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diff --git a/btparser/NEWS b/btparser/NEWS deleted file mode 100644 index 21f76d31..00000000 --- a/btparser/NEWS +++ /dev/null @@ -1,120 +0,0 @@ -== btparser 0.7 - -What's new: -- Small code cleanups -- Two tests were added - -== btparser 0.6 -Released 2010-09-23. - -Changes: -- Functions btp_frame_eq* were renamed to provide cleaner interface. -- Parameter `shallow` in functions btp_backtrace_dup, btp_thread_dup, - btp_frame_dup has been removed to simplify the interface. -- Interfaces of parser functions were modified to return - structures/NULL instead of bool. - -Bugs fixed: -- A compilation issue on 64-bit architecture with a fprintf - call using %d instead of %zd. - -See the ChangeLog file for more details. - -== btparser 0.5 -Released 2010-08-31. - -What's new: -- If the last frame has address 0x0000 and its name is '??', its - remove during backtrace normalization. This fixes rhbz#592523. - -== btparser 0.4 -Released 2010-08-30. - -What's new: -- RPM spec file has been added -- 'make rpm' and 'make srpm' works for testing purposes - -== btparser 0.3 -Released 2010-08-30. - -What's new: -- the interface documentation has been extended -- a proper README file was created -- a pkg-config metadata file support has been added -- some autotest code was added - -== btparser 0.2 -Released 2010-08-27. - -What's new: -- the API has been extensively reworked and simplified; user can call - the function btp_backtrace_quality_complex to get the quality of - the backtrace, function btp_backtrace_get_duplication_hash to get - the hash, and function btp_backtrace_get_crash_frame to get the - place where the program crashed -- location support: in the case of failure, the backtrace parser - reports line and column of the input string where the failure - occurred and a message describing what input was expected -- the command line options of the btparser utitity has been reduced - and simplified; you can now run `btparser file.bt --duplicate-hash` - to get the hash -- the normalization code was significantly improved; this results in - better backtrace hash quality - -=== Duplication hash quality -The hash quality has been significantly improved since btparser 0.1: - -./btparser-bz-improvetips: 3092 duplicates out of total 8051 -duplicates were _not_ recognized by btparser - -=== Parser precision -When compared to abrt-backtrace utility, the btparser's parser -provides better results. In a test comparing the parser results on -25685 backtraces, btparser was "better" in 726 cases. - -=== Parser speed -The btparser's parser is slightly slower than abrt-backtrace's parser. - -Measurement of how long it takes to parse 25685 backtraces: - btparser took 192.070000 seconds - abrt-backtrace took 181.230000 seconds - -== btparser 0.1 -Released 2010-06-15. - -Here is how btparser's hand-written parser became as good as -abrt-backtrace's bison parser on 2010-05-28: - -initial - -> parser quality: 1540 regressions out of 9015 - -newline allowed after function name in frame header - -> parser quality: 1391 regressions out of 9015 - -nonrecursive braces (with spaces) allowed in function name - -> parser quality: 1216 regressions out of 9015 - -recursive templates and braces, skip Python backtraces - -> parser quality: 336 regressions out of 9015 - -manually marking backtraces where the difference is caused by better -parser btparser - -> parser quality: 98 regressions out of 9015, 164 times was btparser - better - -support for operator> and similar - -> parser quality: 65 regressions out of 9015, 185 times was btparser - better - -support for type before function name and some more backtrace marking - -> parser quality: 59 regressions out of 9015, 191 times was btparser - better - -various small fixes of corner cases - -> parser quality: 0 regressions out of 9015, 241 times was btparser better - -btparser took 101.650000 seconds, abrt-backtrace took 105.260000 seconds - -=== Duplication hash quality -./btparser-bz-improvetips: 3976 duplicates out of total 7668 -duplicates were not recognized by btparser. |