Change History Since version 0.96 (otcl)

otcl-1.0a2 In preparation.

otcl-1.0a1 Mon Dec 15 20:13:00 PST 1997

• [SM] Mon Dec 15 20:13:00 PST 1997
  
  • Converted configure to use mash/ns configure infratructure.
  • Cleaned up this change history.
  • Fixed things up for test release of 1.0a1 (need to clear with Wetherall, though he gave a preliminary "okay").
• [KVa] Mon Dec 8 09:51:16 PST 1997
  • Linux uses libdl.a (not libdld.a).
    Fix configure, configure.in.
• [TLT] Sat Nov 15 18:29:41 GMT-8:00 1997
  • changed makefile to compile functions with static library
  • changed otcl procedures to use a single "::otcl" namespace. This removes the need for the previous kludge in otcl, whereby a tcl procedure is created using TclProjCmd, and then deleted from the interpreter so that only otcl knows about it. For the deletion to work, we have to use a hack which increment the reference count before deleting it. Besides the high chance that this hack will not work with future versions of tcl, the deletion also invalidates the byte compilation and as a result each proc is byte-compiled twice.

    In AddMethod(), procedures are now created as ::otcl::pn where n is a running number. The deleteproc of the created procedure (OTclDeleteProc) now uses Tcl_FindCommand() to delete the procedure from tcl if it still exists.

    Some simple experiments show that the impact on speed and memory is small.

• [EA] Tue Oct 28 11:50:08 PST 1997
  
  • Fixed problem in ListProcArgs since tcl8 now appends instvars and arguments to ame list, but adds a flag.
• [TLT] Sat Oct 25 19:49:19 PDT 1997
  
  • fix problem where some variables are freed multiple times. The variable flags is a bitmap now, so that (vp->flags != VAR_UNDEFINED) is not correct.
• [TLT] Mon Oct 6 14:46:51 PDT 1997
  
  • Merged in patch for Tcl/Tk8.0 from http://catarina.usc.edu/~haoboy/otcl-0.96.patch.
  • (Bug fix) PrimitiveCDestory attempts to delete the instances hash table after its contents have been free in PrimitiveODestory. Created new function PrimitiveODestoryNoFree that does not free the memory itself.
  • (Bug fix) MakeProc creates a new procedure, then calls Tcl_DeleteCommand with a null deleteproc to create a Tcl-invisible proc. With 8.0, Tcl_DeleteCommand frees the cmdPtr structure also, which renders the "invisible proc" unusable. Added code to prevent the deletion of cmdPtr and free it up when the procedure is destoryed.
    Check that this kludge works when we move to a new version!
• [TLT] Thu Aug 7 13:26:18 PDT 1997
  Checkin of makefile.vc for win32. otcl.lib and tclsh.exe now compiles under WinNT 4.0. It should run/compile on win95 as well (not tested yet).
• [TLT] July 97 Merged in changes from Steve Mccanne to fix the bug that causes tcl to remove and free some instvars twice.