Tcl Source Code

2012-07-31  Jan Nijtmans  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

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

2012-07-27  Jan Nijtmans  <[email protected]>

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

2012-07-25  Alexandre Ferrieux  <[email protected]>

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

2012-07-23  Alexandre Ferrieux  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

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

2012-07-16  Jan Nijtmans  <[email protected]>

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

2012-07-11  Jan Nijtmans  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

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

2012-07-10  Donal K. Fellows  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

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

2012-07-03  Donal K. Fellows  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

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

2012-06-29  Harald Oehlmann <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* 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,

2012-06-26  Reinhard Max  <[email protected]>

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

2012-06-25  Don Porter  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* {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  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

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

2012-05-03  Jan Nijtmans  <[email protected]>

2012-04-27  Donal K. Fellows  <[email protected]>

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

2012-04-26  Jan Nijtmans  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* 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:

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* 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

2012-03-27  Jan Nijtmans  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	IMPLEMENTATION OF TIP#397.

	* generic/tclOO.c (Tcl_CopyObjectInstance): [Bug 3474460]: Make the
	target object name optional when copying classes. [RFE 3485060]: Add

	* 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 <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

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

2012-03-11  Donal K. Fellows  <[email protected]>

	caller might still overwrite, but we should at least avoid
	known-useless work.)

2012-02-29  Jan Nijtmans  <[email protected]>

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

2012-02-23  Donal K. Fellows  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	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 <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* generic/tclUtf.c: [Bug 3464428]: [string is graph \u0120] is wrong.
	* generic/tclUniData.c:
	* generic/regc_locale.c:
	* tests/utf.test:

	* 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 <[email protected]>

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

2011-10-11  Jan Nijtmans  <[email protected]>

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

2011-10-09  Donal K. Fellows  <[email protected]>

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

2011-10-03  Venkat Iyer <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* 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.

	* tests/ioCmd.test:	by `make valgrind'.
	* unix/Makefile.in:

2011-09-16  Jan Nijtmans  <[email protected]>

	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  <[email protected]>

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

2011-09-16  Jan Nijtmans  <[email protected]>

	* library/tzdata/Pacific/Apia:
	* library/tzdata/Pacific/Honolulu:
	* library/tzdata/Africa/Juba: (new)

2011-09-06  Jan Nijtmans  <[email protected]>

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

2011-09-02  Don Porter  <[email protected]>

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

2011-09-01  Alexandre Ferrieux  <[email protected]>

2011-08-18  Alexandre Ferrieux  <[email protected]>

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

2011-08-18  Jan Nijtmans  <[email protected]>

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

2011-08-17  Alexandre Ferrieux  <[email protected]>

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

2011-08-17  Alexandre Ferrieux  <[email protected]>

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

2011-08-15  Jan Nijtmans  <[email protected]>

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

2011-08-14  Jan Nijtmans  <[email protected]>

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

2011-08-12  Don Porter  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

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

2011-08-09  Jan Nijtmans  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* generic/tclUtil.c:	  rooting all growth routines by default on a
	common tunable parameter TCL_MIN_GROWTH.

2011-05-25  Don Porter  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* generic/tclOO.h (TCLOO_VERSION): Bump version.

	IMPLEMENTATION OF TIP#381.

2011-03-22  Miguel Sofer  <[email protected]>

	* generic/tclThreadAlloc.c: Simpler initialization of Cache under
	HAVE_FAST_TSD, from mig-alloc-reform.

2011-03-21  Jan Nijtmans  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

2011-01-25  Jan Nijtmans  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* 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

	quarantined at the front of the file and function headers follow the
	modern Tcl style.

2010-12-06  Jan Nijtmans  <[email protected]>

	* generic/tclBinary.c:  [Bug 3129448]: Possible over-allocation on
	* generic/tclCkalloc.c: 64-bit platforms.
	* generic/tclTrace.c:

2010-12-05  Jan Nijtmans  <[email protected]>

	* unix/tcl.m4: [Patch 3116490]: Cross-compile support for unix
	* unix/configure: (autoconf-2.59)

2010-12-03  Jeff Hobbs  <[email protected]>

2010-11-16  Jan Nijtmans  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* doc/interp.n: [Bug 3081184]: TIP #378.
	* doc/tclvars.n: Performance fix for TIP #280.
	* generic/tclBasic.c:

	* tests/httpd11.test:        modes (normal, -channel and -handler)
	* makefiles:                 package version set to 2.8.0

2009-04-10  Daniel Steffen  <[email protected]>

	* 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).

2009-03-16  Donal K. Fellows  <[email protected]>

	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (TryPostBody): [Bug 2688063]: Extract information
	from list before getting rid of last reference to it.

2009-03-15  Joe Mistachkin  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* 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.

	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  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* generic/tclStringObj.c:	Simplify the logic of the
	Tcl_*SetObjLength() routines.

	* generic/tclStringObj.c:	Rewrite GrowStringBuffer() so that it

	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  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* 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

	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  <[email protected]>

	* generic/tclCompile.c: [Bug 2555129]: const compiler warning (as
	error) in tclCompile.c

2009-02-07  Donal K. Fellows  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (StringIndexCmd, StringRangeCmd, StringLenCmd):
	Simplify the implementation of some commands now that the underlying

	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  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* macosx/tclMacOSXFCmd.c: Eliminate some unnessary type casts
	* unix/tclLoadDyld.c:	  some internal const decorations
	* unix/tclUnixCompat.c:	  spacing
	* unix/tclUnixFCmd.c

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* generic/tclInterp.c:	Reverted the conversion of [interp] into an
	* tests/interp.test:	ensemble.  Such conversion is not necessary

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* win/tclWinSock.c: [Bug 2446662]: Resync Win behavior on RST with
	that of unix (EOF).

2009-01-26  Donal K. Fellows  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* doc/zlib.n: Added a note that 'zlib push' is reversed by 'chan pop'.

2009-01-22  Jan Nijtmans  <[email protected]>

	* unix/tcl.m4: Corrected a typo ($(SHLIB_VERSION) should be
	${SHLIB_VERSION}).
	* unix/configure: Autoconf 2.59

2009-01-21  Andreas Kupries  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* generic/tclStringObj.c: New fix for [Bug 2494093] replaces the
	flawed attempt committed 2009-01-09.

2009-01-19  Kevin B. Kenny  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* 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

	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  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_ThrowObjCmd):	Move implementation of [throw]
	* library/init.tcl (throw):		to C from Tcl.

	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  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* generic/tclNamesp.c (NamespaceEnsembleCmd): [Bug 1558654]: Error out
	when someone gives wrong # of args to [namespace ensemble create].

2009-01-08  Don Porter  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* generic/tclCmdAH.c: Tidy up spacing and code style.

2009-01-03  Kevin B. Kenny  <[email protected]>

	* 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  <[email protected]>

	* 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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