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dcf686c9 1Revision history for Perl extension Time::HiRes.
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a0c8e3cf 31.43
4 - add c:/temp to the list of temp directories to probe
5 so that cygwin (and win*?) builds are happy. This was
6 needed at least in my cygwin 1.3.20/w2k setup.
7
98b50af3 81.42
9 - modernize the constants code (from Nicholas Clark)
10
111.41
12 - At some point the ability to figure our the correct incdir
13 for EXTERN.h (either a core perl build, or an installed perl)
14 had broken (which lead into all test compiles failing with
15 a core perl build, but thanks to the robustness of Makefile.PL
a0c8e3cf 16 nothing of this was visible). The brokenness seemed to be
17 caused by $ENV{PERL_CORE} not being on for core builds?
18 Now stole a trick from the Encode that sets $ENV{PERL_CORE}
19 right, and both styles of build should work again.
98b50af3 20
211.40
22 - Nicholas Clark noticed that the my_catdir() emulation function
23 was broken (which means that we didn't really work for Perls
24 5.002 and 5.003)
25 - inspired by fixing the above made the whole Makefile.PL -w
26 and strict clean
27 - tightened up the Makefile.PL output, less whitespace
28
6a20eacc 291.39
30 - fix from Craig Berry for better building in VMS with PERL_CORE
31
3f2ee006 321.38
33 - no functional changes
34 - move lib/Time/HiRes.pm as Hires.pm
35 - libraries scanning was slightly broken (always scanned
36 for a library even when $Config{libs} already had it)
37
381.37
39 - Ray Zimmerman ran into a race condition in Mac OS X.
40 A 0.01-second alarm fired before the test expected.
41 The test first slept indefinitely (blocking for signals)
42 and only after that tested for the signal having been sent.
43 Since the signal had already been sent, the test #12 never
44 completed. The solution: test first, then block.
45 - default to being silent on all probing attempts, set the
46 environment variable VERBOSE to a true value to see the
47 details (the probing command and the possible errors)
48
491.36
50 - do not clear MAN3PODS in Makefile.PL (Radoslaw Zielinski)
51 - INSTALLDIRS => 'perl' missing which means that Time::HiRes
52 cannot be upgraded from CPAN to override the 5.8.0 version
53 (Guido A. Ostkamp)
54 - Time::HiRes 1.35 could not be dropped as-is to bleadperl
55 because the include directories did not adjust themselves
56 if $ENV{PERL_CORE} (Hugo van der Sanden)
57 - add documentation about the restart of select() under alarm()
58
591.35
60 - small documentation tweaks
61
62
631.34
64 - better VMS operation (Craig Berry)
65
661.33
67 - our time machine is accelerating: now works with Perl 5.004_01
68 (tried with 5.003_07 and 5.002 but I get segmentation faults
69 from running the Makefile.PL with those in Tru64 4.0D)
70
711.32
72 - backward compatibility (pre-5.6.0) tweaks:
73 - no XSLoader in 5.00503, use DynaLoader instead
74 - no SvPV_nolen, either
75 - no PerlProc_pause(), either
76 - now tested with 5.00404 and 5.00503
77 - Makefile.PL requires 5.00404 (no more 5.002)
78 - use nanosleep instead of usleep, if it is available (Wilson Snyder)
79 (this means that one can mix subsecond sleeps with alarms)
80 - because of nanosleep we probe for -lrt and -lposix4
81 - the existence of getitimer/nanosleep/setitimer/ualarm/usleep
82 is available by exportable constants Time::HiRes::d_func
83 (since older Perl do not have them in %Config, and even
84 5.8.0 does not probe for nanosleep)
85
861.31
87 - backward compatibility (pre-5.6.1) tweaks:
88 - define NV if no NVTYPE
89 - define IVdf if needed (note: the Devel::PPPort
90 in 5.8.0 does not try hard hard enough since
91 the IVSIZE might not be defined)
92 - define NVgf if needed
93 - grab the typemap from 5.8.0 for the NV stuff
941.30
95
96 - release 1.29_02 as 1.30
97
981.29_02
99
100 - fix a silly unclosed comment typo in HiRes.xs
101 - document and export REALTIME_REALPROF (Solaris)
102
1031.29_01
104
105 - only getitimer(ITIMER_REAL) available in Cygwin and Win32
106 (need to patch this also in Perl 5.[89])
107 - remove CVS revision log from HiRes.xs
108
1091.29_00
110
111 The following numbered patches refer to the Perl 5.7 changes,
112 you can browse them at http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse
113
114 - 17558: Add #!./perl to the .t
115 - 17201: linux + usemorebits fix, from Rafael Garcia-Suarez
116 - 16198: political correctness, from Simon Cozens
117 - 15857: doc tweaks, from Jarkko Hietaniemi
118 - 15593: optimization in .xs, from Paul Green
119 - 14892: pod fixes, from Robin Barker
120 - 14100: VOS fixes, from Paul Green
121 - 13422: XS segfault, from Marc Lehmann
122 - 13378: whether select() gets restarted on signals, depends
123 - 13354: timing constraints, again, from Andy Dougherty
124 - 13278: can't do subecond alarms with ualarm;
125 break out early if alarms do not seem to be working
126 - 13266: test relaxation (cygwin gets lower hires
127 times than lores ones)
128 - 12846: protect against high load, from Jarkko Hietaniemi
129 - 12837: HiRes.t VMS tweak, from Craig A. Berry
130 - 12797: HiRes.t VMS tweak, from Charles Lane
131 - 12769: HiRes.t VMS tweak, from Craig A. Berry
132 - 12744: gcc vs MS 64-bit constant syntax, from Nick Ing-Simmons
133 - 12722: VMS ualarm for VMS without ualarm, from Charles Lane
134 - 12692: alarm() ain't gonna work if ualarm() ain't,
135 from Gurusamy Sarathy
136 - 12680: minor VMS tweak, from Charles Lane
137 - 12617: don't try to print ints as IVs, from Jarkko Hietaniemi
138 - 12609: croak on negative time, from Jarkko Hietaniemi
139 - 12595: Cygwin rounds up for time(), from Jarkko Hietaniemi
140 - 12594: MacOS Classic timeofday, from Chris Nandor
141 - 12473: allow for more than one second for sleep() and usleep()
142 - 12458: test tuning, relax timing constraints,
143 from Jarkko Hietaniemi
144 - 12449: make sleep() and usleep() to return the number
145 of seconds and microseconds actually slept (analogously
146 with the builtin sleep()), also make usleep() croak if
147 asked for more than 1_000_000 useconds, from Jarkko Hietaniemi
148 - 12366: Time::HiRes for VMS pre-7.0, from Charles Lane
149 - 12199: do not use ftime on Win32, from Gurusamy Sarathy
150 - 12196: use ftime() on Win32, from Artur Bergman
151 - 12184: fix Time::HiRes gettimeofday() on Win32, from Gurusamy Sarathy
152 - 12105: use GetSystemTime() on Win32, from Artur Bergman
153 - 12060: explain the 1e9 seconds problem, from Jarkko Hietaniemi
154 - 11901: UNICOS sloppy division, from Jarkko Hietaniemi
155 - 11797: problem in HiRes.t, from John P. Linderman
156 - 11414: prototype from Time::HiRes::sleep(), from Abhijit Menon-Sen
157 - 11409: Time::HiRes qw(sleep) failed, from Abhijit Menon-Sen
158 - 11270: dynix/ptx 4.5.2 hints fix, from Peter Prymmer
159 - 11032: VAX VMS s/div/lib\$ediv/ fix, from Peter Prymmer
160 - 11011: VAX VMS s/qdiv/div/ fix, from Peter Prymmer
161 - 10953: SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 requires an explicit -lc for usleep(),
162 from Jonathan Stowe
163 - 10942: MPE/IX test tweaks, from Mark Bixby
164 - 10784: unnecessary pod2man calls, from Andy Dougherty
165 - 10354: ext/ + -Wall, from Doug MacEachern
166 - 10320: fix the BOOT section to call myU2time correctly
167 - 10317: correct casting for AIX< from H. Merijn Brand
168 - 10119: document that the core time() may be rounding, not truncating
169 - 10118: test fix, from John Peacock
170 - 9988: long =item, from Robin Barker
171 - 9714: correct test output
172 - 9708: test also the scalar aspect of getitimer()
173 - 9705: Add interval timers (setitimer, getitimer)
174 - 9692: do not require at least 5.005 using XS
175
176 The following changes were made on top of the changes
177 made for Time::HiRes during the Perl 5.7 development
178 cycle that culminated in the release of Perl 5.8.0.
179
180 - add "require 5.005" to the Makefile.PL
181 - remove the REVISION section (CVS log) from HiRes.pm
182 - add jhi's copyright alongside Douglas'
183 - move HiRes.pm to lib/Time/
184 - move HiRes.t to t/
185 - modify HiRes.t to use $ENV{PERL_CORE}
186 - modify the original Time::HiRes version 1.20 Makefile.PL
187 to work both with Perl 5.8.0 and the new code with pre-5.8.0
188 Perls (tried with 5.6.1)
189 - tiny tweaks and updates in README and TODO
190 - bump the VERSION to 1.29
191
dcf686c9 1921.20 Wed Feb 24 21:30 1999
193 - make our usleep and ualarm substitutes into hrt_usleep
194 and hrt_ualarm. This helps static links of Perl with other
195 packages that also have usleep, etc. From
196 Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
197 - add C API stuff. From Joshua Pritikin
198 <joshua.pritikin@db.com>
3f2ee006 199 - VMS Makefile.PL fun. From pvhp@forte.com (Peter Prymmer)
dcf686c9 200 - hopefully correct "-lc" fix for SCO.
201 - add PPD stuff
202
2031.19 Tue Sep 29 22:30 1998
204 - put VMS gettimeofday() in. Patch is from Sebastian Bazley
205 <seb@stian.demon.co.uk>
206 - change GIMME_V to GIMME to help people with older versions of
207 Perl.
208 - fix Win32 version of gettimeofday(). It didn't affect anything,
209 but it confuses people reading the code when the return value
210 is backwards (0 is success).
211 - fix Makefile.PL (more) so that detection of gettimeofday is
212 more correct.
213
2141.18 Mon Jul 6 22:40 1998
215 - add usleep() for Win32.
216 - fix Makefile.PL to fix reported HP/UX feature where unresolved
217 externals still cause an executable to be generated (though no
218 x bit set). Thanks to David Kozinn for report and explanation.
219 Problems with the fix are mine :)
220
2211.17 Wed Jul 1 20:10 1998
222 - fix setitimer calls so microseconds is not more than 1000000.
223 Hp/UX 9 doesn't like that. Provided by Roland B Robert, PhD.
3f2ee006 224 - make Win32. We only get gettimeofday (the select hack doesn't
dcf686c9 225 seem to work on my Win95 system).
3f2ee006 226 - fix test 4 on 01test.t. add test to see if time() and
dcf686c9 227 Time::HiRes::time() are close.
228
2291.16 Wed Nov 12 21:05 1997
230 - add missing EXTEND in new gettimeofday scalar code.
231
2321.15 Mon Nov 10 21:30 1997
233 - HiRes.pm: update pod. Provided by Gisle Aas.
234 - HiRes.xs: if gettimeofday() called in scalar context, do
235 something more useful than before. Provided by Gisle Aas.
236 - README: tell of xsubpp '-nolinenumber' woes. thanks to
237 Edward Henigin <ed@texas.net> for pointing out the problem.
238
2391.14 Wed Nov 5 9:40 1997
240 - Makefile.PL: look for setitimer
241 - HiRes.xs: if missing ualarm, but we have setitimer, make up
242 our own setitimer. These were provided by Gisle Aas.
243
2441.13 Tue Nov 4 23:30 1997
245 - Makefile.PL: fix autodetect mechanism to do try linking in addition
246 to just compiling; should fix Linux build problem. Fix was provided
247 by Gisle Aas.
248
2491.12 Sun Oct 12 12:00:00 1997
250 - Makefile.PL: set XSOPT to '-nolinenumbers' to work around xsubpp bug;
251 you may need to comment this back out if you have an older xsubpp.
252 - HiRes.xs: set PROTOTYPES: DISABLE
253
2541.11 Fri Sep 05 16:00:00 1997
255 - Makefile.PL:
256 Had some line commented out that shouldn't have been (testing
257 remnants)
258 - README:
259 Previous version was corrupted.
260
2611.10 Thu May 22 20:20:00 1997
262 - HiRes.xs, HiRes.pm, t/*:
263 - only compile what we have OS support for (or can
264 fake with select())
265 - only test what we compiled
266 - gross improvement to the test suite
267 - fix EXPORT_FAIL.
268 This work was all done by Roderick Schertler
269 <roderick@argon.org>. If you run Linux or
270 one of the other ualarm-less platoforms, and you like this
271 module, let Roderick know; without him, it still wouldn't
272 be working on those boxes...
273 - Makefile.PL: figure out what routines the OS has and
274 only build what we need. These bits were written by Jarkko
275 Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>. Again, gratitude is due...
276
2771.02 Mon Dec 30 08:00:00 1996
278 - HiRes.pm: update documentation to say what to do when missing
279 ualarm() and friends.
280 - README: update to warn that ualarm() and friends need to exist
281
2821.01 Fri Oct 17 08:00:00 1996
283 - Makefile.PL: make XSPROTOARGS => '-noprototyopes'
284 - HiRes.pm: put blank line between __END__ and =head1 so that
285 pod2man works.
286
2871.00 Tue Sep 03 13:00:00 1996
288 - original version; created by h2xs 1.16