c: More generation of error
        codes (miscellaneous commands mostly already handled).

2011-04-04  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * README:       [Bug 3202030]: Updated README files, repairing broken
        * macosx/README:URLs and removing other bits that were clearly wrong.
        * unix/README:  Still could use more eyeballs on the detailed build
        * win/README:   advice on various plaforms.

2011-04-04  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * library/init.tcl (tcl::mathfunc::rmmadwiw): Disable by default to
        make test suite work.

        * generic/tclBasic.c, generic/tclStringObj.c, generic/tclTimer.c,
        * generic/tclTrace.c, generic/tclUtil.c: More generation of error
        codes ([format], [after], [trace], RE optimizer).

2011-04-04  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCmdAH.c:  Better error-message in case of errors
        * generic/tclCmdIL.c:  related to setting a variable. This fixes
        * generic/tclDictObj.c: a warning: "Why make your own error
        * generic/tclScan.c:   message? Why?"
        * generic/tclTest.c:
        * test/error.test:
        * test/info.test:
        * test/scan.test:
        * unix/tclUnixThrd.h:  Remove this unused header file.

2011-04-03  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclNamesp.c, generic/tclObj.c, generic/tclPathObj.c:
        * generic/tclPipe.c, generic/tclPkg.c, generic/tclProc.c:
        * generic/tclScan.c: More generation of error codes (namespace
        creation, path normalization, pipeline creation, package handling,
        procedures, [scan] formats)

2011-04-02  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * generic/tclStrToD.c (QuickConversion): Replaced another couple
        of 'double' declarations with 'volatile double' to work around
        misrounding issues in mingw-gcc 3.4.5.

2011-04-02  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclInterp.c, generic/tclListObj.c, generic/tclLoad.c:
        More generation of errorCodes ([interp], [lset], [load], [unload]).

        * generic/tclEvent.c, generic/tclFileName.c: More generation of
        errorCode information (default [bgerror] and [glob]).

2011-04-01  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>

        * library/init.tcl: TIP#131 implementation.

2011-03-31  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclGetDate.y, generic/tclDate.c (TclClockOldscanObjCmd):
        More generation of errorCode information.

2011-03-28  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c, generic/tclConfig.c, generic/tclUtil.c: More
        generation of errorCode information, notably when lists are mis-parsed

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_RegexpObjCmd, Tcl_RegsubObjCmd): Use the
        error messages generated by the variable management code rather than
        creating our own.

2011-03-27  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c (TclNREvalObjEx): fix performance issue, notably
        apparent in tclbench's "LIST lset foreach". Many thanks to Twylite for
        patiently researching the issue and explaining it to me: a missing
        Tcl_ResetObjResult that causes unwanted sharing of the current result
        Tcl_Obj.

2011-03-26  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclNamesp.c (Tcl_Export, Tcl_Import, DoImport): More
        generation of errorCode information.

        * generic/tclCompExpr.c, generic/tclCompile.c, generic/tclExecute.c:
        * generic/tclListObj.c, generic/tclNamesp.c, generic/tclObj.c:
        * generic/tclStringObj.c, generic/tclUtil.c: Reduce the number of
        casts used to manage Tcl_Obj internal representations.

2011-03-24  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tcl.h (ckfree,etc.): Restored C++ usability to the memory
        allocation and free macros.

2011-03-24  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclFCmd.c (TclFileAttrsCmd): Ensure that any reference to
        temporary index tables is squelched immediately rather than hanging
        around to trip us up in the future.

2011-03-23  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclObj.c: Exploit HAVE_FAST_TSD for the deletion context in
        TclFreeObj()

2011-03-22  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclThreadAlloc.c: Simpler initialization of Cache under
        HAVE_FAST_TSD, from mig-alloc-reform.

2011-03-21  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * unix/tclLoadDl.c:    [Bug 3216070]: Loading extension libraries
        * unix/tclLoadDyld.c:  from embedded Tcl applications.
        ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY***
        For extensions which rely on symbols from other extensions being
        present in the global symbol table. For an example and some discussion
        of workarounds, see http://stackoverflow.com/q/8330614/301832

2011-03-21  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCkAlloc.c:
        * generic/tclInt.h: Remove one level of allocator indirection in
        non-memdebug builds, imported from mig-alloc-reform.

2011-03-20  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclThreadAlloc.c: Imported HAVE_FAST_TSD support from
        mig-alloc-reform. The feature has to be enabled by hand: no autoconf
        support has been added. It is not clear how universal a build using
        this will be: it also requires some loader support.

2011-03-17  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCompExpr.c (ParseExpr): Generate errorCode information on
        failure to parse expressions.

2011-03-17  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclMain.c: [Patch 3124683]: Reorganize the platform-specific
        stuff in (tcl|tk)Main.c.

2011-03-16  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCkalloc.c: [Bug 3197864]: Pointer truncation on Win64
        TCL_MEM_DEBUG builds.

2011-03-16  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c:   Some rewrites to eliminate calls to isspace()
        * generic/tclParse.c:   and their /* INTL */ risk.
        * generic/tclProc.c:

2011-03-16  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * unix/tcl.m4:    Make SHLIB_LD_LIBS='${LIBS}' the default and
        * unix/configure: set to "" on per-platform necessary basis.
        Backported from TEA, but kept all original platform code which was
        removed from TEA.

2011-03-14  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * tools/tclZIC.tcl (onDayOfMonth): Allow for leading zeroes in month
        and day so that tzdata2011d parses correctly.
        * library/tzdata/America/Havana:
        * library/tzdata/America/Juneau:
        * library/tzdata/America/Santiago:
        * library/tzdata/Europe/Istanbul:
        * library/tzdata/Pacific/Apia:
        * library/tzdata/Pacific/Easter:
        * library/tzdata/Pacific/Honolulu:  tzdata2011d

        * generic/tclAssembly.c (BBEmitInstInt1): Changed parameter data types
        in an effort to silence a MSVC warning reported by Ashok P. Nadkarni.
        Unable to test, since both forms work on my machine in VC2005, 2008,
        2010, in both release and debug builds.
        * tests/tclTest.c (TestdstringCmd): Restored MSVC buildability broken
        by [5574bdd262], which changed the effective return type of 'ckalloc'
        from 'char*' to 'void*'.

2011-03-13  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c: remove TEBCreturn()

2011-03-12  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tcl.h (ckalloc,ckfree,ckrealloc): Moved casts into these
        macro so that they work with VOID* (which is a void* on all platforms
        which Tcl actually builds on) and unsigned int for the length
        parameters, removing the need for MANY casts across the rest of Tcl.
        Note that this is a strict source-level-only change, so size_t cannot
        be used (would break binary compatibility on 64-bit platforms).

2011-03-12  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinFile.c: [Bug 3185609]: File normalization corner case
        of ... broken with -DUNICODE

2011-03-11  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * tests/unixInit.test: Make better use of tcltest2.

2011-03-10  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c, generic/tclCompCmds.c, generic/tclEnsemble.c:
        * generic/tclInt.h, generic/tclNamesp.c, library/auto.tcl:
        * tests/interp.test, tests/namespace.test, tests/nre.test:
        Converted the [namespace] command into an ensemble. This has the
        consequence of making it vital for Tcl code that wishes to work with
        namespaces to _not_ delete the ::tcl namespace.
        ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY***

        * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl (loadIntoSlaveInterpreter): Added this
        command to handle connecting tcltest to a slave interpreter. This adds
        in the hook (inside the tcltest namespace) that allows the tests run
        in the child interpreter to be reported as part of the main sequence
        of test results. Bumped version of tcltest to 2.3.3.
        * tests/init.test, tests/package.test: Adapted these test files to use
        the new feature.

        * generic/tclAlloc.c, generic/tclCmdMZ.c, generic/tclCompExpr.c:
        * generic/tclCompile.c, generic/tclEnv.c, generic/tclEvent.c:
        * generic/tclIO.c, generic/tclIOCmd.c, generic/tclIORChan.c:
        * generic/tclIORTrans.c, generic/tclLiteral.c, generic/tclNotify.c:
        * generic/tclParse.c, generic/tclStringObj.c, generic/tclUtil.c:
        * generic/tclZlib.c, unix/tclUnixFCmd.c, unix/tclUnixNotfy.c:
        * unix/tclUnixPort.h, unix/tclXtNotify.c: Formatting fixes, mainly to
        comments, so code better fits the style in the Engineering Manual.

2011-03-09  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * tests/incr.test: Update more of the test suite to use Tcltest 2.

2011-03-09  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclNamesp.c:  [Bug 3202171]: Tighten the detector of nested
        * tests/namespace.test: [namespace code] quoting that the quoted
        scripts function properly even in a namespace that contains a custom
        "namespace" command.

        * doc/tclvars.n:        Formatting fix.  Thanks to Pat Thotys.

2011-03-09  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * tests/dstring.test, tests/init.test, tests/link.test: Update more of
        the test suite to use Tcltest 2.

2011-03-08  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c: Fix gcc warnings: variable set but not used
        * generic/tclProc.c:
        * generic/tclIORChan.c:
        * generic/tclIORTrans.c:
        * generic/tclAssembly.c:  Fix gcc warning: comparison between signed
        and unsigned integer expressions

2011-03-08  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclInt.h:     Remove TclMarkList() routine, an experimental
        * generic/tclUtil.c:    dead-end from the 8.5 alpha days.

        * generic/tclResult.c (ResetObjResult): [Bug 3202905]: Correct failure
        to clear invalid intrep.  Thanks to Colin McDonald.

2011-03-08  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclAssembly.c, tests/assemble.test: Migrate to use a style
        more consistent with the rest of Tcl.

2011-03-06  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c:   More replacements of Tcl_UtfBackslash() calls
        * generic/tclCompile.c: with TclParseBackslash() where possible.
        * generic/tclCompCmdsSZ.c:
        * generic/tclParse.c:
        * generic/tclUtil.c:

        * generic/tclUtil.c (TclFindElement):   [Bug 3192636]: Guard escape
        sequence scans to not overrun the string end.

2011-03-05  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclParse.c (TclParseBackslash): [Bug 3200987]: Correct
        * tests/parse.test:     trunction checks in \x and \u substitutions.

2011-03-05  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c (TclStackFree): insure that the execStack
        satisfies "at most one free stack after the current one" when
        consecutive reallocs caused the creation of intervening stacks.

2011-03-05  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * generic/tclAssembly.c (new file):
        * generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_CreateInterp):
        * generic/tclInt.h:
        * tests/assemble.test (new file):
        * unix/Makefile.in:
        * win/Makefile.in:
        * win/makefile.vc:  Merged dogeen-assembler-branch into HEAD. Since
        all functional changes are in the tcl::unsupported namespace, there's
        no reason to sequester this code on a separate branch.

2011-03-05  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c: Cleaner mem management for TEBCdata

        * generic/tclExecute.c:
        * tests/nre.test: Renamed BottomData to TEBCdata, so that the name
        refers to what it is rather than to its storage location.

        * generic/tclBasic.c:     Renamed struct TEOV_callback to the more
        * generic/tclCompExpr.c:  descriptive NRE_callback.
        * generic/tclCompile.c:
        * generic/tclExecute.c:
        * generic/tclInt.decls:
        * generic/tclInt.h:
        * generic/tclIntDecls.h:
        * generic/tclTest.c:

2011-03-04  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclOOMethod.c (ProcedureMethodCompiledVarConnect)
        (ProcedureMethodCompiledVarDelete): [Bug 3185009]: Keep references to
        resolved object variables so that an unset doesn't leave any dangling
        pointers for code to trip over.

2011-03-01  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c (TclNREvalObjv): Missing a variable declaration
        in commented out non-optimised code, left for ref in checkin
        [b97b771b6d]

2011-03-03  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclResult.c (Tcl_AppendResultVA):     Use the directive
        USE_INTERP_RESULT [TIP 330] to force compat with interp->result
        access, instead of the improvised hack USE_DIRECT_INTERP_RESULT_ACCESS
        from releases past.

2011-03-01  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCompCmdsSZ.c (TclCompileThrowCmd, TclCompileUnsetCmd):
        fix leaks

        * generic/tclBasic.c:       This is [Patch 3168398],
        * generic/tclCompCmdsSZ.c:  Joe Mistachkin's optimisation
        * generic/tclExecute.c:     of Tip #285
        * generic/tclInt.decls:
        * generic/tclInt.h:
        * generic/tclIntDecls.h:
        * generic/tclInterp.c:
        * generic/tclOODecls.h:
        * generic/tclStubInit.c:
        * win/makefile.vc:

        * generic/tclExecute.c (ExprObjCallback): Fix object leak

        * generic/tclExecute.c (TEBCresume): Store local var array and
        constants in automatic vars to reduce indirection, slight perf
        increase

        * generic/tclOOCall.c (TclOODeleteContext): Added missing '*' so that
        trunk compiles.

        * generic/tclBasic.c (TclNRRunCallbacks): [Patch 3168229]: Don't do
        the trampoline dance for commands that do not have an nreProc.

2011-03-01  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclOO.c (Tcl_NewObjectInstance, TclNRNewObjectInstance)
        (TclOOObjectCmdCore, FinalizeObjectCall):
        * generic/tclOOBasic.c (TclOO_Object_Destroy, AfterNRDestructor):
        * generic/tclOOCall.c (TclOODeleteContext, TclOOGetCallContext):
        Reorganization of call context reference count management so that code
        is (mostly) simpler.

2011-01-26  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/RegExp.3: [Bug 3165108]: Corrected documentation of description
        of subexpression info in Tcl_RegExpInfo structure.

2011-01-25  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclPreserve.c:  Don't miss 64-bit address bits in panic
                                  message.
        * win/tclWinChan.c:       Fix various gcc-4.5.2 64-bit warning
        * win/tclWinConsole.c:    messages, e.g. by using full 64-bits for
        * win/tclWinDde.c:        socket fd's
        * win/tclWinPipe.c:
        * win/tclWinReg.c:
        * win/tclWinSerial.c:
        * win/tclWinSock.c:
        * win/tclWinThrd.c:

2011-01-19  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * tools/genStubs.tcl: [FRQ 3159920]: Tcl_ObjPrintf() crashes with
        * generic/tcl.decls   bad format specifier.
        * generic/tcl.h:
        * generic/tclDecls.h:

2011-01-18  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclOOMethod.c (PushMethodCallFrame): [Bug 3001438]: Make
        sure that the cmdPtr field of the procPtr is correct and relevant at
        all times so that [info frame] can report sensible information about a
        frame after a return to it from a recursive call, instead of probably
        crashing (depending on what else has overwritten the Tcl stack!)

2011-01-18  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c:      Various mismatches between Tcl_Panic
        * generic/tclCompCmds.c:   format string and its arguments,
        * generic/tclCompCmdsSZ.c: discovered thanks to [Bug 3159920]
        * generic/tclCompExpr.c:
        * generic/tclEnsemble.c:
        * generic/tclPreserve.c:
        * generic/tclTest.c:

2011-01-17  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclIOCmd.c: [Bug 3148192]: Commands "read/puts" incorrectly
        * tests/chanio.test:  interpret parameters. Improved error-message
        * tests/io.test       regarding legacy form.
        * tests/ioCmd.test

2011-01-15  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * doc/tclvars.n:
        * generic/tclStrToD.c:
        * generic/tclUtil.c (Tcl_PrintDouble):
        * tests/util.test (util-16.*): [Bug 3157475]: Restored full Tcl 8.4
        compatibility for the formatting of floating point numbers when
        $::tcl_precision is not zero. Added compatibility tests to make sure
        that excess trailing zeroes are suppressed for all eight major code
        paths.

2011-01-12  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinFile.c:   Use _vsnprintf in stead of vsnprintf, because
        MSVC 6 doesn't have it. Reported by andreask.
        * win/tcl.m4:         handle --enable-64bit=ia64 for gcc
        * win/configure.in:   more accurate test for correct <intrin.h>
        * win/configure:      (autoconf-2.59)
        * win/tclWin32Dll.c:  VS 2005 64-bit does not have intrin.h, and
        * generic/tclPanic.c: does not need it.

2011-01-07  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * tests/util.test (util-15.*): Added test cases for floating point
        conversion of the largest denormal and the smallest normal number, to
        avoid any possibility of the failure suffered by PHP in the last
        couple of days. (They didn't fail, so no actual functional change.)

2011-01-05  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * tests/package.test, tests/pkg.test: Coalesce these tests into one
        file that is concerned with the package system. Convert to use
        tcltest2 properly.
        * tests/autoMkindex.test, tests/pkgMkIndex.test: Convert to use
        tcltest2 properly.

2011-01-01  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * tests/cmdAH.test, tests/cmdMZ.test, tests/compExpr.test,
        * tests/compile.test, tests/concat.test, tests/eval.test,
        * tests/fileName.test, tests/fileSystem.test, tests/interp.test,
        * tests/lsearch.test, tests/namespace-old.test, tests/namespace.test,
        * tests/oo.test, tests/proc.test, tests/security.test,
        * tests/switch.test, tests/unixInit.test, tests/var.test,
        * tests/winDde.test, tests/winPipe.test: Clean up of tests and
        conversion to tcltest 2. Target has been to get init and cleanup code
        out of the test body and into the -setup/-cleanup stanzas.

        * tests/execute.test (execute-11.1): [Bug 3142026]: Added test that
        fails (with a crash) in an unfixed memdebug build on 64-bit systems.

2010-12-31  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCmdIL.c (SortElement): Use unions properly in the
        definition of this structure so that there is no need to use nasty
        int/pointer type punning. Made it clearer what the purposes of the
        various parts of the structure are.

2010-12-31  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * unix/dltest/*.c: [Bug 3148192]: Fix broken [load] tests by ensuring
        that the affected files are never compiled with -DSTATIC_BUILD.

2010-12-30  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c (GrowEvaluationStack): Off-by-one error in
        sizing the new allocation - was ok in comment but wrong in the code.
        Triggered by [Bug 3142026] which happened to require exactly one more
        than what was in existence.

2010-12-26  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LsortObjCmd): Fix crash when multiple -index
        options are used. Simplified memory handling logic.

2010-12-20  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWin32Dll.c:    [Patch 3059922]: fixes for mingw64 - gcc4.5.1
        tdm64-1: completed for all environments.

2010-12-20  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/configure.in:   Explicitely test for intrinsics support in
        compiler, before assuming only MSVC has it.
        * win/configure:      (autoconf-2.59)
        * generic/tclPanic.c:

2010-12-19  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWin32Dll.c:    [Patch 3059922]: fixes for mingw64 - gcc4.5.1
        tdm64-1: Fixed for gcc, not yet for MSVC 64-bit.

2010-12-17  Stuart Cassoff  <stwo@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/Makefile.in:  Remove unwanted/obsolete 'ddd' target.

2010-12-17  Stuart Cassoff  <stwo@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/Makefile.in:     Clean up '.PHONY:' targets: Arrange those
                                common to Tcl and Tk as in Tk's Makefile.in,
                                add any missing ones and remove duplicates.

2010-12-17  Stuart Cassoff  <stwo@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/Makefile.in:  [Bug 2446711]: Remove 'allpatch' target.

2010-12-17  Stuart Cassoff  <stwo@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/Makefile.in:  [Bug 2537626]: Use 'rpmbuild', not 'rpm'.

2010-12-16  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclPanic.c:  [Patch 3124554]: Move WishPanic from Tk to Tcl
        * win/tclWinFile.c:    Better communication with debugger, if present.

2010-12-15  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        [dogeen-assembler-branch]

        * tclAssembly.c:
        * assemble.test:        Reworked beginCatch/endCatch handling to
        enforce the more severe (but more correct) restrictions on catch
        handling that appeared in the discussion of [Bug 3098302] and in
        tcl-core traffic beginning about 2010-10-29.

2010-12-15  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclPanic.c:    Restore abort() as it was before.
        * win/tclWinFile.c:      [Patch 3124554]: Use ExitProcess() here, like
        in wish.

2010-12-14  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tcl.h: [Bug 3137454]: Tcl CVS HEAD does not build on GCC 3.

2010-12-14  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>

        * win/tclWinSock.c (CreateSocket):         Swap the loops over
        * unix/tclUnixSock.c (CreateClientSocket): local and remote addresses,
        so that the system's address preference for the remote side decides
        which family gets tried first. Cleanup and clarify some of the
        comments.

2010-12-13  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tcl.h:    [Bug 3135271]: Link error due to hidden
        * unix/tcl.m4:      symbols (CentOS 4.2)
        * unix/configure:   (autoconf-2.59)
        * win/tclWinFile.c:  Undocumented feature, only meant to be used by
        Tk_Main. See [Patch 3124554]: Move WishPanic from Tk to Tcl

2010-12-12  Stuart Cassoff  <stwo@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/tcl.m4: Better building on OpenBSD.
        * unix/configure: (autoconf-2.59)

2010-12-10  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tcl.h:       [Bug 3129448]: Possible over-allocation on
        * generic/tclCkalloc.c: 64-bit platforms, part 2
        * generic/tclCompile.c:
        * generic/tclHash.c:
        * generic/tclInt.h:
        * generic/tclIO.h:
        * generic/tclProc.c:

2010-12-10 Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclIO.c: Make sure [fcopy -size ... -command ...] always
        * tests/io.test:   calls the callback asynchronously, even for size
                           zero.

2010-12-10  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBinary.c:  Fix gcc -Wextra warning: missing initializer
        * generic/tclCmdAH.c:
        * generic/tclCmdIL.c:
        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c:
        * generic/tclDictObj.c:
        * generic/tclIndexObj.c:
        * generic/tclIOCmd.c:
        * generic/tclVar.c:
        * win/tcl.m4:               Fix manifest-generation for 64-bit gcc
                                    (mingw-w64)
        * win/configure.in:         Check for availability of intptr_t and
                                    uintptr_t
        * win/configure:            (autoconf-2.59)
        * generic/tclInt.decls:     Change 1st param of TclSockMinimumBuffers
        * generic/tclIntDecls.h:    to ClientData, and TclWin(Get|Set)SockOpt
        * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h:to SOCKET, because on Win64 those are
        * generic/tclIOSock.c:      64-bit, which does not fit.
        * win/tclWinSock.c:
        * unix/tclUnixSock.c:

2010-12-09  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * tests/fCmd.test: Improve sanity of constraints now that we don't
        support anything before Windows 2000.

        * generic/tclCmdAH.c (TclInitFileCmd, TclMakeFileCommandSafe, ...):
        Break up [file] into an ensemble. Note that the ensemble is safe in
        itself, but the majority of its subcommands are not.
        * generic/tclFCmd.c (FileCopyRename,TclFileDeleteCmd,TclFileAttrsCmd)
        (TclFileMakeDirsCmd): Adjust these subcommand implementations to work
        inside an ensemble.
        (TclFileLinkCmd, TclFileReadLinkCmd, TclFileTemporaryCmd): Move these
        subcommand implementations from tclCmdAH.c, where they didn't really
        belong.
        * generic/tclIOCmd.c (TclChannelNamesCmd): Move to more appropriate
        source file.
        * generic/tclEnsemble.c (TclMakeEnsemble): Start of code to make
        partially-safe ensembles. Currently does not function as expected due
        to various shortcomings in how safe interpreters are constructed.
        * tests/cmdAH.test, tests/fCmd.test, tests/interp.test: Test updates
        to take into account systematization of error messages.

        * tests/append.test, tests/appendComp.test: Clean up tests so that
        they don't leave things in the global environment (detected when doing
        -singleproc testing).

2010-12-07  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * tests/fCmd.test, tests/safe.test, tests/uplevel.test,
        * tests/upvar.test, tests/var.test: Convert more tests to tcltest2 and
        factor them to be easier to understand.

        * generic/tclStrToD.c: Tidy up code so that more #ifdef-fery is
        quarantined at the front of the file and function headers follow the
        modern Tcl style.

2010-12-06  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBinary.c:  [Bug 3129448]: Possible over-allocation on
        * generic/tclCkalloc.c: 64-bit platforms.
        * generic/tclTrace.c:

2010-12-05  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * unix/tcl.m4: [Patch 3116490]: Cross-compile support for unix
        * unix/configure: (autoconf-2.59)

2010-12-03  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * generic/tclUtil.c (TclReToGlob): Add extra check for multiple inner
        *s that leads to poor recursive glob matching, defer to original RE
        instead.  tclbench RE var backtrack.

2010-12-03  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclUtil.c:   Silence gcc warning when using -Wwrite-strings
        * generic/tclStrToD.c: Silence gcc warning for non-IEEE platforms
        * win/Makefile.in:  [Patch 3116490]: Cross-compile Tcl mingw32 on unix
        * win/tcl.m4:       This makes it possible to cross-compile Tcl/Tk for
        * win/configure.in: Windows (either 32-bit or 64-bit) out-of-the-box
        * win/configure:    on UNIX, using mingw-w64 build tools (If Itcl,
        tdbc and Thread take over the latest tcl.m4, they can do that too).

2010-12-01  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * generic/tclStrToD.c (SetPrecisionLimits, TclDoubleDigits):
        [Bug 3124675]: Added meaningless initialization of 'i', 'ilim' and
        'ilim1' to silence warnings from the C compiler about possible use of
        uninitialized variables, Added a panic to the 'switch' that assigns
        them, to assert that the 'default' case is impossible.

2010-12-01  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c: Fix gcc 64-bit warnings: cast from pointer to
        * generic/tclHash.c:  integer of different size.
        * generic/tclTest.c:
        * generic/tclThreadTest.c:
        * generic/tclStrToD.c: Fix gcc(-4.5.2) warning: 'static' is not at
        beginning of declaration.
        * generic/tclPanic.c: Allow Tcl_Panic() to enter the debugger on win32
        * generic/tclCkalloc.c: Use Tcl_Panic() in stead of duplicating the
        code.

2010-11-30  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * generic/tclInt.decls, generic/tclInt.h, generic/tclIntDecls.h:
        * generic/tclStubInit.c: TclFormatInt restored at slot 24
        * generic/tclUtil.c (TclFormatInt): restore TclFormatInt func from
        2005-07-05 macro-ization. Benchmarks indicate it is faster, as a key
        int->string routine (e.g. int-indexed arrays).

2010-11-29 Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c: Patch by Miguel, providing a
        [::tcl::unsupported::inject coroname command args], which prepends
        ("injects") arbitrary code to a suspended coro's future resumption.
        Neat for debugging complex coros without heavy instrumentation.

2010-11-29  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * generic/tclInt.decls:
        * generic/tclInt.h:
        * generic/tclStrToD.c:
        * generic/tclTest.c:
        * generic/tclTomMath.decls:
        * generic/tclUtil.c:
        * tests/util.test:
        * unix/Makefile.in:
        * win/Makefile.in:
        * win/makefile.vc: Rewrite of Tcl_PrintDouble and TclDoubleDigits that
        (a) fixes a severe performance problem with floating point shimmering
        reported by Karl Lehenbauer, (b) allows TclDoubleDigits to generate
        the digit strings for 'e' and 'f' format, so that it can be used for
        tcl_precision != 0 (and possibly later for [format]), (c) fixes [Bug
        3120139] by making TclPrintDouble inherently locale-independent, (d)
        adds test cases to util.test for correct rounding in difficult cases
        of TclDoubleDigits where fixed- precision results are requested. (e)
        adds test cases to util.test for the controversial aspects of [Bug
        3105247]. As a side effect, two more modules from libtommath
        (bn_mp_set_int.c and bn_mp_init_set_int.c) are brought into the build,
        since the new code uses them.

        * generic/tclIntDecls.h:
        * generic/tclStubInit.c:
        * generic/tclTomMathDecls.h:    Regenerated.

2010-11-24  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * tests/chanio.test, tests/iogt.test, tests/ioTrans.test: Convert more
        tests to tcltest2 and factor them to be easier to understand.

2010-11-20  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * tests/chanio.test: Converted many tests to tcltest2 by marking the
        setup and cleanup parts as such.

2010-11-19  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWin32Dll.c: Fix gcc warnings: unused variable 'registration'
        * win/tclWinChan.c:
        * win/tclWinFCmd.c:

2010-11-18  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclAppInit.c: [FRQ 491789]: "setargv() doesn't support a unicode
        cmdline" now implemented for cygwin and mingw32 too.
        * tests/main.test: No longer disable tests Tcl_Main-1.4 and 1.6 on
        Windows, because those now work on all supported platforms.
        * win/configure.in:  Set NO_VIZ=1 when zlib is compiled in libtcl,
        this resolves compiler warnings in 64-bit and static builds.
        * win/configure (regenerated)

2010-11-18  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/file.n: [Bug 3111298]: Typofix.

        * tests/oo.test: [Bug 3111059]: Added testing that neatly trapped this
        issue.

2010-11-18  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclNamesp.c: [Bug 3111059]: Fix leak due to bad looping
        construct.

2010-11-17  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tcl.m4: [FRQ 491789]: "setargv() doesn't support a unicode
        cmdline" now implemented for mingw-w64
        * win/configure    (re-generated)

2010-11-16  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclAppInit.c:Bring compilation under mingw-w64 a bit closer
        * win/cat.c:       to reality. See for what's missing:
        * win/tcl.m4:      <https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mingw-w64/wiki/Unicode%20apps>
        * win/configure:   (re-generated)
        * win/tclWinPort.h: [Bug 3110161]: Extensions using TCHAR don't
        compile on VS2005 SP1

2010-11-15  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * doc/interp.n: [Bug 3081184]: TIP #378.
        * doc/tclvars.n: Performance fix for TIP #280.
        * generic/tclBasic.c:
        * generic/tclExecute.c:
        * generic/tclInt.h:
        * generic/tclInterp.c:
        * tests/info.test:
        * tests/interp.test:

2010-11-10  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * changes:      Updates for 8.6b2 release.

2010-11-09  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclOOMethod.c (ProcedureMethodVarResolver): [Bug 3105999]:
        * tests/oo.test:        Make sure that resolver structures that are
                                only temporarily needed get squelched.

2010-11-05  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclMain.c: Thanks, Kevin, for the fix, but this how it was
        supposed to be (TCL_ASCII_MAIN is only supposed to be defined on
        WIN32).

2010-11-05  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * generic/tclMain.c: Added missing conditional on _WIN32 around code
        that messes around with the definition of _UNICODE, to correct a badly
        broken Unix build from Jan's last commit.

2010-11-04  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclDecls.h:   [FRQ 491789]: "setargv() doesn't support a
        * generic/tclMain.c:    unicode cmdline" implemented for Tcl on MSVC++
        * doc/Tcl_Main.3:
        * win/tclAppInit.c:
        * win/makefile.vc:
        * win/Makefile.in:
        * win/tclWin32Dll.c:    Eliminate minor MSVC warning TCHAR -> char
                                conversion

2010-11-04  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>

        * tests/socket.test: Run the socket tests three times with the address
        family set to any, inet, and inet6 respectively. Use constraints to
        skip the tests if a family is found to be unsupported or not
        configured on the local machine. Adjust the tests to dynamically adapt
        to the address family that is being tested.

        Rework some of the tests to speed them up by avoiding (supposedly)
        unneeded [after]s.

2010-11-04  Stuart Cassoff  <stwo@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/Makefile.in:     [Patch 3101127]: Installer Improvements.
        * unix/install-sh:

2010-11-04  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * tests/error.test (error-19.13): Another variation on testing for
        issues in [try] compilation.

        * doc/Tcl.n (Variable substitution): [Bug 3099086]: Increase clarity
        of explanation of what characters are actually permitted in variable
        substitutions. Note that this does not constitute a change of
        behavior; it is just an improvement of explanation.

2010-11-04  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * changes:      Updates for 8.6b2 release.  (Thanks Andreas Kupries)

2010-11-03  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinFcmd.c:    [FRQ 2965056]: Windows build with -DUNICODE
        * win/tclWinFile.c:    (more clean-ups for pre-win2000 stuff)
        * win/tclWinReg.c:

2010-11-03  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (TryPostBody):  Ensure that errors when setting
        * tests/error.test (error-19.1[12]): message/opt capture variables get
                                             reflected properly to the caller.

2010-11-03  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileCatchCmd): [Bug 3098302]:
        * tests/compile.test (compile-3.6): Reworked the compilation of the
        [catch] command so as to avoid placing any code that might throw an
        exception (specifically, any initial substitutions or any stores to
        result or options variables) between the BEGIN_CATCH and END_CATCH but
        outside the exception range.  Added a test case that panics on a stack
        smash if the change is not made.

2010-11-01  Stuart Cassoff  <stwo@users.sourceforge.net>

        * library/safe.tcl:     Improved handling of non-standard module path
        * tests/safe.test:      lists, empty path lists in particular.

2010-11-01  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * library/tzdata/Asia/Hong_Kong:
        * library/tzdata/Pacific/Apia:
        * library/tzdata/Pacific/Fiji:   Olson's tzdata2010o.

2010-10-29  Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclTimer.c:   [Bug 2905784]: Stop small [after]s from
                                wasting CPU while keeping accuracy.

2010-10-28  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        [dogeen-assembler-branch]
        * generic/tclAssembly.c:
        * tests/assembly.test (assemble-31.*): Added jump tables.

2010-10-28  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/http.test:      [Bug 3097490]: Make http-4.15 pass in
                                isolation.

        * unix/tclUnixSock.c:   [Bug 3093120]: Prevent calls of
                                freeaddrinfo(NULL) which can crash some
                                systems.  Thanks Larry Virden.

2010-10-26  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>

        * Changelog.2008: Split off from Changelog.
        * generic/tclIOSock.c (TclCreateSocketAddress): The interp != NULL
        check is needed for ::tcl::unsupported::socketAF as well.

2010-10-26  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * unix/tclUnixSock.c (TcpGetOptionProc): Prevent crash if interp is
        * win/tclWinSock.c (TcpGetOptionProc):   NULL (a legal situation).

2010-10-26  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>

        * unix/tclUnixSock.c (TcpGetOptionProc): Added support for
        ::tcl::unsupported::noReverseDNS, which if set to any value, prevents
        [fconfigure -sockname] and [fconfigure -peername] from doing
        reverse DNS queries.

2010-10-24  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        [dogeen-assembler-branch]
        * generic/tclAssembly.c:
        * tests/assembly.test (assemble-17.15): Reworked branch handling so
        that forward branches can use jump1 (jumpTrue1, jumpFalse1). Added
        test cases that the forward branches will expand to jump4, jumpTrue4,
        jumpFalse4 when needed.

2010-10-23  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        [dogeen-assembler-branch]
        * generic/tclAssembly.h (removed):
                                Removed file that was included in only one
                                source file.
        * generictclAssembly.c: Inlined tclAssembly.h.

2010-10-17  Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/info.n:            [Patch 2995655]:
        * generic/tclBasic.c:    Report inner contexts in [info errorstack]
        * generic/tclCompCmds.c:
        * generic/tclCompile.c:
        * generic/tclCompile.h:
        * generic/tclExecute.c:
        * generic/tclInt.h:
        * generic/tclNamesp.c:
        * tests/error.test:
        * tests/result.test:

2010-10-20  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileDictForCmd): Update the compilation
        * generic/tclCompile.c (tclInstructionTable):   of [dict for] so that
        * generic/tclExecute.c (TEBCresume):            it no longer makes any
        use of INST_DICT_DONE now that's not needed, and make it clearer in
        the implementation of the instruction that it's just a deprecated form
        of unset operation. Followup to my commit of 2010-10-16.

2010-10-19  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclZlib.c (Tcl_ZlibStreamGet): [Bug 3081008]: Ensure that
        when a bytearray gets its internals entangled with zlib for more than
        a passing moment, that bytearray will never be shimmered away. This
        increases the amount of copying but is simple to get right, which is a
        reasonable trade-off.

        * generic/tclStringObj.c (Tcl_AppendObjToObj): Added some special
        cases so that most of the time when you build up a bytearray by
        appending, it actually ends up being a bytearray rather than
        shimmering back and forth to string.

        * tests/http11.test (check_crc): Use a simpler way to express the
        functionality of this procedure.

        * generic/tclZlib.c: Purge code that wrote to the object returned by
        Tcl_GetObjResult, as we don't want to do that anti-pattern no more.

2010-10-18  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * tools/uniParse.tcl:   [Bug 3085863]: tclUniData was 9 years old;
        Ignore non-BMP characters and fix comment about UnicodeData.txt file.
        * generic/regcomp.c:    Fix comment
        * tests/utf.test:       Add some Unicode 6 testcases

2010-10-17  Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/info.n:           Document [info errorstack] faithfully.

2010-10-16  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c (ReleaseDictIterator): Factored out the release
        of the bytecode-level dictionary iterator information so that the
        side-conditions on instruction issuing are simpler.

2010-10-15  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/reg_locale.c: [Bug 3085863]: tclUniData 9 years old: Updated
        * generic/tclUniData.c: Unicode tables to latest UnicodeData.txt,
        * tools/uniParse.tcl:   corresponding with Unicode 6.0 (except for
                                out-of-range chars > 0xFFFF)

2010-10-13  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCompile.c: Alternative fix for [Bugs 467523,983660] where
        * generic/tclExecute.c: sharing of empty scripts is allowed again.

2010-10-13  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinThrd.h: (removed) because it is just empty en used nowhere
        * win/tcl.dsp

2010-10-12  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * tools/uniClass.tcl:    Spacing and comments: let uniClass.tcl
        * generic/regc_locale.c: generation match better the current
                                 (hand-modified) regc_locale.c
        * tools/uniParse.tcl:    Generate proper const qualifiers for
        * generic/tclUniData.c:  tclUniData.c

2010-10-12  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>

        * unix/tclUnixSock.c (CreateClientSocket): [Bug 3084338]: Fix a
        memleak and refactor the calls to freeaddrinfo().

2010-10-11  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinDde.c:    [FRQ 2965056]: Windows build with -DUNICODE
        * win/tclWinReg.c:
        * win/tclWinTest.c:   More cleanups
        * win/tclWinFile.c:   Add netapi32 to the link line, so we no longer
        * win/tcl.m4:         have to use LoadLibrary to access those
                              functions.
        * win/makefile.vc:
        * win/configure:      (Re-generate with autoconf-2.59)
        * win/rules.vc        Update for VS10

2010-10-09  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c: Fix overallocation of exec stack in TEBC (due
        to mixing numwords and numbytes)

2010-10-08  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclIOSock.c: On Windows, use gai_strerrorA

2010-10-06  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/winPipe.test:   Test hygiene with makeFile and removeFile.

        * generic/tclCompile.c: [Bug 3081065]: Prevent writing to the intrep
        * tests/subst.test:     fields of a freed Tcl_Obj.

2010-10-06  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        [dogeen-assembler-branch]

        * generic/tclAssembly.c:
        * generic/tclAssembly.h:
        * tests/assemble.test: Added catches. Still needs a lot of testing.

2010-10-02  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        [dogeen-assembler-branch]

        * generic/tclAssembly.c:
        * generic/tclAssembly.h:
        * tests/assemble.test: Added dictAppend, dictIncrImm, dictLappend,
        dictSet, dictUnset, nop, regexp, nsupvar, upvar, and variable.

2010-10-02  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c (TEBCresume): [Bug 3079830]: Added invalidation
        of string representations of dictionaries in some cases.

2010-10-01  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * generic/tclExecute.c (EvalStatsCmd): change 'evalstats' to return
        data to interp by default, or if given an arg, use that as filename to
        output to (accepts 'stdout' and 'stderr').  Fix output to print used
        inst count data.
        * generic/tclCkalloc.c: Change TclDumpMemoryInfo sig to allow objPtr
        * generic/tclInt.decls: as well as FILE* as output.
        * generic/tclIntDecls.h:

2010-10-01  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c, generic/tclClock.c, generic/tclEncoding.c,
        * generic/tclEnv.c, generic/tclLoad.c, generic/tclNamesp.c,
        * generic/tclObj.c, generic/tclRegexp.c, generic/tclResolve.c,
        * generic/tclResult.c, generic/tclUtil.c, macosx/tclMacOSXFCmd.c:
        More purging of strcpy() from locations where we already know the
        length of the data being copied.

2010-10-01  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        [dogeen-assembler-branch]

        * tests/assemble.test:
        * generic/tclAssemble.h:
        * generic/tclAssemble.c:  Added listIn, listNotIn, and dictGet.

2010-09-30  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        [dogeen-assembler-branch]

        * tests/assemble.test:   Added tryCvtToNumeric and several more list
        * generic/tclAssemble.c: operations.
        * generic/tclAssemble.h:

2010-09-29  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        [dogeen-assembler-branch]

        * tests/assemble.test:   Completed conversion of tests to a
        * generic/tclAssemble.c: "white box" structure that follows the
        C code. Added missing safety checks on the operands of 'over' and
        'reverse' so that negative operand counts don't smash the stack.

2010-09-29  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * unix/configure:       Re-generate with autoconf-2.59
        * win/configure:
        * generic/tclMain.c:    Make compilable with -DUNICODE as well

2010-09-28  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>

        TIP #162 IMPLEMENTATION

        * doc/socket.n:         Document the changes to the [socket] and
                                [fconfigure] commands.

        * generic/tclInt.h:     Introduce TclCreateSocketAddress() as a
        * generic/tclIOSock.c:  replacement for the platform-dependent
        * unix/tclUnixSock.c:   TclpCreateSocketAddress() functions. Extend
        * unix/tclUnixChan.c:   the [socket] and [fconfigure] commands to
        * unix/tclUnixPort.h:   behave as proposed in TIP #162. This is the
        * win/tclWinSock.c:     core of what is required to support the use of
        * win/tclWinPort.h:     IPv6 sockets in Tcl.

        * compat/fake-rfc2553.c: A compat implementation of the APIs defined
        * compat/fake-rfc2553.h: in RFC-2553 (getaddrinfo() and friends) on
                                 top of the existing gethostbyname() etc.
        * unix/configure.in:     Test whether the fake-implementation is
        * unix/tcl.m4:           needed.
        * unix/Makefile.in:      Add a compile target for fake-rfc2553.

        * win/configure.in:     Allow cross-compilation by default.

        * tests/socket.test:    Improve the test suite to make more use of
        * tests/remote.tcl:     randomized ports to reduce interference with
                                tests running in parallel or other services on
                                the machine.

2010-09-28  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        [dogeen-assembler-branch]

        * tests/assemble.test: Added more "white box" tests.
        * generic/tclAssembly.c: Added the error checking and reporting
        for undefined labels. Revised code so that no pointers into the
        bytecode sequence are held (because the sequence can move!),
        that no Tcl_HashEntry pointers are held (because the hash table
        doesn't guarantee their stability!) and to eliminate the BBHash
        table, which is merely additional information indexed by jump
        labels and can just as easily be held in the 'label' structure.
        Renamed shared structures to CamelCase, and renamed 'label' to
        JumpLabel because other types of labels may eventually be possible.

2010-09-27  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        [dogeen-assembler-branch]

        * tests/assemble.test: Added more "white box" tests.
        * generic/tclAssembly.c: Fixed bugs exposed by the new tests.
        (a) [eval] and [expr] had incorrect stack balance computed if
        the arg was not a simple word. (b) [concat] accepted a negative
        operand count. (c) [invoke] accepted a zero or negative operand
        count. (d) more misspelt error messages.
        Also replaced a funky NRCallTEBC with the new call
        TclNRExecuteByteCode, necessitated by a merge with changes on the
        HEAD.

2010-09-26  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c:    [Patch 3072080] (minus the itcl
        * generic/tclCmdIL.c:    update): a saner NRE.
        * generic/tclCompExpr.c:
        * generic/tclCompile.c:  This makes TclNRExecuteByteCode (ex TEBC)
        * generic/tclCompile.h:  to be a normal NRE citizen: it loses its
        * generic/tclExecute.c:  special status.
        * generic/tclInt.decls:  The logic flow within the BC engine is
        * generic/tclInt.h:      simplified considerably.
        * generic/tclIntDecls.h:
        * generic/tclObj.c:
        * generic/tclProc.c:
        * generic/tclTest.c:

        * generic/tclVar.c: Use the macro HasLocalVars everywhere

2010-09-26  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclOOMethod.c (ProcedureMethodVarResolver): avoid code
        duplication, let the runtime var resolver call the compiled var
        resolver.

2010-09-26  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        [dogeen-assembler-branch]

        * tests/assemble.test:  Added many new tests moving toward a more
        comprehensive test suite for the assembler.
        * generic/tclAssembly.c:        Fixed bugs exposed by the new tests:
        (a) [bitnot] and [not] had incorrect operand counts. (b)
        INST_CONCAT cannot concatenate zero objects. (c) misspelt error
        messages. (d) the "assembly code" internal representation lacked
        a duplicator, which caused double-frees of the Bytecode object
        if assembly code ever was duplicated.

2010-09-25  Kevin B. Kenny   <kennykb@acm.org>

        [dogeen-assembler-branch]

        * generic/tclAssembly.c:        Massive refactoring of the assembler
        * generic/tclAssembly.h:        to use a Tcl-like syntax (and use
        * tests/assemble.test:          Tcl_ParseCommand to parse it). The
        * tests/assemble1.bench:        refactoring also ensures that
        Tcl_Tokens in the assembler have string ranges inside the source
        code, which allows for [eval] and [expr] assembler directives
        that simply call TclCompileScript and TclCompileExpr recursively.

2010-09-24  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * tests/stringComp.test: improved string eq/cmp test coverage
        * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): merge INST_STR_CMP and
        INST_STR_EQ/INST_STR_NEQ paths.  Speeds up eq/ne/[string eq] with
        obj-aware comparisons and eq/==/ne/!= with length equality check.

2010-09-24  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * tclWinsock.c: [Bug 3056775]: Fixed race condition between thread and
        internal co-thread access of a socket's structure because of the
        thread not using the socketListLock in TcpAccept(). Added
        documentation on how the module works to the top.

2010-09-23  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclDecls.h: Make Tcl_SetPanicProc and Tcl_GetStringResult
        * unix/tclAppInit.c:  callable without stubs, just as Tcl_SetVar.
        * win/tclAppInit.c:

2010-09-23  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCmdAH.c:   Fix cases where value returned by
        * generic/tclEvent.c:   Tcl_GetReturnOptions() was leaked.
        * generic/tclMain.c:    Thanks to Jeff Hobbs for discovery of the
        anti-pattern to seek and destroy.

2010-09-23  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * unix/tclAppInit.c:  Make compilable with -DUNICODE (not activated
        * win/tclAppInit.c:   yet), many clean-ups in comments.

2010-09-22  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclExecute: [Bug 3072640]: One more DECACHE_STACK_INFO() was
        missing.

        * tests/execute.test: Added execute-10.3 for [Bug 3072640]. The test
        causes a mem failure.

        * generic/tclExecute: Protect all possible writes to ::errorInfo or
        ::errorCode with DECACHE_STACK_INFO(), as they could run traces. The
        new calls to be protected are Tcl_ResetResult(), Tcl_SetErrorCode(),
        IllegalExprOperandType(), TclExprFloatError(). The error was triggered
        by [Patch 3072080].

2010-09-22  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tcl.m4:           Add kernel32 to LIBS, so the link line for
        * win/configure:        mingw is exactly the same as for MSVC++.

2010-09-21  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode):
        * generic/tclOOMethod.c (ProcedureMethodCompiledVarConnect):
        * generic/tclVar.c (TclLookupSimpleVar, CompareVarKeys):
        * generic/tclPathObj.c (Tcl_FSGetNormalizedPath, Tcl_FSEqualPaths):
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c (TclFSCwdPointerEquals): peephole opt
        * generic/tclResult.c (TclMergeReturnOptions): Use memcmp where
        applicable as possible speedup on some libc variants.

2010-09-21  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        [BRANCH: dogeen-assembler-branch]

        * generic/tclAssembly.c (new file):
        * generic/tclAssembly.h:
        * generic/tclBasic.c (builtInCmds, Tcl_CreateInterp):
        * generic/tclInt.h:
        * tests/assemble.test (new file):
        * tests/assemble1.bench (new file):
        * unix/Makefile.in:
        * win/Makefile.in:
        * win/Makefile.vc:
                Initial commit of Ozgur Dogan Ugurlu's (SF user: dogeen)
                assembler for the Tcl bytecode language.

2010-09-21  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinFile.c:   Fix declaration after statement.
        * win/tcl.m4:         Add -Wdeclaration-after-statement, so this
        * win/configure:      mistake cannot happen again.
        * win/tclWinFCmd.c:   [Bug 3069278]: Breakage on head Windows
        * win/tclWinPipe.c:   triggered by install-tzdata, final fix

2010-09-20  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinFCmd.c: Eliminate tclWinProcs->useWide everywhere, since
        * win/tclWinFile.c: the value is always "1" on platforms >win95
        * win/tclWinPipe.c:

2010-09-19  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/file.n (file readlink): [Bug 3070580]: Typofix.

2010-09-18  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinFCmd.c [Bug 3069278]: Breakage on head Windows triggered
        by install-tzdata. Temporary don't compile this with -DUNICODE, while
        investigating this bug.

2010-09-16  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * win/tclWinFile.c: Remove define of FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS as all
        supported versions of compilers should now have it.

        * unix/Makefile.in: Do not pass current build env vars when using
        NATIVE_TCLSH in targets.

2010-09-16  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclDecls.h:    Make Tcl_FindExecutable() work in UNICODE
        * generic/tclEncoding.c: compiles (windows-only) as well as ASCII.
        * generic/tclStubInit.c: Needed for [FRQ 491789]: setargv() doesn't
        support a unicode cmdline.

2010-09-15  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBinary.c (TclAppendBytesToByteArray): [Bug 3067036]: Make
        sure we never try to double zero repeatedly to get a buffer size. Also
        added a check for sanity on the size of buffer being appended.

2010-09-15  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/Makefile.in:     Revise `make dist` target to tolerate the
        case of zero bundled packages.

2010-09-15  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * tools/genStubs.tcl:   [Patch 3034251]: Backport ttkGenStubs.tcl
        * generic/tcl.decls:    features to genStubs.tcl. Make the "generic"
        * generic/tclInt.decls: argument in the *.decls files optional
        * generic/tclOO.decls:  (no change to any tcl*Decls.h files)
        * generic/tclTomMath.decls:
        This allows genStubs.tcl to generate the ttk stub files as well, while
        keeping full compatibility with existing *.decls files.

2010-09-14  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinPort.h:  Allow all Win2000+ API entries in Tcl
        * win/tclWin32Dll.c: Eliminate dynamical loading of advapi23 and
        kernel32 symbols.

2010-09-13  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinChan.c:      Various clean-ups, converting from
        * win/tclWinConsole.c:   tclWinProc->xxxProc directly to Xxx
        * win/tclWinInit.c:      (no change in functionality)
        * win/tclWinLoad.c:
        * win/tclWinSerial.c:
        * win/tclWinSock.c:
        * tools/genStubs.tcl:    Add scspec feature from ttkGenStubs.tcl
          (no change in output for *Decls.h files)

2010-09-10  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWin32Dll.c: Partly revert yesterday's change, to make it work
        on VC++ 6.0 again.

2010-09-10  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/regsub.n: [Bug 3063568]: Fix for gotcha in example due to Tcl's
        special handling of backslash-newline. Makes example slightly less
        pure, but more useful.

2010-09-09  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/makefile.vc:   Mingw should always link with -ladvapi32.
        * win/tcl.m4:
        * win/configure:     (regenerated)
        * win/tclWinInt.h:   Remove ascii variant of tkWinPocs table, it is
        * win/tclWin32Dll.c: no longer necessary. Fix CreateProcess signature
        * win/tclWinPipe.c:  and remove unused GetModuleFileName and lstrcpy.
        * win/tclWinPort.h:  Mingw/cygwin fixes: <tchar.h> should always be
        included, and fix conflict in various macro values: Always force the
        same values as in VC++.

2010-09-08  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * win/tclWinChan.c:     [Bug 3059922]: #ifdef protections to permit
        * win/tclWinFCmd.c:     builds with mingw on amd64 systems. Thanks to
                                "mescalinum" for reporting and testing.

2010-09-08  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * doc/tm.n: Added underscore to the set of characters accepted in
        module names. This is true for quite some time in the code, this
        change catches up the documentation.

2010-09-03  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl (plus-pkgs): Improve the package
        documentation search pattern to support the doctoos-generated
        directory structure.
        * tools/tcltk-man2html-utils.tcl (output-name): Made this more
        resilient against misformatted NAME sections, induced by import of
        Thread package documentation into Tcl doc tree.

2010-09-02  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * doc/glob.n: Fixed documentation ambiguity regarding the handling
        of -join.

        * library/safe.tcl (safe::AliasGlob): Fixed another problem, the
        option -join does not stop option processing in the core builtin, so
        the emulation must not do that either.

2010-09-01  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

        * library/safe.tcl (safe::AliasGlob): Moved the command extending the
        actual glob command with a -directory flag to when we actually have a
        proper untranslated path,

2010-09-01  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * generic/tclExecute.c: [Bug 3057639]: Applied patch by Jeff to make
        * generic/tclVar.c:     the behaviour of lappend in bytecompiled mode
        * tests/append.test:    consistent with direct-eval and 'append'
        * tests/appendComp.test: generally. Added tests (append*-9.*)
        showing the difference.

2010-08-31  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/rules.vc:               Typo (thanks to Twylite discovering
                                      this)
        * generic/tclStubLib.c:       Revert to previous version: MSVC++ 6.0
        * generic/tclTomMathStubLib.c:cannot handle the new construct.
        * generic/tcl.decls           [Patch 2997642]: Many type casts needed
        * generic/tclDecls.h:         when using Tcl_Pkg* API. Remaining part.
        * generic/tclPkg.c:
        * generic/tclBasic.c:
        * generic/tclTomMathInterface.c:
        * doc/PkgRequire.3

2010-08-31  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * win/tcl.m4: Applied patch by Jeff fixing issues with the manifest
        handling on Win64.
        * win/configure: Regenerated.

2010-08-30  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c:    [Bugs 3046594,3047235,3048771]: New
        * generic/tclCmdAH.c:    implementation for [tailcall] command: it now
        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c:    schedules the command and returns TCL_RETURN.
        * generic/tclExecute.c:  This fixes all issues with [catch] and [try].
        * generic/tclInt.h:      Thanks dgp for exploring the dark corners.
        * generic/tclNamesp.c:   More thorough testing is required.
        * tests/tailcall.test:

2010-08-30  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/Makefile.in:   [FRQ 2965056]: Windows build with -DUNICODE
        * win/rules.vc:
        * win/tclWinFCmd.c:  Make sure that allocated TCHAR arrays are
        * win/tclWinFile.c:  always properly aligned as wchar_t, and
        * win/tclWinPipe.c:  not bigger than necessary.
        * win/tclWinSock.c:
        * win/tclWinDde.c:   Those 3 files are not converted yet to be
        * win/tclWinReg.c:   built with -DUNICODE, so add a TODO.
        * win/tclWinTest.c:
        * generic/tcl.decls:  [Patch 2997642]: Many type casts needed when
        * generic/tclDecls.h: using Tcl_Pkg* API. Partly.
        * generic/tclPkg.c:
        * generic/tclStubLib.c: Demonstration how this change can benefit
                                code.
        * generic/tclTomMathStubLib.c:
        * doc/PkgRequire.3:

2010-08-29  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/dict.n: [Bug 3046999]: Corrected cross reference to array
        manpage to refer to (correct) existing subcommand.

2010-08-26  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * unix/configure, unix/tcl.m4: SHLIB_LD_LIBS='${LIBS}' for OSF1-V*.
        Add /usr/lib64 to set of auto-search dirs. [Bug 1230554]
        (SC_PATH_X): Correct syntax error when xincludes not found.

        * win/Makefile.in (VC_MANIFEST_EMBED_DLL VC_MANIFEST_EMBED_EXE):
        * win/configure, win/configure.in, win/tcl.m4: SC_EMBED_MANIFEST
        macro and --enable-embedded-manifest configure arg added to support
        manifest embedding where we know the magic.  Help prevents DLL hell
        with MSVC8+.

2010-08-24  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tcl.decls: [Bug 3007895]: Tcl_(Find|Create)HashEntry
        * generic/tclHash.c: stub entries can never be called.
        * generic/tclDecls.h:
        * generic/tclStubInit.c: [Patch 2994165]: Change signature of
        Tcl_FSGetNativePath and TclpDeleteFile follow-up: move stub entry back
        to original location.

2010-08-23  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * library/tzdata/Africa/Cairo:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Gaza: Olson's tzdata2010l.

2010-08-22  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c:  [Patch 3009403]: Signature of Tcl_GetHashKey,
        * generic/tclBinary.c: Tcl_(Create|Find)HashEntry follow-up:
        * generic/tclCmdIL.c:  Remove many type casts which are no longer
        * generic/tclCompile.c:necessary as a result of this signature change.
        * generic/tclDictObj.c:
        * generic/tclEncoding.c:
        * generic/tclExecute.c:
        * generic/tclInterp.c:
        * generic/tclIOCmd.c:
        * generic/tclObj.c:
        * generic/tclProc.c:
        * generic/tclTest.c:
        * generic/tclTrace.c:
        * generic/tclUtil.c:
        * generic/tclVar.c:

2010-08-21  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/linsert.n: [Bug 3045123]: Make description of what is actually
        happening more accurate.

2010-08-21  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * tools/genStubs.tcl: [Patch 3034251]: Backport ttkGenStubs.tcl
        features to genStubs.tcl, partly: Use void (*reserved$i)(void) = 0
        instead of void *reserved$i = NULL for unused stub entries, in case
        pointer-to-function and pointer-to-object are different sizes.
        * generic/tcl*Decls.h:   (regenerated)
        * generic/tcl*StubInit.c:(regenerated)

2010-08-20  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * doc/Method.3:   Fix definition of Tcl_MethodType.

2010-08-19  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclTrace.c (TraceExecutionObjCmd, TraceCommandObjCmd)
        (TraceVariableObjCmd): [Patch 3048354]: Use memcpy() instead of
        strcpy() to avoid buffer overflow; we have the correct length of data
        to copy anyway since we've just allocated the target buffer.

2010-08-18  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * tools/genStubs.tcl: [Patch 3034251]: Backport ttkGenStubs.tcl
        features to genStubs.tcl, partly: remove unneeded ifdeffery and put
        C++ guard around stubs pointer definition.
        * generic/*Decls.h:   (regenerated)

2010-08-18  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c:   New redesign of [tailcall]: find
        * generic/tclExecute.c: errors early on, so that errorInfo
        * generic/tclInt.h:     contains the proper info [Bug 3047235]
        * generic/tclNamesp.c:

        * generic/tclCmdAH.c (TclNRTryObjCmd): [Bug 3046594]: Block
        tailcalling out of the body of a non-bc'ed [try].

        * generic/tclBasic.c:    Redesign of [tailcall] to
        * generic/tclCmdAH.c:    (a) fix [Bug 3047235]
        * generic/tclCompile.h:  (b) enable fix for [Bug 3046594]
        * generic/tclExecute.c:  (c) enable recursive tailcalls
        * generic/tclInt.h:
        * generic/tclNamesp.c:
        * tests/tailcall.test:

2010-08-18  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * library/safe.tcl (AliasGlob): [Bug 3004191]: Restore safe [glob] to
        working condition.

2010-08-15  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclProc.c (ProcWrongNumArgs): [Bug 3045010]: Make the
        handling of passing the wrong number of arguments to [apply] somewhat
        less verbose when a lambda term is present.

2010-08-14  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * compat/unicows:    Remove completely, see [FRQ 2819611].
        * doc/FileSystem.3: [Patch 2994165]: Change signature of
        * generic/tcl.decls  Tcl_FSGetNativePath and TclpDeleteFile
        * generic/tclDecls.h:
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c:
        * generic/tclStubInit.c:
        * generic/tclInt.h:
        * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c:
        * win/tclWinFCmd.c:
        * doc/Hash.3: [Patch 3009403]: Signature of Tcl_GetHashKey,
        * generic/tcl.h:     Tcl_(Create|Find)HashEntry

2010-08-11  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * unix/ldAix: Remove ancient (pre-4.2) AIX support
        * unix/configure: Regen with ac-2.59
        * unix/configure.in, unix/tclConfig.sh.in, unix/Makefile.in:
        * unix/tcl.m4 (AIX): Remove the need for ldAIX, replace with
        -bexpall/-brtl.  Remove TCL_EXP_FILE (export file) and other baggage
        that went with it.  Remove pre-4 AIX build support.

2010-08-11  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c (TclNRYieldToObjCmd):
        * tests/coroutine.test: Fixed bad copypasta snafu. Thanks to Andy Goth
        for finding the bug.

2010-08-10  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * generic/tclUtil.c (TclByteArrayMatch): Patterns may not be
        null-terminated, so account for that.

2010-08-09  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * changes:      Updates for 8.6b2 release.

2010-08-04  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * win/Makefile.in, win/makefile.bc, win/makefile.vc, win/tcl.dsp:
        * win/tclWinPipe.c (TclpCreateProcess):
        * win/stub16.c (removed): Removed Win9x tclpip8x.dll build and 16-bit
        application loader stub support.  Win9x is no longer supported.

        * win/tclWin32Dll.c (TclWinInit): Hard-enforce Windows 9x as an
        unsupported platform with a panic.  Code to support it still exists in
        other files (to go away in time), but new APIs are being used that
        don't exist on Win9x.

        * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c: Adjust license header as per
        ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change

        * license.terms: Fix DFARs note for number-adjusted rights clause

        * win/tclWin32Dll.c (asciiProcs, unicodeProcs):
        * win/tclWinLoad.c (TclpDlopen): 'load' use LoadLibraryEx with
        * win/tclWinInt.h (TclWinProcs): LOAD_WITH_ALTERED_SEARCH_PATH to
        prefer dependent DLLs in same dir as loaded DLL.

        * win/Makefile.in (%.${OBJEXT}): better implicit rules support

2010-08-04  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * generic/tclIORChan.c: [Bug 3034840]: Fixed reference counting in
        * generic/tclIORTrans.c: InvokeTclMethod and callers.
        * tests/ioTrans.test:

2010-08-03  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * tests/var.test (var-19.1): [Bug 3037525]: Added test demonstrating
        the local hashtable deletion crash and fix.

        * tests/info.test (info-39.1): Added forward copy of test in 8.5
        branch about [Bug 2933089]. Should not fail, and doesn't, after
        updating the line numbers to the changed position.

2010-08-02  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@users.sf.net>

        * library/tzdata/America/Bahia_Banderas:
        * library/tzdata/Pacific/Chuuk:
        * library/tzdata/Pacific/Pohnpei:
        * library/tzdata/Africa/Cairo:
        * library/tzdata/Europe/Helsinki:
        * library/tzdata/Pacific/Ponape:
        * library/tzdata/Pacific/Truk:
        * library/tzdata/Pacific/Yap:                   Olson's tzdata2010k.

2010-08-02  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclVar.c: Correcting bad port of [Bug 3037525] fix

2010-07-28  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclVar.c: [Bug 3037525]: Lose fickle optimisation in
        TclDeleteVars (used for runtime-created locals) that caused crash.

2010-07-29  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * compat/zlib/win32/README.txt: Official build of zlib1.dll 1.2.5 is
        * compat/zlib/win32/USAGE.txt:  finally available, so put it in.
        * compat/zlib/win32/zlib1.dll:

2010-07-25  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/http.n: Corrected description of location of one of the entries
        in the state array.

2010-07-24  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclDecls.h: [Bug 3029891]: Functions that don't belong in
        * generic/tclTest.c:  the stub table.
        * generic/tclBasic.c: From [Bug 3030870] make itcl 3.x built with
        pre-8.6 work in 8.6: Relax the relation between Tcl_CallFrame and
        CallFrame.

2010-07-16  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c: Added more errorCode setting.

2010-07-15  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): Ensure that [dict get]
        * generic/tclDictObj.c (DictGetCmd): always generates an errorCode on
        a failure to look up an entry.

2010-07-11  Pat Thoyts  <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/configure: (regenerated)
        * unix/configure.in: For the NATIVE_TCLSH variable use the autoconf
        * unix/Makefile.in:  SC_PROG_TCLSH to try and find a locally installed
        native binary. This avoids manually fixing up when cross compiling. If
        there is not one, revert to using the build product.

2010-07-02  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclInt.decs:  Reverted to the original TIP 337
        implementation on what to do with the obsolete internal stub for
        TclBackgroundException() (eliminate it!)
        * generic/tclIntDecls.h:        make genstubs
        * generic/tclStubInit.c:

2010-07-02  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclInt.decls:  [Bug 803489]: Tcl_FindNamespace problem in
        * generic/tclIntDecls.h: the Stubs table
        * generic/tclStubInit.c:

2010-07-02  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c (IllegalExprOperandType): [Bug 3024379]: Made
        sure that errors caused by an argument to an operator being outside
        the domain of the operator all result in ::errorCode being ARITH
        DOMAIN and not NONE.

2010-07-01  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/rules.vc:              [Bug 3020677]: wish can't link reg1.2
        * tools/checkLibraryDoc.tcl: formatting, spacing, cleanup unused
        * tools/eolFix.tcl:          variables; no change in generated output
        * tools/fix_tommath_h.tcl:
        * tools/genStubs.tcl:
        * tools/index.tcl:
        * tools/man2help2.tcl:
        * tools/regexpTestLib.tcl:
        * tools/tsdPerf.tcl:
        * tools/uniClass.tcl:
        * tools/uniParse.tcl:

2010-07-01  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/mathop.n: [Bug 3023165]: Fix typo that was preventing proper
        rendering of the exclusive-or operator.

2010-06-28  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclPosixStr.c: [Bug 3019634]: errno.h and tclWinPort.h have
        conflicting definitions. Added messages for ENOTRECOVERABLE, EOTHER,
        ECANCELED and EOWNERDEAD, and fixed various typing mistakes in other
        messages.

2010-06-25  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>

        * tests/socket.test: Prevent a race condition during shutdown of the
        remote test server that can cause a hang when the server is being run
        in verbose mode.

2010-06-24  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinPort.h: [Bug 3019634]: errno.h and tclWinPort.h have
        conflicting definitions.

                ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY***
        On win32, the correspondence between errno and the related error
        message, as handled by Tcl_ErrnoMsg() changes. The error message is
        kept the same, but the corresponding errno value might change.

2010-06-22  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LsetObjCmd): [Bug 3019351]: Corrected wrong
        args message.

2010-06-21  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * unix/tclLoadDl.c:    Eliminate various unnecessary type casts, use
        * unix/tclLoadNext.c:  function typedefs whenever possible
        * unix/tclUnixChan.c:
        * unix/tclUnixFile.c:
        * unix/tclUnixNotfy.c:
        * unix/tclUnixSock.c:
        * unix/tclUnixTest.c:
        * unix/tclXtTest.c:
        * generic/tclZlib.c:   Remove hack needed for zlib 1.2.3 on win32

2010-06-18  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * library/init.tcl (auto_execok): [Bug 3017997]: Add .cmd to the
        default list of extensions that we can execute interactively.

2010-06-16  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * tools/loadICU.tcl:   [Bug 3016135]: Traceback using clock format
        * library/msgs/he.msg: with locale of he_IL.

        * generic/tcl.h:       Simplify Tcl_AppInit and *_Init definitions,
        * generic/tclInt.h:    spacing. Change TclpThreadCreate and
        * generic/tcl.decls:   Tcl_CreateThread signature, making clear that
        * generic/tclDecls.h:  "proc" is a function pointer, as in all other
        * generic/tclEvent.c:  "proc" function parameters.
        * generic/tclTestProcBodyObj.c:
        * win/tclWinThrd.c:
        * unix/tclUnixThrd.c:
        * doc/Thread.3:
        * doc/Class.3:         Fix Tcl_ObjectMetadataType definition.

2010-06-14  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * unix/Makefile.in:    Fix compilation of xttest with 8.6 changes
        * unix/tclXtNotify.c:
        * unix/tclXtTest.c:
        * generic/tclPipe.c:   Fix gcc warning (with -fstrict-aliasing=2)
        * library/auto.tcl:    Spacing and style fixes.
        * library/history.tcl:
        * library/init.tcl:
        * library/package.tcl:
        * library/safe.tcl:
        * library/tm.tcl:

2010-06-13  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl (make-man-pages): [Bug 3015327]: Make the
        title of a manual page be stored relative to its resulting directory
        name as well as its source filename. This was caused by both Tcl and a
        contributed package ([incr Tcl]) defining an Object.3. Also corrected
        the joining of strings in titles to avoid extra braces.

2010-06-09  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * library/platform/platform.tcl: Added OSX Intel 64bit
        * library/platform/pkgIndex.tcl: Package updated to version 1.0.9.
        * unix/Makefile.in:
        * win/Makefile.in:

2010-06-09  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * tools/tsdPerf.c:    Fix export of symbol Tsdperf_Init, when using
        -fvisibility=hidden. Make two functions static, eliminate some
        unnecessary type casts.
        * tools/configure.in: Update to Tcl 8.6
        * tools/configure:    (regenerated)
        * tools/.cvsignore    new file

2010-06-07  Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c: Ensure proper reset of [info errorstack] even
        * generic/tclNamesp.c:  when compiling constant expr's with errors.

2010-06-05  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c:   [Bug 3008307]: make callerPtr chains be
        * generic/tclExecute.c: traversable accross coro boundaries. Add the
        special coroutine CallFrame (partially reverting commit of
        2009-12-10), as it is needed for coroutines that do not push a CF, eg,
        those with [eval] as command. Thanks to Colin McCormack (coldstore)
        and Alexandre Ferrieux for the hard work on this.

2010-06-03  Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclNamesp.c: Safer (and faster) computation of [uplevel]
        * tests/error.test:    offsets in TIP 348. Toplevel offsets no longer
        * tests/result.test:   overestimated.

2010-06-02  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclOO.h:  BUILD_tcloo is never defined (leftover)
        * win/makefile.bc:  Don't set BUILD_tcloo (leftover)
        See also entry below: 2008-06-01  Joe Mistachkin

2010-06-01  Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclNamesp.c: Fix computation of [uplevel] offsets in TIP 348
        * tests/error.test:    Only depend on callerPtr chaining now.
        * tests/result.test:   Needed for upcoming coro patch.

2010-05-31  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclVar.c:        Eliminate some casts to (Tcl_HashTable *)
        * generic/tclExecute.c:
        * tests/fileSystem.test:   Fix filesystem-5.1 test failure on CYGWIN

2010-05-28  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclInt.h: [Patch 3008541]: Order of TIP #348 fields in
        Interp structure

2010-05-28  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCompCmdsSZ.c (IssueTryFinallyInstructions): [3007374]:
        Corrected error in handling of catch contexts to prevent crash with
        chained handlers.

        * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): Restore correct operation
        of instruction-level execution tracing (had been broken by NRE).

2010-05-27  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * library/opt/optParse.tcl: Don't generate spaces at the end of a
        * library/opt/pkgIndex.tcl: line, eliminate ';' at line end, bump to
        * tools/uniParse.tcl:       v0.4.6
        * generic/tclUniData.c:
        * tests/opt.test:
        * tests/safe.test:

2010-05-21  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * tools/installData.tcl: Make sure that copyDir only receives
        normalized paths, otherwise it might result in a crash on CYGWIN.
        Restyle according to the Tcl style guide.
        * generic/tclStrToD.c: [Bug 3005233]: Fix for build on OpenBSD vax

2010-05-19  Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/dict.test: Add missing tests for [Bug 3004007], fixed under
        the radar on 2010-02-24 (dkf): EIAS violation in list-dict conversions

2010-05-19  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/regcomp.c:     Don't use arrays of length 1, just use a
        * generic/tclFileName.c: single element then, it makes code more
        * generic/tclLoad.c:     readable. (Here it even prevents a type cast)

2010-05-17  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclStrToD.c: [Bug 2996549]: Failure in expr.test on Win32

2010-05-17  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCmdIL.c (TclInfoFrame): Change this code to use
        Tcl_GetCommandFullName rather than rolling its own. Discovered during
        the hunting of [Bug 3001438] but unlikely to be a fix.

2010-05-11  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinConsole.c: [Patch 2997087]: Unnecessary type casts.
        * win/tclWinDde.c:
        * win/tclWinLoad.c:
        * win/tclWinNotify.c:
        * win/tclWinSerial.c:
        * win/tclWinSock.c:
        * win/tclWinTime.c:
        * win/tclWinPort.h: Don't duplicate CYGWIN timezone #define from
                            tclPort.h

2010-05-07  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * library/platform/platform.tcl: Fix cpu name for Solaris/Intel 64bit.
        * library/platform/pkgIndex.tcl: Package updated to version 1.0.8.
        * unix/Makefile.in:
        * win/Makefile.in:

2010-05-06  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclPkg.c:   Unnecessary type casts, see [Patch 2997087]

2010-05-04  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinNotify.c:   TCHAR-related fixes, making those two files
        * win/tclWinSock.c:     compile fine when TCHAR != char. Please see
        comments in [FRQ 2965056] (2965056-1.patch).

2010-05-03  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclIORChan.c:   Use "tclIO.h" and "tclTomMathDecls.h"
        * generic/tclIORTrans.c:  everywhere
        * generic/tclTomMath.h:
        * tools/fix_tommath_h.tcl:
        * libtommath/tommath.h:   Formatting (# should always be first char on
                                  line)
        * win/tclAppInit.c:       For MINGW/CYGWIN, use GetCommandLineA
                                  explicitly.
        * unix/.cvsignore:        Add pkg, *.dll

        * libtommath/tommath.h:       CONSTify various useful internal
        * libtommath/bn_mp_cmp_d.c:   functions (TclBignumToDouble, TclCeil,
        * libtommath/bn_mp_cmp_mag.c: TclFloor), and related tommath functions
        * libtommath/bn_mp_cmp.c:
        * libtommath/bn_mp_copy.c:
        * libtommath/bn_mp_count_bits.c:
        * libtommath/bn_mp_div_2d.c:
        * libtommath/bn_mp_mod_2d.c:
        * libtommath/bn_mp_mul_2d.c:
        * libtommath/bn_mp_neg.c:
        * generic/tclBasic.c:        Handle TODO: const correctness ?
        * generic/tclInt.h:
        * generic/tclStrToD.c:
        * generic/tclTomMath.decls:
        * generic/tclTomMath.h:
        * generic/tclTomMathDecls.h:

2010-04-30  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tcl.h:        Bump patchlevel to 8.6b1.2 to distinguish
        * library/init.tcl:     CVS snapshots from earlier snapshots as well
        * unix/configure.in:    as the 8.6b1 and 8.6b2 releases.
        * win/configure.in:

        * unix/configure:       autoconf-2.59
        * win/configure:

        * generic/tclBinary.c (TclAppendBytesToByteArray):      Add comments
        * generic/tclInt.h (TclAppendBytesToByteArray): placing overflow
        protection responsibility on caller.  Convert "len" argument to signed
        int which any value already vetted for overflow issues will fit into.
        * generic/tclStringObj.c:       Update caller; standardize panic msg.

        * generic/tclBinary.c (UpdateStringOfByteArray): [Bug 2994924]: Add
        panic when the generated string representation would grow beyond Tcl's
        size limits.

2010-04-30  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBinary.c (TclAppendBytesToByteArray): Add extra armour
        against buffer overflows.

        * generic/tclBasic.c (NRInterpCoroutine): Corrected handling of
        * tests/coroutine.test (coroutine-6.4):   arguments to deal with
                                                  trickier cases.

2010-04-30  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * tests/coroutine.test: testing coroutine arguments after [yield]:
        check that only 0/1 allowed

2010-04-30  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c (NRInterpCoroutine): Corrected handling of
        arguments to deal with trickier cases.

        * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileVariableCmd): Slightly tighter
        issuing of instructions.

        * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): Add peephole optimization
        of the fact that INST_DICT_FIRST and INST_DICT_NEXT always have a
        conditional jump afterwards.

        * generic/tclBasic.c (TclNRYieldObjCmd, TclNRYieldmObjCmd)
        (NRInterpCoroutine): Replace magic values for formal argument counts
        for coroutine command implementations with #defines, for an increase
        in readability.

2010-04-30  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclMain.c: Unnecessary TCL_STORAGE_CLASS re-definition. It
        was used for an ancient dummy reference to Tcl_LinkVar(), but that's
        already gone since 2002-05-29.

2010-04-29  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCompExpr.c: Slight change in the literal sharing
        * generic/tclCompile.c:  mechanism to avoid shimmering of
        * generic/tclCompile.h:  command names.
        * generic/tclLiteral.c:

2010-04-29  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * library/platform/platform.tcl: Another stab at getting the /lib,
        * library/platform/pkgIndex.tcl: /lib64 difference right for linux.
        * unix/Makefile.in:              Package updated to version 1.0.7.
        * win/Makefile.in:

2010-04-29  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * library/tzdata/Antarctica/Macquarie:
        * library/tzdata/Africa/Casablanca:
        * library/tzdata/Africa/Tunis:
        * library/tzdata/America/Santiago:
        * library/tzdata/America/Argentina/San_Luis:
        * library/tzdata/Antarctica/Casey:
        * library/tzdata/Antarctica/Davis:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Anadyr:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Damascus:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Dhaka:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Gaza:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Kamchatka:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Karachi:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Taipei:
        * library/tzdata/Europe/Samara:
        * library/tzdata/Pacific/Apia:
        * library/tzdata/Pacific/Easter:
        * library/tzdata/Pacific/Fiji:   Olson's tzdata2010i.

2010-04-29  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBinary.c (TclAppendBytesToByteArray): [Bug 2992970]: Make
        * generic/tclStringObj.c (Tcl_AppendObjToObj): an append of a byte
        array to another into an efficent operation. The problem was the (lack
        of) a proper growth management strategy for the byte array.

2010-04-29  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * compat/dirent2.h:     Include "tcl.h", not <tcl.h>, like everywhere
        * compat/dlfcn.h:       else, to ensure that the version in the Tcl
        * compat/stdlib.h:      distribution is used, not some version from
        * compat/string.h:      somewhere else.
        * compat/unistd.h:

2010-04-28  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/Makefile.in:      Remove unused @MAN2TCLFLAGS@
        * win/tclWinPort.h:     Move <limits.h> include from tclInt.h to
        * generic/tclInt.h:     tclWinPort.h, and eliminate unneeded
        * generic/tclEnv.c:     <stdlib.h>, <stdio.h> and <string.h>, which
                                are already in tclInt.h
        * generic/regcustom.h:  Move "tclInt.h" from regcustom.h up to
        * generic/regex.h:      regex.h.
        * generic/tclAlloc.c:   Unneeded <stdio.h> include.
        * generic/tclExecute.c: Fix gcc warning: comparison between signed and
                                unsigned.

2010-04-28  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclInt.h (TclIsVarDirectUnsettable): Corrected flags so that
        deletion of traces is not optimized out...

        * generic/tclExecute.c (ExecuteExtendedBinaryMathOp)
        (TclCompareTwoNumbers,ExecuteExtendedUnaryMathOp,TclExecuteByteCode):
        [Patch 2981677]: Move the less common arithmetic operations (i.e.,
        exponentiation and operations on non-longs) out of TEBC for a big drop
        in the overall size of the stack frame for most code. Net effect on
        speed is minimal (slightly faster overall in tclbench). Also extended
        the number of places where TRESULT handling is replaced with a jump to
        dedicated code.

2010-04-27  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): Rearrange location of an
        assignment to shorten the object code.

2010-04-27  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclIOUtil.c (Tcl_FSGetNativePath): [Bug 2992292]:
        tclIOUtil.c assignment type mismatch compiler warning
        * generic/regguts.h:     If tclInt.h or tclPort.h is already
        * generic/tclBasic.c:    included, don't include <limits.h>
        * generic/tclExecute.c:  again. Follow-up to [Bug 2991415]:
        * generic/tclIORChan.c:  tclport.h #included before limits.h
        * generic/tclIORTrans.c: See comments in [Bug 2991415]
        * generic/tclObj.c:
        * generic/tclOOInt.h:
        * generic/tclStrToD.c:
        * generic/tclTomMath.h:
        * generic/tclTomMathInterface.c:
        * generic/tclUtil.c:
        * compat/strtod.c:
        * compat/strtol.c:

2010-04-27  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * unix/tclLoadDl.c (FindSymbol): [Bug 2992295]: Simplified the logic
        so that the casts added in Donal Fellows's change for the same bug are
        no longer necessary.

2010-04-26  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * unix/tclLoadDl.c (FindSymbol): [Bug 2992295]: Added an explicit cast
        because auto-casting between function and non-function types is never
        naturally warning-free.

        * generic/tclStubInit.c:   Add a small amount of gcc-isms (with #ifdef
        * generic/tclOOStubInit.c: guards) to ensure that warnings are issued
        when these files are older than the various *.decls files.

2010-04-25  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c:    Add unsupported [yieldm] command. Credit
        * generic/tclInt.h:      Lars Hellstrom for the basic idea.

2010-04-24  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c:    Modify api of TclSpliceTailcall() to fix
        * generic/tclExecute.c:  [yieldTo], which had not survived the latest
        * generic/tclInt.h:      mods to tailcall. Thanks kbk for detecting
        the problem.

2010-04-23  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * unix/tclUnixPort.h: [Bug 2991415]: tclport.h #included before
        limits.h

2010-04-22  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclPlatDecls.h:  Move TCHAR fallback typedef from tcl.h to
        * generic/tcl.h:           tclPlatDecls.h (as suggested by dgp)
        * generic/tclInt.h:        fix typo
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c:     Eliminate various unnecessary
        * unix/tclUnixFile.c:      type casts.
        * unix/tclUnixPipe.c:
        * win/tclWinChan.c:
        * win/tclWinFCmd.c:
        * win/tclWinFile.c:
        * win/tclWinLoad.c:
        * win/tclWinPipe.c:

2010-04-20  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclTest.c:  Use function prototypes from the FS API.
        * compat/zlib/*:      Upgrade to zlib 1.2.5

2010-04-19  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): Improve commenting and
        reduce indentation for the Invocation Block.

2010-04-18  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/unset.n: [Bug 2988940]: Fix typo.

2010-04-15  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinPort.h:       Move inclusion of <tchar.h> from
        * generic/tcl.h:          tclPlatDecls.h to tclWinPort.h, where it
        * generic/tclPlatDecls.h: belongs. Add fallback in tcl.h, so TCHAR is
                                  available in win32 always.

2010-04-15  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/try.n: [Bug 2987551]: Fix typo.

2010-04-14  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * library/platform/platform.tcl: Linux platform identification:
        * library/platform/pkgIndex.tcl: Check /lib64 for existence of files
        * unix/Makefile.in: matching libc* before accepting it as base
        * win/Makefile.in:  directory. This can happen on weirdly installed
        32bit systems which have an empty or partially filled /lib64 without
        an actual libc. Bumped to version 1.0.6.

2010-04-13  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinPort.h: Fix [Patch 2986105]: conditionally defining
        * win/tclWinFile.c: strcasecmp/strncasecmp
        * win/tclWinLoad.c: Fix gcc warning: comparison of unsigned expression
        >= 0 is always true

2010-04-08  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCompCmdsSZ.c (TclSubstCompile): If the first token does
        not result in a *guaranteed* push of a Tcl_Obj on the stack, we must
        push an empty object. Otherwise it is possible to get to a 'concat1'
        or 'done' without enough values on the stack, resulting in a crash.
        Thanks to Joe Mistachkin for identifying a script that could trigger
        this case.

2010-04-07  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/catch.n, doc/info.n, doc/return.n: Formatting.

2010-04-06  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/Load.3: Minor corrections of formatting and cross links.

2010-04-06  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/configure:       (regenerate with autoconf-2.59)
        * unix/configure:
        * unix/installManPage: [Bug 2982540]: configure and install* script
        * unix/install-sh:     files should always have LF line ending.
        * doc/Load.3:          Fix signature of Tcl_LoadFile in documentation.

2010-04-05  Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        TIP #348 IMPLEMENTATION

        * generic/tclBasic.c: [Patch 2868499]: Substituted error stack
        * generic/tclCmdIL.c:
        * generic/tclInt.h:
        * generic/tclNamesp.c:
        * generic/tclResult.c:
        * doc/catch.n:
        * doc/info.n:
        * doc/return.n:
        * tests/cmdMZ.test:
        * tests/error.test:
        * tests/execute.test:
        * tests/info.test:
        * tests/init.test:
        * tests/result.test:

2010-04-05  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_ENABLE_THREADS): Flip the default for whether to
        * win/tcl.m4 (SC_ENABLE_THREADS):  build in threaded mode. Part of
        * win/rules.vc:                    TIP #364.

        * unix/tclLoadDyld.c (FindSymbol): Better human-readable error message
        generation to match code in tclLoadDl.c.

2010-04-04  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclIOUtil.c, unix/tclLoadDl.c: Minor changes to enforce
        Engineering Manual style rules.

        * doc/FileSystem.3, doc/Load.3: Documentation for TIP#357.

        * macosx/tclMacOSXBundle.c (OpenResourceMap): [Bug 2981528]: Only
        define this function when HAVE_COREFOUNDATION is defined.

2010-04-02  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tcl.decls (Tcl_LoadFile): Add missing "const" in signature,
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c (Tcl_LoadFile): and some formatting fixes
        * generic/tclDecls.h:  (regenerated)

2010-04-02  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclIOUtil.c (Tcl_LoadFile): Corrections to previous commit
        * unix/tclLoadDyld.c (TclpDlopen):    to make it build on OSX.

2010-04-02  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        TIP #357 IMPLEMENTATION
        TIP #362 IMPLEMENTATION

        * generic/tclStrToD.c: [Bug 2952904]: Defer creation of the smallest
        floating point number until it is actually used. (This change avoids a
        bogus syslog message regarding a 'floating point software assist
        fault' on SGI systems.)

        * library/reg/pkgIndex.tcl:     [TIP #362]: Fixed first round of bugs
        * tests/registry.test:          resulting from the recent commits of
        * win/tclWinReg.c:              changes in support of the referenced
                                        TIP.

        * generic/tcl.decls:            [TIP #357]: First round of changes
        * generic/tclDecls.h:           to export Tcl_LoadFile,
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c:          Tcl_FindSymbol, and Tcl_FSUnloadFile
        * generic/tclInt.h:             to the public API.
        * generic/tclLoad.c:
        * generic/tclLoadNone.c:
        * generic/tclStubInit.c:
        * tests/fileSystem.test:
        * tests/load.test:
        * tests/unload.test:
        * unix/tclLoadDl.c:
        * unix/tclLoadDyld.c:
        * unix/tclLoadNext.c:
        * unix/tclLoadOSF.c:
        * unix/tclLoadShl.c:
        * unix/tclUnixPipe.c:
        * win/Makefile.in:
        * win/tclWinLoad.c:

2010-03-31  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/registry.n: Added missing documentation of TIP#362 flags.

        * doc/package.n: [Bug 2980210]: Document the arguments taken by
        the [package present] command correctly.

        * doc/Thread.3: Added some better documentation of how to create and
        use a thread using the C-level thread API, based on realization that
        no such tutorial appeared to exist.

2010-03-31  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * test/cmdMZ.test:    [FRQ 2974744]: share exception codes (ObjType?):
        * test/error.test:    Revised test cases, making sure that abbreviated
        * test/proc-old.test: codes are checked resulting in an error, and
                              checking for the exact error message.

2010-03-30  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * generic/tclIORChan.c (ReflectClose, ReflectInput, ReflectOutput,
        (ReflectSeekWide, ReflectWatch, ReflectBlock, ReflectSetOption,
        (ReflectGetOption, ForwardProc): [Bug 2978773]: Preserve
        ReflectedChannel* structures across handler invokations, to avoid
        crashes when the handler implementation induces nested callbacks and
        destruction of the channel deep inside such a nesting.

2010-03-30  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclObj.c (Tcl_GetCommandFromObj):     [Bug 2979402]: Reorder
        the validity tests on internal rep of a "cmdName" value to avoid
        invalid reads reported by valgrind.

2010-03-30  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclIndexObj:  [FRQ 2974744]: share exception codes
        * generic/tclResult.c:  further optimization, making use of indexType.
        * generic/tclZlib.c:    [Bug 2979399]: uninitialized value troubles

2010-03-30  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        TIP #362 IMPLEMENTATION

        * win/tclWinReg.c: [Patch 2960976]: Apply patch from Damon Courtney to
        * tests/registry.test:  allow the registry command to be told to work
        * win/Makefile.in:      with both 32-bit and 64-bit registries. Bump
        * win/configure.in:     version of registry package to 1.3.
        * win/makefile.bc:
        * win/makefile.vc:
        * win/configure:        autoconf-2.59

2010-03-29  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * unix/tcl.m4:            Only test for -visibility=hidden with gcc
                                  (Second remark in [Bug 2976508])
        * unix/configure:         regen

2010-03-29  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclStringObj.c:       Fix array overrun in test format-1.12
        caught by valgrind testing.

2010-03-27  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclInt.h:     [FRQ 2974744]: share exception codes
        * generic/tclResult.c:  (ObjType?)
        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c:
        * generic/tclCompCmdsSZ.c:

2010-03-26  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c: [Bug 2976508]: Tcl HEAD fails on HP-UX

2010-03-25  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c (TclUnixCopyFile): [Bug 2976504]: Corrected
        number of arguments to fstatfs() call.

        * macosx/tclMacOSXBundle.c, macosx/tclMacOSXFCmd.c:
        * macosx/tclMacOSXNotify.c: Reduce the level of ifdeffery in the
        functions of these files to improve readability. They need to be
        audited for whether complexity can be removed based on the minimum
        supported version of OSX, but that requires a real expert.

2010-03-24  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclResult.c:  [Bug 2383005]: Revise [return -errorcode] so
        * tests/result.test:    that it rejects illegal non-list values.

2010-03-24  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclOOInfo.c (InfoObjectMethodTypeCmd)
        (InfoClassMethodTypeCmd): Added introspection of method types so that
        it is possible to find this info out without using errors.
        * generic/tclOOMethod.c (procMethodType): Now that introspection can
        reveal the name of method types, regularize the name of normal methods
        to be the name of the definition type used to create them.

        * tests/async.test (async-4.*): Reduce obscurity of these tests by
        putting the bulk of the code for them inside the test body with the
        help of [apply].

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (TryPostBody, TryPostHandler): Make sure that the
        [try] command does not trap unwinding due to limits.

2010-03-23  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c:   [Bug 2973361]: Revised fix for computing
        indices of script arguments to [try].

2010-03-23  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c:      Make error message in "try" implementation
        * generic/tclCompCmdsSZ.c: exactly the same as the one in "return"
        * tests/error.test:
        * libtommath/mtests/mpi.c: Single "const" addition

2010-03-22  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c:   [Bug 2973361]: Compute the correct integer
        values to identify the argument indices of the various script
        arguments to [try]. Passing in -1 led to invalid memory reads.

2010-03-20  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/exec.n: Make it a bit clearer that there is an option to run a
        pipeline in the background.

        * generic/tclIOCmd.c (Tcl_FcopyObjCmd):         Lift the restriction
        * generic/tclIO.c (TclCopyChannel, CopyData):   on the [fcopy] command
        * generic/tclIO.h (CopyState):                  that forced it to only
        copy up to 2GB per script-level callback. Now it is anything that can
        fit in a (signed) 64-bit integer. Problem identified by Frederic
        Bonnet on comp.lang.tcl. Note that individual low-level reads and
        writes are still smaller as the optimal buffer size is smaller.

2010-03-20  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/stub16.c:         Don't hide that we use the ASCII API here.
                                (does someone still use that?)
        * win/tclWinPipe.c:     2 unnecessary type casts.

2010-03-19  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCompCmdsSZ.c (TclCompileThrowCmd): Added compilation for
        the [throw] command.

2010-03-18  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclListObj.c: [Bug 2971669]: Prevent in overflow trouble in
        * generic/tclTestObj.c: ListObjReplace operations. Thanks to kbk for
        * tests/listObj.test:   fix and test.

2010-03-18  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCompCmdsSZ.c (IssueTryFinallyInstructions):
        [Bug 2971921]: Corrected jump so that it doesn't skip into the middle
        of an instruction! Tightened the instruction issuing. Moved endCatch
        calls closer to their point that they guard, ensuring correct ordering
        of result values.

2010-03-17  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * generic/tclIORTrans.c (ReflectInput, ReflectOutput)
        (ReflectSeekWide): [Bug 2921116]: Added missing TclEventuallyFree
        calls for preserved ReflectedTransform* structures. Reworked
        ReflectInput to preserve the structure for its whole life, not only in
        InvokeTclMethod.

        * generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_GetsObj): [Bug 2921116]: Regenerate topChan,
        may have been changed by a self-modifying transformation.

        * tests/ioTrans/test (iortrans-4.8, iortrans-4.9, iortrans-5.11)
        (iortrans-7.4, iortrans-8.3): New test cases.

2010-03-16  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * compat/zlib/*:        Upgrade zlib to version 1.2.4.
        * win/makefile.vc:
        * unix/Makefile.in:
        * win/tclWinChan.c:     Don't cast away "const" without reason.

2010-03-12  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/makefile.vc: [Bug 2967340]: Static build was failing.
        * win/.cvsignore:

2010-03-10  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclTest.c:    Remove unnecessary '&' decoration for
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c:  function pointers
        * win/tclWin32Dll.c:    Double declaration of TclNativeDupInternalRep
        * unix/tclIOUtil.c:
        * unix/dltest/.cvsignore: Ignore *.so here

2010-03-09  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * generic/tclIORChan.c: [Bug 2936225]: Thanks to Alexandre Ferrieux
        * doc/refchan.n:    <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> for debugging and
        * tests/ioCmd.test: fixing the problem. It is the write-side
        equivalent to the bug fixed 2009-08-06.

2010-03-09  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * library/tzdata/America/Matamoros: New locale
        * library/tzdata/America/Ojinaga: New locale
        * library/tzdata/America/Santa_Isabel: New locale
        * library/tzdata/America/Asuncion:
        * library/tzdata/America/Tijuana:
        * library/tzdata/Antarctica/Casey:
        * library/tzdata/Antarctica/Davis:
        * library/tzdata/Antarctica/Mawson:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Dhaka:
        * library/tzdata/Pacific/Fiji:
        Olson tzdata2010c.

2010-03-07  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclTest.c:      Test that tclOO stubs are present in stub
                                  library
        * generic/tclOOMethod.c:  Applied missing part of [Patch 2961556]
        * win/tclWinInt.h:        Change all tclWinProcs signatures to use
        * win/tclWin32Dll.c:      TCHAR* in stead of WCHAR*. This is meant
        * win/tclWinDde.c:        as preparation to make [Enh 2965056]
        * win/tclWinFCmd.c:       possible at all.
        * win/tclWinFile.c:
        * win/tclWinPipe.c:
        * win/tclWinSock.c:

2010-03-06  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclStubLib.c: Remove presence of tclTomMathStubsPtr here.
        * generic/tclTest.c:    Test that tommath stubs are present in stub
                                library.

2010-03-05  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclIORTrans.c (ForwardProc): [Bug 2964425]: When cleaning
        the stables, it is sometimes necessary to do more than the minimum. In
        this case, rationalizing the variables for a forwarded limit? method
        required removing an extra Tcl_DecrRefCount too.

        * generic/tclOO.h, generic/tclOOInt.h: [Patch 2961556]: Change TclOO
        to use the same style of function typedefs as Tcl, as this is about
        the last chance to get this right.

        ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY***
        Source code that uses function typedefs from TclOO will need to update
        variables and argument definitions so that pointers to the function
        values are used instead. Binary compatibility is not affected.

        * generic/*.c, generic/tclInt.h, unix/*.c, macosx/*.c: Applied results
        of doing a Code Audit. Principal changes:
          * Use do { ... } while (0) in macros
          * Avoid shadowing one local variable with another
          * Use clearer 'foo.bar++;' instead of '++foo.bar;' where result not
            required (i.e., semantically equivalent); clarity is increased
            because it is bar that is incremented, not foo.
          * Follow Engineering Manual rules on spacing and declarations

2010-03-04  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclOO.c (ObjectRenamedTrace): [Bug 2962664]: Add special
        handling so that when the class of classes is deleted, so is the class
        of objects. Immediately.

        * generic/tclOOInt.h (ROOT_CLASS): Add new flag for specially marking
        the root class. Simpler and more robust than the previous technique.

2010-03-04  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclGetDate.y:    3 unnecessary MODULE_SCOPE
        * generic/tclDate.c:       symbols
        * generic/tclStubLib.c:    Split tommath stub lib
        * generic/tclTomMathStubLib.c:  in separate file.
        * win/makefile.bc:
        * win/Makefile.in:
        * win/makefile.vc:
        * win/tcl.dsp:
        * unix/Makefile.in:
        * unix/tcl.m4:          Cygwin only gives warning
        * unix/configure:       using -fvisibility=hidden
        * compat/strncasecmp.c: A few more const's
        * compat/strtod.c:
        * compat/strtoul.c:

2010-03-03  Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com>

        * doc/refchan.n: Followup to ChangeLog entry 2009-10-07
        (generic/tclIORChan.c). Fixed the documentation to explain that errno
        numbers are operating system dependent, and reworked the associated
        example.

2010-03-02  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * unix/tcl.m4:     [FRQ 2959069]: Support for -fvisibility=hidden
        * unix/configure   (regenerated with autoconf-2.59)

2010-03-01  Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/tclUnixSock.c: Refrain from a possibly lengthy reverse-DNS
        lookup on 0.0.0.0 when calling [fconfigure -sockname] on an
        universally-bound (default) server socket.

        * generic/tclIndexObj.c: fix [AT 86258]: special-casing of empty
        tables when generating error messages for [::tcl::prefix match].

2010-02-28  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCmdIL.c: More additions of {TCL LOOKUP} error-code
        generation to various subcommands of [info] as part of long-term
        project to classify all Tcl's generated errors.

2010-02-28  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclStubInit.c: [Bug 2959713]: Link error with gcc 4.1

2010-02-27  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (StringFirstCmd, StringLastCmd): [Bug 2960021]:
        Only search for the needle in the haystack when the needle isn't
        larger than the haystack. Prevents an odd crash from sometimes
        happening when things get mixed up (a common programming error).

        * generic/tclMain.c (Tcl_Main): [Bug 801429]: Factor out the holding
        of the client-installed main loop function into thread-specific data.

        ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY***
        Code that previously tried to set the main loop from another thread
        will now fail. On the other hand, there is a fairly high probability
        that such programs would have been failing before due to the lack of
        any kind of inter-thread memory barriers guarding accesses to this
        part of Tcl's state.

2010-02-26  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCompCmds.c:   Split this file into two pieces to make it
        * generic/tclCompCmdsSZ.c: easier to work with. It's still two very
                                   long files even after the split.

2010-02-26  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>

        * doc/safe.n: Name the installed file after the command it documents.
        Use "Safe Tcl" instead of the "Safe Base", "Safe Tcl" mixture.

2010-02-26  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * unix/Makefile.in (NATIVE_TCLSH): Added this variable to allow for
        better control of what tclsh to use for various scripts when doing
        cross compiling. An imperfect solution, but works.

        * unix/installManPage: Remap non-alphanumeric sequences in filenames
        to single underscores (especially colons).

2010-02-26  Pat Thoyts  <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/zlib.test: Add tests for [Bug 2818131] which was crashing with
        mismatched zlib algorithms used in combination with gets. This issue
        has been fixed by Andreas's last commit.

2010-02-25  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclHash.c:    [FRQ 2958832]: Further speed-up of the
        * generic/tclLiteral.c: ouster-hash function.
        * generic/tclObj.c:
        * generic/tclCkalloc.c: Eliminate various unnecessary (ClientData)
        * generic/tclTest.c:    type casts.
        * generic/tclTestObj.c:
        * generic/tclTestProcBodyObj.c:
        * unix/tclUnixTest.c:
        * unix/tclUnixTime.c:
        * unix/tclXtTest.c:

2010-02-24  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclDictObj.c (SetDictFromAny): Prevent the list<->dict
        * generic/tclListObj.c (SetListFromAny): conversion code from taking
        too many liberties. Stops loss of duplicate keys in some scenarios.
        Many thanks to Jean-Claude Wippler for finding this.

        * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): Reduce ifdef-fery and
        size of activation record. More variables shared across instructions
        than before.

        * doc/socket.n: [Bug 2957688]: Clarified that [socket -server] works
        with a command prefix. Extended example to show this in action.

2010-02-22  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * generic/tclZlib.c (ZlibTransformInput): [Bug 2762041]: Added a hack
        to work around the general problem, early EOF recognition based on the
        base-channel, instead of the data we have ready for reading in the
        transform. Long-term we need a proper general fix (likely tracking EOF
        on each level of the channel stack), with attendant complexity.
        Furthermore, Z_BUF_ERROR can be ignored, and must be when feeding the
        zlib code with single characters.

2010-02-22  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * unix/tclUnixPort.h:   Remove unnecessary EXTERN's, which already are
                                in the global stub table.
        * unix/configure.in:    Use @EXEEXT@ in stead of @EXT_SUFFIX@
        * unix/tcl.m4:
        * unix/Makefile.in:     Use -DBUILD_tcl for CYGWIN
        * unix/configure:       (regenerated)
        * unix/dltest/pkg*.c:   Use EXTERN to control CYGWIN exported symbols
        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c:   Remove some unnecessary type casts.
        * generic/tclCompCmds.c:
        * generic/tclTest.c:
        * generic/tclUtil.c:

2010-02-21  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/regexp.test: Add test cases back ported from Jacl regexp work.

2010-02-21  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclDate.c:    Some more const tables.
        * generic/tclGetDate.y:
        * generic/regc_lex.c:
        * generic/regerror.c:
        * generic/tclStubLib.c:
        * generic/tclBasic.c:   Fix [Bug 2954959] expr abs(0.0) is -0.0
        * tests/expr.test:

2010-02-20  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileStringLenCmd): Make [string length]
        of a constant string be handled better (i.e., handle backslashes too).

2010-02-19  Stuart Cassoff  <stwo@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tcl.m4: Correct compiler/linker flags for threaded builds on
        OpenBSD.
        * configure: (regenerated).

2010-02-19  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * unix/installManPage: [Bug 2954638]: Correct behaviour of manual page
        installer. Also added armouring to check that assumptions about the
        initial state are actually valid (e.g., look for existing input file).

2010-02-17  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclHash.c (HashStringKey):    Restore these hash functions
        * generic/tclLiteral.c (HashString):    to use the classic algorithm.
        * generic/tclObj.c (TclHashObjKey):     Community felt normal case
        speed to be more important than resistance to malicious cases. For
        now, hashes that need to deal with the malicious case can use a custom
        hash table and install their own hash function, though that is not
        functionality exposed to the script level.

        * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileDictUpdateCmd): Stack depth must be
        correctly described when compiling a body to prevent crashes in some
        debugging modes.

2010-02-16  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclInt.h: Change order of various struct members,
        fixing potential binary incompatibility with Tcl 8.5

2010-02-16  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * unix/configure.in, generic/tclIOUtil.c (Tcl_Stat): Updated so that
        we do not assume that all unix systems have the POSIX blkcnt_t type,
        since OpenBSD apparently does not.

        * generic/tclLiteral.c (HashString): Missed updating to FNV in one
        place; the literal table (a copy of the hash table code...)

2010-02-15  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * tools/genStubs.tcl:   Reverted earlier rename from tcl*Stubs to
        * generic/tclBasic.c:   tcl*ConstStubs, it's not necessary at all.
        * generic/tclOO.c:
        * generic/tclTomMathInterface.c:
        * generic/tclStubInit.c: (regenerated)
        * generic/tclOOStubInit.c: (regenerated)
        * generic/tclEnsemble.c:Fix signed-unsigned mismatch
        * win/tclWinInt.h:      make tclWinProcs "const"
        * win/tclWin32Dll.c:
        * win/tclWinFCmd.c:     Eliminate all internal Tcl_WinUtfToTChar
        * win/tclWinFile.c:     and Tcl_WinTCharToUtf calls, needed
        * win/tclWinInit.c:     for mslu support.
        * win/tclWinLoad.c:
        * win/tclWinPipe.c:
        * win/tclWinSerial.c:
        * win/.cvsignore:
        * compat/unicows/readme.txt:  [FRQ 2819611]: Add first part of MSLU
        * compat/unicows/license.txt: support.
        * compat/unicows/unicows.lib:

2010-02-15  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclOO.c (AllocObject, SquelchedNsFirst, ObjectRenamedTrace):
        * generic/tclNamesp.c (Tcl_DeleteNamespace): [Bug 2950259]: Revised
        the namespace deletion code to provide an additional internal callback
        that gets triggered early enough in namespace deletion to allow TclOO
        destructors to run sanely. Adjusted TclOO to take advantage of this,
        so making tearing down an object by killing its namespace appear to
        work seamlessly, which is needed for Itcl. (Note that this is not a
        feature that will ever be backported to 8.5, and it remains not a
        recommended way of deleting an object.)

2010-02-13  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileSwitchCmd): Divided the [switch]
        compiler into three pieces (after the model of [try]): a parser, an
        instruction-issuer for chained tests, and an instruction-issuer for
        jump tables.

        * generic/tclEnsemble.c: Split the ensemble engine out into its own
        file rather than keeping it mashed together with the namespace code.

2010-02-12  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tcl.m4:           Use -pipe for gcc on win32
        * win/configure:        (mingw/cygwin) (regenerated)
        * win/.cvsignore:       Add .lib, .exp and .res here

2010-02-11  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/list.test: Add tests for explicit \0 in a string argument to
        the list command.

2010-02-11  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclIOCmd.c (Tcl_OpenObjCmd): [Bug 2949740]: Make sure that
        we do not try to put a NULL pipeline channel into binary mode.

2010-02-11  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>

        [Bug 2826551, Patch 2948425]: Assorted regexp bugs related to -all,
        -line and -start options and newlines.
        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_RegexpObjCmd): If -offset is given, treat it
        as the start of the line if the previous character was a newline. Fix
        nasty edge case where a zero length match would not advance the index.
        * tests/regexp.test: Add regression tests back ported from Jacl.
        Checks for a number of issues related to -line and newline handling. A
        few of tests were broken before the patch and continue to be broken,
        marked as knownBug.

2010-02-11  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclOO.c (ObjectRenamedTrace): [Bug 2949397]: Prevent
        destructors from running on the two core class objects when the whole
        interpreter is being destroyed.

2010-02-09  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileTryCmd, IssueTryInstructions)
        (IssueTryFinallyInstructions): Added compiler for the [try] command.
        It is split into three pieces that handle the parsing of the tokens,
        the issuing of instructions for finally-free [try], and the issuing of
        instructions for [try] with finally; there are enough differences
        between the all cases that it was easier to split the code rather than
        have a single function do the whole thing.

2010-02-09  Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tools/genStubs.tcl: Remove dependency on 8.5+ idiom "in" in
        expressions.

2010-02-08  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclZlib.c (Tcl_ZlibDeflate, Tcl_ZlibInflate): [Bug 2947783]:
        Make sure that the result is an unshared object before appending to it
        so that nothing crashes if it is shared (use in Tcl code was not
        affected by this, but use from C was an issue).

2010-02-06  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclHash.c (HashStringKey):    Replace Tcl's crusty old hash
        * generic/tclObj.c (TclHashObjKey):     function with the algorithm
        due to Fowler, Noll and Vo. This is slightly faster (assuming the
        presence of hardware multiply) and has somewhat better distribution
        properties of the resulting hash values. Note that we only ever used
        the 32-bit version of the FNV algorithm; Tcl's core hash engine
        assumes that hash values are simple unsigned ints.

        ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY***
        Code that depends on hash iteration order (especially tests) may well
        be disrupted by this. Where a definite order is required, the fix is
        usually to just sort the results after extracting them from the hash.
        Where this is insufficient, the code that has ceased working was
        always wrong and was only working by chance.

2010-02-05  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileErrorCmd): Added compilation of the
        [error] command. No new bytecodes.

2010-02-05  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * tools/genStubs.tcl:   Follow-up to earlier commit today:
                  Eliminate the need for an extra Stubs Pointer for adressing
                  a static stub table: Just change the exported table from
                  static to MODULE_SCOPE.
        * generic/tclBasic.c
        * generic/tclOO.c
        * generic/tclTomMathInterface.c
        * generic/tcl*Decls.h (regenerated)
        * generic/tclStubInit.c (regenerated)
        * generic/tclOOStubInit.c (regenerated)
        * generic/tclTest.c (minor formatting)

2010-02-05  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclVar.c: More consistency in errorcode generation.

        * generic/tclOOBasic.c (TclOO_Object_Destroy): Rewrote to be NRE-aware
        when calling destructors. Note that there is no guarantee that
        destructors will always be called in an NRE context; that's a feature
        of the 'destroy' method only.

        * generic/tclEncoding.c: Add 'const' to many function-internal vars
        that are never pointing to things that are written to.

2010-02-05  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * tools/genStubs.tcl:   Follow-up to [2010-01-29] commit:
                prevent space within stub table function parameters if the
                parameter type is a pointer.
        * win/tclWinInt.h:      Minor Formatting
        * generic/tcl.h:        VOID -> void and other formatting
        * generic/tclInt.h:     Minor formatting
        * generic/tclInt.decls: Change signature of TclNRInterpProcCore,
        * generic/tclOO.decls:  and TclOONewProc(Instance|)MethodEx,
        * generic/tclProc.c:    indicating that errorProc is a function,
        * generic/tclOOMethod.c:pointer, and other formatting
        * generic/tcl*Decls.h:  (regenerated)
        * generic/tclVar.c:     gcc warning(line 3703): 'pattern' may be used
                                uninitialized in this function
                                gcc warning(line 3788): 'matched' may be used
                                uninitialized in this function

2010-02-04  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclVar.c: Added more use of error-codes and reduced the
        stack overhead of older interfaces.
        (ArrayGetCmd): Stop silly crash when using a trivial pattern due to
        error in conversion to ensemble.
        (ArrayNamesCmd): Use the object RE interface for faster matching.

2010-02-03  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclVar.c (ArrayUnsetCmd): More corrections.

2010-02-02  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclVar.c: Turned the [array] command into a true ensemble.

        * generic/tclOO.c (AllocObject, MyDeleted): A slightly faster way to
        handle the deletion of [my] is with a standard delete callback. This
        is because it doesn't require an additional memory allocation during
        object creation. Also reduced the amount of string manipulation
        performed during object creation to further streamline memory
        handling; this is not backported to the 8.5 package as it breaks a
        number of abstractions.

        * generic/tclOOBasic.c (TclOO_Object_Destroy): [Bug 2944404]: Do not
        crash when a destructor deletes the object that is executing that
        destructor.

2010-02-01  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_ArrayObjCmd): [Bug 2939073]: Stop the [array
        unset] command from having dangling pointer problems when an unset
        trace deletes the element that is going to be processed next. Many
        thanks to Alexandre Ferrieux for the bulk of this fix.

        * generic/regexec.c (ccondissect, crevdissect): [Bug 2942697]: Rework
        these functions so that certain pathological patterns are matched much
        more rapidly. Many thanks to Tom Lane for dianosing this issue and
        providing an initial patch.

2010-01-30  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCompile.c (tclInstructionTable):   Bytecode instructions
        * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileUnsetCmd):   to allow the [unset]
        * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode):    command to be compiled
        with the compiler being a complete compilation for all compile-time
        decidable uses.

        * generic/tclVar.c (TclPtrUnsetVar): Var reference version of the code
        to unset a variable. Required for INST_UNSET bytecodes.

2010-01-29  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tcl.h: [Bug 2942081]: Reverted Tcl_ThreadDataKey type change
                                Changed some Tcl_CallFrame fields from "char *"
                                to "void *". This saves unnecessary space on
                                Cray's (and it's simply more correct).

        * tools/genStubs.tcl:   No longer generate a space after "*" and
                                immediately after a function name, so the
                                format of function definitions in tcl*Decls.h
                                match all other tcl*.h header files.
        * doc/ParseArgs.3:      Change Tcl_ArgvFuncProc, Tcl_ArgvGenFuncProc
        * generic/tcl.h:        and GetFrameInfoValueProc to be function
        * generic/tclInt.h:     definitions, not pointers, for consistency
        * generic/tclOOInt.h:   with all other Tcl function definitions.
        * generic/tclIndexObj.c:
        * generic/regguts.h:    CONST -> const
        * generic/tcl.decls:    Formatting
        * generic/tclTomMath.decls: Formatting
        * generic/tclDecls.h:   (regenerated)
        * generic/tclIntDecls.h:
        * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h:
        * generic/tclOODecls.h:
        * generic/tclOOIntDecls.h:
        * generic/tclPlatDecls.h:
        * generic/tclTomMathDecls.h:

2010-01-28  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclOOBasic.c (TclOO_Object_Destroy): Move the execution of
        destructors to a point where they can produce an error. This will not
        work for all destructors, but it does mean that more failing calls of
        them will be caught.
        * generic/tclOO.c (AllocObject, MyDeletedTrace, ObjectRenamedTrace):
        (ObjectNamespaceDeleted): Stop various ways of getting at commands
        with dangling pointers to the object. Also increases the reliability
        of calling of destructors (though most destructors won't benefit; when
        an object is deleted namespace-first, its destructors are not run in a
        nice state as the namespace is partially gone).

2010-01-25  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclOOStubInit.c:   Remove double includes (which causes a
        * generic/tclOOStubLib.c:    warning in CYGWIN compiles)
        * unix/.cvsignore:           add confdefs.h

2010-01-22  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/proc.n: [Bug 1970629]: Define a bit better what the current
        namespace of a procedure is.

2010-01-22  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclInt.decls:      Don't use DWORD and HANDLE here.
        * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h:
        * generic/tcl.h:             Revert [2009-12-21] change, instead
        * generic/tclPort.h:         resolve the CYGWIN inclusion problems by
        * win/tclWinPort.h:          re-arranging the inclusions at other
                                     places.
        * win/tclWinError.c
        * win/tclWinPipe.c
        * win/tcl.m4:                Make cygwin configuration error into
        * win/configure.in:          a warning: CYGWIN compilation works
        * win/configure:             although there still are test failures.

2010-01-22  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): Improve error code
        generation from some of the tailcall-related bits of TEBC.

2010-01-21  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCompile.h: [Bug 2910748]: NRE-enable direct eval on BC
        * generic/tclExecute.c: spoilage.
        * tests/nre.test:

2010-01-19  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/dict.n: [Bug 2929546]: Clarify just what [dict with] and [dict
        update] are doing with variables.

2010-01-18  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * generic/tclIO.c (CreateScriptRecord): [Bug 2918110]: Initialize
        the EventScriptRecord (esPtr) fully before handing it to
        Tcl_CreateChannelHandler for registration. Otherwise a reflected
        channel calling 'chan postevent' (== Tcl_NotifyChannel) in its
        'watchProc' will cause the function 'TclChannelEventScriptInvoker'
        to be run on an uninitialized structure.

2010-01-18  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclStringObj.c (Tcl_AppendFormatToObj): [Bug 2932421]: Stop
        the [format] command from causing argument objects to change their
        internal representation when not needed. Thanks to Alexandre Ferrieux
        for this fix.

2010-01-13  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl:       More factoring out of special cases
        * tools/tcltk-man2html-utils.tcl: so that they are described outside
        the engine file. Now there is only one real set of special cases in
        there, to handle the .SO/.OP/.SE directives.

2010-01-13  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tcl.h:      Fix TCL_LL_MODIFIER for Cygwin
        * generic/tclEnv.c:   Fix CYGWIN compilation problems,
        * generic/tclInt.h:   and remove some unnecessary
        * generic/tclPort.h:  double includes.
        * generic/tclPlatDecls.h:
        * win/cat.c:
        * win/tclWinConsole.c:
        * win/tclWinFCmd.c:
        * win/tclWinFile.c:
        * win/tclWinPipe.c:
        * win/tclWinSerial.c:
        * win/tclWinThrd.c:
        * win/tclWinPort.h:   Put win32 includes first
        * unix/tclUnixChan.c: Forgot one CONST change

2010-01-12  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl: Make the generation of the list of things
        to process the docs from simpler and more flexible. Also factored out
        the lists of special cases.

2010-01-10  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinDde.c:      VC++ 6.0 doesn't have
        * win/tclWinReg.c:      PDWORD_PTR
        * win/tclWinThrd.c:     Fix various minor gcc warnings.
        * win/tclWinTime.c:
        * win/tclWinConsole.c:  Put channel type definitions
        * win/tclWinChan.c:     in static const memory
        * win/tclWinPipe.c:
        * win/tclWinSerial.c:
        * win/tclWinSock.c:
        * generic/tclIOGT.c:
        * generic/tclIORChan.c:
        * generic/tclIORTrans.c:
        * unix/tclUnixChan.c:
        * unix/tclUnixPipe.c:
        * unix/tclUnixSock.c:
        * unix/configure:       (regenerated with autoconf 2.59)
        * tests/info.test:      Make test independant from
                                tcltest implementation.

2010-01-10  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * tests/namespace.test (namespace-51.17): [Bug 2898722]: Demonstrate
        that there are still bugs in the handling of resolution epochs. This
        bug is not yet fixed.

        * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl:       Split the man->html converter into
        * tools/tcltk-man2html-utils.tcl: two pieces for easier maintenance.
        Also made it much less verbose in its printed messages by default.

2010-01-09  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl: Added basic support for building the docs
        for contributed packages into the HTML versions. Prompted by question
        on Tcler's Chat by Tom Krehbiel. Note that there remain problems in
        the documentation generated due to errors in the contributed docs.

2010-01-05  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclPathObj.c (TclPathPart):   [Bug 2918610]: Correct
        * tests/fileName.test (filename-14.31): inconsistency between the
        string rep and the intrep of a path value created by [file rootname].
        Thanks to Vitaly Magerya for reporting.

2010-01-03  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): [Bug 1636685]: Use the configuration
        for modern FreeBSD suggested by the FreeBSD porter.

2010-01-03  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c:   [Bug 2724403]: Fix leak of coroutines on
        * generic/tclCompile.h: namespace deletion. Added a test for this
        * generic/tclNamesp.c:  leak, and also a test for leaks on namespace
        * tests/coroutine.test: deletion.
        * tests/namespace.test:

2009-12-30  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * library/safe.tcl (AliasSource): [Bug 2923613]: Make the safer
        * tests/safe.test (safe-8.9):     [source] handle a [return] at the
                                          end of the file correctly.

2009-12-30  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * library/init.tcl (unknown): [Bug 2824981]: Fix infinite recursion of
        ::unknown when [set] is undefined.

2009-12-29  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclHistory.c (Tcl_RecordAndEvalObj): Reduce the amount of
        allocation and deallocation of memory by caching objects in the
        interpreter assocData table.

        * generic/tclObj.c (Tcl_GetCommandFromObj): Rewrite the logic so that
        it does not require making assignments part way through an 'if'
        condition, which was deeply unclear.

        * generic/tclInterp.c (Tcl_MakeSafe): [Bug 2895741]: Make sure that
        the min() and max() functions are supported in safe interpreters.

2009-12-29  Pat Thoyts  <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclBinary.c:  [Bug 2922555]: Handle completely invalid input
        * tests/binary.test:    to the decode methods.

2009-12-28  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * unix/Makefile.in (trace-shell, trace-test): [FRQ 1083288]: Added
        targets to allow easier tracing of shell and test invokations.

        * unix/configure.in: [Bug 942170]:      Detect the st_blocks field of
        * generic/tclCmdAH.c (StoreStatData):   'struct stat' correctly.
        * generic/tclFileName.c (Tcl_GetBlocksFromStat):
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c (Tcl_Stat):

        * generic/tclInterp.c (TimeLimitCallback): [Bug 2891362]: Ensure that
        * tests/interp.test (interp-34.13):        the granularity ticker is
        reset when we check limits because of the time limit event firing.

2009-12-27  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/namespace.n (SCOPED SCRIPTS): [Bug 2921538]: Updated example to
        not be quite so ancient.

2009-12-25  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c:      CONST -> const
        * generic/tclParse.c

2009-12-23  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * library/safe.tcl (AliasSource, AliasExeName): [Bug 2913625]: Stop
        information about paths from leaking through [info script] and [info
        nameofexecutable].

2009-12-23  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * unix/tcl.m4:          Install libtcl8.6.dll in bin directory
        * unix/Makefile.in:
        * unix/configure:       (regenerated)

2009-12-22  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LsortObjCmd): [Bug 2918962]: Stop crash when
        -index and -stride are used together.

2009-12-21  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclThreadStorage.c: Fix gcc warning, using gcc-4.3.4 on
                                      cygwin: missing initializer
        * generic/tclOOInt.h:         Prevent conflict with DUPLICATE
                                      definition in WINAPI's nb30.h
        * generic/rege_dfa.c:         Fix macro conflict on CYGWIN: don't use
                                      "small".
        * generic/tcl.h:              Include <winsock2.h> before <stdio.h> on
                                      CYGWIN
        * generic/tclPathObj.c
        * generic/tclPort.h
        * tests/env.test:             Don't unset WINDIR and TERM, it has a
                                      special meaning on CYGWIN (both in UNIX
                                      and WIN32 mode!)
        * generic/tclPlatDecls.h:     Include <tchar.h> through tclPlatDecls.h
        * win/tclWinPort.h:           stricmp -> strcasecmp
        * win/tclWinDde.c:            _wcsicmp -> wcscasecmp
        * win/tclWinFile.c
        * win/tclWinPipe.c
        * win/tclWinSock.c
        * unix/tcl.m4:                Add dynamic loading support to CYGWIN
        * unix/configure (regenerated)
        * unix/Makefile.in

2009-12-19  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c:   [Bug 2917627]: Fix for bad cmd resolution by
        * tests/coroutine.test: coroutines. Thanks to schelte for finding it.

2009-12-16  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * library/safe.tcl (::safe::AliasGlob): Upgrade to correctly support a
        larger fraction of [glob] functionality, while being stricter about
        directory management.

2009-12-11  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclTest.c:    Fix gcc warning: ignoring return value of
        * unix/tclUnixNotify.c: "write", declared with attribute
        * unix/tclUnixPipe.c:   warn_unused_result.
        * generic/tclInt.decls: CONSTify functions TclpGetUserHome and
        * generic/tclIntDecls.h:TclSetPreInitScript (TIP #27)
        * generic/tclInterp.c:
        * win/tclWinFile.c:
        * unix/tclUnixFile.c:

2009-12-16  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/tm.n: [Bug 1911342]: Formatting rewrite to avoid bogus crosslink
        to the list manpage when generating HTML.

        * library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl (Init): [Bug 2913616]: Do not use platform
        tests that are not needed and which don't work in safe interpreters.

2009-12-14  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/file.n (file tempfile): [Bug 2388866]: Note that this only ever
        creates files on the native filesystem. This is a design feature.

2009-12-13  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c:   Release TclPopCallFrame() from its
        * generic/tclExecute.c: tailcall-management duties
        * generic/tclNamesp.c:

        * generic/tclBasic.c:   Moving TclBCArgumentRelease call from
        * generic/tclExecute.c: TclNRTailcallObjCmd to TEBC, so that the
        pairing of the Enter and Release calls is clearer.

2009-12-12  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclTest.c (TestconcatobjCmd): [Bug 2895367]: Stop memory
        leak when testing. We don't need extra noise of this sort when
        tracking down real problems!

2009-12-11  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBinary.c:  Fix gcc warning, using gcc-4.3.4 on cygwin
        * generic/tclCompExpr.c:warning: array subscript has type 'char'
        * generic/tclPkg.c:
        * libtommath/bn_mp_read_radix.c:
        * win/makefile.vc:      [Bug 2912773]: Revert to version 1.203
        * unix/tclUnixCompat.c: Fix gcc warning: signed and unsigned type
                                in conditional expression.

2009-12-11  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl (long-toc, cross-reference): [FRQ 2897296]:
        Added cross links to sections within manual pages.

2009-12-11  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c:   [Bug 2806407]: Full nre-enabling of coroutines
        * generic/tclExecute.c:

        * generic/tclBasic.c: Small cleanup

        * generic/tclExecute.c: Fix panic in http11.test caused by buggy
        earlier commits in coroutine management.

2009-12-10  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * generic/tclObj.c (TclContinuationsEnter): [Bug 2895323]: Updated
        comments to describe when the function can be entered for the same
        Tcl_Obj* multiple times. This is a continuation of the 2009-11-10
        entry where a memory leak was plugged, but where not sure if that was
        just a band-aid to paper over some other error. It isn't, this is a
        legal situation.

2009-12-10  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c:   Reducing the # of moving parts for coroutines
        * generic/tclExecute.c: by delegating more to tebc; eliminate the
        special coroutine CallFrame.

2009-12-09  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * generic/tclIO.c: [Bug 2901998]: Applied Alexandre Ferrieux's patch
        fixing the inconsistent buffered I/O. Tcl's I/O now flushes buffered
        output before reading, discards buffered input before writing, etc.

2009-12-09  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c: Ensure right lifetime of varFrame's (objc,objv)
        for coroutines.

        * generic/tclExecute.c: Code regrouping

2009-12-09  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c: Added some of the missing setting of errorcode
        values.

2009-12-08  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c (TclStackFree): Improved panic msg.

2009-12-08  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c:   Partial nre-enabling of coroutines. The
        * generic/tclExecute.c: initial call still requires its own
        * generic/tclInt.h:     instance of tebc, but on resume coros can
        execute in the caller's tebc.

        * generic/tclExecute.c (TEBC): Silence warning about pcAdjustment.

2009-12-08  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): Make the dict opcodes
        more sparing in their use of C variables, to reduce size of TEBC
        activiation record a little bit.

2009-12-07  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c (TEBC): Grouping "slow" variables into structs,
        to reduce register pressure and help the compiler with variable
        allocation.

2009-12-07  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c: Start cleaning the TEBC stables
        * generic/tclInt.h:

        * generic/tclCmdIL.c:   [Bug 2910094]: Fix by aku
        * tests/coroutine.test:

        * generic/tclBasic.c: Arrange for [tailcall] to be created with the
        other builtins: was being created in a separate call, leftover from
        pre-tip days.

2009-12-07  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclStrToD.c: [Bug 2902010]: Correct conditional compile
        directives to better detect the toolchain that needs extra work for
        proper underflow treatment instead of merely detecting the MIPS
        platform.

2009-12-07  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c: [Patch 2910056]: Add ::tcl::unsupported::yieldTo
        * generic/tclInt.h:

2009-12-07  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (TryPostBody): [Bug 2910044]: Close off memory
        leak in [try] when a variable-free handler clause is present.

2009-12-05  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c:   Small changes for clarity in tailcall
        * generic/tclExecute.c: and coroutine code.
        * tests/coroutine.test:

        * tests/tailcall.test: Remove some old unused crud; improved the
        stack depth tests.

        * generic/tclBasic.c:  Fixed things so that you can tailcall
        * generic/tclNamesp.c: properly out of a coroutine.
        * tests/tailcall.test:

        * generic/tclInterp.c: Fixed tailcalls for same-interp aliases (no
        test)

2009-12-03  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * library/safe.tcl (::safe::AliasEncoding): Make the safe encoding
        command behave more closely like the unsafe one (for safe ops).
        (::safe::AliasGlob): [Bug 2906841]: Clamp down on evil use of [glob]
        in safe interpreters.
        * tests/safe.test: Rewrite to use tcltest2 better.

2009-12-02  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * tools/genStubs.tcl:   Add support for win32 CALLBACK functions and
        remove obsolete "emitStubs" and "genStubs" functions.
        * win/Makefile.in:      Use tcltest86.dll for all tests, and add
        .PHONY rules to preemptively stop trouble that plagued Tk from hitting
        Tcl too.

2009-11-30  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tcl.h:        Don't use EXPORT for Tcl_InitStubs
        * win/Makefile.in:      Better dependancies in case of static build.

2009-11-30  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/Tcl.n: [Bug 2901433]: Improved description of expansion to
        mention that it is using list syntax.

2009-11-27  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * win/tclAppInit.c (Tcl_AppInit): [Bug 2902965]: Reverted Jan's change
        that added a call to Tcl_InitStubs. The 'tclsh' and 'tcltest' programs
        are providers, not consumers of the Stubs table, and should not link
        with the Stubs library, but only with the main Tcl library. (In any
        case, the presence of Tcl_InitStubs broke the build.)

2009-11-27  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/BoolObj.3, doc/Class.3, doc/CrtChannel.3, doc/DictObj.3:
        * doc/DoubleObj.3, doc/Ensemble.3, doc/Environment.3:
        * doc/FileSystem.3, doc/Hash.3, doc/IntObj.3, doc/Limit.3:
        * doc/Method.3, doc/NRE.3, doc/ObjectType.3, doc/PkgRequire.3:
        * doc/SetChanErr.3, doc/SetResult.3: [Patch 2903921]: Many small
        spelling fixes from Larry Virden.

        BUMP VERSION OF TCLOO TO 0.6.2. Too many people need accumulated small
        versions and bugfixes, so the version-bump removes confusion.

        * generic/tclOOBasic.c (TclOO_Object_LinkVar): [Bug 2903811]: Remove
        unneeded restrictions on who can usefully call this method.

2009-11-26  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * unix/Makefile.in: Add .PHONY rules and documentation to preemptively
        stop trouble that plagued Tk from hitting Tcl too, and to make the
        overall makefile easier to understand. Some reorganization too to move
        related rules closer together.

2009-11-26  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/Makefile.in:      [Bug 2902965]: Fix stub related changes that
        * win/makefile.vc:      caused tclkit build to break.
        * win/tclAppInit.c
        * unix/tcl.m4
        * unix/Makefile.in
        * unix/tclAppInit.c
        * unix/configure:       (regenerated)

2009-11-25  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * win/Makefile.in:      Added a 'test-tcl' rule that is identical to
        'test' except that it does not go spelunking in 'pkgs/'. (This rule
        has existed in unix/Makefile.in for some time.)

2009-11-25  Stuart Cassoff  <stwo@users.sf.net>

        * unix/configure.in:    [Patch 2892871]: Remove unneeded
        * unix/tcl.m4:          AC_STRUCT_TIMEZONE and use
        * unix/tclConfig.h.in:  AC_CHECK_MEMBERS([struct stat.st_blksize])
        * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c:   instead of AC_STRUCT_ST_BLKSIZE.
        * unix/configure:       Regenerated with autoconf-2.59.

2009-11-24  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * library/tclIndex: Manually redone the part of tclIndex dealing with
        safe.tcl and tm.tcl. This part passes the testsuite. Note that
        automatic regeneration of this part is not possible because it wrongly
        puts 'safe::Setup' on the list, and wrongly leaves out 'safe::Log'
        which is more dynamically created than the generator expects.

        Further note that the file "clock.tcl" is explicitly loaded by
        "init.tcl", the first time the clock command is invoked. The relevant
        code can be found at line 172ff, roughly, the definition of the
        procedure 'clock'. This means none of the procedures of this file
        belong in the tclIndex. Another indicator that automatic regeneration
        of tclIndex is ill-advised.

2009-11-24  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclOO.c (FinalizeAlloc, Tcl_NewObjectInstance):
        [Bug 2903011]: Make it an error to destroy an object in a constructor,
        and also make sure that an object is not deleted twice in the error
        case.

2009-11-24  Pat Thoyts  <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/fCmd.test: [Bug 2893771]: Teach [file stat] to handle locked
        * win/tclWinFile.c: files so that [file exists] no longer lies.

2009-11-23  Kevin Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * tests/fCmd.test (fCmd-30.1): Changed registry location of the 'My
        Documents' folder to the one that's correct for Windows 2000, XP,
        Server 2003, Vista, Server 2008, and Windows 7. (See
        http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310746)

2009-11-23  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWinDde.c:      #undef STATIC_BUILD, in order to make sure
        * win/tclWinReg.c:      that Xxxxx_Init is always exported even when
        * generic/tclTest.c:    Tcl is built static (otherwise we cannot
                                create a DLL).
        * generic/tclThreadTest.c: Make all functions static, except
                                TclThread_Init.
        * tests/fCmd.test:      Enable fCmd-30.1 when registry is available.
        * win/tcl.m4:           Fix ${SHLIB_LD_LIBS} definition, fix conflicts
        * win/Makefile.in:      Simplifications related to tcl.m4 changes.
        * win/configure.in:     Between static libraries and import library on
                                windows.
        * win/configure:        (regenerated)
        * win/makefile.vc:      Add stub library to necessary link lines.

2009-11-23  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * generic/tclThreadTest.c (NewTestThread): [Bug 2901803]: Further
        machinations to get NewTestThread actually to launch the thread, not
        just compile.

2009-11-22  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclThreadTest.c (NewTestThread): [Bug 2901803]: Fix small
        error in function naming which blocked a threaded test build.

2009-11-19  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/Makefile.in:      Create tcltest86.dll as dynamic Tcltest
                                package.
        * generic/tclTest.c:    Remove extraneous prototypes, follow-up to
        * generic/tclTestObj.c: [Bug 2883850]
        * tests/chanio.test:    Test-cases for fixed [Bug 2849797]
        * tests/io.test:
        * tests/safe.test:      Fix safe-10.1 and safe-10.4 test cases, making
                                the wrong assumption that Tcltest is a static
                                package.
        * generic/tclEncoding.c:[Bug 2857044]: Updated freeIntRepProc routines
        * generic/tclVar.c:     so that they set the typePtr field to NULL so
                                that the Tcl_Obj is not left in an
                                inconsistent state.
        * unix/tcl.m4:          [Patch 2883533]: tcl.m4 support for Haiku OS
        * unix/configure:       autoconf-2.59

2009-11-19  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/tclAppInit.c:    [Bug 2883850, 2900542]: Repair broken build of
        * win/tclAppInit.c:     the tcltest executable.

2009-11-19  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * library/auto.tcl (tcl_findLibrary):
        * library/clock.tcl (MakeUniquePrefixRegexp, MakeParseCodeFromFields)
        (SetupTimeZone, ProcessPosixTimeZone):  Restored the use of a literal
        * library/history.tcl (HistAdd):        'then' when following a multi-
        * library/safe.tcl (interpConfigure):   line test expresssion. It's an
        * library/tm.tcl (UnknownHandler):      aid to readability then.

2009-11-19  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclInt.h:      Make all internal initialization
        * generic/tclTest.c:     routines MODULE_SCOPE
        * generic/tclTestObj.c:
        * generic/tclTestProcBodyObj.c:
        * generic/tclThreadTest.c:
        * unix/Makefile.in:      Fix [Bug 2883850]: pkgIndex.tcl doesn't
        * unix/tclAppInit.c:     get created with static Tcl build
        * unix/tclXtTest.c:
        * unix/tclXtNotify.c:
        * unix/tclUnixTest.c:
        * win/Makefile.in:
        * win/tcl.m4:
        * win/configure:         (regenerated)
        * win/tclAppInit.c:
        * win/tclWinDde.c:       Always compile with Stubs.
        * win/tclWinReg.c:
        * win/tclWinTest.c:

2009-11-18  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * doc/CrtChannel.3:     [Bug 2849797]: Fix channel name inconsistences
        * generic/tclIORChan.c: as suggested by DKF.
        * generic/tclIO.c:      Minor *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
                                because Tcl_CreateChannel() and derivatives
                                now sometimes ignore their "chanName"
                                argument.

        * generic/tclAsync.c:   Eliminate various gcc warnings (with -Wextra)
        * generic/tclBasic.c
        * generic/tclBinary.c
        * generic/tclCmdAH.c
        * generic/tclCmdIL.c
        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c
        * generic/tclCompile.c
        * generic/tclDate.c
        * generic/tclExecute.c
        * generic/tclDictObj.c
        * generic/tclIndexObj.c
        * generic/tclIOCmd.c
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c
        * generic/tclIORTrans.c
        * generic/tclOO.c
        * generic/tclZlib.c
        * generic/tclGetDate.y
        * win/tclWinInit.c
        * win/tclWinChan.c
        * win/tclWinConsole.c
        * win/tclWinNotify.c
        * win/tclWinReg.c
        * library/auto.tcl:             Eliminate "then" keyword
        * library/clock.tcl
        * library/history.tcl
        * library/safe.tcl
        * library/tm.tcl
        * library/http/http.tcl:        Eliminate unnecessary spaces
        * library/http1.0/http.tcl
        * library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl
        * library/opt/optparse.tcl
        * library/platform/platform.tcl
        * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl
        * tools/tclZIC.tcl
        * tools/tsdPerf.c

2009-11-17  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * unix/tclUnixChan.c (TtyParseMode): Partial undo of Donal's tidy-up
        from a few days ago (2009-11-9, not in ChangeLog). It seems that
        strchr is apparently a macro on AIX and reacts badly to pre-processor
        directives in its arguments.

2009-11-16  Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclEncoding.c:  [Bug 2891556]: Fix and improve test to
        * generic/tclTest.c:      detect similar manifestations in the future.
        * tests/encoding.test:    Add tcltest support for finalization.

2009-11-15  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>

        * win/tclWinDde.c: Avoid gcc compiler warning by explicitly casting
        DdeCreateStringHandle argument.

2009-11-12  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * generic/tclIO.c (CopyData): [Bug 2895565]: Dropped bogosity which
        * tests/io.test: used the number of _written_ bytes or character to
        update the counters for the read bytes/characters. New test io-53.11.
        This is a forward port from the 8.5 branch.

2009-11-11  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclClock.c (TclClockInit):    Do not create [clock] support
        commands in safe interps.

2009-11-11  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * library/http/http.tcl (http::geturl): [Bug 2891171]: URL checking
        too strict when using multiple question marks.
        * tests/http.test
        * library/http/pkgIndex.tcl:  Bump to http 2.8.2
        * unix/Makefile.in:
        * win/Makefile.in:

2009-11-11  Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclIO.c: Fix [Bug 2888099] (close discards ENOSPC error) by
        saving the errno from the first of two FlushChannel()s. Uneasy to
        test; might need specific channel drivers. Four-hands with aku.

2009-11-10  Pat Thoyts  <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/winFCmd.test: Cleanup directories that have been set chmod
        000. On Windows7 and Vista we really have no access and these were
        getting left behind.
        A few tests were changed to reflect the intent of the test where
        setting a directory chmod 000 should prevent any modification. This
        restriction was ignored on XP but is honoured on Vista

2009-11-10  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * generic/tclBasic.c: Plug another leak in TCL_EVAL_DIRECT evaluation.
        Forward port from Tcl 8.5 branch, change by Don Porter.

        * generic/tclObj.c: [Bug 2895323]: Plug memory leak in
        TclContinuationsEnter(). Forward port from Tcl 8.5 branch, change by
        Don Porter.

2009-11-09  Stuart Cassoff  <stwo@users.sf.net>

        * win/README: [bug 2459744]: Removed outdated Msys + Mingw info.

2009-11-09  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * generic/tclBasic.c (TclEvalObjEx): Moved the #280 decrement of
        refCount for the file path out of the branch after the whole
        conditional, closing a memory leak. Added clause on structure type to
        prevent seg.faulting. Forward port from valgrinding the Tcl 8.5
        branch.

        * tests/info.test: Resolve ambiguous resolution of variable "res".
        Forward port from 8.5

2009-11-08  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/string.n (bytelength): Noted that this command is not a good
        thing to use, and suggested a better alternatve. Also factored out the
        description of the indices into its own section.

2009-11-07  Pat Thoyts  <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/fCmd.test: [Bug 2891026]: Exclude tests using chmod 555
        directories on vista and win7. The current user has access denied and
        so cannot rename the directory without admin privileges.

2009-11-06  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * library/safe.tcl (::safe::Setup): Added documentation of the
        contents of the state array. Also killed the 'InterpState' procedure
        with its upleveled variable/upvar combination, and replaced all uses
        with 'namespace upvar'.

2009-11-05  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * library/safe.tcl: A series of patches which bring the SafeBase up to
        date with code guidelines, Tcl's features, also eliminating a number
        of inefficiencies along the way.
        (1) Changed all procedure names to be fully qualified.
        (2) Moved the procedures out of the namespace eval. Kept their
        locations. IOW, broke the namespace eval apart into small sections not
        covering the procedure definitions.
        (3) Reindented the code. Just lots of whitespace changes.
        Functionality unchanged.
        (4) Moved the multiple namespace eval's around. Command export at the
        top, everything else (var decls, argument parsing setup) at the
        bottom.
        (5) Moved the argument parsing setup into a procedure called when the
        code is loaded. Easier management of temporary data.
        (6) Replaced several uses of 'Set' with calls to the new procedure
        'InterpState' and direct access to the per-slave state array.
        (7) Replaced the remaining uses of 'Set' and others outside of the
        path/token handling, and deleted a number of procedures related to
        state array access which are not used any longer.
        (8) Converted the path token system to cache normalized paths and path
        <-> token conversions. Removed more procedures not used any longer.
        Removed the test cases 4.3 and 4.4 from safe.test. They were testing
        the now deleted command "InterpStateName".
        (9) Changed the log command setup so that logging is compiled out
        completely when disabled (default).
        (10) Misc. cleanup. Inlined IsInterp into CheckInterp, its only user.
        Consistent 'return -code error' for error reporting. Updated to use
        modern features (lassign, in/ni, dicts). The latter are used to keep a
        reverse path -> token map and quicker check of existence.
        (11) Fixed [Bug 2854929]: Recurse into all subdirs under all TM root
        dirs and put them on the access path.

2009-11-02  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * library/tzdata/Asia/Novokuznetsk: New tzdata locale for Kemerovo
        oblast', which now keeps Novosibirsk time and not Kranoyarsk time.
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Damascus: Syrian DST changes.
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Hong_Kong: Hong Kong historic DST corrections.
        Olson tzdata2009q.

2009-11-02  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/object.n (DESCRIPTION): Substantive revision to make it clearer
        what the fundamental semantics of an object actually are.

2009-11-01  Joe Mistachkin  <joe@mistachkin.com>

        * doc/Cancel.3: Minor cosmetic fixes.
        * win/makefile.vc: Make htmlhelp target work again.  An extra set of
        double quotes around the definition of the HTML help compiler tool
        appears to be required.  Previously, there was one set of double
        quotes around the definition of the tool and one around the actual
        invocation.  This led to confusion because it was the only such tool
        path to include double quotes around its invocation.  Also, it was
        somewhat inflexible in the event that somebody needed to override the
        tool command to include arguments.  Therefore, even though it may look
        "wrong", there are now two double quotes on either side of the tool
        path definition.  This fixes the problem that currently prevents the
        htmlhelp target from building and maintains flexibility in case
        somebody needs to override it via the command line or an environment
        variable.

2009-11-01  Joe English  <jenglish@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/Eval.3, doc/Cancel.3: Move TIP#285 routines out of Eval.3 into
        their own manpage.

2009-10-31  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c (ExprRoundFunc): [Bug 2889593]: Correctly report
        the expected number of arguments when generating an error for round().

2009-10-30  Pat Thoyts  <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/tcltest.test: When creating the notwritabledir we deny the
        current user access to delete the file. We must grant this right when
        we cleanup. Required on Windows 7 when the user does not automatically
        have administrator rights.

2009-10-29  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tcl.h:        Changed the typedef for the mp_digit type
        from:
                typedef unsigned long mp_digit;
        to:
                typedef unsigned int mp_digit;
        For 32-bit builds where "long" and "int" are two names for the same
        thing, this is no change at all.  For 64-bit builds, though, this
        causes the dp[] array of an mp_int to be made up of 32-bit elements
        instead of 64-bit elements.  This is a huge improvement because
        details elsewhere in the mp_int implementation cause only 28 bits of
        each element to be actually used storing number data.  Without this
        change bignums are over 50% wasted space on 64-bit systems.  [Bug
        2800740].

        ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY***
        For 64-bit builds, callers of routines with (mp_digit) or (mp_digit *)
        arguments *will*, and callers of routines with (mp_int *) arguments
        *may* suffer both binary and stubs incompatibilities with Tcl releases
        8.5.0 - 8.5.7.  Such possibilities should be checked, and if such
        incompatibilities are present, suitable [package require] requirements
        on the Tcl release should be put in place to keep such built code
        [load]-ing only in Tcl interps that are compatible.

2009-10-29  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * tests/dict.test: Make variable-clean and simplify tests by utilizing
        the fact that dictionaries have defined orders.

        * generic/tclZlib.c (TclZlibCmd): Remove accidental C99-ism which
        reportedly makes the AIX native compiler choke.

2009-10-29  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * library/clock.tcl (LocalizeFormat):
        * tests/clock.test (clock-67.1):
        [Bug 2819334]: Corrected a problem where '%%' followed by a letter in
        a format group could expand recursively: %%R would turn into %%H:%M:%S

2009-10-28  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclLiteral.c: [Bug 2888044]: Fixed 2 bugs.
        * tests/info.test:      First, as noted in the comments of the
        TclCleanupLiteralTable routine, since the teardown of the intrep of
        one Tcl_Obj can cause the teardown of others in the same table, the
        full table cleanup must be done with care, but the code did not
        contain the same care demanded in the comment.  Second, recent
        additions to the info.test file had poor hygiene, leaving an array
        variable ::a lying around, which breaks later interp.test tests during
        a -singleproc 1 run of the test suite.

2009-10-28  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * tests/fileName.test (fileName-20.[78]): Corrected poor test
        hygiene (failure to save and restore the working directory) that
        caused these two tests to fail on Windows (and [Bug 2806250] to be
        reopened).

2009-10-27  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclPathObj.c: [Bug 2884203]: Missing refcount on cached
        normalized path caused crashes.

2009-10-27  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * library/clock.tcl (ParseClockScanFormat): [Bug 2886852]: Corrected a
        problem where [clock scan] didn't load the timezone soon enough when
        processing a time format that lacked a complete date.
        * tests/clock.test (clock-66.1):
        Added a test case for the above bug.
        * library/tzdata/America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires:
        * library/tzdata/America/Argentina/Cordoba:
        * library/tzdata/America/Argentina/San_Luis:
        * library/tzdata/America/Argentina/Tucuman:
        New DST rules for Argentina. (Olson's tzdata2009p.)

2009-10-26  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/Makefile.in:     Remove $(PACKAGE).* and prototype from the
        `make distclean` target.  Completes 2009-10-20 commit.

2009-10-24  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * library/clock.tcl (ProcessPosixTimeZone):
        Corrected a regression in the fix to [Bug 2207436] that caused
        [clock] to apply EU daylight saving time rules in the US.
        Thanks to Karl Lehenbauer for reporting this regression.
        * tests/clock.test (clock-52.4):
        Added a regression test for the above bug.
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Dhaka:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Karachi:
        New DST rules for Bangladesh and Pakistan. (Olson's tzdata2009o.)

2009-10-23  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * generic/tclIO.c (FlushChannel): Skip OutputProc for low-level
        0-length writes. When closing pipes which have already been closed
        not skipping leads to spurious SIG_PIPE signals. Reported by
        Mikhail Teterin <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com>.

2009-10-22  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclOOBasic.c (TclOO_Object_VarName): [Bug 2883857]: Allow
        the passing of array element names through this method.

2009-10-21  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclPosixStr.c: [Bug 2882561]: Work around oddity on Haiku OS
        where SIGSEGV and SIGBUS are the same value.

        * generic/tclTrace.c (StringTraceProc): [Bug 2881259]: Added back cast
        to work around silly bug in MSVC's handling of auto-casting.

2009-10-20  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/Makefile.in:     Removed the long outdated and broken targets
        package-* that were for building Solaris packages.  Appears that the
        pieces needed for these targets to function have never been present in
        the current era of Tcl development and belong completely to Tcl
        pre-history.

2009-10-19  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclIO.c:      [Patch 2107634]: Revised ReadChars and
        FilterInputBytes routines to permit reads to continue up to the string
        limits of Tcl values.  Before revisions, large read attempts could
        panic when as little as half the limiting value length was reached.
        Thanks to Sean Morrison and Bob Parker for their roles in the fix.

2009-10-18  Joe Mistachkin  <joe@mistachkin.com>

        * generic/tclObj.c (TclDbDumpActiveObjects, TclDbInitNewObj)
        (Tcl_DbIncrRefCount, Tcl_DbDecrRefCount, Tcl_DbIsShared):
        [Bug 2871908]: Enforce separation of concerns between the lineCLPtr
        and objThreadMap thread specific data members.

2009-10-18  Joe Mistachkin  <joe@mistachkin.com>

        * tests/thread.test (thread-4.[345]): [Bug 1565466]: Correct tests to
        save their error state before the final call to threadReap just in
        case it triggers an "invalid thread id" error.  This error can occur
        if one or more of the target threads has exited prior to the attempt
        to send it an asynchronous exit command.

2009-10-17  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclVar.c (UnsetVarStruct, TclDeleteNamespaceVars)
        (TclDeleteCompiledLocalVars, DeleteArray):
        * generic/tclTrace.c (Tcl_UntraceVar2): [Bug 2629338]: Stop traces
        that are deleted part way through (a feature used by tdom) from
        causing freed memory to be accessed.

2009-10-08  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclDictObj.c (DictIncrCmd): [Bug 2874678]: Don't leak any
        bignums when doing [dict incr] with a value.
        * tests/dict.test (dict-19.3): Memory leak detection code.

2009-10-07  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * generic/tclObj.c: [Bug 2871908]: Plug memory leaks of objThreadMap
        and lineCLPtr hashtables.  Also make the names of the continuation
        line information initialization and finalization functions more
        consistent. Patch supplied by Joe Mistachkin <joe@mistachkin.com>.

        * generic/tclIORChan.c (ErrnoReturn): Replace hardwired constant 11
        with proper errno #define, EAGAIN. What was I thinking? The BSD's have
        a different errno assignment and break with the hardwired number.
        Reported by emiliano on the chat.

2009-10-06  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclInterp.c (SlaveEval): Agressive stomping of internal reps
        was added as part of the NRE patch of 2008-07-13.  This doesn't appear
        to actually be needed, and it hurts quite a bit when large lists lose
        their intreps and require reparsing.  Thanks to Ashok Nadkarni for
        reporting the problem.

        * generic/tclTomMathInt.h (new): Public header tclTomMath.h had
        * generic/tclTomMath.h: dependence on private headers, breaking use
        * generic/tommath.h:    by extensions [Bug 1941434].

2009-10-05  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * library/safe.tcl (AliasGlob): Fixed conversion of catch to
        try/finally, it had an 'on ok msg' branch missing, causing a silent
        error immediately, and bogus glob results, breaking search for Tcl
        modules.

2009-10-04  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

        * macosx/tclMacOSXBundle.c:     [Bug 2569449]: Workaround CF memory
        * unix/tclUnixInit.c:           managment bug in Mac OS X 10.4 &
                                        earlier.

2009-10-02  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * library/tzdata/Africa/Cairo:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Gaza:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Karachi:
        * library/tzdata/Pacific/Apia:  Olson's tzdata2009n.

2009-09-29  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclDictObj.c:         [Bug 2857044]: Updated freeIntRepProc
        * generic/tclExecute.c:         routines so that they set the typePtr
        * generic/tclIO.c:              field to NULL so that the Tcl_Obj is
        * generic/tclIndexObj.c:        not left in an inconsistent state.
        * generic/tclInt.h:
        * generic/tclListObj.c:
        * generic/tclNamesp.c:
        * generic/tclOOCall.c:
        * generic/tclObj.c:
        * generic/tclPathObj.c:
        * generic/tclProc.c:
        * generic/tclRegexp.c:
        * generic/tclStringObj.c:

        * generic/tclAlloc.c:           Cleaned up various routines in the
        * generic/tclCkalloc.c:         call stacks for memory allocation to
        * generic/tclInt.h:             guarantee that any size values computed
        * generic/tclThreadAlloc.c:     are within the domains of the routines
        they get passed to.  [Bugs 2557696 and 2557796].

2009-09-28  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c:   Replaced TclProcessReturn() calls with
        * tests/error.test:     Tcl_SetReturnOptions() calls as a simple fix
        for [Bug 2855247].  Thanks to Anton Kovalenko for the report and fix.
        Additional fixes for other failures demonstrated by new tests.

2009-09-27  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/error.test (error-15.8.*):      Coverage tests illustrating
        flaws in the propagation of return options by [try].

2009-09-26  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * unix/tclooConfig.sh, win/tclooConfig.sh: [Bug 2026844]: Added dummy
        versions of tclooConfig.sh that make it easier to build extensions
        against both Tcl8.5+TclOO-standalone and Tcl8.6.

2009-09-24  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        TIP #356 IMPLEMENTATION

        * generic/tcl.decls:    Promote internal routine TclNRSubstObj()
        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c:   to public Tcl_NRSubstObj().  Still needs docs.
        * generic/tclCompile.c:
        * generic/tclInt.h:

        * generic/tclDecls.h:   make genstubs
        * generic/tclStubInit.c:

2009-09-23  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * doc/namespace.n: the description of [namespace unknown] failed
        to mention [namespace path]: fixed. Thx emiliano.

2009-09-21  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/regexp.test: Added check for error message from
        unbalanced [] in regexp. Added additional simple test cases
        of basic regsub command.

2009-09-21  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCompile.c: Correct botch in the conversion of
        Tcl_SubstObj().  Thanks to Kevin Kenny for detection and report.

2009-09-17  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCompile.c: Re-implement Tcl_SubstObj() as a simple
        * generic/tclParse.c:   wrapper around TclNRSubstObj().  This has
        * tests/basic.test:     the effect of caching compiled bytecode in
        * tests/parse.test:     the value to be substituted.  Note that
        Tcl_SubstObj() now exists only for extensions.  Tcl itself no longer
        makes any use of it.  Note also that TclSubstTokens() is now reachable
        only by Tcl_EvalEx() and Tcl_ParseVar() so tests aiming to test its
        functioning needed adjustment to still have the intended effect.

2009-09-16  Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclObj.c:   Extended ::tcl::unsupported::representation.

2009-09-11  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c:   Completed the NR-enabling of [subst].
        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c:   [Bug 2314561].
        * generic/tclCompCmds.c:
        * generic/tclCompile.c:
        * generic/tclInt.h:
        * tests/coroutine.test:
        * tests/parse.test:

2009-09-11  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * tests/http.test: Added in cleaning up of http tokens for each test
        to reduce amount of global-variable pollution.

2009-09-10  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * library/http/http.tcl (http::Event): [Bug 2849860]: Handle charset
        names in double quotes; some servers like generating them like that.

2009-09-07  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclParse.c:   [Bug 2850901]: Corrected line counting error
        * tests/into.test:      in multi-command script substitutions.

2009-09-07  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c: Fix potential uninitialized variable use and
        * generic/tclFCmd.c:    null dereference flagged by clang static
        * generic/tclProc.c:    analyzer.
        * generic/tclTimer.c:
        * generic/tclUtf.c:

        * generic/tclExecute.c: Silence false positives from clang static
        * generic/tclIO.c:      analyzer about potential null dereference.
        * generic/tclScan.c:
        * generic/tclCompExpr.c:

2009-09-04  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileSubstCmd): [Bug 2314561]:
        * generic/tclBasic.c:   Added a bytecode compiler routine for the
        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c:   [subst] command. This is a partial solution to
        * generic/tclCompile.c: the need to NR-enable [subst] since bytecode
        * generic/tclCompile.h: execution is already NR-enabled. Two new
        * generic/tclExecute.c: bytecode instructions, INST_NOP and
        * generic/tclInt.h:     INST_RETURN_CODE_BRANCH were added to support
        * generic/tclParse.c:   the new routine.  INST_RETURN_CODE_BRANCH is
        * tests/basic.test:     likely to be useful in any future effort to
        * tests/info.test:      add a bytecode compiler routine for [try].
        * tests/parse.test:

2009-09-03  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/LinkVar.3: [Bug 2844962]: Added documentation of issues relating
        to use of this API in a multi-threaded environment.

2009-09-01  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * generic/tclIORTrans.c (ReflectInput): Remove error response to
        0-result from method 'limit?' of transformations. Return the number of
        copied bytes instead, which is possibly nothing. The latter then
        triggers EOF handling in the higher layers, making the 0-result of
        limit? the way to inject artificial EOF's into the data stream.

2009-09-01  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl:  Bump to tcltest 2.3.2 after revision
        * library/tcltest/pkgIndex.tcl: to verbose error message.
        * unix/Makefile.in:
        * win/Makefile.in:

2009-08-27  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclStringObj.c:       [Bug 2845535]: A few more string
        overflow cases in [format].

2009-08-25  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_CreateInterp, Tcl_EvalTokensStandard)
        (Tcl_EvalEx, TclEvalEx, TclAdvanceContinuations, TclNREvalObjEx):
        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_SwitchObjCmd, TclListLines):
        * generic/tclCompCmds.c (*):
        * generic/tclCompile.c (TclSetByteCodeFromAny, TclInitCompileEnv)
        (TclFreeCompileEnv, TclCompileScript, TclCompileTokens):
        * generic/tclCompile.h (CompileEnv):
        * generic/tclInt.h (ContLineLoc, Interp):
        * generic/tclObj.c (ThreadSpecificData, ContLineLocFree)
        (TclThreadFinalizeObjects, TclInitObjSubsystem, TclContinuationsEnter,
        (TclContinuationsEnterDerived, TclContinuationsCopy, TclFreeObj)
        (TclContinuationsGet):
        * generic/tclParse.c (TclSubstTokens, Tcl_SubstObj):
        * generic/tclProc.c (TclCreateProc):
        * generic/tclVar.c (TclPtrSetVar):
        * tests/info.test (info-30.0-24):

        Extended the parser, compiler, and execution engine with code and
        attendant data structures tracking the position of continuation lines
        which are not visible in the resulting script Tcl_Obj*'s, to properly
        account for them while counting lines for #280.

2009-08-24  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclInt.h: Annotate Tcl_Panic as noreturn for clang static
        analyzer in PURIFY builds, replacing preprocessor/assert technique.

        * macosx/tclMacOSXNotify.c: Fix multiple issues with nested event loops
        when CoreFoundation notifier is running in embedded mode. (Fixes
        problems in TkAqua Cocoa reported by Youness Alaoui on tcl-mac)

2009-08-21  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclFileName.c: Correct regression in [Bug 2837800] fix.
        * tests/fileName.test:

2009-08-20  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclFileName.c: [Bug 2837800]: Correct the result produced by
        [glob */test] when * matches something like ~foo.

        * generic/tclPathObj.c: [Bug 2806250]: Prevent the storage of strings
        starting with ~ in the "tail" part (normPathPtr field) of the path
        intrep when PATHFLAGS != 0.  This establishes the assumptions relied
        on elsewhere that the name stored there is a relative path.  Also
        refactored to make an AppendPath() routine instead of the cut/paste
        stanzas that were littered throughout.

2009-08-20  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCmdIL.c (TclNRIfObjCmd): [Bug 2823276]: Make [if]
        NRE-safe on all arguments when interpreted.
        (Tcl_LsortObjCmd): Close off memory leak.

2009-08-19  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCmdAH.c (TclNRForObjCmd, etc.): [Bug 2823276]: Make [for]
        and [while] into NRE-safe commands, even when interpreted.

2009-08-18  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclPathObj.c: [Bug 2837800]: Added NULL check to prevent
        * tests/fileName.test:  crashes during [glob].

2009-08-16  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * unix/dltest/pkge.c:  const addition
        * unix/tclUnixThrd.c:  Use <pthread.h> in stead of "pthread.h"
        * win/tclWinDde.c:     Eliminate some more gcc warnings
        * win/tclWinReg.c:
        * generic/tclInt.h:    Change ForIterData, make it const-safe.
        * generic/tclCmdAH.c:

2009-08-12  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        TIP #353 IMPLEMENTATION

        * doc/NRE.3:            New public routine Tcl_NRExprObj() permits
        * generic/tcl.decls:    extension commands to evaluate Tcl expressions
        * generic/tclBasic.c:   in NR-enabled command procedures.
        * generic/tclCmdAH.c:
        * generic/tclExecute.c:
        * generic/tclInt.h:
        * generic/tclObj.c:
        * tests/expr.test:

        * generic/tclDecls.h:           make genstubs
        * generic/tclStubInit.c:

2009-08-06  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * doc/refchan.n [Bug 2827000]: Extended the implementation of
        * generic/tclIORChan.c: reflective channels (TIP 219, method
        * tests/ioCmd.test: 'read'), enabling handlers to signal EAGAIN to
        indicate 'no data, but not at EOF either', and other system
        errors. Updated documentation, extended testsuite (New test cases
        iocmd*-23.{9,10}).

2009-08-02  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * tests/coroutine.test: fix testfile cleanup

2009-08-02  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclObj.c (Tcl_RepresentationCmd): Added an unsupported
        command for reporting the representation of an object. Result string
        is deliberately a bit obstructive so that people are not encouraged to
        make code that depends on it; it's a debugging tool only!

        * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c (GetOwnerAttribute, SetOwnerAttribute)
        (GetGroupAttribute, SetGroupAttribute): [Bug 1942222]: Stop calling
        * unix/tclUnixFile.c (TclpGetUserHome): endpwent() and endgrent();
        they've been unnecessary for ages.

2009-08-02  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/tclWin32Dll.c: Eliminate TclWinResetInterfaceEncodings, since it
        * win/tclWinInit.c:  does exactly the same as TclWinEncodingsCleanup,
        * win/tclWinInt.h:   make sure that tclWinProcs and
                             tclWinTCharEncoding are always set and reset
                             concurrently.
        * win/tclWinFCmd.c:  Correct check for win95

2009-07-31  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclStringObj.c: [Bug 2830354]:        Corrected failure to
        * tests/format.test:            grow buffer when format spec request
        large width floating point values.  Thanks to Clemens Misch.

2009-07-26  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * library/auto.tcl (tcl_findLibrary, auto_mkindex):
        * library/package.tcl (pkg_mkIndex, tclPkgUnknown, MacOSXPkgUnknown):
        * library/safe.tcl (interpAddToAccessPath, interpDelete, AliasGlob):
        (AliasSource, AliasLoad, AliasEncoding):
        * library/tm.tcl (UnknownHandler): Simplify by swapping some [catch]
        gymnastics for use of [try].

2009-07-26 Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tools/genStubs.tcl: Forced LF translation when generating .h's to
        avoid spurious diffs when regenerating on a Windows box.

2009-07-26  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/Makefile.in: [Bug 2827066]: msys build --enable-symbols broken
        * win/tcl.m4:      And modified the same for unicows.dll, as a
        * win/configure:   preparation for [Enh 2819611].

2009-07-25  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * library/history.tcl (history): Reworked the history mechanism in
        terms of ensembles, rather than the ad hoc ensemble-lite mechanism
        used previously.

2009-07-24  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/self.n (self class): [Bug 2704302]: Add some text to make it
        clearer how to get the name of the current object's class.

2009-07-23  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_GetChannelHandle): [Bug 2826248]: Do not crash
        * generic/tclPipe.c (FileForRedirect): for getHandleProc == NULL, this
        is allowed. Provide a nice error message in the bypass area. Updated
        caller to check the bypass for a mesage. Bug reported by Andy
        Sonnenburg <andy22286@users.sourceforge.net>

2009-07-23  Joe Mistachkin  <joe@mistachkin.com>

        * generic/tclNotify.c: [Bug 2820349]: Ensure that queued events are
        freed once processed.

2009-07-22  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * macosx/tclMacOSXFCmd.c: CONST -> const
        * generic/tclGetDate.y:
        * generic/tclDate.c:
        * generic/tclLiteral.c: (char *) cast in ckfree call
        * generic/tclPanic.c: [Feature Request 2814786]: remove TclpPanic
        * generic/tclInt.h
        * unix/tclUnixPort.h
        * win/tclWinPort.h

2009-07-22 Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclEvent.c: [Bug 2001201 again]: Refined the 20090617 patch
        on [exit] streamlining, so that it now correctly calls thread exit
        handlers for the calling thread, including <Destroy> bindings in Tk.

2009-07-21  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * library/tzdata/Asia/Dhaka:
        * library/tzdata/Indian/Mauritius: Olson's tzdata2009k.

2009-07-20  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (StringIsCmd): Reorganize so that [string is] is
        more efficient when parsing things that are correct, at a cost of
        making the empty string test slightly more costly. With this, the cost
        of doing [string is integer -strict $x] matches [catch {expr {$x+0}}]
        in the successful case, and greatly outstrips it in the failing case.

2009-07-19  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclOO.decls, generic/tclOO.c (Tcl_GetObjectName): Expose a
        function for efficiently returning the current name of an object.

2009-07-18  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/Makefile.in: Define NDEBUG in optimized (non-symbols) build to
        disable NRE assert()s and threaded allocator range checks.

2009-07-16  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclBinary.c:  Removed unused variables.
        * generic/tclCmdIL.c:
        * generic/tclCompile.c:
        * generic/tclExecute.c:
        * generic/tclHash.c:
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c:
        * generic/tclVar.c:

        * generic/tclBasic.c:   Silence compiler warnings about ClientData.
        * generic/tclProc.c:

        * generic/tclScan.c:    Typo in ACCEPT_NAN configuration.

        * generic/tclStrToD.c:  [Bug 2819200]: Set floating point control
        register on MIPS systems so that the gradual underflow expected by Tcl
        is in effect.

2009-07-15  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclInt.h (Namespace):            Added machinery to allow
        * generic/tclNamesp.c (many functions):    reduction of memory used
        * generic/tclResolve.c (BumpCmdRefEpochs): by namespaces. Currently
        #ifdef'ed out because of compatibility concerns.

        * generic/tclInt.decls: Added four functions for better integration
        with itcl-ng.

2009-07-14  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * generic/tclInt.h (TclNRSwitchObjCmd):
        * generic/tclBasic.c (builtInCmds):
        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_SwitchObjCmd):
        * tests/switch.test (switch-15.1):
        [Bug 2821401]: Make non-bytecoded [switch] command aware of NRE.

2009-07-13  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * generic/tclCompile.c (TclInitCompileEnv, EnterCmdWordIndex)
        (TclCleanupByteCode, TclCompileScript):
        * generic/tclExecute.c (TclCompileObj, TclExecuteByteCode):
        * tclCompile.h (ExtCmdLoc):
        * tclInt.h (ExtIndex, CFWordBC, CmdFrame):
        * tclBasic.c (DeleteInterpProc, TclArgumentBCEnter)
        (TclArgumentBCRelease, TclArgumentGet, SAVE_CONTEXT)
        (RESTORE_CONTEXT, NRCoroutineExitCallback, TclNRCoroutineObjCmd):
        * generic/tclCmdAH.c (TclNRForObjCmd, TclNRForIterCallback,
        (ForNextCallback):
        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (TclNRWhileObjCmd):

        Extended the bytecode compiler initialization to recognize the
        compilation of whole files (NRE enabled 'source' command) and switch
        to the counting of absolute lines in that case.

        Further extended the bytecode compiler to track the start line in the
        generated information, and modified the bytecode execution to
        recompile an object if the location as per the calling context doesn't
        match the location saved in the bytecode. This part could be optimized
        more by using more memory to keep all possibilities which occur
        around, or by just adjusting the location information instead of a
        total recompile.

        Reworked the handling of literal command arguments in bytecode to be
        saved (compiler) and used (execution) per command (See the
        TCL_INVOKE_STK* instructions), and not per the whole bytecode. This,
        and the previous change remove the problems with location data caused
        by literal sharing (across whole files, but also proc bodies).
        Simplified the associated datastructures (ExtIndex is gone, as is the
        function EnterCmdWordIndex).

        The last change causes the hashtable 'lineLABCPtr' to be state which
        has to be kept per coroutine, like the CmdFrame stack. Reworked the
        coroutine support code to create, delete and switch the information as
        needed. Further reworked the tailcall command as well, it has to pop
        its own arguments when run in a bytecode context to keep a proper
        stack in 'lineLABCPtr'.

        Fixed the mishandling of line information in the NRE-enabled 'for' and
        'while' commands introduced when both were made to share their
        iteration callbacks without taking into account that the loop body is
        found in different words of the command. Introduced a separate data
        structure to hold all the callback information, as we went over the
        limit of 4 direct client-data values for NRE callbacks.

        The above fixes [Bug 1605269].

2009-07-12  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (StringIndexCmd, StringEqualCmd, StringCmpCmd):
        * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): [Bug 2637173]: Factor out
        * generic/tclInt.h (TclIsPureByteArray):     the code to determine if
        * generic/tclUtil.c (TclStringMatchObj):     it is safe to work with
        byte arrays directly, so that we get the check correct _once_.

        * generic/tclOOCall.c (TclOOGetCallContext): [Bug 1895546]: Changed
        * generic/tclOO.c (TclOOObjectCmdCore):      the way that the cache is
        managed so that when itcl does cunning things, those cunning things
        can be cached properly.

2009-07-11  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/vwait.n: Substantially increased the discussion of issues and
        work-arounds relating to nested vwaits, following discussion on the
        tcl-core mailing list on the topic.

2009-07-10  Pat Thoyts  <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/zlib.test:   ZlibTransformClose may be called with a NULL
        * generic/tclZlib.c: interpreter during finalization and
        Tcl_SetChannelError requires a list. Added some tests to ensure error
        propagation from the zlib library to the interp.

2009-07-09  Pat Thoyts  <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/zlib.test: [Bug 2818131]: Added tests and fixed a typo that
        broke [zlib push] for deflate format.

2009-07-09  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * compat/mkstemp.c (mkstemp): [Bug 2819227]: Use rand() for random
        numbers as it is more portable.

2009-07-05  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclZlib.c (ZlibTransformWatch): Correct the handling of
        events so that channel transforms work with things like an asynch
        [chan copy]. Problem reported by Pat Thoyts.

2009-07-01  Pat Thoyts  <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>

        * win/tclWinInt.h:   [Bug 2806622]: Handle the GetUserName API call
        * win/tclWin32Dll.c: via the tclWinProcs indirection structure. This
        * win/tclWinInit.c:  fixes a problem obtaining the username when the
        USERNAME environment variable is unset.

2009-06-30  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclInt.h:             Add assert macros for clang static
        * generic/tclPanic.c:           analyzer and redefine Tcl_Panic to
        * generic/tclStubInit.c:        assert after panic in clang PURIFY
                                        builds.

        * generic/tclCmdIL.c:           Add clang assert for false positive
                                        from static analyzer.

2009-06-26  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

        * macosx/Tcl-Common.xcconfig:    Update projects for Xcode 3.1 and
        * macosx/Tcl.xcode/*:            3.2, standardize on gcc 4.2, remove
        * macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/*:        obsolete configurations and pre-Xcode
        * macosx/Tcl.pbproj/* (removed): project.

        * macosx/README:                 Update project docs, cleanup.

        * unix/Makefile.in:              Update dist target for project
                                         changes.

2009-06-24  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * tests/oo.test (oo-19.1): [Bug 2811598]: Make more resilient.

2009-06-24  Pat Thoyts  <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/http11.test: [Bug 2811492]: Clean up procs after testing.

2009-06-18  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCkalloc.c (MemoryCmd): [Bug 988703]:
        * generic/tclObj.c (ObjData, TclFinalizeThreadObjects): Add mechanism
        for discovering what Tcl_Objs are allocated when built for memory
        debugging. Developed by Joe Mistachkin.

2009-06-17 Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclEvent.c: Applied a patch by George Peter Staplin
        drastically reducing the ambition of [exit] wrt finalization, and
        thus solving many multi-thread teardown issues. [Bugs 2001201,
        486399, and possibly 597575, 990457, 1437595, 2750491]

2009-06-15  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclStringObj.c: sprintf() -> Tcl_ObjPrintf() conversion.

2009-06-15  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>

        * unix/tclUnixPort.h: Move all socket-related code from tclUnixChan.c
        * unix/tclUnixChan.c: to tclUnixSock.c.
        * unix/tclUnixSock.c:

2009-06-15  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl (make-man-pages): [Patch 557486]: Apply
        last remaining meaningful part of this patch, a clean up of some
        closing tags.

2009-06-13  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCompile.c: [Bug 2802881]: The value stashed in
        * generic/tclProc.c:    iPtr->compiledProcPtr when compiling a proc
        * tests/execute.test:   survives too long. We only need it there long
        enough for the right TclInitCompileEnv() call to re-stash it into
        envPtr->procPtr.  Once that is done, the CompileEnv controls.  If we
        let the value of iPtr->compiledProcPtr linger, though, then any other
        bytecode compile operation that takes place will also have its
        CompileEnv initialized with it, and that's not correct.  The value is
        meant to control the compile of the proc body only, not other compile
        tasks that happen along.  Thanks to Carlos Tasada for discovering and
        reporting the problem.

2009-06-10  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclStringObj.c:       [Bug 2801413]: Revised [format] to not
        overflow the integer calculations computing the length of the %ll
        formats of really big integers.  Also added protections so that
        [format]s that would produce results overflowing the maximum string
        length of Tcl values throw a normal Tcl error instead of a panic.

        * generic/tclStringObj.c:       [Bug 2803109]: Corrected failures to
        deal with the "pure unicode" representation of an empty string.
        Thanks to Julian Noble for reporting the problem.

2006-06-09  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * generic/tclGetDate.y: Fixed a thread safety bug in the generated
        * library/clock.tcl:    Bison parser (needed a %pure-parser
        * tests/clock.test:     declaration to avoid static variables).
                                Discovered that the %pure-parser declaration
                                allowed for returning the Bison error message
                                to the Tcl caller in the event of a syntax
                                error, so did so.
        * generic/tclDate.c: bison 2.3

2006-06-08  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * library/tzdata/Asia/Dhaka: New DST rule for Bangladesh. (Olson's
        tzdata2009i.)

2009-06-08  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/copy.n: Fix error in example spotted by Venkat Iyer.

2009-06-02  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c: Replace dynamically-initialized table with a
        table of static constants in the lookup table for exponent operator
        computations that fit in a 64 bit integer result.

        * generic/tclExecute.c: [Bug 2798543]: Corrected implementations and
        selection logic of the INST_EXPON instruction.

2009-06-01  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/expr.test:      [Bug 2798543]: Added many tests demonstrating
        the broken cases.

009-05-30  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * library/tzdata/Africa/Cairo:
        * library/tzdata/Asia/Amman: Olson's tzdata2009h.

2009-05-29  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * library/platform/platform.tcl: Fixed handling of cpu ia64,
        * library/platform/pkgIndex.tcl: taking ia64_32 into account
        * unix/Makefile.in: now. Bumped version to 1.0.5. Updated the
        * win/Makefile.in: installation commands.

2009-05-26 Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/expr.n: Fixed documentation of the right-associativity of
        the ** operator. (spotted by kbk)

2009-05-14  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclOOInfo.c (InfoObjectNsCmd): Added introspection mechanism
        for finding out what an object's namespace is. Experience suggests
        that it is just too useful to be able to do without it.

2009-05-12  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/vwait.n: Added more words to make it clear just how bad it is to
        nest [vwait]s.

        * compat/mkstemp.c: Add more headers to make this file build on IRIX
        6.5. Thanks to Larry McVoy for this.

2009-05-08  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclOO.c (TclNRNewObjectInstance):  [Bug 2414858]: Add a
        * generic/tclBasic.c (TclPushTailcallPoint): marker to the stack of
        NRE callbacks at the right point so that tailcall works correctly in a
        constructor.

        * tests/exec.test (cat): [Bug 2788468]: Adjust the scripted version of
        cat so that it does not perform transformations on the data it is
        working with, making it more like the standard Unix 'cat' program.

2009-05-07  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclObj.c (Tcl_GetCommandFromObj): [Bug 2785893]: Ensure that
        a command in a deleted namespace can't be found through a cached name.

        * generic/tclBasic.c:    Let coroutines start with a much smaller
        * generic/tclCompile.h:  stack: 200 words (previously was 2000, the
        * generic/tclExecute.c:  same as interps).

2009-05-07  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * tests/env.test (printenvScript, env-4.3, env-4.5): [Bug 1513659]:
        * tests/exec.test (exec-2.6): These tests had subtle dependencies on
        being on platforms that were either ISO 8859-1 or UTF-8. Stabilized
        the results by forcing the encoding.

2009-05-06  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c:   [Bug 2582327]: Improve overflow error message
        from [string repeat].

        * tests/interp.test: interp-20.50 test for Bug 2486550.

2009-05-04  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclOO.c (InitFoundation, AllocObject, AllocClass):
        * generic/tclOODefineCmds.c (InitDefineContext): Make sure that when
        support namespaces are deleted, nothing bad can subsequently happen.
        Issue spotted by Don Porter.

2009-05-03  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/Tcl.n: [Bug 2538432]: Clarified exact treatment of ${arr(idx)}
        form of variable substitution. This is not a change of behavior, just
        an improved description of the current situation.

2009-04-30  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c (TclObjInvoke): [Bug 2486550]: Make sure that a
        null objProc is not used, use Tcl_NRCallObjProc instead.

2009-05-01  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * win/configure.in   Fix 64-bit detection for zlib on Win64
        * win/configure      (regenerated)

2009-04-28  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * unix/tcl.m4, unix/configure (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): harden the check to
        add _r to CC on AIX with threads.

2009-04-27  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/concat.n (EXAMPLES): [Bug 2780680]: Rewrote so that the spacing
        of result messages is correct. (The exact way they were wrong was
        different when rendered through groff or as HTML, but it was still
        wrong both ways.)

2009-04-27  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclIndexObj.c:  Reset internal INTERP_ALTERNATE_WRONG_ARGS
        * generic/tclIOCmd.c:     flag inside the Tcl_WrongNumArgs function,
                                  so the caller no longer has to do the reset.

2009-04-24  Stuart Cassoff  <stwo@users.sf.net>

        * unix/Makefile.in: [Patch 2769530]: Don't chmod/exec installManPage.

2009-04-19  Pat Thoyts  <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>

        * library/http/http.tcl: [Bug 2715421]: Removed spurious newline added
        * tests/http11.test:     after POST and added tests to detect excess
        * tests/httpd11.tcl:     bytes being POSTed.
        * library/http/pkgIndex.tcl:
        * makefiles:             package version now 2.8.1

2009-04-15  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/chan.n, doc/close.n: Tidy up documentation of TIP #332.

2009-04-14  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * library/tzdata/Asia/Karachi: Updated rules for Pakistan Summer
                                       Time (Olson's tzdata2009f)

2009-04-11  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclOOMethod.c (InvokeForwardMethod): Clarify the resolution
        behaviour of the name of the command that is forwarded to: it's now
        resolved using the object's namespace as context, which is much more
        useful than the previous (somewhat random) behaviour of using the
        caller's current namespace.

2009-04-10  Pat Thoyts  <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>

        * library/http/http.tcl:     Improved HTTP/1.1 support and added
        * library/http/pkgIndex.tcl: specific HTTP/1.1 testing to ensure
        * tests/http11.test:         we handle chunked+gzip for the various
        * tests/httpd11.test:        modes (normal, -channel and -handler)
        * makefiles:                 package version set to 2.8.0

2009-04-10  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/tclUnixChan.c:           TclUnixWaitForFile(): use FD_* macros
        * macosx/tclMacOSXNotify.c:     to manipulate select masks (Cassoff).
                                        [FRQ 1960647] [Bug 3486554]

        * unix/tclLoadDyld.c:           Use RTLD_GLOBAL instead of RTLD_LOCAL.
                                        [Bug 1961211]

        * macosx/tclMacOSXNotify.c:     revise CoreFoundation notifier to allow
                                        embedding into applications that
                                        already have a CFRunLoop running and
                                        want to run the tcl event loop via
                                        Tcl_ServiceModeHook(TCL_SERVICE_ALL).

        * macosx/tclMacOSXNotify.c:     add CFRunLoop based Tcl_Sleep() and
        * unix/tclUnixChan.c:           TclUnixWaitForFile() implementations
        * unix/tclUnixEvent.c:          and disable select() based ones in
                                        CoreFoundation builds.

        * unix/tclUnixNotify.c:         simplify, sync with tclMacOSXNotify.c.

        * generic/tclInt.decls:         add TclMacOSXNotifierAddRunLoopMode()
        * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h:    internal API, regen.
        * generic/tclStubInit.c:

        * unix/configure.in (Darwin):   use Darwin SUSv3 extensions if
                                        available; remove /Network locations
                                        from default tcl package search path
                                        (NFS mounted locations and thus slow).
        * unix/configure:               autoconf-2.59
        * unix/tclConfig.h.in:          autoheader-2.59

        * macosx/tclMacOSXBundle.c:     on Mac OS X 10.4 and later, replace
                                        deprecated NSModule API by dlfcn API.

2009-04-10  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/StringObj.3: [Bug 2089279]: Corrected example so that it works
        on 64-bit machines as well.

2009-04-10  Pat Thoyts  <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/http.test: [Bug 26245326]: Added specific check for problem
        * tests/httpd: (return incomplete HTTP response header).

2009-04-08  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * tools/tclZIC.tcl: Always emit files with Unix line termination.
        * library/tzdata: Olson's tzdata2009e

2009-04-09  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * library/http/http.tcl:        [Bug 26245326]: Handle incomplete
        lines in the "connecting" state. Thanks to Sergei Golovan.

2009-04-08  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * library/platform/platform.tcl: Extended the darwin sections to add
        * library/platform/pkgIndex.tcl: a kernel version number to the
        * unix/Makefile.in: identifier for anything from Leopard (10.5) on up.
        * win/Makefile.in: Extended patterns for same. Extended cpu
        * doc/platform.n: recognition for 64bit Tcl running on a 32bit kernel
        on a 64bit processor (By Daniel Steffen). Bumped version to 1.0.4.
        Updated Makefiles.

2009-04-08  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl:  [Bug 2570363]: Converted [eval]s (some
        * library/tcltest/pkgIndex.tcl: unsafe!) to {*} in tcltest package.
        * unix/Makefile.in:     => tcltest 2.3.1
        * win/Makefile.in:

2009-04-07  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclStringObj.c:       Correction so that value of
        TCL_GROWTH_MIN_ALLOC is everywhere expressed in bytes as comment
        claims.

2009-04-04  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/vwait.n: [Bug 1910136]: Extend description and examples to make
        it clearer just how this command interprets variable names.

2009-03-30  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/Alloc.3: [Bug 2556263]:   Size argument is "unsigned int".

2009-03-27  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclPathObj.c (TclPathPart): [Bug 2710920]: TclPathPart()
        * tests/fileName.test:  was computing the wrong results for both [file
        dirname] and [file tail] on "path" arguments with the PATHFLAGS != 0
        intrep and with an empty string for the "joined-on" part.

2009-03-25  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * doc/tclsh.1:           Bring doc and tools in line with
        * tools/installData.tcl: https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/exec+magic
        * tools/str2c
        * tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl

2009-03-25  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/coroutine.n: [Bug 2152285]: Added basic documentation for the
        coroutine and yield commands.

2009-03-24  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclOOBasic.c (TclOOSelfObjCmd): [Bug 2704302]: Make 'self
        class' better defined in the context of objects that change class.

        * generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_UpvarObjCmd): [Bug 2673163] (ferrieux)
        * generic/tclProc.c (TclObjGetFrame): Make the upvar command more able
        to handle its officially documented syntax.

2009-03-22  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c: [Bug 2502037]: NR-enable the handling of unknown
        commands.

2009-03-21  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c:   Fixed "leaks" in aliases, imports and
        * generic/tclInt.h:     ensembles. Only remaining known leak is in
        * generic/tclInterp.c:  ensemble unknown dispatch (as it not
        * generic/tclNamesp.c:  NR-enabled)
        * tests/tailcall.test:

        * tclInt.h: comments

        * tests/tailcall.test: Added tests to show that [tailcall] does not
        currently always execute in constant space: interp-alias, ns-imports
        and ensembles "leak" as of this commit.

        * tests/nre.test: [foreach] has been NR-enabled for a while, the test
        was marked 'knownBug': unmark it.

        * generic/tclBasic.c:   Fix for (among others) [Bug 2699087]
        * generic/tclCmdAH.c:   Tailcalls now perform properly even from
        * generic/tclExecute.c: within [eval]ed scripts.
        * generic/tclInt.h:     More tests missing, as well as proper
        exploration and testing of the interaction with "redirectors" like
        interp-alias (suspect that it does not happen in constant space)
        and pure-eval commands.

        * generic/tclExecute.c: Proper fix for [Bug 2415422]. Reenabled
        * tests/nre.test:       the failing assertion that was disabled on
        2008-12-18: the assertion is correct, the fault was in the
        management of expansions.

        * generic/tclExecute.c:  Fix both test and code for tailcall
        * tests/tailcall.test:   from within a compiled [eval] body.

        * tests/tailcall.test: Slightly improved tests

2009-03-20  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/stringObj.test:         [Bug 2597185]: Test stringObj-6.9
        checks that Tcl_AppendStringsToObj() no longer crashes when operating
        on a pure unicode value.

        * generic/tclExecute.c (INST_CONCAT1):  [Bug 2669109]: Panic when
        appends overflow the max length of a Tcl value.

2009-03-19  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tcl.h:
        * generic/tclInt.h:
        * generic/tclBasic.c:
        * generic/tclExecute.c:
        * generic/tclNamesp.c (Tcl_PopCallFrame): Rewritten tailcall
        implementation, ::unsupported::atProcExit is (temporarily?) gone. The
        new approach is much simpler, and also closer to being correct. This
        commit fixes [Bug 2649975] and [Bug 2695587].

        * tests/coroutine.test:    Moved the tests to their own files,
        * tests/tailcall.test:     removed the unsupported.test. Added
        * tests/unsupported.test:  tests for the fixed bugs.

2009-03-19  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/tailcall.n: Added documentation for tailcall command.

2009-03-18  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * win/tclWinFile.c (TclpObjNormalizePath):      [Bug 2688184]:
        Corrected Tcl_Obj leak. Thanks to Joe Mistachkin for detection and
        patch.

        * generic/tclVar.c (TclLookupSimpleVar):        [Bug 2689307]: Shift
        all calls to Tcl_SetErrorCode() out of TclLookupSimpleVar and onto its
        callers, where control with TCL_LEAVE_ERR_MSG flag is more easily
        handled.

2009-03-16  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (TryPostBody): [Bug 2688063]: Extract information
        from list before getting rid of last reference to it.

2009-03-15  Joe Mistachkin  <joe@mistachkin.com>

        * generic/tclThread.c: [Bug 2687952]: Modify fix for TSD leak to match
        * generic/tclThreadStorage.c: Tcl 8.5 (and prior) allocation semantics

2009-03-15  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclThreadStorage.c (TSDTableDelete):  [Bug 2687952]: Ensure
        * generic/tclThread.c (Tcl_GetThreadData):      that structures in
        Tcl's TSD system are all freed. Use the correct matching allocator.

        * generic/tclPosixStr.c (Tcl_SignalId,Tcl_SignalMsg): [Patch 1513655]:
        Added support for SIGINFO, which is present on BSD platforms.

2009-03-14  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * unix/tcl.pc.in (new file):            [Patch 2243948] (hat0)
        * unix/configure.in, unix/Makefile.in: Added support for reporting
        Tcl's public build configuration via the pkg-config system. TEA is
        still the official mechanism though, in part because pkg-config is not
        universally supported across all Tcl's supported platforms.

2009-03-11  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c (TclNRCoroutineObjCmd): fix Tcl_Obj leak.
        Diagnosis and fix thanks to GPS.

2009-03-09  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_TryObjCmd, TclNRTryObjCmd): Moved the
        implementation of [try] from Tcl code into C. Still lacks a bytecode
        version, but should be better than what was before.

2009-03-04  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclZlib.c (TclZlibCmd): Checksums are defined to be unsigned
        32-bit integers, use Tcl_WideInt to pass to scripts. [Bug 2662434]
        (ZlibStreamCmd, ChanGetOption): A few other related corrections.

2009-02-27  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tcl.decls:    [Bug 218977]: Tcl_DbCkfree needs return value
        * generic/tclCkalloc.c
        * generic/tclDecls.h:   (regenerated)
        * generic/tclInt.decls: don't use CONST84/CONST86 here
        * generic/tclCompile.h: don't use CONST86 here, comment fixing.
        * generic/tclIO.h:      don't use CONST86 here, comment fixing.
        * generic/tclIntDecls.h (regenerated)

2009-02-25  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclUtil.c (TclStringMatchObj):        [Bug 2637173]: Revised
        the branching on the strObj->typePtr so that untyped values get
        converted to the "string" type and pass through the Unicode matcher.
        [Bug 2613766]: Also added checks to only perform "bytearray"
        optimization on pure bytearray values.

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c:   Since Tcl_GetCharLength() has its own
        * generic/tclExecute.c: optimizations for the tclByteArrayType, stop
        having the callers do them.

2009-02-24  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/clock.n, doc/fblocked.n, doc/format.n, doc/lsort.n,
        * doc/pkgMkIndex.n, doc/regsub.n, doc/scan.n, doc/tclvars.n:
        General minor documentation improvements.

        * library/http/http.tcl (geturl, Eof): Added support for 8.6's built
        in zlib routines.

2009-02-22  Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/lrange.test:    Revert commits of 2008-07-23. Those were speed
        * tests/binary.test:    tests, that are inherently brittle.

2009-02-21  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclStringObj.c:       Several revisions to the shimmering
        patterns between Unicode and UTF string reps.  Most notably the
        call: objPtr = Tcl_NewUnicodeObj(...,0); followed by a loop of calls:
        Tcl_AppendUnicodeToObj(objPtr, u, n); will now grow and append to
        the Unicode representation.  Before this commit, the sequence would
        convert each append to UTF and perform the append to the UTF rep.
        This is puzzling and likely a bug.  The performance of [string map]
        is significantly improved by this change (according to the MAP
        collection of benchmarks in tclbench).  Just in case there was some
        wisdom in the old ways that I missed, I left in the ability to restore
        the old patterns with a #define COMPAT 1 at the top of the file.

2009-02-20  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclPathObj.c: [Bug 2571597]: Fixed mistaken logic in
        * tests/fileName.test:  TclFSGetPathType() that assumed (not
        "absolute") => "relative". This is a false assumption on Windows,
        where "volumerelative" is another possibility.

2009-02-18  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclStringObj.c:       Simplify the logic of the
        Tcl_*SetObjLength() routines.

        * generic/tclStringObj.c:       Rewrite GrowStringBuffer() so that it
        has parallel structure with GrowUnicodeBuffer().  The revision permits
        allocation attempts to continue all the way up to failure, with no
        gap. It also directly manipulates the String and Tcl_Obj internals
        instead of inefficiently operating via Tcl_*SetObjLength() with all of
        its extra protections and underdocumented special cases.

        * generic/tclStringObj.c:       Another round of simplification on
        the allocation macros.

2009-02-17  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * win/tcl.m4, win/configure: Check if cl groks _WIN64 already to
        avoid CC manipulation that can screw up later configure checks.
        Use 'd'ebug runtime in 64-bit builds.

2009-02-17  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclStringObj.c:       Pare back the length of the unicode
        array in a non-extended String struct to one Tcl_UniChar, meant to
        hold the terminating NUL character.  Non-empty unicode strings are
        then stored by extending the String struct by stringPtr->maxChars
        additional slots in that array with sizeof(Tcl_UniChar) bytes per
        slot. This revision makes the allocation macros much simpler.

        * generic/tclStringObj.c:       Factor out common GrowUnicodeBuffer()
        and solve overflow and growth algorithm fallbacks in it.

        * generic/tclStringObj.c:       Factor out common GrowStringBuffer().

        * generic/tclStringObj.c:       Convert Tcl_AppendStringsToObj into
        * tests/stringObj.test:         a radically simpler implementation
        where we just loop over calls to Tcl_AppendToObj.  This fixes [Bug
        2597185].  It also creates a *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** in
        that T_ASTO can now allocate more space than is strictly required,
        like all the other Tcl_Append* routines.  The incompatibility was
        detected by test stringObj-6.5, which I've updated to reflect the
        new behavior.

        * generic/tclStringObj.c:       Revise buffer growth implementation
        in ExtendStringRepWithUnicode.  Use cheap checks to determine that
        no reallocation is necessary without cost of computing the precise
        number of bytes needed.  Also make use of the string growth algortihm
        in the case of repeated appends.

2009-02-16  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclZlib.c:    Hack needed for official zlib1.dll build.
        * win/configure.in:     fix [Feature Request 2605263] use official
        * win/Makefile.in:      zlib build.
        * win/configure:        (regenerated)
        * compat/zlib/zdll.lib: new files
        * compat/zlib/zlib1.dll:

        * win/Makefile.in:  [Bug 2605232]: tdbc doesn't build when Tcl is
        compiled with --disable-shared.

2009-02-15  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclStringObj.c:       [Bug 2603158]: Added protections from
        * generic/tclTestObj.c:         invalid memory accesses when we append
        * tests/stringObj.test:         (some part of) a Tcl_Obj to itself.
        Added the appendself and appendself2 subcommands to the
        [teststringobj] testing command and added tests to the test suite.

        * generic/tclStringObj.c:       Factor out duplicate code from
        Tcl_AppendObjToObj.

        * generic/tclStringObj.c:       Replace the 'size_t uallocated' field
        of the String struct, storing the number of bytes allocated to store
        the Tcl_UniChar array, with an 'int maxChars' field, storing the
        number of Tcl_UniChars that may be stored in the allocated space.
        This reduces memory requirement a small bit, and makes some range
        checks simpler to code.
        * generic/tclTestObj.c: Replace the [teststringobj ualloc] testing
        * tests/stringObj.test: command with [teststringobj maxchars] and
        update the tests.

        * generic/tclStringObj.c:       Removed limitation in
        Tcl_AppendObjToObj where the char length of the result was only
        computed if the appended string was all single byte characters.
        This limitation was in place to dodge a bug in Tcl_GetUniChar.
        With that bug gone, we can take advantage of always recording the
        length of append results when we know it.

2009-02-14  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclStringObj.c:       Revisions so that we avoid creating
        the strange representation of an empty string with
        objPtr->bytes == NULL and stringPtr->hasUnicode == 0.  Instead in
        the situations where that was being created, create a traditional
        two-legged stork representation (objPtr->bytes = tclEmptyStringRep
        and stringPtr->hasUnicode = 1).  In the situations where the strange
        rep was treated differently, continue to do so by testing
        stringPtr->numChars == 0 to detect it.  These changes make the code
        more conventional so easier for new maintainers to pick up.  Also
        sets up further simplifications.

        * generic/tclTestObj.c: Revise updates to [teststringobj] so we don't
        get blocked by MODULE_SCOPE limits.

2009-02-12  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclStringObj.c:       Rewrites of the routines
        Tcl_GetCharLength, Tcl_GetUniChar, Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj,
        Tcl_GetRange, and TclStringObjReverse to use the new macro, and
        to more simply and clearly split the cases depending on whether
        a valid unicode rep is present or needs to be created.
        New utility routine UnicodeLength(), to compute the length of unicode
        buffer arguments when no length is passed in, with built-in
        overflow protection included.  Update three callers to use it.

        * generic/tclInt.h:     New macro TclNumUtfChars meant to be a faster
        replacement for a full Tcl_NumUtfChars() call when the string has all
        single-byte characters.

        * generic/tclStringObj.c:       Simplified Tcl_GetCharLength by
        * generic/tclTestObj.c:         removing code that did nothing.
        Added early returns from Tcl_*SetObjLength when the desired length
        is already present; adapted test command to the change.

        * generic/tclStringObj.c:       Re-implemented AppendUtfToUnicodeRep
        so that we no longer pass through Tcl_DStrings which have their own
        sets of problems when lengths overflow the int range.  Now AUTUR and
        FillUnicodeRep share a common core routine.

2009-02-12  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclOODefineCmds.c (TclOOGetDefineCmdContext): Use the
        correct field in the Interp structure for retrieving the frame to get
        the context object so that people can extend [oo::define] without deep
        shenanigans. Bug found by Federico Ferri.

2009-02-11  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclStringObj.c:       Re-implemented AppendUnicodeToUtfRep
        so that we no longer pass through Tcl_DStrings which have their own
        sets of problems when lengths overflow the int range.  Now AUTUR and
        UpdateStringOfString share a common core routine.

        * generic/tclStringObj.c:       Changed type of the 'allocated' field
        * generic/tclTestObj.c:         of the String struct (and the
        TestString counterpart) from size_t to int since only int values are
        ever stored in it.

2009-02-10  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclEncoding.c: Eliminate some unnessary type casts
        * generic/tclEvent.c:    some internal const decorations
        * generic/tclExecute.c:  spacing
        * generic/tclIndexObj.c:
        * generic/tclInterp.c:
        * generic/tclIO.c:
        * generic/tclIOCmd.c:
        * generic/tclIORChan.c:
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c:
        * generic/tclListObj.c:
        * generic/tclLiteral.c:
        * generic/tclNamesp.c:
        * generic/tclObj.c:
        * generic/tclOOBasic.c:
        * generic/tclPathObj.c:
        * generic/tclPkg.c:
        * generic/tclProc.c:
        * generic/tclRegexp.c:
        * generic/tclScan.c:
        * generic/tclStringObj.c:
        * generic/tclTest.c:
        * generic/tclTestProcBodyObj.c:
        * generic/tclThread.c:
        * generic/tclThreadTest.c:
        * generic/tclTimer.c:
        * generic/tclTrace.c:
        * generic/tclUtil.c:
        * generic/tclVar.c:
        * generic/tclStubInit.c: (regenerated)

2009-02-10  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * unix/tcl.m4: [Bug 2502365]: Building of head on HPUX is broken when
        using the native CC.
        * unix/configure: (autoconf-2.59)

2009-02-10  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclObj.c (Tcl_GetString):     Added comments and validity
        checks following the call to an UpdateStringProc.

        * generic/tclStringObj.c: Reduce code duplication in Tcl_GetUnicode*.
        Restrict AppendUtfToUtfRep to non-negative length appends.
        Convert all Tcl_InvalidateStringRep() calls into macros.
        Simplify Tcl_AttemptSetObjLength by removing unreachable code.
        Simplify SetStringFromAny() by removing unreachable and duplicate code.
        Simplify Tcl_SetObjLength by removing unreachable code.
        Removed handling of (objPtr->bytes != NULL) from UpdateStringOfString,
        which is only called when objPtr->bytes is NULL.

2009-02-09  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCompile.c: [Bug 2555129]: const compiler warning (as
        error) in tclCompile.c

2009-02-07  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclZlib.c (TclZlibCmd): [Bug 2573172]: Ensure that when
        invalid subcommand name is given, the list of valid subcommands is
        produced. This gives a better experience when using the command
        interactively.

2009-02-05  Joe Mistachkin  <joe@mistachkin.com>

        * generic/tclInterp.c: [Bug 2544618]: Fix argument checking for
        [interp cancel].
        * unix/Makefile.in: Fix build issue with zlib on FreeBSD (and possibly
        other platforms).

2009-02-05  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (StringIndexCmd, StringRangeCmd, StringLenCmd):
        Simplify the implementation of some commands now that the underlying
        string API knows more about bytearrays.

        * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): [Bug 2568434]: Make sure
        that INST_CONCAT1 will not lose string reps wrongly.

        * generic/tclStringObj.c (Tcl_AppendObjToObj): Special-case the
        appending of one bytearray to another, which can be extremely rapid.
        Part of scheme to address [Bug 1665628] by making the basic string
        operations more efficient on byte arrays.
        (Tcl_GetCharLength, Tcl_GetUniChar, Tcl_GetRange): More special casing
        work for bytearrays.

2009-02-04  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclStringObj.c: [Bug 2561794]: Added overflow protections to
        the AppendUtfToUtfRep routine to either avoid invalid arguments and
        crashes, or to replace them with controlled panics.

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c:   [Bug 2561746]: Prevent crashes due to int
        overflow of the length of the result of [string repeat].

2009-02-03  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * macosx/tclMacOSXFCmd.c: Eliminate some unnessary type casts
        * unix/tclLoadDyld.c:     some internal const decorations
        * unix/tclUnixCompat.c:   spacing
        * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c
        * unix/tclUnixFile.c
        * win/tclWinDde.c
        * win/tclWinFCmd.c
        * win/tclWinInit.c
        * win/tclWinLoad.c
        * win/tclWinPipe.c
        * win/tclWinReg.c
        * win/tclWinTest.c
        * generic/tclBasic.c
        * generic/tclBinary.c
        * generic/tclCmdAH.c
        * generic/tclCmdIL.c
        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c
        * generic/tclCompCmds.c
        * generic/tclDictObj.c

2009-02-03  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclObj.c (tclCmdNameType): [Bug 2558422]: Corrected the type
        of this structure so that extensions that write it (yuk!) will still
        be able to function correctly.

2009-02-03  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclStringObj.c (SetUnicodeObj):       [Bug 2561488]:
        Corrected failure of Tcl_SetUnicodeObj() to panic on a shared object.
        Also factored out common code to reduce duplication.

        * generic/tclObj.c (Tcl_GetStringFromObj): Reduce code duplication.

2009-02-02  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclInterp.c:  Reverted the conversion of [interp] into an
        * tests/interp.test:    ensemble.  Such conversion is not necessary
        * tests/nre.test:       (or even all that helpful) in the NRE-enabling
        of [interp invokehidden], and it has other implications -- including
        significant forkage of the 8.5 and 8.6 implementations -- that are
        better off avoided if there's no gain.

        * generic/tclStringObj.c (STRING_NOMEM):  [Bug 2494093]: Add missing
        cast of NULL to (char *) that upsets some compilers.

        * generic/tclStringObj.c (Tcl_(Attempt)SetObjLength):   [Bug 2553906]:
        Added protections against callers asking for negative lengths.  It is
        likely when this happens that an integer overflow is to blame.

2009-02-01  David Gravereaux  <davygrvy@pobox.com>

        * win/makefile.vc: Allow nmake flags such as -a (rebuild all) to pass
        down to the pkgs targets, too.

2009-01-30  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/chan.n: [Bug 1216074]: Added another extended example.

        * doc/refchan.n: Added an example of how to build a scripted channel.

2009-01-29  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * tests/stringObj.test: [Bug 2006888]: Remove non-ASCII chars from
        non-comment locations in the file, making it work more reliably in
        locales with a non-Latin-1 default encoding.

        * generic/tclNamesp.c (Tcl_FindCommand): [Bug 2519474]: Ensure that
        the path is not searched when the TCL_NAMESPACE_ONLY flag is given.

        * generic/tclOODecls.h (Tcl_OOInitStubs): [Bug 2537839]: Make the
        declaration of this macro work correctly in the non-stub case.

2009-01-29  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclInterp.c:  Convert the [interp] command into a
        * tests/interp.test:    [namespace ensemble].  Work in progress
        * tests/nre.test:       to NRE-enable the [interp invokehidden]
        subcommand.

2009-01-29  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclNamesp.c (TclMakeEnsemble): [Bug 2529117]: Make this
        function behave more sensibly when presented with a fully-qualified
        name, rather than doing strange stuff.

2009-01-28  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c (TclInvokeObjectCommand): Made this understand
        what to do if it ends up being used on a command with no objProc; that
        shouldn't happen, but...

        * generic/tclNamesp.c (TclMakeEnsemble): [Bug 2529157]: Made this
        understand NRE command implementations better.
        * generic/tclDictObj.c (DictForCmd): Eliminate unnecessary command
        implementation.

2009-01-27  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclOODefineCmds.c (Tcl_ClassSetConstructor):
        [Bug 2531577]: Ensure that caches of constructor chains are cleared
        when the constructor is changed.

2009-01-26  Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclInt.h:   [Bug 1028264]: WSACleanup() too early.
        * generic/tclEvent.c: The fix introduces "late exit handlers" for
        * win/tclWinSock.c:   similar late process-wide cleanups.

2009-01-26  Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>

        * win/tclWinSock.c: [Bug 2446662]: Resync Win behavior on RST with
        that of unix (EOF).

2009-01-26  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclZlib.c (ChanClose): [Bug 2536400]: Only generate error
        messages in the interpreter when the thread is not being closed down.

2009-01-23  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/zlib.n: Added a note that 'zlib push' is reversed by 'chan pop'.

2009-01-22  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCompile.h: CONSTify TclPrintInstruction (TIP #27)
        * generic/tclCompile.c
        * generic/tclInt.h:     CONSTify TclpNativeJoinPath (TIP #27)
        * generic/tclFileName.c
        * generic/tcl.decls:    {unix win} is equivalent to {generic}
        * generic/tclInt.decls
        * generic/tclDecls.h:   (regenerated)
        * generic/tclIntDecls.h
        * generic/tclGetDate.y: Single internal const decoration.
        * generic/tclDate.c:

2009-01-22  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * unix/tcl.m4: Corrected a typo ($(SHLIB_VERSION) should be
        ${SHLIB_VERSION}).
        * unix/configure: Autoconf 2.59

2009-01-21  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * generic/tclIORChan.c (ReflectClose): [Bug 2458202]:
        * generic/tclIORTrans.c (ReflectClose): Closing a channel may supply
        NULL for the 'interp'. Test for finalization needs to be different,
        and one place has to pull the interp out of the channel instead.

2009-01-21  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclStringObj.c: New fix for [Bug 2494093] replaces the
        flawed attempt committed 2009-01-09.

2009-01-19  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * unix/Makefile.in: [Patch 907924]:Added a CONFIG_INSTALL_DIR
        * unix/tcl.m4:      parameter so that distributors can control where
        tclConfig.sh goes. Made the installation of 'ldAix' conditional upon
        actually being on an AIX system. Allowed for downstream packagers to
        customize SHLIB_VERSION on BSD-derived systems. Thanks to Stuart
        Cassoff for his help.
        * unix/configure: Autoconf 2.59

2009-01-19  David Gravereaux  <davygrvy@pobox.com>

        * win/build.vc.bat: Improved tools detection and error message
        * win/makefile.vc: Reorganized the $(TCLOBJ) file list into seperate
        parts for easier maintenance. Matched all sources built using -GL to
        both $(lib) and $(link) to use -LTCG and avoid a warning message.
        Addressed the over-building nature of the htmlhelp target by moving
        from a pseudo target to a real target dependent on the entire docs/
        directory contents.
        * win/nmakehlp.c: Removed -g option and GrepForDefine() func as it
        isn't being used anymore. The -V option method is much better.

2009-01-16  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tcl.h:        Bump patchlevel to 8.6b1.1 to distinguish
        * library/init.tcl:     CVS snapshots from the 8.6b1 and 8.6b2 releases
        * unix/configure.in:    and to deal with the fact that the 8.6b1
        * win/configure.in:     version of init.tcl will not [source] in the
        HEAD version of Tcl.

        * unix/configure:       autoconf-2.59
        * win/configure:

2009-01-14  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_DeleteCommandFromToken):      Reverted most
        of the substance of my 2009-01-12 commit. NULLing the objProc field of
        a Command when deleting it is important so that tests for certain
        classes of commands don't return false positives when applied to
        deleted command tokens. Overall change is now just replacement of a
        false comment with a true one.

2009-01-13  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

        * unix/tcl.m4: [Bug 2502365]: Building of head on HPUX is broken when
        using the native CC.
        * unix/configure (autoconf-2.59)

2009-01-13  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_ThrowObjCmd): Move implementation of [throw]
        * library/init.tcl (throw):             to C from Tcl.

2009-01-12  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_DeleteCommandFromToken): One consequence of
        the NRE rewrite is that there are now situations where a NULL objProc
        field in a Command struct is perfectly normal. Removed an outdated
        comment in Tcl_DeleteCommandFromToken that claimed we use
        cmdPtr->objPtr==NULL as a test of command validity. In fact we use
        cmdPtr->flags&CMD_IS_DELETED to perform that test. Also removed the
        setting to NULL, since any extension following the advice of the old
        comment is going to be broken by NRE anyway, and needs to shift to
        flag-based testing (or stop intruding into such internal matters).
        Part of [Bug 2486550].

2009-01-09  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclStringObj.c (STRING_SIZE): [Bug 2494093]: Corrected
        failure to limit memory allocation requests to the sizes that can be
        supported by Tcl's memory allocation routines.

2009-01-09  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclNamesp.c (NamespaceEnsembleCmd): [Bug 1558654]: Error out
        when someone gives wrong # of args to [namespace ensemble create].

2009-01-08  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclStringObj.c (STRING_UALLOC): [Bug 2494093]: Added missing
        parens required to get correct results out of things like
        STRING_UALLOC(num + append).

2009-01-08  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclDictObj.c, generic/tclIndexObj.c, generic/tclListObj.c,
        * generic/tclObj.c, generic/tclStrToD.c, generic/tclUtil.c,
        * generic/tclVar.c: Generate errorcodes for the error cases which
        approximate to "I can't interpret that string as one of those" and
        "You gave me the wrong number of arguments".

2009-01-07  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * doc/dict.n: [Tk Bug 2491235]: Added more examples.

        * tests/oo.test (oo-22.1): Adjusted test to be less dependent on the
        specifics of how [info frame] reports general frame information, and
        instead to focus on what methods add to it; that's really what the
        test is about anyway.

2009-01-06  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/stringObj.test: Revise tests that demand a NULL Tcl_ObjType
        in certain values to construct those values with [testdstring] so
        there's no lack of robustness depending on the shimmer history of
        shared literals.

2009-01-06  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclDictObj.c (DictIncrCmd): Corrected twiddling in internals
        of dictionaries so that literals can't get destroyed.

        * tests/expr.test: [Bug 2006879]: Eliminate non-ASCII char.

        * generic/tclOOInfo.c (InfoObjectMethodsCmd,InfoClassMethodsCmd):
        [Bug 2489836]: Only delete pointers that were actually allocated!

        * generic/tclOO.c (TclNRNewObjectInstance, Tcl_NewObjectInstance):
        [Bug 2481109]: Perform search for existing commands in right context.

2009-01-05  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (TclNRSourceObjCmd): [Bug 2412068]: Make
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c (TclNREvalFile):    implementation of the
        [source] command be NRE enabled so that [yield] inside a script
        sourced in a coroutine can work.

2009-01-04  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * generic/tclCmdAH.c: Tidy up spacing and code style.

2009-01-03  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * library/clock.tcl (tcl::clock::add): Fixed error message formatting
        in the case where [clock add] is presented with a bad switch.
        * tests/clock.test (clock-65.1) Added a test case for the above
        problem [Bug 2481670].

2009-01-02  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

        * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): [Bug 878333]: Force the use of the
        compatibility version of mkstemp() on IRIX.
        * unix/configure.in, unix/Makefile.in (mkstemp.o):
        * compat/mkstemp.c (new file): [Bug 741967]: Added a compatibility
        implementation of the mkstemp() function, which is apparently needed
        on some platforms.

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