Change Log

SWI-Prolog ChangeLog
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NOTE: Bug #<N> refers to bugs reported
to the SWI-Prolog Bugzilla system at
http://gollem.science.uva.nl/bugzilla/
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VERSION 5.6.40 (September 05, 2007)
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* ADDED: type list to must_be/2. Ulrich Neumerkel.
* FIXED: read foo.%comment (no space between . and %) when processing
comments.
* ENHANCED: efficiency of length/2. Ulrich Neumerkel.
* FIXED: handling of cyclic terms in is_list/1, =../2, write/1, sort/2
and friends. Ulrich Neumerkel.
* FIXED: properly handle occurs_check=error case in dif/2.
Ulrich Neumerkel and Tom Schrijvers.
* MODIFIED: Replaced prompt_alternatives_no_bindings flag with
prompt_alternatives_on with the values groundness and determinism.
Default is determinism. After discussions on mailinglist,
comp.lang.prolog and direct by mail.
* FIXED: Properly handle occurs_check flag in unifiable/3. Ulrich Neumerkel.
* MODIFIED: The symbols in the range 128..255 are now considered SOLO
characters, compatible to the documentation. Ulrich Neumerkel.
* FIXED: Various issues read dealing with Unicode and backquoted
strings. Ulrich Neumerkel.
* ADDED: experimental --pldoc[=port] option to start PlDoc before loading
an application as in "pl --pldoc -s myprogram.pl"
* ADDED: library(clpfd) by Markus Triska.
* FIXED: silently accept floats with illegal exponent. Ulrich Neumerkel.
* FIXED: Errors of atom_to_term/3. Ulrich Neumerkel.
* MODIFIED: Added noprofile declarations for findall, bagof, setof,
call_cleanup and frieds. Makes profile output more readable.
* ENHANCED: Various issues around findall/3, bagof/3 and setof/3.
* ADDED: findall/4. Ulrich Neumerkel.
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VERSION 5.6.39 (August 08, 2007)
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* FIXED: Windows: handling of //host.domain/path filenames. Dave Eyers.
* FIXED: Exception from call(1, a, b). Ulrich Neumerkel.
* ENHANCED: Trivial extra check in unify_with_occurs_check/2 to speed up
a common case. Ulrich Neumerkel.
* MODIFIED: Various issues in the Windows version. Prolog now starts
in <personal>\Prolog (typicall My Documents\Prolog) and personal settings
is in <appdata>\SWI-Prolog (pl.ini) and <appdata>\xpce (Defaults,
Geometry, emacs_bookmarks, etc.) <appdata> is typically called
Application Data. Michael Covington.
* FIXED: plwin.exe, non-functioning <RETURN> in tracer and toplevel.
Pierpaolo Bernardi
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* FIXED: Bug in retract/1, combining unit clauses and non-unit clauses.
* FIXED: rl_add_history for non-UTF-8 locales. Ulrich Neumerkel.
* ENHANCED: Turned Prolog flags into linked objects in the manual.
Ulrich Neumerkel.
* FIXED: abort from various built-ins dealing with cyclic terms.
Ulrich Neumerkel.
* FIXED: Type error from apply/2. Ulrich Neumerkel.
* FIXED: indexing issues with dynamic predicate with few clauses.
Could lead to unindexed and therefore non-deterministic code that
should be deterministic. Ulrich Neumerkel.
* MODIFIED: Deleted outdated flag gnu_libpthread_version.
* MODIFIED: Renamed flag 'tail_recursion_optimisation' to
'last_call_optimisation'. Ulrich Neumerkel.
* FIXED: Fully ISO compliant errors from char_code/2. Ulrich Neumerkel.
* ADDED: Prolog flag occurs_check using false, true and error. After
discussion with Ulrich Neumerkel.
* FIXED: Bug#304: Possible incorrect error in arithmetic. Keri Harris.
* ENHANCED: deal with GMP number overflows through allocation hooks.
* FIXED: A is Expr memory leak if Expr yields a GMP number and A is
instantiated to a non-GMP integer.
* FIXED: PL_get_mpz(). Matt Lilley.
* FIXED/MODIFIED: atom_length/2 to raise a type error on illegal 1st
argument instead of failing silently. Ulrich Neumerkel.
* FIXED: 32-bit systems reporting negative heap usage when over 2GB.
Ulrich Neumerkel.
* FIXED: atoms in exceptions had their reference count incremented,
harming atom-gc and ultimately overflowing the reference count.
Ulrich Neumerkel.
* FIXED/MODIFIED: number_codes(-,+) and friends to issue a type_error
instead of a representation error if the list is not a code or char
list. Ulrich Neumerkel.
* PORT: check for -pthreads in addition to -pthread. Lucas Barbuto.
* FIXED: Bug#299: possible that between(+Low, inf, X) *only* returns
X == Low. Keri Harris.
* PORT: Bug#298: enhance systems supporting cpu_count flag. Keri Harris.
Also added support for sysctlbyname() to get this value for MacOS X.
* FIXED: Some issues in **/1 (pow) using integers. Ulrich Neumerkel.
* FIXED: concurrent/2. After test program by Markus Triska.
* FIXED: Properly handle errors from DdeAccessData(). Still unclear
why this function fails though??
* FIXED: Bug#297: Memory leak in arithmetic overflow of <<. Keri Harris.
* FIXED: Bug#295: compilation issues in different modes (not really
used anymore). Keri Harris.
* FIXED: Handle interrupt/abort during atom and functor creation.
Ulrich Neumerkel.
* ENHANCED: Clarify undefined predicate messages from toplevel.
Ulrich Neumerkel.
* FIXED: Possible crash in profiler wehn using with JPL. Alexandre Vautier.
* FIXED: statistics on atoms freed by atom-GC to use 64-bit counter on
all platforms. Ulrich Neumerkel.
* MODIFIED: Allow for modern style --help, etc. commandline options.
Ulrich Neumerkel.
* MODIFIED: Instantiation by cleanup-handler of call_cleanup/[2,3] has
been made visible to the outside world. Ulrich Neumerkel.
* DOCS: various minor updates. Ulrich Neumerkel.
* FIXED: error message when trying to reposition user streams and
the type-property for user streams. Ulrich Neumerkel.
* ENHANCED: intended caching of character-code -> atom was actually
not functional.
* FIXED: Possible crash in read/1. Ulrich Neumerkel.
* ENHANCED: cyclic/1 and acyclic/1 now use last-argument optimization and
are protected against interrupts. Ulrich Neumerkel.
* FIXED: Type errors generated by PL_get_<int-type>_ex() used by various
built-ins. If the argument is an integer out of range of the C-type,
it throws a error(representation_error(CType), _) rather than
a type_error. Ulrich Neumerkel.
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VERSION 5.6.37 (Jul 09, 2007)
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* FIXED: Bug#282: Possible crash in PL_close_query().
Bernhard Kirchlechner.
* PORT: Included various Cygwin issues contributed by Corinna Vinschen.
* FIXED: Remove choicepoint from flatten/3. Mike Elston.
* FIXED: Handle seek/4 to negative positions in the object (now throws
a domain error).
* ADDED: Arithmetic function +/1. Mike Elston,
* FIXED: nicely maintain time in profiler/2, which is used by tprofile/1.
* ADDED: library(error): types positive_integer and negative_integer.
* ADDED: library(thread), providing some high-level concurrency
predicates.
* FIXED: Bug#291: format_time/3 using %Z for different character
sets. I'm not sure about this fix. I cannot reproduce the problem.
New code is definitely cleaner though. [2nd try]. Dmitry?
* ADDED: Allow for unquoted a/b in file-specifications for
absolute_file_name/3 and derived predicates. E.g.
:- use_module(library(semweb/rdf_db)).
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VERSION 5.6.36 (Jun 20, 2007)
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* FIXED: More reliable handling of stack overflows. Notably fixed
problems running out of stack multiple times. In particulary important
for continuously running servers executing queries that may run out
of stack.
* ADDED: Library settings.pl for distributed management of application
settings. Contributed from MultiMedian project.
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VERSION 5.6.35 (Jun 6, 2007)
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* FIXED: Added lacking library(main) to Windows version. Win32 installer
only; sources and Win64 installer will follow in 5.6.36.
* FIXED: Posible argument-stack issue, notably associated to destructive
assignment. Tom Schrijver.
* FIXED: Error in handling signals in Prolog. Now caused immediate
assertion failure due to strickter checking.
* FIXED: Bug#283 plld.exe sets __WINDOWS__ rather then WIN32.
* CLEANUP: Avoid using the argument-stack for cycle detection. Now
uses a segmented stack.
* CLEANUP: Add a new small stack for optimized arithmetic to avoid
further overloading of the local stack. Preparing for re-introducing
the stack-shifter.
* FIXED: Memory leak from GMP constants in optimized arithmetic
expressions.
* ADDED: PL_INTPTR type to PL_unify_term().
* FIXED: Avoid error summing time of finished CPU time.
* FIXED: Reporting finished threads using current_thread/2
* CLEANUP: Some cleanup to declarations and stack-shifter, preparing
combining the stack-shifter in the normal version.
* FIXED: memory leak involving GMP numbers for instantiated òutput'
arguments. I.e. 0 is 2727 rdiv 22. Mike Elston.
* ADDED: Sset_filter() to formalize a filter relation between streams.
Incomplete.
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VERSION 5.6.34 (April 23, 2007)
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* ADDED: Cross-referencer handles integer arguments in meta-predicate
declarations.
* FIXED: possible scenario where atom garbage collection is no longer
automatically started, running out of memory. Mike Elston.
* ENHANCED: parse_url(-, +) does not include HTTP port if this is 80.
* FIXED: Bug#27: incorrect failure of PL_get_pointer(). Paul
Singleton.
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VERSION 5.6.33 (April 06, 2007)
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* FIXED: Body decompilation with very large terms. Mike Elston.
* FIXED: PL_set_engine() to properly release the old engine. With
patch from Ramakrishna Venkatraman.
* TEST: Some small issues that make it possible to mix the old and
new test framework so we can use PlUnit for testing libraries and
have it working from "make check".
* FIXED: Error warnings on illegal 1st byte in UTF-8 sequences.
Also fixed utf-8 decoding test suite.
* ADDED: library(rbtrees), providing Red-Black trees. Copied with
permission from Yap. Details of the library are still under
discussion.
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VERSION 5.6.32 (March 26, 2007)
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* ENHANCED: library(debug). Warn if topic is not registered and include
the issuing thread in the message if it is not the main thread. Mike
Elston.
* ADDED: Windows: menu entries for debug monitor and exception monitor.
Also added these to PceEmacs Prolog mode.
* ENHANCED: Extend context in which PL_new_term_ref() can be called
to include the cases required by JPL.
* MODIFIED: Do not call prolog_exception_hook/4 if debugger is
suspended (typically in calls from the debugger and IDE tools).
* ADDED: rl_write_history/1 and rl_read_history/1. Suggested by
Samer Abdallah.
* FIXED: Reduce cases that cause a long delay in halt with the
message "<N> threads wouldn't die"
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VERSION 5.6.31 (March 16, 2007)
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* FIXED: told/seen underflow in lock-count on stream. Steffen Schwigon.
* FIXED: do not stop break-level after exception. Paulo Moura.
* ADDED: Safety check in PL_new_term_ref() and PL_new_term_refs().
Ben Chistador.
* FIXED: Restoring generate_debug_info flag over loading .qlf files.
Mike Elston.
* FIXED: library(base64): Determinism while decoding.
* PORT: Bug#266: Ensure package build exits on first error. Keri Harris.
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VERSION 5.6.30 (March 08, 2007)
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* ADDED: powm(Base, Exp, Modulo) function if GMP support is provided.
* MODIFIED: Allow qcompile/1 on files that do not have the standard
extension. Mike Elston.
* FIXED: Determinsm in contains_term/2 and contains_var/2 (library
assoc.pl).
* ADDED: Library record: provide access to named fields in a term.
After specs by Richard O'Keefe.
* CLEANUP: Call message system for undefined exported predicates.
Mike Elston.
* FIXED: plld to honour -o with -c (when used as compiler frontend).
* FIXED: Possible alignment issue when accessing read/write buffers using
wchar_t. Andreas Greve.
* MODIFIED: Changed default stack-sizes to 16MB local and 32MB global
and trail. Should not affect anything, except applications creating
many threads. It is adviced to specify stack-sizes with thread_create/3
in such applications.
* FIXED: index/1 didn't clean hash-info. Samer Abdallah.
* FIXED: Bug#264: Typing. Keri Harris.
* PORT: patch to use libc's syscall(__NR_gettid). Keri Harris.
* FIXED: Bug#259: location indication in GUI tracer on Windows.
* FIXED: Reporting stream-errors in non-Windows platforms.
* FIXED: Some issues concerning integer rounding. MODIFIED: arithmetic
no longer silently converts floats to ints at some places. Stricter
compliance to the standard. Richard O'Keefe.
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VERSION 5.6.29 (February 26, 2007)
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* FIXED: Bug#258: set_prolog_IO/3 can trap assertion failure. Keri
Harris.
* FIXED: Windows version of open(pipe(Command), ...). Was leaking memory
and handles.
* FIXED: Possible stream lock underrun in at_end_of_stream/1 if there
are errors.
* FIXED: Possibly incorrect call to foreign cleanup handler after
a signalled exception (timeout, thread_signal).
* FIXED: Possible memory corruption in quick-load-file/saved-state
handling. Mike Elston.
* FIXED: Possible assertion failure in pl-stream.c. Jochem Liem.
* FIXED: Stream re-positioning bug. Mostly affects Windows, but
also other systems when using variable-length multi-byte encoding
such as UTF-8. Jeff Rose.
* PORT: Missing errno.h in pl-text.c. Keri Harris.
* PORT: A few minor POSIX compliance enhancements. Richard O'Keefe.
* FIXED: Allow for goal_expansion in clauses with source-location.
Tom Schrijvers.
* FIXED: set_stream_position/2. Sergey Tikhonov.
* FIXED: Errornous translation of p --> { _ = 123 }. Alexey Ilyukhin.
* INSTALL: Avoid wrong references to local sh-based install script.
Richard O'Keefe.
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* MODIFIED: shell/[1,2] in Windows no longer creates a console window
for the sub-process.
* FIXED: Various issues in open(pipe(Command), ...) on Windows: bugs
(potential bufferoverflow), remove length-limit on commands, allow
for Unicode commands, properly handle 2>&1.
* DOCS: Updated README, notable installation instructions.
* PORT: Removed some old sunos issues in configure. Richard O'Keefe.
* FIXED: Deal with unicode archive names in Windows. Required to start
saved-states from non-ascii filenames. Anjo Anjewierden.
* PORT: Some Solaris SUN-CC issues. Richard O'Keefe.
* ADDED: library(base64): Base64 encoding and decoding.
* ADDED: max_threads flag. Paulo Moura.
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VERSION 5.6.27 (January 26, 2007)
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* ENHANCED: atom-reference management.
* FIXED: 64-bit integer handling on machines with alignment
conditions. David Gray.
* FIXED: Various size_t related issues. With help from Richard O'Keefe.
* FIXED: Alignment problem on 32-bit hardware demanding strict alignment.
(HPUX on IA64). David Gray.
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* Updated documentation.
* FIXED: Control-C <abort> keeps ringing the bell. Ulrich Neumerkel.
* FIXED: A is "c" for Unicode characters.
* PORT/MODIFIED: Massive changes in type handling, preparing
for Win64 and improving type-safety on other -notably 64-bit- platforms.
All text+length C interface functions now use the type size_t. This
causes portability problems on 64-bit code. Compile your program with all
warnings enabled and fix messages concerning type-size issues. Code
is binary compatible on 32-bit systems.
* FIXED: Proper error on erase on clause of static predicate. Solly
Brown.
* MODIFIED: Add ',' between lines in answer substitution. Ulrich Neumerkel.
* ADDED: option priority(P) to write_term/3. Use this in writing
answer substitutions. Ulrigh Neumerkel.
* FIXED: Overflow issues in arithmetic left shift (<<). Ulrich Neumerkel.
* FIXED: float_fractional_part function for integers. See mailinglist.
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VERSION 5.6.25 (December 21, 2006)
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* FIXED: nth0(nth0(2, [a,b,c|_], x). Ryszard Szopa.
* FIXED: length/2: length(-List, +Bignum) and speed of non-determinism
of length(-,-). Ulrich Neumerkel.
* ADDED: library(pairs). With help from Richard O'Keefe.
* FIXED: random/1 to handle large integers more elegantly.
Roberto Bagnara.
* DELETED: random/3 from library(quintus). library(random) provides a
more portable alternative. Roberto Bagnara.
* ADDED: Moved library(broadcast) from XPCE libraries to Prolog library.
* MODIFIED: PL_release_stream() now checks for errors and returns
FALSE if the stream is in an error state.
* FIXED: Accept c:\\ as absolute path in Windows (Paulo Moura).
* ADDED: library(error), providing must_be/2, type_error/2, etc.
After discussion on mailinglist.
* FIXED: Bug#239: crash on illegal call to clause/3. Keri Harris.
* FIXED: Bug#236: error-handling on illegal setenv calls. Keri Harris.
* ADDED: SIO_FLUSHOUTPUT to control-functions to allow flushing compressed
streams.
* FIXED: Deal with new definition of variable EMACS after a mail from
the Emacs developers. Now EMACS inferior mode is implied if $EMACS
is defined and non-empty.
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VERSION 5.6.24 (November 28, 2006)
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* FIXED: dde_request to progman returning nul-characters at the end.
Windows XP/SP2 returns wrong length for the CF_TEXT result.
* PORT: Bug#237: Use clock_gettime() for get_time/1 if provided.
Keri Harris.
* FIXED: Bug#236: setenv/2 error reporting. Keri Harris.
* ADDED: Flag shared_object_search_path holding variable name for the
searching .so/.dll files.
* FIXED: Possible crash in current_prolog_flag(-, +).
* MODIFIED: raised priority of | to 1105 to facilitate CHR. Unlikely
to cause problems. If it does adjust code or use :- op(1100, xfy, (|)).
Jon Sneyers.
* FIXED: Instantiation error on :- [X]. Bart Demoen.
* FIXED: Possible crash in file-name canonisation. Roberto Bagnara.
SECURITY: This is used by absolute_file_name/[2,3], which is adviced
for path-name validation in web-servers. Makes DoS attacks possible.
Unclear whether or not the bug is exploitable aotherwise.
* FIXED: Bug#233 Compilation error in single-threaded mode. Keri Harris.
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* PORT: Allow building 32-bit version on 64-bits Linux.
* PORT: By default build shared object on x86_64-linux platforms. Needed
for embedding in Java and unlike IA32, creating a shared object does not
affect performance.
* ADDED: collation_key/2 and locale_sort/2 for locale-dependent ordering.
With help from Pierre Nugues and Richard O'Keefe.
* MODIFIED: Initialisation initialises the LC_COLLATE locale.
* MODIFIED: Moved predsort/3, merge/3 and merge_set/3 to new library(sort).
Applications not relying on autoloading must update use_module declarations
if one of these predicates is used.
* ENHANCED: Check file-descriptor in Sfdopen(). Julien Olivain.
* ADDED: debugger event for finished threads.
* FIXED: Avoid history expansion on ..., !. Kimberly Voll.
* FIXED: negative shift. Roberto Bagnara.
* FIXED: Possible crash in recompilation if another thread is doing
GC. Mike Elston.
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VERSION 5.6.22 (October 17, 2006)
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* FIXED: Bug#227: meta-declaration of with_output_to/2. Holger
Kanwischer.
* FIXED: Bug#223: Read of large non-decimal negative numbers.
Marius Filip.
* FIXED: absolute_file_name/3 to honour tests for file_type(directory)
and demand files of other types *not* to be a directory.
* FIXED: Support Unicode in windows open_shared_object/2, underlying
load_foreign_library/1. Maria Sergeeva.
* FIXED: Support Unicode in Windows environment strings, setenv/2
and getenv/2. Maria Sergeeva.
* FIXED: Bug#221: Create dynamic predicates with long UNICODE names.
Holger Kanwischer.
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* PORT: Bug#219: Bus error with gmp on linux/sparc. Keri Harris.
* FIXED: Bug#217: floor/1 and ceil/1 return wrong value for 1<<63.
Marius Filip.
* ADDED: call/7-11 as predicates. Paulo Moura.
* PORT: Bug#206: timezone trouble on FreeBSD. With help from Matthew Condell
and Darren Bane.
* PORT: Bug#212: Paralel make. Keri Harris.
* FIXED: Bug#201: graphical tracer running out of local stack.
Robert Oschler.
* FIXED: Avoid undefined pce_expansion:push_compile_operators/1 in
Prolog stack utility. Mike Elston.
* MODIFIED: relative_to option of absolute_file_name/3 is considered a
directory if the directory exists or ends in /. Otherwise it is assumed
to be a file.
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* FIXED: between(N, infinite, X). Matt Lilley.
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* MODIFIED: More efficient DCG translation. No longer produces 'C'/3
calls. 'C'/3 has been moved to backcomp.pl
* FIXED: Bug#205: support GNU-make when not named make. Marc Espie.
* FIXED: Bug 204: ** for rationals. Mike Elston.
* ADDED: Library heaps.pl. Adapted by Markus Triska.
* FIXED: Renamed depreciated --> deprecated. Mike Elston.
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* FIXED: format_time/3 can produce inconsistent results on first call.
Keri Harris.
* FIXED: Updated www_open_url for netscape compatible browsers on Unix.
Cleanup of comments, etc. Work-around lacking exit code of firefox
-remote commands.
* FIXED: Source-level debugger for a --> { x }, !, y.
* FIXED: write_canonical(a|b). Lukas Degener.
* ADDED: Support for large integers in succ/2, plus/3 and between/3.
Bart Demoen.
* FIXED: Domain error on random/1. Lukas Degener.
* FIXED: pl-tai.c portability problem for Solaris (asctime_r).
Hazita Harun.
* FIXED: Bug#192: reading non-decimal numbers that cause a 64-bit int
overflow. Marius Filip.
* ENHANCED: Bug#195: library(debug) to compile debugging(x) to fail when -O
is active. Holger Kanwischer.
* ADDED: print_message(silent, toplevel_goal(Goal, Bindings)) to allow
intercepting toplevel goals just before they are executed. Some
cleanup to toplevel.pl and topvars.pl
* FIXED: possible crash freeing a thread that could not be created
due to conflicting alias.
* FIXED: avoid errors in open while getting a stacktrace. Mike
Elston.
* FIXED: 1 is sin(pi/2) incorrectly succeeded in optimised mode.
* MODIFIED: Message term of make/0 after completion has changed from
make(done) to make(done(Files)). Should not affect user-code.
* ADDED: Library option, option/2.
* DOC: Fixed all libraries to have their comments compatible with the
emerging documentation package.
* FIXED: stead-fastness of library predicate option/3.
* PORT: Bug#192: Better implementation of per-thread CPUtime, depending
on Linux library and kernel versions. Keri Harris.
* FIXED: Bug#191: with_output_to and format: lacking initialisation.
Holger Kanwischer.
* FIXED: Interaction problem between comments and subterm-positions
options in read_term/3. Lukas Degener.
* ADDED: library prolog_source.pl. Start to generalise opening, closing
and dealing with operators to handle Prolog source documents outside the
compiler.
* FIXED: read_term/2,3 comments(-Comments) option loosing first
character after /*.
* FIXED: Bug#189: Thread id in Linux/PPC (and possibly others).
Keri Harris.
* FIXED: Bug#188: missing module_transparent for sformat/2,3.
Holger Kanwischer.
* FIXED: Bug#185: %+ initialization if yday and yday. Keri Harris.
* FIXED: Bug#184: date/time test-suite for ~ -> %. Keri Harris.
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VERSION 5.6.17 (July 27, 2006)
==============================
* MODIFIED: predicate_property(Pred, number_of_clauses(N)) returns 0
for dynamic predicates with 0 clauses.
* FIXED: Added Unicode support to DDE interface.
* FIXED: Various long/int issues calling PL_unify_term(). Affects 64-bit
systems only.
* FIXED: Memory violation getting thread-CPU time in Linux. With help
of Jacco van Ossenbruggen.
* ADDED: Allow reading comments in read_term/3. Ongoing work.
* FIXED: Graphical debugger after throw/1. Alan Baljeu.
* FIXED: fatal error on read/1 in 0-bytes outside quoted strings/atoms.
* FIXED: Error tracing multi-threaded code in plcon.exe. Mike Elston.
* ADDED: Prolog flag verbose_load to get status of silent(Bool) from
load_files/2. Tom Schrijvers.
* ADDED: First version of new time support. With input from various
users from the mainlinglist.
* ENHANCED: Try to reuse variable names when writing results of toplevel
queries.
* ADDED: with_output_to(+Out, :Goal) to allow writing to atoms, strings,
code-lists, etc. Also allows for format(+Out, +Fmt, +Args) with the
same specifications. Moved sformat/[2,3] to the compatibility library.
* MODIFIED: functions lsb and msb throw domain error on 0. Updated
documentation. With help from Richard O'Keefe and Bart Demoen.
* ADDED: Documentation for library(ordsets).
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VERSION 5.6.16 (July 05, 2006)
==============================
* FIXED: Possibly corrupted stack (invalid program counter) returned
through the library prolog_stack.
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VERSION 5.6.15 (June 29, 2006)
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* FIXED: Replace hard-coded message about threads not dying by calling
print_message/2. Paulo Moura.
* FIXED: Clear pending exception on `retry'.
* MODIFIED: threads/0 no longer joins terminated threads. A new predicate
join_threads/0 does this. Paulo Moura.
* FIXED: Bug#174: print problem reporting problems with a predicate (/)/2.
Holger Kanwischer.
* FIXED: possibly lacking EXIT instruction at the end of a clause, causing
the system to execute arbitrary code. Notably affects non-GCC
platforms, but in theory it can also affect GCC compiled systems.
Mike Elston.
* FIXED: Quick load/sated state format handling of MPZ integers. Mike
Elston.
* FIXED: ERROR: atom_codes/2: Cannot represent due to `character_code'
error in library(url).
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VERSION 5.6.14 (June 13, 2006)
==============================
* FIXED: Bugs in new url.pl. Jiri Moninec.
==============================
VERSION 5.6.13 (June 07, 2006)
==============================
* FIXED: Multi-threaded problem in dynamic predicate reindexing.
Thanks to test program by Sergey Tikhonov.
* FIXED: Atom-GC crash related to dynamic predicates. Thanks to test
program by Sergey Tikhonov.
* FIXED: Bug#168: library(url), www_form_encode/2 to perform
UTF-8 based Unicode encoding and decoding. Library now based on current
RFC3986.
* ADDED: library(utf8): provide encoding and decoding of UTF-8 strings.
* FIXED: handling errors from the handler of call_cleanup/3. Bart
Demoen and Marek Winkler.
* FIXED: wrong error and possible crash if format/3 finds an illegal ~
sequence. Pierpaolo Bernardi.
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VERSION 5.6.12 (April 18, 2006)
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* FIXED: Possible crash in call-back from C due to wrong timing of stack
allocation. Very old bug. Affects all versions and all programs,
though XPCE applications are extra vulnerable due to frequent call-backs.
Jochem Liem.
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VERSION 5.6.11 (April 11, 2006)
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* FIXED/MODIFIED: function truncate/1 to return an integer instead of
a float. Graham Thwaites.
* MODIFIED: portray_clause/1,2 and write_canonical/1,2 print singleton
variables as _ and write_canonical/1,2 prints its variables as A, B, ...
Paulo Moura.
* ADDED: Option 'singletons(true)' to numbervars/4 to bind singleton
variables to '$VAR'('_').
* FIXED: Bug#163: make XREF aware of format_predicate directives. Holger
Kanwischer.
===============================
VERSION 5.6.10 (April 06, 2006)
===============================
* FIXED: mutex_destroy/1. Lukas Degener.
* FIXED: online help without XPCE. Also some cleanup of the online
help module. Sergey Tikhonov.
* FIXED: XREF: avoid showing XPCE internal predicates. Fixed import
into module files doing M:G calls.
* DOC: Many typos fixed in the documentation by Paulo Moura. Thanks!
* FIXED/MODIFIED: thread_send_message/2, thread_get_message/2,
thread_peek_message/2 and message_queue_size/2 now raise an exception
if the queue doesn't exist instead of creating a queue. Paulo
Moura.
* ADDED: Library ugraphs.pl. Unweigthed graph library. Copied from
YAP. Integrated into SWI-Prolog library and documentation.
* FIXED: Bug#160: Track called as result of auto-import from module
user. Holger Kanwischer.
* FIXED: Bug#158: XREF handling of arithmetic_function directive with
module qualifier. Holger Kanwischer.
* CLEANUP: Removed win32s support (windows 3.1 extender).
* MODIFIED: use goal_expansion/2 on directives.
* ADDED/MODIFIED: library-independent unicode support for parsing text.
This modified atom/variable syntax for sourcecode holding characters
above 255. Also made changes to singleton variable handling. See
manual for details (section "Unicode Prolog source").
* FIXED: possible crash after abort.
* FIXED/ENHANCED: Cross-referencer: fixed two runtime errors. Added support
for M:P calls (bug#154). Allow dropping directories from file-tree to
dependency view. Give the user something to see during the analysis.
==============================
VERSION 5.6.9 (March 26, 2006)
==============================
* ADDED: library(prolog_xref): Cross-referencer core. Documented cross
referencer interfaces
* FIXED: exception hook clears debugmode.
* PORT: Some Windows path problems and cleanup issues. Patch by
Marc-Antoine Ruel.
* FIXED: Behaviour of term_variables/2,3 in the tracer. Leslie de
Koninck.
==============================
==============================
* FIXED: Kill xterms associated with threads on halt.
* PORT: port open_xterm/4 to MacOS X.
* ADDED: Moved thread-debugging utilities from SeRQL library to main
library and documented them. gdebug, tdebug, tnodebug, tspy, tprofile.
See chapter on threads for details. Avoid attaching a console on debug
mode when using the graphical debugger.
* FIXED: Handle exceptions from arithmetic functions defined in Prolog.
Mauro Di Nuzzo.
==============================
==============================
* FIXED: format ~w: report errors of write/1. Matt Lilley.
* FIXED: Memory leak in format ~f using rational numbers as arguments.
Mike Elston.
* PORT: Float issues on Alpha. Roberto Bagnara. Also found a bug in
GCC 4.0.2 on Alpha/Linux. Reported to GCC bugzilla. Turned out to
be a bug in the kernel headers. Uncomment HAVE_GETTID in config.h
on systems with 2.4 kernels.
* ADDED: allow `repairing' undefined global variables. After discussion
on mailinglist.
=================================
=================================
* FIXED: Bug in prolog_exception_hook/4 if handler failed.
* FIXED: Bug#147: Unicode support in win_registry_get_value/3. Dmitry.
* FIXED: removed call to xrealloc(). Roberto Bagnara.
* FIXED: handling of default argument stack limits. Used for dealing
with cyclic terms.
=================================
=================================
* MODIFIED: various internals in library(prolog_stack). Code relying on
the Prolog structure for representing the stack must be updated.
* FIXED: incompatibility in DCG handling introduced by recent changes.
* ADDED: prolog_exception_hook/4: add context to exceptions. After
discussion on the mailinglist.
* ENHANCED: Use call_cleanup in findall/3 and friends to enhance error
recovery. Added more test cases.
* FIXED: GC issue in PL_discard_foreign_frame(). Notably shows up in
embeded C++ applications, but affect a wider class of programs.
The bug often shows up as a GC internal error of the form
After down phase: relocation_cells = X; relocated_cells = Y,
but other problems can be caused by it as well. Alan Baljeu.
* PORT/CLEANUP: Various issues around setenv/2 and unsetenv/1. Richard
O'Keefe.
* FIXED: proper error signalling in rdiv/2 on division-by-zero. Mike
Elston.
* MODIFIED: new AVL implementation of library(assoc) from work by various
authors, merged and documented by Markus Triska. The argument order of
gen_assoc/3 has been modified from the original DEC10 library
for compatibility woth Quintus and SICStus.
* ENHANCED: Try to be more clever finding a browser. Jochem Liem.
* FIXED: arg/3 documentation. Markus Triska.
=================================
=================================
* FIXED: copy_term_nat/2 deleted attributes from term being copied.
Leslie de Koninck.
* MODIFIED: Added byte-position to stream-position terms. This means
that code relying on $stream_position(Char,Line,LinePos) breaks. The
new version provides stream_position_data/3 (compatible to SICStus)
for extracting the field in a portable manner.
* PORT: Pass main compiler CFLAGS using plld. Richard O'Keefe.
* PORT: Fixed paths when using install-sh. Richard O'Keefe.
* ENHANCED: translation of t --> [a,b], .... Richard O'Keefe.
* FIXED: Bug#140: Various DESTDIR issues when installing the PDF
documentation. Keri Harris.
* ADDED: \uXXXX and \UXXXXXXXX syntax support and various enhancements
in read and write as well as the documentation of escape sequences.
Richard O'Keefe.
* Make test suite skip Unicode filename and character classification
tests in non-unicode environments.
* FIXED: Allow for ISO :- dynamic([a/1, b/2]). Roger Scowen.
* ENHANCED: Better error messages if locale cannot represent filenames.
Richard O'Keefe.
* PORT: Better check for GMP support, better message if GMP is not found
and cleanup of test-suite to skip all GMP dependent tests if GMP is
not present.
* MODIFIED: Renamed library(netscape) into library(www_browser). Extended
and modernised browser detection. Now also works on MacOSX.
* ADDED: Allow calling PL_new_functor() before PL_initialise().
================================
================================
* FIXED: unify_with_occurs_check/2 fails to to occurs-check with
attributed variables. Tom Schrijvers.
* FIXED: Thread resource exception handling in Linux 2.6. Keri Harris.
================================
================================
* FIXED: writing of escape sequences for representation_errors(prolog)
on streams. Also fixed reading of '\x61\' and similar sequences.
Pierre Nugues.
* FIXED: Make thread time statistics work properly in Linux 2.6 kernels.
Also some cleanup of the statistics code.
* FIXED: Bind prolog flag system_thread_id to the thread identifier on
Linux in 2.6 kernels.
* FIXED: readline signal interaction (causes problems in alarm/4).
* FIXED: Bug#134: left-shift (<<) hitting 64-bit boundary. Holger
Kanwischer.
* FIXED: Bug#133: reading non-decimal numbers that do not fit in 64-bit.
Holger Kanwischer.
* FIXED: Bug#132: radix domain checking for format/3 using ~r.
Holger Kanwischer.
================================
================================
* CLEANUP: Various type issues. Peter Ludemann.
* FIXED: Bug#131: error handling in lock-option of open/4.
Holger Kanwischer.
* FIXED: stream_property(X, alias(A)) for standard streams. Paulo Moura.
* FIXED: Bug#130: Prolog arithmetic functions using rationals. Koos Dering.
* FIXED: Online manual index handling (double 'Overview').
Pierpaolo BERNARDI.
* FIXED: expand_term/2 bypass expansion for variables. Paulo Moura.
=================================
=================================
* FIXED: Float/integer indexing problems that can cause both slow access
and much too large datastructures for the index.
* PORT: pl-stream.h: avoid 'new' (work around MSVC 7 bug). Alan Baljeu.
* PORT: Visual studio 2003 (MSVC 8) issues. Basic Prolog passes the
test suite, but XPCE crashes quickly.
==================================
==================================
* ADDED: prolog flag timezone.
* ADDED: Foreign functions to exchange GMP numbers. Roberto Bagnara.
* FIXED: library(listing) sending some of its output to current output
rather than the specified stream.
* ENHANCED: More flexible matching in library(prolog_clause).
==================================
==================================
* FIXED: Bug#122: Crash in GC on last-call to an autoloaded procedure
where the autoloader calls the garbage collector. Fabien Todescato.
* PORT: More Cygwin issues by Corinna Vinschen.
* FIXED: library(occurs), occurrences_of_*() predicates to be thread-safe.
* ADDED: Started package `nlp', providing some basics from the natural
language processing and information retrieval community. Currently
stripping accents, Porter stem and Double Metaphone.
* ADDED: library('clp/simplex') for solving linear programming problems.
Contributed by Markus Triska.
* FIXED: floor and ceil using rational numbers. Markus Triska.
==================================
==================================
* FIXED: Add support for attributed variables in unify_with_occurs_check/2.
Tom Schrijvers.
* PORT: Added many patches for updated support for the Cygwin environment.
Contributed by Corinna Vinschen, Redhat. Work in progress.
* FIXED: Possible crash in meta-calling large terms. Matt Lilley.
* FIXED: avoid loosing the next input character after abort.
* FIXED: memory leak and off-by-one buffer overflow reading from the
console through GNU readline.
* ADDED: Ssetenc() to negotiate manipulation of stream encoding. Used
to protect encoding on plwin.exe as well as pce_open/3 for anything
but socket-related streams.
* FIXED: Bug#118: interaction numbervars and ignore_ops options in
write_term. Bart Demoen.
==================================
==================================
* FIXED: Memory leak in arithmetic combining GMP numbers with floats.
Dmitry.
* FIXED: plld: schedule .a files with the libraries. Roberto Bagnara.
* FIXED: Bug#116: shell/0 on Windows. Dmitry.
* FIXED: QLF and saved-state handling of big clauses (>65000 VM
codes). Matt Lilley.
* ADDED: functions lsb/1 and popcount/1 to improve support for handling
GMP numbers as bitvectors. Enhanced clp_distinct.pl to use these
functions. Suggested by Markus Triska.
* ADDED: library(clp/clp_distinct.pl). Contributed by Markus Triska.
* COMPAT: prolog_load_context/2 to support the SICStus key `source'.
Bart Demoen.
* PORT: Bug#109: Added --disable-custom-flags for configure.
Mike Frysinger.
* ENHANCED: locale based detection of natively (UTF-8 or ISO Latin-1)
supported encodings. Richard O'Keefe.
* ADDED: library(clp/clp_tuples.pl), Symbolic constraints on tuples.
Later moved these predicates to clp/bounds.pl. Contributed by
Markus Triska.
* PORT: Bug#110: Solaris float handling. Andreas VÃ¶gele.
* FIXED: IO_RECORDPOS handling. Bug exposed by changes for UTF-16 I/O
on Windows. Dmitry and Holger Kanwischer.
=================================
=================================
* FIXED: UTF-16 I/O on Windows systems. Dmitry.
* FIXED: integer arithmetic returning results between -1<<63 and -1<<31.
Leslie de Koninck.
=================================
=================================
* ENHANCED: delete choicepoint of catch/3, maintaining last call
optimization in goals using catch/3 on deterministic code. Leslie
de Koninck.
* FIXED: Bug#104: float formatting. Holger Kanwischer.
* FIXED: Memory leak in sformat/3. Mike Elston.
=================================
=================================
* PORT: Deal with systems that breakdown arguments of #! scripts.
* ADDED: message_queue_size/2. Woon Kiong.
* FIXED: Singleton warning for variables with Unicode name. Dmitry.
* PORT: Bug#90: parallel make. Mike Frysinger.
* PORT: Bug#97: Some packages configure issues. Mike Frysinger.
* FIXED: abs/1 for large integers and rationals. Mike Elston.
===================================
===================================
* FIXED: when/2: unifyable -->unifiable. Grzegorz ChrupaÅ a.
* ADDED: Allow hooking into output of library(debug). Added XPCE Gui
frontend for the debugging library called with prolog_debug_monitor/0.
* FIXED: Prevent recursive calling of Sclose().
* ADDED: Win32: current_prolog_flag(pid, Pid).
===================================
===================================
* FIXED: Typo in new PL_unify_term() conversions.
* PORT: Allow for CFLAGS=xx ./configure. Use LDFLAGS when building
plrc. Tim Brown.
* FIXED: Initialisation bug in format/3. Sergey Tikhonov.
* FIXED: upcase_atom/2 and downcase_atom/2 for atoms holding characters
in the range 128..255 but not > 255 as well as for 8-bit atoms whose
converted version does not fit in 8-bit. Grzegorz ChrupaÅ a.
===================================
===================================
* PORT: Bug#94: compilation error in pl-flag.c. Christoph Quix.
* ADDED: library(url): protocol https. Anjo Anjewierden.
* ADDED: Extra conversion arguments to PL_unify_term() to pass strings
as wchar_t* as well as in the current locale. Sergey Tikhonov.
* FIXED: Retry after executing a ! to do proper undo. Alan Baljeu.
* FIXED: library(url): allow "-_~" in hostnames. Jacco van Ossenbruggen.
* PORT: Bug#90: Fix Prolog Makefile for parallel make. Mike Frysinger.
* ENHANCED: Faster merging of memory left from terminated threads. Code
contributed by Servey Tikhonov.
* FIXED: shell/[1,2] when executed by multiple threads (Unix version).
* ENHANCED: Safer abort from format/[2,3].
===================================
===================================
* ADDED: library(nb_set): manipulate non-backtrackable sets of terms.
* FIXED: Re-loading files while other threads execute them.
* FIXED: Bug#88: Safe reloading of running code. Dmitry.
* FIXED: Unicode handling in read/1 for \-escape sequences
Lyosha Ilyukhin.
===================================
===================================
* FIXED: library(url) bug re-appeared due to version management problems.
===================================
===================================
* FIXED: Bug#82: Make win_shell/[2,3] Unicode aware. Dmitry.
* MODIFIED: renamed assume/1 to assertion/1. Suggested by Steve Moyle.
The debug library issues a compatibility warning for assume/1.
* MODIFIED: Translate {} in DCG to true. Allows for
t --> {/*comment*/}, ... without error. Michael Mueller.
* PORT: Added Slackware package management targets. John Poplett.
* FIXED: Safe 64-bit integer multiplication before moving to bignum
or error. With help from Bart Demoen.
* MODIFIED: No longer convert the result of arithmetic that is float
but happens to be an integer into the integer. This habbit was not
ISO compatible and critized too often.
* ADDED: is_stream/1. Jocelyn Paine.
* FIXED: Bug#80: floor/1 and ceil/1 functions to create a big integer
instead of an integer overflow exception. Holger Kanwischer.
* FIXED: Bug#78: documentation of bounded, max_integer and min_integer
flags. Holger Kanwischer.
* ADDED: function rationalize/1, predicate rational/1. Make number/1
succeed on rational numbers.
* MODIFIED: renamed rat/1 to rational/1.
* FIXED: abs/1 on integers (caused by gmp changes).
* FIXED: make function integer/1 rational-aware. Lyosha Ilyukhin.
* FIXED: converting `whole' rationals to integers. Lyosha Ilyukhin.
* FIXED: increment save-version of qlf-files as new instructions for GMP
causes incompatibilities.
* FIXED: Crash in retract/1 (caused by gmp changes).
* FIXED: handling @ in format/3. David Duke.
* FIXED: format ~f for rational numbers loosing digits. Lyosha Ilyukhin.
* ADDED: Allow format arguments to ~d, ~D, ~f, ~g, ~e to be arithmetic
expressions (allows passing in rational values).
* MODIFIED: Dropped int_to_atom/3. Considered non-standard and absolete.
New code can use atom_number/2 for decimal numbers or sformat/3 for
arbitrary conversions.
* FIXED: Hack in clp/bounds.pl to fake +/- infinite.
* ADDED: Elementary support for infinite precision arithmetic based on
the GNU gmp library.
================================
================================
* FIXED: library(ordset), ord_del_element/3. Mike Elston.
* FIXED: PL_get_chars() to revert to write if CVT_WRITE is provided.
================================
================================
* ADDED: thread_initialization/1, as a per-thread version of
inititialization/1.
* FIXED: loading library(chr). Mike Elston.
================================
================================
* ADDED: documented in_pce_thread/1.
* MODIFIED: Operator ambiguity resolution, preferring prefix over
infix. Sentences of the form "pre inpre atom" are read as
pre(inpre(atom)) instead of inpre(pre, atom) if both interpretations
are allowed. This is the de-facto standard, tested on SICStus,
GNU, YAP and Ciao. Needed for lptp (www.inf.ethz.ch/~staerk/lptp.html)
After comments from various people, including Bart Demoen and
Joachim Schimpf.
* FIXED: format/3: rubber handling error printing numeric values.
* FIXED: Bug#73: honour char_conversion flag. Holger Kanwischer.
* FIXED: CanoniseDir() caching issues for absolute_file_name/[2,3].
Wim Delvaux.
* PORT: Bug#70: Use inttypes.h instead of stdint.h for portability.
Andreas VÃ¶gele.
* FIXED: atom_concat(X, a, a). Mike Elston.
* FIXED: Added two missing CHR files to the Windows installer. Mike
Elston. Replaced the w32pl5523.exe installer on July 26. Source
update of MS-Windows makefiles and installer-generator will be in
5.5.24.
==============================
VERSION 5.5.23 (July 24, 2005)
==============================
* ENHANCED: add readline.so/dll to the clib package and make
library(readutil) decide at runtime to use the foreign or Prolog
implementation.
* ENHANCED: Handle incomplete .QLF files through print_message/2.
* FIXED: Bug#69: file_name_extension/2 not functioning properly on Windows.
Due to conflict between REP_UTF8 and new CVT_EXCEPTION flag. Changed the
value for the latter. Foreign language code using this flag must be
recompiled. Holger Kanwischer.
==============================
VERSION 5.5.22 (July 15, 2005)
==============================
* FIXED: predicateName for predicates using wide-characters in their
name.
* FIXED: Bug#59: QLF (Quick load files and saved states not storing
atoms correctly if they contain characters >= 256. (Dmitry). Also
fixed strings for this issue.
* FIXED/MODIFIED: Typo unifyable/3 --> unifiable/3 (Richard O'Keefe).
The predicate is used internally for dif/2. Considering it is not
around very long, I believe there will be very few users of it.
Code using unifyable/3 must be updated.
* FIXED: Bug#67: Crash in parsing 0'<unicode char>. Also fixed parsing
solo Unicode characters. Holger Kanwischer.
VERSION 5.5.21 (July 05, 2005)

==============================
* PORT: Float classification for NaN and infinity. Better portable.
* ENHANCED: MS-Windows: remove 256 character paste-limit from plwin
console. Steve Moyle.
* FIXED: float formatting in atom_number/2, etc. Richard O'Keefe
* ADDED: Documentation of the gensym library.
* FIXED: parse_url(-, +) to insert %XX escape sequences for characters
that are not allowed in path-name or fragment names.
* FIXED: pl -dump-runtime-variables value for PLLIB in single-threaded
version. Roberto Bagnara.
* FIXED: Bug#64: Error handling for failing Prolog arithmetic functions.
Roland Illig.
* FIXED: unifyable/3 corrupts the stacks when called with variables
living on the local stack. This notably affects dif/2. Hugo Ferreira.
VERSION 5.5.20 (June 30, 2005)

==============================
* FIXED: Write for floats always uses the C locale decimal point (.).
Hugo Ferreira.
* FIXED: Unicode handling in filenames associated with streams (error
reporting and prolog_load_context/2).
* FIXED: Unicode support for environment variables (non-Windows version).
* FIXED: Unicode handling of commandline arguments.
* FIXED: Bug#56: UNICODE handling for shell/1 and win_exec/2. Dmitry.
* FIXED: absolute_file_name/2 and friends for UNICODE filenames on
windows platforms.
* FIXED: Bug#59: seek/4 on output streams. Holger Kanwischer.
VERSION 5.5.19 (May 24, 2005)

=============================
* ADDED: PL_query(PL_QUERY_USER_CPU) to get portable CPU statistics.
VERSION 5.5.18 (May 20, 2005)

=============================
* FIXED: Bug#44 ?=(X,Y) in when/2. Roy Haddad and Tom Schrijvers.
VERSION 5.5.17 (May 09, 2005)

=============================
* PORT: Bug#43: remove / after $(DESTDIR) to avoid paths starting
with //. Causes problems on Cygwin. Dmitry.
* MODIFIED: Allow for goal_expansion/2 on named meta-predicates.
* FIXED: nb_setarg/3 using float arguments.
* FIXED: setarg/nb_setarg allows to overwrite the functor using Index
= 0.
* ENHANCED: do 1st argument indexing on floats.
* PORT: Prefer library ncursesw. Unclear what this means, but might
solve some issues on MacOS X.
* FIXED: Bug#40: Unable to ùngetc' multibyte codes under some
circumstances. Grzegorz Chrupala.
* FIXED: Bug#38: incorrect spacing in write_term on Unicode characters.
Dmitry.
VERSION 5.5.16 (May 02, 2005)

=============================
* FIXED: hash_term/2: various problems handling compound terms:
instable results, undefined results on terms with shared
subterms. Hugo Ferreira.
* FIXED: PL_new_atom_wchars() did not canonise the atom representation,
so PL_new_atom_wchars(2, L"nl") != PL_new_atom_nchars(2, "nl"). Paul
Singleton.
VERSION 5.5.15 (April 22, 2005)

===============================
* FIXED: Bug#32: offset in colouring using cyrillic data. Actually
a bug in subterm_positions option of read_term (Dmitry).
* ENHANCED: The functions min and max to return one of the values
rather then converting to float. Avoids rounding errors on large
integers. Markus Triska.
* FIXED: thread_get_message/[1,2] using a lot of system time on some
Unix based platforms. Jacco van Ossenbruggen.
* FIXED: alignment for some platforms (Andreas Schwab).
* PORT: Made compilation clean for GCC 4.0. Work with Stefan Dirsch
from SuSE preparing for the next SuSE release.
* MODIFIED: renamed option initfile for qsave_program/2 to init_file.
Inconsistent with the documentation and the rest of the system calls
it init_file as well. Mike Elston.
* FIXED: two memory leaks in concat_atom/3.
VERSION 5.5.14 (April 18, 2005)
===============================
* FIXED: Bug#31: Crash when asserting predicates with wide-character
functor name (mutex-name problem). Also fixed mutex_statistics/0
for such predicates. Dmitry.
* FIXED: Do not add BOM by default when a file is opened for write with
explicit encoding.
VERSION 5.5.13 (April 12, 2005)
===============================
* FIXED: Sungetc() update of position->charno
* MODIFIED: Deleted built-in operator op(500, fy, ?). Non-standard.
Paulo Moura. Very infrequently used for style_check(?dollar) and
similar queries. Also changed for ISO compatibility:
op(500, fx, \) --> op(200, fy, \)
op(500, fx, -) --> op(200, fy, -)
* FIXED: Win32 console lockup when writing using put_byte/1 or using
a modified encoding.
* FIXED: Bug#30: Sprintf() and friends format bug. With patch from
Koenraad Heijlen. Thanks.
* ADDED: Support for BOM (Byte Order Mark), detecting various UNICODE
file formats
VERSION 5.5.12 (April 04, 2005)
===============================
* MODIFIED: write(1.0) --> 1.0. I.e. floats are always written with
either a . or an 'e' inside them. Paulo Moura.
* ENHANCED: give error on gensym(?, +).
* FIXED: crash in PL_open_query() on undefined predicate. Wim Delvaux.
* FIXED: Doubles in the head on 64-bit platforms. With many thinks to
Christoph Quix for the research.
* FIXED: Bug#27: set_stream_property/2 for representation errors.
Jiri Spitz.
VERSION 5.5.11 (March 15, 2005)

===============================
* FIXED: PL_get_chars() using REP_UTF8.
* ADDED: rewrite of `xos' layer to do all interaction in UTF-8, mapping
to Windows UNICODE filenames. Allows for accessing the filesystem using
UNICODE names.
* ADDED: setlocale/3: change/query locale settings at runtime.
* CLEANUP: deleted old win32s stuff from uxnt.c
VERSION 5.5.10 (March 09, 2005)

===============================
* FIXED: Support locales in communicating filenames.
* ADDED: Pl_unify_chars().
* MODIFIED: copy_stream_data/[2,3] now copies using get_code/2 and
put_code/2 semantics instead of byte-by-byte.
* ADDED: Multibyte encodings for PL_get_chars() and PL_get_filename().
* ADDED: Support for default locale multibyte I/O using encoding 'text'.
* ENHANCED: library url www_form_encode/2 not to encode _, and :. Needed
for some broken servers. What is the full list we must use here?
* FIXED: PL_get_chars() using CVT_WRITE. Wim Delvaux.

==============================
* FIXED: Bug#12: poor error reporting on illegal module export list.
Remy Haemmerle.
* ADDED: Enh#21: hide details of library debug from the tracer.
Holger Kanwischer.
* FIXED: compiler error causing crashes on some weird variable patterns.
With fix from Sergey Tikhonov. Thanks!
* ADDED: allow defining behaviour of streams when writing characters
that cannot be represented. Suggested by Anjo Anjewierden.
* FIXED: getting character code value for characters with code > 255.
Anjo Anjewierden.
VERSION 5.5.8 (Februari 25, 2005)

=================================
* FIXED: negative random numbers on MS-Windows. Upgraded random/1 to
return 64-bit random numbers. Jocelyn Paine.
* FIXED: typo in message context.
* FIXED: Seek issues for wchar and unicode streams.
* MODIFIED: changed encoding 'none' to 'octet'. Streams opened as
type 'binary' now by default use the 'octet' encoding. Adjusted
and documented sgml-parser interaction with Prolog stream encoding.
* ADDED: More library(ordsets) primitives to support library clp(R).
* FIXED: Allow for errornous parse_url('http://2004.bloggies.com/', X).
Anjo Anjewierden.

=================================
* ADDED: wide-character support for '$apropos_match'/2.
* FIXED: Serious error in saved states dealing with multifile predicates
and modules. Jocelyn Paine.
* FIXED: Possible deadlock in set_prolog_flag/2.
* ADDED: Various new predicates to the ordsets compatibility library,
used for the new CHR version.
* ENHANCED: Provide better error context. Suggested by Paulo Moura.
* FIXED: library(readutil): complete dispatch of options. Wim Delvaux.

=================================
* ADDED: library(unicode/unicode_data), providing access to the official
UNICODE data files (UnicodeData.txt, UCD).
* FIXED: Bug#16: plwin.exe: having DISPLAY defined removes the menu.
Richard Cheek.
* FIXED: write_term/3: honour portray(true), numbervars(false) not to
number the variables.
* PORT: documented Linux-threads vs. NPTL issues. Notably affects
per-thread or per-process statistics.
* FIXED: Bug#13: typo prevents building. Jack Woehr.
* PORT: Add LDFLAGS for building shared object (Paulo Moura,
Gregory Wright)
* ENHANCED: Change Prolog integers to be 64-bit on all platforms. Also
some critial sizes have been changed to 64-bit. Consequences:
* Foreign code using IOSTREAM (SWI-Stream.h) must be recompiled
(i.e. source but no binary compatibility).
* Code using PL_get_int() or PL_get_long() must be aware these
can return FALSE, even if the value is a Prolog integer. The
new API PL_get_int64() can be used to extract 64-bit values on
32 bit hardware. On 64-bit hardware these functions are the
same.
* Code using PL_get_term_value() must be aware that integers
are returned as int64_t. Such code must be recompiled. In
addition the application should decide how to handle values
outside the domain of a C long.
Issues: the current implementation may access 64-bit values from
the stack and embedded in compiled code at 32-bit alignment. This
surely works on IA32 (PC), appears to work on PPC (Mac). There are
probably processors out there for which it doesn't work.
=================================
* FIXED: Bug#9: Windows console menus did not work. Jiri Spitz.
* FIXED: make sure PL_initialise(0, argv) inititialises the system with
reasonable defaults.
* FIXED: precompilation of chr files in build environment. Paulo Moura.
VERSION 5.5.4 (Januari 26, 2005)
================================
* PORT: Enhanced support for MacOS. Put the Prolog kernel in a shared
object, support JPL in the MacOS version.
* FIXED: source-file administration in saved-states. Matt Lilley.
* PORT: Enhance detection of support for ELF visibility attributes.
VERSION 5.5.3 (Januari 17, 2005)

================================
* ADDED: copy_term_nat/2: copy without attributes. Required by
Tom Schrijvers for CHR.
* FIXED: Avoid wakeup in tracer, portray, event-hooks and interrupts.
Fixes problems reported by Hugo Ferreira and Tom Schrijvers.
* FIXED: Attribute wakeup in functor(-,+,+). Spotted by Jon Sneyers.
* ADDED: PL_query() option PL_QUERY_ENCODING to synchronise default
encoding towards XPCE.
* ADDED: library(unicode/blocks): naming of the various unicode code
blocks.
* FIXED: Parsing numbers with 0-base written as 00'... Anjo Anjewierden.
* ADDED: PL_new_atom_wchars() and PL_atom_wchars() for create/fetch
text from a wide-character atom.

=================================
* FIXED: Bug#216: Random() name conflict with MacOS libraries.
Helmar Spangenberg.
* FIXED: Bug#215: Encoding documentation issues. Holger Kanwischer.

=================================
* FIXED: Protocol issues due to wide character encoding.
* MODIFIED: Cleanup of foreign predicate registration by Salvador
Fandio. Added PL_register_foreign_in_module() and
PL_register_extensions_in_module(). Deleted the possibility to
use PL_register_foreign("module:predicate", ...). Foreign code
using this construct must be updated.
* ADDED: clp(r): Constraint Logic Programming over Reals. Leslie De
Koninck, K.U. Leuven supervised by Tom Schrijvers and Bart Demoen.
* FIXED: error handling issues when running out of virtual memory due
to creating too many threads. Steve Moyle.
* FIXED: Several issues with recursive mutexes in Windows, leading to
errors in stream closing (Bug#211) and wrong error messages when dealing
with Prolog-level mutexes.
* ENHANCED: Make some system calls (shell/1, getenv/2, etc.) raise
exceptions instead of printing a message.
* FIXED: Bug#210. reporting of encoding of console streams in Windows.
Holger Kanwischer.
* FIXED: Large file support on Linux (wrong order of includes).

===============================
* FIXED: sub_atom/5 in mode +, -, -, +, +) mode. Servey Tikhonov.
* ADDED: wide character support for plwin.exe console.
* FIXED: (a)cyclic_term/1. Paul Singleton.
* FIXED: Bug#204: conflicting <sys/malloc.h> on FreeBSD. Deleted
test for this header. Tuomo Latto.
* FIXED: PL_query(PL_QUERY_ARGC). With patch from Salvador Fandio.
* MODIFIED: incremented external record version format. Unfortunately this
makes old BerkeleyDB databases loading Prolog terms unusable. The only
work-around is to dump the database using an older version and rebuild
it using the new version.
* UPDATED: URL references
* FIXED: Atom-gc bug. Thanks to the analysis work by Servey Tikhonov.
* ADDED: wide character support for atoms and strings, foreign interfaces
and some of the atom-handling predicates.
* CLEANUP: interfaces for storing, accessing and save/load of strings.
* ADDED: wide character encoding/decoding support for character I/O.
See open/4 and set_stream/2.
* MODIFIED: toplevel does not prompt if the user_input stream is not
connected to a terminal. Using set_stream(user_input, tty(true))
the system can be forced to think input comes from a terminal.
After comments from Roberto Bagnara.
* ADDED: set_stream(S, tty(Bool)), stream_property(S, tty(Bool)) to
find out/presume whether a terminal is attached to a stream.
* ADDED: cyclic_term/1 and acyclic_term/1. Paul Singleton.

================================
* PORT: Solaris _FILE_OFFSET_BITS issues in rc library. Based on
comments from Ian Collier.
* FIXED: avoid deletion of clauses for dynamic predicates on reload.
Hugo Ferreira.

================================
* FIXED: Garbage collector bug in handling trailed assignments. This
code is used by attributed variables, setarg/3 and backtrackable
global variables.

==================================
* ADDED/MODIFIED: strip_module/3 is now a public and documented
built-in. The old undocumented '$strip_module'/3 has been moved
to the backward compatibility library. Applications should not
notice the difference, but it is adviced to update your application
accordingly.
* ADDED: '$btree_find_node'/4 to speed up binary tree handling.
* FIXED: Bug#193: reading */* . Sandro Hawke.
* FIXED: nb_setarg/3 using compound terms.
* FIXED: Attributes should not influence the standard order of terms for
variables.
* FIXED: allow for ISO :- dynamic(a/2, b/3, c/4). style declarations.
Spotted by Paulo Moura. Actually I think it is a bug in the ISO
standard :-)

==================================
* ADDED: write_term/3 using option numbervars(true) writes atoms
appearing as argument to '$VAR'(X) without quotes. I.e.
write_term(x('$VAR'('Foo')), [quoted(true), numbervars(true)])
writes "x(Foo)".
* FIXED: throw/1 crashed on attributed variables in the ball.
* ADDED: option list to numbervars/4.
* ADDED: return value for PL_put_blob() to indicate new/reused blob
identifier. Also added àcquire' hook to the blob type.
Salvador Fandio.

===================================
* FIXED/ENHANCED: license/[1,2] and eval_license/0 issues reported on
the mailinglist.
* FIXED: DCG translation of *->

================================
* FIXED: prolog_frame_attribute(Frame, goal, Goal) created term that
cannot be handled by the garbage collector.
* ADDED: read_pending_input/3, fetching pending input from a stream.
* ENHANCED: On Windows-NT, use Waitable Timers to realise sleep/1,
resulting in improved handling of events and timeouts as well as
better timer resolution. Uses old Sleep() based version on older
windows platforms.
* ENHANCED: realised native Win32 guarding of thread message queues,
sponsored by SSS (www.sss.co.nz).
* FIXED: Recorded database handling of attributed variables (could loose
attributes on some terms).
* ADDED: Support for attributed variables and cyclic terms for =@= and
\=@=.

================================
* MODIFIED: perform goal expansion relative to indicated module for
goals of the format Module:Goal where Module is known at compiletime.

===============================
* FIXED: source-location handling for if -> then if then holds control
structures. Alan Baljeu.
* FIXED: global-variables related GC bug. Thanks to David Reitter for
producing an reproducable case.
* FIXED: reconsulting a file with dynamic predicate declaration no
longer deletes the clauses added with assert.
* CLEANUP: Many stylistic issues to the C-source, removing warnings
especially for Sun CC. Richard O'Keefe.
* ADDED: nb_setarg/3 and nb_linkarg/3, providing non-backtrackable
assignments on terms.
* ADDED: cycle-check in bagof/setof code handling existential bindings
(should be an error!?).
* ADDED: Support for cyclic terms in the recorded term representation,
providing cyclic-safe recorda/3, findall/3, bagof/3, setof/3, exceptions
and Prolog terms in XPCE objects.
* ADDED: inf/infinite for stack options in create_thread/3 as well as for
the `High' in between/3.
* ENHANCED: use right-recursion optimisation in $e_free_variables/2
used by bagof/3 and setof/3. Alan Baljeu.
* FIXED: Avoid "Loading module ... abolished: ..." messages when
reloading discontiguous predicates.
* FIXED: A == B if A and B are equal string objects.
(typo when providing support for cyclic terms) Jacques Abel.
VERSION 5.3.16 (July 21, 2004)

==============================
* MODIFIED: print/1 behaves as write/1 instead of writeq/1. This
new behaviour is compatible to other Prolog systems and the
documentation. Lourens van der Meij. Use write_term/[2,3]
to get unambiguous ISO compliant printing in a specific mode.
Affected code must be updated.
* MODIFIED: By default, symbols from shared objects are not made
global any longer. The argument order of open_shared_object/3
has changes, though the predicate automatically reverses the
arguments when confronted with the old order.
This is unlikely to affect user code. If it does, the user can
use open_shared_object(File, Handle, [global]) for compatibility.
VERSION 5.3.15 (July 16, 2004)

==============================
* FIXED: MS-Windows: same_file/2 for relative paths.
* ADDED: support for open(pipe(Command), ...) for the Windows version
after recent discussion on the mailinglist. Works both in plwin.exe
and plcon.exe thanks to code used from the LUA programming language
and distributed under the compatible MIT license.
* FIXED: import/export issues loading QLF files leading to
ERROR: Failed to import ... into ... messages.
* ADDED/MODIFIED: print message if a detached thread dies abnormally.
After report by Fabien Todescato.
* FIXED: portability issue in Makefile (Solaris). Bill McEnaney.
* FIXED: possibility to crash the debugger on exceptions in callback
from C. Salvador Fandio.
VERSION 5.3.14 (July 1, 2004)

=============================
* MODIFIED: Merged backtrackable and non-backtrackable global variables.
Tom Schrijvers.
* ADDED: term_variables/3: difference list version of term_variables/2.
Suggested by Tom Schrijvers for the next version of CHR.
VERSION 5.3.13 (June 28, 2004)

==============================
* FIXED: at_end_of_stream/[0,1] to throw an exception if the stream
is at the end due to an error.
* FIXED: attributed variable handling in findall/3 and friends.
David Reitter.
* FIXED: nb_linkval/2 (and therefore nb_setval/2) if value is an
attributed variable. David Reitter.
VERSION 5.3.12 (June 15, 2004)

==============================
* FIXED: option processing in read_line_to_codes/3. David Reitter.
* ADDED: library(prolog_stack) to get and print stack-traces from Prolog.
VERSION 5.3.11 (May 25, 2004)
=============================
* FIXED: hash_term/2 to handle terms holding attributed variables
and cyclic terms. David Reitter.
* ADDED: first integration of JPL with the normal Prolog tree.
* ADDED: [=format] to -dump-runtime-variables to dump them in CMD.EXE
compatible format.
* PORT: Added a few NetBSD patches (incomplete, ongoing work).
Hubert Feyrer.
* FIXED: cleanup at exit if there are engines not attached to threads.
* ADDED: Hook prolog:error_message//1 to add new error types and print
them in readable format.
* ADDED: plld: add -Wl,* options to the linker options.
* MODIFIED: Renamed checklist/2 --> maplist/2 for compatibility reasons.
Added checklist/2 to the compatibility library.
* ADDED: Maplist/4
* FIXED: Bug#152: making active dynamic predicates static using
compile_predicates/1. Marc Bezem.
* CLEANUP: some errors reported by the valgrind tool.
VERSION 5.3.10 (Apr 29, 2004)

=============================
* FIXED: import warning on $derived_source/3. Mike Elston.
* FIXED: numbervars option of the write predicates. Steve Moyle.
* Provided limited stack trace for errors during GC.
* FIXED: throw/1 throwing a single variable if the exception is not
caught (Roberto Bagnara)
* ADDED: PL_is_ground() to check for term groundness in the foreign
interface.
* ENHANCED: error messages produced by load_foreign_library/1.
* MAINTENANCE: Fixed incorrect assertion in O_SECURE mode. Barry Evans.
* ENHANCED: some Makefile cleanup. Fixed typo spotted by Tom Schrijvers.
* PORT: Cleanup of autoconf configuration (dropped acconfig.h)
* ENHANCED: Exploit GCC visibility("hidden") attribute. Improves symbol
handling for embedded applications on ELF-based systems.
VERSION 5.3.9 (Apr 15, 2004)
============================
* MODIFIED: the library for embedded linking has been moved from
runtime/$ARCH to lib/$ARCH. Installation scripts using plld work
without modification, but hand-crafted building of embedded executables
must be adapted.
* ADDED: configure option --enable-shared to create the Prolog kernel
as a shared object. Works on ELF based systems using the GNU toolchain.
MODOFIED: configure option --disable-shared is renamed to
--disable-load-foreign.
* FIXED: Renamed corouting --> coroutining (Joachim Schimpf).
* FIXED: debug/nondebug issues with multifile predicates (causing
gtrace/0 to trace itself). David Reitter.
* MODIFIED: listing/1 throws exception if the target cannot be
found (Enhancement#143). Holger Kanwischer.
* FIXED/MODIFIED: Syntax errors are now reported using a term
file(Path, Line, LinePos, CharPos) or stream/4 if a stream is
not associated to a file. The LinePos element is added to this
structure. Syntax errors are reported using file:line:linepos.
After suggestion from David Reitter.
* FIXED: Made when/2 module-aware.
* FIXED: Debug-settings for system predicates defined as discontiguous,
etc. Tom Schrijvers.
* FIXED: bug in b_setvar/2 when assigning a local-stack hosted variable.
David Reitter.
* FIXED: read_term/3 option subterm_position on @receiver?(mode).
* FIXED: assertion failure in b_setval/2 and b_getval/2. David Reitter.
* MODIFIED: moved XPCE boot file pce_operator.pl to the general Prolog
library under the name operators.pl. Applications that used to fetch
this file using unsupported :- use_module(boot(pce_operator)) should
now use :- use_module(library(operators)).
* FIXED: Turn error messages produced by format/[1-3] into proper
exceptions. Dima.
* ADDED: predicate_property/2: `nodebug' to detect predicates without
debug info. Used by the guitracer.
* MODIFIED: listing/0 now only lists predicates defined in the target
module. Used to also list imported predicates. Applications that
rely on the old behaviour should use listing/1 on all predicates
enumerated by current_predicate/1.
VERSION 5.3.8 (Apr 07, 2004)

============================
* FIXED: Quoted write of -(0) and similar cases. Mike Elston.
* ADDED: Exporting operators from modules.
* ADDED: flag called generate_debug_info and commandline option -nodebug.
Fixed/cleanup of various tracing options.
* FIXED: Bug#140, various problems with complicated reload of files.
Hans van de Koot.
* FIXED: clause garbage collection for references from retract/1,
clause/2, etc.
* FIXED: profile detection on older versions of gcc. Tom Schrijvers.
* FIXED: repetitive qsave_program/2 handling. Dima.
* FIXED: Buffer overflow asserting to predicates with a very long
name (caused by naming the mutex for mutex statistics). Reported
by Lourens van der Meij.
* MODIFIED/FIXED: ensure_loaded/1 and use_module/[1,2] now use
load_files/2 with the option if(not_loaded) rather than if(changed).
This avoids time handling problems with quick-load files, especially
on Windows systems that base their time-stamp on local time rather
than universal time.
Use make/0 to update your project. Applications that really need
the old semantics should use load_files/2 directly.
* ADDED: Central "make check" to run regression tests in main system and
all packages.
* CLEANED: handle command history per thread.
* FIXED: handling of attributed variables in meta-calls. Tom Schrijvers.
* ADDED: set_prolog_OI/3 to handle interactive I/O from arbitrary
streams.
VERSION 5.3.7 (Mar 26, 2004)
============================
* ADDED: First prototype of binary-blobs-in-atoms after
discussion on the mailinglist.
* ADDED: CHR Debugger. Tom Schrijvers.
* FIXED: sub_atom/5 with variables sharing in the call. Emerson.
* MODIFIED: delete_file/2 now throws an exception rather than failing
silently if the file cannot be deleted.
VERSION 5.3.6 (Mar 17, 2004)

============================
* ENHANCED: performance for term_variables/2 in terms with many variables.
* FIXED: handling attributed variables in bagof/setof. Tom Schrijvers.
* FIXED: Handle goal_expansion/2 for the arguments of call_cleanup/2.
* ADDED: clp/bounds.pl: an Integer Bounds Constraint Solver by
Tom Schrijvers.
VERSION 5.3.5 (Mar 13, 2004)

============================
* FIXED: Bug#138: Avoid trying to compile pl-xterm.c on Cygwin.
Shawn Legrand.
* FIXED: Bug in copy_term/2 when copying (sharing) ground terms with
nested compounds. David Reitter.
VERSION 5.3.4 (Mar 12, 2004)

============================
* ADDED: style_check(+charset) option.
* FIXED: Bug#139 Trail-stack overflow after many assignments
(using setarg/3) to the same location in deterministic code.
Holger Kanwischer.
* ADDED: handle cycles in term_variables/2 and numbervars/3 as well as
in the goal for bagof/setof.
* MODIFIED: character classification for the range 159-255 to follow
ISO-latin-1. Richard O'Keefe. All these characters used to be
classified as lowercase letter. Note that this may cause errors
reading old code containing not-quoted atoms holding such characters.
For example, ab used to be read as an atom but is now read as a
Prolog variable. Please use ?- style_check(+charset) to get warnings
in possible conflicts.
* ENHANCED: Cleanup of dif/2 by Tom Schrijvers.
* FIXED: ensure a thread is considered to exist before it actually
starts running.
* ADDED: experimental predicate unifyable/3. New versions of dif/2
and when/2 based on this predicate by Tom Schrijvers.
* ADDED: when/2
* ADDED: ?=/2
* FIXED: A \= B to run attributed variable wakeup handlers before
doing the negation.
VERSION 5.3.3 (Mar 5, 2004)

===========================
* ADDED: Initial version to control printing attributed variables.
With input from Tom Schrijvers.
* FIXED: Bug#127 (partially), system slowing down after Control-C
followed by abort if the Control-C happens inside retract/1.
Holger Kanwischer.
* ENHANCED: CHR compiler and documentation. By Tom Schrijvers.
* ADDED: dif/2 in the library(dif). Code contributed by Tom
Schrijvers. Thanks!
* FIXED: reconsult to lock other threads (Unix). Sandro Hawke.
* FIXED: http_open/3 problems using redirection to non-absolute URL.
Anjo Anjewierden.
* FIXED: Bug#133: setarg/3 did not throw an exception. Holger
Kanwischer.
* ADDED: Handle ~@ in format/[2,3]. SICStus compatibility. Reported
by Tom Schrijvers.
* FIXED: sizeofClause() type error. Michal Cihar.
* FIXED: int/char problem in parser. Michal Cihar.
* FIXED: Bug#128: memory deallocation problem in library(memfile).
MS-Windows only. Added Sfree() to free memory from the right
pool. Holger Kanwischer.
* FIXED: Bug#129: determinism in bagof/setof. Holger Kanwischer.
* FIXED: Bug#125: rename_file/2 if source and destination are the same.
Dr. Werner Wolff.
* FIXED: phrase/3. Detmar Meurers and others.
VERSION 5.3.2 (Feb 4, 2004)

===========================
* ADDED: frozen/2.
* FIXED/ADDED: Merged win_shell issues from main branch
* ADDED: CHR library by Tom Schrijvers and Christian Holzbaur. Thanks!
* ADDED: Support for cyclic terms in ==/2, @>/2, etc.
* ADDED: library assoc.pl, Adapted YAP version, originally by Richard
O'Keefe.
* FIXED: Bug in unifying cyclic terms. Kuniaki Mukai.
* ADDED: Support for cyclic terms in ground/1
* FIXED: Bug#130: writeq('/*'). Holger Kanwischer.
* FIXED: win_shell/2. Added win_shell/3. Dmitry.
* FIXED: allow for peek_byte(-1), etc. Michael A. Covington.
* FIXED: Merged saved-state patches from main branch
* NEW: renamed nb_setval/2 to nb_linkval/2, giving nb_setval/2 a better
defined semantics. Added duplicate_term/2 to really duplicate a term.
* FIXED: module handling in flag/3
* ADDED: derived_from(File) option to load_files/2.
* MODIFIED: renamed free_variables/2 into the more widely used name
term_variables/2. Added free_variables/2 to the library backcomp,
so applications with autoloading enabled (default) do not have
to be modified.
* ADDED: protect write/1 from looping on cyclic terms. Short-term
solution writes ** if it detects a cycle.
* FIXED: Hanging atom garbage collector in multi-threaded execution
on Unix platforms. With lots of help from Sergey Tikhonov.
* FIXED: make convert_time/7 thread-safe using localtime_r() if
provided.
* ADDED: msb/1 arithmetic function.
* ADDED: support for attributed variables and cyclic terms in copy_term/2
VERSION 5.3.0 (Jan 16, 2004)

============================
* ADDED: Partial support for cyclic terms. Covered sofar:
unify()
* ADDED: global variables: b_setval/2, b_getval/2, nb_setval/2,
nb_getval/2.
* ADDED: Coroutining: freeze/2
* ADDED: Attributed variables: attvar/1, put_attr/3, get_attr/3.
VERSION 5.2.12 (Jan 17, 2004)

=============================
* FIXED: Crash in atom-garbage collection. Sergey Tikhonov.
* FIXED: Memory corruption problem in prompt handling of threads.
Sergey Tikhonov.
* FIXED: Deal with EINTR in sem_wait (Sergey Tikhonov).
* FIXED: AGC problem. With patch from Sergey Tikhonov.
* FIXED: destroying thread-local clauses with the GUI debugger loaded.
Fabien Todescato.
* DOCUMENTATION: Typo in term_expansion/2 docs. Mrcio Mazza.
* INTERNAL: changed tag schema freeing up an entry for attributed
variables.
* ENHANCED: Reduce hash-table size on retract/retractall, avoiding
performance problems with retract after shrinking a very large
predicate (Leo Khramov).
* FIXED: Memory leak in hash/1 (Sergey Tikhonov).
* ADDED: Partial support for large files (>2GB) on Unix systems. Tested
on SuSE Linux. Note that the SWI-Prolog cannot fully handle such files
as Prolog cannot represent offsets using its 32-bit integers. It can
however open them for reading and writing.
* ADDED: Bug#107 (Enhancement request): added advisory lock interface
(lock(Type) argument to open/4) for MS-Windows based on LockFileEx()
as suggested by Holger Kanwischer. Thanks!
VERSION 5.2.11 (Nov 29, 2003)

=============================
* FIXED: interrupt and error handling in wait_for_input/3. With patch
from Leonid Khramov. Second patch dealing with overruled sets. Thanks.
* FIXED: Generate syntax error on `based numbers' without digits. Dima.
* ADDED: PL_unify_term: handle (PL_BOOL, int) to unify boolean
values as true or false.
* FIXED: peek_code/2 and friends on end-of-file. Steve Moyle.
VERSION 5.2.10 (Oct 27, 2003)

=============================
* FIXED: call(1) exception handling (not callable).
VERSION 5.2.9 (Oct 05, 2003)

============================
* MANUAL: Fixes to skeleton code for non-deterministic foreign predicates
(Willem de Bruijn).
* LINK: pl -dump-runtime-variables to set PLLIB to the link-option to
link the Prolog library (e.g. -lpl)
* ADDED: gspy/1 to start the guitracer on a spyed predicate.
* ADDED: goal_expansion/2 to work on the arguments of catch/3.
* ENHANCED: more debugger issues. Still unsatisfactory.
* FIXED: proper writing of variables in the normal terminal debugger.
(Marc B).
* FIXED: absolute_file_name/[3] to return order consistently.
* ENHANCED: handling of redo in the debugger.
* FIXED: sub_atom('1', _, _, 3, Sub) (2nd or 3th argument longer than
atom). Anjo Anjewierden.
* FIXED: Prolog flag abort_with_exception to be true in multi-threaded
version and make it read-only. `Cosmetic' only.
* FIXED: Compilation of (a, ! -> b) to cut the choicepoints of a.
Sergey Tikhonov.
* ADDED: MS-Windows: library(registry): win_flush_filetypes/0 to forward
changes to registered types to the shell, so the proper icons are
displayed. Also used by the install-script to propagate the Prolog icon
immediately.
* FIXED: Source level debugger: ERROR: Arithmetic: `very_deep/0' is
not a function. David Reitter.
* ENHANCED: library(check) only reports redefinition on modules that
default to user and system (otherwise we are dealing with special
purpose usage of the module system that must be handled seperately).
* FIXED: Bug#92: pathname handling on paths like \\machine\c$\more\...
Also, the argument to -s (script) is not expanded. Tolga Konik.
* ADDED: Keep track of line-number where a module is defined (no public
interface yet, available through '$module_property'(+Module, -Property).
* FIXED: Bug#91: source level debugger generates error. Holger Kanwischer.
VERSION 5.2.8 (Sep 13, 2003)

============================
* ENHANCED: more consistency tests and replaced some old-style
warnings with print_message/2 and exceptions in module handling.
* FIXED: current_predicate(Name/Arity) with unbound Arity. Dmitry.
* FIXED: More robust extistence check in get_message_queue().
* FIXED: Problem compiling \+/1 if \+ introduces new variables. May
lead to crashes in the garbage collector. Sergey Tikhonov.
* FIXED: Hashing predicates defined with :- thread_local/1 (correct result,
but wasting memory and poor performance).
* FIXED: Made O_SECURE tests in pl-gc.c thread-safe (maintenance only).
* FIXED: P_VARARG handling through PL_load_extensions(). With patch from
Salvador Fandio.
* FIXED: bug in debugger crashing on an exception.
VERSION 5.2.7 (Aug 29, 2003)
============================
* FIXED: message_queue_destroy/1: deletion of the name-alias and added
(heuristic) test to avoid destroying active message queues.
* FIXED: Alignment problem in struct clause using gcc on mk68. Reported
by Michael Piefel. Debugged with help from the Debian Linux project.
* PORT: A few minor glitches for clean build as Debian package.
Michael Piefel.
* FIXED: Mutex initialisation in abolishProcedure(). Notably affects
redefine_system_predicate and abolish on imported predicates.
Sergey Tikhonov.
* FIXED: PL_destroy_engine(). Uwe Lesta.
VERSION 5.2.6 (Aug 15, 2003)

============================
* FIXED: Cleanup problem in threads.
* FIXED: Memory management problem in message_queue create/destroy.
* FIXED: proper hidden window handling in Windows version. Shows up as
MS-Word not starting or very slowly on NT4 if a thread is blocked in
in thread_get_message/[1,2].
* ADDED: handle thread_signal/2 inside thread_get_message/[1,2].
* FIXED: pl -o myexe --goal=hello,halt -c hello.pl (handling complex
terms in --goal= and --toplevel=)
* FIXED: pl -q -t true printed a single newline. Eric Goldlust.
* FIXED: Ignore -x in pl -- -x foo. With patch from Salvador "Fandio.
* FIXED: Memory management issues in the multi-threaded version. Thanks to
Sergey Tikhonov for his analysis.
* FIXED: Redesign of frames for foreign-term handling (FliFrame), fixing
problems with the garbage collector in some situations. The new design
is easier to understand and debug.
* FIXED: Bug#85: Prolog arithmetic functions in optimised mode evaluating
complex not-compiled expressions.
* PORT: make sure the profiler-support autoconf test runs at least 1 sec.
This makes the test work regardless of the speed of the machine.
* FIXED: profiler/2 and '$prof_procedure_data'/7 to deal with sibling
ticks accounting. Direct use of profile/1 was ok. Also fixed getting
details from predicates in the user module. David Reitter.
VERSION 5.2.5 (Aug 01, 2003)

============================
* FIXED: Bug#81 memory leak issues around recursive mutex creation. Also
provide faster initialisation of recursive mutex objects. Thanks to
Ross Johnson (pthread-win32 maintainer).
* ADDED: Option SIO_NOMUTEX to make faster temporary streams that are
not shared between threads. Provides a work-around for Bug#81 causes
my a memory leak in pthread-win32. Mike Elston.
* PORT: Bug#83 Added dummy foreign profiler interface on systems that
do not support the profiler. This causes problems on Solaris 2.8
for compiling XPCE as the profiler was not detected correctly.
Lourens van der Meij.
* FIXED: configure for profiler on systems with non-BSD signal semantics
(e.g. Solaris). With help from Lourens van der Meij.
* FIXED: Error handling complex meta-calls in the stack-shifter (only
affects operating systems that have nothing better than malloc() for
allocating the Prolog stacks).
* FIXED: Compilation problems using --disable-mapped-stacks. Ralf
Petzschmann.
* FIXED: Bug#82: Saved states in Windows try to load the àssociated file'.
Mike Elston.
* FIXED: Bug in \+ inside ;/2 or (if -> then ; else) if the \+ introduces
new variables. Jorge Baier Aranda. Compiler bug; saved states and
QLF files must be recompiled.
* FIXED: Switch off profiler during show_profile/2. David Reitter.
* FIXED: Bug#79, Gui tracer loosing pending exceptions. Holger Kanwischer.
* FIXED: properly reset after an abort.
* FIXED: Bug#77, manual tools handling call/[2..]. Holger Kanwischer.
* FIXED: Bug#76, deadlock in see/1 if the argument file does not exist.
Holger Kanwischer.
VERSION 5.2.4 (Jul 17, 2003)

============================
* FIXED: Bug#74, call_cleanup/3 handler not called if it must be autoloaded
and is called due to an exception. Mike Elston.
* FIXED: Bug#73, GUI tracer using decompiled code where it shouldn't.
Holger Kanwischer.
* ENHANCED: More thread-allocation issues. Avoid memory floating
uncontrolled between threads through message exchange or other dynamic
datastructures allocated by thread 1 and consumed by thread 2.
Sergey Tikhonov.
* FIXED: Pretty printing not proper lists in the GUI tracer. David Reitter.
* ADDED: Hooks into the profiler that allow for profiling external
packages such as XPCE.
* FIXED: Bug in profiler causing very large overhead under some
circumstances. Tolga Konik.
* ENHANCED: thread memory pooling could waste memory, especially in
designs where a pool of threads is fired, waited for, re-started,
etc. Sergey Tikhonov.
VERSION 5.2.3 (Jul 04, 2003)
============================
* ENHANCED: make trace/0 work while skipping, so an explicit trace command
always works. Alan Baljeu.
* FIXED: Bug#71: graphical tracer confused about (a,b),c nested inside
an if-then-else. Holger Kanwischer.
* FIXED: call_cleanup/3 to call the handler on deterministic exit in
debug mode. Holger Kanwischer.
* MODIFIED: hide predicates starting with $ from listing/0. Paulo Moura.
* FIXED: compiler warnings on initPrologThreads(). Paulo Moura.
* MODIFIED: Predicates whose name starts with '$' are automatically
hidden from the tracer. To comfort Logtalk. Paulo Moura.
* FIXED: retractall/1 to call setDynamicProcedure() instead of simply
modifying the predicate. setDynamicProcedure() to call the clause
garbage collector before deciding it cannot turn static predicate
with clauses into a dynamic one. Anders Bouwer.
* FIXED: Deadlock in thread_statistics on `self'. Sergey Tikhonov.
* FIXED: plwin.exe menu link to the XPCE documentation. Robert Shiplett.
* INSTALL: fixed various path-problems in the packages. Michael Piefel.
* ADDED: Added #define _THREAD_SAFE for FreeBSD (Clemens Fischer). Also,
make plld add -D_THREAD_SAFE on this platform if prolog support threading.
* FIXED: don't give a warning on pl -L128m. John Li.
* ADDED: plld --version to run <cc> --version and test for GCC version.
Michael Piefel.
* FIXED: toplevel configure and makefile driver
* FIXED: Bug #68: building on cygwin. Lourens van der Meij.
VERSION 5.2.2 (Jun 23, 2003)
============================
* MAYBEFIXED: Bug#68: lacking headers compiling pl-stream.c. Lourens
van der Meij and Djam Seddah.
* FIXED: GC during autoload. Fabien Todescato. Thanks for the extensive
test-suite!
* FIXED: avoid deadlock with set_prolog_flag(trace_gc, true).
* FIXED: dependency problem in library(win_menu).
* FIXED: Windows 95/98/ME error running the profiler. Joseph Bush.
* FIXED: PL_set_feature() when called before PL_initialise() on some
versions of Windows. Caused executable created with xpce-stub.exe
to crash immediately. Paco Gutierrez.
VERSION 5.2.1 (re-distributed on Jun 17, 2003)
==============================================
* FIXED: file associations. Thanks to Lourens van der Meij.
* FIXED: Added files forgotten in the Windows installer. PacoG.
* FIXED: Bug#66: thread_statistics/2 returning illegal values on floats
and large integers. Mike Elston.
VERSION 5.2.1 (Jun 13, 2003)
============================
* FIXED: Bug#63: exception-term lost (reported as unbound). Mike Elston.
* ENHANCED: Bug#64: make ground/1 do last-argument optimisation.
Mike Elston.
* FIXED: Win32 version generation of the runtime kernel. Radoslaw Scislo.
* PORT: Updated MSVC project files (*.dsp and *.dsw) from MSVC 5 to
MSVC 6 and fixed to reflect the current build-system. Contributed
by Radoslaw Scislo.
* ADDED: Package semweb: semantic web operations
* PORT: Some MSVC6 issues (Radoslaw Scislo).
* FIXED: Reading 'xxx\<NL> y'.
VERSION 5.2.0 (May 22, 2003)
============================
* FIXED: Various issues with indexing on multiple arguments (JAcques).
* FIXED: '\<NL>' to read as '' (JAcques).
* ENHANCED: Source-level debugger only to disactivate the binding view
on abort, so you can cut-and-paste bindings to the interaction window.
* FIXED: Bug #56: various issues with 0-bytes in format/3 and friends.
Mike Elston.
* PORT: Semaphore handling needed by the multi-threading version to
MacOS X (Darwin).
* FIXED: Bug #55: random/1 generating same sequence in all threads on Win32.
Mike Elston. There are still many issues left about random numbers in
multi-threaded code. See comments in pl-os.c
* FIXED: Bug #54: preserve the tracer being disabled in nested
C->Prolog calls. Tolga Konik.
* ADDED: portray_clause/2 (compatibility and consistency).
* FIXED: Bug #52: write/1 to write SWI-Prolog string objects with
embedded 0 chacters. Mike Elston.
* FIXED/MODIFIED: library(url), parse_url_search(-Spec, +Fields), packing
a search specification.
* ADDED: 'F' (fail) option to graphical debugger (Feature #51, Holger
Kanwischer).
* FIXED: Bug #50: Handle \c<blank*> with character escapes. Mike Elston.
VERSION 5.1.13 (May 19, 2003)
=============================
* ADDED/PORT: New Windows installer based on NSIS, NullSoft Scriptable
Install System. Also added a dedicated windows readme file to the
installation.
* FIXED: handling uninitialised data in compilation of \+/1. Could
result in wrong results if the garbage collector is executed in the
critical window or the graphical tracer it used. Alan Baljeu.
* FIXED: qsave_program/[1,2] to save the thread_local attribute.
Mike Elston.
* FIXED: Handling of 0'\n and friends if character-escapes is enabled
(default). Richard O'Keefe. Note:
MODIFIED: as a consequence, 0'\ is not interpreted as the character
code for '\', but as the start of an escape sequence. Replace this
by 0'\\. In most cases the old code will raise a syntax error while
being parsed. You can also grep for potential conflicts. On Unix
systems:
fgrep -n "0'\\" `find . -name '*.pl'`
* FIXED: Handling "x" in arithmetic (e.g. A =:= "a"). Richard O'Keefe.
* FIXED: Wrong usage of the term ASCII in the manual. Suggested
by Marc Bezem.
* ADDED: Pentium-based timing of virtual machine (development only)
* PORT: fixed many signed/unsigned warnings generated by GCC 3.3
* ADDED: announced compatibility checks for last/2 (library checklast).
* DOCS: Updated some comments in Makefile and INSTALL.notes files.
* FIXED: Compiler warning in pl-proc.c. Paulo Moura.
VERSION 5.1.12 (April 25, 2003)

===============================
* ADDED: library(checklast) to check for the modified argument order of
last/2.
* ADDED/FIXED: Bug#46: loading .qlf files using use_module/1 and friends.
Holger Kanwischer.
* PORT: Patch to rc/access.c for HPUX-11 (and possibly more). Tim Brown.
* ENHANCED: messages printed with set_prolog_flag(verbose_autoload, true)
* MODIFIED: Argument order of last/2. Compatibility to other Prolog
systems. Please update your sources. If you have a Unix shell
and utitilities you find most calls using
grep -n '\<last(' `find . -name '*.pl'`
On all systems you can run ?- check_old_last. before loading your
program. This spots if last/2 is used at compiletime as well as
trapping suspicious calls at runtime.
* ADDED: time/1 and profile/1,3 to call expand_goal/2. Time/1 to
report elapsed time.
* FIXED: Bug#42: starting a saved state with no known Prolog home.
* FIXED: do not show FAIL from ports created by dummy choicepoints.
Alan Baljeu.
* FIXED: Handling QLF file if their location has changed. Various
posters to the mailing list. Also fixed re-entrance problem in
the QLF-loader (affecting various XPCE tools) and location sources
of XPCE objects. The installation should now be truly position
independent.
* FIXED: autoloader bug in multi-threaded code.
* FIXED: Bug#41: Syntax error with backquoted strings and no
space after operator =/2. Holger Kanwischer.
VERSION 5.1.11 (April 1, 2003)

==============================
* FIXED: Bug#38: optimized prolog arithmetic functions in saved-states.
Holger Kanwischer.
* PORT: (Maybe ...) Make compile using SunSoft C-compiler. Michel Sall.
* FIXED: Bug#37 writeq(`hello`) with backquoted_string set to true.
Holger Kanwischer
* ADDED: very first start for multiple engines in single-threaded version
for benchmarking.
* FIXED: building on machines that do not support profiling. Steve Moyle.
* ENHANCED: Use a mutex per module for functor --> predicate lookup for
better speed of threads doing meta-calls in different modules.
* ADDED: compile_predicates/1
* ADDED: some more statistics on mutex usage
* ENHANCED: Use mutex per dynamic predicate in the multi-threaded version.
This reduces contention a lot on the Aleph test.
VERSION 5.1.10#2 (Mar 15, 2003)

===============================
* FIXED: sort([X], [Y]), X == Y. Paul Singleton.
VERSION 5.1.10 (Mar 14, 2003)

=============================
* FIXED: Avoid thread_signal/2 to signal a just-exited thread. More
patches here ...
* ADDED: New execution profiler providing much more readable and detailed
output.
* FIXED: thread_setconcurrency/2 detection (Steve Moyle).
* ENHANCED: Implementation of thread_signal() and friends on Windows.
Avoid using a window and allow exceptions to be raised in blocking
calls.
* ADDED: Separating Prolog engines from threads.
* ADDED: -embed-shared option to plld
* ADDED: Make safe signal handling possible from various blocking I/O
operations, expanding the useability of call_with_tim_limit/2.
* ENHANCED: Use Richard O'Keefe's natural merge-sort for sort/2, msort/2
and keysort/2. More space efficient. As good as the best qsort()
from libc and replaces old slow keysort with an efficient alternative.
* ENHANCED: make == and \== last-argument-tail-recursive, so they apply
to arbitrary long lists.
* FIXED: Bug#32: A number of issues around unloading shared objects.
Mike Elston.
* FIXED: Avoid tracing the $aborted exception.
* FIXED: Call stack-shifter when low on stack in built-in sort/1.
Only applies to systems where mmap() doesn't work or isn't detected
properly. Richard O'Keefe.
* FIXED: Bug#29: PLWIN.EXE console scrinks one row each invocation.
Holger Kanwischer.
* ADDED: PLWIN.EXE: make tty_size/2 return the window size in rows and
columns.
* FIXED: Bug#30: calling halt/0 and friends from `sub-threads' now causes
a permission error. This isn't perfect, but better than an uncontrolled
crash. Joachim Katzer.
* PORT: Fixed various problems on SGI (IRIX 6.5), including realisation
of dynamic stacks based on MAP_AUTOGROW|MAP_AUTORESRV. Thanks to
Matthijs Mourits for providing me with access to his machine.
* FIXED: only open /dev/zero once in multi-threaded version where
MAP_ANON is not supported.
VERSION 5.1.9 (Mar 06, 2003)

============================
* ENHANCED: Check for instantiation errors in send_list/[2,3]. Anjo
Anjewierden.
* ENHANCED: Use a key to speedup searching for potentionally matching
messages in long message queues.
* FIXED: Bug#28: race condition on message queues. Mike Elston. Added
abstracted version of his test to the thread test-suite.
* FIXED: Error-reporting in thread_join/2. Added check to avoid joining
detached threads.
* PORT: Added #define _GNU_SOURCE 1 into pl-thread.c to compile without
warnings on glibc based systems.
* FIXED: error handling if alias(Alias) option is used in thread_create/3
with an already used thread or queue name. Part of Bug#28, Mike Elston.
* MODIFIED: succ/2 now only handles natural (>= 0) numbers. Compatibility.
See discussion in the mailing list (Richard O'Keefe):
http://www.swi.psy.uva.nl/projects/SWI-Prolog/mailinglist/archive/2833.html
* ADDED: library(url): is_global_url/1
* ADDED/FIXED: Various problems and enhancements to check/0 reporting
undefined predicates. Moved make/0 to library(make) and added a
call to list_undefined/0 to report on undefined predicates after
completing the make.
* FIXED: features not available in some port are not reported with the
exception not_implemented(Category, Description). Lourens van der Meij.
* FIXED: Bug #25: compilation on Solaris 8
* ADDED: op(1150, fx, meta_predicate) to avoid syntax errors if library
quintus is not loaded explcitely.
VERSION 5.1.8 (Feb 24, 2003)

============================
* FIXED: Bug #23: profiler on Windows platform crashed. Holger Kanwischer.
* DOC: Bug #24: Rearranged description of Prolog flags to be alphabetical
and added missing documentation. Holger Kanwischer.
* ADDED: flag toplevel_print_anon to hide variables starting with an _
After comments from Attila Csenki.
* ADDED: pthread_setconcurrency/2 to query/set thread concurrency.
* FIXED: Alignment problems in message_queue_create/1.
* FIXED: testing for gcc -pthread in configure.
* FIXED: Many PL_cleanup() problems, notably related to thread-management.
* FIXED: compiling pl-atom.c for single-threaded operatation (Barry J Evans).
* FIXED: exitPrologThreads() counting problem.
* FIXED: Syntax error in pl-atom.c
* FIXED: MT: Problem in the atom-garbage collector reclaiming atoms
in use by other threads. Sergey Tikhonov.
* FIXED: MT: Initial thread has wrong status, causing trouble with
atom garbage collection. Sergey Tikhonov.
* ADDED: reload_library_index/0 and automatic reloading if the set of
library directories changes and predicates cannot be found. After
comments by Tolga Konik.
* ADDED: plld.exe -dll option to create a DLL with Prolog embedded into it.
* ADDED/FIXED/MODIFIED: Windows: PL_initialise() can now be passed the
name of a DLL that has a state attached. Alan Baljeu.
* FIXED: int->float conversions reading large integers. Anjo Anjewierden.
* MODIFIED: PL_get_chars() and friends always return floats in a format
that reads as a float.
* FIXED: atom_number('1.0', X). Added test-cases. Anjo Anjewierden.
* ENHANCED: Make library(gensym) thread-safe.
VERSION 5.1.7 (Feb 02, 2003)

============================
* FIXED: Don't call cleanup of deterministic foreign predicates after
an abort.
* FIXED: Bug #19: documentation and status of numbervars/3. Richard
O'Keefe and Lourens van der Meij.
* FIXED: qsave_program/2: ensure the banner is a defined predicate.
* FIXED: Bug #18: Initialisation problem for single-threaded version
caused by the addition below. Lourens van der Meij.
* ADDED: Prolog flag emacs_inferior_process, which is set to true
if SWI-Prolog is running as Emacs inferior process. After comments
from Michael Covington.
* FIXED: include <time.h> in pl-stream.c (Anjo Anjewierden).
* ENHANCED: downcase_atom/2 and upcase_atom/2 performance if both
arguments are instantiated.
* FIXED: symbol typo when compiling for threading on systems that do
not support recursive mutexes.
* FIXED: Bug #7: Protocol of typed input in (Windows). Tolga Konik.
* ADDED: assume/1 (library(debug)) to call expand_goal/2 on arguments.
* FIXED: Bug #9: GUI tracer handling string objects (Holger Kanwischer)
* FIXED: Bug #8: module-specifier while listing declarations.
Tolga Konik.
* ADDED: Perform goal-expansion on 2nd argument of findall/3, bagof/3
and setof/3.
VERSION 5.1.6 (Jan 17, 2003)

============================
* ADDED: Using ?- set_prolog_flag(prompt_alternatives_no_bindings, true)
the system prompts for alternative answers on the toplevel if the goal
makes no bindings. Requested by Paulo Moura. Experimental.
* MODIFIED: deterministic/0 has been replaced with deterministic/1. It
also is fixed and its semantics has been changed. See manual.
* FIXED: \=@=/2 (Lourens van der Meij).
* ADDED: relative uri net path resolution (awkward, but needed for RDF
test-suite). library(url).
* FIXED: #2: Handle Control-C in plcon.exe (Windows console app).
VERSION 5.1.5 (Jan 06, 2003)

============================
* FIXED: Make alarm/4 (library(time), package clib) handle exceptions more
elegant.
* FIXED: Quoting rules for plld.c. Failed to link packages on MacOS X
(Kuniaki Mukai)
* ADDED: HTTP package for dealing with HTTP server and client software
from Prolog.
* ADDED: library(debug) for dealing with print-statements from your code
and assumptions you make during development. Documented in the reference
manual.
VERSION 5.1.4 (Dec 20, 2002)

============================
* FIXED: race-condition in autoloader.
* FIXED: Streams with timeout could signal end-of-file on an interrupt.
* ADDED: Base sleep/1 on nanosleep() if this function is available.
* FIXED: copy_stream_data/[2,3] locking problem.
* FIXED: call_cleanup/[2,3] to pass exceptions properly
* ADDED: thread_detach/1.
* MODIFIED: thread_create/3 returns alias-name for id if an alias is
specified.
* FIXED: Make Unix I/O restart after an interrupt.
* ADDED: backquoted_string(Bool) option to read_term and write_term
(Holger Kanwischer).
* FIXED: More graceful handling if a thread cannot be created due to
lack of virtual memory (Wouter Jansweijer).
* ADDED: first implementation of thread-local-predicates.
* REORGANISED: introduced abstraction between procedures and their
definitions to allow for thread-local predicates (work in progress).
* ENHANCED: profile-utilities to raise proper exceptions.
* FIXED: Ensure the message queue of a thread is available after
thread_create/3 returns. Holger Kanwischer
* FIXED: manual page for thread_peek_message/2 (Wouter Jansweijer).
* ADDED: Possibility to add test-scripts to a directory hierarchy.
* FIXED: thread-cancelation for threads that are in
thread_get_message/[1,2]
VERSION 5.1.3 (Dec 8, 2002)

===========================
* MODIFIED: ISO Compliance: retract((head :- _)) also retracts facts.
Grard Milmeister and Roberto Bagnara.
* FIXED: make destruction of the Windows console somewhat more careful.
(Bob Wielinga).
* ADDED: turning thread message queues into explicit objects.
* IMPL: Cleanup of thread-message queue, preparing for stand-alone
object.
* FIXED: Lost mutex and condition variable after destroying a thread.
(Mike Elston).
* FIXED: text-buffering rules for strings (Sebastian Sardina).
* FIXED: plld: properly quote arguments holding "
* ADDED/MODIFIED: The toplevel calls expand_goal/2 before actually
executing the typed goal.
* FIXED/ENHANCED: Allow goal_expansion/2 to return the same term, in
which case recursion is stopped.
* FIXED: possible deadlock when there are Prolog threads created using
PL_thread_attach_engine() (Unix implementation).
* PORT: Cleanup windows makefiles for make clean and make distclean
* ADDED: PL_action(PL_ACTION_ATTACH_CONSOLE) to simplify attaching a
console to a thread from foreign code.
* ADDED: PL_thread_attach_engine() `cancel' attribute to determine
what should happen at halt/cleanup.
* FIXED: PL_thread_attach_engine() to deal with the àlias' attribute
and to interpret stack sizes in K-bytes as advertised.
* ADDED: timeout to Prolog streams.
* ADDED: Make Prolog safe for pthread_cancel(), canceling threads
holding a Prolog engine.
* ENHANCED: èxit' command from debugger in threads exit the thread
rather then the entire system.
* MODIFIED: wait_for_input/3 now takes the value ìnfinite' as timeout to
wait forever. The integer 0 has the same function for backwards
compatibility.
VERSION 5.1.2 (Nov 27, 2002)

============================
* FIXED: Windows select() cleanup (wait_for_input/3).
* ADDED: Guitracer: provide editable write-options to detailed term-view.
Suggested by Wouter Jansweijer.
* FIXED: backtracking foreign predicates using integer handles (between/3).
Anjo Anjewierden.
* FIXED: toldString() didn't unlock current output, notably causing
warnings from background threads to lock I/O. Sergey Tikhonov.
* FIXED/MODIFIED: mutex-locking stragety for I/O after comments from
Sergey Tikhonov. Thanks
* ADDED: non-buffering user_error stream with interactor/0 on Unix/X11.
* FIXED: stack and detached option parsing in thread_create/3.
* PORT: Windows, plld.exe: Add /MD to flags and /GX when compiling C++.
Use libpl.lib, even for the MT version. SWI-cpp.h: deal with MSVC
if it fails to recognise throw doesn't return.
* FIXED: error message for illegal export list (Holger Kanwischer).
* PORT: Check for -lexc on Tru64/DUnix when compiling for multi-threading
(Sergey Tikhonov).
* FIXED: make qsave work if predicates from library(lists) are
redefined (Sergey Tikhonov).
* FIXED: Scanning resource-file without using mmap(). (Sergey Tikhonov).
* FIXED: Detection of mmap() for regular files (Sergey Tikhonov).
* FIXED: Avoid calling flatten from library(lists) in toplevel.pl.
Wouter Jansweijer.
* FIXED: PL_open_query() on auto-loaded procedures cause data corruption.
* FIXED: IOSTREAM Locking problem in set_stream/2.
* FIXED: Extranous unlock in format/[2,3]. Diagnosed by Sergey Tikhonov.
* FIXED: Proper handling of pthread error codes.
* FIXED: listing/1 and friends (bug due to moving list predicates).
Anjo Anjewierden.
* ADDED: thread_statistics/3: get statistics on other threads.
* PORT: MacOS X: check for both plain symbol and _symbol on
call_shared_object_function/2 to deal with different versions of
the dlcompat library.
* FIXED: Preserve exceptions in GUI tracer (notably abort). Kanwischer
Holger.
VERSION 5.1.1 (Nov 16, 2002)

============================
* FIXED: Atom-reference corruption problem for the `built-in' atoms.
With many thanks to David Schumann who found the problem, sometimes
trapping the assertion assert(p->references >= 0); in
PL_unregister_atom().
* MODIFIED: moved list-processing primitives to library(lists), where
most Prolog systems have these. Using the autoloader this should
have no consequences for most applications.
* PORT: Adapt Windows makefile suite for use with Windows 2000 and
spaces in the destination path
* FIXED: deadlock when loading a file with a module-name conflict.
* FIXED: Removed size-limit on clauses of 256Kbytes compiled code.
Spotted by Wouter Jansweijer.
* ADDED: atom_number/2 as a contraction of atom_codes and number_codes/2
* PERFORMANCE: switched to use -O3 on GCC. Seems to be about 5-10%
faster. Also pass -O3 to ld to optimize function placement.
* FIXED: handle abort-exception from -g goal to go to the toplevel.
* PERFORMANCE: better implementation finding clauses, much faster
shallow backtracking code. Faster lookup of arithmetic and small
improvements to the compiler.
* FIXED: bug loosing clause-indexing after abolish on an undefined
predicate (caused by MT redesign).
* FIXED: load .pl files rather then .qlf if user told us so. Thanks to
Holger Kanwischer.
* MODIFIED: use ; as separator for the -p alias=path1:path2 option
on MS-Windows. Mike Elston.
* FIXED: deadlock reconsuling files with breakpoints (debugger).
* FIXED: remove rc/rc.o from libpl.a (anonymous).
* FIXED/ENHANCED: many issues use call_with_depth_limit/3: fixed
determinism test, handle exceptions, handle user-defined arithmetic
and report exceeded limit in the debugger. With help of Steve Moyle.
* FIXED: Improve error message if a user-arithmetic function fails.
* FIXED: module-transparency of is/2, etc to make arithmetic function
declarations work again. Steve Moyle.
* ADDED: edit/0 to edit the default script- (-s file) or associated file.
* LIBRARY: make read_line_to_codes return the atom end_of_file upon reaching
the end of file.
* PORT: improve portability of SWI-Prolog.h and SWI-cpp.h after comments
from Silvio Malisani concerning Borland's C++ Builder 5.I.
* FIXED: preserve exceptions with the GUI-tracer over callbacks to the
tracer.
VERSION 5.1.0 (Oct 26, 2002)

============================
* FIXED: call_cleanup/3 when called directly from PL_next_solution()
or tail-recursively from the initial goal.
* ENHANCED: use per-message-queue mutex for synchronising the
queue access in the MT version. Sergey Tikhonov.
* PORT: Check whether mmap() can map regular files and check for
the need of _XOPEN_SOURCE. Fixes QNX portability. See
http://gollem.swi.psy.uva.nl/twiki/pl/bin/view/Porting/BuildQNX
* ENHANCED: allocate clause as one chunck, reducing allocations and
memory-requirements and improving locality.
* ENHANCED: Multi-threaded performance:
- No longer use reference-counts on static code but use clause
garbage collection to collect redefined static procedures.
- Large reduction of access to thread-local data by passing
this data around and use one-fetch-per-function more widely.
- Introduced thread-local heap-allocation policy to reduce
the use of locks.
* ADDED: multi-threading support in the windows version based on
pthread-win32, an Open Source emulation of POSIX threads on
Win32. Progress:
- Kernel running on top of pthread-win32
- Console code (plterm.dll/plwin.exe) allows for multiple consoles
- Basics seem to work fine.
- Now uses CRITICAL_SECTIONS and Windows native TslGetValue() to
improve performance. Slow down is now 12% compared tolisting(library_
directory).
single-threading.
Consequences:
- All access to the console using plterm.dll and console.h is
incompatible due to an extra console-handle argument required
by all functions.
VERSION 5.0.10 (Sep 26, 2002)
=============================
* FIXED: incorrect messages about not being able to import predicates
from module user.
VERSION 5.0.10a (Sep 25, 2002)
==============================
* ADDED: plwin.exe: win_window_pos/1 to control the geometry and zorder
of the console.
* FIXED: thread_peek_message/1 unification problem if the head message
didn't unify (Sergey Tikhonov).
* FIXED: Demo .plrc (pl.ini) to use the flag `gui' rather than `xpce' to
see whether to load the gui-tracer (Jakub Jiricek).
* FIXED: GUI tracer: check whether file is modified outside the built-in
editor. (Jakub Jiricek).
* FIXED: Properly compile A *-> B (without else-branche) to a normal
conjunction. (Jakub Jiricek).
* FIXED: GCC 3.2/SPARC problems and Solaris 9 portability issues.
Thanks to Pieter Donche for providing access to their machine.
* FIXED: Various MacOS 10.2 portability issues (Paulo Moura).
* FIXED: portray_clause(q:-x*->y). (Jakub Jiricek).
* ADDED: Handle *-> in DCG (Jakub Jiricek).
* FIXED: Cleanup dangling records in findall/3 and friends if an abort
happens inside one of the bag predicates.
VERSION 5.0.9 (Jul 26, 2002)

============================
* FIXED: Report variables _starting_ with an _ (e.g. _X) in the
variable_names(Names) option of read_term.
* FIXED: tmp_file/2 problem in library(emacs_interface). Tolga Konik.
* ADDED: -nosignals option to inhibit signal handling. Added a section
to the manual about embedding in complicated environments. With help of
David Sitsky.
* PORT: Removed static linking of frame.o. Shouldn't be needed anymore
and raised problems on PPC Linux (Aaron Macks). Typo found by
Paulo Moura.
VERSION 5.0.8 (Jul 7, 2002)

===========================
* FIXED: quoted write of negative floats could write as integer.
* FIXED: registry_get_key/[2,3] (undefined predicate). Also prepared
for use inside saved-states. Published shell_register_file_type/5.
* ADDED: PL_NCHARS option to PL_unify_term().
* ADDED: current_prolog_flag(pid, Pid) to get the process identifier.
* ADDED: gtrace/0 as alias for guitracer,trace.
* ADDED: PL_get_file_name() to fetch the name of files from Prolog
terms with options to include search, test properties, etc.
* REMOVED: Undocumented interface function PL_get_filename(). Please use

the new PL_get_file_name(), providing a stable and much more flexible
API.
* FIXED: compilation error on systems where profiling doesn't work
(Pierre Barbier de Reuille).
VERSION 5.0.7 (Jun 5, 2002)

===========================
* FIXED: Informational messages from the PLWIN.EXE console when opening
a URL.
* FIXED: Editor handling problems.
* ADDED: Statistical profiling to the Windows version. Also modernised
the Unix profiling implementation a bit.
* FIXED: string_to_list(-String, +List) crash on machines with
signal-based stack-expansion with lists of >500,000 elements
(Wouter Jansweijer).
* ADDED: Borland C compatibility in the SWI-Prolog header files.
Additional information using SWI-Prolog with BC is in
http://gollem.swi.psy.uva.nl/twiki/pl/bin/view/Foreign/BorlandC
By Gerhard Wolfstieg.
* MODIFIED: More improved classical I/O compatibility in telling/1
and seeing/1. Peter Dadam.
* FIXED: Source-level debugger: be aware that clauses holding floats
that are written and read-back may not unify exactly due to float
rounding errors.
* FIXED: quoted write to write floats using decimal dot or exponent,
regardless of the float-format in effect.
* ENHANCED: Skip intermediate system-predicates when walking ùp' in
the source-level debugger.
* ENHANCED: Clear source-location on close/1 of the file currently
holding it.
* ADDED: allow for swapped 2nd/3th argument in absolute_file_name/3.
* MODIFIED: relative_to(FileOrDir) to assume the relative-to is a
directory if nothing is known about it (Nikolaos Angelopoulos).
* FIXED: Some manual typos (Nikolaos Angelopoulos).
* FIXED: GC/GUI-Tracer crash related to the compilation of \+ if the
argument contains non-singleton variables that appear nowhere else
in the clause and in the argument of a compound term. Thanks to
Sergey Tikhonov for providing a neat small crash-demo!
* FIXED: working_directory/2 to raise a proper exception if it can't
get the working directory (crashed).
* FIXED: MT: lookup/register/unregister atom mutex mismatch.
Sergey Tikhonov.
VERSION 5.0.6 (May 21, 2002)
============================
* ADDED: absolute_file_name/3 file-type `source' and option relative_to
for easier compatibility to SICStus (who changes the argument-order as
well). Nikolaos Angelopoulos.
* FIXED: Be more consistent on attempts to redefine system predicates.
Tolga Konik.
* ADDED: type-check on 2nd argument of absolute_file_name/2 as well as
a new option expand(Boolean) to control expanding meta-characters.
* FIXED: MT: At halt/0, joint threads that are already terminated rather
than canceling them.
* FIXED: MT: avoid race-conditions in atom-garbage collection when creating
new threads or threads are about to end. Patch by Sergey Tikhonov.
Thanks!
* FIXED: expand_file_name/2 to return directories again.
* FIXED: module(Module) argument of read_term/[2,3], fixing GUI-Tracer
problems when using local operator-declarations.
* PORT: pl.spec (building RPMS) to follow current standards.
By Michel Alexandre Salim.
* FIXED: Choicepoint-view of GUI tracer.
* PORT: Added -fno-strict-aliasing when compiling using gcc, needed for
gcc-3 (Lourens van der Meij)
* PERFORMANCE: Allow a certain (16%) amount of `dirty' clauses
in a predicate, also if the reference-count is 0 when starting a retract.
This makes a *tremendous* difference retracting 60,000 facts from a
predicate holding almost 600,000 facts.
* FIXED: GUI-tracer source-location problems with (If->Then).
* FIXED: PLWIN.EXE getting into a loop after using Page Up/Down buttons.
Yair Greenberg.
* FIXED: qsave_program/2: properly handle small and 0 (= max) stack-size
specification. Detmar Meurers.
* FIXED: Flush user_output before query/error messages in the toplevel,
avoiding confusion due to stream-buffering for more simple cases.
Martin Sondergaard.
* FIXED: Correctly perform unquoted write on atoms starting with a 0-byte.
Mike Elston.
* FIXED: make exists_file/1 and exists_directory/1 properly say no if the
filesystem object is not of the right type. Dr. Werner Wolff.
* ADDED: Windows: mkboot.bat script to the bin-directory to easily redo
the boot-compilation.
* FIXED: Windows: make double-clicking possible on filenames holding
special characters. Reported by Graham Thomason.
* ADDED: downcase_atom/2 and upcase_atom/2 to do quick case-conversion
on atoms.
* FIXED: reporting boolean features using the FEATURE mask.
* FIXED: quicker and more graceful stack-overflow exception from sort/2
if available local-stack space doesn't suffice (Anjo Anjewierden).
* FIXED: Editor-handling based on $EDITOR (Ulrich Zimmermann).
VERSION 5.0.5 (April 16, 2002)
==============================
* PORT: Hopefully get plld -shared -o test.so test.c to produce foreign
libraries on BeOS. With lots of help from Axel Drfler.
* FIXED: Avoid re-loading the initial file after qsave_program/2 from
PLWIN.EXE (Ron Sele).
* MODIFIED: Improved tell/1 and see/1 compatibility with Edinburgh
`standard', allowing for ìnterleaved I/O'. After a couple of
complaints that text-book code was broken.
* FIXED: Various problems in the manual (rjan Johansen).
* FIXED: expand_file_name/2 handling of ~fred (rjan Johansen).
* DEBUGGER: Modified the trace-hooks to examine choice-points as first
class objects. Adjusted the GUI tracer to use the new code. This
opens the route for better handling of choice-points in the debugger.
for now it just avoids a crash of the GUI tracer on particular code
where the old view didn't work.
* PORT: Allow for compiling using Compaq compilers (__DECC) on Tru64
Linux/Alpha (Sergey Tikhonov).
* ADDED: Read `hello world` as a string if the Prolog flag backquoted_string
is true (LPA compatibility, Holger Kanwischer).
* FIXED/ADDED (MT-Version):
* Atom-gc problems
* assert/retract corruption
* Atom reference counting deadlock
* Added thread_self/1 to the single-threaded version (returning
main).
* Added thread-indication to warning and error messages in
print_message/2.
Most of this hard work by Sergey Tikhonov. Thanks!
* DOC: Various updates to web-references and XPCE references
* FIXED: PL_cons_functor_v() and related interface functions: forgotten
dereference (Fabien Todescato).
* PORT: Added (non-tested) support for loading shared objects in BeOS
(with help by Axel Drfler)
* PORT: Detect <SupportDefs.h> in recent BeOS and use it (Axel Drfler).
* PORT: Fixed detection of ru_idrss in struct rusage (not around in BeOS,
reported by Axel DÃ Â‾Ã Â¿Ã Â½rfler).
* FIXED: Documentation on obsolete prolog_navigator/1 replaced by new
prolog_ide/1. Fixed prolog_ide(open_navigator(Dir)) (Tolga Konik).
* MODIFIED: Home/End keys in PLWIN.EXE to go to the start/end of the line.
* ADDED: Wheelmouse support to PLWIN.EXE
* ADDED: Windows: support for UNC-filenames (\\host\share\...).
* FIXED: call_cleanup/3 crashed if the cleanup handler invoked GC. GC
is now explicitely blocked. Found by Mike Elston.
* callProlog(): replaced warning with exception.
* IDE: Avoid various problems selecting the preferred editor. See the
new prolog-flag èditor' and the example .plrc (pl.ini).
* INSTALL: Added some code to configure and Makefile.in in the top-directory
to allow for ./configure --with-world && make && make install to build
the complete suite on a well-supported platform.
* INSTALL: Fixed detection of profiling support on really fast machines
(Sergey Tikhonov).
VERSION 5.0.4
=============
* DOC: re-arranged sections on I/O handling a bit to clarify the position
and relation between Edinburgh-style and ISO I/O handling.
* ADDED: prolog_load_file/2: a hook into load_files/2.
* MODIFIED: source_location/2 no longer changes the filename into an
absolute path (instead, it is the path used to open the file).
* ADDED: set_stream(Stream, file_name(Name)) and set_stream(Stream.
record_position(Bool)).
* ADDED: loading a program from a stream. See load_files/2 for details.
* FIXED: plwin.exe: console placement to use
SystemParametersInfo(SPI_GETWORKAREA, ...) to determine the boundary.
Also, get current window position from GetWindowsPlacement().
(Tolga Konik).
* MODIFIED: Prolog Navigator now calls default edit/1 interface (suggested
by Tolga Konik).
* ADDED: EWOULDBLOCK handling in pl-stream.h, so we can use this interface
on machines that do not support this error (Windows).
* FIXED: Various minor improvements in the Windows registration of Prolog.
* ADDED: unwise_install to wise.pl to do the registration after running
Wise.
* FIXED: qsave_program handling of loaded foreign libraries. Reported
by Fabien Todescato.
* ADDED: GUI-Tracer: add pseudo variable names DCG_list and DCG_tail
* ADDED: plwin.exe: add menu item to edit the àssociated' file.
* FIXED: Various GUI-Tracer problems concerning source-location in DCG
rules.
* FIXED: Properly handle breakpoints in $xr_member/2 (used by explain/1).
VERSION 5.0.3
=============
* FIXED: Win32: Various issues in the TCP/IP package (library(socket))
and XPCE socket handling: Better error checking and messages and proper
handling of WSAEWOULDBLOCK messages.
* PORT: No longer print a message if the locale cannot be initialised.
A bit dubious, but some installations appear to have a broken locale
subsystem.
* FIXED: Non-portable test in config.guess (Kenneth Pronovici).
* FIXED: reported undefined predicate by check/0 on plcon.exe (Mike Elston).
* ENHANCED: Allow for PL_set_feature() before PL_initialise(). Improved
initialisation procedure for plwin.exe for better compatibility with
the other versions.
* ENHANCED: Cleanup procedure on Windows library(shlib) and PL_cleanup():
try to avoid (some) crashes when unloading foreign code.
* FIXED: Properly deal with the vararg foreign calling convention
for cleanup (CUTTED). Spotted by Sergey Tikhonov.
* FIXED: Check whether stack sizes are not allocated above physical
limits (128 MB on 32-bit machines)
* BUILD: Fixed missing references to `runtex' from various Makefiles
in the packages (Paulo Moura).
* FIXED: File/Consult menu of plwin.exe to load the file into the
user module rather then the win_menu module providing the menu
interface.
* FIXED: Use GetWindowsDirectory() rather then the current drive as
last resort for expanding ~.
* PORT: Add -fno-strict-aliasing when using GCC. SWI-Prolog doesn't
satisfy the requirements for this optimization and some gcc versions
seem to use it using -O2.
VERSION 5.0.2
=============
* ADDED: library(time) to the clib package, providing alarm and timeout
functions. Works on Unix systems having setitimer() as well as on
Windows using Multi Media timers.
* ADDED: PL_handle_signal() to handle synchronous interrupts from foreign
code. Option PL_SIGSYNC to PL_signal() to schedule synchronous
interrupts.
* FIXED: Try to be a bit more intelligent on the expansion of ~ (home)
in the Windows versions by checking the various alternatives to be
existing and writeable directories. Now prefers %USERPROFILE% over
%HOMEDRIVE%\%HOMEPATH%. With help from Lee Sanders.
* FIXED: PL_recorded_external() handling ground terms. Spotted by
Volker Wysk.
* FIXED: Multi-threaded version: make sure the thread itself thinks
it exists right from the start (Lyosha Ilyukhin).
* ENHANCED rl_add_history/1 does not add a line to the history if it is
the same as the last line added (Anjo Anjewierden).
* FIXED: Errornous messages on recursively receiving (error) signals.
* FIXED: Various issues in the GUI tracer, making the trace more
intuitive, print pending exception-terms in the status window,
and fix some source-location handling problems.
* FIXED: when loading foreign libraries in `system mode', the loaded
predicates are available to the tracer as other built-in code. This
fixes tracing XPCE code.
* ADDED: option qcompile to load_files/2.
* ENHANCED: Replaced some more warnings with exceptions in pl-trace.c
* PORT: Port to MacOS X (darwin), with help from Paulo Moura.
- Various BSD enhancement to configure
- Make plld aware of the -bundle -bundle_loader stuff
- Deal with foreign symbols starting with a _
- Resolve some macro conflicts
- Various missing :: in Makefiles (needed on case-insensitive
filesystems like Mac HFS+)
* MODIFIED: compiling/0 now also succeed during execution of all directives
when compiling a state or qlf file.
* FIXED: Make compilation in `runtime' mode work again
(Lourens van der Meij).
* FIXED: GUI tracer to handle the dynamic code used for handling compound
meta-calls. Found by Holger Kanwischer. Thanks.
* FIXED: make pl-wam.c compile in `runtime mode'. Lourens van der Meij,
VERSION 5.0.1
=============
* PORT: Make sure all packages are compiled with plld and passed -fpic
to fix building shared objects on some platforms. Reported by
Michael Piefel.
* PORT: Updated config.sub and config.guess using SuSE 7.3 versions.
* FIXED: configure message if libreadline is not found.
* FIXED: Installing the manuals by Pixel <pixel@mandrakesoft.com>
* UPDATED: web-locations in help and Windows console.
* MODIFIED: is_list/1 now checks for a poper list. proper_list/1 has
been moved to library(backcomp). Thanks to Richard O'Keefe for pointing
out this non-standard behaviour.
* FIXED: name-clash in plld.c on AIX (Victor Bancroft).
VERSION 5.0.0
=============
* ADDED: menu to PLWIN.EXE (the windows normal executable). These menus
can be programmed from Prolog.
* FIXED: make/0 detection of directories to update when using MKINDEX.pl
(reported by Holger Kanwischer).
* ADDED: autoload(Bool) option to load_files/2 to allow external packages
to use the verbose/silent loading of demand-loaded files. Now used for
the pce_autoload/2 declaration.
* FIXED: random/3 in library(quintus). Thanks to Peng Te.
* FIXED: improved type-checking converting code-lists or character-lists
to text. The routine is now also faster, especially if the argument is
not a valid codelist of character list.
* MODIFIED: Renamed write_ln/1 into writeln/1 for better compatibility.
Added write_ln/1 to library(backcomp), so existing code shouldn't be
bothered.
* FIXED: sub_atom(+,-,-,+,-): crash on backtracking. Thanks to Anjo
Anjewierden.
VERSION 4.1.0
=============
* ADDED: statistics/2 to recognise the keys used by Quintus and SICStus,
for improved compatibility.
* ADDED: library(main) for simple #! scripts processing the commandling.
* FIXED: Make file_search_path/2 resolved paths relative to the current
working directory work properly after changing CWD. Reported by Bert
Bredeweg.
* ADDED: working_directory/2 to query/change working directory, providing
better compatibility and a non-hacky way to get the current directory.
* FIXED: Another problem handling ìnlined' calls for the new implementation
of call/1. Thanks to Lyosha Ilyukhin.
* FIXED/PORT: Win32 missing cleanupTerm(), some signed/unsigned problems
in debug mode.
* ENHANCED: latex2html to use \label{} following a \*section or \chapter
as base for constructing a filename for that section. Changed manual
sources to give all chapters and sections a label. This gives sections
from the SWI-Prolog HTML manual a more stable URL.
* FIXED: Problem handling ìnlined' calls for the new implementation
of call/1. Thanks to Lourens van der Meij.
* FIXED: Printing syntax errors holding ~-characters to avoid problems
with format-special characters. With patch by NIDE Naoyuki. Thanks.
* ADDED: Allow for MKINDEX.pl to control indexing process of library
directories for auto-loading.
* ADDED: call_cleanup/2 and call_cleanup/3.
* ENHANCED: handling of call/1. Instead of doing a full compilation of
the clause the temporary clause now shares terms from the goal and
is stored in the stack-frame itself. In general call/1 will be faster
when used on a term holding control-structures (,/2, ;/2, ->/2, etc)
and does not suffice from getting slower when argument-terms get bigger.
In addition, no unsolicitated copying of terms takes place.
PLEASE TEST AND BE CAREFUL ON PRODUCTION SYSTEMS!!
* FIXED: Stack overflow detection in PL_unify_list() and
PL_unify_functor() on machines without mapped stacks (i.e. using the
stack-shifter).
* FIXED: current_predicate/1 using the pattern A:B/C (i.e. generating
modules). Also added current_predicate/1 to the manual.
Reported by Tolga Konik.
* FIXED: Updated pl-term.c to fit with multi-threaded code as well as
behave properly on PL_cleanup() followed by re-initialisation.
* ENHANCED: Change errors in pl-term.c predicates to raise exceptions
rather then just warning messages.
* PORT: Now decided to allow for unaligned access only on systems where
we *know* it works and is faster then emulating it (Intel x86).
Improved hppa architecture detection. Thanks to Michael Piefel.
* ENHANCED: Better error message on common syntax-error leaving an
extra `,' or `;' before ) or end-of-clause.
* PORT: Improved configure check for non-aligned access on long values.
On the ARM processor such access doesn't result in a crash, but in
incorrect result. With help of Sergio Martinez.
* FIXED: Added overflow test for too many (>32 million) atoms. TBD:
turn into proper exception, but getting a relyable exception from
PL_new_atom() is very difficult. This at least is better than
an uncontrolled crash.
* FIXED: wait_for_input/3 crash if stream-list contains an
non-stream.
* FIXED: Handle "-F base" option in combination with -c file.pl.
Reported by Alok Singh.
* FIXED: configure when readline could not be found. Nide Naoyuki.
* ADDED: "-F base" option to plld, allows for embedding XPCE.
* FIXED: Proper type-check on 1st argument of thread_create/[2,3]
to avoid a low-level error when started with an invalid goal.
VERSION 4.0.11
==============
* PORT: Integrated patches by John Towler, mostly dealing with
building XPCE and the other SWI-Prolog packages on NetBSD. Many
apply to other BSD variations. Thanks!
* FIXED: Many typos and some clarifications in the manual pointed out
by Jack Keel. Thanks!
* FIXED: predicate reference handling when running out of stack. This
could leave the system unstable after an out-of-stack, especially
caused by dynamic code.
* FIXED: Documentation of file_directory_name/2 (Lourens van der
Meij).
* PORT: Deal with missing rl_done declarations from older readline
libraries (Nide Naoyuki).
* FIXED: Language setting for test.pl (Nide Naoyuki).
* FIXED: Check argument domain of random/1 and properly report error.
Spotted by Pablo Lopez.
* FIXED: Avoid absolute_file_name/[2,3] to dig indefinitely for
non-existing paths if there is a recursive definition in the search
paths (Bob Wielinga).
* ADDED: set_prolog_flag(verbose_file_search, true). to make
absolute_file_name/[2,3] print what it is doing.
* FIXED: Avoid crash in concat_atom/2 when called with a list holding
variables (Lourens van de Meij).
* FIXED: avoid using alloca() in recorded terms with many variables. Found
by Lyosha Ilyukhin.
* MODIFIED: current_thread(id, X) to fail silently if id is of the right
type, but the thread doesn't exist. dima@solvo.ru.
* FIXED: library(readutil), read_file_to_terms: option handling and
end-of-file detection.
* FIXED: writef('\\X'), where is is not a digit raised exception. Now
writes \X. Patch by Lyosha Ilyukhin.
* FIXED: report "x, ), y" as syntax error rather then , ')', y. Reported
by Tolga Konik.
* ADDED: installation of dotfiles (Unix Makefile)
* ADDED: edit/1 to include definition for uedit32 (Tolga Konik)
* IMPROVED: edit/1 feedback when calling user editor through shell/2.
* FIXED: Cleanup after exceptions inside the generator of
bagof/setof/findall. Left inconsistent linked-list with possibility
for random crashes on further use of these predicates. Spotted by
* ADDED: option lock to open/4, providing simple fcntl() based advisory
locks on files. POSIX only (Windows says it is, but appearently this
isn't true as they don't have fcntl()).
* MAINTAIN: Some improvements to manual generation (Serg Korolyov).
* FIXED: expected type in sub_string/5 (Pierre.Nugues)
VERSION 4.0.10
==============
* FIXED/ENHANCED: Win32: Various issues around installation.
* FIXED: Prefer %HOMEDRIVE%\%HOMEPATH% over %USERPROFILE% for expanding
~ on Windows.
* FIXED: MT version: cleanup mutex after closing a stream. Memory leak
detected by Andrew V. Diatchkov.
* PORT: On machines using FPE rather then IEEE754 math error reporting
supporting the fpsetmask() interface, use this interface to make math
errors IEEE754 compliant. This applies to FreeBSD upto 3.x. Thanks
to NIDE Naoyuki for a clear explanation and fix.
* MODIFIED: Windows. If Prolog was started as <exe> <file.pl> and file.pl
is a script file, change directory to the directory holding the <file.pl>.
This makes starting a script by opening it from the explorer and dragging
a script on plwin.exe behave the same.
* FIXED: Mistake handling script arguments (#!): forgotten string
termination.
* FIXED: "nmake /f makefile.mak DBG=true install" to install .PDB files for
all .EXE and .DLL files making up SWI-Prolog.
* ADDED: Allow single-keystroke selection of edit/1 with upto 10
alternatives.
* PORT: deal with latest libreadline that renamed
filename_completion_function into rl_filename_completion_function.
Thanks to Lourens van der Meij.
* ADDED: edit/1 now merges more specific with more general matches:
matching just a file is overruled by a match on the same file with
a line number. This implies that edit(Pred), where Pred is the
name of a predicate in a file with the same name will immediately
jump to the predicate.
* FIXED: Two more mutex handling problems with patch contributed by
Emerson dos Santos.
* FIXED: with_mutex/2 deadlock, reported by Lyosha.
* ADDED: library(socket): tcp_setopt/2 to set options on sockets.
* FIXED: make library(socket) ready for multi-threaded operation.
* FIXED: plld detection of multi-threaded version. Patch by
Kirill Evstigneev.
* FIXED: wait_for_input/3 to check for input buffered in the Prolog
stream. Reported by Leonid V. Khramov.
* FIXED: profiler/2 not to reset profile statistics. Spotted by
Mike Elston.
* FIXED: <, >, =<, etc to handle user-defined arithmetic functions
properly. Reported by Emerson dos Santos.
* ADDED: library(mime) as part of the clib package for parsing MIME
serialized objects. Requires maildrop development libraries installed.
Currently Unix only.
* MAINTAIN: Added "nmake /f makefile.mak DBG=true" to Windows building
suite to make a version ready for debugging using MSVC. Still to
to: install all .pdb during "nmake /f makefile.mak DBG=true" install.
VERSION 4.0.9
=============
* ADDED: 0.5 second delay after printing an ERROR: line, making error
recovery on fast-scrolling messages easier.
* FIXED: Memory management problems in Windows version introduced
in 4.0.8.
* ADDED: PL_get_char() to accept a 1-character string, so put(" ")
writes a space.
* FIXED: Two-step import/export of predicates with special ordering
of the loading.
* FIXED: While checking the export list of a module, consider imported
predicates defined, even if they have no definition.
* ADDED: The following predicates where added to library(quintus):
compile/1, midstring/[3-6], date/1, subsumes_chk/2.
* ADDED: library(occurs), a Quintus compatible library for subterm
relations.
* ADDED: library(ordsets), a very partial implementation of this
Quintus compatible library.
* FIXED: compilation of pl-load.c on MacOS X (Paulo Moura).
* ADDED: library(qpforeign) to load Quintus foreign code.
VERSION 4.0.8
=============
* FIXED: Guitracer not closing a stream when tracing decompiled
(e.g. dynamic) code.
* PORT/ADDED: Started moving the trouble of compiling and linking
foreign packages into plld. It now supports the following to
generate x.so, x.dll, ... from the given object files.
plld -shared -o x object-file ...
* PORT: Lots of stuff to make SWI-Prolog compile under Cygwin, the
open source POSIX layer for Windows. Added README.cygwin for
details.
VERSION 4.0.7
=============
* FIXED: stream_property/2 to report close_on_abort. Was documented,
but not implemented ...
* ADDED: Informational print message when abort closes a stream.
* ADDED: close_hook to IOSTREAM to allow setting a foreign hook on the
closure of any stream
* ADDED: library(memfile) to the package clib providing streams to
memory-buffers.
* ADDED: library(cgi) from package clib is now standard part of the
Windows distribution.
* ADDED: stream_property/2 and set_stream/2 set and query the buffer mode
of existing streams. Also added eof_action(Action) and
close_on_abort(Bool) to set_stream/2.
* MODIFIED: The sequence X=!, X doesn't cut any longer as this was
in conflict with the ISO standard (Bart Demoen).
* FIXED: Memory leak when an exception is thrown from the generator
of findall/3, bagof/3 or setof/3. Reported by Bart Demoen.
* FIXED: Possible infinite loop looking for attached state. Spotted with
fix by Nide Naoyuki. Thanks!
* PORT: Added various issues to make SWI-Prolog compile on BeOS. Thanks
to Axel Doerfler.
* FIXED: Make plld using -lplmt if prolog is multi-threading. Reported
by Sergey Tikhonov.
* ADDED: Documentation for library(check), library(registry),
library(netscape) and library(url).
* ADDED: library(readutil) with some utility predicates to read larger
units from streams and files. Started structured documentation of
the library in the SWI-Prolog reference manual.
* ADDED: simple/1 to quintus compatibility library. Also exported some
more of the predicate-based arithmetic from there.
* ADDED: Notes on slight but useful difference between ISO and SWI
exception-handling to the manual of throw/1. Thanks to Bart Demoen.
* ENHANCED/FIXED: expand_file_name/2. Problems when expanding to files
holding wildcards in their name and removing the limit on matching files
(was 1024). Completely re-written the filesystem code. Pattern-matching
code is retained.
* FIXED: include/1, reported by Sebastian Sardina. Bug introduced in
4.0.4.
VERSION 4.0.6
=============
* PORT: Fixed PL_unify_term() and calls to distinguish between int and
long. User foreign-code that must be portable to 64-bit should verify
their calls.
* PORT: Fixed string-handling on 64-bit platforms. Made the compilation
of all tools and standard libraries fairly clean on the INTEL Itanium
(Merced) processor using gcc and Linux. Thanks to the SuSE team for
providing access to their hardware.
Make all default stack-limits a factor of the word-length
* PORT: Included some patches from the SuSE team.
* ENHANCED: MT-Version: install libpl.a as libplmt.a for the
multi-threaded version.
* FIXED: MT-Version: open xterm for thread on systems using the
/dev/pts filesystem. On these terminals the xterm is started
using <basename of slave>/<descriptor>
* FIXED: MT-Version: deadlock and corruption problem. Modified
mutex-structure slightly, so new problems may have been be
introduced.
VERSION 4.0.5
=============
* FIXED: Actually make re-hashing predicates work. This bug causes
large (dynamic) predicates that are queried while they are build
to show linear rather than constant-time access behaviour. Performance
difference on victim programs can be dramatic!
* ENHANCED: GNU-readline interface. Detect useful additions from readline
4.2, avoid type-conflicts and handle re-entrance through XPCE much more
cleanly as well as aborts.
* PORT: Many C-compiler warnings, making the native IRIX cc compile
SWI-Prolog silently. Improved detection of wait() variations.
Thanks to Jean Wang for providing me with access to their machine.
* ENHANCED: Handling of prolog_edit:select_location/3. Enhancement
exploited by XPCE to use GUI-based selection if running from GUI.
* ADDED: -s file to load a script-file in addition to the user
initialisation file.
* ADDED: -q commandline option to make the system operate silently.
* ADDED: PrologScript support using #!, providing direct scripting
in Unix and additional parameters on MS-Windows.
* FIXED: Wipe the anonymous clauses for meta-calling on $dcall/1 as
soon as possible. Reported by Stefan Mueller.
* ADDED: Save home in saved-state for class development and kernel. This
enables saved-states to find the installed SWI-Prolog. Especially
useful for Windows.
* ADDED: Save default stack limits in the Windows registry and add a
menu item to the manpce/0 File/Edit Preferences menu to manage these
registry settings.
VERSION 4.0.4
=============
* FIXED: Problem in GUI tracer tracing predicates loaded from ?- [user].
* MODIFIED: The file-reading predicates (consult, use_module, load_files,
etc.) no longer change current input to the file loaded. This implies
that read/1 and friends read from the current input before the load
predicate was started rather then the file we are loading from.
* FIXED: Setting break-points on facts, or in general on the last
(I_EXIT or I_EXITFACT) instruction of a clause.
VERSION 4.0.3
=============
* ADDED: New hooking system for help/0, help/1 and apropos/1.
* FIXED: Allow for -f "c:\..." in Windows.
* ENHANCED: Moved boot/listing.pl to the library, reducing the
footprint and startup time. Also modernised the code a bit,
allow for hooks, so listing(class->method) lists an XPCE method
and allow for partial listing: listing(foo(a, _)) to get only
the clauses for which a unifies to the first argument.
* FIXED: tracer not to trap cut-port in system predicates (GUI).
* FIXED: Atom-GC problem: global options structured used pointers
to string of unlocked atoms.
* ENHANCED: the GUI debugger. Too much to name it here.
* INTERNAL: Moved message-activation of spy and nospy predicates to
foreign-code to make sure it gets always called.
* FIXED: Bug in recorded database, reported by Michael Heerdegen.
* FIXED: Removed trace of rl_add_history()
* FIXED: Handling of :- dynamic Module:Name/Arity in PceEmacs
cross-referencer.
* FIXED: Cleanup of code for setting break-points. Make this code
work again from PceEmacs.
* ENHANCED: prolog_to_os_filename(-Pl, +Os) to convert 8+3 filenames
to long filenames.
* ENHANCED: Allow setting spy-point from PceEmacs.
* CLEANUP: Replace some more warnings with exceptions.
* ENHANCED: library(url) for breaking down and constructing URL strings
with some new functionality. Additions by Lukas Faulstich. Also
fixed a dangling choice-point in decoding a www-encoded string.
* ENHANCED: Moved tty_size/2 from library(tty) to built-in, exploiting IOCTL
calls to fetch the terminal size when available. This make tty_size/2
return the actual values rather than constant values from the moment of
startup. Reported by Robert van Engelen.
VERSION 4.0.2
=============
* FIXED: Memory leak in PL_get_chars() using CVT_WRITE. Reported by
Marcin Golebski.
* INSTALL: export CIFLAGS=/path/to/local/include should now be
honoured correctly by configure (Lukas Faulstich)
* FIXED: absolute_file_name/3 not to trust its cache.
* ADDED: callable/1 for better compatibility.
* FIXED: $qlf_info/4 to request information on QLF files. Also turned
a couple of common warnings into proper exceptions.
* FIXED: Avoid the usage of the appearently badly supported Win32 function
GetFileInformationByHandle(), now using GetFileSize(). This fixes some
false-alarm about not being able to find the system resources.
* REMOVED: ed/1, also from the backward compatibility module. Edit/1
is the generic editing front-end.
* FIXED: writeq(a(b,c,(d,e))), reported by Joachim Katzer.
* FIXED: Memory leak in expand_file_name/2. Reported by Daniel Cote.
* FIXED: Print error-locations in files holding the ~-character.
Thanks to Mike Maxwell.
VERSION 4.0.1
=============
* PACKAGE: Many installation patches, added libraries, notably to
the XPCE subsystem.
* ADDED: Skeleton dotfiles for both Prolog and XPCE to the dotfiles
directory.
* FIXED: plrc utility for modifying archives. Thanks to Lourens
van der Meij.
* FIXED: ANSI-C incompatibility, breaking compilation using AIX cc
(Sterling Smith).
* FIXED: end_of_file issues in readln/[1,2,5] (library(readln)) and
modernised the code a bit.
* FIXED: Write out-of-range floating point numbers properly (Bart Demoen).
VERSION 4.0.0
=============
* ADDED: Integrated generally useful packages and the now Open source
XPCE GUI toolkit into the source and binary distribution.
* ADDED: Integrated NMAKE makefiles for building on MS-Windows. Requires
Windows-NT or 2000 to build, but result works on all Win32 platforms.
* FIXED: Instantiation problems in source_file/2, reported by
Richard O'Keefe.
* FIXED/MODIFIED: DDE Server (Windows) returns data as atom instead of
list of character codes. It treads the data as a 0-terminated string.
VERSION 3.4.5
=============
* FIXED: missing ports in the tracer when the choicepoint is pruned by
a cut.
* FIXED: reference-counting problem in exit(Block, Return). Thanks
to Robert van Engelen.
* FIXED: arithmetic to detect overflow of negative floats properly
(Richard O'Keefe).
* FIXED: MT-Version: allow calling utility threads/0 from an exit
hook. Improve error message when joining `myself'. Reported by
Andrew V. Diatchkov.
* FIXED: Don't save prolog_flag àrgv'. Reported by Mark Staples.
* FIXED: MT-Version: wrong saving of undo information in
run_thread_exit_hooks(), causing a crash when a GC happens inside the
execution of an exit hook. Reported by Andrew V. Diatchkov.
* FIXED: Predicate reference-count problem trapping an undefined
procedure. Thanks to Radek Marik.
* FIXED: Some path problems installing Unix runtime environment.
Thanks to Lourens van der Meij.
VERSION 3.4.4
=============
* PORT: Fixed some compiler warnings for SunSoft C-compiler. Still
quite some left, but at least it now compiles. Thanks to
Richard O'Keefe.
* FIXED: memory stream-size if no output was written. Fixes sformat
and swrite calls not producing output. Thanks to Daniel Cote.
* FIXED: MT version: deadlock in append/1 and tell/1. Thanks to
Andrew Diatchkov.
* FIXED: Stop profiler in PL_cleanup(). Reported by Lourens van der Meij.
* PORT: added MacOS X required sys/malloc.h to files from rc directory.
* FIXED: compile ! in x :- (!, y -> z) to C_LCUT rather then C_CUT.
VERSION 3.4.3
=============
* FIXED: Quoted write issues around the ,. Thanks to Jan Echternach.
* PORT: Added __unix__ definition for __APPLE__ in pl-incl.h, fixing
one of the problems on MacOS X Public Beta. Also allowed for sys/malloc.h
rather then malloc.h. Thanks to Paulo Moura.
* ADDED: concat_atom/3 to work the other way around:
concat_atom(X, -, 'aap-noot-mies') --> X = [aap, noot, mies]
* ADDED: Calling PL_halt(2) on SIGHUP, forcing halt handlers to run.
* FIXED: Properly throw exception when compiling arithmetic with
unbound (but not anonymous) variable. Reported by Leo (leo@solvo.ru)
VERSION 3.4.2
=============
* FIXED: More AIX autoconf and Makefile trouble.
* FIXED: erase/1 test for clause or record. Bug introduced with the
addition of PL_record_external(). Found by Uwe Lesta. Thanks.
VERSION 3.4.2-beta-1
====================
* FIXED: open_shared_object() to raise exception instead of old printing
message and trapping the tracer. Reported by Leo (leo@solvo.ru).
* PORTABILITY: Autoconf to produce suitable linking options for AIX.
Tested on AIX 4.3.3. Also a change in the Makefile to produce a correct
SWI-Exports file in the include directory.
* FIXED: handling operators of type yfy. Reported by Johann Schumann.
* FIXED: Terminal control for raw-mode (OpenBSD, patch by Kamo Hiroyasu).
Actually a bug in OpenBSD 2.5, but the patch probably won't hurt
other systems.
* FIXED: PL_get_nchars(), used when casting Prolog-terms to char *
using the C++ interface. Spotted by Sebastien Devaux.
* FIXED: library(url), www_form_encode/2, decoding %OD%OA
* FIXED: Honour fileerrors/2 to supress errors on file-operations.
VERSION 3.4.1
=============
* FIXED: Serious redesign of the plwin.exe interaction window. Should
fix the Windows 95 and 98 crash problems while exiting Prolog.
* ADDED: PL_cleanup(): Run all cleanup hooks but do not terminate the
process. This fixed various memory leaking problems.
* IMPROVED: GC policy to try a few garbage collections just before
running out of stack.
* FIXED: abort to enable tail-recursion optimisation.
* FIXED: Handling PL_throw() exceptions during inlined foreign calls.
* MODIFIED: expand_term/2 doesn't call rules anymore if the argument is
unbound. This should make error recovery a bit more elegant.
* FIXED: MT-version: do not handle keyboard interrupt except for the
main thread.
* FIXED: Garbage collection to restore signal mask properly if foreign
code plays around with the signal mask.
* FIXED: MT-version: Avoid assertion failure in running subthreads
on halt.
* FIXED: MT-version: Avoid deadlock when closing files on halt.
* ADDED: Check for interrupts in backtracking code to allow interrupting
some tight loops (repeat, fail) in Windows and thread_signal/2 to these
in the MT version.
<Released as w32pl340.exe, using #2 in title of installation>
* INSTALLATION: Win32: Removed local copy of msvcrt.dll and perform
version control installing msvcrt.dll globally.
* ADDED: Win32 to check for interrupts while doing atom-completion,
allowing for interrupt using Control-C.
* FIXED: Bug in `retry' at an exception port, sometimes throwing an
assertion failure.
VERSION 3.4.0
=============
* FIXED/MODIFIED: argument order of select/3 to be according to the
de-facto standard: select(Elem, List, Rest). Please check your code,
this change is INCOMPATIBLE and does not raise a runtime error.
* UPDATED: README (home page and GNU-Emacs section), manual (GNU-Emacs)
and man/Makefile (some comments on building the documentation). Thanks
to Sam Steels.
* IMPROVED: Path presentation of edit/1.
* FIXED: Win32 notion of `home' to use <currentdrive>:/ instead of just
/, avoiding some trouble in pl-os.c
* PORTABILITY: Replaced all references to #ifdef unix with #ifdef __unix__
to avoid warnings by the latest BSD release on old-fashioned use of
the unix macro.
* FIXED: Call dieIO() before detaching loaded foreign libraries as the
file-handlers may be defined in foreign code.
* FIXED: abolish on running predicates. Thanks to Andrew V. Diatchkov.
* FIXED: at_end_of_stream/[0,1] to succeed if the next character to
read is end-of-file. Thanks to Daniel Cote.
* FIXED: Subframes when handling an exception themselves don't catch
exceptions.
* FIXED: read_term/2 subterm_positions option to return a variable
in some awkward situations.
VERSION 3.3.10
==============
* FIXED: Crash in exception-handling while running in debug mode.
* FIXED: GC bug related to destructive assignment in setarg/3 and GC
bug related to new choicepoint handling (since 3.3.6). Thanks to
Gertjan van Noord for reporting and providing access to their
Dec Alpha for tracking down the problem.
* ADDED: plld: if the default linker is the C-compiler and there are
C++ files, make the default linker the C++ compiler.
* ADDED: PL_same_compound() to test whether two compound terms are
the same term.
* MODIFIED: deleted the export of Quintus compatible statistics/2,
so this can now only be accessed as quintus:statistics(Key, Value).
* MODIFIED: Moved gensym/2 into the library(gensym) to avoid export
redefinition.
* FIXED: When using both local and global term_expansion/2
or goal_expansion/2 the local rule was tried twice and the
global not at all.
* FIXED: Handling multiple errors in compilation (exception
handling on load_files/2).
* FIXED: Added exceptions to export. Don't allow exporting
built-in predicates. Thanks to Nicos Angelopoulos.
* FIXED: Center alignment in writef (thanks to Lyosha Ilyukhin).
VERSION 3.3.9
=============
* FIXED: Install boot.prc (the default Prolog bootfile) as
boot<wordlength>.prc, so the Prolog home directory can be
shared between machines with different wordlength.
Thanks to David Starks-Browning.
* FIXED: Garbage collector bug. Only relevant for people using
the non-standard setarg/3 predicate (trail was marked after
choicepoint stack, causing unwanted early-reset of
trail-references). Thanks to Rolf Socher.
* FIXED: Problem in tail-recursion optimisation when using the
source debugger (or actually the prolog_event_hook/1 callback
used by the source debugger).
* FIXED: Depth-limit handling in write_term for the head of a list.
Thanks to Lyosha Ilyukhin.
* FIXED: qsave_program/2: Saving the unknown flag. Thanks to
Robert van Engelen.
* FIXED: Translation of negation in DCG rules (Stefan Berghofer)
* ADDED: Glossary of terms to the manual.
* ISO: Use exceptions for errors on length/2 and sort/2.
* FIXED: hash_term/2 for floating point numbers on machines where
sizeof(double) != sizeof(long)*2;
* ADDED: Prolog flag àbort_with_exception' to choose between abort
using exceptions and forced abort.
* FIXED: Configure to disallow non-aligned memory access on the alpha,
(OSF/1), even as this just causes a message being printed. Thanks
to Gernot Salzer.
VERSION 3.3.8
=============
* FIXED: exception-handling problem.
* MODIFIED: Run at_halt/1 hooks in *reverse* order of registration. This
behaviour makes scheduling hooks generally easier and is more consistent
to (for example) POSIX atexit(). Also properly handle exceptions from
at_halt/1 hooks.
* FIXED: Handling 0-bytes in sub_atom/5 and sub_string/5. Thanks to
Mike Elston.
* FIXED: Added initialisation for LC_CTYPE locale used by char_type/2 and
code_type/2.
* FIXED: Memory leaking in $write_on_string, used by swritef and sformat.
With help from Paul Sephton, who pointed the exact problem in the C-code.
VERSION 3.3.7
=============
* FIXED: \+ (true, !, fail): ! cutted local choice-point created by
\+ (same for if->then;else). Thanks to Pierre Nugues.
* FIXED: VM listing for the C_LCUT instruction.
* MODIFIED: Syntax error exceptions on file-realated streams are now
reported as error(syntax_error(Message), file(File, Line, CharNo)).
(reported by Robert van Engelen, who concluded that getting character
offset was no longer supported).
* ADDED: on_signal/3 to report foreign-functions bound using PL_signal().
* FIXED: current_signal/3.
* ADDED: PL_new_atom_nchars() and PL_get_atom_nchars() to create and query
atoms using length/chars notation rather than 0-terminated strings.
* ADDED: use expand_file_name/1 in load_files/2, underlying all consult
and compile predicates. This allows for ?- ['~/.foo'].
* ADDED: PL_record_external() Experimental recorded-database support
providing records that are independent from the SWI-Prolog symbol-table
and thus can be stored in external databases.
* FIXED: Position handling with \r in a format/2 format spec.
* FIXED: Deal properly with 0-bytes in the format string for format/[2,3].
Still a bug: format('~t~w~72|~n', [ 'hello\0\world' ]) (write arguments
with `pending rubber' holding 0-bytes).
* FIXED: Deal properly with 0-characters in QLF files and saved-states.
Reported by Mike Elston.
* FIXED: Doc says PL_get_string_chars(), Impl PL_get_string(). Fixed
in the impl. using a macro. Thanks to Nicos Angelopoulo.
VERSION 3.3.6#2
===============
* WIN32: Switched back to MSVC 5.0 as 5.0 cannot read the .lib files of
6.0.
* FIXED: get_char/[1,2] and friends to return end_of_file rather then
'\255'.
VERSION 3.3.6
=============
* FIXED: read, etc. not to raise an exception if the argument is
instantiated (reported by Mike Elston).
* ADDED: make_directory/1 and delete_directory/1.
* (RE)ADDED: library(gensym) providing reset_gensym/[0,1]
* FIXED: discarding the choice-point of current_op/3 could
lead to an infinite loop.
* FIXED: Data alignment problem in recorded database on machines
with sizeof(int) != sizeof(long) (Alpha). Thanks to Christian
Zuckschwerdt.
* FIXED: Data inconsistency causing GC to crash. Notably applicable
to 32-bit RISC machines (SPARC for example). Thanks to Lourens
van der Meij.
* FIXED: clause/2 to deal properly with imported clauses (fixes
listing of imported predicates).
* FIXED: Clauses-index handling in loading .qlf files as well as
honouring reindex requests on running predicates. Thanks to
* FIXED: -DALLOC_DEBUG to function properly again.
* FIXED: Initialisation of functorDef->flags for builtin functors.
Symptom: reported undefined on $throw, $apply, etc.
* INTERNAL: Introduced explicit choice-points on the environment
stack. The design of the VM interpreter has been simplified a
lot by this change. Deterministic code is a little faster,
non-deterministic code a little slower and compiled ccntrol
structures (;, ->, \+) are a lot faster.
<available as V3_3_5 from the CVS repository>
* FIXED: plwin.exe ... -- file.pl. Thanks to Lourens van der Meij.
* MODIFIED: close/1 works as close(Stream, [force(true)]) if the
stream has an error condition when starting the close.
* MODIFIED: Replaced warning on atom_prefix/2 with exception.
* FIXED: Sflush() to return 0 rather then the number of characters
written on success.
* ADDED: Messages for new error(limit_exceeded(Limit, Max), _) and
error(goal_failed(Goal), _).
* FIXED: Proper reporting of I/O errors reading/writing streams.
* FIXED: writeq to handle | as a solo-char and avoid extra space
between multiple '('.
* FIXED: code_type(97, to_lower(97)) failed. Reported by Joachim Katzer.
Also fixed code_type(L, lower(U)), to non-deterministically generate
pairs of upper- and lowercase charactercodes.
* FIXED: crash if a complex goal-argument to a meta-calling predicate
(call/1, findall/3, etc.) is deterministic upto the last call (so
this is executed tail-recursively). This patch also applies to
executing and removed dynamic predicates. Thanks to Uwe Lesta.
VERSION 3.3.4
=============
* LICENSE: Announce GPL'ed status in banner.
* FIXED: Path problems in RPM-file (actually in path-canonisation).
Thanks to Michael Rohr.
* ADDED: pl.lsm (Linux Software Map Entry) to the source distribution
* INSTALL: Fixed `make install-version'. Thanks to Joachim Katzer.
* PORT: Removed accidental C++-style comment from pl-wam.c. Thanks to
Joachim Katzer.
* INSTALL: rel-ln to avoid using grep -q (GNU-grep specific). Thanks to
Joachim Katzer.
* FIXED: avoid call to win_registry_get_value/3 if this is not defined
(Unix version). Otherwise check/0 reports this predicate as
undefined.
VERSION 3.3.3
=============
* WIN32: Added support in the installation for alternative file-extension.
Added win_registry_get_value/3 to fetch registry values.
* FIXED: PL_cons_functor_v() to read before writing, so it can overwrite
one of the input term-references like similar functions.
* FIXED: Summary description of subset/2.
* FIXED: Actually look for pl.ini in the Prolog home directory (Windows
version).
* FIXED: Bug in PL_unify_term(), causing incorrect `format error' messages.
* FIXED: MT-version: deadlock in stream-handling.
* FIXED: Test for existence of files and directories in expand_file_name/2.
* FIXED: Handling exceptions from make while updating the library index.
Thanks to Bob Wielinga.
VERSION 3.3.2
=============
* PORT: Modified Unix stack-expansion to look for POSIX.1b SA_SIGINFO
support, fixed various portability problems in src/test/mmap.c.
* FIXED: Dangling trail-references from trimStacks(). Often causes
crashes after out-of-stack errors.
* FIXED: Ensure local stack-allocation on machines lacking hardware
stack guarding.
* COMPAT: Renamed argument-names `new' in console.h to allow for loading in
C++ projects (Uwe Lesta).
* FIXED: serious mistake in addMultipleBuffer(), causing various conflicts.
Introduced in 3.3.1.
VERSION 3.3.1
=============
* INSTALL: Integrated patches from SuSE to improve RPM generation.
* PORTABILITY: Fixed assumption that a double is twice as big as a long.
This causes an incompatibility in the .QLF format. All .QLF files should
be recompiled to deal with this version.
* INTERNAL: recorded database to avoid unaligned retrieval using
memcpy(). Provides a little extra speed notably in findall, setof
and friends, at the cost of some (temporary) memory.
* FIXED: scan_options() for machines where sizeof(int) != sizeof(long).
With help from Bob Moniot.
* FIXED: configure work-around for shells providing $PWD, but with the
wrong value ...
* FIXED: time_t problem in convert_time/2. Added exception to instantiation
errors of convert_time/[2,8].
* FIXED: Portability problem for PPC chip (and possibly others) in
PL_unify_term(), causing crashes at various places on affected
processors. The new implementation is probably a litle faster too.
With help of Paulo Moura.
* FIXED: a few type conversions for the 64-bit versions. Just making
the compiler silent.
* FIXED: Changed singleton error to singleton warning using a direct
call to printMessage() rather then the out-of-date warning(). Reported
by Pierre Nugues.
VERSION 3.3.0 (final)
=====================
* FIXED: Undesired interaction between abort and exceptions.
* MODIFIED: Simplified the interface around the undocumented PL_dispatch()
call to improve interactive response on exceptions, etc.
* ADDED: PL_is_initialised() to test whether Prolog is initialised. Also,
when calling PL_initialise() twice the second call is a no-op. Made
PL_initialise() thread-safe, so concurent threads can call it.
* MODIFIED: Unix version no longer installs Windows specific library
files (dde.pl, registry.pl, progman.pl).
* DELETED: libraries toolkit.pl, gensym.pl, qlfutil.pl. Obscure and
out of date functionality.
* ADDED: library url.pl: parsing URL's
VERSION 3.3.0 (release-14)
==========================
* FIXED: apply/2. Lourens again!
==========================
* FIXED: Handling of ! in call/1 (was disabled for debugging purposes).
* FIXED: retractall/1: could crash.
* FIXED: apply/2 if the first argument is not an atom. Thanks to
* FIXED: thread_get_message/1 (deleted all messages from queue if
the first was extracted).
* ADDED: message_to_string/2 for translating message-terms to text.
==========================
* PORT: MT version: provided support for systems lacking recursive
(UNIX98) mutexes, amoung which Solaris 2.5. With patch received
from Frank Cornelissen. Thanks!
==========================
* INTERNAL: Got -DCOUNTING cpp option to work again for statistics
on the virtual machine.
* ADDED: PL_agc_hook() to register a hook into the atom garbage
collector.
* PERFORMANCE: Changed clause/2 to fully exploit clause-indexing.
* PERFORMANCE: Changed interface of firstClause()/findClause() for
somewhat faster indexing.
* MODIFIED: Allow for abolish of static procedures, unless the iso
prolog flag is set to true.
==========================
* FIXED: MT version: ensure calling thread_exit/1 gets the thread_at_exit
handlers called. Improved handling of halt/[0,1] by cancelling the other
threads first (incomplete).
* FIXED: open_null_stream/1 to register the stream open for writing
(resulted in permission error).
* FIXED: tracer to disable tail-recursion optimisation again (resulted
in poorly readable trace output).
* FIXED: clause/[2,3] not resetting predicate-reference properly.
* PERFORMANCE: Exploit hashed first-argument indexing by retract/1.
Schedule predicate clause collection to avoid quadratic behaviour
of retract/1.
* ADDED: code_type/2: type `xdigit' for hexadecimal digits.
* ADDED: Support for deeply nested right-recursive terms to the
compiler. Limit (stack-overflow) spotted by Bob Wielinga.
=========================
* ADDED: option syntax_errors to read_term. Modified read_clause to
use syntax_errors(dec10).
* FIXED: Performance problem in registerAtom(), slowing down loading
large files by a factor 10. Caused by atom garbage collector.
Reported by Luis Iraola Moreno.
* FIXED: Avoid tracing $messages:prolog_message/3 after ?- trace.
* FIXED: Force a linebreak after trace-output from trace/1.
=========================
* FIXED: Get tracer option `show context' working again.
* FIXED: Module-handling in trace/1 (when using in module user).
* FIXED: Printing messages from C.

=========================
* FIXED: Path-handling problem loading Quick Load Files from a different
location then they were created. Notably affects handling of
discontiguous.
* FIXED: File association in Windows to allow for additional arguments
(notably stack-expansion).
* MODIFIED: moved all internal messages to $messages:prolog_message/3
rather then prolog:message/3, so all messages can be overrulled by
adding clauses to prolog:message/3.
* ADDED: Printing of goals by the trace through print_message/2 to allow
for better tailuring by the user.
* FIXED: Bug in call/1 on ground-calls and very specific control.
* FIXED: Incorrect verification in SECURE-mode in pl-bags.c (maintenance
only).
* FIXED: Bug in handling logical-update view of assert/retract. Thanks
to Paolo Moura.

=========================
* FIXED: Problem in the debugger, leading to a possible crash on the exit
port (very complicated conditions).
* ISO: Added the Prolog flags unknown and debug. Moved unknown/2, debug
and nodebug predicates to new library(edinburgh).
* ISO: Added current_predicate/1
* ISO: clause/2 errors.
* FIXED: clause/2: clauses for which the body executes in a different
module as the head to tag the body with the body-context module.
* ISO: Added exceptions to =../2 and functor/3. In old SWI-Prolog,
these predicates failed silently on all errors.
* ADDED: ISO char_conversion/2 and friends. They are not really enforced
though.
* ADDED: ISO option variables(-Vars) to read_term/[2,3]
* FIXED: number_chars/2 exception on illegal number-syntax.
* FIXED: handling ! in call/1, \+/1 and condition-part of if-then-else
* FIXED: time/1 library predicate to pass exceptions correctly.
* ISO: renamed misnamed close2/2 to close/2.
* ISO: Renamed flush/0 to flush_output/0. Added backward compatibility
flush/0 to library(backcomp).
* ISO: Enforced number for arg1 in number_chars/2 and number_codes/2.
Succeed on number_codes(15, "0xf") and similar cases (i.e. if both
arguments are instantiated, convert the string and match the number
as there are multiple representations of numbers.
* ISO: raising permission-error when reading from an output stream
or writing to an input stream.
* FIXED: Put ìso' feature back in place (was lost in rewrite of
prolog-flag handling.
* ISO: fixed exceptions thrown on atomic non-evaluable term (i.e.
A is foo).
* FIXED: atom_concat/3 on backtracking.
* FIXED: Problems with non-deterministic foreign predicates raising
exceptions on the first call for which the cleanup made assuptions
on the returned context. Thanks to Frank Cornelissen.
* FIXED: Layout problem in the online manual
=========================
* WIN32: get_time/1 now returns the time in 1/1000 of a second rather
then whole seconds.
* FIXED: expand_file_name/2 and wildchard_match/2 for filenames containing
uppercase characters on systems with case-sensitive filenames (Unix).
Also fixed for handling pattern and names containing non-ASCII characters.
* MODIFIED: expand_file_name/2 and wildchard_match/2 to raise exceptions
on instantiation errors.
=========================
* FIXED: unload_foreign_library/[1,2] calling of the uninstall hook.
Might fix exit problems in the Windows version.
* ADDED: load_foreign_library/[1,2] now first looks for lib<D>.dll
if the SWI-Prolog kernel is compiled for debugging. That should
simplify debugging foreign code under Windows.
* FIXED: current_prolog_flag(windows, X) on windows (returned false).
* FIXED: retractall/1 and retract/1 not to complain while accessing
undefined procedures. The addressed procedures are flagged dynamic.
* FIXED: Multithreaded creation of new keys in recorda/2 and friends.
* PORT: Prolog threads to Solaris. Tested using SPARC/Solaris 2.7, compiled
using egcs 1.1. Not dealt (yet) with different cpu-time measurements
(Linux: per thread, Solaris: per process).
* FIXED: Stack problem in asynchronous signal handling, also influencing
thread_signal/2.
* FIXED: assertion-error in get_stream_handle() if a stream is set to
be the alias for multiple of the `standard' stream and the stream is
closed.
* ADDED: Atoms can now hold 0-bytes. API: *_nchars() FLI-functions
added to put, unify and get text using length/char *. No consequences
in Prolog.
* ADDED: atom garbage collection. See release-notes in the manual.
API: prolog-flag àgc_margin', garbage_collect_atoms/0, PL_register_atom(),
PL_unregister_atom().
* FIXED: get_single_har/1 to read from user_input, seeing and friends
*not* to return current_input ... Thanks to Cortelli Paolo.
* ADDED: sub_string/5 modelled after ISO sub_atom/5. moved substring/4
to library(backcomp).
* FIXED: exception raised by atom_concat/3.
* FIXED: locking problem in set_input/1, set_output/1, see/1 and
tell/1 (Multi-threaded version).
* ADDED: C interface for accessing an embedded Prolog engine
from multiple threads.
* FIXED: incorrect instantiation-errors from sub_atom/5.
=========================
* FIXED: Windows installation to add icons to the program manager.
* PORT: Win32: renamed console.dll to plterm.dll to avoid name-conflict
with Windows 2000 system DLL.
* PORT: HTML Manual: renamed Index.html to DocIndex.html and place
the titlepage in index.html. Should fix problems with systems
with case-insensitive files and without links (e.i. Windows).
* ADDED: ISO predicates close/2, unify_with_occurs_check/2,
stream_property/2, sub_atom/5. Moved stream_position/3 and
current_stream/3 from built-in to library(quintus).
* FIXED: $term_complexity/2, which determines whether or not a term is
too large to store as a toplevel variable. Together with the other
changes, the toplevel and debugger no longer crash on cyclic terms.
* ADDED: {put,get,peek}_{byte,char,code}/[1,2] predicates, providing
ISO compliant character I/O.
* ADDED: write_term/[2,3] options `module' for defining the module
from which to use operators and character_escapes to explicitly
override character-escape handling.
* FIXED: Don't set system-mode and hide-childs for already defined
predicates (for XPCE's spypce/1 problems. Reported by Peter Mott).
* FIXED: handling portray(Bool) option of write_term/2.
* ADDED: Prolog flags toplevel_print_options and debugger_print_options
to control printing of answers and goals by the debugger.
* ADDED: max_depth(D) option to write_term/[2,3] to limit the printing
depth.
* ADDED: `W' option to format/[2,3], providing access to write_term/2:
e.g. format('~W', [Term, [quoted(true)]]).
* FIXED: create include directory (Windows-build from the plain sources).
Uwe Lesta.
=========================
* ADDED: printing PLTHREADS from pl -dump-runtime-variables. plld
automatically pushes -D_REENTRANT to the C and C++ options of pl
is multi-threaded.
=========================
* FIXED: errorneous `redefined' messages.
* MODIFIED: Implemented `logical update-view' for dynamic predicates!
* MOVED: time/1 and profile/3 and friends is now in library(statistics)
rather then built-in.
* DELETED: qload/1. Just load the .qlf-file will do the same.
* ADDED: message_hook/3 hook into print_message/2. print_message_lines/3
(All Quintus/SICStus compatible). This mechanism is now used for all
errors and warnings and for a growing number of system messages.
exception/3 using `warning' has been deleted. Use message_hook/3 to
hook into printing messages.
* FIXED: handling mmap() based stacks and shared object interface for
HP/UX (hppa1.1-hpux10.20). Tested build using bash, HP/UX make
and gcc-2.8.1. With thanks to Gertjan van Noord for providing
access to their machine.
* ADDED: char_type/2 and code_type/2 for fast and locale-supported
character classification.
* MODIFIED: The following aspects are now local to the module into
which they are defined: the prolog-flags character_escapes and
double_quotes and operators.
* ADDED: prolog-flag double_quotes, replacing and refining the old
style_check(+string) option, which is mapped to the new interface.
* MODIFIED: The predicates feature/2 and set_feature/2 have been renamed
to the ISO compliant current_prolog_flag/2 and set_prolog_flag/2.
Definitions of the old predicates have been moved to the
library(backcomp).
* ADDED: read-only access to system features, strict type-checking and
allow for arbitrary terms as feature-value.
* ADDED: feature(argv, Argv) to get (finally) documented access to the
commandline arguments. The '$argv'/1 has been put into the backcomp.pl
library. The Quintus compatibility unix(argv(Argv)) is still provided
as well.
* ADDED: Write exception-term if nobody catches an exception.
* FIXED: bug in filename canonisation.
* The manual-helper program pl-bite, use to pick bits of the online
manual and present them to the pager, thus protecting prolog from
receiving a broken-pipe signal has been deleted. The current version
of Prolog can deal with these errors itself.
* MODIFIED: Total rewrite of the internal I/O architecture, which
is now based on streams rather than current input/output. The
new model is required for better handling of multi-threadings
or asynchronous events. Compatibility consequences:
+ Edinburgh current stream predicates
seeing/1 is now the same as current_input/1 and returns a
stream-handle for the current input stream. Same for
telling. The predicates see/1 and tell/1 are equivalent
to set_input/1 and set_output/1 if the argument is a stream,
open/3 followed by setting the current stream otherwise.
Two new streams have been added to deal with debugging:
debug_output and debug_input. Initialy these are the same as
user_output and user_input.
* ADDED: Allow PL_new_atom() to be called before PL_initialise()
* DELETED: read_variables/[2,3]. With ISO read_term, this predicate is
obsolete. Put a backward-compatibility definition in library
backcomp.pl.
* COMPATIBILITY/ISO: All variations of read/1 and read_term/[2,3] now
generate an exception rather than printing a message to the terminal.
This also includes term_to_atom/2 and atom_to_term/3. The option
syntax_errors from read_term/[2,3] has been deleted.
* COMPATIBILITY/ISO: Introduced atom_codes/2 and modified atom_chars/2
to return a list of one-char atoms rather than a list of codes.
The atom-breaking routines now generate exceptions rather than
warnings. Same for number_chars/2 and the new number_codes/2.
Renamed concat/3 to atom_concat/3 and also allow for the pattern
-, -, +. Added concat/3 to the autoload backcomp.pl library.
* MODIFIED: PL_register_foreign() can be called with first argument
of the form <module>:<predicate> to register a predicate into a
specific module.
* ADDED: PL_FA_VARARGS flag to PL_register_foreign(), allowing for an
alternative, arity-independent calling convention to foreign-defined
predicates used by the new C++ interface.
* ADDED: Allow PL_register_foreign() to be called before PL_initialise().
This function now does lazy initialisation of the modules required to
register foreign predicates (allocation, atoms, functors, tables and
modules).
* MODIFIED: Unified Prolog-side of Unix and Windows foreign library
(.so/.dll) interface. Updated library(shlib) and manual accordingly.
The predicates dll_open/2 and friends have been deleted. Please use
open_shared_object/2 and friends, also on Windows.
* MODIFIED: PL_initialise() handling of argv[0]. Updated documentation
on how and why this argument is used. The feature symbol_file has been
deleted and replaced by the feature executable.
* DELETED: load_foreign/[2,5], symbolfile related foreign interface
primitives. On all modern OS'es we should have some form of shared
object or DLL interface for dealing with loading dynamic code. On
others, static relinking of the kernel can be used.
* FIXED: Bug in PL_get_chars() handlings lists of ascii characters and
variables. Also bug in SWI-Prolog.h. PACKAGES USING CVT_ALL OPTION
SHOULD BE RECOMPILED!
* ADDED: CVT_WRITE option to PL_get_chars() C-interface function to
get the printed representation of a term.
* FIXED: Memory alignment problem. Affects RISC/Unix machines where
inode_t and/or dev_t are larger than `word'. Same for longjmp()
data saved on the Prolog stack. With help of Johan van Rijn.
* ADDED: PL_chars_to_term() to transform a C-string into a term by
parsing.
* ADDED: -class option to plld to allow for setting the save-class
(see qsave_program/2).
* FIXED: check for prolog options if save-class is not "runtime".
* FIXED: library(tty) to be robust against style_check(+string) and
menu/3 to clear instead of simply `home'. Reported by Robert van
Engelen.
* FIXED: Parser error, failing to read /\ = X if it is the start
of a term. Reported by Robert van Engelen.
* ADDED: pl.spec to tarball to allow for rpm -tb pl-x.y.z.tar.gz
(also Jan Nieuwenhuizen)
* FIXED: Proper cleanup using `make distclean', suggested by
Jan Nieuwenhuizen.
* FIXED: Deleted temporary assert() statements from pl-rec.c.
reported by Jan Nieuwenhuizen.
* PORTABILITY: Added <stdio.h> to pl-os.c for rename() and remove()
prototypes (Linux/PPC), thanks to Paulo Moura.
VERSION 3.2.9
=============
* FIXED: Changed default C++ compiler for Windows to cl.exe. After
a bug-report from Peter Tselios.
* FIXED: config.{sub,guess} for openbsd. Contributed by Kamo Hiroyasu.
* FIXED: Documentation of mod/2 and rem/2 (arithmetic). Spotted by
Koos Dering.
* FIXED: plld -g to add /ZI /Od to the compiler options. Thanks to
Lutz Wohlrab. He also mentiones that a MSVC can't debug the joined
emulator+state: use plld -nostate, make the state separately and
use -x state to PL_initialise() in the emulator to associate the
state. All this only if you want to debug the C-code.
* IMPLEMENTATION: Base sleep/1 on usleep() if present.
* PORTABILITY: Fixed various compiler warnings on Alpha under Digital
Unix 4.0D, using egcs-1.1b.
* PORTABILITY: Added patches required for MSVC 6.0 (Windows), contributed
by Lutz Wohlrab.
* MODIFIED: Represention of atom and functor table to be MT-safe
and for the atom-table to make one step towards garbage collection.
* MODIFIED: Added exception-throwing on errors to many predicates:
record{a,z}/3, recorded/3, erase/1, current_atom/1, current_functor/2.
* FIXED: handle --name=value arguments for compilation using -c.
catch exceptions during -c compilation and exit if one happens.
* MODIFIED: the default ìnit-file' of a `runtime' saved-state is
now `none', stopping normal saved-states from reading personal
setup.
* DOCUMENTATION: Fixed various mistakes in the documentation: -c
compilation, added unix/1 to the docs.
* IMPROVED: Raised maximum limits for the stacks from 64 Mb to 128 Mb.
* FIXED: plld to quote arguments if they contain spaces. Required
on Windows to pass the SWI-Prolog include directory properly.
Thanks to Peter Tselios.
* MODIFIED: Looking for user profile file. Now searched for using
user_profile(ProfileFile), where ProfileFile is by default .plrc
on Unix and pl.ini on Windows. The default for user_profile is
., ~ on Unix and ., ~ (if it exists), SWI home and Windows directory
on Windows.
* MODIFIED: built-in predicates, with the exception of expand_file_name/2
no longer expand $ENVVAR and ~, allowing access to files with any name.
The old behaviour can be accessed by setting the feature
file_name_variables to true.
* FIXED: ( \+(!), fail ; true ) and similar cases where ! cuts
are placed in the condition-part of if-then-else. Resulted in
../src/pl-wam.c:xxxx: pl_alt: Assertion `0' failed.
* CONFIG: Allow specifying $CIFLAGS before running configure to
deal with strange locations of include files. Fixed typo in
looking for readline.h. Thanks to Stefan Mueller.
VERSION 3.2.8
=============
* FIXED: Save unknown/2 status with qsave_program/2. Reported
by Robert van Engelen.
* FIXED: include __register_frame_info and friends into the executable
(egcs 1.1.1 exception handling stuff). Should make SWI-Prolog
binaries portable between installations with different
egcs/gcc/glibc versions.
* FIXED: Exception generation for optimized arithmetic. Reported
by Robert van Engelen. Thanks.
* FIXED: qload/1 to check for predicate redefinition just as normal
loading does.
* FIXED: qload/1 to load unqualified code (i.e. if the compiled file
is not a module-file) into the context module of the qload/1 call.
Reported by Paul Sephton.
VERSION 3.2.7
=============
* MODIFIED: term_to_atom/2, atom_to_term/3 now yield an exception on
instantiation errors.
* IMPROVED: rewrote pl-read.c (read_term/2 and friends) to be fully
reentrant by removing all global variables from this module. Also
many reentrant problems solved from pl-file.c (basic file handling).
This is part of a very slow process to prepare SWI-Prolog for
multi-threading.
* ADDED/FIXED: type-checking on options list of qsave_program/2.
* DELETED: library(whereis). Function is obsolete using the new
edit/1 interface (was not documented anyway).
* FIXED: saving numbers like 0x00ff0000 to saved-state (numbers with
more than 22 bits, all whose bytes are either 00 or ff). Found by
Stefan Mueller.
* PORT: Fixes to configure to deal with alloca() and dlopen() on
SCO-Unix, both for gcc and native SCO cc. Thanks to Tamas Laufer.
* ADDED: user:prolog_file_type/2 hook. This can be used to define the
meaning of filename extensions to Prolog. All extension handling is
now based on this predicate.
* MODIFIED: absolute_file_name/3 default for file_errors option is
now èrror'. Used to be fail. file_errors(error) now throws an
existence_error exception. This behaviour is compatible to Quintus
and SICStus.
* FIXED: absolute_file_name/3 using solutions(all) option.
* FIXED: PL_handle_signels(): avoid a loop and remove dispatched signels.
This fixes Control-C handling in the Windows version. Thanks to
Bob Wielinga.
* FIXED: Quote program-name when registering the Prolog Source type under
Windows.
* FIXED: proper timing for blocking signals (Unix version), so they
are delayed during garbage collection.
* FIXED: Various issues in the GUI tracer, most related to the new
xpce-5 class-compiler.
* MODIFIED: Deleted please/3 and added the functionality to feature/2.
* FIXED: Some compiler warning in plld.c and pl-stream.c. Might have
caused problems when using characters >= 128, but quite unlikely. Reported
by Peter Ludeman.
* FIXED: 8-bit transparency of console window.
VERSION 3.2.6
=============
* FIXED: definition of last/2 to be both logical and determinitic if
applicable. Based on implementation published on comp.lang.prolog
a while ago.
* FIXED/PORTABILITY: Modified implementation of stack-allocation based
in mmap() (Many Unix systems). This makes the configuration work on
the Linux 2.2 kernels, but most likely fixes problems on many other
systems. It also avoids potentional conflicts in the stack management
with foreign code using mmap().
* FIXED: retract((p:-true)) is equivalent to retract(p). Reported
by Juan Cires Martinez.
* DOCUMENTATION: Thanks to Xavier Noria, a large number of spelling
and consistency problems have been removed from chapters 1 and 2
of the manual. Keep up the good work!
* FIXED: Avoid reentrence of the GNU readline library, as this upsets
the readline signal handling.
* ISO: load_files/2 now throws an exception rather then printing a
message if a target file does not exist.
* FIXED: Initiate hash-based indexing for integers > max_tagged_integer.
Very important if your code uses large integers and relies on indexing!
* FIXED: recognise -p option in pl -o state -c file.pl. Reported by
Lukas Faulstich. Thanks.
VERSION 3.2.4
=============
* FIXED: protocolling the input-stream on the Windows version.
* ADDED: 'm' command in tracer to examine details of the currently
pending exception.
* ADDED: Support for EWOULDBLOCK on input streams required by new
socket package.
* FIXED: wait_for_input/3 correct reporting of anonymous streams.
* ADDED: Port of wait_for_input/3 to Windows. Only works for streams
referring to sockets!
* FIXED: Get MAXPATHLEN ok for some more platforms (SCO_SV 3.2), reported
by Clive Cox. Thanks.
* FIXED: Win32: plld.exe to deal properly with the implicitely added
.exe extension of qsave_program/[1,2]. Thanks to Lutz Wohlrab.
* FIXED: Some patches to the Windows MSVC project-configuration for
building SWI-Prolog from the source-code by Lutz Wohlrab.
VERSION 3.2.3
=============
* ADDED: Win32: Some project settings and debug-options to plld contributed
by Lutz Wohlrab.
* ADDED: RPM Packages for swi-prolog, xpce and the GUI tracer. See the
new home-page.
* FIXED: Recursion problem in calling prolog_event_hook/1, causing crashes
in the graphical debugger.
* FIXED: Crash after set_feature(history, on). Thanks to Anjo Anjewierden.
VERSION 3.2.2
=============
* FIXED: Memory problem at startup. This caused startup-crashes in
Windows 95/98. Normally harmless under NT and Unix, but can cause
problems here too if the size of a saved state is an exact multiple
of the machine's page-size.
* MODIFIED: Win32: qsave_program/[1,2] now adds .exe extension if no
extension was specified.
VERSION 3.2.1
=============
* FIXED: qsave_program/[1,2] for Windows 98 and possibly other platforms.
Thanks to Uwe Lesta.
VERSION 3.2.0
=============
* WIN32: moved to MSVC 5.0 platform. Added win32 specific source
(console, uxnt libraries) to the main source-tree. Added MSVC
workspace to manage the whole building process. Good news is
that MSVC 5.0 produces considerably faster code. The Windows
and Linux versions now perform about equally on the same hardware
(SuSE 5.3 linux using egcc 1.03 vs. NT 4.0/SP4 using MSVC 5.0).
With thanks to Lutz Wohlrab.
* WIN32: Console version of SWI-Prolog (plcon.exe) no longer shows
a message-box on errors, completion of the boot-compilation, etc.
* FIXED: Win32 console (plwin.exe), various patches: a startup
threat-synchronisation problem which might explain why SWI-Prolog
crashes immediately at startup sometimes on windows 95/98 (NT appears
more robust for invalid API calls), two memory management problems in
the window-resize code and some small glitches.
* ADDED: Win32 version: exported _PL_get_arg() (non-checking PL_get_arg()).
* FIXED: more patches to PL_Q_PASS_EXCEPTION handling of PL_open_query()
and PL_call_predicate().
* FIXED: avoid a debugger trap of an exception if the exception is catched
in an outer-context and passed over the intermediate foreign-call using
PL_Q_PASS_EXCEPTION. Required for XPCE-5.
* FIXED: PL_cons_*() to make references in the proper direction. Notably
caused problems when constructing a term holding variables for PL_throw().
* ADDED: PL_record(), PL_recorded(), PL_erase()
* ADDED: edit(Name) now also finds system-predicates.
* FIXED: toplevel spy, listing, etc. no longer trigger the tracer
if the predicate doesn't exists.
* ADDED: pl.spec, RPM specification-file. Contributed by Tony Nugent.
Thanks!
* INSTALL: use mkdir -p if available (detected by configure).
* FIXED: meta_predicate/1 emulation in library(quintus) to deal with
:- meta_predicate Module:Head.
* ADDED: goal_expansion/2 and expand_goal/2 to deal with expansion of
individual goals.
* MODIFIED: _PL_get_xpce_reference() dropped object-qualifier
argument, which was needed for Alpha XPCE 5.0.0, but not
for subsequent XPCE versions.
VERSION 3.1.2
=============
* FIXED: SIO_MAGIC declaration of SWI-Prolog standard streams.
* ADDED: Indicate debugger status in prompt.
* FIXED: Windows: correctly maintains stream character-count when
writing newlines to a text-stream. Reported by Pete Yule.
MODIFIED: Calling interface for S__updatefilepos(), making binary
foreign code using Sgetc() or Sgetchar() incompatible. Code is
compatible at the source-level. This includes XPCE 5.0.0!
Using old binary packages raises a [FATAL ERROR message].
* FIXED/MODIFIED: PL_get_chars to convert floats using the feature
float_format. Hinted by Pete Yule.
* FIXED: Increased tmp buffer-size in PL_get_chars() to deal with
printing very large floating point numbers.
* FIXED: handling of PL_Q_CATCH_EXCEPTION/PL_Q_PASS_EXCEPTION
* FIXED: PL_open_resource() now passes exceptions, instead of
catching (and printing) them. Also fixed setting errno to
ENOENT.
* ADDED: feature(iso, Bool) to select ISO conformance in weird
places, such as the ISO standard order of terms which dictates
all floats precede all integers. Default is false.
* MODIFIED: compare/3 affecting sort, msort, keysort and @</2 and
family now compare compound terms based on arity first and then
alphabetically instead of the other way around! The new behaviour
is compliant to the ISO standard and (at least) Quintus Prolog.
Noted by Jonathan Hodgson.
* MODIFIED: predsort/3 to call the comparison as compare/3, so
predsort(compare, L1, L2) has the same semantics as sort(L1, L2).
NB: This implies the programs using predsort/3 should be MODIFIED!
Try explain(predsort/3) to find references in your program.
* FIXED: writing quoted atoms holding characters >= 128. Reported
by Lukas Faulstich.
* ADDED: convert_time(+TimeStamp, -String) as an interface to
the POSIX ctime() function.
* MODIFIED: edit/[0,1], ed/[0,1] are replaced by a new extensible
dynamic-load library(edit), providing only edit/1. This predicate
can be extended to locate any type of òbject' and call any editor.
See manual for details.
* ADDED: module support for DCG expansion, correctly translating
<module>:<head> --> <body> as well as <head> --> <module>:<dcg-goal>.
* ADDED: guarding and printing of exceptions during initialisation,
making debugging a little easier.
* FIXED: PL_register_foreign() to lock up predicates as system
predicates when called in `system' mode.
* FIXED: passing frame references for the tracer-interception.
* MODIFIED: renamed module explain (from library(explain)) into
prolog_explain to avoid conflicts with user module names.
* FIXED: catch/3 using pointer to non-static local variable. Could
cause a crash by jumping into hyper-space.
* ADDED: manpage for plrc(1)
* DELETED: chpl and its manpage. This command is replaced by plrc(1),
manipulating the SWI-Prolog 3.x resource database.
* FIXED: Reset gced_size of stacks after an abort to make the garbage
collector work properly afterwards. Also fixed detection of
trail-garbage for specific (deterministic) callbacks from C. This
could result in situations where no trail-garbage at all was detected,
leading to trail-stack overflows.
* FIXED: Added configure test for sigprocmask. This fixes repeated signals
on many Unix platforms (Control-C).
* FIXED: Determinism of maplist/checklist predicates.
* FIXED: free_variables/2 typo in 3.1.0, causing it to report variables
more than once. Thanks to Luc Van Oostenryck.
VERSION 3.1.1
=============
* FIXED: catch(Goal, template(Vars), handle(Vars)), i.e. catching
exceptions based on patterns and using the variable-bindings in
the pattern.
* FIXED: Problem in SopenRC()/rc_close() communication, spotted by
Tamas Laufer. Could result in "ERROR: Failed to save system resources"
message, depending on compiler/and or hardware.
* FIXED: online help truncated output.
* FIXED: wrong value of lTop returned by PL_next_solution() on deterministic
predicates. Can cause a crash.
* FIXED: Errorneous ``NOTE: system definition has been overruled ...''
from listing/[0,1].
* FIXED: saving operators using qsave_program/[1,2]. Spotted by
Robert van Engelen.
* FIXED: added format predicate and arithmetic function status to
saved-states. Thanks to Tobias Thelen.
* ADDED: current_format_predicate/3
VERSION 3.1.0
=============
* ADDED: PL_put_string_nchars() to register strings using length/ptr
* FIXED: bug in the stack-shifter, introduced in 3.0.0
* FIXED: configure option --disable-mapped-stacks
* ADDED: configure option --disable-segv-handling
* ADDED: Mapping signals (software interrupts) onto Prolog predicates
or exceptions. See on_signal/3.
* MODIFIED: signal-handling using PL_signal(): the handler can now
safely call Prolog.
* MODIFIED: PL_throw() now performs a longjmp(), instead of returning
failure. PL_raise_exception() replaces the old PL_throw()
* FIXED: FreeBSD testing for rlim_t type (configure). Thanks to
Colin E. Johnson.
* PERFORMANCE: Added indexing for non-tagged numbers (> 16M)
* FIXED: current_stream/3 for streams having an alias name. Fix
also affects other stream-related predicates returning an aliased
stream.
* FIXED: added space in write(a+ -1).
VERSION 3.0.0
=============
* FIXED: Actually test for GCC-2 feature to handle label-addresses.
Should fix compilation on Rapsody, where cc says it is gcc-2, but
the gcc extensions are not enabled (by default).
* FIXED: Detection of topOfHeap() on m68k linux (and other linux brands),
using a patch contributed by Roman Hodek.
* FIXED: Garbage collection error, resulting in a false èarly reset'
in a specific combination on call-back from C to Prolog and
choicepoints. With thanks to Lourens van der Meij for reporting
and localising the problem.
* ADDED: PL_cons_functor_v() to create a functor from a vector of
term-references.
* FIXED: discontiguous and multifile cause the predicate to be considered
`defined'. Thanks to Paulo Moura.
* ADDED: prolog_list_goal/1 hook to intercept the 'L' command from the
debugger.
* FIXED: configure detection of type rlim_t on some platforms. Thanks to
Volker Stolz.
* MODIFIED: <module>:<head> :- <body> is now compiled differently from
<module>:(<head> :- <body>). The clause is added to <module>:<head>,
but <body> is executed in the context of the definition module. This
behaviour is compliant with Quintus and SICStus Prolog, and required
to deal with the XPCE 5.0 class-compiler. In most cases, this just
allows to remove now redundant module specifiers. In the rare cases
the old behaviour is required, just but enclose the close in braces.
* FIXED: abolish/[1,2] on an imported predicate.
* ADDED: Putting `resources' into a saved state. Especially for dealing
with XPCE (graphics) resources. See resource/3, qsave_program/[1,2],
open_resource/[3,4], plrc(1), PL_open_resource().
* FIXED: Sfread() and Sfwrite() to return proper value on short read/write.
* FIXED: Copy-problem in Which() (pl-os.c). Made the problem below
appearant.
* FIXED: Symbols() to deal with x-only executables (Unix). Thanks to
Gernot Salzer (caused a crash).
* FIXED: Docs for PL_cons_list(). Thanks to Ivan Karski.
* ADDED: PL_cons_functor() the first argument may now also appear in
the argument list.
* FIXED: putNum()/getNum() format to deal with any value that can
be represented in a long. Fixes an assertion failure while booting
on some platforms.
* FIXED: Quoted write in feature(character_escape, true) is effective
to write the atoms such that they can be read back. Spotted by
Bernd Werner.
* ADDED: Seek/4, Quintus compatible implementation for seeking to an
indicated position in a stream.
* FIXED: Various traceports to make Prolog exit on reading end-of-file,
rather then entering an endless loop.
* FIXED: put/[1,2] to raise an exception on IO errors. Patched
SIGPIPE handling to clear the buffer of the offending stream,
so a subsequent close() on the stream will not cause another
SIGPIPE.
* MODIFIED: file_directory_name/2 output never contains a trailing
/. If no directory is present, the result is '.'.
* DELETED: -B command-line switch
* DELETED: old save/restore facilities.
VERSION 2.9.10
==============
* ADDED: dup_stream/2 to copy stream handles.
* ADDED: Allow for specifying stream alias-name to PL_open_stream(),
also used by open_null_stream/1, so open_null_stream(null) will make
`null' an aliased null-stream.
* UPDATED: Some parts of the documentation.
* FIXED: Control-C handling on some platforms (notably Solaris 2.5).
* ADDED: options close_on_abort and buffer to open/4.
* FIXED: write(not (a,b)) ommited the space and wrote not(a,b). Thanks
to Stefan Mueller.
VERSION 2.9.9
=============
* FIXED: Portability problems for Solaris 2.6.
* FIXED: throwing Prolog exceptions on `Broken Pipe' in flush/0 and
flush_output/1.
* FIXED: detection of limit on datasize on SGI platform. Thanks to
Marcello Balduccini.
* FIXED: Possibility of a crash in Symbols(), notably affecting embedded
systems (at startup). Thanks to Anton Eliens.
The 4 bugs below were reported by Luc Van Oostenryck. Thanks.
* FIXED: concat_atom/3 if the separator is not an atom.
* FIXED: arg(0, Term, Arg) to fail
* FIXED: atom_char(abc, X) to raise an instantiation fault if the length
of the atom is not 1. Also, return integers in the range [1..255] instead
of [-128..127].
* FIXED: -0xff is now read as -255. Not sure if -(255) would not be a
better idea!?
VERSION 2.9.8
=============
* WIN32: Replaced various C runtime functions by their native Win32
versions.
* FIXED: Calling module transparent predicates from the outer foreign
context using context module NULL to call in module "user", rather than
in the definition module of the predicate. Found by Stephane Berhault.
* FIXED: Early switch off the tracer after an abort to avoid tracing
the hooks.
* ADDED: explain/1 reporting references to undefined predicates (i.e. which
clauses reference the undefined predicate). Also explain/1 reporting
references to XPCE methods.
* FIXED: explain/1 reporting non-existing references to compound terms.
VERSION 2.9.7
=============
* FIXED: avoid some warnings to get clean compilation on GCC 2.8.0.
* FIXED: detection of discontiguous predicates (avoids false alarm).
* ADDED: Predicate definition for (*->)/2, mainly to allow for testing
for its existence and avoid redefinition.
* ADDED: Options to qsave_program/2 may be specified as Name(Value)
or Name = Value.
* FIXED: `map' option of qsave_program/2.
* FIXED: handling of dynamic predicates import/export by
qsave_program/[1,2]. found by Lourens van der Meij.
* PORT: fixed pl-load.c for systems supporting the ELF dynamic load
functions, but not RTLD_LAZY (FreeBSD?) Lost the name of the guy
pointing me to this problem. Thanks anyway!
* FIXED: handling of a functor as key for recorded and frieds, found by
* FIXED: current_stream/3 if a current stream refers to a pipe. Found
by Robert van Engelen.
* FIXED: dereferencing symbolic link of argv[0] to find the `real'
symbol file. Reported by Milan Zamazal, where this problem caused
a crash when running SWI-Prolog using M-x run-prolog under Emacs.
VERSION 2.9.6
=============
* MODIFIED: list_to_set/2 retains the first, rather then the last
occurrence of duplicate members to the set.
* FIXED: flag/3 using floating-point numbers for machines that cannot
address doubles on 4-byte alignment (most RISC processors).
* FIXED: foreign-reference handling of exception terms, causing garbage
collection problems. Reported by Robert van Engelen.
* PORT: improved detection and placement of mmap()-ed stacks (Unix sparse
stack-management) with help of Marcello Balduccini.
* FIXED: clause/3 to add/remove predicate reference-count while holding
a choicepoint to the predicate. Reported by Marcello Balduccini.
* ADDED: -c flag to plld to turn it into `plcc', just compiling .c or
.cc files. Thanks to Marcello Balduccini.
* MODIFIED: write/1 and friends now only insert spaces before and
after operators if these are required to be a valid term for read/1.
The only exception is ,/2, which is written using a space after the
symbol. NOTE: foreign packages including <SWI-Stream.h> need
to be recompiled!!!
* FIXED: current_predicate/2 not consider abolished predicates that
still exist as `current', so current_predicate(_, Goal), Goal is
guaranteed not to raise an exception on Goal. Should fix recent
reconsult problems in XPCE.
* ADDED: user:message_hook/3 hook for print_message/2 (provisional).
* MODIFIED: Hooks installed by PL_initialise_hook() are called *before*
the saved-state is loaded, but after the heap is initialised. This
implies only foreign predicates may be called from this hook now.
* FIXED: testing of write-permissions for the library index for
make/0.
* MODIFIED: Toplevel queries are now read from user_input, rather
than from the current input stream.
* ADDED: feature(history, Depth). If 0, no history and no history-prompt
are provided. This is the default if feature(readline, true) succeeds.
* FIXED: set_feature(Name, Integer)
* FIXED: chdir/absolute_file_name problem, reported by Machiel Jansen.
Thanks.
* FIXED: erase/1 on records referenced by recorded/3 choicepoints. Thanks
to Robert van Engelen.
* FIXED: Reference direction in recorded/3 (also used by findall/3 and
friends).
* FIXED: Removed various warnings for SunSoft cc compiler. Fixed
one error reported by this compiler.
* FIXED: Cite references in online documentation. Modified/Cleaned
man/plindex.pl for this. Fixed a few typos.
VERSION 2.9.5
=============
* FIXED: dwim_predicate to deal properly with default modules.
* FIXED online manual not to use overstrike by default. See manual
for details. XPCE requires patched prolog/lib/swi_help.pl to work
properly with this version.
* FIXED: plld for handling -l<lib> correctly in the Unix version, and
automatically deleting temporary .exp files in Win32.
* FIXED important fix returning address of local variable, found by
Jean Daniel Fekete. Thanks.
VERSION 2.9.4
=============
* FIXED: Various references to the variable stacks for systems requiring
the stack-shifter. Thanks to Michirou Yabuki for reporting.
* FIXED: recorded database (and findall/3, bagof/3, setof/3 store)
handling of strings. After retrieval, the string's indirect header
was incorrect, making unification and equivalence fail. Thanks to
Andrew Dadakow for providing me with a simple program illustrating
the problem.
VERSION 2.9.3
=============
* ADDED: (Simple) support for exceptions in the GUI-tracer.
* MODIFIED: PL_extensions array now needs to be explicitely registered
using PL_register_extensions() for compatibility with Win32. Documented
PL_register_extensions().
* FIXED: print/1 to include the `quoted' option as it used to before
2.9.0. Thanks to Sam Waugh for noting.
* NEW: plld is now written in C, and adapted for usage on Windows-NT
and Windows '95. The latter is incomplete, but useful for creating
embedded Win32 console applications. The old plld is available as
plld.sh in the source distribution.
* FIXED: PL_register_foreign() now declares the function-pointer as
a void * for C++ code, so it may be used with C++.
* MODIFIED: tmp_file/2 now returns the canonical filename on
Windows platforms (i.e. c:/temp/base<n>, rather then C:\TEMP\base<n>).
use prolog_to_os_filename/2 to convert between the two formats.
* FIXED: catch/3 for proper continuation if the recovery goal
succeeds.
* FIXED: definition of ulong on some platforms for the new pl-global.h
module.
VERSION 2.9.2
=============
* CLEANUP: Removed various unreachable statements reported by the
SGI native compiler.
* FIXED: Unresolved message for S__fupdatefilepos() using native
SGI compiler, which does not emit code for inline functions.
* FIXED: diagnosis of `discontiguous' and `redefined' predicates
while the predicate is reconsulted while it is running.
* FIXED: Posibility of calling alloca(0) in pl-rec.c, spotted by
Tamas Laufer. Should fix SCO Unix version.
* FIXED: absolute_file_name/3, generation of multiple solutions:
avoid regenerating the same solution. Caused make/0 to slow down
more and more.
* IMPLEMENTATION: Partial preparation for multi-threading. Removed
lots of unnecessary global variables and moved most of the remaining
ones into three structures defined in the new file pl-global.h.
Read-only global data is now declared `const', putting it into
shared memory on good machines/compilers. As a result, SWI-Prolog
is a little smaller and faster.
Still need to get rid of the remaining global variables and need
to embrace all heap-operations to prepare them for the use with
mutexes.
* FIXED: trace-interception calling on fail-port, causing the GUI
tracer to crash on some ocasions.
* DELETED: Source file pl-dump.c, implementing save/1, restore/1
and save_program/1. These predicates only worked on a few
platforms anyway. qsave_program is now the only (and portable)
saved-state mechanism.
* IMPROVED: Removed limit on number of user-defined arithmetic
functions.
* IMPROVED: Format ~s accepts both a list of ASCII chars or a
string (see string/1) object. Thanks to Peter Ludeman.
VERSION 2.9.1
=============
* FIXED: auto-detection of -export-dynamic in favour of -rdynamic
(GNU-ld based systems using ELF binary format not supporting
-rdynamic, e.g. Solaris using gcc with GNU-ld). Thanks to
Volker Weber.
* FIXED: mmap configuration issues, with thanks to Daniel Pun.
* FIXED: some changes to the Makefile(.in) and configure for portability,
by Joel Faedi.
* FIXED: wouldBindProcedure(), used by $xr_member, used by the explain
facility. Could crash.
VERSION 2.9.0
=============
* ADDED/MODIFIED: The interface to PL_open_query() has changed.
The debug argument is replaced by a bitwise or'ed flags argument.
The values FALSE and TRUE have their familiar meaning, making old
code using these constants compatible. Non-zero values other than
TRUE (1) will be interpreted different.
* DELETED: display/[1,2] and displayq/[1,2]. Added emulation into
library(backcomp).
* ADDED: ISO/Quintus compliant write_canonical/[1,2].
* FIXED: recorded database bug for very large terms.
* ADDED: Lots of exception codes. Roughly, file i/o, external program
invocation and arithmetic now use exceptions.
* IMPROVED: write/1 and friends now check the return code of the
low-level I/O functions and fail with exception on read/write
errors.
* REMOVED: $print/2. Doesn't appear to be used anywhere.
* ADDED: write_term/[2,3], ISO compliant
* ADDED: ISO compliant exception handling using catch/3 and throw/1,
including a C-interface for these (PL_throw() and PL_exception())
Added exception port to the tracer.
* ADDED: abolish/1, ISO compliant.
* FIXED: A is "a" (list as abbreviation for a character).
VERSION 2.8.7
=============
* FIXED: require/1 to be silent on already defined system predicates.
* FIXED: passing ldflags in plld script.
* CONFIG: Removed checking for -lelf if the system is not asked
to configure old save/1.
* CONFIG: Modified test/mmap.c to find out whether we should allocate
from the top or base of the heap. Added TOPOFHEAP to config.h. Should
fix Irix problems.
VERSION 2.8.6
=============
* Included src/pl.1.in (new file, forgotten in the 2.8.5 release)
* INSTALL: slightly more careful installation of the manpages and
small problem in configure fixed.
VERSION 2.8.5
=============
* MAN: Updated manual sources for a couple of recent changes, added
support for generation of the help/1 database using new tools for
nroff like generation of plain text from a LaTeX document. Generated
all three formats of the manual: HTML, PostScript and plain text.
* FIXED: Installation of the manual page for correct description of the
pl -dump-runtime-variables.
* ADDED: For machines using memory-mapped stacks (Linux, SunOs, Solaris,
OSF/1 for example), added heap-size switch: -H. Default is 256Mbytes.
Size switch now take optional 'm' (Mega), 'k' (Kilo, default) or 'b'
(bytes): -L32m specifies 32 Mbytes local stack.
* FIXED: print error message if heap allocation above prefect fit
schema (>1024 bytes) fails (malloc() returns NULL). All allocation
failures now call outOfCore().
VERSION 2.8.4
=============
* FIXED: PL_{get,put,unify}_pointer() mapping of pointer to integer,
to ensure all possible pointer values are restored properly.
* CLEANUP: Removed various internal unused functions, changed
functions to be local that were only called locally.
* MODIFIED: Redesign of various parts of the system to get rid of
terms living in the permanent heap. This modification allows the
permanent heap (where malloc() operates) to grow unlimited (used to
be 64 MB).
+ Records (recorda/3, recorded/3, erase/1) are no longer stored
as copies of the global-terms, but instead as a form of compiled
code, optimised for copying the object back to the runtime stacks.
Records are also used by findall/3, setof/3 and bagof/3, and these
predicates have thus been modified too. The interface between the
C and Prolog part has changed, making old saved-states worthless.
Old QLF files work properly.
+ Records are also used by the /f goal option of the tracer. The
implementation of this has been changed drastically. The result
is a lot faster while searching and a bug has been fixed.
+ loadXRc() in pl-wic.c has been modified not to store longs, doubles
and string onto the heap. This is the desired behaviour anyway.
+ Feature storage changed to use a union type, rather then integers
on the heap.
+ Variable analysis in the compiler now used TAG_ATOM|STG_GLOBAL,
like records, to flag the analysed variables.
+ Temporary variable management in read/1 using the same trick.
+ Atoms are indexed over a global, resizable, array.
GOOD THINGS
+ makeRef() now simply is makeRefLG().
+ Trail() is simplified a lot.
+ makePtr() (pl-gc.c) no longer deals with heap pointers
VERSION 2.8.3
=============
* FIXED: Changed manual to talk about PL_atom_chars(), rather then
PL_string_from_atom().
* FIXED: oset_addel/3, thanks to Robert van Engelen for both the
report and the patch.
* FIXED: string_to_list(X, []).
* FIXED: Order and unlinking shared objects. Now, all files are
closed before unlinking any shared libraries. Shared libraries
are unlinked explicitely only on non-Unix systems.
VERSION 2.8.2
=============
* FIXED: GC/tracer for clauses holding string objects at particular
places. Reported by Andrew Dadakow.
* FIXED: Deleted old pl.mak, and added plwin.mak and plcon.mak for
rebuilding the sources on Windows.
* FIXED: Typo in the $write_on_* predicates, underlying sformat and
swritef, causing a crash on > 1024 characters output. Thanks to
Shane P. McCarron.
VERSION 2.8.1
=============
* FIXED: DEC Alpha (64-bit): reading integers > 2**31-1. Configuration
of mmap based sparse stack allocation to deal with the Alpha. Various
warnings removed. Fixed test.pl to be aware of the Alpha where
necessary (float-3 test).
* FIXED: Garbage collection problem, occurring with a specific
combination of call-back from C and choicepoint organisation
in the callback environment.
* FIXED: Tracer `retry <n>' (guitracer only) to take care of garbage
collected choicepoints.
* FIXED: initialisation of style_check defaults to specify
singletons, long atoms and discontiguous clauses. NOTE: THIS MAY
CAUSE WARNINGS ON OLD CODE.
* ADDED: Several predicates for math in library(quintus).
* FIXED: abolish/2 on active (running) predicates, not to remove the
NEEDSCLAUSE_GC flag, so the clauses are actually removed if the
predicates is finished. Thanks to Paulo Moura, author of LogTalk.
* FIXED: PL_get_arg() when using -L0 -G0 (maximized stacks). Probably
only breaks tracing code under these circumstances.
VERSION 2.8.0
=============
* FIXED: `$qlf_info'/3 (always failed). Used by the development
environment under construction.
* RUNTIME SYSTEM: Made various of the debugger options conditional
on whether or not the system is compiled as runtime system.
* ADDED: more options to user:prolog_event_hook/1 for better
interaction with the GUI tracer: possibility to `watch' a
stack-frames end-of-lifetime.
* FIXED: writeq('%') to write '%' rather then just %.
* FIXED/MODIFIED: subterm_positions option of read to return the
positions of possible surrounding braces for a term. Thus,
reading (hello) now yields 0-6 rather then 1-5. This notably
fixes the 'f' (finish) option in the GUI tracer to properly
indicate the succeeded clause.
* PORT: Configure detected tcgetattr()/tcsetattr() usage rather then
ioctl(), fixing terminal interaction on OSF/1.
* PORT: Fix in Makefile to make it work with some broken shells.
* PORT: renamed I_POP virtual machine instruction to I_POPF, to avoid
a conflict with system headers on some machines.
* PORT: Added support for the 64-bit DEC Alpha processor (or, more
in general made the code 64-bit clean). Tested on a DEC Alpha
using OSF/1 4.0 and the native C-compiler. Should also work on
GCC, but the local GCC installation appeared broken. With thanks
to Bryan Sorrows for providing me with access to their machine.
Exactly while I was working on the port, Martin Ostermann mailed
me patches for running on the Alpha under Linux. Thanks for the
couple of problems I missed!
Remaining problems: can sparse memory management work on OSF/1?
Currently, saved states are portable, but the limits on the Alpha
are much larger. This should be fixed. Prolog machine words are
64 bits on the Alpha, doubling the stack-sizes and virtually
removing all limits. In theory, it would also be possible to use
ints (32-bit) for this. I have not checked this. It is not unlikely
there are variables defined ìnt', where they should have been
`long', truncating large numbers.
* FIXED: globalAlloc() for allocations larger than a page on machines
with sparse memory management, not handling stack-overflows as
exceptions (Win32). Fixes handling of long string objects on these
platforms.
* FIXED: (GUI Tracer) Stopped `cut-port' from activating when in
`leap' mode.
VERSION 2.7.20
==============
* ADDED: Documentation for expand_query/4 and expand_answer/2.
* ADDED: call_with_depth_limit/3, to aid theorem provers.
* ADDED: features 'unix' and 'windows' for these operating systems.
Version 2.7.19
==============
* FIXED: functor(X, name, -1), reported by Robert van Engelen. Thanks.
* FIXED: :- format_predicate/2 handling of arguments.
* ADDED: external "C" declaractions for SWI-Stream.h, so you can use this
in C++ programs now.
* FIXED: the function sign/1 for floating point numbers.
Version 2.7.18
==============
* ADDED: Directory html for a SWI-Prolog based latex2html translator.
Very extensive example of using foreign code.
* REMOVED: Lots of unused files from the source-distribution
* WIN32: Removed the uxnt.dll library. This library is now a static
library linked into libpl.lib, the SWI-Prolog kernel.
* FIXED: Handling of -p alias=path:...: order of the arguments doesn't
matter anymore and parsing of the path has been fixed.
* MODIFIED: load_files/2, `silent' option inherits to loads triggerred
from this one.
* FIXED: Garbage collector error, causing a crash if the local
and global stack together exceed 64 MB. Now, they can each
be 64 MB and be allocated at arbitrary positions.
* CHANGED: Default editor command is now <editor> "<file>", using
double instead of single quotes. This fixes problems on Windows
platforms.
* ADDED: clause_property(+Ref, ?erased), to support the debugger
reporting about running modified clauses.
* FIXED: current_functor(+Name, +Arity). Reported by Stefan Wimmel.
Thanks.
Version 2.7.17
==============
* MODIFIED: the `debug' argument to PL_open_query() now really stops
the debugger operating inside the called goal, also if an error
arrises.
* PORT: Sgi/Irix headers configuration and detection of alignment
restrictions on doubles.
* FIXED: Better operator priority checking, making a :- b :- c illegal
syntax, as it should be. Also improved the warning issued.
* FIXED: Removes MAX_TERM_NESTING from read.pl, previously limiting
the complexity of terms that could be read. The new version of
read requires significantly less (C-) stack and can handle
much more deeply nested terms.
* FIXED: term_to_atom(+Term, -Atom) on machines with dynamic stacks,
but no exception based expansion (PC version).
* FIXED: Sopenmen() stream functions (was not used before). This
is now used by tellString() and toldString(), who now have a
different interface. These functions are used by term_to_atom/2,
and format/[1-3].
Version 2.7.16
==============
* FIXED: Various minor issues in the Makefiles and configure for
generating a runtime version. Error message if the runtime
system cannot find its state.
* FIXED: Heuristics for making hash-index.
Version 2.7.15
==============
* FIXED: Embedding: the kernel now not longer gives up if it cannot
find the Prolog home directory. feature(home, Home) will fail if
the home could not be located.
* FIXED: Configure problems related to -l[n]curses, etc.
* FIXED: retractall(Module:Head(+Arg, ...)) (i.e. explicit module and
instantiated first argument).
* ADDED: atom_prefix(+Atom, +Prefix): test of Prefix is a prefix
of Atom.
* FIXED: Bug in Unify between non-tagged and tagged integer.
* FIXED: Bugs in configure, both improper test of double alignment
and improper testing for the cursus libraries. Thanks to
Masafumi Nakane.
* IMPROVED: Moved source_file/2 to foreign language to exploit the
kernel-maintained database for enumerating the predicates loaded
from a sourcefile.
* MODIFIED: prolog_trace_interception/3 now has 4 arguments.
* ADDED: Support for tracing the cut in the source-level debugger.
* ADDED: Support for `break-points' to the debugger.
* FIXED: Protocol to include the prompt in the protocol.
* ADDED: clause_property(ClauseRef, fact). Used by source-level tracer.
* ADDED: Various options to prolog_frame_attribute/3 for the source-level
tracer.
* FIXED: allow for tracing the unify-port of a fact.
* ADDED: prolog_frame_attribute(Frame, argument(N), Arg) to read
bindings from a stack-frame.
* ADDED: Various options to plld, the standalone executable linker.
* IMPROVED: (if->then;else) to generate tail-recursion code for the
`then' part.
* ADDED: $clause_position/3 and prolog_frame_attribute(Frame, pc, PC).
First steps for a source-code debugger.
* IMPROVED: Clause-representation to delete subclauses member, which
proved obsolete using the current system. Added UNIT_CLAUSE flag
to the clause's flags to achieve the same support for the decompiler.
* FIXED: handling of the stream user_error by other predicates than
format/[1-3]. Also, using output from write/2, etc. to unbuffered
streams like user_error is now buffered in 256 byte-blocks, but
guaranteed to be flushed after the write operation completes,
resulting in fewer calls to write() and therefore generally better
performance.
Version 2.7.14
==============
* FIXED: Win32 shell/1 implementation has changed radically, not
using threads anymore. This hopefully fixes shell/1 on all
platforms. The old version started a thread to wait for the
process, while the main thread continued processing windows
messages. The new version loops through PeekMessage, GetExitCodeProcess
and Sleep, processing messages and waiting in the same (main)
thread.
* FIXED: reentrance problem in Sgetc() (low level fetch for character),
upsetting the tracer sometimes when using XPCE.
<this version was put on the ftp server Sep 6>
* FIXED: current_stream/3 failed to properly enumerate the streams.
Thanks to Robert van Engelen.
* MODIFIED: ensure_loaded and use_module now load if the file has
been changed since it was last loaded, and not only if it was not
loaded before.
* ADDED: load_files/2 to load files with various options (including
silent loading). The undocumented $consult_file/2 has gone!
* INSTALL: Win32: nice looking installation procedure, based on the
WISE installation expert package.
* ADDED: A *-> B ; C (softcut).
* FIXED: Random generation for machines that use rand(). Still
poor, but then this function is bad. Maybe use our own someday.
* ADDED: Win32: console support for variable-pitch fonts and user
selection of fonts.
* FIXED: <String> =.. X, found by Robert van Engelen.
Version 2.7.13
==============
* FIXED: prolog_frame_attribute/3 to include the arguments in the
goal. Found by Andreas Schlemminger.
* FIXED: listing (clause/2) for predicates holding if->then;else or
a;b in their body. Found by Andreas Schlemminger.
* FIXED: shell/1 for Windows platforms (waited almost indefinitely
before executing the program).
* ADDED: plregtry.dll and registry.dll, providing access to the
Win32 registry database.
* ADDED: setting up a DDE server for better interaction with the
Windows 95 shell (direct edit and consult from the explorer).
Version 2.7.13 (ALPHA)
======================
* ADDED: mode update for open/[3,4] to write at any location in an
existing file.
Version 2.7.12
==============
* FIXED: behaviour of the tracer. Notably included missing fail-ports
from the trace. Also fixed the box-counts for the profiler.
* ADDED: expand_term/2 now first tries term_expansion/2 in the module
that is being loaded. After that it tries the module user.
* FIXED: Various improvements to the explain facility, notably much
better location of predicate cross-references.
Version 2.7.11
==============
* MODIFIED: feature(version, Version) and PLVERSION are now numeric.
* FIXED: reporting out-of-stack now never calls the Prolog exception
handler to avoid a real crash.
* ADDED: Syntax for maintaining source-location inside term-expansion.
If a term of the form $source_location(File, Line):Clause is found,
not the current, but the given location will be recorded with the
clause)
Version 2.7.10
==============
* PORT: More changes to PL_unify_term() by Franklin Chen. Now really
compiles on MkLinux.
* FIXED: retract/1 once more. Now tested on all combinations of
(non-)unit-clause and with(out) module specifier.
Version 2.7.9
=============
* FIXED: interaction between tracer and garbage-collector, sometimes
causing an assertion-failure in the garbage collector when tracing.
Reported by Lourens van der Meij.
* CHANGED: flag/3 now handles full 32-bit integers and double
float values. Old version was limited to tagged ints and didn't
do floats.
* PORT: Rewrote PL_unify_term() to avoid using va_list *. May or
may not help. Problem arises on the PowerMac version of Linux
when compiling pl-fli.c. Reported by Franklin Chen.
* PORT: Portability patches for AIX 3.2/4.1: avoid name-clash with
hz and fid_t. Contributed by Kay Roemer.
* FIXED: documentation of PL_unify_list() interface function.
* FIXED: name/2 to behave correctly in the tracer. This problem
may appear with more foreign predicates and maybe requires a
more fundamental solution. Reported by Chan Kam Fai.
* FIXED: retract/1 on non-unit-clauses. Thanks to Liviu Badea.
Version 2.7.8
=============
* Some fixes to the Makefile. No functional change.
Version 2.7.7
=============
* DOC: Added documentation for PL_unify_term(), making its specs
òfficial'.
* ADDED: PL_query(PL_QUERY_VERSION) to find the version of Prolog
running. Used by plwin.exe to display the correct version in the
window titlebar.
* WIN32 Process creation: added win_exec/2 and changed shell/1 such
that shell('<Command> &') behaves as win_exec(<Command>, normal).
* WIN32 DDE: Added dde_poke/[3,4] to support DDE poke operation required to
communicate with the sybase database for Windows. MODIFIED
dde_request/3 to return a string object rather then an atom to
avoid filling the atom-space.
* WIN32: For filenames, ~ is expanded to %home%. When not present,
%homedrive%%homepath% is used, which expands to NT's notion of the
home directory. Finally, '/' is used as fallback.
* MODIFIED: Changed directory structure of make rt-install to be
the same as normal installation.
* FIXED: Installation on Pentium Pro: bad detection of canonical
system type by autoconf's config.sub. Updated configure.in to
use autoconf 2.10.
* FIXED: Backtracking on floats and large integers appearing in the head.
The VM instructions H_FLOAT and H_INTEGERS handling these didn't
trail the argument. Bug introduced in 2.7.0. Thanks to Peter
Terptra for reporting.
Version 2.7.6
=============
* MODIFIED: Added some more support for very deeply nested terms on
the last arguments (long lists beeing one of them) by introducing
a new compilation schema for such terms. Also modified numbervars/4
to exploit right-recursion of terms.
* MODIFIED: Argument-stack default-limit changed from 8 KB to 1 MB
for machines with dynamic stacks. 16 KB for others. This limits
most of all the depth of terms handled by assert/retract.
* FIXED: Emacs-interaction bug using history. Thanks to Dave Moffat.
* FIXED: decompilation (retract, listing, etc.) for predicates with
0 arguments. Reported by Dave Moffat.
* FIXED: configuration for system where readline requires -lcurses
rather then -ltermcap (and the latter is not present).
Version 2.7.5
=============
* FIXED: typo in float <-> long conversion problem.
* FIXED: plld now passes -D* to the compiler rather then the linker.
Version 2.7.4
=============
* FIXED: handling of floating-point conversion to integers on machines
raising SIGPFE on l = (long)f when f is out of the long range. Thanks
to Sven.Hader@Informatik.TU-Chemnitz.DE (Sven Hader). The problem
appears at least on Linux running on a Pentium.
* MODIFIED: Added -F file flag to select from multiple initialisation
scripts, just like -f file. Old versions only loaded plrc. The
new version by default loads <program>.rc. -F none stops loading
this file.
* FIXED: plld: gave error code 1 (always). Added various flags: -v
-help, -pl. Updated manuals
* FIXED: PL_next_solution() detection of non-deterministic success
(reported deterministic for actually non-deterministic goals).
* ADDED: For XPCE users: nice graphical frontend for the online help
functions. Working on much better Prolog mode for PceEmacs.
* PORTABILITY: Removed void * arithmetic in pl-setup.c, removed
a couple of other non-strict-ansi things there. Added configure
for alloca(). Reported to compile using IRIX 5.3 native compiler
now.
* FIXED: Sclose() flushed write-buffer for read-only streams.
* ADDED: read_term/[2,3]: reading with various options
* FIXED: copy_term/2: handling of combination of ground compound
terms and shared variables.
* FIXED: PL_next_solution() detection of determistic success.
* ADDED: concat_atom/3 for concatenating multiple atoms with a separator.
* FIXED: Online manual generation for dynamic/1 and friends. Parser
now deletes \verb from summaries.
* FIXED: $xr_member (underlying explain/[1,2]) for clauses containing
string objects (crashed). Improved various details to explain/[1,2]
* MODIFIED: Quoted writing of an invalid float yields '$Infinity' or '$NaN',
unquoted Infinity or NaN.
Version 2.7.3
=============
* FIXED: ?- expand_term(A,B), reported by Fergus Henderson.
* FIXED: cleanup after calling Prolog-defined arithmetic functions
(caused a crash when two arithmetic functions are called in the
same context).
* Renamed PL_reinit_hook() to PL_initialise_hook(), which reflects
more the current function. Use this to register the readline
interface, so it is available while loading .plrc. Se also
pl-extend.c and its public copy stub.c.
Version 2.7.2
=============
* ADDED: features `debug_on_error' and `report_error'
* ISO: If a predicate has no clauses and is defined either dynamic,
multifile or discontiguous, it is considered defined. This used to
hold only for dynamic predicates.
Version 2.7.1
=============
* FIXED: Signal/readline/abort interfaces for the Win32 versions, so
signals are handled correctly again and readline-based input handling
works.
* FIXED: bug in setup of memory-base pointers, causing all versions
to fail who allocate memory higher than 128MB, which includes the
win32 version under win32s (Windows 3.1)
* FIXED: ar/ranlib configuration (notably for BSD systems, such as
SunOs 4.1).
* FIXED: do not load readline interface if the input is not a terminal.
This bug prevented constructs in shell-scripts such as pl << _EOS_ ...
Version 2.7.0
=============
* FIXED: HPUX compilation thanks to Gordon Streeter.
* WIN32: The kernel is now in libpl.dll, which comes with two toplevel
drivers: plcon.exe for a standard IO version and plwin.exe for the
windows based version. New directory embed with the sources of
both toplevels.
* FIXED: memory leak after assert/retract of code holding floats,
32-bit integers or strings (not lists of char-codes). Also
provides more compact code for floats and large integers
(both small and large integers require 2 words, doubles 3 words).
* IMPROVED: More compact representation of compiled floats, long
integers and strings.
* MODIFIED: Complete rewrite of the internal datastructures. The
aim is to avoid mixing pointers and unsigned longs on the stacks
and thus remove the various assumptions on the memory model underlying
the prior versions. See pl-data.h for details.
* IMPROVED: Lifted the maximum number of variables in a clause from
256 to 65536, maximum arity of predicates from 128 to 1024. Both
numbers are fairly arbitrary and can be raised further at the cost
of wasting a little more memory.
Version 2.6.0
=============
* ADDED: plld and manpage for creating embedded executables.
* FIXED: flush output of terminal streams while halting.
* ADDED: option stand_alone for qsave_program to create stand-alone
executables!
* INSTALL: The executables are now installed in $(PLBASE)/bin/$(ARCH),
i.e. using a different directory for each platform, so multiple
platforms are supported more easily.
* MODIFIED: Drastic reorganisation of arithmetic handling:
- All arithmetic is now handled using 32-bit longs and 64-bit
doubles.
- Smaller integers (within the range described by the features
min_tagged_integer ... max_tagged_integer) are represented
internally as tagged integers. Larger integers and doubles
are represented as ìndirect data'.
- A generic representation for ìndirect', covering uniform
handling of them by the virtual machine, unify and garbage
collector. This deals with strings, doubles and `bignums'.
- New interface between the arithmetic functions and the
arithmetic predicates (is/2, >/2, etc.) as well as their
virtual machine instructions. This new interface is faster.
and avoids unnecessary type-conversions.
- Augmented/renumbered the virtual machine instructions, making
old saved states worthless.
- Fixed a couple of functions translating between floats and
integers: integer/1, ceil/1, floor/1, float_integer_part/1,
truncate/1, etc. for handling large numbers correctly.
- Added the feature float_format to define how floats are
printed by write/1, print/1, etc.
* MODIFIED: Disconnected readline and Win32 I/O window interface to
a separate module. This is a necessary precondition to arrive at
a modular and embedible Prolog engine for Win32. See pl-rl.c
* FIXED: unknown/2 (reporting instantiation fault).
Version 2.5.6
=============
* FIXED: ceil/1, floor/1 and integer/1 to handle large floating point
numbers correctly.
* MODIFIED: write and friends to print floating point numbers using
the `%g' format by default, printing large floats as -for example-
3e20. Use format with the ~f option to format floats as you please.
* FIXED: on some machines <assert.h> requires <stdio.h> to be included.
configure now checks for this.
* FIXED: .qlf file-magic verification.
* FIXED: Some minor portability problems: test for CC supporting -c -o
combination, solaris prototypes for random and srandom added, changed
system parameter detection for file-table-size and page-size to use
sysconf() when available. Compilation is now silent on solaris 2.5,
except for a number of `might not be initialised' warnings in pl-wam.c
that aren't correct (also, these are not reported by other versions
of gcc).
Version 2.5.5
=============
* FIXED: Important bug in =@=, also used by bagof/setof, leading to
crashes on some structures and failure on structural equal terms
on others.
* FIXED: Crash in the tracer under some circumstances, reported
by Michael Schulz.
* FIXED: loading Quick Load Files that do not contain modules.
Version 2.5.4
=============
* FIXED: read/1 for reading negative floating point numbers (2.5.x bug),
thanks to Bill Jones.
* FIXED: read/1, etc. for reading a single variable. Found by Luu Tran.
* FIXED: DCG expansion error found by Keith Whitwell.
Version 2.5.3
=============
* ADDED: ISO at_end_of_stream/[0,1] and peek_byte/[1,2].
* Fixed and faster nth0/3 and nth1/3 implementations by Martin Jansche.
* New pl(1) manual page by Martin Jansche. Thanks.
* PORT: Ron Ferguson mailed me a couple of fixes for the NeXT machine,
using release 2 of the C-compiler from the standard development system.
Thanks.
* FIXED: decompilation (listing, retract, etc.) for clauses using the
new (2.5.x) A_REAL instruction.
* FIXED: \=/2 and recorded/3 for handling shared variables. Found
by Joerg Garbers.
* ADDED: edit definition for emacsclient(1).
* Fixed unify (=/2) for unification of two floats. Reported by Dave
Moffat.
Version 2.5.2
=============
* FIXED: PL_retry() and friends were lacking from the new SWI-Prolog.h
* FIXED: PL_cons_functor() and PL_cons_list(), also fixing variable
handling in bagof/setof. Thanks to Khanh Doan for reporting.
* ADDED: string_concat/3 with same semantics as concat/3, but unbound
will be unified with a string object.
* ADDED: rl_read_init_file(+File) and rl_add_history(+Line) for better
readline interaction. Added readline.3 to the standard installed
manual set.
* ADDED: file_name_extension/3 to reason about filename extensions in
a machine-independent manner. Fixes Win32 associations if the filename
has uppercase extension.
Version 2.5.1 (released for Win32 only)
=======================================
* FIXED: Stack expansion for some foreign predicates using the local
stack as temporary area for machines with exception-based stack-overflow
handling that do not provide the address of the segmentation fault to
the handler (Win32, Linux).
* FIXED: Linux: repeated handling of the sequence Control-C, abort.
* FIXED: Crash after the system has ran out of some stacks on machines
with exception-based stack-overflow handling and POSIX signals.
Solaris, Linux and Win32 are the examples I know of.
* FIXED: CVT_NUMBER and CVT_ATOMIC constants in SWI-Prolog.h,
breaking name(+Float, -Chars).
* FIXED: plus/3 for +, -, + instantiation (2.5.0 introduced typo).
* FIXED: prototype declaraction reported by Martin Jansche.
Version 2.5.0
=============
* Added features `trace_gc' and `gc'.
* Added `pl -arch' to get the architecture identifier easily for
installation and makefiles
* New implementation of copy_term/2 that shares common compound
sub-terms.
* Totally new foreign language interface using `term-references' to
allow for garbage collection and stack-shifts with active foreign
code. Ported all foreign predicates to the new interface. This
interface also allows for generating multiple alternatives for
a Prolog goal from C.
For compatibility with old foreign code, see README.oldforeign.
* FIXED: optimised compilation of A is X (i.e. second argument is
a variable).
* COMPILER: improved compilation of floating-point arithmetic using
-O (optimised), avoiding unnecessary copying of floating point
numbers to the global stack.
****************************************************************
INCOMPATIBLE FOREIGN LANGUAGE INTERFACE
****************************************************************
Version 2.1.15
==============
* FIXED: read/1 to push the load context when reading end-of-file, so
the following works:
term_expansion(end_of_file, end_of_file) :-
prolog_load_context(file, Path),
format('Finished loading ~w~n', [Path]).
* FIXED: abolish/2 on imported procedures. Reported by Peter Barth.
Version 2.1.14
==============
* DISTRIBUTION: Removed various out-of-date files from the distribution:
Makefile.win, Makefile.dos, etc.
* WIN32S: Fixed problem in the garbage collector.
* WIN32: Improved cputime for NT ('95 and win32s use the old code).
* MANUAL: Martin Jansche <martin@pc03.idf.uni-heidelberg.de> has send me
patches for the manual, fixing many smaller and bigger mistakes in it.
Thanks!
* DEBUG: Added stuff for debugging for different memory models on Unix
machines with an mmap() that can map memory at the addresses normally
used by the target machine. See morecore.c
Version 2.1.13
==============
* WIN32: Fixed error reporting of shell/1.
* FIXED: added a flush() after completing the user-query. This gives
better output for ?- write(hello).
* FIXED: file-name conversion cache management. This cache is used
by absolute_file_name/3.
Version 2.1.12
==============
* Most of these fixed after comments from David Plummer. Thanks.
* FIXED: displayq for ','(...)
* FIXED: read/1 and friends to handle {}(..) and [](...) correctly.
* FIXED: format/[2,3] to be able to write unlimited-length output,
provided there are no `pending' ~t's.
* COMPAT: absolute_file/3 to accept list of access-modes
* MODIFIED: access_file/2 to succeed on write and append mode if the
file does not exist, but the directory can be written.
* FIXED: unification order in translating grammar --> {goal}. Noted
by Andreas Steiner.
* FIXED: Temporary-buffer management in Svfprintf() and friends.
Version 2.1.11
==============
* FIXED: functor(X, 8, 0) to yield X = 8.
* DELETED: library_directory(.). Gives too much problems because the
system picks wrong files or directories.
Version 2.1.10
==============
* ISO: added compliant open/4 predicate.
* Moved all printing of the system (banner, prompt and warnings to
use user_error (=stderr) rather than user_output (=stdout), so
it becomes easier to use Prolog's standard output. Stderr is
unbuffered, several predicates that will output more than one
character now use a `temporary buffer' to reduce IO-load.
* ISO: Added arithmetic functions: rem/2, ** (= ^), ceiling (= ceil),
float/1, float_fractional_part/1, float_integer_part/1, truncate/1,
sign/1 and round/1 (= integer/1).
* ISO Syntax: Changed quoted atom and string syntax to support character
escapes, broken lines, etc. These changes can be switched off
using ?- set_feature(character_escapes, false). for backward
compatibility.
Also, 0b110, 0xa2 and 0o70 (binary, hexadecimal and octal) number
representations are now recognised.
* ISO: Added features bounded, integer_rounding_function, max_arity.
* WIN32: Various changes to the console: use standard colours and
font, allow for changing colours. Bind Control-Z to end-of-file
(alternative for Control-D, which is still valid).
* WIN32: `pl state.qlx' now assumes state.qlx is the result of a
qsave_program/[1,2] and automatically loads the state. This
allows for associating states with the emulator. Also, pl file.pl
will automatically chdir/1 to the directory containing the file
and load the file before entering the toplevel.
* WIN32: Fixed some filename case problems: expand_file_name/2 now
works case-insensitive. Comparing files for sorting is done case
insenstive.
* WIN32: Command-line breaking now handles "quoted arguments". Only
double quotes and no escape (I don't know the Windows'95 escape
conventions).
* WIN32: Fixed filename completion from console window.
* INSTALL: Fixed detection of non-gnu/gnu make
* FIXED: use_module/1, etc. to import predicates exported using the
export/1 directive instead of the module/2 directive.
Version 2.1.9
=============
* FIXED: Updated stack-shifter code for the changed layout of the
environment-stack frames. This bug prevented pl-gc.c to compile
on machines having no virtual-memory based stack allocation.
Version 2.1.8
=============
* ADDED: check in exit code that removes possibly incomplete .qlf and
bootfiles if an error occurred while building the file.
* FIXED: WIN32 tmp_file/2. This fixes help/1.
* FIXED: configure for users of a shell that doesn't export $PWD and
the system chooses the install-sh script.
Version 2.1.7
=============
* FIXED: management of clause index-table. Old code lead to indefinite
growing of these tables with repetative assert/retract
* ADDED: Improved dirty-management on clause indexing system to improve
the performance on retract from hashed dynamic predicates.
* ADDED: absolute_file_name/3: options file_type, file_errors and
solutions for compatibility.
* Win32: compiled (with small updates) for Win32
* ADDED: Implemented open_null_stream/1 by defining a null-stream in
SWI-Prologs stream-i/o package to avoid the /dev/null dependency.
* ADDED: Saving current operator declarations with qsave_program/[1,2].
* FIXED: Garbage-collector error.
* FIXED: predicate-reference count problem
* ADDED: style_check(+dynamic) to report on manipulation of predicates
that are active in the interpreter.
Version 2.1.6
=============
* INSTALL: installs pl in the SWI-Prolog tree and just creates a link
from the binary directory. Makes it easier to move and redistribute
the SWI-Prolog binaries.
* CHPL.c: fixed conflict for basename()
* FIXED: file-searching cache returning alternate answers in different
order.
Version 2.1.5
=============
* ADDED: notrace(+Goal) to run Goal invisible to the debugger.
* ADDED: open_shared_object/3 to be able to pass flags to dlopen().
* CLAUSE INDEXING: version 2.1.5 provides hashing to speed up first
argument indexing. Numerous changes had to be made to realise this:
Indirection in the clause chain of predicates, implementation of a
lazy automatic system to guess the proper way to index a predicate,
a new clause-reference count system (avoiding problems with manipulation
of àctive' predicates. The representation of predicate and clauses
has changed in various ways.
* INSTALL: Changed various things to the configure options and detection,
to the defaults make more sence. Upgraded to autoconf 2.4, fixed for
cross-compilation.
* PORT: Fixed various things for the Linux/ELF port. Tested on
Linux 1.2.13 running libc-5.0.9. Compiled with gcc-2.7.0.
* PERFORMANCE: Implemented automatic rehashing of all (previously)
fixed-size hash-tables. Prevents performance degradation on very
large programs.
* FIXED: profile/3 problem (leading to crashes).
* FIXED: pl -O bug: trailing of is/2 was not handled properly.
Version 2.1.4
=============
* MODIFIED: Changed definition of absolute_file_name/2. Moved
absolute_file_name/3 from library(quintus) to a built-in predicate.
* ADDED: file_directory_name/2 and file_base_name/2.
* ADDED: end_of_file is now passed to term_expansion/2.
* DOC: Many updates.
* FIXED: read/1 for foo.%comment (i.e. no space between the . and the
comment). Note that foo./*comment*/ doesn't work as this will be
tokenised as `foo', `./*', `comment', `*/'.
* ADDED: lazy recomputation of clause indexing. This notably speeds
up loading .qlf and bootfiles.
* ADDED: hash_term/2 for advanced indexing of databases.
* ADDED: setting file_search_path through the command line using:
pl -p mydir=/foo/bar.
* FIXED: Semantics of ensure_loaded/1 if the file is already loaded,
combined with the module system. See ensure_loaded/1.
* FIXED: Grammar rule compiler's handling of non-proper lists in the
head or body (lists ending in a variable). Lists of more then one
element are now translated into append/3. The following now compiles
ok: string([H|T]) --> [H|T].
* MODIFIED: term_to_atom/2 and atom_to_term/3 to fail silently on a
syntax error. Both predicates now also accept a string in the place
of the atom to parse strings: term_to_atom(X, "foo(bar)") works as
expected.
* ADDED: `swi' and `foreign' aliases to file_search_path/2.
* MODIFIED: Grammar rule translator now uses 'C'/3 instead of '$char'/3
to extract the head. Compatibility.
* MODIFIED: at_initialisation/1 is now called at_initialization/1.
* INSTALL: Fixed Makefile and configure to be able to build the system
for multiple platforms.
* ADDED: Infra-structure for making portable saved-states (equivalents
of boot files):
+ initialization/1 (goals to run at initialization)
+ volatile/1 (predicates for which not to save clauses)
+ require/1 (define we require this predicate)
+ autoload/[0,1] (autoload needed things now)
+ qsave_program/[1,2] (make a quick-loadable state)
* ADDED: compound/1 to test for compound terms.
* FIXED: compilation of ``foo:Head :- Body'' to be equivalent to
foo:(Head :- Body).
* FIXED: problem in read/1 and number_chars/2 that may have lead to
garbage collection errors.
* FIXED: setarg/3 integrated in the trail-system. Removes its
choicepoint and ensures data consistency.
Version 2.1.3
=============
* ADDED: setarg/3 for extra-logical assignment to arguments of terms.
* MODIFIED: PL_new_integer() now returns a floating point value if the
argument exceeds SWI-Prolog's integer range.
* ADDED: Automatically dumps the top of the runtime stack on floating
point exceptions.
* FIXED: Trap floating point exceptions for the win32 version.
Version 2.1.2
=============
* FIXED: read/1 problem. Try reading just '0'. ... Reported by
Daniela Genius.
* FIXED: `toplevel' variable expansion system, leading to various strange
behaviours in handling queries from the user. It now can also handle
cases as:
?- X = 5.
?- X is $X + 1.
Version 2.1.1
=============
* MODIFIED: DCG translation of free variables now calls phrase/3, which
has been changed slightly to deal with ùn-parsing'. Modification
is probably not complete, but it fixes some problems encountered by
Michael Boehlen.
* MODIFIED: keysort/2 is now stable with regard to multiple values on
the same key. Makes this predicate compatible with SICStus and
Quintus.
* FIXED: :- dynamic, :- multifile, :- module_transparent and
:- discontiguous to accept Module:Name/Arity, ...
* Moved call/[1..] into the compiler. call/[1..6] is removed from
library(quintus) as it is now part of the base system. Also fail/0
and true/0 are now handled by virtual machine instructions.
* Upgrade to autoconf 2.3, fixed usage of `tr' for Solaris 2.x and
with that the configuration of --enable-shared.
* FIXED: number_chars/2 and name/2 now handle floating point numbers.
* FIXED: interaction between chdir/1 and absolute_file_name/2.
* FIXED: format('~*c', [10,45]) (or more in general, providing an argument
to ~c to print the character multiple times). Thanks to Michael Boehlen.
* FIXED: PrologPrompt() to allow reading standard input from the -g and/or
-t goal options.
Version 2.1.0
==============
* Added facilities to allow for embedding SWI-Prolog in C applications.
* Fixed semantics of the cut in toplevel queries by compiling the query
instead of using meta-call.
* Fixed bagof(A, member([B, C]), L) to yield L = [B,C] instead of making
new variables.
* Fixed typo in dde.pl (reported by Thiebaut Moeglin)
* Integration of NeXT patches from Thomas Hoppe (hoppet@cs.tu-berlin.de).
Probably still not 100% ok, but should be closer now.
* Fixed XPCE event dispatching for pl -tty
* PL_univg() C-interface function added for supporting XPCE > 4.8.10
with better interface performance.
* Fixed operator precedence problem (reported by Dave Moffat)
Version 2.0.9
=============
* ADDED: HPUX interface for shared libraries, but a HPUX guru should
fix the import/export details (line was too slow to browse to lots
of manual pages).
* FIXED: pl-incl.h typo (breaks IRIX 5.3 port and propably others)
* FIXED: HPUX detection of mmap()'able stacks fixed.
* FIXED: generation of include/SWI-Exports, the AIX export declaration
file.
Version 2.0.8
=============
* FIXED: loading shared objects using dlopen() for solaris 2.x
* FIXED: shlib.pl current_foreign_library/2 administration.
Version 2.0.7
=============
* FIXED: compilation (boot and .qlf) now donot look for compiled
(.qlf) files.
* CHANGED: Default goal writing the banner is now in the flag
$banner_goal (used by XPCE as a shared library).
Version 2.0.6
=============
* CHANGED: retractall/1 implementation is now compatible to Quintus,
avoiding the hacky redefinition in library(quintus.pl). The difference
is that now the argument will only be matched against the clause-head.
on a match the clause will be removed, regardless of its body. Makes
no difference for retractall on facts, but does make a difference on
clauses with a non-just-true body. retractall/1 is now a deterministic
foreign predicate that no longer decompiles the clause body, making
it faster too.
* FIXED: made .qlf files independent of the directory they where compiled.
* FIXED: Path canonisation problem
* FIXED: loading .qlf files holding already-defined modules
* ADDED: file_search_path file-location system
* ADDED: access_file(File, exists) to check for bare existence.
* FIXED: Another clear_uninitialised() problem related to if-then-else
causing garbage collector and possibly stack-shift errors. As the
implementation is now changed radically, this problem should be gone
forever ...
* FIXED: copy_term/2. Now creates more efficient terms (less references)
and no longer creates bad references.
Version 2.0.5
=============
* MODIFIED: Replaced libc based stream IO with more general IOSTREAM
package. Deleted folding capabilities as just about any IO device
has these built-in these days. These changes are to facilate embedding
in window-based environments that do not support stdio. See pl-stream.c
* FIX: dwim_match/2 for single character mismatch.
* ADDED: atom_chars/2, number_chars/2, atom_char/2, various new
unix/1 arguments.
Version 2.0.4
=============
* MODIFIED: Consult and friends (ensure_loaded, use_module, etc.)
no longer change directory to the directory in which the file
lives. As a consequence, directives have to use prolog_load_context/2
or source_location/2 to find the context directory of the directive.
consult and related directives still load relative to the directory
in which the currently loading file lives.
* Added prolog_load_context/2 to provide context for directives.
Actually moved from library(quintus) to the boot image as the
predicate is now necessary.
* Added -DO_RUNTIME support to make a version that is more suitable
for distribution of products: no profiling, no tracer, no readline
and no interrupt handling. Setup using configure --enable-runtime
Version 2.0.3
=============
* Fixed: loading qlf files now push the source context while running
a directive, so source_location/2 should work while executing a
directive from a .qlf file.
* Fixed: recognise MAP_ANONYMOUS for configuring mmap() based stacks.
* Added feature(dynamic_stacks, Bool) for detection of virtual memory
based stack management.
* Fixed feature(open_shared_object, Bool) (Michael Kauschke)
Version 2.0.2
=============
* Fixed pl [options] -c file ...
* Improved VMI implementation for (if -> then ; else), \+ and (a;b).
Reduces overhead of these to about 1/3th.
* Added VMI support for fast calling of foreign system predicates that
are called with only variable arguments (i.e. `test(X) :- integer(X)'
is optimised; `test(X) :- integer(3)' is not). Provides big speedup
for fail, true, integer/1 (etc.), and many other commonly called
foreign predicates.
* Support for mmap() using MAP_ANON. Avoids a file-descriptor and hopefully
improves portability of dynamic stacks.
* Fix for Solaris 2.4 mmap() detection.
* Fix: added autoconf test for using asm("nop") in pl-wam.c or use slower
but more portable C alternative (fixes RS/6000 version)
Version 2.0.1
=============
* FIX in garbage collector of 2.0.0 was only half the story. Should
be ok now. Thanks to Thomas Hoppe for supplying me with the error
report.
* FIX & performance: current_functor/2 with the first argument is
instantiated.
* Installation: the libraries are now installed as
$(prefix)/lib/$(PL)-$(PLVERSION). A possibly existing executable is moved
from $(prefix)/bin/$(PL) to $(prefix)/bin/$(PL).old
Version 2.0.0
=============
* Added `Quick Load File' compilation support. See qcompile/1 and
qload/1. Alpha stage.
* FIXED infrequent segmentation violation occurring on machines with
dynamic stack management, but whose signal handler is not provided
the address of the fault (Linux and Solaris 2 for example). The
crash can be in various foreign predicates that use the local stack
as scratch area.
* Important FIX to the garbage collector. This bug may happen iff
a garbage collection is invoked while clauses are active that have
\+ or (a -> b ; c) constructs that are not yet active. Generally
the problem is reported as an inconsistency in the relocation count.
* Fix to virtual machine encoding that applies to versions compiled
with gcc 2.x and whose text-space starts at a high address.
* Modified absolute_file_name/2 to take specifications of the
form absolute_file_name(library('shell.pl'), X).
* Various fixes to the new .qlf format and support for compiliation
of individual or combined sources into .qlf files. .qlf files may
now be loaded as normal sourcefiles instead of only as `boot' file.
Version 1.9.6:
==============
* Fixed for BIG_ENDIAN machines (Intel, VAX, ...)
* Windows version: added dde_execute/2
* Added Quintus compatible foreign-language (C) interface.
* Changed .qlf (former .wic) format drastically. The current
format gives about 30% shorter files and loads twice as fast.
* Changed basic clause representation. VM op-codes are now
full machine words, avoiding the need for the `XR' table
management and related indirections. Simplifies the instruction set,
speedup for compiler, decompiler (retract, clause) and execution
(about 10%). Enlarges program-size with about 10%.
Version 1.9.5:
==============
alpha-2
* Fixed prolog_frame_attribute/3 for key=parent.
* Added at_initialisation(+Goal) for initialisation hooks
* Fixed tracer problems introduced in 1.9.5-alpla-1.
alpha-1
* Moved sourcecode administration from predicate to individual
clauses. Purpose: better source-level debugger support, better
handling of multifile predicates.
* Recompiling files holding clauses for multifile predicates now
works properly. The clauses of the latest loaded file will
always be the last.
* Removing a predicate from a file and recompiling the file
now actually removes the definition from the Prolog database,
even if you are not using modules.
* Added prolog_frame_attribute(Frame, clause, ClauseRef) to get a
reference to the currently running clause.
* Added clause_property/2 to get the source information from a
specific clause.
* Compiled state (-c compilation) has changed a little. The system
does not load old states.
Version 1.9.4. Redefining system-predicates is no longer allowed. This

may be overruled using :- redefine_system_predicate(+Head). Fix in
Makefile (from Kayvan Sylvan): fixes shell syntax error make install.
Give warning on user-files trying to load module ùser' or `system'
(this is why library(system) could not be loaded). Fixed whereis/1 to
find locations of predicates. Fixed trace/[1,2] to avoid low-level
errors on bad specifications. Specification now also accept the much
more natural ?- trace(append, fail). as a shorthand for [+fail]. Added
autoloader handling to ed/1, listing/1, spy/1 and trace/2. Manipulating
not-yet-loaded autoload predicates will trap the autoloader. Added hook
for help-system, so we provide a decent help-window when running under
the XPCE graphical environment. The hook is called show_help_file/2.
Fixed rename_file/2 (bug introduced in pl-1.9.2). Fixed versions
Windows-specific problems. Added prolog_to_os_filename/2 to convert
between internal and external names (DOS/Windows). Integrated the 1.9.4
patches for the Windows version. Fixed to compile on AIX. Fixed
compilation on some Solaris version.
Version 1.9.3. Fix index/1 problem introduced in 1.9.2. Fix
stack-expansion problem in all versions that lack hardware support for
stack-expansion. Some cleanup in pl-gc.c to make clean compilation with
-Wall and -DO_DEBUG possible. Regenerated common prototype file
pl-funcs.h using mkproto tool (and some editing).
Version 1.9.2. Configuration is now based on GNU's autoconf. All
md-*.h files have been removed from the distribution. $arch/2, $home/1
and $version/1 have been replaced by feature/2. A predicate read_link/3
has been added to read symbolic links. Installation is tested on SunOs
4.1.3, Solaris 2.3 and Linux 1.0.9 with readline 2.0.3.
Version 1.9.1. Added: Windows DDE interface, Added Unix/System-V (?)
interface to dlopen() and friends to access shared objects dynamically.
Version 1.9.0. Incorporation of various ports: md-netbsd.h, md-mswin.h
and md-msdos.h. There is a binary distribution for Windows in
win-pl.tgz of the main ftp server (swi.psy.uva.nl). The DOS and Windows
versions are created using the WATCOM-C/32 toolkit.
=======================================================================
Version 1.8.12. Fixed tracer option `f' (fail) used on the exit port of
a goal. Thanks to Thomas Hoppe.
Version 1.8.8. Fix in the parser to avoid some bad syntax-error
messages. Also fixed spurious crashes trying to read bad-syntax-terms
of the form ?- atom,.
New in the quintus.pl library: initialization/1, random/3, numbervars/3
and absolute_file_name/3.
Version 1.8.7 includes the catch/throw-like control structures
block(+Label, +Goal, -Rval), fail(+Label), exit(+Label, +Rval) and
!(+Label). Also new is explain(+Anything) which will try to tell you a
lot of what the system knows about the term you entered. Additions and
suggesions are welcome. Also new: library(bim): A partial Prolog-by-BIM
(tm) compatibility package by Henk Vandecasteele. Thanks.
Further fixes:
* Bug in detecting stack-overflow for the PC/linux version.
* Handling of SWI_HOME_DIR (fixes installation problem for
XPCE/SWI-Prolog).
* atom_length/2: give warning (instead of crash) on invalid
data-type (e.g. unbound, term).
* nth_clause/3: Removed errornous warning when cut-off and
fixed returning 0-reference for defined predicates without
clauses.
Version 1.8.6 defines phrase/[2,3] for accessing grammar rules and fixes
name/2 for numbers outside the integer range (yielding a float). A
predicate nth_clause/3 is added to provide access to specific clauses of
predicates. xmalloc(), xrealloc() are added to fix some problems when
linking with gnu-libraries.
Version 1.8.5 contains a few fixes for the SunOs-4/gcc-2.5 combination.
DONOT USE GCC-2.5.[123] as the optimiser appears broken. gcc-2.5.4 is
ok again.
Version 1.8.4 fixes =@=/2, contains a more logical form of arg/3, fixes
passing empty-string arguments from the Prolog command-line and fixes
some things for old non-ansi compilers. There are some extensions to
the quintus.pl compatibility library.
Version 1.8.3 Fixes some more readline problems having to do with
running SWI-Prolog as an inferior process under EMACS.
Version 1.8.2 fixes some serious problems in the tracer intoduced by
more global changes in 1.8.0.
Version 1.8.1 fixes load_foreign for both SunOs 4.1.3 and PC/Linux.
Extensive use of the stat(2) system call is reduced with some changes to
the file administration. This speeds up loading many small files by an
incredible amount, notably when reading over a (slow) network.
The manual is regenerated. There are not many changes, but the
PostScript files in these archives are totally different as we upgrated
LaTeX and dvips. Therefore the patch file **diff-1.8.0-1.8.1** does
*not* include the patches to the PostScript manual.
Version 1.8.0 includes a stack shifter, enabling dynamic stacks for
machines that do not offer hardware support by providing suitable access
to the virtual memory management. Fixed a bug in concat/3.
expand_file/2 is now sensitive to fileerrors/2 while expanding $var or
~user. More bugfixes to the readline interface. Manual page
contributed by Dave Sherrat. RS6000 port no longer uses -lbsd and
compiles on gcc.
================================================================
Version 1.7.2 should compile on Solaris 2.2 using gcc 2.4.5. It fixes
the usual couple of portability problems, the terminal interface when
connected to the XPCE graphics library. It ads line_count to
predicate_property to support a future graphical debugging tool.
Version 1.7.1 fixes a very serious memory allocation violation in the
connection to the readline library. Make sure to update from 1.7.0!
Version 1.7.0 contains a version linked with the GNU readline library
for bash/tcsh compatible line editing. The library readline is
distributed separately and must be installed before installing prolog.
The file readline-1.1.tar.gz contains the unmodified GNU sources.
librl-1.1.tar.z contains the binaries for PC/Linux.
================================================================
Version 1.6.18 contains a fix to load_foreign/[2,5] for PC/Linux.
[Version 1.6.17 has been reinstalled at Jun 1 23:16 with two prototype
fixes and a fix to save_program/1 necessary for the RS6000.]
Version 1.6.17 fixes some minor installation problems reported for
1.6.16. The online manual has been updated for trace/[1,2]. Callback
of undefined Prolog-predicates from C now correctly trap the autoloader.
Analysis of the PATH variable to find the Prolog executable has been
fixed. Nothing serious if you have a running system!
Version 1.6.16 integrates port to 386 System-V Unix made by Eric S.
Raymond (esr@snark.thyrsus.com), who also ported the shell scripts to
use sh rather than csh. The new predicates trace/1 and trace/2 allow
for tracing individual predicates non-interactively.
Version 1.6.15 eliminates some compiler limits, fixes a bug in
trail-stacks management and provides a much better port for PC/Linux.
Requires Linux kernel 99pl7 or later.
Version 1.6.14 provides 8 bit character support. All characters in the
range 128 ... 255 are treated as lowercase letters. op/3 is fixed to
actually delete operators when priority 0 is specified.
Version 1.6.13 implements standard order compatible to Quintus and
contains a fix of the module system which broke the Quintus.pl
replacement of retractall/1.
Version 1.6.12 is te result of integrating ports to LINUX, OS/2 and
HP/UX with the main-stream (SunOs).

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