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2002-12-18  David Gravereaux  <davygrvy@pobox.com>

        * win/makefile.vc: some uses of xcopy swapped to the @$(CPY) macro.
        Reported by Joe Mistachkin <joe@mistachkin.com>.

2002-12-17  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * generic/tclNotify.c (TclFinalizeNotifier, Tcl_SetServiceMode):
        (Tcl_ThreadAlert): Check that the stub functions are non-NULL before
        calling them. They could be set to NULL by Tcl_SetNotifier.

2002-12-16  David Gravereaux  <davygrvy@pobox.com>

        * generic/tclPipe.c (TclCleanupChildren):
        * tests/winPipe.test:
        * win/tclWinPipe.c (Tcl_WaitPid):
        * win/tclWinTest.c:  Gave Tcl_WaitPid the ability to return a Win32
        exception code translated into a posix style SIG*. This allows [close]
        to report "CHILDKILLED" without the meaning getting lost in a
        truncated exit code. In TclCleanupChildren(), TclpGetPid() had to get
        moved to before Tcl_WaitPid() as the the handle is removed from the
        list taking away the ability to get the process id after the wait is
        done. This shouldn't effect the unix implimentaion unless waitpid is
        called with a pid of zero, meaning "any". I don't think it is..

2002-12-13  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/configure.in:    Updated configure of CVS snapshots to reflect
        * win/configure.in:     the 8.4.1.1 patchlevel.

        * unix/configure:       autoconf
        * win/configure         autoconf

2002-12-11  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclProc.c (ProcessProcResultCode): Fix failure to propagate
        negative return codes up the call stack. [Bug 647307]
        * tests/proc.test (proc-6.1): Test for Bug 647307

        * generic/tclParseExpr.c (TclParseInteger):  Return 1 for the string
        "0x" (recognize leading "0" as an integer). [Bug 648441]
        * tests/parseExpr.test (parseExpr-19.1): Test for Bug 648441.

2002-12-09  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * win/tclWinThrd.c (TclpMasterUnlock):
        * generic/tclThread.c (TclFinalizeThreadData): TclpMasterUnlock must
        exist and be called unconditional of TCL_THREADS. [Bug 651139]

2002-12-08  David Gravereaux  <davygrvy@pobox.com>

        * win/tclWinSock.c (SocketThreadExitHandler, InitSockets):  Check
        that the tsdPtr is valid before dereferencing as we call it from the
        exit handler, too [Bug 650353]. Another WSAStartup() loaded version
        comparison byte swap issue fixed. Although 0x0101 byte swapped is
        still 0x0101, properly claiming which is major/minor is more correct.

2002-12-06  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * generic/tclStubInit.c: regen
        * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h: regen
        * generic/tclInt.decls: added TclWinResetInterface

        * win/tclWin32Dll.c (TclWinResetInterfaces):
        * win/tclWinInit.c (TclpSetInitialEncodings, WinEncodingsCleanup):
        add exit handler that resets the encoding information to a state where
        we can reuse Tcl. Following these changes, it is possible to reuse Tcl
        (following Tcl_FindExecutable or Tcl_CreateInterp) following a
        Tcl_Finalize.

        * generic/tclIOUtil.c (TclFinalizeFilesystem): reset statics to their
        original values on finalize to allow reuse of the library.

2002-12-04  David Gravereaux  <davygrvy@pobox.com>

        * win/tclWinPipe.c: reverted back to -r1.27 due to numerous test
        failures that need to be resolved first. The idea was good, but the
        details aren't.

2002-12-04  David Gravereaux  <davygrvy@pobox.com>

        * win/tclWinPipe.c (Tcl_WaitPid):  When a process exits with an
        exception, pass this notice on to the caller with a SIG* code rather
        than truncating the exit code and missing the meaning. This allows
        TclCleanupChildren() to report "CHILDKILLED".

        This has a different behavior than unix in that closing the read pipe
        to a process sends the SIGPIPE signal which is returned as a SIGPIPE
        exit status. On windows, we send the process a CTRL_BREAK_EVENT and
        get back a CONTROL_C_EXIT which is documented to mean a SIGINT which
        seems wrong as a system, but is the correct exit status.

2002-12-04  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclIOUtil.c: fix to redirected 'load' in virtual filesystem
        for some Unix systems.

        * generic/tclEvent.c: the filesystem must be cleaned up before the
        encoding subsystem because it needs access to encodings. Fixes crash
        on exit observed in embedded applications.

        * generic/tclTestObj.c: patch omitted from previous change of
        2002-11-13

2002-12-03  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * generic/tclStubLib.c (Tcl_InitStubs): prevent the cached check of
        tclStubsPtr to allow for repeated load/unload of the Tcl dll by
        hosting apps. [Bug 615304]

2002-12-03  David Gravereaux  <davygrvy@pobox.com>

        * win/tclAppInit.c (sigHandler): Protect from trying to close a NULL
        handle.

        * win/tclWinPipe.c (PipeClose2Proc, TclpCreateProcess): Send a real
        Win32 signal (CTRL_C_EVENT) when the read channel is brought down to
        alert the child to close on its side. Start the process with
        CREATE_NEW_PROCESS_GROUP to allow the ability to send these signals.
        The following test case now brings down the child without the use of
        an external [kill] command.

        % set p [open "|[info name]" w+]
        file8d5380
        % pid $p
        2876
        % close $p     <- now doesn't block in Tcl_WaitPid()
        %

        * win/tclWinPipe.c (PipeClose2Proc): Changed CTRL_C_EVENT to
        CTRL_BREAK_EVENT as it can't be ignored by the child and proved to
        work on [open "|netstat 1" w+] where CTRL_C_EVENT didn't.

2002-11-27  David Gravereaux  <davygrvy@pobox.com>

        * win/tclWinPort.h: Don't turn off winsock prototypes!  TclX didn't
        like it. Even though the core doesn't use the prototypes, do offer
        them.

        * win/tclWinSock.c: Removed shutdown() from the function table as it
        wasn't referenced anywhere and cleaned-up some casting that that
        wasn't needed.

        * win/tclWinSock.c: WSAStartup() loaded version comparison error which
        resulted in 2.0 looking less than 1.1.

        * win/tclWinChan.c (Tcl_MakeFileChannel): return of DuplicateHandle()
        incorrectly used. [Bug 618852]

2002-11-26  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * generic/tclEncoding.c (TclFinalizeEncodingSubsystem): properly
        cleanup all encodings by using Tcl_FirstHashEntry in the while loop.

        * unix/Makefile.in (valgrind): add simple valgrind target

        * tests/exec.test: unset path var to allow singleproc testing

        * generic/tclInterp.c (AliasCreate): preserve/release interps to
        prevent possible FMR error in bad alias cases.

2002-11-26  David Gravereaux  <davygrvy@pobox.com>

        * win/tclWinPort.h:
        * win/tclWinSock.c:  This patch does two things:

        1) Cleans-up the winsock typedefs by using the typedefs provided by
        winsock2.h. This has no effect on how winsock is initialized; just
        makes the source code easier to read. [Patch 561305 561301]

        2) Revamps how the socket message handler thread is brought up and
        down to allow for cleaner exits without the use of TerminateThread().
        TerminateThread is evil. No attempt has been made to resolve [Bug
        593810] which may need a new channel driver version for adding a
        registering function within the transfered thread to init the handler
        thread. IOW, initialization of the TSD structure is getting bypassed
        through the thread extension's [thread::transfer] command.

2002-11-26  David Gravereaux  <davygrvy@pobox.com>

        * win/tclWinConsole.c:
        * win/tclWinPipe.c:
        * win/tclWinSerial.c:
        * win/tclWinSock.c:
        * win/tclWinThrd.c:
        * win/tclWinTime.c:  General cleanup of all worker threads used by the
        channel drivers. Eliminates the normal case where the worker thread is
        terminated ('cept the winsock one). Instead, use kernel events to
        signal a clean exit. Only when the worker thread is blocked on an I/O
        call is the thread terminated. Essentially, this makes all other
        channel worker threads behave like the PipeReaderThread() function for
        it's cleaner exit behavior. This appears to fix [Bug 597924] but needs
        3rd party confirmation to close the issue.

2002-11-26  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>

        * win/README: Update msys build env URL. This release #4 build both
        tcl and tk without problems.

2002-11-22  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * library/init.tcl:         code cleanup to reduce use of
        * library/opt/optparse.tcl: string compare

        * tests/interp.test: interp-14.4
        * generic/tclInterp.c (TclPreventAliasLoop): prevent seg fault when
        creating an alias command over the interp name. [Bug 641195]

2002-11-18  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * generic/tclUtil.c (SetEndOffsetFromAny): handle integer offset
        after the "end-" prefix.

        * generic/get.test:
        * generic/string.test:
        * generic/tclObj.c (SetIntFromAny, SetWideIntFromAny):
        * generic/tclGet.c (TclGetLong, Tcl_GetInt): simplify sign handling
        before calling strtoul(l). [Bug 634856]

2002-11-18  David Gravereaux  <davygrvy@pobox.com>

        * win/tclWinThrd.c (Tcl_CreateThread/TclpThreadExit): Fixed improper
        compiler macros that missed the VC++ compiler. This resulted in VC++
        builds using CreateThread()/ExitThread() in place of the proper
        _beginthreadex()/_endthreadex(). This was a large error and am
        surprised I missed seeing it earlier.

2002-11-13  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * generic/regexpComp.test: added tests 22.*
        * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileRegexpCmd): add left and right
        anchoring (^ and $) recognition and check starting or ending .* to
        extend the number of REs that can be compiled to string match or
        string equal.

2002-11-13  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c:
        * tests/trace.test: applied patch from Hemang Levana to fix [Bug
        615043] in execution traces with 'return -code error'.

        * generic/tclTestObj.c:
        * tests/stringObj.test: added 'knownBug' test for [Bug 635200]
        * generic/tclStringObj.c: corrected typos in comments

        * generic/tclFileName.c:
        * tests/fileName.test: applied patch for bug reported against tclvfs
        concerning handling of Windows serial ports like 'com1', 'lpt3' by the
        virtual filesystem code.

        * doc/RegExp.3: clarification of the 'extendMatch' return values.

2002-11-11  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * generic/tclUtil.c (Tcl_Backslash): use TclUtfToUniChar.
        (Tcl_StringCaseMatch): use TclUtfToUniChar and add further
        optimizations for the one-byte/char case.

        * generic/tclUtf.c: make use of TclUtfToUniChar macro throughout the
        functions, and add extra optimization to Tcl_NumUtfChars for
        one-byte/char case.

        * generic/tclVar.c (DisposeTraceResult, CallVarTraces): add proper
        static declarations.

        * generic/tclStringObj.c (Tcl_GetCharLength): optimize for the ascii
        char case.
        (Tcl_GetUniChar): remove unnecessary use of Tcl_UtfToUniChar.
        (FillUnicodeRep): Use TclUtfToUniChar.

        * generic/tclHash.c (HashStringKey): move string++ lower to save an
        instruction.

        * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): improve INST_STR_CMP to
        use memcmp in the one-byte/char case, also use direct index for
        INST_STR_INDEX in that case.

        * generic/tclEncoding.c (UtfToUtfProc, UtfToUnicodeProc):
        (TableFromUtfProc, EscapeFromUtfProc): Use TclUtfToUniChar.
        (UnicodeToUtfProc, TableToUtfProc): add 1-byte char optimizations for
        Tcl_UniCharToUtf call. These improve encoded channel conversion speeds
        by up to 20%.

        * tests/split.test: added 1-char string split tests
        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_SplitObjCmd): Use TclUtfToUniChar. Also
        added a special case for single-ascii-char splits.
        (Tcl_StringObjCmd): Use TclUtfToUniChar. For STR_RANGE, support
        getting ranges of ByteArrays (reverts change from 2000-05-26).
        (TraceExecutionProc) add proper static declaration.

        * generic/tclInt.h: add macro version of Tcl_UtfToUniChar
        (TclUtfToUniChar) that does the one-byte utf-char check without
        calling Tcl_UtfToUniChar, for use by the core. This brings notable
        speedups for primarily ascii string handling.

        * generic/tcl.h (TCL_PATCH_LEVEL): bump to 8.4.1.1 for patchlevel
        only. This interim number will only be reflected by [info patchlevel].

2002-11-11  Kevin Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * doc/Tcl.n: Corrected indentation of the new language. Oops.

2002-11-10  Kevin Kenny <kennykb@acm.org>

        * doc/Tcl.n: Added language to the Endekalogue to make it clear that
        substitutions always take place from left to right. [Bug 635644]

2002-11-06  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>

        * changes: Note TclInExit TclInThreadExit changes.
        * generic/tclEvent.c (TclInExit, TclInThreadExit): Split out
        functionality of TclInExit to make it clear which one should be called
        in each situation.
        * generic/tclInt.decls: Declare TclInThreadExit.
        * generic/tclIntDecls.h: Regen.
        * generic/tclStubInit.c: Regen.
        * mac/tclMacChan.c (StdIOClose):
        * unix/tclUnixChan.c (FileCloseProc):
        * win/tclWinChan.c (FileCloseProc):
        * win/tclWinConsole.c (ConsoleCloseProc):
        * win/tclWinPipe.c (TclpCloseFile):
        * win/tclWinSerial.c (SerialCloseProc): Invoke the new TclInThreadExit
        method instead of TclInExit.

2002-11-06  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/configure: Regen.
        * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Generate a fatal configure error if
        no ar program can be found on the path. [Bug 582039]
        * win/configure: Regen.
        * win/configure.in: Check that AR, RANLIB, and RC are found on the
        path when building with gcc.

2002-11-03  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>

        * win/tclAppInit.c:  Calls Registry_Init() and Dde_Init() when
        STATIC_BUILD and TCL_USE_STATIC_PACKAGES macros are set.

        * win/makefile.vc:
        * win/rules.vc:  linkexten option now sets the TCL_USE_STATIC_PACKAGES
        macro which also adds the registry and dde object files to the link
        of the shell. [Patch 479697] Also factored some additional macros that
        will be helpful for extension authors. Version grepping of tcl.h will
        need to be added to complete this.

        * win/buildall.vc.bat: Added more descriptive commentary.

2002-11-01  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>

        * win/tclWinReg.c:  Changed the Tcl_PkgProvide() line to declare the
        registry extension at version 1.1 from 1.0.

2002-10-31  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * library/word.tcl: Changed $tcl_platform to $::tcl_platform to avoid
        possible scope trouble.

2002-10-29  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>

        * win/tclWinInt.h:
        * win/tclWin32Dll.c: added comments about certain NULL function
        pointers which will be filled in when Tcl_FindExecutable is called, so
        that users don't report invalid bugs on this topic. (No code changes
        at all).

2002-10-29  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/tclLoadDyld.c (TclpFindSymbol): pass all dyld error messages
        upstream [Bug 627546].

2002-10-28  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

        * library/dde/pkgIndex.tcl:
        * library/reg/pkgIndex.tcl: Changed the hardwired debug suffix (d) to
        the correct suffix (g).

2002-10-28  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * library/auto.tcl:     Converted the Mac-specific [package unknown]
        * library/init.tcl:     behavior to use a chaining mechanism to extend
        * library/package.tcl:  the default [tclPkgUnknown]. [Bug 627660]
        * library/tclIndex:     [Patch 624509] (steffen)

2002-10-26  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>

        * win/makefile.vc: xcopy on NT 4.0 doesn't support the /Y switch
        (overwrite). Added logic to handle this. [Bug 618019]

2002-10-23  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * generic/tclInt.h: Removed definitions of obsolete HistoryEvent and
        HistoryRev structures (the history mechanism has been written in Tcl
        for some time now.)

2002-10-22  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        *** 8.4.1 TAGGED FOR RELEASE ***

        * changes: updated for 8.4.1 release

        * win/Makefile.in: removed @MEM_DEBUG_FLAGS@ subst.
        * win/configure: regen
        * win/configure.in: removed SC_ENABLE_MEMDEBUG call
        * win/tcl.m4: replaced SC_ENABLE_MEMDEBUG with a more intelligent
        SC_ENABLE_SYMBOLS that takes yes|no|mem|compile|all as options now.

2002-10-22  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

        * library/auto.tcl (tcl_findLibrary):
        * library/package.tcl (tclPkgUnknown): on macosx, search inside the
        Resources/Scripts subdirectory of any potential package directory.
        * macosx/Tcl.pbproj/project.pbxproj: add standard Frameworks dirs to
        TCL_PACKAGE_PATH make argument.
        * unix/tclUnixInit.c (TclpSetVariables): on macosx, add embedded
        framework dirs to tcl_pkgPath: @executable_path/../Frameworks and
        @executable_path/../PrivateFrameworks (if they exist), as well as the
        dirs in DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH (if set). [Patch 624509]
        use standard MAXPATHLEN instead of literal 1024

2002-10-22  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * doc/StringObj.3, doc/Object.3: Documented that Tcl_Obj's standard
        string form is a modified UTF-8; apparently, this was not mentioned
        anywhere in the main docs, and lead to [Bug 624919].

2002-10-21  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

        * macosx/Tcl.pbproj/project.pbxproj: bumped version to 8.4.1
        * generic/tcl.h: Added reminder comment to edit
        macosx/Tcl.pbproj/project.pbxproj when version number changes.

2002-10-18  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * library/reg/pkgIndex.tcl:
        * win/configure:
        * win/configure.in:
        * win/Makefile.in:
        * win/makefile.vc:
        * win/makefile.bc:    Updated to reg1.1

        * doc/registry.n:      Added support for broadcasting changes to the
        * tests/registry.test: registry Environment. Noted proper code in the
        * win/tclWinReg.c:     docs. [Patch 625453]

        * unix/Makefile.in (dist): add any mac/tcl*.sea.hqx files

2002-10-17  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclVar.c:     Fixed code that check for proper # of args to
        * tests/var.test:       [array names]. Added test. [Bug 624755]

2002-10-16  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * win/configure:                 add workaround for cygwin windres
        * win/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): problem. [Patch 624010] (howell)

2002-10-15  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * README: added archives.tcl.tk note

        * unix/configure:
        * unix/tcl.m4: Correct AIX-5 ppc build flags. Correct HP 11 64-bit gcc
        building. [Patch 601051] (martin)

2002-10-15  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c:
        * tests/trace.test: applied patch from Hemang Levana to fix [Bug
        615043] in execution traces with idle tasks firing.

2002-10-14  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * generic/tclEnv.c (Tcl_PutEnv): correct possible mem leak. [Patch
        623269] (brouwers)

2002-10-11  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * generic/tcl.h: Need a different strategy through the maze of
        #defines to let people building with Cygwin build correctly. Also made
        some comments less misleading...

2002-10-10  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * README: fixed minor nits [Bug 607776] (virden)

        * win/configure:
        * win/tcl.m4: enable USE_THREAD_ALLOC (new threaded allocator) by
        default in cygwin configure on Windows.

2002-10-10  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/Tcl.n:    Clarified that namespace separators are legal in the
                        variable names during $-subtitution. [Bug 615139]

        * doc/regexp.n: Typo correction. Thanks Ronnie Brunner. [Bug 606826]

2002-10-10  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/tclLoadAout.c
        * unix/tclLoadDl.c
        * unix/tclLoadDld.c
        * unix/tclLoadDyld.c
        * unix/tclLoadNext.c
        * unix/tclLoadOSF.c
        * unix/tclLoadShl.c
        * win/tclWinLoad.c: allow either full paths or simply dll names to be
        specified when loading files (the latter will be looked up by the OS
        on your PATH/LD_LIBRARY_PATH as appropriate). Fixes [Bug 611108]

2002-10-09  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * unix/README: doc'ed --enable-symbols options.
        * unix/Makefile.in: removed @MEM_DEBUG_FLAGS@ subst.
        * unix/configure: regen
        * unix/configure.in: removed SC_ENABLE_MEMDEBUG call
        * unix/tcl.m4: replaced SC_ENABLE_MEMDEBUG with a more intelligent
        SC_ENABLE_SYMBOLS that takes yes|no|mem|compile|all as options now.

2002-10-09  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * win/tclWinTime.c: Added code to set an exit handler that terminates
        the thread that calibrates the performance counter, so that the thread
        won't outlive unloading the Tcl DLL. [Bug 620735]

2002-10-09  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * doc/binary.n: More clarification of [binary scan]'s behaviour.

2002-10-09  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclIntDecls.h: fixed botched regen.

2002-10-09  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclInt.decls: made TclSetPreInitScript() declaration
        generic as it is used on mac & aqua as well.
        * generic/tclIntDecls.h:
        * generic/tclStubInit.c: regen.
        * generic/tclCompile.h: added prototype for TclCompileVariableCmd.

        * mac/tclMacPort.h: removed incorrect <fcntl.h> definitions and
        obsolete <stat.h> definitions.
        * mac/tclMacChan.c: removed obsolete GetOpenMode() and replaced
        associated constants with the <fcntl.h> analogues (they existing defs
        were inconsistent with <fcntl.h> which was causing havoc when
        Tcl_GetOpenMode was used instead of private GetOpenMode).

        * mac/tclMacFCmd.c: removed GenerateUniqueName(), use equivalent (and
        identically named) routine from MoreFiles instead.

        * mac/tclMacLoad.c: CONSTification, fixes to Vince's last changes.

        * mac/tclMacFile.c:
        * mac/tclMacTest.c:
        * mac/tclMacUnix.c: CONSTification.

        * mac/tclMacOSA.c: CONSTification, sprintf fixes, UH 3.4.x changes;
        fix for missing autoname token from TclOSACompileCmd. (bdesgraupes)
        * mac/AppleScript.html(AppleScript delete): doc fix. (bdesgraupes)

        * mac/tcltkMacBuildSupport.sea.hqx: updated MoreFiles to 1.5.3,
        updated build instructions for 8.4.
        * mac/tclMacProjects.sea.hqx: rebuilt archive.

2002-10-09  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * doc/Alloc.3: Added a note to mention that attempting to allocate a
        zero-length block can return NULL. [Tk Bug 619544]

2002-10-04  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * doc/binary.n: Doc improvements [Patch 616480]

        * tests/fCmd.test, tests/winFCmd.test:
        * tools/eolFix.tcl, tools/genStubs.tcl: [file exist] -> [file exists]
        Thanks to David Welton.

2002-10-03  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/tcltest.n: fixed typo [Bug 618018]. Thanks to "JJM".

2002-10-03  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * tools/man2help2.tcl:
        * tests/http.test, tests/httpd, tests/httpold.test:
        * tests/env.test, tests/binary.test, tests/autoMkindex.test:
        * library/init.tcl, library/http/http.tcl: [info exist] should really
        be [info exists]. [Bug 602566]

        * doc/lsearch.n: Better specification of what happens when -sorted is
        mixed with other options. [Bug 617816]

2002-10-01  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * generic/tclProc.c (TclCreateProc): mask out VAR_UNDEFINED for
        precompiled locals to support 8.3 precompiled code.
        (Tcl_ProcObjCmd): correct 2002-09-26 fix to look for tclProcBodyType.

2002-10-01  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * doc/socket.n: Mentioned that ports may be specified as serivce names
        as well as integers. [Bug 616843]

2002-09-30  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileRegexpCmd): correct the checking
        for bad re's that didn't terminate the re string. Resultant compiles
        were correct, but much slower than necessary.

2002-09-29  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>

        * win/tclAppInit.c: Added proper exiting conditions using Win32
        console signals. This handles the existing lack of a Ctrl+C exit to
        call exit handlers when built for thread support. Also, properly
        handles exits from other conditions such as CTRL_CLOSE_EVENT,
        CTRL_LOGOFF_EVENT, and CTRL_SHUTDOWN_EVENT signals. In all cases,
        exit handlers will be called. [Bug 219355]

        * win/makefile.vc: Added missing tclThreadAlloc.c to the build rules
        and defines USE_THREAD_ALLOC when TCL_THREADS is defined to get the
        new behavior by default.

2002-09-27  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * README:               Bumped to version 8.4.1 to avoid confusion of
        * generic/tcl.h:        CVS snapshots with the actual 8.4.0 release.
        * tools/tcl.wse.in:
        * unix/configure.in:
        * unix/tcl.spec:
        * win/configure.in:

        * unix/configure:       autoconf
        * win/configure:

2002-09-26  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * unix/configure: regen.
        * unix/tcl.m4: improve AIX-4/5 64bit compilation support.

        * generic/tclProc.c (Tcl_ProcObjCmd): correct overeager optimization
        of noop proc to handle the precompiled case. (sofer)

        * unix/ldAix (nmopts): add -X32_64 to make it work for 32 or 64bit
        mode compilation.

        * library/encoding/koi8-u.enc: removed extraneous spaces that confused
        encoding reader. [Bug 615115]

        * unix/Makefile.in: generate source dists with -src designator and do
        not generate .Z anymore (just .gz and .zip).

2002-09-18  Mumit Khan <khan@nanotech.wisc.edu>

        Added basic Cygwin support.

        * win/tcl.m4 (SC_PATH_TCLCONFIG): Support one-tree build.
        (SC_PATH_TKCONFIG): Likewise.
        (SC_PROG_TCLSH): Likewise.
        (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Assume real Cygwin port and remove -mno-cygwin
        flags. Add -mwin32 to extra_cflags and extra_ldflags. Remove ``-e
        _WinMain@16'' from LDFLAGS_WINDOW.
        * win/configure.in: Allow Cygwin build.
        (SEH test): Define to be 1 instead of empty value.
        (EXCEPTION_DISPOSITION): Add test.
        * win/configure: Regenerate.

        * generic/tcl.h: Don't explicitly define __WIN32__ for Cygwin, let the
        user decide whether to use Windows or POSIX personality.
        (TCL_WIDE_INT_TYPE, TCL_LL_MODIFIER, struct Tcl_StatBuf): Define for
        Cygwin.
        * generic/tclEnv.c (Tcl_CygwinPutenv): putenv replacement for Cygwin.
        * generic/tclFileName.c (Tcl_TranslateFileName): Convert POSIX to
        native format.
        (TclDoGlob): Likewise.
        * generic/tclPlatDecls.h (TCHAR): Define for Cygwin.
        * win/tclWinPort.h (putenv, TclpSysAlloc, TclpSysFree,
        (TclpSysRealloc): Define for Cygwin.

2002-09-26  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

        * macosx/Makefile: preserve environment value of INSTALL_ROOT. When
        embedding only use deployment build. Force relink before embedded
        build to ensure new linker flags are picked up.

        * macosx/Tcl.pbproj/project.pbxproj: add symbolic links to debug lib,
        stub libs and tclConfig.sh in framework toplevel. Configure target
        dependency fix. Fix to 'clean' action. Added private tcl headers to
        framework. Install tclsh symbolic link. Html doc build works when no
        installed tclsh available. Made html doc structure in framework more
        like in Apple frameworks.

2002-09-24  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_TCL_64BIT_FLAGS): Yet more robust 64-bit value
        detection to close [Bug 613117] on more systems.

        * generic/tclCompile.c (TclPrintSource): More CONSTifying.
        * generic/tclExecute.c (EvalStatsCmd): Object-ify to reduce warnings.
        Thanks to 'CoderX2' on the chat for bringing this to my attention...

        * unix/tcl.m4: Forgot to define TCL_WIDE_INT_IS_LONG at the
        appropriate moment. I believe this is the cause of [Bug 613117]

        * doc/lset.n: Changed 'list' to 'varName' for consistency with lappend
        documentation. Thanks to Glenn Jackman [Bug 611719]

2002-09-22  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl:  Corrected [puts -nonewline] within
        test bodies. Thanks to Harald Kirsch. [Bug 612786, Patch 612788] Also
        corrected reporting of body return code. Thanks to David Taback [Bug
        611922]
        * library/tcltest/pkgIndex.tcl: Bump to version 2.2.1.
        * tests/tcltest.test: added tests for these bugs.

2002-09-15  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/configure: Regen.
        * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Add PEEK_XCLOSEIM define under
        Linux. This is used by Tk to double check that an X input context is
        cleaned up before it is closed.

2002-09-12  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>

        * win/coffbase.txt: Added BLT to the virtual base address listings
        table should BLT's build tools decide to use it.

2002-09-12  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tcl.h:
        * mac/tclMacApplication.r:
        * mac/tclMacLibrary.r:
        * mac/tclMacResource.r: unified use of the two equivalent resource
        compiler header inclusion defines RC_INVOKED and RESOURCE_INCLUDED,
        now use RC_INVOKED throughout.

2002-09-10  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/README: Add note about building extensions with the same
        compiler Tcl was built with. [Tk Bug 592096]

2002-09-10  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

        * macosx/Tcl.pbproj/project.pbxproj: disabled building html
        documentation during embedded build.

2002-09-10  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/Makefile.in: added DYLIB_INSTALL_DIR variable for macosx and
        set it to default value ${LIB_RUNTIME_DIR}
        * unix/tcl.m4 (Darwin): use DYLIB_INSTALL_DIR instead of
        LIB_RUNTIME_DIR in the -install_name argument to ld.
        * unix/configure: regen.

        * macosx/Tcl.pbproj/project.pbxproj:
        * macosx/Makefile: added support for building Tcl as an embedded
        framework, i.e. using an dyld install_name containing
        @executable_path/../Frameworks via the new DYLIB_INSTALL_DIR
        unix/Makefile variable.

2002-09-10  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        *** 8.4.0 TAGGED FOR RELEASE ***

2002-09-06  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/file.n:  Format correction, and clarified [file normalize]
        returns an absolute path.

        * doc/tcltest.n:  Added examples section, as long promised.

2002-09-06  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>

        * tests/tcltest.test: Added nonRoot flag to tests 8.3, 8.4, and 8.12.

2002-09-05  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/tcltest.n:  Clarified phrasing.

        * generic/tclBasic.c (TclRenameCommand,CallCommandTraces):
        * tests/trace.test (trace-27.1): Corrected memory leak when a rename
        trace deleted the command being traced. Test added. Thanks to Hemang
        Lavana for the fix. [Bug 604609]

        * generic/tclVar.c (TclDeleteVars):  Corrected logic for setting the
        TCL_INTERP_DESTROYED flag when calling variable traces. [Tk Bug 605121]

2002-09-04  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclVar.c (DeleteArray): leak plug [Bug 604239]. Thanks to
        dkf and dgp for the long and difficult discussion in the chat.

2002-09-03  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_UpVar2): code cleanup to not use goto

        * unix/configure: remove -pthread from LIBS on FreeBSD in thread
        * unix/tcl.m4:    enabled build. [Bug 602849]

2002-09-03  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclInterp.c (AliasCreate): a Tcl_Obj was leaked on error
        return from TclPreventAliasLoop.

2002-09-03  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

        * macosx/Tcl.pbproj/project.pbxproj: Bumped version number to 8.4.0
        and updated copyright info.

2002-09-03  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_UpVar2): a Tcl_Obj was being leaked on error
        return from TclGetFrame.

2002-09-03  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * changes:  Updated changes for 8.4.0 release.

2002-09-02  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * unix/tclUnixFile.c (TclpObjLink): removed unnecessary/unfreed extra
        native char*.

        * unix/tclUnixChan.c (Tcl_MakeTcpClientChannel): make sure to init
        flags field of TcpState ptr to 0.

        * unix/configure:
        * unix/tcl.m4: added 64-bit gcc compilation support on HP-11.
        [Patch 601051] (martin)

        * README:               Bumped version number to 8.4.0
        * generic/tcl.h:
        * tools/tcl.wse.in:
        * unix/configure:
        * unix/configure.in:
        * unix/tcl.spec:
        * win/README.binary:
        * win/configure:
        * win/configure.in:

        * generic/tclInterp.c (SlaveCreate): make sure that the memory and
        checkmem commands are initialized in non-safe slave interpreters when
        TCL_MEM_DEBUG is used. [Bug 583445]

        * win/tclWinConsole.c (ConsoleCloseProc): only wait on writable pipe
        if there was something to write. This may prevent infinite wait on
        exit.

        * tests/exec.test: marked exec-18.1 unixOnly until the Windows
        incompatability (in the test, not the core) can be resolved.

        * tests/http.test (http-3.11): added close $fp that was causing an
        error on Windows because the file was not closed before deleting.

        * unix/tclUnixInit.c (Tcl_MacOSXGetLibraryPath): made this static
        function only appear when HAVE_CFBUNDLE is defined.

2002-08-31  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/tcl.m4: added TK_SHLIB_LD_EXTRAS analogue of existing
        TCL_SHLIB_LD_EXTRAS for linker settings only used when linking Tk.

        * unix/configure: regen

2002-08-31  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

        *** macosx-8-4-branch merged into the mainline [Patch 602770] ***

        * generic/tcl.decls: added new macosx specific entry to stubs table.

        * tools/genStubs.tcl: added generation of platform guards for
        macosx. This is a little more complex than it seems, because MacOS X
        IS "unix" plus a little bit, for the purposes of Tcl. BUT
        unfortunately, Tk uses "unix" to mean X11. So added platform keys for
        macosx (the little added to "unix"), "aqua" and "x11" to distinguish
        these for Tk.

        * generic/tcl.h: added a #ifnded RESOURCE_INCLUDED so that tcl.h can
        be passed to the resource compiler.

        * generic/tcl.h:
        * generic/tclNotify.c: added a few Notifier procs, to be able to
        modify more bits of the Tcl notifier dynamically. Required to get Mac
        OS X Tk to live on top of the Tcl Unix threaded notifier. Changes the
        size of the Tcl_NotifierProcs structure, but doesn't move any elements
        around.

        * unix/tclUnixNotfy.c: moved the call to Tcl_ConditionNotify till
        AFTER we are done mucking with the pointer swap. Fixes cases where the
        thread waiting on the condition wakes & accesses the waitingListPtr
        before it gets reset, causing a hang.

        * library/auto.tcl (tcl_findLibrary): added checking the directories
        in the tcl_pkgPath for library files on macosx to enable support of
        the standard Mac OSX library locations.

        * unix/Makefile.in:
        * unix/configure.in:
        * unix/tcl.m4: added MAC_OSX_DIR. Added PLAT_OBJS to the OBJS: there
        are some MacOS X specific files now for Tcl, and when I get the
        resource & applescript stuff ported over, and restore support for
        FindFiles, etc, there will be a few more. Added LD_LIBRARY_PATH_VAR
        configure variable to avoid having to set all possible LD_LIBRARY_PATH
        analogues on all platforms. LD_LIBRARY_PATH_VAR is "LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
        by default, "LIBPATH" on AIX, "SHLIB_PATH" on HPUX and
        "DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH" on Mac OSX. Added configure option to package Tcl
        as a framework on Mac OSX.

        * macosx/tclMacOSXBundle.c (new): support for finding Tcl extension
        packaged as 'bundles' in the standard Mac OSX library locations.

        * unix/tclUnixInit.c: added support for findig the tcl script library
        inside Tcl packaged as a framework on Mac OSX.

        * macosx/Tcl.pbproj/jingham.pbxuser (new):
        * macosx/Tcl.pbproj/project.pbxproj (new): project for Apple's
        ProjectBuilder IDE.

        * macosx/Makefile (new): simple makefile for building the project from
        the command line via the ProjectBuilder tool 'pbxbuild'.

        * unix/configure:
        * generic/tclStubInit.c:
        * generic/tclPlatDecls.h: regen

2002-08-29  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

        * win/tclWinThrd.c (TclpFinalizeThreadData, TclWinFreeAllocCache):
        Applied patch for [Bug 599428], provided by Miguel Sofer
        <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>.

2002-08-28  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>

        * generic/tclEnv.c:
        * unix/configure.in:
        * win/tclWinPort.h:  putenv() on some systems copies the buffer rather
        than taking reference to it. This causes memory leaks and is know to
        effect mswindows (msvcrt) and NetBSD 1.5.2 . This patch tests for this
        behavior and turns on -DHAVE_PUTENV_THAT_COPIES=1 when approriate.
        Thanks to David Welton for assistance. [Bug 414910]

        * unix/configure: regen'd

2002-08-28  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * doc/eval.n: Added mention of list command and corrected "SEE ALSO".

        * unix/configure.in: Cache handling of ac_cv_type_socklen_t was wrong.
        [Bug 600931] reported by John Ellson. Fixed by putting the brackets
        where they belong.

2002-08-26  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCompCmds.c: fix for [Bug 599788] (error in element name
        causing segfault), reported by Tom Wilkason. Fixed by copying the
        tokens instead of the source string.

2002-08-26  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclThreadAlloc.c: small optimisation, reducing the new
        allocator's overhead.

2002-08-23  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclObj.c (USE_THREAD_ALLOC): fixed leak [Bug 597936]. Thanks
        to Zoran Vasiljevic.

2002-08-23  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclThreadAlloc.c (USE_THREAD_ALLOC): moving objects between
        caches as a block, instead of one-by-one.

2002-08-22  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c:
        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: fix for freed memory r/w in delete traces [Bug
        589863], patch by Hemang Lavana.

2002-08-20  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

        * win/Makefile.in (CFLAGS):
        * unix/Makefile.in (MEM_DEBUG_FLAGS): Added usage of @MEM_DEBUG_FLAGS@.
        * win/configure.in:
        * unix/configure.in: Added usage of SC_ENABLE_MEMDEBUG.
        * win/tcl.m4:
        * unix/tcl.m4: Added macro SC_ENABLE_MEMDEBUG. Allows a user of
        configure to (de)activate memory validation and debugging
        (TCL_MEM_DEBUG). No need to modify the makefile anymore.

2002-08-20  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCkalloc.c: CONSTified MemoryCmd and CheckmemCmd.

        * README:               Bumped version number to 8.4b3 to distinguish
        * generic/tcl.h:        HEAD from the 8.4b2 release.
        * tools/tcl.wse.in:
        * unix/configure.in:
        * unix/tcl.spec:
        * win/README.binary:
        * win/configure.in:

        * unix/configure:       autoconf
        * win/configure:

        * library/http/http.tcl:        Corrected installation directory of
        * library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl:    the package tcltest 2.2. Added
        * library/opt/optparse.tcl:     comments in other packages to remind
        * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl:  that installation directories need
        * unix/Makefile.in:             updates to match increasing version
        * win/Makefile.in:              numbers. [Bug 597450]
        * win/makefile.bc:
        * win/makefile.vc:

2002-08-19  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/tclUnixTest.c (TestfilehandlerCmd): Changed readable/writable
        to the more common readable|writable. Fixes [Bug 596034] reported by
        Larry Virden <lvirden@users.sourceforge.net>.

2002-08-16  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * tests/fCmd.test: Added test to make sure that the cause of the
        problem is detectable with an unpatched Tcl.
        * doc/ObjectType.3: Added note on the root cause of this problem to
        the documentation, since it is possible for user code to trigger this
        sort of behaviour too.
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c (SetFsPathFromAny): Objects should only have
        their old representation deleted when we know that we are about to
        install a new one. This stops a weird TclX bug under Linux with
        certain kinds of memory debugging enabled which essentally came down
        to a double-free of a string.

2002-08-14  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclInt.h:
        * generic/tclObj.c: (code cleanup) factored the parts in the macros
        TclNewObj() / TclDecrRefCount() into a common part for all
        memory allocators and two new macros TclAllocObjStorage() /
        TclFreeObjStorage() that are specific to each allocator and fully
        describe the differences. Removed allocator-specific code from
        tclObj.c by using the macros.

2002-08-12  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: fixing UMR in delete traces, [Bug 589863].

2002-08-08  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>

        * tools/man2help.tcl: Fixed $argv handling bug where if -bitmap wasn't
        specified $argc was off by one.

2002-08-08  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/uplevel.test: added 6.1 to test [uplevel] with shadowed
        commands [Bug 524383]

        * tests/subst.test: added 5.8-10 as further tests for [Bug 495207]

2002-08-08  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/README: Noted removal of defs.tcl.

2002-08-08  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * doc/lsearch.n: corrected lsearch docs to use -inline in examples.

        *** 8.4b2 TAGGED FOR RELEASE ***

        * tests/fCmd.test:
        * tests/unixFCmd.test: updated tests for new link copy behavior.
        * generic/tclFCmd.c (CopyRenameOneFile): changed the behavior to
        follow links to endpoints and copy that file/directory instead of just
        copying the surface link. This means that trying to copy a link that
        has no endpoint (danling link) is an error. [Patch 591647] (darley)
        (CopyRenameOneFile): this is currently disabled by default until
        further issues with such behavior (like relative links) can be
        handled correctly.

        * tests/README: slight wording improvements

2002-08-07  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * docs/BoolObj.3: added description of valid string reps for a
        boolean object. [Bug 584794]
        * generic/tclObj.c: optimised Tcl_GetBooleanFromObj and
        SetBooleanFromAny to avoid parsing the string rep when it can be
        avoided. [Bugs 584650, 472576]

2002-08-07  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCompile.h:
        * generic/tclObj.c: making tclCmdNameType static ([Bug 584567], Don
        Porter).

2002-08-07  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclObj.c (Tcl_NewObj): added conditional code for
        USE_THREAD_ALLOC; objects allocated through Tcl_NewObj() were
        otherwise being leaked. [Bug 587488] reported by Sven Sass.

2002-08-06  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclInt.decls:
        * unix/tclUnixThrd.c: Added stubs and implementations for
        non-threaded build for the tclUnixThrd.c procs TclpReaddir,
        TclpLocaltime, TclpGmtime and TclpInetNtoa. Fixes link errors in
        stubbed & threaded extensions that include tclUnixPort.h and use any
        of the procs readdir, localtime, gmtime or inet_ntoa (e.g. TclX 8.4)
        [Bug 589526]
        * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h:
        * generic/tclStubInit.c: Regen.

2002-08-05  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl:  The setup and cleanup scripts are now
        * library/tcltest/pkgIndex.tcl: skipped when a test is skipped, fixing
        * tests/tcltest.test:           [Bug 589859]. Test for bug added, and
        corrected tcltest package bumped to version 2.2.

        * generic/tcl.decls:    Restored Tcl_Concat to return (char *). Like
        * generic/tclDecls.h:   Tcl_Merge, it transfers ownership of a dynamic
        * generic/tclUtil.c:    allocated string to the caller.

2002-08-04  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/CmdCmplt.3:       Applied Patch 585105 to fully CONST-ify all
        * doc/Concat.3:         remaining public interfaces of Tcl. Notably,
        * doc/CrtCommand.3:     the parser no longer writes on the string it
        * doc/CrtSlave.3:       is parsing, so it is no longer necessary for
        * doc/CrtTrace.3:       Tcl_Eval() to be given a writable string. Also
        * doc/Eval.3:           the refactoring of the Tcl_*Var* routines by
        * doc/ExprLong.3:       by Miguel Sofer is included, so that the
        * doc/LinkVar.3:        "part1" argument for them no longer needs to
        * doc/ParseCmd.3:       be writable either.
        * doc/SetVar.3:
        * doc/TraceVar.3:
        * doc/UpVar.3:          Compatibility support has been enhanced so
        * generic/tcl.decls:    that a #define of USE_NON_CONST will remove
        * generic/tcl.h:        all possible source incompatibilities with the
        * generic/tclBasic.c:   8.3 version of the header file(s). The new
        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c:   #define of USE_COMPAT_CONST now does what
        * generic/tclCompCmds.c:USE_NON_CONST used to do -- disable only those
        * generic/tclCompExpr.c:new CONST's that introduce irreconcilable
        * generic/tclCompile.c: incompatibilities.
        * generic/tclCompile.h:
        * generic/tclDecls.h:   Several bugs are also fixed by this patch.
        * generic/tclEnv.c:     [Bugs 584051,580433] [Patches 585105,582429]
        * generic/tclEvent.c:
        * generic/tclInt.decls:
        * generic/tclInt.h:
        * generic/tclIntDecls.h:
        * generic/tclInterp.c:
        * generic/tclLink.c:
        * generic/tclObj.c:
        * generic/tclParse.c:
        * generic/tclParseExpr.c:
        * generic/tclProc.c:
        * generic/tclTest.c:
        * generic/tclUtf.c:
        * generic/tclUtil.c:
        * generic/tclVar.c:
        * mac/tclMacTest.c:
        * tests/expr-old.test:
        * tests/parseExpr.test:
        * unix/tclUnixTest.c:
        * unix/tclXtTest.c:
        * win/tclWinTest.c:

2002-08-01  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c: bugfix (reading freed memory). Testsuite
        passed on linux/i386, compile-13.1 hung on linux/alpha.

2002-08-01  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c: added a reference count for the complete
        execution stack, instead of Tcl_Preserve/Tcl_Release.

2002-08-01  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCkalloc.c (TclFinalizeMemorySubsystem): Don't lock the
        ckalloc mutex before invoking the Tcl_DumpActiveMemory function since
        it also locks the same mutex. This code is only executed when "memory
        onexit filename" has been executed and Tcl is compiled with
        -DTCL_MEM_DEBUG.

2002-08-01  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>

        * win/tclWinPort.h: The windows headers don't provide socklen_t, so we
        have to do it.

2002-07-31  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclInt.h (USE_THREAD_ALLOC): for unshared objects,
        TclDecrRefCount now frees the internal rep before the string rep -
        just like the non-macro Tcl_DecrRefCount/TclFreeObj [Bug 524802]. For
        the other allocators the fix was done on 2002-03-06.

2002-07-31  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclInterp.c: signed/unsigned comparison warning fixed
        (Vince Darley).

2002-07-31  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_BUGGY_STRTOD): Enabled caching of test results.

        * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_BUGGY_STRTOD): Solaris 2.8 still has a buggy
        strtod() implementation; make sure we detect it.

        * tests/expr.test (expr-22.*): Marked as non-portable because it seems
        that these tests have an annoying tendency to fail in unexpected ways.
        [Bugs 584825, 584950, 585986]

2002-07-30  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/io.test:
        * generic/tclIO.c (WriteChars): Added flag to break out of loop if
        nothing of the input is consumed at all, to prevent infinite looping
        of called with a non-UTF-8 string. Fixes Bug 584603 (partially). Added
        new test "io-60.1". Might need additional changes to Tcl_Main so that
        unprintable results are printed as binary data.

2002-07-29  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/Makefile.in: Use CC_SEARCH_FLAGS instead of LD_SEARCH_FLAGS
        when linking with ${CC}.
        * unix/configure: Regen.
        * unix/configure.in: Don't subst CC_SEARCH_FLAGS or LD_SEARCH_FLAGS
        since this is now done in tcl.m4.
        * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Document and set CC_SEARCH_FLAGS
        whenever LD_SEARCH_FLAGS is set. [Patch 588290]

2002-07-29  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>

        * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_SERIAL_PORT): Fixed detection for cases when
                                        configure's stdin is not a tty.

        * unix/tclUnixPort.h:
        * generic/tclIOSock.c:          Changed size_t to socklen_t in
                                        socket-related function calls.

        * unix/configure.in:            Added test and fallback definition
                                        for socklen_t.

        * unix/configure:               generated.

2002-07-29  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclObj.c: fixed a comment

        * generic/tcl.h:
        * generic/tclBasic.c:
        * generic/tclInterp.c: added the new flag TCL_EVAL_INVOKE to the
        interface of the Tcl_Eval* functions, removing the
        TCL_EVAL_NO_TRACEBACK added yesterday: alias invocations not only
        require no tracebacks, but also look up the command name in the global
        scope - see new test interp-9.4
        * tests/interp.test: added 9.3 to test for safety of aliases to hidden
        commands, 9.4 to test for correct command lookup scope.

2002-07-29  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * generic/regc_locale.c (cclass): [[:xdigit:]] is only a defined
        concept on western characters, so should not allow any unicode digit,
        and hence number of ranges in [[:xdigit:]] is fixed.
        * tests/reg.test: Added test to detect the bug.
        * generic/regc_cvec.c (newcvec): Corrected initial size value in
        character vector structure. [Bug 578363] Many thanks to
        pvgoran@users.sf.net for tracking this down.

2002-07-28  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tcl.h:
        * generic/tclBasic.c: added the new flag TCL_EVAL_NO_TRACEBACK to the
        interface of the Tcl_Eval* functions. Modified the error message for
        too many nested evaluations.
        * generic/tclInterp.h: changed the Alias struct to be of variable
        length and store the prefix arguments directly (instead of a pointer
        to a Tcl_Obj list). Made AliasObjCmd call Tcl_EvalObjv instead of
        TclObjInvoke - thus making aliases trigger execution traces [Bug
        582522].
        * tests/interp.test:
        * tests/stack.test: adapted to the new error message.
        * tests/trace.test: added tests for aliases firing the exec traces.

2002-07-27  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/Makefile.in: Revert fix for Tcl bug 529801 since it was
        incorrect and broke the build on other systems. Fix [Bug 587299]. Add
        MAJOR_VERSION, MINOR_VERSION, PATCH_LEVEL, SHLIB_LD_FLAGS,
        SHLIB_LD_LIBS, CC_SEARCH_FLAGS, LD_SEARCH_FLAGS, and LIB_FILE
        variables to support more generic library build/install rules.
        * unix/configure: Regen.
        * unix/configure.in: Move AC_PROG_RANLIB into tcl.m4. Move shared
        build test and setting of MAKE_LIB and MAKE_STUB_LIB into tcl.m4. Move
        subst of a number of variables into tcl.m4 where they are defined.
        * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_ENABLE_SYMBOLS, SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Subst vars where
        they are defined. Add MAKE_LIB, MAKE_STUB_LIB, INSTALL_LIB, and
        INSTALL_STUB_LIB rules to deal with the ugly details of running ranlib
        on static libs at build and install time. Replace TCL_SHLIB_LD_EXTRAS
        with SHLIB_LD_FLAGS and use it when building a shared library.
        * unix/tclConfig.sh.in: Add TCL_CC_SEARCH_FLAGS.

2002-07-26  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c: fixed Tcl_Obj leak in code corresponding to
        the macro NEXT_INST_V(x, 0, 1) [Bug 587495].

2002-07-26  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclVar.c (TclObjLookupVar): leak fix and improved comments.

2002-07-26  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * generic/tclVar.c (TclLookupVar): removed early returns that
        prevented the parens from being restored. Also removed goto label as
        it was not necessary.

2002-07-24  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c:
        * tests/expr-old.test: fix for erroneous error messages in [expr],
        [Bug 587140] reported by Martin Lemburg.

2002-07-25  Joe English  <jenglish@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclProc.c: fix for [Tk Bug 219218] "error handling with
        bgerror in Tk"

2002-07-24  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c: restoring full TCL_COMPILE_DEBUG
        functionality.

2002-07-24  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/unixInit.test: relaxed unixInit-3.1 to accept iso8859-15 as a
        valid C encoding. [Bug 575336]

2002-07-24  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c: restoring the tcl_traceCompile functionality
        while I repair tcl_traceExec. The core now compiles and runs also
        under TCL_COMPILE_DEBUG, but execution in the bytecode engine can
        still not be traced.

2002-07-24  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/Makefile.in:
        * unix/configure.in: corrected fix for [Bug 529801]: ranlib only
        needed for static builds on Mac OS X.
        * unix/configure: Regen.
        * unix/tclLoadDyld.c: fixed small bugs introduced by Vince,
        implemented library unloading correctly (needs OS X 10.2).

2002-07-23  Joe English  <jenglish@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/OpenFileChnl.3: (Updates from Larry Virden)
        * doc/open.n:
        * doc/tclsh.1: Fix section numbers in Unix man page references.
        * doc/lset.n:  In EXAMPLES section, include command to set the initial
        value used in subsequent examples.
        * doc/http.n: Package version updated to 2.4.

2002-07-23  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/configure: Regen.
        * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Enable 64 bit compilation when using
        the native compiler on a 64 bit version of IRIX. [Bug 219220]

2002-07-23  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/Makefile.in: Combine ranlib tests and avoid printing unless
        ranlib is actually run.

2002-07-23  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_PATH_X): Set XINCLUDES to "" instead of "# no
        special path needed" or "# no include files found" when x headers
        cannot be located.

2002-07-22  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclIOUtil.c: made tclNativeFilesystem static (since 07-19
        changes removed its usage elsewhere), and added comments about its
        usage.
        * generic/tclLoad.c:
        * generic/tcl.h:
        * generic/tcl.decls:
        * doc/FileSystem.3: converted last load-related ClientData parameter
        to Tcl_LoadHandle opaque structure, removing a couple of casts in the
        process.

        * generic/tclInt.h: removed tclNativeFilesystem declaration since it
        is now static again.

2002-07-22  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * tests/expr.test (expr-22.*): Added tests to help detect the
        corrected handling.
        * generic/tclExecute.c (IllegalExprOperandType): Improved error
        message generated when attempting to manipulate Inf and NaN values.
        * generic/tclParseExpr.c (GetLexeme): Allowed parser to recognise
        'Inf' as a floating-point number. [Bug 218000]

2002-07-21  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tclIOUtil.c: Silence compiler warning. [Bug 584408].

2002-07-19  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclIOUtil.c: fix to GetFilesystemRecord
        * win/tclWinFile.c:
        * unix/tclUnixFile.c: fix to subtle problem with links shown up by
        latest tclkit builds.

2002-07-19  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/configure:
        * unix/configure.in:
        * win/configure:
        * win/configure.in: Add AC_PREREQ(2.13) in an attempt to make it more
        clear that the configure scripts must be generated with autoconf
        version 2.13. [Bug 583573]

2002-07-19  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/Makefile.in: fix to build on MacOS X [Bug 529801], bug report
        and fix from jcw.

2002-07-19  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * win/tclWinSerial.c (no_timeout): Made this variable static.

        * generic/tclExecute.c, generic/tclCompile.c, generic/tclBasic.c:
        * generic/tclCompile.h (builtinFuncTable, instructionTable): Added
        prefix to these symbols because they are visible outside the Tcl
        library.

        * generic/tclCompExpr.c (operatorTable):
        * unix/tclUnixTime.c (tmKey):
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c (theFilesystemEpoch, filesystemWantToModify,
        filesystemIteratorsInProgress, filesystemOkToModify): Made these
        variables static.

        * unix/tclUnixFile.c:           Renamed nativeFilesystem to
        * win/tclWinFile.c:             tclNativeFilesystem and declared
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c:          it properly in tclInt.h
        * generic/tclInt.h:

        * generic/tclUtf.c (totalBytes): Made this array static and const.

        * generic/tclParse.c (typeTable): Made this array static and const.
        (Tcl_ParseBraces): Simplified error handling case so that scans are
        only performed when needed, and flags are simpler too.

        * license.terms: Added AS to list of copyright holders; it's only
        fair for the current gatekeepers to be listed here!

        * tests/cmdMZ.test: Renamed constraint for clarity. [Bug 583427]
        Added tests for the [time] command, which was previously only
        indirectly tested!

2002-07-18  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclInt.h:
        * generic/tcl.h:
        * */*Load*.c: added comments on changes of 07/17 and replaced
        clientData with Tcl_LoadHandle in all locations.

        * generic/tclFCmd.c:
        * tests/fileSystem.test: fixed a 'knownBug' with 'file attributes ""'
        * tests/winFCmd.test:
        * tests/winPipe.test:
        * tests/fCmd.test:
        * tessts/winFile.test: added 'pcOnly' constraint to some tests to make
        for more useful 'tests skipped' log from running all tests on
        non-Windows platforms.

2002-07-17  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c (CallCommandTraces): delete traces now receive
        the FQ old name of the command. [Bug 582532] (Don Porter)

2002-07-18  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/ioUtil.test: added constraints to 1.4,2.4 so they don't run
        outside of tcltest. [Bugs 583276, 583277]

2002-07-17  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclVar.c (DupParsedVarName): nasty bug fixed, reported by
        Vince Darley.

2002-07-17  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclVar.c (TclPtrIncrVar): missing CONST in declarations,
        inconsistent with tclInt.h. Thanks to Vince Darley for reporting, boo
        to gcc for not complaining.

2002-07-17  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclInt.h:
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c:
        * generic/tclLoadNone.c:
        * unix/tclLoadAout.c:
        * unix/tclLoadDl.c:
        * unix/tclLoadDld.c:
        * unix/tclLoadDyld.c:
        * unix/tclLoadNext.c:
        * unix/tclLoadOSF.c:
        * unix/tclLoadShl.c:
        * mac/tclMacLoad.c:
        * win/tclWinLoad.c: modified to move more functionality to the generic
        code and avoid duplication. Partial replacement of internal uses of
        clientData with opaque Tcl_LoadHandle. A little further work still
        needed, but significant changes are done.

2002-07-17  D. Richard Hipp    <drh@hwaci.com>

        * library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl: fix a comment that was causing problems
        for programs (ex: mktclapp) that embed the initialization scripts in
        strings.

2002-07-17  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclInt.decls:
        * generic/tclIntDecls.h:
        * generic/tclStubInit.c:
        * generic/tclVar.c: removing the now redundant functions to access
        indexed variables: Tcl(Get|Set|Incr)IndexedScalar() and
        Tcl(Get|Set|Incr)ElementOfIndexedArray().

2002-07-17  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): Minor fixes to make this
        file compile with SunPro CC...

2002-07-17  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c: modified to do variable lookup explicitly, and
        then either inlining the variable access or else calling the new
        TclPtr(Set|Get|Incr)Var functions in tclVar.c
        * generic/tclInt.h: declare some functions previously local to
        tclVar.c for usage by TEBC.
        * generic/tclVar.c: removed local declarations; moved all special
        accessor functions for indexed variables to the end of the file -
        they are unused and ready for removal, but left there for the time
        being as they are in the internal stubs table.

        ** WARNING FOR BYTECODE MAINTAINERS **
        TCL_COMPILE_DEBUG is currently not functional; will be fixed ASAP.

2002-07-16  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/Makefile.in:
        * win/Makefile.in: Add a more descriptive warning in the event `make
        genstubs` needs to be rerun.

2002-07-16  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/Makefile.in: Use dltest.marker file to keep track of when the
        dltest package is up to date. This fixes [Bug 575768] since tcltest is
        no longer linked every time.
        * unix/dltest/Makefile.in: Create ../dltest.marker after a successful
        `make all` run in dltest.

2002-07-16  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/configure: Regen.
        * unix/configure.in: Remove useless subst of TCL_BIN_DIR.

2002-07-15  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclVar.c: inaccurate comment fixed

2002-07-15  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_AddObjErrorInfo):
        * generic/tclExecute.c (TclUpdateReturnInfo):
        * generic/tclInt.h:
        * generic/tclProc.c:
        Added two Tcl_Obj to the ExecEnv structure to hold the fully qualified
        names "::errorInfo" and "::errorCode" to cache the addresses of the
        corresponding variables. The two most frequent setters of these
        variables now profit from the new variable name caching.

2002-07-15  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclVar.c: refactorisation to reuse already looked-up Var
        pointers; definition of three new Tcl_Obj types to cache variable name
        parsing and lookup for later reuse; modification of internal functions
        to profit from the caching.

        * generic/tclInt.decls:
        * generic/tclInt.h:
        * generic/tclIntDecls.h:
        * generic/tclNamesp.c: adding CONST qualifiers to variable names
        passed to Tcl_FindNamespaceVar and to variable resolvers; adding CONST
        qualifier to the 'msg' argument to TclLookupVar. Needed to avoid code
        duplication in the new tclVar.c code.

        * tests/set-old.test:
        * tests/var.test: slight modification of error messages due to the
        modifications in the tclVar.c code.

2002-07-15  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/unixInit.test:  Improved constraints to protect /tmp. [Bug
        581403]

2002-07-15  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/winFCmd.test: renamed 'win2000' and 'notWin2000' to more
        appropriate constraint names.
        * win/tclWinFile.c: updated comments to reflect 07-11 changes.
        * win/tclWinFCmd.c: made ConvertFileNameFormat static again, since no
        longer used in tclWinFile.c
        * mac/tclMacFile.c: completed TclpObjLink implementation which was
        previously lacking.
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c: comment cleanup and code speedup.

2002-07-14  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclInt.h:     Removed declarations that duplicated entries
        in the (internal) stub table.

        * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl:  Corrected errors in handling of
        configuration options -constraints and -limitconstraints.

        * README:               Bumped HEAD to version 8.4b2 so we can
        * generic/tcl.h:        distinguish it from the 8.4b1 release.
        * tools/tcl.wse.in:
        * unix/configure*:
        * unix/tcl.spec:
        * win/README.binary:
        * win/configure*:

2002-07-11  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/file.n:
        * win/tclWinFile.c: on Win 95/98/ME the long form of the path is used
        as a normalized form. This is required because short forms are not a
        robust representation. The file normalization function has been sped
        up, but more performance gains might be possible, if speed is still an
        issue on these platforms.

2002-07-11  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl: Corrected reaction to existing but
        false ::tcl_interactive.

        * doc/Hash.3: Overlooked CONST documentation update.

2002-07-11  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * generic/tclCkalloc.c: ckalloc() and friends take the block size as
        an unsigned, so we should use %ud when reporting it in fprintf() and
        panic().

2002-07-11  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCompile.c: now setting local vars undefined at compile
        time, instead of waiting until the proc is initialized.
        * generic/tclProc.c: use macro TclSetVarUndefined instead of directly
        setting the flag.

2002-07-11  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * tests/cmdAH.test: [file attr -perm] is Unix-only, so add [catch]
        when not inside a suitably-protected test.

2002-07-10  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * tests/unixFCmd.test, tests/fileName.test:
        * tests/fCmd.test: Removed [exec] of Unix utilities that have
        equivalents in standard Tcl. [Bug 579268] Also simplified some of
        unixFCmd.test while I was at it.

2002-07-10  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/tcltest.test:  Greatly reduced the number of [exec]s, using
        slave interps instead.
        * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl:  Fixed bug uncovered in the conversion
        where a message was written to stdout instead of [outputChannel].

        * tests/basic.test:     Cleaned up, constrained, and reduced the
        * tests/compile.test:   amount of [exec] usage in the test suite.
        * tests/encoding.test:
        * tests/env.test:
        * tests/event.test:
        * tests/exec.test:
        * tests/io.test:
        * tests/ioCmd.test:
        * tests/regexp.test:
        * tests/regexpComp.test:
        * tests/socket.test:
        * tests/tcltest.test:
        * tests/unixInit.test:
        * tests/winDde.test:
        * tests/winPipe.test:

2002-07-10  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * tests/cmdAH.test: Removed [exec] of Unix utilities. [Bug 579211]

        * tests/expr.test: Added tests to make sure that this works.
        * generic/tclExecute.c (ExprCallMathFunc): Functions should also be
        able to return wide-ints. [Bug 579284]

2002-07-08  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/socket.test: Fixed [Bug 578164]. The original reason for the
        was a DNS outage while running the testsuite. Changed [info hostname]
        to 127.0.0.1 to bypass DNS, knowing that we operate on the local host.

2002-07-08  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/tcltest.n:                Fixed incompatibility in [viewFile].
        * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl:  Corrected docs. Bumped to 2.2.1.
        * library/tcltest/pkgIndex.tcl: [Bug 578163]

2002-07-08  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/cmdAH.test:
        * tests/fCmd.test:
        * tests/fileName.test: tests which rely on 'file link' need a
        constraint so they don't run on older Windows OS. [Bug 578158]
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c:
        * generic/tcl.h:
        * generic/tclInt.h:
        * generic/tclTest.c:
        * mac/tclMacChan.c:
        * unix/tclUnixChan.c:
        * win/tclWinChan.c:
        * doc/FileSystem.3: cleaned up internal handling of
        Tcl_FSOpenFileChannel to remove duplicate code, and make writing
        external vfs's clearer and easier. No functionality change. Also
        clarify that objects with refCount zero should not be passed in to the
        Tcl_FS API, and prevent segfaults from occuring on such user errors.
        [Bug 578617]

2002-07-06  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/pkgMkIndex.test:  Constrained tests of [load] package indexing
        to those platforms where the testing shared libraries have been built.
        [Bug 578166]

2002-07-05  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * changes: added recent changes

2002-07-05  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>

        * generic/tclClock.c (FormatClock): Convert the format string to UTF8
        before calling TclpStrftime, so that non-ASCII characters don't get
        mangled when the result string is being converted back.
        * tests/clock.test: Added a test for that.

2002-07-05  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * unix/Makefile.in (ro-test,ddd,GDB,DDD): Created new targets to
        allow running the test suite with a read-only current directory,
        running under ddd instead of gdb, and factored out some executable
        names for broken sites (like mine) where gdb and ddd are installed
        with non-standard names...

        * tests/httpold.test: Altered test names to httpold-* to avoid clashes
        with http.test, and stopped tests from failing when the current
        directory is not writable...

        * tests/event.test:             Stop these tests from failing when the
        * tests/ioUtil.test:            current directory is not writable...
        * tests/regexp.test:
        * tests/regexpComp.test:
        * tests/source.test:
        * tests/unixFile.test:
        * tests/unixNotfy.test:

        * tests/unixFCmd.test:          Trying to make these test-files not
        * tests/macFCmd.test:           bomb out with an error when the
        * tests/http.test:              current directory is not writable...
        * tests/fileName.test:
        * tests/env.test:

2002-07-05  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        *** 8.4b1 TAGGED FOR RELEASE ***

2002-07-04  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * tests/cmdMZ.test (cmdMZ-1.4):
        * tests/cmdAH.test: More fixing of writable-current-dir assumption.
        [Bug 575824]

2002-07-04  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/basic.test: Same issue as below; fixed [Bug 575817]

2002-07-04  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/socket.test:
        * tests/winPipe.test:
        * tests/pid.test: Fixed [Bug 575848]. See below for a description the
        general problem.

        * All the bugs below are instances of the same problem: The testsuite
        assumes [pwd] = [temporaryDirectory] and writable.

        * tests/iogt.test: Fixed [Bug 575860].
        * tests/io.test:   Fixed [Bug 575862].
        * tests/exec.test:
        * tests/ioCmd.test: Fixed [Bug 575836].

2002-07-03  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/pkg1/direct1.tcl: removed
        * tests/pkg1/pkgIndex.tcl: removed
        * tests/pkgMkIndex.test:  Imported auxilliary files from tests/pkg1
        into the test file pkgMkIndex.test itself. Formatting fixes.

        * unix/Makefile.in: removed tests/pkg/* from `make dist`

        * tests/pkg/circ1.tcl: removed
        * tests/pkg/circ2.tcl: removed
        * tests/pkg/circ3.tcl: removed
        * tests/pkg/global.tcl: removed
        * tests/pkg/import.tcl: removed
        * tests/pkg/pkg1.tcl: removed
        * tests/pkg/pkg2_a.tcl: removed
        * tests/pkg/pkg2_b.tcl: removed
        * tests/pkg/pkg3.tcl: removed
        * tests/pkg/pkg4.tcl: removed
        * tests/pkg/pkg5.tcl: removed
        * tests/pkg/pkga.tcl: removed
        * tests/pkg/samename.tcl: removed
        * tests/pkg/simple.tcl: removed
        * tests/pkg/spacename.tcl: removed
        * tests/pkg/std.tcl: removed
        * tests/pkgMkIndex.test: Fixed [Bug 575857] where this test file
        expected to be able to write to [file join [testsDirectory] pkg]. Part
        of the fix was to import several auxilliary files into the test file
        itself.

        * tests/main.test:      Cheap fix for [Bugs 575851, 575858]. Avoid
        * tests/tcltest.test:   non-writable . by [cd [temporaryDirectory]].

        * library/auto.tcl: Fix [tcl_findLibrary] to be sure it sets $varName
        only if a successful library script is found. [Bug 577033]

2002-07-03  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileCatchCmd): return
        TCL_OUT_LINE_COMPILE instead of TCL_ERROR: let the failure happen at
        runtime so that it can be caught [Bug 577015].

2002-07-02  Joe English  <jenglish@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/tcltest.n: Markup fixes, spellcheck.

2002-07-02  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/tcltest.n: more refinements of the documentation.

        * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl: Added trace to be sure the stdio
        constraint is updated whenever the [interpreter] changes.

        * doc/tcltest.n:                Reverted [makeFile] and [viewFile] to
        * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl:  their former behavior, and documented
        * tests/cmdAH.test:             it. Corrected misspelling of hook
        * tests/event.test:             procedure. Restored tests.
        * tests/http.test:
        * tests/io.test:

        * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl: Simplified logic of [GetMatchingFiles]
        and [GetMatchingDirectories], removing special case processing.

        * doc/tcltest.n: More documentation updates. Reference sections are
        complete. Only examples need adding.

2002-07-02  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/fCmd.test:
        * generic/tclCmdAH.c: clearer error msgs for 'file link', as per the
        man page.

2002-07-01  Joe English  <jenglish@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/Access.3:
        * doc/AddErrInfo.3:
        * doc/Alloc.3:
        * doc/Backslash.3:
        * doc/CrtChannel.3:
        * doc/CrtSlave.3:
        * doc/Encoding.3:
        * doc/Eval.3:
        * doc/FileSystem.3:
        * doc/Notifier.3:
        * doc/OpenFileChnl.3:
        * doc/ParseCmd.3:
        * doc/RegExp.3:
        * doc/Tcl_Main.3:
        * doc/Thread.3:
        * doc/TraceCmd.3:
        * doc/Utf.3:
        * doc/WrongNumArgs.3:
        * doc/binary.n:
        * doc/clock.n:
        * doc/expr.n:
        * doc/fconfigure.n:
        * doc/glob.n:
        * doc/http.n:
        * doc/interp.n:
        * doc/lsearch.n:
        * doc/lset.n:
        * doc/msgcat.n:
        * doc/packagens.n:
        * doc/pkgMkIndex.n:
        * doc/registry.n:
        * doc/resource.n:
        * doc/safe.n:
        * doc/scan.n:
        * doc/tclvars.n:  Spell-check, fixed typos (Updates from Larry Virden).

2002-07-01  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Made Solaris use gcc for linking
        when building with gcc to resolve problems with undefined symbols
        being present when tcl library used with non-gcc linker at later
        stage. Symbols were compiler-generated, so it is the compiler's
        business to define them. [Bug 541181]

2002-07-01  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/tcltest.n: more work in progress updating tcltest docs.

        * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl: Change [configure -match] to stop
        treating an empty list as a list of the single pattern "*". Changed
        the default value to [list *] so default operation remains the same.

        * tests/pkg/samename.tcl: restored. needed by pkgMkIndex.test.

        * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl: restored writeability testing of
        -tmpdir, augmented by a special exception for the deafault value.

2002-07-01  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * doc/concat.n: Documented the *real* behaviour of [concat]!

2002-06-30  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/tcltest.n: more work in progress updating tcltest docs.

        * tests/README:         Updated the instructions on running and
        * tests/cmdMZ.test:     adding to the test suite. Also updated
        * tests/encoding.test:  several tests, mostly to correctly create
        * tests/fCmd.test:      and destroy any temporary files in the
        * tests/info.test:      [temporaryDirectory] of tcltest.
        * tests/interp.test:

        * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl:  Stopped checking for writeability of
        -tmpdir value because no default directory can be guaranteed to be
        writeable.

        * tests/autoMkindex.tcl: removed.
        * tests/pkg/samename.tcl: removed.
        * tests/pkg/magicchar.tcl: removed.
        * tests/pkg/magicchar2.tcl: removed.
        * tests/autoMkindex.test: Updated auto_mkIndex tests to use [makeFile]
        and [removeFile] so tests are done in [temporaryDirecotry] where write
        access is guaranteed.

        * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl:  Fixed [makeFile] and [viewFile] to
        * tests/cmdAH.test:             accurately reflect a file's contents.
        * tests/event.test:             Updated tests that depended on buggy
        * tests/http.test:              behavior. Also added warning messages
        * tests/io.test:                to "-debug 1" operations to debug test
        * tests/iogt.test:              calls to (make|remove)(File|Directory)

        * unix/mkLinks: `make mklinks` on 6-27 commits.

2002-06-28  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCompile.h: modified the macro TclEmitPush to not call its
        first argument repeatedly or pass it to other macros, [Bug 575194]
        reported by Peter Spjuth.

2002-06-28  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * docs/tcltest.n:       Doc revisions in progress.
        * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl: Corrected -testdir default value. Was
        not reliable, and disagreed with docs! Thanks to Hemang Lavana. [Bug
        575150]

2002-06-28  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * unix/tclUnixThrd.c:   Renamed the Tcl_Platform* #defines to TclOS*
        * unix/tclUnixPipe.c:   because they are only used internally. Also
        * unix/tclUnixFile.c:   stopped double-#def of TclOSlstat [Bug 566099,
        * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c:   post-rename]
        * unix/tclUnixChan.c:
        * unix/tclUnixPort.h:

        * doc/string.n: Improved documentation for [string last] along lines
        described in [Bug 574799] so it indicates that the supplied index
        marks the end of the search space.

2002-06-27  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/dde.n:            Work in progress updating the documentation
        * doc/http.n:           of the packages that come bundled with
        * doc/msgcat.n:         the Tcl source distribution, notably tcltest.
        * doc/registry.n:
        * doc/tcltest.n:

        * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl:  Made sure that the TCLTEST_OPTIONS
        environment variablle configures tcltest at package load time.

2002-06-26  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/fileSystem.test:
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c: fix to handling of empty paths "" which are not
        claimed by any filesystem [Bug 573758]. Ensure good error messages
        are given in all cases.
        * tests/cmdAH.test:
        * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c: fix to bug reported as part of [Patch 566669].
        Thanks to Taguchi, Takeshi for the report.

2002-06-26  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>

        * unix/tclUnixTime.c: Make [clock format] respect locale settings.
        * tests/clock.test:   [Bug 565880]. ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY***

2002-06-26  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/CrtInterp.3:
        * doc/StringObj.3: clarifications by Don Porter, [Bug 493995] and [Bug
        500930].

2002-06-24  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl:  Corrected suppression of -verbose skip
        * tests/tcltest.test:           and start by [test -output]. Also
        corrected test suite errors exposed by corrected code. [Bug 564656]

2002-06-25  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>

        * unix/tcl.m4:       New macro SC_CONFIG_MANPAGES.
        * unix/configure.in: Added support for symlinks and compression when
        * unix/Makefile.in:  installing the manpages. [Patch 518052]
        * unix/mkLinks.tcl:  Default is still hardlinks and no compression.

        * unix/mkLinks:      generated
        * unix/configure:

        * unix/README:       Added documentation for the new features.

        * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_PATH_TCLCONFIG): Replaced ${exec_prefix}/lib by
        ${libdir}.

2002-06-25  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * generic/tclUtil.c (TclGetIntForIndex): Fix of critical [Bug 533364]
        generated when the index is bad and the result is a shared object. The
        T_ASTO(T_GOR, ...) idiom likely exists elsewhere though. Also removed
        some cruft that just complicated things to no advantage.
        (SetEndOffsetFromAny): Same fix, though this wasn't on the path
        excited by the bug.

2002-06-24  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl:  Implementation of TIP 101. Adds abd
        * tests/parseOld.test:          exports a [configure] command from
        * tests/tcltest.test:           tcltest.

2002-06-22  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * changes: updated changes file for 8.4b1 release.

        * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl:  Corrections to tcltest and the Tcl
        * tests/basic.test:             test suite so that a test with options
        * tests/cmdInfo.test:           -constraints knownBug
        * tests/compile.test:           -limitConstraints 1 only tests the
        * tests/encoding.test:          knownBug tests. Mostly involves
        * tests/env.test:               replacing direct access to the
        * tests/event.test:             testConstraints array with calls to
        * tests/exec.test:              the testConstraint command (which
        * tests/execute.test:           requires tcltest version 2)
        * tests/fCmd.test:
        * tests/format.test:
        * tests/http.test:
        * tests/httpold.test:
        * tests/ioUtil.test:
        * tests/link.test:
        * tests/load.test:
        * tests/namespace.test:
        * tests/pkgMkIndex.test:
        * tests/reg.test:
        * tests/result.test:
        * tests/scan.test:
        * tests/stack.test:

2002-06-22  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * tools/tcl.wse.in (Disk Label), unix/tcl.spec (version):
        * win/README.binary, README, win/configure.in, unix/configure.in:
        * generic/tcl.h (TCL_RELEASE_*, TCL_PATCH_LEVEL): Bump to beta1.

2002-06-21  Joe English  <jenglish@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCompExpr.c:
        * generic/tclParseExpr.c: LogSyntaxError() should reset the
        interpreter result [Bug 550142 "Tcl_ExprObj -> abort"]

2002-06-21  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/Makefile.in:     Updated all package install directories
        * win/Makefile.in:      to match current Major.minor versions
        * win/makefile.bc:      of the packages. Added tcltest package
        * win/makefile.vc:      to installation on Windows.

        * library/init.tcl:  Corrected comments and namespace style issues.
        Thanks to Bruce Stephens. [Bug 572025]

2002-06-21  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/cmdAH.test:          Added TIP#99 implementation of 'file
        * tests/fCmd.test:           link'. Supports creation of symbolic and
        * tests/fileName.test:       hard links in the native filesystems and
        * tests/fileSystem.test:     in vfs's, when the individual filesystem
        * generic/tclTest.c:         supports the concept.
        * generic/tclCmdAH.c:
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c:
        * generic/tcl.h:
        * generic/tcl.decls:
        * doc/FileSystem.3:
        * doc/file.n:
        * mac/tclMacFile.c:
        * unix/tclUnixFile.c:
        * win/tclWinFile.c: Also enhanced speed of 'file normalize' on
        Windows.

2002-06-20  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c (TclEvalObjvInternal): fix for [Bug 571385] in
        the implementation of TIP#62 (command tracing). Vince Darley, Hemang
        Lavana & Don Porter: thanks.

2002-06-20  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c (TclCompEvalObj): clarified and simplified the
        logic for compilation/recompilation.

2002-06-19  Joe English  <jenglish@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/file.n: Fixed indentation. No substantive changes.

2002-06-19  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_RegexpObjCmd): get the resultPtr again as
        the Tcl_ObjSetVar2 may cause the result to change. [Patch 558324]
        (watson)

2002-06-19  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c (TEBC): removing unused "for(;;)" loop;
        improved comments; re-indentation.

2002-06-18  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c (TEBC):
        - elimination of duplicated code in the non-immediate INST_INCR
          instructions.
        - elimination of 103 (!) TclDecrRefCount macros. The different
          instructions now jump back to a common "DecrRefCount zone" at the
          top of the loop. The macro "ADJUST_PC" was replaced by two macros
          "NEXT_INST_F" and "NEXT_INST_V" that take three params
          (pcAdjustment, # of stack objects to discard, resultObjPtr handling
          flag). The only instructions that retain a TclDecrRefCount are
          INST_POP (for speed), the common code for the non-immediate
          INST_INCR, INST_FOREACH_STEP and the two INST_LSET.

        The object size of tclExecute.o was reduced by approx 20% since the
        start of the consolidation drive, while making room for some peep-hole
        optimisation at runtime.

2002-06-18  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c (TEBC, INST_DONE): small bug in the panic code
        for tcl-stack corruption.

2002-06-17  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>

        Trims to support the removal of RESOURCE_INCLUDED from rc scripts from
        [FRQ 565088].

        * generic/tcl.h: moved the #ifndef RC_INVOKED start block up in the
        file. rc scripts don't need to know thread mutexes.

        * win/tcl.rc:
        * win/tclsh.rc: removed the #define RESOURCE_INCLUDED to let the
        built-in -DRC_INVOKED to the work.

2002-06-17  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * doc/CrtTrace.3:        Added TIP#62 implementation of command
        * doc/trace.n:           execution tracing [FRQ 462580] (lavana).
        * generic/tcl.h:         This includes enter/leave tracing as well
        * generic/tclBasic.c:    as inter-procedure stepping.
        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c:
        * generic/tclCompile.c:
        * generic/tclExecute.c:
        * generic/tclInt.decls:
        * generic/tclInt.h:
        * generic/tclIntDecls.h:
        * generic/tclStubInit.c:
        * generic/tclVar.c:
        * tests/trace.test:

2002-06-17  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

        * win/tclWinPipe.c (BuildCommandLine): Fixed [Bug 554068] ([exec] on
        windows did not treat { in filenames well.). Bug reported by Vince
        Darley <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>, patch provided by Vince
        too.

2002-06-17  Joe English  <jenglish@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tcl.h: #ifdef logic for K&R C backwards compatibility
        changed to assume modern C by default. See [FRQ 565088] for full
        details.

2002-06-17  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/msgcat.n: Corrected en_UK references to en_GB. UK is not a
        country designation recognized in ISO 3166.

        * library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl:  More Windows Registry locale codes from
        Bruno Haible.

        * doc/msgcat.n:
        * library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl:
        * library/msgcat/pkgIndex.tcl:
        * tests/msgcat.test:  Revised locale initialization to interpret
        environment variable locale values according to XPG4, and to recognize
        the LC_ALL and LC_MESSAGES values over that of LANG. Also added many
        Windows Registry locale values to those recognized by msgcat. Revised
        tests and docs. Bumped to version 1.3. Thanks to Bruno Haible for the
        report and assistance crafting the solution. [Bug 525522, 525525]

2002-06-16  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCompile.c (TclCompileTokens): a better algorithm for the
        previous bug fix.

2002-06-16  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCompile.c (TclCompileTokens):
        * tests/compile.test: [Bug 569438] in the processing of dollar
        variables; report by Georgios Petasis.

2002-06-16  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c: bug in the consolidation of the INCR_..._STK
        instructions; the bug could not be exercised as the (faulty)
        instruction INST_INCR_ARRAY_STK was never compiled-in (related to [Bug
        569438]).

2002-06-14  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): runtime peep-hole
        optimisation of variables (INST_STORE, INST_INCR) and commands
        (INST_INVOKE); faster check for the existence of a catch.
        (TclExecuteByteCode): runtime peep-hole optimisation of comparisons.
        (TclExecuteByteCode): runtime peep-hole optimisation of INST_FOREACH -
        relies on peculiarities of the code produced by the bytecode compiler.

2002-06-14  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>

        * win/rules.vc: The test for compiler optimizations was in error.
        Thanks goes to Roy Terry <royterry@earthlink.net> for his assistance
        with this.

2002-06-14  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * doc/trace.n, tests/trace.test:
        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_TraceObjCmd,TclTraceCommandObjCmd)
        (TclTraceVariableObjCmd): Changed references to "trace list" to
        "trace info" as mandated by TIP#102.

2002-06-13  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): consolidated code for the
        conditional branch instructions.

2002-06-13  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): fixed the previous patch;
        wouldn't compile with TCL_COMPILE_DEBUG set.

2002-06-13  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): consolidated the handling
        of exception returns to INST_INVOKE and INST_EVAL, as well as most of
        the code for INST_CONTINUE and INST_BREAK, in the new jump target
        "processExceptionReturn".

2002-06-13  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): consolidated variable
        handling opcodes, replaced redundant code with some 'goto'. All
        store/append/lappend opcodes on the same data type now share the main
        code; same with incr opcodes.
        * generic/tclVar.c: added the bit TCL_TRACE_READS to the possible
        flags to Tcl_SetVar2Ex - it causes read traces to be fired prior to
        setting the variable. This is used in the core for [lappend].

        ***NOTE*** the usage of TCL_TRACE_READS in Tcl_(Obj)?GetVar.* is not
        documented; there, it causes the call to create the variable if it
        does not exist. The new usage in Tcl_(Obj)?SetVar.* remains
        undocumented too ...

2002-06-13  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/fCmd.test:
        * tests/winFile.test:
        * tests/fileSystem.test:
        * generic/tclTest.c:
        * generic/tclCmdAH.c:
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c:
        * doc/FileSystem.3:
        * mac/tclMacFile.c:
        * unix/tclUnixFile.c:
        * win/tclWinFile.c: fixed up further so both compiles and actually
        works with VC++ 5 or 6.
        * win/tclWinInt.h:
        * win/tclWin32Dll.c: cleaned up code and vfs tests and added tests for
        the internal changes of 2002-06-12, to see whether WinTcl on NTFS can
        coexist peacefully with links in the filesystem. Added new test
        command 'testfilelink' to enable the newer code to be tested.
        * tests/fCmd.test: (made certain tests of 'testfilelink' not run on
        unix).

2002-06-12  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tclBasic.c (Tcl_DeleteTrace): fixed [Bug 568123] (thanks to Hemang
        Lavana)

2002-06-12  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * win/tclWinFile.c: corrected the symbolic link handling code to allow
        it to compile. Added real definition of REPARSE_DATA_BUFFER (found in
        winnt.h). Most of the added definitions appear to have correct,
        cross-Win-version equivalents in winnt.h and should be removed, but
        just making things "work" for now.

2002-06-12  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclIOUtil.c:
        * generic/tcl.decls:
        * generic/tclDecls.h: made code for Tcl_FSNewNativePath agree with man
        pages.

        * doc/FileSystem.3: clarified the circumstances under which certain
        functions are called in the presence of symlinks.

        * win/tclWinFile.c:
        * win/tclWinPort.h:
        * win/tclWinInt.h:
        * win/tclWinFCmd.c:  Fix for Windows to allow 'file lstat', 'file
        type', 'glob -type l', 'file copy', 'file delete', 'file normalize',
        and all VFS code to work correctly in the presence of symlinks
        (previously Tcl's behaviour was not very well defined). This also
        fixes possible serious problems in all versions of WinTcl where 'file
        delete' on a NTFS symlink could delete the original, not the symlink.
        Note: symlinks cannot yet be created in pure Tcl.

2002-06-11  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c:
        * generic/tclCompCmds.c:
        * generic/tclInt.h: reverted the new compilation functions; replaced
        by a more general approach described below.

        * generic/tclCompCmds.c:
        * generic/tclCompile.c: made *all* compiled variable access attempts
        create an indexed variable - even get or incr without previous set.
        This allows indexed access to local variables that are created and set
        at runtime, for example by [global], [upvar], [variable], [regexp],
        [regsub].

2002-06-11  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/global.n:
        * doc/info.n:
        * test/info.test:
        * generic/tclCmdIL.c: fix for [Bug 567386], [info locals] was
        reporting some linked variables.

        * generic/tclBasic.c:
        * generic/tclCompCmds.c:
        * generic/tclInt.h: added compile functions for [global], [variable]
        and [upvar]. They just declare the new local variables, the commands
        themselves are not compiled-in. This gives a notably faster read
        access to these linked variables.

2002-06-11  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c: optimised algorithm for exception range
        lookup; part of [Patch 453709].

2002-06-10  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c: fixed [Bug 566669]
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c: improved and sped up handling of native paths
        (duplication and conversion to normalized paths), particularly on
        Windows.
        * modified part of above commit, due to problems on Linux. Will
        re-examine bug report and evaluate more closely.

2002-06-07  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/tcltest.test:  More corrections to test suite so that tests of
        failing [test]s don't show up themselves as failing tests.

2002-06-07  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * generic/tclExecute.c: Tidied up headers in relation to float.h to
        cut the cruft and ensure DBL_MAX is defined since doubles seem to be
        the same size everywhere; if the assumption isn't true, the variant
        platforms had better have run configure...

        * unix/tclUnixPort.h (EOVERFLOW): Added code to define it if it
        wasn't previously defined. Also some other general tidying and adding
        of comments. [Bugs 563122, 564595]
        * compat/tclErrno.h: Added definition for EOVERFLOW copied from
        Solaris headers; I've been unable to find any uses of EFTYPE, which
        was the error code previously occupying the slot, in Tcl, or any
        definition of it in the Solaris headers.

2002-06-06  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/dltest/Makefile.in: Remove hard coded CFLAGS=-g and add
        CFLAGS_DEBUG, CFLAGS_OPTIMIZE, and CFLAGS_DEFAULT varaibles. [Bug
        565488]

2002-06-06  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/tcltest.test:  Corrections to test suite so that tests of
        failing [test]s don't show up themselves as failing tests.

        * tests/io.test: Fixed up namespace variable resolution issues
        revealed by running test suite with "-singleproc 1".

        * doc/tcltest.n:
        * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl:
        * tests/tcltest.test: Several updates to tcltest.
          1) changed to lazy initialization of test constraints
          2) deprecated [initConstraintsHook]
          3) repaired badly broken [limitConstraints].
          4) deprecated [threadReap] and [mainThread]
        [Patch 512214, Bug 558742, Bug 461000, Bug 534903]

2002-06-06  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/tclUnixThrd.c (TclpReaddir, TclpLocaltime, TclpGmtime): added
        mutex wrapped calls to readdir, localtime & gmtime in case their
        thread-safe *_r counterparts are not available.
        * unix/tcl.m4: added configure check for readdir_r
        * unix/tcl.m4 (Darwin): set TCL_DEFAULT_ENCODING to utf-8 on MacOSX
        (where posix file apis expect utf-8, not iso8859-1).
        * unix/configure: regen
        * unix/Makefile.in: set DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH in parallel to
        LD_LIBRARY_PATH for MacOSX dynamic linker.
        * generic/tclEnv.c (TclSetEnv): fix env var setting on MacOSX (adapted
        from [Patch 524352] by jkbonfield).

2002-06-05  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/Tcl_Main.3: Documented $tcl_rcFileName and added more
        clarifications about the intended use of Tcl_Main(). [Bug 505651]

2002-06-05  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclFileName.c (TclGlob): mac specific fix to recent changes
        in 'glob -tails' handling.
        * mac/tclMacPort.h:
        * mac/tclMacChan.c: fixed TIP#91 bustage.
        * mac/tclMacResource.c (Tcl_MacConvertTextResource): added utf
        conversion of text resource contents.
        * tests/macFCmd.test (macFCmd-1.2): allow CWIE creator.

2002-06-04  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl:
        * tests/init.test:
        * tests/tcltest.test:   Added more TIP 85 tests from Arjen Markus.
        Converted tcltest.test to use a private namespace. Fixed bugs in
        [tcltest::Eval] revealed by calling [tcltest::test] from a non-global
        namespace, and namespace errors in init.test.

2002-06-04  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>

        * win/README: Update msys+mingw URL.

2002-06-03  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/tcltest.n:
        * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl:
        * library/tcltest/pkgIndex.tcl:
        * tests/tcltest.test:  Implementation of TIP 85. Allows tcltest users
        to add new legal values of the -match option to [test], associating
        each with a Tcl command that does the matching of expected results
        with actual results of tests. Thanks to Arjen Markus. => tcltest 2.1
        [Patch 521362]

2002-06-03  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/namespace.n: added description of [namepace forget] behaviour
        for unqualified patterns. [Bug 559268]

2002-06-03  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c: reverting an accidental modification in the
        last commit.

2002-06-03  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/Tcl.n: clarify the empty variable name issue ([Bug 549285]
        reported by Tom Krehbiel, patch by Don Porter).

2002-05-31  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * library/package.tcl:  Fixed leak of slave interp in [pkg_mkIndex].
        Thanks to Helmut for report. [Bug 550534]

        * tests/io.test:
        * tests/main.test:  Use the "stdio" constraint to control whether an
        [open "|[interpreter]"] is attempted.

        * generic/tclExecute.c (TclMathInProgress,TclExecuteByteCode
        (ExprCallMathFunc):
        * generic/tclInt.h (TclMathInProgress):
        * unix/Makefile.in (tclMtherr.*):
        * unix/configure.in (NEED_MATHERR):
        * unix/tclAppInit.c (matherr):
        * unix/tclMtherr.c (removed file):
        * win/tclWinMtherr.c (_matherr): Removed internal routine
        TclMathInProgress and Unix implementation of matherr(). These are now
        obsolete, dealing with very old versions of the C math library.
        Windows version is retained in case Borland compilers require it, but
        it is inactive. Thanks to Joe English. [Bug 474335, Patch 555635]

        * unix/configure: regen

2002-05-30  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCompExpr.c:
        * generic/tclCompile.c:
        * generic/tclCompile.h: removed exprIsJustVarRef and
        exprIsComparison from the ExprInfo and CompileEnv structs. These
        were set, but not used since dec 1999 [Bug 562383].

2002-05-30  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclFileName.c (TclGlob): fix to longstanding 'knownBug' in
        fileName tests 15.2-15.4, and fix to a new Tcl 8.4 bug in certain uses
        of 'glob -tails'.
        * tests/fileName.test: removed 'knownBug' flag from some tests, added
        some new tests for above bugs.

2002-05-29  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * unix/configure: regen'ed
        * unix/configure.in: replaced bigendian check with autoconf standard
        AC_C_BIG_ENDIAN, which defined WORDS_BIGENDIAN on bigendian systems.
        * generic/tclUtf.c (Tcl_UniCharNcmp):
        * generic/tclInt.h (TclUniCharNcmp): use WORDS_BIGENDIAN instead of
        TCL_OPTIMIZE_UNICODE_COMPARE to enable memcmp alternative.

        * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode INST_STR_CMP):
        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_StringObjCmd): changed the case for choosing
        the Tcl_UniCharNcmp compare to when both objs are of StringType, as
        benchmarks show that is the optimal check (both bigendian and
        littleendian systems).

2002-05-29  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclMain.c: Removed "dummy" reference to Tcl_LinkVar. It is
        no longer needed since Tcl_Main() now actually calls Tcl_LinkVar().
        Thanks to Joe English for pointing that out.

2002-05-29  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode):
        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_StringObjCmd): Use the macro version.
        * generic/tclInt.h (TclUniCharNcmp): Optimised still further with a
        macro for use in sensitive places like tclExecute.c

        * generic/tclUtf.c (Tcl_UniCharNcmp): Use new flag to figure out when
        we can use an optimal comparison scheme, and default to the old scheme
        in other cases which is at least safe.
        * unix/configure.in (TCL_OPTIMIZE_UNICODE_COMPARE): New optional flag
        that indicates when we can use memcmp() to compare Unicode strings
        (i.e. when the high-byte of a Tcl_UniChar precedes the low-byte.)

2002-05-29  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * generic/tclInt.decls:
        * generic/tclIntDecls.h:
        * generic/tclStubInit.c:
        * generic/tclUtf.c: added TclpUtfNcmp2 private command that
        mirrors Tcl_UtfNcmp, but takes n in bytes, not utf-8 chars. This
        provides a faster alternative for comparing utf strings internally.
        (Tcl_UniCharNcmp, Tcl_UniCharNcasecmp): removed the explicit end of
        string check as it wasn't correct for the function (by doc and logic).

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_StringObjCmd): reworked the string equal
        comparison code to use TclpUtfNcmp2 as well as short-circuit for
        equal objects or unequal length strings in the equal case.
        Removed the use of goto and streamlined the other parts.

        * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): added check for object
        equality in the comparison instructions. Added short-circuit for !=
        length strings in INST_EQ, INST_NEQ and INST_STR_CMP. Reworked
        INST_STR_CMP to use TclpUtfNcmp2 where appropriate, and only use
        Tcl_UniCharNcmp when at least one of the objects is a Unicode obj with
        no utf bytes.

        * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileStringCmd): removed error creation
        in code that no longer throws an error.

        * tests/string.test:
        * tests/stringComp.test: added more string comparison checks.

        * tests/clock.test: better qualified 9.1 constraint check for %s.

2002-05-28  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * generic/tclThreadAlloc.c (TclpRealloc, TclpFree): protect
        against the case when NULL is based.

        * tests/clock.test: added clock-9.1
        * compat/strftime.c:
        * generic/tclClock.c:
        * generic/tclInt.decls:
        * generic/tclIntDecls.h:
        * unix/tclUnixTime.c: fix for Windows msvcrt mem leak caused by using
        an env(TZ) setting trick for in clock format -gmt 1. This also makes
        %s seem to work correctly with -gmt 1 as well as making it a lot
        faster by avoid the env(TZ) hack. TclpStrftime now takes useGMT as an
        arg. [Bug 559376]

2002-05-28  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclIOUtil.c: fixes to Tcl_FSLoadFile when called on a file
        inside a vfs. This should avoid leaving temporary files sitting
        around on exit. [Bug 545579]

2002-05-27  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * win/tclWinError.c: Added comment on conversion of
        ERROR_NEGATIVE_SEEK because that is a mapping that really belongs,
        and not a catch-all case.
        * win/tclWinPort.h (EOVERFLOW): Should be either EFBIG or EINVAL
        * generic/tclPosixStr.c (Tcl_ErrnoId, Tcl_ErrnoMsg): EOVERFLOW can
        potentially be a synonym for EINVAL.

2002-05-24  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        === Changes due to TIP#91 ===

        * win/tclWinPort.h: Added declaration of EOVERFLOW.
        * doc/CrtChannel.3: Added documentation of wideSeekProc.
        * generic/tclIOGT.c (TransformSeekProc, TransformWideSeekProc):
        Adapted to use the new channel mechanism.
        * unix/tclUnixChan.c (FileSeekProc, FileWideSeekProc): Renamed
        FileSeekProc to FileWideSeekProc and created new FileSeekProc which
        has the old-style interface and which errors out with EOVERFLOW when
        the returned file position can't fit into the return type (int for
        historical reasons).
        * win/tclWinChan.c (FileSeekProc, FileWideSeekProc): Renamed
        FileSeekProc to FileWideSeekProc and created new FileSeekProc which
        has the old-style interface and which errors out with EOVERFLOW when
        the returned file position can't fit into the return type (int for
        historical reasons).
        * mac/tclMacChan.c (FileSeek): Reverted to old interface; Macs lack
        large-file support because I can't see how to add it.
        * generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_Seek, Tcl_Tell): Given these functions
        knowledge of the new arrangement of channel types.
        (Tcl_ChannelVersion): Added recognition of new version code.
        (HaveVersion): New function to do version checking.
        (Tcl_ChannelBlockModeProc, Tcl_ChannelFlushProc)
        (Tcl_ChannelHandlerProc): Made these functions use HaveVersion for
        ease of future maintainability.
        (Tcl_ChannelBlockModeProc): Obvious lookup function.
        * generic/tcl.h (Tcl_ChannelType): New wideSeekProc field, and
        seekProc type restored to old interpretation.
        (TCL_CHANNEL_VERSION_3): New channel version.

2002-05-24  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/winPipe.test: Applied patch for [Bug 549617]. Patch and bug
        report by Kevin Kenny <kennykb@users.sourceforge.net>.

        * win/tclWinSock.c (TcpWatchProc): Fixed [Bug 557878]. We are not
        allowed to mess with the watch mask if the socket is a server socket.
        I believe that the original reporter is George Peter Staplin.

2002-05-21  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/configure: Regen.
        * unix/configure.in: Invoke SC_ENABLE_SHARED before calling
        SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS so that the SHARED_BUILD variable can be checked
        inside SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS.
        * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Pass -non_shared instead of -shared
        to ld when configured with --disable-shared under OSF. [Bug 540390]

2002-05-20  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclInt.h: added prototype for TclpFilesystemPathType().
        * mac/tclMacChan.c: use MSL provided creator type if available instead
        of the default 'MPW '.

2002-05-16  Joe English  <jenglish@users.sf.net>

        * doc/CrtObjCmd.3: Added Tcl_GetCommandFromObj, Tcl_GetCommandFullName
        [Bugs 547987, 414921]

2002-05-14  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * unix/tclUnixChan.c (TtyOutputProc): #if/#endif-ed this function out
        to stop compiler warnings. Also much general tidying of comments in
        this file and removal of whitespace from blank lines.

2002-05-13  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * unix/tclUnixChan.c (SETBREAK): Solaris thinks ioctl() takes a signed
        second argument, and Linux thinks ioctl() takes an unsigned second
        argument. So need a longer definition of this macro to get neither to
        spew warnings...

2002-05-13  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclEvent.c:
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c:
        * generic/tclInt.h: clean up all memory allocated by the filesystem,
        via introduction of 'TclFinalizeFilesystem'.
        Move TclFinalizeLoad into TclFinalizeFilesystem so we can be sure it
        is called at just the right time.
        Fix bad comment also. [Bug 555078 and 'fs' part of 543549]
        * win/tclWinChan.c: fix comment referring to wrong function.

2002-05-10  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/load.test:
        * tests/safe.test:
        * tests/tcltest.test: Corrected some list-quoting issues and other
        matters that cause tests to fail when the patch includes special
        characters. Report from Vince Darley. [Bug 554068]

2002-05-08    David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>

        * doc/file.n:
        * tools/man2tcl.c:
        * tools/man2help2.tcl:  Thanks to Peter Spjuth
        <peter.spjuth@space.se>, again. My prior fix for single-quote macro
        mis-understanding was wrong. Reverted to reimpliment the 'macro2' proc
        which handles single-quote macros and restored file.n text arrangement
        to avoid single-quotes on the first line. Sorry for all the confusion.

2002-05-08  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>

        * tools/man2tcl.c:
        * tools/man2help2.tcl: Proper source of macro error misunderstanding
        single-quote as the leading macro command found and repaired.

        * doc/file.n: Reverted to prior state before I messed with it.

2002-05-08  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl: Corrected [uplevel] quoting when
        [source]-ing test script in subdirectories.
        * tests/fileName.test:
        * tests/load.test:
        * tests/main.test:
        * tests/tcltest.test:
        * tests/unixInit.test: Fixes to test suite when there's a space in the
        working path. Thanks to Kevin Kenny.

2002-05-07  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>

        -- Changes from Peter Spjuth <peter.spjuth@space.se>
        * tools/man2tcl.c: Increased line buffer size and a bail-out if that
        should ever be over-run.
        * tools/man2help.tcl: Include Courier New font in rtf header.
        * tools/man2help2.tcl: Improved handling of CS/CE fields. Use Courier
        New for code samples and indent better.

        * doc/file.n:
        * doc/TraceCmd.3:  winhelp conversion tools where understanding
        a ' as the first character on a line to be an unknown macro.
        Not knowing how to repair tools/man2tcl.c, I decided to rearrange
        the text in the docs instead.

2002-05-07  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclFileName.c: fix to similar segfault when using 'glob
        -types nonsense -dir dirname -join * *'. [Bug 553320]

        * doc/FileSystem.3: further documentation on vfs.
        * tests/cmdAH.test:
        * tests/fileSystem.test:
        * tests/pkgMkindex.test: Fix to testsuite bugs when running out of
        directory whose name contains '{' or '['.

2002-05-07  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/basic.test: Fix for [Bug 549607]
        * tests/encoding.test: Fix for [Bug 549610]
        These are testsuite bugs that caused failures when the filename
        contained spaces. Report & fix by Kevin Kenny.

2002-05-02  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclFileName.c: fix to freeing a bad object (i.e. segfault)
        when using 'glob -types nonsense -dir dirname'.
        * generic/tclWinFile.c: fix to [Bug 551306], also wrapped some long
        lines.
        * tests/fileName.test: added several tests for the above bugs.
        * doc/FileSystem.3: clarified documentation on refCount requirements
        of the object returned by the path type function.
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c:
        * win/tclWinFile.c:
        * unix/tclUnixFile.c:
        * mac/tclMacFile.c: moved TclpFilesystemPathType to the platform-
        specific directories, so we can add missing platform-specific
        implementations. On Windows, 'file system' now returns useful results
        like "native NTFS", "native FAT" for that system. Unix and MacOS still
        only return "native".
        * doc/file.n: clarified documentation.
        * tests/winFile.test: test for 'file system' returning correct values.
        * tests/fileSystem.test: test for 'file system' returning correct
        values. Clean up after failed previous test run.

2002-04-26  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * unix/configure:
        * unix/tcl.m4: change HP-11 SHLIB_LD_LIBS from "" to ${LIBS} so that
        the .sl knows its dependent libs.

2002-04-26  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * tests/obj.test (obj-11.[56]): Test conversion to boolean more
        thoroughly.
        * generic/tclObj.c (SetBooleanFromAny): Was not calling an integer
        parsing function on native 64-bit platforms! [Bug 548686]

2002-04-24  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * generic/tclInt.h: corrected TclRememberJoinableThread decl to use
        VOID instead of void.
        * generic/tclThreadJoin.c: noted that this code isn't needed on Unix.

2002-04-23  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * doc/exec.n:
        * doc/tclvars.n: doc updates [Patch 509426] (gravereaux)

2002-04-24  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

        * mac/tclMacResource.r: added check of TCLTK_NO_LIBRARY_TEXT_RESOURCES
        #define to allow disabling the inclusion of the tcl library code in
        the resource fork of Tcl executables and shared libraries.

2002-04-23  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * doc/TraceCmd.3: New file that documents Tcl_CommandTraceInfo,
        Tcl_TraceCommand and Tcl_UntraceCommand [Bug 414927]

2002-04-22  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * generic/tclAlloc.c:
        * generic/tclInt.h:
        * generic/tclThreadAlloc.c (new):
        * unix/Makefile.in:
        * unix/tclUnixThrd.c:
        * win/Makefile.in:
        * win/tclWinInt.h:
        * win/tclWinThrd.c: added new threaded allocator contributed by AOL
        that significantly reduces lock contention when multiple threads are
        in use. Only Windows and Unix implementations are ready, and the
        Windows one may need work. It is only used by default on Unix for now,
        and requires that USE_THREAD_ALLOC be defined (--enable-threads on
        Unix will define this).

        * generic/tclIOUtil.c (Tcl_FSRegister, Tcl_FSUnregister): corrected
        calling of Tcl_ConditionWait to ensure that there would be a condition
        to wait upon.

        * generic/tclCmdAH.c (Tcl_FileObjCmd): added cast in FILE_SIZE.

        * win/tclWinFCmd.c (DoDeleteFile): check return of setattr API calls
        in file deletion for correct Win32 API handling.

        * win/Makefile.in: correct dependencies for shell, gdb, runtest
        targets.

        * doc/clock.n:
        * compat/strftime.c (_fmt): change strftime to correctly handle
        localized %c, %x and %X on Windows. Added some notes about how the
        other values could be further localized.

2002-04-19  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclMain.c (Tcl_Main):  Free the memory allocated for the
        startup script path. [Bug 543549]

        * library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl:  [mcmax] wasn't using the caller's
        namespace when determining the max translated length. Also made
        revisions for better use of namespace variables and more efficient
        [uplevel]s.

        * doc/msgcat.n:
        * library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl:
        * library/msgcat/pkgIndex.tcl:  Added [mcload] to the export list of
        msgcat; bumped to 1.2.3. [Bug 544727]

2002-04-20  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclInt.decls:
        * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h:
        * generic/tclStubInit.c:
        * mac/tclMacFCmd.c:
        * mac/tclMacFile.c:
        * mac/tclMacUtil.c: Modified TclpObjNormalizePath to be alias file
        aware, and replaced various calls to FSpLocationFrom*Path by calls to
        new alias file aware versions FSpLLocationFrom*Path. The alias file
        aware routines don't resolve the last component of a path if it is an
        alias. This allows [file copy/delete] etc. to act correctly on alias
        files. (c.f. discussion in [Bug 511666])

2002-04-19  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * tests/lindex.test (lindex-3.7):
        * generic/tclUtil.c (TclGetIntForIndex): Stopped indexes from hitting
        wide ints. [Bug 526717]

2002-04-18  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclNamesp.c:
        * tests/info.test: [Bug 545325] info level didn't report namespace
        eval, bug report by Richard Suchenwirth.

2002-04-18  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/subst.n:  Clarified documentation on handling unusual return
        codes during substitution, and on variable substitutions implied by
        command substitution, and vice versa. [Bug 536838]

2002-04-18  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * generic/tclCmdIL.c (InfoBodyCmd):
        * tests/info.test (info-2.6): Proc bodies without string reps would
        report as empty. [Bug 545644]

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_SubstObj): More clarification for comment on
        behaviour when substitutions are not well-formed, prompted by [Bug
        536831]; alas, removing the ill-defined behaviour is a lot of work.

2002-04-18  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c:
        * tests/expr-old.test: fix for [Bug 542588] (Phil Ehrens), where "too
        large integers" were reported as "floating-point value" in [expr]
        error messages.

2002-04-17  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * generic/tclEncoding.c (EscapeFromUtfProc):
        * generic/tclIO.c (WriteChars, Tcl_Close): corrected the handling of
        outputting end escapes for escape-based encodings.
        [Bug 526524] (yamamoto)

2002-04-17  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/tcltest.n:  Removed [saveState] and [restoreState] from tcltest
        2 documentation, effectively deprecating them. [Bug 495660]
        * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl: Made separate export for commands kept
        only for tcltest 1 compatibility.

        * tests/iogt.test: Revised to run tests in a namespace, rather than
        use the useless and buggy [saveState] and [restoreState] commands of
        tcltest. Updated to use tcltest 2 as well. [Patch 544911]

2002-04-16  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/io.test: Revised to run tests in a namespace, rather than use
        the useless and buggy [saveState] and [restoreState] commands of
        tcltest. Updated to use tcltest 2 as well. [Patch 544546]

2002-04-15  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclProc.c:
        * tests/proc-old.test: Improved stack trace for TCL_BREAK and
        TCL_CONTINUE returns from procs. Patch by Don Porter [Bug 536955].

        * generic/tclExecute.c:
        * tests/compile.test: made bytecodes check for a catch before
        returning; the compiled [return] is otherwise non-catchable. [Bug
        542142] reported by Andreas Kupries.

2002-04-15  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/socket.test:  Increased timeout values so that tests have
        time to successfully complete even on slow/busy machines. [Bug 523470]

        * doc/tcltest.n:
        * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl:
        * tests/tcltest.test:  Revised [tcltest::test] to return errors when
        called with invalid syntax and to accept exactly two arguments as
        documented. Improved error messages. [Bug 497446, Patch 513983]
        ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY***: Incompatible with previous tcltest
        2.* releases, found only in alpha releases of Tcl 8.4.

2002-04-11  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * generic/tclNotify.c (TclFinalizeNotifier): remove remaining
        unserviced events on finalization.

        * win/tcl.m4: Enabled COFF as well as CV style debug info with
        --enable-symbols to allow Dr. Watson users to see function info. More
        info on debugging levels can be obtained at:
        http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnvc60/html/gendepdebug.asp

        * tests/ioCmd.test: fixed iocmd-8.15 to have mac and unixPc variants.

        * generic/tclParse.c (Tcl_ParseVar): conditionally incr obj refcount
        to prevent possible mem leak.

2002-04-08  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tcl.h: no <sys/types.h> on mac.
        * mac/tclMacFile.c: minor fixes to Vince's changes from 03-24.
        * mac/tclMacOSA.c:
        * mac/tclMacResource.c: added missing Tcl_UtfToExternalDString
        conversions of resource file names.
        * mac/tclMacSock.c (TcpGetOptionProc): fixed bug introduced by Andreas
        on 02-25; changed strcmp's to strncmp's so that option comparison
        behaves like on other platforms.
        * mac/tcltkMacBuildSupport.sea.hqx (CW Pro6 changes): added support to
        allow Tk to hookup C library stderr/stdout to TkConsole.
        * tests/basic.test:
        * tests/cmdAH.test:
        * tests/encoding.test:
        * tests/fileSystem.test:
        * tests/ioCmd.test: fixed tests failing on mac: check for existence of
        [exec], changed some result strings.

2002-04-06  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c (Realpath): added a little extra code to
        initialize a realpath arg when compiling in PURIFY mode in order to
        prevent spurious purify warnings. We should really create our own
        realpath implementation, but this will at least quiet purify for now.

2002-04-05  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_SubstObj):
        * tests/subst.test:  Corrected [subst] so that return codes TCL_BREAK
        and TCL_CONTINUE returned by variable substitution have the same
        effect as when those codes are returned by command substitution. [Bug
        536879]

2002-04-03  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl: added getMatchingFiles back (alias to
        GetMatchingFiles), which was a public function in tcltest 1.0.

2002-04-01  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclEnv.c:
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c: invalidate filesystem cache when the user
        changes env(HOME). Fixes [Bug 535621]. Also cleaned up some of the
        documentation.
        * tests/fileSystem.test: added test for bug just fixed.

2002-04-01  Kevin Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * win/tclWinTime.c (Tcl_GetTime): made the checks of clock frequency
        more permissive to cope with the fact that Win98SE is observed to
        return 1.19318 in place of 1.193182 for the performance counter
        frequency.

2002-03-29  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_TraceObjCmd, TraceVarProc)
        (TraceCommandProc, TclTraceCommandObjCmd):  corrected potential
        double-free of traces on variables by flagging in Trace*Proc that it
        will free the var in case the eval wants to delete the var trace as
        well. [Bug 536937] Also converted Tcl_UntraceVar -> Tcl_UntraceVar2
        and Tcl_Eval to Tcl_EvalEx in Trace*Proc for slight efficiency
        improvement.

2002-03-29  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/AllowExc.3:
        * generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_EvalObjv,Tcl_EvalEx,Tcl_EvalObjEx):
        * generic/tclCompile.h (TclCompEvalObj):
        * generic/tclExecute.c (TclCompEvalObj,TclExecuteByteCode):
        * tests/basic.test: Corrected problems with Tcl_AllowExceptions having
        influence over the wrong scope of Tcl_*Eval* calls. Patch from Miguel
        Sofer. Report from Jean-Claude Wippler. [Bug 219181]

2002-03-28  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclVar.c: Refactored CallTraces to collect repeated handling
        of its returned value into CallTraces itself.

2002-03-28  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>

        * tools/feather.bmp:
        * tools/man2help.tcl:
        * tools/man2help2.tcl:
        * win/makefile.vc: More winhelp target fixups. Added a feather bitmap
        to the non-scrollable area and changed the color to be yellow from a
        plain white. The colors can be whatever we want them to be, but
        thought I would start with something bold. [Bug 527941]

        * doc/SetVar.3:
        * doc/TraceVar.3:
        * doc/UpVar.3:  .AP macro syntax repair.

2002-03-27  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>

        * tools/man2help.tcl:
        * win/makefile.vc:  winhelp target now copies all needed files from
        tools/ to a workarea under $(OUT_DIR) and builds it from there. No
        build cruft is left in tools/ anymore. All paths used in man2help.tcl
        are now relative to where the script is. [Bug 527941]

2002-03-27  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>

        * win/.cvsignore:
        * win/buildall.vc.bat:
        * win/coffbase.txt:
        * win/makefile.vc:
        * win/nmakehlp.c (new):
        * win/rules.vc:  First draft fix for [Bug 527941]. More changes need
        to done to the makehelp target to get to stop leaving build files in
        the tools/ directory. This does not address the syntax errors in the
        man files. Having the contents of tcl.hpj(.in) inside makefile.vc
        allows for version numbers to be replaced with macros.

        The new nmakehlp.c is built by rules.vc in preprocessing and removes
        the need to use tricky shell syntax that wasn't compatible on Win9x
        systems. Clean targets made Win9x complient. This is a first draft
        repair for [Bug 533862].

2002-03-28  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_EvalEx): passing the correct commandSize to
        TclEvalObjvInternal. [Bug 219362], fix by David Knoll.

2002-03-28  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_EvalEx):
        * tests/basic.test: avoid exceptional returns at level 0. [Bug 219181]

2002-03-27  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/tcltest.n ([mainThread]):
        * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl:
        * tests/tcltest.test:  Major code cleanup to deal with whitespace,
        coding conventions, and namespace issues, with several minor bugs
        fixed in the process.

        * tests/main.test: Added missing [after cancel]s.

2002-03-25  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/main.test: Removed workarounds for Bug 495977.

        * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl:  Keep the value of $::auto_path
        unchanged, so that the tcltest package can test code that depends on
        auto-loading. If a testing application needs $::auto_path pruned, it
        should do that itself. [Bug 495726]
        Improve the processing of the -constraints option to [test] so that
        constraint lists can have arbitrary whitespace, and non-lists don't
        blow things up. [Bug 495977]
        Corrected faulty variable initialization. [Bug 534845]

2002-03-25  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/CrtTrace.3: small doc correction
        * generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_DeleteTrace): Allow NULL callback on trace
        deletions. [Bug 534728] (Hemang Lavana)

2002-03-24  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_EvalObjv): replaced obscure, incorrect code
        as described in [Bug 533907] (Don Porter).

2002-03-24  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl:  Use [interpreter] to set/query the
        executable currently running the tcltest package. [Bug 454050]

        * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl:  Allow non-proc commands to be used as
        the customization hooks. [Bug 495662]

2002-03-24  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclFilename.c:
        * generic/tclFCmd.c:
        * generic/tclTest.c:
        * generic/tcl.h:
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c:
        * win/tclWinFile.c:
        * win/tclWinFCmd.c:
        * win/tclWinPipe.c:
        * unix/tclUnixFile.c:
        * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c:
        * mac/tclMacFile.c:
        * doc/FileSystem.3:
        * doc/file.n:
        * tests/cmdAH.test:
        * tests/fileName.test:
        * tests/fileSystem.test: (new file)
        * tests/winFCmd.test: fix [Bug 511666] and [Bug 511658], and improved
        documentation of some aspects of the filesystem, particularly
        'Tcl_FSMatchInDirectory' which now might match a single file/directory
        only, and 'file normalize' which wasn't very clear before. Removed
        inconsistency betweens docs and the Tcl_Filesystem structure. Also
        fixed [Bug 523217] and corrected file normalization on Unix so that
        it expands symbolic links. Added some new tests of the filesystem
        code (in the new file 'fileSystem.test'), and some extra tests for
        correct handling of symbolic links. Fix to [Bug 530960] which shows up
        on Win98. Made comparison with ".com" case insensitive in tclWinPipe.c

        ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY***: But only between alpha releases
        (users of the new Tcl_Filesystem lookup table in Tcl 8.4a4 need to
        handle the new way in which Tcl may call Tcl_FSMatchInDirectory, and
        'file normalize' on unix now behaves correctly). Only known impact is
        with the 'tclvfs' extension.

2002-03-22  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/basic.test (basic-46.1): adding test for [Bug 533758], fixed
        earlier today.

2002-03-22  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * win/tclWinInt.h: moved undef of TCL_STORAGE_CLASS. [Bug 478579]

2002-03-22  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_EvalObjEx):
        * generic/tclExecute.c (TclCompEvalObj): fixed the errorInfo for
        return codes other than (TCL_OK, TCL_ERROR) to runLevel 0.[Bug 533758]
        Removed the static RecordTracebackInfo(), as its functionality is
        easily replicated by Tcl_LogCommandInfo. Bug and redundancy noted by
        Don Porter.

2002-03-21  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * doc/expr.n: Improved documentation for ceil and floor. [Bug 530535]

2002-03-20  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/SetVar.3:
        * doc/TraceVar.3:
        * doc/UpVar.3:
        * generic/tcl.h (Tcl_VarTraceProc):
        * generic/tcl.decls (Tcl_GetVar2, Tcl_SetVar2, Tcl_TraceVar2,
        (Tcl_UnsetVar2, Tcl_UntraceVar2, Tcl_UpVar2, Tcl_VarTraceInfo2,
        (Tcl_GetVar2Ex, TclSetVar2Ex):
        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (TraceVarProc):
        * generic/tclEnv.c (EnvTraceProc):
        * generic/tclEvent.c (VwaitVarProc):
        * generic/tclInt.decls (TclLookupVar,TclPrecTraceProc):
        * generic/tclLink.c (LinkTraceProc):
        * generic/tclUtil.c (TclPrecTraceProc):
        * generic/tclVar.c (CallTraces, MakeUpvar, VarErrMsg, TclLookupVar,
        (Tcl_GetVar2, Tcl_SetVar2, Tcl_TraceVar2, Tcl_UnsetVar2,
        (Tcl_UntraceVar2, Tcl_UpVar2, Tcl_VarTraceInfo2, Tcl_GetVar2Ex,
        (TclSetVar2Ex): Updated interfaces of generic/tclVar.c according to
        TIP 27. In particular, the "part2" arguments were CONSTified. [Patch
        532642]
        * generic/tclDecls.h:
        * generic/tclIntDecls.h: make genstubs

2002-03-15  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * tests/compile.test (compile-12.3): Test to detect bug 530320.
        * generic/tclCompile.c (TclCompileTokens): Fixed buffer overrun
        reported in bug 530320.

2002-03-14  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>

        * win/configure: Regen.
        * win/configure.in: Add configure time test for SEH support in the
        compiler.
        * win/tclWin32Dll.c (ESP, EBP, TclpCheckStackSpace,
        (_except_checkstackspace_handler):
        * win/tclWinChan.c (ESP, EBP, Tcl_MakeFileChannel,
        (_except_makefilechannel_handler):
        * win/tclWinFCmd.c (ESP, EBP, DoRenameFile, DoCopyFile,
        (_except_dorenamefile_handler, _except_docopyfile_handler):
        Implement SEH support under gcc using inline asm. Tcl and Tk should
        now compile with Mingw 1.1. [Patch 525746]

2002-03-14  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>

        * win/tclWinFCmd.c (DoRenameFile, DoCopyFile): Handle an SEH exception
        with EXCEPTION_EXECUTE_HANDLER instead of restarting the faulting
        instruction with EXCEPTION_CONTINUE_EXECUTION. [Bug 466102] provides
        an example of how restarting could send Tcl into an infinite loop.
        [Patch 525746]

2002-03-11  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>

        * win/tclWinFCmd.c (DoRenameFile, DoCopyFile, DoDeleteFile,
        (DoRemoveJustDirectory): Make sure we don't pass NULL or "" as a path
        name to Win32 API functions since this was crashing under Windows 98.

2002-03-11  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl:
        * library/tcltest/pkgIndex.tcl: Bumped tcltest package to 2.0.2.

2002-03-11  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>

        * library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl (getMatchingFiles): Pass a proper list
        to foreach to avoid munging a Windows patch like D:\Foo\Bar into
        D:FooBar before the glob.

2002-03-11  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclEncoding.c: Fix typo in comment.
        * generic/tclIO.c (DoReadChars, ReadBytes, ReadChars): Use NULL value
        instead of pointer set to NULL to make things more clear. Reorder
        arguments so that they match the function signatures. Cleanup little
        typos and add more descriptive comment.

2002-03-08  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>

        * win/README: Update to indicate that Mingw 1.1 is required to build
        Tcl. Add section describing new msys based build process. Update
        Cygwin build instructions so users know where to find Mingw 1.1.

2002-03-08  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * win/tclWinFCmd.c (DoCopyFile): correctly set retval to TCL_OK.

2002-03-07  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>

        * win/tclWin32Dll.c (TclpCheckStackSpace):
        * win/tclWinFCmd.c (DoRenameFile, DoCopyFile): Replace hard coded
        constants with Win32 symbolic names. Move control flow statements out
        of __try blocks since the documentation indicates it is frowned upon.

2002-03-07  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/interp.n:
        * generic/tclInterp.c (Tcl_InterpObjCmd, SlaveObjCmd,
        (SlaveRecursionLimit):
        * generic/tclTest.c:
        * tests/interp.test: Added the [interp recursionlimit] command to
        set/query the recursion limit of an interpreter. Proposal and
        implementation from Stephen Trier. [TIP 87, Patch 522849]

2002-03-06  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * generic/tcl.h, tools/tcl.wse.in, unix/configure.in,
        * unix/tcl.spec, win/README.binary, win/configure.in, README:
        Bumped patchlevel; this might need to change in the future, but it
        will help us distinguish between the CVS version and the most recent
        released version.

2002-03-06  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclInt.h: for unshared objects, TclDecrRefCount now frees
        the internal rep before the string rep - just like the non-macro
        Tcl_DecrRefCount/TclFreeObj. [Bug 524802]

2002-03-06  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * doc/lsearch.n: Documentation of new features, plus examples.
        * tests/lsearch.test: Tests of new features.
        * generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LsearchObjCmd): TIP#80 support. See
        http://purl.org/tcl/tip/80 for details.

2002-03-05  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        *** 8.4a4 TAGGED FOR RELEASE ***

        * unix/tclUnixChan.c: initial remedy for [Bug 525783] flush problem
        introduced by TIP #35. This may not satisfy true serial channels, but
        it restores the correct flushing of std* channels on exit.

        * unix/README: added --enable-langinfo doc.

        * unix/tcl.spec:
        * tools/tcl.wse.in: fixed URL refs to use www.tcl.tk or SF.

2002-03-04  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * README:
        * mac/README:
        * unix/Makefile.in:
        * unix/README:
        * win/README:
        * win/README.binary: updated to use www.tcl.tk URL.

        * unix/Makefile.in: added older ChangeLogs to dist target.

        * tests/io.test:
        * tests/encoding.test: corrected iso2022 encoding results.
        added encoding-24.*
        * generic/tclEncoding.c (EscapeFromUtfProc): corrected output of
        escape codes as per RFC 1468. [Patch 474358] (taguchi)
        (TclFinalizeEncodingSubsystem): corrected potential double-free
        when encodings were finalized on exit. [Bugs 219314, 524674]

2002-03-01  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * library/encoding/iso2022-jp.enc:
        * library/encoding/iso2022.enc:
        * tools/encoding/iso2022-jp.esc:
        * tools/encoding/iso2022.esc: gave <ESC>$B precedence over <ESC>$@,
        based on comments (point 1) in [Bug 219283] (rfc 1468)

        * tests/encoding.test: added encoding-23.* tests
        * generic/tclIO.c (FilterInputBytes): reset the TCL_ENCODING_START
        flags in the ChannelState when using 'gets'. [Bug 523988]
        Also reduced the value of ENCODING_LINESIZE from 30 to 20 as this
        seems to improve the performance of 'gets' according to tclbench.

2002-02-28  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (TraceCommandProc): ensure that TraceCommandInfo
        structure was also deleted when a command was deleted to prevent a
        mem leak.

        * generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_CreateObjTrace): set tracePtr->flags
        correctly.

        * generic/tclTimer.c (TimerExitProc): remove remaining events in
        tls on thread exit.

2002-02-28  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclNamesp.c: allow cached fully-qualified namespace names to
        be usable from different namespaces within the same interpreter
        without forcing a new lookup [Patch 458872].

2002-02-28  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclExecute.c: Replaced a few direct stack accesses with the
        POP_OBJECT() macro [Bug 507181] (Don Porter).

2002-02-27  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/GetIndex.3:
        * generic/tcl.decls (Tcl_GetIndexFromObjStruct):
        * generic/tclIndexObj.c (Tcl_GetIndexFromObjStruct):  Revised the
        prototype of the Tcl_GetIndexFromObjStruct to take its struct table as
        a (CONST VOID *) argument, better describing what it is, maintaining
        source compatibility, and adding CONST correctness according to TIP
        27. Thanks to Joe English for an elegant solution. [Bug 520304]

        * generic/tclDecls.h: make genstubs

        * generic/tclMain.c (Tcl_Main,StdinProc):  Corrected some reference
        count management errors on the interactive command Tcl_Obj found by
        Purify. Thanks to Jeff Hobbs for the report and assistance.

2002-02-27  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_EvalTokensStandard): corrected mem leak in
        error case.

        * generic/tclTest.c (TestStatProc[123]): correct harmless UMRs.

        * generic/tclLink.c (Tcl_LinkVar): correct mem leak in error case.

2002-02-27  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/socket.test (2.7): Accepted and applied patch for [Bug 523470]
        provided by Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> to avoid timing
        problems in that test.

        * unix/tclUnixChan.c (TclpOpenFileChannel): Added code to regonize
        "/dev/tty" (by name) and to not handle it as tty / serial line. This
        is the controlling terminal and is special. Setting it into raw mode
        as is done for other tty's is a bad idea. This is a hackish fix for
        expect [Bug 520624]. The fix has limitation: Tcl_MakeFileChannel
        handles tty's specially too, but is unable to recognize /dev/tty as it
        only gets a file descriptor, and no name for it.

2002-02-26  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * generic/tclCmdAH.c (StoreStatData): corrected mem leak.

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_RegsubObjCmd): prevent obj leak in
        remedial regsub case.

        * generic/tclFileName.c (Tcl_TranslateFileName): decr refcount for
        error case to prevent mem leak.

        * generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_ArrayObjCmd): removed extra obj allocation.

        * unix/tclUnixSock.c (Tcl_GetHostName): added an extra
        gethostbyname check to guard against failure with truncated
        names returned by uname.

        * unix/configure:
        * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_SERIAL_PORT): added sys/modem.h check and defined
        _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED for HP-11 to get updated header decls.

        * unix/tclUnixChan.c: added Unix implementation of TIP #35, serial
        port support. [Patch 438509] (schroedter)

2002-02-26  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCmpCmds.c: (bugfix to the bugfix, hopefully the last)
        Bugfix to the new [for] compiling code: was setting a exceptArray
        parameter using another param which wasn't yet initialised, thus
        filling it with noise.

2002-02-25  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

        * mac/tclMacSock.c (TcpGetOptionProc): Changed to recognize the option
        "-error". Essentially ignores the option, always returning an empty
        string.

2002-02-25  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * doc/Alloc.3:
        * doc/LinkVar.3:
        * doc/ObjectType.3:
        * doc/PkgRequire.3:
        * doc/Preserve.3:
        * doc/TCL_MEM_DEBUG.3: Updated documentation to describe the ckalloc,
        ckfree, ckrealloc, attemptckalloc, and attemptckrealloc macros, and
        to accurately describe when and how they are used. [Bug 497459] (dgp)

        * generic/tclHash.c (AllocArrayEntry, AllocStringEntry):
        Before invoking ckalloc when creating a Tcl_HashEntry,
        check that the amount of memory being allocated is
        at least as large as sizeof(Tcl_HashEntry). The previous
        code was allocating memory regions that were one
        or two bytes short. [Bug 521950] (dejong)

2002-02-25  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_EvalEx): avoiding a buffer overrun
        reported by Joe English, and restoring tcl7.6 behaviour for
        [subst]: badly terminated nested scripts will raise an error
        and not be evaluated. [Bug 495207]

2002-02-25  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/tclUnixPort.h: corrected strtoll prototype mismatch on Tru64.
        * compat/strtod.c (strtod): simplified #includes
        * compat/strtol.c (strtol): gather result in a long before returning
        as a long: necessary on platforms where sizeof(int) != sizeof(long).

2002-02-25  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/tclLoadDyld.c: updated to use Mac OS X 10.1 dyld APIs that
        have more libdl-like semantics. [Bug 514392]

2002-02-25  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCompCmds: fixing a bug in patch dated 2002-02-22, in the
        code for [for] and [while]. Under certain conditions, for long bodies,
        the exception range parameters were badly computed. Tests forthcoming:
        I still can't reproduce the conditions in the testsuite (!), although
        the bug (with assorted segfault or panic!)  can be triggered from the
        console or with the new parse.bench in tclbench.

2002-02-25  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * compat/strtoul.c, compat/strtol.c, compat/strtod.c: Added UCHAR,
        CONST and #includes to clean up GCC output.

2002-02-23  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * compat/strtoull.c (strtoull):
        * compat/strtoll.c (strtoll):
        * compat/strtoul.c (strtoul): Fixed failure to handle leading
        sign symbols '+' and '-' and '0X' and raise overflow errors.
        [Bug 440916]  Also corrects prototype and errno problems.

2002-02-23  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>

        * configure: Regen.
        * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Link with -n32 instead of -32 when
        building on IRIX64-6.* system. [Bug 521707]

2002-02-22  Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclInt.h:
        * generic/tclObj.c: renamed global variable emptyString ->
        tclEmptyString because it is no longer static.
        * generic/tclPkg.c: Fix for panic when library is loaded on a
        platform without backlinking without proper use of stubs. [Bug 476537]

2002-02-22  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * tests/regexpComp.test: updated regexp-11.[1-4] to match changes in
        regexp.test for new regsub syntax

        * unix/configure:
        * unix/tcl.m4: added --enable-64bit support for AIX-4 (using -q64
        flag) when using IBM's xlc compiler.

        * tests/safe.test: updated safe-8.5 and safe-8.7
        * library/safe.tcl (CheckFileName): removed the limit on
        sourceable file names (was only *.tcl or tclIndex files with no more
        than one dot and 14 chars). There is enough internal protection in a
        safe interpreter already. [Tk Bug 521560]

2002-02-22  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclCompCmds: [FR 465811]. Optimising [if], [for] and [while]
        for constant conditions; in addition, [for] and [while] are now
        compiled with the "loop rotation" optimisation (thanks to Kevin
        Kenny).

2002-02-22  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        --- TIP#76 CHANGES ---
        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_RegsubObjCmd): Final-argument-less
        [regsub] returns the modified string.
        * doc/regsub.n: Updated docs.
        * tests/regexp.test: Updated and added tests.

        * compat/strtoll.c (strtoll):
        * compat/strtoull.c (strtoull):
        * unix/tclUnixPort.h:
        * win/tclWinPort.h: Const-ing 64-bit compatability declarations. Note
        that the return pointer is non-const because it is entirely legal for
        the functions to be called from somewhere that owns the string being
        passed. Fixes problem reported by Larry Virden.

2002-02-21  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>

        * win/mkd.bat (removed):
        * win/coffbase.txt (new):
        * win/makefile.bc:
        * win/makefile.vc:  Changed the 'setup' target to stop using the
        mkd.bat file and just make the directory right in the rule. Same
        change to makefile.bc. Neither configure.in nor Makefile.in use it.

        coffbase.txt will be the master list for our "prefered base addresses"
        set by the linker. This should improve load-time (NT only) by avoiding
        relocations. Submissions to the list by extension authors are
        encouraged.

        Added a 'tidy' target to compliment 'clean' and 'hose' to remove just
        the outputs. Also removed the $(winlibs) macro as it wasn't being
        used.

        Stuff left to do:
        1) get the winhelp target to stop building in the tools/ directory.
        2) stop using rmd.bat
        3) add more dependacy rules.

        * win/tclAppInit.c:  Reverted back to -r1.6, as the header file change
        to tclPort.h won't allow for easy embedded support outside of the
        source dist. Thanks to Don Porter for pointing this out to me.

2002-02-21  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>

        * win/makefile.vc:
        * win/rules.vc:  Added a new "loimpact" option that sets the
        -ws:aggressive linker option. Off by default. It's said to keep the
        heap use low at the expense of alloc speed.

        * win/tclAppInit.c: Changed #include "tcl.h" to be tclPort.h to remove
        the raw windows.h include. tclPort.h brings in windows.h already and
        lessens the pre-compiled-header mush and the randomly useless #pragma
        comment (lib,...) references throughout the big windows.h tree (as
        observed at high linker warning levels).

2002-02-21  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * generic/tcl.h: Better guessing of LP64/ILP32 architecture, but now
        sensitive to presence of (suitable) <limits.h>

2002-02-20  Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tcl.decls (Tcl_RegExpRange,Tcl_GetIndexFromObjStruct):
        Overlooked a few source incompatibilities. Now using CONST84.
        * generic/tclDecls.h: make genstubs
        * generic/tcl.h (Tcl_CmdObjTraceProc): silence warning from Sun
        Workshop compiler.

2002-02-20  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>

        * win/buildall.vc.bat:
        * win/makefile.vc:
        * win/rules.vc: General clean-ups. Added compiler and linker tests for
        a) the pentium 0x0F errata, b) optimizing (not all have this), and c)
        linker v6 section alignment confusion. All these are tested first to
        make sure any D4002 or LNK1117 warnings aren't displayed. The pentium
        0x0F errata is a recommended switch. The v5 linker's section alignment
        default is 512, but the v6 linker was changed to 4096 in an attempt to
        speed loading on Win98. I changed the default to always be 512 across
        both linkers, unless linking statically, then 4096 is used for the
        claimed speed effect. Using a 512 alignment saves 12k bytes of dead
        space in the DLL.

        Added IA64 B-stepping errata switch when the compiler supports it.

        Added profiling to $(lflags) when requested and also removed the
        explict -entry option as the default works fine as is.

        Removed win/tclWinInit.c from the special case section to let it use
        the common implicit rule as the $(EXTFLAGS) macro it had was never
        referenced anywhere.

2002-02-20  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * generic/tcl.h: Added code to guess the correct settings for
        TCL_WIDE_INT_IS_LONG and TCL_WIDE_INT_TYPE when configure doesn't tell
        us them, as can happen with extensions.

2002-02-19  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * doc/format.n: Updated docs to list the specification.
        * generic/tclCmdAH.c (Tcl_FormatObjCmd): Made behaviour on 64-bit
        platforms correctly meet the specification, that %d works with the
        native word-sized integer, instead of trying to guess (wrongly)
        from the value being passed.

2002-02-19  Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * changes: First draft of updated changes for 8.4a4 release.

2002-02-15  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * unix/tclUnixPort.h: add strtoll/strtoull declarations for
        platforms that do not define them.

        * generic/tclIndexObj.c (STRING_AT): removed ptrdiff_t cast and
        use of VOID* in default case (GNU-ism).

2002-02-15  Kevin Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * compat/strtoll.c:
        * compat/strtoul.c:
        * compat/strtoull.c:
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c:
        * generic/tclPosixStr.c:
        * generic/tclTest.c:
        * generic/tclTestObj.c:
        * tests/get.test:
        * win/Makefile.vc: Further tweaks to the TIP 72 patch to make it
        compile under VC++.

2002-02-15  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tclExecute.c:
        * tclIOGT.c:
        * tclIndexObj.c: Touchups to the TIP 72 patch to make it compileable
        under Windows again. The changes are not complete, there is one nasty
        regarding _stati64

2002-02-15  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        +----------------------+
        | TIP #72 IMPLEMENTED. |
        +----------------------+

        There are a lot of changes from this TIP, so please see
        http://purl.org/tcl/tip/72.html for discussion of
        backward-compatability issues, but the main ones modifications are in:

        * generic/tcl.h: New types.
        * generic/tcl.decls: New public functions.
        * generic/tclExecute.c: 64-bit aware bytecode engine.
        * generic/tclBinary.c: 64-bit handling in [binary] command.
        * generic/tclScan.c: 64-bit handling in [scan] command.
        * generic/tclCmdAH.c: 64-bit handling in [file] and [format]
        commands.
        * generic/tclBasic.c: New "wordSize" entry in ::tcl_platform.
        * generic/tclFCmd.c: Large-file support (with many consequences.)
        * generic/tclIO.c: Large-file support (with many consequences.)
        * compat/strtoll.c, compat/strtoull.c: New support functions.
        * unix/tcl.m4, unix/configure: 64-bit support and greatly enhanced
        cacheing.

        Most other changes, including all those in doc/* and test/* as well as
        the majority in the platform directories, follow on from these.

        Also coming out of the woodwork:
        * generic/tclIndex.c: Better support for Cray PVP.
        * win/tclWinMtherr.c: Better Borland support.

        Note that, in a number of places through the Unix part of the platform
        support, there are Tcl_Platform* references. These are expanded into
        the correct way to call that particular underlying function, i.e. with
        or without a '64' suffix, and should be used by people working on the
        core in preference to the API functions they overlay so that the code
        remains portable depending on the presence or absence of 64-bit
        support on the underlying platform.

        ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY***: Extracted from the TIP

        SUMMARY OF INCOMPATIBILITIES AND FIXES
        ======================================

        The behaviour of expressions containing constants that appear positive
        but which have a negative internal representation will change, as
        these will now usually be interpreted as wide integers. This is always
        fixable by replacing the constant with int(constant).

        Extensions creating new channel types will need to be altered as
        different types are now in use in those areas. The change to the
        declaration of Tcl_FSStat and Tcl_FSLstat (which are the new preferred
        API in any case) are less serious as no non-alpha releases have been
        made yet with those API functions.

        Scripts that are lax about the use of the l modifier in format and
        scan will probably need to be rewritten. This should be very uncommon
        though as previously it had absolutely no effect.

        Extensions that create new math functions that take more than one
        argument will need to be recompiled (the size of Tcl_Value changes),
        and functions that accept arguments of any type (TCL_EITHER) will need
        to be rewritten to handle wide integer values. (I do not expect this
        to affect many extensions at all.)

2002-02-14  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclIOCmd.c (Tcl_GetsObjCmd): Trivial fix for [Bug 517503], a
        memory leak reported by Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net>. The leak
        happens if an error occurs for "set var [gets $chan]" and leak one
        empty object.

2002-02-12  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>

        * djgpp/ (new directory)
        * djgpp/Makefile (new):
        * unix/tclAppInit.c:
        * unix/tclMtherr.c:
        * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c:
        * unix/tclUnixFile.c:
        * unix/tclUnixInit.c:
        * unix/tclUnixPort.h:  Early stage of DJGPP support for building Tcl
        on DOS. Dynamic loading isn't working, yet. Requires watt32 for the
        TCP/IP stack. No autoconf, yet. Barely tested, but makes a working exe
        that runs Tcl in protected-mode, flat memory. [exec] and pipes will
        need the most work as multi-tasking on DOS has to be carefully.

2002-02-10  Kevin Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

        * doc/CrtObjCmd.3:
        * doc/CrtTrace.3:
        * generic/tcl.decls:
        * generic/tcl.h:
        * generic/tclBasic.c:
        * generic/tclInt.h:
        * generic/tclTest.c:
        * tests/basic.test: Added Tcl_CreateObjTrace,
        Tcl_GetCommandInfoFromToken and Tcl_SetCommandInfoFromToken.
        (TIPs #32 and #79.)

        * generic/tclDecls.h:
        * generic/tclStubInit.c: Regenerated Stubs tables.

2002-02-08  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * unix/configure:
        * unix/tcl.m4: added -pthread for FreeBSD to EXTRA_CFLAGS and
        LDFLAGS. Also triggered nodots only for FreeBSD-3. Added
        AC_DEFINE(_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS) for Solaris.

        * unix/tclUnixPort.h:
        * unix/tclUnixThrd.c: added thread-safe versions of readdir,
        localtime, gmtime and inet_ntoa for threaded build. (jgdavidson)

        * generic/tclScan.c (Tcl_ScanObjCmd): prevented ckfree being called on
        a pointer to NULL.

2002-02-07  Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/DString.3:
        * doc/Encoding.3:
        * doc/GetCwd.3:
        * doc/SplitPath.3:
        * doc/Translate.3:
        * doc/Utf.3:
        * generic/tcl.decls:
        * generic/tcl.h:
        * generic/tclEncoding.c:
        * generic/tclEnv.c:
        * generic/tclFileName.c:
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c:
        * generic/tclUtf.c:
        * generic/tclUtil.c:
        * mac/tclMacInit.c:
        * unix/tclUnixFile.c:
        * unix/tclUnixInit.c:
        * unix/tclUnixPipe.c:
        * win/tclWin32Dll.c:
        * win/tclWinFCmd.c:
        * win/tclWinFile.c:
        * win/tclWinInit.c: Partial TIP 27 rollback. Following routines
        restored to return (char *): Tcl_DStringAppend,
        Tcl_DStringAppendElement, Tcl_JoinPath, Tcl_TranslateFileName,
        Tcl_ExternalToUtfDString, Tcl_UtfToExternalDString,
        Tcl_UniCharToUtfDString, Tcl_GetCwd, Tcl_WinTCharToUtf. Also restored
        Tcl_WinUtfToTChar to return (TCHAR *) and Tcl_UtfToUniCharDString to
        return (Tcl_UniChar *). Modified some callers. This change recognizes
        that Tcl_DStrings are de-facto white-box objects.

        * generic/tclDecls.h:
        * generic/tclPlatDecls.h: make genstubs

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c: corrected use of C++-style comment.

2002-02-06  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * tests/scan.test:
        * generic/tclScan.c (Tcl_ScanObjCmd): corrected scan 0x... %x handling
        that didn't accept the 0x as a prelude to a base 16 number. [Bug
        495213]

        * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileRegexpCmd): made early check for
        bad RE to stop checking further.

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_RegsubObjCmd): added special case to search
        for simple 'string map' style regsub calls. Delayed creation of
        resultPtr object until an initial match is made, as the input string
        object can then be reused for no matches.
        (Tcl_StringObjCmd): optimization improvements to the STR_MAP
        algorithm for zero-length and nocase cases.

        * tests/regexp.test:
        * tests/regexpComp.test: extra code coverage tests.

        * tests/string.test: added 10.18 and 10.19 extra tests.

        * generic/regc_locale.c (casecmp): slight performance improvement.

2002-02-05  Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * library/http/http.tcl:
        * library/http/pkgIndex.tcl:  Corrected use of http::error when
        ::error was intended. Bump to http 2.4.2.

2002-02-04  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/tclUnixChan.c (FileOutputProc): Fixed [bug 465765] reported by
        Dale Talcott <daletalcott@users.sourceforge.net>. Avoid writing
        nothing into a file as STREAM based implementations will consider this
        a EOF (if the file is a pipe). Not done in the generic layer as this
        type of writing is actually useful to check the state of a socket.

        * doc/open.n: Fixed [Bug 511540], added cross-reference to 'pid' as
        the command to use to retrieve the pid of a command pipeline created
        via 'open'.

2002-02-01  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_RegexpObjCmd): handle quirky about case
        earlier to avoid shimmering problem.

2002-02-01  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

        * tests/io.test: io-39.22 split into two tests, one platform
        dependent, the other not. -eofchar is not empty on the windows
        platform.

2002-02-01  Vince Darley <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclTest.c: fix to picky windows compiler problem with the
        'MainLoop' function declaration.

2002-01-31  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

        * win/tclWinFCmd.c: TIP 27: Applied patch fixing CONST warnings on
        behalf of Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>.

2002-01-30  Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tcl.decls:
        * generic/tcl.h:
        * generic/tclInt.h: For each interface identified in the TIP 27
        changes below as a POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY, the source of the
        incompatibility has been parameterized so that it can be removed. When
        compiling extension code against the Tcl header files, use the
        compiler flag -DUSE_NON_CONST to remove the irresolvable source
        incompatibilities introduced by the TIP 27 changes. Resolvable changes
        are left for extension authors to resolve.
        * generic/tclDecls.h: make genstubs

2002-01-30  Vince Darley <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/FileSystem.3: added documentation for 3 public functions which
        had been overlooked. [Bug 507701]
        * unix/mkLinks: make mklinks

2002-01-29  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * tests/regexpComp.test:
        * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileRegexpCmd): enhanced to support
        -nocase and -- options.

2002-01-28  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_LOAD_TCLCONFIG):
        * win/tcl.m4 (SC_LOAD_TCLCONFIG): Set TCL_LIB_SPEC, TCL_STUB_LIB_SPEC,
        and TCL_STUB_LIB_PATH to the values of TCL_BUILD_LIB_SPEC,
        TCL_BUILD_STUB_LIB_SPEC, and TCL_BUILD_STUB_LIB_PATH when tclConfig.sh
        is loaded from the build directory. A Tcl extension should make use of
        the non-build versions of these variables since they will work in both
        cases. This modification was described in TIP 34.

2002-01-28  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * win/tclWinReg.c (regConnectRegistryProc,RecursiveDeleteKey)
        (DeleteKey,GetKeyNames,GetType,GetValue,OpenSubKey,SetValue):
        redid the CONSTification as previous changes caused failing tests.

        * tests/regexpComp.test (new):
        * generic/tclInt.h:
        * generic/tclBasic.c: added TclCompileRegexpCmd entry
        * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileStringCmd): corrected to return
        TCL_OUT_LINE_COMPILE instead of TCL_ERROR for parsing errors, so
        it only throws the error for runtime compile, in case the user
        modifies 'string'.
        (TclCompileRegexpCmd): first try at a byte-compiled regexp command. It
        handles static strings and ^$ bounded static strings.
        (TclCompileAppendCmd): made TclPushVarName call always use
        TCL_CREATE_VAR as numWords is always > 2 at that point.

        * generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode:INST_LIST): correct
        possibly dangerous decr in macro call.

        * win/tclWinInit.c (TclpFindVariable): CONSTification touch-up

        * win/tclWinReg.c (OpenSubKey): corrected bug introduced in
        CONSTification that dropped pointer reference.

        * ChangeLog.2000 (new file):
        * ChangeLog: broke changes from 2000 into ChangeLog.2000 to reduce
        size of the main ChangeLog.

2002-01-28  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>

        * generic/tclPlatDecls.h:  Added preprocessor logic to force a
        typedef of TCHAR when __STDC__ is defined when using the uncommon
        -Za compiler switch with the microsoft compiler.

2002-01-27  Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/package.n: Documented global namespace context for script
        evaluation by [package require].

2002-01-27  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclInt.decls:
        * generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h:
        * mac/tclMacChan.c:
        * mac/tclMacFCmd.c:
        * mac/tclMacFile.c:
        * mac/tclMacInit.c:
        * mac/tclMacLoad.c:
        * mac/tclMacResource.c:
        * mac/tclMacSock.c: TIP 27 CONSTification induced changes

        * tests/event.test:
        * tests/main.test: added catches/constraints to test that
        use features that don't exist on the mac.

2002-01-25  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>

        Make -eofchar and -translation options read only for server sockets.
        [Bug 496733]

        * generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_GetChannelOption, Tcl_SetChannelOption):
        Instead of returning nothing for the -translation option on a server
        socket, always return "auto". Return the empty string enclosed in
        quotes for the -eofchar option on a server socket. Fixup -eofchar
        usage message so that it matches the implementation.
        * tests/io.test: Add -eofchar tests and -translation tests to ensure
        options are read only on server sockets.
        * tests/socket.test: Update tests to account for -eofchar and
        -translation option changes.

2002-01-25  Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * compat/strstr.c (strstr):
        * generic/tclCmdAH.c (Tcl_FormatObjCmd):
        * generic/tclCmdIL.c (InfoNameOfExecutableCmd):
        * generic/tclEnv.c (ReplaceString):
        * generic/tclFileName.c (ExtractWinRoot):
        * generic/tclIO.c (FlushChannel,Tcl_BadChannelOption):
        * generic/tclStringObj.c (AppendUnicodeToUtfRep):
        * generic/tclThreadTest.c (TclCreateThread):
        * generic/tclUtf.c (Tcl_UtfPrev):
        * mac/tclMacFCmd.c (TclpObjListVolumes):
        * mac/tclMacResource.c (TclMacRegisterResourceFork,
        (BuildResourceForkList):
        * win/tclWinInit.c (AppendEnvironment):  Sought out and eliminated
        instances of CONST-casting that are no longer needed after the
        TIP 27 effort.

        * Following is [Patch 501006]
        * generic/tclInt.decls (Tcl_AddInterpResolvers, Tcl_Export,
        (Tcl_FindNamespace, Tcl_GetInterpResolvers, Tcl_ForgetImport,
        (Tcl_Import, Tcl_RemoveInterpResolvers):
        * generic/tclNamesp.c (Tcl_Export, Tcl_Import, Tcl_ForgetImport,
        (Tcl_FindNamespace):
        * generic/tclResolve.c (Tcl_AddInterpResolvers,Tcl_GetInterpResolvers,
        (Tcl_RemoveInterpResolvers): Updated APIs in generic/tclResolve.c and
        generic/tclNamesp.c according to the guidelines of TIP 27.
        * generic/tclIntDecls.h: make genstubs

        * Following is [Patch 505630]
        * doc/AddErrorInfo.3:
        * generic/tcl.decls (Tcl_LogCommandInfo):
        * generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_LogCommandInfo): Updated interfaces
        of generic/tclBasic.cc according to TIP 27.
        * generic/tclDecls.h: make genstubs

        * Following is [Patch 506818]
        * doc/Hash.3:
        * generic/tcl.decls (Tcl_HashStats):
        * generic/tclHash.c (Tcl_HashStats):  Updated APIs of generic/tclHash.c
        according to guidelines of TIP 27.
        * generic/tclDecls.h: make genstubs
        * generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_ArrayObjCmd): Updated callers.

        * Following is [Patch 506807]
        * doc/ObjectType.3:
        * generic/tcl.decls (Tcl_GetObjType):
        * generic/tclObj.c (Tcl_GetObjType): Updated APIs of generic/tclObj.c
        according to guidelines of TIP 27.
        * generic/tclDecls.h: make genstubs

        * Following is [Patch 507304]
        * doc/Encoding.3:
        * generic/tcl.decls (Tcl_WinUtfToTChar,Tcl_WinTCharToUtf):
        * win/tclWin32Dll.c (Tcl_WinUtfToTChar,Tcl_WinTCharToUtf):
        Updated interfaces in win/tclWin32Dll.c according to TIP 27.
        * generic/tclPlatDecls.h: make genstubs
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c (TclpNativeToNormalized):
        * win/tclWinFCmd.c (TclpObjNormalizePath):
        * win/tclWinFile.c (TclpFindExecutable,TclpMatchInDirectory,
        (NativeIsExec,NativeStat):
        * win/tclWinLoad.c (TclpLoadFile):
        * win/tclWinPipe.c (TclpOpenFile,ApplicationType):
        * win/tclWinReg.c (regConnectRegistryProc,RecursiveDeleteKey,DeleteKey,
        (GetKeyNames,GetType,GetValue,OpenSubKey,SetValue):
        * win/tclWinSerial.c (SerialSetOptionProc): Update callers.

        * Following is [Patch 505072]
        * doc/Concat.3:
        * doc/Encoding.3:
        * doc/Filesystem.3:
        * doc/Macintosh.3:
        * doc/OpenFileChnl.3
        * doc/SetResult.3:
        * doc/SetVar.3:
        * doc/SplitList.3:
        * doc/SplitPath.3:
        * doc/Translate.3:
        * generic/tcl.h (Tcl_FSMatchInDirectoryProc):
        * generic/tclInt.h (TclpMatchInDirectory):
        * generic/tcl.decls (Tcl_Concat,Tcl_GetStringResult,Tcl_GetVar,
        (Tcl_GetVar2,Tcl_JoinPath,Tcl_Merge,Tcl_OpenCommandChannel,Tcl_SetVar,
        (Tcl_SetVar2,Tcl_SplitList,Tcl_SplitPath,Tcl_TranslateFileName,
        (Tcl_ExternalToUtfDString,Tcl_GetEncodingName,Tcl_UtfToExternalDString,
        (Tcl_GetDefaultEncodingDir,Tcl_SetDefaultEncodingDir,
        (Tcl_FSMatchInDirectory,Tcl_MacEvalResource,Tcl_MacFindResource):
        * generic/tclInt.decls (TclCreatePipeline,TclGetEnv,TclpGetCwd,
        (TclpCreateProcess):
        * mac/tclMacFile.c (TclpGetCwd):
        * generic/tclEncoding.c (Tcl_GetDefaultEncodingDir,
        (Tcl_SetDefaultEncodingDir,Tcl_GetEncodingName,
        (Tcl_ExternalToUtfDString,Tcl_UtfToExternalDString, OpenEncodingFile,
        (LoadEscapeEncoding):
        * generic/tclFileName.c (DoTildeSubst,Tcl_JoinPath,Tcl_SplitPath,
        (Tcl_TranslateFileName):
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c (Tcl_FSMatchInDirectory):
        * generic/tclPipe.c (FileForRedirect,TclCreatePipeline,
        (Tcl_OpenCommandChannel):
        * generic/tclResult.c (Tcl_GetStringResult):
        * generic/tclUtil.c (Tcl_Concat,Tcl_SplitList,Tcl_Merge):
        * generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_GetVar,Tcl_GetVar2,Tcl_SetVar,Tcl_SetVar2):
        * mac/tclMacResource.c (Tcl_MacEvalResource,Tcl_MacFindResource):
        Updated interfaces of generic/tclEncoding, generic/tclFilename.c,
        generic/tclIOUtil.c, generic/tclPipe.c, generic/tclResult.c,
        generic/tclUtil.c, generic/tclVar.c and mac/tclMacResource.c according
        to TIP 27. Tcl_TranslateFileName rewritten as wrapper around VFS-aware
        version.
        ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY***
        Includes source incompatibilities: argv arguments of Tcl_Concat,
        Tcl_JoinPath, Tcl_OpenCommandChannel, Tcl_Merge; argvPtr arguments of
        Tcl_SplitList and Tcl_SplitPath.
        * generic/tclDecls.h:
        * generic/tclIntDecls.h: make genstubs

        * generic/tclCkalloc.c (MemoryCmd):
        * generic/tclClock.c (FormatClock):
        * generic/tclCmdAH.c (Tcl_CaseObjCmd,Tcl_EncodingObjCmd,Tcl_FileObjCmd):
        * generic/tclCmdIL.c (InfoLibraryCmd,InfoPatchLevelCmd,
        (InfoTclVersionCmd):
        * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileForeachCmd):
        * generic/tclCompCmds.h (TclCompileForeachCmd):
        * generic/tclCompile.c (TclFindCompiledLocal):
        * generic/tclEnv.c (TclSetupEnv,TclSetEnv,Tcl_PutEnv,TclGetEnv,
        (EnvTraceProc):
        * generic/tclEvent.c (Tcl_BackgroundError):
        * generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_BadChannelOption,Tcl_SetChannelOption):
        * generic/tclIOCmd.c (Tcl_ExecObjCmd,Tcl_OpenObjCmd):
        * generic/tclIOSock.c (TclSockGetPort):
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c (SetFsPathFromAny):
        * generic/tclLink.c (LinkTraceProc):
        * generic/tclMain.c (Tcl_Main):
        * generic/tclNamesp.c (TclTeardownNamespace):
        * generic/tclProc.c (TclCreateProc):
        * generic/tclTest.c (TestregexpObjCmd,TesttranslatefilenameCmd,
        (TestchmodCmd,GetTimesCmd,TestsetCmd,TestOpenFileChannelProc1,
        (TestOpenFileChannelProc2,TestOpenFileChannelProc3,AsyncHandlerProc,
        (TestpanicCmd):
        * generic/tclThreadTest.c (ThreadErrorProc,ThreadEventProc):
        * generic/tclUtil.c (TclPrecTraceProc):
        * mac/tclMacFCmd.c (GetFileSpecs):
        * mac/tclMacFile.c (TclpMatchInDirectory):
        * mac/tclMacInit.c (TclpInitLibraryPath,Tcl_SourceRCFile):
        * mac/tclMacOSA.c (tclOSAStore,tclOSALoad):
        * mac/tclMacResource.c (Tcl_MacEvalResource):
        * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c (TclpObjNormalizePath):
        * unix/tclUnixFile.c (TclpMatchInDirectory,TclpGetUserHome,TclpGetCwd,
        (TclpReadLink):
        * unix/tclUnixInit.c (TclpInitLibraryPath,TclpSetVariables,
        (Tcl_SourceRCFile):
        * unix/tclUnixPipe.c (TclpOpenFile,TclpCreateTempFile,
        (TclpCreateProcess):
        * win/tclWinFile.c (TclpGetCwd,TclpMatchInDirectory):
        * win/tclWinInit.c (TclpInitLibraryPath,Tcl_SourceRCFile,
        (TclpSetVariables):
        * win/tclWinPipe.c (TclpCreateProcess): Updated callers.

2002-01-24  Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclIOUtil.c (SetFsPathFromAny):  Corrected tilde-substitution
        of pathnames where > 1 separator follows the ~. [Bug 504950]

2002-01-24  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

        * library/http/pkgIndex.tcl:
        * library/http/http.tcl: don't add port in default case to handle
        broken servers. http bumped to 2.4.1  [Bug 504508]

2002-01-23  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/mkLinks: Regenerated.
        * doc/CrtChannel.3:
        * doc/ChnlStack.3: Moved documentation for 'Tcl_GetTopChannel' from
        'CrtChannel' to 'ChnlStack'. Added documentation of
        'Tcl_GetStackedChannel'. [Bug 506147] reported by Mark Patton
        <msp@users.sourceforge.net>.

2002-01-23  Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * win/tclWinFile.c (NativeAccess,NativeStat,NativeIsExec,
        (TclpGetUserHome):
        * win/tclWinPort.h (TclWinSerialReopen):
        * win/tclWinSerial.c (TclWinSerialReopen):
        * win/tclWinSock.c (Tcl_OpenTcpServer):  Corrections to earlier TIP 27
        changes. Thanks to Andreas Kupries for the feedback.
        * generic/tclPlatDecls.h: make genstubs

        * doc/GetHostName.3:
        * doc/GetOpnFl.3:
        * doc/OpenTcp.3:
        * tcl.decls (Tcl_GetHostName,Tcl_GetOpenFile,Tcl_OpenTcpClient,
        (Tcl_OpenTclServer):
        * mac/tclMacSock.c (CreateSocket,Tcl_OpenTcpClient,Tcl_OpenTcpServer,
        (Tcl_GetHostName,GetHostFromString):
        * unix/tclUnixChan.c (CreateSocket,CreateSocketAddress,
        (Tcl_OpenTcpClient,Tcl_OpenTcpServer,Tcl_GetOpenFile):
        * unix/tclUnixSock.c (Tcl_GetHostName):
        * win/tclWinSock.c (CreateSocket,CreateSocketAddress,
        (Tcl_OpenTcpClient,Tcl_OpenTcpServer,Tcl_GetHostName):
        Updated socket interfaces according to TIP 27.
        * generic/tclCmdIL.c (InfoHostnameCmd): Updated callers.
        * generic/tclDecls.h: make genstubs

2002-01-21  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>

        * generic/tclLoadNone.c: TclpLoadFile() didn't match proto of typedef
        Tcl_FSLoadFileProc. OK'd by vincentdarley. [Patch 502488]

2002-01-21  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclIO.c (WriteChars): Fix for [Bug 506297], reported by
        Martin Forssen <ruric@users.sourceforge.net>. The encoding chosen in
        the script exposing the bug writes out three intro characters when
        TCL_ENCODING_START is set, but does not consume any input as
        TCL_ENCODING_END is cleared. As some output was generated the
        enclosing loop calls UtfToExternal again, again with START set. Three
        more characters in the out and still no use of input ... To break this
        infinite loop we remove TCL_ENCODING_START from the set of flags after
        the first call (no condition is required, the later calls remove an
        unset flag, which is a no-op). This causes the subsequent calls to
        UtfToExternal to consume and convert the actual input.

2002-01-21  Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclTest.c: Converted declarations of TestReport file system
        to more portable form. [Bug 501417]

        * generic/tcl.decls (Tcl_TraceCommand,Tcl_UntraceCommand,
        (Tcl_CommandTraceInfo):
        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_TraceCommand,Tcl_UntraceCommand,
        (Tcl_CommandTraceInfo): Updated APIs in generic/tclCmdMZ.c according
        to the guidelines of TIP 27.
        * generic/tclDecls.h: make genstubs

2002-01-18  Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * win/tclWinChan.c:
        * win/tclWinFCmd.c:
        * win/tclWinFile.c: Overlooked callers of Tcl_FSGetNativePath

        * win/tclWinDde.c:
        * win/tclWinReg.c: Overlooked callers of Tcl_GetIndexFromObj

2002-01-18  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclThreadTest.c:
        * mac/tclMacChan.c:
        * mac/tclMacFCmd.c:
        * mac/tclMacFile.c:
        * mac/tclMacLoad.c:
        * mac/tclMacResource.c: TIP 27 CONSTification broke the mac build in a
        number of places.

2002-01-17  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclIOCmd.c (Tcl_GetsObjCmd): Fixed [Bug 504642] as reported
        by Brian Griffin <bgriffin@users.sourceforge.net>, using his
        patch. Before the patch the generic I/O layer held an unannounced
        reference to the interp result to store the read line into. This
        unfortunately has disastrous results if the channel driver executes a
        tcl script to perform its operation, this freeing the interp
        result. In that case we are dereferencing essentially a dangling
        reference. It is not truly dangling because the object is in the free
        list, but this only causes us to smash the free list and have the
        error occur later somewhere else. The patch simply creates a new
        object for the line and later sets it into the interp result when we
        are done with reading.

2002-01-16  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/tcl.m4 (SC_LOAD_TCLCONFIG):
        * win/tcl.m4 (SC_LOAD_TCLCONFIG): Subst TCL_DBGX into
        TCL_STUB_LIB_FILE and TCL_STUB_LIB_FLAG variables so that an extension
        does not need to subst TCL_DBGX into its makefile. [Tk Bug 504356]

2002-01-16  Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/FileSystem.3:
        * doc/GetCwd.3:
        * doc/GetIndex.3:
        * generic/tcl.decls (Tcl_GetIndexFromObj, Tcl_GetIndexFromObjStruct,
        (Tcl_GetCwd, Tcl_FSFileAttrStrings, Tcl_FSGetNativePath,
        (Tcl_FSGetTranslatedStringPath):
        * generic/tcl.h (Tcl_FSFileAttrStringsProc):
        * generic/tclFCmd.c (TclFileAttrsCmd):
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c (Tcl_GetCwd,NativeFileAttrStrings,
        (Tcl_FSFileAttrStrings,Tcl_FSGetTranslatedStringPath,
        (Tcl_FSGetNativePath):
        * generic/tclIndexObj.c (Tcl_GetIndexFromObj,
        (Tcl_GetIndexFromObjStruct):
        More TIP 27 updates in tclIOUtil.c and tclIndexObj.c that were
        overlooked before. [Patch 504671]
        ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY***
        Includes a source incompatibility in the tablePtr arguments of the
        Tcl_GetIndexFromObj* routines.
        * generic/tclDecls.h: make genstubs

        * generic/tclBinary.c (Tcl_BinaryObjCmd):
        * generic/tclClock.c (Tcl_ClockObjCmd):
        * generic/tclCmdAH.c (Tcl_EncodingObjCmd, Tcl_FileObjCmd):
        * generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_InfoObjCmd,Tcl_LsearchObjCmd,Tcl_LsortObjCmd):
        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_TraceObjCmd,Tcl_RegexpObjCmd,Tcl_RegsubObjCmd,
        (Tcl_StringObjCmd,Tcl_SubstObjCmd,Tcl_SwitchObjCmd,
        (TclTraceCommandObjCmd,TclTraceVariableObjCmd):
        * generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileStringCmd):
        * generic/tclEvent.c (Tcl_UpdateObjCmd):
        * generic/tclFileName.c (Tcl_GlobObjCmd):
        * generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_FileEventObjCmd):
        * generic/tclIOCmd.c (Tcl_SeekObjCmd,Tcl_ExecObjCmd,Tcl_SocketObjCmd,
        (Tcl_FcopyObjCmd):
        * generic/tclInterp.c (Tcl_InterpObjCmd,SlaveObjCmd):
        * generic/tclNamesp.c (Tcl_NamespaceObjCmd):
        * generic/tclPkg.c (Tcl_PackageObjCmd):
        * generic/tclTest.c (Tcltest_Init,TestencodingObjCmd,TestgetplatformCmd,
        (TestlocaleCmd,TestregexpObjCmd,TestsaveresultCmd,
        (TestGetIndexFromObjStructObjCmd,TestReportFileAttrStrings):
        * generic/tclTestObj.c (TestindexObjCmd,TeststringObjCmd):
        * generic/tclTimer.c (Tcl_AfterObjCmd):
        * generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_ArrayObjCmd):
        * mac/tclMacFCmd.c (SetFileFinderAttributes):
        * unix/tclUnixChan.c (TclpOpenFileChannel):
        * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c (tclpFileAttrStrings):
        * unix/tclUnixFile.c (TclpObjAccess,TclpObjChdir,TclpObjStat,
        (TclpObjLstat):
        * win/tclWinFCmd.c (tclpFileAttrStrings): Updated callers.

        * doc/RegExp.3:
        * doc/Utf.3:
        * generic/tcl.decls:
        * generic/tclInt.decls:
        * generic/tclRegexp.c:
        * generic/tclUtf.c:  Updated APIs in generic/tclUtf.c and
        generic/tclRegexp.c according to the guidelines of TIP 27.
        [Patch 471509]

        * generic/regc_locale.c (element,cclass):
        * generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_StringObjCmd):
        * generic/tclFileName.c (TclpGetNativePathType,SplitMacPath):
        * generic/tclIO.c (ReadChars):
        * mac/tclMacLoad.c (TclpLoadFile):
        * win/tclWinFile.c (TclpGetUserHome): Updated callers.

        * generic/tclDecls.h:
        * generic/tclIntDecls.h: make genstubs

        * doc/ParseCmd.3 (Tcl_ParseVar):
        * generic/tcl.decls (Tcl_ParseVar):
        * generic/tclParse.c (Tcl_ParseVar):
        * generic/tclTest.c (TestparsevarObjCmd): Updated APIs in
        generic/tclParse.c according to the guidelines of TIP 27. Updated
        callers. [Patch 501046]
        * generic/tclDecls.h: make genstubs

        * generic/tcl.decls (Tcl_RecordAndEval):
        * generic/tclDecls.h: make genstubs
        * generic/tclHistory.c (Tcl_RecordAndEval): Updated APIs in
        generic/tclHistory.c according to the guidelines of TIP 27.
        [Patch 504091]

        * doc/CrtSlave.3:
        * generic/tcl.decls (Tcl_CreateAlias, Tcl_CreateAliasObj,
        (Tcl_CreateSlave, Tcl_GetAlias, Tcl_GetAliasObj, Tcl_GetSlave):
        * generic/tclInterp.c (Tcl_CreateAlias, Tcl_CreateAliasObj,
        (Tcl_CreateSlave, Tcl_GetAlias, Tcl_GetAliasObj, Tcl_GetSlave):
        Updated APIs in the file generic/tclInterp.c according to the
        guidelines of TIP 27. [Patch 501371]
        ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY***
        Includes a source incompatibility in the targetCmdPtr arguments of the
        Tcl_GetAlias* routines.

        * generic/tclDecls.h: make genstubs

2002-01-15  Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/SetErrno.3 (Tcl_ErrnoMsg): Corrected documentation for
        Tcl_ErrnoMsg; it takes an integer argument. Thanks to Georgios
        Petasis. [Bug 468183]

        * doc/AddErrInfo.3 (Tcl_PosixError):
        * doc/Eval.3 (Tcl_EvalFile):
        * doc/FileSystem.c (Tcl_FSOpenFileChannel,Tcl_FSOpenFileChannelProc):
        * doc/OpenFileChnl.3 (Tcl_OpenFileChannel):
        * doc/SetErrno.3 (Tcl_ErrnoId,Tcl_ErrnoMsg):
        * doc/Signal.3 (Tcl_SignalId,Tcl_SignalMsg):
        * generic/tcl.decls (Tcl_ErrnoId,TclErrnoMsg,Tcl_EvalFile,
        (Tcl_OpenFileChannel,Tcl_PosixError,Tcl_SignalId,Tcl_SignalMsg,
        (Tcl_FSOpenFileChannel):
        * generic/tcl.h (Tcl_FSOpenFileChannelProc):
        * generic/tclIO.c (FlushChannel):
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c (Tcl_OpenFileChannel,Tcl_EvalFile,TclGetOpenMode,
        (Tcl_PosixError,Tcl_FSOpenFileChannel):
        * generic/tclInt.decls (TclGetOpenMode):
        * generic/tclInt.h (TclOpenFileChannelProc_,TclGetOpenMode,
        (TclpOpenFileChannel):
        * generic/tclPipe.c (TclCleanupChildren):
        * generic/tclPosixStr.c (Tcl_ErrnoId,Tcl_ErrnoMsg,Tcl_SignalId,
        (Tcl_SignalMsg):
        * generic.tclTest.c (PretendTclpOpenFileChannel,
        (TestOpenFileChannelProc1,TestOpenFileChannelProc2,
        (TestOpenFileChannelProc3,TestReportOpenFileChannel):
        * mac/tclMacChan.c (TclpOpenFileChannel):
        * unix/tclUnixChan.c (TclpOpenFileChannel):
        * win/tclWinChan.c (TclpOpenFileChannel): Updated APIs in
        generic/tclIOUtil.c and generic/tclPosixStr.c according to the
        guidelines of TIP 27. Updated callers. [Patch 499196]

        * generic/tclDecls.h:
        * generic/tclIntDecls.h: make genstubs

        * doc/CrtChannel.3:
        * doc/OpenFileChnl.3:
        * generic/tcl.decls:
        * generic/tclIO.h:
        * generic/tclIO.c (DoWrite, Tcl_RegisterChannel, Tcl_GetChannel,
        (Tcl_CreateChannel, Tcl_GetChannelName, CloseChannel, Tcl_Write,
        (Tcl_WriteRaw, Tcl_Ungets, Tcl_BadChannelOption, Tcl_GetChannelOption,
        (Tcl_SetChannelOption, Tcl_GetChannelNamesEx, Tcl_ChannelName):
        Updated APIs in the file generic/tclIO.c according to the guidelines
        of TIP 27. Several minor documentation corrections as well.
        [Patch 503565]
        * generic/tclDecls.h: make genstubs

        * generic/tcl.h (Tcl_DriverOutputProc, Tcl_DriverGetOptionProc,
        (Tcl_DriverSetOptionProc):
        * generic/tclIOGT.c (TransformOutputProc, TransformGetOptionProc,
        (TransformSetOptionProc):
        * mac/tclMacChan.c (FileOutput, StdIOOutput):
        * man/tclMacSock.c (TcpGetOptionProc, TcpOutput):
        * unix/tclUnixChan.c (FileOutputProc, TcpGetOptionProc, TcpOutputProc,
        (TtyGetOptionProc, TtySetOptionProc):
        * unix/tclUnixPipe.c (PipeOuputProc):
        * win/tclWinChan.c (FileOutputProc):
        * win/tclWinConsole.c (ConsleOutputProc):
        * win/tclWinPipe.c (PipeOuputProc):
        * win/tclWinSerial.c (SerialOutputProc, SerialGetOptionProc,
        (SerialSetOptionProc):
        * win/tclWinSock.c (TcpGetOptionProc, TcpOutput): Updated channel
        driver interface according to the guidelines of TIP 27. See also
        [Bug 500348].

        * doc/CrtChannel.3:
        * generic/tcl.h:
        * generic/tclIO.c:
        * generic/tclIO.h:
        * generic/tclInt.h:
        * tools/checkLibraryDoc.tcl:
        Moved Tcl_EolTranslation enum declaration from generic/tcl.h to
        generic/tclInt.h (renamed to TclEolTranslation). It is not used
        anywhere in Tcl's public interface.

2002-01-14  Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/GetIndex.3:
        * doc/WrongNumArgs.3:
        * generic/tcl.decls (Tcl_GetIndexFromObj, Tcl_GetIndexFromObjStruct,
        (Tcl_WrongNumArgs):
        * generic/tclIndexObj.c (Tcl_GetIndexFromObj,Tcl_GetIndexFromObjStruct,
        (Tcl_WrongNumArgs): Updated APIs in the file generic/tclIndexObj.c
        according to the guidelines of TIP 27. [Patch 501491]
        * generic/tclDecls.h: make genstubs

2002-01-11  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/configure: Regen.
        * unix/configure.in:
        * win/configure: Regen.
        * win/configure.in: Use ${libdir} instead of ${exec_prefix}/lib
        to properly support the --libdir option to configure. [Bug 489370]

2002-01-11  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

        * win/tclWinSerial.c (SerialSetOptionProc): Applied patch for [Bug
        500348] supplied by Rolf Schroedter <schroedter@users.sf.net>. The
        function modified the contents of the the 'value' string and now does
        not do this anymore. This is a followup to the change made on
        2001-12-17.

2002-01-11  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>

        * win/makefile.vc: Removed -GD compiler option. It was intended for
        future use, but MS is again changing the future at their whim. The
        D4002 warning was harmless though, but someone using VC .NET logged it
        as a concern. [Bug 501565]

2002-01-11  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/Makefile.in: Burn Tcl build directory into tcltest executable
        to avoid crashes caused by ld loading a previously installed version
        of the tcl shared library. [Bug 218110]

2002-01-10  Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>,
        Kevin Kenny <kennykb@users.sourceforge.net>

        * unix/tclLoadDld.c (TclpLoadFile):  syntax error: unbalanced parens.
        Kevin notes that it's far from clear that this file is ever included
        in an actual build; Linux without dlopen appears to be a nonexistent
        configuration.

2002-01-08  Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>,
        Kevin Kenny <kennykb@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/StaticPkg.3 (Tcl_StaticPackage):
        * generic/tcl.decls (Tcl_StaticPackage):
        * generic/tclDecls.h (Tcl_StaticPackage):
        * generic/tclInt.decls (TclGuessPackageName):
        * generic/tclInt.h (TclGuessPackageName):
        * generic/tclLoad.c (Tcl_StaticPackage):
        * generic/tclLoadNone.c (TclGuessPackageName):
        * mac/tclMacLoad.c (TclGuessPackageName):
        * unix/tclLoadAout.c (TclGuessPackageName):
        * unix/tclLoadDl.c (TclGuessPackageName):
        * unix/tclLoadDld.c (TclGuessPackageName):
        * unix/tclLoadDyld.c (TclGuessPackageName):
        * unix/tclLoadNext.c (TclGuessPackageName):
        * unix/tclLoadOSF.c (TclGuessPackageName):
        * unix/tclLoadShl.c (TclGuessPackageName):
        * win/tclWinLoad.c (TclGuessPackageName):  Updated APIs in the files
        */tcl*Load*.c according to the guidelines of TIP 27. [Patch 501096]

2002-01-09  Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclTest.c (MainLoop):
        * tests/main.test (Tcl_Main-1.{3,4,5,6}):  Corrected some non-portable
        tests from the new Tcl_Main changes. Thanks to Kevin Kenny.

2002-01-07  Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * generic/tclEvent.c (TclInExit):
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c (SetFsPathFromAbsoluteNormalized,
        (SetFsPathFromAny,Tcl_FSNewNativePath,DupFsPathInternalRep):
        * generic/tclListObj.c (TclLsetList,TclLsetFlat):  Added some type
        casts to satisfy picky compilers.

        * generic/tclMain.c:  Bug fix: neglected the NULL case in
        TclGetStartupScriptFileName(). Broke Tk/wish.

2002-01-05  Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/Tcl_Main.3:
        * generic/tclMain.c:  Substantial rewrite and expanded documentation
        of Tcl_Main to correct a number of bugs and flaws:

          - Interactive Tcl_Main can now enter a main loop, exit that loop and
            continue interactive operations. The loop may even exit in the
            midst of interactive command typing without loss of the partial
            command. [Bugs 486453, 474131]
          - Tcl_Main now gracefully handles deletion of its master
            interpreter.
          - Interactive Tcl_Main can now operate with non-blocking stdin
          - Interactive Tcl_Main can now detect EOF on stdin even in
            mid-command. [Bug 491341]
          - Added VFS-aware internal routines for managing the startup script
            selection.
          - Tcl variable 'tcl_interactive' is now linked to C variable 'tty'
            so that one can disable/enable interactive prompts at the script
            level when there is no startup script. This is meant for use by
            the test suite.
          - Consistent use of the Tcl libraries standard channels as returned
            by Tcl_GetStdChannel(); as opposed to the channels named 'stdin',
            'stdout', and 'stderr' in the master interp, which can be
            different or unavailable.
          - Tcl_Main now calls Tcl_Exit() if evaluation of [exit] in the
            master interpreter returns, assuring Tcl_Main does not return.
          - Documented Tcl_Main's absence from public stub table
          - Documented that Tcl_Main does not return.
          - Documented Tcl variables set by Tcl_Main.
          - All prompts are done from a single procedure, Prompt.
          - Use of Tcl_Obj-enabled interfaces everywhere.

        * generic/tclInt.decls (TclGetStartupScriptPath,
        (TclSetStartupScriptPath): New internal VFS-aware routines for
        managing the startup script of Tcl_Main.
        * generic/tclIntDecls.h:
        * generic/tclStubInit.c: make genstubs

        * generic/tclTest.c (TestsetmainloopCmd,TestexitmainloopCmd,
        (Tcltest_Init,TestinterpdeleteCmd):
        * tests/main.test (new):  Added new file to test suite that thoroughly
        tests generic/tclMain.c; added some new test commands for testing
        Tcl_SetMainLoop().

2002-01-04  Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/Alloc.3:
        * doc/Concat.3:
        * doc/CrtMathFnc.3:
        * doc/Hash.3:
        * doc/Interp.3:
        * doc/LinkVar.3:
        * doc/ObjectType.3:
        * doc/PkgRequire.3:
        * doc/Preserve.3:
        * doc/SetResult.3:
        * doc/SplitList.3:
        * doc/SplitPath.3:
        * doc/TCL_MEM_DEBUG.3: Updated documentation to describe the ckalloc,
        ckfree, ckrealloc, attemptckalloc, and attemptckrealloc macros, and
        to accurately describe when and how they are used. [Bug 497459]

        * generic/tclThreadJoin.c (TclRememberJoinableThread,TclJoinThread):
        Replaced Tcl_Alloc and Tcl_Free calls with ckalloc and ckfree so that
        memory debugging is supported.

2002-01-04  Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net>

        * mac/tclMacTime.c (TclpGetTZName): fix for daylight savings TZName bug

2002-01-03  Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/FileSystem.3:
        * generic/tclIOUtil.c: Updated some old uses of "fileName" to
        new VFS terminology, "pathPtr".

2002-01-03  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * tests/basic.test (basic-39.4): Greatly simplified test while
        still leaving it so that it crashes when run without the fix to
        the [foreach] implementation.
        * generic/tclCmdAH.c (Tcl_ForeachObjCmd): Stopped [Bug 494348] from
        happening by not trying to be so clever with cacheing; if nothing
        untoward is happening anyway, the less efficient technique will
        only add a few instruction cycles (one function call and a few
        derefs/assigns per list per iteration, with no change in the
        number of tests) and if something odd *is* going on, the code is
        now far more robust.

        * tests/basic.test (basic-39.4): Reproducable script from [Bug 494348]

2002-01-02  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>

        * tests/util.test (Wrapper_Tcl_StringMatch,util-5.*): Rewrote so the
        test is performed with the right internal function since [string
        match] no longer uses Tcl_StringCaseMatch internally.

        * tests/string.test (string-11.51):
        * generic/tclUtf.c (Tcl_UniCharCaseMatch):
        * generic/tclUtil.c (Tcl_StringCaseMatch): Fault with matching
        case-insensitive non-ASCII patterns containing upper case characters.
        [Bug 233257]

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