1 Known bug list for Tcl 8.0 for Macintosh

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     3 by Ray Johnson

     4 Sun Microsystems Laboratories

     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

    10 a clean slate.  I currently know of no reproducable bugs.  I often

    11 get vague reports - but nothing I've been able to confirm.  Let

    12 me know what bugs you find!

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    14 The Macintosh version of Tcl passes most all tests in the Tcl

    15 test suite.  Slower Macs may fail some tests in event.test whose

    16 timing constraints are too tight.  If other tests fail please report

    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

    24   is actually a known bug in Apple's MacTcp stack.  However, you can

    25   use [info hostname] whereever you would have used "localhost" to 

    26   achive the same effect.

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    28 * Most socket bugs have been fixed.  We do have a couple of test cases

    29   that will hang the Mac, however, and we are still working on them.

    30   If you find additional test cases that show crashes please let us

    31   know!

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    33 * In Tcl 8.2, the new Regexp code seems to be more deeply recursive than

    34 the older version in Tcl8.0.  As a result, I have had to increase the Stack

    35 size of Tcl to 1Meg.  If you are not doing regexps with many subexpressions,

    36 this is probably more stack than you will need.  You can relink with the 

    37 stack set to 512K, and you will be fine for most purposes.

    38 * This regexp problem is fixed in Tcl8.3.  If you are going to do complex

    39 regexp's, it is probably a good idea to keep the stack size big.  But normal

    40 regexps will not cause crashes.

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    42 * The "clock scan -base" command does not work.  The epoch is wrong.

    43 * The file mtime command does not work when setting the time, it is off

    44 by 4 years.