Ann: SWI-Prolog 8.5.12

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Dear SWI-Prolog user,

SWI-Prolog 8.5.12 is ready for download. This release mainly provides
fixes and small additions contributed by several people. Thanks!
Highlights:

  • @oskardrums added support for breakpoint conditions. This is
    now available through PceEmacs: select a breakpoint and use the
    menu item Prolog/Set breakpoint condition. You can set conditions
    from the console using set_breakpoint_condition/2.
  • @peter.ludemann added more tests some fixes. Peter started work
    cleaning up library(archive) memory management.
  • @ridgeworks provided some more updates on floating point arithmetic.
  • @mgondan1 added more build support using the R build toolchain.
  • There is a new flag agc_close_streams that is currently disabled
    by default. When enabled, the atom garbage collector closes streams
    whose handle is being garbage collected. This is experimental and
    likely to become the default when proven robust.

Lots of small things have been enhanced, both to the system and docs.

Enjoy --- Jan

SWI-Prolog Changelog since version 8.5.11

  • FIXED: Issue#993: possible deadlock when loading a module. Reported by
    Sean Leather.

  • FIXED: eliminated a spurious choice-point in sub_atom/5 Reported in
    Careful with sub_atom/5 and feature request last_sub_atom/5

  • FIXED: Sfprintf(): handling of ENC_WCHAR() encoding.

  • ENHANCED: Sfprintf(): allow Unicode characters for %c

  • FIXED: PL_cleanup(): small memory leak for command line options.
    Peter Ludemann.

  • FIXED: correct arity of dynamic declaration for breakpoint_condition/4

  • DOC: enhance documentation for det/1, $/1 and $/0, describing the
    exceptions and how trap/1 can be used to make the debugger act quickly.

  • ADDED: set_breakpoint_condition/2, providing conditional breakpoints

  • MODIFIED: Extend prolog:break_hook/6 to prolog:break_hook/7 …
    …adding an extra boolean argument +Debug denoting whether the
    system was in debug mode when the breakpoint was triggered.

  • FIXED: explain/1: hide references from prolog_xref:called/5

  • FIXED: Have breakpoints cleared in the UI when the clause that holds
    them is removed during a reload of the file.

  • FIXED: breakpoint_property/2: fixed character_range property

  • ENHANCED: Issue#17: reverse/2 to be deterministic if second argument
    is a proper list. Ulrich Neumerkel.

  • TEST: Added STO restriction as this test involves rational trees.

  • FIXED: Issue#122: dif/2: or-node simplification.

  • FIXED: Possible deadlock enumerating predicates from a source file.

  • TEST: Updated ^/2 tests. Move float**rat tests to test_ieee754
    for rounding mode handling.

  • ENHANCED: use ldexp() rather than pow() for multiplying a float with
    an integral power of 2. mpz_fdiv(): replace calls to pow() function
    by ldexp()

  • FIXED: rounding of pow() (^/2 and **/2) ar_pow(): Re-implement
    float**mpq case

  • FIXED: Avoid Unicode quote in library(aggregate) comment

  • ADDED: Prolog flag acg_close_streams.

  • ADDED: Sgcclose() as an extended version of Sclose() that can be
    used to avoid deadlocks when closing streams from the atom garbage
    collector.

  • MODIFIED: PL_blob_data() to return NULL if the blob has been released
    and document the consequences thereof.

  • PORT: Replace MINGW_ROOT by WIN32 I think -municode needs to be defined
    on all Windows systems that are currently supported (= several flavors
    of MinGW). MINGW_ROOT was not defined on my system, so I would like
    to change this to WIN32 to save a cmake command line switch.

  • FIXED: LaTeX conflict preventing building the PDF docs

Package archive

  • FIXED: Allow an open archive to be garbage collected.

  • CLEANUP: Renamed internal functions to make it clearer which
    context they’re called in - added internal documentation about
    the state transitions - added AR_ERROR state (renamed AR_OPENED
    to AR_OPENED_ARCHIVE) - added archive_wrapper_init_value for
    initializing the blob - removed a double-free (ar->entry in read
    mode)

    Improved tests to check full file contents. Cleanup some CMake
    property
    checks.

Package cpp

  • TEST: Add Unicode/wchar tests

  • TEST: PL_atom_wchars print

Package http

  • ADDED: http_open/3: option raw_encoding(+Encoding) to prevent deconding
    certain (transfer) encodings.

  • ADDED: http_open/3: option raw_headers(-Strings) to get access to
    the unparsed HTTP header as a list of strings.

  • ADDED: http_post_data/3: support string(String) and string(Type,
    String) simlar to atom(String) and atom(Type, String). Avoids creating
    a potentially large garbage atom.

Package pcre

  • TEST: Add Unicode>0xffff test

Package pldoc

  • MODIFIED: when creating a link from a URL, do not include a punctuation
    character before a space. So, http://example.com/home.html. Bla
    correctly links to the html page.

Package sgml

  • FIXED: Avoid illegal access to local variable (harmless)

Package ssl

  • PORT: RTools42, link order for OS libs, add libz

  • BUILD: Ensure HOME is set to a writable path for generating the SSL
    test certificates.

Package xpce

  • FIXED: PceEmacs Prolog/spy and Prolog/trace menu items to deal with
    SSU (=>) rules and fix DCG (–>) rules.

  • ADDED: PceEmacs: Prolog mode command Set breakpoint condition.

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