X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=a5a7e18ba0f172e57186f8ce6dfeea008d690e18;hp=2e894fec2dd8f807eaf9f59c8a6e8b3b7d96c8c4;hb=cc79c103a0ba4c9cef4f875de199be1502727b9b;hpb=b5a763d403a45cf54f774f07e1542d4ca8433e2b diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2e894fec..a5a7e18b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright (c) 1998-2005,2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- +-- Copyright (c) 1998-2006,2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- -- -- -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a -- -- copy of this software and associated documentation files (the -- @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1100 2007/03/11 13:57:53 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1180 2007/10/20 20:55:26 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,315 @@ See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names. Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions; it is not possible to add this information. +20071020 + + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex + for use_window(). + + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified + cursor keys -TD + + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by + Rong-En Fan). + +20071013 + + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built + without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on + that library. + + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or + the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger). + + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat Bugzilla + #310071, patches by Miroslav Lichvar). + + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav + Lichvar). + + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for + the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD + +20071006 + + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which + changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing + cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked + memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar). + +20070929 + + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef() + calls within the ncurses library. + + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into + the SCREEN. + + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete). + + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make + it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer). +20070915 + + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building + shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support. + + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for + the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated. + + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example. + +20070908 + + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support + for threaded library (incomplete). + + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from + creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by + Rong-En Fan). + +20070901 + + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links + for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4. + + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete). + + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const + + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage + to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion. + + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure + options (report by Michail Vidiassov). + + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov). + +20070825 + + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function + (cf: 971004). + + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings" + option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger). + +20070818 + + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD + + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null + "\0" followed by a digit. + + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings. + This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where + the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions. + + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection + which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file + which was introduced to fix "make -j". + + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c + + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it + when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ). + +20070812 + + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit + unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017). + + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings. + + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via + _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic + library. + + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE. + + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via + _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic + library. + +20070728 + + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via + _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c + + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c + + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether + unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may + use strings longer than supported by a given compiler. + + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of + internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols. + + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c + +20070721 + + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315). + + add test/test_get_wstr.c + + add test/test_getstr.c + + add test/test_inwstr.c + + add test/test_instr.c + +20070716 + + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which + is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm() + (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm, + cf: 20070310). + +20070714 + + add test/savescreen.c test-program + + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add + ".log" to the name and try again. + + add konsole-256color entry -TD + + add extra gcc warning options from xterm. + + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program. + + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the + --disable-echo option is used. + + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected, + writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493). + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20070707 + + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes. + + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters, + taking into account some split characters on left/right window + boundaries. + +20070630 + + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining + problems with multi-column characters. + + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters + which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury). + + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case + multi-column extension bits are passed there. + + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters. + + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug + report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET, + +20070623 + + add test/demo_panels.c + + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx(). + +20070612 + + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm + #226 -TD + + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon + wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan). + +20070609 + + add test/key_name.c + + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test_inch_wide.c + + update test/configure + + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar(). + + null-terminate result of wunctrl(). + + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair, + cf: 20020901). + +20070602 + + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library + (discussion with Clive Nicolson). + + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to + illustrate how to use mvcur(). + + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the + WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it + is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo). + + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo). + + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman). + +20070526 + + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or + if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via + initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604). + + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x + + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications + broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230). + +20070512 + + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a + problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of + a fullwidth cell. + + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to + ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted + from patch by Clive Nicolson). + + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x + +20070505 + + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to + become uninitialized in the "b" test. + + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent + movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the + generated html. + + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with + memory-checking. + + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value + from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout(). + + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with + Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options + --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib + +20070428 + + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to + quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from + 3.x to 4.x. + + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses + library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol. + + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that + an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is + reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms + (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney). + + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e., + + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming + + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of + SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries. + + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421). + +20070421 + + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and + _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage. + + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding + type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments + in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup). + + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static + to the libtool create- and link-operations. + +20070414 + + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in + the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro). + + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when + Ada95 tree is not built. + +20070407 + + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x + + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used. + + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from + FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by + comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup). + + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler + (cf: 20061209). + + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh + > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report: + + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements + + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss() + + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c + + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in + progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case. + > fixes based on Coverity report: + + remove dead code in test/bs.c + + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c + + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c + + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset() + + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420 + tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon. + + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist() + + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF. + + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c + + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes + + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling + of V_BSD case. + + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin() + + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr() + + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try() + + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist() + + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try() + + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c + + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c + + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c + + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc + +20070331 + + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping + global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work). + + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it + to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set. + + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW + structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set. + + improved install-sh's quoting. + + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from + other programs. + +20070324 + + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface. + + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option + --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib. + + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with + NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to + an opaque pointer. + +20070317 + + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to + the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t. + + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character + in the configure script to an error. + + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs + such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov) + + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line. + + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range + + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail + Vidiassov). + + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version + of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ). + 20070311 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).