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