Check in stash. This code probably does not compile as-is. Changes intended to address possible segfault on termination of search.

Add note to array documentation about the general uselessness of -exact matching. It exists because [array names] had it since check-in [634da00427] (8.4a1), which also added -regexp.
Do not deallocate Tcl_ArraySearchStart()-initiated array searches when Tcl_ArraySearchPeek() or Tcl_ArraySearchNext() is called, only when Tcl_ArraySearchDone() is called. This avoids a crash should user code unconditionally call Tcl_ArraySearchDone() at the end of an array enumeration loop. This change does not affect array searches initiated by the Tcl script command [array startsearch].
2017-04-15 15:15:59 +00:00 · 2016-12-25 00:39:48 +00:00 · 2016-12-25 00:23:21 +00:00 · 2016-12-25 00:11:11 +00:00 · 2016-12-25 00:04:33 +00:00 · 2016-12-25 00:00:30 +00:00
507 changed files with 24039 additions and 49752 deletions
@@ -17,8 +17,26 @@
 */tclsh*
 */tcltest*
 */versions.vc
+libtommath/bn.ilg
+libtommath/bn.ind
+libtommath/pretty.build
+libtommath/tommath.src
+libtommath/*.pdf
+libtommath/*.pl
+libtommath/*.sh
+libtommath/tombc/*
+libtommath/pre_gen/*
+libtommath/pics/*
+libtommath/mtest/*
+libtommath/logs/*
+libtommath/etc/*
+libtommath/demo/*
+libtommath/*.out
+libtommath/*.tex
+unix/autoMkindex.tcl
 unix/dltest.marker
 unix/tcl.pc
+unix/tclIndex
 unix/pkgs/*
 win/pkgs/*
 win/tcl.hpj
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@
 	Tcl_IsChannelExisting, and Tcl_ClearChannelHandlers to conform to the
 	new stacked channel implementation. Their stub slots were also moved
 	to give preference to the new 8.3.2 stub functions. This will cause an
-	incompatability with 8.4a1 only.
+	incompatibility with 8.4a1 only.
 	(StopCopy): fixed a bug introduced by a partial fix in 8.3.2 that
 	didn't set nonBlocking correctly when resetting the flags for the
 	write side. [Bug: 6261]
@@ -847,7 +847,7 @@
 	exit.

 	* tests/exec.test: marked exec-18.1 unixOnly until the Windows
-	incompatability (in the test, not the core) can be resolved.
+	incompatibility (in the test, not the core) can be resolved.

 	* tests/http.test (http-3.11): added close $fp that was causing an
 	error on Windows because the file was not closed before deleting.
@@ -3642,7 +3642,7 @@
 	* compat/strtoll.c (strtoll):
 	* compat/strtoull.c (strtoull):
 	* unix/tclUnixPort.h:
-	* win/tclWinPort.h: Const-ing 64-bit compatability declarations. Note
+	* win/tclWinPort.h: Const-ing 64-bit compatibility declarations. Note
 	that the return pointer is non-const because it is entirely legal for
 	the functions to be called from somewhere that owns the string being
 	passed. Fixes problem reported by Larry Virden.
@@ -3779,7 +3779,7 @@

 	There are a lot of changes from this TIP, so please see
 	http://purl.org/tcl/tip/72.html for discussion of
-	backward-compatability issues, but the main ones modifications are in:
+	backward-compatibility issues, but the main ones modifications are in:

 	* generic/tcl.h: New types.
 	* generic/tcl.decls: New public functions.
@@ -947,7 +947,7 @@
 	declarations match and will end up using the declarations in the
 	public code from now on because of #include ordering. Keeping the old
 	declarations in tclInt.decls; there's no need to gratuitously break
-	compatability for those extensions which are already clients of the
+	compatibility for those extensions which are already clients of the
 	namespace code.

 2003-08-23  Zoran Vasiljevic  <zoran@archiwrae.com>
@@ -1278,7 +1278,7 @@

 	* generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_ArrayObjCmd, TclArraySet): Made [array get]
 	and [array set] work with dictionaries, producing them and consuming
-	them. Note that for compatability reasons, you will never get a dict
+	them. Note that for compatibility reasons, you will never get a dict
 	from feeding a string literal to [array set] since that alters the
 	trace behaviour of "multi-key" sets. [Bug 759935]

@@ -1356,7 +1356,7 @@
 2004-10-07  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk>

 	* *.3: Convert CONST to const and VOID to void so we document how
-	people should actually use the Tcl API and not the compatability hacks
+	people should actually use the Tcl API and not the compatibility hacks
 	that it has to have.

 	* doc/man.macros, *.3: Update .AS macro so it can know how wide to
@@ -106,5 +106,5 @@ closedir(
    close(dirp->dd_fd);
    dirp->dd_fd = -1;
    dirp->dd_loc = 0;
-    ckfree((char *) dirp);
+    ckfree(dirp);
 }
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ waitpid(
 	} else {
 	    prevPtr->nextPtr = waitPtr->nextPtr;
 	}
-	ckfree((char *) waitPtr);
+	ckfree(waitPtr);
 	return result;
    }

@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ retrieve the stack trace when script evaluation returns
 \fBTCL_ERROR\fR, like so:
 .PP
 .CS
-int code = Tcl_Eval(interp, script);
+int code = Tcl_EvalEx(interp, script, -1, 0);
 if (code == TCL_ERROR) {
    Tcl_Obj *options = \fBTcl_GetReturnOptions\fR(interp, code);
    Tcl_Obj *key = Tcl_NewStringObj("-errorinfo", -1);
@@ -0,0 +1,333 @@
+'\"
+'\" Copyright (c) 2016 Andy Goth
+'\"
+'\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
+'\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
+'\"
+.TH Tcl_ArraySet 3 8.7 Tcl "Tcl Library Procedures"
+.so man.macros
+.BS
+'\" Note: do not modify the .SH NAME line immediately below!
+.SH NAME
+Tcl_ArraySet, Tcl_ArrayUnset, Tcl_ArrayGet, Tcl_ArrayNames, Tcl_ArraySize, Tcl_ArrayExists, Tcl_ArraySearchStart, Tcl_ArraySearchPeek, Tcl_ArraySearchNext, Tcl_ArraySearchDone, Tcl_ArrayStatistics \- manipulate Tcl array variables
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.nf
+\fB#include <tcl.h>\fR
+.sp
+int
+\fBTcl_ArraySet\fR(\fIinterp, part1Ptr, dictPtr, flags\fR)
+.sp
+int
+\fBTcl_ArrayUnset\fR(\fIinterp, part1Ptr, part2Ptr, flags\fR)
+.sp
+int
+\fBTcl_ArrayGet\fR(\fIinterp, part1Ptr, part2Ptr, dictPtr, flags\fR)
+.sp
+int
+\fBTcl_ArrayNames\fR(\fIinterp, part1Ptr, part2Ptr, listPtr, flags\fR)
+.sp
+int
+\fBTcl_ArraySize\fR(\fIinterp, part1Ptr, part2Ptr, intPtr, flags\fR)
+.sp
+int
+\fBTcl_ArrayExists\fR(\fIinterp, part1Ptr, part2ptr, intPtr, flags\fR)
+.sp
+Tcl_ArraySearch
+\fBTcl_ArraySearchStart\fR(\fIinterp, part1Ptr, part2Ptr, flags\fR)
+.sp
+Tcl_Obj *
+\fBTcl_ArraySearchPeek\fR(\fIsearch\fR)
+.sp
+Tcl_Obj *
+\fBTcl_ArraySearchNext\fR(\fIsearch\fR)
+.sp
+void
+\fBTcl_ArraySearchDone\fR(\fIsearch\fR)
+.sp
+int
+\fBTcl_ArrayStatistics\fR(\fIinterp, part1Ptr, stringPtr, flags\fR)
+.SH ARGUMENTS
+.AS Tcl_ArraySearch search
+.AP Tcl_Interp *interp in
+Interpreter containing the variable.  If an error occurs, an error message is
+left in the interpreter's result.
+.AP Tcl_Obj *part1Ptr in
+Points to a Tcl value containing the array variable's name.  The name may
+include a series of \fB::\fR namespace qualifiers to specify a variable in a
+particular namespace.
+.AP Tcl_Obj *part2Ptr in
+If non-NULL, points to a Tcl value containing an array element name filter
+specification.  The format and interpretation of \fIpart2Ptr\fR are determined
+by the \fIflags\fR argument.
+.AP int flags in
+OR-ed combination of bits providing additional information.  See below for valid
+values.
+.AP Tcl_Obj *dictPtr in/out
+Points to the dictionary value to be read or manipulated.  If \fIdictPtr\fR does
+not already point to a dictionary value, an attempt will be made to convert it
+to one.  \fBTcl_ArraySet\fR allows \fIdictPtr\fR to be NULL, in which case it
+creates an empty array if the array does not already exist.
+.AP Tcl_Obj *listPtr in/out
+Points to the list value to be manipulated.  If \fIlistPtr\fR does not already
+point to a list value, an attempt will be made to convert it to one.
+.AP Tcl_Obj *stringPtr in/out
+Points to the string value to be manipulated.
+.AP int *intPtr out
+Points to location where \fBTcl_ArrayExists\fR stores the array existence flag
+or \fBTcl_ArraySize\fR stores the number of matching array elements.
+.AP Tcl_ArraySearch search in/out
+Token for tracking the progress of enumerating array elements.
+.BE
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.PP
+These functions are used to create, modify, enumerate, analyze, read, and delete
+Tcl array variables from C code.
+.PP
+The \fBTcl_ArraySet\fR, \fBTcl_ArrayUnset\fR, \fBTcl_ArrayGet\fR,
+\fBTcl_ArrayNames\fR, \fBTcl_ArraySize\fR, \fBTcl_ArrayExists\fR, and
+\fBTcl_ArrayStatistics\fR functions return \fBTCL_OK\fR on success and
+\fBTCL_ERROR\fR on error.  If an error occurs, an error message is left in the
+interpreter's result.  The possible errors are caused by format (invalid list,
+dictionary, or regular expression) and traces (array, read, write, or unset).
+.PP
+Except for \fBTcl_ArraySet\fR, \fBTcl_ArraySearchStart\fR (not listed above),
+and \fBTcl_ArrayStatistics\fR, the array functions do not consider it an error
+for a namespace or variable to not exist or a variable to be a scalar or array
+element instead of an array.  \fBTcl_ArraySet\fR allows the array variable to
+not exist, in which case it creates it, but it returns \fBTCL_ERROR\fR in all
+the other situations listed in the previous sentence.
+.PP
+Array functions trigger array traces in the same manner as the \fBarray\fR
+command.  After the completion of any array traces, for each accessed array
+element, \fBTcl_ArraySet\fR triggers write traces, \fBTcl_ArrayUnset\fR triggers
+unset traces, and \fBTcl_ArrayGet\fR triggers read traces.  As discussed above,
+an error encountered during the execution of a trace causes the function to
+place error information in the interpreter's result and return \fBTCL_ERROR\fR.
+.PP
+The \fBTcl_ArraySet\fR, \fBTcl_ArrayUnset\fR, \fBTcl_ArrayGet\fR,
+\fBTcl_ArrayNames\fR, \fBTcl_ArraySize\fR, \fBTcl_ArrayExists\fR,
+\fBTcl_ArraySearchStart\fR, and \fBTcl_ArrayStatistics\fR functions accept a
+\fIflags\fR argument to control the scope of the variable lookup and to specify
+the interpretation of \fIpart2Ptr\fR.  It consists of an OR-ed combination of
+zero or more of the following bits.
+.TP
+\fBTCL_GLOBAL_ONLY\fR
+Under normal circumstances the functions look up variables as follows.  If a
+procedure call is active in \fIinterp\fR, the array variable is looked up at the
+current level of procedure call.  Otherwise, the array variable is looked up
+first in the current namespace, then in the global namespace.  However, if this
+bit is set in \fIflags\fR then the array variable is looked up only in the
+global namespace even if there is a procedure call active.  If both
+\fBTCL_GLOBAL_ONLY\fR and \fBTCL_NAMESPACE_ONLY\fR are given,
+\fBTCL_GLOBAL_ONLY\fR is ignored.
+.TP
+\fBTCL_NAMESPACE_ONLY\fR
+If this bit is set in \fIflags\fR then the array variable is looked up only in
+the current namespace.  If a procedure is active, its variables are ignored, and
+the global namespace is also ignored unless it is the current namespace.
+.PP
+With the exception of \fBTcl_ArraySet\fR and \fBTcl_ArrayStatistics\fR which do
+not support filtering, the \fIflags\fR argument is also OR-ed with zero or one
+of the following values to select the type of filtering applied by
+\fIpart2Ptr\fR.  Setting more than one filter type may cause \fBTcl_Panic\fR to
+be called.  The filter type is ignored if \fIpart2Ptr\fR is NULL, in which case
+no filtering is applied and all array elements are matched.
+.TP
+\fBTCL_MATCH_EXACT\fR
+\fIpart2Ptr\fR is an array element name.  The filter matches at most a single
+array element whose name is exactly equal to the value of \fIpart2Ptr\fR.  If no
+filter type is explicitly specified in \fIflags\fR, \fBTCL_MATCH_EXACT\fR is
+used by default.  This differs from the \fBarray\fR commands which default to
+\fB\-glob\fR.
+.TP
+\fBTCL_MATCH_GLOB\fR
+\fIpart2Ptr\fR is a glob pattern, and it matches array element names according
+to the rules of \fBstring match\fR.  \fIpart2Ptr\fR must match the entire array
+element name from beginning to end.  To match substrings, place \fB*\fR at
+either end of \fIpart2Ptr\fR.
+.TP
+\fBTCL_MATCH_REGEXP\fR
+\fIpart2Ptr\fR is a regular expression, and it matches array element names
+according to the rules of \fBregexp\fR.  Unless anchored by the \fB^\fR and
+\fB$\fR constraints, \fIpart2Ptr\fR matches substrings.  Thus, an empty
+\fIpart2Ptr\fR matches every possible array element name.  It is an error for
+\fIpart2Ptr\fR to not be a valid regular expression, but this error is only
+detected and reported when \fIpart1Ptr\fR names a non-empty array.
+.PP
+The \fBTcl_ArraySet\fR, \fBTcl_ArrayGet\fR, and \fBTcl_ArrayNames\fR functions
+accept \fIdictPtr\fR and \fIlistPtr\fR arguments referencing dictionary and list
+values, respectively.  If these values are not already dictionary and list
+values, an attempt will be made to convert them.  If the conversion fails,
+\fBTCL_ERROR\fR will be returned and an error message will be left in the
+interpreter's result.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_ArraySet\fR sets the values of zero or more elements in the array named
+by \fIpart1Ptr\fR.  If not NULL, \fIdictPtr\fR must be a valid dictionary, i.e.
+it must be a list consisting of an even number of elements alternating between
+key and value.  Each key in \fIdictPtr\fR is treated as an element name within
+the array, and its associated value is used as the new value for that array
+element.  If the variable named by \fIpart1Ptr\fR does not already exist and
+\fIdictPtr\fR is empty or NULL, the variable is created as an empty array.  It
+is an error for \fIpart1Ptr\fR to name a scalar (non-array) variable or an array
+element, or for it to reference a nonexistent namespace.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_ArrayUnset\fR unsets all elements in the array named by \fIpart1Ptr\fR
+that match the filter specified by \fIpart2Ptr\fR and \fIflags\fR.  It is not an
+error for \fIpart1Ptr\fR to not name an array or for there to be no matching
+elements in the array.  If \fIpart2Ptr\fR is NULL and \fIpart1Ptr\fR names an
+array, the entire array is unset, and future calls to \fBTcl_ArrayExists\fR will
+report it as not existing.  This is distinct from unsetting each element of the
+array (e.g. if \fIpart2Ptr\fR is \fB*\fR and \fIflags\fR is
+\fBTCL_MATCH_GLOB\fR), which does not cause future calls to
+\fBTcl_ArrayExists\fR to report the array as not existing.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_ArrayGet\fR loads the contents of the array named by \fIpart1Ptr\fR into
+the \fIdictPtr\fR dictionary object.  The array element names and values are
+used as the dictionary keys and values, respectively.  If \fIpart2Ptr\fR is not
+NULL, \fIpart2Ptr\fR and \fIflags\fR specify a filter used to limit which array
+elements are loaded into \fIdictPtr\fR.  If \fIpart1Ptr\fR does not name an
+array or if there are no matching elements, \fIdictPtr\fR is not modified.
+If \fIdictPtr\fR is not empty prior to calling \fBTcl_ArrayGet\fR, the array
+data is merged into \fIdictPtr\fR.  If an array element has the same name as an
+existing dictionary key, the array element value replaces the existing
+dictionary value.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_ArrayNames\fR loads the element names of the array named by
+\fIpart1Ptr\fR into the \fIlistPtr\fR list object.  If \fIpart2Ptr\fR is not
+NULL, \fIpart2Ptr\fR and \fIflags\fR specify a filter used to limit which array
+element names are loaded into \fIlistPtr\fR.  If \fIpart1Ptr\fR does not name an
+array or if there are no matching elements, \fIlistPtr\fR is not modified.  If
+\fIlistPtr\fR is not empty prior to calling \fBTcl_ArrayNames\fR, the array
+element names are appended to \fIlistPtr\fR.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_ArraySize\fR stores the number of elements in the array named by
+\fIpart1Ptr\fR into the address \fIintPtr\fR.  If \fIpart2Ptr\fR is not NULL,
+\fIpart2Ptr\fR and \fIflags\fR specify a filter used to limit which array
+elements count toward the total number of elements.  
+.PP
+\fBTcl_ArrayExists\fR checks for the existence of an array variable named
+\fIpart1Ptr\fR or (if \fIpart2Ptr\fR is not NULL) an array element within
+matching the filter specified by \fIpart2Ptr\fR and \fIflags\fR.  If the array
+variable or array element exists, the value \fB1\fR is stored into the location
+\fIintPtr\fR, even if the array is empty.  If \fIpart1Ptr\fR does not name an
+array variable (the variable does not exist, it is a scalar variable or array
+element, or it references a nonexistent namespace), or if \fIpart2Ptr\fR is not
+NULL and no elements match the filter, the value \fB0\fR is stored into the
+location \fIintPtr\fR.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_ArraySearchStart\fR initiates an array search, i.e. an array element
+enumeration yielding one element at a time.  \fIpart1Ptr\fR must name an array.
+If \fIpart2Ptr\fR is not NULL, \fIpart2Ptr\fR and \fIflags\fR specify a filter
+used to limit which array elements are included in the enumeration.  The return
+value is a token used to track the progress of the search, and it is to be
+passed to the \fBTcl_ArraySearchPeek\fR, \fBTcl_ArraySearchNext\fR, and
+\fBTcl_ArraySearchDone\fR functions.  If there is an error looking up the
+variable, executing an array trace, or validating a regular expression filter,
+NULL is returned and error information is placed in the interpreter result.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_ArraySearchPeek\fR and \fBTcl_ArraySearchNext\fR return the next array
+element name in the search identified by the \fIsearch\fR argument.  If there
+are no remaining element names, NULL is returned.  \fBTcl_ArraySearchPeek\fR
+does not advance the enumeration, whereas \fBTcl_ArraySearchNext\fR does, so
+\fBTcl_ArraySearchPeek\fR will return the same value each time it is called if
+there are no intervening calls to \fBTcl_ArraySearchNext\fR with the same
+\fIsearch\fR argument.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_ArraySearchDone\fR completes the search identified by the \fIsearch\fR
+argument and deallocates associated resources.  To avoid memory leaks,
+\fBTcl_ArraySearchDone\fR must be called once for each search token returned by
+\fBTcl_ArraySearchStart\fR.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_ArrayStatistics\fR produces statistics about the distribution of data
+within the hash table underlying the array named by \fIpart1Ptr\fR.  This
+information includes the number of entries in the table, the number of buckets,
+and the utilization of the buckets.  The statistics information is appended to
+the string value \fIstringPtr\fR.
+.SH EXAMPLES
+.PP
+Common initialization used for subsequent examples:
+.PP
+.CS
+int size, i;
+Tcl_Obj *obj, **objPtr;
+Tcl_Obj *varNameObj = Tcl_NewStringObj("colorcount", -1);
+Tcl_Channel outChan = Tcl_GetChannel(interp, "stdout", NULL);
+.CE
+.PP
+Create an array:
+.PP
+.CS
+obj = Tcl_NewStringObj(
+        " red   1"
+        " green 5"
+        " blue  4"
+        " white 9", -1);
+\fBTcl_ArraySet\fR(interp, varNameObj, obj, 0);
+.CE
+.PP
+Load the full contents of an array into a single object:
+.PP
+.CS
+Tcl_SetStringObj(obj, NULL, 0);
+\fBTcl_ArrayGet\fR(interp, varNameObj, NULL, obj, 0);
+Tcl_ListObjGetElements(interp, obj, &size, &objPtr);
+for (i = 0; i < size; i += 2, objPtr += 2) {
+    Tcl_WriteChars(outChan, "Color: ", -1);
+    Tcl_WriteObj(outChan, objPtr[0]);
+    Tcl_WriteChars(outChan, " Count: ", -1);
+    Tcl_WriteObj(outChan, objPtr[1]);
+    Tcl_WriteChars(outChan, "\\n", -1);
+}
+  \fB\(->\fR Color: blue Count: 4
+    Color: white Count: 9
+    Color: green Count: 5
+    Color: red Count: 1
+.CE
+.PP
+Get an array element name list then individually look up each element value:
+.PP
+.CS
+Tcl_SetStringObj(obj, NULL, 0);
+\fBTcl_ArrayNames\fR(interp, varNameObj, NULL, obj, 0);
+Tcl_ListObjGetElements(interp, obj, &size, &objPtr);
+for (i = 0; i < size; ++i, ++objPtr) {
+    Tcl_WriteChars(outChan, "Color: ", -1);
+    Tcl_WriteObj(outChan, *objPtr);
+    Tcl_WriteChars(outChan, " Count: ", -1);
+    Tcl_WriteObj(outChan, Tcl_ObjGetVar2(
+            interp, varNameObj, *objPtr, 0));
+    Tcl_WriteChars(outChan, "\\n", -1);
+}
+  \fB\(->\fR Color: blue Count: 4
+    Color: white Count: 9
+    Color: green Count: 5
+    Color: red Count: 1
+.CE
+.PP
+Get array hash table statistics:
+.PP
+.CS
+Tcl_SetStringObj(obj, NULL, 0);
+\fBTcl_ArrayStatistics\fR(interp, varNameObj, obj, 0);
+Tcl_WriteObj(outChan, obj);
+Tcl_WriteChars(outChan, "\\n", -1);
+  \fB\(->\fR 4 entries in table, 4 buckets
+    number of buckets with 0 entries: 1
+    number of buckets with 1 entries: 2
+    number of buckets with 2 entries: 1
+    number of buckets with 3 entries: 0
+    number of buckets with 4 entries: 0
+    number of buckets with 5 entries: 0
+    number of buckets with 6 entries: 0
+    number of buckets with 7 entries: 0
+    number of buckets with 8 entries: 0
+    number of buckets with 9 entries: 0
+    number of buckets with 10 or more entries: 0
+    average search distance for entry: 1.2
+.CE
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+array(n), Tcl_NewObj(3), Tcl_NewListObj(3), Tcl_NewDictObj(3),
+Tcl_ObjGetVar2(3), Tcl_GetObjResult(3), Tcl_TraceVar2(3)
+.SH KEYWORDS
+array, dict, dict value, dictionary, get variable, hash table, iteration,
+interpreter, set, unset, value, variable
@@ -51,27 +51,42 @@ in the interpreter's result, and nothing is stored at *\fIintPtr\fR
 or *\fIdoublePtr\fR or *\fIboolPtr\fR.
 .PP
 \fBTcl_GetInt\fR expects \fIsrc\fR to consist of a collection
-of integer digits, optionally signed and optionally preceded by
-white space.  If the first two characters of \fIsrc\fR
+of integer digits, optionally signed and optionally preceded and
+followed by white space.  If the first two characters of \fIsrc\fR
 after the optional white space and sign are
-.QW 0x
+.QW \fB0x\fR
 then \fIsrc\fR is expected to be in hexadecimal form;  otherwise,
+if the first such characters are
+.QW \fB0o\fR
+then \fIsrc\fR is expected to be in octal form;  otherwise,
+if the first such characters are
+.QW \fB0b\fR
+then \fIsrc\fR is expected to be in binary form;  otherwise,
 if the first such character is
-.QW 0
+.QW \fB0\fR
 then \fIsrc\fR
 is expected to be in octal form;  otherwise, \fIsrc\fR is
 expected to be in decimal form.
 .PP
 \fBTcl_GetDouble\fR expects \fIsrc\fR to consist of a floating-point
 number, which is:  white space;  a sign; a sequence of digits;  a
-decimal point;  a sequence of digits;  the letter
-.QW e ;
+decimal point
+.QW \fB.\fR ;
+a sequence of digits;  the letter
+.QW \fBe\fR ;
 a signed decimal exponent;  and more white space.
 Any of the fields may be omitted, except that
 the digits either before or after the decimal point must be present
 and if the
-.QW e
-is present then it must be followed by the exponent number.
+.QW \fBe\fR
+is present then it must be followed by the exponent number. If there
+are no fields apart from the sign and initial sequence of digits
+(i.e., no decimal point or exponent indicator), that
+initial sequence of digits should take one of the forms that
+\fBTcl_GetInt\fR supports, described above. The use of
+.QW \fB,\fR
+as a decimal point is not supported nor should any other sort of
+inter-digit separator be present.
 .PP
 \fBTcl_GetBoolean\fR expects \fIsrc\fR to specify a boolean
 value.  If \fIsrc\fR is any of \fB0\fR, \fBfalse\fR,
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ The \fIhashKeyProc\fR member contains the address of a function called to
 calculate a hash value for the key.
 .PP
 .CS
-typedef unsigned int \fBTcl_HashKeyProc\fR(
+typedef TCL_HASH_TYPE \fBTcl_HashKeyProc\fR(
        Tcl_HashTable *\fItablePtr\fR,
        void *\fIkeyPtr\fR);
 .CE
@@ -23,11 +23,11 @@ Tcl interpreter handle.
 A version string consisting of one or more decimal numbers
 separated by dots.
 .AP int exact in
-Non-zero means that only the particular version specified by
+1 means that only the particular version specified by
 \fIversion\fR is acceptable.
-Zero means that versions newer than \fIversion\fR are also
+0 means that versions newer than \fIversion\fR are also
 acceptable as long as they have the same major version number
-as \fIversion\fR.
+as \fIversion\fR. Other bits have no effect.
 .BE
 .SH INTRODUCTION
 .PP
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ The source interpreter will have its result reset by this operation.
 .SH "DEPRECATED INTERFACES"
 .SS "OLD STRING PROCEDURES"
 .PP
-Use of the following procedures (is deprecated
+Use of the following procedures is deprecated
 since they manipulate the Tcl result as a string.
 Procedures such as \fBTcl_SetObjResult\fR
 that manipulate the result as a value
@@ -22,6 +22,42 @@ Unless otherwise specified for individual commands below,
 \fIarrayName\fR must be the name of an existing array variable.
 The \fIoption\fR argument determines what action is carried
 out by the command.
+.PP
+Many array commands accept \fImode\fR and \fIpattern\fR arguments.  These
+arguments specify a filter to limit which array elements are included in the
+operation.  If neither argument is specified, no filtering is applied, and the
+entire array is processed.  If only one argument is specified, it is used as the
+\fIpattern\fR argument, and \fB\-glob\fR is used as the default value for
+\fImode\fR.  If both arguments are specified, the first is used as \fImode\fR
+and the second as \fIpattern\fR.  The \fImode\fR argument designates which
+matching rules to use to match \fIpattern\fR against the names of the elements
+in the array.  The legal \fImode\fR values are:
+.TP
+\fB\-exact\fR
+.
+\fIPattern\fR is a literal string that is compared for exact equality against
+each array element name.  This mode has limited utility because all uses of the
+\fBarray\fR command with \fB-exact\fR matching can be implemented by operating
+directly on the array element with standard \fIname\fB(\fIindex\fB)\fR notation.
+.TP
+\fB\-glob\fR
+.
+\fIPattern\fR is a glob-style pattern which is matched against each array
+element name using the same rules as the \fBstring match\fR command.
+\fIPattern\fR must match the entire array element name from beginning to end.
+To match substrings, place \fB*\fR at either end of \fIpattern\fR.  This mode is
+the default if no \fImode\fR is specified.
+.TP
+\fB\-regexp\fR
+.
+\fIPattern\fR is treated as a regular expression and matched against each array
+element name using the rules described in the \fBre_syntax\fR reference page.
+Unless anchored by the \fB^\fR and \fB$\fR constraints, \fIpattern\fR matches
+substrings.  Thus, an empty \fIpattern\fR matches every possible array element
+name.  It is an error for \fIpattern\fR to not be a valid regular expression,
+but this error condition is only detected and reported when \fIarrayName\fR is a
+non-empty array.
+.PP
 The legal \fIoptions\fR (which may be abbreviated) are:
 .TP
 \fBarray anymore \fIarrayName searchId\fR
@@ -43,20 +79,20 @@ which search on \fIarrayName\fR to destroy, and must have
 been the return value from a previous invocation of
 \fBarray startsearch\fR.  Returns an empty string.
 .TP
-\fBarray exists \fIarrayName\fR
+\fBarray exists \fIarrayName\fR ?\fImode\fR? ?\fIpattern\fR?
 Returns 1 if \fIarrayName\fR is an array variable, 0 if there
 is no variable by that name or if it is a scalar variable.
+If \fIpattern\fR is specified, this command instead checks if one or more
+elements of \fIarrayName\fR match the filter defined by \fImode\fR and
+\fIpattern\fR, returning 1 or 0 if the match succeeds or fails, respectively.
 .TP
-\fBarray get \fIarrayName\fR ?\fIpattern\fR?
+\fBarray get \fIarrayName\fR ?\fImode\fR? ?\fIpattern\fR?
 Returns a list containing pairs of elements.  The first
 element in each pair is the name of an element in \fIarrayName\fR
 and the second element of each pair is the value of the
 array element.  The order of the pairs is undefined.
-If \fIpattern\fR is not specified, then all of the elements of the
-array are included in the result.
-If \fIpattern\fR is specified, then only those elements whose names
-match \fIpattern\fR (using the matching rules of
-\fBstring match\fR) are included.
+The \fImode\fR and \fIpattern\fR arguments can be used to limit which array
+elements are included in the result.
 If \fIarrayName\fR is not the name of an array variable, or if
 the array contains no elements, then an empty list is returned.
 If traces on the array modify the list of elements, the elements
@@ -65,15 +101,10 @@ returned are those that exist both before and after the call to
 .TP
 \fBarray names \fIarrayName\fR ?\fImode\fR? ?\fIpattern\fR?
 Returns a list containing the names of all of the elements in
-the array that match \fIpattern\fR.  \fIMode\fR may be one of
-\fB\-exact\fR, \fB\-glob\fR, or \fB\-regexp\fR.  If specified, \fImode\fR
-designates which matching rules to use to match \fIpattern\fR against
-the names of the elements in the array.  If not specified, \fImode\fR
-defaults to \fB\-glob\fR.  See the documentation for \fBstring match\fR
-for information on glob style matching, and the documentation for
-\fBregexp\fR for information on regexp matching.
-If \fIpattern\fR is omitted then the command returns all of
-the element names in the array.  If there are no (matching) elements
+the array.
+The \fImode\fR and \fIpattern\fR arguments can be used to limit which array
+element names are included in the result.
+If there are no (matching) elements
 in the array, or if \fIarrayName\fR is not the name of an array
 variable, then an empty string is returned.
 .TP
@@ -99,16 +130,20 @@ If the variable \fIarrayName\fR does not already exist
 and \fIlist\fR is empty,
 \fIarrayName\fR is created with an empty array value.
 .TP
-\fBarray size \fIarrayName\fR
-Returns a decimal string giving the number of elements in the
+\fBarray size \fIarrayName\fR ?\fImode\fR? ?\fIpattern\fR?
+Returns an integer giving the number of elements in the
 array.
+The \fImode\fR and \fIpattern\fR arguments can be used to limit which array
+elements are counted toward the result.
 If \fIarrayName\fR is not the name of an array then 0 is returned.
 .TP
-\fBarray startsearch \fIarrayName\fR
+\fBarray startsearch \fIarrayName\fR ?\fImode\fR? ?\fIpattern\fR?
 This command initializes an element-by-element search through the
 array given by \fIarrayName\fR, such that invocations of the
 \fBarray nextelement\fR command will return the names of the
 individual elements in the array.
+The \fImode\fR and \fIpattern\fR arguments can be used to limit which array
+element names are returned by future invocations of \fBarray nextelement\fR.
 When the search has been completed, the \fBarray donesearch\fR
 command should be invoked.
 The return value is a
@@ -126,9 +161,10 @@ that represents the array.  This information includes the number of
 entries in the table, the number of buckets, and the utilization of
 the buckets.
 .TP
-\fBarray unset \fIarrayName\fR ?\fIpattern\fR?
-Unsets all of the elements in the array that match \fIpattern\fR (using the
-matching rules of \fBstring match\fR).  If \fIarrayName\fR is not the name
+\fBarray unset \fIarrayName\fR ?\fImode\fR? ?\fIpattern\fR?
+Unsets all of the elements in the array that match the filter specified by the
+\fImode\fR and \fIpattern\fR arguments.
+If \fIarrayName\fR is not the name
 of an array variable or there are no matching elements in the array, no
 error will be raised.  If \fIpattern\fR is omitted and \fIarrayName\fR is
 an array variable, then the command unsets the entire array.
@@ -287,12 +287,14 @@ slow destinations like network sockets.
 .RS
 .PP
 The \fBchan copy\fR command transfers data from \fIinputChan\fR until
-end of file or \fIsize\fR bytes have been transferred. If no
-\fB\-size\fR argument is given, then the copy goes until end of file.
-All the data read from \fIinputChan\fR is copied to \fIoutputChan\fR.
-Without the \fB\-command\fR option, \fBchan copy\fR blocks until the
-copy is complete and returns the number of bytes written to
-\fIoutputChan\fR.
+end of file or \fIsize\fR bytes or characters have been transferred;
+\fIsize\fR is in bytes if the two channels are using the same encoding,
+and is in characters otherwise.  If no \fB\-size\fR argument is given,
+then the copy goes until end of file. All the data read from
+\fIinputChan\fR is copied to \fIoutputChan\fR.  Without the
+\fB\-command\fR option, \fBchan copy\fR blocks until the copy is
+complete and returns the number of bytes or characters (using the same
+rules as for the \fB\-size\fR option) written to \fIoutputChan\fR.
 .PP
 The \fB\-command\fR argument makes \fBchan copy\fR work in the
 background.  In this case it returns immediately and the
@@ -547,6 +549,18 @@ this, spawn with "2>@" or
 ">@" redirection operators onto the write side of a pipe, and then
 immediately close it in the parent. This is necessary to get an EOF on
 the read side once the child has exited or otherwise closed its output.
+.RS
+.PP
+Note that the pipe buffering semantics can vary at the operating system level
+substantially; it is not safe to assume that a write performed on the output
+side of the pipe will appear instantly to the input side. This is a
+fundamental difference and Tcl cannot conceal it. The overall stream semantics
+\fIare\fR compatible, so blocking reads and writes will not see most of the
+differences, but the details of what exactly gets written when are not. This
+is most likely to show up when using pipelines for testing; care should be
+taken to ensure that deadlocks do not occur and that potential short reads are
+allowed for.
+.RE
 .VE 8.6
 .TP
 \fBchan pop \fIchannelId\fR
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ This command joins each of its arguments together with spaces after
 trimming leading and trailing white-space from each of them.  If all of the
 arguments are lists, this has the same effect as concatenating them
 into a single list.
+Arguments that are empty (after trimming) are ignored entirely.
 It permits any number of arguments;
 if no \fIarg\fRs are supplied, the result is an empty string.
 .SH EXAMPLES
@@ -271,8 +271,9 @@ limitation as \fBexec\fR wants to communicate over pipes.  The Expect
 extension addresses this issue when communicating with a TUI application.
 .PP
 When attempting to execute an application, \fBexec\fR first searches for
-the name as it was specified.  Then, in order, \fB.com\fR, \fB.exe\fR, and
-\fB.bat\fR are appended to the end of the specified name and it searches
+the name as it was specified.  Then, in order,
+\fB.com\fR, \fB.exe\fR, \fB.bat\fR and \fB.cmd\fR
+are appended to the end of the specified name and it searches
 for the longer name.  If a directory name was not specified as part of the
 application name, the following directories are automatically searched in
 order when attempting to locate the application:
@@ -17,14 +17,14 @@ expr \- Evaluate an expression
 .BE
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .PP
-Concatenates \fIarg\fRs (adding separator spaces between them),
-evaluates the result as a Tcl expression, and returns the value.
-The operators permitted in Tcl expressions include a subset of
+Concatenates \fIarg\fRs, separated by a space, into an expression, and evaluates
+that expression, returning its value.
+The operators permitted in an expression include a subset of
 the operators permitted in C expressions.  For those operators
 common to both Tcl and C, Tcl applies the same meaning and precedence
 as the corresponding C operators.
-Expressions almost always yield numeric results
-(integer or floating-point values).
+The value of an expression is often a numeric result, either an integer or a
+floating-point value, but may also be a non-numeric value.
 For example, the expression
 .PP
 .CS
@@ -32,78 +32,68 @@ For example, the expression
 .CE
 .PP
 evaluates to 14.2.
-Tcl expressions differ from C expressions in the way that
-operands are specified.  Also, Tcl expressions support
-non-numeric operands and string comparisons, as well as some
+Expressions differ from C expressions in the way that
+operands are specified.  Expressions also support
+non-numeric operands, string comparisons, and some
 additional operators not found in C.
+.PP
+When an expression evaluates to an integer, the value is the decimal form of
+the integer, and when an expression evaluates to a floating-point number, the
+value is the form produced by the \fB%g\fR format specifier of Tcl's
+\fBformat\fR command.
 .SS OPERANDS
 .PP
-A Tcl expression consists of a combination of operands, operators,
-parentheses and commas.
-White space may be used between the operands and operators and
-parentheses (or commas); it is ignored by the expression's instructions.
-Where possible, operands are interpreted as integer values.
-Integer values may be specified in decimal (the normal case), in binary
-(if the first two characters of the operand are \fB0b\fR), in octal
-(if the first two characters of the operand are \fB0o\fR), or in hexadecimal
-(if the first two characters of the operand are \fB0x\fR).  For
-compatibility with older Tcl releases, an octal integer value is also
-indicated simply when the first character of the operand is \fB0\fR,
-whether or not the second character is also \fBo\fR.
-If an operand does not have one of the integer formats given
-above, then it is treated as a floating-point number if that is
-possible.  Floating-point numbers may be specified in any of several
-common formats making use of the decimal digits, the decimal point \fB.\fR,
-the characters \fBe\fR or \fBE\fR indicating scientific notation, and
-the sign characters \fB+\fR or \fB\-\fR.  For example, all of the
-following are valid floating-point numbers:  2.1, 3., 6e4, 7.91e+16.
-Also recognized as floating point values are the strings \fBInf\fR
-and \fBNaN\fR making use of any case for each character.
-If no numeric interpretation is possible (note that all literal
-operands that are not numeric or boolean must be quoted with either
-braces or with double quotes), then an operand is left as a string
-(and only a limited set of operators may be applied to it).
+An expression consists of a combination of operands, operators, parentheses and
+commas, possibly with whitespace between any of these elements, which is
+ignored.
+An integer operand may be specified in decimal, binary
+(the first two characters are \fB0b\fR), octal
+(the first two characters are \fB0o\fR), or hexadecimal
+(the first two characters are \fB0x\fR) form.  For
+compatibility with older Tcl releases, an operand that begins with \fB0\fR is
+interpreted as an octal integer even if the second character is not \fBo\fR.
+A floating-point number may be specified in any of several
+common decimal formats, and may use the decimal point \fB.\fR,
+\fBe\fR or \fBE\fR for scientific notation, and
+the sign characters \fB+\fR and \fB\-\fR.  The
+following are all valid floating-point numbers:  2.1, 3., 6e4, 7.91e+16.
+The strings \fBInf\fR
+and \fBNaN\fR, in any combination of case, are also recognized as floating point
+values.  An operand that doesn't have a numeric interpretation must be quoted
+with either braces or with double quotes.
 .PP
-Operands may be specified in any of the following ways:
+An operand may be specified in any of the following ways:
 .IP [1]
 As a numeric value, either integer or floating-point.
 .IP [2]
 As a boolean value, using any form understood by \fBstring is\fR
 \fBboolean\fR.
 .IP [3]
-As a Tcl variable, using standard \fB$\fR notation.
-The variable's value will be used as the operand.
+As a variable, using standard \fB$\fR notation.
+The value of the variable is then the value of the operand.
 .IP [4]
 As a string enclosed in double-quotes.
-The expression parser will perform backslash, variable, and
-command substitutions on the information between the quotes,
-and use the resulting value as the operand
+Backslash, variable, and command substitution are performed as described in
+\fBTcl\fR.
 .IP [5]
 As a string enclosed in braces.
-The characters between the open brace and matching close brace
-will be used as the operand without any substitutions.
+The operand is treated as a braced value as described in \fBTcl\fR.
 .IP [6]
 As a Tcl command enclosed in brackets.
-The command will be executed and its result will be used as
-the operand.
+Command substitution is performed as described in \fBTcl\fR.
 .IP [7]
-As a mathematical function whose arguments have any of the above
-forms for operands, such as \fBsin($x)\fR.  See \fBMATH FUNCTIONS\fR below for
+As a mathematical function such as \fBsin($x)\fR, whose arguments have any of the above
+forms for operands.  See \fBMATH FUNCTIONS\fR below for
 a discussion of how mathematical functions are handled.
 .PP
-Where the above substitutions occur (e.g. inside quoted strings), they
-are performed by the expression's instructions.
-However, the command parser may already have performed one round of
-substitution before the expression processor was called.
-As discussed below, it is usually best to enclose expressions
-in braces to prevent the command parser from performing substitutions
-on the contents.
+Because \fBexpr\fR parses and performs substitutions on values that have
+already been parsed and substituted by \fBTcl\fR, it is usually best to enclose
+expressions in braces to avoid the first round of substitutions by
+\fBTcl\fR.
 .PP
-For some examples of simple expressions, suppose the variable
-\fBa\fR has the value 3 and
-the variable \fBb\fR has the value 6.
-Then the command on the left side of each of the lines below
-will produce the value on the right side of the line:
+Below are some examples of simple expressions where the value of \fBa\fR is 3
+and the value of \fBb\fR is 6.  The command on the left side of each line
+produces the value on the right side.
 .PP
 .CS
 .ta 6c
@@ -114,34 +104,41 @@ will produce the value on the right side of the line:
 .CE
 .SS OPERATORS
 .PP
-The valid operators (most of which are also available as commands in
-the \fBtcl::mathop\fR namespace; see the \fBmathop\fR(n) manual page
-for details) are listed below, grouped in decreasing order of precedence:
+For operators having both a numeric mode and a string mode, the numeric mode is
+chosen when all operands have a numeric interpretation.  The integer
+interpretation of an operand is preferred over the floating-point
+interpretation.  To ensure string operations on arbitrary values it is generally a
+good idea to use \fBeq\fR, \fBne\fR, or the \fBstring\fR command instead of
+more versatile operators such as \fB==\fR.
+.PP
+Unless otherwise specified, operators accept non-numeric operands.  The value
+of a boolean operation is 1 if true, 0 otherwise.  See also \fBstring is\fR
+\fBboolean\fR.  The valid operators, most of which are also available as
+commands in the \fBtcl::mathop\fR namespace (see \fBmathop\fR(n)), are listed
+below, grouped in decreasing order of precedence:
 .TP 20
 \fB\-\0\0+\0\0~\0\0!\fR
 .
-Unary minus, unary plus, bit-wise NOT, logical NOT.  None of these operators
-may be applied to string operands, and bit-wise NOT may be
-applied only to integers.
+Unary minus, unary plus, bit-wise NOT, logical NOT.  These operators
+may only be applied to numeric operands, and bit-wise NOT may only be
+applied to integers.
 .TP 20
 \fB**\fR
 .
-Exponentiation.  Valid for any numeric operands.
+Exponentiation.  Valid for numeric operands.
 .TP 20
 \fB*\0\0/\0\0%\fR
 .
-Multiply, divide, remainder.  None of these operators may be
-applied to string operands, and remainder may be applied only
-to integers.
-The remainder will always have the same sign as the divisor and
-an absolute value smaller than the absolute value of the divisor.
+Multiply and divide, which are valid for numeric operands, and remainder, which
+is valid for integers.  The remainder, an absolute value smaller than the
+absolute value of the divisor, has the same sign as the divisor.
 .RS
 .PP
-When applied to integers, the division and remainder operators can be
-considered to partition the number line into a sequence of equal-sized
-adjacent non-overlapping pieces where each piece is the size of the divisor;
-the division result identifies which piece the divisor lay within, and the
-remainder result identifies where within that piece the divisor lay. A
+When applied to integers, division and remainder can be
+considered to partition the number line into a sequence of
+adjacent non-overlapping pieces, where each piece is the size of the divisor;
+the quotient identifies which piece the dividend lies within, and the
+remainder identifies where within that piece the dividend lies. A
 consequence of this is that the result of
 .QW "-57 \fB/\fR 10"
 is always -6, and the result of
@@ -151,177 +148,157 @@ is always 3.
 .TP 20
 \fB+\0\0\-\fR
 .
-Add and subtract.  Valid for any numeric operands.
+Add and subtract.  Valid for numeric operands.
 .TP 20
 \fB<<\0\0>>\fR
 .
-Left and right shift.  Valid for integer operands only.
+Left and right shift.  Valid for integers.
 A right shift always propagates the sign bit.
 .TP 20
 \fB<\0\0>\0\0<=\0\0>=\fR
 .
-Boolean less, greater, less than or equal, and greater than or equal.
-Each operator produces 1 if the condition is true, 0 otherwise.
-These operators may be applied to strings as well as numeric operands,
-in which case string comparison is used.
+Boolean less than, greater than, less than or equal, and greater than or equal.
 .TP 20
 \fB==\0\0!=\fR
 .
-Boolean equal and not equal.  Each operator produces a zero/one result.
-Valid for all operand types.
+Boolean equal and not equal.
 .TP 20
 \fBeq\0\0ne\fR
 .
-Boolean string equal and string not equal.  Each operator produces a
-zero/one result.  The operand types are interpreted only as strings.
+Boolean string equal and string not equal.
 .TP 20
 \fBin\0\0ni\fR
 .
-List containment and negated list containment.  Each operator produces
-a zero/one result and treats its first argument as a string and its
-second argument as a Tcl list.  The \fBin\fR operator indicates
-whether the first argument is a member of the second argument list;
-the \fBni\fR operator inverts the sense of the result.
+List containment and negated list containment.  The first argument is
+interpreted as a string, the second as a list.  \fBin\fR tests for membership
+in the list, and \fBni\fR is the inverse.
 .TP 20
 \fB&\fR
 .
-Bit-wise AND.  Valid for integer operands only.
+Bit-wise AND.  Valid for integer operands.
 .TP 20
 \fB^\fR
 .
-Bit-wise exclusive OR.  Valid for integer operands only.
+Bit-wise exclusive OR.  Valid for integer operands.
 .TP 20
 \fB|\fR
 .
-Bit-wise OR.  Valid for integer operands only.
+Bit-wise OR.  Valid for integer operands.
 .TP 20
 \fB&&\fR
 .
-Logical AND.  Produces a 1 result if both operands are non-zero,
-0 otherwise.
-Valid for boolean and numeric (integers or floating-point) operands only.
+Logical AND.  If both operands are true, the result is 1, or 0 otherwise.
+
 .TP 20
 \fB||\fR
 .
-Logical OR.  Produces a 0 result if both operands are zero, 1 otherwise.
-Valid for boolean and numeric (integers or floating-point) operands only.
+Logical OR.  If both operands are false, the result is 0, or 1 otherwise.
 .TP 20
 \fIx\fB?\fIy\fB:\fIz\fR
 .
-If-then-else, as in C.  If \fIx\fR
-evaluates to non-zero, then the result is the value of \fIy\fR.
-Otherwise the result is the value of \fIz\fR.
-The \fIx\fR operand must have a boolean or numeric value.
+If-then-else, as in C.  If \fIx\fR is false , the result is the value of
+\fIy\fR.  Otherwise the result is the value of \fIz\fR.
 .PP
-See the C manual for more details on the results
-produced by each operator.
-The exponentiation operator promotes types like the multiply and
-divide operators, and produces a result that is the same as the output
-of the \fBpow\fR function (after any type conversions.)
-All of the binary operators but exponentiation group left-to-right
-within the same precedence level; exponentiation groups right-to-left.  For example, the command
+The exponentiation operator promotes types in the same way that the multiply
+and divide operators do, and the result is is the same as the result of
+\fBpow\fR.
+Exponentiation groups right-to-left within a precedence level. Other binary
+operators group left-to-right.  For example, the value of
 .PP
 .CS
 \fBexpr\fR {4*2 < 7}
 .CE
 .PP
-returns 0, while
+is 0, while the value of
 .PP
 .CS
 \fBexpr\fR {2**3**2}
 .CE
 .PP
-returns 512.
+is 512.
 .PP
-The \fB&&\fR, \fB||\fR, and \fB?:\fR operators have
+As in C, \fB&&\fR, \fB||\fR, and \fB?:\fR feature
 .QW "lazy evaluation" ,
-just as in C, which means that operands are not evaluated if they are
-not needed to determine the outcome.  For example, in the command
+which means that operands are not evaluated if they are
+not needed to determine the outcome.  For example, in
 .PP
 .CS
 \fBexpr\fR {$v ? [a] : [b]}
 .CE
 .PP
-only one of
-.QW \fB[a]\fR
-or
-.QW \fB[b]\fR
-will actually be evaluated,
-depending on the value of \fB$v\fR.  Note, however, that this is
-only true if the entire expression is enclosed in braces;  otherwise
-the Tcl parser will evaluate both
-.QW \fB[a]\fR
-and
-.QW \fB[b]\fR
-before invoking the \fBexpr\fR command.
+only one of \fB[a]\fR or \fB[b]\fR is evaluated,
+depending on the value of \fB$v\fR.  This is not true of the normal Tcl parser,
+so it is normally recommended to enclose the arguments to \fBexpr\fR in braces.
+Without braces, as in
+\fBexpr\fR $v ? [a] : [b]
+both \fB[a]\fR and \fB[b]\fR are evaluated before \fBexpr\fR is even called.
+.PP
+For more details on the results
+produced by each operator, see the documentation for C.
 .SS "MATH FUNCTIONS"
 .PP
-When the expression parser encounters a mathematical function
-such as \fBsin($x)\fR, it replaces it with a call to an ordinary
-Tcl function in the \fBtcl::mathfunc\fR namespace.  The processing
-of an expression such as:
+A mathematical function such as \fBsin($x)\fR is replaced with a call to an ordinary
+Tcl command in the \fBtcl::mathfunc\fR namespace.  The evaluation
+of an expression such as
 .PP
 .CS
 \fBexpr\fR {sin($x+$y)}
 .CE
 .PP
-is the same in every way as the processing of:
+is the same in every way as the evaluation of
 .PP
 .CS
 \fBexpr\fR {[tcl::mathfunc::sin [\fBexpr\fR {$x+$y}]]}
 .CE
 .PP
-which in turn is the same as the processing of:
+which in turn is the same as the evaluation of
 .PP
 .CS
 tcl::mathfunc::sin [\fBexpr\fR {$x+$y}]
 .CE
 .PP
-The executor will search for \fBtcl::mathfunc::sin\fR using the usual
-rules for resolving functions in namespaces. Either
-\fB::tcl::mathfunc::sin\fR or \fB[namespace
-current]::tcl::mathfunc::sin\fR will satisfy the request, and others
-may as well (depending on the current \fBnamespace path\fR setting).
+\fBtcl::mathfunc::sin\fR is resolved as described in
+\fBNAMESPACE RESOLUTION\fR in the \fBnamespace\fR(n) documentation.   Given the
+default value of \fBnamespace path\fR, \fB[namespace
+current]::tcl::mathfunc::sin\fR or \fB::tcl::mathfunc::sin\fR are the typical
+resolutions.
 .PP
-Some mathematical functions have several arguments, separated by commas like in C. Thus:
+As in C, a mathematical function may accept multiple arguments separated by commas. Thus,
 .PP
 .CS
 \fBexpr\fR {hypot($x,$y)}
 .CE
 .PP
-ends up as
+becomes
 .PP
 .CS
 tcl::mathfunc::hypot $x $y
 .CE
 .PP
-See the \fBmathfunc\fR(n) manual page for the math functions that are
+See the \fBmathfunc\fR(n) documentation for the math functions that are
 available by default.
 .SS "TYPES, OVERFLOW, AND PRECISION"
 .PP
-All internal computations involving integers are done calling on the
-LibTomMath multiple precision integer library as required so that all
-integer calculations are performed exactly.  Note that in Tcl releases
-prior to 8.5, integer calculations were performed with one of the C types
+When needed to guarantee exact performance, internal computations involving
+integers use the LibTomMath multiple precision integer library.  In Tcl releases
+prior to 8.5, integer calculations were performed using one of the C types
 \fIlong int\fR or \fITcl_WideInt\fR, causing implicit range truncation
 in those calculations where values overflowed the range of those types.
-Any code that relied on these implicit truncations will need to explicitly
-add \fBint()\fR or \fBwide()\fR function calls to expressions at the points
-where such truncation is required to take place.
+Any code that relied on these implicit truncations should instead call
+\fBint()\fR or \fBwide()\fR, which do truncate.
 .PP
-All internal computations involving floating-point are
-done with the C type \fIdouble\fR.
-When converting a string to floating-point, exponent overflow is
+Internal floating-point computations are
+performed using the \fIdouble\fR C type.
+When converting a string to floating-point value, exponent overflow is
 detected and results in the \fIdouble\fR value of \fBInf\fR or
 \fB\-Inf\fR as appropriate.  Floating-point overflow and underflow
 are detected to the degree supported by the hardware, which is generally
-pretty reliable.
+fairly reliable.
 .PP
-Conversion among internal representations for integer, floating-point,
-and string operands is done automatically as needed.
-For arithmetic computations, integers are used until some
-floating-point number is introduced, after which floating-point is used.
-For example,
+Conversion among internal representations for integer, floating-point, and
+string operands is done automatically as needed.  For arithmetic computations,
+integers are used until some floating-point number is introduced, after which
+floating-point values are used.  For example,
 .PP
 .CS
 \fBexpr\fR {5 / 4}
@@ -335,82 +312,62 @@ returns 1, while
 .CE
 .PP
 both return 1.25.
-Floating-point values are always returned with a
+A floating-point result can be distinguished from an integer result by the
+presence of either
 .QW \fB.\fR
-or an
+or
 .QW \fBe\fR
-so that they will not look like integer values.  For example,
+.PP
+. For example,
 .PP
 .CS
 \fBexpr\fR {20.0/5.0}
 .CE
 .PP
 returns \fB4.0\fR, not \fB4\fR.
-.SS "STRING OPERATIONS"
-.PP
-String values may be used as operands of the comparison operators,
-although the expression evaluator tries to do comparisons as integer
-or floating-point when it can,
-i.e., when all arguments to the operator allow numeric interpretations,
-except in the case of the \fBeq\fR and \fBne\fR operators.
-If one of the operands of a comparison is a string and the other
-has a numeric value, a canonical string representation of the numeric
-operand value is generated to compare with the string operand.
-Canonical string representation for integer values is a decimal string
-format.  Canonical string representation for floating-point values
-is that produced by the \fB%g\fR format specifier of Tcl's
-\fBformat\fR command.  For example, the commands
-.PP
-.CS
-\fBexpr\fR {"0x03" > "2"}
-\fBexpr\fR {"0y" > "0x12"}
-.CE
-.PP
-both return 1.  The first comparison is done using integer
-comparison, and the second is done using string comparison.
-Because of Tcl's tendency to treat values as numbers whenever
-possible, it is not generally a good idea to use operators like \fB==\fR
-when you really want string comparison and the values of the
-operands could be arbitrary;  it is better in these cases to use
-the \fBeq\fR or \fBne\fR operators, or the \fBstring\fR command instead.
 .SH "PERFORMANCE CONSIDERATIONS"
 .PP
-Enclose expressions in braces for the best speed and the smallest
-storage requirements.
-This allows the Tcl bytecode compiler to generate the best code.
-.PP
-As mentioned above, expressions are substituted twice:
-once by the Tcl parser and once by the \fBexpr\fR command.
-For example, the commands
+Where an expression contains syntax that Tcl would otherwise perform
+substitutions on, enclosing an expression in braces or otherwise quoting it
+so that it's a static value allows the Tcl compiler to generate bytecode for
+the expression, resulting in better speed and smaller storage requirements.
+This also avoids issues that can arise if Tcl is allowed to perform
+substitution on the value before \fBexpr\fR is called.
 .PP
+In the following example, the value of the expression is 11 because the Tcl parser first
+substitutes \fB$b\fR and \fBexpr\fR then substitutes \fB$a\fR.  Enclosing the
+expression in braces would result in a syntax error.
 .CS
 set a 3
 set b {$a + 2}
 \fBexpr\fR $b*4
 .CE
 .PP
-return 11, not a multiple of 4.
-This is because the Tcl parser will first substitute \fB$a + 2\fR for
-the variable \fBb\fR,
-then the \fBexpr\fR command will evaluate the expression \fB$a + 2*4\fR.
-.PP
-Most expressions do not require a second round of substitutions.
-Either they are enclosed in braces or, if not,
-their variable and command substitutions yield numbers or strings
-that do not themselves require substitutions.
-However, because a few unbraced expressions
-need two rounds of substitutions,
-the bytecode compiler must emit
-additional instructions to handle this situation.
-The most expensive code is required for
-unbraced expressions that contain command substitutions.
-These expressions must be implemented by generating new code
-each time the expression is executed.
-When the expression is unbraced to allow the substitution of a function or
-operator, consider using the commands documented in the \fBmathfunc\fR(n) or
-\fBmathop\fR(n) manual pages directly instead.
+
+When an expression is generated at runtime, like the one above is, the bytcode
+compiler must ensure that new code is generated each time the expression
+is evaluated.  This is the most costly kind of expression from a performance
+perspective.  In such cases, consider directly using the commands described in
+the \fBmathfunc\fR(n) or \fBmathop\fR(n) documentation instead of \fBexpr\fR.
+
+Most expressions are not formed at runtime, but are literal strings or contain
+substitutions that don't introduce other substitutions.  To allow the bytecode
+compiler to work with an expression as a string literal at compilation time,
+ensure that it contains no substitutions or that it is enclosed in braces or
+otherwise quoted to prevent Tcl from performing substitutions, allowing
+\fBexpr\fR to perform them instead.
 .SH EXAMPLES
 .PP
+A numeric comparison whose result is 1:
+.CS
+\fBexpr\fR {"0x03" > "2"}
+.CE
+.PP
+A string comparison whose result is 1:
+.CS
+\fBexpr\fR {"0y" > "0x12"}
+.CE
+.PP
 Define a procedure that computes an
 .QW interesting
 mathematical function:
@@ -444,8 +401,8 @@ each other:
 puts "a and b are [\fBexpr\fR {$a eq $b ? {equal} : {different}}]"
 .CE
 .PP
-Set a variable to whether an environment variable is both defined at
-all and also set to a true boolean value:
+Set a variable indicating whether an environment variable is defined and has
+value of true:
 .PP
 .CS
 set isTrue [\fBexpr\fR {
@@ -25,12 +25,15 @@ network sockets.
 .PP
 The \fBfcopy\fR
 command transfers data from \fIinchan\fR until end of file
-or \fIsize\fR bytes have been
-transferred. If no \fB\-size\fR argument is given,
+or \fIsize\fR bytes or characters have been
+transferred; \fIsize\fR is in bytes if the two channels are using the
+same encoding, and is in characters otherwise.
+If no \fB\-size\fR argument is given,
 then the copy goes until end of file.
 All the data read from \fIinchan\fR is copied to \fIoutchan\fR.
 Without the \fB\-command\fR option, \fBfcopy\fR blocks until the copy is complete
-and returns the number of bytes written to \fIoutchan\fR.
+and returns the number of bytes or characters (using the same rules as
+for the \fB\-size\fR option) written to \fIoutchan\fR.
 .PP
 The \fB\-command\fR argument makes \fBfcopy\fR work in the background.
 In this case it returns immediately and the \fIcallback\fR is invoked
@@ -174,3 +177,6 @@ vwait done
 eof(n), fblocked(n), fconfigure(n), file(n)
 .SH KEYWORDS
 blocking, channel, end of line, end of file, nonblocking, read, translation
+'\" Local Variables:
+'\" mode: nroff
+'\" End:
@@ -162,7 +162,9 @@ returns \fB/home\fR (or something similar).
 \fBfile executable \fIname\fR
 .
 Returns \fB1\fR if file \fIname\fR is executable by the current user,
-\fB0\fR otherwise.
+\fB0\fR otherwise. On Windows, which does not have an executable attribute,
+the command treats all directories and any files with extensions
+\fBexe\fR, \fBcom\fR, \fBcmd\fR or \fBbat\fR as executable.
 .TP
 \fBfile exists \fIname\fR
 .
@@ -388,7 +390,7 @@ that use the third component do not attempt to perform tilde
 substitution.
 .RE
 .TP
-\fBfile stat  \fIname varName\fR
+\fBfile stat \fIname varName\fR
 .
 Invokes the \fBstat\fR kernel call on \fIname\fR, and uses the variable
 given by \fIvarName\fR to hold information returned from the kernel call.
@@ -482,10 +484,9 @@ not the effective ones.
 .TP
 \fBWindows\fR\0\0\0\0
 .
-The \fBfile owned\fR subcommand currently always reports that the current user
-is the owner of the file, without regard for what the operating system
-believes to be true, making an ownership test useless. This issue (#3613671)
-may be fixed in a future release of Tcl.
+The \fBfile owned\fR subcommand uses the user identifier (SID) of
+the process token, not the thread token which may be impersonating
+some other user.
 .SH EXAMPLES
 .PP
 This procedure shows how to search for C files in a given directory
@@ -418,7 +418,10 @@ set token [::http::geturl https://my.secure.site/]
 \fB::http::unregister\fR \fIproto\fR
 .
 This procedure unregisters a protocol handler that was previously
-registered via \fB::http::register\fR.
+registered via \fB::http::register\fR, returning a two-item list of
+the default port and handler command that was previously installed
+(via \fB::http::register\fR) if there was such a handler, and an error if
+there was no such handler.
 .SH ERRORS
 The \fB::http::geturl\fR procedure will raise errors in the following cases:
 invalid command line options,
@@ -123,9 +123,7 @@ with conversion character \fBu\fR.
 .TP
 \fBi\fR
 .
-The input substring must be an integer.  The base (i.e. decimal, binary,
-octal, or hexadecimal) is determined in the same fashion as described in
-\fBexpr\fR.  The integer value is stored in the variable,
+The input substring must be an integer.  The base (i.e. decimal, octal, or hexadecimal) is determined by the C convention (leading 0 for octal; prefix 0x for hexadecimal).  The integer value is stored in the variable,
 truncated as required by the size modifier value.
 .TP
 \fBc\fR
@@ -45,7 +45,8 @@ linked to the corresponding namespace variables (and therefore these
 variables are listed by \fBinfo vars\fR.)
 In this way the \fBvariable\fR command resembles the \fBglobal\fR command,
 although the \fBglobal\fR command
-only links to variables in the global namespace.
+resolves variable names with respect to the global namespace instead
+of the current namespace of the procedure.
 If any \fIvalue\fRs are given,
 they are used to modify the values of the associated namespace variables.
 If a namespace variable does not exist,
@@ -98,3 +99,7 @@ namespace eval foo {
 global(n), namespace(n), upvar(n)
 .SH KEYWORDS
 global, namespace, procedure, variable
+.\" Local variables:
+.\" mode: nroff
+.\" fill-column: 78
+.\" End:
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ next(
 	    if (ATEOS()) {
 		FAILW(REG_EESCAPE);
 	    }
-	    (DISCARD)lexescape(v);
+	    (void)lexescape(v);
 	    switch (v->nexttype) {	/* not all escapes okay here */
 	    case PLAIN:
 		return 1;
@@ -716,7 +716,7 @@ next(
 	}
 	RETV(PLAIN, *v->now++);
    }
-    (DISCARD)lexescape(v);
+    (void)lexescape(v);
    if (ISERR()) {
 	FAILW(REG_EESCAPE);
    }
@@ -1143,7 +1143,7 @@ skip(
 /*
 - newline - return the chr for a newline
 * This helps confine use of CHR to this source file.
- ^ static chr newline(NOPARMS);
+ ^ static chr newline(void);
 */
 static chr
 newline(void)
@@ -1227,7 +1227,7 @@ cmp(
    const chr *x, const chr *y,	/* strings to compare */
    size_t len)			/* exact length of comparison */
 {
-    return memcmp(VS(x), VS(y), len*sizeof(chr));
+    return memcmp((void*)(x), (void*)(y), len*sizeof(chr));
 }

 /*
@@ -843,7 +843,7 @@ moveins(

 /*
 - copyins - copy in arcs of a state to another state
- ^ static VOID copyins(struct nfa *, struct state *, struct state *, int);
+ ^ static void copyins(struct nfa *, struct state *, struct state *, int);
 */
 static void
 copyins(
@@ -1100,7 +1100,7 @@ moveouts(

 /*
 - copyouts - copy out arcs of a state to another state
- ^ static VOID copyouts(struct nfa *, struct state *, struct state *, int);
+ ^ static void copyouts(struct nfa *, struct state *, struct state *, int);
 */
 static void
 copyouts(
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ static int lexescape(struct vars *);
 static int lexdigits(struct vars *, int, int, int);
 static int brenext(struct vars *, pchr);
 static void skip(struct vars *);
-static chr newline(NOPARMS);
+static chr newline(void);
 static chr chrnamed(struct vars *, const chr *, const chr *, pchr);
 /* === regc_color.c === */
 static void initcm(struct vars *, struct colormap *);
@@ -341,13 +341,13 @@ compile(
    re->re_info = 0;		/* bits get set during parse */
    re->re_csize = sizeof(chr);
    re->re_guts = NULL;
-    re->re_fns = VS(&functions);
+    re->re_fns = (void*)(&functions);

    /*
     * More complex setup, malloced things.
     */

-    re->re_guts = VS(MALLOC(sizeof(struct guts)));
+    re->re_guts = (void*)(MALLOC(sizeof(struct guts)));
    if (re->re_guts == NULL) {
 	return freev(v, REG_ESPACE);
    }
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ compile(
     * Can sacrifice main NFA now, so use it as work area.
     */

-    (DISCARD) optimize(v->nfa, debug);
+    (void) optimize(v->nfa, debug);
    CNOERR();
    makesearch(v, v->nfa);
    CNOERR();
@@ -1920,10 +1920,10 @@ nfatree(
    assert(t != NULL && t->begin != NULL);

    if (t->left != NULL) {
-	(DISCARD) nfatree(v, t->left, f);
+	(void) nfatree(v, t->left, f);
    }
    if (t->right != NULL) {
-	(DISCARD) nfatree(v, t->right, f);
+	(void) nfatree(v, t->right, f);
    }

    return nfanode(v, t, f);
@@ -36,10 +36,9 @@
 * Overrides for regguts.h definitions, if any.
 */

-#define	FUNCPTR(name, args)	(*name)args
-#define	MALLOC(n)		VS(attemptckalloc(n))
-#define	FREE(p)			ckfree(VS(p))
-#define	REALLOC(p,n)		VS(attemptckrealloc(VS(p),n))
+#define	MALLOC(n)		(void*)(attemptckalloc(n))
+#define	FREE(p)			ckfree((void*)(p))
+#define	REALLOC(p,n)		(void*)(attemptckrealloc((void*)(p),n))

 /*
 * Do not insert extras between the "begin" and "end" lines - this chunk is
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ struct sset {			/* state set */
    unsigned hash;		/* hash of bitvector */
 #define	HASH(bv, nw)	(((nw) == 1) ? *(bv) : hash(bv, nw))
 #define	HIT(h,bv,ss,nw)	((ss)->hash == (h) && ((nw) == 1 || \
-	memcmp(VS(bv), VS((ss)->states), (nw)*sizeof(unsigned)) == 0))
+	memcmp((void*)(bv), (void*)((ss)->states), (nw)*sizeof(unsigned)) == 0))
    int flags;
 #define	STARTER		01	/* the initial state set */
 #define	POSTSTATE	02	/* includes the goal state */
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ exec(
    if (st == REG_OKAY && v->pmatch != pmatch && nmatch > 0) {
 	zapallsubs(pmatch, nmatch);
 	n = (nmatch < v->nmatch) ? nmatch : v->nmatch;
-	memcpy(VS(pmatch), VS(v->pmatch), n*sizeof(regmatch_t));
+	memcpy((void*)(pmatch), (void*)(v->pmatch), n*sizeof(regmatch_t));
    }

    /*
@@ -49,41 +49,15 @@
 #include <assert.h>
 #endif

-/* voids */
-#ifndef VOID
-#define	VOID	void		/* for function return values */
-#endif
-#ifndef DISCARD
-#define	DISCARD	void		/* for throwing values away */
-#endif
-#ifndef PVOID
-#define	PVOID	void *		/* generic pointer */
-#endif
-#ifndef VS
-#define	VS(x)	((void*)(x))	/* cast something to generic ptr */
-#endif
-#ifndef NOPARMS
-#define	NOPARMS	void		/* for empty parm lists */
-#endif
-
-/* function-pointer declarator */
-#ifndef FUNCPTR
-#if __STDC__ >= 1
-#define	FUNCPTR(name, args)	(*name)args
-#else
-#define	FUNCPTR(name, args)	(*name)()
-#endif
-#endif
-
 /* memory allocation */
 #ifndef MALLOC
 #define	MALLOC(n)	malloc(n)
 #endif
 #ifndef REALLOC
-#define	REALLOC(p, n)	realloc(VS(p), n)
+#define	REALLOC(p, n)	realloc(p, n)
 #endif
 #ifndef FREE
-#define	FREE(p)		free(VS(p))
+#define	FREE(p)		free(p)
 #endif

 /* want size of a char in bits, and max value in bounded quantifiers */
@@ -408,7 +382,7 @@ struct subre {
 */

 struct fns {
-    void FUNCPTR(free, (regex_t *));
+    void (*free) (regex_t *);
 };

 /*
@@ -425,7 +399,7 @@ struct guts {
    struct cnfa search;		/* for fast preliminary search */
    int ntree;			/* number of subre's, plus one */
    struct colormap cmap;
-    int FUNCPTR(compare, (const chr *, const chr *, size_t));
+    int (*compare) (const chr *, const chr *, size_t);
    struct subre *lacons;	/* lookahead-constraint vector */
    int nlacons;		/* size of lacons */
 };
@@ -2326,6 +2326,51 @@ declare 630 {

 # ----- BASELINE -- FOR -- 8.6.0 ----- #

+# TIP #XXX
+declare 631 {
+    int Tcl_ArraySet(Tcl_Interp *interp, Tcl_Obj *part1Ptr, Tcl_Obj *dictPtr,
+	int flags)
+}
+declare 632 {
+    int Tcl_ArrayUnset(Tcl_Interp *interp, Tcl_Obj *part1Ptr, Tcl_Obj *part2Ptr,
+	int flags)
+}
+declare 633 {
+    int Tcl_ArrayGet(Tcl_Interp *interp, Tcl_Obj *part1Ptr, Tcl_Obj *part2Ptr,
+	Tcl_Obj *dictPtr, int flags)
+}
+declare 634 {
+    int Tcl_ArrayNames(Tcl_Interp *interp, Tcl_Obj *part1Ptr, Tcl_Obj *part2Ptr,
+	Tcl_Obj *listPtr, int flags)
+}
+declare 635 {
+    int Tcl_ArraySize(Tcl_Interp *interp, Tcl_Obj *part1Ptr, Tcl_Obj *part2Ptr,
+	int *intPtr, int flags)
+}
+declare 636 {
+    int Tcl_ArrayExists(Tcl_Interp *interp, Tcl_Obj *part1Ptr,
+	Tcl_Obj *part2Ptr, int *intPtr, int flags)
+}
+declare 637 {
+    Tcl_ArraySearch Tcl_ArraySearchStart(Tcl_Interp *interp,
+	Tcl_Obj *part1Ptr, Tcl_Obj *part2Ptr, int flags)
+}
+declare 638 {
+    int Tcl_ArraySearchPeek(Tcl_Interp *interp, Tcl_ArraySearch search,
+	Tcl_Obj **keyPtrPtr, Tcl_Obj **valuePtrPtr)
+}
+declare 639 {
+    int Tcl_ArraySearchNext(Tcl_Interp *interp, Tcl_ArraySearch search,
+	Tcl_Obj **keyPtrPtr, Tcl_Obj **valuePtrPtr)
+}
+declare 640 {
+    int Tcl_ArraySearchDone(Tcl_Interp *interp, Tcl_ArraySearch search)
+}
+declare 641 {
+   int Tcl_ArrayStatistics(Tcl_Interp *interp, Tcl_Obj *part1Ptr,
+         Tcl_Obj *stringPtr, int flags)
+}
+
 ##############################################################################

 # Define the platform specific public Tcl interface. These functions are only
@@ -532,6 +532,7 @@ typedef struct Tcl_Interp
 #endif /* TCL_NO_DEPRECATED */
 Tcl_Interp;

+typedef struct Tcl_ArraySearch_ *Tcl_ArraySearch;
 typedef struct Tcl_AsyncHandler_ *Tcl_AsyncHandler;
 typedef struct Tcl_Channel_ *Tcl_Channel;
 typedef struct Tcl_ChannelTypeVersion_ *Tcl_ChannelTypeVersion;
@@ -831,19 +832,20 @@ typedef struct Tcl_Obj {
    union {			/* The internal representation: */
 	long longValue;		/*   - an long integer value. */
 	double doubleValue;	/*   - a double-precision floating value. */
-	void *otherValuePtr;	/*   - another, type-specific value,
-	                       not used internally any more. */
+	void *otherValuePtr;	/*   - another, type-specific value, not used
+				 *     internally any more. */
 	Tcl_WideInt wideValue;	/*   - a long long value. */
 	struct {		/*   - internal rep as two pointers.
-				 *     the main use of which is a bignum's
+				 *     Many uses in Tcl, including a bignum's
 				 *     tightly packed fields, where the alloc,
 				 *     used and signum flags are packed into
-				 *     ptr2 with everything else hung off ptr1. */
+				 *     ptr2 with everything else hung off
+				 *     ptr1. */
 	    void *ptr1;
 	    void *ptr2;
 	} twoPtrValue;
 	struct {		/*   - internal rep as a pointer and a long,
-	                       not used internally any more. */
+				 *     not used internally any more. */
 	    void *ptr;
 	    unsigned long value;
 	} ptrAndLongRep;
@@ -1082,9 +1084,10 @@ typedef struct Tcl_DString {
 /*
 * Flag values passed to variable-related functions.
 * WARNING: these bit choices must not conflict with the bit choice for
- * TCL_CANCEL_UNWIND, above.
+ * TCL_CANCEL_UNWIND, above, or TCL_VAR_CREATE (0x4000) in tclVar.c.
 */

+#define TCL_MATCH_EXACT		 0
 #define TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY		 1
 #define TCL_NAMESPACE_ONLY	 2
 #define TCL_APPEND_VALUE	 4
@@ -1095,14 +1098,19 @@ typedef struct Tcl_DString {
 #define TCL_TRACE_DESTROYED	 0x80
 #define TCL_INTERP_DESTROYED	 0x100
 #define TCL_LEAVE_ERR_MSG	 0x200
+/* Value 0x400 is reserved for TCL_PARSE_PART1, conditionally defined below. */
 #define TCL_TRACE_ARRAY		 0x800
 #ifndef TCL_REMOVE_OBSOLETE_TRACES
 /* Required to support old variable/vdelete/vinfo traces. */
 #define TCL_TRACE_OLD_STYLE	 0x1000
 #endif
+#define TCL_MATCH_REGEXP	 0x2000
+/* Value 0x4000 is reserved for TCL_VAR_CREATE, defined in tclVar.c. */
 /* Indicate the semantics of the result of a trace. */
 #define TCL_TRACE_RESULT_DYNAMIC 0x8000
 #define TCL_TRACE_RESULT_OBJECT  0x10000
+#define TCL_MATCH_GLOB		 0x20000
+/* Value 0x100000 is reserved for TCL_CANCEL_UNWIND, defined above. */

 /*
 * Flag values for ensemble commands.
@@ -1157,11 +1165,15 @@ typedef struct Tcl_DString {
 * Forward declarations of Tcl_HashTable and related types.
 */

+#ifndef TCL_HASH_TYPE
+#  define TCL_HASH_TYPE unsigned
+#endif
+
 typedef struct Tcl_HashKeyType Tcl_HashKeyType;
 typedef struct Tcl_HashTable Tcl_HashTable;
 typedef struct Tcl_HashEntry Tcl_HashEntry;

-typedef unsigned (Tcl_HashKeyProc) (Tcl_HashTable *tablePtr, void *keyPtr);
+typedef TCL_HASH_TYPE (Tcl_HashKeyProc) (Tcl_HashTable *tablePtr, void *keyPtr);
 typedef int (Tcl_CompareHashKeysProc) (void *keyPtr, Tcl_HashEntry *hPtr);
 typedef Tcl_HashEntry * (Tcl_AllocHashEntryProc) (Tcl_HashTable *tablePtr,
 	void *keyPtr);
@@ -1315,9 +1327,9 @@ typedef struct Tcl_HashSearch {
 * TCL_CUSTOM_PTR_KEYS:		The keys are pointers to arbitrary types, the
 *				pointer is stored in the entry.
 *
- * While maintaining binary compatability the above have to be distinct values
+ * While maintaining binary compatibility the above have to be distinct values
 * as they are used to differentiate between old versions of the hash table
- * which don't have a typePtr and new ones which do. Once binary compatability
+ * which don't have a typePtr and new ones which do. Once binary compatibility
 * is discarded in favour of making more wide spread changes TCL_STRING_KEYS
 * can be the same as TCL_CUSTOM_TYPE_KEYS, and TCL_ONE_WORD_KEYS can be the
 * same as TCL_CUSTOM_PTR_KEYS because they simply determine how the key is
@@ -2404,10 +2416,6 @@ const char *		TclTomMathInitializeStubs(Tcl_Interp *interp,
 	    (exact)|(TCL_MAJOR_VERSION<<8)|(TCL_MINOR_VERSION<<16))
 #endif

-/*
- * TODO - tommath stubs export goes here!
- */
-
 /*
 * Public functions that are not accessible via the stubs table.
 * Tcl_GetMemoryInfo is needed for AOLserver. [Bug 1868171]
@@ -2615,7 +2623,9 @@ EXTERN void		Tcl_GetMemoryInfo(Tcl_DString *dsPtr);
 #   define Tcl_Ckrealloc	Tcl_Realloc
 #   define Tcl_Return		Tcl_SetResult
 #   define Tcl_TildeSubst	Tcl_TranslateFileName
+#if !defined(__APPLE__) /* On OSX, there is a conflict with "mach/mach.h" */
 #   define panic		Tcl_Panic
+#endif
 #   define panicVA		Tcl_PanicVA
 #endif /* !TCL_NO_DEPRECATED */

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 */

 #if defined(_MSC_VER) || defined(__MSVCRT__) || defined(__BORLANDC__)
-typedef unsigned long caddr_t;
+typedef size_t caddr_t;
 #endif

 /*
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ union overhead {
 	unsigned char magic1;		/* other magic number */
 #ifndef NDEBUG
 	unsigned short rmagic;		/* range magic number */
-	unsigned long size;		/* actual block size */
+	size_t size;		/* actual block size */
 	unsigned short unused2;		/* padding to 8-byte align */
 #endif
    } ovu;
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ static int allocInit = 0;
 * a given block size.
 */

-static	unsigned int numMallocs[NBUCKETS+1];
+static	size_t numMallocs[NBUCKETS+1];
 #endif

 #if !defined(NDEBUG)
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ static	unsigned int numMallocs[NBUCKETS+1];
 * Prototypes for functions used only in this file.
 */

-static void		MoreCore(int bucket);
+static void		MoreCore(size_t bucket);

 /*
 *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ TclpAlloc(
    unsigned int numBytes)	/* Number of bytes to allocate. */
 {
    register union overhead *overPtr;
-    register long bucket;
+    register size_t bucket;
    register unsigned amount;
    struct block *bigBlockPtr = NULL;

@@ -385,12 +385,12 @@ TclpAlloc(

 static void
 MoreCore(
-    int bucket)			/* What bucket to allocat to. */
+    size_t bucket)	/* What bucket to allocate to. */
 {
    register union overhead *overPtr;
-    register long size;		/* size of desired block */
-    long amount;		/* amount to allocate */
-    int numBlocks;		/* how many blocks we get */
+    register size_t size;	/* size of desired block */
+    size_t amount;		/* amount to allocate */
+    size_t numBlocks;		/* how many blocks we get */
    struct block *blockPtr;

    /*
@@ -398,14 +398,14 @@ MoreCore(
     * VAX, I think) or for a negative arg.
     */

-    size = 1 << (bucket + 3);
+    size = ((size_t)1) << (bucket + 3);
    ASSERT(size > 0);

    amount = MAXMALLOC;
    numBlocks = amount / size;
    ASSERT(numBlocks*size == amount);

-    blockPtr = (struct block *) TclpSysAlloc((unsigned)
+    blockPtr = (struct block *) TclpSysAlloc(
 	    (sizeof(struct block) + amount), 1);
    /* no more room! */
    if (blockPtr == NULL) {
@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ void
 TclpFree(
    char *oldPtr)		/* Pointer to memory to free. */
 {
-    register long size;
+    register size_t size;
    register union overhead *overPtr;
    struct block *bigBlockPtr;

@@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ TclpRealloc(
    union overhead *overPtr;
    struct block *bigBlockPtr;
    int expensive;
-    unsigned long maxSize;
+    size_t maxSize;

    if (oldPtr == NULL) {
 	return TclpAlloc(numBytes);
@@ -645,30 +645,30 @@ void
 mstats(
    char *s)			/* Where to write info. */
 {
-    register int i, j;
+    register unsigned int i, j;
    register union overhead *overPtr;
-    int totalFree = 0, totalUsed = 0;
+    size_t totalFree = 0, totalUsed = 0;

    Tcl_MutexLock(allocMutexPtr);

    fprintf(stderr, "Memory allocation statistics %s\nTclpFree:\t", s);
    for (i = 0; i < NBUCKETS; i++) {
 	for (j=0, overPtr=nextf[i]; overPtr; overPtr=overPtr->next, j++) {
-	    fprintf(stderr, " %d", j);
+	    fprintf(stderr, " %u", j);
 	}
-	totalFree += j * (1 << (i + 3));
+	totalFree += ((size_t)j) * (1 << (i + 3));
    }

    fprintf(stderr, "\nused:\t");
    for (i = 0; i < NBUCKETS; i++) {
-	fprintf(stderr, " %d", numMallocs[i]);
+	fprintf(stderr, " %" TCL_LL_MODIFIER "d", (Tcl_WideInt)numMallocs[i]);
 	totalUsed += numMallocs[i] * (1 << (i + 3));
    }

-    fprintf(stderr, "\n\tTotal small in use: %d, total free: %d\n",
-	    totalUsed, totalFree);
-    fprintf(stderr, "\n\tNumber of big (>%d) blocks in use: %d\n",
-	    MAXMALLOC, numMallocs[NBUCKETS]);
+    fprintf(stderr, "\n\tTotal small in use: %" TCL_LL_MODIFIER "d, total free: %" TCL_LL_MODIFIER "d\n",
+	(Tcl_WideInt)totalUsed, (Tcl_WideInt)totalFree);
+    fprintf(stderr, "\n\tNumber of big (>%d) blocks in use: %" TCL_LL_MODIFIER "d\n",
+	    MAXMALLOC, (Tcl_WideInt)numMallocs[NBUCKETS]);

    Tcl_MutexUnlock(allocMutexPtr);
 }
@@ -1299,8 +1299,8 @@ AssembleOneLine(
 	if (GetNextOperand(assemEnvPtr, &tokenPtr, &operand1Obj) != TCL_OK) {
 	    goto cleanup;
 	}
-	operand1 = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(operand1Obj, &operand1Len);
-	litIndex = TclRegisterNewLiteral(envPtr, operand1, operand1Len);
+	operand1 = TclGetStringFromObj(operand1Obj, &operand1Len);
+	litIndex = TclRegisterLiteral(envPtr, operand1, operand1Len, 0);
 	BBEmitInst1or4(assemEnvPtr, tblIdx, litIndex, 0);
 	break;

@@ -1448,8 +1448,8 @@ AssembleOneLine(
 		&operand1Obj) != TCL_OK) {
 	    goto cleanup;
 	} else {
-	    operand1 = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(operand1Obj, &operand1Len);
-	    litIndex = TclRegisterNewLiteral(envPtr, operand1, operand1Len);
+	    operand1 = TclGetStringFromObj(operand1Obj, &operand1Len);
+	    litIndex = TclRegisterLiteral(envPtr, operand1, operand1Len, 0);

 	    /*
 	     * Assumes that PUSH is the first slot!
@@ -1543,7 +1543,7 @@ AssembleOneLine(
 	 * Add the (label_name, address) pair to the hash table.
 	 */

-	if (DefineLabel(assemEnvPtr, Tcl_GetString(operand1Obj)) != TCL_OK) {
+	if (DefineLabel(assemEnvPtr, TclGetString(operand1Obj)) != TCL_OK) {
 	    goto cleanup;
 	}
 	break;
@@ -1722,7 +1722,7 @@ AssembleOneLine(

    default:
 	Tcl_Panic("Instruction \"%s\" could not be found, can't happen\n",
-		Tcl_GetString(instNameObj));
+		TclGetString(instNameObj));
    }

    status = TCL_OK;
@@ -1985,15 +1985,15 @@ CreateMirrorJumpTable(

    DEBUG_PRINT("jump table {\n");
    for (i = 0; i < objc; i+=2) {
-	DEBUG_PRINT("  %s -> %s\n", Tcl_GetString(objv[i]),
-		Tcl_GetString(objv[i+1]));
-	hashEntry = Tcl_CreateHashEntry(jtHashPtr, Tcl_GetString(objv[i]),
+	DEBUG_PRINT("  %s -> %s\n", TclGetString(objv[i]),
+		TclGetString(objv[i+1]));
+	hashEntry = Tcl_CreateHashEntry(jtHashPtr, TclGetString(objv[i]),
 		&isNew);
 	if (!isNew) {
 	    if (assemEnvPtr->flags & TCL_EVAL_DIRECT) {
 		Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
 			"duplicate entry in jump table for \"%s\"",
-			Tcl_GetString(objv[i])));
+			TclGetString(objv[i])));
 		Tcl_SetErrorCode(interp, "TCL", "ASSEM", "DUPJUMPTABLEENTRY");
 		DeleteMirrorJumpTable(jtPtr);
 		return TCL_ERROR;
@@ -2288,7 +2288,7 @@ FindLocalVar(
    if (GetNextOperand(assemEnvPtr, tokenPtrPtr, &varNameObj) != TCL_OK) {
 	return -1;
    }
-    varNameStr = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(varNameObj, &varNameLen);
+    varNameStr = TclGetStringFromObj(varNameObj, &varNameLen);
    if (CheckNamespaceQualifiers(interp, varNameStr, varNameLen)) {
 	Tcl_DecrRefCount(varNameObj);
 	return -1;
@@ -2801,7 +2801,7 @@ CalculateJumpRelocations(

 	    if (bbPtr->jumpTarget != NULL) {
 		entry = Tcl_FindHashEntry(&assemEnvPtr->labelHash,
-			Tcl_GetString(bbPtr->jumpTarget));
+			TclGetString(bbPtr->jumpTarget));
 		if (entry == NULL) {
 		    ReportUndefinedLabel(assemEnvPtr, bbPtr,
 			    bbPtr->jumpTarget);
@@ -2882,10 +2882,10 @@ CheckJumpTableLabels(
 	    symEntryPtr = Tcl_NextHashEntry(&search)) {
 	symbolObj = Tcl_GetHashValue(symEntryPtr);
 	valEntryPtr = Tcl_FindHashEntry(&assemEnvPtr->labelHash,
-		Tcl_GetString(symbolObj));
+		TclGetString(symbolObj));
 	DEBUG_PRINT("  %s -> %s (%d)\n",
 		(char*) Tcl_GetHashKey(symHash, symEntryPtr),
-		Tcl_GetString(symbolObj), (valEntryPtr != NULL));
+		TclGetString(symbolObj), (valEntryPtr != NULL));
 	if (valEntryPtr == NULL) {
 	    ReportUndefinedLabel(assemEnvPtr, bbPtr, symbolObj);
 	    return TCL_ERROR;
@@ -2923,9 +2923,9 @@ ReportUndefinedLabel(

    if (assemEnvPtr->flags & TCL_EVAL_DIRECT) {
 	Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
-		"undefined label \"%s\"", Tcl_GetString(jumpTarget)));
+		"undefined label \"%s\"", TclGetString(jumpTarget)));
 	Tcl_SetErrorCode(interp, "TCL", "ASSEM", "NOLABEL",
-		Tcl_GetString(jumpTarget), NULL);
+		TclGetString(jumpTarget), NULL);
 	Tcl_SetErrorLine(interp, bbPtr->jumpLine);
    }
 }
@@ -3008,7 +3008,7 @@ FillInJumpOffsets(
 	    bbPtr = bbPtr->successor1) {
 	if (bbPtr->jumpTarget != NULL) {
 	    entry = Tcl_FindHashEntry(&assemEnvPtr->labelHash,
-		    Tcl_GetString(bbPtr->jumpTarget));
+		    TclGetString(bbPtr->jumpTarget));
 	    jumpTarget = Tcl_GetHashValue(entry);
 	    fromOffset = bbPtr->jumpOffset;
 	    targetOffset = jumpTarget->startOffset;
@@ -3080,17 +3080,17 @@ ResolveJumpTableTargets(
 	    symEntryPtr != NULL;
 	    symEntryPtr = Tcl_NextHashEntry(&search)) {
 	symbolObj = Tcl_GetHashValue(symEntryPtr);
-	DEBUG_PRINT("     symbol %s\n", Tcl_GetString(symbolObj));
+	DEBUG_PRINT("     symbol %s\n", TclGetString(symbolObj));

 	valEntryPtr = Tcl_FindHashEntry(&assemEnvPtr->labelHash,
-		Tcl_GetString(symbolObj));
+		TclGetString(symbolObj));
 	jumpTargetBBPtr = Tcl_GetHashValue(valEntryPtr);

 	realJumpEntryPtr = Tcl_CreateHashEntry(realJumpHashPtr,
 		Tcl_GetHashKey(symHash, symEntryPtr), &junk);
 	DEBUG_PRINT("  %s -> %s -> bb %p (pc %d)    hash entry %p\n",
 		(char*) Tcl_GetHashKey(symHash, symEntryPtr),
-		Tcl_GetString(symbolObj), jumpTargetBBPtr,
+		TclGetString(symbolObj), jumpTargetBBPtr,
 		jumpTargetBBPtr->startOffset, realJumpEntryPtr);

 	Tcl_SetHashValue(realJumpEntryPtr,
@@ -3462,7 +3462,7 @@ StackCheckBasicBlock(

    if (result == TCL_OK && blockPtr->jumpTarget != NULL) {
 	entry = Tcl_FindHashEntry(&assemEnvPtr->labelHash,
-		Tcl_GetString(blockPtr->jumpTarget));
+		TclGetString(blockPtr->jumpTarget));
 	jumpTarget = Tcl_GetHashValue(entry);
 	result = StackCheckBasicBlock(assemEnvPtr, jumpTarget, blockPtr,
 		stackDepth);
@@ -3479,7 +3479,7 @@ StackCheckBasicBlock(
 		jtEntry = Tcl_NextHashEntry(&jtSearch)) {
 	    targetLabel = Tcl_GetHashValue(jtEntry);
 	    entry = Tcl_FindHashEntry(&assemEnvPtr->labelHash,
-		    Tcl_GetString(targetLabel));
+		    TclGetString(targetLabel));
 	    jumpTarget = Tcl_GetHashValue(entry);
 	    result = StackCheckBasicBlock(assemEnvPtr, jumpTarget,
 		    blockPtr, stackDepth);
@@ -3541,7 +3541,7 @@ StackCheckExit(
 	     * Emit a 'push' of the empty literal.
 	     */

-	    litIndex = TclRegisterNewLiteral(envPtr, "", 0);
+	    litIndex = TclRegisterLiteral(envPtr, "", 0, 0);

 	    /*
 	     * Assumes that 'push' is at slot 0 in TalInstructionTable.
@@ -3784,7 +3784,7 @@ ProcessCatchesInBasicBlock(
    }
    if (result == TCL_OK && bbPtr->jumpTarget != NULL) {
 	entry = Tcl_FindHashEntry(&assemEnvPtr->labelHash,
-		Tcl_GetString(bbPtr->jumpTarget));
+		TclGetString(bbPtr->jumpTarget));
 	jumpTarget = Tcl_GetHashValue(entry);
 	result = ProcessCatchesInBasicBlock(assemEnvPtr, jumpTarget,
 		jumpEnclosing, jumpState, catchDepth);
@@ -3800,7 +3800,7 @@ ProcessCatchesInBasicBlock(
 		jtEntry = Tcl_NextHashEntry(&jtSearch)) {
 	    targetLabel = Tcl_GetHashValue(jtEntry);
 	    entry = Tcl_FindHashEntry(&assemEnvPtr->labelHash,
-		    Tcl_GetString(targetLabel));
+		    TclGetString(targetLabel));
 	    jumpTarget = Tcl_GetHashValue(entry);
 	    result = ProcessCatchesInBasicBlock(assemEnvPtr, jumpTarget,
 		    jumpEnclosing, jumpState, catchDepth);
@@ -4104,7 +4104,7 @@ StackFreshCatches(
 	    range->codeOffset = bbPtr->startOffset;

 	    entryPtr = Tcl_FindHashEntry(&assemEnvPtr->labelHash,
-		    Tcl_GetString(catch->jumpTarget));
+		    TclGetString(catch->jumpTarget));
 	    if (entryPtr == NULL) {
 		Tcl_Panic("undefined label in tclAssembly.c:"
 			"BuildExceptionRanges, can't happen");
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ static void		MathFuncWrongNumArgs(Tcl_Interp *interp, int expected,
 			    int actual, Tcl_Obj *const *objv);
 static Tcl_NRPostProc	NRCoroutineCallerCallback;
 static Tcl_NRPostProc	NRCoroutineExitCallback;
-static int NRCommand(ClientData data[], Tcl_Interp *interp, int result);
+static Tcl_NRPostProc	NRCommand;

 static Tcl_ObjCmdProc	OldMathFuncProc;
 static void		OldMathFuncDeleteProc(ClientData clientData);
@@ -146,7 +146,6 @@ static int		TEOV_RunEnterTraces(Tcl_Interp *interp,
 			    Command **cmdPtrPtr, Tcl_Obj *commandPtr, int objc,
 			    Tcl_Obj *const objv[]);
 static Tcl_NRPostProc	RewindCoroutineCallback;
-static Tcl_NRPostProc	TailcallCleanup;
 static Tcl_NRPostProc	TEOEx_ByteCodeCallback;
 static Tcl_NRPostProc	TEOEx_ListCallback;
 static Tcl_NRPostProc	TEOV_Error;
@@ -589,7 +588,7 @@ Tcl_CreateInterp(void)

    iPtr->cmdCount = 0;
    TclInitLiteralTable(&iPtr->literalTable);
-    iPtr->compileEpoch = 0;
+    iPtr->compileEpoch = 1;
    iPtr->compiledProcPtr = NULL;
    iPtr->resolverPtr = NULL;
    iPtr->evalFlags = 0;
@@ -941,8 +940,8 @@ Tcl_CreateInterp(void)
     * Set up other variables such as tcl_version and tcl_library
     */

-    Tcl_SetVar(interp, "tcl_patchLevel", TCL_PATCH_LEVEL, TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY);
-    Tcl_SetVar(interp, "tcl_version", TCL_VERSION, TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY);
+    Tcl_SetVar2(interp, "tcl_patchLevel", NULL, TCL_PATCH_LEVEL, TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY);
+    Tcl_SetVar2(interp, "tcl_version", NULL, TCL_VERSION, TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY);
    Tcl_TraceVar2(interp, "tcl_precision", NULL,
 	    TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY|TCL_TRACE_READS|TCL_TRACE_WRITES|TCL_TRACE_UNSETS,
 	    TclPrecTraceProc, NULL);
@@ -967,11 +966,11 @@ Tcl_CreateInterp(void)
    Tcl_PkgProvideEx(interp, "Tcl", TCL_PATCH_LEVEL, &tclStubs);

    if (TclTommath_Init(interp) != TCL_OK) {
-	Tcl_Panic("%s", Tcl_GetString(Tcl_GetObjResult(interp)));
+	Tcl_Panic("%s", TclGetString(Tcl_GetObjResult(interp)));
    }

    if (TclOOInit(interp) != TCL_OK) {
-	Tcl_Panic("%s", Tcl_GetString(Tcl_GetObjResult(interp)));
+	Tcl_Panic("%s", TclGetString(Tcl_GetObjResult(interp)));
    }

    /*
@@ -981,7 +980,7 @@ Tcl_CreateInterp(void)

 #ifdef HAVE_ZLIB
    if (TclZlibInit(interp) != TCL_OK) {
-	Tcl_Panic("%s", Tcl_GetString(Tcl_GetObjResult(interp)));
+	Tcl_Panic("%s", TclGetString(Tcl_GetObjResult(interp)));
    }
 #endif

@@ -1636,7 +1635,7 @@ DeleteInterpProc(
    }

    Tcl_DeleteHashTable(iPtr->lineLAPtr);
-    ckfree((char *) iPtr->lineLAPtr);
+    ckfree(iPtr->lineLAPtr);
    iPtr->lineLAPtr = NULL;

    if (iPtr->lineLABCPtr->numEntries && !TclInExit()) {
@@ -2404,7 +2403,7 @@ TclInvokeStringCommand(
 	    TclStackAlloc(interp, (unsigned)(objc + 1) * sizeof(char *));

    for (i = 0; i < objc; i++) {
-	argv[i] = Tcl_GetString(objv[i]);
+	argv[i] = TclGetString(objv[i]);
    }
    argv[objc] = 0;

@@ -2658,7 +2657,7 @@ TclRenameCommand(
    }
    Tcl_DStringAppend(&newFullName, newTail, -1);
    cmdPtr->refCount++;
-    CallCommandTraces(iPtr, cmdPtr, Tcl_GetString(oldFullName),
+    CallCommandTraces(iPtr, cmdPtr, TclGetString(oldFullName),
 	    Tcl_DStringValue(&newFullName), TCL_TRACE_RENAME);
    Tcl_DStringFree(&newFullName);

@@ -3024,13 +3023,6 @@ Tcl_DeleteCommandFromToken(
    ImportRef *refPtr, *nextRefPtr;
    Tcl_Command importCmd;

-    /*
-     * Bump the command epoch counter. This will invalidate all cached
-     * references that point to this command.
-     */
-
-    cmdPtr->cmdEpoch++;
-
    /*
     * The code here is tricky. We can't delete the hash table entry before
     * invoking the deletion callback because there are cases where the
@@ -3053,6 +3045,14 @@ Tcl_DeleteCommandFromToken(
 	    Tcl_DeleteHashEntry(cmdPtr->hPtr);
 	    cmdPtr->hPtr = NULL;
 	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Bump the command epoch counter. This will invalidate all cached
+	 * references that point to this command.
+	 */
+
+	cmdPtr->cmdEpoch++;
+
 	return 0;
    }

@@ -3155,6 +3155,13 @@ Tcl_DeleteCommandFromToken(
    if (cmdPtr->hPtr != NULL) {
 	Tcl_DeleteHashEntry(cmdPtr->hPtr);
 	cmdPtr->hPtr = NULL;
+
+	/*
+	 * Bump the command epoch counter. This will invalidate all cached
+	 * references that point to this command.
+	 */
+
+	cmdPtr->cmdEpoch++;
    }

    /*
@@ -3401,8 +3408,7 @@ TclCleanupCommand(
    register Command *cmdPtr)	/* Points to the Command structure to
 				 * be freed. */
 {
-    cmdPtr->refCount--;
-    if (cmdPtr->refCount <= 0) {
+    if (cmdPtr->refCount-- <= 1) {
 	ckfree(cmdPtr);
    }
 }
@@ -3524,7 +3530,7 @@ OldMathFuncProc(
 	    Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_NewStringObj(
 		    "argument to math function didn't have numeric value",
 		    -1));
-	    TclCheckBadOctal(interp, Tcl_GetString(valuePtr));
+	    TclCheckBadOctal(interp, TclGetString(valuePtr));
 	    ckfree(args);
 	    return TCL_ERROR;
 	}
@@ -3944,7 +3950,7 @@ Tcl_Canceled(
         */

        if (iPtr->asyncCancelMsg != NULL) {
-            message = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(iPtr->asyncCancelMsg, &length);
+            message = TclGetStringFromObj(iPtr->asyncCancelMsg, &length);
        } else {
            length = 0;
        }
@@ -4043,7 +4049,7 @@ Tcl_CancelEval(
     */

    if (resultObjPtr != NULL) {
-	result = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(resultObjPtr, &cancelInfo->length);
+	result = TclGetStringFromObj(resultObjPtr, &cancelInfo->length);
 	cancelInfo->result = ckrealloc(cancelInfo->result,cancelInfo->length);
 	memcpy(cancelInfo->result, result, (size_t) cancelInfo->length);
 	TclDecrRefCount(resultObjPtr);	/* Discard their result object. */
@@ -4555,7 +4561,7 @@ TEOV_Error(
 	 */

 	listPtr = Tcl_NewListObj(objc, objv);
-	cmdString = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(listPtr, &cmdLen);
+	cmdString = TclGetStringFromObj(listPtr, &cmdLen);
 	Tcl_LogCommandInfo(interp, cmdString, cmdString, cmdLen);
 	Tcl_DecrRefCount(listPtr);
    }
@@ -4701,7 +4707,7 @@ TEOV_RunEnterTraces(
    Command *cmdPtr = *cmdPtrPtr;
    int newEpoch, cmdEpoch = cmdPtr->cmdEpoch;
    int length, traceCode = TCL_OK;
-    const char *command = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(commandPtr, &length);
+    const char *command = TclGetStringFromObj(commandPtr, &length);

    /*
     * Call trace functions.
@@ -4753,7 +4759,7 @@ TEOV_RunLeaveTraces(
    Command *cmdPtr = data[2];
    Tcl_Obj **objv = data[3];
    int length;
-    const char *command = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(commandPtr, &length);
+    const char *command = TclGetStringFromObj(commandPtr, &length);

    if (!(cmdPtr->flags & CMD_IS_DELETED)) {
 	if (cmdPtr->flags & CMD_HAS_EXEC_TRACES){
@@ -5579,8 +5585,7 @@ TclArgumentRelease(
 	}
 	cfwPtr = Tcl_GetHashValue(hPtr);

-	cfwPtr->refCount--;
-	if (cfwPtr->refCount > 0) {
+	if (cfwPtr->refCount-- > 1) {
 	    continue;
 	}

@@ -6118,7 +6123,7 @@ TclNREvalObjEx(

 	Tcl_IncrRefCount(objPtr);

-	script = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objPtr, &numSrcBytes);
+	script = TclGetStringFromObj(objPtr, &numSrcBytes);
 	result = Tcl_EvalEx(interp, script, numSrcBytes, flags);

 	TclDecrRefCount(objPtr);
@@ -6149,7 +6154,7 @@ TEOEx_ByteCodeCallback(

 	    ProcessUnexpectedResult(interp, result);
 	    result = TCL_ERROR;
-	    script = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objPtr, &numSrcBytes);
+	    script = TclGetStringFromObj(objPtr, &numSrcBytes);
 	    Tcl_LogCommandInfo(interp, script, script, numSrcBytes);
 	}

@@ -6848,7 +6853,7 @@ Tcl_VarEvalVA(
 	Tcl_DStringAppend(&buf, string, -1);
    }

-    result = Tcl_Eval(interp, Tcl_DStringValue(&buf));
+    result = Tcl_EvalEx(interp, Tcl_DStringValue(&buf), -1, 0);
    Tcl_DStringFree(&buf);
    return result;
 }
@@ -6918,7 +6923,7 @@ Tcl_GlobalEval(

    savedVarFramePtr = iPtr->varFramePtr;
    iPtr->varFramePtr = iPtr->rootFramePtr;
-    result = Tcl_Eval(interp, command);
+    result = Tcl_EvalEx(interp, command, -1, 0);
    iPtr->varFramePtr = savedVarFramePtr;
    return result;
 }
@@ -7885,7 +7890,7 @@ MathFuncWrongNumArgs(
    int found,			/* Actual parameter count. */
    Tcl_Obj *const *objv)	/* Actual parameter vector. */
 {
-    const char *name = Tcl_GetString(objv[0]);
+    const char *name = TclGetString(objv[0]);
    const char *tail = name + strlen(name);

    while (tail > name+1) {
@@ -8372,7 +8377,7 @@ TclNRTailcallEval(
         * a now-gone namespace: cleanup and return.
         */

-        TailcallCleanup(data, interp, result);
+	Tcl_DecrRefCount(listPtr);
        return result;
    }

@@ -8381,18 +8386,26 @@ TclNRTailcallEval(
     */

    TclMarkTailcall(interp);
-    TclNRAddCallback(interp, TailcallCleanup, listPtr, NULL, NULL,NULL);
+    TclNRAddCallback(interp, TclNRReleaseValues, listPtr, NULL, NULL,NULL);
    iPtr->lookupNsPtr = (Namespace *) nsPtr;
    return TclNREvalObjv(interp, objc-1, objv+1, 0, NULL);
 }

-static int
-TailcallCleanup(
+int
+TclNRReleaseValues(
    ClientData data[],
    Tcl_Interp *interp,
    int result)
 {
-    Tcl_DecrRefCount((Tcl_Obj *) data[0]);
+    int i = 0;
+    while (i < 4) {
+	if (data[i]) {
+	    Tcl_DecrRefCount((Tcl_Obj *) data[i]);
+	} else {
+	    break;
+	}
+	i++;
+    }
    return result;
 }

@@ -8810,7 +8823,7 @@ TclNRInterpCoroutine(
    if (!COR_IS_SUSPENDED(corPtr)) {
 	Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
                "coroutine \"%s\" is already running",
-                Tcl_GetString(objv[0])));
+                TclGetString(objv[0])));
 	Tcl_SetErrorCode(interp, "TCL", "COROUTINE", "BUSY", NULL);
 	return TCL_ERROR;
    }
@@ -155,35 +155,108 @@ static const EnsembleImplMap decodeMap[] = {
 };

 /*
- * The following object type represents an array of bytes. An array of bytes
- * is not equivalent to an internationalized string. Conceptually, a string is
- * an array of 16-bit quantities organized as a sequence of properly formed
- * UTF-8 characters, while a ByteArray is an array of 8-bit quantities.
- * Accessor functions are provided to convert a ByteArray to a String or a
- * String to a ByteArray. Two or more consecutive bytes in an array of bytes
- * may look like a single UTF-8 character if the array is casually treated as
- * a string. But obtaining the String from a ByteArray is guaranteed to
- * produced properly formed UTF-8 sequences so that there is a one-to-one map
- * between bytes and characters.
+ * The following object types represent an array of bytes. The intent is
+ * to allow arbitrary binary data to pass through Tcl as a Tcl value
+ * without loss or damage. Such values are useful for things like
+ * encoded strings or Tk images to name just two.
 *
- * Converting a ByteArray to a String proceeds by casting each byte in the
- * array to a 16-bit quantity, treating that number as a Unicode character,
- * and storing the UTF-8 version of that Unicode character in the String. For
- * ByteArrays consisting entirely of values 1..127, the corresponding String
- * representation is the same as the ByteArray representation.
+ * It's strange to have two Tcl_ObjTypes in place for this task when
+ * one would do, so a bit of detail and history how we got to this point
+ * and where we might go from here.
 *
- * Converting a String to a ByteArray proceeds by getting the Unicode
- * representation of each character in the String, casting it to a byte by
- * truncating the upper 8 bits, and then storing the byte in the ByteArray.
- * Converting from ByteArray to String and back to ByteArray is not lossy, but
- * converting an arbitrary String to a ByteArray may be.
+ * A bytearray is an ordered sequence of bytes. Each byte is an integer
+ * value in the range [0-255].  To be a Tcl value type, we need a way to
+ * encode each value in the value set as a Tcl string.  The simplest
+ * encoding is to represent each byte value as the same codepoint value.
+ * A bytearray of N bytes is encoded into a Tcl string of N characters
+ * where the codepoint of each character is the value of corresponding byte.
+ * This approach creates a one-to-one map between all bytearray values
+ * and a subset of Tcl string values.
+ * 
+ * When converting a Tcl string value to the bytearray internal rep, the
+ * question arises what to do with strings outside that subset?  That is,
+ * those Tcl strings containing at least one codepoint greater than 255?
+ * The obviously correct answer is to raise an error!  That string value
+ * does not represent any valid bytearray value. Full Stop.  The
+ * setFromAnyProc signature has a completion code return value for just
+ * this reason, to reject invalid inputs.
+ * 
+ * Unfortunately this was not the path taken by the authors of the
+ * original tclByteArrayType.  They chose to accept all Tcl string values
+ * as acceptable string encodings of the bytearray values that result
+ * from masking away the high bits of any codepoint value at all. This
+ * meant that every bytearray value had multiple accepted string
+ * representations.
+ *
+ * The implications of this choice are truly ugly.  When a Tcl value has
+ * a string representation, we are required to accept that as the true
+ * value.  Bytearray values that possess a string representation cannot
+ * be processed as bytearrays because we cannot know which true value
+ * that bytearray represents.  The consequence is that we drag around
+ * an internal rep that we cannot make any use of.  This painful price
+ * is extracted at any point after a string rep happens to be generated
+ * for the value.  This happens even when the troublesome codepoints
+ * outside the byte range never show up.  This happens rather routinely
+ * in normal Tcl operations unless we burden the script writer with the
+ * cognitive burden of avoiding it.  The price is also paid by callers
+ * of the C interface.  The routine
+ *
+ *	unsigned char *Tcl_GetByteArrayFromObj(objPtr, lenPtr)
+ *
+ * has a guarantee to always return a non-NULL value, but that value
+ * points to a byte sequence that cannot be used by the caller to  
+ * process the Tcl value absent some sideband testing that objPtr
+ * is "pure".  Tcl offers no public interface to perform this test,
+ * so callers either break encapsulation or are unavoidably buggy.  Tcl
+ * has defined a public interface that cannot be used correctly. The
+ * Tcl source code itself suffers the same problem, and has been buggy,
+ * but progressively less so as more and more portions of the code have
+ * been retrofitted with the required "purity testing".  The set of values
+ * able to pass the purity test can be increased via the introduction of
+ * a "canonical" flag marker, but the only way the broken interface itself
+ * can be discarded is to start over and define the Tcl_ObjType properly.
+ * Bytearrays should simply be usable as bytearrays without a kabuki
+ * dance of testing.
+ *
+ * The Tcl_ObjType "properByteArrayType" is (nearly) a correct 
+ * implementation of bytearrays.  Any Tcl value with the type
+ * properByteArrayType can have its bytearray value fetched and
+ * used with confidence that acting on that value is equivalent to
+ * acting on the true Tcl string value.  This still implies a side
+ * testing burden -- past mistakes will not let us avoid that
+ * immediately, but it is at least a conventional test of type, and
+ * can be implemented entirely by examining the objPtr fields, with
+ * no need to query the intrep, as a canonical flag would require.
+ *
+ * Until Tcl_GetByteArrayFromObj() and Tcl_SetByteArrayLength() can
+ * be revised to admit the possibility of returning NULL when the true
+ * value is not a valid bytearray, we need a mechanism to retain
+ * compatibility with the deployed callers of the broken interface.
+ * That's what the retained "tclByteArrayType" provides.  In those
+ * unusual circumstances where we convert an invalid bytearray value
+ * to a bytearray type, it is to this legacy type.  Essentially any
+ * time this legacy type gets used, it's a signal of a bug being ignored.
+ * A TIP should be drafted to remove this connection to the broken past
+ * so that Tcl 9 will no longer have any trace of it.  Prescribing a
+ * migration path will be the key element of that work.  The internal
+ * changes now in place are the limit of what can be done short of
+ * interface repair.  They provide a great expansion of the histories
+ * over which bytearray values can be useful in the meanwhile.
 */

+static const Tcl_ObjType properByteArrayType = {
+    "bytearray",
+    FreeByteArrayInternalRep,
+    DupByteArrayInternalRep,
+    UpdateStringOfByteArray,
+    NULL
+};
+
 const Tcl_ObjType tclByteArrayType = {
    "bytearray",
    FreeByteArrayInternalRep,
    DupByteArrayInternalRep,
-    UpdateStringOfByteArray,
+    NULL,
    SetByteArrayFromAny
 };

@@ -211,6 +284,12 @@ typedef struct ByteArray {
 #define SET_BYTEARRAY(objPtr, baPtr) \
 		(objPtr)->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1 = (void *) (baPtr)

+int
+TclIsPureByteArray(
+    Tcl_Obj * objPtr)
+{
+    return (objPtr->typePtr == &properByteArrayType);
+}

 /*
 *----------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -341,7 +420,7 @@ Tcl_SetByteArrayObj(
    if ((bytes != NULL) && (length > 0)) {
 	memcpy(byteArrayPtr->bytes, bytes, (size_t) length);
    }
-    objPtr->typePtr = &tclByteArrayType;
+    objPtr->typePtr = &properByteArrayType;
    SET_BYTEARRAY(objPtr, byteArrayPtr);
 }

@@ -371,7 +450,8 @@ Tcl_GetByteArrayFromObj(
 {
    ByteArray *baPtr;

-    if (objPtr->typePtr != &tclByteArrayType) {
+    if ((objPtr->typePtr != &properByteArrayType)
+	    && (objPtr->typePtr != &tclByteArrayType)) {
 	SetByteArrayFromAny(NULL, objPtr);
    }
    baPtr = GET_BYTEARRAY(objPtr);
@@ -414,7 +494,8 @@ Tcl_SetByteArrayLength(
    if (Tcl_IsShared(objPtr)) {
 	Tcl_Panic("%s called with shared object", "Tcl_SetByteArrayLength");
    }
-    if (objPtr->typePtr != &tclByteArrayType) {
+    if ((objPtr->typePtr != &properByteArrayType)
+	    && (objPtr->typePtr != &tclByteArrayType)) {
 	SetByteArrayFromAny(NULL, objPtr);
    }

@@ -450,29 +531,37 @@ SetByteArrayFromAny(
    Tcl_Interp *interp,		/* Not used. */
    Tcl_Obj *objPtr)		/* The object to convert to type ByteArray. */
 {
-    int length;
+    size_t length;
+    int improper = 0;
    const char *src, *srcEnd;
    unsigned char *dst;
    ByteArray *byteArrayPtr;
    Tcl_UniChar ch;

-    if (objPtr->typePtr != &tclByteArrayType) {
-	src = TclGetStringFromObj(objPtr, &length);
-	srcEnd = src + length;
-
-	byteArrayPtr = ckalloc(BYTEARRAY_SIZE(length));
-	for (dst = byteArrayPtr->bytes; src < srcEnd; ) {
-	    src += Tcl_UtfToUniChar(src, &ch);
-	    *dst++ = UCHAR(ch);
-	}
-
-	byteArrayPtr->used = dst - byteArrayPtr->bytes;
-	byteArrayPtr->allocated = length;
-
-	TclFreeIntRep(objPtr);
-	objPtr->typePtr = &tclByteArrayType;
-	SET_BYTEARRAY(objPtr, byteArrayPtr);
+    if (objPtr->typePtr == &properByteArrayType) {
+	return TCL_OK;
    }
+    if (objPtr->typePtr == &tclByteArrayType) {
+	return TCL_OK;
+    }
+
+    src = TclGetString(objPtr);
+    length = objPtr->length;
+    srcEnd = src + length;
+
+    byteArrayPtr = ckalloc(BYTEARRAY_SIZE(length));
+    for (dst = byteArrayPtr->bytes; src < srcEnd; ) {
+	src += Tcl_UtfToUniChar(src, &ch);
+	improper = improper || (ch > 255);
+	*dst++ = UCHAR(ch);
+    }
+
+    byteArrayPtr->used = dst - byteArrayPtr->bytes;
+    byteArrayPtr->allocated = length;
+
+    TclFreeIntRep(objPtr);
+    objPtr->typePtr = improper ? &tclByteArrayType : &properByteArrayType;
+    SET_BYTEARRAY(objPtr, byteArrayPtr);
    return TCL_OK;
 }

@@ -535,7 +624,7 @@ DupByteArrayInternalRep(
    memcpy(copyArrayPtr->bytes, srcArrayPtr->bytes, (size_t) length);
    SET_BYTEARRAY(copyPtr, copyArrayPtr);

-    copyPtr->typePtr = &tclByteArrayType;
+    copyPtr->typePtr = srcPtr->typePtr;
 }

 /*
@@ -642,7 +731,8 @@ TclAppendBytesToByteArray(
 	/* Append zero bytes is a no-op. */
 	return;
    }
-    if (objPtr->typePtr != &tclByteArrayType) {
+    if ((objPtr->typePtr != &properByteArrayType)
+	    && (objPtr->typePtr != &tclByteArrayType)) {
 	SetByteArrayFromAny(NULL, objPtr);
    }
    byteArrayPtr = GET_BYTEARRAY(objPtr);
@@ -2500,7 +2590,7 @@ BinaryEncode64(
 	    }
 	    break;
 	case OPT_WRAPCHAR:
-	    wrapchar = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objv[i+1], &wrapcharlen);
+	    wrapchar = TclGetStringFromObj(objv[i+1], &wrapcharlen);
 	    if (wrapcharlen == 0) {
 		maxlen = 0;
 	    }
@@ -34,14 +34,14 @@
 */

 typedef struct MemTag {
-    int refCount;		/* Number of mem_headers referencing this
+    size_t refCount;		/* Number of mem_headers referencing this
 				 * tag. */
    char string[1];		/* Actual size of string will be as large as
 				 * needed for actual tag. This must be the
 				 * last field in the structure. */
 } MemTag;

-#define TAG_SIZE(bytesInString) ((unsigned) ((TclOffset(MemTag, string) + 1) + bytesInString))
+#define TAG_SIZE(bytesInString) ((TclOffset(MemTag, string) + 1) + bytesInString)

 static MemTag *curTagPtr = NULL;/* Tag to use in all future mem_headers (set
 				 * by "memory tag" command). */
@@ -52,14 +52,14 @@ static MemTag *curTagPtr = NULL;/* Tag to use in all future mem_headers (set
 * to help detect chunk under-runs.
 */

-#define LOW_GUARD_SIZE (8 + (32 - (sizeof(long) + sizeof(int)))%8)
+#define LOW_GUARD_SIZE (8 + (32 - (sizeof(size_t) + sizeof(int)))%8)
 struct mem_header {
    struct mem_header *flink;
    struct mem_header *blink;
    MemTag *tagPtr;		/* Tag from "memory tag" command; may be
 				 * NULL. */
    const char *file;
-    long length;
+    size_t length;
    int line;
    unsigned char low_guard[LOW_GUARD_SIZE];
 				/* Aligns body on 8-byte boundary, plus
@@ -251,10 +251,10 @@ ValidateMemory(
    }
    if (guard_failed) {
 	TclDumpMemoryInfo((ClientData) stderr, 0);
-	fprintf(stderr, "low guard failed at %lx, %s %d\n",
-		(long unsigned) memHeaderP->body, file, line);
+	fprintf(stderr, "low guard failed at %p, %s %d\n",
+		memHeaderP->body, file, line);
 	fflush(stderr);			/* In case name pointer is bad. */
-	fprintf(stderr, "%ld bytes allocated at (%s %d)\n", memHeaderP->length,
+	fprintf(stderr, "%" TCL_LL_MODIFIER "d bytes allocated at (%s %d)\n", (Tcl_WideInt) memHeaderP->length,
 		memHeaderP->file, memHeaderP->line);
 	Tcl_Panic("Memory validation failure");
    }
@@ -273,11 +273,11 @@ ValidateMemory(

    if (guard_failed) {
 	TclDumpMemoryInfo((ClientData) stderr, 0);
-	fprintf(stderr, "high guard failed at %lx, %s %d\n",
-		(long unsigned) memHeaderP->body, file, line);
+	fprintf(stderr, "high guard failed at %p, %s %d\n",
+		memHeaderP->body, file, line);
 	fflush(stderr);			/* In case name pointer is bad. */
-	fprintf(stderr, "%ld bytes allocated at (%s %d)\n",
-		memHeaderP->length, memHeaderP->file,
+	fprintf(stderr, "%" TCL_LL_MODIFIER "d bytes allocated at (%s %d)\n",
+		(Tcl_WideInt)memHeaderP->length, memHeaderP->file,
 		memHeaderP->line);
 	Tcl_Panic("Memory validation failure");
    }
@@ -359,10 +359,10 @@ Tcl_DumpActiveMemory(
    Tcl_MutexLock(ckallocMutexPtr);
    for (memScanP = allocHead; memScanP != NULL; memScanP = memScanP->flink) {
 	address = &memScanP->body[0];
-	fprintf(fileP, "%8lx - %8lx  %7ld @ %s %d %s",
-		(long unsigned) address,
-		(long unsigned) address + memScanP->length - 1,
-		memScanP->length, memScanP->file, memScanP->line,
+	fprintf(fileP, "%8" TCL_LL_MODIFIER "x - %8" TCL_LL_MODIFIER "x  %7" TCL_LL_MODIFIER "d @ %s %d %s",
+		(Tcl_WideInt)(size_t)address,
+		(Tcl_WideInt)((size_t)address + memScanP->length - 1),
+		(Tcl_WideInt)memScanP->length, memScanP->file, memScanP->line,
 		(memScanP->tagPtr == NULL) ? "" : memScanP->tagPtr->string);
 	(void) fputc('\n', fileP);
    }
@@ -458,8 +458,8 @@ Tcl_DbCkalloc(
    }

    if (alloc_tracing) {
-	fprintf(stderr,"ckalloc %lx %u %s %d\n",
-		(long unsigned int) result->body, size, file, line);
+	fprintf(stderr,"ckalloc %p %u %s %d\n",
+		result->body, size, file, line);
    }

    if (break_on_malloc && (total_mallocs >= break_on_malloc)) {
@@ -547,8 +547,8 @@ Tcl_AttemptDbCkalloc(
    }

    if (alloc_tracing) {
-	fprintf(stderr,"ckalloc %lx %u %s %d\n",
-		(long unsigned int) result->body, size, file, line);
+	fprintf(stderr,"ckalloc %p %u %s %d\n",
+		result->body, size, file, line);
    }

    if (break_on_malloc && (total_mallocs >= break_on_malloc)) {
@@ -612,8 +612,8 @@ Tcl_DbCkfree(
    memp = (struct mem_header *) (((size_t) ptr) - BODY_OFFSET);

    if (alloc_tracing) {
-	fprintf(stderr, "ckfree %lx %ld %s %d\n",
-		(long unsigned int) memp->body, memp->length, file, line);
+	fprintf(stderr, "ckfree %p %" TCL_LL_MODIFIER "d %s %d\n",
+		memp->body, (Tcl_WideInt) memp->length, file, line);
    }

    if (validate_memory) {
@@ -623,7 +623,7 @@ Tcl_DbCkfree(
    Tcl_MutexLock(ckallocMutexPtr);
    ValidateMemory(memp, file, line, TRUE);
    if (init_malloced_bodies) {
-	memset(ptr, GUARD_VALUE, (size_t) memp->length);
+	memset(ptr, GUARD_VALUE, memp->length);
    }

    total_frees++;
@@ -631,8 +631,7 @@ Tcl_DbCkfree(
    current_bytes_malloced -= memp->length;

    if (memp->tagPtr != NULL) {
-	memp->tagPtr->refCount--;
-	if ((memp->tagPtr->refCount == 0) && (curTagPtr != memp->tagPtr)) {
+	if ((memp->tagPtr->refCount-- <= 1) && (curTagPtr != memp->tagPtr)) {
 	    TclpFree((char *) memp->tagPtr);
 	}
    }
@@ -675,7 +674,7 @@ Tcl_DbCkrealloc(
    int line)
 {
    char *newPtr;
-    unsigned int copySize;
+    size_t copySize;
    struct mem_header *memp;

    if (ptr == NULL) {
@@ -689,7 +688,7 @@ Tcl_DbCkrealloc(
    memp = (struct mem_header *) (((size_t) ptr) - BODY_OFFSET);

    copySize = size;
-    if (copySize > (unsigned int) memp->length) {
+    if (copySize > memp->length) {
 	copySize = memp->length;
    }
    newPtr = Tcl_DbCkalloc(size, file, line);
@@ -706,7 +705,7 @@ Tcl_AttemptDbCkrealloc(
    int line)
 {
    char *newPtr;
-    unsigned int copySize;
+    size_t copySize;
    struct mem_header *memp;

    if (ptr == NULL) {
@@ -720,7 +719,7 @@ Tcl_AttemptDbCkrealloc(
    memp = (struct mem_header *) (((size_t) ptr) - BODY_OFFSET);

    copySize = size;
-    if (copySize > (unsigned int) memp->length) {
+    if (copySize > memp->length) {
 	copySize = memp->length;
    }
    newPtr = Tcl_AttemptDbCkalloc(size, file, line);
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ static const char *const literals[] = {
 */

 typedef struct ClockClientData {
-    int refCount;		/* Number of live references. */
+    size_t refCount;		/* Number of live references. */
    Tcl_Obj **literals;		/* Pool of object literals. */
 } ClockClientData;

@@ -1499,7 +1499,19 @@ GetJulianDayFromEraYearMonthDay(
     * Try an initial conversion in the Gregorian calendar.
     */

+#if 0 /* BUG http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/tktview?name=da340d4f32 */
    ym1o4 = ym1 / 4;
+#else
+    /*
+     * Have to make sure quotient is truncated towards 0 when negative.
+     * See above bug for details. The casts are necessary.
+     */
+    if (ym1 >= 0)
+        ym1o4 = ym1 / 4;
+    else {
+        ym1o4 = - (int) (((unsigned int) -ym1) / 4);
+    }
+#endif
    if (ym1 % 4 < 0) {
 	ym1o4--;
    }
@@ -2048,8 +2060,7 @@ ClockDeleteCmdProc(
    ClockClientData *data = clientData;
    int i;

-    data->refCount--;
-    if (data->refCount == 0) {
+    if (data->refCount-- <= 1) {
 	for (i = 0; i < LIT__END; ++i) {
 	    Tcl_DecrRefCount(data->literals[i]);
 	}
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
 */

 #include "tclInt.h"
+#ifdef _WIN32
+#   include "tclWinInt.h"
+#endif
 #include <locale.h>

 /*
@@ -1157,6 +1160,16 @@ FileAttrAccessTimeCmd(
    if (GetStatBuf(interp, objv[1], Tcl_FSStat, &buf) != TCL_OK) {
 	return TCL_ERROR;
    }
+#if defined(_WIN32)
+    /* We use a value of 0 to indicate the access time not available */
+    if (buf.st_atime == 0) {
+        Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
+                             "could not get access time for file \"%s\"",
+                             TclGetString(objv[1])));
+        return TCL_ERROR;
+    }
+#endif
+
    if (objc == 3) {
 	/*
 	 * Need separate variable for reading longs from an object on 64-bit
@@ -1229,6 +1242,15 @@ FileAttrModifyTimeCmd(
    if (GetStatBuf(interp, objv[1], Tcl_FSStat, &buf) != TCL_OK) {
 	return TCL_ERROR;
    }
+#if defined(_WIN32)
+    /* We use a value of 0 to indicate the modification time not available */
+    if (buf.st_mtime == 0) {
+        Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
+                             "could not get modification time for file \"%s\"",
+                             TclGetString(objv[1])));
+        return TCL_ERROR;
+    }
+#endif
    if (objc == 3) {
 	/*
 	 * Need separate variable for reading longs from an object on 64-bit
@@ -1574,28 +1596,25 @@ FileAttrIsOwnedCmd(
    int objc,
    Tcl_Obj *const objv[])
 {
+#ifdef __CYGWIN__
+#define geteuid() (short)(geteuid)()
+#endif
+#if !defined(_WIN32)
    Tcl_StatBuf buf;
+#endif
    int value = 0;

    if (objc != 2) {
 	Tcl_WrongNumArgs(interp, 1, objv, "name");
 	return TCL_ERROR;
    }
-    if (GetStatBuf(NULL, objv[1], Tcl_FSStat, &buf) == TCL_OK) {
-	/*
-	 * For Windows, there are no user ids associated with a file, so we
-	 * always return 1.
-	 *
-	 * TODO: use GetSecurityInfo to get the real owner of the file and
-	 * test for equivalence to the current user.
-	 */
-
-#if defined(_WIN32) || defined(__CYGWIN__)
-	value = 1;
+#if defined(_WIN32)
+    value = TclWinFileOwned(objv[1]);
 #else
+    if (GetStatBuf(NULL, objv[1], Tcl_FSStat, &buf) == TCL_OK) {
 	value = (geteuid() == buf.st_uid);
-#endif
    }
+#endif
    Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_NewBooleanObj(value));
    return TCL_OK;
 }
@@ -105,8 +105,7 @@ typedef struct SortInfo {
 */

 static int		DictionaryCompare(const char *left, const char *right);
-static int		IfConditionCallback(ClientData data[],
-			    Tcl_Interp *interp, int result);
+static Tcl_NRPostProc	IfConditionCallback;
 static int		InfoArgsCmd(ClientData dummy, Tcl_Interp *interp,
 			    int objc, Tcl_Obj *const objv[]);
 static int		InfoBodyCmd(ClientData dummy, Tcl_Interp *interp,
@@ -1678,7 +1677,7 @@ InfoLibraryCmd(
 	return TCL_ERROR;
    }

-    libDirName = Tcl_GetVar(interp, "tcl_library", TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY);
+    libDirName = Tcl_GetVar2(interp, "tcl_library", NULL, TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY);
    if (libDirName != NULL) {
 	Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_NewStringObj(libDirName, -1));
 	return TCL_OK;
@@ -1804,7 +1803,7 @@ InfoPatchLevelCmd(
 	return TCL_ERROR;
    }

-    patchlevel = Tcl_GetVar(interp, "tcl_patchLevel",
+    patchlevel = Tcl_GetVar2(interp, "tcl_patchLevel", NULL,
 	    (TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY | TCL_LEAVE_ERR_MSG));
    if (patchlevel != NULL) {
 	Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_NewStringObj(patchlevel, -1));
@@ -2156,8 +2155,8 @@ Tcl_JoinObjCmd(
    int objc,			/* Number of arguments. */
    Tcl_Obj *const objv[])	/* The argument objects. */
 {
-    int listLen, i;
-    Tcl_Obj *resObjPtr, *joinObjPtr, **elemPtrs;
+    int listLen;
+    Tcl_Obj *resObjPtr = NULL, *joinObjPtr, **elemPtrs;

    if ((objc < 2) || (objc > 3)) {
 	Tcl_WrongNumArgs(interp, 1, objv, "list ?joinString?");
@@ -2174,19 +2173,47 @@ Tcl_JoinObjCmd(
 	return TCL_ERROR;
    }

+    if (listLen == 0) {
+	/* No elements to join; default empty result is correct. */
+	return TCL_OK;
+    }
+    if (listLen == 1) {
+	/* One element; return it */
+	Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, elemPtrs[0]);
+	return TCL_OK;
+    }
+
    joinObjPtr = (objc == 2) ? Tcl_NewStringObj(" ", 1) : objv[2];
    Tcl_IncrRefCount(joinObjPtr);

-    resObjPtr = Tcl_NewObj();
-    for (i = 0;  i < listLen;  i++) {
-	if (i > 0) {
-	    Tcl_AppendObjToObj(resObjPtr, joinObjPtr);
+    if (Tcl_GetCharLength(joinObjPtr) == 0) {
+	TclStringCatObjv(interp, /* inPlace */ 0, listLen, elemPtrs,
+		&resObjPtr);
+    } else {
+	int i;
+
+	resObjPtr = Tcl_NewObj();
+	for (i = 0;  i < listLen;  i++) {
+	    if (i > 0) {
+
+		/*
+		 * NOTE: This code is relying on Tcl_AppendObjToObj() **NOT**
+		 * to shimmer joinObjPtr.  If it did, then the case where
+		 * objv[1] and objv[2] are the same value would not be safe.
+		 * Accessing elemPtrs would crash.
+		 */
+
+		Tcl_AppendObjToObj(resObjPtr, joinObjPtr);
+	    }
+	    Tcl_AppendObjToObj(resObjPtr, elemPtrs[i]);
 	}
-	Tcl_AppendObjToObj(resObjPtr, elemPtrs[i]);
    }
    Tcl_DecrRefCount(joinObjPtr);
-    Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, resObjPtr);
-    return TCL_OK;
+    if (resObjPtr) {
+	Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, resObjPtr);
+	return TCL_OK;
+    }
+    return TCL_ERROR;
 }

 /*
@@ -22,14 +22,10 @@

 static inline Tcl_Obj *	During(Tcl_Interp *interp, int resultCode,
 			    Tcl_Obj *oldOptions, Tcl_Obj *errorInfo);
-static int		SwitchPostProc(ClientData data[], Tcl_Interp *interp,
-			    int result);
-static int		TryPostBody(ClientData data[], Tcl_Interp *interp,
-			    int result);
-static int		TryPostFinal(ClientData data[], Tcl_Interp *interp,
-			    int result);
-static int		TryPostHandler(ClientData data[], Tcl_Interp *interp,
-			    int result);
+static Tcl_NRPostProc	SwitchPostProc;
+static Tcl_NRPostProc	TryPostBody;
+static Tcl_NRPostProc	TryPostFinal;
+static Tcl_NRPostProc	TryPostHandler;
 static int		UniCharIsAscii(int character);
 static int		UniCharIsHexDigit(int character);

@@ -327,7 +323,7 @@ Tcl_RegexpObjCmd(

 	if (match == 0) {
 	    /*
-	     * We want to set the value of the intepreter result only when
+	     * We want to set the value of the interpreter result only when
 	     * this is the first time through the loop.
 	     */

@@ -1180,8 +1176,7 @@ StringFirstCmd(
    int objc,			/* Number of arguments. */
    Tcl_Obj *const objv[])	/* Argument objects. */
 {
-    Tcl_UniChar *needleStr, *haystackStr;
-    int match, start, needleLen, haystackLen;
+    int start = 0;

    if (objc < 3 || objc > 4) {
 	Tcl_WrongNumArgs(interp, 1, objv,
@@ -1189,82 +1184,23 @@ StringFirstCmd(
 	return TCL_ERROR;
    }

-    /*
-     * We are searching haystackStr for the sequence needleStr.
-     */
-
-    match = -1;
-    start = 0;
-    haystackLen = -1;
-
-    needleStr = Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj(objv[1], &needleLen);
-    haystackStr = Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj(objv[2], &haystackLen);
-
    if (objc == 4) {
-	/*
-	 * If a startIndex is specified, we will need to fast forward to that
-	 * point in the string before we think about a match.
-	 */
+	int size = Tcl_GetCharLength(objv[2]);

-	if (TclGetIntForIndexM(interp, objv[3], haystackLen-1,
-		&start) != TCL_OK){
+	if (TCL_OK != TclGetIntForIndexM(interp, objv[3], size - 1, &start)) {
 	    return TCL_ERROR;
 	}

-	/*
-	 * Reread to prevent shimmering problems.
-	 */
-
-	needleStr = Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj(objv[1], &needleLen);
-	haystackStr = Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj(objv[2], &haystackLen);
-
-	if (start >= haystackLen) {
-	    goto str_first_done;
-	} else if (start > 0) {
-	    haystackStr += start;
-	    haystackLen -= start;
-	} else if (start < 0) {
-	    /*
-	     * Invalid start index mapped to string start; Bug #423581
-	     */
-
+	if (start < 0) {
 	    start = 0;
 	}
-    }
-
-    /*
-     * If the length of the needle is more than the length of the haystack, it
-     * cannot be contained in there so we can avoid searching. [Bug 2960021]
-     */
-
-    if (needleLen > 0 && needleLen <= haystackLen) {
-	register Tcl_UniChar *p, *end;
-
-	end = haystackStr + haystackLen - needleLen + 1;
-	for (p = haystackStr;  p < end;  p++) {
-	    /*
-	     * Scan forward to find the first character.
-	     */
-
-	    if ((*p == *needleStr) && (TclUniCharNcmp(needleStr, p,
-		    (unsigned long) needleLen) == 0)) {
-		match = p - haystackStr;
-		break;
-	    }
+	if (start >= size) {
+	    Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_NewIntObj(-1));
+	    return TCL_OK;
 	}
    }
-
-    /*
-     * Compute the character index of the matching string by counting the
-     * number of characters before the match.
-     */
-
-    if ((match != -1) && (objc == 4)) {
-	match += start;
-    }
-
-  str_first_done:
-    Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_NewIntObj(match));
+    Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_NewIntObj(TclStringFind(objv[1],
+	    objv[2], start)));
    return TCL_OK;
 }

@@ -1293,76 +1229,31 @@ StringLastCmd(
    int objc,			/* Number of arguments. */
    Tcl_Obj *const objv[])	/* Argument objects. */
 {
-    Tcl_UniChar *needleStr, *haystackStr, *p;
-    int match, start, needleLen, haystackLen;
+    int last = INT_MAX - 1;

    if (objc < 3 || objc > 4) {
 	Tcl_WrongNumArgs(interp, 1, objv,
-		"needleString haystackString ?startIndex?");
+		"needleString haystackString ?lastIndex?");
 	return TCL_ERROR;
    }

-    /*
-     * We are searching haystackString for the sequence needleString.
-     */
-
-    match = -1;
-    start = 0;
-    haystackLen = -1;
-
-    needleStr = Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj(objv[1], &needleLen);
-    haystackStr = Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj(objv[2], &haystackLen);
-
    if (objc == 4) {
-	/*
-	 * If a startIndex is specified, we will need to restrict the string
-	 * range to that char index in the string
-	 */
+	int size = Tcl_GetCharLength(objv[2]);

-	if (TclGetIntForIndexM(interp, objv[3], haystackLen-1,
-		&start) != TCL_OK){
+	if (TCL_OK != TclGetIntForIndexM(interp, objv[3], size - 1, &last)) {
 	    return TCL_ERROR;
 	}

-	/*
-	 * Reread to prevent shimmering problems.
-	 */
-
-	needleStr = Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj(objv[1], &needleLen);
-	haystackStr = Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj(objv[2], &haystackLen);
-
-	if (start < 0) {
-	    goto str_last_done;
-	} else if (start < haystackLen) {
-	    p = haystackStr + start + 1 - needleLen;
-	} else {
-	    p = haystackStr + haystackLen - needleLen;
+	if (last < 0) {
+	    Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_NewIntObj(-1));
+	    return TCL_OK;
 	}
-    } else {
-	p = haystackStr + haystackLen - needleLen;
-    }
-
-    /*
-     * If the length of the needle is more than the length of the haystack, it
-     * cannot be contained in there so we can avoid searching. [Bug 2960021]
-     */
-
-    if (needleLen > 0 && needleLen <= haystackLen) {
-	for (; p >= haystackStr; p--) {
-	    /*
-	     * Scan backwards to find the first character.
-	     */
-
-	    if ((*p == *needleStr) && !memcmp(needleStr, p,
-		    sizeof(Tcl_UniChar) * (size_t)needleLen)) {
-		match = p - haystackStr;
-		break;
-	    }
+	if (last >= size) {
+	    last = size - 1;
 	}
    }
-
-  str_last_done:
-    Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_NewIntObj(match));
+    Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_NewIntObj(TclStringLast(objv[1],
+	    objv[2], last)));
    return TCL_OK;
 }

@@ -1877,7 +1768,7 @@ StringMapCmd(

    /*
     * This test is tricky, but has to be that way or you get other strange
-     * inconsistencies (see test string-10.20 for illustration why!)
+     * inconsistencies (see test string-10.20.1 for illustration why!)
     */

    if (objv[objc-2]->typePtr == &tclDictType && objv[objc-2]->bytes == NULL){
@@ -2227,9 +2118,7 @@ StringReptCmd(
    int objc,			/* Number of arguments. */
    Tcl_Obj *const objv[])	/* Argument objects. */
 {
-    const char *string1;
-    char *string2;
-    int count, index, length1, length2;
+    int count;
    Tcl_Obj *resultPtr;

    if (objc != 3) {
@@ -2247,70 +2136,15 @@ StringReptCmd(

    if (count == 1) {
 	Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, objv[1]);
-	goto done;
+	return TCL_OK;
    } else if (count < 1) {
-	goto done;
-    }
-    string1 = TclGetStringFromObj(objv[1], &length1);
-    if (length1 <= 0) {
-	goto done;
+	return TCL_OK;
    }

-    /*
-     * Only build up a string that has data. Instead of building it up with
-     * repeated appends, we just allocate the necessary space once and copy
-     * the string value in.
-     *
-     * We have to worry about overflow [Bugs 714106, 2561746].
-     * At this point we know 1 <= length1 <= INT_MAX and 2 <= count <= INT_MAX.
-     * We need to keep 2 <= length2 <= INT_MAX.
-     */
-
-    if (count > INT_MAX/length1) {
-	Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
-		"result exceeds max size for a Tcl value (%d bytes)",
-		INT_MAX));
-	Tcl_SetErrorCode(interp, "TCL", "MEMORY", NULL);
+    if (TCL_OK != TclStringRepeat(interp, objv[1], count, &resultPtr)) {
 	return TCL_ERROR;
    }
-    length2 = length1 * count;
-
-    /*
-     * Include space for the NUL.
-     */
-
-    string2 = attemptckalloc((unsigned) length2 + 1);
-    if (string2 == NULL) {
-	/*
-	 * Alloc failed. Note that in this case we try to do an error message
-	 * since this is a case that's most likely when the alloc is large and
-	 * that's easy to do with this API. Note that if we fail allocating a
-	 * short string, this will likely keel over too (and fatally).
-	 */
-
-	Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
-		"string size overflow, out of memory allocating %u bytes",
-		length2 + 1));
-	Tcl_SetErrorCode(interp, "TCL", "MEMORY", NULL);
-	return TCL_ERROR;
-    }
-    for (index = 0; index < count; index++) {
-	memcpy(string2 + (length1 * index), string1, (size_t) length1);
-    }
-    string2[length2] = '\0';
-
-    /*
-     * We have to directly assign this instead of using Tcl_SetStringObj (and
-     * indirectly TclInitStringRep) because that makes another copy of the
-     * data.
-     */
-
-    TclNewObj(resultPtr);
-    resultPtr->bytes = string2;
-    resultPtr->length = length2;
    Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, resultPtr);
-
-  done:
    return TCL_OK;
 }

@@ -2859,7 +2693,7 @@ StringCatCmd(
    int objc,			/* Number of arguments. */
    Tcl_Obj *const objv[])	/* Argument objects. */
 {
-    int i;
+    int code;
    Tcl_Obj *objResultPtr;

    if (objc < 2) {
@@ -2876,16 +2710,16 @@ StringCatCmd(
 	Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, objv[1]);
 	return TCL_OK;
    }
-    objResultPtr = objv[1];
-    if (Tcl_IsShared(objResultPtr)) {
-	objResultPtr = Tcl_DuplicateObj(objResultPtr);
-    }
-    for(i = 2;i < objc;i++) {
-	Tcl_AppendObjToObj(objResultPtr, objv[i]);
-    }
-    Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, objResultPtr);

-    return TCL_OK;
+    code = TclStringCatObjv(interp, /* inPlace */ 1, objc-1, objv+1,
+	    &objResultPtr);
+
+    if (code == TCL_OK) {
+	Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, objResultPtr);
+	return TCL_OK;
+    }
+
+    return code;
 }

 /*
@@ -4323,7 +4157,7 @@ TclNRTryObjCmd(
 	    }

 	    info[0] = objv[i];			/* type */
-	    TclNewIntObj(info[1], code);	/* returnCode */
+	    TclNewLongObj(info[1], code);	/* returnCode */
 	    if (info[2] == NULL) {		/* errorCodePrefix */
 		TclNewObj(info[2]);
 	    }
@@ -801,7 +801,7 @@ TclCompileConcatCmd(
 	Tcl_ListObjGetElements(NULL, listObj, &len, &objs);
 	objPtr = Tcl_ConcatObj(len, objs);
 	Tcl_DecrRefCount(listObj);
-	bytes = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objPtr, &len);
+	bytes = TclGetStringFromObj(objPtr, &len);
 	PushLiteral(envPtr, bytes, len);
 	Tcl_DecrRefCount(objPtr);
 	return TCL_OK;
@@ -1209,7 +1209,7 @@ TclCompileDictCreateCmd(
     * We did! Excellent. The "verifyDict" is to do type forcing.
     */

-    bytes = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(dictObj, &len);
+    bytes = TclGetStringFromObj(dictObj, &len);
    PushLiteral(envPtr, bytes, len);
    TclEmitOpcode(		INST_DUP,			envPtr);
    TclEmitOpcode(		INST_DICT_VERIFY,		envPtr);
@@ -2650,7 +2650,7 @@ CompileEachloopCmd(
 	    int numBytes, varIndex;

 	    Tcl_ListObjIndex(NULL, varListObj, j, &varNameObj);
-	    bytes = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(varNameObj, &numBytes);
+	    bytes = TclGetStringFromObj(varNameObj, &numBytes);
 	    varIndex = LocalScalar(bytes, numBytes, envPtr);
 	    if (varIndex < 0) {
 		code = TCL_ERROR;
@@ -3087,7 +3087,7 @@ TclCompileFormatCmd(
     * literal. Job done.
     */

-    bytes = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(tmpObj, &len);
+    bytes = TclGetStringFromObj(tmpObj, &len);
    PushLiteral(envPtr, bytes, len);
    Tcl_DecrRefCount(tmpObj);
    return TCL_OK;
@@ -3158,7 +3158,7 @@ TclCompileFormatCmd(
 	    if (*++bytes == '%') {
 		Tcl_AppendToObj(tmpObj, "%", 1);
 	    } else {
-		char *b = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(tmpObj, &len);
+		char *b = TclGetStringFromObj(tmpObj, &len);

 		/*
 		 * If there is a non-empty literal from the format string,
@@ -3192,7 +3192,7 @@ TclCompileFormatCmd(
     */

    Tcl_AppendToObj(tmpObj, start, bytes - start);
-    bytes = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(tmpObj, &len);
+    bytes = TclGetStringFromObj(tmpObj, &len);
    if (len > 0) {
 	PushLiteral(envPtr, bytes, len);
 	i++;
@@ -3206,17 +3206,6 @@ TclCompileFormatCmd(
 	 */

 	TclEmitInstInt1(INST_STR_CONCAT1, i, envPtr);
-    } else {
-	/*
-	 * EVIL HACK! Force there to be a string representation in the case
-	 * where there's just a "%s" in the format; case covered by the test
-	 * format-20.1 (and it is horrible...)
-	 */
-
-	TclEmitOpcode(INST_DUP, envPtr);
-	PushStringLiteral(envPtr, "");
-	TclEmitOpcode(INST_STR_EQ, envPtr);
-	TclEmitOpcode(INST_POP, envPtr);
    }
    return TCL_OK;
 }
@@ -2451,7 +2451,7 @@ TclCompileRegsubCmd(
     * replacement "simple"?
     */

-    bytes = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(patternObj, &len);
+    bytes = TclGetStringFromObj(patternObj, &len);
    if (TclReToGlob(NULL, bytes, len, &pattern, &exact, &quantified)
 	    != TCL_OK || exact || quantified) {
 	goto done;
@@ -2499,7 +2499,7 @@ TclCompileRegsubCmd(
    result = TCL_OK;
    bytes = Tcl_DStringValue(&pattern) + 1;
    PushLiteral(envPtr,	bytes, len);
-    bytes = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(replacementObj, &len);
+    bytes = TclGetStringFromObj(replacementObj, &len);
    PushLiteral(envPtr,	bytes, len);
    CompileWord(envPtr,	stringTokenPtr, interp, parsePtr->numWords-2);
    TclEmitOpcode(	INST_STR_MAP,	envPtr);
@@ -2761,7 +2761,7 @@ TclCompileSyntaxError(
    const char *bytes = TclGetStringFromObj(msg, &numBytes);

    TclErrorStackResetIf(interp, bytes, numBytes);
-    TclEmitPush(TclRegisterNewLiteral(envPtr, bytes, numBytes), envPtr);
+    TclEmitPush(TclRegisterLiteral(envPtr, bytes, numBytes, 0), envPtr);
    CompileReturnInternal(envPtr, INST_SYNTAX, TCL_ERROR, 0,
 	    TclNoErrorStack(interp, Tcl_GetReturnOptions(interp, TCL_ERROR)));
    Tcl_ResetResult(interp);
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ TclCompileStringCatCmd(
 	    Tcl_DecrRefCount(obj);
 	    if (folded) {
 		int len;
-		const char *bytes = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(folded, &len);
+		const char *bytes = TclGetStringFromObj(folded, &len);

 		PushLiteral(envPtr, bytes, len);
 		Tcl_DecrRefCount(folded);
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ TclCompileStringCatCmd(
    }
    if (folded) {
 	int len;
-	const char *bytes = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(folded, &len);
+	const char *bytes = TclGetStringFromObj(folded, &len);

 	PushLiteral(envPtr, bytes, len);
 	Tcl_DecrRefCount(folded);
@@ -948,12 +948,12 @@ TclCompileStringMapCmd(
     * correct semantics for mapping.
     */

-    bytes = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objv[0], &len);
+    bytes = TclGetStringFromObj(objv[0], &len);
    if (len == 0) {
 	CompileWord(envPtr, stringTokenPtr, interp, 2);
    } else {
 	PushLiteral(envPtr, bytes, len);
-	bytes = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objv[1], &len);
+	bytes = TclGetStringFromObj(objv[1], &len);
 	PushLiteral(envPtr, bytes, len);
 	CompileWord(envPtr, stringTokenPtr, interp, 2);
 	OP(STR_MAP);
@@ -1456,8 +1456,8 @@ TclSubstCompile(

 	switch (tokenPtr->type) {
 	case TCL_TOKEN_TEXT:
-	    literal = TclRegisterNewLiteral(envPtr,
-		    tokenPtr->start, tokenPtr->size);
+	    literal = TclRegisterLiteral(envPtr,
+		    tokenPtr->start, tokenPtr->size, 0);
 	    TclEmitPush(literal, envPtr);
 	    TclAdvanceLines(&bline, tokenPtr->start,
 		    tokenPtr->start + tokenPtr->size);
@@ -1466,7 +1466,7 @@ TclSubstCompile(
 	case TCL_TOKEN_BS:
 	    length = TclParseBackslash(tokenPtr->start, tokenPtr->size,
 		    NULL, buf);
-	    literal = TclRegisterNewLiteral(envPtr, buf, length);
+	    literal = TclRegisterLiteral(envPtr, buf, length, 0);
 	    TclEmitPush(literal, envPtr);
 	    count++;
 	    continue;
@@ -1902,10 +1902,10 @@ TclCompileSwitchCmd(
 	}
 	if (numWords % 2) {
 	abort:
-	    ckfree((char *) bodyToken);
-	    ckfree((char *) bodyTokenArray);
-	    ckfree((char *) bodyLines);
-	    ckfree((char *) bodyContLines);
+	    ckfree(bodyToken);
+	    ckfree(bodyTokenArray);
+	    ckfree(bodyLines);
+	    ckfree(bodyContLines);
 	    return TCL_ERROR;
 	}
    } else if (numWords % 2 || numWords == 0) {
@@ -2825,7 +2825,7 @@ TclCompileTryCmd(
 	    }
 	    if (objc > 0) {
 		int len;
-		const char *varname = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objv[0], &len);
+		const char *varname = TclGetStringFromObj(objv[0], &len);

 		resultVarIndices[i] = LocalScalar(varname, len, envPtr);
 		if (resultVarIndices[i] < 0) {
@@ -2837,7 +2837,7 @@ TclCompileTryCmd(
 	    }
 	    if (objc == 2) {
 		int len;
-		const char *varname = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objv[1], &len);
+		const char *varname = TclGetStringFromObj(objv[1], &len);

 		optionVarIndices[i] = LocalScalar(varname, len, envPtr);
 		if (optionVarIndices[i] < 0) {
@@ -3040,7 +3040,7 @@ IssueTryClausesInstructions(
 	    OP4(			DICT_GET, 1);
 	    TclAdjustStackDepth(-1, envPtr);
 	    OP44(			LIST_RANGE_IMM, 0, len-1);
-	    p = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(matchClauses[i], &len);
+	    p = TclGetStringFromObj(matchClauses[i], &len);
 	    PushLiteral(envPtr, p, len);
 	    OP(				STR_EQ);
 	    JUMP4(			JUMP_FALSE, notECJumpSource);
@@ -3251,7 +3251,7 @@ IssueTryClausesFinallyInstructions(
 	    OP4(			DICT_GET, 1);
 	    TclAdjustStackDepth(-1, envPtr);
 	    OP44(			LIST_RANGE_IMM, 0, len-1);
-	    p = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(matchClauses[i], &len);
+	    p = TclGetStringFromObj(matchClauses[i], &len);
 	    PushLiteral(envPtr, p, len);
 	    OP(				STR_EQ);
 	    JUMP4(			JUMP_FALSE, notECJumpSource);
@@ -3579,7 +3579,7 @@ TclCompileUnsetCmd(
 	    const char *bytes;
 	    int len;

-	    bytes = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(leadingWord, &len);
+	    bytes = TclGetStringFromObj(leadingWord, &len);
 	    if (i == 1 && len == 11 && !strncmp("-nocomplain", bytes, 11)) {
 		flags = 0;
 		haveFlags++;
@@ -2267,9 +2267,9 @@ CompileExprTree(
 		p = TclGetStringFromObj(*funcObjv, &length);
 		funcObjv++;
 		Tcl_DStringAppend(&cmdName, p, length);
-		TclEmitPush(TclRegisterNewCmdLiteral(envPtr,
+		TclEmitPush(TclRegisterLiteral(envPtr,
 			Tcl_DStringValue(&cmdName),
-			Tcl_DStringLength(&cmdName)), envPtr);
+			Tcl_DStringLength(&cmdName), LITERAL_CMD_NAME), envPtr);
 		Tcl_DStringFree(&cmdName);

 		/*
@@ -2376,8 +2376,8 @@ CompileExprTree(
 		pc1 = CurrentOffset(envPtr);
 		TclEmitInstInt1((nodePtr->lexeme == AND) ? INST_JUMP_FALSE1
 			: INST_JUMP_TRUE1, 0, envPtr);
-		TclEmitPush(TclRegisterNewLiteral(envPtr,
-			(nodePtr->lexeme == AND) ? "1" : "0", 1), envPtr);
+		TclEmitPush(TclRegisterLiteral(envPtr,
+			(nodePtr->lexeme == AND) ? "1" : "0", 1, 0), envPtr);
 		pc2 = CurrentOffset(envPtr);
 		TclEmitInstInt1(INST_JUMP1, 0, envPtr);
 		TclAdjustStackDepth(-1, envPtr);
@@ -2386,8 +2386,8 @@ CompileExprTree(
 		if (TclFixupForwardJumpToHere(envPtr, &jumpPtr->jump, 127)) {
 		    pc2 += 3;
 		}
-		TclEmitPush(TclRegisterNewLiteral(envPtr,
-			(nodePtr->lexeme == AND) ? "0" : "1", 1), envPtr);
+		TclEmitPush(TclRegisterLiteral(envPtr,
+			(nodePtr->lexeme == AND) ? "0" : "1", 1, 0), envPtr);
 		TclStoreInt1AtPtr(CurrentOffset(envPtr) - pc2,
 			envPtr->codeStart + pc2 + 1);
 		convert = 0;
@@ -2421,7 +2421,7 @@ CompileExprTree(
 	    if (optimize) {
 		int length;
 		const char *bytes = TclGetStringFromObj(literal, &length);
-		int index = TclRegisterNewLiteral(envPtr, bytes, length);
+		int index = TclRegisterLiteral(envPtr, bytes, length, 0);
 		Tcl_Obj *objPtr = TclFetchLiteral(envPtr, index);

 		if ((objPtr->typePtr == NULL) && (literal->typePtr != NULL)) {
@@ -2479,8 +2479,8 @@ CompileExprTree(
 		    if (objPtr->bytes) {
 			Tcl_Obj *tableValue;

-			index = TclRegisterNewLiteral(envPtr, objPtr->bytes,
-				objPtr->length);
+			index = TclRegisterLiteral(envPtr, objPtr->bytes,
+				objPtr->length, 0);
 			tableValue = TclFetchLiteral(envPtr, index);
 			if ((tableValue->typePtr == NULL) &&
 				(objPtr->typePtr != NULL)) {
@@ -765,7 +765,8 @@ TclSetByteCodeFromAny(
    Interp *iPtr = (Interp *) interp;
    CompileEnv compEnv;		/* Compilation environment structure allocated
 				 * in frame. */
-    int length, result = TCL_OK;
+    size_t length;
+    int result = TCL_OK;
    const char *stringPtr;
    Proc *procPtr = iPtr->compiledProcPtr;
    ContLineLoc *clLocPtr;
@@ -780,7 +781,8 @@ TclSetByteCodeFromAny(
    }
 #endif

-    stringPtr = TclGetStringFromObj(objPtr, &length);
+    stringPtr = TclGetString(objPtr);
+    length = objPtr->length;

    /*
     * TIP #280: Pick up the CmdFrame in which the BC compiler was invoked and
@@ -1002,7 +1004,7 @@ void
 TclReleaseByteCode(
    register ByteCode *codePtr)
 {
-    if (--codePtr->refCount) {
+    if (codePtr->refCount-- > 1) {
 	return;
    }

@@ -1314,7 +1316,7 @@ CompileSubstObj(
    if (objPtr->typePtr != &substCodeType) {
 	CompileEnv compEnv;
 	int numBytes;
-	const char *bytes = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objPtr, &numBytes);
+	const char *bytes = TclGetStringFromObj(objPtr, &numBytes);

 	/* TODO: Check for more TIP 280 */
 	TclInitCompileEnv(interp, &compEnv, bytes, numBytes, NULL, 0);
@@ -1380,14 +1382,14 @@ ReleaseCmdWordData(
 	Tcl_DecrRefCount(eclPtr->path);
    }
    for (i=0 ; i<eclPtr->nuloc ; i++) {
-	ckfree((char *) eclPtr->loc[i].line);
+	ckfree(eclPtr->loc[i].line);
    }

    if (eclPtr->loc != NULL) {
-	ckfree((char *) eclPtr->loc);
+	ckfree(eclPtr->loc);
    }

-    ckfree((char *) eclPtr);
+    ckfree(eclPtr);
 }

 /*
@@ -1792,9 +1794,17 @@ CompileCmdLiteral(
    CompileEnv *envPtr)
 {
    int numBytes;
-    const char *bytes = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(cmdObj, &numBytes);
-    int cmdLitIdx = TclRegisterNewCmdLiteral(envPtr, bytes, numBytes);
-    Command *cmdPtr = (Command *) Tcl_GetCommandFromObj(interp, cmdObj);
+    const char *bytes;
+    Command *cmdPtr;
+    int cmdLitIdx, extraLiteralFlags = LITERAL_CMD_NAME;
+
+    cmdPtr = (Command *) Tcl_GetCommandFromObj(interp, cmdObj);
+    if ((cmdPtr != NULL) && (cmdPtr->flags & CMD_VIA_RESOLVER)) {
+	extraLiteralFlags |= LITERAL_UNSHARED;
+    }
+
+    bytes = TclGetStringFromObj(cmdObj, &numBytes);
+    cmdLitIdx = TclRegisterLiteral(envPtr, bytes, numBytes, extraLiteralFlags);

    if (cmdPtr) {
 	TclSetCmdNameObj(interp, TclFetchLiteral(envPtr, cmdLitIdx), cmdPtr);
@@ -1829,8 +1839,8 @@ TclCompileInvocation(
 	    continue;
 	}

-	objIdx = TclRegisterNewLiteral(envPtr,
-		tokenPtr[1].start, tokenPtr[1].size);
+	objIdx = TclRegisterLiteral(envPtr,
+		tokenPtr[1].start, tokenPtr[1].size, 0);
 	if (envPtr->clNext) {
 	    TclContinuationsEnterDerived(TclFetchLiteral(envPtr, objIdx),
 		    tokenPtr[1].start - envPtr->source, envPtr->clNext);
@@ -1879,8 +1889,8 @@ CompileExpanded(
 	    continue;
 	}

-	objIdx = TclRegisterNewLiteral(envPtr,
-		tokenPtr[1].start, tokenPtr[1].size);
+	objIdx = TclRegisterLiteral(envPtr,
+		tokenPtr[1].start, tokenPtr[1].size, 0);
 	if (envPtr->clNext) {
 	    TclContinuationsEnterDerived(TclFetchLiteral(envPtr, objIdx),
 		    tokenPtr[1].start - envPtr->source, envPtr->clNext);
@@ -2729,7 +2739,7 @@ PreventCycle(
 	     * the intrep.
 	     */
 	    int numBytes;
-	    const char *bytes = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objPtr, &numBytes);
+	    const char *bytes = TclGetStringFromObj(objPtr, &numBytes);
 	    Tcl_Obj *copyPtr = Tcl_NewStringObj(bytes, numBytes);

 	    Tcl_IncrRefCount(copyPtr);
@@ -2968,7 +2978,8 @@ TclFindCompiledLocal(
 	varNamePtr = &cachePtr->varName0;
 	for (i=0; i < cachePtr->numVars; varNamePtr++, i++) {
 	    if (*varNamePtr) {
-		localName = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(*varNamePtr, &len);
+		localName = TclGetString(*varNamePtr);
+		len = (*varNamePtr)->length;
 		if ((len == nameBytes) && !strncmp(name, localName, len)) {
 		    return i;
 		}
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ typedef struct ByteCode {
 				 * procs are specific to an interpreter so the
 				 * code emitted will depend on the
 				 * interpreter. */
-    int compileEpoch;		/* Value of iPtr->compileEpoch when this
+    unsigned int compileEpoch;	/* Value of iPtr->compileEpoch when this
 				 * ByteCode was compiled. Used to invalidate
 				 * code when, e.g., commands with compile
 				 * procs are redefined. */
@@ -1095,7 +1095,7 @@ MODULE_SCOPE int	TclCreateAuxData(ClientData clientData,
 MODULE_SCOPE int	TclCreateExceptRange(ExceptionRangeType type,
 			    CompileEnv *envPtr);
 MODULE_SCOPE ExecEnv *	TclCreateExecEnv(Tcl_Interp *interp, int size);
-MODULE_SCOPE Tcl_Obj *	TclCreateLiteral(Interp *iPtr, char *bytes,
+MODULE_SCOPE Tcl_Obj *	TclCreateLiteral(Interp *iPtr, const char *bytes,
 			    int length, unsigned int hash, int *newPtr,
 			    Namespace *nsPtr, int flags,
 			    LiteralEntry **globalPtrPtr);
@@ -1210,29 +1210,7 @@ MODULE_SCOPE int	TclPushProcCallFrame(ClientData clientData,

 #define LITERAL_ON_HEAP		0x01
 #define LITERAL_CMD_NAME	0x02
-
-/*
- * Form of TclRegisterLiteral with flags == 0. In that case, it is safe to
- * cast away constness, and it is cleanest to do that here, all in one place.
- *
- * int TclRegisterNewLiteral(CompileEnv *envPtr, const char *bytes,
- *			     int length);
- */
-
-#define TclRegisterNewLiteral(envPtr, bytes, length) \
-    TclRegisterLiteral(envPtr, (char *)(bytes), length, /*flags*/ 0)
-
-/*
- * Form of TclRegisterLiteral with flags == LITERAL_CMD_NAME. In that case, it
- * is safe to cast away constness, and it is cleanest to do that here, all in
- * one place.
- *
- * int TclRegisterNewNSLiteral(CompileEnv *envPtr, const char *bytes,
- *			       int length);
- */
-
-#define TclRegisterNewCmdLiteral(envPtr, bytes, length) \
-    TclRegisterLiteral(envPtr, (char *)(bytes), length, LITERAL_CMD_NAME)
+#define LITERAL_UNSHARED	0x04

 /*
 * Macro used to manually adjust the stack requirements; used in cases where
@@ -1549,9 +1527,9 @@ MODULE_SCOPE int	TclPushProcCallFrame(ClientData clientData,
 */

 #define PushLiteral(envPtr, string, length) \
-    TclEmitPush(TclRegisterNewLiteral((envPtr), (string), (length)), (envPtr))
+    TclEmitPush(TclRegisterLiteral(envPtr, string, length, 0), (envPtr))
 #define PushStringLiteral(envPtr, string) \
-    PushLiteral((envPtr), (string), (int) (sizeof(string "") - 1))
+    PushLiteral(envPtr, string, (int) (sizeof(string "") - 1))

 /*
 * Macro to advance to the next token; it is more mnemonic than the address
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ QueryConfigObjCmd(

 	Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_NewStringObj("package not known", -1));
 	Tcl_SetErrorCode(interp, "TCL", "FATAL", "PKGCFG_BASE",
-		Tcl_GetString(pkgName), NULL);
+		TclGetString(pkgName), NULL);
 	return TCL_ERROR;
    }

@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ QueryConfigObjCmd(
 		|| val == NULL) {
 	    Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_NewStringObj("key not known", -1));
 	    Tcl_SetErrorCode(interp, "TCL", "LOOKUP", "CONFIG",
-		    Tcl_GetString(objv[2]), NULL);
+		    TclGetString(objv[2]), NULL);
 	    return TCL_ERROR;
 	}

@@ -333,9 +333,9 @@ QueryConfigDelete(
    Tcl_DictObjRemove(NULL, pDB, pkgName);
    Tcl_DecrRefCount(pkgName);
    if (cdPtr->encoding) {
-	ckfree((char *)cdPtr->encoding);
+	ckfree(cdPtr->encoding);
    }
-    ckfree((char *)cdPtr);
+    ckfree(cdPtr);
 }

 /*
@@ -1816,6 +1816,46 @@ EXTERN int		Tcl_FSUnloadFile(Tcl_Interp *interp,
 EXTERN void		Tcl_ZlibStreamSetCompressionDictionary(
 				Tcl_ZlibStream zhandle,
 				Tcl_Obj *compressionDictionaryObj);
+/* 631 */
+EXTERN int		Tcl_ArraySet(Tcl_Interp *interp, Tcl_Obj *part1Ptr,
+				Tcl_Obj *dictPtr, int flags);
+/* 632 */
+EXTERN int		Tcl_ArrayUnset(Tcl_Interp *interp, Tcl_Obj *part1Ptr,
+				Tcl_Obj *part2Ptr, int flags);
+/* 633 */
+EXTERN int		Tcl_ArrayGet(Tcl_Interp *interp, Tcl_Obj *part1Ptr,
+				Tcl_Obj *part2Ptr, Tcl_Obj *dictPtr,
+				int flags);
+/* 634 */
+EXTERN int		Tcl_ArrayNames(Tcl_Interp *interp, Tcl_Obj *part1Ptr,
+				Tcl_Obj *part2Ptr, Tcl_Obj *listPtr,
+				int flags);
+/* 635 */
+EXTERN int		Tcl_ArraySize(Tcl_Interp *interp, Tcl_Obj *part1Ptr,
+				Tcl_Obj *part2Ptr, int *intPtr, int flags);
+/* 636 */
+EXTERN int		Tcl_ArrayExists(Tcl_Interp *interp,
+				Tcl_Obj *part1Ptr, Tcl_Obj *part2Ptr,
+				int *intPtr, int flags);
+/* 637 */
+EXTERN Tcl_ArraySearch	Tcl_ArraySearchStart(Tcl_Interp *interp,
+				Tcl_Obj *part1Ptr, Tcl_Obj *part2Ptr,
+				int flags);
+/* 638 */
+EXTERN int		Tcl_ArraySearchPeek(Tcl_Interp *interp,
+				Tcl_ArraySearch search, Tcl_Obj **keyPtrPtr,
+				Tcl_Obj **valuePtrPtr);
+/* 639 */
+EXTERN int		Tcl_ArraySearchNext(Tcl_Interp *interp,
+				Tcl_ArraySearch search, Tcl_Obj **keyPtrPtr,
+				Tcl_Obj **valuePtrPtr);
+/* 640 */
+EXTERN int		Tcl_ArraySearchDone(Tcl_Interp *interp,
+				Tcl_ArraySearch search);
+/* 641 */
+EXTERN int		Tcl_ArrayStatistics(Tcl_Interp *interp,
+				Tcl_Obj *part1Ptr, Tcl_Obj *stringPtr,
+				int flags);

 typedef struct {
    const struct TclPlatStubs *tclPlatStubs;
@@ -2482,6 +2522,17 @@ typedef struct TclStubs {
    void * (*tcl_FindSymbol) (Tcl_Interp *interp, Tcl_LoadHandle handle, const char *symbol); /* 628 */
    int (*tcl_FSUnloadFile) (Tcl_Interp *interp, Tcl_LoadHandle handlePtr); /* 629 */
    void (*tcl_ZlibStreamSetCompressionDictionary) (Tcl_ZlibStream zhandle, Tcl_Obj *compressionDictionaryObj); /* 630 */
+    int (*tcl_ArraySet) (Tcl_Interp *interp, Tcl_Obj *part1Ptr, Tcl_Obj *dictPtr, int flags); /* 631 */
+    int (*tcl_ArrayUnset) (Tcl_Interp *interp, Tcl_Obj *part1Ptr, Tcl_Obj *part2Ptr, int flags); /* 632 */
+    int (*tcl_ArrayGet) (Tcl_Interp *interp, Tcl_Obj *part1Ptr, Tcl_Obj *part2Ptr, Tcl_Obj *dictPtr, int flags); /* 633 */
+    int (*tcl_ArrayNames) (Tcl_Interp *interp, Tcl_Obj *part1Ptr, Tcl_Obj *part2Ptr, Tcl_Obj *listPtr, int flags); /* 634 */
+    int (*tcl_ArraySize) (Tcl_Interp *interp, Tcl_Obj *part1Ptr, Tcl_Obj *part2Ptr, int *intPtr, int flags); /* 635 */
+    int (*tcl_ArrayExists) (Tcl_Interp *interp, Tcl_Obj *part1Ptr, Tcl_Obj *part2Ptr, int *intPtr, int flags); /* 636 */
+    Tcl_ArraySearch (*tcl_ArraySearchStart) (Tcl_Interp *interp, Tcl_Obj *part1Ptr, Tcl_Obj *part2Ptr, int flags); /* 637 */
+    int (*tcl_ArraySearchPeek) (Tcl_Interp *interp, Tcl_ArraySearch search, Tcl_Obj **keyPtrPtr, Tcl_Obj **valuePtrPtr); /* 638 */
+    int (*tcl_ArraySearchNext) (Tcl_Interp *interp, Tcl_ArraySearch search, Tcl_Obj **keyPtrPtr, Tcl_Obj **valuePtrPtr); /* 639 */
+    int (*tcl_ArraySearchDone) (Tcl_Interp *interp, Tcl_ArraySearch search); /* 640 */
+    int (*tcl_ArrayStatistics) (Tcl_Interp *interp, Tcl_Obj *part1Ptr, Tcl_Obj *stringPtr, int flags); /* 641 */
 } TclStubs;

 extern const TclStubs *tclStubsPtr;
@@ -3774,6 +3825,28 @@ extern const TclStubs *tclStubsPtr;
 	(tclStubsPtr->tcl_FSUnloadFile) /* 629 */
 #define Tcl_ZlibStreamSetCompressionDictionary \
 	(tclStubsPtr->tcl_ZlibStreamSetCompressionDictionary) /* 630 */
+#define Tcl_ArraySet \
+	(tclStubsPtr->tcl_ArraySet) /* 631 */
+#define Tcl_ArrayUnset \
+	(tclStubsPtr->tcl_ArrayUnset) /* 632 */
+#define Tcl_ArrayGet \
+	(tclStubsPtr->tcl_ArrayGet) /* 633 */
+#define Tcl_ArrayNames \
+	(tclStubsPtr->tcl_ArrayNames) /* 634 */
+#define Tcl_ArraySize \
+	(tclStubsPtr->tcl_ArraySize) /* 635 */
+#define Tcl_ArrayExists \
+	(tclStubsPtr->tcl_ArrayExists) /* 636 */
+#define Tcl_ArraySearchStart \
+	(tclStubsPtr->tcl_ArraySearchStart) /* 637 */
+#define Tcl_ArraySearchPeek \
+	(tclStubsPtr->tcl_ArraySearchPeek) /* 638 */
+#define Tcl_ArraySearchNext \
+	(tclStubsPtr->tcl_ArraySearchNext) /* 639 */
+#define Tcl_ArraySearchDone \
+	(tclStubsPtr->tcl_ArraySearchDone) /* 640 */
+#define Tcl_ArrayStatistics \
+	(tclStubsPtr->tcl_ArrayStatistics) /* 641 */

 #endif /* defined(USE_TCL_STUBS) */

@@ -70,18 +70,12 @@ static inline void	DeleteChainTable(struct Dict *dict);
 static inline Tcl_HashEntry *CreateChainEntry(struct Dict *dict,
 			    Tcl_Obj *keyPtr, int *newPtr);
 static inline int	DeleteChainEntry(struct Dict *dict, Tcl_Obj *keyPtr);
-static int		FinalizeDictUpdate(ClientData data[],
-			    Tcl_Interp *interp, int result);
-static int		FinalizeDictWith(ClientData data[],
-			    Tcl_Interp *interp, int result);
-static int		DictForNRCmd(ClientData dummy, Tcl_Interp *interp,
-			    int objc, Tcl_Obj *const *objv);
-static int		DictMapNRCmd(ClientData dummy, Tcl_Interp *interp,
-			    int objc, Tcl_Obj *const *objv);
-static int		DictForLoopCallback(ClientData data[],
-			    Tcl_Interp *interp, int result);
-static int		DictMapLoopCallback(ClientData data[],
-			    Tcl_Interp *interp, int result);
+static Tcl_NRPostProc	FinalizeDictUpdate;
+static Tcl_NRPostProc	FinalizeDictWith;
+static Tcl_ObjCmdProc	DictForNRCmd;
+static Tcl_ObjCmdProc	DictMapNRCmd;
+static Tcl_NRPostProc	DictForLoopCallback;
+static Tcl_NRPostProc	DictMapLoopCallback;

 /*
 * Table of dict subcommand names and implementations.
@@ -148,7 +142,7 @@ typedef struct Dict {
 				 * the entries in the order that they are
 				 * created. */
    int epoch;			/* Epoch counter */
-    int refcount;		/* Reference counter (see above) */
+    size_t refCount;		/* Reference counter (see above) */
    Tcl_Obj *chain;		/* Linked list used for invalidating the
 				 * string representations of updated nested
 				 * dictionaries. */
@@ -398,7 +392,7 @@ DupDictInternalRep(

    newDict->epoch = 0;
    newDict->chain = NULL;
-    newDict->refcount = 1;
+    newDict->refCount = 1;

    /*
     * Store in the object.
@@ -433,8 +427,7 @@ FreeDictInternalRep(
 {
    Dict *dict = DICT(dictPtr);

-    dict->refcount--;
-    if (dict->refcount <= 0) {
+    if (dict->refCount-- <= 1) {
 	DeleteDict(dict);
    }
    dictPtr->typePtr = NULL;
@@ -719,7 +712,7 @@ SetDictFromAny(
    TclFreeIntRep(objPtr);
    dict->epoch = 0;
    dict->chain = NULL;
-    dict->refcount = 1;
+    dict->refCount = 1;
    DICT(objPtr) = dict;
    objPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr2 = NULL;
    objPtr->typePtr = &tclDictType;
@@ -1123,7 +1116,7 @@ Tcl_DictObjFirst(
 	searchPtr->dictionaryPtr = (Tcl_Dict) dict;
 	searchPtr->epoch = dict->epoch;
 	searchPtr->next = cPtr->nextPtr;
-	dict->refcount++;
+	dict->refCount++;
 	if (keyPtrPtr != NULL) {
 	    *keyPtrPtr = Tcl_GetHashKey(&dict->table, &cPtr->entry);
 	}
@@ -1237,8 +1230,7 @@ Tcl_DictObjDone(
    if (searchPtr->epoch != -1) {
 	searchPtr->epoch = -1;
 	dict = (Dict *) searchPtr->dictionaryPtr;
-	dict->refcount--;
-	if (dict->refcount <= 0) {
+	if (dict->refCount-- <= 1) {
 	    DeleteDict(dict);
 	}
    }
@@ -1390,7 +1382,7 @@ Tcl_NewDictObj(void)
    InitChainTable(dict);
    dict->epoch = 0;
    dict->chain = NULL;
-    dict->refcount = 1;
+    dict->refCount = 1;
    DICT(dictPtr) = dict;
    dictPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr2 = NULL;
    dictPtr->typePtr = &tclDictType;
@@ -1440,7 +1432,7 @@ Tcl_DbNewDictObj(
    InitChainTable(dict);
    dict->epoch = 0;
    dict->chain = NULL;
-    dict->refcount = 1;
+    dict->refCount = 1;
    DICT(dictPtr) = dict;
    dictPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr2 = NULL;
    dictPtr->typePtr = &tclDictType;
@@ -2288,7 +2280,7 @@ DictAppendCmd(
    Tcl_Obj *const *objv)
 {
    Tcl_Obj *dictPtr, *valuePtr, *resultPtr;
-    int i, allocatedDict = 0;
+    int allocatedDict = 0;

    if (objc < 3) {
 	Tcl_WrongNumArgs(interp, 1, objv, "dictVarName key ?value ...?");
@@ -2311,17 +2303,44 @@ DictAppendCmd(
 	return TCL_ERROR;
    }

-    if (valuePtr == NULL) {
-	TclNewObj(valuePtr);
-    } else if (Tcl_IsShared(valuePtr)) {
-	valuePtr = Tcl_DuplicateObj(valuePtr);
+    if ((objc > 3) || (valuePtr == NULL)) {
+	/* Only go through append activites when something will change. */
+	Tcl_Obj *appendObjPtr = NULL;
+
+	if (objc > 3) {
+	    /* Something to append */
+
+	    if (objc == 4) {
+		appendObjPtr = objv[3];
+	    } else if (TCL_OK != TclStringCatObjv(interp, /* inPlace */ 1,
+		    objc-3, objv+3, &appendObjPtr)) {
+		return TCL_ERROR;
+	    }
+	}
+
+	if (appendObjPtr == NULL) {
+	    /* => (objc == 3) => (valuePtr == NULL) */
+	    TclNewObj(valuePtr);
+	} else if (valuePtr == NULL) {
+	    valuePtr = appendObjPtr;
+	    appendObjPtr = NULL;
+	}
+
+	if (appendObjPtr) {
+	    if (Tcl_IsShared(valuePtr)) {
+		valuePtr = Tcl_DuplicateObj(valuePtr);
+	    }
+
+	    Tcl_AppendObjToObj(valuePtr, appendObjPtr);
+	}
+
+	Tcl_DictObjPut(NULL, dictPtr, objv[2], valuePtr);
    }

-    for (i=3 ; i<objc ; i++) {
-	Tcl_AppendObjToObj(valuePtr, objv[i]);
-    }
-
-    Tcl_DictObjPut(NULL, dictPtr, objv[2], valuePtr);
+    /*
+     * Even if nothing changed, we still overwrite so that variable
+     * trace expectations are met.
+     */

    resultPtr = Tcl_ObjSetVar2(interp, objv[1], NULL, dictPtr,
 	    TCL_LEAVE_ERR_MSG);
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 *
 * Copyright (c) 1996-1998 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
 * Copyright (c) 2001 by Kevin B. Kenny. All rights reserved.
- * Copyright (c) 2013 Donal K. Fellows.
+ * Copyright (c) 2013-2016 Donal K. Fellows.
 *
 * See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution of
 * this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ TclPrintObject(
    char *bytes;
    int length;

-    bytes = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objPtr, &length);
+    bytes = TclGetStringFromObj(objPtr, &length);
    TclPrintSource(outFile, bytes, TclMin(length, maxChars));
 }

@@ -650,7 +650,7 @@ FormatInstruction(
 	int length;

 	Tcl_AppendToObj(bufferObj, "\t# ", -1);
-	bytes = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(codePtr->objArrayPtr[opnd], &length);
+	bytes = TclGetStringFromObj(codePtr->objArrayPtr[opnd], &length);
 	PrintSourceToObj(bufferObj, bytes, TclMin(length, 40));
    } else if (suffixBuffer[0]) {
 	Tcl_AppendPrintfToObj(bufferObj, "\t# %s", suffixBuffer);
@@ -1279,9 +1279,11 @@ Tcl_DisassembleObjCmd(
    Tcl_Obj *const objv[])	/* Argument objects. */
 {
    static const char *const types[] = {
+	"constructor", "destructor",
 	"lambda", "method", "objmethod", "proc", "script", NULL
    };
    enum Types {
+	DISAS_CLASS_CONSTRUCTOR, DISAS_CLASS_DESTRUCTOR,
 	DISAS_LAMBDA, DISAS_CLASS_METHOD, DISAS_OBJECT_METHOD, DISAS_PROC,
 	DISAS_SCRIPT
    };
@@ -1290,6 +1292,7 @@ Tcl_DisassembleObjCmd(
    Proc *procPtr = NULL;
    Tcl_HashEntry *hPtr;
    Object *oPtr;
+    Method *methodPtr;

    if (objc < 2) {
 	Tcl_WrongNumArgs(interp, 1, objv, "type ...");
@@ -1384,6 +1387,136 @@ Tcl_DisassembleObjCmd(
 	codeObjPtr = objv[2];
 	break;

+    case DISAS_CLASS_CONSTRUCTOR:
+	if (objc != 3) {
+	    Tcl_WrongNumArgs(interp, 2, objv, "className");
+	    return TCL_ERROR;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Look up the body of a constructor.
+	 */
+
+	oPtr = (Object *) Tcl_GetObjectFromObj(interp, objv[2]);
+	if (oPtr == NULL) {
+	    return TCL_ERROR;
+	}
+	if (oPtr->classPtr == NULL) {
+	    Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
+		    "\"%s\" is not a class", TclGetString(objv[2])));
+	    Tcl_SetErrorCode(interp, "TCL", "LOOKUP", "CLASS",
+		    TclGetString(objv[2]), NULL);
+	    return TCL_ERROR;
+	}
+
+	methodPtr = oPtr->classPtr->constructorPtr;
+	if (methodPtr == NULL) {
+	    Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
+		    "\"%s\" has no defined constructor",
+		    TclGetString(objv[2])));
+	    Tcl_SetErrorCode(interp, "TCL", "OPERATION", "DISASSEMBLE",
+		    "CONSRUCTOR", NULL);
+	    return TCL_ERROR;
+	}
+	procPtr = TclOOGetProcFromMethod(methodPtr);
+	if (procPtr == NULL) {
+	    Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_NewStringObj(
+		    "body not available for this kind of constructor", -1));
+	    Tcl_SetErrorCode(interp, "TCL", "OPERATION", "DISASSEMBLE",
+		    "METHODTYPE", NULL);
+	    return TCL_ERROR;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Compile if necessary.
+	 */
+
+	if (procPtr->bodyPtr->typePtr != &tclByteCodeType) {
+	    Command cmd;
+
+	    /*
+	     * Yes, this is ugly, but we need to pass the namespace in to the
+	     * compiler in two places.
+	     */
+
+	    cmd.nsPtr = (Namespace *) oPtr->namespacePtr;
+	    procPtr->cmdPtr = &cmd;
+	    result = TclProcCompileProc(interp, procPtr, procPtr->bodyPtr,
+		    (Namespace *) oPtr->namespacePtr, "body of constructor",
+		    TclGetString(objv[2]));
+	    procPtr->cmdPtr = NULL;
+	    if (result != TCL_OK) {
+		return result;
+	    }
+	}
+	codeObjPtr = procPtr->bodyPtr;
+	break;
+
+    case DISAS_CLASS_DESTRUCTOR:
+	if (objc != 3) {
+	    Tcl_WrongNumArgs(interp, 2, objv, "className");
+	    return TCL_ERROR;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Look up the body of a destructor.
+	 */
+
+	oPtr = (Object *) Tcl_GetObjectFromObj(interp, objv[2]);
+	if (oPtr == NULL) {
+	    return TCL_ERROR;
+	}
+	if (oPtr->classPtr == NULL) {
+	    Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
+		    "\"%s\" is not a class", TclGetString(objv[2])));
+	    Tcl_SetErrorCode(interp, "TCL", "LOOKUP", "CLASS",
+		    TclGetString(objv[2]), NULL);
+	    return TCL_ERROR;
+	}
+
+	methodPtr = oPtr->classPtr->destructorPtr;
+	if (methodPtr == NULL) {
+	    Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
+		    "\"%s\" has no defined destructor",
+		    TclGetString(objv[2])));
+	    Tcl_SetErrorCode(interp, "TCL", "OPERATION", "DISASSEMBLE",
+		    "DESRUCTOR", NULL);
+	    return TCL_ERROR;
+	}
+	procPtr = TclOOGetProcFromMethod(methodPtr);
+	if (procPtr == NULL) {
+	    Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_NewStringObj(
+		    "body not available for this kind of destructor", -1));
+	    Tcl_SetErrorCode(interp, "TCL", "OPERATION", "DISASSEMBLE",
+		    "METHODTYPE", NULL);
+	    return TCL_ERROR;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Compile if necessary.
+	 */
+
+	if (procPtr->bodyPtr->typePtr != &tclByteCodeType) {
+	    Command cmd;
+
+	    /*
+	     * Yes, this is ugly, but we need to pass the namespace in to the
+	     * compiler in two places.
+	     */
+
+	    cmd.nsPtr = (Namespace *) oPtr->namespacePtr;
+	    procPtr->cmdPtr = &cmd;
+	    result = TclProcCompileProc(interp, procPtr, procPtr->bodyPtr,
+		    (Namespace *) oPtr->namespacePtr, "body of destructor",
+		    TclGetString(objv[2]));
+	    procPtr->cmdPtr = NULL;
+	    if (result != TCL_OK) {
+		return result;
+	    }
+	}
+	codeObjPtr = procPtr->bodyPtr;
+	break;
+
    case DISAS_CLASS_METHOD:
 	if (objc != 4) {
 	    Tcl_WrongNumArgs(interp, 2, objv, "className methodName");
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ typedef struct Encoding {
 				 * nullSize is 2, this is a function that
 				 * returns the number of bytes in a 0x0000
 				 * terminated string. */
-    int refCount;		/* Number of uses of this structure. */
+    size_t refCount;		/* Number of uses of this structure. */
    Tcl_HashEntry *hPtr;	/* Hash table entry that owns this encoding. */
 } Encoding;

@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ Tcl_GetEncodingFromObj(
    Tcl_Obj *objPtr,
    Tcl_Encoding *encodingPtr)
 {
-    const char *name = Tcl_GetString(objPtr);
+    const char *name = TclGetString(objPtr);

    if (objPtr->typePtr != &encodingType) {
 	Tcl_Encoding encoding = Tcl_GetEncoding(interp, name);
@@ -705,7 +705,7 @@ Tcl_GetDefaultEncodingDir(void)
    }
    Tcl_ListObjIndex(NULL, searchPath, 0, &first);

-    return Tcl_GetString(first);
+    return TclGetString(first);
 }

 /*
@@ -844,11 +844,7 @@ FreeEncoding(
    if (encodingPtr == NULL) {
 	return;
    }
-    if (encodingPtr->refCount<=0) {
-	Tcl_Panic("FreeEncoding: refcount problem !!!");
-    }
-    encodingPtr->refCount--;
-    if (encodingPtr->refCount == 0) {
+    if (encodingPtr->refCount-- <= 1) {
 	if (encodingPtr->freeProc != NULL) {
 	    encodingPtr->freeProc(encodingPtr->clientData);
 	}
@@ -977,7 +973,7 @@ Tcl_GetEncodingNames(
 * Side effects:
 *	The reference count of the new system encoding is incremented. The
 *	reference count of the old system encoding is decremented and it may
- *	be freed.
+ *	be freed. All VFS cached information is invalidated.
 *
 *------------------------------------------------------------------------
 */
@@ -1008,6 +1004,7 @@ Tcl_SetSystemEncoding(
    FreeEncoding(systemEncoding);
    systemEncoding = encoding;
    Tcl_MutexUnlock(&encodingMutex);
+    Tcl_FSMountsChanged(NULL);

    return TCL_OK;
 }
@@ -1518,10 +1515,10 @@ OpenEncodingFileChannel(
 	    }
 	}
 	if (!verified) {
-	    const char *dirString = Tcl_GetString(directory);
+	    const char *dirString = TclGetString(directory);

 	    for (i=0; i<numDirs && !verified; i++) {
-		if (strcmp(dirString, Tcl_GetString(dir[i])) == 0) {
+		if (strcmp(dirString, TclGetString(dir[i])) == 0) {
 		    verified = 1;
 		}
 	    }
@@ -1762,7 +1759,7 @@ LoadTableEncoding(
 	const char *p;

 	Tcl_ReadChars(chan, objPtr, 3 + 16 * (16 * 4 + 1), 0);
-	p = Tcl_GetString(objPtr);
+	p = TclGetString(objPtr);
 	hi = (staticHex[UCHAR(p[0])] << 4) + staticHex[UCHAR(p[1])];
 	dataPtr->toUnicode[hi] = pageMemPtr;
 	p += 2;
@@ -3599,11 +3596,11 @@ unilen(
 static void
 InitializeEncodingSearchPath(
    char **valuePtr,
-    int *lengthPtr,
+    size_t *lengthPtr,
    Tcl_Encoding *encodingPtr)
 {
    const char *bytes;
-    int i, numDirs, numBytes;
+    int i, numDirs;
    Tcl_Obj *libPathObj, *encodingObj, *searchPathObj;

    TclNewLiteralStringObj(encodingObj, "encoding");
@@ -3633,11 +3630,11 @@ InitializeEncodingSearchPath(
    if (*encodingPtr) {
 	((Encoding *)(*encodingPtr))->refCount++;
    }
-    bytes = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(searchPathObj, &numBytes);
+    bytes = TclGetString(searchPathObj);

-    *lengthPtr = numBytes;
-    *valuePtr = ckalloc(numBytes + 1);
-    memcpy(*valuePtr, bytes, (size_t) numBytes + 1);
+    *lengthPtr = searchPathObj->length;
+    *valuePtr = ckalloc(*lengthPtr + 1);
+    memcpy(*valuePtr, bytes, *lengthPtr + 1);
    Tcl_DecrRefCount(searchPathObj);
 }

@@ -30,11 +30,10 @@ static int		NsEnsembleStringOrder(const void *strPtr1,
 			    const void *strPtr2);
 static void		DeleteEnsembleConfig(ClientData clientData);
 static void		MakeCachedEnsembleCommand(Tcl_Obj *objPtr,
-			    EnsembleConfig *ensemblePtr,
-			    const char *subcmdName, Tcl_Obj *prefixObjPtr);
+			    EnsembleConfig *ensemblePtr, Tcl_HashEntry *hPtr,
+			    Tcl_Obj *fix);
 static void		FreeEnsembleCmdRep(Tcl_Obj *objPtr);
 static void		DupEnsembleCmdRep(Tcl_Obj *objPtr, Tcl_Obj *copyPtr);
-static void		StringOfEnsembleCmdRep(Tcl_Obj *objPtr);
 static void		CompileToInvokedCommand(Tcl_Interp *interp,
 			    Tcl_Parse *parsePtr, Tcl_Obj *replacements,
 			    Command *cmdPtr, CompileEnv *envPtr);
@@ -42,6 +41,8 @@ static int		CompileBasicNArgCommand(Tcl_Interp *interp,
 			    Tcl_Parse *parsePtr, Command *cmdPtr,
 			    CompileEnv *envPtr);

+static Tcl_NRPostProc	FreeER;
+
 /*
 * The lists of subcommands and options for the [namespace ensemble] command.
 */
@@ -77,14 +78,30 @@ enum EnsConfigOpts {
 * that implements it.
 */

-const Tcl_ObjType tclEnsembleCmdType = {
+static const Tcl_ObjType ensembleCmdType = {
    "ensembleCommand",		/* the type's name */
    FreeEnsembleCmdRep,		/* freeIntRepProc */
    DupEnsembleCmdRep,		/* dupIntRepProc */
-    StringOfEnsembleCmdRep,	/* updateStringProc */
+    NULL,			/* updateStringProc */
    NULL			/* setFromAnyProc */
 };

+/*
+ * The internal rep for caching ensemble subcommand lookups and
+ * spell corrections.
+ */
+
+typedef struct {
+    int epoch;                  /* Used to confirm when the data in this
+                                 * really structure matches up with the
+                                 * ensemble. */
+    Command *token;             /* Reference to the command for which this
+                                 * structure is a cache of the resolution. */
+    Tcl_Obj *fix;               /* Corrected spelling, if needed. */
+    Tcl_HashEntry *hPtr;        /* Direct link to entry in the subcommand
+                                 * hash table. */
+} EnsembleCmdRep;
+

 static inline Tcl_Obj *
 NewNsObj(
@@ -1588,7 +1605,7 @@ TclMakeEnsemble(
    Tcl_DStringFree(&buf);
    Tcl_DStringFree(&hiddenBuf);
    if (nameParts != NULL) {
-	ckfree((char *) nameParts);
+	ckfree(nameParts);
    }
    return ensemble;
 }
@@ -1643,6 +1660,8 @@ NsEnsembleImplementationCmdNR(
 				 * names. */
    int reparseCount = 0;	/* Number of reparses. */
    Tcl_Obj *errorObj;		/* Used for building error messages. */
+    Tcl_Obj *subObj;
+    int subIdx;

    /*
     * Must recheck objc, since numParameters might have changed. Cf. test
@@ -1650,24 +1669,18 @@ NsEnsembleImplementationCmdNR(
     */

  restartEnsembleParse:
-    if (objc < 2 + ensemblePtr->numParameters) {
+    subIdx = 1 + ensemblePtr->numParameters;
+    if (objc < subIdx + 1) {
 	/*
 	 * We don't have a subcommand argument. Make error message.
 	 */

 	Tcl_DString buf;	/* Message being built */
-	Tcl_Obj **elemPtrs;	/* Parameter names */
-	int len;		/* Number of parameters to append */

 	Tcl_DStringInit(&buf);
-	if (ensemblePtr->parameterList == NULL) {
-	    len = 0;
-	} else if (TclListObjGetElements(NULL, ensemblePtr->parameterList,
-		&len, &elemPtrs) != TCL_OK) {
-	    Tcl_Panic("List of ensemble parameters is not a list");
-	}
-	for (; len>0; len--,elemPtrs++) {
-	    TclDStringAppendObj(&buf, *elemPtrs);
+	if (ensemblePtr->parameterList) {
+	    Tcl_DStringAppend(&buf,
+		    TclGetString(ensemblePtr->parameterList), -1);
 	    TclDStringAppendLiteral(&buf, " ");
 	}
 	TclDStringAppendLiteral(&buf, "subcommand ?arg ...?");
@@ -1695,6 +1708,8 @@ NsEnsembleImplementationCmdNR(
     * up in there and go straight to dispatch.
     */

+    subObj = objv[subIdx];
+
    if (ensemblePtr->epoch == ensemblePtr->nsPtr->exportLookupEpoch) {
 	/*
 	 * Table of subcommands is still valid; therefore there might be a
@@ -1703,15 +1718,16 @@ NsEnsembleImplementationCmdNR(
 	 * part where we do the invocation of the subcommand.
 	 */

-	if (objv[1+ensemblePtr->numParameters]->typePtr==&tclEnsembleCmdType){
-	    EnsembleCmdRep *ensembleCmd = objv[1+ensemblePtr->numParameters]
-		    ->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1;
+	if (subObj->typePtr==&ensembleCmdType){
+	    EnsembleCmdRep *ensembleCmd = subObj->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1;

-	    if (ensembleCmd->nsPtr == ensemblePtr->nsPtr &&
-		    ensembleCmd->epoch == ensemblePtr->epoch &&
-		    ensembleCmd->token == ensemblePtr->token) {
-		prefixObj = ensembleCmd->realPrefixObj;
+	    if (ensembleCmd->epoch == ensemblePtr->epoch &&
+		    ensembleCmd->token == (Command *)ensemblePtr->token) {
+		prefixObj = Tcl_GetHashValue(ensembleCmd->hPtr);
 		Tcl_IncrRefCount(prefixObj);
+		if (ensembleCmd->fix) {
+		    TclSpellFix(interp, objv, objc, subIdx, subObj, ensembleCmd->fix);
+		}
 		goto runResultingSubcommand;
 	    }
 	}
@@ -1726,18 +1742,14 @@ NsEnsembleImplementationCmdNR(
     */

    hPtr = Tcl_FindHashEntry(&ensemblePtr->subcommandTable,
-	    TclGetString(objv[1 + ensemblePtr->numParameters]));
+	    TclGetString(subObj));
    if (hPtr != NULL) {
-	char *fullName = Tcl_GetHashKey(&ensemblePtr->subcommandTable, hPtr);
-
-	prefixObj = Tcl_GetHashValue(hPtr);

 	/*
 	 * Cache for later in the subcommand object.
 	 */

-	MakeCachedEnsembleCommand(objv[1 + ensemblePtr->numParameters],
-		ensemblePtr, fullName, prefixObj);
+	MakeCachedEnsembleCommand(subObj, ensemblePtr, hPtr, NULL);
    } else if (!(ensemblePtr->flags & TCL_ENSEMBLE_PREFIX)) {
 	/*
 	 * Could not map, no prefixing, go to unknown/error handling.
@@ -1757,9 +1769,9 @@ NsEnsembleImplementationCmdNR(
 	char *fullName = NULL;	/* Full name of the subcommand. */
 	int stringLength, i;
 	int tableLength = ensemblePtr->subcommandTable.numEntries;
+	Tcl_Obj *fix;

-	subcmdName = TclGetString(objv[1 + ensemblePtr->numParameters]);
-	stringLength = objv[1 + ensemblePtr->numParameters]->length;
+	subcmdName = TclGetStringFromObj(subObj, &stringLength);
 	for (i=0 ; i<tableLength ; i++) {
 	    register int cmp = strncmp(subcmdName,
 		    ensemblePtr->subcommandArrayPtr[i],
@@ -1799,16 +1811,22 @@ NsEnsembleImplementationCmdNR(
 	    Tcl_Panic("full name %s not found in supposedly synchronized hash",
 		    fullName);
 	}
-	prefixObj = Tcl_GetHashValue(hPtr);
+
+	/*
+	 * Record the spelling correction for usage message.
+	 */
+
+	fix = Tcl_NewStringObj(fullName, -1);

 	/*
 	 * Cache for later in the subcommand object.
 	 */

-	MakeCachedEnsembleCommand(objv[1 + ensemblePtr->numParameters],
-		ensemblePtr, fullName, prefixObj);
+	MakeCachedEnsembleCommand(subObj, ensemblePtr, hPtr, fix);
+	TclSpellFix(interp, objv, objc, subIdx, subObj, fix);
    }

+    prefixObj = Tcl_GetHashValue(hPtr);
    Tcl_IncrRefCount(prefixObj);
  runResultingSubcommand:

@@ -1827,46 +1845,26 @@ NsEnsembleImplementationCmdNR(
     */

    {
-	Tcl_Obj **prefixObjv;	/* The list of objects to substitute in as the
-				 * target command prefix. */
 	Tcl_Obj *copyPtr;	/* The actual list of words to dispatch to.
 				 * Will be freed by the dispatch engine. */
-	int prefixObjc, copyObjc;
+	Tcl_Obj **copyObjv;
+	int copyObjc, prefixObjc;

-	/*
-	 * Get the prefix that we're rewriting to. To do this we need to
-	 * ensure that the internal representation of the list does not change
-	 * so that we can safely keep the internal representations of the
-	 * elements in the list.
-	 *
-	 * TODO: Use conventional list operations to make this code sane!
-	 */
+	Tcl_ListObjLength(NULL, prefixObj, &prefixObjc);

-	TclListObjGetElements(NULL, prefixObj, &prefixObjc, &prefixObjv);
-
-	copyObjc = objc - 2 + prefixObjc;
-	copyPtr = Tcl_NewListObj(copyObjc, NULL);
-	if (copyObjc > 0) {
-	    register Tcl_Obj **copyObjv;
-				/* Space used to construct the list of
-				 * arguments to pass to the command that
-				 * implements the ensemble subcommand. */
-	    register List *listRepPtr = copyPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1;
-	    register int i;
-
-	    listRepPtr->elemCount = copyObjc;
-	    copyObjv = &listRepPtr->elements;
-	    memcpy(copyObjv, prefixObjv, sizeof(Tcl_Obj *) * prefixObjc);
-	    memcpy(copyObjv+prefixObjc, objv+1,
-		    sizeof(Tcl_Obj *) * ensemblePtr->numParameters);
-	    memcpy(copyObjv+prefixObjc+ensemblePtr->numParameters,
-		    objv+ensemblePtr->numParameters+2,
-		    sizeof(Tcl_Obj *) * (objc-ensemblePtr->numParameters-2));
-
-	    for (i=0; i < copyObjc; i++) {
-		Tcl_IncrRefCount(copyObjv[i]);
-	    }
+	if (objc == 2) {
+	    copyPtr = TclListObjCopy(NULL, prefixObj);
+	} else {
+	    copyPtr = Tcl_NewListObj(objc - 2 + prefixObjc, NULL);
+	    Tcl_ListObjAppendList(NULL, copyPtr, prefixObj);
+	    Tcl_ListObjReplace(NULL, copyPtr, LIST_MAX, 0,
+		    ensemblePtr->numParameters, objv + 1);
+	    Tcl_ListObjReplace(NULL, copyPtr, LIST_MAX, 0,
+		    objc - 2 - ensemblePtr->numParameters,
+		    objv + 2 + ensemblePtr->numParameters);
 	}
+	Tcl_IncrRefCount(copyPtr);
+	TclNRAddCallback(interp, TclNRReleaseValues, copyPtr, NULL, NULL, NULL);
 	TclDecrRefCount(prefixObj);

 	/*
@@ -1886,7 +1884,8 @@ NsEnsembleImplementationCmdNR(
 	 */

 	TclSkipTailcall(interp);
-	return TclNREvalObjEx(interp, copyPtr, TCL_EVAL_INVOKE, NULL,INT_MIN);
+	Tcl_ListObjGetElements(NULL, copyPtr, &copyObjc, &copyObjv);
+	return TclNREvalObjv(interp, copyObjc, copyObjv, TCL_EVAL_INVOKE, NULL);
    }

  unknownOrAmbiguousSubcommand:
@@ -1918,20 +1917,17 @@ NsEnsembleImplementationCmdNR(

    Tcl_ResetResult(interp);
    Tcl_SetErrorCode(interp, "TCL", "LOOKUP", "SUBCOMMAND",
-	    TclGetString(objv[1+ensemblePtr->numParameters]), NULL);
+	    TclGetString(subObj), NULL);
    if (ensemblePtr->subcommandTable.numEntries == 0) {
 	Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
 		"unknown subcommand \"%s\": namespace %s does not"
-		" export any commands",
-		TclGetString(objv[1+ensemblePtr->numParameters]),
+		" export any commands", TclGetString(subObj),
 		ensemblePtr->nsPtr->fullName));
-	Tcl_SetErrorCode(interp, "TCL", "LOOKUP", "SUBCOMMAND",
-		TclGetString(objv[1+ensemblePtr->numParameters]), NULL);
 	return TCL_ERROR;
    }
    errorObj = Tcl_ObjPrintf("unknown%s subcommand \"%s\": must be ",
 	    (ensemblePtr->flags & TCL_ENSEMBLE_PREFIX ? " or ambiguous" : ""),
-	    TclGetString(objv[1+ensemblePtr->numParameters]));
+	    TclGetString(subObj));
    if (ensemblePtr->subcommandTable.numEntries == 1) {
 	Tcl_AppendToObj(errorObj, ensemblePtr->subcommandArrayPtr[0], -1);
    } else {
@@ -2037,6 +2033,149 @@ TclResetRewriteEnsemble(
    }
 }

+/*
+ *----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ *
+ * TclSpellFix --
+ *
+ *	Record a spelling correction that needs making in the
+ *	generation of the WrongNumArgs usage message.
+ *
+ * Results:
+ *	None.
+ *
+ * Side effects:
+ *	Can create an alternative ensemble rewrite structure.
+ *
+ *----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+
+static int
+FreeER(
+    ClientData data[],
+    Tcl_Interp *interp,
+    int result)
+{
+    Tcl_Obj **tmp = (Tcl_Obj **)data[0];
+
+    ckfree(tmp[2]);
+    ckfree(tmp);
+    return result;
+}
+
+void
+TclSpellFix(
+    Tcl_Interp *interp,
+    Tcl_Obj *const *objv,
+    int objc,
+    int badIdx,
+    Tcl_Obj *bad,
+    Tcl_Obj *fix)
+{
+    Interp *iPtr = (Interp *) interp;
+    Tcl_Obj *const *search;
+    Tcl_Obj **store;
+    int idx;
+    int size;
+
+    if (iPtr->ensembleRewrite.sourceObjs == NULL) {
+	iPtr->ensembleRewrite.sourceObjs = objv;
+	iPtr->ensembleRewrite.numRemovedObjs = 0;
+	iPtr->ensembleRewrite.numInsertedObjs = 0;
+    }
+
+    /* Compute the valid length of the ensemble root */
+
+    size = iPtr->ensembleRewrite.numRemovedObjs + objc
+		- iPtr->ensembleRewrite.numInsertedObjs;
+
+    search = iPtr->ensembleRewrite.sourceObjs;
+    if (search[0] == NULL) {
+	/* Awful casting abuse here */
+	search = (Tcl_Obj *const *) search[1];
+    }
+
+    if (badIdx < iPtr->ensembleRewrite.numInsertedObjs) {
+	/*
+	 * Misspelled value was inserted. We cannot directly jump
+	 * to the bad value, but have to search.
+	 */
+	idx = 1;
+	while (idx < size) {
+	    if (search[idx] == bad) {
+		break;
+	    }
+	    idx++;
+	}
+	if (idx == size) {
+	    return;
+	}
+    } else {
+	/* Jump to the misspelled value. */
+	idx = iPtr->ensembleRewrite.numRemovedObjs + badIdx
+		- iPtr->ensembleRewrite.numInsertedObjs;
+
+	/* Verify */
+	if (search[idx] != bad) {
+	    Tcl_Panic("SpellFix: programming error");
+	}
+    }
+
+    search = iPtr->ensembleRewrite.sourceObjs;
+    if (search[0] == NULL) {
+	store = (Tcl_Obj **)search[2];
+    }  else {
+	Tcl_Obj **tmp = ckalloc(3 * sizeof(Tcl_Obj *));
+	tmp[0] = NULL;
+	tmp[1] = (Tcl_Obj *)iPtr->ensembleRewrite.sourceObjs;
+	tmp[2] = (Tcl_Obj *)ckalloc(size * sizeof(Tcl_Obj *));
+	memcpy(tmp[2], tmp[1], size*sizeof(Tcl_Obj *));
+
+	iPtr->ensembleRewrite.sourceObjs = (Tcl_Obj *const *) tmp;
+	TclNRAddCallback(interp, FreeER, tmp, NULL, NULL, NULL);
+	store = (Tcl_Obj **)tmp[2];
+    }
+
+    store[idx] = fix;
+    Tcl_IncrRefCount(fix);
+    TclNRAddCallback(interp, TclNRReleaseValues, fix, NULL, NULL, NULL);
+}
+
+/*
+ *----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ *
+ * TclFetchEnsembleRoot --
+ *
+ *	Returns the root of ensemble rewriting, if any.
+ *	If no root exists, returns objv instead.
+ *
+ * Results:
+ *	None.
+ *
+ * Side effects:
+ *	None.
+ *
+ *----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+
+Tcl_Obj *const *
+TclFetchEnsembleRoot(
+    Tcl_Interp *interp,
+    Tcl_Obj *const *objv,
+    int objc,
+    int *objcPtr)
+{
+    Interp *iPtr = (Interp *) interp;
+
+    if (iPtr->ensembleRewrite.sourceObjs) {
+	*objcPtr = objc + iPtr->ensembleRewrite.numRemovedObjs
+		- iPtr->ensembleRewrite.numInsertedObjs;
+	return iPtr->ensembleRewrite.sourceObjs;
+    }
+    *objcPtr = objc;
+    return objv;
+}
+
 /*
 * ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 *
@@ -2202,17 +2341,17 @@ static void
 MakeCachedEnsembleCommand(
    Tcl_Obj *objPtr,
    EnsembleConfig *ensemblePtr,
-    const char *subcommandName,
-    Tcl_Obj *prefixObjPtr)
+    Tcl_HashEntry *hPtr,
+    Tcl_Obj *fix)
 {
    register EnsembleCmdRep *ensembleCmd;
-    int length;

-    if (objPtr->typePtr == &tclEnsembleCmdType) {
+    if (objPtr->typePtr == &ensembleCmdType) {
 	ensembleCmd = objPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1;
-	Tcl_DecrRefCount(ensembleCmd->realPrefixObj);
-	TclNsDecrRefCount(ensembleCmd->nsPtr);
-	ckfree(ensembleCmd->fullSubcmdName);
+	TclCleanupCommandMacro(ensembleCmd->token);
+	if (ensembleCmd->fix) {
+	    Tcl_DecrRefCount(ensembleCmd->fix);
+	}
    } else {
 	/*
 	 * Kill the old internal rep, and replace it with a brand new one of
@@ -2222,22 +2361,21 @@ MakeCachedEnsembleCommand(
 	TclFreeIntRep(objPtr);
 	ensembleCmd = ckalloc(sizeof(EnsembleCmdRep));
 	objPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1 = ensembleCmd;
-	objPtr->typePtr = &tclEnsembleCmdType;
+	objPtr->typePtr = &ensembleCmdType;
    }

    /*
     * Populate the internal rep.
     */

-    ensembleCmd->nsPtr = ensemblePtr->nsPtr;
    ensembleCmd->epoch = ensemblePtr->epoch;
-    ensembleCmd->token = ensemblePtr->token;
-    ensemblePtr->nsPtr->refCount++;
-    ensembleCmd->realPrefixObj = prefixObjPtr;
-    length = strlen(subcommandName)+1;
-    ensembleCmd->fullSubcmdName = ckalloc(length);
-    memcpy(ensembleCmd->fullSubcmdName, subcommandName, (unsigned) length);
-    Tcl_IncrRefCount(ensembleCmd->realPrefixObj);
+    ensembleCmd->token = (Command *) ensemblePtr->token;
+    ensembleCmd->token->refCount++;
+    if (fix) {
+	Tcl_IncrRefCount(fix);
+    }
+    ensembleCmd->fix = fix;
+    ensembleCmd->hPtr = hPtr;
 }

 /*
@@ -2618,9 +2756,10 @@ FreeEnsembleCmdRep(
 {
    EnsembleCmdRep *ensembleCmd = objPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1;

-    Tcl_DecrRefCount(ensembleCmd->realPrefixObj);
-    ckfree(ensembleCmd->fullSubcmdName);
-    TclNsDecrRefCount(ensembleCmd->nsPtr);
+    TclCleanupCommandMacro(ensembleCmd->token);
+    if (ensembleCmd->fix) {
+	Tcl_DecrRefCount(ensembleCmd->fix);
+    }
    ckfree(ensembleCmd);
    objPtr->typePtr = NULL;
 }
@@ -2650,48 +2789,17 @@ DupEnsembleCmdRep(
 {
    EnsembleCmdRep *ensembleCmd = objPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1;
    EnsembleCmdRep *ensembleCopy = ckalloc(sizeof(EnsembleCmdRep));
-    int length = strlen(ensembleCmd->fullSubcmdName);

-    copyPtr->typePtr = &tclEnsembleCmdType;
+    copyPtr->typePtr = &ensembleCmdType;
    copyPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1 = ensembleCopy;
-    ensembleCopy->nsPtr = ensembleCmd->nsPtr;
    ensembleCopy->epoch = ensembleCmd->epoch;
    ensembleCopy->token = ensembleCmd->token;
-    ensembleCopy->nsPtr->refCount++;
-    ensembleCopy->realPrefixObj = ensembleCmd->realPrefixObj;
-    Tcl_IncrRefCount(ensembleCopy->realPrefixObj);
-    ensembleCopy->fullSubcmdName = ckalloc(length + 1);
-    memcpy(ensembleCopy->fullSubcmdName, ensembleCmd->fullSubcmdName,
-	    (unsigned) length+1);
-}
-
-/*
- *----------------------------------------------------------------------
- *
- * StringOfEnsembleCmdRep --
- *
- *	Creates a string representation of a Tcl_Obj that holds a subcommand
- *	of an ensemble.
- *
- * Results:
- *	None.
- *
- * Side effects:
- *	The object gains a string (UTF-8) representation.
- *
- *----------------------------------------------------------------------
- */
-
-static void
-StringOfEnsembleCmdRep(
-    Tcl_Obj *objPtr)
-{
-    EnsembleCmdRep *ensembleCmd = objPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1;
-    int length = strlen(ensembleCmd->fullSubcmdName);
-
-    objPtr->length = length;
-    objPtr->bytes = ckalloc(length + 1);
-    memcpy(objPtr->bytes, ensembleCmd->fullSubcmdName, (unsigned) length+1);
+    ensembleCopy->token->refCount++;
+    ensembleCopy->fix = ensembleCmd->fix;
+    if (ensembleCopy->fix) {
+	Tcl_IncrRefCount(ensembleCopy->fix);
+    }
+    ensembleCopy->hPtr = ensembleCmd->hPtr;
 }

 /*
@@ -2809,7 +2917,7 @@ TclCompileEnsemble(
 	    goto failed;
 	}
 	for (i=0 ; i<len ; i++) {
-	    str = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(elems[i], &sclen);
+	    str = TclGetStringFromObj(elems[i], &sclen);
 	    if ((sclen == (int) numBytes) && !memcmp(word, str, numBytes)) {
 		/*
 		 * Exact match! Excellent!
@@ -3027,7 +3135,7 @@ TclCompileEnsemble(
 	 * any extra elements that might have been appended by failing
 	 * pathways above.
 	 */
-	(void) Tcl_ListObjReplace(NULL, replaced, depth-1, INT_MAX, 0, NULL);
+	(void) Tcl_ListObjReplace(NULL, replaced, depth-1, LIST_MAX, 0, NULL);

 	/*
 	 * TODO: Reconsider whether we ought to call CompileToInvokedCommand()
@@ -3198,7 +3306,7 @@ CompileToInvokedCommand(
    Tcl_Token *tokPtr;
    Tcl_Obj *objPtr, **words;
    char *bytes;
-    int length, i, numWords, cmdLit;
+    int i, numWords, cmdLit, extraLiteralFlags = LITERAL_CMD_NAME;
    DefineLineInformation;

    /*
@@ -3211,15 +3319,15 @@ CompileToInvokedCommand(
    for (i = 0, tokPtr = parsePtr->tokenPtr; i < parsePtr->numWords;
 	    i++, tokPtr = TokenAfter(tokPtr)) {
 	if (i > 0 && i < numWords+1) {
-	    bytes = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(words[i-1], &length);
-	    PushLiteral(envPtr, bytes, length);
+	    bytes = TclGetString(words[i-1]);
+	    PushLiteral(envPtr, bytes, words[i-1]->length);
 	    continue;
 	}

 	SetLineInformation(i);
 	if (tokPtr->type == TCL_TOKEN_SIMPLE_WORD) {
-	    int literal = TclRegisterNewLiteral(envPtr,
-		    tokPtr[1].start, tokPtr[1].size);
+	    int literal = TclRegisterLiteral(envPtr,
+		    tokPtr[1].start, tokPtr[1].size, 0);

 	    if (envPtr->clNext) {
 		TclContinuationsEnterDerived(
@@ -3240,8 +3348,11 @@ CompileToInvokedCommand(

    objPtr = Tcl_NewObj();
    Tcl_GetCommandFullName(interp, (Tcl_Command) cmdPtr, objPtr);
-    bytes = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objPtr, &length);
-    cmdLit = TclRegisterNewCmdLiteral(envPtr, bytes, length);
+    bytes = TclGetString(objPtr);
+    if ((cmdPtr != NULL) && (cmdPtr->flags & CMD_VIA_RESOLVER)) {
+	extraLiteralFlags |= LITERAL_UNSHARED;
+    }
+    cmdLit = TclRegisterLiteral(envPtr, bytes, objPtr->length, extraLiteralFlags);
    TclSetCmdNameObj(interp, TclFetchLiteral(envPtr, cmdLit), cmdPtr);
    TclEmitPush(cmdLit, envPtr);
    TclDecrRefCount(objPtr);
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 #include "tclCompile.h"
 #include "tclOOInt.h"
 #include "tommath.h"
-#include "tclStringRep.h"
 #include <math.h>
 #include <assert.h>

@@ -326,7 +325,7 @@ VarHashCreateVar(
 	    NEXT_INST_F(((condition)? TclGetInt4AtPtr(pc+1) : 5), (cleanup), 0); \
 	default:							\
 	    if ((condition) < 0) {					\
-		TclNewIntObj(objResultPtr, -1);				\
+		TclNewLongObj(objResultPtr, -1);				\
 	    } else {							\
 		objResultPtr = TCONST((condition) > 0);			\
 	    }								\
@@ -347,7 +346,7 @@ VarHashCreateVar(
 	    NEXT_INST_V(((condition)? TclGetInt4AtPtr(pc+1) : 5), (cleanup), 0); \
 	default:							\
 	    if ((condition) < 0) {					\
-		TclNewIntObj(objResultPtr, -1);				\
+		TclNewLongObj(objResultPtr, -1);				\
 	    } else {							\
 		objResultPtr = TCONST((condition) > 0);			\
 	    }								\
@@ -358,7 +357,7 @@ VarHashCreateVar(
 #define JUMP_PEEPHOLE_F(condition, pcAdjustment, cleanup) \
    do{									\
 	if ((condition) < 0) {						\
-	    TclNewIntObj(objResultPtr, -1);				\
+	    TclNewLongObj(objResultPtr, -1);				\
 	} else {							\
 	    objResultPtr = TCONST((condition) > 0);			\
 	}								\
@@ -367,7 +366,7 @@ VarHashCreateVar(
 #define JUMP_PEEPHOLE_V(condition, pcAdjustment, cleanup) \
    do{									\
 	if ((condition) < 0) {						\
-	    TclNewIntObj(objResultPtr, -1);				\
+	    TclNewLongObj(objResultPtr, -1);				\
 	} else {							\
 	    objResultPtr = TCONST((condition) > 0);			\
 	}								\
@@ -1275,7 +1274,7 @@ TclStackFree(
    Tcl_Obj **markerPtr, *marker;

    if (iPtr == NULL || iPtr->execEnvPtr == NULL) {
-	ckfree((char *) freePtr);
+	ckfree(freePtr);
 	return;
    }

@@ -1542,11 +1541,10 @@ CompileExprObj(
 	 * TIP #280: No invoker (yet) - Expression compilation.
 	 */

-	int length;
-	const char *string = TclGetStringFromObj(objPtr, &length);
+	const char *string = TclGetString(objPtr);

-	TclInitCompileEnv(interp, &compEnv, string, length, NULL, 0);
-	TclCompileExpr(interp, string, length, &compEnv, 0);
+	TclInitCompileEnv(interp, &compEnv, string, objPtr->length, NULL, 0);
+	TclCompileExpr(interp, string, objPtr->length, &compEnv, 0);

 	/*
 	 * Successful compilation. If the expression yielded no instructions,
@@ -1554,7 +1552,7 @@ CompileExprObj(
 	 */

 	if (compEnv.codeNext == compEnv.codeStart) {
-	    TclEmitPush(TclRegisterNewLiteral(&compEnv, "0", 1),
+	    TclEmitPush(TclRegisterLiteral(&compEnv, "0", 1, 0),
 		    &compEnv);
 	}

@@ -2071,11 +2069,16 @@ TclNRExecuteByteCode(
 #endif

    /*
-     * Push the callback for bytecode execution
+     * Test namespace-50.9 demonstrates the need for this call.
+     * Use a --enable-symbols=mem bug to see.
     */

    TclResetRewriteEnsemble(interp, 1);

+    /*
+     * Push the callback for bytecode execution
+     */
+
    TclNRAddCallback(interp, TEBCresume, TD, /* pc */ NULL,
 	    /* cleanup */ INT2PTR(0), NULL);
    return TCL_OK;
@@ -2533,7 +2536,7 @@ TEBCresume(
 		/* FIXME: What is the right thing to trace? */
 		fprintf(stdout, "%d: (%u) yielding to [%.30s]\n",
 			iPtr->numLevels, (unsigned)(pc - codePtr->codeStart),
-			Tcl_GetString(valuePtr));
+			TclGetString(valuePtr));
 	    }
 	    fflush(stdout);
 	}
@@ -2680,154 +2683,18 @@ TEBCresume(
 	NEXT_INST_F(5, 0, 0);
    }

-    case INST_STR_CONCAT1: {
-	int appendLen = 0;
-	char *bytes, *p;
-	Tcl_Obj **currPtr;
-	int onlyb = 1;
+    case INST_STR_CONCAT1:

 	opnd = TclGetUInt1AtPtr(pc+1);

-	/*
-	 * Detect only-bytearray-or-null case.
-	 */
-
-	for (currPtr=&OBJ_AT_DEPTH(opnd-1); currPtr<=&OBJ_AT_TOS; currPtr++) {
-	    if (((*currPtr)->typePtr != &tclByteArrayType)
-		    && ((*currPtr)->bytes != tclEmptyStringRep)) {
-		onlyb = 0;
-		break;
-	    } else if (((*currPtr)->typePtr == &tclByteArrayType) &&
-		    ((*currPtr)->bytes != NULL)) {
-		onlyb = 0;
-		break;
-	    }
-	}
-
-	/*
-	 * Compute the length to be appended.
-	 */
-
-	if (onlyb) {
-	    for (currPtr = &OBJ_AT_DEPTH(opnd-2);
-		    appendLen >= 0 && currPtr <= &OBJ_AT_TOS; currPtr++) {
-		if ((*currPtr)->bytes != tclEmptyStringRep) {
-		    Tcl_GetByteArrayFromObj(*currPtr, &length);
-		    appendLen += length;
-		}
-	    }
-	} else {
-	    for (currPtr = &OBJ_AT_DEPTH(opnd-2);
-		    appendLen >= 0 && currPtr <= &OBJ_AT_TOS; currPtr++) {
-		bytes = TclGetStringFromObj(*currPtr, &length);
-		if (bytes != NULL) {
-		    appendLen += length;
-		}
-	    }
-	}
-
-	if (appendLen < 0) {
-	    /* TODO: convert panic to error ? */
-	    Tcl_Panic("max size for a Tcl value (%d bytes) exceeded", INT_MAX);
-	}
-
-	/*
-	 * If nothing is to be appended, just return the first object by
-	 * dropping all the others from the stack; this saves both the
-	 * computation and copy of the string rep of the first object,
-	 * enabling the fast '$x[set x {}]' idiom for 'K $x [set x {}]'.
-	 */
-
-	if (appendLen == 0) {
-	    TRACE_WITH_OBJ(("%u => ", opnd), objResultPtr);
-	    NEXT_INST_V(2, (opnd-1), 0);
-	}
-
-	/*
-	 * If the first object is shared, we need a new obj for the result;
-	 * otherwise, we can reuse the first object. In any case, make sure it
-	 * has enough room to accomodate all the concatenated bytes. Note that
-	 * if it is unshared its bytes are copied by ckrealloc, so that we set
-	 * the loop parameters to avoid copying them again: p points to the
-	 * end of the already copied bytes, currPtr to the second object.
-	 */
-
-	objResultPtr = OBJ_AT_DEPTH(opnd-1);
-	if (!onlyb) {
-	    bytes = TclGetStringFromObj(objResultPtr, &length);
-	    if (length + appendLen < 0) {
-		/* TODO: convert panic to error ? */
-		Tcl_Panic("max size for a Tcl value (%d bytes) exceeded",
-			INT_MAX);
-	    }
-#ifndef TCL_COMPILE_DEBUG
-	    if (bytes != tclEmptyStringRep && !Tcl_IsShared(objResultPtr)) {
-		TclFreeIntRep(objResultPtr);
-		objResultPtr->bytes = ckrealloc(bytes, length+appendLen+1);
-		objResultPtr->length = length + appendLen;
-		p = TclGetString(objResultPtr) + length;
-		currPtr = &OBJ_AT_DEPTH(opnd - 2);
-	    } else
-#endif
-	    {
-		p = ckalloc(length + appendLen + 1);
-		TclNewObj(objResultPtr);
-		objResultPtr->bytes = p;
-		objResultPtr->length = length + appendLen;
-		currPtr = &OBJ_AT_DEPTH(opnd - 1);
-	    }
-
-	    /*
-	     * Append the remaining characters.
-	     */
-
-	    for (; currPtr <= &OBJ_AT_TOS; currPtr++) {
-		bytes = TclGetStringFromObj(*currPtr, &length);
-		if (bytes != NULL) {
-		    memcpy(p, bytes, (size_t) length);
-		    p += length;
-		}
-	    }
-	    *p = '\0';
-	} else {
-	    bytes = (char *) Tcl_GetByteArrayFromObj(objResultPtr, &length);
-	    if (length + appendLen < 0) {
-		/* TODO: convert panic to error ? */
-		Tcl_Panic("max size for a Tcl value (%d bytes) exceeded",
-			INT_MAX);
-	    }
-#ifndef TCL_COMPILE_DEBUG
-	    if (!Tcl_IsShared(objResultPtr)) {
-		bytes = (char *) Tcl_SetByteArrayLength(objResultPtr,
-			length + appendLen);
-		p = bytes + length;
-		currPtr = &OBJ_AT_DEPTH(opnd - 2);
-	    } else
-#endif
-	    {
-		TclNewObj(objResultPtr);
-		bytes = (char *) Tcl_SetByteArrayLength(objResultPtr,
-			length + appendLen);
-		p = bytes;
-		currPtr = &OBJ_AT_DEPTH(opnd - 1);
-	    }
-
-	    /*
-	     * Append the remaining characters.
-	     */
-
-	    for (; currPtr <= &OBJ_AT_TOS; currPtr++) {
-		if ((*currPtr)->bytes != tclEmptyStringRep) {
-		    bytes = (char *) Tcl_GetByteArrayFromObj(*currPtr,&length);
-		    memcpy(p, bytes, (size_t) length);
-		    p += length;
-		}
-	    }
+	if (TCL_OK != TclStringCatObjv(interp, /* inPlace */ 1,
+		opnd, &OBJ_AT_DEPTH(opnd-1), &objResultPtr)) {
+	    TRACE_ERROR(interp);
+	    goto gotError;
 	}

 	TRACE_WITH_OBJ(("%u => ", opnd), objResultPtr);
 	NEXT_INST_V(2, opnd, 1);
-    }

    case INST_CONCAT_STK:
 	/*
@@ -3155,20 +3022,7 @@ TEBCresume(
 	    fflush(stdout);
 	}
 #endif /*TCL_COMPILE_DEBUG*/
-	{
-	    Tcl_Obj *copyPtr = Tcl_NewListObj(objc - opnd + 1, NULL);
-	    register List *listRepPtr = copyPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1;
-	    Tcl_Obj **copyObjv = &listRepPtr->elements;
-	    int i;

-	    listRepPtr->elemCount = objc - opnd + 1;
-	    copyObjv[0] = objPtr;
-	    memcpy(copyObjv+1, objv+opnd, sizeof(Tcl_Obj *) * (objc - opnd));
-	    for (i=1 ; i<objc-opnd+1 ; i++) {
-		Tcl_IncrRefCount(copyObjv[i]);
-	    }
-	    objPtr = copyPtr;
-	}
 	bcFramePtr->data.tebc.pc = (char *) pc;
 	iPtr->cmdFramePtr = bcFramePtr;
 	if (iPtr->flags & INTERP_DEBUG_FRAME) {
@@ -3176,13 +3030,26 @@ TEBCresume(
 	}

 	TclInitRewriteEnsemble(interp, opnd, 1, objv);
+
+	{
+	    Tcl_Obj *copyPtr = Tcl_NewListObj(objc - opnd + 1, NULL);
+
+	    Tcl_ListObjAppendElement(NULL, copyPtr, objPtr);
+	    Tcl_ListObjReplace(NULL, copyPtr, LIST_MAX, 0,
+		    objc - opnd, objv + opnd);
+	    Tcl_DecrRefCount(objPtr);
+	    objPtr = copyPtr;
+	}
+
 	DECACHE_STACK_INFO();
 	pc += 6;
 	TEBC_YIELD();

 	TclMarkTailcall(interp);
-	TclNRAddCallback(interp, TclClearRootEnsemble, NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL);
-	return TclNREvalObjEx(interp, objPtr, TCL_EVAL_INVOKE, NULL, INT_MIN);
+	TclNRAddCallback(interp, TclClearRootEnsemble, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
+	Tcl_ListObjGetElements(NULL, objPtr, &objc, &objv);
+	TclNRAddCallback(interp, TclNRReleaseValues, objPtr, NULL, NULL, NULL);
+	return TclNREvalObjv(interp, objc, objv, TCL_EVAL_INVOKE, NULL);

    /*
     * -----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -4167,12 +4034,13 @@ TEBCresume(
 	}
 	TRACE(("%s %u \"%.30s\" => ",
 		(flags ? "normal" : "noerr"), opnd, O2S(part2Ptr)));
-	if (TclIsVarArray(arrayPtr) && !UnsetTraced(arrayPtr)) {
+	if (TclIsVarArray(arrayPtr) && !UnsetTraced(arrayPtr)
+		&& !TclIsVarArraySearched(arrayPtr)) {
 	    varPtr = VarHashFindVar(arrayPtr->value.tablePtr, part2Ptr);
 	    if (varPtr && TclIsVarDirectUnsettable(varPtr)) {
 		/*
-		 * No nasty traces and element exists, so we can proceed to
-		 * unset it. Might still not exist though...
+		 * No nasty traces or searchesw and element exists, so we can
+		 * proceed to unset it. Might still not exist though...
 		 */

 		if (!TclIsVarUndefined(varPtr)) {
@@ -4415,8 +4283,8 @@ TEBCresume(
 	savedNsPtr = iPtr->varFramePtr->nsPtr;
 	iPtr->varFramePtr->nsPtr = (Namespace *) nsPtr;
 	otherPtr = TclObjLookupVarEx(interp, OBJ_AT_TOS, NULL,
-		(TCL_NAMESPACE_ONLY | TCL_LEAVE_ERR_MSG), "access",
-		/*createPart1*/ 1, /*createPart2*/ 1, &varPtr);
+		(TCL_NAMESPACE_ONLY|TCL_LEAVE_ERR_MSG|TCL_AVOID_RESOLVERS),
+		"access", /*createPart1*/ 1, /*createPart2*/ 1, &varPtr);
 	iPtr->varFramePtr->nsPtr = savedNsPtr;
 	if (!otherPtr) {
 	    TRACE_ERROR(interp);
@@ -4661,7 +4529,7 @@ TEBCresume(
 	NEXT_INST_F(1, 0, 1);
    }
    case INST_INFO_LEVEL_NUM:
-	TclNewIntObj(objResultPtr, iPtr->varFramePtr->level);
+	TclNewLongObj(objResultPtr, iPtr->varFramePtr->level);
 	TRACE_WITH_OBJ(("=> "), objResultPtr);
 	NEXT_INST_F(1, 0, 1);
    case INST_INFO_LEVEL_ARGS: {
@@ -5030,7 +4898,7 @@ TEBCresume(
 	    TRACE_ERROR(interp);
 	    goto gotError;
 	}
-	TclNewIntObj(objResultPtr, length);
+	TclNewLongObj(objResultPtr, length);
 	TRACE_APPEND(("%d\n", length));
 	NEXT_INST_F(1, 1, 1);

@@ -5278,23 +5146,10 @@ TEBCresume(
 		toIdx = objc-1;
 	    }
 	    if (fromIdx == 0 && toIdx != objc-1 && !Tcl_IsShared(valuePtr)) {
-		/*
-		 * BEWARE! This is looking inside the implementation of the
-		 * list type.
-		 */
-
-		List *listPtr = valuePtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1;
-
-		if (listPtr->refCount == 1) {
-		    for (index=toIdx+1; index<objc ; index++) {
-			TclDecrRefCount(objv[index]);
-		    }
-		    listPtr->elemCount = toIdx+1;
-		    listPtr->canonicalFlag = 1;
-		    TclInvalidateStringRep(valuePtr);
-		    TRACE_APPEND(("%.30s\n", O2S(valuePtr)));
-		    NEXT_INST_F(9, 0, 0);
-		}
+		Tcl_ListObjReplace(interp, valuePtr,
+			toIdx + 1, LIST_MAX, 0, NULL);
+		TRACE_APPEND(("%.30s\n", O2S(valuePtr)));
+		NEXT_INST_F(9, 0, 0);
 	    }
 	    objResultPtr = Tcl_NewListObj(toIdx-fromIdx+1, objv+fromIdx);
 	} else {
@@ -5514,7 +5369,7 @@ TEBCresume(
    case INST_STR_LEN:
 	valuePtr = OBJ_AT_TOS;
 	length = Tcl_GetCharLength(valuePtr);
-	TclNewIntObj(objResultPtr, length);
+	TclNewLongObj(objResultPtr, length);
 	TRACE(("\"%.20s\" => %d\n", O2S(valuePtr), length));
 	NEXT_INST_F(1, 1, 1);

@@ -5719,17 +5574,6 @@ TEBCresume(

 	length3 = Tcl_GetCharLength(value3Ptr);

-	/*
-	 * Remove substring. In-place.
-	 */
-
-	if (length3 == 0 && !Tcl_IsShared(valuePtr) && toIdx == length) {
-	    TclDecrRefCount(value3Ptr);
-	    Tcl_SetObjLength(valuePtr, fromIdx);
-	    TRACE_APPEND(("\"%.30s\"\n", O2S(valuePtr)));
-	    NEXT_INST_F(1, 0, 0);
-	}
-
 	/*
 	 * See if we can splice in place. This happens when the number of
 	 * characters being replaced is the same as the number of characters
@@ -5739,51 +5583,29 @@ TEBCresume(
 	if (length3 - 1 == toIdx - fromIdx) {
 	    unsigned char *bytes1, *bytes2;

-	    /*
-	     * Flush the info in the string internal rep that refers to the
-	     * about-to-be-invalidated UTF-8 rep. This indicates that a new
-	     * buffer needs to be allocated, and assumes that the value is
-	     * already of tclStringTypePtr type, which should be true provided
-	     * we call it after Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj.
-	     */
-#define MarkStringInternalRepForFlush(objPtr) \
-	    (GET_STRING(objPtr)->allocated = 0)
-
 	    if (Tcl_IsShared(valuePtr)) {
 		objResultPtr = Tcl_DuplicateObj(valuePtr);
-		if (TclIsPureByteArray(objResultPtr)
-			&& TclIsPureByteArray(value3Ptr)) {
-		    bytes1 = Tcl_GetByteArrayFromObj(objResultPtr, NULL);
-		    bytes2 = Tcl_GetByteArrayFromObj(value3Ptr, NULL);
-		    memcpy(bytes1 + fromIdx, bytes2, length3);
-		} else {
-		    ustring1 = Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj(objResultPtr, NULL);
-		    ustring2 = Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj(value3Ptr, NULL);
-		    memcpy(ustring1 + fromIdx, ustring2,
-			    length3 * sizeof(Tcl_UniChar));
-		    MarkStringInternalRepForFlush(objResultPtr);
-		}
-		Tcl_InvalidateStringRep(objResultPtr);
-		TclDecrRefCount(value3Ptr);
-		TRACE_APPEND(("\"%.30s\"\n", O2S(objResultPtr)));
-		NEXT_INST_F(1, 1, 1);
 	    } else {
-		if (TclIsPureByteArray(valuePtr)
-			&& TclIsPureByteArray(value3Ptr)) {
-		    bytes1 = Tcl_GetByteArrayFromObj(valuePtr, NULL);
-		    bytes2 = Tcl_GetByteArrayFromObj(value3Ptr, NULL);
-		    memcpy(bytes1 + fromIdx, bytes2, length3);
-		} else {
-		    ustring1 = Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj(valuePtr, NULL);
-		    ustring2 = Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj(value3Ptr, NULL);
-		    memcpy(ustring1 + fromIdx, ustring2,
-			    length3 * sizeof(Tcl_UniChar));
-		    MarkStringInternalRepForFlush(valuePtr);
-		}
-		Tcl_InvalidateStringRep(valuePtr);
-		TclDecrRefCount(value3Ptr);
-		TRACE_APPEND(("\"%.30s\"\n", O2S(valuePtr)));
+		objResultPtr = valuePtr;
+	    }
+	    if (TclIsPureByteArray(objResultPtr)
+		    && TclIsPureByteArray(value3Ptr)) {
+		bytes1 = Tcl_GetByteArrayFromObj(objResultPtr, NULL);
+		bytes2 = Tcl_GetByteArrayFromObj(value3Ptr, NULL);
+		memcpy(bytes1 + fromIdx, bytes2, length3);
+	    } else {
+		ustring1 = Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj(objResultPtr, NULL);
+		ustring2 = Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj(value3Ptr, NULL);
+		memcpy(ustring1 + fromIdx, ustring2,
+			length3 * sizeof(Tcl_UniChar));
+	    }
+	    Tcl_InvalidateStringRep(objResultPtr);
+	    TclDecrRefCount(value3Ptr);
+	    TRACE_APPEND(("\"%.30s\"\n", O2S(objResultPtr)));
+	    if (objResultPtr == valuePtr) {
 		NEXT_INST_F(1, 0, 0);
+	    } else {
+		NEXT_INST_F(1, 1, 1);
 	    }
 	}

@@ -5799,54 +5621,38 @@ TEBCresume(
 	 * Remove substring using copying.
 	 */

-	if (length3 == 0) {
-	    if (fromIdx > 0) {
-		objResultPtr = Tcl_NewUnicodeObj(ustring1, fromIdx);
-		if (toIdx < length) {
-		    Tcl_AppendUnicodeToObj(objResultPtr, ustring1 + toIdx + 1,
-			    length - toIdx);
-		}
+	objResultPtr = NULL;
+	if (fromIdx > 0) {
+	    objResultPtr = Tcl_NewUnicodeObj(ustring1, fromIdx);
+	}
+	if (length3 > 0) {
+	    if (objResultPtr) {
+		Tcl_AppendObjToObj(objResultPtr, value3Ptr);
+	    } else if (Tcl_IsShared(value3Ptr)) {
+		objResultPtr = Tcl_DuplicateObj(value3Ptr);
+	    } else {
+		objResultPtr = value3Ptr;
+	    }
+	}
+	if (toIdx < length) {
+	    if (objResultPtr) {
+		Tcl_AppendUnicodeToObj(objResultPtr, ustring1 + toIdx + 1,
+			length - toIdx);
 	    } else {
 		objResultPtr = Tcl_NewUnicodeObj(ustring1 + toIdx + 1,
 			length - toIdx);
 	    }
-	    TclDecrRefCount(value3Ptr);
-	    TRACE_APPEND(("\"%.30s\"\n", O2S(objResultPtr)));
-	    NEXT_INST_F(1, 1, 1);
 	}
-
-	/*
-	 * Splice string pieces by full copying.
-	 */
-
-	if (fromIdx > 0) {
-	    objResultPtr = Tcl_NewUnicodeObj(ustring1, fromIdx);
-	    Tcl_AppendObjToObj(objResultPtr, value3Ptr);
-	    if (toIdx < length) {
-		Tcl_AppendUnicodeToObj(objResultPtr, ustring1 + toIdx + 1,
-			length - toIdx);
-	    }
-	} else if (Tcl_IsShared(value3Ptr)) {
-	    objResultPtr = Tcl_DuplicateObj(value3Ptr);
-	    if (toIdx < length) {
-		Tcl_AppendUnicodeToObj(objResultPtr, ustring1 + toIdx + 1,
-			length - toIdx);
-	    }
-	} else {
-	    /*
-	     * Be careful with splicing the stack in this case; we have a
-	     * refCount:1 object in value3Ptr and we want to append to it and
-	     * make it be the refCount:1 object at the top of the stack
-	     * afterwards. [Bug 82e7f67325]
-	     */
-
-	    if (toIdx < length) {
-		Tcl_AppendUnicodeToObj(value3Ptr, ustring1 + toIdx + 1,
-			length - toIdx);
-	    }
+	if (objResultPtr == NULL) {
+	    /* This has to be the case [string replace $s 0 end {}] */
+	    /* which has result {} which is same as value3Ptr. */
+	    objResultPtr = value3Ptr;
+	}
+	if (objResultPtr == value3Ptr) {
+	    /* See [Bug 82e7f67325] */
+	    TclDecrRefCount(OBJ_AT_TOS);
+	    OBJ_AT_TOS = value3Ptr;
 	    TRACE_APPEND(("\"%.30s\"\n", O2S(value3Ptr)));
-	    TclDecrRefCount(valuePtr);
-	    OBJ_AT_TOS = value3Ptr;	/* Tricky! */
 	    NEXT_INST_F(1, 0, 0);
 	}
 	TclDecrRefCount(value3Ptr);
@@ -5914,45 +5720,19 @@ TEBCresume(
 	NEXT_INST_V(1, 3, 1);

    case INST_STR_FIND:
-	ustring1 = Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj(OBJ_AT_TOS, &length);	/* Haystack */
-	ustring2 = Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj(OBJ_UNDER_TOS, &length2);/* Needle */
-
-	match = -1;
-	if (length2 > 0 && length2 <= length) {
-	    end = ustring1 + length - length2 + 1;
-	    for (p=ustring1 ; p<end ; p++) {
-		if ((*p == *ustring2) &&
-			memcmp(ustring2,p,sizeof(Tcl_UniChar)*length2) == 0) {
-		    match = p - ustring1;
-		    break;
-		}
-	    }
-	}
+	match = TclStringFind(OBJ_UNDER_TOS, OBJ_AT_TOS, 0);

 	TRACE(("%.20s %.20s => %d\n",
 		O2S(OBJ_UNDER_TOS), O2S(OBJ_AT_TOS), match));
-	TclNewIntObj(objResultPtr, match);
+	TclNewLongObj(objResultPtr, match);
 	NEXT_INST_F(1, 2, 1);

    case INST_STR_FIND_LAST:
-	ustring1 = Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj(OBJ_AT_TOS, &length);	/* Haystack */
-	ustring2 = Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj(OBJ_UNDER_TOS, &length2);/* Needle */
-
-	match = -1;
-	if (length2 > 0 && length2 <= length) {
-	    for (p=ustring1+length-length2 ; p>=ustring1 ; p--) {
-		if ((*p == *ustring2) &&
-			memcmp(ustring2,p,sizeof(Tcl_UniChar)*length2) == 0) {
-		    match = p - ustring1;
-		    break;
-		}
-	    }
-	}
+	match = TclStringLast(OBJ_UNDER_TOS, OBJ_AT_TOS, INT_MAX - 1);

 	TRACE(("%.20s %.20s => %d\n",
 		O2S(OBJ_UNDER_TOS), O2S(OBJ_AT_TOS), match));
-
-	TclNewIntObj(objResultPtr, match);
+	TclNewLongObj(objResultPtr, match);
 	NEXT_INST_F(1, 2, 1);

    case INST_STR_CLASS:
@@ -6156,7 +5936,7 @@ TEBCresume(
 		type1 = TCL_NUMBER_WIDE;
 	    }
 	}
-	TclNewIntObj(objResultPtr, type1);
+	TclNewLongObj(objResultPtr, type1);
 	TRACE(("\"%.20s\" => %d\n", O2S(OBJ_AT_TOS), type1));
 	NEXT_INST_F(1, 1, 1);

@@ -6363,7 +6143,7 @@ TEBCresume(
 			if (l1 > 0L) {
 			    objResultPtr = TCONST(0);
 			} else {
-			    TclNewIntObj(objResultPtr, -1);
+			    TclNewLongObj(objResultPtr, -1);
 			}
 			TRACE(("%s\n", O2S(objResultPtr)));
 			NEXT_INST_F(1, 2, 1);
@@ -7263,7 +7043,7 @@ TEBCresume(
 	NEXT_INST_F(1, 0, -1);

    case INST_PUSH_RETURN_CODE:
-	TclNewIntObj(objResultPtr, result);
+	TclNewLongObj(objResultPtr, result);
 	TRACE(("=> %u\n", result));
 	NEXT_INST_F(1, 0, 1);

@@ -9155,7 +8935,7 @@ ExecuteExtendedBinaryMathOp(
 	}
 	Tcl_TakeBignumFromObj(NULL, valuePtr, &big1);
 	mp_init(&bigResult);
-	mp_expt_d(&big1, big2.dp[0], &bigResult);
+	mp_expt_d_ex(&big1, big2.dp[0], &bigResult, 1);
 	mp_clear(&big1);
 	mp_clear(&big2);
 	BIG_RESULT(&bigResult);
@@ -9679,9 +9459,9 @@ PrintByteCodeInfo(
    Proc *procPtr = codePtr->procPtr;
    Interp *iPtr = (Interp *) *codePtr->interpHandle;

-    fprintf(stdout, "\nExecuting ByteCode 0x%p, refCt %u, epoch %u, interp 0x%p (epoch %u)\n",
-	    codePtr, codePtr->refCount, codePtr->compileEpoch, iPtr,
-	    iPtr->compileEpoch);
+    fprintf(stdout, "\nExecuting ByteCode 0x%p, refCt %" TCL_LL_MODIFIER "u, epoch %" TCL_LL_MODIFIER "u, interp 0x%p (epoch %" TCL_LL_MODIFIER "u)\n",
+	    codePtr, (Tcl_WideInt)codePtr->refCount, (Tcl_WideInt)codePtr->compileEpoch, iPtr,
+	    (Tcl_WideInt)iPtr->compileEpoch);

    fprintf(stdout, "  Source: ");
    TclPrintSource(stdout, codePtr->source, 60);
@@ -9778,7 +9558,7 @@ ValidatePcAndStackTop(
 	    TclNewLiteralStringObj(message, "\n executing ");
 	    Tcl_IncrRefCount(message);
 	    Tcl_AppendLimitedToObj(message, cmd, numChars, 100, NULL);
-	    fprintf(stderr,"%s\n", Tcl_GetString(message));
+	    fprintf(stderr,"%s\n", TclGetString(message));
 	    Tcl_DecrRefCount(message);
 	} else {
 	    fprintf(stderr, "\n");
@@ -9828,7 +9608,7 @@ IllegalExprOperandType(

    if (GetNumberFromObj(NULL, opndPtr, &ptr, &type) != TCL_OK) {
 	int numBytes;
-	const char *bytes = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(opndPtr, &numBytes);
+	const char *bytes = TclGetStringFromObj(opndPtr, &numBytes);

 	if (numBytes == 0) {
 	    description = "empty string";
@@ -10241,7 +10021,7 @@ TclExprFloatError(
 		"unknown floating-point error, errno = %d", errno);

 	Tcl_SetErrorCode(interp, "ARITH", "UNKNOWN",
-		Tcl_GetString(objPtr), NULL);
+		TclGetString(objPtr), NULL);
 	Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, objPtr);
    }
 }
@@ -10457,7 +10237,7 @@ EvalStatsCmd(
 	    if (entryPtr->objPtr->typePtr == &tclByteCodeType) {
 		numByteCodeLits++;
 	    }
-	    (void) Tcl_GetStringFromObj(entryPtr->objPtr, &length);
+	    (void) TclGetStringFromObj(entryPtr->objPtr, &length);
 	    refCountSum += entryPtr->refCount;
 	    objBytesIfUnshared += (entryPtr->refCount * sizeof(Tcl_Obj));
 	    strBytesIfUnshared += (entryPtr->refCount * (length+1));
@@ -10679,7 +10459,7 @@ EvalStatsCmd(
 	Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, objPtr);
    } else {
 	Tcl_Channel outChan;
-	char *str = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objv[1], &length);
+	char *str = TclGetStringFromObj(objv[1], &length);

 	if (length) {
 	    if (strcmp(str, "stdout") == 0) {
@@ -1079,12 +1079,9 @@ TclFileAttrsCmd(
 	}

 	if (Tcl_GetIndexFromObj(interp, objv[0], attributeStrings,
-		"option", 0, &index) != TCL_OK) {
+		"option", INDEX_TEMP_TABLE, &index) != TCL_OK) {
 	    goto end;
 	}
-	if (attributeStringsAllocated != NULL) {
-	    TclFreeIntRep(objv[0]);
-	}
 	if (Tcl_FSFileAttrsGet(interp, index, filePtr,
 		&objPtr) != TCL_OK) {
 	    goto end;
@@ -1107,12 +1104,9 @@ TclFileAttrsCmd(

 	for (i = 0; i < objc ; i += 2) {
 	    if (Tcl_GetIndexFromObj(interp, objv[i], attributeStrings,
-		    "option", 0, &index) != TCL_OK) {
+		    "option", INDEX_TEMP_TABLE, &index) != TCL_OK) {
 		goto end;
 	    }
-	    if (attributeStringsAllocated != NULL) {
-		TclFreeIntRep(objv[i]);
-	    }
 	    if (i + 1 == objc) {
 		Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
 			"value for \"%s\" missing", TclGetString(objv[i])));
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ TclpGetNativePathType(
 {
    Tcl_PathType type = TCL_PATH_ABSOLUTE;
    int pathLen;
-    const char *path = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(pathPtr, &pathLen);
+    const char *path = TclGetStringFromObj(pathPtr, &pathLen);

    if (path[0] == '~') {
 	/*
@@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ Tcl_SplitPath(
    size = 1;
    for (i = 0; i < *argcPtr; i++) {
 	Tcl_ListObjIndex(NULL, resultPtr, i, &eltPtr);
-	Tcl_GetStringFromObj(eltPtr, &len);
+	TclGetStringFromObj(eltPtr, &len);
 	size += len + 1;
    }

@@ -597,7 +597,7 @@ Tcl_SplitPath(
    p = (char *) &(*argvPtr)[(*argcPtr) + 1];
    for (i = 0; i < *argcPtr; i++) {
 	Tcl_ListObjIndex(NULL, resultPtr, i, &eltPtr);
-	str = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(eltPtr, &len);
+	str = TclGetStringFromObj(eltPtr, &len);
 	memcpy(p, str, (size_t) len+1);
 	p += len+1;
    }
@@ -857,7 +857,7 @@ TclpNativeJoinPath(
    const char *p;
    const char *start;

-    start = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(prefix, &length);
+    start = TclGetStringFromObj(prefix, &length);

    /*
     * Remove the ./ from tilde prefixed elements, and drive-letter prefixed
@@ -885,7 +885,7 @@ TclpNativeJoinPath(

 	if (length > 0 && (start[length-1] != '/')) {
 	    Tcl_AppendToObj(prefix, "/", 1);
-	    Tcl_GetStringFromObj(prefix, &length);
+	    TclGetStringFromObj(prefix, &length);
 	}
 	needsSep = 0;

@@ -921,7 +921,7 @@ TclpNativeJoinPath(
 	if ((length > 0) &&
 		(start[length-1] != '/') && (start[length-1] != ':')) {
 	    Tcl_AppendToObj(prefix, "/", 1);
-	    Tcl_GetStringFromObj(prefix, &length);
+	    TclGetStringFromObj(prefix, &length);
 	}
 	needsSep = 0;

@@ -1003,7 +1003,7 @@ Tcl_JoinPath(
     * Store the result.
     */

-    resultStr = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(resultObj, &len);
+    resultStr = TclGetStringFromObj(resultObj, &len);
    Tcl_DStringAppend(resultPtr, resultStr, len);
    Tcl_DecrRefCount(resultObj);

@@ -1249,7 +1249,7 @@ Tcl_GlobObjCmd(
    for (i = 1; i < objc; i++) {
 	if (Tcl_GetIndexFromObj(interp, objv[i], options, "option", 0,
 		&index) != TCL_OK) {
-	    string = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objv[i], &length);
+	    string = TclGetStringFromObj(objv[i], &length);
 	    if (string[0] == '-') {
 		/*
 		 * It looks like the command contains an option so signal an
@@ -1357,7 +1357,7 @@ Tcl_GlobObjCmd(
    if (dir == PATH_GENERAL) {
 	int pathlength;
 	const char *last;
-	const char *first = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(pathOrDir,&pathlength);
+	const char *first = TclGetStringFromObj(pathOrDir,&pathlength);

 	/*
 	 * Find the last path separator in the path
@@ -1460,7 +1460,7 @@ Tcl_GlobObjCmd(
 	    const char *str;

 	    Tcl_ListObjIndex(interp, typePtr, length, &look);
-	    str = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(look, &len);
+	    str = TclGetStringFromObj(look, &len);
 	    if (strcmp("readonly", str) == 0) {
 		globTypes->perm |= TCL_GLOB_PERM_RONLY;
 	    } else if (strcmp("hidden", str) == 0) {
@@ -1992,7 +1992,7 @@ TclGlob(
 	    Tcl_Panic("Called TclGlob with TCL_GLOBMODE_TAILS and pathPrefix==NULL");
 	}

-	pre = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(pathPrefix, &prefixLen);
+	pre = TclGetStringFromObj(pathPrefix, &prefixLen);
 	if (prefixLen > 0
 		&& (strchr(separators, pre[prefixLen-1]) == NULL)) {
 	    /*
@@ -2010,7 +2010,7 @@ TclGlob(
 	Tcl_ListObjGetElements(NULL, filenamesObj, &objc, &objv);
 	for (i = 0; i< objc; i++) {
 	    int len;
-	    const char *oldStr = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objv[i], &len);
+	    const char *oldStr = TclGetStringFromObj(objv[i], &len);
 	    Tcl_Obj *elem;

 	    if (len == prefixLen) {
@@ -2362,7 +2362,7 @@ DoGlob(
 			Tcl_Obj *fixme, *newObj;

 			Tcl_ListObjIndex(NULL, matchesObj, repair, &fixme);
-			bytes = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(fixme, &numBytes);
+			bytes = TclGetStringFromObj(fixme, &numBytes);
 			newObj = Tcl_NewStringObj(bytes+2, numBytes-2);
 			Tcl_ListObjReplace(NULL, matchesObj, repair, 1,
 				1, &newObj);
@@ -2400,7 +2400,7 @@ DoGlob(
 	Tcl_DStringAppend(&append, pattern, p-pattern);

 	if (pathPtr != NULL) {
-	    (void) Tcl_GetStringFromObj(pathPtr, &length);
+	    (void) TclGetStringFromObj(pathPtr, &length);
 	} else {
 	    length = 0;
 	}
@@ -2446,7 +2446,7 @@ DoGlob(
 		 */

 		int len;
-		const char *joined = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(joinedPtr,&len);
+		const char *joined = TclGetStringFromObj(joinedPtr,&len);

 		if (strchr(separators, joined[len-1]) == NULL) {
 		    Tcl_AppendToObj(joinedPtr, "/", 1);
@@ -2483,7 +2483,7 @@ DoGlob(
 	     */

 	    int len;
-	    const char *joined = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(joinedPtr,&len);
+	    const char *joined = TclGetStringFromObj(joinedPtr,&len);

 	    if (strchr(separators, joined[len-1]) == NULL) {
 		if (Tcl_FSGetPathType(pathPtr) != TCL_PATH_VOLUME_RELATIVE) {
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@

 static Tcl_HashEntry *	AllocArrayEntry(Tcl_HashTable *tablePtr, void *keyPtr);
 static int		CompareArrayKeys(void *keyPtr, Tcl_HashEntry *hPtr);
-static unsigned int	HashArrayKey(Tcl_HashTable *tablePtr, void *keyPtr);
+static TCL_HASH_TYPE	HashArrayKey(Tcl_HashTable *tablePtr, void *keyPtr);

 /*
 * Prototypes for the one word hash key methods. Not actually declared because
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ static unsigned int	HashOneWordKey(Tcl_HashTable *tablePtr, void *keyPtr);
 static Tcl_HashEntry *	AllocStringEntry(Tcl_HashTable *tablePtr,
 			    void *keyPtr);
 static int		CompareStringKeys(void *keyPtr, Tcl_HashEntry *hPtr);
-static unsigned int	HashStringKey(Tcl_HashTable *tablePtr, void *keyPtr);
+static TCL_HASH_TYPE	HashStringKey(Tcl_HashTable *tablePtr, void *keyPtr);

 /*
 * Function prototypes for static functions in this file:
@@ -774,7 +774,7 @@ CompareArrayKeys(
 *----------------------------------------------------------------------
 */

-static unsigned int
+static TCL_HASH_TYPE
 HashArrayKey(
    Tcl_HashTable *tablePtr,	/* Hash table. */
    void *keyPtr)		/* Key from which to compute hash value. */
@@ -787,7 +787,7 @@ HashArrayKey(
 	    count--, array++) {
 	result += *array;
    }
-    return result;
+    return (TCL_HASH_TYPE) result;
 }

 /*
@@ -870,7 +870,7 @@ CompareStringKeys(
 *----------------------------------------------------------------------
 */

-static unsigned
+static TCL_HASH_TYPE
 HashStringKey(
    Tcl_HashTable *tablePtr,	/* Hash table. */
    void *keyPtr)		/* Key from which to compute hash value. */
@@ -916,7 +916,7 @@ HashStringKey(
 	    result += (result << 3) + UCHAR(c);
 	}
    }
-    return result;
+    return (TCL_HASH_TYPE) result;
 }

 /*
@@ -924,7 +924,7 @@ HashStringKey(
 *
 * BogusFind --
 *
- *	This function is invoked when an Tcl_FindHashEntry is called on a
+ *	This function is invoked when Tcl_FindHashEntry is called on a
 *	table that has been deleted.
 *
 * Results:
@@ -951,7 +951,7 @@ BogusFind(
 *
 * BogusCreate --
 *
- *	This function is invoked when an Tcl_CreateHashEntry is called on a
+ *	This function is invoked when Tcl_CreateHashEntry is called on a
 *	table that has been deleted.
 *
 * Results:
@@ -313,15 +313,20 @@ static int              WillRead(Channel *chanPtr);
 		&& (strncmp(optionName, (nameString), len) == 0))

 /*
- * The ChannelObjType type.  We actually store the ChannelState structure
- * as that lives longest and we want to return the bottomChanPtr when
- * requested (consistent with Tcl_GetChannel).  The setFromAny and
- * updateString can be NULL as they should not be called.
+ * The ChannelObjType type.  Used to store the result of looking up
+ * a channel name in the context of an interp.  Saves the lookup
+ * result and values needed to check its continued validity.
 */

+typedef struct ResolvedChanName {
+    ChannelState *statePtr;	/* The saved lookup result */
+    Tcl_Interp *interp;		/* The interp in which the lookup was done. */
+    int epoch;			/* The epoch of the channel when the lookup
+				 * was done. Use to verify validity. */
+    size_t refCount;		/* Share this struct among many Tcl_Obj. */
+} ResolvedChanName;
+
 static void		DupChannelIntRep(Tcl_Obj *objPtr, Tcl_Obj *copyPtr);
-static int		SetChannelFromAny(Tcl_Interp *interp,
-			    Tcl_Obj *objPtr);
 static void		FreeChannelIntRep(Tcl_Obj *objPtr);

 static const Tcl_ObjType chanObjType = {
@@ -329,18 +334,9 @@ static const Tcl_ObjType chanObjType = {
    FreeChannelIntRep,		/* freeIntRepProc */
    DupChannelIntRep,		/* dupIntRepProc */
    NULL,			/* updateStringProc */
-    NULL			/* setFromAnyProc SetChannelFromAny */
+    NULL			/* setFromAnyProc */
 };

-#define GET_CHANNELSTATE(objPtr) \
-    ((ChannelState *) (objPtr)->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1)
-#define SET_CHANNELSTATE(objPtr, storePtr) \
-    ((objPtr)->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1 = (void *) (storePtr))
-#define GET_CHANNELINTERP(objPtr) \
-    ((Tcl_Interp *) (objPtr)->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr2)
-#define SET_CHANNELINTERP(objPtr, storePtr) \
-    ((objPtr)->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr2 = (void *) (storePtr))
-
 #define BUSY_STATE(st, fl) \
     ((((st)->csPtrR) && ((fl) & TCL_READABLE)) || \
      (((st)->csPtrW) && ((fl) & TCL_WRITABLE)))
@@ -1021,7 +1017,7 @@ DeleteChannelTable(
 	 */

 	Tcl_DeleteHashEntry(hPtr);
-	SetFlag(statePtr, CHANNEL_TAINTED);
+	statePtr->epoch++;
 	if (statePtr->refCount-- <= 1) {
 	    if (!GotFlag(statePtr, BG_FLUSH_SCHEDULED)) {
 		(void) Tcl_Close(interp, (Tcl_Channel) chanPtr);
@@ -1365,7 +1361,7 @@ DetachChannel(
 	    return TCL_ERROR;
 	}
 	Tcl_DeleteHashEntry(hPtr);
-	SetFlag(statePtr, CHANNEL_TAINTED);
+	statePtr->epoch++;

 	/*
 	 * Remove channel handlers that refer to this interpreter, so that
@@ -1498,12 +1494,57 @@ TclGetChannelFromObj(
    int flags)
 {
    ChannelState *statePtr;
+    ResolvedChanName *resPtr = NULL;
+    Tcl_Channel chan;

-    if (SetChannelFromAny(interp, objPtr) != TCL_OK) {
+    if (interp == NULL) {
 	return TCL_ERROR;
    }

-    statePtr = GET_CHANNELSTATE(objPtr);
+    if (objPtr->typePtr == &chanObjType) {
+	/*
+ 	 * Confirm validity of saved lookup results.
+ 	 */
+
+	resPtr = (ResolvedChanName *) objPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1;
+	statePtr = resPtr->statePtr;
+	if ((resPtr->interp == interp)		/* Same interp context */
+			/* No epoch change in channel since lookup */
+		&& (resPtr->epoch == statePtr->epoch)) {
+
+	    /* Have a valid saved lookup. Jump to end to return it. */
+	    goto valid;
+	}
+    }
+
+    chan = Tcl_GetChannel(interp, TclGetString(objPtr), NULL);
+
+    if (chan == NULL) {
+	if (resPtr) {
+	    FreeChannelIntRep(objPtr);
+	}
+	return TCL_ERROR;
+    }
+
+    if (resPtr && resPtr->refCount == 1) {
+	/* Re-use the ResolvedCmdName struct */
+	Tcl_Release((ClientData) resPtr->statePtr);
+
+    } else {
+	TclFreeIntRep(objPtr);
+
+	resPtr = (ResolvedChanName *) ckalloc(sizeof(ResolvedChanName));
+	resPtr->refCount = 1;
+	objPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1 = (ClientData) resPtr;
+	objPtr->typePtr = &chanObjType;
+    }
+    statePtr = ((Channel *)chan)->state;
+    resPtr->statePtr = statePtr;
+    Tcl_Preserve((ClientData) statePtr);
+    resPtr->interp = interp;
+    resPtr->epoch = statePtr->epoch;
+
+  valid:
    *channelPtr = (Tcl_Channel) statePtr->bottomChanPtr;

    if (modePtr != NULL) {
@@ -1676,6 +1717,8 @@ Tcl_CreateChannel(
    statePtr->chanMsg		= NULL;
    statePtr->unreportedMsg	= NULL;

+    statePtr->epoch		= 0;
+
    /*
     * Link the channel into the list of all channels; create an on-exit
     * handler if there is not one already, to close off all the channels in
@@ -7086,7 +7129,7 @@ Tcl_Tell(
 *
 * Tcl_SeekOld, Tcl_TellOld --
 *
- *	Backward-compatability versions of the seek/tell interface that do not
+ *	Backward-compatibility versions of the seek/tell interface that do not
 *	support 64-bit offsets. This interface is not documented or expected
 *	to be supported indefinitely.
 *
@@ -11121,75 +11164,13 @@ DupChannelIntRep(
    register Tcl_Obj *copyPtr)	/* Object with internal rep to set. Must not
 				 * currently have an internal rep.*/
 {
-    ChannelState *statePtr  = GET_CHANNELSTATE(srcPtr);
+    ResolvedChanName *resPtr = srcPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1;

-    SET_CHANNELSTATE(copyPtr, statePtr);
-    SET_CHANNELINTERP(copyPtr, GET_CHANNELINTERP(srcPtr));
-    Tcl_Preserve(statePtr);
+    resPtr->refCount++;
+    copyPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1 = resPtr;
    copyPtr->typePtr = srcPtr->typePtr;
 }

-/*
- *----------------------------------------------------------------------
- *
- * SetChannelFromAny --
- *
- *	Create an internal representation of type "Channel" for an object.
- *
- * Results:
- *	This operation always succeeds and returns TCL_OK.
- *
- * Side effects:
- *	Any old internal reputation for objPtr is freed and the internal
- *	representation is set to "Channel".
- *
- *----------------------------------------------------------------------
- */
-
-static int
-SetChannelFromAny(
-    Tcl_Interp *interp,		/* Used for error reporting if not NULL. */
-    register Tcl_Obj *objPtr)	/* The object to convert. */
-{
-    ChannelState *statePtr;
-
-    if (interp == NULL) {
-	return TCL_ERROR;
-    }
-    if (objPtr->typePtr == &chanObjType) {
-	/*
-	 * TODO: TAINT Flag and dup'd channel values?
-	 * The channel is valid until any call to DetachChannel occurs.
-	 * Ensure consistency checks are done.
-	 */
-
-	statePtr = GET_CHANNELSTATE(objPtr);
-	if (GotFlag(statePtr, CHANNEL_TAINTED|CHANNEL_CLOSED)) {
-	    ResetFlag(statePtr, CHANNEL_TAINTED);
-	    Tcl_Release(statePtr);
-	    objPtr->typePtr = NULL;
-	} else if (interp != GET_CHANNELINTERP(objPtr)) {
-	    Tcl_Release(statePtr);
-	    objPtr->typePtr = NULL;
-	}
-    }
-    if (objPtr->typePtr != &chanObjType) {
-	Tcl_Channel chan = Tcl_GetChannel(interp, TclGetString(objPtr), NULL);
-
-	if (chan == NULL) {
-	    return TCL_ERROR;
-	}
-
-	TclFreeIntRep(objPtr);
-	statePtr = ((Channel *) chan)->state;
-	Tcl_Preserve(statePtr);
-	SET_CHANNELSTATE(objPtr, statePtr);
-	SET_CHANNELINTERP(objPtr, interp);
-	objPtr->typePtr = &chanObjType;
-    }
-    return TCL_OK;
-}
-
 /*
 *----------------------------------------------------------------------
 *
@@ -11210,8 +11191,14 @@ static void
 FreeChannelIntRep(
    Tcl_Obj *objPtr)		/* Object with internal rep to free. */
 {
-    Tcl_Release(GET_CHANNELSTATE(objPtr));
+    ResolvedChanName *resPtr = objPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1;
+
    objPtr->typePtr = NULL;
+    if (resPtr->refCount-- > 1) {
+	return;
+    }
+    Tcl_Release(resPtr->statePtr);
+    ckfree(resPtr);
 }

 #if 0
@@ -214,6 +214,8 @@ typedef struct ChannelState {
 				 * because it happened in the background. The
 				 * value is the chanMg, if any. #219's
 				 * companion to 'unreportedError'. */
+    int epoch;			/* Used to test validity of stored channelname
+				 * lookup results. */
 } ChannelState;

 /*
@@ -275,10 +277,6 @@ typedef struct ChannelState {
 					 * usable, but it may not be closed
 					 * again from within the close
 					 * handler. */
-#define CHANNEL_TAINTED		(1<<20)	/* Channel stack structure has changed.
-					 * Used by Channel Tcl_Obj type to
-					 * determine if we have to revalidate
-					 * the channel. */
 #define CHANNEL_CLOSEDWRITE	(1<<21)	/* Channel write side has been closed.
 					 * No further Tcl-level write IO on
 					 * the channel is allowed. */
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ struct TransformChannelData {
 				 * a transformation of incoming data. Also
 				 * serves as buffer of all data not yet
 				 * consumed by the reader. */
-    int refCount;
+    size_t refCount;
 };

 static void
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ static void
 ReleaseData(
    TransformChannelData *dataPtr)
 {
-    if (--dataPtr->refCount) {
+    if (dataPtr->refCount-- > 1) {
 	return;
    }
    ResultClear(&dataPtr->result);
@@ -591,7 +591,7 @@ TclChanCreateObjCmd(
    if (Tcl_ListObjGetElements(NULL, resObj, &listc, &listv) != TCL_OK) {
        Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
                "chan handler \"%s initialize\" returned non-list: %s",
-                Tcl_GetString(cmdObj), Tcl_GetString(resObj)));
+                TclGetString(cmdObj), TclGetString(resObj)));
 	Tcl_DecrRefCount(resObj);
 	goto error;
    }
@@ -617,35 +617,35 @@ TclChanCreateObjCmd(
    if ((REQUIRED_METHODS & methods) != REQUIRED_METHODS) {
        Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
                "chan handler \"%s\" does not support all required methods",
-                Tcl_GetString(cmdObj)));
+                TclGetString(cmdObj)));
 	goto error;
    }

    if ((mode & TCL_READABLE) && !HAS(methods, METH_READ)) {
        Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
                "chan handler \"%s\" lacks a \"read\" method",
-                Tcl_GetString(cmdObj)));
+                TclGetString(cmdObj)));
 	goto error;
    }

    if ((mode & TCL_WRITABLE) && !HAS(methods, METH_WRITE)) {
        Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
                "chan handler \"%s\" lacks a \"write\" method",
-                Tcl_GetString(cmdObj)));
+                TclGetString(cmdObj)));
 	goto error;
    }

    if (!IMPLIES(HAS(methods, METH_CGET), HAS(methods, METH_CGETALL))) {
        Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
                "chan handler \"%s\" supports \"cget\" but not \"cgetall\"",
-                Tcl_GetString(cmdObj)));
+                TclGetString(cmdObj)));
 	goto error;
    }

    if (!IMPLIES(HAS(methods, METH_CGETALL), HAS(methods, METH_CGET))) {
        Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
                "chan handler \"%s\" supports \"cgetall\" but not \"cget\"",
-                Tcl_GetString(cmdObj)));
+                TclGetString(cmdObj)));
 	goto error;
    }

@@ -1152,7 +1152,7 @@ ReflectClose(

 	tctPtr = ((Channel *)rcPtr->chan)->typePtr;
 	if (tctPtr && tctPtr != &tclRChannelType) {
-	    ckfree((char *)tctPtr);
+	    ckfree(tctPtr);
 	    ((Channel *)rcPtr->chan)->typePtr = NULL;
 	}
        Tcl_EventuallyFree(rcPtr, (Tcl_FreeProc *) FreeReflectedChannel);
@@ -1221,7 +1221,7 @@ ReflectClose(
 #endif
    tctPtr = ((Channel *)rcPtr->chan)->typePtr;
    if (tctPtr && tctPtr != &tclRChannelType) {
-	    ckfree((char *)tctPtr);
+	    ckfree(tctPtr);
 	    ((Channel *)rcPtr->chan)->typePtr = NULL;
    }
    Tcl_EventuallyFree(rcPtr, (Tcl_FreeProc *) FreeReflectedChannel);
@@ -1946,7 +1946,7 @@ ReflectGetOption(
        goto error;
    } else {
 	int len;
-	const char *str = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(resObj, &len);
+	const char *str = TclGetStringFromObj(resObj, &len);

 	if (len) {
 	    TclDStringAppendLiteral(dsPtr, " ");
@@ -2319,7 +2319,7 @@ InvokeTclMethod(

 	    if (result != TCL_ERROR) {
 		int cmdLen;
-		const char *cmdString = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(cmd, &cmdLen);
+		const char *cmdString = TclGetStringFromObj(cmd, &cmdLen);

 		Tcl_IncrRefCount(cmd);
 		Tcl_ResetResult(rcPtr->interp);
@@ -2398,7 +2398,7 @@ ErrnoReturn(

    if (((Tcl_GetIntFromObj(rcPtr->interp, resObj, &code) != TCL_OK)
 	    || (code >= 0))) {
-	if (strcmp("EAGAIN", Tcl_GetString(resObj)) == 0) {
+	if (strcmp("EAGAIN", TclGetString(resObj)) == 0) {
 	    code = -EAGAIN;
 	} else {
 	    code = 0;
@@ -3174,7 +3174,7 @@ ForwardProc(
 		ForwardSetDynamicError(paramPtr, buf);
 	    } else {
 		int len;
-		const char *str = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(resObj, &len);
+		const char *str = TclGetStringFromObj(resObj, &len);

 		if (len) {
 		    TclDStringAppendLiteral(paramPtr->getOpt.value, " ");
@@ -3273,7 +3273,7 @@ ForwardSetObjError(
    Tcl_Obj *obj)
 {
    int len;
-    const char *msgStr = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(obj, &len);
+    const char *msgStr = TclGetStringFromObj(obj, &len);

    len++;
    ForwardSetDynamicError(paramPtr, ckalloc(len));
@@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ TclChanPushObjCmd(
     */

    chanObj = objv[CHAN];
-    parentChan = Tcl_GetChannel(interp, Tcl_GetString(chanObj), &mode);
+    parentChan = Tcl_GetChannel(interp, TclGetString(chanObj), &mode);
    if (parentChan == NULL) {
 	return TCL_ERROR;
    }
@@ -608,7 +608,7 @@ TclChanPushObjCmd(
    if (Tcl_ListObjGetElements(NULL, resObj, &listc, &listv) != TCL_OK) {
        Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
                "chan handler \"%s initialize\" returned non-list: %s",
-                Tcl_GetString(cmdObj), Tcl_GetString(resObj)));
+                TclGetString(cmdObj), TclGetString(resObj)));
 	Tcl_DecrRefCount(resObj);
 	goto error;
    }
@@ -619,7 +619,7 @@ TclChanPushObjCmd(
 		"method", TCL_EXACT, &methIndex) != TCL_OK) {
 	    Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
 		    "chan handler \"%s initialize\" returned %s",
-		    Tcl_GetString(cmdObj),
+		    TclGetString(cmdObj),
 		    Tcl_GetString(Tcl_GetObjResult(interp))));
 	    Tcl_DecrRefCount(resObj);
 	    goto error;
@@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ TclChanPushObjCmd(
    if ((REQUIRED_METHODS & methods) != REQUIRED_METHODS) {
        Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
                "chan handler \"%s\" does not support all required methods",
-                Tcl_GetString(cmdObj)));
+                TclGetString(cmdObj)));
 	goto error;
    }

@@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ TclChanPushObjCmd(
    if (!mode) {
        Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
                "chan handler \"%s\" makes the channel inaccessible",
-                Tcl_GetString(cmdObj)));
+                TclGetString(cmdObj)));
 	goto error;
    }

@@ -666,14 +666,14 @@ TclChanPushObjCmd(
    if (!IMPLIES(HAS(methods, METH_DRAIN), HAS(methods, METH_READ))) {
        Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
                "chan handler \"%s\" supports \"drain\" but not \"read\"",
-                Tcl_GetString(cmdObj)));
+                TclGetString(cmdObj)));
 	goto error;
    }

    if (!IMPLIES(HAS(methods, METH_FLUSH), HAS(methods, METH_WRITE))) {
        Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
                "chan handler \"%s\" supports \"flush\" but not \"write\"",
-                Tcl_GetString(cmdObj)));
+                TclGetString(cmdObj)));
 	goto error;
    }

@@ -694,14 +694,14 @@ TclChanPushObjCmd(
     */

    rtmPtr = GetReflectedTransformMap(interp);
-    hPtr = Tcl_CreateHashEntry(&rtmPtr->map, Tcl_GetString(rtId), &isNew);
+    hPtr = Tcl_CreateHashEntry(&rtmPtr->map, TclGetString(rtId), &isNew);
    if (!isNew && rtPtr != Tcl_GetHashValue(hPtr)) {
 	Tcl_Panic("TclChanPushObjCmd: duplicate transformation handle");
    }
    Tcl_SetHashValue(hPtr, rtPtr);
 #ifdef TCL_THREADS
    rtmPtr = GetThreadReflectedTransformMap();
-    hPtr = Tcl_CreateHashEntry(&rtmPtr->map, Tcl_GetString(rtId), &isNew);
+    hPtr = Tcl_CreateHashEntry(&rtmPtr->map, TclGetString(rtId), &isNew);
    Tcl_SetHashValue(hPtr, rtPtr);
 #endif /* TCL_THREADS */

@@ -1027,7 +1027,7 @@ ReflectClose(

 #ifdef TCL_THREADS
 	rtmPtr = GetThreadReflectedTransformMap();
-	hPtr = Tcl_FindHashEntry(&rtmPtr->map, Tcl_GetString(rtPtr->handle));
+	hPtr = Tcl_FindHashEntry(&rtmPtr->map, TclGetString(rtPtr->handle));
 	if (hPtr) {
 	    Tcl_DeleteHashEntry(hPtr);
 	}
@@ -2043,7 +2043,7 @@ InvokeTclMethod(
 	    if (result != TCL_ERROR) {
 		Tcl_Obj *cmd = Tcl_NewListObj(cmdc, rtPtr->argv);
 		int cmdLen;
-		const char *cmdString = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(cmd, &cmdLen);
+		const char *cmdString = TclGetStringFromObj(cmd, &cmdLen);

 		Tcl_IncrRefCount(cmd);
 		Tcl_ResetResult(rtPtr->interp);
@@ -2568,7 +2568,7 @@ ForwardProc(
 	 */

 	rtmPtr = GetReflectedTransformMap(interp);
-	hPtr = Tcl_FindHashEntry(&rtmPtr->map, Tcl_GetString(rtPtr->handle));
+	hPtr = Tcl_FindHashEntry(&rtmPtr->map, TclGetString(rtPtr->handle));
 	Tcl_DeleteHashEntry(hPtr);

 	/*
@@ -2578,7 +2578,7 @@ ForwardProc(
 	 */

 	rtmPtr = GetThreadReflectedTransformMap();
-	hPtr = Tcl_FindHashEntry(&rtmPtr->map, Tcl_GetString(rtPtr->handle));
+	hPtr = Tcl_FindHashEntry(&rtmPtr->map, TclGetString(rtPtr->handle));
 	Tcl_DeleteHashEntry(hPtr);

 	FreeReflectedTransformArgs(rtPtr);
@@ -2807,7 +2807,7 @@ ForwardSetObjError(
    Tcl_Obj *obj)
 {
    int len;
-    const char *msgStr = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(obj, &len);
+    const char *msgStr = TclGetStringFromObj(obj, &len);

    len++;
    ForwardSetDynamicError(paramPtr, ckalloc(len));
@@ -2955,7 +2955,7 @@ ResultClear(
 	return;
    }

-    ckfree((char *) rPtr->buf);
+    ckfree(rPtr->buf);
    rPtr->buf = NULL;
    rPtr->allocated = 0;
 }
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ static const char *gai_strerror(int code) {
 int
 TclSockGetPort(
    Tcl_Interp *interp,
-    const char *string, /* Integer or service name */
-    const char *proto, /* "tcp" or "udp", typically */
+    const char *string,		/* Integer or service name */
+    const char *proto,		/* "tcp" or "udp", typically */
    int *portPtr)		/* Return port number */
 {
    struct servent *sp;		/* Protocol info for named services */
@@ -154,15 +154,15 @@ TclSockMinimumBuffers(

 int
 TclCreateSocketAddress(
-    Tcl_Interp *interp,                 /* Interpreter for querying
-					 * the desired socket family */
-    struct addrinfo **addrlist,		/* Socket address list */
-    const char *host,			/* Host. NULL implies INADDR_ANY */
-    int port,				/* Port number */
-    int willBind,			/* Is this an address to bind() to or
-					 * to connect() to? */
-    const char **errorMsgPtr)		/* Place to store the error message
-					 * detail, if available. */
+    Tcl_Interp *interp,		/* Interpreter for querying the desired socket
+				 * family */
+    struct addrinfo **addrlist,	/* Socket address list */
+    const char *host,		/* Host. NULL implies INADDR_ANY */
+    int port,			/* Port number */
+    int willBind,		/* Is this an address to bind() to or to
+				 * connect() to? */
+    const char **errorMsgPtr)	/* Place to store the error message detail, if
+				 * available. */
 {
    struct addrinfo hints;
    struct addrinfo *p;
@@ -181,30 +181,31 @@ TclCreateSocketAddress(
     * Workaround for OSX's apparent inability to resolve "localhost", "0"
     * when the loopback device is the only available network interface.
     */
+
    if (host != NULL && port == 0) {
-        portstring = NULL;
+	portstring = NULL;
    } else {
-        TclFormatInt(portbuf, port);
-        portstring = portbuf;
+	TclFormatInt(portbuf, port);
+	portstring = portbuf;
    }

    (void) memset(&hints, 0, sizeof(hints));
    hints.ai_family = AF_UNSPEC;

    /*
-     * Magic variable to enforce a certain address family - to be superseded
-     * by a TIP that adds explicit switches to [socket]
+     * Magic variable to enforce a certain address family; to be superseded
+     * by a TIP that adds explicit switches to [socket].
     */

    if (interp != NULL) {
-        family = Tcl_GetVar(interp, "::tcl::unsupported::socketAF", 0);
-        if (family != NULL) {
-            if (strcmp(family, "inet") == 0) {
-                hints.ai_family = AF_INET;
-            } else if (strcmp(family, "inet6") == 0) {
-                hints.ai_family = AF_INET6;
-            }
-        }
+	family = Tcl_GetVar2(interp, "::tcl::unsupported::socketAF", NULL, 0);
+	if (family != NULL) {
+	    if (strcmp(family, "inet") == 0) {
+		hints.ai_family = AF_INET;
+	    } else if (strcmp(family, "inet6") == 0) {
+		hints.ai_family = AF_INET6;
+	    }
+	}
    }

    hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM;
@@ -251,6 +252,7 @@ TclCreateSocketAddress(
     *
     * There might be more elegant/efficient ways to do this.
     */
+
    if (willBind) {
 	for (p = *addrlist; p != NULL; p = p->ai_next) {
 	    if (p->ai_family == AF_INET) {
@@ -71,8 +71,7 @@ typedef struct ThreadSpecificData {
 * Prototypes for functions defined later in this file.
 */

-static int		EvalFileCallback(ClientData data[],
-			    Tcl_Interp *interp, int result);
+static Tcl_NRPostProc	EvalFileCallback;
 static FilesystemRecord*FsGetFirstFilesystem(void);
 static void		FsThrExitProc(ClientData cd);
 static Tcl_Obj *	FsListMounts(Tcl_Obj *pathPtr, const char *pattern);
@@ -545,8 +544,8 @@ TclFSCwdPointerEquals(
 	int len1, len2;
 	const char *str1, *str2;

-	str1 = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(tsdPtr->cwdPathPtr, &len1);
-	str2 = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(*pathPtrPtr, &len2);
+	str1 = TclGetStringFromObj(tsdPtr->cwdPathPtr, &len1);
+	str2 = TclGetStringFromObj(*pathPtrPtr, &len2);
 	if ((len1 == len2) && !memcmp(str1, str2, len1)) {
 	    /*
 	     * They are equal, but different objects. Update so they will be
@@ -639,8 +638,8 @@ FsGetFirstFilesystem(void)
 }

 /*
- * The epoch can be changed both by filesystems being added or removed and by
- * env(HOME) changing.
+ * The epoch can be changed by filesystems being added or removed, by changing
+ * the "system encoding" and by env(HOME) changing.
 */

 int
@@ -689,7 +688,7 @@ FsUpdateCwd(
    ThreadSpecificData *tsdPtr = TCL_TSD_INIT(&fsDataKey);

    if (cwdObj != NULL) {
-	str = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(cwdObj, &len);
+	str = TclGetStringFromObj(cwdObj, &len);
    }

    Tcl_MutexLock(&cwdMutex);
@@ -1225,8 +1224,8 @@ FsAddMountsToGlobResult(
 	    if (norm != NULL) {
 		const char *path, *mount;

-		mount = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(mElt, &mlen);
-		path = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(norm, &len);
+		mount = TclGetStringFromObj(mElt, &mlen);
+		path = TclGetStringFromObj(norm, &len);
 		if (path[len-1] == '/') {
 		    /*
 		     * Deal with the root of the volume.
@@ -1817,7 +1816,7 @@ Tcl_FSEvalFileEx(
    oldScriptFile = iPtr->scriptFile;
    iPtr->scriptFile = pathPtr;
    Tcl_IncrRefCount(iPtr->scriptFile);
-    string = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objPtr, &length);
+    string = TclGetStringFromObj(objPtr, &length);

    /*
     * TIP #280 Force the evaluator to open a frame for a sourced file.
@@ -1844,7 +1843,7 @@ Tcl_FSEvalFileEx(
 	 * Record information telling where the error occurred.
 	 */

-	const char *pathString = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(pathPtr, &length);
+	const char *pathString = TclGetStringFromObj(pathPtr, &length);
 	int limit = 150;
 	int overflow = (length > limit);

@@ -1995,7 +1994,7 @@ EvalFileCallback(
 	 */

 	int length;
-	const char *pathString = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(pathPtr, &length);
+	const char *pathString = TclGetStringFromObj(pathPtr, &length);
 	const int limit = 150;
 	int overflow = (length > limit);

@@ -2847,8 +2846,8 @@ Tcl_FSGetCwd(
 	    int len1, len2;
 	    const char *str1, *str2;

-	    str1 = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(tsdPtr->cwdPathPtr, &len1);
-	    str2 = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(norm, &len2);
+	    str1 = TclGetStringFromObj(tsdPtr->cwdPathPtr, &len1);
+	    str2 = TclGetStringFromObj(norm, &len2);
 	    if ((len1 == len2) && (strcmp(str1, str2) == 0)) {
 		/*
 		 * If the paths were equal, we can be more efficient and
@@ -4116,7 +4115,7 @@ TclGetPathType(
 				 * caller. */
 {
    int pathLen;
-    const char *path = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(pathPtr, &pathLen);
+    const char *path = TclGetStringFromObj(pathPtr, &pathLen);
    Tcl_PathType type;

    type = TclFSNonnativePathType(path, pathLen, filesystemPtrPtr,
@@ -4228,7 +4227,7 @@ TclFSNonnativePathType(

 		    numVolumes--;
 		    Tcl_ListObjIndex(NULL, thisFsVolumes, numVolumes, &vol);
-		    strVol = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(vol,&len);
+		    strVol = TclGetStringFromObj(vol,&len);
 		    if (pathLen < len) {
 			continue;
 		    }
@@ -4575,8 +4574,8 @@ Tcl_FSRemoveDirectory(
 	    Tcl_Obj *normPath = Tcl_FSGetNormalizedPath(NULL, pathPtr);

 	    if (normPath != NULL) {
-		normPathStr = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(normPath, &normLen);
-		cwdStr = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(cwdPtr, &cwdLen);
+		normPathStr = TclGetStringFromObj(normPath, &normLen);
+		cwdStr = TclGetStringFromObj(cwdPtr, &cwdLen);
 		if ((cwdLen >= normLen) && (strncmp(normPathStr, cwdStr,
 			(size_t) normLen) == 0)) {
 		    /*
@@ -114,14 +114,13 @@ Tcl_GetIndexFromObj(
    int flags,			/* 0 or TCL_EXACT */
    int *indexPtr)		/* Place to store resulting integer index. */
 {
-
    /*
     * See if there is a valid cached result from a previous lookup (doing the
     * check here saves the overhead of calling Tcl_GetIndexFromObjStruct in
     * the common case where the result is cached).
     */

-    if (objPtr->typePtr == &indexType) {
+    if (!(flags & INDEX_TEMP_TABLE) && objPtr->typePtr == &indexType) {
 	IndexRep *indexRep = objPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1;

 	/*
@@ -211,13 +210,8 @@ GetIndexFromObjList(
    tablePtr[objc] = NULL;

    result = Tcl_GetIndexFromObjStruct(interp, objPtr, tablePtr,
-	    sizeof(char *), msg, flags, indexPtr);
+	    sizeof(char *), msg, flags | INDEX_TEMP_TABLE, indexPtr);

-    /*
-     * The internal rep must be cleared since tablePtr will go away.
-     */
-
-    TclFreeIntRep(objPtr);
    ckfree(tablePtr);

    return result;
@@ -279,7 +273,7 @@ Tcl_GetIndexFromObjStruct(
     * See if there is a valid cached result from a previous lookup.
     */

-    if (objPtr->typePtr == &indexType) {
+    if (!(flags & INDEX_TEMP_TABLE) && objPtr->typePtr == &indexType) {
 	indexRep = objPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1;
 	if (indexRep->tablePtr==tablePtr && indexRep->offset==offset) {
 	    *indexPtr = indexRep->index;
@@ -340,17 +334,19 @@ Tcl_GetIndexFromObjStruct(
     * operation.
     */

-    if (objPtr->typePtr == &indexType) {
-	indexRep = objPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1;
-    } else {
-	TclFreeIntRep(objPtr);
-	indexRep = ckalloc(sizeof(IndexRep));
-	objPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1 = indexRep;
-	objPtr->typePtr = &indexType;
+    if (!(flags & INDEX_TEMP_TABLE)) {
+	if (objPtr->typePtr == &indexType) {
+	    indexRep = objPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1;
+	} else {
+	    TclFreeIntRep(objPtr);
+	    indexRep = ckalloc(sizeof(IndexRep));
+	    objPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1 = indexRep;
+	    objPtr->typePtr = &indexType;
+	}
+	indexRep->tablePtr = (void *) tablePtr;
+	indexRep->offset = offset;
+	indexRep->index = index;
    }
-    indexRep->tablePtr = (void *) tablePtr;
-    indexRep->offset = offset;
-    indexRep->index = index;

    *indexPtr = index;
    return TCL_OK;
@@ -712,10 +708,10 @@ PrefixAllObjCmd(
 	return result;
    }
    resultPtr = Tcl_NewListObj(0, NULL);
-    string = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objv[2], &length);
+    string = TclGetStringFromObj(objv[2], &length);

    for (t = 0; t < tableObjc; t++) {
-	elemString = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(tableObjv[t], &elemLength);
+	elemString = TclGetStringFromObj(tableObjv[t], &elemLength);

 	/*
 	 * A prefix cannot match if it is longest.
@@ -768,13 +764,13 @@ PrefixLongestObjCmd(
    if (result != TCL_OK) {
 	return result;
    }
-    string = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objv[2], &length);
+    string = TclGetStringFromObj(objv[2], &length);

    resultString = NULL;
    resultLength = 0;

    for (t = 0; t < tableObjc; t++) {
-	elemString = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(tableObjv[t], &elemLength);
+	elemString = TclGetStringFromObj(tableObjv[t], &elemLength);

 	/*
 	 * First check if the prefix string matches the element. A prefix
@@ -924,6 +920,14 @@ Tcl_WrongNumArgs(
 	int toPrint = iPtr->ensembleRewrite.numRemovedObjs;
 	Tcl_Obj *const *origObjv = iPtr->ensembleRewrite.sourceObjs;

+	/*
+	 * Check for spelling fixes, and substitute the fixed values.
+	 */
+
+	if (origObjv[0] == NULL) {
+	    origObjv = (Tcl_Obj *const *)origObjv[2];
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * We only know how to do rewriting if all the replaced objects are
 	 * actually arguments (in objv) to this function. Otherwise it just
@@ -957,12 +961,6 @@ Tcl_WrongNumArgs(

 		elementStr = EXPAND_OF(indexRep);
 		elemLen = strlen(elementStr);
-	    } else if (origObjv[i]->typePtr == &tclEnsembleCmdType) {
-		register EnsembleCmdRep *ecrPtr =
-			origObjv[i]->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1;
-
-		elementStr = ecrPtr->fullSubcmdName;
-		elemLen = strlen(elementStr);
 	    } else {
 		elementStr = TclGetStringFromObj(origObjv[i], &elemLen);
 	    }
@@ -1011,11 +1009,6 @@ Tcl_WrongNumArgs(
 	    register IndexRep *indexRep = objv[i]->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1;

 	    Tcl_AppendStringsToObj(objPtr, EXPAND_OF(indexRep), NULL);
-	} else if (objv[i]->typePtr == &tclEnsembleCmdType) {
-	    register EnsembleCmdRep *ecrPtr =
-		    objv[i]->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1;
-
-	    Tcl_AppendStringsToObj(objPtr, ecrPtr->fullSubcmdName, NULL);
 	} else {
 	    /*
 	     * Quote the argument if it contains spaces (Bug 942757).
@@ -1151,7 +1144,7 @@ Tcl_ParseArgsObjv(
 	curArg = objv[srcIndex];
 	srcIndex++;
 	objc--;
-	str = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(curArg, &length);
+	str = TclGetStringFromObj(curArg, &length);
 	if (length > 0) {
 	    c = str[1];
 	} else {
@@ -1009,7 +1009,7 @@ declare 250 {
 # Allow extensions for optimization
 declare 251 {
    int TclRegisterLiteral(void *envPtr,
-	    char *bytes, int length, int flags)
+	    const char *bytes, int length, int flags)
 }

 ##############################################################################
@@ -1246,7 +1246,7 @@ declare 19 macosx {
 }

 declare 29 {win unix} {
-    int TclWinCPUID(unsigned int index, unsigned int *regs)
+    int TclWinCPUID(int index, int *regs)
 }
 # Added in 8.6; core of TclpOpenTemporaryFile
 declare 30 {win unix} {
@@ -25,6 +25,19 @@

 #undef ACCEPT_NAN

+/*
+ * In Tcl 8.7, stop supporting special hacks for legacy Itcl 3.
+ * Itcl 4 doesn't need them. Itcl 3 can be updated to not need them
+ * using the Tcl(Init|Reset)RewriteEnsemble() routines in all Tcl 8.6+
+ * releases.  Perhaps Tcl 8.7 will add even better public interfaces
+ * supporting all the re-invocation mechanisms extensions like Itcl 3
+ * need.  As an absolute last resort, folks who must make Itcl 3 work
+ * unchanged with Tcl 8.7 can remove this line to regain the migration
+ * support.  Tcl 9 will no longer offer even that option.
+ */
+
+#define AVOID_HACKS_FOR_ITCL 1
+
 /*
 * Common include files needed by most of the Tcl source files are included
 * here, so that system-dependent personalizations for the include files only
@@ -169,6 +182,21 @@ typedef struct Tcl_ResolverInfo {
 				 * at compile time. */
 } Tcl_ResolverInfo;

+/*
+ * This flag bit should not interfere with TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY,
+ * TCL_NAMESPACE_ONLY, or TCL_LEAVE_ERR_MSG; it signals that the variable
+ * lookup is performed for upvar (or similar) purposes, with slightly
+ * different rules:
+ *    - Bug #696893 - variable is either proc-local or in the current
+ *	namespace; never follow the second (global) resolution path
+ *    - Bug #631741 - do not use special namespace or interp resolvers
+ *
+ * It should also not collide with the (deprecated) TCL_PARSE_PART1 flag
+ * (Bug #835020)
+ */
+
+#define TCL_AVOID_RESOLVERS 0x40000
+
 /*
 *----------------------------------------------------------------
 * Data structures related to namespaces.
@@ -389,27 +417,6 @@ struct NamespacePathEntry {
 #define TCL_CREATE_NS_IF_UNKNOWN	0x800
 #define TCL_FIND_ONLY_NS		0x1000

-/*
- * The data cached in an ensemble subcommand's Tcl_Obj rep (reference in
- * twoPtrValue.ptr1 field). This structure is not shared between Tcl_Objs
- * referring to the same subcommand, even where one is a duplicate of another.
- */
-
-typedef struct {
-    Namespace *nsPtr;		/* The namespace backing the ensemble which
-				 * this is a subcommand of. */
-    int epoch;			/* Used to confirm when the data in this
-				 * really structure matches up with the
-				 * ensemble. */
-    Tcl_Command token;		/* Reference to the comamnd for which this
-				 * structure is a cache of the resolution. */
-    char *fullSubcmdName;	/* The full (local) name of the subcommand,
-				 * allocated with ckalloc(). */
-    Tcl_Obj *realPrefixObj;	/* Object containing the prefix words of the
-				 * command that implements this ensemble
-				 * subcommand. */
-} EnsembleCmdRep;
-
 /*
 * The client data for an ensemble command. This consists of the table of
 * commands that are actually exported by the namespace, and an epoch counter
@@ -797,6 +804,7 @@ typedef struct VarInHash {
 * MODULE_SCOPE int	TclIsVarTemporary(Var *varPtr);
 * MODULE_SCOPE int	TclIsVarArgument(Var *varPtr);
 * MODULE_SCOPE int	TclIsVarResolved(Var *varPtr);
+ * MODULE_SCOPE int	TclIsVarArraySearched(Var *varPtr);
 */

 #define TclIsVarScalar(varPtr) \
@@ -838,6 +846,9 @@ typedef struct VarInHash {
 #define TclIsVarDeadHash(varPtr) \
    ((varPtr)->flags & VAR_DEAD_HASH)

+#define TclIsVarArraySearched(varPtr) \
+    ((varPtr)->flags & VAR_SEARCH_ACTIVE)
+
 #define TclGetVarNsPtr(varPtr) \
    (TclIsVarInHash(varPtr) \
 	? ((TclVarHashTable *) ((((VarInHash *) (varPtr))->entry.tablePtr)))->nsPtr \
@@ -1683,11 +1694,13 @@ typedef struct Command {
 * (these last two flags are defined in tcl.h)
 */

-#define CMD_IS_DELETED		    0x1
-#define CMD_TRACE_ACTIVE	    0x2
-#define CMD_HAS_EXEC_TRACES	    0x4
-#define CMD_COMPILES_EXPANDED	    0x8
+#define CMD_IS_DELETED		    0x01
+#define CMD_TRACE_ACTIVE	    0x02
+#define CMD_HAS_EXEC_TRACES	    0x04
+#define CMD_COMPILES_EXPANDED	    0x08
 #define CMD_REDEF_IN_PROGRESS	    0x10
+#define CMD_VIA_RESOLVER	    0x20
+

 /*
 *----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -1889,7 +1902,7 @@ typedef struct Interp {
 				 * compiled by the interpreter. Indexed by the
 				 * string representations of literals. Used to
 				 * avoid creating duplicate objects. */
-    int compileEpoch;		/* Holds the current "compilation epoch" for
+    unsigned int compileEpoch;	/* Holds the current "compilation epoch" for
 				 * this interpreter. This is incremented to
 				 * invalidate existing ByteCodes when, e.g., a
 				 * command with a compile procedure is
@@ -2540,6 +2553,15 @@ typedef struct TclFileAttrProcs {
    TclSetFileAttrProc *setProc;/* The procedure for setting attrs. */
 } TclFileAttrProcs;

+/*
+ * Private flag value which controls Tcl_GetIndexFromObj*() routines
+ * to instruct them not to cache lookups because the table will not
+ * live long enough to make it worthwhile.  Must not clash with public
+ * flag value TCL_EXACT.
+ */
+
+#define INDEX_TEMP_TABLE 2
+
 /*
 * Opaque handle used in pipeline routines to encapsulate platform-dependent
 * state.
@@ -2590,7 +2612,7 @@ typedef Tcl_ObjCmdProc *TclObjCmdProcType;
 *----------------------------------------------------------------
 */

-typedef void (TclInitProcessGlobalValueProc)(char **valuePtr, int *lengthPtr,
+typedef void (TclInitProcessGlobalValueProc)(char **valuePtr, size_t *lengthPtr,
 	Tcl_Encoding *encodingPtr);

 /*
@@ -2602,9 +2624,9 @@ typedef void (TclInitProcessGlobalValueProc)(char **valuePtr, int *lengthPtr,
 */

 typedef struct ProcessGlobalValue {
-    int epoch;			/* Epoch counter to detect changes in the
+    size_t epoch;			/* Epoch counter to detect changes in the
 				 * master value. */
-    int numBytes;		/* Length of the master string. */
+    size_t numBytes;		/* Length of the master string. */
    char *value;		/* The master string value. */
    Tcl_Encoding encoding;	/* system encoding when master string was
 				 * initialized. */
@@ -2691,7 +2713,6 @@ MODULE_SCOPE const Tcl_ObjType tclListType;
 MODULE_SCOPE const Tcl_ObjType tclDictType;
 MODULE_SCOPE const Tcl_ObjType tclProcBodyType;
 MODULE_SCOPE const Tcl_ObjType tclStringType;
-MODULE_SCOPE const Tcl_ObjType tclArraySearchType;
 MODULE_SCOPE const Tcl_ObjType tclEnsembleCmdType;
 #ifndef TCL_WIDE_INT_IS_LONG
 MODULE_SCOPE const Tcl_ObjType tclWideIntType;
@@ -2762,6 +2783,7 @@ MODULE_SCOPE Tcl_ObjCmdProc TclNRYieldObjCmd;
 MODULE_SCOPE Tcl_ObjCmdProc TclNRYieldmObjCmd;
 MODULE_SCOPE Tcl_ObjCmdProc TclNRYieldToObjCmd;
 MODULE_SCOPE Tcl_ObjCmdProc TclNRInvoke;
+MODULE_SCOPE Tcl_NRPostProc TclNRReleaseValues;

 MODULE_SCOPE void  TclSetTailcall(Tcl_Interp *interp, Tcl_Obj *tailcallPtr);
 MODULE_SCOPE void  TclPushTailcallPoint(Tcl_Interp *interp);
@@ -2872,8 +2894,7 @@ MODULE_SCOPE int	TclCheckBadOctal(Tcl_Interp *interp,
 MODULE_SCOPE int	TclChanCaughtErrorBypass(Tcl_Interp *interp,
 			    Tcl_Channel chan);
 MODULE_SCOPE Tcl_ObjCmdProc TclChannelNamesCmd;
-MODULE_SCOPE int	TclClearRootEnsemble(ClientData data[],
-			    Tcl_Interp *interp, int result);
+MODULE_SCOPE Tcl_NRPostProc TclClearRootEnsemble;
 MODULE_SCOPE ContLineLoc *TclContinuationsEnter(Tcl_Obj *objPtr, int num,
 			    int *loc);
 MODULE_SCOPE void	TclContinuationsEnterDerived(Tcl_Obj *objPtr,
@@ -2909,6 +2930,8 @@ MODULE_SCOPE char *	TclDStringAppendObj(Tcl_DString *dsPtr,
 MODULE_SCOPE char *	TclDStringAppendDString(Tcl_DString *dsPtr,
 			    Tcl_DString *toAppendPtr);
 MODULE_SCOPE Tcl_Obj *	TclDStringToObj(Tcl_DString *dsPtr);
+MODULE_SCOPE Tcl_Obj *const *	TclFetchEnsembleRoot(Tcl_Interp *interp,
+			    Tcl_Obj *const *objv, int objc, int *objcPtr);
 MODULE_SCOPE void	TclFinalizeAllocSubsystem(void);
 MODULE_SCOPE void	TclFinalizeAsync(void);
 MODULE_SCOPE void	TclFinalizeDoubleConversion(void);
@@ -3053,7 +3076,7 @@ MODULE_SCOPE int	TclpThreadCreate(Tcl_ThreadId *idPtr,
 			    int stackSize, int flags);
 MODULE_SCOPE int	TclpFindVariable(const char *name, int *lengthPtr);
 MODULE_SCOPE void	TclpInitLibraryPath(char **valuePtr,
-			    int *lengthPtr, Tcl_Encoding *encodingPtr);
+			    size_t *lengthPtr, Tcl_Encoding *encodingPtr);
 MODULE_SCOPE void	TclpInitLock(void);
 MODULE_SCOPE void	TclpInitPlatform(void);
 MODULE_SCOPE void	TclpInitUnlock(void);
@@ -3111,13 +3134,25 @@ MODULE_SCOPE void	TclSetDuplicateObj(Tcl_Obj *dupPtr, Tcl_Obj *objPtr);
 MODULE_SCOPE void	TclSetProcessGlobalValue(ProcessGlobalValue *pgvPtr,
 			    Tcl_Obj *newValue, Tcl_Encoding encoding);
 MODULE_SCOPE void	TclSignalExitThread(Tcl_ThreadId id, int result);
+MODULE_SCOPE void	TclSpellFix(Tcl_Interp *interp,
+			    Tcl_Obj *const *objv, int objc, int subIdx,
+			    Tcl_Obj *bad, Tcl_Obj *fix);
 MODULE_SCOPE void *	TclStackRealloc(Tcl_Interp *interp, void *ptr,
 			    int numBytes);
+MODULE_SCOPE int	TclStringCatObjv(Tcl_Interp *interp, int inPlace,
+			    int objc, Tcl_Obj *const objv[],
+			    Tcl_Obj **objPtrPtr);
+MODULE_SCOPE int	TclStringFind(Tcl_Obj *needle, Tcl_Obj *haystack,
+			    int start);
+MODULE_SCOPE int	TclStringLast(Tcl_Obj *needle, Tcl_Obj *haystack,
+			    int last);
 MODULE_SCOPE int	TclStringMatch(const char *str, int strLen,
 			    const char *pattern, int ptnLen, int flags);
 MODULE_SCOPE int	TclStringMatchObj(Tcl_Obj *stringObj,
 			    Tcl_Obj *patternObj, int flags);
 MODULE_SCOPE Tcl_Obj *	TclStringObjReverse(Tcl_Obj *objPtr);
+MODULE_SCOPE int	TclStringRepeat(Tcl_Interp *interp, Tcl_Obj *objPtr,
+			    int count, Tcl_Obj **objPtrPtr);
 MODULE_SCOPE void	TclSubstCompile(Tcl_Interp *interp, const char *bytes,
 			    int numBytes, int flags, int line,
 			    struct CompileEnv *envPtr);
@@ -3965,7 +4000,7 @@ MODULE_SCOPE int	TclObjCallVarTraces(Interp *iPtr, Var *arrayPtr,

 MODULE_SCOPE int	TclCompareObjKeys(void *keyPtr, Tcl_HashEntry *hPtr);
 MODULE_SCOPE void	TclFreeObjEntry(Tcl_HashEntry *hPtr);
-MODULE_SCOPE unsigned	TclHashObjKey(Tcl_HashTable *tablePtr, void *keyPtr);
+MODULE_SCOPE TCL_HASH_TYPE TclHashObjKey(Tcl_HashTable *tablePtr, void *keyPtr);

 MODULE_SCOPE int	TclFullFinalizationRequested(void);

@@ -4045,7 +4080,7 @@ typedef const char *TclDTraceStr;
 	    TCL_DTRACE_OBJ_FREE(objPtr); \
 	    if ((objPtr)->bytes \
 		    && ((objPtr)->bytes != tclEmptyStringRep)) { \
-		ckfree((char *) (objPtr)->bytes); \
+		ckfree((objPtr)->bytes); \
 	    } \
 	    (objPtr)->length = -1; \
 	    TclFreeObjStorage(objPtr); \
@@ -4068,7 +4103,7 @@ typedef const char *TclDTraceStr;
 	(objPtr) = (Tcl_Obj *) ckalloc(sizeof(Tcl_Obj))

 #  define TclFreeObjStorageEx(interp, objPtr) \
-	ckfree((char *) (objPtr))
+	ckfree(objPtr)

 #undef USE_THREAD_ALLOC
 #undef USE_TCLALLOC
@@ -4227,7 +4262,7 @@ MODULE_SCOPE void	TclDbInitNewObj(Tcl_Obj *objPtr, const char *file,
 */

 #define TclGetString(objPtr) \
-    ((objPtr)->bytes? (objPtr)->bytes : Tcl_GetString((objPtr)))
+    ((objPtr)->bytes? (objPtr)->bytes : Tcl_GetString(objPtr))

 #define TclGetStringFromObj(objPtr, lenPtr) \
    ((objPtr)->bytes \
@@ -4262,11 +4297,11 @@ MODULE_SCOPE void	TclDbInitNewObj(Tcl_Obj *objPtr, const char *file,
 */

 #define TclInvalidateStringRep(objPtr) \
-    if (objPtr->bytes != NULL) { \
-	if (objPtr->bytes != tclEmptyStringRep) { \
-	    ckfree((char *) objPtr->bytes); \
+    if ((objPtr)->bytes != NULL) { \
+	if ((objPtr)->bytes != tclEmptyStringRep) { \
+	    ckfree((objPtr)->bytes); \
 	} \
-	objPtr->bytes = NULL; \
+	(objPtr)->bytes = NULL; \
    }

 /*
@@ -4396,8 +4431,7 @@ MODULE_SCOPE void	TclDbInitNewObj(Tcl_Obj *objPtr, const char *file,
 *----------------------------------------------------------------
 */

-#define TclIsPureByteArray(objPtr) \
-	(((objPtr)->typePtr==&tclByteArrayType) && ((objPtr)->bytes==NULL))
+MODULE_SCOPE int	TclIsPureByteArray(Tcl_Obj *objPtr);

 /*
 *----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -4532,13 +4566,12 @@ MODULE_SCOPE Tcl_PackageInitProc Procbodytest_SafeInit;
 * types, avoiding the corresponding function calls in time critical parts of
 * the core. The ANSI C "prototypes" for these macros are:
 *
- * MODULE_SCOPE void	TclNewIntObj(Tcl_Obj *objPtr, int i);
 * MODULE_SCOPE void	TclNewLongObj(Tcl_Obj *objPtr, long l);
 * MODULE_SCOPE void	TclNewBooleanObj(Tcl_Obj *objPtr, int b);
 * MODULE_SCOPE void	TclNewWideObj(Tcl_Obj *objPtr, Tcl_WideInt w);
 * MODULE_SCOPE void	TclNewDoubleObj(Tcl_Obj *objPtr, double d);
- * MODULE_SCOPE void	TclNewStringObj(Tcl_Obj *objPtr, char *s, int len);
- * MODULE_SCOPE void	TclNewLiteralStringObj(Tcl_Obj*objPtr, char*sLiteral);
+ * MODULE_SCOPE void	TclNewStringObj(Tcl_Obj *objPtr, const char *s, int len);
+ * MODULE_SCOPE void	TclNewLiteralStringObj(Tcl_Obj*objPtr, const char *sLiteral);
 *
 *----------------------------------------------------------------
 */
@@ -4555,9 +4588,6 @@ MODULE_SCOPE Tcl_PackageInitProc Procbodytest_SafeInit;
 	TCL_DTRACE_OBJ_CREATE(objPtr);			\
    } while (0)

-#define TclNewIntObj(objPtr, l) \
-    TclNewLongObj(objPtr, l)
-
 /*
 * NOTE: There is to be no such thing as a "pure" boolean.
 * See comment above TclSetBooleanObj macro above.
@@ -4587,9 +4617,6 @@ MODULE_SCOPE Tcl_PackageInitProc Procbodytest_SafeInit;
    } while (0)

 #else /* TCL_MEM_DEBUG */
-#define TclNewIntObj(objPtr, i) \
-    (objPtr) = Tcl_NewIntObj(i)
-
 #define TclNewLongObj(objPtr, l) \
    (objPtr) = Tcl_NewLongObj(l)

@@ -4677,7 +4704,7 @@ MODULE_SCOPE Tcl_PackageInitProc Procbodytest_SafeInit;

 #define TclCleanupCommandMacro(cmdPtr) \
    if ((cmdPtr)->refCount-- <= 1) { \
-	ckfree((char *) (cmdPtr));\
+	ckfree(cmdPtr);\
    }

 /*
@@ -4835,7 +4862,7 @@ typedef struct NRE_callback {
 #else
 #define TCLNR_ALLOC(interp, ptr) \
    (ptr = ((ClientData) ckalloc(sizeof(NRE_callback))))
-#define TCLNR_FREE(interp, ptr)  ckfree((char *) (ptr))
+#define TCLNR_FREE(interp, ptr)  ckfree(ptr)
 #endif

 #if NRE_ENABLE_ASSERTS
@@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ EXTERN char *		TclDoubleDigits(double dv, int ndigits, int flags,
 EXTERN void		TclSetSlaveCancelFlags(Tcl_Interp *interp, int flags,
 				int force);
 /* 251 */
-EXTERN int		TclRegisterLiteral(void *envPtr, char *bytes,
+EXTERN int		TclRegisterLiteral(void *envPtr, const char *bytes,
 				int length, int flags);

 typedef struct TclIntStubs {
@@ -873,7 +873,7 @@ typedef struct TclIntStubs {
    int (*tclCopyChannel) (Tcl_Interp *interp, Tcl_Channel inChan, Tcl_Channel outChan, Tcl_WideInt toRead, Tcl_Obj *cmdPtr); /* 248 */
    char * (*tclDoubleDigits) (double dv, int ndigits, int flags, int *decpt, int *signum, char **endPtr); /* 249 */
    void (*tclSetSlaveCancelFlags) (Tcl_Interp *interp, int flags, int force); /* 250 */
-    int (*tclRegisterLiteral) (void *envPtr, char *bytes, int length, int flags); /* 251 */
+    int (*tclRegisterLiteral) (void *envPtr, const char *bytes, int length, int flags); /* 251 */
 } TclIntStubs;

 extern const TclIntStubs *tclIntStubsPtr;
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ EXTERN int		TclUnixCopyFile(const char *src, const char *dst,
 /* Slot 27 is reserved */
 /* Slot 28 is reserved */
 /* 29 */
-EXTERN int		TclWinCPUID(unsigned int index, unsigned int *regs);
+EXTERN int		TclWinCPUID(int index, int *regs);
 /* 30 */
 EXTERN int		TclUnixOpenTemporaryFile(Tcl_Obj *dirObj,
 				Tcl_Obj *basenameObj, Tcl_Obj *extensionObj,
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ EXTERN void		TclWinFlushDirtyChannels(void);
 /* 28 */
 EXTERN void		TclWinResetInterfaces(void);
 /* 29 */
-EXTERN int		TclWinCPUID(unsigned int index, unsigned int *regs);
+EXTERN int		TclWinCPUID(int index, int *regs);
 /* 30 */
 EXTERN int		TclUnixOpenTemporaryFile(Tcl_Obj *dirObj,
 				Tcl_Obj *basenameObj, Tcl_Obj *extensionObj,
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ EXTERN void		TclMacOSXNotifierAddRunLoopMode(
 /* Slot 27 is reserved */
 /* Slot 28 is reserved */
 /* 29 */
-EXTERN int		TclWinCPUID(unsigned int index, unsigned int *regs);
+EXTERN int		TclWinCPUID(int index, int *regs);
 /* 30 */
 EXTERN int		TclUnixOpenTemporaryFile(Tcl_Obj *dirObj,
 				Tcl_Obj *basenameObj, Tcl_Obj *extensionObj,
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ typedef struct TclIntPlatStubs {
    void (*reserved26)(void);
    void (*reserved27)(void);
    void (*reserved28)(void);
-    int (*tclWinCPUID) (unsigned int index, unsigned int *regs); /* 29 */
+    int (*tclWinCPUID) (int index, int *regs); /* 29 */
    int (*tclUnixOpenTemporaryFile) (Tcl_Obj *dirObj, Tcl_Obj *basenameObj, Tcl_Obj *extensionObj, Tcl_Obj *resultingNameObj); /* 30 */
 #endif /* UNIX */
 #if defined(_WIN32) || defined(__CYGWIN__) /* WIN */
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ typedef struct TclIntPlatStubs {
    void (*tclWinSetInterfaces) (int wide); /* 26 */
    void (*tclWinFlushDirtyChannels) (void); /* 27 */
    void (*tclWinResetInterfaces) (void); /* 28 */
-    int (*tclWinCPUID) (unsigned int index, unsigned int *regs); /* 29 */
+    int (*tclWinCPUID) (int index, int *regs); /* 29 */
    int (*tclUnixOpenTemporaryFile) (Tcl_Obj *dirObj, Tcl_Obj *basenameObj, Tcl_Obj *extensionObj, Tcl_Obj *resultingNameObj); /* 30 */
 #endif /* WIN */
 #ifdef MAC_OSX_TCL /* MACOSX */
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ typedef struct TclIntPlatStubs {
    void (*reserved26)(void);
    void (*reserved27)(void);
    void (*reserved28)(void);
-    int (*tclWinCPUID) (unsigned int index, unsigned int *regs); /* 29 */
+    int (*tclWinCPUID) (int index, int *regs); /* 29 */
    int (*tclUnixOpenTemporaryFile) (Tcl_Obj *dirObj, Tcl_Obj *basenameObj, Tcl_Obj *extensionObj, Tcl_Obj *resultingNameObj); /* 30 */
 #endif /* MACOSX */
 } TclIntPlatStubs;
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ Tcl_Init(
    Tcl_Interp *interp)		/* Interpreter to initialize. */
 {
    if (tclPreInitScript != NULL) {
-	if (Tcl_Eval(interp, tclPreInitScript) == TCL_ERROR) {
+	if (Tcl_EvalEx(interp, tclPreInitScript, -1, 0) == TCL_ERROR) {
 	    return TCL_ERROR;
 	}
    }
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ Tcl_Init(
     * alternate tclInit command before calling Tcl_Init().
     */

-    return Tcl_Eval(interp,
+    return Tcl_EvalEx(interp,
 "if {[namespace which -command tclInit] eq \"\"} {\n"
 "  proc tclInit {} {\n"
 "    global tcl_libPath tcl_library env tclDefaultLibrary\n"
@@ -410,6 +410,7 @@ Tcl_Init(
 "	{file join $grandParentDir lib tcl[info tclversion]} \\\n"
 "	{file join $parentDir library} \\\n"
 "	{file join $grandParentDir library} \\\n"
+"	{file join $grandParentDir tcl[info tclversion] library} \\\n"
 "	{file join $grandParentDir tcl[info patchlevel] library} \\\n"
 "	{\n"
 "file join [file dirname $grandParentDir] tcl[info patchlevel] library}\n"
@@ -444,7 +445,7 @@ Tcl_Init(
 "    error $msg\n"
 "  }\n"
 "}\n"
-"tclInit");
+"tclInit", -1, 0);
 }

 /*
@@ -660,14 +661,9 @@ NRInterpCmd(
 	    if (masterInterp == NULL) {
 		return TCL_ERROR;
 	    }
-	    if (TclGetString(objv[5])[0] == '\0') {
-		if (objc == 6) {
-		    return AliasDelete(interp, slaveInterp, objv[3]);
-		}
-	    } else {
-		return AliasCreate(interp, slaveInterp, masterInterp, objv[3],
-			objv[5], objc - 6, objv + 6);
-	    }
+
+	    return AliasCreate(interp, slaveInterp, masterInterp, objv[3],
+		    objv[5], objc - 6, objv + 6);
 	}
 	goto aliasArgs;
    }
@@ -2368,7 +2364,7 @@ SlaveCreate(
 	    SlaveObjCmd, NRSlaveCmd, slaveInterp, SlaveObjCmdDeleteProc);
    Tcl_InitHashTable(&slavePtr->aliasTable, TCL_STRING_KEYS);
    Tcl_SetHashValue(hPtr, slavePtr);
-    Tcl_SetVar(slaveInterp, "tcl_interactive", "0", TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY);
+    Tcl_SetVar2(slaveInterp, "tcl_interactive", NULL, "0", TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY);

    /*
     * Inherit the recursion limit.
@@ -3195,8 +3191,8 @@ Tcl_MakeSafe(
 	 * Assume these functions all work. [Bug 2895741]
 	 */

-	(void) Tcl_Eval(interp,
-		"namespace eval ::tcl {namespace eval mathfunc {}}");
+	(void) Tcl_EvalEx(interp,
+		"namespace eval ::tcl {namespace eval mathfunc {}}", -1, 0);
 	(void) Tcl_CreateAlias(interp, "::tcl::mathfunc::min", master,
 		"::tcl::mathfunc::min", 0, NULL);
 	(void) Tcl_CreateAlias(interp, "::tcl::mathfunc::max", master,
@@ -4502,7 +4498,7 @@ SlaveCommandLimitCmd(
 	    switch ((enum Options) index) {
 	    case OPT_CMD:
 		scriptObj = objv[i+1];
-		(void) Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objv[i+1], &scriptLen);
+		(void) TclGetStringFromObj(scriptObj, &scriptLen);
 		break;
 	    case OPT_GRAN:
 		granObj = objv[i+1];
@@ -4519,7 +4515,7 @@ SlaveCommandLimitCmd(
 		break;
 	    case OPT_VAL:
 		limitObj = objv[i+1];
-		(void) Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objv[i+1], &limitLen);
+		(void) TclGetStringFromObj(objv[i+1], &limitLen);
 		if (limitLen == 0) {
 		    break;
 		}
@@ -4711,7 +4707,7 @@ SlaveTimeLimitCmd(
 	    switch ((enum Options) index) {
 	    case OPT_CMD:
 		scriptObj = objv[i+1];
-		(void) Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objv[i+1], &scriptLen);
+		(void) TclGetStringFromObj(objv[i+1], &scriptLen);
 		break;
 	    case OPT_GRAN:
 		granObj = objv[i+1];
@@ -4728,7 +4724,7 @@ SlaveTimeLimitCmd(
 		break;
 	    case OPT_MILLI:
 		milliObj = objv[i+1];
-		(void) Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objv[i+1], &milliLen);
+		(void) TclGetStringFromObj(objv[i+1], &milliLen);
 		if (milliLen == 0) {
 		    break;
 		}
@@ -4746,7 +4742,7 @@ SlaveTimeLimitCmd(
 		break;
 	    case OPT_SEC:
 		secObj = objv[i+1];
-		(void) Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objv[i+1], &secLen);
+		(void) TclGetStringFromObj(objv[i+1], &secLen);
 		if (secLen == 0) {
 		    break;
 		}
@@ -393,8 +393,9 @@ LinkTraceProc(
 	    Tcl_ObjSetVar2(interp, linkPtr->varName, NULL, ObjValue(linkPtr),
 		    TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY);
 	    return (char *) "variable must have integer value";
+	} else {
+	    LinkedVar(Tcl_WideInt) = linkPtr->lastValue.w;
 	}
-	LinkedVar(Tcl_WideInt) = linkPtr->lastValue.w;
 	break;

    case TCL_LINK_DOUBLE:
@@ -407,8 +408,9 @@ LinkTraceProc(
 			ObjValue(linkPtr), TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY);
 		return (char *) "variable must have real value";
 #ifdef ACCEPT_NAN
+	    } else {
+		linkPtr->lastValue.d = valueObj->internalRep.doubleValue;
 	    }
-	    linkPtr->lastValue.d = valueObj->internalRep.doubleValue;
 #endif
 	}
 	LinkedVar(double) = linkPtr->lastValue.d;
@@ -425,7 +427,7 @@ LinkTraceProc(
 	break;

    case TCL_LINK_CHAR:
-	if (Tcl_GetIntFromObj(interp, valueObj, &valueInt) != TCL_OK
+	if (Tcl_GetIntFromObj(NULL, valueObj, &valueInt) != TCL_OK
 		|| valueInt < SCHAR_MIN || valueInt > SCHAR_MAX) {
 	    Tcl_ObjSetVar2(interp, linkPtr->varName, NULL, ObjValue(linkPtr),
 		    TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY);
@@ -436,7 +438,7 @@ LinkTraceProc(
 	break;

    case TCL_LINK_UCHAR:
-	if (Tcl_GetIntFromObj(interp, valueObj, &valueInt) != TCL_OK
+	if (Tcl_GetIntFromObj(NULL, valueObj, &valueInt) != TCL_OK
 		|| valueInt < 0 || valueInt > UCHAR_MAX) {
 	    Tcl_ObjSetVar2(interp, linkPtr->varName, NULL, ObjValue(linkPtr),
 		    TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY);
@@ -447,7 +449,7 @@ LinkTraceProc(
 	break;

    case TCL_LINK_SHORT:
-	if (Tcl_GetIntFromObj(interp, valueObj, &valueInt) != TCL_OK
+	if (Tcl_GetIntFromObj(NULL, valueObj, &valueInt) != TCL_OK
 		|| valueInt < SHRT_MIN || valueInt > SHRT_MAX) {
 	    Tcl_ObjSetVar2(interp, linkPtr->varName, NULL, ObjValue(linkPtr),
 		    TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY);
@@ -458,7 +460,7 @@ LinkTraceProc(
 	break;

    case TCL_LINK_USHORT:
-	if (Tcl_GetIntFromObj(interp, valueObj, &valueInt) != TCL_OK
+	if (Tcl_GetIntFromObj(NULL, valueObj, &valueInt) != TCL_OK
 		|| valueInt < 0 || valueInt > USHRT_MAX) {
 	    Tcl_ObjSetVar2(interp, linkPtr->varName, NULL, ObjValue(linkPtr),
 		    TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY);
@@ -469,35 +471,38 @@ LinkTraceProc(
 	break;

    case TCL_LINK_UINT:
-	if (Tcl_GetWideIntFromObj(interp, valueObj, &valueWide) != TCL_OK
+	if (Tcl_GetWideIntFromObj(NULL, valueObj, &valueWide) != TCL_OK
 		|| valueWide < 0 || valueWide > UINT_MAX) {
 	    Tcl_ObjSetVar2(interp, linkPtr->varName, NULL, ObjValue(linkPtr),
 		    TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY);
 	    return (char *) "variable must have unsigned int value";
+	} else {
+	    linkPtr->lastValue.ui = (unsigned int)valueWide;
 	}
-	linkPtr->lastValue.ui = (unsigned int)valueWide;
 	LinkedVar(unsigned int) = linkPtr->lastValue.ui;
 	break;

    case TCL_LINK_LONG:
-	if (Tcl_GetWideIntFromObj(interp, valueObj, &valueWide) != TCL_OK
+	if (Tcl_GetWideIntFromObj(NULL, valueObj, &valueWide) != TCL_OK
 		|| valueWide < LONG_MIN || valueWide > LONG_MAX) {
 	    Tcl_ObjSetVar2(interp, linkPtr->varName, NULL, ObjValue(linkPtr),
 		    TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY);
 	    return (char *) "variable must have long value";
+	} else {
+	    linkPtr->lastValue.l = (long)valueWide;
 	}
-	linkPtr->lastValue.l = (long)valueWide;
 	LinkedVar(long) = linkPtr->lastValue.l;
 	break;

    case TCL_LINK_ULONG:
-	if (Tcl_GetWideIntFromObj(interp, valueObj, &valueWide) != TCL_OK
+	if (Tcl_GetWideIntFromObj(NULL, valueObj, &valueWide) != TCL_OK
 		|| valueWide < 0 || (Tcl_WideUInt) valueWide > ULONG_MAX) {
 	    Tcl_ObjSetVar2(interp, linkPtr->varName, NULL, ObjValue(linkPtr),
 		    TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY);
 	    return (char *) "variable must have unsigned long value";
+	} else {
+	    linkPtr->lastValue.ul = (unsigned long)valueWide;
 	}
-	linkPtr->lastValue.ul = (unsigned long)valueWide;
 	LinkedVar(unsigned long) = linkPtr->lastValue.ul;
 	break;

@@ -505,28 +510,30 @@ LinkTraceProc(
 	/*
 	 * FIXME: represent as a bignum.
 	 */
-	if (Tcl_GetWideIntFromObj(interp, valueObj, &valueWide) != TCL_OK) {
+	if (Tcl_GetWideIntFromObj(NULL, valueObj, &valueWide) != TCL_OK) {
 	    Tcl_ObjSetVar2(interp, linkPtr->varName, NULL, ObjValue(linkPtr),
 		    TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY);
 	    return (char *) "variable must have unsigned wide int value";
+	} else {
+	    linkPtr->lastValue.uw = (Tcl_WideUInt)valueWide;
 	}
-	linkPtr->lastValue.uw = (Tcl_WideUInt)valueWide;
 	LinkedVar(Tcl_WideUInt) = linkPtr->lastValue.uw;
 	break;

    case TCL_LINK_FLOAT:
-	if (Tcl_GetDoubleFromObj(interp, valueObj, &valueDouble) != TCL_OK
+	if (Tcl_GetDoubleFromObj(NULL, valueObj, &valueDouble) != TCL_OK
 		|| valueDouble < -FLT_MAX || valueDouble > FLT_MAX) {
 	    Tcl_ObjSetVar2(interp, linkPtr->varName, NULL, ObjValue(linkPtr),
 		    TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY);
 	    return (char *) "variable must have float value";
+	} else {
+	    linkPtr->lastValue.f = (float)valueDouble;
 	}
-	linkPtr->lastValue.f = (float)valueDouble;
 	LinkedVar(float) = linkPtr->lastValue.f;
 	break;

    case TCL_LINK_STRING:
-	value = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(valueObj, &valueLength);
+	value = TclGetStringFromObj(valueObj, &valueLength);
 	valueLength++;
 	pp = (char **) linkPtr->addr;

@@ -577,7 +584,7 @@ ObjValue(
 	return Tcl_NewDoubleObj(linkPtr->lastValue.d);
    case TCL_LINK_BOOLEAN:
 	linkPtr->lastValue.i = LinkedVar(int);
-	return Tcl_NewBooleanObj(linkPtr->lastValue.i != 0);
+	return Tcl_NewBooleanObj(linkPtr->lastValue.i);
    case TCL_LINK_CHAR:
 	linkPtr->lastValue.c = LinkedVar(char);
 	return Tcl_NewIntObj(linkPtr->lastValue.c);
@@ -897,18 +897,18 @@ Tcl_ListObjReplace(
    }
    if (count < 0) {
 	count = 0;
-    } else if (numElems < first+count || first+count < 0) {
-	/*
-	 * The 'first+count < 0' condition here guards agains integer
-	 * overflow in determining 'first+count'.
-	 */
+    } else if (first > INT_MAX - count /* Handle integer overflow */
+	    || numElems < first+count) {

 	count = numElems - first;
    }

    if (objc > LIST_MAX - (numElems - count)) {
-	Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
-		"max length of a Tcl list (%d elements) exceeded", LIST_MAX));
+	if (interp != NULL) {
+	    Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
+		    "max length of a Tcl list (%d elements) exceeded",
+		    LIST_MAX));
+	}
 	return TCL_ERROR;
    }
    isShared = (listRepPtr->refCount > 1);
@@ -1898,7 +1898,7 @@ SetListFromAny(
 		while (--elemPtrs >= &listRepPtr->elements) {
 		    Tcl_DecrRefCount(*elemPtrs);
 		}
-		ckfree((char *) listRepPtr);
+		ckfree(listRepPtr);
 		return TCL_ERROR;
 	    }
 	    if (elemStart == limit) {
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ TclDeleteLiteralTable(
 Tcl_Obj *
 TclCreateLiteral(
    Interp *iPtr,
-    char *bytes,		/* The start of the string. Note that this is
+    const char *bytes,	/* The start of the string. Note that this is
 				 * not a NUL-terminated string. */
    int length,			/* Number of bytes in the string. */
    unsigned hash,		/* The string's hash. If -1, it will be
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ TclCreateLiteral(
 	    if (globalPtrPtr) {
 		*globalPtrPtr = globalPtr;
 	    }
-	    if (flags & LITERAL_ON_HEAP) {
+	    if ((flags & LITERAL_ON_HEAP)) {
 		ckfree(bytes);
 	    }
 	    globalPtr->refCount++;
@@ -222,26 +222,40 @@ TclCreateLiteral(
 	}
    }
    if (!newPtr) {
-	if (flags & LITERAL_ON_HEAP) {
+	if ((flags & LITERAL_ON_HEAP)) {
 	    ckfree(bytes);
 	}
 	return NULL;
    }

    /*
-     * The literal is new to the interpreter. Add it to the global literal
-     * table.
+     * The literal is new to the interpreter.
     */

    TclNewObj(objPtr);
-    Tcl_IncrRefCount(objPtr);
-    if (flags & LITERAL_ON_HEAP) {
-	objPtr->bytes = bytes;
+    if ((flags & LITERAL_ON_HEAP)) {
+	objPtr->bytes = (char *) bytes;
 	objPtr->length = length;
    } else {
 	TclInitStringRep(objPtr, bytes, length);
    }

+    /* Should the new literal be shared globally? */
+
+    if ((flags & LITERAL_UNSHARED)) {
+	/*
+	 * No, do *not* add it the global literal table
+	 * Make clear, that no global value is returned
+	 */
+	if (globalPtrPtr != NULL) {
+	    *globalPtrPtr = NULL;
+	}
+	return objPtr;
+    }
+
+    /*
+     * Yes, add it to the global literal table.
+     */
 #ifdef TCL_COMPILE_DEBUG
    if (LookupLiteralEntry((Tcl_Interp *) iPtr, objPtr) != NULL) {
 	Tcl_Panic("%s: literal \"%.*s\" found globally but shouldn't be",
@@ -251,6 +265,7 @@ TclCreateLiteral(

    globalPtr = ckalloc(sizeof(LiteralEntry));
    globalPtr->objPtr = objPtr;
+    Tcl_IncrRefCount(objPtr);
    globalPtr->refCount = 1;
    globalPtr->nsPtr = nsPtr;
    globalPtr->nextPtr = globalTablePtr->buckets[globalHash];
@@ -360,7 +375,7 @@ int
 TclRegisterLiteral(
    void *ePtr,		/* Points to the CompileEnv in whose object
 				 * array an object is found or created. */
-    register char *bytes,	/* Points to string for which to find or
+    register const char *bytes,	/* Points to string for which to find or
 				 * create an object in CompileEnv's object
 				 * array. */
    int length,			/* Number of bytes in the string. If < 0, the
@@ -398,7 +413,7 @@ TclRegisterLiteral(
 	if ((objPtr->length == length) && ((length == 0)
 		|| ((objPtr->bytes[0] == bytes[0])
 		&& (memcmp(objPtr->bytes, bytes, (unsigned) length) == 0)))) {
-	    if (flags & LITERAL_ON_HEAP) {
+	    if ((flags & LITERAL_ON_HEAP)) {
 		ckfree(bytes);
 	    }
 	    objIndex = (localPtr - envPtr->literalArrayPtr);
@@ -417,7 +432,7 @@ TclRegisterLiteral(
     * the namespace as the interp's global NS.
     */

-    if (flags & LITERAL_CMD_NAME) {
+    if ((flags & LITERAL_CMD_NAME)) {
 	if ((length >= 2) && (bytes[0] == ':') && (bytes[1] == ':')) {
 	    nsPtr = iPtr->globalNsPtr;
 	} else {
@@ -431,12 +446,13 @@ TclRegisterLiteral(
     * Is it in the interpreter's global literal table? If not, create it.
     */

+    globalPtr = NULL;
    objPtr = TclCreateLiteral(iPtr, bytes, length, hash, &new, nsPtr, flags,
 	    &globalPtr);
    objIndex = AddLocalLiteralEntry(envPtr, objPtr, localHash);

 #ifdef TCL_COMPILE_DEBUG
-    if (globalPtr->refCount < 1) {
+    if (globalPtr != NULL && globalPtr->refCount < 1) {
 	Tcl_Panic("%s: global literal \"%.*s\" had bad refCount %d",
 		"TclRegisterLiteral", (length>60? 60 : length), bytes,
 		globalPtr->refCount);
@@ -671,7 +687,7 @@ AddLocalLiteralEntry(
 	}

 	if (!found) {
-	    bytes = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objPtr, &length);
+	    bytes = TclGetStringFromObj(objPtr, &length);
 	    Tcl_Panic("%s: literal \"%.*s\" wasn't found locally",
 		    "AddLocalLiteralEntry", (length>60? 60 : length), bytes);
 	}
@@ -1025,7 +1041,7 @@ TclInvalidateCmdLiteral(
 				 * invalidate a cmd literal. */
 {
    Interp *iPtr = (Interp *) interp;
-    Tcl_Obj *literalObjPtr = TclCreateLiteral(iPtr, (char *) name,
+    Tcl_Obj *literalObjPtr = TclCreateLiteral(iPtr, name,
 	    strlen(name), -1, NULL, nsPtr, 0, NULL);

    if (literalObjPtr != NULL) {
@@ -1147,18 +1163,11 @@ TclVerifyLocalLiteralTable(
 		localPtr=localPtr->nextPtr) {
 	    count++;
 	    if (localPtr->refCount != -1) {
-		bytes = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(localPtr->objPtr, &length);
+		bytes = TclGetStringFromObj(localPtr->objPtr, &length);
 		Tcl_Panic("%s: local literal \"%.*s\" had bad refCount %d",
 			"TclVerifyLocalLiteralTable",
 			(length>60? 60 : length), bytes, localPtr->refCount);
 	    }
-	    if (LookupLiteralEntry((Tcl_Interp *) envPtr->iPtr,
-		    localPtr->objPtr) == NULL) {
-		bytes = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(localPtr->objPtr, &length);
-		Tcl_Panic("%s: local literal \"%.*s\" is not global",
-			"TclVerifyLocalLiteralTable",
-			(length>60? 60 : length), bytes);
-	    }
 	    if (localPtr->objPtr->bytes == NULL) {
 		Tcl_Panic("%s: literal has NULL string rep",
 			"TclVerifyLocalLiteralTable");
@@ -1205,7 +1214,7 @@ TclVerifyGlobalLiteralTable(
 		globalPtr=globalPtr->nextPtr) {
 	    count++;
 	    if (globalPtr->refCount < 1) {
-		bytes = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(globalPtr->objPtr, &length);
+		bytes = TclGetStringFromObj(globalPtr->objPtr, &length);
 		Tcl_Panic("%s: global literal \"%.*s\" had bad refCount %d",
 			"TclVerifyGlobalLiteralTable",
 			(length>60? 60 : length), bytes, globalPtr->refCount);
@@ -1015,7 +1015,7 @@ Tcl_StaticPackage(
 * TclGetLoadedPackages --
 *
 *	This function returns information about all of the files that are
- *	loaded (either in a particular intepreter, or for all interpreters).
+ *	loaded (either in a particular interpreter, or for all interpreters).
 *
 * Results:
 *	The return value is a standard Tcl completion code. If successful, a
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ typedef enum {
    PROMPT_CONTINUE		/* Print prompt for command continuation */
 } PromptType;

-typedef struct InteractiveState {
+typedef struct {
    Tcl_Channel input;		/* The standard input channel from which lines
 				 * are read. */
    int tty;			/* Non-zero means standard input is a
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ Tcl_SourceRCFile(
    const char *fileName;
    Tcl_Channel chan;

-    fileName = Tcl_GetVar(interp, "tcl_rcFileName", TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY);
+    fileName = Tcl_GetVar2(interp, "tcl_rcFileName", NULL, TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY);
    if (fileName != NULL) {
 	Tcl_Channel c;
 	const char *fullName;
@@ -266,14 +266,18 @@ Tcl_SourceRCFile(

 	    c = Tcl_OpenFileChannel(NULL, fullName, "r", 0);
 	    if (c != NULL) {
+		Tcl_Obj *fullNameObj = Tcl_NewStringObj(fullName, -1);
+
 		Tcl_Close(NULL, c);
-		if (Tcl_EvalFile(interp, fullName) != TCL_OK) {
+		Tcl_IncrRefCount(fullNameObj);
+		if (Tcl_FSEvalFileEx(interp, fullNameObj, NULL) != TCL_OK) {
 		    chan = Tcl_GetStdChannel(TCL_STDERR);
 		    if (chan) {
 			Tcl_WriteObj(chan, Tcl_GetObjResult(interp));
 			Tcl_WriteChars(chan, "\n", 1);
 		    }
 		}
+		Tcl_DecrRefCount(fullNameObj);
 	    }
 	}
 	Tcl_DStringFree(&temp);
@@ -283,7 +287,7 @@ Tcl_SourceRCFile(

 /*----------------------------------------------------------------------
 *
- * Tcl_Main, Tcl_MainEx --
+ * Tcl_MainEx --
 *
 *	Main program for tclsh and most other Tcl-based applications.
 *
@@ -532,7 +536,7 @@ Tcl_MainEx(
 	     * error messages troubles deeper in, so lop it back off.
 	     */

-	    Tcl_GetStringFromObj(is.commandPtr, &length);
+	    TclGetStringFromObj(is.commandPtr, &length);
 	    Tcl_SetObjLength(is.commandPtr, --length);
 	    code = Tcl_RecordAndEvalObj(interp, is.commandPtr,
 		    TCL_EVAL_GLOBAL);
@@ -549,7 +553,7 @@ Tcl_MainEx(
 	    } else if (is.tty) {
 		resultPtr = Tcl_GetObjResult(interp);
 		Tcl_IncrRefCount(resultPtr);
-		Tcl_GetStringFromObj(resultPtr, &length);
+		TclGetStringFromObj(resultPtr, &length);
 		chan = Tcl_GetStdChannel(TCL_STDOUT);
 		if ((length > 0) && chan) {
 		    Tcl_WriteObj(chan, resultPtr);
@@ -634,21 +638,6 @@ Tcl_MainEx(

    Tcl_Exit(exitCode);
 }
-
-#if (TCL_MAJOR_VERSION == 8) && !defined(UNICODE)
-#undef Tcl_Main
-extern DLLEXPORT void
-Tcl_Main(
-    int argc,			/* Number of arguments. */
-    char **argv,		/* Array of argument strings. */
-    Tcl_AppInitProc *appInitProc)
-				/* Application-specific initialization
-				 * function to call after most initialization
-				 * but before starting to execute commands. */
-{
-    Tcl_MainEx(argc, argv, appInitProc, Tcl_CreateInterp());
-}
-#endif /* TCL_MAJOR_VERSION == 8 && !UNICODE */

 #ifndef TCL_ASCII_MAIN

@@ -808,7 +797,7 @@ StdinProc(
 	goto prompt;
    }
    isPtr->prompt = PROMPT_START;
-    Tcl_GetStringFromObj(commandPtr, &length);
+    TclGetStringFromObj(commandPtr, &length);
    Tcl_SetObjLength(commandPtr, --length);

    /*
@@ -839,7 +828,7 @@ StdinProc(
 	chan = Tcl_GetStdChannel(TCL_STDOUT);

 	Tcl_IncrRefCount(resultPtr);
-	Tcl_GetStringFromObj(resultPtr, &length);
+	TclGetStringFromObj(resultPtr, &length);
 	if ((length > 0) && (chan != NULL)) {
 	    Tcl_WriteObj(chan, resultPtr);
 	    Tcl_WriteChars(chan, "\n", 1);
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 */

 typedef struct ThreadSpecificData {
-    long numNsCreated;		/* Count of the number of namespaces created
+    size_t numNsCreated;	/* Count of the number of namespaces created
 				 * within the thread. This value is used as a
 				 * unique id for each namespace. Cannot be
 				 * per-interp because the nsId is used to
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ typedef struct ResolvedNsName {
 				 * the name was resolved. NULL if the name is
 				 * fully qualified and thus the resolution
 				 * does not depend on the context. */
-    int refCount;		/* Reference count: 1 for each nsName object
+    size_t refCount;		/* Reference count: 1 for each nsName object
 				 * that has a pointer to this ResolvedNsName
 				 * structure as its internal rep. This
 				 * structure can be freed when refCount
@@ -1326,8 +1326,7 @@ void
 TclNsDecrRefCount(
    Namespace *nsPtr)
 {
-    nsPtr->refCount--;
-    if ((nsPtr->refCount == 0) && (nsPtr->flags & NS_DEAD)) {
+    if ((nsPtr->refCount-- <= 1) && (nsPtr->flags & NS_DEAD)) {
 	NamespaceFree(nsPtr);
    }
 }
@@ -2566,7 +2565,9 @@ Tcl_FindCommand(
 	}

 	if (result == TCL_OK) {
+	    ((Command *)cmd)->flags |= CMD_VIA_RESOLVER;
 	    return cmd;
+
 	} else if (result != TCL_CONTINUE) {
 	    return NULL;
 	}
@@ -2658,6 +2659,7 @@ Tcl_FindCommand(
    }

    if (cmdPtr != NULL) {
+	cmdPtr->flags  &= ~CMD_VIA_RESOLVER;
 	return (Tcl_Command) cmdPtr;
    }

@@ -2883,9 +2885,9 @@ GetNamespaceFromObj(
 	resNamePtr = objPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1;
 	nsPtr = resNamePtr->nsPtr;
 	refNsPtr = resNamePtr->refNsPtr;
-	if (!(nsPtr->flags & NS_DYING) && (interp == nsPtr->interp) &&
-		(!refNsPtr || ((interp == refNsPtr->interp) &&
-		(refNsPtr== (Namespace *) Tcl_GetCurrentNamespace(interp))))){
+	if (!(nsPtr->flags & NS_DYING) && (interp == nsPtr->interp)
+		&& (!refNsPtr || (refNsPtr ==
+		(Namespace *) TclGetCurrentNamespace(interp)))) {
 	    *nsPtrPtr = (Tcl_Namespace *) nsPtr;
 	    return TCL_OK;
 	}
@@ -3354,14 +3356,7 @@ NRNamespaceEvalCmd(
    (void) TclPushStackFrame(interp, (Tcl_CallFrame **) framePtrPtr,
 	    namespacePtr, /*isProcCallFrame*/ 0);

-    if (iPtr->ensembleRewrite.sourceObjs == NULL) {
-	framePtr->objc = objc;
-	framePtr->objv = objv;
-    } else {
-	framePtr->objc = objc + iPtr->ensembleRewrite.numRemovedObjs
-		- iPtr->ensembleRewrite.numInsertedObjs;
-	framePtr->objv = iPtr->ensembleRewrite.sourceObjs;
-    }
+    framePtr->objv = TclFetchEnsembleRoot(interp, objv, objc, &framePtr->objc);

    if (objc == 3) {
 	/*
@@ -3768,7 +3763,6 @@ NRNamespaceInscopeCmd(
 {
    Tcl_Namespace *namespacePtr;
    CallFrame *framePtr, **framePtrPtr;
-    register Interp *iPtr = (Interp *) interp;
    int i;
    Tcl_Obj *cmdObjPtr;

@@ -3794,14 +3788,7 @@ NRNamespaceInscopeCmd(
    (void) TclPushStackFrame(interp, (Tcl_CallFrame **) framePtrPtr,
 	    namespacePtr, /*isProcCallFrame*/ 0);

-    if (iPtr->ensembleRewrite.sourceObjs == NULL) {
-	framePtr->objc = objc;
-	framePtr->objv = objv;
-    } else {
-	framePtr->objc = objc + iPtr->ensembleRewrite.numRemovedObjs
-		- iPtr->ensembleRewrite.numInsertedObjs;
-	framePtr->objv = iPtr->ensembleRewrite.sourceObjs;
-    }
+    framePtr->objv = TclFetchEnsembleRoot(interp, objv, objc, &framePtr->objc);

    /*
     * Execute the command. If there is just one argument, just treat it as a
@@ -4553,8 +4540,8 @@ NamespaceUpvarCmd(
 	savedNsPtr = (Tcl_Namespace *) iPtr->varFramePtr->nsPtr;
 	iPtr->varFramePtr->nsPtr = (Namespace *) nsPtr;
 	otherPtr = TclObjLookupVarEx(interp, objv[0], NULL,
-		(TCL_NAMESPACE_ONLY | TCL_LEAVE_ERR_MSG), "access",
-		/*createPart1*/ 1, /*createPart2*/ 1, &arrayPtr);
+		(TCL_NAMESPACE_ONLY|TCL_LEAVE_ERR_MSG|TCL_AVOID_RESOLVERS),
+		"access", /*createPart1*/ 1, /*createPart2*/ 1, &arrayPtr);
 	iPtr->varFramePtr->nsPtr = (Namespace *) savedNsPtr;
 	if (otherPtr == NULL) {
 	    return TCL_ERROR;
@@ -4683,8 +4670,7 @@ FreeNsNameInternalRep(
     * references, free it up.
     */

-    resNamePtr->refCount--;
-    if (resNamePtr->refCount == 0) {
+    if (resNamePtr->refCount-- <= 1) {
 	/*
 	 * Decrement the reference count for the cached namespace. If the
 	 * namespace is dead, and there are no more references to it, free
@@ -4794,7 +4780,7 @@ SetNsNameFromAny(
    if ((name[0] == ':') && (name[1] == ':')) {
 	resNamePtr->refNsPtr = NULL;
    } else {
-	resNamePtr->refNsPtr = (Namespace *) Tcl_GetCurrentNamespace(interp);
+	resNamePtr->refNsPtr = (Namespace *) TclGetCurrentNamespace(interp);
    }
    resNamePtr->refCount = 1;
    TclFreeIntRep(objPtr);
@@ -68,12 +68,9 @@ static int		CloneObjectMethod(Tcl_Interp *interp, Object *oPtr,
 static void		DeletedDefineNamespace(ClientData clientData);
 static void		DeletedObjdefNamespace(ClientData clientData);
 static void		DeletedHelpersNamespace(ClientData clientData);
-static int		FinalizeAlloc(ClientData data[],
-			    Tcl_Interp *interp, int result);
-static int		FinalizeNext(ClientData data[],
-			    Tcl_Interp *interp, int result);
-static int		FinalizeObjectCall(ClientData data[],
-			    Tcl_Interp *interp, int result);
+static Tcl_NRPostProc	FinalizeAlloc;
+static Tcl_NRPostProc	FinalizeNext;
+static Tcl_NRPostProc	FinalizeObjectCall;
 static int		InitFoundation(Tcl_Interp *interp);
 static void		KillFoundation(ClientData clientData,
 			    Tcl_Interp *interp);
@@ -269,7 +266,7 @@ TclOOInit(
     * to be fully provided.
     */

-    if (Tcl_Eval(interp, initScript) != TCL_OK) {
+    if (Tcl_EvalEx(interp, initScript, -1, 0) != TCL_OK) {
 	return TCL_ERROR;
    }

@@ -463,7 +460,7 @@ InitFoundation(
    if (TclOODefineSlots(fPtr) != TCL_OK) {
 	return TCL_ERROR;
    }
-    return Tcl_Eval(interp, slotScript);
+    return Tcl_EvalEx(interp, slotScript, -1, 0);
 }

 /*
@@ -70,15 +70,12 @@ static void		AddSimpleClassChainToCallContext(Class *classPtr,
 			    Class *const filterDecl);
 static int		CmpStr(const void *ptr1, const void *ptr2);
 static void		DupMethodNameRep(Tcl_Obj *srcPtr, Tcl_Obj *dstPtr);
-static int		FinalizeMethodRefs(ClientData data[],
-			    Tcl_Interp *interp, int result);
+static Tcl_NRPostProc	FinalizeMethodRefs;
 static void		FreeMethodNameRep(Tcl_Obj *objPtr);
 static inline int	IsStillValid(CallChain *callPtr, Object *oPtr,
 			    int flags, int reuseMask);
-static int		ResetFilterFlags(ClientData data[],
-			    Tcl_Interp *interp, int result);
-static int		SetFilterFlags(ClientData data[],
-			    Tcl_Interp *interp, int result);
+static Tcl_NRPostProc	ResetFilterFlags;
+static Tcl_NRPostProc	SetFilterFlags;
 static inline void	StashCallChain(Tcl_Obj *objPtr, CallChain *callPtr);

 /*
@@ -182,6 +179,7 @@ StashCallChain(
    CallChain *callPtr)
 {
    callPtr->refCount++;
+    TclGetString(objPtr);
    TclFreeIntRep(objPtr);
    objPtr->typePtr = &methodNameType;
    objPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1 = callPtr;
@@ -525,7 +525,7 @@ TclOOUnknownDefinition(
 	return TCL_ERROR;
    }

-    soughtStr = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objv[1], &soughtLen);
+    soughtStr = TclGetStringFromObj(objv[1], &soughtLen);
    if (soughtLen == 0) {
 	goto noMatch;
    }
@@ -585,7 +585,7 @@ FindCommand(
    Tcl_Namespace *const namespacePtr)
 {
    int length;
-    const char *nameStr, *string = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(stringObj, &length);
+    const char *nameStr, *string = TclGetStringFromObj(stringObj, &length);
    register Namespace *const nsPtr = (Namespace *) namespacePtr;
    FOREACH_HASH_DECLS;
    Tcl_Command cmd, cmd2;
@@ -774,7 +774,7 @@ GenerateErrorInfo(
    int length;
    Tcl_Obj *realNameObj = Tcl_ObjectDeleted((Tcl_Object) oPtr)
 	    ? savedNameObj : TclOOObjectName(interp, oPtr);
-    const char *objName = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(realNameObj, &length);
+    const char *objName = TclGetStringFromObj(realNameObj, &length);
    int limit = OBJNAME_LENGTH_IN_ERRORINFO_LIMIT;
    int overflow = (length > limit);

@@ -1239,7 +1239,7 @@ TclOODefineConstructorObjCmd(
    }
    clsPtr = oPtr->classPtr;

-    Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objv[2], &bodyLength);
+    TclGetStringFromObj(objv[2], &bodyLength);
    if (bodyLength > 0) {
 	/*
 	 * Create the method structure.
@@ -1358,7 +1358,7 @@ TclOODefineDestructorObjCmd(
    }
    clsPtr = oPtr->classPtr;

-    Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objv[1], &bodyLength);
+    TclGetStringFromObj(objv[1], &bodyLength);
    if (bodyLength > 0) {
 	/*
 	 * Create the method structure.
@@ -2217,7 +2217,7 @@ ClassSuperSet(
 			"attempt to form circular dependency graph", -1));
 		Tcl_SetErrorCode(interp, "TCL", "OO", "CIRCULARITY", NULL);
 	    failedAfterAlloc:
-		ckfree((char *) superclasses);
+		ckfree(superclasses);
 		return TCL_ERROR;
 	    }
 	}
@@ -2234,7 +2234,7 @@ ClassSuperSet(
 	FOREACH(superPtr, oPtr->classPtr->superclasses) {
 	    TclOORemoveFromSubclasses(oPtr->classPtr, superPtr);
 	}
-	ckfree((char *) oPtr->classPtr->superclasses.list);
+	ckfree(oPtr->classPtr->superclasses.list);
    }
    oPtr->classPtr->superclasses.list = superclasses;
    oPtr->classPtr->superclasses.num = superc;
@@ -2323,7 +2323,7 @@ ClassVarsSet(
    }

    for (i=0 ; i<varc ; i++) {
-	const char *varName = Tcl_GetString(varv[i]);
+	const char *varName = TclGetString(varv[i]);

 	if (strstr(varName, "::") != NULL) {
 	    Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
@@ -2349,7 +2349,7 @@ ClassVarsSet(
    }
    if (i != varc) {
 	if (varc == 0) {
-	    ckfree((char *) oPtr->classPtr->variables.list);
+	    ckfree(oPtr->classPtr->variables.list);
 	} else if (i) {
 	    oPtr->classPtr->variables.list = (Tcl_Obj **)
 		    ckrealloc((char *) oPtr->classPtr->variables.list,
@@ -2604,7 +2604,7 @@ ObjVarsSet(
    }

    for (i=0 ; i<varc ; i++) {
-	const char *varName = Tcl_GetString(varv[i]);
+	const char *varName = TclGetString(varv[i]);

 	if (strstr(varName, "::") != NULL) {
 	    Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
@@ -2630,7 +2630,7 @@ ObjVarsSet(
    }
    if (i != varc) {
 	if (varc == 0) {
-	    ckfree((char *) oPtr->variables.list);
+	    ckfree(oPtr->variables.list);
 	} else if (i) {
 	    oPtr->variables.list = (Tcl_Obj **)
 		    ckrealloc((char *) oPtr->variables.list,
@@ -592,7 +592,7 @@ MODULE_SCOPE void	TclOOSetupVariableResolver(Tcl_Namespace *nsPtr);
 #define AddRef(ptr) ((ptr)->refCount++)
 #define DelRef(ptr) do {			\
 	if ((ptr)->refCount-- <= 1) {		\
-	    ckfree((char *) (ptr));		\
+	    ckfree(ptr);			\
 	}					\
    } while(0)

@@ -70,10 +70,8 @@ static Tcl_Obj **	InitEnsembleRewrite(Tcl_Interp *interp, int objc,
 static int		InvokeProcedureMethod(ClientData clientData,
 			    Tcl_Interp *interp, Tcl_ObjectContext context,
 			    int objc, Tcl_Obj *const *objv);
-static int		FinalizeForwardCall(ClientData data[], Tcl_Interp *interp,
-			    int result);
-static int		FinalizePMCall(ClientData data[], Tcl_Interp *interp,
-			    int result);
+static Tcl_NRPostProc	FinalizeForwardCall;
+static Tcl_NRPostProc	FinalizePMCall;
 static int		PushMethodCallFrame(Tcl_Interp *interp,
 			    CallContext *contextPtr, ProcedureMethod *pmPtr,
 			    int objc, Tcl_Obj *const *objv,
@@ -1168,7 +1166,7 @@ MethodErrorHandler(
    CallContext *contextPtr = ((Interp *) interp)->varFramePtr->clientData;
    Method *mPtr = contextPtr->callPtr->chain[contextPtr->index].mPtr;
    const char *objectName, *kindName, *methodName =
-	    Tcl_GetStringFromObj(mPtr->namePtr, &nameLen);
+	    TclGetStringFromObj(mPtr->namePtr, &nameLen);
    Object *declarerPtr;

    if (mPtr->declaringObjectPtr != NULL) {
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ typedef struct ResolvedCmdName {
 				 * incremented; if so, the cmd was renamed,
 				 * deleted, hidden, or exposed, and so the
 				 * pointer is invalid. */
-    int refCount;		/* Reference count: 1 for each cmdName object
+    size_t refCount;		/* Reference count: 1 for each cmdName object
 				 * that has a pointer to this ResolvedCmdName
 				 * structure as its internal rep. This
 				 * structure can be freed when refCount
@@ -402,7 +402,6 @@ TclInitObjSubsystem(void)
    Tcl_RegisterObjType(&tclListType);
    Tcl_RegisterObjType(&tclDictType);
    Tcl_RegisterObjType(&tclByteCodeType);
-    Tcl_RegisterObjType(&tclArraySearchType);
    Tcl_RegisterObjType(&tclCmdNameType);
    Tcl_RegisterObjType(&tclRegexpType);
    Tcl_RegisterObjType(&tclProcBodyType);
@@ -663,7 +662,7 @@ TclContinuationsEnterDerived(
     * better way which doesn't shimmer?)
     */

-    Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objPtr, &length);
+    TclGetStringFromObj(objPtr, &length);
    end = start + length;       /* First char after the word */

    /*
@@ -1811,7 +1810,7 @@ Tcl_DbNewBooleanObj(
    TclDbNewObj(objPtr, file, line);
    objPtr->bytes = NULL;

-    objPtr->internalRep.longValue = (boolValue? 1 : 0);
+    objPtr->internalRep.longValue = (boolValue != 0);
    objPtr->typePtr = &tclIntType;
    return objPtr;
 }
@@ -1989,7 +1988,7 @@ TclSetBooleanFromAny(
  badBoolean:
    if (interp != NULL) {
 	int length;
-	const char *str = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objPtr, &length);
+	const char *str = TclGetStringFromObj(objPtr, &length);
 	Tcl_Obj *msg;

 	TclNewLiteralStringObj(msg, "expected boolean value but got \"");
@@ -2426,7 +2425,7 @@ Tcl_NewIntObj(
 {
    register Tcl_Obj *objPtr;

-    TclNewIntObj(objPtr, intValue);
+    TclNewLongObj(objPtr, intValue);
    return objPtr;
 }
 #endif /* if TCL_MEM_DEBUG */
@@ -3253,13 +3252,11 @@ UpdateStringOfBignum(
    if (status != MP_OKAY) {
 	Tcl_Panic("radix size failure in UpdateStringOfBignum");
    }
-    if (size == 3) {
+    if (size < 2) {
 	/*
-	 * mp_radix_size() returns 3 when more than INT_MAX bytes would be
+	 * mp_radix_size() returns < 2 when more than INT_MAX bytes would be
 	 * needed to hold the string rep (because mp_radix_size ignores
-	 * integer overflow issues). When we know the string rep will be more
-	 * than 3, we can conclude the string rep would overflow our string
-	 * length limits.
+	 * integer overflow issues).
 	 *
 	 * Note that so long as we enforce our bignums to the size that fits
 	 * in a packed bignum, this branch will never be taken.
@@ -4048,7 +4045,7 @@ TclFreeObjEntry(
 *----------------------------------------------------------------------
 */

-unsigned int
+TCL_HASH_TYPE
 TclHashObjKey(
    Tcl_HashTable *tablePtr,	/* Hash table. */
    void *keyPtr)		/* Key from which to compute hash value. */
@@ -4098,7 +4095,7 @@ TclHashObjKey(
 	    result += (result << 3) + UCHAR(*++string);
 	}
    }
-    return result;
+    return (TCL_HASH_TYPE) result;
 }

 /*
@@ -4152,11 +4149,10 @@ Tcl_GetCommandFromObj(
     */

    resPtr = objPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1;
-    if ((objPtr->typePtr == &tclCmdNameType) && (resPtr != NULL)) {
+    if (objPtr->typePtr == &tclCmdNameType) {
        register Command *cmdPtr = resPtr->cmdPtr;

        if ((cmdPtr->cmdEpoch == resPtr->cmdEpoch)
-                && !(cmdPtr->flags & CMD_IS_DELETED)
                && (interp == cmdPtr->nsPtr->interp)
                && !(cmdPtr->nsPtr->flags & NS_DYING)) {
            register Namespace *refNsPtr = (Namespace *)
@@ -4204,6 +4200,59 @@ Tcl_GetCommandFromObj(
 *----------------------------------------------------------------------
 */

+static void
+SetCmdNameObj(
+    Tcl_Interp *interp,
+    Tcl_Obj *objPtr,
+    Command *cmdPtr,
+    ResolvedCmdName *resPtr)
+{
+    Interp *iPtr = (Interp *) interp;
+    ResolvedCmdName *fillPtr;
+    const char *name = TclGetString(objPtr);
+
+    if (resPtr) {
+	fillPtr = resPtr;
+    } else {
+	fillPtr = ckalloc(sizeof(ResolvedCmdName));
+	fillPtr->refCount = 1;
+    }
+
+    fillPtr->cmdPtr = cmdPtr;
+    cmdPtr->refCount++;
+    fillPtr->cmdEpoch = cmdPtr->cmdEpoch;
+
+    /* NOTE: relying on NULL termination here. */
+    if ((name[0] == ':') && (name[1] == ':')) {
+	/*
+	 * Fully qualified names always resolve to same thing. No need
+	 * to record resolution context information.
+	 */
+
+	fillPtr->refNsPtr = NULL;
+	fillPtr->refNsId = 0;		/* Will not be read */
+	fillPtr->refNsCmdEpoch = 0;	/* Will not be read */
+    } else {
+	/*
+	 * Record current state of current namespace as the resolution
+	 * context of this command name lookup.
+	 */
+	Namespace *currNsPtr = iPtr->varFramePtr->nsPtr;
+
+	fillPtr->refNsPtr = currNsPtr;
+	fillPtr->refNsId = currNsPtr->nsId;
+	fillPtr->refNsCmdEpoch = currNsPtr->cmdRefEpoch;
+    }
+
+    if (resPtr == NULL) {
+	TclFreeIntRep(objPtr);
+
+	objPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1 = fillPtr;
+	objPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr2 = NULL;
+	objPtr->typePtr = &tclCmdNameType;
+    }
+}
+
 void
 TclSetCmdNameObj(
    Tcl_Interp *interp,		/* Points to interpreter containing command
@@ -4213,45 +4262,16 @@ TclSetCmdNameObj(
    Command *cmdPtr)		/* Points to Command structure that the
 				 * CmdName object should refer to. */
 {
-    Interp *iPtr = (Interp *) interp;
    register ResolvedCmdName *resPtr;
-    register Namespace *currNsPtr;
-    const char *name;

    if (objPtr->typePtr == &tclCmdNameType) {
-	return;
+	resPtr = objPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1;
+	if (resPtr != NULL && resPtr->cmdPtr == cmdPtr) {
+	    return;
+	}
    }

-    cmdPtr->refCount++;
-    resPtr = ckalloc(sizeof(ResolvedCmdName));
-    resPtr->cmdPtr = cmdPtr;
-    resPtr->cmdEpoch = cmdPtr->cmdEpoch;
-    resPtr->refCount = 1;
-
-    name = TclGetString(objPtr);
-    if ((*name++ == ':') && (*name == ':')) {
-	/*
-	 * The name is fully qualified: set the referring namespace to
-	 * NULL.
-	 */
-
-	resPtr->refNsPtr = NULL;
-    } else {
-	/*
-	 * Get the current namespace.
-	 */
-
-	currNsPtr = iPtr->varFramePtr->nsPtr;
-
-	resPtr->refNsPtr = currNsPtr;
-	resPtr->refNsId = currNsPtr->nsId;
-	resPtr->refNsCmdEpoch = currNsPtr->cmdRefEpoch;
-    }
-
-    TclFreeIntRep(objPtr);
-    objPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1 = resPtr;
-    objPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr2 = NULL;
-    objPtr->typePtr = &tclCmdNameType;
+    SetCmdNameObj(interp, objPtr, cmdPtr, NULL);
 }

 /*
@@ -4282,13 +4302,12 @@ FreeCmdNameInternalRep(
 {
    register ResolvedCmdName *resPtr = objPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1;

-    if (resPtr != NULL) {
 	/*
 	 * Decrement the reference count of the ResolvedCmdName structure. If
 	 * there are no more uses, free the ResolvedCmdName structure.
 	 */

-	if (resPtr->refCount-- == 1) {
+	if (resPtr->refCount-- <= 1) {
 	    /*
 	     * Now free the cached command, unless it is still in its hash
 	     * table or if there are other references to it from other cmdName
@@ -4300,7 +4319,6 @@ FreeCmdNameInternalRep(
 	    TclCleanupCommandMacro(cmdPtr);
 	    ckfree(resPtr);
 	}
-    }
    objPtr->typePtr = NULL;
 }

@@ -4333,9 +4351,7 @@ DupCmdNameInternalRep(

    copyPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1 = resPtr;
    copyPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr2 = NULL;
-    if (resPtr != NULL) {
 	resPtr->refCount++;
-    }
    copyPtr->typePtr = &tclCmdNameType;
 }

@@ -4365,10 +4381,8 @@ SetCmdNameFromAny(
    Tcl_Interp *interp,		/* Used for error reporting if not NULL. */
    register Tcl_Obj *objPtr)	/* The object to convert. */
 {
-    Interp *iPtr = (Interp *) interp;
    const char *name;
    register Command *cmdPtr;
-    Namespace *currNsPtr;
    register ResolvedCmdName *resPtr;

    if (interp == NULL) {
@@ -4388,59 +4402,31 @@ SetCmdNameFromAny(
 	    Tcl_FindCommand(interp, name, /*ns*/ NULL, /*flags*/ 0);

    /*
-     * Free the old internalRep before setting the new one. Do this after
-     * getting the string rep to allow the conversion code (in particular,
-     * Tcl_GetStringFromObj) to use that old internalRep.
+     * Stop shimmering and caching nothing when we found nothing.  Just
+     * report the failure to find the command as an error.
     */

-    if (cmdPtr) {
-	cmdPtr->refCount++;
-	resPtr = objPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1;
-	if ((objPtr->typePtr == &tclCmdNameType)
-		&& resPtr && (resPtr->refCount == 1)) {
-	    /*
-	     * Reuse the old ResolvedCmdName struct instead of freeing it
-	     */
+    if (cmdPtr == NULL) {
+	return TCL_ERROR;
+    }

-	    Command *oldCmdPtr = resPtr->cmdPtr;
+    resPtr = objPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1;
+    if ((objPtr->typePtr == &tclCmdNameType) && (resPtr->refCount == 1)) {
+	/*
+	 * Re-use existing ResolvedCmdName struct when possible.
+	 * Cleanup the old fields that need it.
+	 */

-	    if (--oldCmdPtr->refCount == 0) {
-		TclCleanupCommandMacro(oldCmdPtr);
-	    }
-	} else {
-	    TclFreeIntRep(objPtr);
-	    resPtr = ckalloc(sizeof(ResolvedCmdName));
-	    resPtr->refCount = 1;
-	    objPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1 = resPtr;
-	    objPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr2 = NULL;
-	    objPtr->typePtr = &tclCmdNameType;
-	}
-	resPtr->cmdPtr = cmdPtr;
-	resPtr->cmdEpoch = cmdPtr->cmdEpoch;
-	if ((*name++ == ':') && (*name == ':')) {
-	    /*
-	     * The name is fully qualified: set the referring namespace to
-	     * NULL.
-	     */
+	Command *oldCmdPtr = resPtr->cmdPtr;

-	    resPtr->refNsPtr = NULL;
-	} else {
-	    /*
-	     * Get the current namespace.
-	     */
-
-	    currNsPtr = iPtr->varFramePtr->nsPtr;
-
-	    resPtr->refNsPtr = currNsPtr;
-	    resPtr->refNsId = currNsPtr->nsId;
-	    resPtr->refNsCmdEpoch = currNsPtr->cmdRefEpoch;
+	if (oldCmdPtr->refCount-- <= 1) {
+	    TclCleanupCommandMacro(oldCmdPtr);
 	}
    } else {
-	TclFreeIntRep(objPtr);
-	objPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1 = NULL;
-	objPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr2 = NULL;
-	objPtr->typePtr = &tclCmdNameType;
+	resPtr = NULL;
    }
+
+    SetCmdNameObj(interp, objPtr, cmdPtr, resPtr);
    return TCL_OK;
 }

@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ ConvertZeroEffectToNOP(
 			TclGetUInt1AtPtr(currentInstPtr + 1));
 		int numBytes;

-		(void) Tcl_GetStringFromObj(litPtr, &numBytes);
+		(void) TclGetStringFromObj(litPtr, &numBytes);
 		if (numBytes == 0) {
 		    blank = size + InstLength(nextInst);
 		}
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ ConvertZeroEffectToNOP(
 			TclGetUInt4AtPtr(currentInstPtr + 1));
 		int numBytes;

-		(void) Tcl_GetStringFromObj(litPtr, &numBytes);
+		(void) TclGetStringFromObj(litPtr, &numBytes);
 		if (numBytes == 0) {
 		    blank = size + InstLength(nextInst);
 		}
@@ -1022,7 +1022,7 @@ ParseComment(
 	if (parsePtr->commentStart == NULL) {
 	    parsePtr->commentStart = p;
 	}
-	
+
 	p++;
 	numBytes--;
 	while (numBytes) {
@@ -2220,7 +2220,7 @@ TclSubstTokens(
 		    if (result == 0) {
 			clPos = 0;
 		    } else {
-			Tcl_GetStringFromObj(result, &clPos);
+			TclGetStringFromObj(result, &clPos);
 		    }

 		    if (numCL >= maxNumCL) {
@@ -2496,7 +2496,7 @@ TclObjCommandComplete(
 				 * check. */
 {
    int length;
-    const char *script = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objPtr, &length);
+    const char *script = TclGetStringFromObj(objPtr, &length);

    return CommandComplete(script, length);
 }
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ TclFSNormalizeAbsolutePath(
 		    retVal = Tcl_NewStringObj(path, dirSep - path);
 		    Tcl_IncrRefCount(retVal);
 		}
-		Tcl_GetStringFromObj(retVal, &curLen);
+		TclGetStringFromObj(retVal, &curLen);
 		if (curLen == 0) {
 		    Tcl_AppendToObj(retVal, dirSep, 1);
 		}
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ TclFSNormalizeAbsolutePath(
 		    retVal = Tcl_NewStringObj(path, dirSep - path);
 		    Tcl_IncrRefCount(retVal);
 		}
-		Tcl_GetStringFromObj(retVal, &curLen);
+		TclGetStringFromObj(retVal, &curLen);
 		if (curLen == 0) {
 		    Tcl_AppendToObj(retVal, dirSep, 1);
 		}
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ TclFSNormalizeAbsolutePath(
 			     */

 			    const char *path =
-				    Tcl_GetStringFromObj(retVal, &curLen);
+				    TclGetStringFromObj(retVal, &curLen);

 			    while (--curLen >= 0) {
 				if (IsSeparatorOrNull(path[curLen])) {
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ TclFSNormalizeAbsolutePath(
 			    Tcl_SetObjLength(retVal, curLen+1);
 			    Tcl_AppendObjToObj(retVal, linkObj);
 			    TclDecrRefCount(linkObj);
-			    linkStr = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(retVal, &curLen);
+			    linkStr = TclGetStringFromObj(retVal, &curLen);
 			} else {
 			    /*
 			     * Absolute link.
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ TclFSNormalizeAbsolutePath(
 			    } else {
 				retVal = linkObj;
 			    }
-			    linkStr = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(retVal, &curLen);
+			    linkStr = TclGetStringFromObj(retVal, &curLen);

 			    /*
 			     * Convert to forward-slashes on windows.
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ TclFSNormalizeAbsolutePath(
 			    }
 			}
 		    } else {
-			linkStr = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(retVal, &curLen);
+			linkStr = TclGetStringFromObj(retVal, &curLen);
 		    }

 		    /*
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ TclFSNormalizeAbsolutePath(

    if (tclPlatform == TCL_PLATFORM_WINDOWS) {
 	int len;
-	const char *path = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(retVal, &len);
+	const char *path = TclGetStringFromObj(retVal, &len);

 	if (len == 2 && path[0] != 0 && path[1] == ':') {
 	    if (Tcl_IsShared(retVal)) {
@@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ TclPathPart(

 		int numBytes;
 		const char *rest =
-			Tcl_GetStringFromObj(fsPathPtr->normPathPtr, &numBytes);
+			TclGetStringFromObj(fsPathPtr->normPathPtr, &numBytes);

 		if (strchr(rest, '/') != NULL) {
 		    goto standardPath;
@@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ TclPathPart(

 		int numBytes;
 		const char *rest =
-			Tcl_GetStringFromObj(fsPathPtr->normPathPtr, &numBytes);
+			TclGetStringFromObj(fsPathPtr->normPathPtr, &numBytes);

 		if (strchr(rest, '/') != NULL) {
 		    goto standardPath;
@@ -646,7 +646,7 @@ TclPathPart(
 		const char *fileName, *extension;
 		int length;

-		fileName = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(fsPathPtr->normPathPtr,
+		fileName = TclGetStringFromObj(fsPathPtr->normPathPtr,
 			&length);
 		extension = TclGetExtension(fileName);
 		if (extension == NULL) {
@@ -698,7 +698,7 @@ TclPathPart(
 	    int length;
 	    const char *fileName, *extension;

-	    fileName = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(pathPtr, &length);
+	    fileName = TclGetStringFromObj(pathPtr, &length);
 	    extension = TclGetExtension(fileName);
 	    if (extension == NULL) {
 		Tcl_IncrRefCount(pathPtr);
@@ -869,19 +869,23 @@ TclJoinPath(
 	 * object which can be normalized more efficiently. Currently we only
 	 * use the special case when we have exactly two elements, but we
 	 * could expand that in the future.
+         *
+         * Bugfix [a47641a0]. TclNewFSPathObj requires first argument
+         * to be an absolute path. Added a check for that elt is absolute.
 	 */

 	if ((i == (elements-2)) && (i == 0)
-		&& (elt->typePtr == &tclFsPathType)
-		&& !((elt->bytes != NULL) && (elt->bytes[0] == '\0'))) {
-	    Tcl_Obj *tailObj = objv[i+1];
+                && (elt->typePtr == &tclFsPathType)
+		&& !((elt->bytes != NULL) && (elt->bytes[0] == '\0'))
+                && TclGetPathType(elt, NULL, NULL, NULL) == TCL_PATH_ABSOLUTE) {
+            Tcl_Obj *tailObj = objv[i+1];

 	    type = TclGetPathType(tailObj, NULL, NULL, NULL);
 	    if (type == TCL_PATH_RELATIVE) {
 		const char *str;
 		int len;

-		str = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(tailObj, &len);
+		str = TclGetStringFromObj(tailObj, &len);
 		if (len == 0) {
 		    /*
 		     * This happens if we try to handle the root volume '/'.
@@ -943,7 +947,7 @@ TclJoinPath(
 		}
 	    }
 	}
-	strElt = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(elt, &strEltLen);
+	strElt = TclGetStringFromObj(elt, &strEltLen);
 	type = TclGetPathType(elt, &fsPtr, &driveNameLength, &driveName);
 	if (type != TCL_PATH_RELATIVE) {
 	    /*
@@ -1030,9 +1034,9 @@ TclJoinPath(
    noQuickReturn:
 	if (res == NULL) {
 	    res = Tcl_NewObj();
-	    ptr = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(res, &length);
+	    ptr = TclGetStringFromObj(res, &length);
 	} else {
-	    ptr = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(res, &length);
+	    ptr = TclGetStringFromObj(res, &length);
 	}

 	/*
@@ -1077,7 +1081,7 @@ TclJoinPath(

 	    if (length > 0 && ptr[length -1] != '/') {
 		Tcl_AppendToObj(res, &separator, 1);
-		Tcl_GetStringFromObj(res, &length);
+		TclGetStringFromObj(res, &length);
 	    }
 	    Tcl_SetObjLength(res, length + (int) strlen(strElt));

@@ -1372,7 +1376,7 @@ AppendPath(
     * intrep produce the same results; that is, bugward compatibility.  If
     * we need to fix that bug here, it needs fixing in TclJoinPath() too.
     */
-    bytes = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(tail, &numBytes);
+    bytes = TclGetStringFromObj(tail, &numBytes);
    if (numBytes == 0) {
 	Tcl_AppendToObj(copy, "/", 1);
    } else {
@@ -1431,7 +1435,7 @@ TclFSMakePathRelative(
     * too little below, leading to wrong answers returned by glob.
     */

-    tempStr = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(cwdPtr, &cwdLen);
+    tempStr = TclGetStringFromObj(cwdPtr, &cwdLen);

    /*
     * Should we perhaps use 'Tcl_FSPathSeparator'? But then what about the
@@ -1451,7 +1455,7 @@ TclFSMakePathRelative(
 	}
 	break;
    }
-    tempStr = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(pathPtr, &len);
+    tempStr = TclGetStringFromObj(pathPtr, &len);

    return Tcl_NewStringObj(tempStr + cwdLen, len - cwdLen);
 }
@@ -1715,7 +1719,7 @@ Tcl_FSGetTranslatedStringPath(

    if (transPtr != NULL) {
 	int len;
-	const char *orig = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(transPtr, &len);
+	const char *orig = TclGetStringFromObj(transPtr, &len);
 	char *result = ckalloc(len+1);

 	memcpy(result, orig, (size_t) len+1);
@@ -1776,7 +1780,7 @@ Tcl_FSGetNormalizedPath(
 	    UpdateStringOfFsPath(pathPtr);
 	}

-	Tcl_GetStringFromObj(fsPathPtr->normPathPtr, &tailLen);
+	TclGetStringFromObj(fsPathPtr->normPathPtr, &tailLen);
 	if (tailLen) {
 	    copy = AppendPath(dir, fsPathPtr->normPathPtr);
 	} else {
@@ -1789,7 +1793,7 @@ Tcl_FSGetNormalizedPath(
 	 * We now own a reference on both 'dir' and 'copy'
 	 */

-	(void) Tcl_GetStringFromObj(dir, &cwdLen);
+	(void) TclGetStringFromObj(dir, &cwdLen);
 	cwdLen += (Tcl_GetString(copy)[cwdLen] == '/');

 	/* Normalize the combined string. */
@@ -1883,7 +1887,7 @@ Tcl_FSGetNormalizedPath(

 	    copy = AppendPath(fsPathPtr->cwdPtr, pathPtr);

-	    (void) Tcl_GetStringFromObj(fsPathPtr->cwdPtr, &cwdLen);
+	    (void) TclGetStringFromObj(fsPathPtr->cwdPtr, &cwdLen);
 	    cwdLen += (Tcl_GetString(copy)[cwdLen] == '/');

 	    /*
@@ -2333,7 +2337,7 @@ SetFsPathFromAny(
     * cmdAH.test exercise most of the code).
     */

-    name = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(pathPtr, &len);
+    name = TclGetStringFromObj(pathPtr, &len);

    /*
     * Handle tilde substitutions, if needed.
@@ -2602,7 +2606,7 @@ UpdateStringOfFsPath(

    copy = AppendPath(fsPathPtr->cwdPtr, fsPathPtr->normPathPtr);

-    pathPtr->bytes = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(copy, &cwdLen);
+    pathPtr->bytes = TclGetStringFromObj(copy, &cwdLen);
    pathPtr->length = cwdLen;
    copy->bytes = tclEmptyStringRep;
    copy->length = 0;
@@ -2663,7 +2667,7 @@ TclNativePathInFilesystem(

 	int len;

-	(void) Tcl_GetStringFromObj(pathPtr, &len);
+	(void) TclGetStringFromObj(pathPtr, &len);
 	if (len == 0) {
 	    /*
 	     * We reject the empty path "".
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ static TclFile		FileForRedirect(Tcl_Interp *interp, const char *spec,

 static TclFile
 FileForRedirect(
-    Tcl_Interp *interp,		/* Intepreter to use for error reporting. */
+    Tcl_Interp *interp,		/* Interpreter to use for error reporting. */
    const char *spec,		/* Points to character just after redirection
 				 * character. */
    int atOK,			/* Non-zero means that '@' notation can be
@@ -842,7 +842,7 @@ Tcl_PackageObjCmd(
 	} else {
 	    pkgPtr = FindPackage(interp, argv2);
 	}
-	argv3 = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objv[3], &length);
+	argv3 = TclGetStringFromObj(objv[3], &length);

 	for (availPtr = pkgPtr->availPtr, prevPtr = NULL; availPtr != NULL;
 		prevPtr = availPtr, availPtr = availPtr->nextPtr) {
@@ -883,7 +883,7 @@ Tcl_PackageObjCmd(
 		prevPtr->nextPtr = availPtr;
 	    }
 	}
-	argv4 = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objv[4], &length);
+	argv4 = TclGetStringFromObj(objv[4], &length);
 	DupBlock(availPtr->script, argv4, (unsigned) length + 1);
 	break;
    }
@@ -1034,7 +1034,7 @@ Tcl_PackageObjCmd(
 	    if (iPtr->packageUnknown != NULL) {
 		ckfree(iPtr->packageUnknown);
 	    }
-	    argv2 = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objv[2], &length);
+	    argv2 = TclGetStringFromObj(objv[2], &length);
 	    if (argv2[0] == 0) {
 		iPtr->packageUnknown = NULL;
 	    } else {
@@ -1682,7 +1682,7 @@ AddRequirementsToResult(
    int i, length;

    for (i = 0; i < reqc; i++) {
-	const char *v = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(reqv[i], &length);
+	const char *v = TclGetStringFromObj(reqv[i], &length);

 	if ((length & 0x1) && (v[length/2] == '-')
 		&& (strncmp(v, v+((length+1)/2), length/2) == 0)) {
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@

 typedef struct {
    ClientData clientData;	/* Address of preserved block. */
-    int refCount;		/* Number of Tcl_Preserve calls in effect for
+    size_t refCount;		/* Number of Tcl_Preserve calls in effect for
 				 * block. */
    int mustFree;		/* Non-zero means Tcl_EventuallyFree was
 				 * called while a Tcl_Preserve call was in
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ typedef struct HandleStruct {
 				 * ensure that the contents of the handle are
 				 * not changed by anyone else. */
 #endif
-    int refCount;		/* Number of TclHandlePreserve() calls in
+    size_t refCount;		/* Number of TclHandlePreserve() calls in
 				 * effect on this handle. */
 } HandleStruct;

@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ Tcl_Release(
 	    continue;
 	}

-	if (--refPtr->refCount != 0) {
+	if (refPtr->refCount-- > 1) {
 	    Tcl_MutexUnlock(&preserveMutex);
 	    return;
 	}
@@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ TclHandleRelease(
 		handlePtr, handlePtr->ptr2, handlePtr->ptr);
    }
 #endif
-    if ((--handlePtr->refCount == 0) && (handlePtr->ptr == NULL)) {
+    if ((handlePtr->refCount-- <= 1) && (handlePtr->ptr == NULL)) {
 	ckfree(handlePtr);
    }
 }
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ Tcl_ProcObjCmd(
 	 * The argument list is just "args"; check the body
 	 */

-	procBody = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objv[3], &numBytes);
+	procBody = TclGetStringFromObj(objv[3], &numBytes);
 	if (TclParseAllWhiteSpace(procBody, numBytes) < numBytes) {
 	    goto done;
 	}
@@ -1087,12 +1087,10 @@ ProcWrongNumArgs(
    if (framePtr->isProcCallFrame & FRAME_IS_LAMBDA) {
 	desiredObjs[0] = Tcl_NewStringObj("lambdaExpr", -1);
    } else {
-	((Interp *) interp)->ensembleRewrite.numInsertedObjs -= skip - 1;
-
 #ifdef AVOID_HACKS_FOR_ITCL
 	desiredObjs[0] = framePtr->objv[skip-1];
 #else
-	desiredObjs[0] = Tcl_NewListObj(skip, framePtr->objv);
+	desiredObjs[0] = Tcl_NewListObj(1, framePtr->objv + skip - 1);
 #endif /* AVOID_HACKS_FOR_ITCL */
    }
    Tcl_IncrRefCount(desiredObjs[0]);
@@ -1527,6 +1525,10 @@ InitArgsAndLocals(
     */

  incorrectArgs:
+    if ((skip != 1) &&
+	    TclInitRewriteEnsemble(interp, skip-1, 0, framePtr->objv)) {
+	TclNRAddCallback(interp, TclClearRootEnsemble, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
+    }
    memset(varPtr, 0,
 	    ((framePtr->compiledLocals + localCt)-varPtr) * sizeof(Var));
    return ProcWrongNumArgs(interp, skip);
@@ -2081,7 +2083,7 @@ MakeProcError(
 				 * messages and trace information. */
 {
    int overflow, limit = 60, nameLen;
-    const char *procName = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(procNameObj, &nameLen);
+    const char *procName = TclGetStringFromObj(procNameObj, &nameLen);

    overflow = (nameLen > limit);
    Tcl_AppendObjToErrorInfo(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
@@ -2652,30 +2654,6 @@ TclNRApplyObjCmd(
 	procPtr = lambdaPtr->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1;
    }

-#define JOE_EXTENSION 0
-/*
- * Note: this code is NOT FUNCTIONAL due to the NR implementation; DO NOT
- * ENABLE! Leaving here as reminder to (a) TIP the suggestion, and (b) adapt
- * the code. (MS)
- */
-
-#if JOE_EXTENSION
-    else {
-	/*
-	 * Joe English's suggestion to allow cmdNames to function as lambdas.
-	 */
-
-	Tcl_Obj *elemPtr;
-	int numElem;
-
-	if ((lambdaPtr->typePtr == &tclCmdNameType) ||
-		(TclListObjGetElements(interp, lambdaPtr, &numElem,
-		&elemPtr) == TCL_OK && numElem == 1)) {
-	    return Tcl_EvalObjv(interp, objc-1, objv+1, 0);
-	}
-    }
-#endif
-
    if ((procPtr == NULL) || (procPtr->iPtr != iPtr)) {
 	result = SetLambdaFromAny(interp, lambdaPtr);
 	if (result != TCL_OK) {
@@ -2716,10 +2694,6 @@ TclNRApplyObjCmd(
    extraPtr->efi.fields[0].clientData = lambdaPtr;
    extraPtr->cmd.clientData = &extraPtr->efi;

-    if (TclInitRewriteEnsemble(interp, 1, 0, objv)) {
-	TclNRAddCallback(interp, TclClearRootEnsemble, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
-    }
-
    result = TclPushProcCallFrame(procPtr, interp, objc, objv, 1);
    if (result == TCL_OK) {
 	TclNRAddCallback(interp, ApplyNR2, extraPtr, NULL, NULL, NULL);
@@ -2766,7 +2740,7 @@ MakeLambdaError(
 				 * messages and trace information. */
 {
    int overflow, limit = 60, nameLen;
-    const char *procName = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(procNameObj, &nameLen);
+    const char *procName = TclGetStringFromObj(procNameObj, &nameLen);

    overflow = (nameLen > limit);
    Tcl_AppendObjToErrorInfo(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
@@ -502,9 +502,16 @@ Tcl_RegExpMatchObj(
 {
    Tcl_RegExp re;

-    re = Tcl_GetRegExpFromObj(interp, patternObj,
-	    TCL_REG_ADVANCED | TCL_REG_NOSUB);
-    if (re == NULL) {
+    /*
+     * For performance reasons, first try compiling the RE without support for
+     * subexpressions. On failure, try again without TCL_REG_NOSUB in case the
+     * RE has backreferences in it. Closely related to [Bug 1366683]. If this
+     * still fails, an error message will be left in the interpreter.
+     */
+
+    if (!(re = Tcl_GetRegExpFromObj(interp, patternObj,
+	    TCL_REG_ADVANCED | TCL_REG_NOSUB))
+     && !(re = Tcl_GetRegExpFromObj(interp, patternObj, TCL_REG_ADVANCED))) {
 	return -1;
    }
    return Tcl_RegExpExecObj(interp, re, textObj, 0 /* offset */,
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ typedef struct TclRegexp {
 				 * of subexpressions. */
    rm_detail_t details;	/* Detailed information on match (currently
 				 * used only for REG_EXPECT). */
-    int refCount;		/* Count of number of references to this
+    unsigned int refCount;	/* Count of number of references to this
 				 * compiled regexp. */
 } TclRegexp;

@@ -396,6 +396,9 @@ static Tcl_WideUInt	Nokia770Twiddle(Tcl_WideUInt w);
 *	- TCL_PARSE_SCAN_PREFIXES:	ignore the prefixes 0b and 0o that are
 *		not part of the [scan] command's vocabulary. Use only in
 *		combination with TCL_PARSE_INTEGER_ONLY.
+ *	- TCL_PARSE_BINARY_ONLY:	parse only in the binary format, whether
+ *		or not a prefix is present that would lead to binary parsing.
+ *		Use only in combination with TCL_PARSE_INTEGER_ONLY.
 *	- TCL_PARSE_OCTAL_ONLY:		parse only in the octal format, whether
 *		or not a prefix is present that would lead to octal parsing.
 *		Use only in combination with TCL_PARSE_INTEGER_ONLY.
@@ -627,6 +630,9 @@ TclParseNumber(
 	    acceptPoint = p;
 	    acceptLen = len;
 	    if (c == 'x' || c == 'X') {
+		if (flags & (TCL_PARSE_OCTAL_ONLY|TCL_PARSE_BINARY_ONLY)) {
+		    goto endgame;
+		}
 		state = ZERO_X;
 		break;
 	    }
@@ -637,6 +643,9 @@ TclParseNumber(
 		goto zeroo;
 	    }
 	    if (c == 'b' || c == 'B') {
+		if (flags & TCL_PARSE_OCTAL_ONLY) {
+		    goto endgame;
+		}
 		state = ZERO_B;
 		break;
 	    }
@@ -408,6 +408,15 @@ Tcl_GetCharLength(
    String *stringPtr;
    int numChars;

+    /*
+     * Quick, no-shimmer return for short string reps.
+     */
+
+    if ((objPtr->bytes) && (objPtr->length < 2)) {
+	/* 0 bytes -> 0 chars; 1 byte -> 1 char */
+	return objPtr->length;
+    }
+
    /*
     * Optimize the case where we're really dealing with a bytearray object
     * without string representation; we don't need to convert to a string to
@@ -1173,6 +1182,8 @@ Tcl_AppendUnicodeToObj(
 * Side effects:
 *	The string rep of appendObjPtr is appended to the string
 *	representation of objPtr.
+ *	IMPORTANT: This routine does not and MUST NOT shimmer appendObjPtr.
+ *	Callers are counting on that.
 *
 *----------------------------------------------------------------------
 */
@@ -1854,6 +1865,14 @@ Tcl_AppendFormatToObj(
 		useWide = 1;
 #endif
 	    }
+	} else if ((ch == 'I') && (format[1] == '6') && (format[2] == '4')) {
+	    format += (step + 2);
+	    step = Tcl_UtfToUniChar(format, &ch);
+	    useBig = 1;
+	} else if (ch == 'L') {
+	    format += step;
+	    step = Tcl_UtfToUniChar(format, &ch);
+	    useBig = 1;
 	}

 	format += step;
@@ -2285,7 +2304,7 @@ Tcl_AppendFormatToObj(
 	    }
 	}

-	Tcl_GetStringFromObj(segment, &segmentNumBytes);
+	TclGetStringFromObj(segment, &segmentNumBytes);
 	if (segmentNumBytes > limit) {
 	    if (allocSegment) {
 		Tcl_DecrRefCount(segment);
@@ -2461,6 +2480,10 @@ AppendPrintfToObjVA(
 		    Tcl_ListObjAppendElement(NULL, list, Tcl_NewLongObj(
 			    va_arg(argList, long)));
 		    break;
+		case 2:
+		    Tcl_ListObjAppendElement(NULL, list, Tcl_NewWideIntObj(
+			    va_arg(argList, Tcl_WideInt)));
+		    break;
 		}
 		break;
 	    case 'e':
@@ -2489,9 +2512,20 @@ AppendPrintfToObjVA(
 		gotPrecision = 1;
 		p++;
 		break;
-	    /* TODO: support for wide (and bignum?) arguments */
+	    /* TODO: support for bignum arguments */
 	    case 'l':
-		size = 1;
+		++size;
+		p++;
+		break;
+	    case 'L':
+		size = 2;
+		p++;
+		break;
+	    case 'I':
+		if (p[1]=='6' && p[2]=='4') {
+		    p += 2;
+		    size = 2;
+		}
 		p++;
 		break;
 	    case 'h':
@@ -2598,6 +2632,616 @@ TclGetStringStorage(
    *sizePtr = stringPtr->allocated;
    return objPtr->bytes;
 }
+
+/*
+ *---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ *
+ * TclStringRepeat --
+ *
+ *	Performs the [string repeat] function.
+ *
+ * Results:
+ * 	A standard Tcl result.
+ *
+ * Side effects:
+ * 	Writes to *objPtrPtr the address of Tcl_Obj that is concatenation
+ * 	of count copies of the value in objPtr.
+ *
+ *---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+
+int
+TclStringRepeat(
+    Tcl_Interp *interp,
+    Tcl_Obj *objPtr,
+    int count,
+    Tcl_Obj **objPtrPtr)
+{
+    Tcl_Obj *objResultPtr;
+    int length = 0, unichar = 0, done = 1;
+    int binary = TclIsPureByteArray(objPtr);
+
+    /* assert (count >= 2) */
+
+    /*
+     * Analyze to determine what representation result should be.
+     * GOALS:	Avoid shimmering & string rep generation.
+     * 		Produce pure bytearray when possible.
+     * 		Error on overflow.
+     */
+
+    if (!binary) {
+	if (objPtr->typePtr == &tclStringType) {
+	    String *stringPtr = GET_STRING(objPtr);
+	    if (stringPtr->hasUnicode) {
+		unichar = 1;
+	    }
+	}
+    }
+
+    if (binary) {
+	/* Result will be pure byte array. Pre-size it */
+	Tcl_GetByteArrayFromObj(objPtr, &length);
+    } else if (unichar) {
+	/* Result will be pure Tcl_UniChar array. Pre-size it. */
+	Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj(objPtr, &length);
+    } else {
+	/* Result will be concat of string reps. Pre-size it. */
+	Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objPtr, &length);
+    }
+
+    if (length == 0) {
+	/* Any repeats of empty is empty. */
+	*objPtrPtr = objPtr;
+	return TCL_OK;
+    }
+
+    if (count > INT_MAX/length) {
+	if (interp) {
+	    Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
+		    "max size for a Tcl value (%d bytes) exceeded", INT_MAX));
+	    Tcl_SetErrorCode(interp, "TCL", "MEMORY", NULL);
+	}
+	return TCL_ERROR;
+    }
+
+    if (binary) {
+	/* Efficiently produce a pure byte array result */
+	objResultPtr = Tcl_IsShared(objPtr) ? Tcl_DuplicateObj(objPtr)
+		: objPtr;
+
+	Tcl_SetByteArrayLength(objResultPtr, count*length); /* PANIC? */
+	Tcl_SetByteArrayLength(objResultPtr, length);
+	while (count - done > done) {
+	    Tcl_AppendObjToObj(objResultPtr, objResultPtr);
+	    done *= 2;
+	}
+	TclAppendBytesToByteArray(objResultPtr,
+		Tcl_GetByteArrayFromObj(objResultPtr, NULL),
+		(count - done) * length);
+    } else if (unichar) {
+	/* Efficiently produce a pure Tcl_UniChar array result */
+	if (Tcl_IsShared(objPtr)) {
+	    objResultPtr = Tcl_NewUnicodeObj(Tcl_GetUnicode(objPtr), length);
+	} else {
+	    TclInvalidateStringRep(objPtr);
+	    objResultPtr = objPtr;
+	}
+
+        if (0 == Tcl_AttemptSetObjLength(objResultPtr, count*length)) {
+	    if (interp) {
+		Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
+			"string size overflow: unable to alloc %"
+			TCL_LL_MODIFIER "u bytes",
+			(Tcl_WideUInt)STRING_SIZE(count*length)));
+		Tcl_SetErrorCode(interp, "TCL", "MEMORY", NULL);
+	    }
+	    return TCL_ERROR;
+	}
+	Tcl_SetObjLength(objResultPtr, length);
+	while (count - done > done) {
+	    Tcl_AppendObjToObj(objResultPtr, objResultPtr);
+	    done *= 2;
+	}
+	Tcl_AppendUnicodeToObj(objResultPtr, Tcl_GetUnicode(objResultPtr),
+		(count - done) * length);
+    } else {
+	/* Efficiently concatenate string reps */
+	if (Tcl_IsShared(objPtr)) {
+	    objResultPtr = Tcl_NewStringObj(Tcl_GetString(objPtr), length);
+	} else {
+	    TclFreeIntRep(objPtr);
+	    objResultPtr = objPtr;
+	}
+        if (0 == Tcl_AttemptSetObjLength(objResultPtr, count*length)) {
+	    if (interp) {
+		Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
+			"string size overflow: unable to alloc %u bytes",
+			count*length));
+		Tcl_SetErrorCode(interp, "TCL", "MEMORY", NULL);
+	    }
+	    return TCL_ERROR;
+	}
+	Tcl_SetObjLength(objResultPtr, length);
+	while (count - done > done) {
+	    Tcl_AppendObjToObj(objResultPtr, objResultPtr);
+	    done *= 2;
+	}
+	Tcl_AppendToObj(objResultPtr, Tcl_GetString(objResultPtr),
+		(count - done) * length);
+    }
+    *objPtrPtr = objResultPtr;
+    return TCL_OK;
+}
+
+/*
+ *---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ *
+ * TclStringCatObjv --
+ *
+ *	Performs the [string cat] function.
+ *
+ * Results:
+ * 	A standard Tcl result.
+ *
+ * Side effects:
+ * 	Writes to *objPtrPtr the address of Tcl_Obj that is concatenation
+ * 	of all objc values in objv.
+ *
+ *---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+
+int
+TclStringCatObjv(
+    Tcl_Interp *interp,
+    int inPlace,
+    int objc,
+    Tcl_Obj * const objv[],
+    Tcl_Obj **objPtrPtr)
+{
+    Tcl_Obj *objPtr, *objResultPtr, * const *ov;
+    int oc, length = 0, binary = 1, first = 0;
+    int allowUniChar = 1, requestUniChar = 0;
+
+    /* assert (objc >= 2) */
+
+    /*
+     * Analyze to determine what representation result should be.
+     * GOALS:	Avoid shimmering & string rep generation.
+     * 		Produce pure bytearray when possible.
+     * 		Error on overflow.
+     */
+
+    ov = objv, oc = objc;
+    while (oc-- && (binary || allowUniChar)) {
+	objPtr = *ov++;
+
+	if (objPtr->bytes) {
+	    /* Value has a string rep. */
+	    if (objPtr->length) {
+		/*
+		 * Non-empty string rep. Not a pure bytearray, so we
+		 * won't create a pure bytearray
+		 */
+	 	binary = 0;
+		if ((objPtr->typePtr) && (objPtr->typePtr != &tclStringType)) {
+		    /* Prevent shimmer of non-string types. */
+		    allowUniChar = 0;
+		}
+	    }
+	} else {
+	    /* assert (objPtr->typePtr != NULL) -- stork! */
+	    if (TclIsPureByteArray(objPtr)) {
+		allowUniChar = 0;
+	    } else {
+		binary = 0;
+		if (objPtr->typePtr == &tclStringType) {
+		    /* Have a pure Unicode value; ask to preserve it */
+		    requestUniChar = 1;
+		} else {
+		    /* Have another type; prevent shimmer */
+		    allowUniChar = 0;
+		}
+	    }
+	}
+    }
+
+    if (binary) {
+	/* Result will be pure byte array. Pre-size it */
+	ov = objv; oc = objc;
+	while (oc-- && (length >= 0)) {
+	    objPtr = *ov++;
+
+	    if (objPtr->bytes == NULL) {
+		int numBytes;
+
+		Tcl_GetByteArrayFromObj(objPtr, &numBytes); /* PANIC? */
+		if (length == 0) {
+		    first = objc - oc - 1;
+		}
+		length += numBytes;
+	    }
+	}
+    } else if (allowUniChar && requestUniChar) {
+	/* Result will be pure Tcl_UniChar array. Pre-size it. */
+	ov = objv; oc = objc;
+	while (oc-- && (length >= 0)) {
+	    objPtr = *ov++;
+
+	    if ((objPtr->bytes == NULL) || (objPtr->length)) {
+		int numChars;
+
+		Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj(objPtr, &numChars); /* PANIC? */
+		if (length == 0) {
+		    first = objc - oc - 1;
+		}
+		length += numChars;
+	    }
+	}
+    } else {
+	/* Result will be concat of string reps. Pre-size it. */
+	ov = objv; oc = objc;
+	while (oc-- && (length >= 0)) {
+	    int numBytes;
+
+	    objPtr = *ov++;
+
+	    Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objPtr, &numBytes);	/* PANIC? */
+	    if ((length == 0) && numBytes) {
+		first = objc - oc - 1;
+	    }
+	    length += numBytes;
+	}
+    }
+
+    if (length < 0) {
+	if (interp) {
+	    Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
+		    "max size for a Tcl value (%d bytes) exceeded", INT_MAX));
+	    Tcl_SetErrorCode(interp, "TCL", "MEMORY", NULL);
+	}
+	return TCL_ERROR;
+    }
+
+    if (length == 0) {
+	/* Total length of zero means every value has length zero */
+	*objPtrPtr = objv[0];
+	return TCL_OK;
+    }
+
+    objv += first; objc -= first;
+
+    if (binary) {
+	/* Efficiently produce a pure byte array result */
+	unsigned char *dst;
+
+	/*
+	 * Broken interface! Byte array value routines offer no way
+	 * to handle failure to allocate enough space. Following
+	 * stanza may panic.
+	 */
+	if (inPlace && !Tcl_IsShared(*objv)) {
+	    int start;
+
+	    objResultPtr = *objv++; objc--;
+	    Tcl_GetByteArrayFromObj(objResultPtr, &start);
+	    dst = Tcl_SetByteArrayLength(objResultPtr, length) + start;
+	} else {
+	    objResultPtr = Tcl_NewByteArrayObj(NULL, length);
+	    dst = Tcl_SetByteArrayLength(objResultPtr, length);
+	}
+	while (objc--) {
+	    Tcl_Obj *objPtr = *objv++;
+
+	    if (objPtr->bytes == NULL) {
+		int more;
+		unsigned char *src = Tcl_GetByteArrayFromObj(objPtr, &more);
+		memcpy(dst, src, (size_t) more);
+		dst += more;
+	    }
+	}
+    } else if (allowUniChar && requestUniChar) {
+	/* Efficiently produce a pure Tcl_UniChar array result */
+	Tcl_UniChar *dst;
+
+	if (inPlace && !Tcl_IsShared(*objv)) {
+	    int start;
+
+	    objResultPtr = *objv++; objc--;
+
+	    /* Ugly interface! Force resize of the unicode array. */
+	    Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj(objResultPtr, &start);
+	    Tcl_InvalidateStringRep(objResultPtr);
+	    if (0 == Tcl_AttemptSetObjLength(objResultPtr, length)) {
+		if (interp) {
+		    Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
+		    	"concatenation failed: unable to alloc %"
+			TCL_LL_MODIFIER "u bytes",
+			(Tcl_WideUInt)STRING_SIZE(length)));
+		    Tcl_SetErrorCode(interp, "TCL", "MEMORY", NULL);
+		}
+		return TCL_ERROR;
+	    }
+	    dst = Tcl_GetUnicode(objResultPtr) + start;
+	} else {
+	    Tcl_UniChar ch = 0;
+
+	    /* Ugly interface! No scheme to init array size. */
+	    objResultPtr = Tcl_NewUnicodeObj(&ch, 0);	/* PANIC? */
+	    if (0 == Tcl_AttemptSetObjLength(objResultPtr, length)) {
+		if (interp) {
+		    Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
+		    	"concatenation failed: unable to alloc %"
+			TCL_LL_MODIFIER "u bytes",
+			(Tcl_WideUInt)STRING_SIZE(length)));
+		    Tcl_SetErrorCode(interp, "TCL", "MEMORY", NULL);
+		}
+		return TCL_ERROR;
+	    }
+	    dst = Tcl_GetUnicode(objResultPtr);
+	}
+	while (objc--) {
+	    Tcl_Obj *objPtr = *objv++;
+
+	    if ((objPtr->bytes == NULL) || (objPtr->length)) {
+		int more;
+		Tcl_UniChar *src = Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj(objPtr, &more);
+		memcpy(dst, src, more * sizeof(Tcl_UniChar));
+		dst += more;
+	    }
+	}
+    } else {
+	/* Efficiently concatenate string reps */
+	char *dst;
+
+	if (inPlace && !Tcl_IsShared(*objv)) {
+	    int start;
+
+	    objResultPtr = *objv++; objc--;
+
+	    Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objResultPtr, &start);
+	    if (0 == Tcl_AttemptSetObjLength(objResultPtr, length)) {
+		if (interp) {
+		    Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
+		    	"concatenation failed: unable to alloc %u bytes",
+			length));
+		    Tcl_SetErrorCode(interp, "TCL", "MEMORY", NULL);
+		}
+		return TCL_ERROR;
+	    }
+	    dst = Tcl_GetString(objResultPtr) + start;
+	    if (length > start) {
+		TclFreeIntRep(objResultPtr);
+	    }
+	} else {
+	    objResultPtr = Tcl_NewObj();	/* PANIC? */
+	    if (0 == Tcl_AttemptSetObjLength(objResultPtr, length)) {
+		if (interp) {
+		    Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
+		    	"concatenation failed: unable to alloc %u bytes",
+			length));
+		    Tcl_SetErrorCode(interp, "TCL", "MEMORY", NULL);
+		}
+		return TCL_ERROR;
+	    }
+	    dst = Tcl_GetString(objResultPtr);
+	}
+	while (objc--) {
+	    Tcl_Obj *objPtr = *objv++;
+
+	    if ((objPtr->bytes == NULL) || (objPtr->length)) {
+		int more;
+		char *src = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objPtr, &more);
+		memcpy(dst, src, (size_t) more);
+		dst += more;
+	    }
+	}
+    }
+    *objPtrPtr = objResultPtr;
+    return TCL_OK;
+}
+
+/*
+ *---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ *
+ * TclStringFind --
+ *
+ *	Implements the [string first] operation.
+ *
+ * Results:
+ *	If needle is found as a substring of haystack, the index of the
+ *	first instance of such a find is returned.  If needle is not present
+ *	as a substring of haystack, -1 is returned.
+ *
+ * Side effects:
+ *	needle and haystack may have their Tcl_ObjType changed.
+ *
+ *---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+
+int
+TclStringFind(
+    Tcl_Obj *needle,
+    Tcl_Obj *haystack,
+    int start)
+{
+    int lh, ln = Tcl_GetCharLength(needle);
+
+    if (ln == 0) {
+	/*
+	 * 	We don't find empty substrings.  Bizarre!
+	 *
+	 * 	TODO: When we one day make this a true substring
+	 * 	finder, change this to "return 0"
+	 */
+	return -1;
+    }
+
+    if (TclIsPureByteArray(needle) && TclIsPureByteArray(haystack)) {
+	unsigned char *end, *try, *bh;
+	unsigned char *bn = Tcl_GetByteArrayFromObj(needle, &ln);
+
+	bh = Tcl_GetByteArrayFromObj(haystack, &lh);
+	end = bh + lh;
+
+	try = bh + start;
+	while (try + ln <= end) {
+	    try = memchr(try, bn[0], end - try);
+
+	    if (try == NULL) {
+		return -1;
+	    }
+	    if (0 == memcmp(try+1, bn+1, ln-1)) {
+		return (try - bh);
+	    }
+	    try++;
+	}
+	return -1;
+    }
+
+    lh = Tcl_GetCharLength(haystack);
+    if (haystack->bytes && (lh == haystack->length)) {
+	/* haystack is all single-byte chars */
+
+	if (needle->bytes && (ln == needle->length)) {
+	    /* needle is also all single-byte chars */
+	    char *found = strstr(haystack->bytes + start, needle->bytes);
+
+	    if (found) {
+		return (found - haystack->bytes);
+	    } else {
+		return -1;
+	    }
+	} else {
+	    /*
+	     * Cannot find substring with a multi-byte char inside
+	     * a string with no multi-byte chars.
+	     */
+	    return -1;
+	}
+    } else {
+	Tcl_UniChar *try, *end, *uh;
+	Tcl_UniChar *un = Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj(needle, &ln);
+
+	uh = Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj(haystack, &lh);
+	end = uh + lh;
+
+	try = uh + start;
+	while (try + ln <= end) {
+	    if ((*try == *un)
+		    && (0 == memcmp(try+1, un+1, (ln-1)*sizeof(Tcl_UniChar)))) {
+		return (try - uh);
+	    }
+	    try++;
+	}
+	return -1;
+    }
+}
+
+/*
+ *---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ *
+ * TclStringLast --
+ *
+ *	Implements the [string last] operation.
+ *
+ * Results:
+ *	If needle is found as a substring of haystack, the index of the
+ *	last instance of such a find is returned.  If needle is not present
+ *	as a substring of haystack, -1 is returned.
+ *
+ * Side effects:
+ *	needle and haystack may have their Tcl_ObjType changed.
+ *
+ *---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+
+int
+TclStringLast(
+    Tcl_Obj *needle,
+    Tcl_Obj *haystack,
+    int last)
+{
+    int lh, ln = Tcl_GetCharLength(needle);
+
+    if (ln == 0) {
+	/*
+	 * 	We don't find empty substrings.  Bizarre!
+	 *
+	 * 	TODO: When we one day make this a true substring
+	 * 	finder, change this to "return 0"
+	 */
+	return -1;
+    }
+
+    if (ln > last + 1) {
+	return -1;
+    }
+
+    if (TclIsPureByteArray(needle) && TclIsPureByteArray(haystack)) {
+	unsigned char *try, *bh;
+	unsigned char *bn = Tcl_GetByteArrayFromObj(needle, &ln);
+
+	bh = Tcl_GetByteArrayFromObj(haystack, &lh);
+
+	if (last + 1 > lh) {
+	    last = lh - 1;
+	}
+	try = bh + last + 1 - ln;
+	while (try >= bh) {
+	    if ((*try == bn[0])
+		    && (0 == memcmp(try+1, bn+1, ln-1))) {
+		return (try - bh);
+	    }
+	    try--;
+	}
+	return -1;
+    }
+
+    lh = Tcl_GetCharLength(haystack);
+    if (last + 1 > lh) {
+	last = lh - 1;
+    }
+    if (haystack->bytes && (lh == haystack->length)) {
+	/* haystack is all single-byte chars */
+
+	if (needle->bytes && (ln == needle->length)) {
+	    /* needle is also all single-byte chars */
+
+	    char *try = haystack->bytes + last + 1 - ln;
+	    while (try >= haystack->bytes) {
+		if ((*try == needle->bytes[0])
+			&& (0 == memcmp(try+1, needle->bytes + 1, ln - 1))) {
+		    return (try - haystack->bytes);
+		}
+		try--;
+	    }
+	    return -1;
+	} else {
+	    /*
+	     * Cannot find substring with a multi-byte char inside
+	     * a string with no multi-byte chars.
+	     */
+	    return -1;
+	}
+    } else {
+	Tcl_UniChar *try, *uh;
+	Tcl_UniChar *un = Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj(needle, &ln);
+
+	uh = Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj(haystack, &lh);
+
+	try = uh + last + 1 - ln;
+	while (try >= uh) {
+	    if ((*try == un[0])
+		    && (0 == memcmp(try+1, un+1, (ln-1)*sizeof(Tcl_UniChar)))) {
+		return (try - uh);
+	    }
+	    try--;
+	}
+	return -1;
+    }
+}
+
 /*
 *---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 *
@@ -2948,6 +3592,16 @@ UpdateStringOfString(
 {
    String *stringPtr = GET_STRING(objPtr);

+    /*
+     * This routine is only called when we need to generate the
+     * string rep objPtr->bytes because it does not exist -- it is NULL.
+     * In that circumstance, any lingering claim about the size of
+     * memory pointed to by that NULL pointer is clearly bogus, and
+     * needs a reset.
+     */
+
+    stringPtr->allocated = 0;
+
    if (stringPtr->numChars == 0) {
 	TclInitStringRep(objPtr, tclEmptyStringRep, 0);
    } else {
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 * tcl.h, but do not do that unless you are sure what you're doing!
 */

-typedef struct String {
+typedef struct {
    int numChars;		/* The number of chars in the string. -1 means
 				 * this value has not been calculated. >= 0
 				 * means that there is a valid Unicode rep, or
@@ -72,17 +72,17 @@ typedef struct String {
    do {								\
 	if ((numChars) < 0 || (numChars) > STRING_MAXCHARS) {		\
 	    Tcl_Panic("max length for a Tcl unicode value (%d chars) exceeded", \
-		      STRING_MAXCHARS);					\
+		      (int)STRING_MAXCHARS);					\
 	}								\
    } while (0)
 #define stringAttemptAlloc(numChars) \
-    (String *) attemptckalloc((unsigned) STRING_SIZE(numChars))
+    (String *) attemptckalloc(STRING_SIZE(numChars))
 #define stringAlloc(numChars) \
-    (String *) ckalloc((unsigned) STRING_SIZE(numChars))
+    (String *) ckalloc(STRING_SIZE(numChars))
 #define stringRealloc(ptr, numChars) \
-    (String *) ckrealloc((ptr), (unsigned) STRING_SIZE(numChars))
+    (String *) ckrealloc((ptr), STRING_SIZE(numChars))
 #define stringAttemptRealloc(ptr, numChars) \
-    (String *) attemptckrealloc((ptr), (unsigned) STRING_SIZE(numChars))
+    (String *) attemptckrealloc((ptr), STRING_SIZE(numChars))
 #define GET_STRING(objPtr) \
    ((String *) (objPtr)->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1)
 #define SET_STRING(objPtr, stringPtr) \
@@ -749,6 +749,7 @@ const TclTomMathStubs tclTomMathStubs = {
    TclBNInitBignumFromLong, /* 64 */
    TclBNInitBignumFromWideInt, /* 65 */
    TclBNInitBignumFromWideUInt, /* 66 */
+    TclBN_mp_expt_d_ex, /* 67 */
 };

 static const TclStubHooks tclStubHooks = {
@@ -1415,6 +1416,17 @@ const TclStubs tclStubs = {
    Tcl_FindSymbol, /* 628 */
    Tcl_FSUnloadFile, /* 629 */
    Tcl_ZlibStreamSetCompressionDictionary, /* 630 */
+    Tcl_ArraySet, /* 631 */
+    Tcl_ArrayUnset, /* 632 */
+    Tcl_ArrayGet, /* 633 */
+    Tcl_ArrayNames, /* 634 */
+    Tcl_ArraySize, /* 635 */
+    Tcl_ArrayExists, /* 636 */
+    Tcl_ArraySearchStart, /* 637 */
+    Tcl_ArraySearchPeek, /* 638 */
+    Tcl_ArraySearchNext, /* 639 */
+    Tcl_ArraySearchDone, /* 640 */
+    Tcl_ArrayStatistics, /* 641 */
 };

 /* !END!: Do not edit above this line. */
@@ -101,12 +101,16 @@ Tcl_InitStubs(
 	    }
 	}
    }
-    tclStubsPtr = (TclStubs *)pkgData;
+    if (((exact&0xff00) < 0x900)) {
+	/* We are running Tcl 8.x */
+	stubsPtr = (TclStubs *)pkgData;
+    }
+    tclStubsPtr = stubsPtr;

-    if (tclStubsPtr->hooks) {
-	tclPlatStubsPtr = tclStubsPtr->hooks->tclPlatStubs;
-	tclIntStubsPtr = tclStubsPtr->hooks->tclIntStubs;
-	tclIntPlatStubsPtr = tclStubsPtr->hooks->tclIntPlatStubs;
+    if (stubsPtr->hooks) {
+	tclPlatStubsPtr = stubsPtr->hooks->tclPlatStubs;
+	tclIntStubsPtr = stubsPtr->hooks->tclIntStubs;
+	tclIntPlatStubsPtr = stubsPtr->hooks->tclIntPlatStubs;
    } else {
 	tclPlatStubsPtr = NULL;
 	tclIntStubsPtr = NULL;
@@ -42,16 +42,8 @@
 * Declare external functions used in Windows tests.
 */

-/*
- * TCL_STORAGE_CLASS is set unconditionally to DLLEXPORT because the
- * Tcltest_Init declaration is in the source file itself, which is only
- * accessed when we are building a library.
- */
-
-#undef TCL_STORAGE_CLASS
-#define TCL_STORAGE_CLASS DLLEXPORT
-EXTERN int		Tcltest_Init(Tcl_Interp *interp);
-EXTERN int		Tcltest_SafeInit(Tcl_Interp *interp);
+DLLEXPORT int		Tcltest_Init(Tcl_Interp *interp);
+DLLEXPORT int		Tcltest_SafeInit(Tcl_Interp *interp);

 /*
 * Dynamic string shared by TestdcallCmd and DelCallbackProc; used to collect
@@ -326,6 +318,9 @@ static int		TestparsevarnameObjCmd(ClientData dummy,
 static int		TestpreferstableObjCmd(ClientData dummy,
 			    Tcl_Interp *interp, int objc,
 			    Tcl_Obj *const objv[]);
+static int		TestprintObjCmd(ClientData dummy,
+			    Tcl_Interp *interp, int objc,
+			    Tcl_Obj *const objv[]);
 static int		TestregexpObjCmd(ClientData dummy,
 			    Tcl_Interp *interp, int objc,
 			    Tcl_Obj *const objv[]);
@@ -416,8 +411,7 @@ static int		TestHashSystemHashCmd(ClientData clientData,
 			    Tcl_Interp *interp, int objc,
 			    Tcl_Obj *const objv[]);

-static int              NREUnwind_callback(ClientData data[], Tcl_Interp *interp,
-                            int result);
+static Tcl_NRPostProc	NREUnwind_callback;
 static int		TestNREUnwind(ClientData clientData,
 			    Tcl_Interp *interp, int objc,
 			    Tcl_Obj *const objv[]);
@@ -550,10 +544,10 @@ Tcltest_Init(
 	"-appinitprocclosestderr", "-appinitprocsetrcfile", NULL
    };

-    if (Tcl_InitStubs(interp, "8.5", 0) == NULL) {
+    if (Tcl_InitStubs(interp, "8.5-", 0) == NULL) {
 	return TCL_ERROR;
    }
-    if (Tcl_TomMath_InitStubs(interp, "8.5") == NULL) {
+    if (Tcl_TomMath_InitStubs(interp, "8.5-") == NULL) {
 	return TCL_ERROR;
    }
    if (Tcl_OOInitStubs(interp) == NULL) {
@@ -658,6 +652,8 @@ Tcltest_Init(
 	    NULL, NULL);
    Tcl_CreateObjCommand(interp, "testpreferstable", TestpreferstableObjCmd,
 	    NULL, NULL);
+    Tcl_CreateObjCommand(interp, "testprint", TestprintObjCmd,
+	    NULL, NULL);
    Tcl_CreateObjCommand(interp, "testregexp", TestregexpObjCmd,
 	    NULL, NULL);
    Tcl_CreateObjCommand(interp, "testreturn", TestreturnObjCmd,
@@ -790,7 +786,7 @@ int
 Tcltest_SafeInit(
    Tcl_Interp *interp)		/* Interpreter for application. */
 {
-    if (Tcl_InitStubs(interp, "8.5", 0) == NULL) {
+    if (Tcl_InitStubs(interp, "8.5-", 0) == NULL) {
 	return TCL_ERROR;
    }
    return Procbodytest_SafeInit(interp);
@@ -1294,7 +1290,7 @@ TestcmdtraceCmd(
 	cmdTrace = Tcl_CreateObjTrace(interp, 50000,
 		TCL_ALLOW_INLINE_COMPILATION, ObjTraceProc,
 		(ClientData) &deleteCalled, ObjTraceDeleteProc);
-	result = Tcl_Eval(interp, argv[2]);
+	result = Tcl_EvalEx(interp, argv[2], -1, 0);
 	Tcl_DeleteTrace(interp, cmdTrace);
 	if (!deleteCalled) {
 	    Tcl_SetResult(interp, "Delete wasn't called", TCL_STATIC);
@@ -1308,7 +1304,7 @@ TestcmdtraceCmd(
 	Tcl_DStringInit(&buffer);
 	t1 = Tcl_CreateTrace(interp, 1, CmdTraceProc, &buffer);
 	t2 = Tcl_CreateTrace(interp, 50000, CmdTraceProc, &buffer);
-	result = Tcl_Eval(interp, argv[2]);
+	result = Tcl_EvalEx(interp, argv[2], -1, 0);
 	if (result == TCL_OK) {
 	    Tcl_ResetResult(interp);
 	    Tcl_AppendResult(interp, Tcl_DStringValue(&buffer), NULL);
@@ -1637,7 +1633,7 @@ DelDeleteProc(
 {
    DelCmd *dPtr = clientData;

-    Tcl_Eval(dPtr->interp, dPtr->deleteCmd);
+    Tcl_EvalEx(dPtr->interp, dPtr->deleteCmd, -1, 0);
    Tcl_ResetResult(dPtr->interp);
    ckfree(dPtr->deleteCmd);
    ckfree(dPtr);
@@ -3826,6 +3822,43 @@ TestpreferstableObjCmd(
    return TCL_OK;
 }

+/*
+ *----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ *
+ * TestprintObjCmd --
+ *
+ *	This procedure implements the "testprint" command.  It is
+ *	used for being able to test the Tcl_ObjPrintf() function.
+ *
+ * Results:
+ *	A standard Tcl result.
+ *
+ * Side effects:
+ *	None.
+ *
+ *----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+
+static int
+TestprintObjCmd(
+    ClientData clientData,	/* Not used. */
+    Tcl_Interp *interp,		/* Current interpreter. */
+    int objc,			/* Number of arguments. */
+    Tcl_Obj *const objv[])	/* The argument objects. */
+{
+    Tcl_WideInt argv1 = 0;
+
+    if (objc < 2 || objc > 3) {
+	Tcl_WrongNumArgs(interp, 1, objv, "format wideint");   
+    }
+
+    if (objc > 1) {
+	Tcl_GetWideIntFromObj(interp, objv[2], &argv1);
+    }
+    Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(Tcl_GetString(objv[1]), argv1));
+    return TCL_OK;
+}
+
 /*
 *----------------------------------------------------------------------
 *
@@ -3972,7 +4005,7 @@ TestregexpObjCmd(
 	    varName = Tcl_GetString(objv[2]);
 	    TclRegExpRangeUniChar(regExpr, -1, &start, &end);
 	    sprintf(resinfo, "%d %d", start, end-1);
-	    value = Tcl_SetVar(interp, varName, resinfo, 0);
+	    value = Tcl_SetVar2(interp, varName, NULL, resinfo, 0);
 	    if (value == NULL) {
 		Tcl_AppendResult(interp, "couldn't set variable \"",
 			varName, "\"", NULL);
@@ -3986,7 +4019,7 @@ TestregexpObjCmd(
 	    Tcl_RegExpGetInfo(regExpr, &info);
 	    varName = Tcl_GetString(objv[2]);
 	    sprintf(resinfo, "%ld", info.extendStart);
-	    value = Tcl_SetVar(interp, varName, resinfo, 0);
+	    value = Tcl_SetVar2(interp, varName, NULL, resinfo, 0);
 	    if (value == NULL) {
 		Tcl_AppendResult(interp, "couldn't set variable \"",
 			varName, "\"", NULL);
@@ -4329,7 +4362,7 @@ StaticInitProc(
    Tcl_Interp *interp)		/* Interpreter in which package is supposedly
 				 * being loaded. */
 {
-    Tcl_SetVar(interp, "x", "loaded", TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY);
+    Tcl_SetVar2(interp, "x", NULL, "loaded", TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY);
    return TCL_OK;
 }

@@ -4413,7 +4446,7 @@ TestupvarCmd(
 	} else if (strcmp(argv[4], "namespace") == 0) {
 	    flags = TCL_NAMESPACE_ONLY;
 	}
-	return Tcl_UpVar(interp, argv[1], argv[2], argv[3], flags);
+	return Tcl_UpVar2(interp, argv[1], argv[2], NULL, argv[3], flags);
    } else {
 	if (strcmp(argv[5], "global") == 0) {
 	    flags = TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY;
@@ -4606,7 +4639,7 @@ TestpanicCmd(
    int argc,			/* Number of arguments. */
    const char **argv)		/* Argument strings. */
 {
-    const char *argString;
+    char *argString;

    /*
     *  Put the arguments into a var args structure
@@ -4907,10 +4940,10 @@ GetTimesObjCmd(
 	    timePer/100000);

    /* Tcl_SetVar 100000 times */
-    fprintf(stderr, "Tcl_SetVar of \"12345\" 100000 times\n");
+    fprintf(stderr, "Tcl_SetVar2 of \"12345\" 100000 times\n");
    Tcl_GetTime(&start);
    for (i = 0;  i < 100000;  i++) {
-	s = Tcl_SetVar(interp, "a", "12345", TCL_LEAVE_ERR_MSG);
+	s = Tcl_SetVar2(interp, "a", NULL, "12345", TCL_LEAVE_ERR_MSG);
 	if (s == NULL) {
 	    return TCL_ERROR;
 	}
@@ -4924,7 +4957,7 @@ GetTimesObjCmd(
    fprintf(stderr, "Tcl_GetVar of a==\"12345\" 100000 times\n");
    Tcl_GetTime(&start);
    for (i = 0;  i < 100000;  i++) {
-	s = Tcl_GetVar(interp, "a", TCL_LEAVE_ERR_MSG);
+	s = Tcl_GetVar2(interp, "a", NULL, TCL_LEAVE_ERR_MSG);
 	if (s == NULL) {
 	    return TCL_ERROR;
 	}
@@ -5194,7 +5227,7 @@ TestsaveresultCmd(
    if (((enum options) index) == RESULT_OBJECT) {
 	result = Tcl_EvalObjEx(interp, objv[2], 0);
    } else {
-	result = Tcl_Eval(interp, Tcl_GetString(objv[2]));
+	result = Tcl_EvalEx(interp, Tcl_GetString(objv[2]), -1, 0);
    }

    if (discard) {
@@ -6297,7 +6330,7 @@ TestReport(
 	savedResult = Tcl_GetObjResult(interp);
 	Tcl_IncrRefCount(savedResult);
 	Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_NewObj());
-	Tcl_Eval(interp, Tcl_DStringValue(&ds));
+	Tcl_EvalEx(interp, Tcl_DStringValue(&ds), -1, 0);
 	Tcl_DStringFree(&ds);
 	Tcl_ResetResult(interp);
 	Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, savedResult);
@@ -6760,7 +6793,7 @@ TestcpuidCmd(
    Tcl_Obj *const * objv)	/* Parameter vector */
 {
    int status, index, i;
-    unsigned int regs[4];
+    int regs[4];
    Tcl_Obj *regsObjs[4];

    if (objc != 2) {
@@ -6770,14 +6803,14 @@ TestcpuidCmd(
    if (Tcl_GetIntFromObj(interp, objv[1], &index) != TCL_OK) {
 	return TCL_ERROR;
    }
-    status = TclWinCPUID((unsigned) index, regs);
+    status = TclWinCPUID(index, regs);
    if (status != TCL_OK) {
 	Tcl_SetObjResult(interp,
 		Tcl_NewStringObj("operation not available", -1));
 	return status;
    }
    for (i=0 ; i<4 ; ++i) {
-	regsObjs[i] = Tcl_NewIntObj((int) regs[i]);
+	regsObjs[i] = Tcl_NewIntObj(regs[i]);
    }
    Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_NewListObj(4, regsObjs));
    return TCL_OK;
@@ -7335,23 +7368,82 @@ InterpCmdResolver(
    CallFrame *varFramePtr = iPtr->varFramePtr;
    Proc *procPtr = (varFramePtr->isProcCallFrame & FRAME_IS_PROC) ?
            varFramePtr->procPtr : NULL;
-    Namespace *ns2NsPtr = (Namespace *)
-            Tcl_FindNamespace(interp, "::ns2", NULL, 0);
+    Namespace *callerNsPtr = varFramePtr->nsPtr;
+    Tcl_Command resolvedCmdPtr = NULL;

-    if (procPtr && (procPtr->cmdPtr->nsPtr == iPtr->globalNsPtr
-            || (ns2NsPtr && procPtr->cmdPtr->nsPtr == ns2NsPtr))) {
-        const char *callingCmdName =
+    /*
+     * Just do something special on a cmd literal "z" in two cases:
+     *  A)  when the caller is a proc "x", and the proc is either in "::" or in "::ns2".
+     *  B) the caller's namespace is "ctx1" or "ctx2"
+     */
+    if ( (name[0] == 'z') && (name[1] == '\0') ) {
+        Namespace *ns2NsPtr = (Namespace *) Tcl_FindNamespace(interp, "::ns2", NULL, 0);
+
+        if (procPtr != NULL
+            && ((procPtr->cmdPtr->nsPtr == iPtr->globalNsPtr)
+                || (ns2NsPtr != NULL && procPtr->cmdPtr->nsPtr == ns2NsPtr)
+                )
+            ) {
+            /*
+             * Case A)
+             *
+             *    - The context, in which this resolver becomes active, is
+             *      determined by the name of the caller proc, which has to be
+             *      named "x".
+             *
+             *    - To determine the name of the caller proc, the proc is taken
+             *      from the topmost stack frame.
+             *
+             *    - Note that the context is NOT provided during byte-code
+             *      compilation (e.g. in TclProcCompileProc)
+             *
+             *   When these conditions hold, this function resolves the
+             *   passed-in cmd literal into a cmd "y", which is taken from the
+             *   the global namespace (for simplicity).
+             */
+
+            const char *callingCmdName =
                Tcl_GetCommandName(interp, (Tcl_Command) procPtr->cmdPtr);

-        if ((callingCmdName[0] == 'x') && (callingCmdName[1] == '\0')
-                && (name[0] == 'z') && (name[1] == '\0')) {
-            Tcl_Command sourceCmdPtr = Tcl_FindCommand(interp, "y", NULL,
-                    TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY);
-
-            if (sourceCmdPtr != NULL) {
-                *rPtr = sourceCmdPtr;
-                return TCL_OK;
+            if ( callingCmdName[0] == 'x' && callingCmdName[1] == '\0' ) {
+                resolvedCmdPtr = Tcl_FindCommand(interp, "y", NULL, TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY);
            }
+        } else if (callerNsPtr != NULL) {
+            /*
+             * Case B)
+             *
+             *    - The context, in which this resolver becomes active, is
+             *      determined by the name of the parent namespace, which has
+             *      to be named "ctx1" or "ctx2".
+             *
+             *    - To determine the name of the parent namesace, it is taken
+             *      from the 2nd highest stack frame.
+             *
+             *    - Note that the context can be provided during byte-code
+             *      compilation (e.g. in TclProcCompileProc)
+             *
+             *   When these conditions hold, this function resolves the
+             *   passed-in cmd literal into a cmd "y" or "Y" depending on the
+             *   context. The resolved procs are taken from the the global
+             *   namespace (for simplicity).
+             */
+
+            CallFrame *parentFramePtr = varFramePtr->callerPtr;
+            char *context = parentFramePtr != NULL ? parentFramePtr->nsPtr->name : "(NULL)";
+
+            if (strcmp(context, "ctx1") == 0 && (name[0] == 'z') && (name[1] == '\0')) {
+                resolvedCmdPtr = Tcl_FindCommand(interp, "y", NULL, TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY);
+                /* fprintf(stderr, "... y ==> %p\n", resolvedCmdPtr);*/
+
+            } else if (strcmp(context, "ctx2") == 0 && (name[0] == 'z') && (name[1] == '\0')) {
+                resolvedCmdPtr = Tcl_FindCommand(interp, "Y", NULL, TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY);
+                /*fprintf(stderr, "... Y ==> %p\n", resolvedCmdPtr);*/
+            }
+        }
+
+        if (resolvedCmdPtr != NULL) {
+            *rPtr = resolvedCmdPtr;
+            return TCL_OK;
        }
    }
    return TCL_CONTINUE;
@@ -7485,9 +7577,16 @@ TestInterpResolverCmd(
    int idx;
 #define RESOLVER_KEY "testInterpResolver"

-    if (objc != 2) {
-        Tcl_WrongNumArgs(interp, 1, objv, "up|down");
- 	return TCL_ERROR;
+    if ((objc < 2) || (objc > 3)) {
+	Tcl_WrongNumArgs(interp, 1, objv, "up|down ?interp?");
+	return TCL_ERROR;
+    }
+    if (objc == 3) {
+	interp = Tcl_GetSlave(interp, Tcl_GetString(objv[2]));
+	if (interp == NULL) {
+	    Tcl_AppendResult(interp, "provided interpreter not found", NULL);
+	    return TCL_ERROR;
+	}
    }
    if (Tcl_GetIndexFromObj(interp, objv[1], table, "operation", TCL_EXACT,
            &idx) != TCL_OK) {
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 #endif
 #include "tclInt.h"
 #include "tommath.h"
+#include "tclStringRep.h"


 /*
@@ -46,13 +47,6 @@ static int		TestobjCmd(ClientData dummy, Tcl_Interp *interp,
 			    int objc, Tcl_Obj *const objv[]);
 static int		TeststringobjCmd(ClientData dummy, Tcl_Interp *interp,
 			    int objc, Tcl_Obj *const objv[]);
-
-typedef struct TestString {
-    int numChars;
-    int allocated;
-    int maxChars;
-    Tcl_UniChar unicode[2];
-} TestString;

 #define VARPTR_KEY "TCLOBJTEST_VARPTR"
 #define NUMBER_OF_OBJECT_VARS 20
@@ -158,10 +152,11 @@ TestbignumobjCmd(
    Tcl_Obj *const objv[])	/* Argument vector */
 {
    const char *const subcmds[] = {
-	"set",	    "get",	"mult10",	"div10", NULL
+	"set", "get", "mult10", "div10", "iseven", "radixsize", NULL
    };
    enum options {
-	BIGNUM_SET, BIGNUM_GET,	BIGNUM_MULT10,	BIGNUM_DIV10
+	BIGNUM_SET, BIGNUM_GET, BIGNUM_MULT10, BIGNUM_DIV10, BIGNUM_ISEVEN,
+	BIGNUM_RADIXSIZE
    };
    int index, varIndex;
    const char *string;
@@ -280,6 +275,50 @@ TestbignumobjCmd(
 	} else {
 	    SetVarToObj(varPtr, varIndex, Tcl_NewBignumObj(&newValue));
 	}
+	break;
+
+    case BIGNUM_ISEVEN:
+	if (objc != 3) {
+	    Tcl_WrongNumArgs(interp, 2, objv, "varIndex");
+	    return TCL_ERROR;
+	}
+	if (CheckIfVarUnset(interp, varPtr,varIndex)) {
+	    return TCL_ERROR;
+	}
+	if (Tcl_GetBignumFromObj(interp, varPtr[varIndex],
+		&bignumValue) != TCL_OK) {
+	    return TCL_ERROR;
+	}
+	if (!Tcl_IsShared(varPtr[varIndex])) {
+	    Tcl_SetIntObj(varPtr[varIndex], mp_iseven(&bignumValue));
+	} else {
+	    SetVarToObj(varPtr, varIndex, Tcl_NewIntObj(mp_iseven(&bignumValue)));
+	}
+	mp_clear(&bignumValue);
+	break;
+
+    case BIGNUM_RADIXSIZE:
+	if (objc != 3) {
+	    Tcl_WrongNumArgs(interp, 2, objv, "varIndex");
+	    return TCL_ERROR;
+	}
+	if (CheckIfVarUnset(interp, varPtr,varIndex)) {
+	    return TCL_ERROR;
+	}
+	if (Tcl_GetBignumFromObj(interp, varPtr[varIndex],
+		&bignumValue) != TCL_OK) {
+	    return TCL_ERROR;
+	}
+	if (mp_radix_size(&bignumValue, 10, &index) != MP_OKAY) {
+	    return TCL_ERROR;
+	}
+	if (!Tcl_IsShared(varPtr[varIndex])) {
+	    Tcl_SetIntObj(varPtr[varIndex], index);
+	} else {
+	    SetVarToObj(varPtr, varIndex, Tcl_NewIntObj(index));
+	}
+	mp_clear(&bignumValue);
+	break;
    }

    Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, varPtr[varIndex]);
@@ -583,23 +622,9 @@ TestindexobjCmd(
    }
    argv[objc-4] = NULL;

-    /*
-     * Tcl_GetIndexFromObj assumes that the table is statically-allocated so
-     * that its address is different for each index object. If we accidently
-     * allocate a table at the same address as that cached in the index
-     * object, clear out the object's cached state.
-     */
-
-    if (objv[3]->typePtr != NULL
-	    && !strcmp("index", objv[3]->typePtr->name)) {
-	indexRep = objv[3]->internalRep.twoPtrValue.ptr1;
-	if (indexRep->tablePtr == (void *) argv) {
-	    TclFreeIntRep(objv[3]);
-	}
-    }
-
    result = Tcl_GetIndexFromObj((setError? interp : NULL), objv[3],
-	    argv, "token", (allowAbbrev? 0 : TCL_EXACT), &index);
+	    argv, "token", INDEX_TEMP_TABLE|(allowAbbrev? 0 : TCL_EXACT),
+	    &index);
    ckfree(argv);
    if (result == TCL_OK) {
 	Tcl_SetIntObj(Tcl_GetObjResult(interp), index);
@@ -1076,7 +1101,7 @@ TestobjCmd(
 	if (CheckIfVarUnset(interp, varPtr,varIndex)) {
 	    return TCL_ERROR;
 	}
-	Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_NewIntObj(varPtr[varIndex]->refCount));
+	Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_NewWideIntObj(varPtr[varIndex]->refCount));
    } else if (strcmp(subCmd, "type") == 0) {
 	if (objc != 3) {
 	    goto wrongNumArgs;
@@ -1141,7 +1166,7 @@ TeststringobjCmd(
    int varIndex, option, i, length;
 #define MAX_STRINGS 11
    const char *index, *string, *strings[MAX_STRINGS+1];
-    TestString *strPtr;
+    String *strPtr;
    Tcl_Obj **varPtr;
    static const char *const options[] = {
 	"append", "appendstrings", "get", "get2", "length", "length2",
@@ -1106,9 +1106,9 @@ TclFinalizeThreadAlloc(void)
 *
 * TclFinalizeThreadAllocThread --
 *
- *	This procedure is used to destroy single thread private resources used
- *	in this file.
- * Called in TclpFinalizeThreadData when a thread exits (Tcl_FinalizeThread).
+ *	This procedure is used to destroy single thread private resources
+ *	defined in this file. Called either during Tcl_FinalizeThread() or
+ *	Tcl_Finalize().
 *
 * Results:
 *	None.
@@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ ThreadErrorProc(

    sprintf(buf, "%" TCL_LL_MODIFIER "d", (Tcl_WideInt)(size_t)Tcl_GetCurrentThread());

-    errorInfo = Tcl_GetVar(interp, "errorInfo", TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY);
+    errorInfo = Tcl_GetVar2(interp, "errorInfo", NULL, TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY);
    if (errorProcString == NULL) {
 	errChannel = Tcl_GetStdChannel(TCL_STDERR);
 	Tcl_WriteChars(errChannel, "Error from thread ", -1);
@@ -1032,8 +1032,8 @@ ThreadEventProc(
 	code = Tcl_EvalEx(interp, threadEventPtr->script,-1,TCL_EVAL_GLOBAL);
 	Tcl_DeleteThreadExitHandler(ThreadFreeProc, threadEventPtr->script);
 	if (code != TCL_OK) {
-	    errorCode = Tcl_GetVar(interp, "errorCode", TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY);
-	    errorInfo = Tcl_GetVar(interp, "errorInfo", TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY);
+	    errorCode = Tcl_GetVar2(interp, "errorCode", NULL, TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY);
+	    errorInfo = Tcl_GetVar2(interp, "errorInfo", NULL, TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY);
 	} else {
 	    errorCode = errorInfo = NULL;
 	}
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