1 Known bug list for Tcl 8.0 for Macintosh |
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3 by Ray Johnson |
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4 Sun Microsystems Laboratories |
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5 rjohnson@eng.sun.com |
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7 RCS: @(#) $Id: bugs.doc,v 1.4 2000/02/10 08:39:37 jingham Exp $ |
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9 This was a new feature as of Tcl7.6b1 and as such I'll started with |
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10 a clean slate. I currently know of no reproducable bugs. I often |
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11 get vague reports - but nothing I've been able to confirm. Let |
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12 me know what bugs you find! |
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14 The Macintosh version of Tcl passes most all tests in the Tcl |
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15 test suite. Slower Macs may fail some tests in event.test whose |
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16 timing constraints are too tight. If other tests fail please report |
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17 them. |
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19 Ray |
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21 Known bugs in the current release. |
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23 * With the socket code you can't use the "localhost" host name. This |
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24 is actually a known bug in Apple's MacTcp stack. However, you can |
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25 use [info hostname] whereever you would have used "localhost" to |
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26 achive the same effect. |
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28 * Most socket bugs have been fixed. We do have a couple of test cases |
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29 that will hang the Mac, however, and we are still working on them. |
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30 If you find additional test cases that show crashes please let us |
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31 know! |
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33 * In Tcl 8.2, the new Regexp code seems to be more deeply recursive than |
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34 the older version in Tcl8.0. As a result, I have had to increase the Stack |
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35 size of Tcl to 1Meg. If you are not doing regexps with many subexpressions, |
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36 this is probably more stack than you will need. You can relink with the |
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37 stack set to 512K, and you will be fine for most purposes. |
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38 * This regexp problem is fixed in Tcl8.3. If you are going to do complex |
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39 regexp's, it is probably a good idea to keep the stack size big. But normal |
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40 regexps will not cause crashes. |
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42 * The "clock scan -base" command does not work. The epoch is wrong. |
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43 * The file mtime command does not work when setting the time, it is off |
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44 by 4 years. |
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