Tcl Source Code

# README:  Tcl

This is the **Tcl 9.0a1** source distribution.

You can get any source release of Tcl from [our distribution
site](https://sourceforge.net/projects/tcl/files/Tcl/).

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## Contents

2017-07-06 (bug)[adb198] Plug memleak in TclJoinPath (sebres,porter)

2017-07-17 (bug)[fb2208] Repeatable tclIndex generation (wiedemann,nijtmans)

--- Released 8.6.7, August 9, 2017 --- https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/ for details

Changes to 8.7a1 include all changes to the 8.6 line through 8.6.7,
plus the following, which focuses on the high-level feature changes
in this changeset (new minor version) rather than bug fixes:

2016-03-17 (bug)[0b8c38] socket accept callbacks always in global ns (porter)
        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

2016-07-01 Hack accommodations for legacy Itcl 3 disabled (porter)

2016-07-12 Make TCL_HASH_TYPE build-time configurable (nijtmans)

2016-07-19 (bug)[0363f0] Partial array search ID reform (porter)

2016-07-19 (feature removed) Tcl_ObjType "array search" unregistered (porter)
	*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY for Tcl_GetObjType("array search") ***

2016-10-04 Server socket on port 0 chooses port supporting IPv4 * IPv6 (max)

2016-11-25 [array names -regexp] supports backrefs (goth)

2017-01-04 (TIP 456) New routine Tcl_OpenTcpServerEx() (limeboy)

2017-01-04 (TIP 459) New subcommand [package files] (nijtmans)

2017-01-16 threaded allocator initialization repair (vasiljevic,nijtmans)

2017-01-30 Add to Win shell builtins: assoc ftype move (ashok)

2017-03-31 TCL_MEM_DEBUG facilities better support 64-bit memory (nijtmans)

2017-04-13 \u escaped content in msg files converted to true utf-8 (nijtmans)

2017-05-18 (TIP 458) New epoll or kqueue notifiers are default (alborboz)

2017-05-31 Purge build support for SunOS-4.* (stu)

2017-06-22 (TIP 463) New option [regsub ... -command ...] (fellows)

2017-06-22 (TIP 470) Tcl_GetDefineContextObject();[oo::define [self]] (fellows)
=> TclOO 1.2.0

2017-06-23 (TIP 472) Support 0d as prefix of decimal numbers (iyer,griffin)

2017-08-31 (bug)[2a9465] http state 100 continue handling broken (oehlmann)

2017-09-02 (bug)[0e4d88] replace command, delete trace kills namespace (porter)

--- Released 8.7a1, September 8, 2017 --- http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/ for details

2017-08-10 [array names -regexp] supports backrefs (goth)

2017-08-10 Fix gcc build failures due to #pragma placement (cassoff,fellows)

2017-08-29 (bug)[b50fb2] exec redir append stdout and stderr to file (coulter)

2017-08-31 (bug)[2a9465] http state 100 continue handling broken (oehlmann)

2018-11-09 (bug)[35a8f1] overlong string length of some lists (owens)

2018-11-16 (bug)[00d04c] Repair [binary encode base64] (sebres)

- Released 8.6.9, November 16, 2018 - details at http://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/ -

2018-11-22 (bug)[7a9dc5] [file normalize ~/~foo] segfault (sebres)

2018-12-30 (bug)[3cf3a9] variable 'timezone' deprecated in vc2017 (nijtmans)

2019-01-09 (bug)[cc1e91] [list [list {*}[set a " "]]] regression (sebres)

2019-02-01 (bug)[e3f481] tests var-1.2[01] (sebres)

2019-03-01 (new) Update to Unicode 12.0 (nijtmans)

2019-03-05 (new)[TIP 527] New command [timerate] (sebres)

2019-03-08 (bug)[39fed4] [package require] memory validity (hume,porter)

2019-04-23 (new) New command tcl::unsupported::corotype (fellows)

2019-05-04 (bug) memlink when namespace deletion kills linked var (porter)

2019-05-28 (new) README file converted to README.md in Markdown (nijtmans)

2019-06-17 (bug)[8b9854] [info level 0] regression with ensembles (porter)

2019-06-20 (bug)[6bdadf] crash multi-arg write-traced [lappend] (fellows,porter)

2019-06-21 (bug)[f8a33c] crash Tcl_Exit before init (brooks,sebres)

2019-08-27 (bug)[fa6bf3] Bytecode fails epoch recovery at numLevel=0 (sebres)

2019-08-29 (bug)[fec0c1] C stack overflow compiling bytecode (ade,sebres)

2019-09-12 tzdata updated to Olson's tzdata2019c (jima)

2019-09-20 (new) registry/dde no longer need -DUNICODE (nijtmans)
=> registry 1.3.4
=> dde 1.4.2

2019-10-02 (bug)[16768d] Fix [info hostname] on NetBSD (rytaro)

2019-10-23 (new) libtommath updated to release 1.2.0 (nijtmans)

2019-10-25 OSX: system Tcl deprecated. End default use of its packages. (walzer)

2019-10-28 (bug)[bcd100] bad fs cache when system encoding changes (coulter)

2019-11-15 (bug)[135804] segfault in [next] after destroy (coulter,sebres)

- Released 8.6.10, Nov 21, 2019 - details at http://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/ -

Changes to 8.7a3 include all changes to the 8.6 line through 8.6.10,
plus the following, which focuses on the high-level feature changes
in this changeset (new minor version) rather than bug fixes:

2017-11-01 (bug)[3c32a3] crash deleting class mixed into instance (coulter)

2017-11-03 [TIP 345] eliminate the encoding 'identity' (porter)

2017-11-04 (bug)[0d902e] [string first] on ASCII stored as Unicode (fellows)

2017-11-17 [TIP 422] Mark all Tcl_*VA() routines deprecated. (nijtmans)

2017-11-20 (support) Ended use of the obsolete values.h header (culler)

2017-11-30 (bug)[8e1e31] [lsort] ordering of U+0000 (nijtmans)

2017-12-07 [TIP 487] Terminate support for pre-XP Windows (nijtmans)

2017-12-08 [TIP 477] Reform of nmake build (nadkarni)

2017-12-20 (bug)[ba1419] Crash: complex ensemble delete, namespace-7.8 (coulter)

2018-01-17 [TIP 485] Removal of many deprecated features (nijtmans)

2018-01-27 (bug) Crash in [join $l $l], join-4.1 (porter)

2018-02-06 [TIP 493] Cease Distribution of http 1.0 (porter)

2018-02-06 [TIP 484] internal rep for native ints are all 64-bit (nijtmans)

2018-02-14 [TIP 476] Scan/Printf consistency (nijtmans)

2018-03-05 [TIP 351] [lsearch] striding 

2018-03-05 [TIPs 330,336] tighten access to Interp fields (porter)

2018-03-12 [TIP 462] [::tcl::process] 

2018-03-12 [TIP 490] add oo support for msgcat => msgcat 1.7.0 (oehlmann)

2018-03-12 [TIP 499] custom locale preference list (oehlmann)
=> msgcat 1.7.0

2018-03-20 [TIP 503] End CONST84 support for Tcl 8.3 (porter)

2018-03-30 Refactored [lrange] (spjuth)

2018-04-20 [TIP 389] Unicode beyond BMP (nijtmans)

2018-04-20 [TIP 421] [array for]

2018-05-11 [TIP 425] Windows panic callback use of UTF-8

2018-05-17 [TIP 491] Phase out --disable-threads support

2018-06-03 [TIP 500] TclOO Private Methods and Variables

2018-07-26 (bug)[ba921a] [string cat] of bytearrays (coulter,porter)

2018-09-02 [TIP 478] Many new features in TclOO (lester,fellows)

2018-09-04 (bug)[540bed] [binary format w] from bignum (nijtmans)

2018-09-12 [TIP 430] zipfs and embedded script library (woods)

2018-09-26 [TIP 508] [array default] (bonnet,fellows)

2018-09-27 [TIP 515] level value reform (nijtmans)

2018-09-27 [TIP 516] More OO slot operations (fellows)

2018-09-27 [TIP 426] [info cmdtype] (fellows)

2018-09-28 [TIP 509] Cross platform reentrant mutex

2018-10-08 [TIP 514] native integers are 64-bit

2018-10-12 [TIP 502] index value reform (porter)

2018-11-06 [TIP 406] http cookies (fellows)

2018-11-06 [TIP 445] Tcl_ObjType utilities (migrate to Tcl 9) (porter)

2018-11-06 [TIP 501] [string is dict]

2018-11-06 [TIP 519] inline export/unexport option for [oo::define]

2018-11-06 [TIP 523] [lpop]

2018-11-06 [TIP 524] TclOO custom dialects

2018-11-06 [TIP 506] Tcl_(Incr|Decr)RefCount macros -> functions (porter)

2018-11-15 [TIP 512] No stub for Tcl_SetExitProc()

2019-04-08 (bug)[45b9fa] crash in [try] (coulter)

2019-04-14 [TIP 160] terminal and serial channel controls

2019-04-14 [TIP 312] more types for Tcl_LinkVar

2019-04-14 [TIP 367] [lremove]

2019-04-14 [TIP 504] [string insert]

2019-04-16 [TIP 342] [dict getwithdefault]

2019-05-25 [TIP 431] [file tempdir]

2019-05-25 [TIP 383] [coroinject], [coroprobe]

2019-05-31 [TIP 544] Tcl_GetIntForIndex()

2019-06-12 Replace TclOffset() with offsetof()

2019-06-15 [TIP 461] string compare operators for [expr]

2019-06-16 [TIP 521] floating point classification functions for [expr]

2019-06-20 (bug)[6bdadf] crash multi-arg traced [lappend] (fellows)

2019-06-28 [TIP 547] New encodings utf-16, ucs-2

2019-09-14 [TIP 414] Tcl_InitSubsystems()

2019-09-14 [TIP 548] wchar_t conversion functions

- Released 8.7a3, Nov 21, 2019 --- http://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/ for details -

Changes to 9.0a1 include all changes to the 8.7 line through 8.7a3,
plus the following, which focuses on the high-level feature changes
in this changeset (new minor version) rather than bug fixes:



2017-11-03 [TIP 114] Leading zero integer no longer means octal



2017-11-03 [TIP 278] Revise variable name resolution, solve "Creative Writing"




2017-11-03 [TIPs 330,336] Encapsulate struct Tcl_Interp



2017-11-17 [TIP 422] Remove all Tcl_*VA() routines



2017-12-15 [TIP 488] Disable magic $::tcl_precision



2018-10-08 [TIP 494] Increased support for size_t value ranges



2019-05-31 [TIP 537] 64-bit indices in regexp matching






















- Released 9.0a1, Nov 25, 2019 --- http://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/ for details -

 * unix/tcl.spec	(1 LOC patch)
 * tools/tcl.hpj.in	(not patchlevel, for windows installer)
 */

#define TCL_MAJOR_VERSION   9
#define TCL_MINOR_VERSION   0
#define TCL_RELEASE_LEVEL   TCL_ALPHA_RELEASE
#define TCL_RELEASE_SERIAL  1

#define TCL_VERSION	    "9.0"
#define TCL_PATCH_LEVEL	    "9.0a1"

#if defined(RC_INVOKED)
/*
 * Utility macros: STRINGIFY takes an argument and wraps it in "" (double
 * quotation marks), JOIN joins two arguments.
 */

# of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
#

# This test intentionally written in pre-7.5 Tcl
if {[info commands package] == ""} {
    error "version mismatch: library\nscripts expect Tcl version 7.5b1 or later but the loaded version is\nonly [info patchlevel]"
}
package require -exact Tcl 9.0a1

# Compute the auto path to use in this interpreter.
# The values on the path come from several locations:
#
# The environment variable TCLLIBPATH
#
# tcl_library, which is the directory containing this init.tcl script.

TCL_VERSION=9.0
TCL_MAJOR_VERSION=9
TCL_MINOR_VERSION=0
TCL_PATCH_LEVEL="a1"
VERSION=${TCL_VERSION}

EXTRA_INSTALL_BINARIES=${EXTRA_INSTALL_BINARIES:-"@:"}
EXTRA_BUILD_HTML=${EXTRA_BUILD_HTML:-"@:"}

#------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Setup configure arguments for bundled packages

    /* override */ #undef PACKAGE_TARNAME
    #endif /* _TCLCONFIG */])
])

TCL_VERSION=9.0
TCL_MAJOR_VERSION=9
TCL_MINOR_VERSION=0
TCL_PATCH_LEVEL="a1"
VERSION=${TCL_VERSION}

EXTRA_INSTALL_BINARIES=${EXTRA_INSTALL_BINARIES:-"@:"}
EXTRA_BUILD_HTML=${EXTRA_BUILD_HTML:-"@:"}

#------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Setup configure arguments for bundled packages

# This file is the basis for a binary Tcl RPM for Linux.

%{!?directory:%define directory /usr/local}

Name:          tcl
Summary:       Tcl scripting language development environment
Version:       9.0a1
Release:       2
License:       BSD
Group:         Development/Languages
Source:        http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tcl/tcl%{version}-src.tar.gz
URL:           http://www.tcl.tk/
Buildroot:     /var/tmp/%{name}%{version}

# versions of autoconf incorrectly set SHELL to /bin/bash instead of
# /bin/sh. The bash shell seems to suffer from some strange failures.
SHELL=/bin/sh

TCL_VERSION=9.0
TCL_MAJOR_VERSION=9
TCL_MINOR_VERSION=0
TCL_PATCH_LEVEL="a1"
VER=$TCL_MAJOR_VERSION$TCL_MINOR_VERSION

TCL_DDE_VERSION=1.4
TCL_DDE_MAJOR_VERSION=1
TCL_DDE_MINOR_VERSION=4
DDEVER=$TCL_DDE_MAJOR_VERSION$TCL_DDE_MINOR_VERSION

# versions of autoconf incorrectly set SHELL to /bin/bash instead of
# /bin/sh. The bash shell seems to suffer from some strange failures.
SHELL=/bin/sh

TCL_VERSION=9.0
TCL_MAJOR_VERSION=9
TCL_MINOR_VERSION=0
TCL_PATCH_LEVEL="a1"
VER=$TCL_MAJOR_VERSION$TCL_MINOR_VERSION

TCL_DDE_VERSION=1.4
TCL_DDE_MAJOR_VERSION=1
TCL_DDE_MINOR_VERSION=4
DDEVER=$TCL_DDE_MAJOR_VERSION$TCL_DDE_MINOR_VERSION