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2005-06-02  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSURL.m: added +fileURLWithPath: (v1.0.75)

2005-05-17  Frank Reppin  <frank@opengroupware.org>

        * v1.0.74
        
        * added OpenBSD 3.7 config file
        
        * Foundation/NSExceptionWithoutNested.h: patched to work with current
          gcc preprocessors (removed ## parameters)
        
2005-05-09  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * configure.in: check whether GNUstep.sh was sourced prior
          configuration but removed requirement to source GNUstep.sh during
          compilation (gsfix.make file)

        * GNUmakefile, Foundation/GNUmakefile: stop compilation if
          GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT is not set

2005-05-06  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@opengroupware.org>

        * v1.0.73

        * started workon NSExpression.[hm], NSPredicate*.[hm]

        * Foundation/NSString.m: fixed some gcc 4.0 warnings

2005-04-14  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSString.m: added -initWithBytes:length:encoding: and
          -initWithBytesNoCopy:length:encoding:freeWhenDone: methods
          (added in Panther) (v1.0.72)

2005-03-31  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSURL.m ([NSString -urlScheme]): fixed an (incorrect!)
          gcc warning on an uninitialized variable (v1.0.71)

2005-03-25  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@opengroupware.org>

        * Foundation/NSURL.m: fixed a parsing bug with HTTP URLs containing an
          '@' in the path section, but not in the login/pwd one (v1.0.70)
          
2005-03-14  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * v1.0.69

        * Resources/Defaults/NSGlobalDomain.plist: changed default timezone
          from MET to GMT
          
        * Foundation/NSUserDefaults.m: some code cleanups
        
2005-02-06  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@opengroupware.org>

        * Resources/GNUmakefile: properly use GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DIR instead
          of GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT in Resource install path (OGo bug #727)
          (v1.0.68)

2005-01-24  Marcus Mueller  <znek@mulle-kybernetik.com>

        * Foundation/NSString.m: fixed yet another range bug, this time in
          compare:options:range:. The implication of this bug was that
          -hasSuffix _never_ worked before which probably affects code outside
          of lF (v1.0.67)

2004-12-22  Florian G. Pflug  <fgp@phlo.org>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteUnixTask.m: added a hack to avoid OGo bug #616
          (some edge condition in child signal handling) (v1.0.66)

2004-11-28  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@opengroupware.org>

        * v1.0.65
        
        * added Unicode aware property list and strings file parser. The
          parser is slower but required for OGo 1.0a which uses UTF-8 encoded
          strings files. You can still enable the fast Latin1 parser by passing
          use8bitstringsparser=yes to make
        
        * NSDictionary.m: subminor code cleanup

2004-11-19  Marcus Mueller  <znek@mulle-kybernetik.com>

        * Foundation/NSProcessInfo.[hm]: added -(int)processIdentifier
          (v1.0.64)

2004-10-15  Marcus Mueller  <znek@mulle-kybernetik.com>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteMutableString.m: fixed
          -rangeOfCharacterFromSet:options:range:  which didn't honour the
          searchRange as it should. Applied some pretty printing and
          simplified quite a bit of range operations by using foundation
          macros for this purpose. Fixed typos in exception logs.  (v1.0.63)

2004-10-06  Marcus Mueller  <znek@mulle-kybernetik.com>

        * Foundation/{NSString.m, NSConcreteString.m}: fixed
          -rangeOfCharacterFromSet:options:range:  which didn't honour the
          searchRange as it should. (v1.0.62)

2004-10-06  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * examples/GNUmakefile: added FHS pathes to SYSTEM_LIB_DIR, so that
          GS dirs are searched first (v1.0.61)

2004-09-30  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSURL.m: added parsing of user/password for generic URLs
          (v1.0.60)

2004-09-20  Marcus Mueller  <znek@mulle-kybernetik.com>

        * v1.0.59

        * Foundation/NSBundle.[hm]: added some Cocoa additions,
          -pathForResource:ofType:inDirectory:forLocalization: and
          -pathsForResourcesOfType:inDirectory:forLocalization:. Please note
          that the latter doesn't work at all, as the original implementation
          of -pathsForResourcesOfType:inDirectory: is very incomplete.

2004-09-14  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@opengroupware.org>

        * examples/GNUmakefile: fixed a typo (OGo bug #913) (v1.0.58)

2004-09-06  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * v1.0.57

        * examples/GNUmakefile (ADDITIONAL_LIB_DIRS): added missing
          -L/usr/local/lib to pick up a libobjc installed there

        * Foundation/NSBundle.m (+_fileResourceNamed:extension:inDirectory:):
          catch nested calls to the function (helps with some broken setup
          conditions)

2004-08-29  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@opengroupware.org>

        * Foundation/NSBundle.m: support "combo" bundles in flattened setups
          (uses Info.plist to determine the NSExecutable), find libFoundation
          resources in GNUSTEP_PATHPREFIX_LIST and GNUSTEP_PATHLIST (v1.0.56)

        * Foundation/NSBundle.m ([NSBundle +isFlattenedDirLayout]): fixed a
          small bug in flattened detection (v1.0.55)

        * added hack to install libFoundation in FHS locations using, the
          library, its headers, the tools and the resources will be installed
          in FHS_INSTALL_ROOT if specified (eg make
          FHS_INSTALL_ROOT=/usr/local) (v1.0.54)
        
        * v1.0.53

        * Resources/GNUmakefile: added FHS_INSTALL_ROOT variable, when
          compiling with "make FHS_INSTALL_ROOT=/usr/local", resources will be
          copied to /usr/local/share/libFoundation

        * Foundation/NSTimeZone.m ([NSTimeZone +defaultTimeZone]): detect an
          endless recursion in the setup phase if the NSGlobalDomain property
          list is broken

        * Foundation/realpath.m: fixed a typo (resove=>resolve)

        * Foundation/NSPathUtilities.m: added /usr/local/share/ and /usr/share
          to some Library search paths, added support for GNUSTEP_PATHLIST in
          addition to GNUSTEP_PATHPREFIX_LIST

        * Foundation/NSBundle.m: assume flattened if no GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT is
          set, also look for resources in /usr/local/share/libFoundation and
          /usr/share/libFoundation, added +isFlattenedDirLayout method

2004-07-25  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@opengroupware.org>

        * Foundation/NSString.m(initWithUTF8String:): check cstr argument for
          NULL pointer (would break on OSX?), set range location to NSNotFound
          when nothing was found (not checked for full coverage) (v1.0.52)

2004-07-23  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@opengroupware.org>

        * Foundation/NSURL.h: added missing prototype for -initWithString: 
          (v1.0.51)

2004-07-21  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * v1.0.50
        
        * Foundation/NSString.m: log an incompatibility with MacOSX
        
        * Foundation/NSObject.m: fixed a compilation warning with gcc 3.4 

2004-07-20  Marcus Mueller  <znek@mulle-kybernetik.com>

        * Foundation/NSDebug.m: new file containing the function 
          _NSPrintForDebugger() which is used by gdb to print Objective-C
          objects via the builtin 'po' command. (v1.0.49)

2004-06-24  Marcus Mueller  <znek@mulle-kybernetik.com>

        * Foundation/NSCalendarDate.m: fixed bug in -dateByAddingYears:...
          where an edge case with negative month values was not being taken
          into account. (v1.0.48)

2004-06-02  Marcus Mueller  <znek@mulle-kybernetik.com>

        * Foundation/NSCalendarDateScanf.m: added private category to
          NSScanner, implementing
          -(BOOL)scanInt:(int *)_value exactNumberOfDigits:(unsigned int)_len;
          which is used by NSCalendarDateScanf in order to correctly parse
          formats which don't have break characters/delimiters between format
          symbols. (v1.0.47)

2004-05-24  Marcus Mueller  <znek@mulle-kybernetik.com>

        * Foundation/NSCalendarDate.m: implemented -(unsigned)hash (v1.0.46)

2004-05-11  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * added NSTimeZone.h to improve Cocoa compatibility (v1.0.45)

2004-04-20  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@opengroupware.org>

        * Foundation/NSCharacterSet.m (+characterSetWithContentsOfFile:):
          avoid recursion if character set could not be loaded in the init
          phase, match the Panther behaviour of returning an empty charset
          if the file could not be loaded. Does not throw an exception anymore
          (v1.0.44)

2004-04-06  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSData.m: added support for OSX 10.2 method:
          -initWithBytesNoCopy:length:freeWhenDone: (v1.0.43)

2004-03-31  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * examples/Defaults.m: minor code cleanups (v1.0.42)

2004-03-31  Christian Kesselheim  <ckesselh@infeurope.lu>
        
        * examples/Defaults.m: minor patch to fix OGo bug #600

2004-03-28  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@opengroupware.org>

        * Foundation/NSPathUtilities.m: fixed some broken edge conditions in
          -pathExtension and -lastPathComponent (if separators could not be 
          found) (v1.0.41)

2004-03-26  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@opengroupware.org>

        * v1.0.40

        * Foundation/NSCalendarDate.m(-compare:): fixed comparisons against
          nil (now behaves like Cocoa and returns NSOrderedSame), replaced
          assertion exception with an error log

        * Foundation/NSDate.m: streamlined source formatting

2004-03-18  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * v1.0.39

        * NSCalendarDate.m, NSConcreteTimeZone.m: minor cleanups and 
          improvements
        
        * minor speed improvement for -timeZoneForSecondsFromGMT:, minor code
          cleanups

2004-02-18  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@opengroupware.org>

        * added timezone info for Europe/Brussels (v1.0.38)

2004-02-08  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@opengroupware.org>

        * v1.0.37

        * Foundation/NSConcreteString.m: use cached NSString class

        * Foundation/NSDecimal.h: explicitly marked 'exponent' as a signed
          char

        * Foundation/NSString+StringEncoding.m: explicitly typed "char" as
          "unsigned char" in some locations

2004-02-01  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@opengroupware.org>

        * examples/GNUmakefile: applied the patch provided by Sebastian Ley
          to fix compilation with gstep-make 1.9 (v1.0.36)

2004-01-11  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@opengroupware.org>

        * Foundation/NSURL.m: fixed a binary bug in URL processing (v1.0.35)

2004-01-07  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteMutableDictionary.m: added some selector caching
          for keys (v1.0.34)

2003-12-29  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@opengroupware.org>

        * v1.0.33
                
        * Foundation/NSConcreteArray.m: minor optimizations/cleanups, cache
          -release method in dealloc

        * Foundation/NSZone.h, Foundation/NSObject.m: cache NSZone class in 
          NSObject
        
        * Foundation/NSConcreteString.m: added various hardcoded methods to
          some (final) string subclasses for speed (located using Valgrind)
        
2003-12-28  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@opengroupware.org>

        * v1.0.32
          
        * Foundation/NSString.m: use static references to NSString class

        * Foundation/NSConcreteMutableDictionary.m(mdGet): cross-call selector
          caching of -hash and -isEqual:

        * Foundation/NSConcreteString.m(hash): cross-call selector caching
          
        * Foundation/NSConcreteString.m(compare:options:range:): less calls to
          objc_class_lookup (was 4.5% of the runtime), use own isKindOfClass 
          implementation (~2% of the runtime?)

2003-12-07  Nicola Pero  <n.pero@mi.flashnet.it>

        * Foundation/GNUmakefile (libFoundation_LIBARIES_DEPEND_UPON): Added
          dependency on libdl (v1.0.31)
        
2003-11-30  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@opengroupware.org>

        * Foundation/NSBundle.m: fixed a bug introduced in v1.0.29 (sigh ..)
          (v1.0.30)

        * Foundation/NSBundle.m: now should properly detect a flattened
          GNUstep environment (that is, look for the code in the proper
          location if GNUSTEP_FLATTENED is set in the environment) (v1.0.29)

2003-11-27  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@opengroupware.org>

        * applied patches of Sebastian and Nicola (v1.0.28)

Thu Nov 27 13:47:54 2003  Sebastian Ley <sebastian.ley@mmweg.rwth-aachen.de>

        * GNUmakefile (after-install): Prefix libFoundation.make
          installation directory with INSTALL_ROOT_DIR. 

Thu Nov 27 01:28:06 2003  Nicola Pero  <n.pero@mi.flashnet.it>

        * Foundation/GNUmakefile.postamble: Use MKDIRS and MKINSTALLDIRS.
        
        * examples/GNUmakefile (GNUSTEP_OBJ_DIR_NAME): Define as well as
          GNUSTEP_OBJ_DIR, so that the hack works with old and modern
          gnustep-makes.

        * Foundation/libFoundation.make.in: Removed -ldl from system
          linking flags.

        * Foundation/libFoundation.make.in: Use the new header location
          xxx/Library/Headers for new gnustep-makes, while still detecting
          old gnustep-makes and using xxx/Headers for them.
        
        * Foundation/GNUmakefile.postamble (after-uninstall): Remove
          libFoundation.make from Additional.
        
2003-11-24  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@opengroupware.org>

        * Foundation/libFoundation.make.in: added -ldl to system linking
          flags as suggested by Nicola (v1.0.27)

        * Foundation/GNUmakefile.postamble: install libFoundation.make in 
          $(INSTALL_ROOT_DIR)$(GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES)/Additional as suggested by
          Nicola (v1.0.26)

2003-11-17  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@opengroupware.org>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteNumber.m: fixed bug introduced in v1.0.24 (wrong
          string values were returned) (v1.0.25)

2003-11-15  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@opengroupware.org>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteNumber.m: various modifications to the concrete
          numbers. They are not generated anymore from a shell script but are
          now "handwritten". Included is a fix to some formatting of "%llu"
          which resulted in just the string "lu" being printed in some parts of
          the system. Added various tweaks to improve the performance of string
          handling a lot (eg NSString class is cached, sprintf is used for
          format generation instead of stringWithFormat, a static buffer is
          used) (v1.0.24)

2003-11-14  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * v1.0.23

        * config/i386: added solaris2.9.h (a copy of solaris2.5.1.h) 

        * NSURL.m: improved description of NSURL objects

2003-10-29  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * v1.0.22

        * started new classes: NSStream, NSInputStream, NSOutputStream, NSError
          - so far no real implementation

        * Foundation: added NSSortDescriptor.m and related methods based on
          the implementation in skyrix-core

Tue Oct 28 19:19:57 2003  Martin Hoerning  <martin@opengroupware.org>

        * Foundation/NSCalendarDate.m: 
         (dateByAddingYears:months:days:hours:minutes:seconds:)
         fixed timeOfDay computation when changing timeZoneDetail
         (v1.0.21)

2003-09-07  Marcus Mueller <znek@mulle-kybernetik.com>

        * GNUmakefile: prevent GNUmakefile from getting wiped out on distclean

        * Foundation/GNUmakefile: Hardcoded OBJC_RUNTIME=GNU as all other
          support has been removed anyways

        * Foundation/libFoundation.make.in: Corrected AUXILIARY_CPPFLAGS to
          include the correct path

        * examples/GNUmakefile: Correctly set ADDITIONAL_INCLUDE_DIRS instead
          of ADDITIONAL_CPPFLAGS (probably some old leftovers?). Also removed
          support for 'nx' and removed removal of GNUmakefile at distclean

2003-08-19  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * v1.0.20

        * Foundation/NSException.m ([NSException -raise]): fixed for broken
          compilers (called -invokeUncaughtExceptionHandler instead of
          -invokeUncaughtExceptionHandlerWithException:) 
          (OpenBSD, may relate to OGo Bug 131)

        * Foundation/NSExceptionWithoutNested.h: added prototypes for
          -backtrace and -printBacktrace to fix warning

2003-08-18  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * let the makefiles grep the version from the "Version" file, so that
          we don't need to remake the configure script each time we want to
          increase the library subminor version (v1.0.19)

2003-08-17  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSString.m: added implementation of 
          -stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet: method provided by Max Berger and
          fixed some trimming methods to use NSCharacterSet (v1.0.18)

2003-08-08  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSUserDefaults.m ([NSUserDefaults -initWithPath:]): be
          tolerant when reading the Languages default (OGo Bug #11) (v1.0.17)

2003-08-04  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/load.m (objc_load_module): added dlopen patch provided
          by Max Berger (v1.0.16)

Tue Jul 29 17:04:14 2003  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * applied autoconf patches provided by Marcus Mueller 
          (znek@mulle-kybernetik.com) to clean up the configuration patches.
          Note: from this point on the OGo libFoundation only works with
          gstep-make (v1.0.15)

2003-07-21  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * v1.0.14

        * applied small FreeBSD patch to aclocal.m4 provided by Marcus Mueller
          (thanks!)

        * Foundation/NSConcreteMutableString.m: fixed a cast warning

Mon Jul 14 20:10:03 2003  Jan Reichmann  <jr@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSSet.m, Foundation/PrintfFormatScanner.m: 
          use __va_copy to handle va_list arguments (needed for powerpc64 port)
        
2003-07-14  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSFileManager.m ([NSFileManager -removeFileAtPath:handler:]): 
          use unlink() instead of remove() if we know that a path is a 
          directory, this seems to workaround a bug in RH 9.0 glibc 2.3 ?
          (v1.0.13)

2003-06-13  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSString.m: fixed some unsigned/signed bugs introduced in
          v1.0.10 (backward search for-loops usually check for "i >= 0" and
          unsigned values are always >= 0 ...) (v1.0.12)

2003-06-11  Jan Reichmann <jr@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSCalendarDate.m ([NSCalendarDate -initWithString:calendarFormat:locale:]): 
          fixed a bug in parsing 2-digit years (year value was added twice 
          leading to wrong 4-digit year values) (v1.0.11)

2003-06-06  Jan Reichmann <jr@skyrix.com>

        * v1.0.10
        
        * major fixes for gcc 3.3 compilation in almost any source file 
          (signed/unsigned problems, THROW => -raise)

        * Foundation/NSString.m: moved charset processing into a separate
          file (NSString+Encoding.m)

2003-04-26  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>
        
        * Foundation/common.h, NSDictionary.m: added a macro to copy va_list 
          structures (required for powerpc64) (v1.0.9)
        
2003-05-06  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSCalendarDate.m (MAX_YEAR): set back to 2038, since
          the timezone files contain date values ending in 2037 (v1.0.8)

2003-04-30  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>
        
        * Foundation/NSCalendarDate.m (MAX_YEAR): configured 2030 as the
          maximum year supported (was 2300) (v1.0.7)
        
2003-02-18  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * examples/GNUmakefile.gnustep: added examples to makefile, the 
          examples are only build when passing "examples=yes" to make

2003-02-17  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSURL.m: do not default to port 80 for generic URLs (only
          with HTTP URLs) (v1.0.6)

2003-02-14  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>
        
        * Resources/TimeZoneInfo: added CLST (Chile) and SAST (South Africa)
          timezone files (v1.0.5)
        
2003-01-30  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * v1.0.4
        
        * Foundation/NSURL.m: prepared _NSAbsoluteHTTPURL class for "httpu" 
          requests
        
        * Foundation/NSTimeZone.m(+initialize): do not abort program if the
          timezone information could not be found, instead log the problem
          and continue (program will probably fail later)
        
        * Foundation/NSString.m: removed some aborts on positions that are
          never entered
        
        * Foundation/NSArchiver.m:
          replaced an abort() with a NSException (program was aborted when
          reading some broken archives)
        
        * Foundation/NSCalendarDate.m:
          instead of aborting the program a NSRangeException is thrown if too
          large datevalues are passed to NSCalendarDate (eg year 5600)

2003-01-20  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSDictionary.m: added small performance improvement for
          empty dictionaries, added a log if an NSNull object is encoded in a
          property list, use Calloc instead of Malloc for array allocations
          (v1.0.3)
        
Thu Jan 16 15:19:16 2003    <jan@skyrix.com>
        
        * Foundation/NSString.m: fixed dataUsingEncoding, use dynamic 
          allocation of memory for string-length > 200 bytes to prevent 
          stack overflow (v1.0.2)

Thu Jan  2 10:46:21 2003  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSFuncallException.h: added explicit macros for NSAssertX
          to reduce compiler warnings introduced with gcc 3.2 (v1.0.1)

2002-11-20  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>
        
        * Foundation/NSURL.m: fixed a bug with invalid port numbers in
          -absoluteString
        
2002-11-13  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>
        
        * marked libFoundation 1.0.0 - it's stable for years now, should
          become a proper stable version number
        
        **********************************************************************
        
        * NSURL: added support for login/password in HTTP URLs, use HTTP
          URL class for https scheme URLs
        
        * added SGT (Singapure Time) as a copy of GMT+0800

2002-10-28  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/GNUmakefile.gnustep: define SOVERSION to be major.minor
          instead of just major

Tue Oct 22 12:27:56 2002  Jan Reichmann  <jan@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSString.m: add complete ISO-Latin-9 and Windows-1252 
          encoding support (v0.9.5)

2002-10-21  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSString.m: changed so that ISO-Latin-1 is used if an
          unknown encoding was found (before an NSAssert threw an exception
          eg resulting in SuSE Bug 20913) (v0.9.4)

2002-10-14  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>
        
        * added timezone info for Europe/Berlin, Europe/Paris
        
        * added header file "NSScriptKeyValueCoding.h" as available in MacOSX

2002-07-11  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteUTF16String.m: allow lossy conversion when
          creating cString's. This way it doesn't immedialy break applications
          on unicode strings but rather allows them to operate at least
          partially (this "fix" is probably removed when all stuff is unicode
          aware).

2002-07-08  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteData.m: NSConcreteMutableData doesn't use 
          add_behaviour anymore ... much easier to debug

        * Foundation/NSData.m ([NSData -subdataWithRange:]): use zone of
          parent object for allocation, not the default zone

Mon Jul  8 15:15:46 2002  Jan Reichmann  <jan@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSUserDefaults.m: create default directories on demand 
          (SuSE bug 16582)

2002-07-08  Jan Reichmann  <jr@skyrix.com>

        * Resources/TimeZoneInfo: added half-hour timezones (eg GMT+0330)

2002-07-05  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteData.m: added -init method

2002-06-18  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSURL.m ([NSURL -_pathForRelativeURL:]): fixed relative
          path processing (a slash was always added)

2002-06-13  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSTimeZone.m ([NSTimeZone +setDefaultTimeZone:]): do
          not write default timezone into userdefaults
        
        * Foundation/NSConcreteMutableString.m ([NSMutableSimple -initWithString:]): 
          method tried to create an instance of NSMutable8BitString, which is
          an abstract class (jr, explain that to me !)

2002-06-11  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteUTF16String.m ([NSInlineUTF -stringRepresentation]): 
          added a preliminary implementation of -stringRepresentation (required
          for logging of unicode strings)

2002-06-10  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSString.m ([NSString -stringByAppendingString:]):
          rewrote -stringByAppendingString:

Mon Jun 10 11:24:27 2002  Jan41 Reichmann  <jan@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteMutableString.m: add initWithString for
          MutableString (warning: has to be moved to TempStr.)

Fri Jun  7 16:24:12 2002  Jan Reichmann  <jan@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSString.m ([NSString +availableStringEncodings]): added
          some support for ISO Latin 9 (the charset containing the Euro sign)

        * Foundation/NSConcreteUTF16String.m 
          ([NSInlineUTF -initWithCharacters:length:]): 
          fixed serious copying bug (only copied half of the string ...)

2002-06-05  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSString.h: added NSISOLatin9StringEncoding constant

        * Foundation/NSString.m ([NSMutableString -initWithCharacters:length:]):
          added support for (lossy) conversion of Euro sign to Latin1

        * Foundation/NSConcreteMutableString.m ([NSMutable -writeToFile:atomically:]): 
          write data in defaultCStringEncoding instead of Latin1

2002-06-04  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSString.m: fixed class-cluster bugs (isa was used
          for +alloc instead of the cluster abstract class).

2002-06-03  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/common.m (NSReadContentsOfFile): fixed gcc3 cpp bug

2002-05-31  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/common.m: fixed for gcc 3.0 compilation

Mon May  6 12:36:21 2002  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSURL.m ([_NSAbsoluteFileURL -absoluteString]): fixed bug,
          did return file:/a.txt instead of file:///a.txt

Mon Apr 29 15:35:29 2002  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSHost.m: added a -description

Sun Apr 14 19:29:57 2002  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * added fake NSAttributedString (not implemented ..) to be able to
          compile EDInternet

Fri Apr 12 19:39:46 2002  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NS*Exception.h: added NSParameterAssert, 
          NSCParameterAssert

        * Foundation/libFoundation.make.in (FND_DEFINE): defines -DGNUSTEP=1

Fri Apr  5 14:55:23 2002  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteUnixTask.m: fixed yet another NSTask bug

Wed Apr  3 10:33:38 2002  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Resources/GNUmakefile.gnustep: replaced GNUSTEP_LIBRARIES_ROOT
          with GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT/Libraries to support gstep-make 1.3.0

Thu Mar 14 13:48:03 2002  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSException.m: copies name and reason

        * Foundation/NSFuncallException.h: fixed retain/release

        * Foundation/NSException.m ([NSException +exceptionWithName:reason:userInfo:]): 
          fixed -autorelease bug

Wed Mar 13 11:19:22 2002  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSRunLoop.m: also flush Notification ASAP queue before
          entering select()

        * Foundation/NSConcreteUnixTask.m: fixed bug, pid-to-task map wasn't
          properly teared down after task shutdown ...

        * Foundation/NSConcreteUnixTask.m: can handle multiple childs exiting
          at the same time now (check all tasks for termination on SIGCHLD)

        * Foundation/UnixSignalHandler.m: save errno in signal handler

Tue Mar 12 19:09:12 2002  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/UnixSignalHandler.m: fixed bug, _dispatch: was called
          on UnixSignalHandler class, but defined as an instance method
          which accessed 'self' (so self!=sharedHandler)

        * Foundation/NSNotificationQueue.m: fixed bug, notification queues
          didn't correctly register in the instance list ...
        
        * Foundation/NSConcreteUnixTask.m: do not "immediatly" notify if task
          terminated (previously the notify code was run in a signal handler)

        * Foundation/UnixSignalHandler.m: added logging/debugging, cleanups

Fri Mar  8 17:25:35 2002  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSDictionary.m: applied SuSE patch to fix varargs on
          powerpc

Thu Feb 14 15:21:16 2002  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSUserDefaults.m ([NSUserDefaults +standardUserDefaults]):
          look for defaults in GNUSTEP_DEFAULTS_ROOT

Thu Feb  7 09:25:28 2002  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSArray.m(-sortUsingFunction:): added selector caching

        * Foundation/NSArray.m(-sortedArrayUsingFunction:): improved memory
          usage

Mon Feb  4 17:07:43 2002  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSString.m ([NSTemporaryString -initWithCString:length:]):
          fixed temporary string collect bug

Fri Feb  1 11:17:21 2002  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSString.m: added support for single-char class

        * Foundation/NSConcreteString.m: added concrete class for single
          character strings

Thu Jan 24 19:59:06 2002  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSCalendarDate.m ([NSCalendarDate -initWithString:calendarFormat:locale:]): 
          release pool and date immediatly if string couldn't be parsed

Wed Jan 16 16:42:33 2002  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSUserDefaults.m ([NSUserDefaults +standardUserDefaults]): 
          search for user-defaults files in $GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT instead of
          $HOME if GNUstep compilation is enabled

Wed Dec 19 16:21:11 2001  Jan Reichmann  <jan@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSNotificationCenter.m: memory for object entries without 
        observer will be freed

Tue Dec 18 17:54:01 2001  Jan Reichmann  <jan@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSNotificationCenter.m: fixed HashTable initialisation bug

Tue Dec 18 12:16:34 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSNotificationCenter.m: added some selector caching

Mon Dec 17 19:15:47 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSObjectAllocation.m (NSExtraRefCount): replaced "int"
          with "unsigned int"

Tue Nov 27 18:57:02 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSBundle.m: added debugging info

Tue Nov 27 13:00:14 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSAutoreleasePool.m, Foundation/NSObject.m:
          speed optimized -autorelease (avoids method calls)

Fri Nov 23 14:23:27 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSCalendarDate.m ([NSCalendarDate -initWithString:calendarFormat:locale:]):
          added special handling for 2-digit years ...

Wed Nov 21 16:07:11 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSCalendarDate.m: even more sanity checks ...

Wed Nov 21 16:00:10 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSCalendarDate.m (Long2Date): added sanity check on year

Tue Nov 13 17:58:37 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSString.m ([NSTemporaryString -initWithContentsOfFile:]): 
          can detect/decode UTF-16 content

Tue Nov 13 14:04:25 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/PropertyListParser.m: detect unicode plist files (files
          starting with either FFFE or FEFF

Fri Nov  9 13:24:33 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSBundle.m ([NSBundle -pathsForResourcesOfType:inDirectory:]): 
          fixed retain bug

Tue Nov  6 12:51:56 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSNull.m ([NSNull -stringRepresentation]): return '""', to
          be valid in plists

Tue Nov  6 12:51:02 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSString.m: enabled some unicode support (was marked
          #if 0 ???)

Mon Nov  5 14:55:55 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSNull.m: added -stringValue (empty string)

Fri Nov  2 18:23:32 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteUTF16String.m: added
          -getCString:maxLength:range:remainingRange:

Fri Nov  2 18:20:00 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteString.m: moved unicode string implementation
          to NSConcreteUTF16String

Fri Nov  2 12:48:24 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSString.m ([NSString +initialize]): load LC_CTYPE and
          LC_LOCALE from environment into C locale

Thu Oct 25 09:47:37 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSString.m: zero-len strings result in 0 int/double/float
          values

Wed Oct 24 15:43:43 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteString.m (NSInlineUTF16String): implemented
          getCString:, getCString:maxLength:
        
Tue Oct 23 14:49:25 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteTimeZone.m ([NSConcreteTimeZoneFile -timeZoneForDate:]): 
          fixed RETAIN bug / leak

Mon Oct 22 14:37:45 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSPathUtilities.m ([NSString -stringByStandardizingPath]): 
          fixed bug, components-count wasn't adjusted after removing elements

Thu Oct 18 16:15:40 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Resources/TimeZoneInfo/CET: fixed to use CET/CEST instead of MET

Wed Oct 10 15:43:22 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSURL.m ([NSString -isAbsoluteURL]): support javascript:
          scheme as absolute URL

Mon Oct  1 16:57:14 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSURL.m: make absolute file-urls

Mon Oct  1 12:29:55 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSUtilities.m: use fprintf(stderr) for printing log ...

Tue Sep 25 11:58:41 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteArray.m: reduced msg-dispatch during remove

Mon Sep  3 17:16:27 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteString.m(dataUsingEncoding): determine data
          length using strlen instead of -cStringLength (buggy ???)

Mon Aug 27 20:23:40 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSString.m: instantiate NSUTF16String if a unicode 
          character is found ...

        * Foundation/NSString.m ([NSString -copyWithZone:]): only retain the
          (immutable) string and return self
        
Tue Aug 21 11:04:07 2001  Martin Hoerning  <mh@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteScanner.m ([NSConcreteScanner dealloc]): 
            - added (memory bug fixed)

Thu Aug 16 16:22:42 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/GCArray.m: fixed malloc/calloc calls with 0-size

        * NSString, NSArray, NSDictionary, NSData: added 
          -initWithContentsOfURL: and +*WithContentsOfURL: methods

Tue Aug 14 16:14:08 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSBundle.m ([NSBundle +bundleWithPath:]): query cache,
          use standard RC

Mon Aug 13 17:17:43 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSString.m: fixed memory leak in NSInitStringWithData

Sat Aug 11 13:53:40 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSAutoreleasePool.m: added -autoreleaseCount method

Wed Aug  8 10:51:50 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/UnixSignalHandler.m ([UnixSignalHandlerListItem -invokeForSignal:]): 
          use numberWithInt: instead of numberWithLong: for signal id

Fri Jun 15 18:33:48 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSURL.m: added support for mailto URL

Tue Jun 12 19:02:35 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/PropertyListParser.m: improved error output

Tue Jun  5 16:07:25 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSString.m ([NSString -writeToFile:atomically:]): generate
          data to write using -dataUsingEncoding:+defaultCStringEncoding

Tue Jun  5 15:57:34 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteString.m: started UTF16 support

Fri May 25 13:20:13 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSURL.m ([NSURL -initFileURLWithPath:]): renamed method

Wed May 16 23:29:15 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSDecimalNumber.h: started NSDecimal/NSDecimalNumber

Mon May 14 16:48:24 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSNumberFormatter.m: fixed bug in getObjectValue...

Mon May 14 16:10:31 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSNumberFormatter.m: added capability to set decimal and
          thousand separator in format string

Mon May  7 08:58:59 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSArray.m: added -getObjects:range:

Mon May  7 02:35:58 2001  Nicola Pero  <n.pero@mi.flashnet.it>

        * Foundation/lfmemory.h.in (ASSIGN), (ASSIGNCOPY): Fixed - they
        were *not* retaining the new value when the new value is an
        expression which returns a different object each time that it is
        computed.

Mon May  7 00:04:04 2001  Nicola Pero  <n.pero@mi.flashnet.it>

        * Foundation/NSScanner.m ([-scanCharactersFromSet:intoString:]):
        Bug fix for the case there are only characters to be skipped: move
        the scanning location after them.

Sun May  6 22:46:22 2001  Nicola Pero  <n.pero@mi.flashnet.it>

        * Foundation/NSArray.m ([NSArray -getObjects:]): Implemented.
        * Foundation/NSArray.h ([NSArray -getObjects:]): Declared.

Sun May  6 13:04:45 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSString.m: smaller perf-improvements in GS support

Mon Apr 30 16:25:24 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSURL.m ([NSURL -_absoluteStringForRelativeURL:]): fixed 
          bug with relative URL pathes

Mon Apr 30 16:12:35 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSURL.m: added -initWithString:

Sat Apr 21 12:40:12 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * configure.in: added checks for AR, LD, PERL as suggested by 
          Andreas Voegele

Thu Apr  5 12:03:31 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@skyrix.com>

        * Foundation/NSString.m: fixed bug in -UTF8String (str was not NULL
          terminated)

Thu Mar 15 14:06:14 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSAccount.m ([NSUserAccount +initialize]): print warning if
          password structure for current user could not be found

Thu Mar 15 14:04:47 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSAccount.m ([NSUserAccount -initWithPasswordStructure:]): 
          graceful return with NULL structure as argument

Mon Mar 12 18:12:40 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSDefaultZone.m ([NSDefaultZone -realloc:size:]): catch
          realloc with 0 extra bytes

Mon Mar 12 18:11:35 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteData.m ([NSConcreteMutableData -increaseCapacityBy:]): 
          catch increase with 0 length

        * Foundation/NSConcreteData.m ([NSConcreteMutableData -appendBytes:length:]):
          catch appendBytes with 0 length

Tue Feb 20 18:19:58 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSString.m ([NSTemporaryString -initWithCharacters:length:]): 
          fail gracefully on unicode characters

Wed Feb 14 14:51:05 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSNumberFormatter.m: relaxed format handling

Tue Feb 13 19:27:06 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSNumberFormatter.m ([NSNumberFormatter -stringForObjectValue:]): 
        treat 'nil' values as double 0.0

Thu Feb  8 18:05:52 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteArray.m: fixed init bug in single-object array
          (array could contain 'nil' values)

Wed Feb  7 13:06:14 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSURL.m ([_NSAbsoluteURL +URLWithString:]): allow file URL
          strings starting with '/' (without scheme)

Mon Jan 29 12:01:00 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSInvocation.h: define _C_LNG_LNG if not defined by the
          compiler (fix submitted by Elmar Ludwig)

Thu Jan 25 13:57:04 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/Foundation.h: added NSDateFormatter.h/NSNumberFormatter.h

Tue Jan 16 12:41:50 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSTimer.m ([NSTimer -description]): output [self fireDate]
          instead of self->fireDate

Mon Jan 15 20:14:56 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * moved to MOF3

Thu Jan 11 11:49:05 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSURL.m: added -isEqual:, -isEqualToURL:

Wed Jan 10 16:48:51 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/GNUmakefile.gnustep (libFoundation_OBJC_FILES): added
          NSFileURLHandle.m

Wed Jan 10 16:25:36 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSURL.m: fixed bug in URL parser

Tue Jan  9 18:08:09 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSURL.m: added generic URL, added handle construction

Tue Jan  2 14:01:30 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSURL.m ([_NSAbsoluteFileURL +URLWithString:]): path is
          standardized

Tue Jan  2 13:48:11 2001  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSURL.m: fixed bug in File-URL

Fri Dec 29 18:52:02 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSURL.m ([_NSAbsoluteHTTPURL +URLWithString:]): fixed bug

Fri Dec 22 13:36:55 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSObject.h.in: changed inclusion of other headers (NSString,
          NSProcessInfo is not included anymore)

        * Foundation/NSString.h: removed inclusion of NSPathUtilities.h

Fri Dec 22 12:07:49 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSObject.h.in: changed include order of headers

Thu Dec 21 14:31:19 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSSet.m ([NSSet -isSubsetOfSet:]): fixed bug

Wed Dec 13 21:22:59 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSURL.m: added some URL parsing, handling

Thu Nov 30 18:03:33 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSSerialization.m: added fake NSSerializer/NSDeserializer
          classes

        * Foundation/NSValue.m: fixed bug in -isEqualToValue: reported by
          Nicola Pero

        * Foundation/NSFileManager.m ([NSFileManager -fileAttributesAtPath:traverseLink:]):
          fixed to look at the 'traverseLink' flag (use lstat if the flag is NO)

Thu Nov 30 04:46:59 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * added various methods to support JIGS

        * Foundation/NSBundle.[hm]: added +allFrameworks fake method

        * Foundation/NSConcreteNumber.m.sh: generate -valueBytes method

Thu Nov 30 03:38:03 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/PropertyListParser.m: fixed serious property list parser
          bug. If '*' occured inside of multiline comments, the parser ended
          up in an endless loop.

Thu Nov 30 00:54:19 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * added some GNUstep compatibility methods, functions, consts

Wed Nov 29 14:15:39 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSString.m: fixed bug in UTF8 initialization

Thu Oct 19 10:42:16 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * work on NSURL related classes

Wed Oct  4 11:38:04 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSString.m: removed usage of stack-allocated buffers

Tue Sep 26 20:37:23 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * added NSKeyValueCoding.h (added in MacOSX) [no implementation yet]

        * added NSClassDescription class (added in MacOSX)

Mon Sep 25 16:45:20 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * some modifications for Cygwin support

        * Foundation/NSAccount.m: don't declare USER_INFO_11 on Windows

        * added NSNull class (added in MacOSX)

Wed Sep  6 21:19:39 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteString.m, Foundation/NSConcreteMutableString.m:
          made 'char' types unsigned

Wed Aug 30 11:16:53 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSInvocation.h: added runtime detection macros if not
          compiling in the gstep-make environment

        * Foundation/UnixSignalHandler.m: prefer sigaction over sigset

        * fixed compilation bugs with gstep-make-less libFoundation

Tue Aug 29 17:19:49 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSPathUtilities.m: added -pathsMatchingExtensions: method

Tue Jun 13 18:07:11 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSString.m: caches class reference to NSString

        * Foundation/NSArray.m: caches class references to NSArray,
          NSConcreteArray, NSMutableArray and NSConcreteMutableArray

        * Foundation/NSObjCRuntime.m, Foundation/NSString.m,
          Foundation/PropertyListParser.m, Foundation/common.m: doesn't use stack
          allocated buffers anymore

        * Foundation/NSUtilities.m (NSLogv): optimized, caches Class objects
          and doesn't make extensive use autorelease-pools anymore

Fri Jun  9 17:30:49 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/PropertyListParser.m: fixed casting to void ..

Wed May 24 15:14:52 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/PropertyListParser.m: add path info to exceptions in file
          parsing functions

        * Foundation/NSString.m: added +stringWithUTF8String:,
          -initWithUTF8String: and -UTF8String methods

Tue May 23 19:08:48 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/PropertyListParser.m: added duplicate key checks

Wed May 10 16:52:25 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteString.m: added NSShortInline8BitString class,
          for 8bit strings smaller than 255 chars (this saves 3 bytes per string)

        * Foundation/NSString.m ([NSString +allocWithZone:]): caches ptr to
          NSTemporaryString class

        * Foundation/NSConcreteString.m: added some NSString cluster statistic
          collection

        * Foundation/NSString.m (NSTemporaryString): caches ptr to 
          NSInline8BitString class

        * Foundation/NSConcreteMutableString.m: doesn't use add_behaviour()
          anymore

        * Foundation/NSConcreteString.m: put concrete mutable strings into a
          separate source file

Mon May  8 14:42:23 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSUserDefaults.m: added new default keys

        * Foundation/NSException.m: added new exception name constants

        * Foundation/NSCharacterSet.h: added NSOpenStepUnicodeReservedBase

        * Foundation/NSString.h: added new MacOSX encoding specifiers

        * Foundation/NSInvocation.h: added NSObjCValue stuff

        * added NSConnection and NSPortCoder dummy classes and files

Wed May  3 18:21:06 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteTimeZone.m: added -copyWithZone: method (which
          just returns self retained)

        * Foundation/NSPosixFileDescriptor.m: added code to catch a lot of
          lseek() errors (which were previously ignored)

        * Foundation/NSPipe.m, Foundation/NSConcreteFileHandle.m:
          added special file-handle class for Unix pipe's

        * Foundation/NSConcreteFileHandle.m ([NSConcreteFileHandle -readDataOfLength:]): 
          fixed bug with calls where length>LONG_MAX

Fri Apr 28 14:13:44 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/FFCallInvocation.m ([FFCallInvocation -initWithSignature:]): 
          fixed bug in call of objc_sizeof_type()

Thu Apr 27 18:51:25 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteUnixTask.m ([NSConcreteUnixTask -_execChild]): 
          use execvp if no environment was set

Tue Apr 25 11:33:43 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSException.m: added ability to print backtraces using
          gdb
        
        * Foundation/NSProcessInfo.m ([NSProcessInfo +initializeWithArguments:count:environment:]): 
          store argv0 for gdb backtracing facility

Thu Apr 20 15:09:09 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * added NSSocketPort,NSMessagePort classes (not yet finalized at all)

Mon Apr 17 20:23:11 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSUserDefaults.[hm]: fixed spelling bug,
          (synchronizeUserDefaults)

Wed Apr 12 11:08:59 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSFileHandle.m, Foundation/NSHost.m: these two try to
          startup winsock in +initialize

Mon Apr 10 17:22:27 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * NSConcreteDictionary.m,NSConcreteMutableDictionary.m: customized
          copy and mutable copy methods in concrete classes.

Mon Apr 10 17:07:39 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * rewrote NSConcreteDictionary and NSConcreteMutableDictionary not to
          use NSMapTable because of it's memory and callback overhead.
          NSConcreteDictionary was renamed NSConcreteHashDictionary and
          NSConcreteMutableDictionary was moved to a separate source file.

Mon Apr 10 15:50:45 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteDictionary.m: NSMutableDictionary doesn't
          inherit behaviour from NSDictionary anymore

Tue Mar 28 16:09:01 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSObject.m ([NSObject -methodSignatureForSelector:]):
          generates id-based signatures if no signature could be found in the
          runtime

Mon Mar 20 10:57:02 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteString.m (quoteString): fixed quoting bug in
          generation of string representation ('\' wasn't replaced by '\\').

        * Foundation/NSString.m, Foundation/NSConcreteString.m:
          fixed bug in UTF8 encoding

Tue Feb 29 12:06:13 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * GNUmakefile.gnustep, NSInvocation.m: added FFCallInvocation support

        * added FFCallInvocation class, a concrete subclass of NSInvocation which
          can use the ffcall library

Tue Feb 29 11:45:56 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * configure.in, config.h.in, config.mak.in: added configuration for the
          use of the ffcall library.

Tue Feb 22 18:35:56 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/GarbageCollector.m: added methods to allow or deny GC
        
        * Foundation/NSNotificationCenter.m ([NSNotificationCenter -postNotification:]): 
          disabled garbage collection during notification posting

Mon Feb 21 14:12:42 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * removed calls to 'cString'

Thu Feb 17 13:57:45 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteString.m ([-commonPrefixWithString:options:]): 
          fixed bug, cleaned up

        * Foundation/NSString.m ([NSString -commonPrefixWithString:options:]):
          cleaned up implementation

2000-02-17    <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * added NSConcreteWindowsFileHandle.[hm]

        * NSString.m: removed calls to 'cString'

        * NSObject.m(-autorelease): caches a ptr to the NSAutoreleasePool class

2000-02-15    <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * fixed CR 'bugs' introduced during Win commit ..

Thu Mar 10 20:51:13 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * a lot of mingw32 port work, lF is now able to compile as a DLL
          using a special gstep-make
        
Wed Feb  9 18:25:43 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/GNUmakefile.alone: fixed bug introduced by adding cvtutf.c

Wed Feb  9 17:27:31 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteString.m (quoteString): only quote newlines
          and double-quotes

Wed Feb  9 14:42:11 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * worked on mingw32 port (some fixes, support for new headers)

Tue Feb  8 18:22:47 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSCalendarDate.m ([NSCalendarDate -initWithYear:month:day:hour:minute:second:timeZone:]): replaced year 0 with year 2000

Mon Jan 24 15:46:44 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSString.m ([NSString +availableStringEncodings]): 
          updated to Unicode, UTF8, Latin1 and ASCII
        
        * Foundation/NSString.m ([NSString +defaultCStringEncoding]): 
          changed default encoding to ISOLatin1.

        * Foundation/NSString.m ([NSString -dataUsingEncoding:allowLossyConversion:]): 
          added several string encoding formats. Assumes that the environment
          encoding is ISO Latin1.
        
        * Foundation/NSString.m ([NSMutableString -initWithData:encoding:]):
          added decoding of UnicodeStringEncoding and UTF8StringEncoding
          (both still limited since NSString can only hold 8-bit)

Mon Jan 24 11:19:49 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation: added NSConnection.h and NSDistantObject.h (empty
          files added for header-file compatibility)

        * Foundation: added file NSDebug.h (available in both, gstep-base and
          MacOSX-S

        * Foundation/NSString: added GSAdditions category with 
          stringWithoutPrefix: and stringWithoutSuffix: methods.

        * Foundation/lfmemory.h.in: added DESTROY and ASSIGNCOPY macros to
          be more compatible with GNUstep code

Fri Jan 21 15:58:37 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSPathUtilities.m ([NSString +pathWithComponents:]): bugfix
          (method was broken)

Thu Jan 20 14:31:39 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSObjCRuntime.m: avoids usage of 'cString'

Wed Jan 19 16:35:47 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * NSObject.h.in: include lfmemory.h from Foundation if GNUSTEP is not
          defined (to support installations without GNUstep)

Wed Jan 19 11:00:57 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSObjectAllocation.m: added allocation log facility
          controlled via the 'NSLogAlloc' environment variable

        * Foundation/common.h: added 'WITHOUT_ZONES' define to avoid the
          management overhead of zones during memory allocation if they are
          not used anyway

        * Foundation/GNUmakefile.alone (HFILES): added lfmemory.h to HFILES
          and delete it during distclean

Fri Jan 14 20:46:20 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/common.m (Avsprintf): cache the object-format object

        * Foundation/NSAutoreleasePool.m: added instance reuse cache for 
        NSAutoreleasedPointer

        * Foundation/NSNumber.m (makeInt): caches NSNumbers 0-63, added LRU
        cache for smaller and bigger ones.

        * Foundation/NSNumber.m ([NSTemporaryNumber -initWithBool:], [NSNumber +numberWithBool:): 
          added shared objects for YES and NO (NSBoolNumber's ..)

Thu Jan 13 19:27:27 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSObjectAllocation.m (NSDeallocateObject): added support
          for zombie objects

        * Foundation/*TimeZone*|*Date*: made tz details more smart about the
          timezone they belong to.

Wed Jan 12 18:05:50 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteTimeZone.m ([NSConcreteTimeZone -timeZoneForDate:]): added timeZoneForDate: (new in MacOSX-S)

Mon Jan 10 13:05:28 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSScanner.m ([NSScanner -scanUpToString:intoString:]): 
          modified to return YES only if there was a match (previously empty
          strings counted as match too)

        * sharedlib.mak (SHARED_LIB_LINK_CMD): fixed bug in linker call
          (-W,l,soname= was used instead of -Wl,-soname=)

Tue Jan  4 17:26:37 2000  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSString.m (-hasPrefix:,-hasSuffix:): modified to return
          NO if the argument has zero length, as in MacOSXS

Fri Dec 17 04:13:38 1999  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSPathUtilities.m ([NSString -stringByResolvingSymlinksInPath]): 
          returns 'self' on error now, as described in MacOSXS documentation.
          Adjusted other places in the lF to explicitly check whether the path
          exists.

        * Foundation/NSPathUtilities.m ([NSString -stringByStandardizingPath]): 
          does not return 'nil', but 'self', if it cannot resolve the path
        
        * Foundation/NSString.m ([NSString -substringFromIndex:]): correctly
          does range check now (length-index could go negative which is positive
          in 'unsigned int' ..)

        * common.h: changed name of function 'Free' to 'lfFree' since 'Free'
          is often used by other C libraries (eg on MacOSXS).

Wed Dec 15 03:24:04 1999  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/UnixSignalHandler.m: fixed bug introduced by new
          -performSelector:withObject:

        * Foundation/NSTask.m ([NSTask +launchedTaskWithLaunchPath:arguments:]):
          make subtask's inherit the environment of the callee

Thu Dec  9 15:30:59 1999  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSObject.m ([NSObject -performSelector:withObject:]):
          changed to handle primitive argument types in target selector

Thu Dec  9 01:59:24 1999  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * added prototype of NSUndoManager (not implemented yet)

Tue Dec  7 03:58:55 1999  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSObjectInvocation.m: added -description method

Thu Nov 25 15:15:56 1999  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * fixed stuff in property list generation
        
        * Foundation/PropertyListParser.m: separate break-chars for unquoted
          strings

        * Foundation/NSConcreteDictionary.m: better description in exception
          if nil keys/objects are added to a dictionary

Wed Nov 24 00:31:36 1999  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSBundle.m ([NSBundle -pathsForResourcesOfType:inDirectory:]): 
          provided basic implementation for this method

Mon Nov 22 16:58:52 1999  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * NSDictionary, NSConcreteDictionary: fixed bugs related to 
          NSSmallDictionary's (dictionaries smaller than 8 entries)

Wed Nov 10 15:07:14 1999  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * added format-scanner handlers that operate on NSEnumerator objects,
          not on va_lists.

Wed Nov  3 17:42:24 1999  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * bug fixed examples/GNUmakefile.alone and Foundation/GNUmakefile.alone

Tue Nov  2 23:55:04 1999  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSScanner.m ([NSScanner -scanCharactersFromSet:intoString:]): acknowledge charactersToBeSkipped

        * Foundation/NSConcreteCharacterSet.m ([NSMutableBitmapCharacterSet -addCharactersInString:]): fixed out-of-range bug in for-loop

Mon Nov  1 14:21:44 1999  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSDate.m ([NSDate +timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate]): 
          fixed bug on Linux where gettimeofday() doesn't return timezone
          correction

Thu Sep 30 17:56:06 1999  Ovidiu Predescu  <ovidiu@cup.hp.com>

        * Foundation/lfmemory.h.in: Added emacs variables so that the file
        is recognized as an Objective-C file.

        * configure.in: Recognize i686 machines.

Thu Sep 16 18:21:02 1999  Helge Hess  <helge.hess@mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSUserDefaults.m: added -setSearchList: method and
          modified -searchList to return a non-mutable array

Fri Sep 10 16:01:51 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSArray.m ([NSMutableArray +arrayWithContentsOfFile:]):
          fixed bug (method sometimes created non-mutable arrays)

        * Foundation/NSConcreteUnixTask.m: added -interrupt method (new in
          MacOSX-S). Changed semantics of NSTaskDidTerminateNotification, which
          is send always now (previously only when -terminate was called).

Fri Sep  3 19:18:26 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteString.m (quoteString): fixed bug in this func

Tue Aug 31 10:35:25 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteString.m(-stringRepresentation): bugfix:
          some characters in string representations were not quoted correctly,
          including '\', leading to incorrect plist output

Mon Aug 30 15:20:26 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/PropertyListParser.m (_parseString): bugfix:
          function didn't unquote '\r' in property-list strings

Fri Aug 27 13:00:59 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSObjectInvocation.m: -invoke calls -forwardInvocation:
          if the target has no matching method

Thu Aug 26 10:31:09 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSRunLoop.m ([NSRunLoop -acceptInputForMode:beforeDate:]):
          method doesn't catch exceptions anymore

Wed Aug 25 18:21:27 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSMethodSignature.m: got -description method

        * Foundation/NSFrameInvocation.m: verify signature before 'getting'
          arguments

Thu Jul 22 16:33:24 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * NSFrameInvocation.m, NSObjectInvocation.m: added method
          -invokeWithTarget:lookupAtClass: (this is useful for interpreter 
          bindings, too)

        * NSFrameInvocation.m, NSObjectInvocation.m: added method
          -superInvokeWithTarget: (this is useful for interpreter bindings)

Fri Jul  2 19:40:42 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSZone.[hm]: avoid calling [NSZone defaultZone] in
          NSZone* functions (because of GNU ObjC runtime deficiencies in
          calling class methods ..)

        * Foundation/NSArray.m, Foundation/NSConcreteArray.m:
          avoid allocation of '0' sized malloc blocks

        * Foundation/NSSet.m: fixed bugs in set operations

        * Foundation/NSSet.m, Foundation/NSConcreteSet.m: changed -*copy* to
          make a shallow copy, not a deep one (the elements are *not* copied).

        * Foundation/NSConcreteSet.m ([NSCountedSet -initWithSet:copyItems:]):
          fixed RC leak in copy-mode

        * Foundation/NSConcreteSet.h, Foundation/GCDictionary.m: 
          fixed enumerators to inherit from NSEnumerator

Tue Jun 29 18:54:33 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSPathUtilities.m: added 
          NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains() function

        * Foundation/NSPathUtilities.m: added NSOpenStepRootDirectory(),
          NSStandardApplicationPaths() and NSStandardLibraryPaths() functions

Thu Jun 24 13:04:11 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteString.m: fixed bug in -getCString:maxLength:...
          (the trailing zero wasn't added)

        * configure.in: replaced test's with '==' with '='

Mon Jun 21 14:03:49 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/GNUmakefile: export NSCalendarDate.h

Fri Jun 18 13:28:34 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * added NSPortNameServer, NSPort, NSPortMessage classes. Not implemented
          yet

        * configure.in, configure, config.h.in, config.make.in: removed --fast-rc

Thu Jun 17 18:44:52 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/common.m (writeToFile): fixed bug, file was not
          truncated, if already existent

        * Foundation/NSCalendarDateScannerHandler.m: fixed bug in %z calendar
          format (which is supposed to output (+/-)HHMM but did output
          GMT(+/-)HHMM)

Tue Jun 15 12:15:13 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSBundle.m: changed notifications to behave like on
          MacOSX-S, notably only one notification is sent, if a bundle is loaded.

Fri Jun  4 12:15:49 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteString.m: reenable old variant of NXConstantString
          overloading because of runtime problems during dynamic loading with
          the new approach

        * Foundation/NSBundle.m: fixed problems with unresolved categories
          (categories for which no class is yet registered)

Tue Jun  1 13:57:51 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * configure.in, aclocal.m4: added (and use) the macro 
          AC_COMPILE_CHECK_SIZEOF instead of AC_CHECK_SIZEOF (the macro is from
          the autoconf macro repository)

        * Foundation/NSBundle.m: LIB_FOUNDATION_RESOURCES_PATH is now splitted
          using ';' on Windows (still ':' on Unix). This is required to be
          able to include volumes in the path on Windows (eg 'C:\lF;D:\lF')

        * renamed INSTALL to INSTALL.txt

        * configure, configure.in: added checks for common C type sizes

        * GNUmakefile.alone, GNUmakefile.gnustep: added NSObjectInvocation.m
          and NSFrameInvocation.m

        * NSInvocation.m, NSObject.m: NSInvocation became an abstract class
          with two concrete subclasses: NSFrameInvocation for __builtin_apply*
          based invocation and NSObjectInvocation for manual invocation 
          (currently only available for methods taking object parameters).

        * NSMethodSignature.m, NSObject.m: moved method signature cache to
          from -methodSignatureForSelector: to the NSMethodSignature
          constructor.

Tue May 25 13:19:56 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * NSObject.m, NSProxy.m: use new NSExtraRefCount() instead of
          NSGetExtraRefCount().

        * NSHashMap.m, NSObject.h.in, NSZone.[hm], common.h, load.m: 
          use lfmemory.h instead of objcgc.h

        * GNUmakefile.postamble: install lfmemory.h in an architecture dependend
          header directory

        * GNUmakefile.alone, GNUmakefile.gnustep: added the concrete task
          classes to the build process

        * Foundation/NSHost.m: renamed method -initWithName: to
          -initWithDottedRepresentation: because it conflicts with -initWithName:
          of NSAutoreleasedPointer.

        * configure.in, configure, config.h.in: added --fast-rc configuration
          option. This
          is used to make the RC macros directly access the RC instead of
          calling the appropriate methods. This makes speedier but non-OpenStep
          conform code (overriding the methods has no (or invalid) effect).

        * removed file objgc.h.in and added new platform dependend memory file
          lfmemory.h.in.

        * NSObject.m, NSObjectAllocation.m, NSProxy.m, NSUtilities.h:
          changed NSGetExtraRefCount() to NSExtraRefCount(). NSGetExtraRefCount()
          is still available for linking old libraries.

Fri May 21 12:16:51 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSTask.m: moved system specific parts out of NSTask.m.
          NSTask.m only contains the abstract NSTask class and the new files
          NSConcreteUnixTask.[hm] and NSConcreteWindowsTask.[hm] were added.

Thu May 20 10:48:17 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSArray.m ([NSArray -componentsJoinedByString:]): returns
          an empty string if the array contains no elements (previously returned
          nil)

        * Foundation/load.m: moved the #include's out of the function. This
          produced coredumps in mingw32-egcs (the #include of windows.h in
          the function)

Mon May 10 19:15:08 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSFileManager.m: separate -createDirectory:atPath:
          method for mingw32

        * config.mak.in (LIBS): added some Windows libraries when linking for
          mingw32

Fri May  7 18:34:05 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSObject.m ([NSObject -methodSignatureForSelector:]): 
          NSObject now caches method signature objects.

        * configure.in: when compiling without gstep-make NSException.h is
          now created by copying the real exception file instead of just linking
          it. This is required for cygwin/mingw32 where linking does not work.

Wed Apr 14 18:24:04 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * configure.in, config.h.in, configure, Foundation/config.h:
          added --with-fast-strings option

        * Foundation/NSConcreteDictionary.[hm], Foundation/NSDictionary.m: 
          added capability to disable 'small-dictionary' concrete subclasses.

Fri Apr  9 13:36:01 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * NSPathUtilities.m(-isAbsolutePath): on mingw32, check for ':' in path

        * configure.in: catch some undefined variables by prefixing with 'x'

        * NSProcessInfo.m: on mingw32 recognize both, slash and backslash, when
          determining the process name.

Fri April 8 08:21:07 1999 Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@cup.hp.com>

        * objc-features.texi: Updated the URL to Boehm's GC page.

Thu Apr  1 16:11:29 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * examples: added printenv tool. printenv prints out the environment
          variables as returned by NSProcessInfo.

Thu Apr  1 16:09:33 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/common.m (writeToFile): modified not to use 
          NSPosixFileDescriptors (uses open()/CreateFile() instead).

        * Foundation/NSFileManager.m: (not yet finished) support of
          -movePath:.. and -copyPath:.. for mingw32

        * Foundation/NSFileManager.m: fixed for mingw32

        * Foundation/NSGeometry.m: renamed RECT and VALID functions to lfRECT
          and lfVALID since they collide with windows.h types/functions.

        * Foundation/NSString.m, Foundation/NSConcreteString.m, 
          Foundation/NSData.m: use NSReadContentsOfFile() instead of
          duplicated open/read/close sequences.

        * Foundation/NSUserDefaults.m: various fixes, cleanups and warning
          fprintf(stderr)'s.

        * Foundation/NSVMPage.m: added separate getpagesize() function for
          mingw32 compilation

        * Foundation/PropertyListParser.m: print log if NSData of a property
          list file could not be read in.

        * Foundation/common.[hm]: added NSReadContentsOfFile() function that
          read a whole file into a buffer allocated by NSZoneMalloc(). This
          function is used by -initWithContentsOfFile: methods to avoid code
          duplication. The function supports Windows file IO.

        * Foundation/NSCharacterSet.m: added checks to warn if a set could
          not be created from a data object.

Wed Mar 31 16:54:02 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSAccount.m: added mingw32 support

        * Foundation/NSUserDefaults.m: use NSHomeDirectory() instead of
          NSHomeDirectoryForUser(NSUserName())

        * Foundation/common.[hm]: added functions to convert between
          Windows wide strings and NSString objects.

        * Foundation/NSProcessInfo.m: improved mingw32 support

        * Foundation/NSString.m: fixed some memory related bugs in string
          methods

Tue Mar 30 13:37:56 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * examples: added printenv tool

        * configure.in, config.h.in: added check for objc_malloc

        * README: updated email address of Ovidiu, added link to libFoundation
          home page.

        * examples/Defaults.m: check return value of -synchronize

        * Foundation/NSUserDefaults.m: print warnings if unable to save changes
          in persistent domains.

        * Foundation/NSObject.h.in: only define ASSIGN,RETAIN macros if not
          yet defined.

Wed Mar 24 18:16:50 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSTimer.h: added -timeInterval method

Sun Mar 21 17:23:07 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSCharacterSet.m: MT bugfix

        * Foundation/libFoundation.make.in: fixed bug in makefile

Fri Mar 19 12:52:11 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * added config/i386/mingw32.h (more or less a copy of cygwin.h)

        * Foundation/NSAccount.m: prepared for Win32

        * Foundation/NSHashMap.m: support for LIB_FOUNDATION_LEAK_GC

        * Foundation/GNUmakefile.postamble: installs objcgc.h

        * configure.in: generate objcgc.h from objcgc.h.in

        * config.mak.in: added support for GC_INCLUDE_DIR, GC_LIB

        * config.h.in: include gc.h/gc_typed.h from GC_INCLUDE_DIR determined
          by configure

        * Foundation/load.m: include objcgc.h instead of gc.h

        * added Foundation/objcgc.h.in.

        * Foundation/common.h: support for LIB_FOUNDATION_LEAK_GC, include 
          objcgc.h instead of gc.h

        * Foundation/UnixSignalHandler.m: currently unused on Mingw32, does not
          break during compilation (print a warning on compile)

        * Foundation/UnixSignalHandler.h: included signal.h instead of
          sys/signal.h on mingw32

        * Foundation/NSZone.h: include objcgc.h instead of gc.h

        * Foundation/NSThread.m: support for Windows Sleep() function in mingw32

        * Foundation/NSObjectAllocation.m: include objcgc.h instead of gc.h.
          Support for LIB_FOUNDATION_LEAK_GC.

        * Foundation/NSHost.m, Foundation/NSPosixFileDescriptor.m: include 
          winsock.h if compiling for mingw32

        * Foundation/NSConcreteFileHandle.m, Foundation/NSPipe.m,
          Foundation/NSTask.m: prepared for 
          mingw32 port (does compile on mingw32, but doesn't implement 
          everything).

        * Foundation/NSAllocDebugZone.m, Foundation/NSDefaultZone.m,
          Foundation/NSVMPage.m, Foundation/NSZone.m, Foundation/StackZone.m: 
          now uses objc_* memory management functions instead of stdlib ones.

Thu Mar 18 15:34:43 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSFileManager.m ([NSFileManager -contentsAtPath:]):
          implemented method using +[NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:]

Wed Mar 17 19:02:56 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSDictionary.m(-copyWithZone:): bugfix. copy used current
          class to create new object. This is invalid with mutable dictionaries,
          the result of copy on a mutable dictionary is an immutable one.

        * Foundation/NSArray.m(-copyWithZone:): copy did make a deep copy,
          changed to shallow copy.

        * configure.in: modified GC configuration. It's now possible to specify
          the include path containing gc.h and the library containing GC
          functions (usually libgc.a)

        * Foundation/NSDate.m(+timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate): 
          support for mingw32, uses GetSystemTime()
        
        * Foundation/NSNumberFormatter.m: use own index() function on mingw32
        
        * Foundation/NSPathUtilities.m: define PATH_MAX after including
          common.h. 
          NSTemporyDirectory() now returns C:\TEMP when compiling
          to mingw32 (should use GetTempPath() function).
          Vars pathSeparator and rootPath are set to '\' and 'C:\' on mingw32.
        
        * Foundation/NSUtilities.m, Foundation/NSProcessInfo.m: include 
          windows.h if available, use GetCurrentProcessId() instead of getpid()
          on mingw32

        * Foundation/byte_order.h: include winsock.h if compiling to mingw32

        * changed to configure scripts to support cross compilation, added
          README.mingw32.

Tue Feb 23 12:59:21 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSTask.m: fixed to be able to use both, NSPipe and NSTask.

        * Foundation/NSConcreteDictionary.m, Foundation/NSDictionary.m: added 
          new concrete classes for small, single and empty dictionaries.

        * Foundation/NSCalendarDateScannerHandler.m: changed -AM_PM:scanner: 
          that 12:00 is 12:00PM, not 12:00AM as previously.

        * Foundation/NSCalendarDateScanf.m: changed -hour method to handle
          '12:00 AM' for formats like '%I:%M %Z'. 12:00AM is equal to 0:00AM
          and required by Sybase. Note that 12:00AM is before 12:00PM.
          Previously 12:00AM became 12:00PM.

Wed Jan 27 17:32:47 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSString: added +string method for NSString and
          NSMutableString

Wed Jan 27 17:05:13 1999  Ovidiu Predescu  <ovidiu@cup.hp.com>

        * AUTHORS: Added Helge to the list of authors as he has
        contributed with lots of development work recently.

Wed Jan 27 16:20:39 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteDate.m ([NSConcreteDate -compare:]): fixed
          method. NSDate's compare can now compare against NSCalendarDate.

Mon Jan 25 11:24:13 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSException.m, Foundation/NSString.m, 
          Foundation/NSTimeZone.m, Foundation/NSObject.m:
          replaced printf(...) with fprintf(stderr, ...)

        * Foundation/NSCalendarDate.m: changed NSCoding of NSCalendarDate to
          use timezone abbreviations instead of timezone names.

Thu Jan 21 14:53:07 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSUtilities.m: added NSHostByteOrder() function

        * Foundation: added NSProxy class (not yet ready)

Wed Jan 20 19:16:44 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSCalendarDateScannerHandler.m: changed formats for day
          of month and hour to be 0 padded (format is %02d) as described
          in the online docs from Apple.

        * Foundation/PropertyListParser.m: check for 'nil' path argument
          (returns immediatly nil), added missing mode argument for open()

        * Foundation/NSUserDefaults.m: allow property list as default values
          in command line user defaults

        * Foundation/NSString.m: -initWithData:encoding: supported for
          defaultCStringEncoding (otherwise notImplemented is called),
          fixed RC bug in -stringByAppendingFormat:

        * Foundation/NSRunLoop.m: support for -isAlive of file objects. Before
          file objects are added to the select mask the isAlive method is
          invoked to check whether the descriptor of the object is still valid.
          This is necessary for sockets which may shutdown unrecognized and 
          result in a endless loop of EBADF errors of the select() call.

        * Foundation/NSConcreteString.m, Foundation/NSString.m: added missing 
          mode argument to open call in -initWithContentsOfFile:.

Tue Jan 19 20:23:22 1999  Ovidiu Predescu  <ovidiu@slip.net>

        * Foundation/NSHost.m: Fixed for Linux as gethostbyaddr_r has a
        different prototype.
        * README.sparc: Reformatted for 80 columns.

Tue Jan 19 11:38:09 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSCalendarDate.m (day_in_year): fixed bug, nDays[month]
          was accessed instead of nDays[month - 1]

Mon Jan 18 15:31:57 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/PropertyListParser.m (NSParsePropertyListFromFile): check
          for nil path argument (immediatly returns nil if path is nil)

Fri Jan 15 08:49:49 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteDictionary.[hm]: changed superclass of
          _NSConcreteDictionaryKeyEnumerator and _NSDictionaryObjectEnumerator
          from NSObject to NSEnumerator, added 
          _NSConcreteSingleObjectDictionaryKeyEnumerator
          added NSConcreteEmptyDictionary, NSConcreteSingleObjectDictionary
          subclasses

        * Foundation/NSConcreteArray.[hm]:
          added NSConcreteEmptyArray and NSConcreteSingleObjectArray subclasses

Wed Jan 13 19:21:38 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSFileManager.m (-_copyFile:toFile:handler:):
          added missing zero in open() call.

        * Foundation/NSHost.m: removed RC bugs in host object cache

Mon Jan 11 19:23:07 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSCalendarDate.m: applied patch reported by
          pascal@rossini.infopark.de. The patch fixes some incorrect
          behaviour with leap years.

Sun Jan 10 12:21:52 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSUtilities.m: added NSHostByteOrder() functions
        
        * Foundation: added NSByteOrder.h

Sun Jan 10 03:43:15 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSUserDefaults.m ([NSUserDefaults -initWithPath:]): 
          added support for NSArgumentDomain

Fri Jan  8 14:18:35 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSDateFormatter.m ([NSDateFormatter
        -stringForObjectValue:]): changed to format NSDate objects
        (previously only NSCalendarDate's)

Fri Jan  8 11:06:41 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSFileManager.m ([NSDirectoryEnumerator -dealloc]): 
          fixed bug, [super dealloc] was not called.

        * Foundation/NSDictionary.m: fixed RC bug in the -descriptionWi...
          method.

Wed Jan  6 13:23:54 1999  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSData.m: fixed RC bug in -initWithContentsOfMappedFile:,
          the return value of the method was autoreleased

Wed Dec 30 22:03:22 1998  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation: added first implementation of NSNumberFormatter class

Wed Dec 30 19:37:42 1998  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSString.m: implemented -initWithCharacters.. for
        characters below code value 128 (unicodes below 128 are equal to
        ASCII code)

Wed Dec 30 12:50:45 1998  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSDateFormatter.m
          ([NSDateFormatter -initWithDateFormat:allowNaturalLanguage:]): 
          throw exception if a non-NSString and non-nil format is passed in.

        * Foundation: added NSDateFormatter class

Mon Dec 28 21:23:46 1998  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSTask.m: added -description method

Mon Dec 28 17:50:29 1998  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSCalendarDate.m (day_in_year): fixed operator precedence
          bug which leaded to incorrect results

        * Foundation/NSTimeZone.m, Foundation/NSDate.h: 
          added some new MacOSX methods

        * Foundation/NSConcreteTimeZone.m: changed -init.. to copy strings

        * Foundation/NSConcreteTimeZoneDetail.m: changed -dealloc to release
          'name' ivar. Changed -init.. to copy strings.

        * Foundation/NSCalendarDate.m: changed description methods to use
          their own timeZoneDetail if no timeZone was passed as a parameter.

        * Foundation/NSCalendarDate.m ([NSCalendarDate -setTimeZone:]):
          fixed implementation, previous version allowed a 'nil' timezone
          (which now gets a local timezone).

        * Foundation/NSCalendarDate.m
        ([NSCalendarDate
        -initWithYear:month:day:hour:minute:second:timeZone:]): adjust
        timeSinceRef to 'timeZone'

        * Foundation/NSCalendarDate.m: fixed language bug (Thursday, not
        Thusday)

Wed Dec 23 11:16:15 1998  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSThread.m: changed to throw an exception if the thread
          couldn't be created.

Mon Dec 21 14:40:01 1998  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSArchiver.m: changed to make encoding of multiple
        root objects possible. Changed to support archive-internal
        references.

Mon Dec 21 12:36:47 1998  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSArchiver.m: replaced THROW's with +raise:format:,
        bugfixes in decodeClass: class name was not freed and it didn't
        support decoding of Nil classes.

Mon Dec 21 12:14:16 1998  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSData.m ([NSData -encodeWithCoder:]): fixed bug,
        tried to encode &bytes as array of char. 'bytes' itself is already
        the array of char (no need to take the address ..)

        * Foundation/NSRunLoop.m ([NSRunLoop
        -acceptInputForMode:beforeDate:]): take address of
        'fileObjectsCopy' to avoid warning in exception handler

        * Foundation/NSDate.m ([NSDate
        -descriptionWithCalendarFormat:timeZone:locale:]): assign
        'timeZone' parameter to calendar object created for output

        * Foundation/NSCalendarDate.m: added -timeZone method, as
        described in MacOSX docs (replaces -timeZoneDetail in
        MacOSX). Changed -setCalendarFormat: to copy the parameter instead
        of just retaining it.

        * Foundation/NSBundle.m ([NSBundle -loadCode]): set 'load_Classes' NULL
          after call to Free()

        * Foundation/NSArchiver.m: small fix in +initialize

        * Foundation/NSTimeZone.m ([NSTimeZone +defaultTimeZone]):
          changed to return 'NSTimeZone' instead of 'NSTimeZoneDetail', as
          described in MacOSX docs

        * Foundation/NSDictionary.m, Foundation/NSArray.m, Foundation/NSData.m: 
          cleanup, assign return value of nested '-init..' invocations to self.

        * Foundation/NSCalendarDateScannerHandler.m: 
          use detail of localTimeZone if no timezone was given to 
          -initForCalendarDate:timeZoneDetail:. Array of fixed strings for
          common output (minutes, seconds) to avoid constant creation of
          string objects.

Sat Dec 12 01:44:43 1998  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSCalendarDate.m: changed incorrect correction of
        timeSinceRef ivar (was corrected to timeZone), changed -compare:
        to compare against all subclasses of NSDate, changed
        +descriptionFor... to set the timeZone requested (and restore it
        after string generation).

Sat Dec 12 01:32:41 1998  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSDate.m: timezone was corrected twice in 
          +timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate

        * Foundation/NSConcreteSet.m: added initWithCapacity: method to
        NSMutableSet

Wed Dec  2 05:09:04 1998  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/GarbageCollector.m, Foundation/NSAllocDebugZone.m,
          Foundation/NSNotificationCenter.m, NSThread.m:
          replaced calls to perform: with performSelector:

Wed Dec  2 05:05:47 1998  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSCharacterSet.m: added +characterSetWithContensOfFile:,
          +characterSetWithCharactersInString: and characterSetWithRange:
          class methods to NSMutableCharacterSet.

Wed Dec  2 03:29:17 1998  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSObject.h.in: removed perform:.. methods from
        NSObject protocol perform: is replaced by performSelector: and not
        specified in MacOSX docs anymore

Tue Dec  1 17:18:40 1998  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * NSArchiver.[hm]: replaced with new version

        * config.h.in, configure.in: added autoconf checks for
          gethostbyname_r(), gethostbyaddr_r(), gethostent_r(), 
          recreated configure

        * added NSFormatter class (abstract class)

Mon Nov 23 11:05:40 1998  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSCalendarDateScanf.m ([NSCalendarDateScanf +initialize]):
          fixed RC bug (the static variable 'blanks' was not retained),
          avoid multiple +initialize invocations

Sun Nov 22 22:23:21 1998  Ovidiu Predescu  <ovidiu@slip.net>

        * config/i386/linux.h (FUNCTION_VALUE): Don't copy the return
        value in case of structures and unions since the __builtin_apply
        operation already puts the return value in the correct place.

Sun Nov 22 16:19:11 1998  Ovidiu Predescu  <ovidiu@slip.net>

        * Foundation/NSInvocation.m: Applied patch from Helge Hess to
        handle seeting the return value without actually invoking the
        action on target. This is useful for handling returning from DO
        invocations at the client side.

        * Foundation/NSString.m ([NSString
        -propertyListFromStringsFileFormat]): Call
        NSParseStringsFromString() instead of
        NSParseDictionaryFromString(). Don't create a new mutable copy
        from the returned dictionary since this is already mutable.

        * Foundation/ProperyListParser.[hm]: Change the return type of
        NSParseStrings* methods to be id instead of NSDictionary*.

        * Foundation/ProperyListParser.[hm] (_valueOfHexChar): Explicitly
        specify how the return value is computed.
        (_parseData): Correctly compute the byte's value from the two
        hexadecimal digits.

Mon Nov 16 13:03:18 1998  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSDictionary.m: copyWithZone: performed a deep-copy
        by calling 'initWithDictionary:self copyItems:YES'. NSDictionary
        'copy' methods are assumed to do a shallow copy, so it was changed
        to copyItems:NO.

Thu Nov 12 22:51:39 1998  Ovidiu Predescu  <ovidiu@slip.net>

        * Foundation/GNUmakefile.gnustep: Removed the hard-coded
        definitions of foundation, gui and backend.
        * examples/GNUmakefile.gnustep: Likewise.

Wed Nov 11 16:54:42 1998  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/GNUmakefile.alone: added PropertyListParser.m

Wed Nov  4 22:08:41 1998  Ovidiu Predescu  <ovidiu@slip.net>

        * Foundation/GNUmakefile.alone (clean): Don't remove the
        libFoundation.make.in file.

Wed Nov  4 18:08:09 1998  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * replaced '#import' in PropertyListParser.h with '#include'

Wed Nov  4 15:07:12 1998  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSObject.m: added +isKindOfClass: method

Tue Nov  3 20:19:33 1998  Ovidiu Predescu  <ovidiu@slip.net>

        * examples/GNUmakefile.alone ($(DEFAULTS)): Removed the dependency
        on $(LIB)/*$(libext).

Tue Nov  3 12:25:56 1998  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSCharacterSet.m: fixed bug in
        +characterSetWithCharactersInString: (only immutable charsets were
        created).

Thu Oct 22 19:50:06 1998  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSMethodSignature.m: added getArgumentTypeAtIndex:, a
        method which replaced argumentInfoAtIndex: in Rhapsody.

Thu Oct 22 11:47:14 1998  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * added README.sparc with hints about SPARC and Solaris problems

Tue Oct 20 16:32:42 1998  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSString.m: fixed bug in getCString. The terminating
        NULL byte was set on [length-1] instead of [length]

Tue Oct 20 09:31:00 1998  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSRunLoop.m: modified to support other types of file
        descriptor objects, not only NSPosixFileDescriptors. The runloop
        sends out notifications if activity is found on an object other than a
        NSPosixFileDescriptor.

Tue Oct 20 09:17:40 1998  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Integrated the new property list parser with the property classes
        NSString, NSArray and NSDictionary. Modified the makefiles to exclude
        the old pccts-based parser.

Tue Oct 20 09:05:47 1998  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSThread.m: fixed bug. The autorelease pool was created
        before the current thread was set. Because of this the pool had no
        owner and broke in 'dealloc'.

Mon Oct 19 14:00:51 1998  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/PropertyListParser.m: fixed bug in isBreakChar() function

Mon Oct 19 10:21:44 1998  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * added hand-written property list parser: PropertyList.[hm]

Mon Oct 19 04:44:08 1998  Ovidiu Predescu  <ovidiu@slip.net>

        * doc/libFoundation.texi: Updated the release number.
        * configure.in: Likewise.

        * ANNOUNCE: Updated the documentation.
        * INSTALL: Likewise.
        * NEWS: Likewise.
        * README: Likewise.
        * README.gc: Likewise.

Sun Oct 18 02:37:14 1998  Ovidiu Predescu  <ovidiu@slip.net>

        * doc/libFoundation.texi: Changed the @url to @uref.
        * Foundation/NSProcessInfo.m ([NSProcessInfo -globallyUniqueString]):
        Fixed to generate a really unique string (bug report and fix from
        Helge Hess).

1998-10-14  Helge Hess  <helge@trex.mdlink.de>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteString.m ([NS8BitString -initWithCoder:]):
        RC bug-fix, 'self' was not released and the replacement object was
        autoreleased.
        ([NSMutable8BitString -initWithCoder:]): same fix as in NS8BitString.

Fri Oct  9 05:09:25 1998  Ovidiu Predescu  <ovidiu@slip.net>

        * sharedlib.mak: Search for linux as substring in the host OS type.

        * Foundation/NSData.m ([NSData -deserializeDataAt:ofObjCType:atCursor:
        context:]): Put a 0 after a decoded string (bug report from Helge
        Hess).

        * Foundation/common.m (Avsprintf): Create local objects for the
        format and scanner to avoid multithreaded problems.
        * Foundation/PrivateThreadData.h: Remove the objectFormat and
        formatScanner private thread objects.
        * Foundation/load.m: Include gc.h to get the dl functions defined
        in libgc.a (Report from Helge Hess).

Tue Jun 30 22:27:00 1998  Ovidiu Predescu  <ovidiu@aracnet.com>

        * INSTALL: Updated the installation instructions.

Tue Jun  2 18:48:41 1998  Ovidiu Predescu  <ovidiu@aracnet.com>

        * doc/libFoundation.texi (Porting NSInvocation): Describe the
        FRAME_SET_ARGUMENT and FRAME_GET_ARGUMENT macros.
        * config/powerpc/powerpc.h: The initial implementation of the
        NSInvocation's macros. Only Struct3 is not working properly in
        testsuite.
        * Foundation/NSInvocation.m (-invokeWithTarget:): Reworked to
        support AIX; the code uses now objc_msg_sendv instead of
        explicitly invoking __builtin_apply. This seems to make forwarding
        using NSInvocation work.
        * Foundation/NSBundle.m (-loadCode): Define environment only for
        the GNUstep environment.

Sun May 31 21:35:23 1998  Ovidiu Predescu  <ovidiu@aracnet.com>

        * Foundation/NSScanner.m (-[NSScanner scanUpToString:intoString:]):
        Return the remaining string if the searched string is not found.

Fri May 29 13:49:09 1998  Ovidiu Predescu  <ovidiu@aracnet.com>

        * Foundation/NSAccount.m (-[NSGroupAccount
        initWithGroupStructure:]): Allocate the array on heap instead of
        stack to avoid problems on AIX.
        * Foundation/NSConcreteString.m: Create a new class
        DummyNXConstantString used as a prototype for
        NXConstantString. The dummy class is copied over to the real
        constant string class in the +load method. This is done to avoid
        linking errors on AIX and possibly on other systems (including
        Windows). The old way defined a new NXConstantString class
        inherited from NSString and we assumed this class takes precedence
        in the linking process over to the one in libobjc. We now use the
        class from libobjc but we modify this class to be inherited from
        NSString.
        * Foundation/NSException.m: Fixed the code that changes the top
        level exception handler. The code is supposed to also work in a
        multithreaded environment but is not yet tested.
        * Foundation/PrivateThreadData.m: Changes to support the above fix.
        * Foundation/NSString.m (substringFromRange:): Call
        substringWithRange: and not substringFromRange: ;-).

        * Resources/GNUmakefile.gnustep: New file based upon GNUmakefile.
        * Resources/GNUmakefile.alone: New file based upon GNUmakefile. We
        need to differentiate the installation process when the resources
        are installed in a GNUstep environment and when they are alone.
        * configure.in: Correctly create the makefile in the Resources
        directory.

        * config/powerpc/powerpc.h: New file. Figured out the
        APPLY_RESULT_SIZE and the APPLY_ARGS_SIZE values.

Wed May 27 21:16:53 1998  Ovidiu Predescu  <ovidiu@aracnet.com>

        * Started the port to AIX 4.1.
        * config.h.in (HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H, HAVE_SYS_SELECT_H,
        HAVE_STRINGS_H): New defines.
        * configure.in: New check for for sys/statvfs.h, sys/select.h,
        strings.h.
        * Foundation/NSFileManager.m: Include sys/statvfs.h if exists.
        * Foundation/NSRunLoop.m: Include sys/select.h.
        * Foundation/NSStringPropList.g: Define
        NSStringPropertyListParser_errors as a global symbol to avoid problems
        on AIX.
        * Foundation/NSThread.m: Include sys/select.h.
        * pccts/antlr.h: Define zztoken as a global symbol.

Thu May 21 14:45:43 1998  Ovidiu Predescu  <ovidiu@aracnet.com>

        * doc/libFoundation.texi: Updated the documentation.
        * Foundation/NSZone.m (+initialize): Comment out when using Boehm's GC.

Wed May 20 14:25:58 1998  Ovidiu Predescu  <ovidiu@aracnet.com>

        Fixed bug reports from Helge Hess <helge@mdlink.de>.
        * Foundation/GCZone.h: Removed.
        * Foundation/GCZone.m: Removed.
        * Foundation/common.h: Moved the THROW calls to __raiseMemoryException
        to eliminate recursive definition of memoryExhaustedException.
        * Foundation/common.m (__raiseMemoryException): Defined.
        * Foundation/NSZone.h: Define the NSZone functions to work
        directly with the Boehm's GC functions and eliminate the GCZone
        previously used.
        * Foundation/NSZone.m: Don't create the GCZone anymore.

        Incorporate some bug fixes from Helge Hess <helge@mdlink.de>.
        * Foundation/NSConcreteString.m (initWithCapacity:): Use NSZoneFree
        instead of Free.
        * Foundation/NSPosixFileDescriptor.m (writeString:range:): Repeat
        the write operation until all the bytes are written or an error
        occurs.
        * Foundation/NSProcessInfo.m (initializeWithArguments:count:
        environment:): Use Malloc to allocate keys and vals instead of
        MallocAtomic.

Tue May 12 11:48:44 1998  Ovidiu Predescu  <ovidiu@aracnet.com>

        * doc/libFoundation.texi: New file.
        * doc/CodingRules.pod: Removed.
        * doc/GarbageCollector.pod: Removed.
        * doc/NSMethodSignature.pod: Removed.
        * doc/NSZone.pod: Removed.
        * doc/exceptions.pod: Removed.
        * doc/objc-runtime.pod: Removed.
        * doc/NSInvocation.pod: Removed.

        * AUTHORS: Updated.
        * INSTALL.gc: Updated.
        * NEWS: Updated.
        * README: Updated.
        * README.gc: Updated.

        * Foundation/NSObject.h.in: Moved the RETAIN, RELEASE, AUTORELEASE,
        CREATE_AUTORELEASE_POOL and ASSIGN macros from common.h.
        * Foundation/common.h: Removed the above macros.

Tue Apr 14 22:55:17 1998  Ovidiu Predescu  <ovidiu@aracnet.com>

        * Foundation/NSArray.m (lastObject): Return nil when the array is
        empty instead of raising an exception.
        * Foundation/NSHashMap.m: Fix copy/paste bugs that incorrectly
        create hash and map tables with both keys and values invisible to
        GC when only keys where requested invisible.
        * Foundation/NSMapTable.h (NSCreateMapTableInvisibleKeysOrValues):
        Fixed the naming of the arguments.
        * Foundation/NSNotificationCenter.m: Renamed addObjectsInList to
        addObjectsToList. Move nilObjectObservers initialization out of
        Boehm'GC dependent code. Likewise for nullNameToObjects.
        * Foundation/NSString.m (getCString): Add a leading 0 to the end
        of the buffer. (Bug reports from Helge Hess <hh@mdlink.de>)

        * Foundation/GarbageCollector.m: Added the code that
        differentiates between the list nodes used to keep the objects and
        observers to be finalized and informed respectively. This code was
        somehow not included in the previous version.
        (+initialize): Use the pointer semantics for the object values
        kept inside postingObjectsToObservers.
        * Foundation/NSObjectAllocation.m (NSAllocateObject): Generate an
        error if the typed memory description for the class is not already
        generated by the runtime system (this indicates a bug in the runtime
        code).
        * Foundation/NSTask.m: Remove code that's not used when compiling with
        Boehm GC support.

        * Foundation/PrivateThreadData.h: Optimize the printf-like
        formatting by creating per-thread variables for the
        all the time allocated objects.
        * Foundation/PrivateThreadData.m: Create the above variables when
        requested.
        * Foundation/common.m (Avsprintf): Use the above cached variables
        instead of creating them at each invocation of the function.

        * Added emacs variable for the tab width to the local variables
        section in all the files.

Wed Apr  1 19:51:01 1998  Ovidiu Predescu  <ovidiu@aracnet.com>

        * Foundation/NSUserDefaults.m (syncronizeStandardUserDefaults:):
        Correct typo (bug report from Helge Hess <hh@mdlink.de>).

Wed Apr  1 18:51:54 1998  Ovidiu Predescu  <ovidiu@aracnet.com>

        Added emacs variables to all the files.

        * TODO: Updated.
        * Foundation/NSObjectAllocation.m: Reset the memory allocated by
        GC_CALLOC_EXPLICTLY_TYPED because it seems this function doesn't work
        as expected.
        * common.h: (RETAIN, RELEASE, AUTORELEASE, CREATE_AUTORELEASE_POOL):
        New macros.

        Use the new macros above throughout all the files to be able to
        disable the reference counting alocation mechanism when Boehm's
        garbage collector is used.

Wed Mar 11 22:59:39 1998  Ovidiu Predescu  <ovidiu@aracnet.com>

        * Foundation/GNUmakefile.gnustep: Support the new 'gc' make variable.
        When gc=yes the object files go into $processor/$os/${runtime}-gc.
        * examples/GNUmakefile.gnustep: Likewise.
        * Foundation/GarbageCollector.m (gcCollect): Commented out the printed
        message.
        * Foundation/NSObject.h.in: Remove the LIB_FOUNDATION_BOEHM_GC
        definition, it is now passed by the makefile package.
        * Foundation/NSProcessInfo.m: Set the _usesBoehmGC variable in case
        it's not setup properly.
        * Foundation/behavior.m (class_add_behavior): Fixed a potential bug.
        * Foundation/libFoundation.make.in: Protect the file to multiple
        inclusions. Define the LIBFOUNDATION_WITH_GC variable.
        * extensions/FormatScanner.h: Make the booleans bitfields once the
        bitfields are fully supported by the runtime.
        * extensions/GCObject.h: Likewise.

Wed Mar  4 22:40:35 1998  Ovidiu Predescu  <ovidiu@aracnet.com>

        * Foundation/GarbageCollector.m (newNode): Use
        GC_MALLOC_EXPLICTLY_TYPED and memset instead of
        GC_CALLOC_EXPLICTLY_TYPED because the last one is different than
        the expected behaviour.

Wed Mar  4 16:25:40 1998  Ovidiu Predescu  <ovidiu@aracnet.com>

        * Foundation/NSNotificationCenter.m (NSNotificationListItem): Add new
        instance variable to keep track later of allocated instances.
        (-[NSNotificationObserverRegister removeObserver:]): Changed the code
        to use a linked list of ListItem instances instead of an array to avoid
        allocating objects, which presents problems with GC finalization.
        (NSNotificationObjectRegister): Changed objectObservers to a map table
        to be able to use a map table enumerator directly. This eliminates the
        need of creating an object for the enumerator, which has problems in
        the presence of finalization.
        (NSNotificationCenter): Likewise for nameToObjects.
        * Foundation/GarbageCollector.m (-registerForFinalizationObserver:
        selector:object:): Register finalizers only for instances because class
        objects were not allocated by the garbage collector.
        (unregisterObserver:forObjectFinalization:): Protect the code by
        locking the global lock.

        * Use the ASSIGN macro where is possible.

Wed Mar  4 12:01:34 1998  Ovidiu Predescu  <ovidiu@aracnet.com>

        * config.mak.in: Define _TS_ERRNO when compiling under Solaris.
        * extensions/GarbageCollector.h: Added support for registering
        observers of object finalization. Separated the interface for the
        garbage collector using reference counting and the Boehm's
        collector.
        * extensions/GCObject.h: Temporary remove the structure to avoid the
        problems with encoding of bitfields in runtime.
        * extensions/FormatScanner.h: Likewise.
        * Foundation/FormatScanner.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/common.h: Changed the test to use LIB_FOUNDATION_BOEHM_GC
        instead of WITH_GC.
        * Foundation/NSZone.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSObjectAllocation.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSObject.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/GarbageCollector.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/GCZone.m: Likewise.

        * Foundation/NSZone.m: Print a warning message in case the the program
        is linked with a non-garbage-collected aware version of runtime.
        Implement -calloc: in terms of -malloc:.
        * Foundation/NSObjectAllocation.m (NSAllocateObject): Use typed
        allocation of objects.
        (_do_finalize): Setup the isa pointer to the freed object class.
        (__freedObjectClass): Made global variable.
        * Foundation/NSNotificationCenter.m (+initialize): Set the 'observer'
        variable as a GC invisible pointer.
        (-removeObject:): New method.
        (-init): Create the map table as partial invisible table.
        (-addObserver:): Register the center for finalization notification.
        (-objectWillFinalize:): New method.
        (-observerWiFinalize:): New method.
        * Foundation/NSMapTable.h (keysInvisible, valuesInvisible): New members
        of the NSMapTable structure.
        (NSCreateMapTableInvisibleKeysOrValues): New function.
        * Foundation/NSHashTable.h (keysInvisible): New member of the
        NSHashTable structure.
        (NSCreateHashTableInvisibleKeys): New function.
        * Foundation/NSHashMap.m: Support for the implementation of the above
        functions.
        * Foundation/NSDefaultZone.m (-mallocAtomic:): New method.
        (-callocAtomic:byteSize:): Likewise.
        * Foundation/GarbageCollector.m: Support code for registering and
        unregistering observers of objects finalization. Separated the
        implementation between the reference counting collector and the Boehm's
        collector.

Thu Feb 12 23:13:35 1998  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com>

        * Foundation/GCAtomicZone.[hm]: Removed. Added the atomic allocation
        methods to NSZone.

Sun Feb  8 23:52:50 1998  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com>

        Differentiate thoughout the whole library between normal and atomic
        allocations.
        * Foundation/FormatScanner.m: Use AtomicMalloc() instead of Malloc().
        The same with AtomicCalloc() and Calloc().
        * Foundation/GCArray.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSArray.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSBundle.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSCharacterSet.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSConcreteCharacterSet.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSConcreteData.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSConcreteFileHandle.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSConcreteString.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSData.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSDictionary.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSPosixFileDescriptor.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSSet.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSString.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/common.h: New AtomicMalloc() and AtomicCalloc() functions.
        * Foundation/common.h (Strdup): Use AtomicMalloc().

        * Foundation/NSZone.h (NSDefaultAtomicMallocZone, NSZoneAtomicMalloc,
        NSZoneAtomicCalloc): New functions.

        Moved the private NSThread variables in an object as instance variable.
        * Foundation/NSAutoreleasePool.m: Use the new schema.
        * Foundation/NSException.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSNotificationCenter.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSNotificationQueue.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSThread.h: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSThread.m: Likewise.

        Optimization: cache the temporary string variables in a per thread
        pool.
        * Foundation/NSConcreteString.h (NSTemporaryString): next, new instance
        variable.
        * Foundation/NSString.m: Support code for the above caching schema.

        * Foundation/GCAtomicZone.m: Use the equivalent macros so that is
        possible to simply recompile with the appropriate flags and get the
        debug versions of the Boehm's allocation functions.
        * Foundation/GCZone.m: Likewise.

        * Foundation/NSArchiver.m: Explicitly catch the exceptions generated
        and release the pointers, as we may get pointers that are kept in a
        map table but they are no longer available.
        * Foundation/NSData.m: Likewise.

        * Foundation/GarbageCollector.m: Added a definition for _usesBoehmGC
        even if Boehm's GC is not available.
        * Foundation/NSException.m: Log the exception's message using printf.
        * Foundation/NSFileManager.m: Fixed misspelling.
        * Foundation/NSObjectAllocation.m: The initial support code for
        invoking a finalizer on an object.
        * Foundation/NSUserDefaults.m: Added forgot -retain message. Assign
        the global values to their variables immediately after the allocation
        to avoid possible recursing in the same method.
        * Foundation/behavior.m: Use objc_alloc and the friends instead of
        Malloc and the rest because they can now be allocated from different
        zones.
        * examples/GNUmakefile.gnustep: Include libFoundation.make.

        * config.mak.in: Moved the variables used in the standalone version
        so that they don't override the GNUstep makefile package ones.
        * configure.in: Fixed bug in assigning the value to the use_gnustep and
        use_gc variables.
        * Foundation/GNUmakefile.alone: Added PrivateThreadData.m.
        * Foundation/GNUmakefile.gnustep: Likewise.
        * Foundation/GNUmakefile.postamble (after-uninstall): New target to
        remove libFoundation.make from the installation directory.

Tue Feb  3 22:53:26 1998  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com>

        * Foundation/GarbageCollector.m: Added a function hook that is called
        when garbage collection takes place.
        * Foundation/NSBundle.m: Initialize the global variables to NULL.
        * Foundation/NSZone.h (defaultAtomicZone): New method.
        * Foundation/NSZone.m: Implement the above method to return a
        GCAtomicZone used to allocate atomic memory (memory that is not scanned
        by garbage collector for pointers).

Tue Feb  3 19:27:14 1998  Ovidiu Predescu  <ovidiu@net-community.com>

        * configure.in: Properly check and output a message when using
        Boehm's garbage collector.

Tue Feb  3 07:04:04 1998  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com>

        Integrated the Boehm's garbage collector.
        * Foundation/GCZone.h: New file.
        * Foundation/GCZone.m: New file.
        * Foundation/GCAtomicZone.h: New file.
        * Foundation/GCAtomicZone.m: New file.
        * Foundation/libFoundation.make.in: New file.
        * Foundation/NSObject.h.in: New file from NSObject.h.
        * Foundation/NSObject.h: Removed.
        * Foundation/libFoundation.make.in: New file.
        * config.h.in: Added WITH_GC.
        * config.mak.in: Likewise. Moved the version numbers in configure.in
        and added support for automatically substituting them.
        * configure.in: Support for substituting the version numbers in
        config.make and NSObject.h. New flag --with-gc to build using the
        Boehm's garbage collector.
        * Foundation/GNUmakefile.alone: Remove NSObject.h and
        libFoundation.make. Added GCZone and GCZAtomicZone.
        * Foundation/GNUmakefile.gnustep: Likewise.
        * extensions/GarbageCollector.h (+isBoehmGCAvailable, +usesBoehmGC):
        New methods to determine at runtime the context in which we're running.
        * Foundation/GarbageCollector.m: Use a mixed implementation, which
        takes advantage of the Boehm's GC if present.
        * Foundation/NSZone.h (+setDefaultZone:): New method.
        * Foundation/NSZone.m: Added support for setting the default zone using
        +setDefaultZone:.
        * Foundation/NSDefaultZone.m: Removed unnecessary code.
        * Foundation/NSObject.m: Skip the default implementation of -dealloc,
        -autorelease and -retain when Boehm's GC is used.
        * Foundation/NSObjectAllocation.m: Support for object allocation in
        the presence of Boehm's GC. Skip the default action in
        NSDeallocateObject(), NSDecrementExtraRefCountWasZero(),
        NSIncrementExtraRefCount() and NSGetExtraRefCount().

Fri Jan 29 13:17:37 1998  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com>

        * Foundation/NSBundle.m: Added support for loading bundles when running
        in the GNUstep environment.

Fri Jan  9 11:27:27 1998  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com>

        * Foundation/NSBundle.m: Fixed the searching of resources in a bundle
        when working in a GNUstep environment.

Tue Jan  6 09:51:20 1998  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com>

        Incorporate patches from Marcus Mueller <znek@object-factory.com>.
        * Foundation/common.h: Include stdio.h.
        * Foundation/NSFileManager.h: Declare NSFileOwnerAccountName.
        * Foundation/NSFileManager.m (fileAttributesAtPath:traverseLink:):
        Add a new key, NSFileOwnerAccountName, in the returned dictionary.

Wed Dec  3 13:55:00 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com>

        * Foundation/NSObject.m: Check in a bunch of methods to see if selector
        is null to avoid a crash when working with the GNU runtime.

Mon Dec  1 15:18:33 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com>

        * Foundation/common.m (hashpjw): Replaced by a better hash function
        hashjb (from Dr. Dobb's Journal January/1998).
        * Foundation/NSConcreteValue.m: Use the new hash function.
        * Foundation/NSData.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSMethodSignature.m: Likewise.

Tue Nov 25 09:28:09 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com>

        Suggestions and bug fixes from Gregor Hoffleit
        <flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de>.

        * Foundation/UnixSignalHandler.m (addObserver:selector:forSignal:
        immediatelyNotifyOnSignal:): Use sigemptyset to empty the signal action
        set mask.

        * Resources/GNUmakefile.alone: Removed.
        * Resources/GNUmakefile.gnustep: Removed.
        * Resources/GNUmakefile: New makefile that does not depend on how the
        package was configured, for GNUstep or not.
        * GNUmakefile.alone: Remove the GNUmakefile on distclean.
        * GNUmakefile.gnustep: Likewise.
        * Foundation/GNUmakefile.alone: Likewise.
        * Foundation/GNUmakefile.postamble: Likewise.
        * examples/GNUmakefile.alone: Likewise.
        * examples/GNUmakefile.gnustep: Likewise.
        * configure.in: Don't create the Resources/GNUmakefile from
        GNUmakefile.gnustep.

Sun Nov 16 22:22:15 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com>

        * Public release 0.8.0.

Sun Nov 16 20:12:05 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com>

        * configure.in: Check for sigaction system call.
        * config.h.in: Support the above check.
        * config/i386/gnu.h: New file.
        * Foundation/UnixSignalHandler.m: Use sigaction under linux instead of
        signal because the later doesn't have the BSD semantics.

Sat Nov 15 21:52:55 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com>

        * config/alpha/linux-gnu.h: New  definitions needed by NSInvocation
        and NSMethodSignature for the alpha processor.

Sat Nov 15 15:50:10 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com>

        Fixes from Aleksandr Savostyanov.
        * config.mak.in: Add -D_REENTRANT on Solaris.
        * Foundation/NSTask.m: Properly include the exception files.

        * Foundation/NSFileManager.m (-findNextFile): Don't recurse into
        subdirectories unless the recursive flag is set.

Sat Nov 15 15:34:33 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com>

        * Foundation/NSHost.m: Include <string.h>.
        * Foundation/NSTask.m: Include <config.h> instead of
        <Foundation/common.h> to avoid redefinition of MIN and MAX on some
        systems. Cast integers to long first to avoid warnings on alpha.
        * Foundation/UnixSignalHandler.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/common.h: Change the definition of MIN and MAX to use
        typeof instead of typedef.

Wed Nov 12 21:34:08 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com>

        * configure.in: Checks for sigset.
        * config.h.in: Support for the above check.
        * Foundation/NSTask.m: Fixed the registering to UnixSignalHandler.
        * Foundation/UnixSignalHandler.m: Use sigset on System V instead of
        signal because the last one removes the handler after a signal is
        executed.
        (_execChild): Temporary disable signals before forking off the child
        to make sure SIGCHLD is not raised before we have a chance to register
        the task object.
        * Foundation/load.m: The code for ELF systems also works under Solaris,
        but GCC doesn't seem to define the __ELF__ variable.
        * examples/Defaults.m: Move the format strings outside the exception
        handler to workaround a bug in compiler.
        * examples/GNUmakefile.gnustep: Added ADDITIONAL_CPPFLAGS.

Tue Nov 11 22:16:39 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com>

        Finished the implementation of NSTask and NSPipe.
        * configure.in: Added checks for determining the signal handling
        mechanism. Also for a POSIX sys/wait.h, for a working vfork and for
        the pid_t definition.
        * config.h.in: Support for the above checks.
        * Foundation/NSPipe.m: Changed the implementation to be based on
        NSFileHandle instead of NSPosixFileDescriptor.
        * Foundation/NSTask.m: Properly handle SIGCHLD signals generated for
        killed children. Generate exceptions if the state is not complete.
        Use a concrete class. Handle NSPipes when they are setup as input,
        output or error handles.

        * Foundation/UnixSignalHandler.m: New class UnixSignalHandler to
        handle the Unix signal stuff.
        * Foundation/NSRunLoop.m (acceptInputForMode:beforeDate:): Break the
        loop when listening for file descriptors input if a signal appears.

        * Foundation/NSAccount.m: Made the implementation thread-safe.
        * Foundation/NSFileManager.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSNotificationCenter.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSThread.h: Add the defaultCenter ivar. New methods
        -defaultNotificationCenter and -setDefaultNotificationCenter:.
        * Foundation/NSThread.m: Implementation of the above.

        * Foundation/common.h: Move the ASSIGN macro here.
        * Foundation/NSConcreteFileHandle.m: Removed the ASSIGN macro.
        * Foundation/NSRunLoop.m: Likewise.
        (runMode:beforeDate:): Move the calling of +[NSNotificationQueue
        runLoopASAP] to acceptInputForMode:beforeDate:.
        * Foundation/NSNotification.h: Removed the lock ivar.
        * Foundation/NSProcessInfo.m (initializeWithArguments:count:
        environment:): Fixed some memory allocation bugs.

Tue Nov  4 23:11:32 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com>

        * Foundation/NSAccount.m (+currentAccount): Create an account based on
        the password structure rather than on the user id only.
        * Foundation/NSAllocDebugZone.m (searchHash): Cast the pointer to long
        instead of int.
        * Foundation/NSArchiver.m (encodeValueOfObjCType:at:): Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSObjectAllocation.m (NSDecrementExtraRefCountWasZero,
        NSIncrementExtraRefCount, NSGetExtraRefCount): Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSConcreteValue.m (-[NSConcreteObjCValue hash]): Use
        hashpjw instead of the pointer to the type, which can vary. Also cast
        pointer values to long before returning them from -hash in some other
        classes.

Tue Nov  3 22:14:10 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com>

        * Foundation/NSHost.h: New file.
        * Foundation/NSHost.m: New file.
        * Foundation/NSPipe.m: New file.
        * Foundation/NSTask.h: New file.
        * Foundation/NSTask.m: New file.

Mon Nov  3 00:09:13 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com>

        Prepare the sources for the Alpha port.
        * Foundation/NSAllocDebugZone.m: Cast pointers to long instead of int.
        * Foundation/NSArray.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSHashMap.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSObject.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSString.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSAutoreleasePool.m: Use the %p specificator when
        printf()-ing.
        * Foundation/NSCalendarDate.m: Use a dummy va_list variable to pass
        the arguments to stringWithFormat:arguments:.

        Changed int to unsigned int to avoid compiler warnings with the newer
        pre-2.8.0 compilers.
        * Foundation/GCArray.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/GCDictionary.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSArchiver.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSCoder.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSConcreteCharacterSet.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSConcreteFileHandle.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSConcreteSet.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSConcreteTimeZone.m: Likewise.

        * Foundation/NSInvocation.m (setArguments:atIndex:): Check
        argumentLocation before copying to it.
        * Foundation/NSLock.m (tryLockWhenCondition:): Use -tryLock instead of
        duplicating the code (from Aleksandr Savostyanov).
        * Foundation/NSPathUtilities.m (stringByStandardizingPath): Don't try
        to see if the path exists or not because it could be a relative link
        (observation from Aleksandr Savostyanov).
        * Foundation/NSUtilities.m (NSLogv): Lock before writing to stdout.

Mon Oct 27 00:26:14 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com>

        Implemented a simple defaults tool.
        * examples/Defaults.m: New file.
        * examples/defaults.m: Removed.
        * Foundation/NSUserDefaults.h: Added two new ivars, domainsToRemove and
        dirtyDomains. Removed the dirty ivar.
        * Foundation/NSUserDefaults.m: Deal with domains removal. Fixed and
        optimized the code that synchonizes the persistent default domains.

Fri Oct 24 12:49:46 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com>

        * Foundation/NSRunLoop.m (runMode:beforeDate:): Temporary retain
        limitDate so that it doesn't get released accidentally in
        acceptInputForMode:beforeDate:. Bug report from Benhur Stein
        <Benhur-de-Oliveira.Stein@imag.fr>.

Tue Oct 21 23:49:40 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com>

        Finished making the library thread-safe, using modified patches from
        Aleksandr Savostyanov.
        * Foundation/NSNotificationQueue.m: Made thread-safe.
        * Foundation/NSObjectAllocation.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSObject.m: Lock the global lock when accessing
        delayedExecutions dictionary.
        * Foundation/NSThread.h: Added support for making other classes in
        libFoundation thread-safe.
        * Foundation/NSThread.m: Likewise.

        * Foundation/NSPosixFileDescriptor.h: Added the 'owned' ivar to
        properly close the file descriptor.
        * Foundation/NSPosixFileDescriptor.m (-dealloc): New method.
        Setup the owned ivar in various init methods.
        * Foundation/NSProcessInfo.m: Make the name of the process being the
        last component of the path.
        * Foundation/NSRunLoop.m (limitDateForMode:): Catch all the exceptions
        possibly generated by firing timers or executing operations unleashed
        by activity on file descriptors.
        * Foundation/NSValue.h: Declare -init methods for NSNumber.

Tue Oct  7 17:06:19 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com>

        * Support for the GNUstep makefile package.
        * extensions/objc-runtime.h: Don't include the config.h file.
        * Foundation/GarbageCollector.m: Include common.h to be provide the
        necessary definitions to objc-runtime.h.
        * Foundation/NSCoder.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSConcreteDictionary.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSLock.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSNotificationCenter.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSTimer.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/behavior.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/misc.m: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSLock.h: Make the runtime definitions opaques since we
        no longer include the config.h file.
        * Foundation/NSNotificationQueue.h: Add definition for the private
        method taskNowMultiThreaded: to avoid compilation warnings.
        * Foundation/NSRunLoop.h: Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSRunLoop.m: Include here the objc-runtime.h file.
        * Foundation/NSNotificationQueue.m: Implement taskNowMultiThreaded:.

Sun Oct  5 20:27:10 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com>

        * Foundation/NSBundle.m (_fileResourceNamed:extension:inDirectory:):
        Use the Libraries/Resources/libFoundation in the GNUstep directory
        tree.

Thu Aug 21 11:48:03 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com>

        * Foundation/NSCalendarDate.m (descriptionWithCalendarFormat:timeZone:
        locale:): New method to avoid infinite recursion (patch from Aleksandr
        Savostyanov).

Wed Aug 20 14:24:15 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com>

        * Foundation/NSPathUtilities.m: (pathWithComponents:): Reworked to
        be simpler. (bug report from Aleksandr Savostyanov).
        * Foundation/GNUmakefile: Changed to work with the supplied install-sh.

Fri Aug  1 15:28:24 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com>

        * Foundation/NSTimeZone.m: Replaced NSLog() with printf() to avoid
        infinite recursion when the resource files are not found.
        * Foundation/exceptions/GeneralExceptions.m (-[FileNotFoundException
        initWithFilename:]): Don't use -stringWithFormat: to avoid infinite
        recursion when resource files are not in the expected place.

Fri Aug  1 10:32:47 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com>

        * Foundation/NSHashMap.m (__NSHashGrow): Fixed hash value computation.
        * Foundation/NSCalendarDate.m (-dateByAddingYears:months:days:hours:
        minutes:seconds:): Fixed the name.
        * Foundation/NSArray.m (makeObjectsPerformSelector:...): New methods.
        * Foundation/NSSet.m (makeObjectsPerformSelector:...): New methods.
        (Bug fixes from Aleksandr Savostyanov).

Wed Jul  9 15:01:18 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com>

        * Foundation/NSData.m (-[NSData hash]): New method.

Fri Jun 13 19:01:27 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com>

        * Foundation/scanInt.def: Fixed scanning of big numbers (bug report
        from Balazs E. Pataki <pataki@next-1b.manuf.bme.hu>).

Thu Jun 12 18:51:03 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com>

        * Foundation/NSNotification.m (-dealloc): Also release object.

Tue Jun 10 21:32:01 1997  Mircea Oancea <mircea@pathcom.com>

        * Foundation/NSConcreteString.m (-[NS8BitString initWithCoder:]):
        Allocate one more byte and set it to 0 (bug report from Chun, Sung Jin
        <ninja@doolly.snu.ac.kr>).

Tue Jun 10 15:14:49 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com>

        * Foundation/NSAccount.m: Include common.h instead of config.h.
        (-initWithPasswordStructure:): Duplicate the char* passwd structure
        fields because of anoying anomalies when using them.
        * Foundation/NSDistributedLock.m (-initWithPath:): Don't try to aquire
        the lock here by creating the lock file, just store the file name.
        * Foundation/NSFileManager.m: (-removeFileAtPath:handler:): Handle the
        simple case when the file name is really a file, not a directory.
        * Foundation/NSUserDefaults.m (-loadPersistentDomainNamed:): Replace
        NSLog() with printf() calls to avoid recursion when resources are not
        found.
        (-savePersistentDomainNamed:): Likewise.
        (-loadPersistentDomainNamed:): Don't try to lock when loading the
        content of a file corresponding to a given domain. The locking schema
        should be improved to be possible to determine if the application that
        holds the lock is still alive, otherwise the lock should be removed.
        (-savePersistentDomainNamed:): Likewise.
        (-initWithPath:): Set appDomain to the name of the executable which is
        the last component in the application's name.
        * Foundation/common.m (writeToFile): Remove the destination file first
        before renaming the source file to the destination one.

Sun Jun  1 19:11:03 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com>

        Initial implementation of NSFileHandle.
        * Foundation/NSFileHandle.h: New file.
        * Foundation/NSFileHandle.m: New file.
        * Foundation/NSConcreteFileHandle.h: New file.
        * Foundation/NSConcreteFileHandle.m: New file.
        * Foundation/exceptions/NSFileHandleExceptions.h: New file.
        * Foundation/exceptions/NSFileHandleExceptions.m: New file.
        * Foundation/Foundation.h: Include NSFileHandle.h.
        * Foundation/GNUmakefile: Add NSFileHandle, NSConcreteFileHandle and
        NSFileHandleExceptions.
        * Foundation/NSPosixFileDescriptor.m (-dealloc): Remove method.

Thu May 30  6:28:52 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com>

        * Foundation/NSStringPropList.g: Add the / character to the characters
        that are part of a string (suggestion from Aleksandr Savostyanov).
        * Foundation/PrintfScannerHandler.m (-convertChar:scanner:): Change the
        way characters are written to use sprintf(); this makes the code to
        also work on Solaris (suggestion from Aleksandr Savostyanov).

Thu May 29 18:53:52 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@bx.logicnet.ro>

        * Public release 0.7.1.

Tue May 27  7:20:34 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@bx.logicnet.ro>

        * Foundation/NSString.m: Implemented some abstract methods for the
        default encoding. These methods will be rewritten for Unicode but now
        they allow user's concrete subclasses to work correctly. Patch from
        Paul H. Kenyon <phk@hksys.com>.

Mon May 26 10:04:18 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@bx.logicnet.ro>

        Fixed the way in which NSInvocation and NSTimer handle retain cycles.
        * Foundation/NSInvocation.m (-invalidate): New method.
        * Foundation/NSInvocation.m (-setTarget:): Retain the target if
        arguments are retained.
        * Foundation/NSTimer.m (-invalidate): Send -invalidate to invocation
        ivar to break the retain cycle.

Sat May 24 19:47:30 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@bx.logicnet.ro>

        * Foundation/NSInvocation.m (-_releaseArguments): Release the arguments
        starting from 2 instead of 0; patch from Aleksandr Savostyanov.
        * Foundation/NSPosixFileDescriptor.m (-setDelegate:): Don't retain the
        delegate; patch from Aleksandr Savostyanov.
        * Foundation/NSRunLoop.m (-[NSRunLoop acceptInputForMode:beforeDate:]):
        Do not return from method if there are no input sources to listen to.
        Avoid this way unnecesary computations when this method was called from
        -runUntilDate: or -run. Patch from Aleksandr Savostyanov.

Fri May 16 18:54:57 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@bx.logicnet.ro>

        * Foundation/NSGeometry.m (NSPointFromString, NSSizeFromString,
        NSRectFromString): Implemented.
        * Foundation/NSObject.m (-performSelector:,
        -performSelector:withObject:, -performSelector:withObject:withObject:):
        New methods.
        * Foundation/NSObject.m (-performSelector:object:afterDelay:,
        +cancelPreviousPerformRequestsWithTarget:selector:object:):
        Implemented. _NSObjectDelayedExecutionHolder: New class used for
        delayed execution of methods.

Thu May 15 18:14:24 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@bx.logicnet.ro>

        * Foundation/NSDistributedLock.m (-initWithPath:): Check if the file
        exists and create it otherwise.
        * Foundation/NSFileManager.m (-createFileAtPath:contents:attributes:):
        Check if the data the to be written has 0 length.

Sun May 18 23:33:44 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@bx.logicnet.ro>

        * Foundation/NSPosixFileDescriptor.m: Finished the implementation.
        * Foundation/NSRunLoop.h: Changed the API to work using
        NSPosixFileDescriptors instead of the direct Unix file descriptor.
        * Foundation/NSRunLoop.m: Likewise.

Sat May 10  8:03:14 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@bx.logicnet.ro>

        * Foundation/NSObject.m (-release): Deallocate the object when the
        reference count is 1 without decreasing it anymore, this ensures
        OPENSTEP compatibility. Patch from Aleksandr Savostyanov.
        * Foundation/GCObject.m (-release): Likewise.
        * Foundation/NSRunLoop.m (-[NSRunLoop limitDateForMode:]): Reworked a
        little based on Aleksandr Savostyanov's suggestion.

Sat May  3  9:33:34 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@bx.logicnet.ro>

        * sharedlib.mak: Rules for making shared libraries under Solaris; patch
        from Aleksandr Savostyanov.

Thu May  1 13:54:34 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@bx.logicnet.ro>

        Support the new 970318 patch for compiler and runtime.
        * configure.in: Check for the objc_thread_create() function.
        * Foundation/NSThread.m: Create a new thread depending on the runtime
        API (using either objc_thread_create or objc_thread_detach).

Wed Apr 30  8:07:14 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@bx.logicnet.ro>

        * Foundation/NSString.m (-[NSString initWithFormat:arguments:]): Do
        -collect after the -copyWithZone: operation; patch from Aleksandr
        Savostyanov.

Sat Apr 26 19:23:44 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@bx.logicnet.ro>

        * Foundation/NSObjectAllocation.m: Align RefObjectLayout structure
        to the align of a double; patch from Aleksandr Savostyanov.

Mon Apr 21 20:43:42 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@bx.logicnet.ro>

        * Foundation/NSExceptionWithoutNested.h: Fix the exception handling
        macros because nested handlers were not supported as observed by
        Florin Mihaila <phil@pathcom.com>.

Thu Apr  3 10:45:32 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@bx.logicnet.ro>

        * Foundation/NSRunLoop.m: Finished the implementation.

Sat Mar 22  8:45:10 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@bx.logicnet.ro>

        * Foundation/NSMethodSignature.m: Integrated Aleksandr Savostyanov's
        changes for Solaris.
        * Foundation/NSInvocation.m: Likewise.
        * config/sparc/solaris2.4.h: Likewise.

Sat Mar 15 10:33:20 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@bx.logicnet.ro>

        * Integrated the Jeremy Bettis' patch that make libFoundation compile
        on Windows NT.

Sat Mar  8 16:44:50 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@bx.logicnet.ro>

        * sharedlib.mak: Linux rule for shared libraries added.

Sat Mar  8 13:41:08 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@bx.logicnet.ro>

        * sharedlib.mak: New file. Describes the commands to create a
        shared library on each platform.
        * Foundation/GNUmakefile: Added rules for creating shared libraries.
        * configure.in: Added host variables to make information about target
        machine available in config.mak. These variables are used by
        sharedlib.mak to determine the commands used to create a shared lib.
        * Foundation/NSString.h: -[NSString substringFromRange:]: New method.
        * Foundation/NSString.m: Likewise.
        * doc/CodingRules.pod: New file.
        * Foundation/NSObject.h.in: Removed.
        * Foundation/NSObject.h: Created from NSObject.h.in. The versioning
        scheme has been changed to use major, minor and subminor numbers.

Sun Feb 23 18:42:07 1997  Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@bx.logicnet.ro>

        * First public release: 0.7.