Changelog

Copyright (C) 1999-2022 G.J. Paulissen

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Types of changes:

• Added for new features.
• Changed for changes in existing functionality.
• Deprecated for soon-to-be removed features.
• Removed for now removed features.
• Fixed for any bug fixes.
• Security in case of vulnerabilities.

Please see the DBUG issue queue for issues.

[6.1.1] - 2022-11-25

Fixed

• The number of digits after the radix for a timestamp is not correct.

[6.1.0] - 2022-11-24

Fixed

• The Perl script dbugrpt does not run.
• The Unix clock function calculates the CPU time, not the wall clock time.

[6.0.0] - 2021-08-02

A new version on GitHub.

Added

• GitHub Pages support
• README.md describes up to date installation instructions
• CHANGELOG.md describes releases found on DBUG releases and in files ChangeLog and NEWS
• Lint support

Changed

• README now refers to README.md
• ChangeLog now refers to CHANGELOG.md
• NEWS now refers to CHANGELOG.md
• src/prog/dbugrpt.in does not have RCS keyword $Header$ anymore
• configure test for clock() first to conform to ISO C90
• Comparing test log file with a regular expression file used for test6 in doc

Removed

• Support for Perl module pdbug de-activated

[5.1.0]

Added

• Added rf2dbug utility for creating dbug log file from Robot Framework output.xml files.

[5.0.0] - 2018-08-19

Changed

• Solved issues with Perl dbug not well distributed
• Solved compiler warnings

[4.8.0] - 2016-05-03

Added

• Added support for Cygwin 2.5.1 64 bit

[4.7.0] - 2014-08-07

Added

• Added support for Cygwin 1.7.x

[4.6.1]

Changed

• Autoconf upgrade
• make check fixed

[4.6.0] - 2007-08-21

Added

• make distcheck now works with or without the Perl pdbug library
• added M4 configuration file config/dbug.m4 to be used by projects which depend on dbug
• the installation for Cygwin will set CC to “gcc -mno-cygwin” (if not set already)

[4.5.0] - 2007-08-07

Changed

• Installing the Perl pdbug library can be disabled by using $ configure --disable-pdbug

[4.4.0] - 2006-12-16

Added

• The Perl pdbug library is added to the distribution

[4.3.0]

Changed

• Solved build problems due to new versions of autoconf/automake/libtool

[4.2.0]

Changed

• [ 1174400 ] average is displayed wrongly by dbugrpt

[4.1.0]

Changed

• [ 1061551 ] Timing incorrect error

[4.0.0] - 2004-03-15

Changed

• LGPL license applied instead of GPL license

Removed

• imake support obsoleted

[3.1.0]

Added

• Build DBUG in separate build environment
• GNU Programming Standards enforced (ChangeLog, NEWS, etc.)

Changed

• make dist for imake and Autoconf separated

[3.0.0]

Changed

• Negative numbers for timing info solved. Sourceforge Request ID 679212
• Implement GNU build system

[2.0.4]

Added

• Oracle Universal Installer support added

[2.0.3]

Added

• Ability to save log files with the process id by using %p in the output file name, e.g. dbug options is “d,t,o=dbug.%p.log”

[2.0.2]

Changed

Vanderlande Industries ProPro 051270-5222 solved. This happens when linking on a Solaris platform when the GNU compiler is used to compile the DBUG library:

   Undefined first referenced symbol in file __eprintf
   /usr/local/src/dbug/lib/libdbug.a(dbug.o)

This bug shows up on Solaris when assert() is used and define NDEBUG (which ignores assertions) is not defined. Solution: either go to $DBUG_HOME/src/lib and execute

$ make EXTRA_DEFINES=-DNDEBUG clean depend all install

as the last installation step. The other solution is to specify -lgcc on the link command line (make EXTRA_LIBRARIES=-lgcc …), because __eprintf is part of libgcc.a

[2.0.1]

Changed

• Vanderlande Industries ProPro 051270-5204 solved: calling dbug_print_start_ctx() (in DBUG_PRINT()) without a valid context resulted in a core dump

[2.0.0]

Changed

• Memory leak solved. Showed up when the last reference for an output file was deleted (during dbug_done)

[1.6.7]

Changed

• Solved BUS error core dump due to incorrect movement within a large array. Bug appeared when more than 100 functions were called in a session

[1.6.6]

Changed

• Library build configuration bug solved
• Opening a different file for another dbug thread caused an error. Solved now

[1.6.5]

Changed

• Solved configuration bug

[1.6.4]

Added

• Added support for Oracle Installer

[1.6.3]

Changed

• The function dbug_done and its variants unwind the call stack. This is useful when a thread is cancelled and the thread cleanup routine does not know how large the debug stack was
• The dbug output printed the init line (containing #I#) twice when Posix threads was not used

[1.6.2]

Changed

• Bug solved in dbugrpt (user defined strings containing #D# are filtered well now)
• dbugrpt tool prints an empty line when debug context changes

[1.6.1]

Added

• DBUG_PRINT can be used without a function context (i.e. not within DBUG_ENTER/DBUG_LEAVE)

[1.6.0]

Added

• Enable sharing of files between threads. The file is opened only once and locked when one thread tries to write to it
• Configuration support enhanced for (shared) libraries

[1.5.2]

Changed

• Various bugfixes
• Allow threads to inherit from the parent debugging context by using DBUG_INIT( NULL, … )

[1.5.0]

Added

The DBUG output contains now the GMT date/time and a sequence number. This allows for sorting the output file. The command sort will sort a file in the following order: by thread creation (unique between several runs), by date/time, by sequence. Thus sort makes it easy to get a clear picture of all threads.

[1.4.0]

Added

• DBUG_RETURN and DBUG_VOID_RETURN are now available for backwards compatibility

Changed

• DBUG_PRINT is now compatible with the original version, i.e. interface before 1.3.0 is restored

[1.3.1]

Changed

• The command make World does not clean anymore, so html files will not be deleted
• Long function names are displayed correctly now in profiling report (Perl reporting tool)
• Debug options strings uses options separated by comma’s and arguments separated by an equal sign
• Arguments of an option are (optionally) separated by an equal sign (e.g. -#d,t,D=1000 or -#d,t,D1000)
• Value of make variable DBUGLIB now uses the $(DBUG_HOME)/lib path. Previously it used $(USRLIBDIR) or $(SHLIBDIR). The last values are project specific and cause errors for other projects depending on DBUG

[1.3.0]

Added

• Configuration file dbug.cf created for using DBUG in other imake projects
• Posix pthread support
• Separate Perl reporting tool

Changed

• Interface changed

[1.2.0]

Changed

• Solved bug when printing floats/doubles in Windows

[1.1.0]

Changed

• Documentation updated
• Library updated with external C functions
• README updated

[1.0.0] - 1999-05-01

For historical reasons, this is when I first started development with DBUG.