This file lists all changes made to the game driver in all gory detail.
See the file HISTORY for a user-oriented summary of all the changes.

16-Oct-2010 (Gnomi)
  - Adjustments for a call_other simul-efun didn't check whether enough
    space is available. (#759)
    (prolang.y)

10-Jan-2010 (LDMud Team)  (3.2.17)
  - Created snapshot.

23-Dec-2009 (Gnomi)
  - Wrongly calculated the jump offset of the default label in big switches
    due to a sign error. (Backport of #622 from 3.3)
    (interpret.c)
  - Another value for NAME_CROSS_DEFINED so that it doesn't conflict with
    FUNSTART_MASK (large programs could hit that bit). (Backport from 3.3)
    (exec.h)

03-Nov-2009 (Zesstra)
  - Applied a bunch of small fixes for manpages by Coogan. (#700)

05-Oct-2009 (Zesstra)
  - Because we set the old CA list again with SSL_CTX_set_client_CA_list(),
    and this function implicitly free's the old list, the memory of the list
    got overwritten and this lead to a crash in TLS upon
    tls_init_connection(). (#677)
    (pkg-tls.c)

04-Oct-2009 (Zesstra)
  - (pkg-tls.c) Use CRYPTO_set_mem_functions() to register pointers to our own
      allocator in openssl. Otherwise, openssl may use the system allocator
      and memory gets used twice. (#677)

08-Aug-2009 (LDMud Team)  (3.2.16)
  - Created snapshot.

05-Aug-2009 (Gnomi)
  - (main.c) Backported erq argument fix from 3.3. (Bug #604)

23-Jun-2009 (Gnomi)
  - (interpret.c) Backported generic error handler from 3.3.
  - (comm.c) Allocate temporary buffers in send_erq() and send_udp()
    in the heap instead of the stack. (Backport of #577 from 3.3)
  - (array.c, efuns.c) Allocate temporary buffers in regexp(),
    regexplode() and present_clone() in the heap instead of the
    stack. (Backport of #578 from 3.3)
  - (pkg-mysql.c) Allocate temporary buffer in db_conv_string()
    in the heap instead of the stack. (Backport of #582 from 3.3)

17-Nov-2008 (Gnomi)
  - (comm.c) add_message(): fixed a potential crash due to a buffer overflow
      on the stack using vsnprint() instead of vsprintf() (Backport of
      Zesstra's Patch for 3.3)

22-Sep-2008 (Gnomi)
  - (object.c) Use xalloc instead of alloca for allocating the parse buffer
       in f_restore_value(). (Bug #553/#532)
  - (prolang.y) Incomplete variable clearance after an inner block
       (Bug #553/#537).

13-Oct-2007 (Lars Duening)
  - (interpret.c) setup_new_frame() now updates the csp->funstart entry
       by itself, instead of having the caller do it. This is not just
       more convenient, but also avoids problems with possible errors
       during its execution (as the error handling will try to create
       a stack trace). (Bug #495)

06-Oct-2007 (Lars Duening)
  - (configure) The search for the mysqlclient library in less-standard
       standard paths wasn't performed because the previous cached result
       wasn't reset.
  - (configure) gentoo Linux requires the '-n' argument for 'tail +2' to
       work correctly (thanks, Juanjo!).
  - (interpret.c, object.c, lex.c) Removed some compiler warnings.
  - (comm.c) Removed a crasher when running with --check-refcounts: References
       by snooping non-interactives weren't counted (Bug #492).
  - (sprintf.c) Removed a 64-bit issue (comparison of two values with
       differing value ranges) (Bug #490)
  - (prolang.y) upd_long() and read_long() weren't 64-bit-safe (even though
       ins_long() already was) (Bug 491).

05-Oct-2007 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.15)
  - Created snapshot.

04-Nov-2006 (Lars Duening, Philip Hancke)
  - (pkg-tls, main.c) Added new options --tls-crlfile and --tls-crldirectory
       to hold the Certificate Revocation information.
  - (pkg-tls, func_spec) New efun tls_refresh_certs() to reload the
       certificates and certificate revocations.

09-Jul-2006 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.14)
  - Created snapshot.

12-Jun-2006 (Lars Duening)
  - Oh dear, has it been that long?
  - (make_func.y) Modified a case of undefined behaviour in the creation
       of the character classification tables: only 'unsigned char' types have
       a defined overflow behaviour (thanks, Erik!)
  - (configure) -fno-force-mem is deprecated.

27-Mar-2006 (Lars Duening)
  - (comm.c, pkg-tls.c) Corrected compilation errors when TLS
      was enabled (and nobody had noticed... :-) ).
      
12-Mar-2006 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.13)
  - Created snapshot.

08-Mar-2006  (Malcom Tester)
  - (lp-245/obj/master.c) Made the move implementation more robust.

07-Mar-2006  (Lars Duening)
  - (pkg-tls.c) Two modifications to increase reconnect stability (thanks,
      Philipp!).

06-Mar-2006  (Lars Duening)
  - (backend, comm.c, object) The logon(obj) function moved from
      backend.c into object.c, and was renamed logon_object() - it's
      more sensical this way.
  - (comm.c) If the master::connect() initiates a secure connection
      which gets stuck in the handshake, neither logon() is called nor
      is the prompt printed. Also, if the tls_init_connection() didn't
      set a callback, the driver will provide a callback to logon().
      This way logon() won't be called unless the connection is up
      and running.
  - (mudlib/psyc-tls.c) Example for using the tls_check_certificate()
      efun (thanks, Philipp).

28-Feb-2006  (Lars Duening)
  - (simulate.c) Virtual blueprint objects are guaranteed to have their
      'clone' flag unset.
  - (string_spec, simulate.c) Renamed COMP_OBJ to the more intuitive
      COMPILE_OBJECT.
  - (efuns.c) sscanf(): The new modifier '+' requires the matching of
      the characters after a field in order to consider the field
      as matched.

20-Feb-2006  (Lars Duening)
  - (Makefile.in) Added a dependency to create patchlevel.h, even if
      the program is made with 'make ldmud'.

20-Feb-2006  (Gnomi)
  - (comm.c) remove_interactive() clobbered the current_object, setting
      it to NULL. It is now preserved (Bug #431).
  - (interpret.c) When executing an efun closure, the tracedepth wasn't
      incremented accordingly (Bug #441).
  - (simulate.c) When executing a non-toplevel callback, the tracedepth
      should not be zeroed out (Bug #441).

08-Jan-2006  (Lars Duening)
  - (make_func.y) When parsing the func_spec file, the preprocessor
      conditionals were handled in a buffer in a no-longer existing
      stack frame. So far, we were lucky, but on a 64-bit machine
      that space was needed by the Bison parser.
  - (driver.h) If the machine uses a 8-Byte
      malloc alignment (e.g. all PowerPC machines), the allocator does
      not replace the system malloc().

27-Nov-2005  (Lars Duening)  (3.2.12)
  - Created snapshot.
  - (object.c) Efun function_exists(): The 'FEXISTS_ALL' result also contains
      information about the function's type, flags, and number of
      arguments (Bug #410).

26-Nov-2005  (Lars Duening)
  - (efuns.c) Efun sscanf(): Added test whether the constant characters after
      a %-field also match - if not, the %-field is considered unmatched
      (suggested by Largo).
  - (efuns, func_spec) Efuns md5(): Accept the number of iterations as
       optional argument (Bug #418).

24-Nov-2005  (Gnomi)
  - (lex.c) <code>(: catch(load_object($1);nolog) :)</code> no
       longer produces a syntax error (Bug #403).

24-Nov-2005  (Lars Duening)
  - (md5.c) The ROTATE_LEFT macro wasn't 64-bit clean (Bug #413).
  - (interpret.c) Using foreach(), when looping over a mapping with no values,
      or with only the index being extracted, the loop actually loops over the
      mapping and not just the indices copied into an array (Bug #388).
  - (simulate.c) Efun set_environment(): clear the RESET_STATE flag of
      of the moved object's original environment, if any (Bug #387).
  - (efuns.c) Efun md5() can now hash arrays of numbers as well (Bug #411).
  - (xalloc.c, smalloc.c) The string_copy() function checks if the requested
      memory is actually allocated, throwing an error if not (Bug #397).
  - (simulate.c) Errors during the processing of a fatal() will be
      recognized and treated as double-fatal (Bug #408).
  - (interpret.c) free_svalue() now recognizes the free of nested
      structures and de-serializes them to avoid stack overflows (Bug #416).
  - (Makefile.in, version.sh, patchlevel.h.in) Removed PRCS support.

19-Oct-2005 (Lars Duening)
  - (pkg-tls.c) tls_check_certificate() now returns the low-level API
      values, and throws an error if the connection is not secure.

11-Oct-2005 (Lars Duening)
  - (erq/erq.c, erq/Makefile, xerq/socket.c) Corrected compilation warnings.
  - (lex.c) to_int() no longer accepts "x<num>" as valid sedecimal
       notation (Bug #0000402).

04-Oct-2005 (Lars Duening)
  - (doc/concepts/overloading) New man page (thanks, Coogan!).

02-Oct-2005 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.12-rev.24)
  - (main.c, lex.c, version.sh) Updated to display the correct revision
      number.
  - (interpret.c) put_c_string() incremented the target location pointer
      before storing, causing memory corruption. Luckily it was used
      just by the TLS package so far.

28-Sep-2005 (Lars Duening)
  - (doc/efun/clone_object) Clarified the variable initialisation.

23-Aug-2005 (Lars Duening)
  - (Makefile.in) The PRCS rules first check if PRCS is available.

20-Jun-2005 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.12-dev.725)
  - (patchlevel.h.in, version.sh, mk-patchlevel.sh, Makefiles)
      Modified the version numbering system to be compatible between
      Subversion and PRCS.

13-Jun-2005 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.12-dev.724)
  - (comm.c) Adapted for Mac OS X 10.4.

15-May-2005 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.12-dev.723)
  - (simulate.c) runtime_error() and heart_beat_error() received
      a new argument 'caught' (Bug #0000385).

15-May-2005 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.12-dev.722)
  - (comm.c) Corrected the error messages for errors in the extra
      arguments of input_tl(). (Bug #0000379).

15-May-2005 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.12-dev.721)
  - (call_out.c) Corrected the error messages for errors in the extra
      arguments of call_out(). (Bug #0000379).

15-May-2005 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.12-dev.720)
  - (object.c) Single-character operator closures like #'- couldn't
      be restored in arrays due to some outdated hack in the parser
      (Bug #0000384 and #0000386).
  - (configure) Link in the crypto libs only if actually needed (reported
      by Coogan).

24-Apr-2005 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.12-dev.719)
  - (main.c, pkg-tls.c) Improved the documentation for the TLS commandline
      options, removed a crasher when only one of the two cert locations
      is specified (thanks, Coogan!).
  - (configure) New configuration parameter '--with-tls-path' allows
      to specifiy a non-standard location for the TLS installation.

01-Apr-2005 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.12-dev.718)
  - (pkg-tls.c) Added FreeBSD 5.4 compatibility (thanks, Ralph!).
  - (simulate, many files) Renamed error() to errorf() due to a collision
      with gnutls.h include files under newer compilers.
  - (port.c) Corrected a C99 incompatibility (thanks, Ralph!).

25-Mar-2005 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.12-dev.717)
  - (simulate.c) Modified the callback setup so that efun callbacks
       can take normal lvalues; and timed function/closure callbacks
       take protected lvalues - but not vice versa.

10-Mar-2005 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.716 == 3.2.11)
  - (interpret.c) The efun tell_object() can now take an array as
      second argument, calling catch_msg() in the target in that case
      (Bug #0000354).

03-Mar-2005 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.715)
  - (doc/efun/snoop) Corrected the description of the return value (Bug
      #0000372).

20-Feb-2005 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.713, -dev.714)
  - (pkg-tls.c, xalloc.h, smalloc) Removed compilation errors when using GnuTLS.
  - (comm.c) The charmode/noecho mode is changed in remove_input_to()
       only if the first pending input_to() is removed. Hopefully this
       fixes Bug #0000363.

13-Feb-2005 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.712)
  - (pkg-tls.c) Philip provided a tls_check_certificate() efun.

12-Feb-2005 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.711)
  - (pkg-tls.c) My change was premature.

11-Feb-2005 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.710)
  - (comm) New interactive_t flag 'outgoing_conn' is TRUE for connections
      openened by net_connect().
  - (comm, pkg-tls.c) New interactive_t flag 'outgoing_conn' is TRUE for
      connections openened by net_connect(). This is used by TLS (OpenSSL)
      to set the proper state for the session.

08-Feb-2005 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.709)
  - (pkg-tls, other files) Backported the TLS support from 3.3 (Bug #0000357).

07-Feb-2005 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.708)
  - (smalloc.c) If malloc() is used in esbrk(), and a block would exceed
       the large block limit, the driver aborts with a proper error message.
       Fixing this properly like in 3.3 would of course be nicer, but
       unfortunately it would take another fine-combed pass through the
       source as the 3.3 patch is not applicable.

22-Jan-2005 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.707)
  - (efuns.c) Deep-copying a mapping employing shared arrays as keys (e.g. ([
       arr, ([ arr ]) ])) prematurely freed the copied array as the code
       didn't keep track of the copied data itself, but of the svalues it was
       stored in - and for mapping keys these svalues were local variables
       (Bug #0000351).

16-Jan-2005 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.706)
  - (configure) Corrected the mySQL library check (Bug #0000346).

14-Jan-2005 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.705)
  - (array.c) Efun unique_array() no longer leaks memory if aborted
       by an exception (Bug #0000345).

13-Jan-2005 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.704)
  - (util/xerq/erq.c) The erq didn't check if the calculated timeout
       for the next select() had become negative. (Bug #0000342).

10-Jan-2005 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.703)
  - (mapping.c) Indexing a 0-width mapping returned pointers to memory outside
       the mapping, causing weird crashes. The solution is to return pointers
       to the global const1 (when found), or to a local svalue-0 instance
       (when not found and a lvalue is requested) (Bug #0000341).

10-Jan-2005 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.702)
  - (configure) Added yet another path to the search for a mySQL installation.

09-Jan-2005 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.701)
  - (configure) Added another path to the search for a mySQL installation.

08-Jan-2005 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.700)
  - (mudlib/sys/files.h, files.c) Efun get_dir() can now return
        access times and file modes (suggested by Mats).

08-Jan-2005 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.699)
  - (settings/timewarp) New settings file.

08-Jan-2005 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.698)
  - (configure, pkg-mysql.c) Adjusted the search for the mySQL include
        files to allow for local installations (Bug #0000338)
  - (closure, sprintf.c, interpret.c) to_string() and sprintf() now
        print closures in the same format, and with more detail.

04-Jan-2005 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.697)
  - (main.c, doc/driver/invocation, INSTALL) Corrected the documentation
        (Bugs #0000333 and #0000335).

31-Dec-2004 (Gnomi)  (3.2.11-dev.696)
  - (lex.c) Preprocessor statements inside of inline closures can now
        be handled (thanks, Gnomi!)
  - (mapping.c) Closures can be used as mapping keys (thanks, Gnomi!)

28-Dec-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.695)
  - (pkg-mysql.c) Most mySQL efuns are now privileged as ("mysql", "<efun
        name>") (Bug #0000318).

27-Dec-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.694)
  - (doc/efun/m_values) Explained the lack of predictable order in the result
        (Bug #0000329)

23-Dec-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.693)
  - (comm.c, sys/input_to.h) The input_to() flag INPUT_APPEND allows
        to queue input_to()s (suggested by Volker Behr).

23-Dec-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.692)
  - (lex, efuns.c) Another small correction to the number parsing in to_int():
        negative numbers exceeding the limits are properly mapped to INT_MIN,
        not -INT_MAX. Unfortunately too large negative numbers seen by
        the LPC compiler are still mapped to -INT_MAX due to the lack
        of proper overflow handling in the compiler; however, the compiler
        now emits a warning on these occasions.

22-Dec-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.691)
  - (lex.c, interpret.c) The overflow checking in the number parsing routine
       was overeager, causing Evermore to no longer boot. The checking
       now really compares against the largest possible number, instead
       of simply checking the sign (Bug #0000327).

21-Dec-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.690)
  - (lex.c) The number parsing now recognizes overflows and forces these
       numbers to be LONG_MAX (Bug #0000327).

18-Dec-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.689)
  - (interpret.c) Assignments to negative-sized ranges now throw
       an error (Bug #0000325).

17-Dec-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.688)
  - (mapping.c) The driver now throws an error message when the code
       tries to use lfun or identifier closures as keys (Bug #0000324).

11-Dec-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.686, .687)
  - (gcollect.c) Closures found to be bound to destructed objects are
       replaced by 0s, not #'undef closures (Bug #0000322).

06-Dec-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.685)
  - (erq/erq.c) The erq didn't quite use correct data lengths when sending UDP
       packets, either (thanks, Tobias!)

03-Dec-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.683, .684)
  - (erq/erq.c) The erq errorneously assumed a constant data length
       when receiving UDP packets (thanks, Tobias!)
  - (lex.c) Preprocessor statements inside inline closures are now recognized
       and rejected as implementation restriction (Bug #0000317).
  - (comm.c, simulate.c) The driver didn't check if the privilege_violation()
       called for input_to() or rename_object() destructed the object
       in question (Bug #0000316).

30-Nov-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.682)
  - (comm.c) Fixed a memory leak when no-bang input_to's were denied
       (Bug #0000143).

29-Nov-2004 (Lars Duening)
  - (Makefile.in) Added the missing MANDIR directive (Bug #0000315).

27-Nov-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.681)
  - (interpret.c) When calling inherited functions in objects with virtual
       parents, the function adjusting the offsets always returned NULL
       instead of the pointer to the parent. This was a fallout from the
       closure change.

26-Nov-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.680)
  - (Makefile.in, doc/man/ldmud.1) Added the automatic generation of a manpage
       from the drivers '--longhelp' output.
  - (src/bugs, src/done, src/wk) Moved the data from these directories
       into the bugtracker.

26-Nov-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.678, -dev.679)
  - (closure.c) Calls to explicitely inherited lfun closures weren't compiled
       correctly in lambda()s (Bug #0000145).

25-Nov-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.677)
  - (prolang.y) The LPC compiler produced invalid bytecode for inline
       closures (Bug #0000144).
  - (prolang.y) Corrected a compilation error if INITIALIZATION_BY_INIT was
       not defined (reported by Steve).

24-Nov-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.676)
  - (closure, gcollect.c, interpret.c, object, prolang) Implemented proper
       closures explicitely referencing inherited functions.

22-Nov-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.675)
  - (comm.c) Efun net_connect(): on multihomed machines the created
       socket is bound to the hostname given with the --hostname option (Bug
       #0000137).

15-Nov-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.674)
  - (interpret.c) You learn a new thing every day: I never realized that
       strtol() supports "+34" and similar - efun to_int() can now
       interpret that again, too (reported by Bardioc).

13-Nov-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.673)
  - (lex.c, interpret.c) Embarassing: the number parsing method assumed that the
       string at least started with a digit - this broken to_int().
       (Bug #0000141)

11-Nov-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.672)
  - (interpret.c, lex) Efun to_int() now supports the '0x', '0b', and '0o'
       bases (suggested by Steve Goucher).

30-Oct-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.671)
  - (interpret.c, efuns) Introduced the (str, n) form for efun present()
    (Bug #0000134).
  - (smalloc.c) smalloc now supports allocations of 0 byte length (needed
      to replace malloc()).

14-Oct-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.670)
  - (comm.c) The NOECHO hook call specified only two arguments when
      three were required (reported by Bardio and Steve G.).

22-Sep-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.669)
  - (driver.h) Added a macro MIN() for those systems which don't have it.
  - (port.h) Removed the unecessary cast from the ixopen definition.

12-Sep-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.668)
  - (prolang.y, lex) New pragma (no_)warn_function_inconsistent to control
      the handling of redefined functions which differ in return or argument
      types. This is intended to easen the adaptation of legacy mudlib
      code (suggested by Wayne).

12-Sep-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.667)
  - (prolang.y) When checking the redefinition of inherited variables, do
      allow the redefinition of static inherited variables with other
      static variables (it will generated warning, though). Also the
      equivalency of nosave and static was applied too late (reported by
      Willem).
  - (func_spec, efuns.c, main) Added an 'exit code' argument to the shutdown()
      efun (Bug #0000129).
  - (func_spec, interpret.c, prolang.y) The pragma warn-deprecated is now
      expressed through a prefix bytecode where appropriate (Bug #0000059).

04-Sep-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.666)
  - (prolang.y) Corrected a compilation warning (Bug #0000125).

04-Sep-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.665)
  - (comm.c, simulate.c) Added new input_to() flag 'INPUT_LOCAL' to switch
      only the driver side input mode between LINE and CHAR (Bug #0000124).

03-Sep-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.664)
  - (interpret.c, actions.c, simulate.c) Removed memory leaks (thanks, Gnomi!)
      (Bug #0000120).
  - (sprintf.c) Too large fieldsizes or precisions are caught (Bug #0000119).
  - (object.c) Some operator closures were saved using the wrong names, making
      the restoration impossible. Also, restoring closures within arrays
      wasn't robust enough (Bug #0000118).
  - (comm.c) Clarified the warnings for input_to modechanges for objects
       with telnet disabled (Bug #0000124).
  - (comm.c) When switching out of CHARMODE, the driver accidentally
       discarded any pending input lines after the current one. (thanks,
       Gnomi) (Bug #0000123)

30-Aug-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.663)
  - (prolang.y) The move of the PREPARE_INSERT() in the last patch caused
      the driver to generate faulty bytecode.

23-Aug-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.662)
  - (prolang.y) Removed a C99 construct which broke compilation on C90
      compilers. I hope. (Bug #0000116).

22-Aug-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.661)
  - (interpret.c) Calls from destructed objects to other objects
       (including simul-efun calls) now elicit a warning (Bug #0000113).

21-Aug-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.660)
  - (interpret.c) If a lambda was executed inside a catch() and threw an
       error, the error routines didn't clean up the protective reference
       held in current_lambda (Bug #0000114).
  - (backend.c) A runtime error during a regreplace() closure would leak
       the working buffer and the match buffer (Bug #0000114).
  - (interpret.c) to_string(closure) leaked the closure (Bug #0000114).
  - (ed.c) The 'M' command leaked the regular expression (Bug #0000114).

19-Aug-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.659)
  - (prolang.y, interpret.c, func_spec) Float variables without initializer
       are now properly initialized to float-0 instead of number-0 (reported
       by Bardioc).
  - (pkg-mccp.c) When ending a MCCP connection failed due to an error, the
       zlib datastructures weren't deallocated (Bug #0000111, fix by Alwin).
  - (interpret.c) When removing destructed objects from the stack, the code
       missed alien-lfun closures bound to the object to be destructed,
       regarding only alien-lfun closures defined in that object (Bug
       #0000110).

08-Aug-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.658)
  - (simulate.c) When printing a load-object error with a long filename,
       the message is limited to the length of the error message buffer (Bug
       #0000109).
  - (simulate, xalloc.c) The length of the error message and error format
       buffer are now given by two macros, to facilitate easier adaptation
       of depending program segments.
  - (simulate.c) When restoring closure values, make sure that the symbol
       restored really exists (Bug #0000109).

29-Jul-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.657)
  - (lex.c) The macros __FLOAT_MIN__ and __FLOAT_MAX__ now reflect
       the limits for 'double' floats (Bug #0000101).

28-Jul-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.656)
  - (call_out.c) When printing the uid for an object with an error, make
       sure that there is an uid to print (reported by Bardioc).

25-Jul-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.655)
  - (efuns.c) to_array('symbol) crashed the driver because it tried to
       free the symbol as a string (Bug #0000097).
  - (interpret.c) The trace collection into an array now uses unlimited
       arrays, otherwise a too-small limit would cause the driver
       to enter an endless error loop (Bug #0000097).
  - (object, gcollect.c) If a save_{object,value} failed and thus
       left a pointer table behind, a following GC would free the table
       without resetting the pointer. The next save_{object, value} would
       then use the freed memory (Bug #0000097).

25-Jul-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.654)
  - (xerq/erq.c) If select() in the main loop was interrupted by a signal,
       the ERQ still proceeded to evaluate the fd-sets.
  - (xerq/execute.c) The debug logging of the execute parameters didn't
       work.
  - (comm.c) If an ERQ callback function accepts an array, the numbers
       are now all passed on positive (range 0..255).

24-Jul-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.653)
  - (xerq/defs.h) ERQ_DEBUG level wasn't properly translated into
       debug output.
  - (xerq/socket.c) Added a few level 2 diagnostics.
  - (call_out.c) If a call-out causes an error, all further call-outs for
       the same user are re-scheduled to the next cycle. This is mainly
       meant to stop run-away call-outs causing too-long-evaluations while
       re-scheduling calls to themselves (Bug #0000095).

21-Jul-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.652)
  - (interpret.c) Removed a number of memory leaks caused by
       runtime errors during array operations which exceeded the max
       array size (Bug #0000096).
  - (comm.c) If input_to() wasn't given a valid prompt, it leaked
       the memory for the internal input-to structure (Bug #0000096).
  - (interpret.c) The bitstring operators would leak the memory for
       the result if encountering an invalid bitpattern (Bug #0000096).

16-Jul-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.651)
  - (array.h) The ALLOC_VECTOR macro was misdefined for MALLOC_TRACE (Bug
       #0000094)
  - (interpret.c) When printing a warning during the creation of in inline
       closure, the global stack pointer was one too low (thanks, Gnomi)
       (part of Bug #0000091)

14-Jul-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.650)
  - (smalloc.c) If the allocation exceeds the numerical limits and the
       allocation is not in MALLOC_SYSTEM mode, a simple diagnostic is printed
       and the allocation fails. This way, an " "*MAX_INT won't crash
       the mud. (Bug #0000086)
  - (array.h) The array allocation now checks if the size of the requested
       array exceeds the numerical limits (part of Bug #0000091)

12-Jul-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.649)
  - (actions.c) Efun remove_action() didn't check if the sentence under
       scrutiny is a true verb or a shadow sentence - this caused a crash
       if a shadow object executed remove_action(1, shadowee) (Bug #0000080).

11-Jul-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.648)
  - (comm.c, actions.c) On a too long message or command, print the
       first 200 characters as debugging aid (Bug #0000078).

10-Jul-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.647)
  - (interpret.c) The tracedepth was always increased, but only decreased
       when traceing was active (#0000070)

01-Jul-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.646)
  - (doc/efun/previous_object) Corrected to reflect actual behaviour (Bug
    #0000073).
  - (lex.c) The symbol __MAX_MALLOC__ is set to what is actually set
       in the global 'max_malloced' and not just the configuration
       value MAX_MALLLOCED (Bug #00069).

14-May-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.11-dev.645)
  - (doc/) Corrected a number of German manpages.
  - (comm.c) net_connect() didn't compile with IPv6 (reported by Fini).
  - (object.c) Contradicting the documentation, save_object()
       did not strip a trailing '.c' from the given filename (reported by
       Niflheim@Unitopia) (Bug #00000067).

30-May-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10)
  - RELEASE 3.2.10

23-May-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.644)
  - (configure) Corrected a typo in the --with-udp-port option (thanks,
       LynX).

13-May-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.643)
  - (simul_efun, main.c, interpret.c) Re-implemented that the simul_efun
       object can be omitted altogether by returning '0' from get_simul_efun()
       in the master.

11-May-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.642)
  - (main.c, simul_efun.c) If the simul-efun object can't be reloaded at
       runtime, don't terminate the driver (reported by Bardioc).

10-May-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.641)
  - (doc/efun.de) Updated (thanks, Menaures!)

06-May-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.640)
   - (doc/concepts/inheritance) Shiny new doc from Lynx (thanks!).

26-Apr-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.639)
  - (etc/lpc.xml) Menaures provided a new version.

24-Apr-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.637,  -dev.638)
  - (comm.c) Integrated Uwe's patch to open IPv6 connections with
       net_connect() (thanks!).
  - (efun.de/) A few more manpage translations.

20-Apr-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.636)
  - (configure) The MySQL libraries are now also search in
       /usr/local/lib/mysql/lib (can happen on older installations on Mac
       OS-X). Also, when the libraries were found in /usr/local/lib, the
       script still added /usr/local/mysql/lib to the link command.
  - (mudlib/sys/lpctypes.h) Corrected a typo.

18-Apr-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.635)
  - (interpret.c) A too-high stack on a return no longer causes a fatal()
       error in DEBUG, but only a runtime warning, as this condition can
       happen in certain lambda closures (reported by Risky & Menaures) (Bug
       #0000051)

13-Apr-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.634)
  - (sprintf.c) Format '%b' to print a number in binary notation (supplied
       by Ralph - thanks!).

13-Apr-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.633)
  - (interpret.c) I had to back out the recent change as it interfered with
       the use of bitflags. We need a proper unsigned type for this kind of
       thing.

12-Apr-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.632)
  - (mud/heaven7, settings/heaven7) Heaven7 v4 runs natively on LDMud 3.2 .
  - (interpret.c) Constant integer numbers exceeding the allowed range
       cause runtime errors (reported by Ralph).

11-Apr-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.631)
  - (mudlib/sys/lpctypes.h) Added symbolic defines for the closure typecodes.

10-Apr-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.630)
  - (comm.c) Using input_to() without a command_giver crashed the
        driver.
  - (erq/erq.c, xerq/lookup.c) Well, TRY_AGAIN is a h_errno result,
       not errno (thanks, Tobias).

09-Apr-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.629)
  - (mudlib/dns_resolve.c) Example simul-efun for doing non-blocking
       DNS lookups (thanks, Tobias & Arne!)
  - (doc/efun.de) Added the german efun manpages from Unitopia (thanks,
       Tiberian!)
  - (util/erq/erq.c) Corrected the ERQ_LOOKUP so that the passed-in hostnames
       are properly null-terminated (thanks, LynX).
  - (util/erq/xerq.c) ERQ_LOOKUPs are tried again only if the DNS indicates
       that it is useful.

06-Apr-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.628)
  - (comm.c) With telnet disabled, an input_to() can still pretend to
       switch from line- to charmode.

04-Apr-2004 (Lars Duening)
  - (erq.c) Retry name-lookups only if the DNS subsystem said so (thanks,
      Tobias!).

03-Apr-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.627)
  - (comm.c) This is why I hate backporting: I managed to miss half of the
       MCCP code.

03-Apr-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.626)
  - (func_spec, comm) New efun enable_telnet() to disable/enable telnet
       support.

03-Apr-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.625)
  - (configure, comm, lex.c, main.c, pkg-mccp) Backported MCCP support
       from 3.3 .

03-Apr-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.624)
  - (object.c) function_exists() and variable_exists() now check if the
       object is destructed, instead of crashing (Bug #0000038).
  - (backend.c, object.c) Added missing include for SunOS 4.1 (reported
       by Coogan).
  - (configure, main.c) strtoul() is not available on the older machines,
       this is now checked by configure (reported by Coogan).
  - (object.c) If H_RESET/H_CREATE_* are defined by name, static functions
       are found as well (suggested by Daniel).

03-Apr-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.623)
  - (object.c) restore_value() now checks for and rejects extraneous
       characters after the '\n' delimiting the value string (Bug #0000039).
  - (prolang.y) Casts to type 'mixed' are exempted from generating
       an "empty cast" warning (Bug #0000041).
  - (configure) The configuration now checks for libnsl as standard
       system library - it is needed for ERQ on Solaris (Bug #0000012).

01-Apr-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.622)
  - (prolang.y) Added the missing typecheck for the <mapping> &= <vector>
       case (Bug #0000042).

01-Apr-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.621)
  - (interpret.c) Implemented <mapping> &= <mapping>, <mapping> &= <vector>
       (Bug #0000042).
  - (interpret.c) get_line_number(): Increased the buffersize for the
       program names (Bug #0000040).

31-Mar-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.620)
  - (prolang.y) Corrected range check regarding short integers (thanks,
       Gnomi).
  - (lex.c) Completed the change done in 3.2.10-dev.603: the types pragma
       setting was still reset for every new include file.

30-Mar-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.619)
  - (random.c) Updated the Mersenne twister to the version with improved
       initialization (thanks, Fini, for the link).

27-Mar-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.618)
  - (ed.c) The 'Q'/'q' commands no longer clear the buffer before
       checking if the command was legal (Bug #0000046).
  - (ed.c) Corrected the doprnt() function so that the current line
       is never out of range (this could happen when giving 'Z' while
       at the end of the file). (Bug #0000045)

23-Mar-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.617)
  - (actions.c) If the H_COMMAND lfun is not found in an object, the
       driver now throws an error instead of crashing (reported by Urv).

24-Feb-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.616)
  - (xerq/socket.c) When sending data over a congested socket, the
       queued data included the last successfully sent bytes
       (thanks, Fantom!).

22-Feb-2004 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.615)
  - (comm) The net_connect() handling wasn't prepared for errors during the
       LPC logon, occasionally re-trying the logon endlessly (reported 
       by Dafire).

19-Dec-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.614)
  - (comm) When a connection can't be opened immediately with net_connect(),
       the socket was closed prematurely (reported by LynX).

11-Dec-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.613)
  - (comm) When opening a connection with net_connect(), printing of
       the prompt clobbered the current_object, causing a crash.

21-Nov-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.610 - 612)
  - (comm) Added new efun net_connect() (thanks, LynX!)
  - (object.c, sys/functionlist.h) Efun variable_list() didn't properly
       filter for static variables.

17-Oct-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.609)
  - (comm.c) Efun query_ip_number(): the return of the full socket
       address in a reference argument didn't work (thanks, Nostradamus).

02-Oct-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.608)
  - (autoconf) Corrected a wrong default argument for array-calls (reported by
       Freaky).

30-Sep-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.607)
  - (comm.c) The maxNumCmds setting was defaulted to 0 instead of -1
       (reported by Bardioc).
  - (comm.c, master_skeleton.c) Officially documented that a new
       interactive connection is bound to the master at the time
       of master::connect(), and adjusted the set_max_commands
       manpage accordingly.
  - (lex.c) The macros __RESET_TIME__ and __CLEANUP_TIME__ always used
       the configured values, ignoring commandline overrides (reported
       by Ralph).
  - (interpret.c, func_spec) New efun master() to return the master object.
  - (mapping.c) Corrected a undefined behaviour in add_mapping()
       (reported by Coogan).

28-Sep-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.606)
  - (comm.c) Removed a crasher from set_max_commands() (thanks, Ralph!).

27-Sep-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.605)
  - (configure) Oops, forgot to regenerate this file.

27-Sep-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.604)
  - (autoconf, interpret.c, main.c, lex.c) The call_other() on arrays of
       objects is now configurable; if enabled, __LPC_ARRAY_CALLS__ is
       defined.
  - (mudlib/sys/commands.h) Added defines for the query_action() bitflags.
  - (efuns.c) to_array(string) now treats the string characters as unsigned
       (reported by Fiona).

27-Sep-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.603)
  - (comm, func_spec) New efuns set_max_commands(), get_max_commands()
       to control the number of commands allowed per second on a
       per-connection basis.
  - (svalue.h) Added macro put_float() to store floats into a svalue.
  - (lex, prolang.y) Pragma (no_)warn_empty_casts allows to turn off
       the warnings about ineffective casts.
  - (lex.c) A strict_types or strong_types pragma set in an include
       file remains active after the end of the include.
  - (etc/lpc.vim) LPC syntax highlighting for vim (submitted by Coogan).

25-Sep-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.602)
  - (comm, func_spec) Passing 0 as argument to
       set_{combine,connection}_charset() re-establishes the default charset.
  - (comm, func_spec) New efuns get_combine_charset() and
       get_connection_charset().
  - (efuns.c) Added a third argument to debug_info(DINFO_OBJLIST) to return
       multiple objects.

11-Aug-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.601)
  - (comm) Experimental: limited the number of commands accepted per
       connection to 10 per second - this is meant as a safety limit for
       muds making heavy use of charmode connections. If it works out,
       the feature will be fully fleshed out with commandline arguments
       and everything (Mantis #0000009).

09-Aug-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.600)
  - (swap.c) The swapper did not recognize VOLATILE strings and treated
       them as shared strings - causing crashes and memory leaks
       (thanks, Casey!)

07-Aug-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.599)
  - (doc/) Corrected a number of typos (thanks, Casey!)
  - (object.c) The efun variable_list() can now return variable values
       as well (thanks, Casey!).
  - (interpret, comm.c, closure.c, simulate.c, wiz_list.c, object.c)
       Renamed _privilege_violation() to the more sensical
       privilege_violation3().

07-Aug-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.598)
  - (lex.c) Corrected the line counting with auto-includes (Mantis #0000008,
      similar to the change in 3.3.295).
  - (configure, pkg-mysql, main.c) Improved the recognition of mySQL when
       there's more than one mySQL installation. Additionally the pkg-mysql
       checks that the mysqlclient library is consistent with the header
       files (reported by Craig Venz).

31-Jul-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.597)
  - (smalloc.c) Splitting of a block from a larger free list failed
       to preserve the PREV_BLOCK flag in the returned block, causing
       the defragmentation to miss blocks.

28-Jul-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.596)
  - (mapping.c) In a walk_mapping(), if the callback object was destructed
       before even the first call, the error handling used an invalid stack
       pointer and crashed in the cleanup (reported by Menaures).
  - (prolang.y) If a pragma requires a function return type, the error
       message now names the active pragma in question instead of always
       'strict_types' (Bug #0000003)

26-Jul-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.595)
  - (mapping.c) In compact_mappings(), the given limit now applies to
       mappings considered, not mappings compacted. This prevents
       compact_mappings() to scan about the whole list of mappings every time.
       Additionally, considered mappings are moved to the end of the list
       so that the next call can consider the other mappings.

26-Jul-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.594)
  - (mapping.c) Mappings were checked for destructed elements far too often,
       as the compaction often checked a mapping, and then decided not to
       compact it, thus checking it again the next time around.
       Additionally, the compaction criterium has been extended to
       guarantee a compaction after 2 * TIME_TO_COMPACT seconds idle time.
       Hopefully this corrects the high CPU load observed in the recent
       drivers.

24-Jul-2003 (Lars Duening)
  - (mudlib/dhrystone.c) The time measurement was off by factor 10.

22-Jul-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.593)
  - (object.c) Corrected the error messages for faulty arguments
       to variable_list() (thanks, Fuchur!).
  - (object.c) Plugged a memory leak in restore_object() from a string: if
       the argument string was MALLOCed (e.g. because it was retrieved
       from the data array returned by a MySQL query), the driver forgot to
       free it (reported by Alwin).

17-Jul-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.592)
  - (prolang.y) Made the cast checks more informative.

17-Jul-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.591)
  - (interpret.c) The operators -=, /= and *= can now operate on 
       <int> x <float> values, yielding a <float> result.
  - (prolang.y) Casts with no effect generate a warning.

17-Jul-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.590)
  - (array.c) When subtracting arrays of closures, compare_single()
       did not properly compare them (thanks, Fantom!).
  - (array.c, interpret.c) Replaced uses of closure_cmp() with closure_eq()
       where appropriate.

10-Jul-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.589)
  - (interpret.c) When the value stack overflowed during a secure_apply(),
       the secure_apply_error() routine failed to notice that the stack
       elements had already been cleared out (reported by Bardioc).

26-Jun-2003 (Lars Duening)
  - (interpret.c) Added compile-time check to make sure that MAX_USER_TRACE
       is not larger than MAX_TRACE.

25-Jun-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.588)
  - Just had to repair the repository.

25-Jun-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.587)
  - (xalloc.c) On HP-UX machines, the stack is above the heap and is also
       growing upwards, which the heap/stack check didn't expect. I reworked
       the code to be more generic (reported by Rainer).
  - (lex.c, interpret.c) Characters with the 8th bit set are now uniformly
       treated as positive by the lexer and indexing operations (reported by
       Oskar).
  - (lex.c) Added macro __MAX_MALLOC__ to reflect the MAX_MALLOCED
       parameter (suggested by Coogan).

07-May-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.586)
  - (simulate.c) The error() routine now takes care to zero out all
       pointer variables after freeing the referenced data. This way, if
       a recursive error occurs before the new reference is stored the
       driver won't try to free the same references again (reported by
       Freaky).
  - (configure) By default, TRACE_CODE is now off because it uses
       up a lot of execution time.

05-May-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.585)
  - (object.c) Made restore_xxx() even more robust towards CRLFs (thanks,
       Holger).

05-May-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.584)
  - (prolang.y) Corrected a typo, which disabled the recognition of 'publish'
       as a keyword for a catch() (reported by Menaures).

03-May-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.583)
  - (simulate, interpret, func_spec, prolang.y) Added the new modifier
       'publish' to the catch() directive to have it call
       master::runtime_error() when an error occurs (suggested by
       Menaures).

03-May-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.582)
  - (comm.c) When a pthread was cancelled, the flushing of the pending
       data happened after the socket was already shut down. Reason was that
       the threads were 'detached' upon creation, disabling the ability
       of the parent thread to wait for their completion (reported by Urv).
  - (object.c) The restore_svalue() routine now accepts a CR preceeding
       a LF as delimiter.

30-Apr-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.581)
  - (comm) When using PThreads, destructing an interactive object now
       flushes all remaining pending data to the socket (suggested by Urv).
       Additionally, the main thread waits properly for the writer thread to
       terminate.

29-Apr-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.580)
  - (ed.c) Only consecutive 'z'/'Z' commands do not re-print the current line;
       a 'z'/'Z' after a different command does (suggested by Elric).

29-Apr-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.579)
  - (sprintf.c) When printing arrays with '%O', the size was given
       one too small.
  - (xalloc.c) When using sysmalloc, mem_consolidate() wasn't defined
       (reported by Fuchur).
  - (closure.c) symbol_efun() freed a string prematurely (reported by Fuchur).

24-Apr-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.578)
  - (interpret.c) If during a call of the type 'funcall(alien-lfun-closure)'
       the object bound to the closure was destructed and the closure
       deallocated, call_lambda() still read the now-invalid lambda structure
       after the actual call. This could lead to an inconsistency in the
       control stack, depending on the memory contents (reported by Bardioc).

22-Apr-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.577)
  - (smalloc.c) Corrected a compilation error when MALLOC_TRACE was not
       defined (reported by Neil).
  - (interpret.c) Improved the error reporting for F_IDENTIFIER errors:
       the pc now points to the F_IDENTIFIER instruction.
       (reported by Mandragon and Fiona).

21-Apr-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.576)
  - (smalloc.c) Corrected the small-free-block statistics.

16-Apr-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.575)
  - (smalloc.c) Adjacent free small blocks are now merged automatically
       as soon as they are detected. This reduces the mem_consolidation()
       call to detecting and freeing totally unused small chunks.
  - (smalloc.c) The block dump of lost blocks now prints a proper hexdump
       instead of just dumping the data as-is.

13-Apr-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.574)
  - (func_spec, object) The efuns save_value() and save_object() can now
       create savefiles in the old format as well.

09-Apr-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.573)
  - (heartbeat.c) Removed the pooled allocation of heartbeat structures:
       Muds have spikes of high callout usage, but a low usage over
       the longterm average, so most of the pooled structures are not
       used. This more than makes up for any malloc overhead saved
       by the pooled allocation.
  - (heartbeat.c) Errors in a heartbeat execution now longer aborts
       the whole heartbeat cycle (suggested by Baba).
  - (efuns.c, main, mudlib/sys/debug_info.h) The boot time is now
       available through debug_info(DINFO_DATA, DID_STATUS).
  - (wizlist) The wizlist now accounts the evalcost split into
       ticks and gigaticks, to be able to handle long uptimes, and also
       offer a non-decaying total sum of the evalcosts (suggested by
       Baba).

07-Apr-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.572)
  - (mud/lp-245) Adapted the set_this_object() usage in the master.
  - (actions.c) Efun remove_action() can now remove all actions defined
      by an object (suggested by Menaures).

04-Apr-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.571)
  - (lex.c) Modified the inline-closure text replace such that '(: write();
    write() :)' yields a parse error (thanks, Zora).

30-Mar-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.570)
  - (comm.c) The driver now logs the pathname of the ERQ executable
      it attempts to start.

28-Mar-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.569)
  - (mapping.c) When compiling without DEBUG, the list of dirty
      mappings wasn't terminated (reported by Fiona).

26-Mar-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.568)
  - (prolang.y) Constrained the switch() grammar to accept just blocks
      as body, not statements (reported by Menaures).
  - (comm.c) After removing a pending input_to, the proper noecho
      state is restored (provided by Ctx).

25-Mar-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.567)
  - (port, simulate.c) Since memmem() is a GNU/Linux extension and buggy
      up to glibc 2.0, the driver now uses its own replacement all the
      time. But I adjusted the argument order to the one used by the
      correct Linux function (reported by Fiona).
  - (interpret.c) Function calls by address and global variable accesses
      now check if a set_this_object() is in effect.

24-Mar-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.566)
  - (call_out.c) find_call_out(unbound_lambda) threw an error even though
      it is possible to create call_outs on such lambda (they don't do
      anything, but it's possible still) (reported by Risky).

20-Mar-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.565)
  - (object.c) Restoring the efun closure "#e:," confused the
      savefile parser (thanks, Risky).
  - (func_spec, interpret.c) New efun strrstr().
  - (mapping, prolang.y) Operator '&' can now intersect mappings with
      other mappings and arrays.
  - (func_spec, mapping) New efun m_entry() to return all values for
      an entry at once.

19-Mar-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.564)
  - (sprintf.c, closure) Modifier '#' used for '%O' and '%Q' produces
      output in a compact format (suggested by Menaures).
  - (func_spec, interpret.c) New efun rmember().

17-Mar-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.563)
  - (doc/master) Added missing manpages for the parse_command() supportf
      (reported by Zonk).
  - (main, simulate.c, configure) New commandline option '--filename-spaces'
      to allow space characters in filenames (default is to disallow them).
  - (object.c) Shared closures were saved without the '<num>=' header
       (reported by Menaures and Fiona).

17-Mar-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.562)
  - (mapping.c) Removed a memory leak.

11-Mar-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.561)
  - (gcollect.c) Added safety check as the GC can't handle mappings
       with a hash part.

09-Mar-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.560)
  - (swap.c, mapping) The swapper got out of sync when swapping mappings
       with destructed objects as keys. So far it was not a problem because
       mappings got compacted faster than they were swapped, and the swapper
       already refused to swap mappings with objects/closures used as keys
       in the condensed part. But with the new mapping compaction strategy
       a more thorough test became necessary.

07-Mar-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.559)
  - (configure) New configuration option '--with-optimize' to select
       the optimization level in the generated Makefile: no, low,
       med, or high.
  - (call_out.c) Removed the pooled allocation of callout structures:
       Muds have spikes of high callout usage, but a low usage over
       the longterm average, so most of the pooled structures are not
       used. This more than makes up for any malloc overhead saved
       by the pooled allocation.

06-Mar-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.558)
  - (dumpstat.c, prolang.y, make_func.y) Corrected build warnings. As
       a side effect the prolang.y no longer has a special treatment
       for byacc (mixing anonymous with default rules).
  - (mempools, lex.c) Cosmetic changes.
  - (mapping.c) Additional condition for mapping compaction: the number
       of entries in the hash part is equal to or exceeds the number
       of non-deleted condensed entries.

05-Mar-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.557)
  - (mempools, alloca.c, array.c, lex.c, ptrtable.c) The user
       space of a mempool block is now restricted to 256 bytes, to reduce
       fragmentation issues in the large block heap.

05-Mar-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.556)
  - (gcollect.c, interpret.c) Inserted checks so that the driver doesn't try
       to access the non-existing name of the default wizlist entry (in
       particular the GC) (reported by Bardioc).

03-Mar-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.555)
  - (mapping, backend.c, gcollect.c) Experimental: dirty mappings are
       not compacted immediately, but only after a certain time (for now
       10 minutes) since the last change has elapsed.

03-Mar-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.554)
  - (dumpstat.c) Added the object load time to the OBJ_DUMP data (suggested by
       Menaures).
  - (sprintf.c) When converting a lfun closure which is bound to a different
       object than it is defined in ('alien lfun closure'), to a string, the
       bound object is printed as well as the defining object.
  - (ed.c) Consecutive 'z' or 'Z' commands no longer repeat the previous
       current line (suggested by Menaures).

02-Mar-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.553)
  - (configure) And here, too, I forgot to update the configure script.

02-Mar-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.552)
  - (configure, smalloc) Removed the CHECK_SMALLOC_TOTAL debugging code -
       the problem is fixed.
  - (configure, smalloc) New diagnostic option MALLOC_SBRK_TRACE to enable
       a log of all esbrk() calls and the stats of the allocation requests
       causing it. This formalizes the 'DEBUG: MEM ' diagnostics added
       in 3.2.10-dev.545, though the particular string 'DEBUG: MEM ' has been
       dropped from the output.

02-Mar-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.551)
  - (func_spec, interpret, object) Backported from 3.3: efun function_exists()
       can now return the linenumber and program name of a function.

02-Mar-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.550)
  - (interpret.c) Fixed a memory leak in efun m_add().

01-Mar-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.549)
  - (func_spec, object) New efun variable_exists() and
       variable_list().

27-Feb-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.548)
  - (interpret.c) Improved the error message for when 'mapping[a,b]' is used
       with incorrect types at runtime.

27-Feb-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.547)
  - (gcollect.c, swap.c, mempools) During a the GC a new swap membuffer could
       be allocated and then marked 'unreferenced' by the GC, subsequently
       causing memory corruption as the swapper continued to use it. The
       memory buffers are now held on to during the GC and only freed
       afterwards.

24-Feb-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.546)
  - (strfuns.c) Made the strbuf allocations resilient against out-of-memory
       conditions.
  - (smalloc) rexalloc() now accepts the MALLOC_TRACE information. The
       normal implementation doesn't use it, but they are useful when
       instrumenting the allocator code.

23-Feb-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.545)
  - (smalloc.c, xalloc.c) All esbrk() requests are logged on stdout
       as 'DEBUG: MEM ...' messages. This is to find out why certain
       muds use so much memory lately.

21-Feb-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.544)
  - (mempools.c) Corrected a compilation problem.

21-Feb-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.543)
  - (lex.c) Macro __MSDOS_FS__ is defined on systems using the
       MS-DOS filesystem conventions.

20-Feb-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.542)
  - (mempools, backend.c, swap.c, object.c) The file reading efuns (read_file(),
       read_bytes(), restore_()) and the swapper now use a persistent buffer
       to hold the variable data in memory. Goal is to avoid allocations and
       deallocations of large memory blocks which worsen the memory
       fragmentation.

18-Feb-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.541)
  - (smalloc, efuns.c) Since smalloc can split up large small blocks and
       handle oversized ones, having the special case of 'unused space' in the
       current small chunk is no longer necessary. This also means that the
       DID_MEM_UNUSED value from debug_info() no longer exists (b-020506).

16-Feb-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.540)
  - (smalloc, backend.c, gcollect.c) The smalloc freelist consolidation
       is now also called from the backend and does its job whenever
       the number of free small blocks is twice the amount the last
       consolidation left over.
  - (smalloc.c) The maximum small block size has been reduced to 64 Bytes:
       it turned out that the larger sizes aren't deallocated often enough
       to make the free lists work, which caused unnecessary small chunk
       allocations.
  - (sprintf.c) Normal (top-level) sprintf() calls now use a static
       instance of the fmt_state_t buffer, avoided repeated (de)allocations
       of that 130KB structure.

16-Feb-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.539)
  - (smalloc.c) Since parsing the min-small-malloc already requires
       a small chunk allocation, the small chunk allocation using the new
       chunk size is also forced to go directly to the system.

12-Feb-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.538)
  - (prolang.y) The illegal switch-case ranges like '100..50' now generate
       an error message (reported by Menaures).

07-Feb-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.537)
  - (prolang.y) Corrected a fatal error in the 'break'/'continue'
       handling.

06-Feb-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.536)
  - (prolang.y) With the increasing program sizes, using 16-Bit offsets for
       the 'break' and 'continue' branches was no longer enough.  They might
       hold the final offsets, but during compilation they stored the absolute
       address of the next 'break'/'continue', which could exceed 2 Bytes
       (reported by Alwin).
  - (prolang.y) Insertions of 2 byte values are now checked for range.

04-Feb-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.10-dev.535)
  - (smalloc.c) Small chunks (except for the first one) are now allocated
       from the large blocks. Reason is that during a consolidation, unused
       small chunks are returned to the large blocks. Without this change,
       new small chunks were always allocated directly from the system
       without re-using the space released to the large blocks, so that
       over time the process memory usage grew but only a fraction of the
       memory was in use (reported by Coogan and Dafire, reproduced by
       Menaures).

02-Feb-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.534 == 3.2.9)
  - (many files) Some cosmetic cleanup.

26-Jan-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.533)
  - (prolang.y) Corrected a small bug in the code generation for
       operators &&= and ||=.

26-Jan-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.532)
  - (prolang.y) One more detail to the compilation problem (reported
       by Freaky).

26-Jan-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.531)
  - (prolang.y) Removed a compilation problem (reported by Freaky).

26-Jan-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.530)
  - (prolang.y) Removed a compilation problem.

25-Jan-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.529)
  - (object.c) Corrected a compilation problem (reported by Joseph).
  - (prolang.y, interpret.c, func_spec) Implemented short-circuit evaluation
       for the operators '&&=' and '||='.

24-Jan-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.528)
  - (lex) type #pragmas set in an auto-include were reset at the end of
       it (reported by Gnomi).

24-Jan-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.527)
  - (object.c) save/restore didn't look out for shared closures.

22-Jan-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.526)
  - (etc/lpc.xml) LPC syntax highlighting for KDE's kate (thanks, Menaures!)

19-Jan-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.525)
  - (interpret.c) Changed the error thrown by replace_program()
       to a mere debug message.

19-Jan-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.524)
  - (interpret.c) Restricted replace_program() on the first inherited
       program if that program has virtually inherited variables.
       See b-030119 for an explanation.

16-Jan-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.523)
  - (prolang.y) When redefining a function, the redefinition can now
       have more arguments than the original.
  - (lex.c) Escaping newlines in #if conditions on Windows didn't
       work (reported by Zonk)

14-Jan-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.522)
  - (several files) Removed no longer used diagnostic code.

07-Jan-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.521)
  - (several files) Removed the 'no-blueprint' configuration option: there
       code is stable.

05-Jan-2003 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.520)
  - (make_func.y) When creating type/hookmaps in prolang.y, the linecounting
       didn't count the map's continuation lines.
  - (interpret.c) string lvalue indices can no longer index past the end
       of the string.
  - (interpret.c) Removed a couple sanity checks which are no longer needed.

20-Dec-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.519)
  - (lex.c) Added a workaround for an optimizer bug in Cygwin 3.2 (reported
      by Zonk).

20-Dec-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.518)
  - (actions.c) Throw an error if H_NOTIFY_FAIL hook is missing. This also
      prevents the driver from crashing if the H_SEND_NOTIFY hook is
      defined (reported by Zonk).

18-Dec-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.517)
  - (object.c) When calling privilege_violation() for restoring efuns,
      the current object is passed as 'who' argument (suggested by Gnomi).
  - (object.c) When saving lfuns, I accidentally deleted the lookup
      for inherited lfuns (reported by Gnomi).

17-Dec-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.516)
  - (object.c) restore_svalue() did not check if a restored efun was
      overriden by a nomask simul-efun (reported by Gnomi).
  - (comm.c) With pthreads, the driver could crash in remove_interactive()
      when the write_cond was destroyed while the thread was still
      waiting on it (reported by Lee).

16-Dec-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.515)
  - (object.c) restore_map_size() stumbled over closure entries (reported by
      Jason).

16-Dec-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.514)
  - (comm.c) If the login object destructed itself in the logon() call,
      the driver crashed in the print_prompt() routine (reported by Jason).

15-Dec-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.513)
  - (object.c) Corrected a compilation error (thanks, Dafire and Jason!).

15-Dec-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.512)
  - (prolang.y) It is no longer possible to defined a variable to be
      of type 'void' (reported by Gnomi).

14-Dec-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.511)
  - (object.c) Small corrections.

14-Dec-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.510)
  - (object.c) Efuns save_() and restore_() can now handle non-lambda
      closures, symbols and quoted arrays.  This required a new savefile
      format, though.

11-Dec-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.509)
  - (doc/concepts/negotiation, src/wk/) Added some telnet protocol
    related documentation.
  - (func_spec, lex.c, prolang.y, interpret.c) New operators '&&=' and
     '||=' (suggested by Croft).

09-Dec-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.508)
  - (mudlib/telnetneg.c) Updated (thanks, Fiona!)
  - (mudlib/test_master.c) Added testcode for using charmode (thanks, Fiona!)
  - (comm) Fiona provided more patches: SAVE_NOECHO, which makes sure that
      the client can switch to CHARMODE before also setting NOECHO; and
      SIMULATE_CHARMODE which allows the mudlib to switch to charmode even
      if the client can do only linemode.
  - (simulate.c) Efuns copy_file() and rename() no longer throw errors
      on failures, but just return a non-0 value (reported by Menaures).

05-Dec-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.507)
  - (config.h, comm, gcollect.c, main.c) Replaced USE_PTHREAD by USE_PTHREADS.
  - (comm.c) Before printing the prompt, current_object is set to NULL
      so that the player's catch_tell() is sure to be able to see the
      prompt (reported by mudder@Furtual.ORG).

04-Dec-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.506)
  - (make_func.y, comm.c, main.c, prolang.y) Removed warnings (reported by
      Coogan).
  - (comm.c) When logging on a new player, the prompt wasn't printed - in
      particular the prompt set by input_to(INPUT_PROMPT) (reported by
      Nostradamus).
  - (main.c) If the reserved areas can be reallocated, the out_of_memory
      flag is reset.
  - (simulate.c) catch() reports an 'out_of_memory' condition only
      if it was raised during the execution of the guarded code.

03-Dec-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.505)
  - (patch-o-matic) Updated to new executable name.
  - (prolang.y, array.c) The filenames returned by include_list()
      now always start with a '/' to make their reuse in include statements
      simpler (suggested by Coogan).
  - (mudlib/telnet) Fiona donated the telnet negotiations module from
      Wunderland, containing a complete implementation of the telnet protocol
      (thanks!).
  - (sprintf.c) The %O/%Q formatter stumbled over really large arrays
      and mappings: the top-level function ignored if the conversion
      routine reallocated the string buffer (reported by Bardioc).

03-Dec-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.504)
  - (Makefile.in) Corrected two typos.

03-Dec-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.503)
  - (main.c) Forgot to add the configurable efuns to the '--options'
      output.

02-Dec-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.502)
  - (func_spec, interpret.c) Efun member_array() is now deactivated
      with !USE_DEPRECATED (suggested by Fiona).
  - (configure, config.h, efuns, simulate, object, interpret.c): The
      efuns set_light(), set_is_wizard() and process_string() can be
      configured from the configure script.
  - (Makefile) Driver executable renamed from 'driver' to 'ldmud'.
  - (configure, Makefile) The configure script now tries to figure out
      on its own which warning options the compiler supports.

30-Nov-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.501)
  - (comm.c) Accidentally deleted two lines in the noecho handling.

30-Nov-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.500)
  - (comm.c) Fiona provided a number of bugfixes for CHARMODE - thanks!

30-Nov-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.499)
  - (prolang.y) Brainfart: the last patch created a problem, instead of
      solving one. The bug was that "*"::fun() looked at _all_ inherited
      programs, not just the directly inherited ones.

30-Nov-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.498)
  - (prolang.y) When making wildcarded supercalls ("*"::fun()), the compiler
      takes care that each function is called only once (reported by Gnomi).

29-Nov-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.497)
  - (sysmalloc.c) This file is no longer needed (actually it has been
      useless since 3.2.8-dev.188).
  - (lex.c) pragma_combine_strings was never initialised with a default.
  - (lex.c) Changed the FLOAT_MIN/FLOAT_MAX predefined to reflect
      the C-float limits, not the C-double limits, as the gamedriver's
      floats are somewhere inbetween the two.

27-Nov-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.496)
  - (patchlevel.h, hosts/be/Makefile, hosts/be/set-version) The version
      flags of the BeOS executable are now read from patchlevel.h and not set
      directly in the BeOS Makefile.

27-Nov-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.495)
  - (efuns.c) Efun transfer() was still incorrect. Funny though that
      nobody noticed it before :-) (reported by Nostradamus).

27-Nov-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.494)
  - (comm.c) The correction of the threads racing condition unfortunately
      introduced a deadlock - Gawain found and fixed it (thanks!).

27-Nov-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.493)
  - (efuns.c) Corrected the deprecated efun transfer(): the check
      for dest->can_put_and_get() was implemented wrong (reported by
      Nostradamus).

27-Nov-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.492)
  - (comm.c) The thread-cleanup function now locks the structure before
      performing the cleanup (suggested by Gawain).

26-Nov-2002 (Lars Duening)
  - (object.c) restore_object("#0:0") caught the driver in an endless loop
      (thanks, Ctx!).

22-Nov-2002 (Lars Duening)
  - (prolang.y, interpret.c) The __INIT code is no longer restricted to
      the first 64K of generated bytecode.

21-Nov-2002 (Lars Duening)
  - (etc/patch-o-matic) Contributed by Guandalug - thanks!

20-Nov-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.491)
  - (closure.c, interpret.c) Corrected refcount errors in the handling
      of soon-to-be dangling alien-lfun closures.
  - (smalloc.c) Made sure that before each call to fatal() the thread-check
      is reset.

19-Nov-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.490)
  - (closure.c, interpret.c) In order to convert a dangling lfun closure
      during a replace_program() into a dangling alien-lfun closure, the
      closure needs to be created as alien-lfun in the first place (reported
      by Pulami).

17-Nov-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.489)
  - (many files) Pure source cosmetics: removed trailing spaces at lineends.

16-Nov-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.488)
  - (smalloc.c) If the allocator ran out of memory, the exit handling
      triggered the 'Multiple threads' safety check. Not really a problem,
      as the driver would exit anyway, but it obscures what is happening.

15-Nov-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.487)
  - (comm.c) The call to remove_flush_entry() could clobber the list
      of players to flush if it was called for a player not in the
      flush list.

13-Nov-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.486)
  - (interpret.c) get_type_info(,2) on an unbound-lambda crashed the driver
      because an uninitialized variable was used (thanks, Ctx!)
  - (simulate.c) If the H_NOECHO hook is set, the telnet negotiations
      are redirected only after the hook setting is verified (thanks,
      Fiona!)
  - (comm.c) Corrected a potential problem when an interactive object
      with pending data is forcefully made non-interactive: from my
      reading of the code it seems that the object remained in the
      list of players-to-flush, even though it no longer had a valid
      interactive_t attribute.

12-Nov-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.485)
  - (port.h) The 'malloc' attribute is now used only with gcc 3 or newer.
  - (lex.c) Corrected the line counting with auto-includes (reported by
      Coogan).

11-Nov-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.484)
  - (comm.c) When calling H_NOECHO, the code did not check if the
      argument objects were still alive (reported by Fiona).

08-Nov-2002 (Lars Duening)
  - (port.h, comm.c, xalloc.h, smalloc.h) Activated GCC attributes for
      OS-X compilations, added GCC attribute 'malloc' to the allocator
      functions, removed some warnings.

07-Nov-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.483)
  - (configure.in) The tests regarding which libraries are needed suffered
      from a disabling typo (reported by Nostradamus).
  - (port.h, hosts/unix.h) Adapted to the latest Cygwin release.

06-Nov-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.482)
  - (closure.c) If a lfun-closure is left danging by a replace_program(),
      it is now converted into an alien-lfun closure pointing to
      master::dangling_lfun_closure(). This way the error handler has
      a chance to determine the originating object (suggested by Gnomi).
  - (closure.c) The handling of dangling alien-lfun closures actually
      destroyed the alien.ob entry.
  - (interpret.c) allocate() used with an array or mapping initialisation
      value now creates shallow copies of the initialisation value for each
      initialised element (suggested by Oskar).

04-Nov-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.481)
  - (smalloc.c) The thread-check in xfree() also triggered when the
      memory reserves were released (reported by Bardioc).

03-Nov-2002 (Lars Duening)
  - (configure.in) Made the check for -lpthread more robust (reported by
      Markus Peter).

03-Nov-2002 (Lars Duening)
  - (configure.in) Made the check for -lpthread more robust (reported by
      Markus Peter).

01-Nov-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.480)
  - (comm.c) *blush* Deleted TELOPT_EOR handling by act of stupidity..

31-Oct-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.478, -dev.479)
  - (comm.c) Added TELOPT_BINARY to the telnet negotiations forwarded
      to H_TELNET_NEG (suggested by Fiona).

30-Oct-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.477)
  - (lex.c) When starting a new compile, the order of initialisations
      was wrong (in particular: auto-include was handled before the
      lexer was set up) (reported by Freaky).
  - (configure, (x)erq/Makefile.in) Only link in libraries actually
      needed by the erq (suggested by Freaky).
  - (configure) Modified the configure so that only required libraries
      are added to the compile (suggested by Freaky).

29-Oct-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.476)
  - (comm, func_spec) find_input_to() and remove_input_to() can now
      match on both object and string name.
  - (interpret.c) unquote(symbol) added a quote level instead of
      removing it (reported by Gnomi).
  - (comm.c) Improved the 'already bound' error messages to list
      the port number.
  - (util/xerq) If the xerq couldn't send all data from a ERQ_SEND request
      immediately and thus returned a ERQ_E_INCOMPLETE, it will follow it
      up with a ERQ_OK message to the same handle later once all the pending
      data has been send (provided by Fiona, thanks!)
  - (util/xerq/lpc) Replaced the socketd with the Wunderland daemon
      (thanks!).
  - (lex.c, prolang, simulate.c) auto-includes are now handled like
      normal includes (instead of just placing the text into the textbuffer
      and fudging the current_line variable), correcting a source of false
      linenumber informations.

27-Oct-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.474, .475)
  - (smalloc.c) Added a very primitive safeguard against interleaving
      calls to the allocator - I suspect that this is the root cause
      for the problems with pthreads.
  - (object.c) When resetting an object, the previous_object() was
      some random object (reported by Gnomi).
  - (comm, func_spec) New efuns find_input_to() and input_to_info()
      (suggested by Fiona).

16-Oct-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.473)
    - (configure) Some systems need libresolv in order to provide
        herror() (reported by Coogan).
    - (comm.c) Removed a compile warning (thanks, Fiona!).
    - (array.c) regexplode: Removed a memory leak on stack overflow
        (thanks, Fiona!).

15-Oct-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.472)
    - (exec.h, lex.c, prolang, object, gcollect.c, typedefs.h) Added
        complete include file information to compiled programs (backported
        from 3.3).
    - (object.c) Implemented efun include_list() properly (backported
        from 3.3).
    - (prolang.y) Adapted to bison 1.5 .

14-Oct-2002 (Lars Duening)
  - (configure) If a requested option (like use-mysql) can't be used
       because the system lacks the necessary support, the configure
       script issues a warning and exits with return code 1 (suggested
       by Freaky).

13-Oct-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.471)
  - (prolang.y) Removed a compiler warning.
  - (configure.in) The test for pthread support was broken, and
       the test for 'long long' was run twice. And if pthreads
       are not found, USE_PTHREADS is now deactivated (reported by Freaky).

10-Oct-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.470)
  - (efuns.c, svalue.h, interpret.c) Evaluation cost of deep_copy() is
       now proportional to size and nesting depth of copied arrays
       and mappings, if DYNAMIC_COST is defined (suggested by Gnomi).

09-Oct-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.469)
  - (port.h, swap.c) No longer includes <values.h> which has been obsoleted
       by <limits.h> and <float.h>.
  - (config.h, driver.h) Removed the compilation warning when YYDEBUG
       was not defined.
  - (mud/lp-245) Corrected the transfer() simul-efun (thanks, Ralph!)

09-Oct-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.467, .468)
  - (lex.c, prolang) Implemented #'inh::fun lfun closures (b-010801-0).

07-Oct-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.466)
  - (comm.c) Removed compilation problems with BeOS.
  - (prolang.y) Oh My Ghod. The range index [..<expr0>] created faulty
       bytecode, maybe even clobbered random memory, if the expression
       was anything complicated, like 'm++' or 'm = 4'. This bug
       was caused by uninitialized the LPC parser not initializing
       the internal return value from parsing <expr0>, so the bug
       didn't manifest itself every time (reported by Zonk).

04-Oct-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.465)
  - (autoconf/configure.in) Corrected the problem with newer autoconfs.

01-Oct-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.464)
  - (comm.c) Forgot a parameter in an error message (thanks, Freaky!)
  - (main.c, comm) The hostname was initialized to late, so the debug.log
      file was opened with the wrong name (reported by Dafire).

30-Sep-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.463)
  - (comm.c) Changed the fprintf() in the thread cleanup routine into a
      malloc-friendlier dprintf1().
  - (main.c) Added a check into debug_message() if the name of the
      debug log file has already been set (reported by Dafire).
  - (simulate.c) The driver now checks if an object to be loaded appears
      out of nowhere while it is being compiled (this can happen if the mudlib
      warning handler is careless with rename_object()) and throws an error
      (reported by Gnomi).
  - (main.c, comm) New commandline options --hostname and --hostaddr
      to override the values returned by the system. In particular,
      --hostaddr will be used as the address to open to the driver
      ports.

28-Sep-2002 (Lars Duening)
  - (config.h.in) USE_PTHREAD was permanently commented out (reported by
      Gawain).

27-Sep-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.461+.462)
  - (comm, main.c, configure) Based on a patch by Gawain, PTHREADS and
      PCRE (requires Fiona's patch) can now be configured like other
      options. New commandline option --max-thread-pending to set
      the limit for pending data to write.

25-Sep-2002 (Lars Duening)
  - (comm.c) If a connection is marked for removal (.do_close != 0),
      telnet commands can still be sent. This is to allow the input_to()
      handling to properly reset the connection to linemode even if
      the input_to() handler has called remove_interactive().
  - (backend, interpret.c, smalloc.c) Made the GC request log output
      nicer.

25-Sep-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.460)
  - (comm, gcollect.c) Removed compiler warnings, and a crash
      in pthreads thread cleanup (reported by Dafire)

25-Sep-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.459)
  - (interpret.c) The LPC tracing code crashed when used with lambda
      closures or with call_resolved() (reported by Nostradamus).

24-Sep-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.458)
  - (comm, backend.c, gcollect.c) smalloc is not threadsafe, which
      caused the implementation of USE_PTHREAD code to trash the
      memory structures. To solve the problem, all memory allocations
      and deallocations are done by the main thread.
  Patches from Guandalug:
  - (interpret.c) Converting a sefun-closure to a string looked up the
      name in the efun table instead of the sefun table.

20-Sep-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.457)
  - (prolang.y) The test for duplicate toplevel inherits got confused
       when virtual inherits occured (reported by Zonk via Dafire).

19-Sep-2002 (Lars Duening)
  - (etc/lpc-mode.el) LPC mode for EMACS, by Vivek Dasmohapatra.

17-Sep-2002 (Lars Duening)
  - (comm.c) ECONNREFUSED is recognized as error (suggested by Coogan).

16-Sep-2002 (Lars Duening)
  - (comm.c) With PThreads: forgot to detach new threads after creation
       (thanks, Gawain!)
  - (configure) The object statistic seems to be correct now, so the
       OSTAT diagnostics are disabled by default.

15-Sep-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.456)
   - (simulate) Both 'warn' and 'warning' are already symbols on
        some systems, so I now used 'warnf' as name of the warning
        function.
   - (regexp, rxcache, array.c, backend.c, ed.c) Removed name clashes
        with system libraries.

15-Sep-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.455)
   - (prolang.y, lex, interpret.c, simulate, func_spec) New pragma
        'warn_deprecated' causes the compiler to print warnings when
        a deprecated efun is used (suggested by Dafire).

03-Sep-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.454)
   - (swap.c) The object statistics get messed up when the GC swaps objects.
        Let's see if this change corrects all of the discrepancies. In
        general the reason for the discrepancies was that variables
        were counted more often as 'swapped in' than they had been
        swapped out.

30-Aug-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.453)
   - (efuns.c, lex.c, make_func.y) Some chars were casted to 'unsigned int'
        instead of 'unsigned char', breaking support for international
        character sets (thanks, Oskar!).

26-Aug-2002 (Lars Duening)
   - (swap.c) The OSTAT diagnostic for swap-in subtracted instead of added
        to compute the expected new tot_alloc_object_size value (reported
        by Coogan).

21-Aug-2002 (Lars Duening)
   - (object.c) Oops, omitted one argument in one of the OSTAT outputs.

21-Aug-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.452)
   - (comm.c, object.c, simulate.c, swap.c) Corrected some warnings
        (reported by Dafire).
   - (interpret, and some more files) Master applies caused by external events
        (like ERQ messages) are now distinguished from internal calls
        (like valid_write()) so that the error handling for external calls
        receive the full eval cost benefits (suggested by Fiona).
   - (Makefile.in s): Added missing @EXEEXT@ tags.

20-Aug-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.451)
   - (main.c) Needed to #include <netdb.h> on Solaris to get the
        MAXHOSTNAMELEN macro (thanks, Coogan).
   - (util/erq/erq.c, util/xerq/erq.c) Forgot the timestamp in the
        initial startup message.
   - (port, simulate.c, comm.c, hosts/unix.h) Cygwin corrections.
   - (config.h, configure, driver.h, erqs) New configuration option
        with-erq-debug sets the new config.h macro ERQ_DEBUG which
        defines the ERQ debug level. No more '-DDEBUG' to enable
        the debugging code in the ERQs (suggested by Bill).

19-Aug-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.450)
   - (closure.c) Efun symbol_efun() freed symbol-svalues as strings
        (reported by Dafire).

19-Aug-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.449)
   - (lex.c) An error in a permanent define given on the command line
        would crash the driver because the lexer called error() before
        the VM had been set up.
   - (Makefile.in) Some makes don't like ':=' variable assignments (reported
        by Coogan).
   - (main.c) If the driver uses the default debug.log file, its (mudlib)
        name is available in the predefined macro __DEBUG_LOG__ (suggested
        by Mandragon).
   - (driver.h, config.h) Made the config.h macro DEBUG invisible to the
        ERQs as their debugging mode is controlled by their Makefiles.
   - (util/erq/erq.c, util/xerq/erq.c) The ERQs now print their name
        and compilation date to stderr on startup.

18-Aug-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.448)
   - (lex.c) Added predefined macros __RESET_TIME__ and __CLEANUP_TIME__
        (suggested by Elric).

14-Aug-2002 (Lars Duening)
   - (configure) Optimization option -funroll-all-loops seems to
        create buggy code, so I removed it from the configure.

14-Aug-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.447)
    - (comm.c) Compilation broke under BeOS.
    - (object.c, swap.c, simulate.c) Removed warnings.
    - (Makefile.in) Removed a GNUMake'ism (reported by Coogan).

13-Aug-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.446)
    - (configure) The VERBOSE_OPCPROF define in config.h got clobbered.
    - (interpret.c) I removed the copy-on-write for mappings again - 
         it broke more than it fixed.

12-Aug-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.445)
    - (lex.c) New predefined macros __CATCH_EVAL_COST__ and
         __MASTER_EVAL_COST__ to carry the corresponding
         configuration options over to LPC (suggested by Menaures).
    - (Makefiles, configure, config.h) Moved the debugging options into
         config.h to ensure clean recompilations, and made them
         configurable through the normal configure mechanism.

11-Aug-2002 (Lars Duening)
    - (driver.h, object.c, simulate.c, swap.c) Defining debug macro
         CHECK_OBJECT_STAT allows tracing of all changes to the
         tot_alloc_object(_size) statistics. Aim is to find the
         discrepancy in the 'status' command. To activate the
         tracing, the commandline option '--check-object-stat' must
         be given.
    - (interpret.c) The operations <map> += <map> and <map> -= <map>
         now implement the copy-on-write semantic to mirror the
         behaviour of the related array operations (suggested by Dafire).
    - (interpret.c) get_type_info(<closure>,2) did not return the
         bound object for efun, simul-efun and operator closures 
         (reported by Gnomi).
    - (interpret.c) Attempting to replace a program in an object
         which already has closures bound no longer raises an error,
         but issues a debug_message() (suggested by Pulami).
    - (make_func.y) Removed two warnings by bison (reported by Gawain).

10-Aug-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.444)
    - (closure.c) In efun symbol_function(), symbols were freed as
         strings (reported by Freaky).
    - (main, backend.c) Signal USR2 forces the driver to reopen the
         host.debug.log file (thanks, Gawain!).
    - (comm, gcollect.c) Experimental: Defining USE_PTHREAD (if your
         system has pthread support) activates code which uses threads
         to write the socket data to the network in the background.
         Intention is to avoid EWOULDBLOCK errors on slow connections
         (thanks, Gawain!)

08-Aug-2002 (Lars Duening)
    - (comm.c) When using IPv6, get_host_ip_number() used a too small
         buffer (thanks, Fiona!)
    - (backend.c) Improved the 'doing a GC' messages somewhat.

05-Aug-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.443)
    - (mapping.c) Embarassing: the bugfix broke map() and filter()
         for all non-multi-value mappings (reported by Casey).

04-Aug-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.442)
    - (prolang.y) Inheriting the same program twice at the top level
         now raises a warning, resp. an error in pedantic mode.
    - (simulate.c) If a closure is called from limited() and self-destructs,
         the driver would try to free the now-invalid closure argument
         and crash (this happened a lot in EotL) (thanks, Casey!).
    - (interpret.c) In DEBUG mode, the functions free_object_svalue() and
         free_string_svalue() check that they really get the proper data type.
    - (efuns.c) Efuns filter() and map(): when used with multi-value
         mappings, the driver checks if the called function kept a reference
         to the passed array with the values. If yes, a new array is
         created for the next iteration to avoid overwriting the old
         one (reported by Fiona).
    - (interpret.c) When collecting the traceback in a catch(), the
         file and line information was used, but not initialized, occasionally
         crashing the driver. In addition, in a couple of cases when the
         file and line information can't be determined, the file was
         left undefined (thanks, Gnomi!)

15-Jul-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.441)
    - (mud/lp-245) The wizlist() simul-efun didn't print proper failure
         notices (reported by Vandergnome).
    - (gcollect.c) In a GC the list of destructed objects was handled
         last, by which time the list might already have been clobbered.
         Moving the handling first should plug a memory leak (reported by
         Dafire).
    - (prolang.y) The crasher correction from dev.439/dev.440 still had
         a small bug which caused variables and functions to be assigned
         wrongly (reported by Fiona and Gnomi, fixed by Menaures).
    - (prolang.y) If a variable was inherited multiple times, the driver
         generated a senseless warning (reported by Zora).
    - (efuns.c, interpret.c, main.c) Added some support for locales; in
         particular the driver now uses the locale defined in the LANG
         environment variable for character conversions (thanks, Oskar!).
    - (simulate.c) Efun callbacks misparsed the arguments when only the
         function name and extra arguments, but no object was provided.

14-Jul-2002 (Lars Duening)
    - (etc/memusage) Fiona updated the script to make it more robust and
         work with the new OBJ_DUMP format. Furthermore the constants
         for $DOMAINS and so on do work now.

05-Jun-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.440)
    - (prolang.y) Oops, yesterday's bugfix was not quite corrected.

04-Jun-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.439)
    - (prolang.y) If a method in a virtual inherit is rendered invisible,
         but also made available again through a parallel inherit of the same
         program, the compiler resolved the visible function to the
         wrong inheritance, causing the driver to crash (b-020530).

13-May-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.438)
    - (config.h.in, Makefile.in, autoconf/configure.in) TRACE_CODE
         is now configurable through the configure script, and thus
         is located in config.h and no longer in Makefile.
    - (gcollect, interpret.c, func_spec) Optional filename argument
         to efun garbage_collection() can specify a new GC log file
         for the next GC. The filename is validated through
         master::valid_write() (f-020312).

07-May-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.437)
    - (mapping.c) Improved the checks for empty mappings in add_mapping()
         and add_to_mapping().
    - (mapping.c) 'mapping += mapping' now throws an error when the
         mappings are of differing width (reported by Alfe and Coogan).
    - (prolang.y) New notation '([:<expr>])' as shortcut for
         m_allocate(0, <expr>) (suggested by Alfe).

06-May-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.436)
    - (smalloc.c) With CHECK_OBJECT_GC_REF, small chunks could lead to
         misleading diagnostics during the GC.

03-May-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.435)
    - (prolang.y) Reworked the program block reallocations to make sure
         that their bounds won't be overwritten. This could have been
         the reasons for the crashers on corrupted memory (reported by Coogan).

01-May-2002 (Lars Duening)
    - (settings/dt2) Updated the DeeperTrouble settings file; and also
         removed the mud/dt2 directory since it's no longer necessary
         (thanks, Lasse!).

26-Apr-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.434)
    - (prolang.y) Hiding an inherited private nosave variable with an
         inherited non-private variable didn't work (reported by Gnomi).
    - (prolang.y, lex.c, simulate.c) Compiler error and warning messages
         all have the format '<file> line <line>: <text>' now.
    - (prolang.y, swap.c) Oops, the linenumber structure was allocated too
         small on creation, and read in incorrectly from swap.
    - (driver.h) Deactivated the debug defines CHECK_MAPPING_TOTAL
         and CHECK_OBJECT_REF since these bugs seem to be fixed.

25-Apr-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.433)
    - (comm.c) Using unbound lambdas for prompts crashed the driver
         (reported by Gnomi).
    - (driver.h, gcollect, smalloc) When macro CHECK_OBJECT_GC_REF is
         activated, every supposedly non-object memory reference in a GC is
         checked if it points to an object. If yes, a diagnostic is printed
         to gcollect out. Requires MALLOC_TRACE to work.

21-Apr-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.432)
    - (exec.h, prolang.y, interpret.c, object.c, swap.c) Linenumbers are
         now kept in a separate memory block, which makes swapping them
         out and back in simpler.

20-Apr-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.431)
    - (prolang.y, lex.c) Calls to the master during a compilation now check
         the available evaluation costs. If the limit is exceeded, a
         compilation error is generated.
    - (swap.c) Removing a program block from the swap no longer crashes
         if the program doesn't have line numbers (reported by Pixie).
    - (prolang.y) Calls to undefined functions now generate a warning
         when detected in functions without typechecking if #pragma
         pedantic is in effect (before the compiler silently inserted
         a prototype).

19-Apr-2002 (Lars Duening)
    - (prolang.y) Removed a few bison warnings (reported by Menaures).

18-Apr-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.430)
    - (prolang.y) When passing a wrong argument to a varargs function, the
         error message gave the wrong argument number (reported by Gnomi).
    - (func_spec, interpret.c) New efun m_add().

09-Apr-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.429)
    - (prolang.y) The improved type checking on <op>= accidentally
         broke the type checking on the plain assignment (reported by Dafire).

08-Apr-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.428)
    - (prolang.y) Improved the type checking on the <op>= operators
         to match what the VM actually implements (reported by Menaures).

04-Apr-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.427)
    - (mapping.c) During a GC, the .hash member in a mapping does not
         point to a mapping-hash structure - the statistics code
         ignored that (b-011015-0).
    - (gcollect, swap.c) Made the GC status variable less reliant
         on magic numbers.
    - (swap, gcollect.c, object.c, simulate.c) When removing the swap
         entry for a modified program, the code now also makes sure
         that the linenumbers are loaded back into memory.

03-Apr-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.426)
    - (prolang.y) '<string> *= <int>' didn't compile (reported by Dafire and
         Menaures).
    - (swap, gcollect.c, object.c, simulate.c) A hunch: when a program is
         swapped for the first time, the driver writes the struct as it
         is to the disk. On later swap-ins, this data is read directly
         into memory, but never written again. If in the meantime
         the prog->blueprint pointer changed, this change will be lost
         after the next swap in. It would require a rare sequence of
         activities to make this a problem, but it's possible. The change
         is therefore to remove the swap block whenever prog->blueprint
         changes; let's see if this helps (b-020228-0).

31-Mar-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.425)
    - (simulate.c) Load errors during the initial master load crashed
         the driver in the error handling.

30-Mar-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.424)
    - (driver.h) The blueprint code helped some people (but not all), so I
         re-activated it as a counter-check.
    - (bugs/) Updated the files.

27-Mar-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.423)
    - (mapping.c) *sigh* The mapping check itself contained a fatal error
         (reported by Freaky).
    - (wiz_list.c) Don't call master::get_wiz_name() when there is no
         master. Otherwise a simple warning during the initial master
         load would abort the driver (reported by Frank Syse).
    - (driver.h, lots of files) If debug macro NO_BLUEPRINT is defined,
         the driver no longer tracks the blueprint for a program structure.
         This somewhat disables the blueprint() efun, but if it solves
         the object refcount problem, I know at least where to look.
    - (func_spec, actions, interpret.c) Efun query_verb() now takes an optional
         flag to return the verb as specified in the add_action() instead
         of the verb given by the user (suggested by Dafire).

26-Mar-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.422)
    - (array.c, mapping.c) Made sure that the callback structures are
         properly released on errors.

25-Mar-2002 (Lars Duening)
    - (lex.c) *sigh* 'ifstate_t' is also a system type (reported by Alwin).
    - (comm.c) Removing the last pending input_to() did not reset the
        'input_to pending' flag in the interactive structure (reported
        by Gnomi).
    - (mapping) The inaccuracy in the mappings statistics is caused
        by impossibly high numbers of mapping elements. The checks
        done by CHECK_MAPPING_TOTAL have been tightened around possible
        places where the too big number could be created.

21-Mar-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.421)
    - (lex.c) The lexer's 'struct ifstate' clashes with an 'enum ifstate'
        defined on some systems for the networking stack (reported by Alwin).
    - (interpret.c) Removed the negative indexing on control_stack
        and value stack by introducing dummy entries at the bottom of
        each.

19-Mar-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.420)
    - (pkg-mysql.c) db_connect() didn't check if it got too many arguments,
        crashing in that case (reported by Menaures).
    - (interpret.c) CHECK_OBJECT_REF: Checking the destructed objects 
        after every VM instruction used too much time - it is now limited
        to F_RETURN, vefuns and tefuns.

16-Mar-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.419)
    - (lex.c) Fixed a memory leak, caused again by a piece of code which
        relied on free_svalue() not changing the svalue .type (reported
        by Alwin).
    - (simulate.c) Setting a driver hook from an unshared string leaked
        this string (reported by Alwin).
    - (array.c) And this should be the last piece of code which made
        assumptions about free_svalue().
    - (func_spec, efuns) New efun blueprint().

13-Mar-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.418)
    - (mapping.c) Since free_svalue() no longer leaves the .type untouched,
        the CHECK_MAPPINGS sanity stumbled at one point (reported by Bardioc).

12-Mar-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.417)
    - (lex.c) Efun expand_define() did not set the proper type
        for the return value - so far undiscovered because free_svalue()
        didn't use to change it.
    - (Makefiles) Changed default optimization level from High (-O4)
        to Medium (-O2), since compilers get notoriously unreliable
        at high optimization.

11-Mar-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.416)
    - (simulate.c) The CHECK_OBJECT_REF check was still overzealous;
        unfortunately not with the FF mudlib I tested it with. Hmpf.
    - (xalloc.c) The heap/stack gap check didn't expect the stack to
        be located under the heap, as Cygwin does it.

10-Mar-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.415)
    - (actions.c, simulate.c) The CHECK_OBJECT_REF check was overzealous
        and didn't track properly the changes in object sentences. Sorry.
    - (interpret.c) Efun all_environment() did not accept destructed objects
        as argument as documented (reported by Pulami and Gnomi).

09-Mar-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.414)
    - (xalloc) The implementation of the heap/stack check didn't work
        on architectures with really big address spaces - corrected that.
    - (mapping.c, interpret.c, object.c, efuns.c) When adding new values
        to mapping, the code didn't check if the memory could be allocated
        (reported by Menaures).
    - (doc/efun) More german translations from Pulami.

07-Mar-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.413)
    - (xalloc, smalloc.c interpret.c, efuns.c, object.c) Added check
        to prevent the stack from growing into the heap.
    - (smalloc.c) Some expected/found magic word logs were reversed.
    - (interpret.c) atan2() did not accept an integer as first argument
        (reported by Pulami).
    - (doc/efun) Pulami provided a whole bunch of german translations.
    - (interpret.c) to_int() on closures didn't work as advertised
        (reported by Pulami)

06-Mar-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.412)
    - (simulate, interpret.c, gcollect.c) With CHECK_OBJECT_REF, the
        driver continually checks the consistency of the list of
        destructed objects.
    - (doc/efun/get_dir) Updated the manpage and added the german
        version (both provided by Pulami).

05-Mar-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.411)
    - (efuns.c) deep_copy() didn't handle quoted arrays properly (reported
        by Gnomi).
    - (interpret.c) New efun unquote() (suggested by Gnomi).
    - (object, gcollect.c, driver.h) Debug macro CHECK_OBJECT_REF activates
        a trace of blueprint allocations/deallocations, to be used to debug
        the strange refcount bugs recently encountered (b-020228-0).

04-Mar-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.410)
    - (prolang.y) Publically inheriting functions which had been inherited
        protected before now overrides the earlier inherit (f-020303-1).
    - (ptrtable.c) When allocating a new ptable, the .table[] member is
        cleared.
    - (simulate.c) New get_dir() flag GETDIR_PATH adds the full absolute
        pathname to the returned filenames (suggested by Pulami).
    - (interpret.c) If a value of the wrong type is passed to a switch,
        the driver no longer throws a runtime error but instead
        jumps to the 'default' case (suggested by Pulami).

03-Mar-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.409)
    - (simulate.c) When the driver runs on a fatal error, it calls
        the master lfun notify_shutdown() with "Fatal Error" as argument
        before it dumps core.
    - (configure) Added a check for 'bison -y' when looking for YACC.

28-Feb-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.408)
    - (simulate, efuns.c, gcollect.c, interpret.c) In addition to the
        last uncaught-error trace, debug_info() can now also return
        the last error trace in general.

27-Feb-2002 (Lars Duening)
    - (smalloc.c) Corrected the statistics adjustment during the freelist
        consolidation.
    - (backend.c) The check_alarm() method did not recognize the '--no-heart'
        option, eventually turning the alarm() back on (reported by Dafire).

26-Feb-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.407)
    - (efuns.c) Adjusted the terminal_colour() sanity check to acknowledge
        a certain boundary condition; added a test to make sure that
        the indentation is smaller than the wrapping width (reported
        by Menaures).
    - (actions.c) An error in add_action() could cause the driver to free
        memory twice (reported by Menaures).
    - (mapping.c) Several allocations weren't checked for success (reported
        by Menaures).

22-Feb-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.406)
    - (mapping.c, smalloc.c) Improved the diagnostic messages: all are
        now printed to the GC log where they belong.
    - (smalloc.c) Added more data to the statistics diagnostics, by
        default deactivated since I can debug it over time in OSB.
    - (simulate.c) Made the load_object_error() method resistant
        against object names with printf format specifications (reported by
        Gnomi).
    - (mudlib/uni-crasher) Added Menaures' test object to the archive.

21-Feb-2002 (Lars Duening)
    - (smalloc.c) Oops, the statistics diagnostic lacked the 'DEBUG:'
        tag.

20-Feb-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.405)
    - (prolang.y) Variable definitions are now normal statements and
        as such no longer restricted to the beginning of a block (f-000430-1).

17-Feb-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.404)
    - (prolang.y) In a for() loop, variables may now be declared without
        initialisation (e.g. 'for (int i; ...)') (suggested by Pulami).
    - (random.c) Tentatively modified the scaling of the raw random number
        to the desired range so as to avoid overflow problems (investigated by
        Collin Baillie for an Alpha machine). 

15-Feb-2002 (Lars Duening)
    - (prolang.y) The byte move routine to implement call_other sefuns
        by using call_other moved bytes in the wrong direction,
        crashing the driver if this piece of code was executed (reported by
        Coogan).
    - (simul_efun.c) simul-efuns shadowing real efuns were not properly
        discarded, making it impossible to reactive them (which in a 
        way was lucky as it made it possible to find the call_other bug).
    - (interpret.c) The error handling for a secure call did not
        properly roll back the control stack, leaking any closure
        referenced from it (b-990505-0).

13-Feb-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.403)
    - (efuns.c) Efun copy_bits(): I accidentally had deleted the lines
        handling negative deststart values. The efun was also
        prone to numerical overflow effects (reported by Menaures).
    - (gcollect.c) Hmm, clear_object_ref() unconditionally cleared
        the blueprint reference - this should happen only for
        destructed blueprints. Dunno if this was responsible for
        the recent crashes in FinalFrontier.
    - (sprintf.c) sprintf("%-=10s", "a\nb\n") printed two extra
        newlines at the end instead of just one (reported by Gnomi).
         
11-Feb-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.402)
    - (comm.c) If on shutdown players were already destructed in
        notify_shutdown(), the following remove_player() was passed
        destructed objects (reported by Dafire).
    - (efuns.c) Corrected a crasher in the new efun copy_bits().
    - (efuns.c) copy_bits() malfunctioned if src range to copy ended
        in unset bits (reported by Menaures).
    - (efuns.c) In efun terminal_colour(), the wrapping analysis had
        to be separated from the initial length gathering since the
        analysis requires all lengths to be available. Without the
        separation, the driver ran into a fatal sanity error on some
        input values (reported by Dafire).
    - (actions.c) Argument errors in add_action() would leak the
        action sentence.

09-Feb-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.401)
    - (efuns, func_spec) New efun copy_bits() to copy ranges of
         bitstrings (based on code provided by Menaures).
    - (interpret.c) And nobody noticed that set_bit() was broken :-)
    - (efuns.c) Efun terminal_colour(): In wrapped formatting, when a
         word is too long to fit on a line by itself and there are at least
         two characters space left on the current line, the long word is begun
         immediately.  Previously, such long words were always printed on a
         line of their own (suggested by Fiona).

07-Feb-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.400)
    - (ed, comm, efuns) Modified the print_prompt() routine so that
         the editor prompt is take directly from the editor buffer.
         This allows to get rid of the swapping of editor and normal command
         prompts, which may also have been responsible for the memory
         leaks reported in b-020205-0 (though I can't prove that). As an
         aside, the f_set_prompt() function moved from efuns.c to comm.c .
    - (actions.c) If notify_fail() was not used from an undestructed
         command giver, the given failure notice value leaked (b-020205-1).

07-Feb-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.399)
    - (bugs/) Cleaned up the bug reports.

06-Feb-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.398)
    - (sprintf.c) In justified column formatting, when a word is too
         long to fit on a line by itself and there are at least two characters
         space left on the current line, the long word is begun immediately.
         Previously, such long words were always printed on a line of their
         own (suggested by Fiona).

06-Feb-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.397)
    - (bugs) Added more information about memory leaks.

05-Feb-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.396)
    - (mapping.c) The diagnostic in count_mapping_size() forgot to check
         for a NULL uid (thanks, Ben!)
    - (prolang.y) Inherited public but undefined function were hidden
         by (simul-)efuns of the same name, making a resolution by
         crossdefinition through another inherited module impossible
         (reported by Fiona).

03-Feb-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.395)
    - (simulate, prolang.y, lex.c) Added a limit safety check to
        limit_error_format(), and increased the buffer sizes for the
        error messages (reported by Gnomi).

01-Feb-2002 (Lars Duening)
    - (smalloc.c) Added a check routine for the 'Total small memory'
         statistics - I think there is a miscalculation in the
         freelist consolidation.

31-Jan-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.394)
    - (mapping.c) Added diagnostic statements to count_mapping_size()
         in order to find the place where the mappings statistics
         is screwed up.
    - (interpret.c) If input_to() was used without command giver,
         a NULL pointer string was pushed onto the interpreter stack
         due to a missing check in the privilege_violation4()
         function (reported by Menaures).

30-Jan-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.393)
    - (gcollect.c) The GC forgot to clear the refcounts in the known
         destructed objects, thus sometimes causing a 'First reference
         to program, but refcount != 0' fatal error (reported by Coogan,
         reproduced by Menaures).
    - (interpret.c) replace_program() without argument can now skip
         the extra inherits added by the compiler to accomodate
         virtual variables (reported by Nathan).

26-Jan-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.392)
    - (prolang.y) The wildcarded supercall "*":: no longer throws an
         error if none of the inherited objects defines the called function.
         It fits into the semantics of the '*' wildcard ("any or none"), and
         it is practical for supercalls like "*"::reset() (suggested by
         Zonk@Finalfrontier via Dafire).

25-Jan-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.391)
    - (object.c) Made an error message more informative.

23-Jan-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.390)
    - (prolang.y) The '::' operator did not recognize the separate
        namespaces of local variables and functions (reported by
        Imp via Gnomi).
    - (func_spec, prolang.y, interpret.c) Added new bytecode instructions
        nconst1 and nnumber to handle negative constants better (especially
        __INT_MIN__) (reported by Menaures).
    - (efuns.c, interpret.c, mapping.c) check_map_for_destr() wasn't
        called before copying or subtracting mappings (reported by Coogan).
    - (strfuns) Added some 'const' qualifiers.
    - (simulate.c) Improved the loadtime error messages: they now print
        the inheritance chain (suggested by Gnomi).
    - (etc/memusage) Provided by Fiona - thanks!

17-Jan-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.389)
    - (interpret.c) The division <int>/<float> used a random
        value for the divident (reported by Pulami).
    - (simul_efun, simulate.c) Destructing the simul-efun object
        immediately invalidates all simul-efuns; this should reduce
        the number of 'undefined function' errors when doing manual
        reloads of the simul-efun object.
    - (make_func.y) Removed a small memory leak.
    - (smalloc.c, prolang.y, closure.c) Modified some memory accesses
        in order to keep Memory Check tools like ZeroFault happy.
    - (regexp.c) The .from_ed member in a newly compiled regexp
        wasn't set.
    - (object.c) One variable wasn't set.

16-Jan-2002 (Lars Duening)
    - (simul_efun) When reloading the simul-efun objects, all previous
        sefuns are discarded and removed from the symbol table. Otherwise
        if the simul-efun object used cross-defined sefuns itself, the
        recompiled object would not recognize the cross-defined calls
        and instead pick up the older inactive entry from the symbol
        table. This problem may still occur when reloading a simul-efun
        object by hand (reported by Coogan and some other people).
    - (lex) Inferior identifier entries now have their own string
        reference.
    - (lex.h, prolang.y) The magic values for ident_t.u.global now
        have symbolic names.

15-Jan-2002 (Lars Duening)
    - (configure) Fiona did more analysis on the rxcache hash and found
        out that using a prime table size doesn't help. I set the size back
        to 8192; let's see how bad the collisions are at this small table
        size.

14-Jan-2002 (Lars Duening)
    - (interpret.c) The overflow error messages for float divisions
        named the wrong values (thanks, Guandalug!).

12-Jan-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.388)
    - (configure.in) Fiona pointed out that just halving the rxcache
        size doesn't seem to increase the fill ratio. As an experiment
        I now set the default size to prime 8191.
    - (interpret.c) The float range checks stupidly compared against
        DBL_MIN for the low limit instead of -DBL_MAX (reported by Ben).
    - (stralloc.c, debug_info) Added a few more string table statistics.

10-Jan-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.387)
    - (lex.c) Added new predefined macros __FLOAT_MIN__ and __FLOAT_MAX__
        for the float value limits.
    - (interpret.c) Added checks for numeric overflows to float operations.
        Btw, <int> / <float> returned a wrong result.
    - (configure.in) Reduced the default size of the RXCACHE table to 8192
        instead of 16384 entries.

08-Jan-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.386)
    - (efuns.c) Efun terminal_colour() removed a crasher which happened
        when too many control sequences appeared in a line (reported by Peng).
    - (autoconf/configure.in) Added icc compiler option '-ipo' to highest
        optimisation tests.
    - (make_func.y, comm.c, lex.c, interpret.c) Removed a couple (but not all)
        warnings generated by the Intel Compiler (reported by Dafire).

03-Jan-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.385)
    - (gcollect.c) Forgot to clear the refcounts in the list of
        destructed objects. Oops.
    - (object.c) free_prog() now also frees its blueprint reference, which
        should remove at least one major refcount leak.
    - (lp-245/obj/master.c, lp-245/obj/player.c) Small corrections.

02-Jan-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.384)
    - (simulate.c) Corrected the misformatting in 'status'.
    - (simulate, comm.c) Corrected a potential crasher when bad arguments
        are passed to efun input_to(): the embedded callback structure
        wasn't initialized properly, so that the free_input_to() got
        garbage data instead of pointers (reported by Menaures).
    - (util/xerq/erq.c) Reduced the amount of crap printed in DEBUG
        configuration.
    - (gcollect.c) There seems to be a problem with leaking object refcounts,
        so that destructed objects are tagged as 'referenced' even if they
        aren't. The GC will eventually free the memory itself, but inavoidably
        mess up the object statistics. As a first measure the GC after
        the mark phase checks the list of destructed objects if any
        of the objects on it haven't been referenced yet. If so, the
        objects concerned are logged and then explicitely included into
        the list of objects to free. This way at least the object statistics
        will be kept in sync for the time being.

01-Jan-2002 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.383)
    - (gcollect.c, simulate, comm) The GC now removes all stale objects
        referenced from the interactive structures during the cleanup phase.
        As a side effect, callbacks may no longer reference destructed
        objects during the clearing/counting phase of a GC.
    - (actions, main.c, backend.c, efuns.c, gcollect.c, interpret.c,
       simulate, dumpstat, mudlib/sys/debug_info) Destructed objects
        are now kept in a separate list in order to aid mudadmins in analysing
        the memory usage of their muds. debug_info(DINFO_STATUS) returns the
        statistics in the new fields DID_ST_OBJECTS_NEWLY_DEST and _DEST;
        debug_info(DINFO_DUMP, "destructed") dumps the lists to a file; and
        the builtin commands 'status tables' and 'dumpallobj' have been
        updated accordingly.

31-Dec-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.382)
    - (interpret.c) to_string() can now handle operator closures (suggested
        by Gnomi).

30-Dec-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.381)
    - (interpret.c) abs(INT_MIN) now generates an overflow error (reported
        by Menaures).
    - (driver.h, mapping, smalloc) If debug macro CHECK_MAPPING_TOTAL
        is defined, ever change in the registered mapping size statistics
        is accompanied with a sanity check. If the check fails, a
        DEBUG message is generated on stderr.
    - (sprintf.c) When adding columns, a one-line column ending with a
        newline inserted the newline on-the spot instead of delaying
        it until the end of the line as it was done with multiline
        columns (reported by Gnomi).

29-Dec-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (driver/dumpallobj, efun/debug_info) Explained the format of
        the OBJDUMP file.
    - (settings/tubmud) Updated (thanks, Coogan!)

28-Dec-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.380)
    - (interpret.c) When calling a simul_efun in a vanished object, the
        local stackpointer of eval_instruction() was not synchronized
        with inter_sp after the call (reported by Gnomi).
    - (simul_efun.c) When reloading a simul_efun object, the check for
        old sefuns to reactivate ignored changes in the TYPE_MOD_XVARARGS
        flag. Since the exact format of the F_SIMUL_EFUN instruction depends
        on this flag, this could trip the bytecode interpreter (reported by
        Gnomi).
    - (mudlib/astar.c) An implementation of the A* pathfinding algorithm,
        donated by Acius (thanks!).

21-Dec-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.379)
    - (simulate.c) When checking the refcounts, the extra_refs in objects
        named in callbacks weren't counted corrected (reported by Tomba).
    - (gcollect, call_out.c, simulate.c) Removed knowledge about the
        GC internals from call_outs and callbacks.

19-Dec-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.378)
    - (interpret.c) Corrected a wrong variable initialisation in
         efun say() (reported by Nostradamus).

14-Dec-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (interpret.c) Efun set_this_object() queried the master and
         simul-efun object without checking if they actually exist.

12-Dec-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.377)
    - (call_out.c) Efun call_out_info() did not return the target object
         if the call_out is a closure (reported by Menaures).
    - (interpret.c) The increment and decrement operators were missing the
         overflow checks (reported by Freaky).
    - (lex.c) New LPC defines __INT_MAX__ and __INT_MIN__ for the numeric
         integer limits.
    - (interpret.c) Another overflow check, this time for __INT_MIN__ / -1
         (reported by Menaures).
    - (interpret.c) Corrected the bugfix to the say() refcount problem
         (thanks, Tomba!)

11-Dec-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (comm.c) TELOPT_TM can now be negotiated from the mudlib as well
         (reported by Peng).

11-Dec-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.376)
    - (interpret.c) Additions, subtractions and multiplications now
         check for numeric overflows.

11-Dec-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.375)
    - (interpret.c, mapping.c) Oops, the new checks also introduced
         divisions by 0 (reported by Menaures).
    - (sprintf.c) Runtime fieldsize specification by '%*' didn't check
         if the size was given as MIN_INT: it would try to negate it
         to get the positive number, but fail and cause the formatting
         routines to crash under circumstances (reported by Menaures).

10-Dec-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.374)
    - (interpret.c) gcc 2.91 on Linux/x86 generates buggy code for
         MIN_INT % -1, so this case is now explicitely check for
         (reported by Menaures).
    - (interpret.c) Multiplication of a string with a number was
         not checked for numeric overflows in the computation of
         the result length (reported by Menaures).
    - (smalloc.c) Added a check against numeric overflows in the
         computation of the final memory block size.
    - (mapping.c) When allocating/resizing mappings, a check against
         numeric overflows in the size computations has been added
         (reported Menaures).
    - 3.2.9-dev.373 had an extraneous debug statement.

05-Dec-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.372)
    - (backend.c) Before calling reset() or clean_up() from the backend,
        the previous_object is cleared (reported by Gnomi).
    - (main.c) New commandline option:
          --random-seed <num>
            Seed value for the random number generator. If not given, the
            driver chooses a seed value on its own.
            This option is for debugging.
    - (interpret.c) The mysterious code in calling alien lfun closures to
        create a second control frame, deactivated in dev.318, revealed
        its purpose: when for such a closure the bound object l->ob
        differs from the code object l->function.alien.ob, this fact
        needs to be recorded in order to prevent security holes. So the
        code fragment has been activated again with a small change: the
        second control frame will be created only if the two objects
        differ (unknowingly suggested by Menaures).

04-Dec-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.371)
    - (interpret.c) When doing a call_other on an array, inter_sp
        was incorrect while getting the object. An error there
        then could clobber memory.
    - (backend) Added in internal flag 'mud_is_up' for debugging.
    - (main.c) The initial random seed is printed for debugging
        purposes.

28-Nov-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.370)
    - (interpret.c) In-place execution of invert_bits() returned an
        invalid svalue.
    - (prolang.y) Another correction to the bugfix of Gimli's problem
        (reported by Freaky).
    - (lex.c) Line number counting was thrown off by one by the
        auto-include string (reported by Menaures and Nathan).

27-Nov-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.369)
    - (prolang.y) The bugfix to Gimlis problem unfortunately broke a couple
        of muds. This version works better (reported by many people).
    - (array.c) Removed a memory leak in inherit_list()s error handling.

25-Nov-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.368)
    - (mudlib/sys/functionlist.h) Changed the <> include of lpctypes.h
        into a "" include (suggested by Heiko).
    - (prolang.y) Inheriting two private functions of the same caused the
        compiler to crossdefine the second one to the first. Not directly
        visible to the user, this messed up any use of these functions
        by INITIALIZATION_BY___INIT (reported by Gimli).
    - (interpret.c) Efun replace_program() can omit the argument if the
        object has only one inherit (suggested by Pulami).

23-Nov-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.367)
    - (object.c) Efun say() could leak object references (reported by Tomba).
    - (mudlib/sys/functionlist.h) Changed the absolute include of lpctypes.h
        into a <> include (suggested by Heiko).

21-Nov-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (pkg-mysql.c) Using the mysql->thread_id as handle proved to be
        unreliable as the thread_id may change. Instead an explicit
        handle is now used (thanks, Fuchur!).
    - (ed.c) Added command 'T' to perform Tab <-> Whitespace conversion
        (thanks, Menaures!).

20-Nov-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.366)
    - (sprintf.c) Printing a table modified the internal precision information
        without making a backup. If now the table was applied to an array
        of data ("%#99999999999@s" format string), formatting the second
        line would cause a crash (reported by Menaures).
    -  (doc/efun/snoop) Corrected the manpage: snooping an already snooped
        player terminates the previous snoop (reported by Zordiac).

19-Nov-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.365)
    - (sprintf.c) It was possible to instruct sprintf to format a string
        as both columns and as a table. sprintf() then formatted it as
        columns, but any error (like buffer overflow) would crash the
        driver. The error recovery is now more robust, and such an invalid
        format string is rejected (reported by Menaures).
    - (sprintf.c) Max size of the result is now 128 KByte.
    - (lex.c) A H_AUTO_INCLUDE closure also receives a flag telling if
        it was a <>-type include or not (suggested by Freaky).
    - (interpret.c) Efuns and_bits(), or_bits(), xor_bits() mishandled
        the bits 5, 11, 17, ... (thanks, Fuchur!)
    - (prolang.y) The bugfix yesterday was not quite correct: a pair
        of missing parentheses completely changed the meaning of the
        check for private inherited functions, causing the driver to crash
        (reported by Freaky).

18-Nov-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.364)
    - (array.c) Efun inherit_list: the tagging of virtual inherits
        returned a random value for the main program (reported by Freaky).
    - (prolang.y) Inherited private functions could hide simul-efuns
        or efuns (reported by Gnomi).
    - (lex.c) If H_AUTO_INCLUDE is set to a closure, it will be called
        for all files opened by the lexer. A second argument passed to
        the closure determines whether the call is for the object file
        itself or for an included file (suggested by Freaky).
    - (func_spec, array, exec.h, prolang.y) New efun include_list()
        to return the filenames read when compiling a program.
    - (efuns.c) Added the number of included files to the result
        of object_info(OINFO_MEMORY).

17-Nov-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.363)
    - (comm.c) Oops, two bugs found.

17-Nov-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.362)
    - (comm) Efun input_to() now accepts a prompt parameter, specifying
        the prompt to print.
    - (array.c, exec.h, mudlib/sys/inherit_list.h) New flag for efun
        inherit_list() allows to tag virtual inherits in the result 
        (rest of f-991020-0).
    - (doc/concepts/hooks) Corrected the docs for the MODIFY_COMMAND hooks.

17-Nov-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.361)
    - (func_spec, prolang.y, make_func, lex, simulate) Replaced the efun
        set_auto_include_string() with the driver hook H_AUTO_INCLUDE.
        Additionally, a closure can be used to generate the auto include
        data (f-000505, f-011026-2, f-990316-1).
    - (simulate.c) Removed a small memory leak in set_driver_hook():
        replacing hooks leaked the old hook data.

16-Nov-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.360)
    - (sys/debug_info.h, smalloc.c) Efun debug_info(): macro DID_SBRK_SIZE was
        typoed as DID_SBKR_SIZE.
    - (sys/debug_info.h, smalloc.c) Efun debug_info(): added the derived
        statistics DID_MEM_ALLOCATED, _USED and _TOTAL_UNUSED to the
        DINFO_DATA:DID_MEMORY data.
    - (interpret.c) The stack overflow error handling forgot to update
        the stack pointer after cleaning up the stack, causing some
        svalues to be freed twice (reported by Coogan).
    - (efuns.c) Efun terminal_colour(): Temporary values are no longer
        held directly on the stack, but instead in an array on the stack,
        thus greatly reducing the stack usage for strings with lots of
        colour codes.

15-Nov-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.359)
    - (lex.c) If H_INCLUDE_DIRS is set to an array of directory names,
        the names can now have leading '/' (reported by Nathan).
    - (mapping.c) check_map_for_destr() didn't check if the mapping
        actually had a condensed part - this can happen when called
        from compact_mappings() (reported by Freaky).
    - (interpret.c) Improved the stack overflow checking a bit, and for
        some function calls the local variables were allocated twice.
    - (interpret.c) member() and member_array() used with closures
        didn't always find them (reported by Gnomi).

14-Nov-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.358)
    - (gcollect.c) Tweaks to the information dumped on fatals.
    - (driver.h, gcollect) New debug macro DUMP_GC_REFS (in driver.h)
        instructs the GC to list all found references on the gcollect_outfd.
        Off by default, this macro should be defined only by people
        getting fatal()s like 'First reference to destructed object, but
        ref count != 0'.
    - (main) New function dprintf4().
    - (mapping.c) compact_mappings() did not remove destructed objects
        and closures from the mapping (reported by Menaures).

13-Nov-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.357)
    - (gcollect.c, smalloc.c) Removed the compilation problem when
        MALLOC_LPC_TRACE is not defined (reported by Menaures).
    - (smalloc.c) The computation of a 'magic' word in the freelist
        consolidation was wrong, causing bus errors in Tubmud.
    - (mud/lp-245) Modified to no longer use deprecated functions
        (thanks, Coogan!)
    - (simulate.c) Added missing newlines to some error messages
        (thanks, Freaky!)
    - (efuns.c) Efun transfer() miscalculated the weights when the
        target wasn't a living (reported by Zordiac).
    - (driver.h) Since FinalFrontier is now running two weeks without
        a problem, I deactivated the mapping check code.
    - And Zordiac informed me that Deeper Trouble is now running natively
        on LDMud.

12-Nov-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.356)
    - (make_func.y) Lexer now understands lines terminated with CRLFs
        instead of just LFs (reported by Holger).
    - (gcollect.c) When a 'First ref to' with unmatching refcount
        is encountered, the memory allocation information is dumped, too.

24-Oct-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.355)
    - (object.c) Efun inherit_list() can now return the inheritance
        structure as a tree (part of f-991020-0).
    - (backend.c) If a closure is used with regreplace(), it will be
        passed the position of the found substring, too (suggested
        by Alfe).
    - (comm.c) New efun remove_input_to() (part of f-000530).

23-Oct-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (doc/efun/terminal_colour) Improved the explanation of the key
        recognition strategy, and added a MudOS simulation function
        courtesy of Fiona.

21-Oct-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.354)
    - (actions.c) Removed a crasher when add_action() was performed between
        two objects with no environment (thanks, Fuchur!).

18-Oct-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.353)
    - (mapping.c) The search loops for condensed misc keys terminated one
        iteration too late before declaring a key as not found, which
        occasionally led to 'finding' a key which wasn't really there.
        Especially in remove_mapping() this led to clobbered memory.
        This probably fixes b-000218, b-000822 and b-000207; maybe
        even some of the other strange crashers.
    - (sprintf.c) Removed a crasher in justified formatting when the string
        to format contained only one word (reported by Slava and Coogan).
    - (doc/LPC/arrays, doc/efun/sprintf) Improved examples by
        Coogan (thanks!).

17-Oct-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.352)
    - (interpret.c) I had to deactivate the check against negative
        range assignments - this feature is in fact in use (thanks,
        Coogan and Alfe - and sorry!)

14-Oct-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.351)
    - (mapping, xalloc.c) Didn't compile with sysmalloc as allocator.

12-Oct-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.350)
    - (sprintf.c) Improved the flushing algorithm: spaces are more
        evenly distributed, newlines in columns didn't work properly
        (reported by Slava).
    - (lots of files) Renamed closure_hook[] to the more sensical
        driver_hook[].
    - (erq, xerq) Erq now accepts an '--execdir' argument to override
        the default ERQ_DIR setting (suggested by Freaky).
    - (main, comm.c) It is now possible to pass simple arguments to the
        erq with the --erq commandline option (suggested by Freaky).

11-Oct-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.349)
    - (sprintf.c) New formatting modifier '$' allows flush formatting
        of strings and columns of strings (f-010717).

09-Oct-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (gcollect.c) Increased the refcount of an destructed referenced
        object before recursing into the substructures - I have the
        feeling that there was a possible race condition, but I can't
        prove it.

08-Oct-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.348)
    - (prolang.y) Function definition errors and warnings now all print
        the name of the function involved (suggested by Freaky).
    - (simulate.c) Shadowing a nomask function now prints the names of
        objects involved as well (suggested by Freaky).

07-Oct-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.347)
    - (mapping.c) Darn, I introduced a bug in the diagnostic code of
        the last patch. Sorry! (reported by Freaky)

06-Oct-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.346)
    - (mapping) Added some more diagnostic regarding the Finalfrontier bug:
        the culprit really seems to be in remove_mapping(). Now, when
        the bug is detected, a trace of the activities in remove_mapping()
        is printed as well.

06-Oct-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.345)
    - (prolang.y) Warnings about redefinition of visibility apply
        to prototype/functions only, but no longer to redefinitions
        of inherited functions.

05-Oct-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (lex.c) Termination of a macro definition in an include file
        with End-of-file confused the lexer (reported by Tomi).
    - (comm) If a message had to be discarded due to contention (EWOULDBLOCK),
        the user will receive a information message at the next possible
        opportunity.

04-Oct-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (efuns) Renamed efun md5_encrypt() to md5().

03-Oct-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.344)
    - (prolang.y) Prototypes no longer modify the definition of inherited
        functions in strange ways (reported by Fiona).

01-Oct-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.343)
    - (prolang.y) The check for redefinition of 'nomask' functions no longer
        worked (reported by Gimli).

30-Sep-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.342)
    - (lex.c) Added a warning about empty #pragmas (reported by Slava).
    - (interpret.c) Tracing no longer crashes when the command_giver
        turns non-interactive (reported by Dafire).

28-Sep-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.341)
    - (lex.c) Spaces before the lineend caused the lexer to complain about
        an unrecognized pragma, even though the pragma had been recognized
        (reported by Dafire and Slava).
    - (efuns.c) Efun terminal_colour(): The escape sequence '%%^^' is
        now recognized and replaced by '%^' as is '%^%^' already. This is
        for compatibility with MudOS drivers (suggested by Fiona).
    - (telnet.h, comm.c) Added support for mudlib negotiation of MCP, MSP
        and MXP through the normal H_TELNET_NEG hook (suggested by Markus
        Peter).
    - (interpret.c, lex.c, smalloc.c) Made it work on Linux s/390 (a machine
        where char's are by default unsigned) (provided by Freaky).

27-Sep-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.340)
    - (lex.c) Pragma recognition no longer stumbles over CRs at the line
        end (reported by Freaky and Slava).
    - (interpret.c) The idiom of assigning to a range [i..i-1] in order to
        insert elements is legal again - a lot of mudlibs already use it
        (reported by Andre).

26-Sep-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.339)
    - (mapping.c) Finalfrontier was caught by the diagnostic added in dev.337,
        this time in remove_mapping(). I added more diagnostics there.
    - (interpret.c) Assignments to negative length ranges (eg. [3..2]) are
        caught and throw an error (reported by Gimli and Pulami).
    - (gcollect.c) Printing memory information during a GC is more robust
        against string NULL pointers (reported by Freaky).
    - (lex.c) It is possible to specify multiple pragmas in one #pragma
        statement, separated by commas (suggested by Largo).

18-Sep-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.338)
    - (mapping.c) Somehow a syntax error managed to get into the file
        after I tested it :-( (reported by Dafire and Freaky).
        
17-Sep-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.337)
    - (mapping.c) Some more diagnostic code for the hash->condensed_deleted
        suspect. Also, last_instructions() is no longer called when not
        using TRACE_CODE (reported by Fiona).

08-Sep-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.336)
    - (interpret.c) The test if a function call should be trace or not
        was done against the command_giver, not against the
        current_interactive as documented (reported by Gnomi).
    - (simulate.c) When entering a fatal(), the given format string is
        printed as is to stderr (just a precaution).
    - (smalloc.c) The 'magic match' failed messages now give the expected
        block address and sizes, too.
    - (lex.c) Added warning when an unknown pragma is encountered (suggested
        by Robert).

06-Sep-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.335)
    - (mapping.c) Some more diagnostic code for the mapping bug: at the
        moment I suspect that hash->condensed_deleted gets out of sync.

05-Sep-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.334)
    - (prolang.y) The driver couldn't handle (multiple?) second-level inherits
        of a 'private nomask' function, which inline closure now are (reported
        by Bardioc).

03-Sep-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.333)
    - (interpret.c, mapping) Some more debugging code: if an illegal mapping
        size is detected, the MALLOC_TRACE information is printed. I also added
        checks to certain suspicious VM instructions - I hope that I won't have
        to check all mappings after each instruction.
    - (xalloc, smalloc) New helper function dump_malloc_trace() to, well, dump
        the malloc trace if there is one.

31-Aug-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.332)
    - (efuns.c) Well, the recent change didn't fix terminal_colour(), so
        I changed it back again.
    - (lex.c) The lfuns implementing inline closures are now 'private nomask',
      which is the real solution unlike the one implemented in 3.2.9-dev.260
      (suggested by Freaky).
    - (efuns.c) If terminal_colour() was used with a closure returning a
        computed string, the ever call (but the first) within the same
        formatting clobbered the result from the previous one (reported by Ben
        and Elric).
    - (swap.c) Oops, when adjusting the allocation statistics after
        swapping out variables, the driver occasionally tried to dereference
        a non-existing pointer (reported by Ben and Nostradamus).
    - (mudlib/sys/lpcytpes.h) The values to be returned by functionlist() were
        out of sync with what functionlist() really returned (reported by
        Freaky).

30-Aug-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.331)
    - (mapping.c) Since the Finalfrontier mapping bug still occurs, 
        I added some more instrumentation to the module.
    - (efuns.c) Tentative change to correct an obscure bug in the
        terminal_colour() code. Let's see if it's going to work.

29-Aug-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.330)
    - (smalloc.c) Corrected a small statistics problem in the
        freelist consolidation: some unusable space was counted
        twice (b-010713-0, b-000830).
    - (swap.c) When swapping variables, the object allocation size
        statistics wasn't updated.
    - (lex.c) Multi-dimensional array indices in macro calls are no longer
        confused with multiple macro arguments (reported by Freaky).

28-Aug-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.329)
    - (interpret.c) More corrections to the refcount checking code.
        Furthermore, an failure no longer crashes the driver (but
        generates lots of debugging output)
        (reported by Tomba).
    - (pkg-mysql.c) Removed a memory leak caused by the result set
        not begin freed after all the data has been fetched.
    - (backend.c) Added safeguard so that slow_shut_down() is not
        called repeated while a previous one is still pending (suggested by
        Dafire).

28-Aug-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.328)
    - (interpret.c) The reference loop check was too strict and also
        flagged legal assignments (thanks, Dan).

27-Aug-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.327)
    - (interpret.c) Improved the check for reference loop creation on
        assignment (suggested by Menaures).
    - (interpret.c) When reloading the master object, the driver freed
        through the driver hooks some object references it shouldn't free
        (reported by Tomba).

26-Aug-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.326)
    - (simulate.c) Running the driver with '-d -d' crashed it when loading
        objects.
    - (interpret.c) The refcount check for got to count the blueprint
        reference in programs (reported by Tomba).
    - (smalloc.c) The check against MAX_MALLOCED was incomplete and
        could lead to use of foreign memory (reported by Menaures).

24-Aug-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (func_spec) Even though the efun get_type_info() was supposed to
        take an arbitrary type as second argument, it wasn't declared that
        way (thanks, Fiona!).

23-Aug-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.325)
    - (array.c) ERQ callbacks for a destructed object don't have a
        current_object at the time the error occurs. The error handling code
        allocates an array, but the array code was still assuming that
        current_object is always valid (b-990217-4) (reported by Fiona).
    - (prolang.y) Redefining an inherited private function with a non-private
        one, and then inheriting the redefinition didn't work (reported by
        Menaures).

22-Aug-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.324)
    - (interpret.c) The lambda protection had a bug: when a non-lambda closure
         was called from within an executed lambda, the lambda closure was
         accidentally freed (reported by Fiona).
    - (sprintf.c) *blush* I completely forgot to add the terminator 0 after
         creating the quoted representation of a string (thanks, Menaures!).

21-Aug-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.323)
    - (prolang.y) The 'private' correction caused the driver to crash
         under obscure circumstances. I implemented the correction now
         in a different way, and it seems to work now (reported by Bardioc and
         many others).
    - (prolang.y) If an efun was called with too many arguments, the
         extraneous args were popped twice from the argument stack, so that
         subsequent function calls clobbered memory (reported by Dafire).
    - (sprintf.c) For the new '%Q' format, string length is now computed
         with strlen() instead of svalue_strlen() - the latter is too
         sensitive towards constructed strings (reported by Menaures).
    - (simulate.c) Added an error when the time left for a catch() is less
         than the reserved cost.

19-Aug-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.322)
    - (prolang.y) Defining a function which is also a private function in an
         inherited object no longer redefines the inherited one (reported by
         Bardioc and Menaures).
    - (sprintf.c) Closures on inherited lfuns are printed with the defining
         program for the %O format.
    - (sprintf.c) New format specifier 'Q' acts like 'O', except that special
         characters in strings are quoted (suggested by Menaures).

15-Aug-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.321)
    - (interpret.c) Holding a reference on a lambda works much better
         if the code actually increment the correct refcount.

14-Aug-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.320)
    - (interpret) The VM now holds a reference on a lambda while it is
         executed, preventing premature destructions (reported by Dan and
         Fiona).
    - (simulate, actions.c, backend.c, comm.c, gcollect.c) Since the VM
         now protects lambdas during their execution, the free_closure_hooks()
         hack is no longer needed. For now, the code has been just
         deactivated.
    - (interpret.c) Corrected late-night errors in efuns ceil() and floor()
         (reported by Niels).

13-Aug-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (mapping.c) Adding a mapping to itself via 'm += m' freed svalues first,
      then used them as data for assignment (reported by Patryn).

12-Aug-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (func_spec) Somehow the change for sizeof() didn't make it into
         the distribution (reported by Menaures).

07-Aug-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.319)
    - (lex.c) The recognition of numeric character constants was slightly
         wrong (thanks, Fiona).

06-Aug-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (interpret.c) Efun program_name() now accepts 0 as
         argument and pass it through (suggested by Niels).
    - (func_spec, interpret.c) Efuns floor() and ceil() also accept integer
         argument values  (suggested by Niels).

05-Aug-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.318)
    - (simulate.c) Destructing an object with a single shadow crashed the
         driver (reported by Craig).
    - (interpret.c) Efuns load_name() and object_name() now accept 0 as
         argument and pass it through (suggested by Niels).
    - (interpret.c) Calling an alien-lfun created two control frames instead
         of just one, with no obvious purpose. I removed one of the frames
         but commenting out the code, so if it is needed nonetheless, it
         will be easy to reactivate (reported by Niels).
    - (interpret.c) For the first 255 simul-efuns it is now permissible to
         receive references in a varargs parameter, e.g. to implement
         a simulated call_other(). Handle with care! (reported by Coogan)
    - (configure) Improved the search for mySQL libraries - it is amazing in
         how many different ways this package is installed.

02-Aug-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (interpret.c) Corrected a wrong function argument (reported by Freaky).

01-Aug-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.317)
    - (prolang.y) The error message for the case that a wildcarded super
         call tried to pass arguments was confusing (reported by Gimli).
    - (interpret.c) Efun sizeof() can be used on strings (suggested by Niels).

31-Jul-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.316)
    - (pkg-mysql.c) Fixed a syntax error. It sucks that I can't compile
         this file at home, doesn't it?
    - (lex.c) A preprocessor statement following a macro redefinition
         wasn't recognized because the macro parsing code clobbered
         the newline character (thanks, Fuchur!).

26-Jul-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.315)
    - (lex.c) The redefinition of a macro messed up the list of defines,
        eventually crashing the driver (reported by Freaky).
    - (efuns.c) Using terminal_colour() with a closure as lookup method
        an a non-tabled keyword crashed the driver (reported by Elric).
    - (simulate.c) Clones no longer inherit the current O_WILL_CLEAN_UP
        flag from their blueprint - it didn't make sense (thanks, Niels!).

25-Jul-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.314)
    - (sprintf.c) Printing numbers with leading zeroes and a sign character
        printed the sign in the wrong place (reported by Dafire).
    - (backend.c) The check_alarm() function did not quite work right
        (thanks, Coogan!).
    - (backend.c) Efun regreplace(): Pattern which could match on the
        empty string matched once too often at string end.
        E.g. regreplace("blah fasel", ".*", "ERSATZ", 1) returned
        "ERSATZERSATZ" instead of just "ERSATZ" (thanks, Fiona!).
    - (typedefs.h) Upped the StrRefCount type to 'unsigned long' (b-010320).
    - (lex.c) Redefinition of a macro yields a warning even if the
        definition doesn't change (suggested by Gnomi).
    - (backend.c, simulate.c) The initial setting of the O_WILL_CLEAN_UP flag
        checked for the hardcoded "clean_up" lfun instead for what the
        H_CLEAN_UP hook said. Also, the documentation was slightly out
        of sync with the reality (thanks, Niels!).
    - (mysql.c) db_error() used a non-existing argument (thanks, Dafire!).

17-Jul-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.313)
    - (array, gcollect.c, mapping) The GC now recounts the number of arrays 
        and mappings in the game (reported by Niels).
    - (prolang.y) If the compiler detects a function call with too many
        arguments, the subsequent argument type checks were wrong
        (reported by Fiona).
    - (sprintf.c) Instead of using the new modifier '$', the efun now
        uses the existence of an explicite pad string specification
        as flag whether to remove pad space before new lines or not.
        This is actually more logical to use than a modifier (suggested
        by Largo).
    - (actions.c) The special command 'malloc' now follows the
        'is_wizard' handling of the other special commands (thanks,
        Niels).

16-Jul-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.312)
    - (gcollect.c) Oops. Freeing a circular array reference with
        MALLOC_LPC_TRACE enabled crashed the driver in the dump
        of the array contents.

15-Jul-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.311)
    - (actions, simulate) Removing or destructing a shadow now properly
        removes all associated actions (reported by Nathan).
    - (actions.c) New add_action() flag AA_IMM_ARGS implements the sane
        NOSPACE argument handling.

15-Jul-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.310)
    - (configure) When testing for mySQL, the driver automatically checks
         in /usr/local/include as well (some systems don't have it the
         default include path).
    - (configure) Added a check for 'minimal optimization' options.
    - (configure) When compiling on Windows, link in a couple of more
         libraries. This might not be fully correct yet.
    - (make_func.y) Removed a couple of warnings under gcc 3.0 (thanks,
        Largo!).
    - (comm.c) On a regular shutdown, stop the erq demon explicitely.
    - (main.c) When compiling for MSDOS_FS, the erq pathname wasn't built
        correctly (reported by Coogan).
    - (sprintf.c) Simul-efun closures printed with %O are marked as such.
    - (closure.c) Comparison of operator, efun, and simul-efun closures
        was instable (reported by Nathan).

13-Jul-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.309)
    - (interpret.c, comm.c, parse.c, parse_old.c) Removed a couple of
        undefined behaviours, detected by gcc 3.0 (thanks, Largo!)
    - (sprintf.c) Format modifier '$' instructs (s)printf() to not remove
         padding white space before a lineend.
    - (efuns) New efuns gmtime() and localtime() to return the time broken
         up into its constituents (suggested by Markus Peter).
    - (lex.c) Escaped character constants are now only parsed up to a
         maximum length. If no valid digits are found, the whole item
         is simply treated as escaped character (thanks, Fiona!).

05-Jul-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.308)
    - (prolang.y) It is now possible again to redefine a non-static inherited
         variable with a static one (or vice versa), but it also generates
         a warning.
    - (doc/concepts/intermud*) Intermud-2 documentation added (thanks, Fiona!)

03-Jul-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.307)
    - (prolang.y) How embarrassing! The code for !INITIALIZATION_BY_INIT
        had a bad syntax error - and I didn't notice it (thanks, Bardioc!)

01-Jul-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.306)
    - (configure) 'with_wizlist_file=no' didn't work from settings files
        (reported by Freaky).
    - (configure) A superfluous 'fi' broke the configure.
    - (lex.c)  '//' comments didn't like to be terminated by the end of
        file (reported by Matthew).

30-Jun-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.304 and dev.305)
    - (hosts/os2) Updated the OS/2 port (provided by Bart).

30-Jun-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.303)
    - (prolang.y) Relaxed type checking somewhat so that a non-mixed
        function argument can be redefined to mixed, and vice versa
        (suggested by Gnomi)
    - (lex.c) Escaped character constants in inline closures weren't
        recognized (reported by Freaky and Gnomi)
    - (doc/LPC/comments) New.
    - (configure.in) When using mySQL, also check for libnsl.
    - (configure.in) The mySQL path is now used for both include
        and library searches.

29-Jun-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.302)
    - (prolang.y) Accidentally it was no longer possible to redefine 
        privately inherited variables (reported by Gnomi).
    - (actions.c, simulate.c) New hook H_SEND_NOTIFY_FAIL to deliver
        the notify fail message. It is meant for those muds who want
        control over the command flow without having to implement everything
        themselves via the H_COMMAND hook. This hook is still experimental
        and may change in details (suggested by Gnomi).
    - (prolang.y) It is now possible to define a default visibility
        for functions and variables (see doc/LPC/modifiers) (suggested
        by Freaky).

29-Jun-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.301)
    - (main.c) Commandline arguments can now be read from a textfile, using
        new commandline option '--args'. These argument files can be nested.
        (suggested by Elric)

28-Jun-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.300)
    - (configure) The evaluation of the '--with-wizlist-file' configuration
        option was less than flawless.
    - (main.c) Instead of scanning the arguments twice, all encountered
        -f options are stored in a temporary list and evaluated when
        it's time (f-010603-1).
    - (main.c) Laid the groundwork for nested sources for the command
        arguments.

27-Jun-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.299)
    - (simulate.c) When parsing callback arguments, the pattern 'function,
      object, extra' was parsed such that 'object' became part of the
      'extra' arguments (reported by Marthin).
    - (lex.c) It is now possible to use symbols in inline closures, ie.
        "(: 'a :)" (reported by Menaures).
    - (main.c, lex.c, wiz_list, configure) The name of the WIZLIST file
        can now be configured at compile time and with commandline option
        '--wizlist-file'. The LPC macro __WIZLIST__ expands to the selected
        name.  The WIZLIST file can also be disabled completely
        ('--no-wizlist-file'), in which case __WIZLIST__ is not defined
        at all (based on a patch from Elric).
    - (call_out.c) Corrected a fatal refcount bug in the garbage collection
        of call_outs with destructed command givers (reported by Gnomi).

22-Jun-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (sprintf.c) Column-formatting a string with one newline
         printed one newline too few if the formatstring didn't end
         immediately (reported by Gnomi).

21-Jun-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (make_func.y, lex.c) Identifier names can use the extended alpha
         characters from the ISO 8859-1 alphabet (suggested by Elric).

17-Jun-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.298)
    - (backend.c) cleanup_stuff() also executes a clear_state() to
         avoid dangling object references (reported by Gnomi).
    - (pkg-mysql.c) Added efun db_error() to return the most recent
         error string (thanks to Casey and Dafire).
    - (efuns.c) If the driver is compiled with DYNAMIC_COSTS, the cost
         of efun clones() is proportional to the number of objects
         in the game.

13-Jun-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.297)
    - (prolang.y) Global variables can no longer be redefined (reported
         by Coogan).
    - (doc/efun/operators) Clarified the behaviour of (<type>) casts.
    - (simulate.c, interpret.c) Normal runtime errors (and their traceback)
         are no longer reported on stdout at all (reported by Tomi).
    - (etc/startmud.pl) Added a simple start/keep-alive script - feel
         free to improve on it (thanks, Krystal-Anne!)

11-Jun-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.296)
    - (interpret) Nifty little crasher: if the object holding the closure
         currently execute is destructed, the interpreter happily tried
         to free the closure after execution without noticing
         that it already has been freed (as part of the object destruction
         process) (reported by Freaky).

09-Jun-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.295)
    - (main.c) Improved the formatting of the language options in the
         '--options' output.

07-Jun-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (comm.c) The driver forgot that it is in noecho/charmode mode after
         the second consecutive input_to call, sending out unnecessary
         telnet negotiations.
    - (interpret.c) When an object is destructed, all references to it
         are removed from the stack - including references through
         closures. Before, only direct T_OBJECT references were removed
         (reported by Gnomi).

04-Jun-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.294)
    - (prolang.y) The type on function return is too strict (or the
         type tracking in general too lacking) unfortunately,
         so I took it out again.

03-Jun-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.293)
    - (prolang.y) A cast of a type to itself is now a no-op as it should
         be (reported by Gnomi). 
    - (interpret.c, prolang.y) Integers and float can now be compared
         against each other (suggested by Gnomi).
    - (gcollect.c) The GC forgot to trace the program->blueprint pointer
         which was introduced dev.278 (reported by Coogan).

02-Jun-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (backend.c) The check_alarm() function also restores the alarm
         signal handler.
    - (prolang.y) It is now possible to cast to '(mixed)'.
    - (prolang.y) Improved the type tracking of '?:': it now accepts
         operands of different types and evaluates to 'mixed' in that
         case (reported by Dennis VanHoey)
    - (prolang.y) Improved the type checking at function return under
         strict_types.

25-May-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (configure) Comments may now appear at the end of the lines in
         a settings file (thanks, Bertram!).

24-May-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.292)
    - (efuns) Efun terminal_colour() can now use closures to translate
         colour keys (suggested by Elric).
    - (backend.c) Removing destructed objects in the process-objects
         loop clobbered the list of programs to replace (reported by
         Gnomi).

22-May-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (backend.c) Efun regreplace() can now take a closure to produce
         a replacement string (suggested by Fiona) (f-010516-2).

16-May-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.291)
    - (backend.c) The call to clean_up() erroreously counted the internal
         blueprint-program reference to the reference count passed to the
         clean_up() apply. Additionally, before the call all pending
         destructed objects are removed (suggested by Elric).
    - (rxcache.c) The regexp cache forgot to compare the excompat flag,
         occasionally selecting the wrong regexp (thanks, Fiona).

16-May-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.290)
    - (closure.c) Of course I forgot to remove one debugging related
         conditional, which effectively disabled yesterdays bugfix.

15-May-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.289)
    - (sscanf) Clarified the documentation regarding the matching of
         '%s' (reported by Pulami and Gnomi)
    - (closure.c) Compiling a simul_efun with extended varargs 
         in a lambda closure created faulty bytecode (reported by Gnomi).

13-May-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.288)
    - (prolang.y) Undid the casting change, as it broke the idiom
         's = (string)foo->bar();' where bar() may signal a failure
         by returning integer 0. It's the old 0/nil dichotomy again.
    - (efuns.c) Efun sscanf(): the format '%s%d' failed to parse 'ab1cd'
         correctly (reported by Pulami).

09-May-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.287)
    - (prolang.y) Casting an unknown or mixed type now always inserts
         a proper conversion (reported by Tomi).
    - (heartbeat.c) The result for DID_ST_HBEAT_AVG_PROC was computed
         as int instead of float (reported by Freaky).
    - (mud/morgengrauen) Added basic support for the MorgenGrauen 3.2.6
         mudlib.

08-May-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (prolang.y) The expression 'a & b' failed to track the types if one
         of the operands was of TYPE_ANY (reported by Gnomi).

06-May-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (interpret.c) Added a protection against simple reference loops
         as created by 'b = 0 || &a; b = 0 || &a;' (reported by Gnomi).

28-Apr-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.286)
    - (several files) Added modifications for the Amiga/gcc port
         (provided by Niels).

27-Apr-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.285)
    - (sprintf.c) Duh. A typo caused '%^' to eat the next character
         from the format string (reported by Robert).
    - (sprintf.c) A leading '0' used to pad the whole field with 0s.
         Now, only leading 0s are printed and this setting and the
         explicite pad string are independent of each other (suggested
         by Fiona).
    - (call_out.c) Removing call_outs, or call_outs going stale, messed
         up the 'number of callouts' statistics (provided by Gnomi).

25-Apr-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.284)
    - (prolang.y) Pre-increment or -decrement failed to terminate
         the parser reduction, causing an internal fatal error when the
         result was used somewhere (reported by Dafire).

24-Apr-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.283)
    - (efuns.c) Efun sgn() used on negative integers still returned +1 -
         a simple typo (thanks, Fiona!).

23-Apr-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (func_spec) Efun copy_mapping() is deprecated.

22-Apr-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.282)
    - (interpret.c) When using a multi-dimensional allocate(), specifying
         0-sized dimensions could crash the driver (reported by Menaures).
    - (Makefile.in) When doing 'make install', the driver is now installed
         as 'driver', not 'parse' (reported by Eivind).
    - (docs) Some corrections, provided by Fiona.
    - (closure.c) The generation of sparse lookup ranges failed to properly
         generate default-jumps for the values between two consecutive
         ranges (e.g. 'case -2..-1:, case 1..2:' was smudged into 'case -2..1:
         case 0..2:') (reported by Menaures).

19-Apr-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.281)
    - (configure, main.c, simulate, call_out.c) Runtime for the total
         number of callouts, settable with commandline option
         '--max-callouts'.

17-Apr-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.280)
    - (prolang.y) Redefining an inherited private heart_beat() didn't work:
         the new heart_beat() wasn't called (reported by Gnomi).
    - (rxcache.c) The status functions were far too slow, because they
         counted the number of entries on each call (reported by Sissi).
    - (prolang.y) Function calls can distinguish between variables and
         functions of the same name (suggested by Gnomi).

16-Apr-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.279)
    - (interpret.c) The call to privilege_violation() for efun call_out_info()
         passed some random data instead of constant 0 as argument
         (reported by Freaky).

13-Apr-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (simulate.c) Made the 'illegal object to load' error message
         more informative (suggested by Freaky).

12-Apr-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (sprintf.c) The formatter "%^" will print "%^" for compatibility
         with terminal_colour().
    - (closure.c, array.c) Introduced a total order on closure svalues
         which allows their use in alists and array operations like
         intersection. The same could be done for their use in mappings,
         but that change is too big to be squeezed into 3.2.9 (reported
         by Gnomi).

11-Apr-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.278)
    - (prolang.y) Additions of floats to constant 0 yielded TYPE_ANY
         instead of TYPE_FLOAT.
    - (interpret.c) Arguments passed to runtime_error() were wrong
         if the error happened in a master apply (reported by Gnomi).

10-Apr-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (exec.h, prolang.y, simulate.c) The program structure received
        a pointer pointing to the blueprint object. Main purpose is to 
        allow the cheap deep update of the master object, but other
        uses will probably show up as well.
    - (simulate.c) Added function deep_destruct() to destruct an
        object and the blueprints of all inherited programs.
    - (backend.c, interpret.c) The signal SIGUSR1 now destructs the
        master object and all its inherits, to allow a clean reload.

07-Apr-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.277)
    - (smalloc.c) The multiple-of allocation was not quite correct.

06-Apr-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.276)
    - (md5.c) Removed a compiler warning.
    - (smalloc.c) On Darwin, we get the memory from the system only
        in multiples of 64 Bytes, which caused the creation of too-small
        large blocks. Fixed that.

05-Apr-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.275)
    - (actions.c) If an action doesn't have a verb defined, the error
        will list the object which created the action (suggested by Gnomi).

04-Apr-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.274)
    - (Makefiles) Corrected.
    - (efuns, md5) New efun md5_encrypt() (thanks, Gawain!)
    - (interpret.c) Assigning a volatile strings sometimes crashed due
        to a faulty length computation (reported by Gnomi and Parsec!)
    - (lex.c) An attempt to '(: ;} fun() {... :)' is now detected and
        rejected (reported by Daniel Fischer).

03-Apr-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.272, -dev.273)
    - (lex) Corrected a bug in yesterday's change.
    - (doc/efun) Removed references to deprecated efuns.
    - (erq, xerq) Fixed (hopefully) a type mismatch under Darwin.
    - (make_func, lpc parser) Wrapped the parser into wrappers which
         selectively define 'lint' to suppress spurious warnings, and
         under Darwin enable compilation in the first place.

02-Apr-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.271)
    - (lex) When generating names for inline closures, the compiler
        makes sure that the name hasn't been used yet (reported by Dan).

30-Mar-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (lex.c) The include path and filenames returned by the master the
        and H_INCLUDE_DIRS closure can now start with leading slashes
        (suggested by DaFire).
    - (xerq) The incoming data buffer is cleared before each new command,
        in order to detect errors more easily (suggested by Gawain).
    - (comm.c) When using charmode against non-charmode clients (TinyFugue),
        the line end wasn't handled properly. The solution is to receive
        the data in charmode, but to pass it on to the user as if in
        linemode.

27-Mar-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (interpret.c) All <op>= assignment operators can now operate on a
        char lvalue (indexed string) on the left hand side.

20-Mar-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.270)
    - (erq, xerq/execute.c) Quoted arguments are recognized and not split into
        words (provided by Christian W., thanks!)
    - (backend.c) The no-var-swapping time before a reset() is limited to
        5 minutes max, otherwise a lot of muds will never swap variables.
    - (array.c) A correction to the correction to functionlist() (thanks,
        Fiona!).
    - (func_spec, interpret.c) Efun allocate() now accepts an initialisation
        value (f-981229-09a).
    - (configure.in) When using mySQL, the script also checks for and links
        in the libz (reported by Bardioc).

16-Mar-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.269)
    - (pkg-mysql.c) Dafire provided to new mySQL efuns: db_insert_id()
        and db_coldefs() - thanks!.
    - (array.c) The list control for functionlist() was documented
        incorrectly, and also functioned incorrectly (thanks, Fiona!).

15-Mar-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.268)
    - (settings/unitopia) Updated (thanks, Freaky!).
    - (comm.c) The pathlength safety check in the start-erq-demon routine
        was too cautious (thanks, Freaky).
    - (mudlib/dhrystone.c) Added a missing assignment.
    - (xerq/Makefile.in) Accidentally left the XDEBUG option enabled.
    - (comm.c) A prompt closure bound to a destructed object is detected
        and restored to the default prompt. An error is still thrown, to
        give the mudlib hackers something to do.
    - (pkg-mysql.c) The version check did not really work (thanks, Dafire!).

14-Mar-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.267)
    - (main.c, comm.c) The command option '--erq' can now be used to
        specify the full pathname of the erq executable (suggested 
        by Freaky).
    - (comm.c) Before printing a prompt via a closure, the current object
        is set to the command giver. This avoids a crash under (admittedly
        rare) circumstances of closure destruction.

13-Mar-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.266)
    - (dumpstat.c, gcollect.c) Added uses of StrRefCount where I forgot
        them earlier (thanks, Freaky!)
    - (backend.c) When calling the master apply slow_shut_down(), it is
        made sure that previous_object(), this_player(), and
        this_interactive() are all 0 (reported by Freaky).
    - (comm.c, ed.c, interpret.c, simulate.c) Removed spurious checks
        for out-of-memory condition. While the intention is noble, it hasn't
        been implemented consequently enough to be of any use.
    - (comm.c) If a CRLF as expansion of a NL character was to be inserted,
         but only one character was left in the buffer, the code errorneously
         detected a 'message shorter than minimum, needs not be send'
         condition, thus swallowing all following characters after the NL.
    - (interpret.c) Argl. Letting the ==/!= comparison for floats fall through
         to the all new and improved closure comparison was not a good idea
         (reported by Gnomi and Freaky).

12-Mar-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.265)
    - (pkg-mysql.c) db_connect() optionally takes a username and a password
        (thanks, Andre!)

09-Mar-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.264)
    - (mud/lp-245) Small corrections.
    - (configure) Another define for 'void' signal return types - this one
        can be tested directly, as a comparison of the values of RETSIGTYPE
        is not portable.

05-Mar-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.263)
    - (smalloc.c) Corrected a statistics error (reported by Freaky).
    - (simulate, interpret, efuns.c) Added the last error trace as
        possible return from debug_info(DINFO_TRACE) (suggested by Gnomi).

04-Mar-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.262)
    - (interpret.c) Removed a VM stack leak in ++/-- on floats (reported
         by Dafire).
    - (object.c) The previous object for object resets is this_object()
         (reported by Gnomi).
    - (Makefiles) Added 'lint' to the compiler defines to ensure a smooth
         compilation of prolang.y.

28-Feb-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.261)
    - (backend.c) Simplified the error message output in write_file().
    - (simulate.c) The master apply runtime_error() receives an extra
         argument describing if the error is a normal error, or occured
         during a heartbeat (suggested by Freaky).
    - (func_spec) Efuns add_verb() and add_xverb() are now part of the
         deprecated bunch.
    - (gcollect.c) Added a dump function for closure literals.

27-Feb-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (lex.c, gcollect.c) Cosmetics.
    - (smalloc.c, main.c) xfree() now accepts NULL pointers. Allocation of
         MIN_(SMALL_)MALLOCED blocks actually check if the memory is
         allocated (reported by Freaky).
    - (main.c, backend.c, interpret.c) Swapping is no longer an optional
         feature, though it still can be disabled by specifying swapping
         times of 0.
    - (configure.in, main.c, xalloc) New commandline options '--min-malloced'
         and '--min-small-malloced' to complement the configuration options
         (suggested by Freaky).
    - (hosts/win32) Updated the various files with those provided by
         Coogan (thanks!)

26-Feb-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (smalloc) Renamed the constant MASK to M_MASK, as MASK seems to clash
         with one of Darwin's symbols.
    - (smalloc.h) svalue_strlen() did not use StrRefCount in all the places
         it should be used (reported by Freaky).

22-Feb-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.260)
    - (func_spec, efuns) The efuns debug_info() and object_info() can now
         return single values instead of whole arrays.
    - (backend, comm.c) Added a check method which restarts the alarm
         after some time of activity. This is required at least for
         Cygwin on Windows, where the alarm often gets lost (thanks, Holger!).
    - (interpret.c) The master apply valid_trace() now receives as second
         argument the argument passed to the efun (suggested by Coogan).
    - (typedefs.h, interpret.c, gcollect.c, stralloc, smalloc.h) Introduced the
        type StrRefCount for the shared string refcounts. This will make it
        easier to switch from 16-Bit to 32-Bit refcounts (after 3.2.9
        has been released, since it should undergo some more testing)
        (p-010208).
    - (lex.c, prolang) Inline closure 'inherit' the visibility modifiers
        of their defining function (suggested by Coogan).
    - (smalloc.c) Corrected an accounting error in consolidate_freelists().

21-Feb-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.259)
    - (autoconf/configure.in) Some more small fixes.
    - (prolang.y) Recognize an inherited heart_beat() only if it is visible
         (adopted from Morgengrauen).
    - (efuns.c) debug_info(DINFO_DATA, DID_STATUS) now returns the number
         of executed heartbeats as well as the total number of heartbeats.
    - (settings/morgengrauen) New configuration file.

20-Feb-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.258)
    - (autoconf/configure.in) Corrected some replacement directives.
    - (func_spec) Removed two duplicate efun definitions which caused
        Cygwin compiles to hang.
    - (make_func.y, lex.c) Added diagnostics to detect duplicate efun
        and string definitions.
    - (autoconf/configure.in) The option --enable-use-mysql now also
        accepts a directory path under which the libmysqlclient can be
        found (f-000918).

16-Feb-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.256 and -dev.257)
    - (main.c) Added code to unblock SIGALRM on program start - on systems
        it is blocked randomly for no obvious reason (thanks, Fini!)
        (maybe fixes b-000308)
    - (efuns, func_spec) New efun sgn() to retrieve the sign of a numeric
        argument (suggested by Croft).

13-Feb-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (lots of files) New configuration option 'use-deprecated' allows
        to disable obsolete and deprecated efuns. If enabled, the macro
        __DEPRECATED__ is defined (suggested by Coogan).
    - (lots of files) The UDP port is now a standard feature. The
        option has been renamed from 'catch_udp_port' to just 'udp_port'.
    - (lots of files) The UDP efuns have been renamed from send_imp()
        and query_imp_port() to send_udp() and query_udp_port(); as were
        the associated privilege violation string and the master apply.
        The old names are still available with USE_DEPRECATED.

12-Feb-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (interpret.c) Assigning volatile strings was somehow no longer
        supported under all circumstances (reported by Gnomi).

07-Feb-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.255)
    - (smalloc.c) Removed a compilation error (reported by Coogan).

06-Feb-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (strfuns.c) When (re)allocating the strbuf buffer, the length was
        accidentally casted down to unsigned short, causing the program
        to write outside the allocated memory (reported by Sebastian).

05-Feb-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (smalloc.c) Using the time_stamp() from within the allocation routines
        was really stupid.
    - (smalloc.c) The large block allocator had an off-by-one error which
        left free large blocks of 'small' size behind. These blocks could
        never be allocated, just merged again.
    - (smalloc.c) The routine to split largish free small blocks was faulty,
        causing coredumps.
    - (parse_old.c) Expanded the list of hard coded prepositions.
    - (lex.c) Added new standard predefine __LDMUD__, expanding to an empty
        string.
    - (settings/heaven7, mud/heaven7/) Added basic support for Heaven7: you can
        boot the mud and log in. There are probably still errors in the
        areas.

31-Jan-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (interpret.c) Attempts to set a single string character to 0
        are now caught with a runtime error (reported by Nico).
    - (func_spec) The result of set_prompt() can be a string or a closure,
        yet it was declared to return only string (reported by Gnomi).
    - (prolang.y) The type tracking for multiplication returned an 'int'
        result even for 'mixed' operands (reported by Gnomi).
    - (interpret.c) The relations '==' and '!=' can now compare lfun-
        and variable closures (suggested by Gnomi).
    - (func_spec, efuns) New efuns min() and max().

30-Jan-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (configuration, smalloc.c) Added a new config parameter
        MIN_SMALL_MALLOCED which defines the size of the first small chunk
        allocated by the system.
    - (xerq) With ERQ_FORK started subprocesses are now as well handled
        with a child_t structure. While not exactly necessary, it allows
        for useful diagnostics in the sig_child() handler (reported by
        Freaky).
    - (dumpstat, efuns.c) The internal data measuring routines now return
        both the total data size, as well as the data size scaled down
        according to the extend of data sharing. The results are also
        returned by object_info(OI_MEMORY) (suggested by Freaky).

26-Jan-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.254)
    - (smalloc.c) Introduced a free list for 'oversized' small blocks which
        is used much like the unused space in a small chunk. This list
        allows the consolidation function to keep large free blocks
        together even if they exceed the legal maximum size for small
        blocks.

25-Jan-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (smalloc, gcollect.c) New function consolidate_freelists() to
        rebuild the small block free lists, merging adjacent free small
        blocks where possible. Additionally, when a small chunk is exhausted
        the small block allocator first tries to split one of the larger
        free blocks before getting a new small chunk.

25-Jan-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.253)
    - (xerq/execute.c) Corrected some small bugs (thanks, Freaky!)

24-Jan-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (port.c) The time_stamp routines recompute the string result only
        if the time has changed since the last call.
    - (efuns.c, smalloc.c) smalloc now keeps a statistic about the number
        and size of permanent and clib allocations; and debug_info()
        returns this statistics as part of (DINFO_DATA, DID_MEMORY).
    - (smalloc.c) Defining the macro DEBUG_SMALLOC_ALLOCS causes smalloc
        to log all new allocations which can't be satisfied directly
        from the free lists. The output is written to the same stream
        as the GC log (default is stderr).

19-Jan-2001 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.252)
    - (main.c) Change to the default MUD_LIB directory early, so that the
        debug.log file is opened in the right place (reported by Elric).
    - (xerq) The parent now synchronizes with the child by sending a specific
        byte of data.
    - (pkg-mysql.c) Markus Peter provided a patch for backwards compatibility
        with mySQL before 3.22.24.
    - (main, comm.c) The name of the erq executable can now be given on the
        commandline with the option '--erq <filename>' (suggested by Freaky).

18-Jan-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (comm.c) In efun exec(), if this_interactive() points to one of the
        the involved objects, it is switched over as well, like this_player()
        already is (reported by Elric).
    - (xerq) Freaky found and corrected a couple race conditions in the
        clean-up loops of socket and children.
    - (backend.c) Efun debug_message() now allows to preprend the message
        with a timestamp for the current date and time, controlled by
        a new bitflag (suggested by Freaky).

17-Jan-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (xerq) Added additional diagnostic output, activated with compiler
        option XDEBUG. Also, removed two uninitialized variables (the stdout/
        stderr sockets in the child_t structure) in the handling of child
        processes, and added measures against buffer overflows.

16-Jan-2001 (Lars Duening)
    - (erq.c, xerq/socket.c) When closing the connection to a child
        process, the erq makes sure to read all still remaining data
        from the connection (reported by Freaky).

21-Dec-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.251)
    - (comm.c) If the driver received only a NL in charmode, the first
        following character was ignored.

21-Dec-2000 (Gnomi)
    - (comm.c) Found and corrected a problem concerning the use
        of CHARMODE with Windows' telnet: the charmode negotiation were
        considere a failure too early, and moreover the CHARMODE_REQ flag was
        reset without adjusting the input buffer variables. Unfortunately
        this re-opens b-000818. (b-001214)
    - (comm.c) Clients sending CRLF in Charmode instead of just CR
        are now handled properly: the LF is ignored like the NUL in CR NUL
        already is. This also re-fixes b-000818.
    - (comm.c) When receiving DONT ECHO or WONT SGA, the check for if
        the option has already been granted was wrong.
    - (comm.c) After a charmode input_to() has been received, the driver
        did not properly reset the text pointers, causing !-escaped
        commands to go unrecognized.

20-Dec-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.250)
    - (comm.c, interpret.c) More small corrections to the new telnet
        error reporting.
    - (func_spec, backend.c) Extended the efun debug_message() to take
        a parameter telling where to log the message (suggested by Freaky).

19-Dec-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.249)
    - (mudlib/floattest.c) Unfortunately this code was a derivate of
        a copyrighted program from Numerical Recipes, and therefore can't be
        distributed legally.
    - (lex.c) On solaris, strtod() does not clear errno after a successful
        conversion, causion spurious warnings (reported by Coogan).
    - (main.c) The driver version is now also printed in the .debug.log
        file on startup.
    - (comm.c) A bug in the comm_fatal() routine caused the driver to
        abort on the second call to it. Oops. (reported by Gnomi and
        Freaky)

15-Dec-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.248)
    - (comm, simulate.c) When the telnet machine for a player gets into
        an inconsistent state, the driver no longer aborts. Instead, the
        player's interactive structure is dumped to stderr, and then
        removed the hard way.
    - (regexp.c) Added the metacharacter '+' (match at least once'
        to the regexp code (provided by Terry Penn, thanks!).
    - (mudlib/floattest) This LPC program computes the floating point
        characteristics; it can be called from the test_master (provided
        by Croft, thanks!)

14-Dec-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.247)
    - (lex.c) Octal numbers are now prefixed by '0o' - it's cleaner
        and avoids compatibility problems with existing code.

12-Dec-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.246)
    - (interpret.c) Omitting a check_map_for_destr() in a mapping addition
        caused data in a wiz_info mapping to mysteriously disappear (thanks,
        Coogan) (b-001204).

10-Dec-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.245)
    - (prolang.y) The result type for '++map[mixed]' was computed
        incorrectly (reported by Freaky).
    - (comm.c) If an error occurs on accept(), the driver no longer abort()s
        but prints a better error message.

06-Dec-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.244)
    - (lots of files) Closures bound to destructed objects are now treated
        like destructed objects and zeroed out where possible.
    - (wiz_list) Destructed objects and closures is now removed from the
        'extra' wizinfo in regular intervals. Note that this doesn't
        extend to subarrays and -mappings held by the 'extra' info.

06-Dec-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.243)
    - (autoconf/configure.in, configure) If MySQL or IPv6 are not requested,
        the configure script won't check for the libraries; consequently
        they won't linked in unless needed (suggested by Coogan).
    - (interpret.c, prolang.y) The operators '++' and '--' can now be
        used on floats, too (suggested by Croft).

04-Dec-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (interpret.c) sqrt(0.0) caused a 'bad argument' error - corrected
        that (thanks, Andre!).

30-Nov-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.242)
    - (interpret, efuns.c) debug_info(DINFO_TRACE) returns the current
        call stack as either string or array. (f-000716)

29-Nov-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (interpret.c) The efuns sin(), cos(), tan(), atan(), atan2(),
        log(), exp(), sqrt() and pow(), when given an integer argument,
        returned a float result typed as integer. (reported by Slava)

28-Nov-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.241)
    - (lex.c) Oops, a last minute change to remove a warning broke the
         recognition of escaped characters in strings (thanks, Slava!).

27-Nov-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (interpret.c) Efun pow() did not properly check its arguments.

27-Nov-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.240)
    - (lex.c) Numbers can be specified in binary using the '0b' prefix.
    - (lex.c) Moved the parsing of escaped character sequences into a
         separate function, and implemented the specification of characters
         through their numeric code (expressed in decimal, octal, sedecimal
         and binary). (f-990203-04)

26-Nov-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.239)
    - (closure.c) Implemented catch-nolog as '({#'catch, <body>, 'nolog })'.

21-Nov-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (prolang) Folded catch() and catch_nolog() back into one catch(),
        distinguished by the keyword 'nolog'.

18-Nov-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (func_spec, interpret.c) The efuns sin(), cos(), tan(), atan(), atan2(),
        log(), exp(), sqrt() and pow() now accept integers as arguments, too.
        The results remain float. (suggested by Croft).
    - (interpret.c, mapping.c) When testing for a 'mapping too large' condition
        on mapping addition or element assignment, it is made sure that all
        invalid keys have been removed. (reported by Fiona)
    - (func_spec, lex.c, interpret.c, simulate, prolang.y) New language
        construct catch_nolog() as alternative to catch(): the new statement
        doesn't log the error in the driver logfiles (thanks, Michael!)
        (p-990901).
    - (lots of files) The mode of the driver (plain or compat) can now be
        selected with the commandline options '--no-compat' resp. '--compat'.
        The default is still selected during configuration. (f-981229-00)

17-Nov-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (mudlib/sys, doc/) Small corrections (thanks, Coogan!).

15-Nov-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (mudlib/telnet_neg.txt) Added Slava's example on telnet negotiation,
         which includes a means of measuring lag using TMs (thanks!).

15-Nov-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.238)
    - (efuns.c) The OIB_NAME returned by object_info(OINFO_BASIC) did
         not start with a '/' in plain mode. (reported by Fiona)
    - (mud/lp-245) Added secure/master.c as a wrapper for obj/master.c for
         use with plain drivers.
    - (func_spec, interpret.c, port) Added new efun utime() (provided by
         Slava) and adapted ctime() to accepts its output.
    - (settings/unitopia) Updated with new version provided by Freaky.
    - (settings/default) Clean up.

14-Nov-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (strfuns, actions.c, ed.c, efuns.c, interpret.c, swap.c, wiz_list.c)
         New function xstrncpy() to copy a string up to a certain length, but
         without adding extra 0 padding if the string is shorter than the
         given length.

07-Nov-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.237)
    - (efuns.c) object_info(OINFO_MEMORY) also returns the program flags
         NO_SHADOW, NO_CLONE and NO_INHERIT.
    - (pkg-mysql.c) Small bugfix (thanks, Michael!)
    - (settings/forgottendreams) Updated according to Michael.
    - (util/[x]erq/erq.h) Around dev.220 I accidentally broke 
         compatibility with older erq binaries by renumbering the KEEP_HANDLE
         constant - fixed that now. (reported by Coogan)

05-Nov-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (interpret.c) call_resolved() now accepts a destructed object as
         second argument and returns 0 instead of throwing an error.
         (reported by Coogan)
    - (settings/tubmud) 'nosave' is now on by default.

03-Nov-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.236)
    - (interpret.c) When setting up the frame for a function, resolve a
         possible cross-definition first. (b-000616, b-001004)
    - (interpret.c, prolang.y) Right shifts of 32 or more are now properly
         defined.

02-Nov-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.235)
    - (mapping.c) Adding two mappings of different width throws an error
         (reported by Holger and Fiona). (b-001010)

01-Nov-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (regexp.c) Added a patch by Marcus Meissner to make regexp more compatible
         with 8-bit characters (thanks!).

23-Oct-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (simulate, interpret) Moved the catch_instruction() function into
         simulate to keep aggressive optimizers from over-optimizing this
         function. I hope this finally cures the catch() related crashes.
         (thanks, Coogan!) (b-001010-1)

16-Oct-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (simulate, array.c, call_out.c, comm.c, mapping.c) Callbacks now accept
         protected lvalues as arguments only if they are called just once.
         Reason is that the protectors don't count references: at the first
         return from a callback the lvalue would be freed even though it
         is still needed.
         (b-001002)

12-Oct-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (main.c) New driver option '--pidfile <filename>' to write the
         pid of the driver into a file (suggested by Freaky).

10-Oct-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (backend.c) The IGNORE_BANG option to efun input_to() didn't
         work (provided by Casey, thanks!).
    - (pkg-mysql.c) Changed some xalloc()s into pxalloc()s to protect them
         against the GC (provided by Michael Fedrowitz, thanks!).
    - (interpret.c) Cosmetics to the traceback output (thanks, Coogan).
    - (simulate.c) A semicolon was missing (thanks, Christian B.).

13-Sep-2000 (Lars Duening)   (3.2.9-dev.234)
    - (func_spec, lex.c, closure.c, interpret.c, prolang.y) Added the
         operators '>>>' and its cousin '>>>=' for logical right shifts.

11-Sep-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (configure) Removed no longer used option 'max-log-size' (reported
         by Malcom).

09-Sep-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.233)
    - (simulate.c) Callbacks in efuns like filter() can now take references,
         too (reported by Freaky).

07-Sep-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.232)
    - (simulate, call_out) Due to a flag inversion, call_out() was unable
         to take lvalues as arguments. It also gave the error message
         with an off argument count (reported by Thorsten).

06-Sep-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (interpret) The setjmp() for a catch() instruction has been moved into
         its own stack frame and eval_instruction() is called recursively
         on the guarded code. This seems to prevent failures and cores
         when using gcc as compiler, and doesn't hurt on other platforms
         either (reported by Parsec).

05-Sep-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (xerq/socket.c) A faulty comparison caused the xerq to ignore
         SOCKET_STDERR and send everything on stdout (thanks, Fiona!).

30-Aug-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.231)
    - (comm.c) The driver did not fully recover from a failed INPUT_CHARMODE
         notification - treating the input as in charmode even after the
         failure. (b-000818)

29-Aug-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (interpret.c) When reactivating a destructed master, the function
         applies failed to find static functions, even though all other
         master applies do (thanks, Daniel!)

28-Aug-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.230)
    - (pkg-mysql.c, configure, Makefile.in) Made the mySQL code work again.
         Additionally the mysqlclient library is now part of the @PKGLIBS@
         template in Makefile.in, so that utils like xerq don't have to
         link it in. (thanks, Michael!)

25-Aug-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.229)
    - (xerq/lookup.c) In the IPv6 lookup, a buffer was freed twice.
         (found by Uwe and Fiona).
    - (pkg-mysql, doc/..., INSTALL) Integrated the mySQL efuns into the
         driver proper. They are activated on suitable hosts with the
         configuration switch 'use-mysql' and, when activated, define
         the macro '__MYSQL__' in LPC programs.
    - (lex.c) Added new LPC defines __VERSION_MAJOR__, ..._MINOR__,
         ..._MICRO__ and ..._PATCH__ do exactly what you expect.

24-Aug-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.228)
    - (INSTALL) Added compilation notes provided by Bruce (thanks!)
    - (xerq/erq.c) The DEBUG part was missing the data to generate proper
         error messages for RLOOKUPV6 requests (reported by Fiona).
    - (comm.c) Removed two warnings.

23-Aug-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.227)
    - (util/indent/, autoconf/configure.in) The Makefile is now under
        configure control, and I removed a couple of warnings.
    - (util/erq/erq.c) Oops, the check for HAVE_SYS_TIME came before
        machine.h was included, so it couldn't work (reported by Betram
        and Fiona).

22-Aug-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.226)
    - (hash, stralloc) Changed a few parameters from 'char*' to 'const char*'.
    - (comm.c, erq, xerq) The IPv6 lookup was totally broken - fixed it.
         (reported by Holger)

20-Aug-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.225 == 3.2.8)
    - RELEASE 3.2.8
    - (func_spec, prolang.y) Efun clonep() now accepts 'mixed' arguments.
         (suggested by Fiona)
    - (interpret.c) The salt-handling of efun crypt() is now compatible
         with the md5 passwords of FreeBSDs libscrypt. (thanks, Gerhard!)

15-Aug-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.224)
    - (prolang.y) All ranges '[..<op><expr>]' caused the compiler to overwrite
         memory (most of the time the compiled program) because the attributes
         of <expr> weren't promoted up by the <ob>. 
    - (lex.c) '//' comments in the argument list of a function macro at the
         point of use were not ignored and caused syntax errors. It even was
         already a 'TODO' in the lexer... (reported by Croft and Parsec).

14-Aug-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.223)
    - (prolang.y) The range '[..-<expr>]' caused the compiler to overwrite
         memory (most of the time the compiled program) because the attributes
         of <expr> weren't promoted up by the '-' (reported by Mammi).
    - (prolang.y) In the expression '++<ident>' the opcode for '++' was
         overwritten if the <ident> required a 2-Byte index. (b-000803,
         b-000810)
    - (comm.c) Looking up hostname first enters the IP address as string
         into the lookup table, to be replaced later by the ERQ. This neatly
         handles unresolved hostnames as well (provided by LynX).
         
11-Aug-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.222)
    - (mstrings) Completed the implementation of the string module itself.

10-Aug-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (func_spec, interpret.c, efuns.c) Efun terminal_colour() can now be used
         with no keyword mapping at all: it then acts as a simple wrapping
         efun.

08-Aug-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (smalloc.c) Attempts to free a memory block twice are now explicitely
         flagged (when compiling with MALLOC_TRACE).
    - (lex.c) #else and #endif followed by uncommented text raise an error
         only in pedantic mode; otherwise just a warning is generated.
    - (array.c, regexp.c, backend.c) Made the handling of a regexp's memory
         more resistant to errors. Especially an error during a match or the
         first pass of a regexp compilation caused the memory for the last
         regexp compiled being freed unconditionally, even when that last
         regexp was still in use or had been freed already.

04-Aug-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (lex.c) After an include, the driver did not refill its lex buffer.
         This had bad or even catastrophic results if the include failed
         and the include statement was the last in the lex buffer.
         (reported by Freaky)
    - (lex.c) The preprocessor statements #else, #endif and #define now
         check if they are followed by uncommented text. If yes, the
         former two raise an error (like real C does), if no, the latter
         one raises an error. (reported by Freaky)

01-Aug-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.221)
    - (hosts/be/Makefile, .../beyacc) The driver can now be crosscompiled
         on x86 for PPC.
    - (mud/lp-245) Corrected a few simul_efun definitions.
    - (lex.c) '#else' was not recognized if followed by whitespace.
         (reported by Bardioc and Dafire)

30-Jul-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.220)
    - (prolang.y)  Redefinition of an inherited function with differing
         arguments was not properly differentiated from a normal redefinition,
         causing the redefined argument information to be lost even with
         #pragma save_types in effect. (reported by Bardioc)
    - (mstrings) First code for an improved string handler.

26-Jul-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.219)
    - (lex.c) Preprocessor keywords weren't recognized if they were
         followed by a non-space character (e.g. '# if('). (reported
         by Fiona).
    - (object.c) Saving a mapping to a file wrote unsaveable keys like
         objects as '0' into the savefile, possibly creating multiple
         entries with the same key. As restore_object() didn't expect
         this, svalue were simply overwritten instead of properly freed.
         This lead to memory leaks. Now, non-saveable keys and their
         data are completely excluded from a saved mapping, and the
         restore function is more robust. (part of: b-990429, b-991123-1,
         b-000104)

25-Jul-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (interpret.c, smalloc.c) Removed two warnings (thanks, Freaky!).

23-Jul-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.218)
    - (main.c) The removal of MAX_SMALL_MALLOCED somehow didn't make
         it into the diff.

20-Jul-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.217)
    - (regexp.c) Errors in the regular expression leaked the memory
         from temporary buffers (found by Freaky).

18-Jul-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (smalloc.c, xalloc, main.c, settings/*, configure.in)
         When the system run out of memory in a small block allocation
         during a GC, it tended to crash
         because the interaction of the 'force_more' allocation and  the
         'max_small_malloced' parameter caused the allocator to free the
         reserves, but to never check the freelists. Removing the 
         max_small_malloced parameter and slightly simplifying the
         force_more logic solved the problem. As a side effect, the
         commandline argument '--max-small-malloc' and the corresponding
         configuration parameter are gone.

17-Jul-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (closure.c, gcollect.c, dumpstat.c, interpret.c, object.c)
         Revisited the places where a NULL object->variables might
         be used. Especially replace_program was suspectible to this.
    - (interpret.c) Efun to_string() now accepts lambda closures
         as well. sprintf() was modified to print the same information
         as to_string() returns. (suggested by Fiona)

06-Jul-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.216)
    - (smalloc.c) Removed two warnings (thanks, Freaky!)
    - (lex.c) Improved the display of the error context at line ends
         or end of files.
    - (configure, port, machine.h.in) Ultrix (VAX) doesn't provide
         the strdup() function, so I added a check and a replacement
         function. Ironically, make_func.y already has its own strdup()
         for exactly this reason... (reported by Bruce).

04-Jul-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.215)
    - (smalloc.c) Oops, the file didn't compile.

03-Jul-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.214)
    - (comm.c) A DEBUG_TELNET statement was at the wrong place, dereferencing
         an uninitialized variable (b-000620).
    - (object.c) Forgot to delete the old ixopen() statement when making
         the change in 3.2.8-dev.210, causing the driver to run out of
         fds because every savefile was opened twice. (b-000630)
    - (smalloc.c) Added more magic words to accomodate the increased
         SMALL_BLOCK_MAX value. In addition, the magic word arrays are
         indexed modulo their size in case SMALL_BLOCK_MAX is increased
         over the size of the arrays again.
    - (interpret.c) Made the VM Stack error messages more informative.
    - (prolang.y) Provided by UNItopia: return type mismatches are by
         default warnings, and in pedantic mode real errors.
    - (Makefile.in) The generated Makefile ended the OBJ definition
         on sane systems with a line ending in a backslash, which the
         Ultrix make doesn't like. (thanks, Bruce!)

01-Jul-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.213)
    - (main.c) DEBUG options are printed with --options, too.
    - (object.c) If a savefile can't be opened, the strerror() message
         is included into the error message.
    - (backend.c) If the driver runs out of fds in efun write_file(),
         lex_close() is called only when there is a compilation going
         on (before, it was called on every out-of-fds, which crashed
         the driver if it happend outside of a compile). (reported by
         Freaky)
    - (comm.c) h_telnet_neg() always removed two values from the
         stack, regardless of many actually were there. (b-000625)
    - (interpret.c) The handling of a caught error in catch() has
         been exported in a separate, non-inlineable function to
         thwart overzealous optimizers. (b-000606)
    - (doc/LPC/closure_guide) Clarified the creation of mappings
         using #'([. (b-000217-1)
    - (lex.c) lex_error_context() pays more attention to the end
         of the line buffer and EOF characters - before it blindly
         copied 14 characters after *outp. (b-000518)

29-Jun-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.212)
    - (settings/unitopia, doc/efun/count_bits) Small changes.
    - (backend.c) The 'inconsistency in main loop' message is now
         printed onto stdout, too.
    - (main, backend.c) The state check (available when compiled with
         DEBUG) can now be controlled via the commandline option
         '--check-state <lvl>'.

28-Jun-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.211)
    - (prolang.y) Removed the shift/reduce conflict in the rules for
         argument definitions: token L_VOID was ambiguous.
    - (prolang.y) The argument type check stumbled over additional
         arguments in a function redefinition. (reported by Bardioc)
    - (interpret.c) Operator += allows to add strings and floats to ints,
         as operator + already does. (reported by Croft)

27-Jun-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.210)
    - (closure.c) The lambda block ({ #'return }) was compiled incorrectly:
         a F_RETURN0 was generated, but for the closure compiler the block
         returned void, necessiting the insertion of a default value by
         the surrounding block. The result was a 'Bad stack at F_RETURN' at
         the final F_RETURN[0] of the lambda closure latest,
         e.g. for funcall(lambda(0, ({ #'?, 1, 1, ({ #'return }) }) )).
         (reported by Mat@Maethos)
    - (object.c) Under Cygwin and other MSDOS filesystem systems, the
         savefiles are opened in binary mode. (thanks, Bastian!) (b-000528)

16-Jun-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (pkg/mysql) Integrated the update to dev.207 (thanks, Malcom!)

14-Jun-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.209)
    - (settings/hyperborea) added.
    - (comm.c) The default routine for answering telnet negotiation requests
         forgot to clean up the LPC stack when no hook was defined, thus
         eventually overwriting memory. Since this happened only with
         clients which actually did negotiate options, this bug remained
         undetected for quite some time. (b-000508)
    - (backend.c) Since b-000508 would have been found earlier if the
         LPC stackpointer had been checked for consistency, I reactivated
         the check_state() mechanism in DEBUG mode.
    - (lex.c, prolang.y, interpret.c) Corrected the linecounting in
         combination with inline closures (found by Zora).

12-Jun-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.208)
    - (efuns.c) present(object) returned the environment of the object
        found, not the object itself. While traditional, this behaviour
        is rather illogical. (thanks, Freaky!)
    - (several files) Clarified some casts.

04-Jun-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.207)
    - (mapping.c) Added a fatal() if the mapping size rises over 0x10000000.
        This is to track down b-000218.

02-Jun-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (comm.c) Added a number of debug prints to debug the telnet machine.
        The are inactive unless DEBUG_TELNET is defined.

30-May-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (doc/efun/send_imp) Added a note regarding the handling of errors
        on some machines. (thanks, lynX!)
    - (interpret.c) The driver now prints the last 200 instructions when
        fatal()ing in DEBUG mode. In addition, the trace also lists the
        absolute stack usage together with the already known relative
        usage.

29-May-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.206)
    - (stralloc) Small improvements to the CHECK_STRING mechanism. Added
        several diagnostics regarding possible refcount over/underflows.
    - (stralloc) New define 'KEEP_STRINGS' prohibits shared strings
        from being deallocated. While memory intensive, this is a debugging
        measure to locate the 'free string not found' error.

28-May-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.205)
    - (configure) Remade with autoconf 2.13

28-May-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.204)
    - (prolang.y) Warnings are generated if the redefinition of a function
        loses the 'varargs' attribute (pedantic only), or if the redefinition
        makes an incompatible change to the return type. Assignment type error
        messages are more informative. And the argument type warnings/errors
        are now printed for the correct source line, not the one following the
        function.
    - (ed.c) New command 'M' to strip ^Ms from lineends (thanks, Dafire!)
    - (hosts/be/Makefile) The cross-compiled executable is provided with
        proper resources and file attributes (icons!).
    - (doc/LPC/if) Added.

27-May-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (prolang.y) Misplaced prototypes are now a warning, not just a debug
        message.

23-May-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.203)
    - (comm.c, util/xerq/erq.c) Corrected a type error which caused the
        erq to misinterpret message lengths, resulting in overwriting
        its global variables: Due to a missing sign, the driver did not
        handle a blocking write() operation properly, causing the resend of
        the pending data to start off at the wrong offset. In turn, the
        xerq did not protect itself against invalid message lengths.
        This bug only triggered when the mud tried to sent more data
        to the erq at once than the connection could handle. (Thanks,
        Elric!) (b-000404)

22-May-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (various files) Cleaned up a couple of documentary files.

22-May-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.202)
    - (prolang.y) Whenever a function is redefined, the argument types
         are checked for consistency. If they differ, a warning
         (error in pedantic mode) is issued. The same mechanism compares
         the prototype for a function with its definition.

21-May-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (smalloc.c) Added a diagnostic to the 'Temporary out of mem'
         situation, because the driver run totally out of mem before
         the usual diagnostic in the allocating code is reached.

20-May-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (interpret.c) foreach() makes sure that destructed objects are
         removed from arrays. Also, assign_svalue_no_free() assigns 0
         to the destination if the source is a destructed object.

18-May-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.201)
    - (lex, prolang.y) Pragma 'pedantic' causes the compiler to treat
         certain warnings as errors. Pragma 'sloppy' (the default
         setting) turns the pedantic behaviour off.
    - (prolang.y, simulate) parse_error(), and with it the master
         lfun log_error() received a flag argument 'warn', which is
         set if the passed message is a warning, not an error.

16-May-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.200)
    - (prolang.y) Added functions yywarn() and yywarnf() to print
        warnings during the compile. They act like yyerror() except
        that they don't count up parse errors.
    - (prolang.y) Failure to pass enough arguments to a non-varargs
        simul_efun generates a warning. I'd like to make it an error,
        but then a lot of mudlibs would be unhappy.

14-May-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.199)
    - (ed.c) Removed an endless loop in ed_buffer_size().

08-May-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (func_spec) Efun apply() was still listed with two arguments
        where only one is actually required.
    - (comm.c) Removed a warning.

07-May-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.198)
    - (util/xerq/socket.c) In flush_queue(), the loop pointers weren't
        advanced after removing a queue element.
    - (doc/efun/symbol_variable) Clarified the functionality.
    - (interpret.c) Efun apply(), like efun funcall(), just returns
        the first argument if it is not a closure.
    - (func_spec) Efun typeof() can now accepts literal references.
    - (array.c) Efun transpose_array() handles mixed size subarrays
        better.
    - (lex.c, interpret.c, simulate.c, object.c, prolang.y) More tweaks
        to the memory statistic.
    - (stralloc.c) Corrected the memory statistics.

07-May-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.197)
    - (smalloc.c, comm.c, simulate.c) Added a few more memory statistics.
        Some memory uses are still unaccounted for, including the memory
        used for mallocated strings.

05-May-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (smalloc.c, efuns.c) Corrected the smalloc memory stat to count
        and list the wasted memory fragments. Adapted the efun debug_info()
        to return this information. Also safeguarded the dump_malloc_data()
        function against allocations during this function (this lead to
        confusing data).
    - (lex, simulate.c) Added an output of the lexer structures to 'status'.

30-Apr-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.196)
    - (actions.c) Corrected the cleanup code in execute_command() to
        handle the situation if the command giver is destructed during
        the command. (b-000207-3)
    - (lex.c) By Matthew Julius: added the preprocessor macros __DIR__
        and __PATH__(). (f-990203-08)
    - (main.c) Corrected a few typos in the help texts.
    - (prolang.y) Corrected the type tracking when compiling the
        '+' operator.
    - (prolang.y) '(void)' is now accepted as empty function argument
        list.

27-Apr-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (hosts/be) Adapted the BeOS port to R5.

21-Apr-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.195)
    - (prolang.y) Added the change required by bison.

20-Apr-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.9-dev.194)
    - (prolang.y) Local variables can now be initialized in the
         definition.
    - (random.c) Another small tweak.

19-Apr-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.193)
    - (configure.in, configure) Oops #2, the '--with-malloc' was
         applied wrongly to the config.h
    - (random.c) Improved the handling of large ranges.
    - (gcollect.c) Multiple references to a memblock no longer fatal()
         the driver, but instead print a diagnostic.

18-Apr-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.192)
    - (configure.in, configure) Oops, the '--with-malloc' was not
         really applied to the config.h
    - (util/xerq) Added a missing variable initialisation, and corrected
         the num_fd computation for select(). (thanks, Michael!)
    - (settings/forgottendreams) The name of the settings file should
         be used by the file itself, hm?

17-Apr-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.191)
    - (random.c) Improved the fitting of the raw random number into
         the given range. The key is not to use the '%' operator, as
         the low-order bits are distressingly non-random. (b-990217-3)
    - (settings/unitopia) Updated.
    - (settings/forgottendreams) Added.
    - (smalloc.c) Increased the max size of a small block to 128 Bytes.
         This value used to crash Unitopia, but probably only because
         the tables weren't fully initialised. This has been corrected,
         and with Unitopia's new system the crash vanished anyway.
    - (array.c, backend.c, closure.c, comm.c, efuns.c, prolang.y, object.c,
       ptrtable.c, simulate.c stralloc.c, strfuns.c, sprintf.c, xalloc.h)
         Removed a number of warnings. (thanks, Freaky!)
    - (util/(x)erq/erq.c) Correct the time_stamp() function.
    - (util/xerq/socket.c) Corrected a type which clobbered the TCP
         functionality. (thanks, Michael!)
    - (pkg/mysql/sql.diff) Updated. (thanks, Michael!)
    - (object.c) Got rid of the fragile 'old_format' variable; instead
         format parse decisions use the read version value directly.
    - (interpret.c) <mapping1> -= <mapping2>  now works for <mapping2>
         of any width, like the normal subtraction already does.

16-Apr-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.190)
    - (lotsa files) Improved to 'out of memory' error messages to state
         how much memory was needed for what.

16-Apr-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.189)
    - (array.ch, interpret.c) Array sizes are listed verbatim in the
         array structure.
    - (smalloc.c) Small improvements to the aligned allocations.

15-Apr-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.188)
    - (doc/driver/codestyle) First version.
    - (xalloc.ch) New 'standardised' memory allocator module: it simply
         includes the source for whatever allocator was selected.
         As a side effect, the makefile no longer needs to know
         which allocator to use - the define moved into config.h .
    - (smalloc.ch, driver.h) Simplified the compilation of smalloc:
         the functions are now compiled as they are, and stubs are
         provided for the emulation of the clib functions if
         possible.
    - (other files) Adapted to the new memory allocator compilation,
         reducing the number of dependencies on MALLOC_smalloc.
         Especially: the GC support is now tied to the macro GC_SUPPORT,
         SMALLOC_(LPC_)TRACE has been renamed to MALLOC_(LPC_)TRACE,
         and array always store their size with the vector structure.
    - (configuration) The selection of the memory allocator can now
         be done with the '--with-malloc=<value>' option of configure.

15-Apr-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.187)
    - (prolang.y, exec.h) Extended the bugfix from yesterday so that
         inherited functions are lookup up using a proper breadth search.

14-Apr-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.186)
    - (prolang.y, exec.h) The compiler now keeps track which inherits
         happened at the top level. When looking for a ::function() to
         call, it searches until it either finds the function defined
         in a first level inherit, or it takes the first definition 
         found on any other level. (b-000207-4, b-000411-1)
    - (lex.c) Added new pragma 'weak_types' to counter the effects
         of a pragma 'strict_types'. (b-000208-1)

13-Apr-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.185)
    - (actions.c) If the notify_fail() is a closure, it is made sure
         that it won't be freed while it is executing (thanks, Gnomi!)
    - (erq, xerq) The time_stamp() tried to use the driver's
         get_current_time() instead of the proper time().
    - (configure.in) Improved the recognition of unsupported
         compiler options.

11-Apr-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.184)
    - (comm.c) Corrected an endless loop in lookup_ip_entry()
         (thanks, Freaky!)
    - (hosts/unix.h) When compiling with gcc on Amiga, the
         symbol AMIGA is made undefined.

07-Apr-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.183)
    - (gcollect.c) Found another void-function casted to a value, this
         time it's writed().
    - (smalloc.c) Increasing the SMALL_BLOCK_SIZE to 32 caused
         crashes in UNItopia, manifesting themselves in garbage
         stack data. Reduced it back to 8.
    - (settings/eotl) Updated.
    - (object.c) Corrected the versoin detection in restore_object() - 
         the logic was reversed, but happened to work for the
         current generation of savefiles. (Thanks, Casey!)

06-Apr-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.182)
    - (gcollect.c) Casting a the void returning function fatal()
         to a value returning function caused the AIX-xlc code
         generator to crash on high optimization levels.
    - (lots of files) Adapted for compilation on AIX 3.4 using xlc.
         Some of these changes may break the adaption previously done
         by Uwe, but now at least I have a base to work from on.

06-Apr-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.181)
    - (lex.c, prolang.y, main.c, settings/*, configure)
        The keyword 'nosave' is now optional, controlled by the setting
        parameter 'enable-lpc-nosave'.

05-Apr-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (closure.c) Forgot to remove two leftover DEBUG printfs
        (thanks, Coogan!).
    - (object.c) Corrected one error message. (thanks, Casey!)
    - (comm.c) Added Lynx' optimization for the iptable[] IP
        address lookup. Main advantage is that it scales better
        to large numbers of users. (thanks!)

04-Apr-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.180)
    - (pkg/mysql) Coogan provided the updated source files - thanks!
    - (INSTALL) BeOS: Added a paragraph about the etc/hosts file.
    - (settings/eotl) Added the settings for End of the Line (thanks,
        Casey!).
    - (util/erq, util/xerq) Added timestamps plus nametag to the
        diagnostics of the erq demons.

03-Apr-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.179)
    - (array.c) Freaky was correct: sort_array() no longer made a copy
        of the incoming array *Mateese blushes deeply*. (b-000106-3)
    - (sprintf.c) Trailing pad space is not added if a newline
        follows directly afterwards.

02-Apr-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.178)
    - (stralloc.c) Increased the hashed length from 20 chars to 100.
    - (smalloc.c) Increased the number of small block sizes from 8
        to 32, that is: the max small block size from 32 to 128 Bytes.
    - (*.h) Removed the leading '_' from the include guards as these
        are reserved for system defines.
    - (interpret.c, prolang.y, swap.c) Removed pointer-mismatches
        (for example char* vs. unsigned char*).
    - (port.c) Implemented time_stamp() using strftime().

30-Mar-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.177)
    - (func_spec, prolang.y, lex.c, interpret.c, closure.c, sprintf.c)
        Two new bytecodes F_NX_RANGE/F_RX_RANGE (and their lvalue
        counterparts) implement the constructs [x..] and [<x..]. The
        former solution of abusing other bytecodes when these constructs
        were used in a closure was too unstable. (b-000106-1)

29-Mar-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (sprintf.c) Change the implementation so that the efun (s)printf()
        are now re-entrant.

27-Mar-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.176)
    - (prolang.y) If the declaration of a new local variable in an
        lvalue context (foreach()) shadowed a global identifier, the
        lvalue was computed for the global identifier. And that
        meant random memory accesses! (b-000221-3, b-000105-2)
    - (simulate.c) execute_callback(): if an apply() fails, the
        apply_return_value is now properly set to 0. (b-000113-1)
    - (interpret.c, prolang.c) It is now made sure that no function
        is passed more than 255 arguments (the maximum which can
        be encoded in just one byte). (b-991220)
    - (simulate, smalloc.c) Removed the MALLOC_STAT statistic.

26-Mar-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.175)
    - (actions.c) remove_action_sent(): Removed a segfault in the
        DEBUG code (of all things). Thanks, Casey!
    - (sprintf.c) (s)printf() didn't add padding if no
        data was following the format field. This is probably a space-
        saving feature, but seriously hinders some formatting tasks.
        (b-000228, b-000306-5)
    - (closure.c) symbol_efun(), and with it efun symbol_function(),
        didn't know about #'foreach. Oops. (b-000228-3)
    - (closure.c) compile_value(): #'++ was accidentally compiled
        as #'--. (b-000228-4)
    - (lex.c) The variable pragma_no_shadow wasn't initialized
        before a new compile. (b-000103)

25-Mar-2000 (Lars Duening)
    - (prolang.y) Added two %type statements which allow the use of
        bison instead of byacc. (p-000205)
    - (efuns.c) Efun terminal_colour() didn't handle well the combination
        of indentation and forced wrapping in the middle of a word.
        (b-000217-2)
    - (main.c, simulate.c) Added a 'vdebug_message()' as companion to
        'debug_message()', taking a va_list argument instead of the
        printf() style varargs. It's needed for a proper implementation
        of fatal() (I'm amazed that it didn't crash earlier).

23-Mar-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.174)
    - (object.c) restore_value()/restore_object() modify the value
        string, which is desastrous if it's a volatile or shared
        string. (b-000212-1)
    - (doc/efun/strstr) Documented the negative start indices. (b-000106-2)
    - (doc/efun/sort_array) Made clear that the argument array
        is sorted in-place. (b-000106-3)

22-Mar-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.173)
    - (interpret.c) call_others on arrays crashed with empty arrays,
        and failed to handle 0s gracefully. The crasher was caused
        by a premature optimization of the algorithm... (b-000221).
    - (closure.c) Compiling a #'foreach, <sym-array> construct didn't
        check if the sym-array is non-empty (b-000228-2).

21-Mar-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.172)
    - (actions.c) When execute_command() called privilege_violation4(),
        it passed sp+1 instead of sp as the stackpointer to use. This
        lead inter_sp pointing to an uninitialized stack entry if the
        privilege was denied, causing a fandango on the core. (b-000110-2)
    - (interpret.c) set_bit(), clear_bit(), test_bit() did not check
        if the given bit number might be negative. (b-000112)

20-Mar-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.171)
    - (actions.c) Revisited the 64-Bit issue and removed all casts.
    - (actions.c, mudlib/sys/commands.h, doc/efun/add_action)
        Corrected the behaviour of add_action() so that it is backwards
        compatible again. Added symbolic defines for the flags accepted
        by add_action(). Improved the manpage to include examples of how
        the flags affect the command parsing. (thanks, Freaky!) (b-991230)

10-Mar-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.170)
    - (actions.c) Corrected a possible 64-Bit issue: a cast from (p_int)
         down to (int) might have lost bits while handling an address.
    - (prolang.y, lex.c) The modifier 'nosave' for variables takes
         over the meaning of 'static' - the latter is still recognized
         for variables, but its use is deprecated. Similar, 'nosave'
         should be used instead of 'static' as inheritance 
         modifier.

09-Mar-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.169)
    - (lex.c) Added the name of the macro to certain error messages
         issued during expansion. This also required a new function
         lexerrorf() with obvious purpose.

06-Mar-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.168)
    - (doc/efun/closure_guide) Removed Tubmud'isms.
    - (bugs/...) New bug reports, and the EotL patches.

04-Mar-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.167)
    - (interpret.c, doc/efun/tell_room) Doc corrections.
    - (interpret.c) f_traceprefix called master::valid_trace() with
        "trace" instead of "traceprefix".
    - (doc/efun/call_out) Corrections.
    - (bugs/...) Added all the bug reports since .164.

01-Mar-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.166)
    - (make_func.y, exec.h, backend.c, parse.c) Removed warnings.

01-Mar-2000 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.165)
    - All the prvious changes since .141 are back under PRCS control.
    - (hosts/be/Makefile) The dependencies on generated files
         like stdstrings.h are now generated automatically as well
         (requires MkDepend 1.6).

17-Dec-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.164)
    - (mapping.c) The callbacks for map(mapping) and filter(mapping)
         were told about more arguments than actually existing on
         the stack. Very stupid, but it took the Evermore lib to
         find this one. (thanks, Bardioc!)

16-Dec-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.163)
    - (simulate.c) And of course the difference between toplevel and
         normal callbacks also includes the current_object :-(
    - (prolang.y) Typechecking for pre-increment/decrement on indexed
         values stumbled over mixed arrays. (thanks, DiEHARD).

15-Dec-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (comm.c) Recognition of a quoted IAC in the input forgot to
         change the state back to TS_DATA.
    - (simulate.c) Freeing callbacks with just one arg used the wrong
         pointer and crashed. (thanks, Freaky!)
    - (simulate, array.c, comm.c, call_out.c, mapping.c) Argh - I
         have to distinguish if a callback is called from the toplevel
         (current_prog is invalid) or from a program (current_prog is
         valid). (thanks, Freaky!)

14-Dec-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.162)
    - (pkg/mysql) Corrected a number of crashers (thanks, Bastian!)
         and added the HOWTO by Karm.
    - (actions.c) The recent changes activated a bit of legacy code,
         which started passing the verb as part of the argument string
         to NO_SPACE commands. *sigh* (thanks, Daryth!)
    - (simulate, call_out.c, comm.c) The callbacks can now accept
         lvalues as arguments.
         Also the index returned for faulty arguments was one too
         high. (thanks, Zwirch!)
    - (array.c) If setting up an efun callback generates an argument
         error, the proper, lower stack pointer is returned. (thanks,
         Zwirch)
    - (interpret.c) apply() on efun-, sefun- and operator-closures
         didn't properly check the number of arguments. This wasn't
         detected earlier because the related code has hardly ever
         been executed. (thanks, Zwirch!)
    - (comm.c) The driver telnet negotiations understands quoted
         IACs now. (thanks, Amylaar!)

13-Dec-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (func_spec, array.c) Efun map() can now map an array through
         a mapping; similar to how filter() works.
    - (prolang.y) Indexing [..x] and [..<x] are allowed as short form
         of [0..x] and [0..<x]. (f-990419)
    - (prolang.y) Moved the parsing and compilation of the various indexing
         forms into two dedicated rules - this greatly simplified all
         the other rules which involve indexing (yes: for once a file
         became shorter :-).
    - (func_spec, prolang.y, interpret.c, closure.c, sprintf.c) The
         ranges [x..] and [<x..] are now mapped onto [x..<1] resp. [<x..<1];
         this removes the need for F_EXTRACT2 for everything but the
         efun extract(). F_(PROTECTED_)EXTRACT_LVALUE are gone, too.
    - (sprintf.c) Made '%O' a bit more knowledgable about the various
         lvalues, but without the interpret.c-internal datastructures
         the printed data is just an approximation.

12-Dec-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.161)
    - (array, interpret) Removed a few compilation problems.
    - (ed.c) If a file can't be read on editor start, the full
         message is printed.

12-Dec-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.160)
    - (array, simulate, mapping, interpret.c) Modified the map_() and
         filter_() efuns, also sort_array() and walk_mapping(), to use
         the recently introduced callback_t for their implementation.
         This not only simplified the code (especially in array.c), but
         also introduces a standard way how callbacks are specified in
         such efuns.

11-Dec-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (actions.c, sent.h) Implemented the "short verb" usage of
         efun add_action().
    - (sent.h, ed) Completed the documentation of sentences.
    - (sent.h, comm, simulate, other files) The interactive_t is no longer
         a subclass of shadow_t; instead the latter now acts as generic
         "attribute" sentence for an object, linking to an independent
         interactive_t for interactive users. This makes handling interactive
         connections somewhat simpler.

10-Dec-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (actions, gcollect.c) The garbage collector did not trace the
         globals of actions.c under the faulty impression that they are
         valid only during a command execution. However, e.g. notify_fail()
         can be used outside of a command, which led to used memory being
         deallocated in the GC. From there, the damage continued to spread.
         (at least part of b-991123-1)
    - (doc/LPC/functions) Rewritten to cover all the new features introduced
         since LPmud 2.4.5.
    - (interpret.c) Added check for stack overflow in the eval loop - code
         like funcall(lambda(0, ({ #'({ })+({1})*10000)) could otherwise
         easily crash the driver. (thanks, Zwirch!)

09-Dec-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (Makefile.in, hosts/*/Makefiles) The manual dependencies for instrs.h
         were out of date. (reported by Freaky and Anders - thanks!)
    - (port.c) The current time_stamp() implementation omitted leading
         zeroes in the day field. (thanks, Freaky!)

08-Dec-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.159)
    - (closure, gcollect.c, interpret.c) The closure compile did not
         handle lambdas with more than 254 constants properly: the
         number of values was consistently stored in the wrong place.
         A classic off-by-one, caused by the indexing from the end.
         (thanks, Zora!)

07-Dec-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (pkg/mysql/) Small corrections.

06-Dec-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (mud/lp-245/obj/master.c, .../simul_efun.c) valid_write() and
         valid_snoop() didn't work well with plain drivers due to the
         reliance on file_name(). The master now has its own file_name().
         (thanks, Andy!)
    - (string_spec, make_func.y, Makefiles, sources) Tired of updated
         stralloc.* in three places for every change in the common
         strings table, I now define all these strings in string_spec
         and modified make_func to generate stdstrings.[ch] from these.
    - (interpret.c) Efun get_type_info(cl, 2) did not return the
         object for closure <cl> if <cl> was a lambda or bound lambda.
         (thanks, Freaky!)

05-Dec-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (interpret.c, comm.c, simulate.c, object.c) Cosmetics.
    - (settings/dt2, mud/dt2/...) Created the Deeper Trouble II adaption
         from the old 3.2.1@141 diffs. It compiles and seems to work,
         but without the mudlib I can't tell for sure.

03-Dec-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.158)
    - (interpret.c) Efun query_input_pending() deref'd the wrong object,
         causing a nice crash. (thanks, Michael!)

01-Dec-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (doc/efun/inherit_file) Corrected typos (thanks, Freaky!).
    - (doc/efun/[]) Accidentally got lost in the last snapshot.
    - (interpret.c) Removed a sneaky memory leak in transfer_pointer_range().
         (thanks, Michael!)
    - (func_spec) Efun functionlist() was specified to return "string*"
         instead of the correct "mixed*". (thanks, Freaky!)
    - (interpret.c) Improved the error messages of F_MAP_INDEX.

29-Nov-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (func_spec, comm) New efun "set_combine_charset()" to combine
         characters received in charmode into strings. (f-991126-0)
    - (func_spec, comm.c) Efun "set_connection_charset()" now also
         accepts a string as charset specificator.

27-Nov-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.157)
    - (port.h) A tentative change of VAR_PROT() and VARPROT() for AIX.
    - (prolang.h, prolang.y) struct s_lrvalue is now defined twice in
         prolang.y, to be able to cope with a wider variety of yaccs
         (especially the AIX yacc).
    - (util/xerq/(erq.c, socket.c)) Forgot to change two "struct queue_s"
         to "struct equeue_s".
    - (stralloc.c) string_dinfo_data() used an uninitialized variable.

26-Nov-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (stralloc, gcollect.c, main, backend.c, Makefiles) When compiling
         with DEBUG and CHECK_STRINGS: The structures of the shared
         string table are shadows in a second table, and every string
         access checks the consistency of the structures. Additionally,
         with the commandline option "--check-strings" the whole string
         table is checked with every backend cycle.

25-Nov-1999 (Lars Duening)
    The following three changes should correct b-990430, which might have
    caused b-991123-0 and b-991123-1 in turn.
    - (comm.c) When accepting a line of non-negotiation text in charmode,
         interactive_t.tn_start became negative after the second char.
         Similar if an error occured during a very long line - here
         set_noecho() used wrong indices.
    - (comm.c) Charmode: when a client sent single CRs and there were no
         negotiations on the same line, the CR was re-read (almost)
         endlessly.
    - (comm.c) Should the telnet machine receive too much data, the program
         now makes sure that .command_end won't fall under .tn_start resp.
         .command_start.

24-Nov-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (main.c) Commandline option "--check-refcounts" was mistakenly
         marked to accept a value.

23-Nov-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (actions.c, backend.c, call_out.c, comm.c, ed.c, gcollect.c,
       interpret.c, lex.c, main.c, mapping.c, object.c, prolang.y,
       simul_efun.c, simulate.c, stralloc.c, swap.c, wiz_list.c)
         Added the timestamp to the diagnostics. error() and fatal()
         calls automatically log the timestamp. The whole situation
         of what is logged where when is still a mess :-(
    - (comm.c) Ups, call_function_interactive() forgot to remove
         its (stack located) error recovery context from the context
         stack. And it hid the leading "!" when falling through to
         IGNORE_BANG handlers. (thanks, Freaky!)
    - (prolang.y, stralloc) New master-apply "inherit_file()" to check
         and generated the full filename from an inherit statement.
         (suggested by Freaky) (f-990323-0)
    - (interpret.c) free_interpreter_temporaries() now also removes
         all destructed objects from the code trace (obviously only
         when compiled with TRACE_CODE). Since this function is called
         only from the GC, it has no further sideeffects.

22-Nov-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (sprintf.c) sprintf("%O", object) in plain mode prints the object
         name with a leading "/". (thanks, Freaky!)
    - (lex.c) Master apply include_file() now receives the object filename
         in !compat with a leading slash; of the result, leading slashes
         are ignored. Also removed a typo. (thanks, Freaky!)
    - (simulate.c) Efun limited() did not give the closure the full
         amount of eval ticks are requested in the call. (thanks, Freaky!)
    - (mapping.c) Corrected the error handling in filter_mapping() and
         map_mapping(), which are used for the filter()/filter_indices()
         efuns and their map_() counterparts. (thanks, Robert!)
    - (port) New function time_stamp() for use in the creation of
         error and driver log messages.

21-Nov-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (simulate, gcollect.c, comm, call_out.c) Introduced the "callback"
         structure, to be used for input_to()s and call_out()s. call_out.c
         became really simple :-)

20-Nov-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (autoconf/configure.in, configure, port.h) Small tweaks.
    - (interpret.c) Correction to sort_array(): the GET_NUM_ARG occured
         too late.

19-Nov-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.156)
    - (efuns.c, simulate.c, swap) Added new debug_info() request DINFO_DATA:
         DID_SWAP to retrieve the data usually printed as "status swap".
    - (efuns.c, smalloc) Added new debug_info() request DINFO_DATA:
         DID_MEMORY to retrieve the data usually printed as "status malloc".
    - (typedefs.h) Just a definition of strbuf_t was missing.

18-Nov-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (comm.c, autoconf/configure.in, autoconf/acconfig.h, machine.h.in)
         Added tests if F_SETOWN and SO_OOBINLINE are actually supported
         by the operating system.
    - (port.c, autoconf/configure.in, config.h.in, settings/{default,osb})
         Added the configuration option USE_SYSTEM_CRYPT. This solves
         the problem for OSB that the existing password files which have
         been created with IRIX' crypt() are invalid under HP-UX's crypt().
    - (efuns.c, simulate, otable, call_out, heartbeat, stralloc, rxcache)
         Added new debug_info() requests DINFO_DATA, and implemented
         the first sub-request DID_STATUS.

17-Nov-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (make_func.y, lex.c, efuns.c, util/xerq) Removed a few warnings when
         compiling under Solaris (some remain and are caused by the
         system headers); also changed the queue_t type in xerq to equeue_t
         because of a clash with the Solaris queue_t type.
    - (port.h, autoconf/configure.in, autoconf/acconfig.h, machine.h.in)
         Added a test for ssize_t.
    - (erq.c, xerq/lookup.c) Added two fixes provided by Uwe (thanks!).

16-Nov-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (comm.c, settings/osb) Removed a few warnings when compiling under
         HP-UX; and the normal erq still doesn't compile there (but xerq
         does).
    - (func_spec, array, interpret.c) The efun sort_array() now accepts
         extra arguments to be passed to the comparison function.
         (suggested by Robert from Unholy Lands).

15-Nov-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (strfuns.h) Changed "ulong" to "u_long", which should be the
         standard.
    - (mempools) Added an include of <sys/types.h> for ssize_t.
    - (settings/tubmud) Corrected some settings from "<foo>=<value>"
         to the correct "with_<foo>=<value>". (thanks, Coogan!)
    - (interpret.c) When apply() expanded an array, it didn't check
         the elements for destructed objects. (thanks, Coogan!)
    - (interpret.c) Before calling a vefun, inter_sp and inter_pc
         are updated. (thanks, Michael!)
    - (lex.c) Corrected an off-by-one error in the linenumbers
         of an inline closure. (thanks, Michael!)
    - (array.c, efuns.c, exec.h, interpret.c, prolang.y) The various
         inherit types are now distinguished by a proper "inherit_type"
         field in the inherit_t structure; as opposed to the former
         "is_extra" flag. (provided by Michael)

14-Nov-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (smalloc.c) Added first hooks for use of madvise().
    - (mud/anders) Added the diffs and extra files for the patched
         3.2.1@141 driver of Deeper Trouble 2.
    - (interpret.c) A return from within a foreach() crashed because
         foreach's hidden "variables" messed up the stack check
         in F_RETURN. (thanks, Bardioc!)

11-Nov-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.155)
    - (prolang.y, interpret.c, strfuns, make_func.y) The operators "&"
         and "-" (and their assignment variants "&=" and "-=") may now
         be applied on strings.
    - (comm.c) Arguments passed to an input_to() haven't been checked
         for destructed objects. (thanks, Anders!)
    - (lex.c, stralloc) News master apply include_file() to generate
         the full pathnames of files specified in #include directives.

10-Nov-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (mud/sticklib/) Updated the diff files.

09-Nov-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (bugs/p-990901) Updated the catch_no_log() patch. (thanks, Michael!)
    - (array.c) unique_array() on an empty array crashed. (thanks, Ralph!)

08-Nov-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (simulate.c) Oops, "rename_to" has been written "rename_tp".
         (thanks, Elric!)
    - (gcollect.c) Added some DEBUG: printfs to check if the objects
         are counted properly.
    - (prolang.y) "*"::foo() now succeeds if at least one inherited
         object contains this function.
    - (prolang.y) The name table in get_type_name() was still incorrect.
         (thanks, Michael!)

07-Nov-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (settings/default, unitopia) Updated the unitopia settings, and
         commented the max. hashtable values.
    - (object.c, closure.c, parse.c, sprintf.c) Removed a couple of compiler
         warnings.
    - (prolang.y, closure.c, switch.h) Removed a memory leak in the
         compilation of top-level switch() statements.

05-Nov-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.154)
    - (regexp.c) In one place, FALSE was returned instead of TRUE,
         making regexp()/regreplace() unfunctional (thanks, Zwirch!).
    - (main, gcollect.c) writex() renamed to write_x() to avoid
         a clash with AIX' writex().
    - (prolang) Some more AIX adaptions: struct s_lrvalue has to
         be defined after the rules (to be precise: after %union),
         and yyerrorf() has to use VAR_PROT() in the prototype.
    - (pkg/mysql) Added new efun db_handles() (provided by Karm).
    - (strfuns.h, smalloc.c) Added the necessary changes to compile
         under FreeBSD (thanks, Elric!).
    - (configure.in, configure) Took out the test for "-xO2" and "-xO4".
         It gave wrong results under FreeBSD, and doesn't seem to be useful
         anyway.

04-Nov-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (configure) Updated it with the script created on Solaris
         from the configure.in.
    - (mudlib/dhrystone.c) Added Hyp's Dhrystone implementation for
         test purposes (486/33MHz/Cygwin: 6.7 Dhry/s).
    - (port, main.c) Cygwin's rusage() only returns 0s, so I replaced
         it with the simulation also used for Amiga - this way we
         at least get some time information.
    - (prolang.y) "#'f == string" crashed on printing an error message
         due to a lacking typename for the #'symbol.
    - (closure.c) Numbers bigger than 255 in closures weren't compiled.

03-Nov-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (doc/LPC/foreach) Improved the documentation a bit.
    - (make_func.y) Since Solaris doesn't know stricmp() either, and
         since on Cygwin it is just a define to strcasecmp(), I just
         changed my two uses of stricmp() to strcasecmp().

02-Nov-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (prolang.y) Added "foreach(x in y)" as alternative to
         "foreach(x : y)" - without making "in" a reserved word.
    - (interpret.c) When confronted with negative starting offsets,
         strstr() returned invalid results.

01-Nov-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.153)
    - (efuns.c) terminal_colour() stumbled over strings starting with
         a keyword.
    - (closure.c) The branch-rewriting was broken in @142 - using an
         invalidated variable, and rewriting only two of three branch
         types weren't good ideas at all.
    - (lex.c, prolang.y) Replaced the 'in' keyword in foreach()
         by ':' - mudlibs already use 'in' as variable name :-(

31-Oct-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (erq.c) Small fix in the IPv6 rlookup, provided by Uwe.
    - (prolang.y) Cleaned up the lvalue rules for variables a bit, and
         also removed the "dangling else" shift/reduce conflict.
    - (func_spec, lex.c, prolang.y, interpret.c, closure.c) Implemented
         the foreach() loop construct. (f-981229-18)

29-Oct-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (closure.c) An include of stddef.h was missing here, too.
    - (backend.c) In non-DEBUG mode, the interactive player wasn't set
         in the backend loop. (thanks, Heiko!)
    - (lex, prolang.y, simulate.c, exec.h) New program flag P_NO_SHADOW,
         set by the new #pragma no_shadow, disables shadowing for a
         program (suggested by Holger).
    - (efuns.c) Efuns debug_info()/object_info(), xINFO_MEMORY: also print
         resp. return the datasize of the object. (suggested by Freaky)
    - (sprintf.c) Multiples of 10 were printed without the leading digit.
    - (simulate.c) Efun rename(): the two valid_write() calls are now passed
         the operation codes "rename_from" and "rename_to" instead of
         "do_rename" twice. (suggested by Freaky)
    - (interpret.c, func_spec) call_other() now accepts arrays of objects
         and returns the call results in another array.
 
28-Oct-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (settings/evermore) Added.
    - (make_func.y) Linux doesn't know stricmp(), but strcasecmp(). Added
         ad-hoc define for that.
    - (swap.c) Added missing include stddef.h.
    - (Makefile.in) The high WARN setting for gcc defined -Wno-parentheses
         instead of -Wparentheses.
    - (doc/LPC/pragma) The pragmas no_clone and no_inherit weren't
         documented.
    - (smalloc.h, interpret.c) Added braces around ambigouous if-elses.
    - (exec.h, prolang.y, lex.c, interpret.c) Runtime errors within inline
         closures were reported with wrong line numbers. Reason is that
         the normal store_line_number_info() expects line numbers to
         increase and therefore ignore the #line directives used with
         inline closures. Solution was to add a new LI_BACK linenumber
         code plus creation function to decrement the current line counter.
         (thanks, Zwirch!)

27-Oct-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.152)
    - (xerq/erq.c) The global variable "sockets" was not initialized.

26-Oct-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (interpret.c) In call_lambda(): moved the checks for destructed
         objects to the beginning.
    - (comm.c) If after an ERQ call back the object is found to be
         destructed, the callback is removed even if the ERQ sent
         a KEEP_HANDLE reply.
    - (regexp, rxcache, array.c, backend.c, ed) Regular expressions
         used from outside ed() throw errors instead of printing
         error messages. (b-990523)
    - (actions, func_spec) Efuns query_notify_fail(), command_stack():
         the information, which object did the last notify_fail(), is
         now stored and accessible. (f-990217-2)
    - (access_check.c, lex.c, smalloc.c, wiz_list.c, hosts/amiga/dice30.diff)
         Just for fun, and because most of the changes had been done already:
         applied the remaining Amiga-diffs to the main sources.

25-Oct-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (lex.c) Newlines in strings in (: :) closures are recognized
         and rejected. (thanks, Zwirch!)

24-Oct-1999 (Lars Duening)
    Only two months until Christmas!
    - (pkg/mysql) Added the mySQL support provided by Karm (thanks!).

22-Oct-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (lex.c) Includes caused an offset-by-one for the linenumbers.
    - (comm, gcollect.c, interpret.c) input_to()s now accept closures
         for functions. (f-981229-21)
    - (prolang.y) Improved the ->() operator: the function name may be
         the same as a local variable, may be a string given as "ident"
         or a string expression given as (<expr>). (b-991019-0, f-990510,
         f-990605)
    - (prolang.y, stralloc) ->() again: a call_other() simul-efun is
         recognized.
    - (exec.h) Removed TYPE_SPACE and TYPE_TERM - nothing used them.

21-Oct-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.151)
    - (prolang.y) If an object is inherited virtually multiple times,
         a wildcarded super call ("*::") calls it only once. (b-990217-0)

20-Oct-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (prolang.y) In virtual inherits, the check for duplicate virtual
         functions forgot the take the virtuality of the duplicate into
         account. (part of b-981208-3)
    - (prolang.y) A virtual inherit is ignored if the program in question
         has been inherited virtually before. (part of b-981208-3)
    - (prolang.y, interpret.c) Simulefun may now take "varargs" type
         arguments (e.g. 'x (varargs mixed arg)'). (b-990113-0)

19-Oct-1999 (Lars Duening)
   Worked through a handfull of reports submitted by Rodney.
    - (doc/efun/say) Clarified the exclusion rules.
    - (interpret.c) Efun printf(): prints to NPCs are now sent to
         catch_tell().
    - (efuns.c) Prompt-closures are protected against premature
         deletion when replaced while they are executing.
    - (svalue.h, interpret.c, prolang.y) New macro addref_closure() to easily
         increment the refcount of a closure-svalue.

13-Oct-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (efuns.c) Efun terminal_colour(): when, during a wrap, spaces were
        removed from a string, this fact was not considered in the
        memory-access sanity checks. (b-991012-1)

12-Oct-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (comm.c) Added another IPv6 patch. (thanks, Uwe!)
    - (erq, xerq) Added the ERQ_RLOOKUPV6 request supplied by Uwe (thanks!).

07-Oct-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (comm, backend.c, gcollect.c) input_to() are now be nested when
         a command is executed from within an input_to(). This is not
         a real stacked input system as outlined in f-990721-0.

06-Oct-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (swap.c) Corrected a small, but fatal omission of a cast.

05-Oct-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.150)
    - (efuns.c) Straightened the key recognition in efun terminal_colour().
    - (object) Added member object_t.load_id to be able to distinguish between
         objects created at the same time.
    - (func_spec, efuns) New efun clones() to find the clones of an object.
         (f-990203-00, f-990203-26)

04-Oct-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (make_func.y) %tefuns specified with 'void' parameters are
         now recognized as vefuns. (b-990320-0)
    - (make_func.y, comm.c, ed.c, lex.c, main.c, simulate.c, swap.c)
         Use of MAXPATHLEN verified.
    - (prolang.y) Implemented '++<map>[<x>,<y>]'. (b-990204-1)
    - (func_spec, object) New efuns save_value() and restore_value()
         to encode/decode values in strings. (f-981229-19)
    - (func_spec, object) Extended the efuns save_object() and
         restore_object() to save and restore directly to and from
         a string. Maybe this should be put into separate efuns?
         (f-990203-25)

03-Oct-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.149)
    - (util/xerq) Commented and beautified - now that was a nice
         program to work on. I left the docs/ and lpc/ files alone,
         for the moment, though.
    - (prolang.y) The dummy code created for undefined functions was
         not aligned even with ALIGN_FUNCTIONS - the other reason
         for the crash in functionlist(). (b-990819-0, see
         26-Sep-99 as well)

02-Oct-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (doc/util/erq, util/erq) Commented and beautified the erq a bit.
         There could be done more, but I really know better things
         to do. But note that somebody (probably the folks at TubMud)
         has added the socket requests to the erq. (b-981212)

01-Oct-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (simulate, smalloc) Added a malloc statistic, which is dumped
         into the file MALLOCSTAT with the special command "status mstat".
    - (util/overhead.c) Commented.
    - (util/fundesc.c, util/make_docs/) Removed - these were programs
         for the original LPmud environment.

30-Sep-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.148)
    - (func_spec, simulate) New efun copy_file().
    - (smalloc) Commented and beautified.

29-Sep-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (simulate, efuns, other files) Commented and beautified simulate.c;
         moved and removed several pieces of code which didn't belong
         there.
    - (prolang.y) The compiler thought, "int * string" yields int - a
         really silly typo (thanks, Michael!).

28-Sep-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (exec.h, closure.c, interpret.c, object.c, simul_efun.c, prolang.y)
         Changed FUNCTION_NAME into FUNCTION_NAMEP to make sure
         people (like me) don't use it directly (alignment!).
    - (array.c) Corrected a mis-use of FUNCTION_NAME() which could lead
         to Bus Errors due to misaligned data accesses (thanks, Sunblood!)
          (b-990819-0, but see 03-Oct-99 as well)
    - (sprintf) Commented, beautified, and two changes: formatting erros
         now throw an error(), and recursive arrays/mappings are recognized.

27-Sep-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (swap) Commented and beautified.
    - (stralloc) Commented and beautified.

26-Sep-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.147)
    - (simul_efun) Commented and beautified.
    - (wiz_list) Commented and beautified.

25-Sep-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (interpret.c) Corrected a nasty crasher in the multiplication of
         arrays of malloced strings (thanks, Michael!).
    - (regexp) Beautified it, but didn't add many comments.

24-Sep-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.146)
    - (prolang.y, lex.c, closure.c) Added #'parse_command.
    - (prolang.y) Corrected a rare problem with the code generated
         for '&(expr[x])' and '&(expr[<x])'.
    - (prolang.y, lex, make_func, lotsa files) Finally: the lexer/compiler
         tokens no longer double as machine instructions. Not only this
         simplifies include dependencies, it also gets rid of that
         dreadful F_OFFSET (and '%instrs' is gone again, too).
         *Lars bounces happily*.
    - (make_func.y, Makefile) make_func now takes arguments determining
         what to create. This greatly reduces compile times after changes
         to the LPC compiler. See the source of make_func.y for more details.

23-Sep-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (prolang.y, exec.h, svalue.h) Commented and beautified the compiler.

21-Sep-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (array.c, doc/efun/functionlist) Clarified that efun functionlist() does
         not load objects from a name, and improved the error message
         for this case.

20-Sep-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (make_func.y) Added the numeric bytecodes to the created efun_defs.c
         and intrs.h - helps with debugging sometimes.
    - (make_func.y, func_spec, prolang.h, closure.c, dumpstat.c efuns.c,
       gcollect.c, lex.c, array.c, interpret.c, swap.c, simul_efun.c,
       sprintf.c)
         Added a new func_spec-type '%instrs' to distinguish the instructions
         used as tokens from those which aren't. This allows less files
         to depend on lang.h .

19-Sep-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.145)
    - (parse.c, doc/efun/parse_command) Commented and ansified.
    - (parse_old.c) Beautified, but only sparsely commented.

18-Sep-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.144)
    - (mudlib/lp-245/obj/simul_efunc.c) Adapted to the new definition
         of inherit_list().
    - (stralloc) Added the parse_command() lfuns as predefined
         shared strings.

17-Sep-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.144)
    - (mudlib/sticklib) Adapted the interpret.c.diff.
    - (prolang.y) Incorrect initialisation of local blocks in inline
         closures sometimes generated illegal code (thanks, Michael!).
         (also b-991026-1)
    - (array.c, interpret, doc/efun/inherit_list) Efun inherit_list()
         now prepends the returned program names with '/'es in non-compat
         mode. (thanks, Michael!)
    - (configure.in, configure) Corrected (I hope!) the tests for
         inet_ntoa() and ipv6 support.
    - (func_spec, interpret.c, doc/efun/) Efun load_name() also accepts
         strings, following a suggestion by Coogan.

16-Sep-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.143)
    - (efuns.c) Documented process_string().
    - (closure.c, mud/lp-245/obj/master.c) Corrected small errors.
 
15-Sep-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (efuns, parse, func_spec, interpret.c) Moved process_string()
         into efuns.c and made it a tabled efun.

14-Sep-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.142)
    - (closure, doc/LPC/closures, svalue.h) Ansified and documented.
    - (switch.h, prolang.y, typedefs.h) Beautified and documented the
        data structures used for the switch().
    - (exec.h) Added macros to generate code.
    - (Makefile.in) The rule running make_func did not delete instrs.h
        first.
    - (configure.in, configure) Corrected the probing for optimization
        options.
    - (hosts/unix.h) Added an additional check for the newer Cygwin
        packages (the old 'gethostname' problem).
    - (strfuns.h) *sigh* ulong is not a standard type - we have to
        clean that up later.

19-Aug-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.141)
    - (prolang.y) Forgot to change one 'struct lambda' into 'lambda_t'.
    - (comm.c) Corrected a wrong if() condition in efun exec().

16-Aug-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.140)
    - (actions.c) Oops, the marker_sentence was not given a valid type.

15-Aug-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (gcollect.c, parse_old.c, parse.h) The {clear,count}_parse_refs()
        functions exist in both new and old parse_command() *duh*.
    - (Makefiles) Updated all dependencies.

14-Aug-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.139)
    - (my-alloca.h) Removed a declaration conflict on BeOS/PPC.
    - (settings/avalon) Updated.
    - (comm.c) Removed a compilation warning.
    - (prolang.y) Redeclaration of local scopes inside of for() statements
        did not recover gracefully.
    - (lex.c) If the driver is compiled for IPv6, the macro __IPV6__ is
        defined.
    - (autoconf/configure.in, configure) Improved tests for IPv6.

13-Aug-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.138)
    - (sent.h, actions, simulate, other files) Beautified the sentence
        handling.
    - (mud/lp-245) Added mudwho-code and explanations for non-compat masters
        to the obj/master.c
    - (mudlib/) Removed the old master.c, simul_efun.c and room.h.
    - (comm, port.h, autoconf/*) Integrated the AIX and experimental IPv6
        support provided by Uwe (thanks!).
    - (object.h) Forgot to include instrs.h even though part of the
        struct object depends on F_SET_LIGHT *duh*.

12-Aug-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.137)
    - (svalue.h) Created from old datatypes.h.
    - (typedefs.h) File holding the opaque definition of several globally
        used types <foo>_t (which are shortcuts for the old 'struct <foo>'s);
        mainly used to decouple the header files. 
    - (other files) Adapted to use the <foo>_t types.

12-Aug-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.8-dev.136)
    - (strfuns) Increased the possible size of a strbuf from 2**16 to 2**32.
    - (mempools, alloca.c, Makefiles) Added mempools: specialised allocators.
    - (array.c, lex.c, ptrtable) Added uses of mempools where useful.

11-Aug-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.135 == 3.2.7-pre.1)
    - (lpmud.prj, patchlevel.h, hosts/be/Makefile) Introduced new source
        branch '<v>-<r>-<p>.*' to hold the pre-releases during the shakedown
        period before the 'official' release. Features and such in these
        pre's are fixed, only fixes for final bugs take place.

09-Aug-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (mapping.c) Efun m_reallocate() returned the old (freed) mapping,
        not the new one.
    - (interpret.c) Before every bytecode evaluation, inter_sp and inter_cp
        are updated.
    - (pkg/ip6-aix) AIX/IPv6 package added.

04-Aug-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.134)
    - (util/xerq/) Corrected a couple of typos (I hate not being able
        to compile this!) (thanks, Freaky!).
    - (simulate.c) Cosmetic for 'status tables': the apply-cache stat
        lacked a divider.

31-Jul-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.133)
    - (interpret.c) '*', '*=': inter_sp wasn't set properly before error()
        was called. (thanks, Michael!)
    - (array, swap.c) Swapping in an array ignores the current size limit.
        (thanks, Michael!)
    - (efuns.c) Efun terminal_colour(): the temporary buffer for the current
        line is now potentially unlimited.
    - (util/xerq/) Integrated patches from UNItopia, which remove a couple
        of warnings and works around the repeated closing of sockets.
        (thanks, Freaky!)

30-Jul-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (efuns.c) Efun trim(): forgot a check for the string end when trimming
        left. This caused trim("") to core. (thanks, Freaky!)

30-Jul-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.132)
    - (gcollect.c) Oops, forgot to change two calls to free_vector() into
        free_array(). (thanks, Freaky!)
    - (interpret.c) Efun mkmapping() could have problem with oversized
        arrays.

29-Jul-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.131)
    - (simulate.c) I am surprised nobody complained about this one: when
        an error occured, the runtime stack was unrolled too early and
        left the runtime_error() apply with no valid commandgiver.
    - (func_spec, simulate) New efuns set_limits(), query_limits() and
        limited() to handle runtime limits. (f-981229-11)
    - (backend, main, simulate): array, mapping, and file transfer limits
        are all settable from commandline and through the limit efuns.
    - (interpret.c, efuns.c) Code for efuns like object_info()
        now use the mudlib/sys/ includes to generated their results.
    - (interpret.c, prolang.y) The '*' and '*=' operators now allow
        to multiply strings/arrays with numbers.

28-Jul-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (lots of files) Removed trailing spaces.
    - (main, backend, lex, interpret, simulate) eval_costs are now counting
        up from 0 and are tested against a positive limit. The limit can
        be 0, in which case the eval costs are still counted but can grow
        without limit. This is just a preparation for the oncoming code,
        and might even work.

27-Jul-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.130)
    - (efuns.c) Efun trim() also accepts a string of characters to trim.
    - (array.h, datatypes.h, closure.h, mapping.h) Moved the definitions
        of non-svalues back into their associated module header files.
    - (datatypes.h, stralloc.h) Wrapped setting of svalues into nice
        put_<type>() macros. For once, the sources shrank a few lines
        instead of growing :-)

26-Jul-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.129)
    - (array.h, mapping.h, object.h, and dependees) Streamline the refcount
        handling in macros ref_<type>(), deref_<type>() and free_<type>().
        Not necessary in terms of typesafety, they make the source a bit
        more readable, and less likely that a ref++ is forgotten.

23-Jul-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.128)
    - (lex.c, prolang.y) The inline function variables weren't initialized
        properly nor checked, leading to interesting crashes when the driver
        tried to freed non-existing memory.
    - (lex.c, strfuns) Rewrote the inline closure scanner to cope with
        linefills.

22-Jul-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (access_check.c) A null-message could cause a random memory
        write.
    - (strfuns.c) Corrected a write beyond boundary.
    - (lex.c) Inline function scanning: newlines didn't trigger a
        buffer refill in time.

22-Jul-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.127)
    - (actions, func_spec) New efun 'execute_command()' implements
        a low-level access to the command parser.
    - (prolang.y, exec.h) New optional driver hook H_COMMAND, which
        replaces the driver based command handling with its own.
        (obsoletes f-990204-1 and f-990203-09)
    - (make_func.y) Lookup failures yield an error message, not just
        an exit(1).
    - (func_spec, efuns) New efun 'trim()' to trim characters from
        a string. (f-981229-24)
    - (settings/) Small corrections to 'default', added 'wunderland'.
    - (pkg/ip6/) Added the experimental IPv6 patch from Uwe (thanks!).

21-Jul-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.126)
    - (settings/) Updated the tubmud settings file, added the sticklib
        file. All scripts now use 'exec' to start the configure script,
        allowing more meaningful exit codes.
    - (simulate.c) Caught errors now produce a tracedump on stdout/stderr
        (thanks, Sunblood!).
    - (mud/sticklib/) Added the StickLib changes (thanks, Doomdark!)
    - (lex.c) 'check last char before :)' stumbled over Newline characters.
    - (prolang.y) Inline closures: removed an interaction between typed
        inline closures in untyped functions.
    - (actions.c, comm) Notify-fail handling is now in actions.c, this
        also means that notify-fail messages are saved over nested
        commands.
    - (actions.c) notify_fail is available for NPCs, too: the text
        will be told to the NPC. (f-990204-5)
    - (func_spec, actions) New efun 'query_notify_fail()' returns the
        current notify-fail setting. (f-990217-2)
    - (func_spec, actions) New efuns 'command_stack()' and
      'command_stack_depth()' to query the command stack.

20-Jul-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.125)
    - (simulate, interpret.c, backend.c) Player command execution is now
        stacked, meaning that after a command() the previous command giver,
        verb, etc are restored. This does not yet extend to notify-fails
        though.
    - (actions.ch) New source files holds the functions related to
        command parsing and action management.

19-Jul-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.124)
    - (prolang.y) Removed a spurious debug printf().
    - (backend, call_out.c, closure.c, interpret.c, simulate.c, main.c)
        Generalized the error_recovery_info stack into a runtime context stack.

18-Jul-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.123)
    - (settings) Updated the tubmud settings file.
    - (autoconf/configure.in, configure) Unfortunately it's not just
        gcc 2.8.1 on Solaris which stumble over the float/branch test.
    - (prolang.y) Removed a nasty interaction between disabled local
        scopes and for() statements (which unfortunately didn't manifest
        itself in earlier tests). Also, the local_scopes pragmas are
        check only when entering a function.
    - (otable.c) The table status threatened to print some stack garbage.
    - (main, config.h.in, interpret.c, array.c, mapping.c, object.c,
       simulate.c) Array and mapping size limits are now commandline
         options; and a setting of 0 disables the limit checks.

16-Jul-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (autoconf/configure.in, configure) Oops, a typo in configure.in
        really messed up the script.
    - (backend.c) Following a notice from Stefan Lichtenhagen, I removed
        the safety factor '*2' from f_regreplace() - the error it avoided
        was fixed in dev.28. However, if this efun should cause crashes
        again, this factor is one thing to try out.
    - (simulate.c) Stupid bug, the second: clone_object() checked the
        P_NO_CLONE flag before swapping in the program. (thanks, Manu!)
    - (lex, prolang.y) New pragma 'no_local_scopes' turns off local
        scoping to cater for legacy code; the second pragma 'local_scopes'
        turns it back on.
    - (settings/) Added settings file for Avalon (thanks, Thorsten!)

16-Jul-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.122)
    - (lex, prolang.y) Added inline closures ("functionals") using the
        '(: <code/expression> :)' syntax MudOS invented. As a sideeffect,
        the lexer now knows the '#line <num>' directive, and identifier
        names may start with '$'. (thanks, Righ!) (p-990326)
    - (func_spec, interpret.c, simulate) New efun query_command() returns
        the full command given by the player (thanks, Ugh!).

15-Jul-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.121)
    - (prolang.y) The first expression in a for() may define local variables
        which scope is the whole for() statement.
    - (func_spec, interpret.c) More new bitstring efuns: count_bits(),
        invert_bits().

14-Jul-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.120)
    - (func_spec, interpret.c) New bitstring efuns last_bit() and next_bit().
        (thanks, Matthew!) (f-990203-14)
    - (access_allow, comm, mudlib/ACCESS.ALLOW) Access rules can take
        portnumbers into account. (idea from Gokhan, f-981211)

13-Jul-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (bugs/) Cleaned up the directory a big; created summary files b-summary
        and f-summary.
    - (func_spec, interpret, object, doc/efun/) New efun object_time()
        returns the creation time of the object. (idea from Daniel,
        f-990324-2)
    - (lex, prolang.y, simulate.c, exec.h) New pragmes 'no_clone' to disallow
        clones of an object, and 'no_inherit' to disallow inheriting a
        program. (thanks, Daniel!) (f-990324-0, p-990417-0)
    - (comm.c) Error ESHUTDOWN on read yields a proper message and removes
        the interactive player.
    - (func_spec, interpret.c) New bitstring efuns and_bits(), or_bits(),
        xor_bits(). (idea from Matthew, f-990203-14)

12-Jul-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (func_spec, interpret.c) New efuns pow(), floor(), ceil() and atan2().
    - (config.h.in, configure, interpret.c) If configuration option
        DYNAMIC_COSTS is enabled (default is off), string additions are more
        expensive for long strings (this is handy against the killer-loop
        for (s=""; s += "a"; ) ).

12-Jul-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.118, 119)
    - (autoconf/configure.in, configure) gcc/cc1 2.8.1 on SunOS 5.7 falls into
        catatonia when compiling the float/branch-incompatibility test.
        Inserted a workaround.
    - (prolang.y, lex, func_spec) Scope of variables in nested local blocks
        ends with the defining block as it should. The space of such variables
        is reused for other local blocks. (f-990203-05)
    - dev.119: Small correction: function local variables (depth 2) can't
        hide function arguments (depth 1);

11-Jul-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.117)
    - (machine.h.in) Oops, forgot to update this.
    - (Makefile.in, port.h) Compile-time define NO_INLINES turns off inlining.
    - (interpret, stralloc, strfuns.c, smalloc) Straightened out the
        INLINE uses.

10-Jul-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.116)
    - (closure.c) Removed an erroneous errormessage when creating sefun
        closures with large indices (thanks, Daniel!).
    - (configuration, several files) Mappings have now an upper size limit
        of MAX_MAPPING_SIZE keys (defaults to 5000). (f-990708-1)

09-Jul-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.115)
    - (config.h.in, autoconf/configure.in, settings/default) All of
        of config.h is now configurable (and is it just me, or was
        the original value parsing really broken?).
    - (settings/) Added files for all Muds I had a config.h of. Oh, and
        the files are now scripts in themselves :-)

08-Jul-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.114)
    - (machine.h.in, port.h) port.h now knows about the supported
        (working) architectures and how to find the host-specific include
        files. HOST_INCLUDE is still recognized, but optional.
    - (machine.h.in, array.h, driver.h, port.h, interpret, simulate, random):
        Use SIZEOF_CHAR_P instead of SIZEOF_P_INT.
    - (Makefile.in) Target 'distclean' also deletes the
        config.cache/status/log files.
    - (other files) Added some documentation to the new autoconfig system.

08-Jul-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.113)
  Checked in the changes provided by Reinhard (thanks!):
    - (machine.h.in, config.h.in, configure, autoconf/) Autoconfiguration
        is now based on autoconf 2. The old configuration code is in the
        subdirectory config-old/ held as backup. Special features are:
          - rxcache and UDP port can be enabled/disabled explicitely.
          - Enabling ERQ defines a symbol ERQ_INCLUDE pointing to the
            correct include file (util/erq/erq.h resp util/xerq/erq.h).
          - All config.h options can be set using parameters to configure.
            configure --help will print the (long) list of available options.
    - (func_spec) Fixed a rare case of an erroneus inclusion of send_imp()
        UDP is disabled and thus the function f_send_imp() won't be compiled.
    - (comm.c) erq.h is included only when the driver is compiled for
        using the erq demon.

07-Jul-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.112)
    - (strfuns.c) Corrected off-by-one mistakes, and the length of the
        final string.
    - (datatypes.h, other files) Straightened the use of STRING_VOLATILE
        (purely cosmetic).

07-Jul-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.111)
    - (strfuns, efuns, simulate): Modified efun debug_info() to return
        the status information instead of printing it. Added "malloc" as
        additional second argument to the DINFO_STATUS command.
    - (interpret) Efun get_type_info() returns whether a string is shared
        or not.
    - (simulate, smalloc): Deactivated 'debugmalloc' and
        'showsmallnewmalloced' and the associated code.
    - (simulate, efuns, dumpstat, interpret): Added option DINFO_DUMP to
        debug_info() to implement the 'dumpallobj' and 'opcprof' command.
    - (interpret.c) Efuns trace() and traceprefix() are now validated
        with the master-lfun 'valid_trace()'; the master-lfun
        'query_player_level()' is thus no longer needed.
    - (efuns, simulate, object): Efun set_is_wizard() is now optional,
        and with it the object flag O_WIZARD.
    - (object, simulate, prolang, efun): Object flag O_APPROVED is gone.

06-Jul-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (comm, simulate.c)  Undid the last change. Now it is legal again for
        the modify_command-hook to change the command_giver; this change
        stays active for the execution of the command, and the original
        commandgiver is passed to the NOTIFY_FAIL hook.
    - (simulate.c) The MODIFY_COMMAND hook is now called first, even
        before special commands like 'status' are parsed. This allows
        the hook to filter out uses of these commands.
    - (strfuns) New file holding string functions (for now).
    - (simulate, otable, rxcache, stralloc, efuns, call_out, heartbeat):
        Rewrote the status functions to use strbufs, in anticipation to
        make these special commands into real efuns.

05-Jul-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.110)
    - (comm.c) include of <stddef.h> was missing.
    - (simulate.c) After the modify-command hook was called, the commandgiver
        and current object are restored their previous setting in case the
        hook changed them. (thanks, Daniel!)

04-Jul-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (closure.c) Corrected a nasty mistyping in compile_lvalue(). (thanks,
        Freaky!).
    - (lex.c, interpret.c) Removed two warnings.
    - (doc/efun) Removed the manpage for the long-gone efun query_host_name.

03-Jul-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.109)
    - The driver compiles again with egcs.
    - (efuns.c) Bugfix for efun terminal_colour(): terminal_colour("bla", ([
        "bla":"blu"]), 1) returned "blu" instead of "bla". (thanks, Michael!)
    - (efuns.c) The efun sscanf() used the wrong function to report argument
        errors. (thanks, Freaky!)

02-Jul-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (hosts/be/be.h, .../Makefile, .../machine.h, other files): Adapted for
        BeOS 4.5. This involved adding numerous casts to make the now pickier
        compiler happy. But now egcs starts crashing...
    - (efuns.c) Found another shortcoming of present_clone() (and the reason
        why I didn't see errors before *blush*).

01-Jul-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (efuns.c) Fixed two nasty bugs in efun present_clone(): make_name_sane()
        could return NULL, and the comparison was done against the wrong name.
    - (interpret.h) To be safe, macro put_number() takes the sp as argument.
    - (call_out.c) When setting current_prog for efun closures, the code
        now makes sure that the program is swapped in.

30-Jun-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.108)
    - (mud/lp-245/obj/simul_efun.c) Duh, had a complete brainfart yesterday
        when adapting present_clone() to compat mode.

29-Jun-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.107)
    - (doc/efun) Removed the files for the long-gone efuns find_living(),
        find_player(), set_living_name(), add_worth() and wizlist().
    - (doc/efun/all_environment) Corrected a typo.
    - (efuns.c) Corrected a misformed condition in efun terminal_colour().
    - (gcollect.c) If a swap-in fails, the GC raises a fatal error (instead
        of just crashing).
    - (mud/lp-245/) Added the old LP-245 mudlib, of course adapted to
        this driver.
    - (func_spec, efuns) New efun present_clone() to find objects with
        a specific blueprint (suggested by Coogan).

29-Jun-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.106)
    - (exec.h, interpret.c, call_out.c) Efun-closures are now properly
        identified, and call_outs to efun-closures set current_prog to the
        prog of the bound object. This sources still hold some DEBUG-printfs.

28-Jun-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.105)
    - (interpret.c) Added some argument checks to efun terminal_colour().
    - (func_spec, doc/efun/environment) Documented that efun environment()
        can also take a string as argument.
    - (interpret.c) 'Indexing on illegal type' no longer dumps trace (what
        for did that do that any way?).
    - (main, backend.c, object.c) TIME_TO_RESET and TIME_TO_CLEAN_UP are now
        defaults for the runtime options '--reset-time' and '--cleanup-time'.
    - (interpret.c) Reactivating a destructed didn't update the number
        of listed objects.

26-Jun-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (main.c, interpret.c, smalloc.c) Cosmetics.

25-Jun-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.104)
    - (lotsa files) NATIVE_MODE is gone - the only real difference it made
        was the restriction of command() to the current object only, and
        that can be handled by a simul-efun.
    - (interpret.c) Oops, privilege_violation() slightly misinterpreted
        the result from the master apply.

25-Jun-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.103)
    - (lotsa files) EUIDS mode is now automatic since most of the code
        was there in any case.

        New runtime option '--[no-]strict-euids'
        which enables/disables the enforcement of euids known from the native
        mode. When enabled, the LPC macro "__STRICT_EUIDS__" is defined.
        The default setting is defined in config.h by STRICT_EUIDS; use
        of an old config.h with NATIVE_MODE defined has (for now) the
        same effect.

24-Jun-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.102)
    - (backend, efuns.c, heartbeat, interpret.c, object, simulate,
        all config.h) OLD_RESET is gone.

24-Jun-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.101)
    - (mudlib/sys/{trace.h,input_to.h,files.h,debug_info.h}: Added these
        includes with definitions for the efuns trace(), input_to(),
        file_size(), get_dir(), and debug_info().
    - (interpret, efuns, func_spec, exec.h) Finished commenting the
        interpreter.

20-Jun-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.100)
    - (interpret) to_string(object) in compat mode added a leading
        slash. program_time() freed its argument before querying it.
        And recombine_free_lists() is gone for good.
    - (interpret, func_spec,  exec.h) After a long day: more comments
        added (17155 lines done, 3150 to go). In particular,
        eval_instruction() is commented *phew* (but it's still big
        and ugly).

18-Jun-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.99)
    - (interpret, func_spec, exec.h)  Something new: more comments.
        (12558 lines done, 5800 to go).

16-Jun-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (interpret.c) The operators +=, -=, *=, /= now accept a float left
        and an int right.
    - (interpret, efuns) Efun terminal_colour() moved out from the interpreter
        into efuns.c. And it received comments during this move.

15-Jun-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (interpret.c) Binding an unbound lambda to two objects and destructing
        the originating object freed the lambda. (thanks, Kirnan & Michael)

14-Jun-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (driver.h, port.h, all files commented so far) New type 'Bool' and its
        smaller sibling 'CBool' introduced.
    - (autoconf/configure.in, configure, port.h, regexp, ptrtable) Replaced
        CHARBITS by CHAR_BIT, adapted the generation of CHARBIT_MASK.
    - (datatypes.h, func_spec, exec.h, interpret) Something new: more
        comments (8700 lines done, 9000 to go). Actually I started wrapping
        the bytecode interpretation into its own types and macros, which
        may increase portability, and at least make the critical places
        easier to find.

13-Jun-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (array.c) Efun inherit_list() just copies the program names, but
        doesn't make them shared. Since they aren't shared anyway, this
        makes the function much faster. (thanks, Michael!)
    - (object.c) If the H_RESET hook is a closure, a result < 0 will disable
        reset for this object. (thanks, Michael!)

12-Jun-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (interpret.c, mapping.c) Both m_indices() and map()/map_mapping()
        called check_map_for_destr() twice, wasting time. (thanks, Michael!)

12-Jun-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.98)
    - (datatypes.h, func_spec, exec.h, interpret) Oh boy: more comments
        (6700 lines done, 10000 to go).

10-Jun-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (call_out.c) Adding callouts from within a callout resulted
        in the new callouts inserted in the wrong place when the active
        callout had an odd delay (and thus a negative 'time left' entry).
        If the new call_out had a MAX_INT delay, the current callout list
        was effectively disabled. (b-990214-0)
    - (backend.c) Added Michaels improvement to the swapping algorithm
        (thanks!).

05-Jun-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (smalloc.c) As I feared: trying to print more information about
        gc'ed objects may crash the driver *sigh*.

   Patches provided by Michael (thanks!):
    - (backend, interpret, simulate) Improved the handling of closure hooks:
        now setting a driver hook from within the hook works well, too.
    - (closure.c) symbol_variable() properly recognizes objects with
        pending program replacement.
    - (interpret.c) dump_trace() recognizes alien lfuns properly.
    - (interpret.c) Calls to alien lfun closures didn't set extern_call.
    - (interpret.c) Calls to F_UNDEF closures (closures whose object
        was destructed) generate a proper error message.
    - (swap.c) If a closure variable was changed to F_UNDEF by the garbage
        collector, the swapper now duly writes this new info into the swap file.
    - (mapping.c) During a GC, mappings didn't check for changed alien lfuns.
  Some more suggestions by Michael:
    - (interpret.c) to_object() on F_UNDEF closures returns 0.
    - (object.c) free_object() miscounted the amount of memory used by
        objects.
    - (simulate.c) Memory display in 'status' for objects and programs
        now both display '<total> (<swapped>)' (before, only the objects
        status displayed that, programs displayed '<resident> (<swapped>)' ).
    - (swap.c) If variables could not be unswapped, the swapper didn't clear
        them properly.

24-May-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.97)
    - (interpret, exec.h, heartbeat.c, comm.c, make_func.y) More comments,
        really.

22-May-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.96)
    - (config.h, interpret.c, closure.c) Corrected some typos.

22-May-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.95)
    - (interpret.c) Guess what: more comments.
    - (interpret.c, sprintf.c) to_string() and sprintf() stumbled over
        variable closures left dangling after a replace_program(). (thanks,
        Michael!)
    - (prolang.y) insert_inherited: the loop for the case '*::f' tended to
        clobber its own control variable 'ip', causing the omission of
        function calls. (thanks, Michael!)

18-May-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.94)
    - (config.h, hosts/be/config.h) Increased the default for MAX_LOCAL
        to 50.
    - (interpret.c) Even more comments.

17-May-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.93)
    - (doc/efun/filter_{mapping,indices}) Corrected a wrong phrase.
        (thanks, Zwirch!)
    - (interpret.c) Some more comments.

16-May-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.92)
    - (object, backend.c, dumpstat.c, efuns.c, interpret.c, simulate.c,
       sprintf.c, ../mudlib/sys/objectinfo.h, doc/efun/object_info):
        New object flag O_REPLACED for objects with replaced programs,
        so that clonep() stops flagging such blueprints as clones.
        (suggested by Michael)
    - (datatypes.h, interpret) More comments.
    - (simulate.c) Streamlined the namehandling in clone_object().

14-May-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.91)
    - (backend.c) Removed one 'var might be clobbered' warning.
    - (datatypes.h, interpret) More comments.
    - (object.c) When restoring a mapping of form '([:<width>])', the <width>
        is made sure to be positive. (thanks, Michael!)

13-May-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.90)
    - (datatypes.h, interpret) More comments.

12-May-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.89)
    - (interpret.c, doc/efun/...) Efun symbol_function() won't create
        closures from protected lfuns of other objects. (thanks, Michael!)
    - (func_spec, comm, interpret.c, config.h, driver.h, main)
        query_mud_port() did not accept int arguments as documented; also,
        the multiport feature is no longer optional.
    - (smalloc.c) write_lpc_trace() tries to write as much information about
        an object as possible, not just 'Doesn't exist anymore'.
    - (interpret.c) destruct() now accepts destructed objects as arguments.
        (thanks, Largo!).

11-May-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.88)
    - (object.c) Fixed some memory leaks on errors during a restore. (thanks,
        Michael!)
    - (interpret.c) Some more comments.

10-May-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.87)
    - (interpret.c) Removed a crasher in call_lambda() on closures of
        not-inherited variables. (thanks, Michael!)
    - (closure.c) Creating a symbol_variable() now protects it against
        replace_program()s. (thanks, Michael!)
    - (array.c, efuns.c, exec.h, interpret.c, prolang.y) Duplicate virtual
        inherits are no longer listed in the result of inheritlist() and
        the various statistical functions. (thanks, Michael!)

09-May-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.86)
    More patches from Michael:
    - (backend.c, interpret, gcollect.c) interpret:call_lambda() no longer
        protects closure with an extra refcount; instead old, replaced driver
        hooks are stored in an array and freed by the backend (or the
        garbage collector).
    - (backend.c) When computing a 'real soon' swapping time for objects
        with no reset, the new swap time became negative, effectively
        disabling swapping for this object.
    - (interpret.c) Improvement of efun terminal_colour(), reducing the number
        of created shared strings.
    - (simulate.c) If the loading of objects fails, the name of the object
        is printed with the error message.
    - (swap.c) If an object WILL_CLEAN_UP on swap in, the swapper doesn't
        bother to check for the function 'clean_up'.
    - (interpret.c, prolang.y) Added a couple of missing updates of
        time_of_ref.
    - (interpret.c) Fixed a crasher when using to_string() on an lfun
        closure for a swapped program.
    - (simulate.c) lookfor_object() no longer swaps in the object, instead
        the caller does it when needed. As this is rather rare, the effect
        should be reduced disk activity.
    - (ed.c, heartbeat.c) Removed two compilation warnings for printf()
        args.

04-May-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (smalloc.c) _large_malloc() didn't compile in SMALLOC_LPC_TRACE due to
        a missing 'const' specifier. (thanks, Freaky!)

02-May-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.85)
    - (backend.c) time_of_ref is fudged only after a reset of a swapped
        object, not after a cleanup. Also, if the cleanup hook is a closure,
        the time_of_ref is updated manually to make sure that the cleanup
        won't occur in every backend loop.
    - (simulate.c) lookfor_object() sets the time_of_ref of an object if
        it had to swap it in. This is useful for blueprints for inheritance
        and cloning, which would thrash otherwise. (thanks, Michael!)
    - (lex.c) The test against recursive calls in _expand_define() crashed
        the driver if an error occured during the macro expansion and the
        error handling itself called macro expansion (e.g. through the
        _expand_define_() efun). For now, non-reentrant recursive calls
        are allowed again.

30-Apr-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.84)
    - (backend.c) If reset or cleanup cause an object to be swapped in,
        the time_of_ref is fudged so that the object will swap out again
        pretty soon, but not immediately.
    - (hosts/be/Makefile) Re-introduced cross-compiling support for x86
        on PowerPC.

29-Apr-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (doc/efun/caller_stack_depth, HISTORY) Corrected two typos (thanks,
        Zora!).

28-Apr-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.83)
    - (backend.h, closure.c, interpret.h, efuns.c) Move error_recover_info
        definition into backend.h, adapting the other files, and added
        a missing include to efuns.c
    - (interpret, exec.h, datatypes.h) Began commenting.

27-Apr-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.82)
    - (heartbeat.c) 'status tables' could cause a division by 0.
    Integrated a patch from Michael:
    - (backend.c) process_objects() now checks if a swap was successful
        before setting did_swap (since some objects won't swap).
    - (interpret.c) Added some ASSIGN_EVAL_COST in critical efuns.
    - (interpret.c) call_lambda() did not update time_of_ref/O_RESET_STATE
        on calls. Furthermore, objects bound to (s)efun closures were not
        swapped in, which caused segfaults in dump_trace().

25-Apr-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.81)
    - (backend.c, swap.c) Swapped-out objects are again swapped in for
        reset. Skipping the call and just setting a due-time in the
        swapper resulted in too few calls to reset(), especially with
        small swap times. (thanks, Michael!)
    - (backend.c) Removed the RESET_DEBUG code sequences.
    - (interpret.c) Calls to tefuns and vefuns assign the eval costs
        first.
    - (sprintf.c) If possible, file:line of an offending sprintf() statement
        are appended to all error messages, not just to the one printed
        on stderr.
    - (etc/icon-*.ppm) The Icon for the Gamedriver.
    - (hosts/be/{Makefile, icon-*.raw, driver.r, driver.rscr) Added the
        icon to the compiled resources.
    - (heartbeat.c) Fixed a crasher which occured when a heart_beat()
        function managed to remove all remaining objects from the hb list.

19-Apr-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (mapping.c) When adding mappings, the second summand was freed before
        the actual addition (thanks, Daniel!).
    - (doc/LPC/modifiers) added from TubMud (thanks, Fiona!).

17-Apr-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.80)
    - (doc/) Small changes, improved the docs to switch, references
        and alists (thanks, Freaky!).
    - (lex.c) Bugfix from Daniel: Variables in closure may start with '_'.
    - (closure.c) Bugfix from Daniel: #'[<] indexing corrected.
    - (interpret.c) unmkmapping() also accepts key-only mappings (thanks,
        Holger!).
    - (func_spec) Efun caller_stack() was defined to return 'int' instead
        of the correct 'object *'. (thanks, Robb!).
    - (driver.h, smalloc, main) Added some 'const' to 'char *' where
        useful.
    - (main.c, lex.c) The list of predefs copied from the commandline is
        now deallocated after the defines have been entered into the
        table. This removes a spurious 'small block freed' warning on
        garbage collections.

04-Apr-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.78-79)
    - Small changes, just cosmetics.

01-Apr-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.7-dev.77)
    - Manually copied all changes since dev.76 into the Re-Release of 3.2.6.
    - (call_out.c) Undid the change that callout can call protected
        functions: this inability was intentional for security reasons.
    - (backend.c) The consistency check of the object list was still
        active. Now the code is still there, but deactivated.
    - (doc/LPC/functions, doc/efun/call_out, doc/efun/call_other) Added
        a bit documentation regarding protected functions (thanks, Macbeth!).
    - (interpret.c, doc/LPC/operators) Subtraction allows any width of
        the subtrahend.

31-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (HISTORY, hosts/be/Makefile) Small corrections.

31-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening) -- Release 3.2.6
    - Froze 3.2.6-dev.76 for release.

31-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.75)
    - Changed the directory structure so that the sources are no longer
        in the top directory. But there's still a long way to go before
        a simple 'build' in the top directory does everything.
    - (doc/...) Integrated the 'driverdocs', previously maintained
        by Stefan Petri (thanks!).

31-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.74)
    - (doc/efun/...) Typo corrections (thanks, Coogan and Freaky!)
    - (array.c) map_array() did not check if objects in the array were
        destructed during the execution (thanks, Righ!). (b-990329-0)
    - (util/make_docs/make_docs.c) Linux-adaption was not complete
        enough.

30-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.73)
    - (lex.c) *duh* the last change tested for COMPAT, not the correct
        COMPAT_MODE define.

29-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.72)
    - (lex.c) __FILE__ and __MASTER_OBJECT__ return names without leading
        slash in compat mode.
    - (backend.c, interpret.c) Fixed some warnings.
    - (doc/efun/{sizeof, widthof, load_name}) Cosmetics.
    - (comm) Undefining ERQ_DEMON did not compile (thanks, Bardioc!).
    - (prolang.y, object.c) The __INIT function is now protected instead
        of global (thanks, Freaky!).
    - (call_out.c) Efun call_out(string,...) can now call protected functions
        as well (thanks, Freaky!).

28-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.71)
    - (object, simulate, backend.c, interpret.c, efun_defs.c, dumpstat.c
       smalloc.c) Changed the object list to a double-linked list, allowing
        destructed objects to be removed immediately. In itself not a big
        deal, but it allows future, more sorted incarnations of the object
        list.
    - (heartbeat.c,h) New module holding the heartbeat related code.
    - (backend, interpret, simulate) Adapted for using the new heartbeat
        code. Especially the backend loop now gives preference to the
        heartbeats over resets/swaps - the latter are slowed down to
        one reset/swap per cycle if there is not enough time.

26-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.70)
    - (object, simulate, backend.c, interpret.c, efun_defs.c, dumpstat.c
       smalloc.c) Changed the object list to a double-linked list, allowing
        destructed objects to be removed immediately. In itself not a big
        deal, but it allows future, more sorted incarnations of the object
        list.

26-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.69)
    - (backend.c) The logic in the computation of the average heartbeat
        stats was wired backwards.
    - (call_out.c, closure.c, comm.c, interpret.c, lex.c, regexp.c, simulate.c)
        Removed a couple of warnings when compiling under BeOS/Intel.
    - (port.c) get_current_time(): 'noted_alarms' is kept up to speed with
        'total_alarms'. (thanks, Michael!)
    - (backend, main, lex.c, interpret.c, simulate.c, func_spec, doc/...)
        After the current implementation of the free-running alarm, which
        is needed by the MAX_TIME mechanism, proved unstable on some
        platforms, the axe fell on this feature altogether. What started
        out as a nice idea was on the best way to grow into a maze of
        special cases, all ugly. Sorry, folks.

25-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.68)
    - (backend.c) Corrected a possible division-by-0 in the heart
        beat status output (thanks, Freaky!)
    - (efuns.c) Efuns copy() and deep_copy() did copy quoted arrays.
        (thanks, Michael!).
    - (simulate.c, otable.c) Warnings in printf again...
    - (doc/efun/previous_object) Clarified the difference between
        previous_object() and previous_object(0).

24-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.67)
    - (efuns.c) Efun deep_copy() leaked memory, and also has to copy
        arrays/mappings with just one ref (thanks, Michael!)
    - (backend.c) Oops, major fault in the changed efun heart_beat_info(),
        writing over array limits.
    - (func_spec, interpret.c, backend.c, config.h, doc/...) The
        hard time limit is now by default turned off (but can be
        activated on the command line). The efun get_eval_time()
        was renamed to remaining_eval_time() to avoid a clash with
        some mud's driver patches. See f-981229-11 and f-990324-3
        for further discussion.
    - (main.c, simulate.c, port.h) Fixes related to MSDOS_FS:
        Compiling with Cygwin under/for Windows didn't set the define.
        legal_path() was a bit too restrictive. Added the define
        to the list of options printed with '--options'.

24-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.66)
    - (backend) Moved the heartbeat handling into process_objects()
        as well, which also got rid of the clumsy heartbeat table
        handling. Only the efun heart_beat_info() is slow now.

24-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.65)
    - (backend, gcollect.c, interpret.c, object, otable, simulate.c)
        Modified the list of objects so that the head and the end are
        accessible through pointers. This allowed a better handling of
        resets/cleanups/swapping such that the processing can be
        aborted after ALARM_TIME and continued in a later cycle. This
        should get rid of reset/...-induced lags.
        As a result, the reset table introduced in dev.62 is no longer
        necessary, nor is the config.h constant RESET_GRANULARITY.
        backend.c still contains a sanity check in the main loop,
        just in case. (f-990323-1)
    - (otable.c) Removed another printf-related warning.
    - (main.c, simulate) The name of the master object is assured to
        be sensible (no leading '/' etc) (thanks, Freaky!).

23-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.64)
    - (comm.c, efuns.c, interpret.c, otable.c) Removed a couple of possible
        mismatches between format-strings and passed arguments.
    - (hosts/unix.h, util/*) Several small tweaks for compilation under
        Solaris 2. Still, the util/Makefiles need manual changes
        in order to build correctly *sigh*
    - (otable.c) It is now legal to call rtable_remove() with an object
        which is not in the reset table - it happens when an object
        is destructed during its own reset (thanks, Zwirch!).
    - (interpret.c) If m_allocate() runs out of memory, a NULL 'mapping'
        svalue was left on the stack -> BOOM.
    - (prolang.y, simul_efun.c) Replaced bzero() by memset().
    - (main.c) The memory-reserve options had one extra 'd' in the long
        form (thanks, Freaky!).
    - (backend.c, object.c, otable.c) Made the reset handling resistant
        against errors during the evaluation of reset().

22-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.63)
    - (backend.c, otable.c) Small bugfixes. Deactivated, but not deleted
        the DEBUG printfs.

22-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.62)
    - (config.h, backend.c, otable, interpret.c, simulate.c, swap.c)
        Implemented new, hopefully less disruptive version of the reset
        handling. To get the old handling, define OLD_RESET in config.h .
        Under the new implementation, the objects are sorted by their
        reset times (but grouped according to RESET_GRANULARITY) which
        allows easy retrieval of the due objects. Additionally, every
        backend cycle checks for due objects, but limits the number of
        calls to whatever can be done in two seconds. After all, resets
        are not supposed to be exact.
        For now, there are a number of DEBUG printfs in the modules.
        (f-990318-0)

21-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.61)
    - (ptrtable.c,h) New module holding a generalized version of the pointer
        table formerly located in object.c
    - (dumpstat.c, interpret.c, simul_efun.c, object.c) Modified to use
        the new pointer table.
    - (func_spec, efuns, doc/efun/...) New efun copy() for shallow copies,
        and deep_copy() for deep copies. (f-981229-12)

20-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.60)
    - (func_spec, interpret.c) Efun clonep() now also accepts strings.
    - (port.h, main.c, comm.c, ed.c, simulate.c) Made sure that MAXPATHLEN
        is defined and used on all hosts for file name buffers
        (thanks, Freaky!).
    - (parse_old.c, prolang.y) Removed a couple of 'unwanted assignment?'
        warnings.
    - (lex.c) Reallocations of the defbuf are traced only when '-c' was
        given on the commandline.
    - (hosts/be/Makefile) Corrected a small problem in the dependency
        generation which would lead to incomplete builds.
    - (pkg/diff) Added the diff code from Ugh and Alfe.
    - (func_spec, efuns, doc/efun/...) New efun object_info().
    - (interpret.c, doc/efun/...) Efun set_next_reset() just returns
        the time until the next reset when passed 0 as argument.

19-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (alloca.c) Corrected some ugly formatting.
    - (func_spec, interpret.c, doc/efun/...) Nobody was really fond of
        'nameof()', so it's back to 'object_name()'. Well, it was worth
        a try.
    - (stralloc, sprintf.c, mudlib/master_skeleton.c doc/master/...)
        Renamed master apply 'object_name()' to 'printf_obj_name()' due
        to the clash with the new efun object_name().

18-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.59)
    - (comm.c, hosts/unix.h) Fixed the broken alarm() and UDP socket handling
        for Cygwin.
    - (func_spec, backend, interpret.c, lex.c, config.h, simulate.c,
       doc/efun/...)
        Added a time-based watchdog to the interpreter: its default setting
        is given by MAX_TIME in config.h, it can be specified on the cmdline
        with '--max-time', the actual value is available through the
        macro __MAX_EVAL_TIME__, the remaining time can be queried with
        the efun get_eval_time().
    - (func_spec, interpret.c) Efun notify_fail() returns 0, not void.
        (f-990203-18)
    - (backend.c) look_for_objects_to_swap(): The call granularity was
        computed from the config.h macros, not from values set on the
        command line.
    - (func_spec, simulate.c, doc/efun/...) Efun set_this_player() also
        accepts 0 as argument (and then simply clears this_player()).

17-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.58)
    - (mapping.c, otable.c, efuns.c, comm.c) Fixed a couple of warnings
        sent in by Freaky.
    - (func_spec, doc/efun/...) clonep() and blueprint() take this_object()
        as default argument (suggested by Freaky).
    - (doc/efun/{clonep, assoc, insert_alist}) Small corrections, sent
        in by Freaky.
    - (lex.c) Added __MAX_EVAL_COST__ as predefined macro (suggested
        by Chameloid).
    - (interpret.c, simulate.c) Added the file to the 'Failed to load'
        error messages (suggested by Nathan).
    - (mapping.c, doc/efun/...) Modified map() and filter() so that for
        0-width mappings the value 0 is passed as 'data' value.
    - (func_spec, interpret.c, doc/efun/...) Renamed efuns
        {filter,map}_mapping() to {filter,map}_indices(). The old names
        are still available as aliases.
    - (func_spec, interpret.c) Renamed blueprint() to load_name(),
        renamed file_name() to nameof() (the old name is still
        available as alias) and introduced program_name().

16-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.57)
    - (mudlib/master.c, wk/diff.{c,man}) Wrong lineends. Ooops.

16-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.56)
    - (mapping) Improved the implementation of efun m_rewidth().
    - (func_spec, interpret.c, mapping, doc/efun/filter) New
        efun filter() to filter mappings and arrays. (sort of f-981229-16)
    - (func_spec, mapping, doc/efun/...) Renamed m_rewidth() to
        m_reallocate() - this name comes closest.
    - (func_spec, interpret.c, doc/efun/...) Renamed mapping_contains()
        to m_contains(). The old name is available as alias.
    - (util/xerq/socket.c) Changed a wrong datasize in erq_accept(),
        this should improve handling of TCP sockets (thanks, Sieni!).
    - (array.c) Added an improvement to the handling of special
        cases in subtract_array() (thanks, Sunblood!). (p-990316)

15-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (func_spec, mapping, doc/efun/m_rewidth) New efun m_rewidth()
        to change the width of a mapping. (f-981229-08)
    - (func_spec, mapping, interpret.c, doc/efun/map) New efun map()
        to map arrays and full-width mappings. (sort of f-981229-16)

15-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.55)
    - (func_spec, interpret.c, doc/efun/m_values) Changed efun m_values()
        to return any column of a mapping. (f-981229-07)
    - (func_spec, interpret.c, doc/efun/widthof) New efun widthof() to
        return the width of a mapping. (mentioned in f-981228-08)
    - (func_spec, interpret.c, doc/efun/m_allocate) Renamed efun
        allocate_mapping() to m_allocate().
    - (func_spec, interpret.c, doc/efun/unmkmapping) New efun unmkmapping()
        to deconstruct a mapping.

14-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.54)
    - (interpret.c, efuns.c) Efuns lower_case(), upper_case(), and
        capitalize() try to reuse the passed string if possible
        (suggested by Sunblood).
    - (interpret.c, func_spec, doc/efun/caller_stack)
        New efun caller_stack() (suggested by TubMud).

12-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (otable) Commented and ansified.
    - (port.h, comm.c, simulate.c) __CYGWIN32__ replaced by __CYGWIN__.
        (b-990204-4)

12-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.53)
    - (object, interpret.c) Finished commenting this module.
    - (func_spec, interpret.c, efuns) New efuns abs() (thanks, Holger!),
        upper_case(), all_environment(). (f-990203-20, f-990217-1)

11-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.52)
    - (comm, lex.c) Increased the size of the buffer for the hostname in
        gethostname() from 20 to MAXHOSTNAMELEN+1 chars. The domainname
        is now determined once at startup from the hostname, removing
        the need for getdomainname() (which on some machines returned
        the NIS domain instead of the DNS domain anyway) (thanks, Freaky!).
        (p-990309-1,2).
    - (configure, autoconf/configure.in, all machine.h) Added test and
        define for <sys/param.h>. In return, the test for getdomainname
        is gone.
    - (interpret.c) F_CATCH/F_END_CATCH added the reserve to the eval_cost,
        but not the assigned_eval_cost. This could lead to amazingly
        high assigned_eval_cost afterwards. (thanks, Sunblood!)
    - (func_spec, interpret.c) efun clonep() returns just an int. The
        name of the blueprint can now be retrieved with the
        efun blueprint().
    - (HISTORY) Change the format a bit.
    - (efuns.{c,h}) Preliminary file holding all the new efuns.
    - (func_spec, efuns) New efun make_shared_string() (adapted from
        TubMud).

10-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.51)
    - (object, dumpstat.c, interpret.c, port.h, simulate.c, exec.h)
        Started commenting the object module, and adapted the other files.
    - (doc/efun/*) Improved the formatting of some files.
    - (prolang.y) Better error message if a local variable is declared
        again.
    - (mudlib/master.c) Forgot to change efun308() into set_environment().
    - (config.h) SUPPLY_PARSE_COMMAND is on again by default.

07-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.50)
    - (filestat.h) Oops, some compiler really don't like spurious ' even
        in inactive parts of the source.

07-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.49)
    - (backend.c, swap.c) Added missing #include "random.h" statements.
    - (parse.c) old_explode_string() was missing when only F_PROCESS_STRING,
        but not SUPPLY_PARSE_COMMAND was defined. Oops.
    - (filestat.h) Added #error statement in case somebody defines FILE_STAT.
    - (config.h) SUPPLY_PARSE_COMMAND is off by default.
    - (CHANGELOG) Corrected the entry for dev.46.
    - (interpret.c) m_indices() was found to lack the code for checking the
        mapping for destructed objects. Somehow it vanished from 3.2-dev.46.
    - (prolang.y) Cleared a variable-shadowing warning.
    - (closure.c, comm.c, gcollect.c, interpret, lex.c, make_func.y,
        mapping.c, object.c, prolang.y, simulate.c, swap.c)
        Added pragmas for Metrowerks compiler to handle unused
        variables and intentional assignments in conditions.
    - (hosts/be/Makefile) Now compiles on highest warning level.
    - (interpret.h, instrs.h, exec.h, make_func.y) Broke a recursive
        include loop.

06-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.48)
    - (func_spec, interpret.c, doc/efun/load_object)
        New efun load_object() to load blueprints.
    - (func_spec, interpret.c simulate, doc/efun/clone_object)
        Modified efun clone_object() to accept objects. (f-990305-1)

06-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.47)
    - (simulate.c) With logging of compilations activated, if the
        compilation of an object is aborted because an inherit is missing,
        the driver logs 'needs inherit' instead of 'done' on stderr.
    - (main.c, object, simulate) Extended the object structure with the
        field 'load_name' which gives (in !compat with leading slash)
        the filename from which the object resp. a clone's blueprint was
        compiled. This field is used by the clonep() efun.
    - (func_spec, interpret.c, doc/efun/clonep) New efun clonep() added.
        I just don't know how to handle virtual object clones with it.
        (f-990203-27, sort of)
    - (main.c, hosts/be/Makefile) Added comments regarding OPCPROF.
    - (array, interpret.c, parse.c) Since the old explode_string() is now
        static in parse.c, it was renamed to old_explode_string(). This
        allows to rename new_explode_string() in array.c to explode_string().

05-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.46)
    - (mapping, datatyps.h, interpret, array.c) Finished commenting the
        mappings module.
    - (parse, interpret.c)  F_DESCRIBE was never implemented, so the stubs
        are gone now, too.
    - (func_spec, simulate, doc/set_environment) Renamed efun308()
        to set_environment(). The old name is still available for now
        (and I think Hyp was the first to propose the new name). (f-981229)
    - (func_spec, interpret.c, doc/set_next_reset)
        New efun set_next_reset(). (adapted from Morgengrauen)

03-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.45)
    - (mapping, datatypes.h, array.c, main.c, interpret.c, object.c, swap.c)
        More comments and cleanup of the the mapping code.
    - (backend.c) No prompt is printed to interactive users if they are
        already closing down. This can happen if the current command caused
        the disconnection, but not destruction of the player object.
    - (array, interpret.c) Applied Sunbloods optimisation of
        subtract_array(), which improves the cases 'array - ({})' and
        'array - ({ x })' by avoiding copies and alist operations. (p-990303)
    - (util/Makefile, util/xerq/Makefile) Cosmetics.
    - (util/erq.c) Applied patches from TubMud, which also introduces two
        new service types 'ERQ_ACCEPT' and 'ERQ_LOOKUP'.

02-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.44)
    - (mapping, datatypes.h) More comments.
    - (util/xerq) Added Brian Gersts 'x-erq' demon (formerly 'tw-erq') as
        an alternative to Amylaar's original erq. So far it's a quick
        and dirty adaption. Thanks, Brian!
    - (main.c, simulate.c, gcollect.c) Removed the last FILE_STAT extra
        code.
    - (lotsa files): The following features are no longer optional resp.
        available: (f-981229-01)
          OLD_PREVIOUS_OBJECT_BEHAVIOUR: gone
          OLD_EXPLODE_BEHAVIOUR:         gone
          FLOATS:                        always available
          TRANSCENDENT_FUNCTIONS:        always available
          NO_XVARARGS:                   gone
          MAPPINGS:                      always available
        SUPPLY_PARSE_COMMAND is still there... for now.

01-Mar-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (prolang.y) Undid most of the patch applied yesterday, because, as
        Sunblood and Chameloid pointed out, removing duplicate virtual
        inherits collides with p-990217 and results in sporadic losses
        of inherited functions *sigh*. However, the bugfix itself
        is ok and does stay.

28-Feb-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.43)
    - (prolang.y) Implemented the patch for the initialisation of
        virtually inherited variables (thanks, Sunblade!). (p-990227)

28-Feb-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.42)
    - (main.c) '--options' didn't print absolute swap paths correctly.
    - (dumpstat.c, object.h, interpret.c, simulate.c) The evalcosts are
        now also counted per object (in the variables ticks and gigaticks),
        and of course listed in the OBJ_DUMP and the debug_info(). (adapted
        from Morgengrauen)
    - (filestat.c, all config.h and Makefiles) Deactived the FILE_STAT
        accounting, but left the filestat.h in place for now - it might
        come in handy later.
    - (prolang.y) Variables in variable-only objects are now properly
        initialized by __INIT() (thanks, Sunblade!).

24-Feb-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.40)
    - (random) New implementation using the Mersenne Twister.

22-Feb-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.39)
    - (sprintf.c) Increased the size of the buffer for the string to be
        created from 10KBytes to 64KBytes (suggested by Woody).
    - (backend.c, swap.c) reset() is not called in objects which are swapped
        out or which haven't been touched since the last reset(). Also, if
        an object is swapped in after its due reset time, a new reset time
        is set. (adapted from Morgengrauen)
    - (prolang.y) Too big mapping aggregates generate a compile time error.
        (adapted from Morgengrauen)
    - (interpret.c) Illegal offsets in get_line_number() no longer crash
        the driver during a tracedump, but 'just' generate a diagnostic.
        (adapted from Morgengrauen)
    - (comm.c, telnet.h) Added telnet options for X Display location and
        authentification. (adapted from Morgengrauen)

18-Feb-1999 (Lars Duening)
    - (interpret.c) Bad types to [x..] ranges produce a meaningful error
        message.

17-Feb-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.38)
    - (interpret.c, prolang.y) Applied p-990217 from Sunblood (thanks!),
        which fixes b-981201 (calls to virtually inherited function lose
        track where the parents variables are) and b-981208-4 (redefinitions
        of virtually inherited functions). As a sideeffect, "*":: may now
        call the same function repeatedly if it is virtually inherited through
        different parent lines. I don't like this behaviour, but right now
        I don't grok the compiler well enough to change this. Consider it
        a bug!
    - (interpret.c) sizeof(mapping) checks the mapping for destructed
        objects first (thanks, Holger!) (b-990217-2)

16-Feb-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.37)
    - (be/Makefile) the generated executable is tagged with the proper
        version number (using setversion).
    - (interpret) sapply_int() and apply_low() take a flag argument,
        allowing to override any protection by static/protected keywords.
        This is used in apply_master_ob() to allow the master applies
        to be static; the earlier solution of setting current_object
        messed up the previous_object() relation (*doh*!), causing
        security systems to malfunction. sapply() itself is now a mere
        #define for sapply_int(). (b-981110-0)

15-Feb-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.36)
    - (INSTALL) A few small changes (thanks, Patrick!).
    - (my-rusage.h) Added an extra check for HPUX; I hope it uses the
        correct definition of timeval now for RUSAGE_TIME (thanks, Gum!).
        (b-990203-3)
    - (prolang.y) Corrected wrap-around problem when programs larger
        than 64K are compiled (thanks, Daniel!).
    - (call_out.c, interpret.c) Whenever a callout on an efun closure occurs,
        current_prog is set to NULL. Should an error occur, the dump_trace()
        will recognize this value and not try to derefence it (what caused
        the bugs p-990203-1 and b-990207 in the first place). The previous
        fix to this problem didn't quite work because it ignored that
        ob->prog might have been swapped out. However, should more places
        crop up where current_prog has to be tested for NULL, introducing
        a fake struct program for efun closures might be the better solution
        in the long run (as suggested by p-990203-1, second patch).
    - (interpret.c) Added new function push_valid_ob(object) which pushes
        the given object onto the vm stack, unless the object is destructed
        in which case the number 0 is put onto the stack. This function is
        used in various places to protect apply_master_ob() against destructed
        objects (esp. calls to privilege_violation(), heart_beat_error(),
        valid_read() and valid_write()) (thanks, Sunblood!) (b-981226-0).
    - (interpret.c) apply_master_ob() temporarily sets current_object to
        the master object, allowing the master functions to be static.

10-Feb-1999 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.35)
    - (call_out.c) Callouts did not set up current_prog, this caused
        the tracedump to crash should an error occur in a callout to
        an efun closure (thanks, Sunblood and Logic!) (p-990203-1,
        b-990207).
    - (call_out.c) Callouts no longer confuse 'command_giver destructed
        meanwhile' with 'no command_giver to begin with' (thanks, Sissi
        and Tmm!) (b-990106-0, b-990204-0)
    - (closure.c) Made #'++/#'-- work (thanks, Zwirch!) (b-990204-3).
    - (comm.c) During logon, current_interactive is set to the
        object itself (thanks, Daniel!) (p-990203-3).
    - (comm.c) When doing I/O, no output is sent to destructed snoopers
        (thanks, Zwirch!) (b-990204-2).
    - (Makefile) Updated dependency generation for mkdepend 1.5.
    - (interpret.c) terminal_colour: Fixed a memory leak of the stack
        arguments and auxiliary strings - on Tubmud the leak was severe
        enough to make the GC last several hours (thanks, Sunblood!)
        (p-990203-0, b-990203-1)
    - (interpret.c) If adding to an array caused it to hit the upper limit,
        its memory was freed nevertheless. Subsequent accesses caused all
        sorts of interesting effects (thanks, Daniel and Zora!) (p-990203-2,
        b-990203-5).
    - (interpret.c) terminal_colour() correctly wraps strings of one less
        the wrap limit (thanks, Chameloid!) (b-990210).
    - (interpret.c) A call_lambda() on a CLOSURE_IDENTIFIER makes sure
        that the variable is swapped in (thanks, Sunblood and Matthew!)
        (b-990203-0, b-990203-6).
    - (func_spec, interpret.c) to_int(), to_object() and to_float() accept
        their target data type as argument (thanks, Zora and Zwirch!)
        (b-980922-0, f-980928-0).
    - (prolang.y) Applied a patch fixing a potential crasher (thanks, Daniel!)
        (p-990203-5).
    - (sprintf.c) Added guards against values < 1.0 to the use of log10
        when estimating the number of digits to print (thanks, Chameloid!)

12-Dec-1998 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.6-dev.34)
    - (make_func.y, Makefiles) The file efun_defs.c is written directly
        my make_func, not just dumped to stdout. The generated lang.y
        now bears a notice that the file is generated automatically.
    - (mapping) First comments added.

10-Dec-1998 (Lars Duening) -- Release 3.2.5
    - Froze 3.2.5-dev.33 for release.

09-Dec-1998 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.5-dev.32)
    - (make_func.y, func_spec) Commented and ansified.

08-Dec-1998 (Lars Duening)
    - (lex.*) Commented and ansified.
    - (comm.c) At the end of a session the driver does no longer
        send 'Closing down' to the socket.

07-Dec-1998 (Lars Duening)
    - (simulate) New function check_no_parentdirs() checks a pathname
        for parent dir specifications (e.g. '/../').
    - (sprintf) This is actually an old change, but I forgot to log
        it at that time: increased the size of an internal buffer
        used to print float numbers to prevent crashes with big floats.
        Additionally the code tries to estimate and adjust the size of
        the output before it prints the float, and tests for a buffer
        overrun and aborts the driver with a fatal() if it happens
        (b-980420).

06-Dec-1998 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.5-dev.29)
    - (port.h) When compiling with the GNU compiler, _GNU_SOURCE is
        defined.
    - (swap.c) A seek error when trying to write a (new) block to
        the swap file is no longer a fatal() error.
    - (Makefile.in, util/Makefile) A normal make in util/ no longer
        attempts to install the binaries. To do that, use the target
        'install' in util/ or 'install-utils' in the main directory.

04-Dec-1998 (Lars Duening)
    - (ed.c) Oops, had an embedded \0 character in a help text.
    - (main.c) The version number printed on --version and --options
        now distinguishes real releases and development versions.
    - (simulate.c) legal_path() uses a refined test for '..'-directory
        specifications, now being able to tell these apart from harmless
        uses like '..file' or '...' (thanks, Fiona!).

03-Dec-1998 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.5-dev.28)
    - (backend.c) f_regreplace(): reallocation-condition was 'space < 0',
        instead of 'space <= 0' which could cause memory writes just one
        byte beyond the allocated block (b-981202-2).
    - (interpret.c) dump_trace() and get_line_number() lacked the handling
        of ALIEN_LFUN_CLOSURE calls, signified by a 0-valued pc on the
        control stack. This caused runtime errors in funcalls to
        symbol_function()s to crash in the error handling.

02-Dec-1998 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.5-dev.27)
    - (lotsa files) Replaced tab characters with spaces.
    - (comm.c) Under Linux, a special handler is used to ignore SIGPIPEs,
       since the provided SIG_IGN is just a one-shot handler (thanks,
       Blackcat!).

01-Dec-1998 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.5-dev.26)
    - (main.c, ed.c, port.h) Cosmetics.
    - (simulate.c) Efun command() now returns 0 when the target object
        or the current object are destructed.
        Similar, the handling for a string H_MODIFY_COMMAND hook did
        not check if the command_giver is destructed. If the gamedriver
        was compiled with -DDEBUG, this caused a fatal error 'apply()
        on destructed object'.
    - (interpret.c) call_lambda() increments the refcount of lambda
        closures while executing their code. This is important
        for driver hook closures which may first destruct and then
        reload the master. Without the refcounting, this would delete
        the bytecode while it is executed (thanks, Sunblade!).
    - (patchlevel.h)
        Correcte the automatic generation of release dates.

30-Nov-1998 (Lars Duening)
    - (closure.c) Compensated a (propable) optimizer error for Linux/gcc.
        See C_COMPILER_BUGS for details.
    - (port.h) The replacement define for strrchr() was faulty.

27-Nov-1998 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.5-dev.25)
    - (simulate.c) One line was lost in error(), messing up the
        command_giver in a heart_beat error.
    - (interpret.c) Experimented with the TubMud patch to mark
        efun closures by clearing csp->prog. However, the driver
        interprets this value as 'bottom of cs stack' and thus
        gets confused in F_RETURN and propably other places, too.

25-Nov-1998 (Lars Duening)  (3.2.5-dev.24)
    - (comm.*) Commented and converted to standard C. Also removed
        the portal fragments - they didn't work anyway.
    - (call_out.*, dumpstat.*, ed.*, gcollect.*) Commented and converted
        to standard C. Also improved a few of the helpfiles of the
        editor.
    - (my-rusage.h, port.*, comm.*, hosts/be/be.h) Resolved some minor
        issues under BeOS/x86.
    - (main.c) Fixed a small problem in the option parsing.
    - (object) The program renumber moved in here from gcollect.

21-Nov-1998 (Lars Duening)
    - (hosts/fcrypt) Removed.
    - (comm.c) Renamed from comm1.c

20-Nov-1998 (Lars Duening)
    - (lotsa files) MSDOS support removed. Parts of the driver wouldn't
        compile under MSDOS anyway. However, the support for the MSDOS
        filesystem is still there.

19-Nov-1998 (Lars Duening)
    - (comm1.c, config.h) The ERQ send buffer size is now configurable
        in config.h, too. Also, the default size is now 1KByte for
        better throughput.
    - (lex.c, main.c) New defines __ERQ_MAX_SEND__ and __ERQ_MAX_REPLY__ if
        if compiler is defined for ERQ support.
        Both changes are taken from the x-erq distribution of Brian Gerst.
    - (driver.h) If CATCH_UDP_PORT is not defined, UDP_SEND is made
        undefined, too.

18-Nov-1998 (Lars Duening)
    - (lex.c) Compat mode drivers define __COMPAT_MODE__ (meant to
        replace COMPAT_FLAG eventually); native mode drivers define
        __NATIVE_MODE__. Similar, a driver using euids defines __EUIDS__.
    - (access_check.c) Sometimes the "Can't stat ACCESS_FILE" message
        was generated for no reason.
    - (mudlib/test_master.c) Extended the master to use normal
        add_actions().

15-Nov-1998 (Lars Duening)
    - (comm1, sent.h, simulate) Began ansification of comm1.c .
        Moved the definition of the input_to structure from sent.h
        to comm1.c
    - (Copyright, CREDITS) Some cleanup.

11-Nov-1998 (Lars Duening)
    - (smalloc.c) Ups, srealloc() must not be static when compiling
        with SBRK_OK, as it implements the realloc() function then.
    - (interpret.c, simulate.c) Added some #ifdef DEBUG...#endif
        statements where appropriate.
    - (gcollect) Variable time_last_gc was not visible when compiling
        with MALLOC_sysmalloc.

10-Nov-1998 (Lars Duening)
    - (interpret.c, my-rusage.h, port.h) A few changes to accomodate
        SunOS4.
    - (lex.c) Only regular files can be used as include files; before
        it was possible to include directories.

09-Nov-1998 (Lars Duening)
    - (lex.c) Replace the alloca()d buffers in _expand_define() with
        once-xalloc()ed ones. In DEBUG mode, recursive calls to
        _expand_define() are caught.
    - (lex.c, patchlevel.h) Non-release versions have a version number
        of the form '3.2.5-dev.16'.
    - (interpret.c) Corrected an off-by-one error in the stack handling
        of mapping_contains() (b-980922-1).

08-Nov-1998 (Lars Duening)
    - (my-alloca.h) If alloca.c is used, the system alloca files
        are not included - in most cases they define alloca() to
        something which is not covered by alloca.c, kind of spoiling
        the desired effect.
    - (lex.c) If alloca.c is used, a call to alloca(0) is made after
        each use of _expand_define(), to keep the memory usage low.
    - (hosts/be/machine.h, .../Makefile)
        alloca.c is no longer used.

04-Nov-1998 (Lars Duening)
    - (access_check.c) If the ACCESS_FILE can't be read, an error
        message is printed to stderr.
    - (comm1.c) Sorted out the BeOS blocking socket problem.

03-Nov-1998 (Lars Duening)
    - (func_spec, interpret.c, prolang.y) F_SWAP and F_BREAK_POINT
        are compiled in only when the efuns are actually defined.
        By default, they aren't.
    - (simulate.c) Removed the remaining debug outputs.
    - (closure.c) The branch rewriting code, responsible for changing
        BRANCHes into LBRANCHes when a closure grows big in size, did
        not correct 16-Bit offsets for the new target addresses of new
        code. The applied fix solves the problem for UNItopia (using <>
        as #include specifier), but might not be sufficient for all
        cases. Therefore, two DEBUG: messages remain to warn if this
        feature is used.
    - (hosts/be/*) Adapted for R4/x86.
    - (*.c) Removed most of the 'Possibly unwanted assigment' warnings.

02-Nov-1998 (Lars Duening)
    - (simulate) Corrected bugs in make_name_sane() and load_object().
        The debug outputs are still in place for now (b-981029-0).

01-Nov-1998 (Lars Duening)
    - (hosts/be/Makefile) Adapted to BeOS R4.
    - (simulate) The functions find_object() and find_object2() are
        merged into one function lookfor_object(). For the old calls
        the macros get_object() and find_object() are available
        (note the subtle shift in naming!). This reduces the number
        of calls to make_name_sane().
        The function load_object() is no longer exported.
    - (simulate) Rewrote the load_object() to use a loop for the
        iterative compilation process instead of tail recursion.
    - (patchlevel.h) Automatized the versioning to use PRCS keywords.
    - (comm1.c) After processing a received UDP packet, the evalution
        costs are cleared (thanks, Tucita!) (p-981027-0).
    - (main.c) The argument parser printed the wrong option in
        one error message (b-980925-1).
    - (config.h, hosts/*/config.h) Increased the limit for bit strings
        to 6144 Bits (using 1KB memory).
    - (interpret.c) Out-of-bounds error message for the bit efuns printed
        garbage instead of the faulty bitnumber (b-980925-0).

09-Oct-1998 (Lars Duening)
    - (array.c, backend.c) Added some checks if memory allocations
        actually succeed.

23-Sep-1998 (Lars Duening) -- Release 3.2.4
    - (simulate.c) load_object() The code cleaning up the filename did
        not check if an object with the 'sane' filename already exists.
        This lead to duplicate entries in the object table and thus
        fatal driver aborts. Furthermore, the code carelessly modified
        the string passed, causing disruptions in the shared string
        table.
    - (doc/efun/terminal_colour, doc/efun/query_mud_port) added.

22-Sep-1998 (Lars Duening)
    - (filestat.*) Oops, the one statistic necessary to detect multiple
        uses of a file in one command was missing. Corrected that.

21-Sep-1998 (Lars Duening) -- Release 3.2.3
    - (array.c) Changed order_alist() to use standard conformant pointer
        arithmetics.
    - (backend) Added the statistic 'total_player_commands'.
    - (filestat.*) Statistics module counting the number and type of
        file usages (read, write, delete, read for compilation, read
        for inclusion, read for restore_object, write for save_object).
        The statistic is enabled by defining FILE_STAT in config.h.
        The statistic is appended to the file /FILESTAT when the
        special command 'status files' is given.
    - (access_check.c, backend.c, comm1.c, dumpstat.c, main.c, gcollect.c,
       lex.c, main.c, object.c, simulate.c, various Makefiles)
         Adapted for filestat.
    - (main.c) Beautified the --options output.
    - (swap.*, main.c) New commandline option '--swap-compact' to put
         the swapper in the "compact mode". In this mode, free space in
         the swapfile is reused immediately; in contrast to the default
         mode in which the reuse is determined by low/high watermarks.

20-Sep-1998 (Lars Duening)
    - (interpret.c) F_MAPPING_CONTAINS returned destructed objects since
        it didn't check the results of get_map_lvalue() properly (thanks,
        Fiona and Zora!).
    - (backend.c) Reallocation of the heartbeat array now conforms more
        to the standard.

14-Sep-1998 (Lars Duening) -- Release 3.2.2
    - (array.c) One statement was at the wrong place in order_alist(),
        causing a malfunction in explode().
    - (closure.c) store_case_labels(): another crasher removed, this
        time two loops assumed that the variables local to their body
        keep their values between two iterations.
    - (interpret.c) As in closure.c, loop body variables are moved
        outside their loops if they are meant to be persistant.
    - (interpret.c) A misplaced cast broke sscanf().
    - (backend.*, hash.*) Beautified and commented.
    - (main.*) Marked the boolean commandline parameters as such.
         The gamedriver announces itself as 'LDMud'.
    - (patchlevel.h) Changed version number from 03.02.1@<patchlevel>
        to 3.2.<patchlevel> (note the missing leading zeroes!).
    - (CHANGELOG) renamed from CHANGELOG.OSB.
    - (HISTORY) new file for a user-oriented summary of the changes.

10-Sep-1998 (Lars Duening)
    - (alloca.c) Beautified.
    - (simulate.c) load_object: Extended the sanity checks for filenames
        a bit: multiple '/' are collapsed into just one (thanks for the
        idea, Zora!).

05-Sep-1998 (Lars Duening)
    - (main.c) Oops, small typo in options() (thanks, Woody!).
        And the short command options are now case sensitive as they
        should be.
    - (closure.c) Omission of a seemlingly harmless cast caused
        the driver to core when compiling a switch. Unfortunately, my
        simple test_master.c didn't catch this. *sigh* We need a proper
        testsuite...
    - (ed.c, interpret.c, lex.c, mapping.c, parse.c, prolang.y, sprintf.c)
        Checked for and corrected similar casts.
    - (swap.c) Re-added Macbeth's watermark handling for the reusage
        of free-space, though for now it's deactivated .
    - (*.c, *.y) Added some parentheses as suggested by gcc to make the
        code clearer.
    - (comm.*, interpret.c) Replace the define MESSAGE_FLUSH by the
        variable message_flush, keeping gcc happier.
    - (prolang.y) Bugfix from mubo@silicondream: If a program defined
        __INIT() but didn't implement it, later inheriting of this
        program crashed the driver.
    - (port.h, interpret.*, prolang.*, stralloc.*) New macro LOCAL_INLINE
        for compilers which can inline a function locally while at the
        same time offering it for external linkage.

02-Sep-1998 (Lars Duening)
    - (array.*) Commented and converted function defs to STD-C style.
    - (array.c) Small improvements to unique_array() (boy, that code
        is really old!).
    - (main.c) Some warnings about unused variables prevented.

18-Aug-1998 (Lars Duening)
    - (datatypes.h) New include file declaring all commonly used
        datatypes of the virtual machine (svalue, vector, etc).
        interpret.h keeps the interpreter related declarations only.
        This also unclutters the struct svalue/smalloc.h relationship
        a bit.

17-Aug-1998 (Lars Duening)
    - (main.c) --options prints all the compilation options, --version
        just the version. --help shortened to just list all commandline
        options, --longhelp prints an elaborate description of these.

16-Aug-1998 (Lars Duening)
    - (access_check.*) Commented, converted function defs to ansi style.
    - The old access control using the ACCESS.DENY file is gone.
    - (patchlevel.h) The GAME_VERSION define moved from config.h into here.
    - (main.*) Commented, converted function defs to ansi style.
        Rewrote the commandline argument parser. Most options are now
        available in a short and long version; --version prints all
        sorts of compilation options as well. New option --help.
    - (driver/invocation) New documentation: driver invocation.

13-Aug-1998 (Lars Duening)
    - Updated the hosts/*/config.h files.
    - (hosts/be/be.h) The host dependent init makes sure that the erq
        is not started automatically, even if the option to do so is
        set in config.h
    - (my-rusage.h) new, a wrapper for the rusage related stuff.
    - (hosts/unix.h) received all the Unix specific portability
        definitions from driver.h (this includes the cygnus win32
        environment).
      (port.h) received the remaining host dependent definitions, so that
      (driver.h) can be dedicated to provide global definitions.
    - (port.*, random.*) Commented, converted function defs to ansi style.

12-Aug-1998 (Lars Duening)
    - (driver.h) Created from the old lint.h, it defines some macros and
        includes config.h, machine.h and port.h. The system-dependent stuff
        will move into port.h eventually. All sources changed to use
        driver.h instead of lint.h.
    - (my-alloca.h) new, a wrapper for <alloca.h>.
    - (cruft/) New directory for code snippets which are no longer
        useful, but interesting enough to keep around.
    - (hosts/be/Makefile) New target 'dependall' updates the
        dependencies in Makefile, Makefile.in, and the Makefiles
        for Be, Amiga and OS/2.

11-Aug-1998 (Lars Duening)
    - Compiled the sources with gcc on a high warning level and
      removed as many warnings as possible. Added some patches
      for compiling under Win32 with Cygwin32.

09-Aug-1998 (Lars Duening)
    - 'Modularized' the sources: the exports of every .c file are
      listed in an associated .h file, and only there. The liberal
      sprinkling of 'extern' statements is gone.

10-Jul-1998 (Lars Duening)
    - Release 3.2.1@141-osb.16
    - (prolang.y) Fixed a pointer mixup which caused '"*"::' to end
        in an endless loop. Bugfix provided by Daniel von Dincklage
        (<vonDincklage@ozet.de> aka Sunblade@sd.mud.de)
    - Updated the BeOS support: small tweaks to machine.h, the Makefile
        now supports cross-compilation, a small hack in comm1.c.

04-Jul-1998 (Lars Duening)
    - (prolang.y) In case of a 'Program too large' compilation error,
        random memory was freed due to an uninitalized variable.
    - (mudlib/test_master.c) Added this minimal master for simple
        driver tests.

17-May-1998 (Lars Duening)
    - Release 3.2.1@141-osb.14
    - (interpret.c) The apply cache is initialized on driver startup, not
      statically at compilation time. This allows compilers with less
      capable preprocessors (line length limitations) to use big caches
      as well.

16-May-1998 and before (Lars Duening)
    - added rxcache.[ch]: cache for compiled regular expression patterns.
    - added support for BeOS.
    - (backend.c) Automatic garbage collections are kept at least 5 minutes
      apart. Every garbage collection is logged on stdout.
    - (backend.c) Variables are swapped independantly from program code.
    - (comm1.c, main.c) Multiple login ports may be used in parallel. The
      port numbers are given on the commandline, efun query_mud_port()
      was extended to return the appropriate port number.
    - (interpret.c) MudOS-efun terminal_colour() added by Mica.
    - (interpret.c) this_object() in destructed objects does not print a
      diagnostic anymore.
    - (lex.c) more informative diagnostics about defbuf allocations. Too
      big defbufs are deallocated again to conserve memory.
    - (main.c) reallocation of system reserves prints diagnostics.
    - (regexp.ch) NSUBEXP may take values different from 10 (OSB uses 50).
    - (swap.c) Free space is reused immediately.
    - (stralloc.ch, interpret.c) All the names of the lfuns applied by
      the driver are stored in the shared string table on startup.
      Together with some modifications to the apply cache for faster
      processing of applys on shared strings, this should make a mud
      a wee bit faster. Also added some comments in these areas (with
      no guarantee for correctness!).
    - (simulate.c) 'status tables' prints the number of cache hits both
      absolute and as percentage.
