[Boost-commit] svn:boost r43388 - branches/iostreams_dev/libs/iostreams/doc

From: technews_at_[hidden]
Date: 2008-02-22 18:54:41

Author: turkanis
Date: 2008-02-22 18:54:41 EST (Fri, 22 Feb 2008)
New Revision: 43388
URL: http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/43388

Log:
reformatted and added detail
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   branches/iostreams_dev/libs/iostreams/doc/release_notes.html |    10 ++++++----                              
   1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Modified: branches/iostreams_dev/libs/iostreams/doc/release_notes.html
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--- branches/iostreams_dev/libs/iostreams/doc/release_notes.html	(original)
+++ branches/iostreams_dev/libs/iostreams/doc/release_notes.html	2008-02-22 18:54:41 EST (Fri, 22 Feb 2008)
@@ -16,18 +16,20 @@
 
 <h3>1.35</h3>
 
-<P><B>Modification of the semantics of close:</B></P>
+<P>1. The semantics of close has been modified:</P>
 
 <UL>
 <LI>Calling <CODE>close</CODE> with a <CODE>std::ios_base::openmode</CODE> other than <CODE>in</CODE> or <CODE>out</CODE> is deprecated.</LI>
 <LI>A new overload of <CODE>close</CODE> taking a single Device argument has been provided as a convenience.</LI>
 <LI>DualUseFilters receive only one closure notification.</LI>
-<LI>Generic streams and stream buffers and filtering streams and stream buffers are now Closable. For filtering streams and stream buffers, <CODE>close</CODE> calls <CODE>pop</CODE>.
+<LI>Generic streams and stream buffers and filtering streams and stream buffers are now Closable. For filtering streams and stream buffers, <CODE>close</CODE> calls pop.
 </UL>
 
-<P>Some of these changes may break existing code.</P>
+<P><I>These changes will break some existing code</I>. They were necessary to resolve inconsistencies in the prior specification that resulted in a number of reported bugs.</P>
 
-<P><B>Numerous bug fixes.</B></P>
+<P>2. The function template slice has been introduced as an alias of restrict, for platforms that treat <code>restrict</code> as a keyword.</P>
+
+<P>3. Numerous bugs have been fixed, many relating to close, copy, and file descriptors.</P>
 
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