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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Sergei Golovan
  • Date: 2009-06-11 12:18:07 UTC
  • mfrom: (1.2.2 upstream)
  • Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20090611121807-ks7eb4xrt7dsysgx
Tags: 1:13.b.1-dfsg-1
http://bugs.debian.org/529512
* New upstream release.
* Removed unnecessary dependency of erlang-os-mon on erlang-observer and
  erlang-tools and added missing dependency of erlang-nox on erlang-os-mon
  (closes: #529512).
* Removed a patch to eunit application because the bug was fixed upstream.

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  <p>This document describes the changes made to the STDLIB application.</p>
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<section><title>STDLIB 1.16.2</title>
 
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    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
 
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            <p>The text of tokens returned by the Erlang scanner
 
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            (<c>erl_scan</c>) was sometimes empty when the
 
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            <c>text</c> option was given and <c>StartLocation</c> was
 
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            a line. This bug has been fixed.</p>
 
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            Own Id: OTP-7965</p>
 
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            <p>The documentation for <c>base64:decode/1</c> has been
 
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            updated to point out that it strips whitespace.</p>
 
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            <p><c>base64:decode/1</c> and <c>base64:mime_decode/1</c>
 
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            would sometimes fail instead of stripping away non-base64
 
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            characters.</p>
 
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            Own Id: OTP-7984</p>
 
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            Two types in the <c>gen</c> module were corrected.</p>
 
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            Own Id: OTP-8029 Aux Id: seq11296 </p>
 
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            <c>array:from_orddict([])</c> and
 
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            <c>array:from_list([])</c> would construct fixed arrays
 
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            instead of extendible arrays.</p>
 
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            Own Id: OTP-8033</p>
 
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    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
 
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            Interpreted escripts are now tail recursive.</p>
 
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            The function erl_eval:expr/5 has been introduced.</p>
 
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            Own Id: OTP-7933</p>
 
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            <c>gen_server:call/2,3</c> will be somewhat faster if the
 
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            calling process has a many messages in its message queue.</p>
 
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            Own Id: OTP-7979</p>
 
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            Random now supports seed with arity one,
 
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            <p>The <c>regexp</c> module now recognizes the escape
 
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            sequences <c>\xXY</c> and <c>\x{X...}</c>.</p>
 
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            Own Id: OTP-8024</p>
 
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<section><title>STDLIB 1.16.1</title>
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    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>