Apply macos-tip511.diff. Resolve conflict with TIP #601

Fix use of TCL_THREADS macro: In Tcl 8.7, this is always defined, but can have value '1' or '0'
tip#511 proposed implementation
2021-08-19 08:05:47 +00:00 · 2021-08-18 14:31:55 +00:00 · 2021-08-17 16:16:29 +00:00 · 2021-08-15 21:47:28 +00:00 · 2021-08-15 21:37:09 +00:00 · 2021-08-05 11:20:10 +00:00
672 changed files with 59138 additions and 30077 deletions
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ compat/zlib/win64/*.txt
 libtommath/*.dsp
 libtommath/*.sln
 libtommath/*.vcproj
-tools/tcl.hpj.in
 tools/tcl.wse.in
 win/buildall.vc.bat
 win/coffbase.txt
@@ -17,4 +16,3 @@ win/rules-ext.vc
 win/targets.vc
 win/tcl.dsp
 win/tcl.dsw
-win/tcl.hpj.in
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
-tools/tcl.hpj.in
 tools/tcl.wse.in
 win/buildall.vc.bat
 win/coffbase.txt
 win/makefile.vc
 win/rules.vc
 win/tcl.dsp
-win/tcl.dsw
-win/tcl.hpj.in
+win/tcl.dsw
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 Important Note
 ==========
-Please do not file issues with Tcl on Github. They are unlikely to be noticed in a timely fashion. Tcl issues are hosted in the [tcl fossil repository on core.tcl.tk](https://core.tcl.tk/tcl/tktnew); please post them there.
+Please do not file issues with Tcl on Github. They are unlikely to be noticed in a timely fashion. Tcl issues are hosted in the [tcl fossil repository on core.tcl-lang.org](https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/tktnew); please post them there.
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 Important Note
 ==========
-Please do not file pull requests with Tcl on Github. They are unlikely to be noticed in a timely fashion. Tcl issues (including patches) are hosted in the [tcl fossil repository on core.tcl.tk](https://core.tcl.tk/tcl/tktnew); please post them there.
+Please do not file pull requests with Tcl on Github. They are unlikely to be noticed in a timely fashion. Tcl issues (including patches) are hosted in the [tcl fossil repository on core.tcl-lang.org](https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/tktnew); please post them there.
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+name: Linux
+on: [push]
+jobs:
+  gcc:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        cfgopt:
+          - ""
+          - "CFLAGS=-DTCL_UTF_MAX=4"
+          - "CFLAGS=-DTCL_NO_DEPRECATED=1"
+          - "--disable-shared"
+          - "--enable-symbols"
+          - "--enable-symbols=mem"
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        shell: bash
+        working-directory: unix
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: Prepare
+        run: |
+          touch tclStubInit.c tclOOStubInit.c tclOOScript.h
+        working-directory: generic
+      - name: Configure ${{ matrix.cfgopt }}
+        run: |
+          mkdir "${HOME}/install dir"
+          ./configure ${CFGOPT} "--prefix=$HOME/install dir" || (cat config.log && exit 1)
+        env:
+          CFGOPT: ${{ matrix.cfgopt }}
+      - name: Build
+        run: |
+          make all
+      - name: Build Test Harness
+        run: |
+          make tcltest
+      - name: Run Tests
+        run: |
+          make test
+        env:
+          ERROR_ON_FAILURES: 1
+      - name: Test-Drive Installation
+        run: |
+          make install
+      - name: Create Distribution Package
+        run: |
+          make dist
+      - name: Convert Documentation to HTML
+        run: |
+          make html-tcl
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+name: macOS
+on: [push]
+jobs:
+  xcode:
+    runs-on: macos-11
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        shell: bash
+        working-directory: macosx
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: Prepare
+        run: |
+          touch tclStubInit.c tclOOStubInit.c tclOOScript.h
+        working-directory: generic
+      - name: Build
+        run: make all
+        env:
+          CFLAGS: -arch x86_64 -arch arm64e
+      - name: Run Tests
+        run: make test styles=develop
+        env:
+          ERROR_ON_FAILURES: 1
+          MAC_CI: 1
+  clang:
+    runs-on: macos-11
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        cfgopt:
+          - ""
+          - "--disable-shared"
+          - "--enable-symbols"
+          - "--enable-symbols=mem"
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        shell: bash
+        working-directory: unix
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: Prepare
+        run: |
+          touch tclStubInit.c tclOOStubInit.c tclOOScript.h
+          mkdir "$HOME/install dir"
+        working-directory: generic
+      - name: Configure ${{ matrix.cfgopt }}
+        # Note that macOS is always a 64 bit platform
+        run: ./configure --enable-64bit --enable-dtrace --enable-framework ${CFGOPT} "--prefix=$HOME/install" || (cat config.log && exit 1)
+        env:
+          CFLAGS: -arch x86_64 -arch arm64e
+          CFGOPT: ${{ matrix.cfgopt }}
+      - name: Build
+        run: |
+          make all tcltest
+        env:
+          CFLAGS: -arch x86_64 -arch arm64e
+      - name: Run Tests
+        run: |
+          make test
+        env:
+          ERROR_ON_FAILURES: 1
+          MAC_CI: 1
@@ -0,0 +1,144 @@
+name: Build Binaries
+on: [push]
+jobs:
+  linux:
+    name: Linux
+    runs-on: ubuntu-18.04
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        shell: bash
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: Prepare
+        run: |
+          touch generic/tclStubInit.c generic/tclOOStubInit.c
+          mkdir 1dist
+          echo "VER_PATH=$(cd tools; pwd)/addVerToFile.tcl" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+        working-directory: .
+      - name: Configure
+        run: ./configure --disable-symbols --disable-shared --enable-zipfs
+        working-directory: unix
+      - name: Build
+        run: |
+          make tclsh
+          make shell SCRIPT="$VER_PATH $GITHUB_ENV"
+          echo "TCL_ZIP=`pwd`/`echo libtcl*.zip`" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+        working-directory: unix
+      - name: Package
+        run: |
+          cp ../unix/tclsh tclsh${TCL_PATCHLEVEL}_snapshot
+          chmod +x tclsh${TCL_PATCHLEVEL}_snapshot
+          tar -cf tclsh${TCL_PATCHLEVEL}_snapshot.tar tclsh${TCL_PATCHLEVEL}_snapshot
+        working-directory: 1dist
+      - name: Upload
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
+        with:
+          name: Tclsh ${{ env.TCL_PATCHLEVEL }} Linux single-file build (snapshot)
+          path: 1dist/*.tar
+  macos:
+    name: macOS
+    runs-on: macos-11
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        shell: bash
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: Checkout create-dmg
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        with:
+          repository: create-dmg/create-dmg
+          ref: v1.0.8
+          path: create-dmg
+      - name: Prepare
+        run: |
+          mkdir 1dist
+          touch generic/tclStubInit.c generic/tclOOStubInit.c || true
+          wget https://github.com/culler/macher/releases/download/v1.3/macher
+          sudo cp macher /usr/local/bin
+          sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/macher
+          echo "VER_PATH=$(cd tools; pwd)/addVerToFile.tcl" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          echo "CREATE_DMG=$(cd create-dmg;pwd)/create-dmg" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          echo "CFLAGS=-arch x86_64 -arch arm64e" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+      - name: Configure
+        run: ./configure --disable-symbols --disable-shared --enable-zipfs
+        working-directory: unix
+      - name: Build
+        run: |
+          make tclsh
+          make shell SCRIPT="$VER_PATH $GITHUB_ENV"
+          echo "TCL_BIN=`pwd`/tclsh" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          echo "TCL_ZIP=`pwd`/`echo libtcl*.zip`" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+        working-directory: unix
+      - name: Package
+        run: |
+          mkdir contents
+          cp $TCL_BIN contents/tclsh${TCL_PATCHLEVEL}_snapshot
+          chmod +x contents/tclsh${TCL_PATCHLEVEL}_snapshot
+          cat > contents/README.txt <<EOF
+          This is a single-file executable developer preview of Tcl $TCL_PATCHLEVEL
+
+          It is not intended as an official release at all, so it is unsigned and unnotarized.
+          Use strictly at your own risk.
+
+          To run it, you need to copy the executable out and run:
+              xattr -d com.apple.quarantine tclsh${TCL_PATCHLEVEL}_snapshot
+          to mark the executable as runnable on your machine.
+          EOF
+          $CREATE_DMG \
+              --volname "Tcl $TCL_PATCHLEVEL (snapshot)" \
+              --window-pos 200 120 \
+              --window-size 800 400 \
+              "Tcl-$TCL_PATCHLEVEL-(snapshot).dmg" \
+              "contents/"
+        working-directory: 1dist
+      - name: Upload
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
+        with:
+          name: Tclsh ${{ env.TCL_PATCHLEVEL }} macOS single-file build (snapshot)
+          path: 1dist/*.dmg
+  win:
+    name: Windows
+    runs-on: windows-latest
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        shell: msys2 {0}
+    env:
+      CC: gcc
+      CFGOPT: --disable-symbols --disable-shared
+    steps:
+      - name: Install MSYS2
+        uses: msys2/setup-msys2@v2
+        with:
+          msystem: UCRT64
+          install: git mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-toolchain make zip
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: Prepare
+        run: |
+          touch generic/tclStubInit.c generic/tclOOStubInit.c
+          echo "VER_PATH=$(cd tools; pwd)/addVerToFile.tcl" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          mkdir 1dist
+        working-directory: .
+      - name: Configure
+        run: ./configure $CFGOPT
+        working-directory: win
+      - name: Build
+        run: |
+          make binaries libraries
+          echo "TCL_ZIP=`pwd`/`echo libtcl*.zip`" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+        working-directory: win
+      - name: Get Exact Version
+        run: |
+          ./tclsh*.exe $VER_PATH $GITHUB_ENV
+        working-directory: win
+      - name: Set Executable Name
+        run: |
+          cp ../win/tclsh*.exe tclsh${TCL_PATCHLEVEL}_snapshot.exe
+        working-directory: 1dist
+      - name: Upload
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
+        with:
+          name: Tclsh ${{ env.TCL_PATCHLEVEL }} Windows single-file build (snapshot)
+          path: '1dist/*_snapshot.exe'
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+name: Windows
+on: [push]
+env:
+  ERROR_ON_FAILURES: 1
+jobs:
+  msvc:
+    runs-on: windows-latest
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        shell: powershell
+        working-directory: win
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        cfgopt:
+          - ""
+          - "OPTS=utfmax"
+          - "CHECKS=nodep"
+          - "OPTS=static"
+          - "OPTS=symbols"
+          - "OPTS=memdbg"
+    # Using powershell means we need to explicitly stop on failure
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: Init MSVC
+        uses: ilammy/msvc-dev-cmd@v1
+      - name: Build ${{ matrix.cfgopt }}
+        run: |
+          &nmake -f makefile.vc ${{ matrix.cfgopt }} all
+          if ($lastexitcode -ne 0) {
+             throw "nmake exit code: $lastexitcode"
+          }
+      - name: Build Test Harness ${{ matrix.cfgopt }}
+        run: |
+          &nmake -f makefile.vc ${{ matrix.cfgopt }} tcltest
+          if ($lastexitcode -ne 0) {
+             throw "nmake exit code: $lastexitcode"
+          }
+      - name: Run Tests ${{ matrix.cfgopt }}
+        run: |
+          &nmake -f makefile.vc ${{ matrix.cfgopt }} test
+          if ($lastexitcode -ne 0) {
+             throw "nmake exit code: $lastexitcode"
+          }
+        env:
+          CI_BUILD_WITH_MSVC: 1
+  gcc:
+    runs-on: windows-latest
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        shell: msys2 {0}
+        working-directory: win
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        cfgopt:
+          - ""
+          - "CFLAGS=-DTCL_UTF_MAX=4"
+          - "CFLAGS=-DTCL_NO_DEPRECATED=1"
+          - "--disable-shared"
+          - "--enable-symbols"
+          - "--enable-symbols=mem"
+    # Using powershell means we need to explicitly stop on failure
+    steps:
+      - name: Install MSYS2
+        uses: msys2/setup-msys2@v2
+        with:
+          msystem: MINGW64
+          install: git mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain make
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: Prepare
+        run: |
+          touch tclStubInit.c tclOOStubInit.c tclOOScript.h
+          mkdir "${HOME}/install dir"
+        working-directory: generic
+      - name: Configure ${{ matrix.cfgopt }}
+        run: |
+          ./configure ${CFGOPT} "--prefix=$HOME/install dir" || (cat config.log && exit 1)
+        env:
+          CFGOPT: --enable-64bit ${{ matrix.cfgopt }}
+      - name: Build
+        run: make all
+      - name: Build Test Harness
+        run: make tcltest
+      - name: Run Tests
+        run: make test
+
+# If you add builds with Wine, be sure to define the environment variable
+# CI_USING_WINE when running them so that broken tests know not to run.
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <projectDescription>
-	<name>tcl9</name>
+	<name>tcl8</name>
 	<comment></comment>
 	<projects>
 	</projects>
@@ -20,13 +20,13 @@ jobs:
      compiler: gcc
      env:
        - BUILD_DIR=unix
-    - name: "Linux/GCC/Shared: UTF_MAX=3"
+    - name: "Linux/GCC/Shared: UTF_MAX=4"
      os: linux
      dist: focal
      compiler: gcc
      env:
        - BUILD_DIR=unix
-        - CFGOPT="CFLAGS=-DTCL_UTF_MAX=3"
+        - CFGOPT=CFLAGS=-DTCL_UTF_MAX=4
    - name: "Linux/GCC/Shared: NO_DEPRECATED"
      os: linux
      dist: focal
@@ -55,14 +55,6 @@ jobs:
      env:
        - BUILD_DIR=unix
        - CFGOPT="--enable-symbols=mem"
-# C++ build.
-    - name: "Linux/G++/Shared"
-      os: linux
-      dist: focal
-      compiler: g++
-      env:
-        - BUILD_DIR=unix
-        - CFGOPT="CC=g++ CFLAGS=-Dregister=dont+use+register"
 # Newer/Older versions of GCC
    - name: "Linux/GCC 10/Shared"
      os: linux
@@ -91,6 +83,13 @@ jobs:
      compiler: clang
      env:
        - BUILD_DIR=unix
+    - name: "Linux/Clang/Shared:NO_DEPRECATED"
+      os: linux
+      dist: xenial
+      compiler: clang
+      env:
+        - BUILD_DIR=unix
+        - CFGOPT="CFLAGS=-DTCL_NO_DEPRECATED=1"
    - name: "Linux/Clang/Static"
      os: linux
      dist: focal
@@ -140,14 +139,6 @@ jobs:
        homebrew:
          packages:
            - libtommath
-    - name: "macOS/Clang++/Xcode 12/Shared"
-      os: osx
-      osx_image: xcode12.2
-      env:
-        - BUILD_DIR=unix
-        - CFGOPT="CC=clang++ --enable-framework --enable-dtrace CFLAGS=-Dregister=dont+use+register CPPFLAGS=-D__private_extern__=extern"
-      script:
-        - make all tcltest
 # Newer MacOS versions
    - name: "macOS/Clang/Xcode 12/Universal Apps/Shared"
      os: osx
@@ -217,7 +208,6 @@ jobs:
        - BUILD_DIR=win
        - VCDIR="/C/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2017/BuildTools/VC/Auxiliary/Build"
      before_install: &vcpreinst
-        - rm -rf tests/safe-stock8*.test
        - touch generic/tclStubInit.c generic/tclOOStubInit.c generic/tclOOScript.h
        - PATH="$PATH:$VCDIR"
        - cd ${BUILD_DIR}
@@ -225,6 +215,15 @@ jobs:
      script:
        - cmd.exe //C vcvarsall.bat x64 '&&' nmake '-f' makefile.vc all tcltest
        - cmd.exe //C vcvarsall.bat x64 '&&' nmake '-f' makefile.vc test
+    - name: "Windows/MSVC/Shared: UTF_MAX=4"
+      os: windows
+      compiler: cl
+      env: *vcenv
+      before_install: *vcpreinst
+      install: []
+      script:
+        - cmd.exe //C vcvarsall.bat x64 '&&' nmake 'OPTS=utfmax' '-f' makefile.vc all tcltest
+        - cmd.exe //C vcvarsall.bat x64 '&&' nmake 'OPTS=utfmax' '-f' makefile.vc test
    - name: "Windows/MSVC/Shared: NO_DEPRECATED"
      os: windows
      compiler: cl
@@ -232,8 +231,8 @@ jobs:
      before_install: *vcpreinst
      install: []
      script:
-        - cmd.exe //C vcvarsall.bat x64 '&&' nmake 'OPTS=nodep' '-f' makefile.vc all tcltest
-        - cmd.exe //C vcvarsall.bat x64 '&&' nmake 'OPTS=nodep' '-f' makefile.vc test
+        - cmd.exe //C vcvarsall.bat x64 '&&' nmake 'CHECKS=nodep' '-f' makefile.vc all tcltest
+        - cmd.exe //C vcvarsall.bat x64 '&&' nmake 'CHECKS=nodep' '-f' makefile.vc test
    - name: "Windows/MSVC/Static"
      os: windows
      compiler: cl
@@ -241,8 +240,8 @@ jobs:
      before_install: *vcpreinst
      install: []
      script:
-        - cmd.exe //C vcvarsall.bat x64 '&&' nmake 'OPTS=static,msvcrt' '-f' makefile.vc all tcltest
-        - cmd.exe //C vcvarsall.bat x64 '&&' nmake 'OPTS=static,msvcrt' '-f' makefile.vc test
+        - cmd.exe //C vcvarsall.bat x64 '&&' nmake 'OPTS=static' '-f' makefile.vc all tcltest
+        - cmd.exe //C vcvarsall.bat x64 '&&' nmake 'OPTS=static' '-f' makefile.vc test
    - name: "Windows/MSVC/Debug"
      os: windows
      compiler: cl
@@ -271,6 +270,15 @@ jobs:
      script:
        - cmd.exe //C vcvarsall.bat x86 '&&' nmake '-f' makefile.vc all tcltest
        - cmd.exe //C vcvarsall.bat x86 '&&' nmake '-f' makefile.vc test
+    - name: "Windows/MSVC-x86/Shared: UTF_MAX=4"
+      os: windows
+      compiler: cl
+      env: *vcenv
+      before_install: *vcpreinst
+      install: []
+      script:
+        - cmd.exe //C vcvarsall.bat x86 '&&' nmake 'OPTS=utfmax' '-f' makefile.vc all tcltest
+        - cmd.exe //C vcvarsall.bat x86 '&&' nmake 'OPTS=utfmax' '-f' makefile.vc test
    - name: "Windows/MSVC-x86/Shared: NO_DEPRECATED"
      os: windows
      compiler: cl
@@ -278,8 +286,8 @@ jobs:
      before_install: *vcpreinst
      install: []
      script:
-        - cmd.exe //C vcvarsall.bat x86 '&&' nmake 'OPTS=nodep' '-f' makefile.vc all tcltest
-        - cmd.exe //C vcvarsall.bat x86 '&&' nmake 'OPTS=nodep' '-f' makefile.vc test
+        - cmd.exe //C vcvarsall.bat x86 '&&' nmake 'CHECKS=nodep' '-f' makefile.vc all tcltest
+        - cmd.exe //C vcvarsall.bat x86 '&&' nmake 'CHECKS=nodep' '-f' makefile.vc test
    - name: "Windows/MSVC-x86/Static"
      os: windows
      compiler: cl
@@ -287,8 +295,8 @@ jobs:
      before_install: *vcpreinst
      install: []
      script:
-        - cmd.exe //C vcvarsall.bat x86 '&&' nmake 'OPTS=static,msvcrt' '-f' makefile.vc all tcltest
-        - cmd.exe //C vcvarsall.bat x86 '&&' nmake 'OPTS=static,msvcrt' '-f' makefile.vc test
+        - cmd.exe //C vcvarsall.bat x86 '&&' nmake 'OPTS=static' '-f' makefile.vc all tcltest
+        - cmd.exe //C vcvarsall.bat x86 '&&' nmake 'OPTS=static' '-f' makefile.vc test
    - name: "Windows/MSVC-x86/Debug"
      os: windows
      compiler: cl
@@ -315,16 +323,15 @@ jobs:
        - BUILD_DIR=win
        - CFGOPT="--enable-64bit"
      before_install: &makepreinst
-        - rm -rf tests/safe-stock8*.test
        - touch generic/tclStubInit.c generic/tclOOStubInit.c generic/tclOOScript.h
        - choco install -y make zip
        - cd ${BUILD_DIR}
-    - name: "Windows/GCC/Shared: UTF_MAX=3"
+    - name: "Windows/GCC/Shared: UTF_MAX=4"
      os: windows
      compiler: gcc
      env:
        - BUILD_DIR=win
-        - CFGOPT="--enable-64bit CFLAGS=-DTCL_UTF_MAX=3"
+        - CFGOPT="--enable-64bit CFLAGS=-DTCL_UTF_MAX=4"
      before_install: *makepreinst
    - name: "Windows/GCC/Shared: NO_DEPRECATED"
      os: windows
@@ -333,15 +340,6 @@ jobs:
        - BUILD_DIR=win
        - CFGOPT="--enable-64bit CFLAGS=-DTCL_NO_DEPRECATED=1"
      before_install: *makepreinst
-    - name: "Windows/G++/Shared"
-      os: windows
-      compiler: g++
-      env:
-        - BUILD_DIR=win
-        - CFGOPT="CC=g++ --enable-64bit"
-      before_install: *makepreinst
-      script:
-        - make all tcltest
    - name: "Windows/GCC/Static"
      os: windows
      compiler: gcc
@@ -370,12 +368,12 @@ jobs:
      env:
        - BUILD_DIR=win
      before_install: *makepreinst
-    - name: "Windows/GCC-x86/Shared: UTF_MAX=3"
+    - name: "Windows/GCC-x86/Shared: UTF_MAX=4"
      os: windows
      compiler: gcc
      env:
        - BUILD_DIR=win
-        - CFGOPT="CFLAGS=-DTCL_UTF_MAX=3"
+        - CFGOPT="CFLAGS=-DTCL_UTF_MAX=4"
      before_install: *makepreinst
    - name: "Windows/GCC-x86/Shared: NO_DEPRECATED"
      os: windows
@@ -384,15 +382,6 @@ jobs:
        - BUILD_DIR=win
        - CFGOPT="CFLAGS=-DTCL_NO_DEPRECATED=1"
      before_install: *makepreinst
-    - name: "Windows/G++-x86/Shared"
-      os: windows
-      compiler: g++
-      env:
-        - BUILD_DIR=win
-        - CFGOPT="CC=g++"
-      before_install: *makepreinst
-      script:
-        - make all tcltest
    - name: "Windows/GCC-x86/Static"
      os: windows
      compiler: gcc
@@ -424,7 +413,6 @@ jobs:
      script:
        - make dist
 before_install:
-  - rm -rf tests/safe-stock8*.test
  - touch generic/tclStubInit.c generic/tclOOStubInit.c generic/tclOOScript.h
  - cd ${BUILD_DIR}
 install:
@@ -8096,7 +8096,7 @@ a better first place to look now.
 2009-03-25  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

 	* doc/tclsh.1:		 Bring doc and tools in line with
-	* tools/installData.tcl: http://wiki.tcl.tk/812
+	* tools/installData.tcl: https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/exec+magic
 	* tools/str2c
 	* tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl

@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@
 	* library/clock.tcl: Corrected the regular expressions that match a
 	time zone to allow for time zones specified as +HH or -HH.
 	* tests/clock.test: Added regression test case for the above issue.
-	Thanks to Rolf Ade for reporting this issue [http://wiki.tcl.tk/13094]
+	Thanks to Rolf Ade for reporting this issue [https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Parsing+ISO8601+dates+and+times]
 	* win/tclWinDde.c (Tcl_DdeObjCmd): Corrected a typo that caused a
 	compilation failure on VC++.

@@ -5262,7 +5262,7 @@
 	* generic/tclStrToD.c: Added code to support the "middle endian"
 	floating point format used in the Nokia N770's software-based floating
 	point. Thanks to Bruce Johnson for reporting this bug, originally on
-	http://wiki.tcl.tk/15408.
+	https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Nokia+770.
 	* library/clock.tcl: Fixed a bug with Daylight Saving Time and Posix
 	time zone specifiers reported by Martin Lemburg in
 	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/9a8b15a4dfc0b7a0
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 # README:  Tcl

-This is the **Tcl 9.0a2** source distribution.
+This is the **Tcl 8.7a6** source distribution.

 You can get any source release of Tcl from [our distribution
 site](https://sourceforge.net/projects/tcl/files/Tcl/).

-[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/tcltk/tcl.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/tcltk/tcl)
+[![Build Status](https://github.com/tcltk/tcl/workflows/Linux/badge.svg?branch=core-8-branch)](https://github.com/tcltk/tcl/actions?query=workflow%3A%22Linux%22+branch%3Acore-8-branch)
+[![Build Status](https://github.com/tcltk/tcl/workflows/Windows/badge.svg?branch=core-8-branch)](https://github.com/tcltk/tcl/actions?query=workflow%3A%22Windows%22+branch%3Acore-8-branch)
+[![Build Status](https://github.com/tcltk/tcl/workflows/macOS/badge.svg?branch=core-8-branch)](https://github.com/tcltk/tcl/actions?query=workflow%3A%22macOS%22+branch%3Acore-8-branch)

 ## Contents
 1. [Introduction](#intro)
@@ -29,21 +31,21 @@ powerful command languages for applications.

 Tcl is maintained, enhanced, and distributed freely by the Tcl community.
 Source code development and tracking of bug reports and feature requests
-takes place at [core.tcl-lang.org](https://core.tcl-lang.org/).
+take place at [core.tcl-lang.org](https://core.tcl-lang.org/).
 Tcl/Tk release and mailing list services are [hosted by
 SourceForge](https://sourceforge.net/projects/tcl/)
 with the Tcl Developer Xchange hosted at
 [www.tcl-lang.org](https://www.tcl-lang.org).

-Tcl is a freely available open source package.  You can do virtually
+Tcl is a freely available open-source package.  You can do virtually
 anything you like with it, such as modifying it, redistributing it,
 and selling it either in whole or in part.  See the file
 `license.terms` for complete information.

 ## <a id="doc">2.</a> Documentation
-Extensive documentation is available at our website.
+Extensive documentation is available on our website.
 The home page for this release, including new features, is
-[here](https://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/9.0.html).
+[here](https://www.tcl-lang.org/software/tcltk/8.7.html).
 Detailed release notes can be found at the
 [file distributions page](https://sourceforge.net/projects/tcl/files/Tcl/)
 by clicking on the relevant version.
@@ -53,8 +55,8 @@ Xchange](https://www.tcl-lang.org/about/).
 There have been many Tcl books on the market.  Many are mentioned in
 [the Wiki](https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/_/ref?N=25206).

-The complete set of reference manual entries for Tcl 9.0 is [online,
-here](https://www.tcl-lang.org/man/tcl9.0/).
+The complete set of reference manual entries for Tcl 8.7 is [online,
+here](https://www.tcl-lang.org/man/tcl8.7/).

 ### <a id="doc.unix">2a.</a> Unix Documentation
 The `doc` subdirectory in this release contains a complete set of
@@ -88,16 +90,16 @@ about building Tcl from sources
 [online](https://www.tcl-lang.org/doc/howto/compile.html).

 ## <a id="devtools">4.</a> Development tools
-ActiveState produces a high quality set of commercial quality development
+ActiveState produces a high-quality set of commercial quality development
 tools that is available to accelerate your Tcl application development.
 Tcl Dev Kit builds on the earlier TclPro toolset and provides a debugger,
-static code checker, single-file wrapping utility, bytecode compiler and
+static code checker, single-file wrapping utility, bytecode compiler, and
 more.  More information can be found at

-	http://www.ActiveState.com/Tcl
+	https://www.activestate.com/products/tcl/

 ## <a id="complangtcl">5.</a> Tcl newsgroup
-There is a USENET news group, "`comp.lang.tcl`", intended for the exchange of
+There is a USENET newsgroup, "`comp.lang.tcl`", intended for the exchange of
 information about Tcl, Tk, and related applications.  The newsgroup is a
 great place to ask general information questions.  For bug reports, please
 see the "Support and bug fixes" section below.
@@ -8843,7 +8843,7 @@ in this changeset (new minor version) rather than bug fixes:

 2017-09-02 (bug)[0e4d88] replace command, delete trace kills namespace (porter)

--- Released 8.7a1, September 8, 2017 --- http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/ for details
+--- Released 8.7a1, September 8, 2017 --- https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/ for details

 2017-08-10 [array names -regexp] supports backrefs (goth)

@@ -8942,7 +8942,7 @@ in this changeset (new minor version) rather than bug fixes:

 2018-11-16 (bug)[00d04c] Repair [binary encode base64] (sebres)

- Released 8.6.9, November 16, 2018 - details at http://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/ -
+- Released 8.6.9, November 16, 2018 - details at https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/ -

 2018-11-22 (bug)[7a9dc5] [file normalize ~/~foo] segfault (sebres)

@@ -8990,7 +8990,136 @@ in this changeset (new minor version) rather than bug fixes:

 2019-11-15 (bug)[135804] segfault in [next] after destroy (coulter,sebres)

- Released 8.6.10, Nov 21, 2019 - details at http://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/ -
+- Released 8.6.10, Nov 21, 2019 - details at https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/ -
+
+2019-12-03 (bug)[3cd9be] Corner case in surrogate handling (nijtmans)
+
+2019-12-09 (new) Add tcltest::(Setup|Eval|Cleanup|)Test (coulter,sebres)
+=> tcltest 2.5.2
+
+2019-12-12 (new) Add 3 libtommath functions to stub table (nijtmans)
+
+2019-12-23 (bug)[ce3b9f] compilation errors with clang, windows msys2 (nijtmans)
+
+2019-12-27 (bug)[1de6b0] [expr 1e2147483648] => 0.0 (kbk)
+
+2020-01-04 (bug)[912886] tis-620 encoding fails to load (coulter)
+
+2020-01-13 (bug)[0b9332] Win: support system encoding init to utf-8 (jedlička)
+
+2020-01-17 (bug)[8cd2fe] [unload] corrupted list of loaded packages (berc)
+
+2020-01-17 (bug)[5d989f] segfault in lsort for large list length (sebres)
+
+2020-01-30 (bug) Reset WSAGetLastError()/errno in channel close (nijtmans)
+
+2020-02-17 (bug) Win: avoid create of legacy error-vars on init phase (sebres)
+
+2020-02-25 (bug) release refs when setting class's superclasses fails (dkf)
+
+2020-02-26 (bug) C++ compiler compatibility for registry and dde (nijtmans)
+=> registry 1.3.5
+=> dde 1.4.3
+
+2020-03-05 (new) Update to Unicode-13 (nijtmans)
+
+2020-03-16 (bug)[8f89e2] Win: env var encoding, env-2.5 (sebres, nijtmans)
+
+2020-03-27 (bug)[767e07] Tcl_Get(Range|UniChar) validate index inputs (nijtmans)
+
+2020-03-28 (bug)[8edfce] [binary encode base64] & multi-byte wrapchars (dgp)
+
+2020-03-28 (bug)[ffeb20] [binary decode base64] ignore invalid chars (dgp)
+See RFC 2045
+        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
+
+2020-03-31 (bug)[b8e82d] some -maxlen values break uuencode round trip (dgp)
+        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
+
+2020-04-01 (bug)[f58371] Fileevent run in proper thread (bron,sebres)
+
+2020-04-13 (bug)[afa4b2] TclNeedSpace bug; tests util-8.5 .. util-8.11 (dgp)
+
+2020-04-13 (bug)[085913] Tcl_DStringAppendElement # quoting precision (dgp)
+        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
+
+2020-04-13 (bug)[a7f685] test util-5.52 (dgp)
+
+2020-04-13 (bug)[c61818] Tcl_UtfPrev regression (dgp)
+
+2020-04-15 (bug)[8af92d] zlib transform issue, bad inflate (sebres)
+
+2020-04-16 (bug)[5e6346] Tcl_UtfPrev handling of overlong sequences (dgp)
+
+2020-04-27 (bug)[45ca23] [string tolower] inconsistency (dgp)
+
+2020-04-30 (bug)[da2352] init [info hostname] with DNS, not NetBIOS (nadkarni)
+
+2020-05-11 (bug)[d402ff] Win32 potential crash when using main() (werner)
+
+2020-05-13 (bug)[81242a] revised documentation for Tcl_UtfAtIndex() (nijtmans)
+        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
+
+2020-05-13 (bug)[ed2980] Tcl_UtfToUniChar reads > TCL_UTF_MAX bytes (nijtmans)
+        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
+
+2020-06-02 (bug) prevent segfault in parser (sebres)
+
+2020-06-21 (bug)[f81bec] http POST a binary file (alakendu,nash)
+=> http 2.9.2
+
+2020-06-23 (bug)[41c985] auto_path nonsense in Safe Base (nash)
+
+2020-06-24 (bug)[f70ce1] zlib multi-stream inflate acts only on first (sebres)
+
+2020-07-09 (bug)[a1bd37] [clock scan] new ISO format (clock-34.(19-24)) (sebres)
+        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
+
+2020-07-10 (bug)[501974] [clock scan] +time zone (clock-34.(53-68)) (sebres)
+        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
+
+2020-07-15 (bug)[3c6e47] compiled [lappend] performance, avoid copy (sebres)
+
+2020-07-16 (bug)[5bbd04] Fix index underflow (schwab)
+
+2020-07-27 (bug)[cb0373] http::geturl -keepalive fixes (nash)
+=> http 2.9.3
+
+2020-08-10 (bug)[29e884] cmd resolution cycle (namespace-57.0) (coulter,sebres)
+
+2020-08-12 (bug)[e87000] Tcl_BadChannelOption tolerate NULL (werner,nijtmans)
+
+2020-08-31 (TIP #581) disfavor Master/Slave terminology (nijtmans)
+=> opt 0.4.8
+
+2020-09-11 (bug)[3bc0f4] UBSan complains about body.chars[] usage (nijtmans)
+
+2020-09-17 (bug)[835c93] Support TIP 525 exit code for -singleproc 1 (nijtmans)
+=> tcltest 2.5.3
+
+2020-09-25 (new) force -eofchar \032 when evaluating library scripts (nijtmans)
+        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
+
+2020-09-29 (bug)[0063cb] http::geturl -headers must be dict (oehlmann,nijtmans)
+
+2020-10-19 (bug)[cb4582] Update install-sh script (stu,nijtmans)
+
+2020-10-22 (bug)[c97593] Usage of gnu_printf in latest mingw-w64 (nijtmans)
+
+2020-10-26 (new)[48898a] improve error message consistency (stu)
+        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
+
+2020-11-06 (new) revised case of module names (nijtmans)
+        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
+
+2020-12-10 (bug)[ed5be7] Win: recognize "comx:" as serial port (oehlmann)
+
+2020-12-11 (new) support for msys2, Big Sur (nijtmans)
+=> platform 1.0.15
+
+2020-12-23 tzdata updated to Olson's tzdata2020e (jima)
+
+- Released 8.6.11, Dec 31, 2020 - details at https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/ -

 Changes to 8.7a3 include all changes to the 8.6 line through 8.6.10,
 plus the following, which focuses on the high-level feature changes
@@ -9099,6 +9228,9 @@ in this changeset (new minor version) rather than bug fixes:

 2019-04-16 [TIP 342] [dict getwithdefault]

+2019-04-23 (bug)[67a5ea] make [chan postevent] asynchronous
+        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
+
 2019-05-25 [TIP 431] [file tempdir]

 2019-05-25 [TIP 383] [coroinject], [coroprobe]
@@ -9121,22 +9253,80 @@ in this changeset (new minor version) rather than bug fixes:

 - Released 8.7a3, Nov 21, 2019 --- http://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/ for details -

-Changes to 9.0a1 include all changes to the 8.7 line through 8.7a3,
+Changes to 8.7a5 include all changes to the 8.6 line through 8.6.11,
 plus the following, which focuses on the high-level feature changes
 in this changeset (new minor version) rather than bug fixes:

-2017-11-03 [TIP 114] Leading zero integer no longer means octal
+2019-12-13 [TIP 538] Externalize libtommath

-2017-11-03 [TIP 278] Revise variable name resolution, solve "Creative Writing"
+2020-01-20 [TIP 542] Support for switchable Full Unicode support

-2017-11-03 [TIPs 330,336] Encapsulate struct Tcl_Interp
+2020-01-21 [TIP 543] Eliminate `TCL_INTERP_DESTROYED` flag value

-2017-11-17 [TIP 422] Remove all Tcl_*VA() routines
+2020-01-24 [TIP 559] Eliminate public routine `Tcl_FreeResult

-2017-12-15 [TIP 488] Disable magic $::tcl_precision
+2020-01-31 (new) Implement 64-bit seek on Zip channels. (nijtmans)

-2018-10-08 [TIP 494] Increased support for size_t value ranges
+2020-02-28 [TIP 557] C++ support for Tcl

-2019-05-31 [TIP 537] 64-bit indices in regexp matching
+2020-02-28 [TIP 562] Deprecate channel types 1-4

- Released 9.0a1, Nov 25, 2019 --- http://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/ for details -
+2020-03-11 (bug)[234d6c] Segfault in [set l {}; lpop l] (sebres)
+
+2020-03-12 (bug) Crash in tests binary-79.[12] (porter)
+
+2020-03-13 [TIP 569] Eliminate Comments That Serve Lint
+
+2020-04-06 (bug)[dd010c] [string trim*] on astral characters (porter,nijtmans)
+
+2020-05-30 [TIP 551] Permit underscore in numerical literals in source code
+
+2020-07-03 [TIP 578] Death to TCL_DBGX
+
+2020-08-11 (bug)[e87000] Win32 crash in [fconfigure stdout] (werner,nijtmans)
+
+2020-09-06 (bug)[c1a376] deletion trace on imported ensemble (coulter)
+
+2020-09-13 [TIP 585] Promote the INDEX_TEMP_TABLE flag of Tcl_GetIndexFromObj*() to the public interface
+
+2020-09-15 (bug)[b5777d] crash in [string index abcd 0-0x10000000000000000]
+
+2020-09-19 [b9ecf3] revised stork mgmt [uplevel [list $cmd ...]] (coulter)
+
+2020-10-23 [TIP 587] Default utf-8 for source command
+
+2020-10-27 (bug)[11229b] test string-31.26.* (porter)
+
+2020-11-08 [TIP 582] Comments in Expressions
+
+2020-11-16 [TIP 586] C String Parsing Support for binary scan
+
+2020-12-07 [TIP 590] Recommend lowercase Package Names
+
+2021-01-06 Bump to tcltest 2.5.4
+
+2021-01-15 [TIP 481] `Tcl_GetStringFromObj()` with `size_t` length parameter
+
+2021-01-15 [TIP 592] End support: Windows XP, Server 2003, Vista, Server 2008
+
+2021-01-25 tzdata updated to Olson's tzdata2021a (nijtmans)
+
+2021-01-29 (bug)[113be1] zipfs on mac
+
+2021-03-15 [TIP 575] Switchable Tcl_UtfCharComplete()/Tcl_UtfNext()/Tcl_UtfPrev()
+
+2021-03-19 (new)[0221b9] Drop TCL_WINDOW_EVENTS from Tcl's [update idletasks]
+
+2021-03-30 (new)[4b4830] [chan truncate] for reflected channels
+
+2021-04-30 [TIP 597] "string is unicode" and better utf-8/utf-16/cesu-8 encodings
+
+2021-04-09 [TIP 598] export TclWinConvertError
+
+2021-05-15 (bug)[463b7a] segfault from Tcl_Unload (coulter)
+
+2021-05-15 (bug)[fb2a41] tclZipfs.c free all memory (coulter)
+
+2021-05-18 (bug)[688fcc,28027d] namespace teardown reform (coulter)
+
+- Released 8.7a5, Jun 18, 2021 --- http://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/ for details -
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ opendir(
    if ((fd = open(myname, 0, 0)) == -1) {
 	return NULL;
    }
-    dirp = (DIR *) Tcl_Alloc(sizeof(DIR));
+    dirp = (DIR *) ckalloc(sizeof(DIR));
    if (dirp == NULL) {
 	/* unreachable? */
 	close(fd);
@@ -106,5 +106,5 @@ closedir(
    close(dirp->dd_fd);
    dirp->dd_fd = -1;
    dirp->dd_loc = 0;
-    Tcl_Free(dirp);
+    ckfree(dirp);
 }
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ waitpid(
 	} else {
 	    prevPtr->nextPtr = waitPtr->nextPtr;
 	}
-	Tcl_Free(waitPtr);
+	ckfree(waitPtr);
 	return result;
    }

@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ waitpid(
 		goto waitAgain;
 	    }
 	}
-	waitPtr = (WaitInfo *) Tcl_Alloc(sizeof(WaitInfo));
+	waitPtr = (WaitInfo *) ckalloc(sizeof(WaitInfo));
 	waitPtr->pid = result;
 	waitPtr->status = status;
 	waitPtr->nextPtr = deadList;
@@ -1,186 +1,186 @@
-/* inffas8664.c is a hand tuned assembler version of inffast.c - fast decoding
- * version for AMD64 on Windows using Microsoft C compiler
- *
- * Copyright (C) 1995-2003 Mark Adler
- * For conditions of distribution and use, see copyright notice in zlib.h
- *
- * Copyright (C) 2003 Chris Anderson <christop@charm.net>
- * Please use the copyright conditions above.
- *
- * 2005 - Adaptation to Microsoft C Compiler for AMD64 by Gilles Vollant
- *
- * inffas8664.c call function inffas8664fnc in inffasx64.asm
- *  inffasx64.asm is automatically convert from AMD64 portion of inffas86.c
- *
- * Dec-29-2003 -- I added AMD64 inflate asm support.  This version is also
- * slightly quicker on x86 systems because, instead of using rep movsb to copy
- * data, it uses rep movsw, which moves data in 2-byte chunks instead of single
- * bytes.  I've tested the AMD64 code on a Fedora Core 1 + the x86_64 updates
- * from http://fedora.linux.duke.edu/fc1_x86_64
- * which is running on an Athlon 64 3000+ / Gigabyte GA-K8VT800M system with
- * 1GB ram.  The 64-bit version is about 4% faster than the 32-bit version,
- * when decompressing mozilla-source-1.3.tar.gz.
- *
- * Mar-13-2003 -- Most of this is derived from inffast.S which is derived from
- * the gcc -S output of zlib-1.2.0/inffast.c.  Zlib-1.2.0 is in beta release at
- * the moment.  I have successfully compiled and tested this code with gcc2.96,
- * gcc3.2, icc5.0, msvc6.0.  It is very close to the speed of inffast.S
- * compiled with gcc -DNO_MMX, but inffast.S is still faster on the P3 with MMX
- * enabled.  I will attempt to merge the MMX code into this version.  Newer
- * versions of this and inffast.S can be found at
- * http://www.eetbeetee.com/zlib/ and http://www.charm.net/~christop/zlib/
- *
- */
-
-#include <stdio.h>
-#include "zutil.h"
-#include "inftrees.h"
-#include "inflate.h"
-#include "inffast.h"
-
-/* Mark Adler's comments from inffast.c: */
-
-/*
-   Decode literal, length, and distance codes and write out the resulting
-   literal and match bytes until either not enough input or output is
-   available, an end-of-block is encountered, or a data error is encountered.
-   When large enough input and output buffers are supplied to inflate(), for
-   example, a 16K input buffer and a 64K output buffer, more than 95% of the
-   inflate execution time is spent in this routine.
-
-   Entry assumptions:
-
-        state->mode == LEN
-        strm->avail_in >= 6
-        strm->avail_out >= 258
-        start >= strm->avail_out
-        state->bits < 8
-
-   On return, state->mode is one of:
-
-        LEN -- ran out of enough output space or enough available input
-        TYPE -- reached end of block code, inflate() to interpret next block
-        BAD -- error in block data
-
-   Notes:
-
-    - The maximum input bits used by a length/distance pair is 15 bits for the
-      length code, 5 bits for the length extra, 15 bits for the distance code,
-      and 13 bits for the distance extra.  This totals 48 bits, or six bytes.
-      Therefore if strm->avail_in >= 6, then there is enough input to avoid
-      checking for available input while decoding.
-
-    - The maximum bytes that a single length/distance pair can output is 258
-      bytes, which is the maximum length that can be coded.  inflate_fast()
-      requires strm->avail_out >= 258 for each loop to avoid checking for
-      output space.
- */
-
-
-
-    typedef struct inffast_ar {
-/* 64   32                               x86  x86_64 */
-/* ar offset                              register */
-/*  0    0 */ void *esp;                /* esp save */
-/*  8    4 */ void *ebp;                /* ebp save */
-/* 16    8 */ unsigned char FAR *in;    /* esi rsi  local strm->next_in */
-/* 24   12 */ unsigned char FAR *last;  /*     r9   while in < last */
-/* 32   16 */ unsigned char FAR *out;   /* edi rdi  local strm->next_out */
-/* 40   20 */ unsigned char FAR *beg;   /*          inflate()'s init next_out */
-/* 48   24 */ unsigned char FAR *end;   /*     r10  while out < end */
-/* 56   28 */ unsigned char FAR *window;/*          size of window, wsize!=0 */
-/* 64   32 */ code const FAR *lcode;    /* ebp rbp  local strm->lencode */
-/* 72   36 */ code const FAR *dcode;    /*     r11  local strm->distcode */
-/* 80   40 */ size_t /*unsigned long */hold;       /* edx rdx  local strm->hold */
-/* 88   44 */ unsigned bits;            /* ebx rbx  local strm->bits */
-/* 92   48 */ unsigned wsize;           /*          window size */
-/* 96   52 */ unsigned write;           /*          window write index */
-/*100   56 */ unsigned lmask;           /*     r12  mask for lcode */
-/*104   60 */ unsigned dmask;           /*     r13  mask for dcode */
-/*108   64 */ unsigned len;             /*     r14  match length */
-/*112   68 */ unsigned dist;            /*     r15  match distance */
-/*116   72 */ unsigned status;          /*          set when state chng*/
-    } type_ar;
-#ifdef ASMINF
-
-void inflate_fast(strm, start)
-z_streamp strm;
-unsigned start;         /* inflate()'s starting value for strm->avail_out */
-{
-    struct inflate_state FAR *state;
-    type_ar ar;
-    void inffas8664fnc(struct inffast_ar * par);
-
-
-
-#if (defined( __GNUC__ ) && defined( __amd64__ ) && ! defined( __i386 )) || (defined(_MSC_VER) && defined(_M_AMD64))
-#define PAD_AVAIL_IN 6
-#define PAD_AVAIL_OUT 258
-#else
-#define PAD_AVAIL_IN 5
-#define PAD_AVAIL_OUT 257
-#endif
-
-    /* copy state to local variables */
-    state = (struct inflate_state FAR *)strm->state;
-
-    ar.in = strm->next_in;
-    ar.last = ar.in + (strm->avail_in - PAD_AVAIL_IN);
-    ar.out = strm->next_out;
-    ar.beg = ar.out - (start - strm->avail_out);
-    ar.end = ar.out + (strm->avail_out - PAD_AVAIL_OUT);
-    ar.wsize = state->wsize;
-    ar.write = state->wnext;
-    ar.window = state->window;
-    ar.hold = state->hold;
-    ar.bits = state->bits;
-    ar.lcode = state->lencode;
-    ar.dcode = state->distcode;
-    ar.lmask = (1U << state->lenbits) - 1;
-    ar.dmask = (1U << state->distbits) - 1;
-
-    /* decode literals and length/distances until end-of-block or not enough
-       input data or output space */
-
-    /* align in on 1/2 hold size boundary */
-    while (((size_t)(void *)ar.in & (sizeof(ar.hold) / 2 - 1)) != 0) {
-        ar.hold += (unsigned long)*ar.in++ << ar.bits;
-        ar.bits += 8;
-    }
-
-    inffas8664fnc(&ar);
-
-    if (ar.status > 1) {
-        if (ar.status == 2)
-            strm->msg = "invalid literal/length code";
-        else if (ar.status == 3)
-            strm->msg = "invalid distance code";
-        else
-            strm->msg = "invalid distance too far back";
-        state->mode = BAD;
-    }
-    else if ( ar.status == 1 ) {
-        state->mode = TYPE;
-    }
-
-    /* return unused bytes (on entry, bits < 8, so in won't go too far back) */
-    ar.len = ar.bits >> 3;
-    ar.in -= ar.len;
-    ar.bits -= ar.len << 3;
-    ar.hold &= (1U << ar.bits) - 1;
-
-    /* update state and return */
-    strm->next_in = ar.in;
-    strm->next_out = ar.out;
-    strm->avail_in = (unsigned)(ar.in < ar.last ?
-                                PAD_AVAIL_IN + (ar.last - ar.in) :
-                                PAD_AVAIL_IN - (ar.in - ar.last));
-    strm->avail_out = (unsigned)(ar.out < ar.end ?
-                                 PAD_AVAIL_OUT + (ar.end - ar.out) :
-                                 PAD_AVAIL_OUT - (ar.out - ar.end));
-    state->hold = (unsigned long)ar.hold;
-    state->bits = ar.bits;
-    return;
-}
-
-#endif
+/* inffas8664.c is a hand tuned assembler version of inffast.c - fast decoding
+ * version for AMD64 on Windows using Microsoft C compiler
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 1995-2003 Mark Adler
+ * For conditions of distribution and use, see copyright notice in zlib.h
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2003 Chris Anderson <christop@charm.net>
+ * Please use the copyright conditions above.
+ *
+ * 2005 - Adaptation to Microsoft C Compiler for AMD64 by Gilles Vollant
+ *
+ * inffas8664.c call function inffas8664fnc in inffasx64.asm
+ *  inffasx64.asm is automatically convert from AMD64 portion of inffas86.c
+ *
+ * Dec-29-2003 -- I added AMD64 inflate asm support.  This version is also
+ * slightly quicker on x86 systems because, instead of using rep movsb to copy
+ * data, it uses rep movsw, which moves data in 2-byte chunks instead of single
+ * bytes.  I've tested the AMD64 code on a Fedora Core 1 + the x86_64 updates
+ * from http://fedora.linux.duke.edu/fc1_x86_64
+ * which is running on an Athlon 64 3000+ / Gigabyte GA-K8VT800M system with
+ * 1GB ram.  The 64-bit version is about 4% faster than the 32-bit version,
+ * when decompressing mozilla-source-1.3.tar.gz.
+ *
+ * Mar-13-2003 -- Most of this is derived from inffast.S which is derived from
+ * the gcc -S output of zlib-1.2.0/inffast.c.  Zlib-1.2.0 is in beta release at
+ * the moment.  I have successfully compiled and tested this code with gcc2.96,
+ * gcc3.2, icc5.0, msvc6.0.  It is very close to the speed of inffast.S
+ * compiled with gcc -DNO_MMX, but inffast.S is still faster on the P3 with MMX
+ * enabled.  I will attempt to merge the MMX code into this version.  Newer
+ * versions of this and inffast.S can be found at
+ * http://www.eetbeetee.com/zlib/ and http://www.charm.net/~christop/zlib/
+ *
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include "zutil.h"
+#include "inftrees.h"
+#include "inflate.h"
+#include "inffast.h"
+
+/* Mark Adler's comments from inffast.c: */
+
+/*
+   Decode literal, length, and distance codes and write out the resulting
+   literal and match bytes until either not enough input or output is
+   available, an end-of-block is encountered, or a data error is encountered.
+   When large enough input and output buffers are supplied to inflate(), for
+   example, a 16K input buffer and a 64K output buffer, more than 95% of the
+   inflate execution time is spent in this routine.
+
+   Entry assumptions:
+
+        state->mode == LEN
+        strm->avail_in >= 6
+        strm->avail_out >= 258
+        start >= strm->avail_out
+        state->bits < 8
+
+   On return, state->mode is one of:
+
+        LEN -- ran out of enough output space or enough available input
+        TYPE -- reached end of block code, inflate() to interpret next block
+        BAD -- error in block data
+
+   Notes:
+
+    - The maximum input bits used by a length/distance pair is 15 bits for the
+      length code, 5 bits for the length extra, 15 bits for the distance code,
+      and 13 bits for the distance extra.  This totals 48 bits, or six bytes.
+      Therefore if strm->avail_in >= 6, then there is enough input to avoid
+      checking for available input while decoding.
+
+    - The maximum bytes that a single length/distance pair can output is 258
+      bytes, which is the maximum length that can be coded.  inflate_fast()
+      requires strm->avail_out >= 258 for each loop to avoid checking for
+      output space.
+ */
+
+
+
+    typedef struct inffast_ar {
+/* 64   32                               x86  x86_64 */
+/* ar offset                              register */
+/*  0    0 */ void *esp;                /* esp save */
+/*  8    4 */ void *ebp;                /* ebp save */
+/* 16    8 */ unsigned char FAR *in;    /* esi rsi  local strm->next_in */
+/* 24   12 */ unsigned char FAR *last;  /*     r9   while in < last */
+/* 32   16 */ unsigned char FAR *out;   /* edi rdi  local strm->next_out */
+/* 40   20 */ unsigned char FAR *beg;   /*          inflate()'s init next_out */
+/* 48   24 */ unsigned char FAR *end;   /*     r10  while out < end */
+/* 56   28 */ unsigned char FAR *window;/*          size of window, wsize!=0 */
+/* 64   32 */ code const FAR *lcode;    /* ebp rbp  local strm->lencode */
+/* 72   36 */ code const FAR *dcode;    /*     r11  local strm->distcode */
+/* 80   40 */ size_t /*unsigned long */hold;       /* edx rdx  local strm->hold */
+/* 88   44 */ unsigned bits;            /* ebx rbx  local strm->bits */
+/* 92   48 */ unsigned wsize;           /*          window size */
+/* 96   52 */ unsigned write;           /*          window write index */
+/*100   56 */ unsigned lmask;           /*     r12  mask for lcode */
+/*104   60 */ unsigned dmask;           /*     r13  mask for dcode */
+/*108   64 */ unsigned len;             /*     r14  match length */
+/*112   68 */ unsigned dist;            /*     r15  match distance */
+/*116   72 */ unsigned status;          /*          set when state chng*/
+    } type_ar;
+#ifdef ASMINF
+
+void inflate_fast(strm, start)
+z_streamp strm;
+unsigned start;         /* inflate()'s starting value for strm->avail_out */
+{
+    struct inflate_state FAR *state;
+    type_ar ar;
+    void inffas8664fnc(struct inffast_ar * par);
+
+
+
+#if (defined( __GNUC__ ) && defined( __amd64__ ) && ! defined( __i386 )) || (defined(_MSC_VER) && defined(_M_AMD64))
+#define PAD_AVAIL_IN 6
+#define PAD_AVAIL_OUT 258
+#else
+#define PAD_AVAIL_IN 5
+#define PAD_AVAIL_OUT 257
+#endif
+
+    /* copy state to local variables */
+    state = (struct inflate_state FAR *)strm->state;
+
+    ar.in = strm->next_in;
+    ar.last = ar.in + (strm->avail_in - PAD_AVAIL_IN);
+    ar.out = strm->next_out;
+    ar.beg = ar.out - (start - strm->avail_out);
+    ar.end = ar.out + (strm->avail_out - PAD_AVAIL_OUT);
+    ar.wsize = state->wsize;
+    ar.write = state->wnext;
+    ar.window = state->window;
+    ar.hold = state->hold;
+    ar.bits = state->bits;
+    ar.lcode = state->lencode;
+    ar.dcode = state->distcode;
+    ar.lmask = (1U << state->lenbits) - 1;
+    ar.dmask = (1U << state->distbits) - 1;
+
+    /* decode literals and length/distances until end-of-block or not enough
+       input data or output space */
+
+    /* align in on 1/2 hold size boundary */
+    while (((size_t)(void *)ar.in & (sizeof(ar.hold) / 2 - 1)) != 0) {
+        ar.hold += (unsigned long)*ar.in++ << ar.bits;
+        ar.bits += 8;
+    }
+
+    inffas8664fnc(&ar);
+
+    if (ar.status > 1) {
+        if (ar.status == 2)
+            strm->msg = "invalid literal/length code";
+        else if (ar.status == 3)
+            strm->msg = "invalid distance code";
+        else
+            strm->msg = "invalid distance too far back";
+        state->mode = BAD;
+    }
+    else if ( ar.status == 1 ) {
+        state->mode = TYPE;
+    }
+
+    /* return unused bytes (on entry, bits < 8, so in won't go too far back) */
+    ar.len = ar.bits >> 3;
+    ar.in -= ar.len;
+    ar.bits -= ar.len << 3;
+    ar.hold &= (1U << ar.bits) - 1;
+
+    /* update state and return */
+    strm->next_in = ar.in;
+    strm->next_out = ar.out;
+    strm->avail_in = (unsigned)(ar.in < ar.last ?
+                                PAD_AVAIL_IN + (ar.last - ar.in) :
+                                PAD_AVAIL_IN - (ar.in - ar.last));
+    strm->avail_out = (unsigned)(ar.out < ar.end ?
+                                 PAD_AVAIL_OUT + (ar.end - ar.out) :
+                                 PAD_AVAIL_OUT - (ar.out - ar.end));
+    state->hold = (unsigned long)ar.hold;
+    state->bits = ar.bits;
+    return;
+}
+
+#endif
@@ -1,275 +1,275 @@
-#include <stdio.h>
-#include <stdlib.h>
-#include <windows.h>
-
-#include "zlib.h"
-
-
-void MyDoMinus64(LARGE_INTEGER *R,LARGE_INTEGER A,LARGE_INTEGER B)
-{
-    R->HighPart = A.HighPart - B.HighPart;
-    if (A.LowPart >= B.LowPart)
-        R->LowPart = A.LowPart - B.LowPart;
-    else
-    {
-        R->LowPart = A.LowPart - B.LowPart;
-        R->HighPart --;
-    }
-}
-
-#ifdef _M_X64
-// see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/twchhe95(en-us,vs.80).aspx for __rdtsc
-unsigned __int64 __rdtsc(void);
-void BeginCountRdtsc(LARGE_INTEGER * pbeginTime64)
-{
- //   printf("rdtsc = %I64x\n",__rdtsc());
-   pbeginTime64->QuadPart=__rdtsc();
-}
-
-LARGE_INTEGER GetResRdtsc(LARGE_INTEGER beginTime64,BOOL fComputeTimeQueryPerf)
-{
-    LARGE_INTEGER LIres;
-    unsigned _int64 res=__rdtsc()-((unsigned _int64)(beginTime64.QuadPart));
-    LIres.QuadPart=res;
-   // printf("rdtsc = %I64x\n",__rdtsc());
-    return LIres;
-}
-#else
-#ifdef _M_IX86
-void myGetRDTSC32(LARGE_INTEGER * pbeginTime64)
-{
-    DWORD dwEdx,dwEax;
-    _asm
-    {
-        rdtsc
-        mov dwEax,eax
-        mov dwEdx,edx
-    }
-    pbeginTime64->LowPart=dwEax;
-    pbeginTime64->HighPart=dwEdx;
-}
-
-void BeginCountRdtsc(LARGE_INTEGER * pbeginTime64)
-{
-    myGetRDTSC32(pbeginTime64);
-}
-
-LARGE_INTEGER GetResRdtsc(LARGE_INTEGER beginTime64,BOOL fComputeTimeQueryPerf)
-{
-    LARGE_INTEGER LIres,endTime64;
-    myGetRDTSC32(&endTime64);
-
-    LIres.LowPart=LIres.HighPart=0;
-    MyDoMinus64(&LIres,endTime64,beginTime64);
-    return LIres;
-}
-#else
-void myGetRDTSC32(LARGE_INTEGER * pbeginTime64)
-{
-}
-
-void BeginCountRdtsc(LARGE_INTEGER * pbeginTime64)
-{
-}
-
-LARGE_INTEGER GetResRdtsc(LARGE_INTEGER beginTime64,BOOL fComputeTimeQueryPerf)
-{
-    LARGE_INTEGER lr;
-    lr.QuadPart=0;
-    return lr;
-}
-#endif
-#endif
-
-void BeginCountPerfCounter(LARGE_INTEGER * pbeginTime64,BOOL fComputeTimeQueryPerf)
-{
-    if ((!fComputeTimeQueryPerf) || (!QueryPerformanceCounter(pbeginTime64)))
-    {
-        pbeginTime64->LowPart = GetTickCount();
-        pbeginTime64->HighPart = 0;
-    }
-}
-
-DWORD GetMsecSincePerfCounter(LARGE_INTEGER beginTime64,BOOL fComputeTimeQueryPerf)
-{
-    LARGE_INTEGER endTime64,ticksPerSecond,ticks;
-    DWORDLONG ticksShifted,tickSecShifted;
-    DWORD dwLog=16+0;
-    DWORD dwRet;
-    if ((!fComputeTimeQueryPerf) || (!QueryPerformanceCounter(&endTime64)))
-        dwRet = (GetTickCount() - beginTime64.LowPart)*1;
-    else
-    {
-        MyDoMinus64(&ticks,endTime64,beginTime64);
-        QueryPerformanceFrequency(&ticksPerSecond);
-
-
-        {
-            ticksShifted = Int64ShrlMod32(*(DWORDLONG*)&ticks,dwLog);
-            tickSecShifted = Int64ShrlMod32(*(DWORDLONG*)&ticksPerSecond,dwLog);
-
-        }
-
-        dwRet = (DWORD)((((DWORD)ticksShifted)*1000)/(DWORD)(tickSecShifted));
-        dwRet *=1;
-    }
-    return dwRet;
-}
-
-int ReadFileMemory(const char* filename,long* plFileSize,unsigned char** pFilePtr)
-{
-    FILE* stream;
-    unsigned char* ptr;
-    int retVal=1;
-    stream=fopen(filename, "rb");
-    if (stream==NULL)
-        return 0;
-
-    fseek(stream,0,SEEK_END);
-
-    *plFileSize=ftell(stream);
-    fseek(stream,0,SEEK_SET);
-    ptr=malloc((*plFileSize)+1);
-    if (ptr==NULL)
-        retVal=0;
-    else
-    {
-        if (fread(ptr, 1, *plFileSize,stream) != (*plFileSize))
-            retVal=0;
-    }
-    fclose(stream);
-    *pFilePtr=ptr;
-    return retVal;
-}
-
-int main(int argc, char *argv[])
-{
-    int BlockSizeCompress=0x8000;
-    int BlockSizeUncompress=0x8000;
-    int cprLevel=Z_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION ;
-    long lFileSize;
-    unsigned char* FilePtr;
-    long lBufferSizeCpr;
-    long lBufferSizeUncpr;
-    long lCompressedSize=0;
-    unsigned char* CprPtr;
-    unsigned char* UncprPtr;
-    long lSizeCpr,lSizeUncpr;
-    DWORD dwGetTick,dwMsecQP;
-    LARGE_INTEGER li_qp,li_rdtsc,dwResRdtsc;
-
-    if (argc<=1)
-    {
-        printf("run TestZlib <File> [BlockSizeCompress] [BlockSizeUncompress] [compres. level]\n");
-        return 0;
-    }
-
-    if (ReadFileMemory(argv[1],&lFileSize,&FilePtr)==0)
-    {
-        printf("error reading %s\n",argv[1]);
-        return 1;
-    }
-    else printf("file %s read, %u bytes\n",argv[1],lFileSize);
-
-    if (argc>=3)
-        BlockSizeCompress=atol(argv[2]);
-
-    if (argc>=4)
-        BlockSizeUncompress=atol(argv[3]);
-
-    if (argc>=5)
-        cprLevel=(int)atol(argv[4]);
-
-    lBufferSizeCpr = lFileSize + (lFileSize/0x10) + 0x200;
-    lBufferSizeUncpr = lBufferSizeCpr;
-
-    CprPtr=(unsigned char*)malloc(lBufferSizeCpr + BlockSizeCompress);
-
-    BeginCountPerfCounter(&li_qp,TRUE);
-    dwGetTick=GetTickCount();
-    BeginCountRdtsc(&li_rdtsc);
-    {
-        z_stream zcpr;
-        int ret=Z_OK;
-        long lOrigToDo = lFileSize;
-        long lOrigDone = 0;
-        int step=0;
-        memset(&zcpr,0,sizeof(z_stream));
-        deflateInit(&zcpr,cprLevel);
-
-        zcpr.next_in = FilePtr;
-        zcpr.next_out = CprPtr;
-
-
-        do
-        {
-            long all_read_before = zcpr.total_in;
-            zcpr.avail_in = min(lOrigToDo,BlockSizeCompress);
-            zcpr.avail_out = BlockSizeCompress;
-            ret=deflate(&zcpr,(zcpr.avail_in==lOrigToDo) ? Z_FINISH : Z_SYNC_FLUSH);
-            lOrigDone += (zcpr.total_in-all_read_before);
-            lOrigToDo -= (zcpr.total_in-all_read_before);
-            step++;
-        } while (ret==Z_OK);
-
-        lSizeCpr=zcpr.total_out;
-        deflateEnd(&zcpr);
-        dwGetTick=GetTickCount()-dwGetTick;
-        dwMsecQP=GetMsecSincePerfCounter(li_qp,TRUE);
-        dwResRdtsc=GetResRdtsc(li_rdtsc,TRUE);
-        printf("total compress size = %u, in %u step\n",lSizeCpr,step);
-        printf("time = %u msec = %f sec\n",dwGetTick,dwGetTick/(double)1000.);
-        printf("defcpr time QP = %u msec = %f sec\n",dwMsecQP,dwMsecQP/(double)1000.);
-        printf("defcpr result rdtsc = %I64x\n\n",dwResRdtsc.QuadPart);
-    }
-
-    CprPtr=(unsigned char*)realloc(CprPtr,lSizeCpr);
-    UncprPtr=(unsigned char*)malloc(lBufferSizeUncpr + BlockSizeUncompress);
-
-    BeginCountPerfCounter(&li_qp,TRUE);
-    dwGetTick=GetTickCount();
-    BeginCountRdtsc(&li_rdtsc);
-    {
-        z_stream zcpr;
-        int ret=Z_OK;
-        long lOrigToDo = lSizeCpr;
-        long lOrigDone = 0;
-        int step=0;
-        memset(&zcpr,0,sizeof(z_stream));
-        inflateInit(&zcpr);
-
-        zcpr.next_in = CprPtr;
-        zcpr.next_out = UncprPtr;
-
-
-        do
-        {
-            long all_read_before = zcpr.total_in;
-            zcpr.avail_in = min(lOrigToDo,BlockSizeUncompress);
-            zcpr.avail_out = BlockSizeUncompress;
-            ret=inflate(&zcpr,Z_SYNC_FLUSH);
-            lOrigDone += (zcpr.total_in-all_read_before);
-            lOrigToDo -= (zcpr.total_in-all_read_before);
-            step++;
-        } while (ret==Z_OK);
-
-        lSizeUncpr=zcpr.total_out;
-        inflateEnd(&zcpr);
-        dwGetTick=GetTickCount()-dwGetTick;
-        dwMsecQP=GetMsecSincePerfCounter(li_qp,TRUE);
-        dwResRdtsc=GetResRdtsc(li_rdtsc,TRUE);
-        printf("total uncompress size = %u, in %u step\n",lSizeUncpr,step);
-        printf("time = %u msec = %f sec\n",dwGetTick,dwGetTick/(double)1000.);
-        printf("uncpr  time QP = %u msec = %f sec\n",dwMsecQP,dwMsecQP/(double)1000.);
-        printf("uncpr  result rdtsc = %I64x\n\n",dwResRdtsc.QuadPart);
-    }
-
-    if (lSizeUncpr==lFileSize)
-    {
-        if (memcmp(FilePtr,UncprPtr,lFileSize)==0)
-            printf("compare ok\n");
-
-    }
-
-    return 0;
-}
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <windows.h>
+
+#include "zlib.h"
+
+
+void MyDoMinus64(LARGE_INTEGER *R,LARGE_INTEGER A,LARGE_INTEGER B)
+{
+    R->HighPart = A.HighPart - B.HighPart;
+    if (A.LowPart >= B.LowPart)
+        R->LowPart = A.LowPart - B.LowPart;
+    else
+    {
+        R->LowPart = A.LowPart - B.LowPart;
+        R->HighPart --;
+    }
+}
+
+#ifdef _M_X64
+// see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/twchhe95(en-us,vs.80).aspx for __rdtsc
+unsigned __int64 __rdtsc(void);
+void BeginCountRdtsc(LARGE_INTEGER * pbeginTime64)
+{
+ //   printf("rdtsc = %I64x\n",__rdtsc());
+   pbeginTime64->QuadPart=__rdtsc();
+}
+
+LARGE_INTEGER GetResRdtsc(LARGE_INTEGER beginTime64,BOOL fComputeTimeQueryPerf)
+{
+    LARGE_INTEGER LIres;
+    unsigned _int64 res=__rdtsc()-((unsigned _int64)(beginTime64.QuadPart));
+    LIres.QuadPart=res;
+   // printf("rdtsc = %I64x\n",__rdtsc());
+    return LIres;
+}
+#else
+#ifdef _M_IX86
+void myGetRDTSC32(LARGE_INTEGER * pbeginTime64)
+{
+    DWORD dwEdx,dwEax;
+    _asm
+    {
+        rdtsc
+        mov dwEax,eax
+        mov dwEdx,edx
+    }
+    pbeginTime64->LowPart=dwEax;
+    pbeginTime64->HighPart=dwEdx;
+}
+
+void BeginCountRdtsc(LARGE_INTEGER * pbeginTime64)
+{
+    myGetRDTSC32(pbeginTime64);
+}
+
+LARGE_INTEGER GetResRdtsc(LARGE_INTEGER beginTime64,BOOL fComputeTimeQueryPerf)
+{
+    LARGE_INTEGER LIres,endTime64;
+    myGetRDTSC32(&endTime64);
+
+    LIres.LowPart=LIres.HighPart=0;
+    MyDoMinus64(&LIres,endTime64,beginTime64);
+    return LIres;
+}
+#else
+void myGetRDTSC32(LARGE_INTEGER * pbeginTime64)
+{
+}
+
+void BeginCountRdtsc(LARGE_INTEGER * pbeginTime64)
+{
+}
+
+LARGE_INTEGER GetResRdtsc(LARGE_INTEGER beginTime64,BOOL fComputeTimeQueryPerf)
+{
+    LARGE_INTEGER lr;
+    lr.QuadPart=0;
+    return lr;
+}
+#endif
+#endif
+
+void BeginCountPerfCounter(LARGE_INTEGER * pbeginTime64,BOOL fComputeTimeQueryPerf)
+{
+    if ((!fComputeTimeQueryPerf) || (!QueryPerformanceCounter(pbeginTime64)))
+    {
+        pbeginTime64->LowPart = GetTickCount();
+        pbeginTime64->HighPart = 0;
+    }
+}
+
+DWORD GetMsecSincePerfCounter(LARGE_INTEGER beginTime64,BOOL fComputeTimeQueryPerf)
+{
+    LARGE_INTEGER endTime64,ticksPerSecond,ticks;
+    DWORDLONG ticksShifted,tickSecShifted;
+    DWORD dwLog=16+0;
+    DWORD dwRet;
+    if ((!fComputeTimeQueryPerf) || (!QueryPerformanceCounter(&endTime64)))
+        dwRet = (GetTickCount() - beginTime64.LowPart)*1;
+    else
+    {
+        MyDoMinus64(&ticks,endTime64,beginTime64);
+        QueryPerformanceFrequency(&ticksPerSecond);
+
+
+        {
+            ticksShifted = Int64ShrlMod32(*(DWORDLONG*)&ticks,dwLog);
+            tickSecShifted = Int64ShrlMod32(*(DWORDLONG*)&ticksPerSecond,dwLog);
+
+        }
+
+        dwRet = (DWORD)((((DWORD)ticksShifted)*1000)/(DWORD)(tickSecShifted));
+        dwRet *=1;
+    }
+    return dwRet;
+}
+
+int ReadFileMemory(const char* filename,long* plFileSize,unsigned char** pFilePtr)
+{
+    FILE* stream;
+    unsigned char* ptr;
+    int retVal=1;
+    stream=fopen(filename, "rb");
+    if (stream==NULL)
+        return 0;
+
+    fseek(stream,0,SEEK_END);
+
+    *plFileSize=ftell(stream);
+    fseek(stream,0,SEEK_SET);
+    ptr=malloc((*plFileSize)+1);
+    if (ptr==NULL)
+        retVal=0;
+    else
+    {
+        if (fread(ptr, 1, *plFileSize,stream) != (*plFileSize))
+            retVal=0;
+    }
+    fclose(stream);
+    *pFilePtr=ptr;
+    return retVal;
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+    int BlockSizeCompress=0x8000;
+    int BlockSizeUncompress=0x8000;
+    int cprLevel=Z_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION ;
+    long lFileSize;
+    unsigned char* FilePtr;
+    long lBufferSizeCpr;
+    long lBufferSizeUncpr;
+    long lCompressedSize=0;
+    unsigned char* CprPtr;
+    unsigned char* UncprPtr;
+    long lSizeCpr,lSizeUncpr;
+    DWORD dwGetTick,dwMsecQP;
+    LARGE_INTEGER li_qp,li_rdtsc,dwResRdtsc;
+
+    if (argc<=1)
+    {
+        printf("run TestZlib <File> [BlockSizeCompress] [BlockSizeUncompress] [compres. level]\n");
+        return 0;
+    }
+
+    if (ReadFileMemory(argv[1],&lFileSize,&FilePtr)==0)
+    {
+        printf("error reading %s\n",argv[1]);
+        return 1;
+    }
+    else printf("file %s read, %u bytes\n",argv[1],lFileSize);
+
+    if (argc>=3)
+        BlockSizeCompress=atol(argv[2]);
+
+    if (argc>=4)
+        BlockSizeUncompress=atol(argv[3]);
+
+    if (argc>=5)
+        cprLevel=(int)atol(argv[4]);
+
+    lBufferSizeCpr = lFileSize + (lFileSize/0x10) + 0x200;
+    lBufferSizeUncpr = lBufferSizeCpr;
+
+    CprPtr=(unsigned char*)malloc(lBufferSizeCpr + BlockSizeCompress);
+
+    BeginCountPerfCounter(&li_qp,TRUE);
+    dwGetTick=GetTickCount();
+    BeginCountRdtsc(&li_rdtsc);
+    {
+        z_stream zcpr;
+        int ret=Z_OK;
+        long lOrigToDo = lFileSize;
+        long lOrigDone = 0;
+        int step=0;
+        memset(&zcpr,0,sizeof(z_stream));
+        deflateInit(&zcpr,cprLevel);
+
+        zcpr.next_in = FilePtr;
+        zcpr.next_out = CprPtr;
+
+
+        do
+        {
+            long all_read_before = zcpr.total_in;
+            zcpr.avail_in = min(lOrigToDo,BlockSizeCompress);
+            zcpr.avail_out = BlockSizeCompress;
+            ret=deflate(&zcpr,(zcpr.avail_in==lOrigToDo) ? Z_FINISH : Z_SYNC_FLUSH);
+            lOrigDone += (zcpr.total_in-all_read_before);
+            lOrigToDo -= (zcpr.total_in-all_read_before);
+            step++;
+        } while (ret==Z_OK);
+
+        lSizeCpr=zcpr.total_out;
+        deflateEnd(&zcpr);
+        dwGetTick=GetTickCount()-dwGetTick;
+        dwMsecQP=GetMsecSincePerfCounter(li_qp,TRUE);
+        dwResRdtsc=GetResRdtsc(li_rdtsc,TRUE);
+        printf("total compress size = %u, in %u step\n",lSizeCpr,step);
+        printf("time = %u msec = %f sec\n",dwGetTick,dwGetTick/(double)1000.);
+        printf("defcpr time QP = %u msec = %f sec\n",dwMsecQP,dwMsecQP/(double)1000.);
+        printf("defcpr result rdtsc = %I64x\n\n",dwResRdtsc.QuadPart);
+    }
+
+    CprPtr=(unsigned char*)realloc(CprPtr,lSizeCpr);
+    UncprPtr=(unsigned char*)malloc(lBufferSizeUncpr + BlockSizeUncompress);
+
+    BeginCountPerfCounter(&li_qp,TRUE);
+    dwGetTick=GetTickCount();
+    BeginCountRdtsc(&li_rdtsc);
+    {
+        z_stream zcpr;
+        int ret=Z_OK;
+        long lOrigToDo = lSizeCpr;
+        long lOrigDone = 0;
+        int step=0;
+        memset(&zcpr,0,sizeof(z_stream));
+        inflateInit(&zcpr);
+
+        zcpr.next_in = CprPtr;
+        zcpr.next_out = UncprPtr;
+
+
+        do
+        {
+            long all_read_before = zcpr.total_in;
+            zcpr.avail_in = min(lOrigToDo,BlockSizeUncompress);
+            zcpr.avail_out = BlockSizeUncompress;
+            ret=inflate(&zcpr,Z_SYNC_FLUSH);
+            lOrigDone += (zcpr.total_in-all_read_before);
+            lOrigToDo -= (zcpr.total_in-all_read_before);
+            step++;
+        } while (ret==Z_OK);
+
+        lSizeUncpr=zcpr.total_out;
+        inflateEnd(&zcpr);
+        dwGetTick=GetTickCount()-dwGetTick;
+        dwMsecQP=GetMsecSincePerfCounter(li_qp,TRUE);
+        dwResRdtsc=GetResRdtsc(li_rdtsc,TRUE);
+        printf("total uncompress size = %u, in %u step\n",lSizeUncpr,step);
+        printf("time = %u msec = %f sec\n",dwGetTick,dwGetTick/(double)1000.);
+        printf("uncpr  time QP = %u msec = %f sec\n",dwMsecQP,dwMsecQP/(double)1000.);
+        printf("uncpr  result rdtsc = %I64x\n\n",dwResRdtsc.QuadPart);
+    }
+
+    if (lSizeUncpr==lFileSize)
+    {
+        if (memcmp(FilePtr,UncprPtr,lFileSize)==0)
+            printf("compare ok\n");
+
+    }
+
+    return 0;
+}
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ int
 \fBTcl_Stat\fR(\fIpath\fR, \fIstatPtr\fR)
 .SH ARGUMENTS
 .AS "struct stat" *statPtr out
-.AP char *path in
+.AP "const char" *path in
 Native name of the file to check the attributes of.
 .AP int mode in
 Mask consisting of one or more of \fBR_OK\fR, \fBW_OK\fR, \fBX_OK\fR and
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 .so man.macros
 .BS
 .SH NAME
-Tcl_GetReturnOptions, Tcl_SetReturnOptions, Tcl_AddErrorInfo, Tcl_AppendObjToErrorInfo, Tcl_AddObjErrorInfo, Tcl_SetObjErrorCode, Tcl_SetErrorCode, Tcl_SetErrorLine, Tcl_GetErrorLine, Tcl_PosixError, Tcl_LogCommandInfo \- retrieve or record information about errors and other return options
+Tcl_GetReturnOptions, Tcl_SetReturnOptions, Tcl_AddErrorInfo, Tcl_AppendObjToErrorInfo, Tcl_AddObjErrorInfo, Tcl_SetObjErrorCode, Tcl_SetErrorCode, Tcl_SetErrorCodeVA, Tcl_SetErrorLine, Tcl_GetErrorLine, Tcl_PosixError, Tcl_LogCommandInfo \- retrieve or record information about errors and other return options
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf
 \fB#include <tcl.h>\fR
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ int
 .sp
 \fBTcl_SetErrorCode\fR(\fIinterp, element, element, ... \fB(char *) NULL\fR)
 .sp
+\fBTcl_SetErrorCodeVA\fR(\fIinterp, argList\fR)
+.sp
 \fBTcl_GetErrorLine\fR(\fIinterp\fR)
 .sp
 \fBTcl_SetErrorLine\fR(\fIinterp, lineNum\fR)
@@ -47,7 +49,7 @@ Interpreter in which to record information.
 The code returned from script evaluation.
 .AP Tcl_Obj *options
 A dictionary of return options.
-.AP char *message in
+.AP "const char" *message in
 For \fBTcl_AddErrorInfo\fR,
 this is a conventional C string to append to the \fB\-errorinfo\fR return option.
 For \fBTcl_AddObjErrorInfo\fR,
@@ -58,13 +60,13 @@ unless \fIlength\fR is negative.
 .AP Tcl_Obj *objPtr in
 A message to be appended to the \fB\-errorinfo\fR return option
 in the form of a Tcl_Obj value.
-.AP size_t length in
+.AP int length in
 The number of bytes to copy from \fImessage\fR when
 appending to the \fB\-errorinfo\fR return option.
-If TCL_INDEX_NONE, all bytes up to the first null byte are used.
+If negative, all bytes up to the first null byte are used.
 .AP Tcl_Obj *errorObjPtr in
 The \fB\-errorcode\fR return option will be set to this value.
-.AP char *element in
+.AP "const char" *element in
 String to record as one element of the \fB\-errorcode\fR return option.
 Last \fIelement\fR argument must be NULL.
 .AP va_list argList in
@@ -242,6 +244,12 @@ The procedure \fBTcl_SetErrorCode\fR is also used to set the
 \fB\-errorcode\fR return option. However, it takes one or more strings to
 record instead of a value. Otherwise, it is similar to
 \fBTcl_SetObjErrorCode\fR in behavior.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_SetErrorCodeVA\fR is the same as \fBTcl_SetErrorCode\fR except that
+instead of taking a variable number of arguments it takes an argument list.
+Interfaces using argument lists have been found to be nonportable in practice.
+This function is deprecated and will be removed in Tcl 9.0.
+
 .PP
 The procedure \fBTcl_GetErrorLine\fR is used to read the integer value
 of the \fB\-errorline\fR return option without the overhead of a full
@@ -300,6 +308,22 @@ The global variables \fBerrorInfo\fR and
 \fBerrorCode\fR are not modified by \fBTcl_ResetResult\fR
 so they continue to hold a record of information about the
 most recent error seen in an interpreter.
+.SH "REFERENCE COUNT MANAGEMENT"
+.PP
+The result of \fBTcl_GetReturnOptions\fR will have at least one
+reference to it from the Tcl interpreter. If not using it immediately,
+you should use \fBTcl_IncrRefCount\fR to add your own reference.
+.PP
+The \fIoptions\fR argument to \fBTcl_SetReturnOptions\fR will have a
+reference added by the Tcl interpreter; it may safely be called with a
+zero-reference value.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_AppendObjToErrorInfo\fR only reads its \fIobjPtr\fR argument;
+it does not modify its reference count at all.
+.PP
+The \fIerrorObjPtr\fR argument to \fBTcl_SetObjErrorCode\fR will have a
+reference added by the Tcl interpreter; it may safely be called with a
+zero-reference value.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 Tcl_DecrRefCount(3), Tcl_IncrRefCount(3), Tcl_Interp(3), Tcl_ResetResult(3),
 Tcl_SetErrno(3), errorCode(n), errorInfo(n)
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 .so man.macros
 .BS
 .SH NAME
-Tcl_Alloc, Tcl_Free, Tcl_Realloc, Tcl_AttemptAlloc, Tcl_AttemptRealloc \- allocate or free heap memory
+Tcl_Alloc, Tcl_Free, Tcl_Realloc, Tcl_AttemptAlloc, Tcl_AttemptRealloc, Tcl_GetMemoryInfo, ckalloc, ckfree, ckrealloc, attemptckalloc, attemptckrealloc \- allocate or free heap memory
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf
 \fB#include <tcl.h>\fR
@@ -19,20 +19,40 @@ char *
 void
 \fBTcl_Free\fR(\fIptr\fR)
 .sp
-void *
+char *
 \fBTcl_Realloc\fR(\fIptr, size\fR)
 .sp
-void *
+char *
 \fBTcl_AttemptAlloc\fR(\fIsize\fR)
 .sp
-void *
+char *
 \fBTcl_AttemptRealloc\fR(\fIptr, size\fR)
+.sp
+void
+\fBTcl_GetMemoryInfo\fR(\fIdsPtr\fR)
+.sp
+char *
+\fBckalloc\fR(\fIsize\fR)
+.sp
+void
+\fBckfree\fR(\fIptr\fR)
+.sp
+char *
+\fBckrealloc\fR(\fIptr, size\fR)
+.sp
+char *
+\fBattemptckalloc\fR(\fIsize\fR)
+.sp
+char *
+\fBattemptckrealloc\fR(\fIptr, size\fR)
 .SH ARGUMENTS
 .AS char *size
 .AP "unsigned int" size in
 Size in bytes of the memory block to allocate.
 .AP char *ptr in
 Pointer to memory block to free or realloc.
+.AP Tcl_DString *dsPtr in
+Initialized DString pointer.
 .BE

 .SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -64,10 +84,18 @@ allocation fails, these functions will return NULL.  Note that on some
 platforms, but not all, attempting to allocate a zero-sized block of
 memory will also cause these functions to return NULL.
 .PP
-When a module or Tcl itself is compiled with \fBTCL_MEM_DEBUG\fR defined,
-the procedures \fBTcl_Alloc\fR, \fBTcl_Free\fR, \fBTcl_Realloc\fR,
-\fBTcl_AttemptAlloc\fR, and \fBTcl_AttempRealloc\fR are implemented
-as macros, redefined to be special debugging versions of these procedures.
+The procedures \fBckalloc\fR, \fBckfree\fR, \fBckrealloc\fR,
+\fBattemptckalloc\fR, and \fBattemptckrealloc\fR are implemented
+as macros.  Normally, they are synonyms for the corresponding
+procedures documented on this page.  When Tcl and all modules
+calling Tcl are compiled with \fBTCL_MEM_DEBUG\fR defined, however,
+these macros are redefined to be special debugging versions
+of these procedures.  To support Tcl's memory debugging within a
+module, use the macros rather than direct calls to \fBTcl_Alloc\fR, etc.
+
+\fBTcl_GetMemoryInfo\fR appends a list-of-lists of memory stats to the
+provided DString. This function cannot be used in stub-enabled extensions,
+and it is only available if Tcl is compiled with the threaded memory allocator.

 .SH KEYWORDS
 alloc, allocation, free, malloc, memory, realloc, TCL_MEM_DEBUG
@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ or \fBTCL_RETURN\fR, then Tcl normally converts this into a \fBTCL_ERROR\fR
 return with an appropriate message.  The particular script
 evaluation procedures of Tcl that act in the manner are
 \fBTcl_EvalObjEx\fR, \fBTcl_EvalObjv\fR, \fBTcl_Eval\fR, \fBTcl_EvalEx\fR,
-\fBTcl_GlobalEval\fR, \fBTcl_GlobalEvalObj\fR and \fBTcl_VarEval\fR.
+\fBTcl_GlobalEval\fR, \fBTcl_GlobalEvalObj\fR, \fBTcl_VarEval\fR and
+\fBTcl_VarEvalVA\fR.
 .PP
 However, if \fBTcl_AllowExceptions\fR is invoked immediately before
 calling one of those a procedures, then arbitrary completion
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Tcl_GetAssocData, Tcl_SetAssocData, Tcl_DeleteAssocData \- manage associations o
 .nf
 \fB#include <tcl.h>\fR
 .sp
-void *
+ClientData
 \fBTcl_GetAssocData\fR(\fIinterp, key, delProcPtr\fR)
 .sp
 \fBTcl_SetAssocData\fR(\fIinterp, key, delProc, clientData\fR)
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Procedure to call when \fIinterp\fR is deleted.
 .AP Tcl_InterpDeleteProc **delProcPtr in
 Pointer to location in which to store address of current deletion procedure
 for association.  Ignored if NULL.
-.AP void *clientData in
+.AP ClientData clientData in
 Arbitrary one-word value associated with the given key in this
 interpreter.  This data is owned by the caller.
 .BE
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ the type \fBTcl_InterpDeleteProc\fR:
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef void \fBTcl_InterpDeleteProc\fR(
-        void *\fIclientData\fR,
+        ClientData \fIclientData\fR,
        Tcl_Interp *\fIinterp\fR);
 .CE
 .PP
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 .so man.macros
 .BS
 .SH NAME
-Tcl_AsyncCreate, Tcl_AsyncMark, Tcl_AsyncInvoke, Tcl_AsyncDelete, Tcl_AsyncReady \- handle asynchronous events
+Tcl_AsyncCreate, Tcl_AsyncMark, Tcl_AsyncMarkFromSignal, Tcl_AsyncInvoke, Tcl_AsyncDelete, Tcl_AsyncReady \- handle asynchronous events
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf
 \fB#include <tcl.h>\fR
@@ -17,11 +17,16 @@ Tcl_AsyncCreate, Tcl_AsyncMark, Tcl_AsyncInvoke, Tcl_AsyncDelete, Tcl_AsyncReady
 Tcl_AsyncHandler
 \fBTcl_AsyncCreate\fR(\fIproc, clientData\fR)
 .sp
+void
 \fBTcl_AsyncMark\fR(\fIasync\fR)
 .sp
 int
+\fBTcl_AsyncMarkFromSignal\fR(\fIasync\fR, \fIsigNumber\fR)
+.sp
+int
 \fBTcl_AsyncInvoke\fR(\fIinterp, code\fR)
 .sp
+void
 \fBTcl_AsyncDelete\fR(\fIasync\fR)
 .sp
 int
@@ -30,10 +35,12 @@ int
 .AS Tcl_AsyncHandler clientData
 .AP Tcl_AsyncProc *proc in
 Procedure to invoke to handle an asynchronous event.
-.AP void *clientData in
+.AP ClientData clientData in
 One-word value to pass to \fIproc\fR.
 .AP Tcl_AsyncHandler async in
 Token for asynchronous event handler.
+.AP int sigNumber in
+POSIX signal number, when used in a signal context.
 .AP Tcl_Interp *interp in
 Tcl interpreter in which command was being evaluated when handler was
 invoked, or NULL if handler was invoked when there was no interpreter
@@ -60,10 +67,11 @@ to a clean state, such as after the current Tcl command completes.
 .PP
 \fBTcl_AsyncCreate\fR, \fBTcl_AsyncDelete\fR, and \fBTcl_AsyncReady\fR
 are thread sensitive.  They access and/or set a thread-specific data
-structure in the event of a core built with \fI\-\-enable\-threads\fR.  The token
-created by \fBTcl_AsyncCreate\fR contains the needed thread information it
-was called from so that calling \fBTcl_AsyncMark\fR(\fItoken\fR) will only yield
-the origin thread into the asynchronous handler.
+structure in the event of a core built with \fI\-\-enable\-threads\fR.
+The token created by \fBTcl_AsyncCreate\fR contains the needed thread
+information it was called from so that calling \fBTcl_AsyncMarkFromSignal\fR
+or \fBTcl_AsyncMark\fR with this token will only yield the origin
+thread into the asynchronous handler.
 .PP
 \fBTcl_AsyncCreate\fR creates an asynchronous handler and returns
 a token for it.
@@ -72,19 +80,22 @@ any occurrences of the asynchronous event that it is intended
 to handle (it is not safe to create a handler at the time of
 an event).
 When an asynchronous event occurs the code that detects the event
-(such as a signal handler) should call \fBTcl_AsyncMark\fR with the
-token for the handler.
-\fBTcl_AsyncMark\fR will mark the handler as ready to execute, but it
-will not invoke the handler immediately.
-Tcl will call the \fIproc\fR associated with the handler later, when
-the world is in a safe state, and \fIproc\fR can then carry out
-the actions associated with the asynchronous event.
+(such as a POSIX signal handler) should call \fBTcl_AsyncMarkFromSignal\fR
+with the token for the handler and the POSIX signal number. The
+return value of this function is true, when the handler will be
+marked, false otherwise.
+For non-signal contexts, \fBTcl_AsyncMark\fR serves the same purpose.
+\fBTcl_AsyncMarkFromSignal\fR and \fBTcl_AsyncMark\fR will mark
+the handler as ready to execute, but will not invoke the handler
+immediately. Tcl will call the \fIproc\fR associated with the
+handler later, when the world is in a safe state, and \fIproc\fR
+can then carry out the actions associated with the asynchronous event.
 \fIProc\fR should have arguments and result that match the
 type \fBTcl_AsyncProc\fR:
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef int \fBTcl_AsyncProc\fR(
-        void *\fIclientData\fR,
+        ClientData \fIclientData\fR,
        Tcl_Interp *\fIinterp\fR,
        int \fIcode\fR);
 .CE
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+'\"
+'\" Copyright (c) 1989-1993 The Regents of the University of California.
+'\" Copyright (c) 1994-1996 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
+'\"
+'\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
+'\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
+'\"
+.TH Tcl_Backslash 3 "8.1" Tcl "Tcl Library Procedures"
+.so man.macros
+.BS
+.SH NAME
+Tcl_Backslash \- parse a backslash sequence
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.nf
+\fB#include <tcl.h>\fR
+.sp
+char
+\fBTcl_Backslash\fR(\fIsrc, countPtr\fR)
+.SH ARGUMENTS
+.AS char *countPtr out
+.AP "const char" *src in
+Pointer to a string starting with a backslash.
+.AP int *countPtr out
+If \fIcountPtr\fR is not NULL, \fI*countPtr\fR gets filled
+in with number of characters in the backslash sequence, including
+the backslash character.
+.BE
+
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.PP
+The use of \fBTcl_Backslash\fR is deprecated in favor of
+\fBTcl_UtfBackslash\fR.
+.PP
+This is a utility procedure provided for backwards compatibility with
+non-internationalized Tcl extensions.  It parses a backslash sequence and
+returns the low byte of the Unicode character corresponding to the sequence.
+\fBTcl_Backslash\fR modifies \fI*countPtr\fR to contain the number of
+characters in the backslash sequence.
+.PP
+See the Tcl manual entry for information on the valid backslash sequences.
+All of the sequences described in the Tcl manual entry are supported by
+\fBTcl_Backslash\fR.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+Tcl(n), Tcl_UtfBackslash(3)
+
+.SH KEYWORDS
+backslash, parse
@@ -88,6 +88,18 @@ will lead to a \fBTCL_OK\fR return (and the boolean value 1),
 while the same value passed to \fBTcl_GetBoolean\fR will lead to
 a \fBTCL_ERROR\fR return.

+.SH "REFERENCE COUNT MANAGEMENT"
+.PP
+\fBTcl_NewBooleanObj\fR always returns a zero-reference object, much
+like \fBTcl_NewObj\fR.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_SetBooleanObj\fR does not modify the reference count of its
+\fIobjPtr\fR argument, but does require that the object be unshared.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_GetBooleanFromObj\fR does not modify the reference count of its
+\fIobjPtr\fR argument; it only reads. Note however that this function
+may set the interpreter result; if that is the only place that
+is holding a reference to the object, it will be deleted.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 Tcl_NewObj, Tcl_IsShared, Tcl_GetBoolean

@@ -29,16 +29,17 @@ unsigned char *
 .AP "const unsigned char" *bytes in
 The array of bytes used to initialize or set a byte-array value. May be NULL
 even if \fIlength\fR is non-zero.
-.AP size_t length in
-The length of the array of bytes.
+.AP int length in
+The length of the array of bytes.  It must be >= 0.
 .AP Tcl_Obj *objPtr in/out
 For \fBTcl_SetByteArrayObj\fR, this points to the value to be converted to
 byte-array type.  For \fBTcl_GetByteArrayFromObj\fR and
 \fBTcl_SetByteArrayLength\fR, this points to the value from which to get
 the byte-array value; if \fIobjPtr\fR does not already point to a byte-array
 value, it will be converted to one.
-.AP int *lengthPtr out
-If non-NULL, filled with the length of the array of bytes in the value.
+.AP size_t | int *lengthPtr out
+Filled with the length of the array of bytes in the value.
+May be (int *)NULL when not used.
 .BE

 .SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -84,6 +85,18 @@ newly allocated bytes at the end of the array have arbitrary values.  If
 the length of array is reduced to the new length.  The return value is a
 pointer to the value's new array of bytes.

+.SH "REFERENCE COUNT MANAGEMENT"
+.PP
+\fBTcl_NewByteArrayObj\fR always returns a zero-reference object, much
+like \fBTcl_NewObj\fR.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_SetByteArrayObj\fR and \fBTcl_SetByteArrayLength\fR do not modify the
+reference count of their \fIobjPtr\fR arguments, but do require that the
+object be unshared.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_GetByteArrayFromObj\fR does not modify the reference count of its
+\fIobjPtr\fR argument; it only reads.
+
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 Tcl_GetStringFromObj, Tcl_NewObj, Tcl_IncrRefCount, Tcl_DecrRefCount

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Tcl_CallWhenDeleted, Tcl_DontCallWhenDeleted \- Arrange for callback when interp
 Interpreter with which to associated callback.
 .AP Tcl_InterpDeleteProc *proc in
 Procedure to call when \fIinterp\fR is deleted.
-.AP void *clientData in
+.AP ClientData clientData in
 Arbitrary one-word value to pass to \fIproc\fR.
 .BE
 .SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ type \fBTcl_InterpDeleteProc\fR:
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef void \fBTcl_InterpDeleteProc\fR(
-        void *\fIclientData\fR,
+        ClientData \fIclientData\fR,
        Tcl_Interp *\fIinterp\fR);
 .CE
 .PP
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ ORed combination of flag bits that specify additional options.
 For \fBTcl_CancelEval\fR, only \fBTCL_CANCEL_UNWIND\fR is currently
 supported.  For \fBTcl_Canceled\fR, only \fBTCL_LEAVE_ERR_MSG\fR and
 \fBTCL_CANCEL_UNWIND\fR are currently supported.
-.AP void *clientData in
+.AP ClientData clientData in
 Currently reserved for future use.
 It should be set to NULL.
 .BE
@@ -67,6 +67,14 @@ other procedures.  If an error is returned and this bit is set in
 result, where it can be retrieved with \fBTcl_GetObjResult\fR or
 \fBTcl_GetStringResult\fR.  If this flag bit is not set then no error
 message is left and the interpreter's result will not be modified.
+.SH "REFERENCE COUNT MANAGEMENT"
+.PP
+\fBTcl_CancelEval\fR always decrements the reference count of its
+\fIresultObjPtr\fR argument (if that is non-NULL). It is expected to
+be usually called with an object with zero reference count. If the
+object is shared with some other location (including the Tcl
+evaluation stack) it should have its reference count incremented
+before calling this function.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 interp(n), Tcl_Eval(3),
 TIP 285
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Tcl_Channel
 Interpreter for error reporting.
 .AP "const Tcl_ChannelType" *typePtr in
 The new channel I/O procedures to use for \fIchannel\fR.
-.AP void *clientData in
+.AP ClientData clientData in
 Arbitrary one-word value to pass to channel I/O procedures.
 .AP int mask in
 Conditions under which \fIchannel\fR will be used: OR-ed combination of
@@ -49,8 +49,11 @@ I/O channels.  Examples include compression and encryption modules.  These
 functions transparently stack and unstack a new channel on top of an
 existing one.  Any number of channels can be stacked together.
 .PP
-The \fBTcl_ChannelType\fR version currently supported is
-\fBTCL_CHANNEL_VERSION_5\fR.  See \fBTcl_CreateChannel\fR for details.
+The implementation of the Tcl channel code was rewritten in 8.3.2 to
+correct some problems with the previous implementation with regard to
+stacked channels.  Anyone using stacked channels or creating stacked
+channel drivers should update to the new \fBTCL_CHANNEL_VERSION_2\fR
+\fBTcl_ChannelType\fR structure.  See \fBTcl_CreateChannel\fR for details.
 .PP
 \fBTcl_StackChannel\fR stacks a new \fIchannel\fR on an existing channel
 with the same name that was registered for \fIchannel\fR by
@@ -41,12 +41,12 @@ Tcl_Object
 int
 \fBTcl_ObjectDeleted\fR(\fIobject\fR)
 .sp
-void *
+ClientData
 \fBTcl_ObjectGetMetadata\fR(\fIobject, metaTypePtr\fR)
 .sp
 \fBTcl_ObjectSetMetadata\fR(\fIobject, metaTypePtr, metadata\fR)
 .sp
-void *
+ClientData
 \fBTcl_ClassGetMetadata\fR(\fIclass, metaTypePtr\fR)
 .sp
 \fBTcl_ClassSetMetadata\fR(\fIclass, metaTypePtr, metadata\fR)
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ Tcl_ObjectMapMethodNameProc
 .sp
 \fBTcl_ObjectSetMethodNameMapper\fR(\fIobject\fR, \fImethodNameMapper\fR)
 .SH ARGUMENTS
-.AS void *metadata in/out
+.AS ClientData metadata in/out
 .AP Tcl_Interp *interp in/out
 Interpreter providing the context for looking up or creating an object, and
 into whose result error messages will be written on failure.
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ error messages even when complicated calling patterns are used (e.g., via the
 .AP Tcl_ObjectMetadataType *metaTypePtr in
 The type of \fImetadata\fR being set with \fBTcl_ClassSetMetadata\fR or
 retrieved with \fBTcl_ClassGetMetadata\fR.
-.AP void *metadata in
+.AP ClientData metadata in
 An item of metadata to attach to the class, or NULL to remove the metadata
 associated with a particular \fImetaTypePtr\fR.
 .AP "Tcl_ObjectMapMethodNameProc" "methodNameMapper" in
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ a class or object.
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef void \fBTcl_ObjectMetadataDeleteProc\fR(
-        void *\fImetadata\fR);
+        ClientData \fImetadata\fR);
 .CE
 .PP
 The \fImetadata\fR argument gives the address of the metadata to be
@@ -198,8 +198,8 @@ associated with a class or object.
 .CS
 typedef int \fBTcl_CloneProc\fR(
        Tcl_Interp *\fIinterp\fR,
-        void *\fIsrcMetadata\fR,
-        void **\fIdstMetadataPtr\fR);
+        ClientData \fIsrcMetadata\fR,
+        ClientData *\fIdstMetadataPtr\fR);
 .CE
 .PP
 The \fIinterp\fR argument gives a place to write an error message when the
@@ -241,6 +241,29 @@ NULL if the whole chain is to be processed (the argument itself is never
 NULL); this variable may be updated by the callback. The \fImethodNameObj\fR
 parameter gives an unshared object containing the name of the method being
 invoked, as provided by the user; this object may be updated by the callback.
+.SH "REFERENCE COUNT MANAGEMENT"
+.PP
+The \fIobjPtr\fR argument to \fBTcl_GetObjectFromObj\fR will not have its
+reference count manipulated, but this function may modify the interpreter
+result (to report any error) so interpreter results should not be fed into
+this without an additional reference being used.
+.PP
+The result of \fBTcl_GetObjectName\fR is a value that is owned by the object
+that is regenerated when this function is first called after the object is
+renamed.  If the value is to be retained at all, the caller should increment
+the reference count.
+.PP
+The first \fIobjc\fR values in the \fIobjv\fR argument to
+\fBTcl_NewObjectInstance\fR are the arguments to pass to the constructor. They
+must have a reference count of at least 1, and may have their reference counts
+changed during the running of the constructor. Constructors may modify the
+interpreter result, which consequently means that interpreter results should
+not be used as arguments without an additional reference being taken.
+.PP
+The \fImethodNameObj\fR argument to a Tcl_ObjectMapMethodNameProc
+implementation will be a value with a reference count of at least 1 where at
+least one reference is not held by the interpreter result. It is expected that
+method name mappers will only read their \fImethodNameObj\fR arguments.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 Method(3), oo::class(n), oo::copy(n), oo::define(n), oo::object(n)
 .SH KEYWORDS
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 .so man.macros
 .BS
 .SH NAME
-Tcl_IsSafe, Tcl_MakeSafe, Tcl_CreateChild, Tcl_GetChild, Tcl_GetParent, Tcl_GetInterpPath, Tcl_CreateAlias, Tcl_CreateAliasObj, Tcl_GetAlias, Tcl_GetAliasObj, Tcl_ExposeCommand, Tcl_HideCommand \- manage multiple Tcl interpreters, aliases and hidden commands
+Tcl_IsSafe, Tcl_MakeSafe, Tcl_CreateChild, Tcl_CreateSlave, Tcl_GetChild, Tcl_GetSlave, Tcl_GetParent, Tcl_GetMaster, Tcl_GetInterpPath, Tcl_CreateAlias, Tcl_CreateAliasObj, Tcl_GetAlias, Tcl_GetAliasObj, Tcl_ExposeCommand, Tcl_HideCommand \- manage multiple Tcl interpreters, aliases and hidden commands
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf
 \fB#include <tcl.h>\fR
@@ -23,9 +23,18 @@ Tcl_Interp *
 \fBTcl_CreateChild\fR(\fIinterp, name, isSafe\fR)
 .sp
 Tcl_Interp *
+\fBTcl_CreateSlave\fR(\fIinterp, name, isSafe\fR)
+.sp
+Tcl_Interp *
+\fBTcl_GetSlave\fR(\fIinterp, name\fR)
+.sp
+Tcl_Interp *
 \fBTcl_GetChild\fR(\fIinterp, name\fR)
 .sp
 Tcl_Interp *
+\fBTcl_GetMaster\fR(\fIinterp\fR)
+.sp
+Tcl_Interp *
 \fBTcl_GetParent\fR(\fIinterp\fR)
 .sp
 int
@@ -133,6 +142,8 @@ child in which Tcl code has access only to set of Tcl commands defined as
 see the manual entry for the Tcl \fBinterp\fR command for details.
 If the creation of the new child interpreter failed, \fBNULL\fR is returned.
 .PP
+\fBTcl_CreateSlave\fR is a synonym for \fBTcl_CreateChild\fR.
+.PP
 \fBTcl_IsSafe\fR returns \fB1\fR if \fIinterp\fR is
 .QW safe
 (was created with the \fBTCL_SAFE_INTERPRETER\fR flag specified),
@@ -154,10 +165,14 @@ may be a better choice, since it creates interpreters in a known-safe state.
 \fIinterp\fR. The child interpreter is identified by \fIname\fR.
 If no such child interpreter exists, \fBNULL\fR is returned.
 .PP
+\fBTcl_GetSlave\fR is a synonym for \fBTcl_GetChild\fR.
+.PP
 \fBTcl_GetParent\fR returns a pointer to the parent interpreter of
 \fIinterp\fR. If \fIinterp\fR has no parent (it is a
 top-level interpreter) then \fBNULL\fR is returned.
 .PP
+\fBTcl_GetMaster\fR is a synonym for \fBTcl_GetParent\fR.
+.PP
 \fBTcl_GetInterpPath\fR stores in the result of \fIinterp\fR
 the relative path between \fIinterp\fR and \fIchildInterp\fR;
 \fIchildInterp\fR must be a child of \fIinterp\fR. If the computation
@@ -228,8 +243,16 @@ any script evaluation mechanism will fail.
 .PP
 For a description of the Tcl interface to multiple interpreters, see
 \fIinterp(n)\fR.
+.SH "REFERENCE COUNT MANAGEMENT"
+.PP
+\fBTcl_CreateAliasObj\fR increments the reference counts of the values
+in its \fIobjv\fR argument. (That reference lasts the same length of
+time as the owning alias.)
+.PP
+\fBTcl_GetAliasObj\fR returns (via its \fIobjvPtr\fR argument) a
+pointer to values that it holds a reference to.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
-interp
+interp(n)

 .SH KEYWORDS
 alias, command, exposed commands, hidden commands, interpreter, invoke,
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 .BS
 '\" Note:  do not modify the .SH NAME line immediately below!
 .SH NAME
-Tcl_CreateChannel, Tcl_GetChannelInstanceData, Tcl_GetChannelType, Tcl_GetChannelName, Tcl_GetChannelHandle, Tcl_GetChannelMode, Tcl_GetChannelBufferSize, Tcl_SetChannelBufferSize, Tcl_NotifyChannel, Tcl_BadChannelOption, Tcl_ChannelName, Tcl_ChannelVersion, Tcl_ChannelBlockModeProc, Tcl_ChannelClose2Proc, Tcl_ChannelInputProc, Tcl_ChannelOutputProc, Tcl_ChannelWideSeekProc, Tcl_ChannelTruncateProc, Tcl_ChannelSetOptionProc, Tcl_ChannelGetOptionProc, Tcl_ChannelWatchProc, Tcl_ChannelGetHandleProc, Tcl_ChannelFlushProc, Tcl_ChannelHandlerProc, Tcl_ChannelThreadActionProc, Tcl_IsChannelShared, Tcl_IsChannelRegistered, Tcl_CutChannel, Tcl_SpliceChannel, Tcl_IsChannelExisting, Tcl_ClearChannelHandlers, Tcl_GetChannelThread, Tcl_ChannelBuffered \- procedures for creating and manipulating channels
+Tcl_CreateChannel, Tcl_GetChannelInstanceData, Tcl_GetChannelType, Tcl_GetChannelName, Tcl_GetChannelHandle, Tcl_GetChannelMode, Tcl_GetChannelBufferSize, Tcl_SetChannelBufferSize, Tcl_NotifyChannel, Tcl_BadChannelOption, Tcl_ChannelName, Tcl_ChannelVersion, Tcl_ChannelBlockModeProc, Tcl_ChannelCloseProc, Tcl_ChannelClose2Proc, Tcl_ChannelInputProc, Tcl_ChannelOutputProc, Tcl_ChannelSeekProc, Tcl_ChannelWideSeekProc, Tcl_ChannelTruncateProc, Tcl_ChannelSetOptionProc, Tcl_ChannelGetOptionProc, Tcl_ChannelWatchProc, Tcl_ChannelGetHandleProc, Tcl_ChannelFlushProc, Tcl_ChannelHandlerProc, Tcl_ChannelThreadActionProc, Tcl_IsChannelShared, Tcl_IsChannelRegistered, Tcl_CutChannel, Tcl_SpliceChannel, Tcl_IsChannelExisting, Tcl_ClearChannelHandlers, Tcl_GetChannelThread, Tcl_ChannelBuffered \- procedures for creating and manipulating channels
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf
 \fB#include <tcl.h>\fR
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Tcl_CreateChannel, Tcl_GetChannelInstanceData, Tcl_GetChannelType, Tcl_GetChanne
 Tcl_Channel
 \fBTcl_CreateChannel\fR(\fItypePtr, channelName, instanceData, mask\fR)
 .sp
-void *
+ClientData
 \fBTcl_GetChannelInstanceData\fR(\fIchannel\fR)
 .sp
 const Tcl_ChannelType *
@@ -75,6 +75,9 @@ Tcl_ChannelTypeVersion
 Tcl_DriverBlockModeProc *
 \fBTcl_ChannelBlockModeProc\fR(\fItypePtr\fR)
 .sp
+Tcl_DriverCloseProc *
+\fBTcl_ChannelCloseProc\fR(\fItypePtr\fR)
+.sp
 Tcl_DriverClose2Proc *
 \fBTcl_ChannelClose2Proc\fR(\fItypePtr\fR)
 .sp
@@ -84,6 +87,9 @@ Tcl_DriverInputProc *
 Tcl_DriverOutputProc *
 \fBTcl_ChannelOutputProc\fR(\fItypePtr\fR)
 .sp
+Tcl_DriverSeekProc *
+\fBTcl_ChannelSeekProc\fR(\fItypePtr\fR)
+.sp
 Tcl_DriverWideSeekProc *
 \fBTcl_ChannelWideSeekProc\fR(\fItypePtr\fR)
 .sp
@@ -122,7 +128,7 @@ by any other channel. Can be NULL, in which case the channel is
 created without a name. If the created channel is assigned to one
 of the standard channels (\fBstdin\fR, \fBstdout\fR or \fBstderr\fR),
 the assigned channel name will be the name of the standard channel.
-.AP void *instanceData in
+.AP ClientData instanceData in
 Arbitrary one-word value to be associated with this channel.  This
 value is passed to procedures in \fItypePtr\fR when they are invoked.
 .AP int mask in
@@ -133,7 +139,7 @@ The channel to operate on.
 .AP int direction in
 \fBTCL_READABLE\fR means the input handle is wanted; \fBTCL_WRITABLE\fR
 means the output handle is wanted.
-.AP void **handlePtr out
+.AP ClientData *handlePtr out
 Points to the location where the desired OS-specific handle should be
 stored.
 .AP int size in
@@ -253,7 +259,8 @@ outside this range, \fBTcl_SetChannelBufferSize\fR sets the buffer size to
 the generic layer that the events specified by \fImask\fR have
 occurred on the channel.  Channel drivers are responsible for invoking
 this function whenever the channel handlers need to be called for the
-channel.  See \fBWATCHPROC\fR below for more details.
+channel (or other pending tasks like a write flush should be performed).
+See \fBWATCHPROC\fR below for more details.
 .PP
 \fBTcl_BadChannelOption\fR is called from driver specific
 \fIsetOptionProc\fR or \fIgetOptionProc\fR to generate a complete
@@ -280,13 +287,16 @@ name is registered in the (thread)-global list of all channels (result
 (thread)global list of all channels (of the current thread).
 Application to a channel still registered in some interpreter
 is not allowed.
-Also notifies the driver if
+Also notifies the driver if the \fBTcl_ChannelType\fR version is
+\fBTCL_CHANNEL_VERSION_4\fR (or higher), and
 \fBTcl_DriverThreadActionProc\fR is defined for it.
 .PP
 \fBTcl_SpliceChannel\fR adds the specified \fIchannel\fR to the
 (thread)global list of all channels (of the current thread).
 Application to a channel registered in some interpreter is not allowed.
-Also notifies the driver if \fBTcl_DriverThreadActionProc\fR is defined for it.
+Also notifies the driver if the \fBTcl_ChannelType\fR version is
+\fBTCL_CHANNEL_VERSION_4\fR (or higher), and
+\fBTcl_DriverThreadActionProc\fR is defined for it.
 .PP
 \fBTcl_ClearChannelHandlers\fR removes all channel handlers and event
 scripts associated with the specified \fIchannel\fR, thus shutting
@@ -306,10 +316,10 @@ The \fBTcl_ChannelType\fR structure contains the following fields:
 typedef struct Tcl_ChannelType {
        const char *\fItypeName\fR;
        Tcl_ChannelTypeVersion \fIversion\fR;
-        void *\fIcloseProc\fR; /* Not used any more*/
+        Tcl_DriverCloseProc *\fIcloseProc\fR;
        Tcl_DriverInputProc *\fIinputProc\fR;
        Tcl_DriverOutputProc *\fIoutputProc\fR;
-        void *\fIseekProc\fR; /* Not used any more */
+        Tcl_DriverSeekProc *\fIseekProc\fR;
        Tcl_DriverSetOptionProc *\fIsetOptionProc\fR;
        Tcl_DriverGetOptionProc *\fIgetOptionProc\fR;
        Tcl_DriverWatchProc *\fIwatchProc\fR;
@@ -338,8 +348,9 @@ The user should only use the above structure for \fBTcl_ChannelType\fR
 instantiation.  When referencing fields in a \fBTcl_ChannelType\fR
 structure, the following functions should be used to obtain the values:
 \fBTcl_ChannelName\fR, \fBTcl_ChannelVersion\fR,
-\fBTcl_ChannelBlockModeProc\fR, \fBTcl_ChannelClose2Proc\fR,
-\fBTcl_ChannelInputProc\fR, \fBTcl_ChannelOutputProc\fR,
+\fBTcl_ChannelBlockModeProc\fR, \fBTcl_ChannelCloseProc\fR,
+\fBTcl_ChannelClose2Proc\fR, \fBTcl_ChannelInputProc\fR,
+\fBTcl_ChannelOutputProc\fR, \fBTcl_ChannelSeekProc\fR,
 \fBTcl_ChannelWideSeekProc\fR, \fBTcl_ChannelThreadActionProc\fR,
 \fBTcl_ChannelTruncateProc\fR,
 \fBTcl_ChannelSetOptionProc\fR, \fBTcl_ChannelGetOptionProc\fR,
@@ -362,9 +373,25 @@ a pointer to the string.
 .PP

 The \fIversion\fR field should be set to the version of the structure
-that you require. \fBTCL_CHANNEL_VERSION_5\fR is the minimum supported.
+that you require. \fBTCL_CHANNEL_VERSION_2\fR is the minimum recommended.
+\fBTCL_CHANNEL_VERSION_3\fR must be set to specify the \fIwideSeekProc\fR member.
+\fBTCL_CHANNEL_VERSION_4\fR must be set to specify the \fIthreadActionProc\fR member
+(includes \fIwideSeekProc\fR).
+\fBTCL_CHANNEL_VERSION_5\fR must be set to specify the
+\fItruncateProc\fR members (includes
+\fIwideSeekProc\fR and \fIthreadActionProc\fR).
+If it is not set to any of these, then this
+\fBTcl_ChannelType\fR is assumed to have the original structure.  See
+\fBOLD CHANNEL TYPES\fR for more details.  While Tcl will recognize
+and function with either structures, stacked channels must be of at
+least \fBTCL_CHANNEL_VERSION_2\fR to function correctly.
 .PP
-This value can be retrieved with \fBTcl_ChannelVersion\fR.
+This value can be retrieved with \fBTcl_ChannelVersion\fR, which returns
+one of
+\fBTCL_CHANNEL_VERSION_5\fR,
+\fBTCL_CHANNEL_VERSION_4\fR,
+\fBTCL_CHANNEL_VERSION_3\fR,
+\fBTCL_CHANNEL_VERSION_2\fR or \fBTCL_CHANNEL_VERSION_1\fR.
 .SS BLOCKMODEPROC
 .PP
 The \fIblockModeProc\fR field contains the address of a function called by
@@ -373,7 +400,7 @@ the generic layer to set blocking and nonblocking mode on the device.
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef int \fBTcl_DriverBlockModeProc\fR(
-        void *\fIinstanceData\fR,
+        ClientData \fIinstanceData\fR,
        int \fImode\fR);
 .CE
 .PP
@@ -400,23 +427,22 @@ blocking mode is acceptable to it, and should this also document for
 the user so that the blocking mode of the channel is not changed to an
 unacceptable value. Any confusion here may lead the interpreter into a
 (spurious and difficult to find) deadlock.
-.SS "CLOSE2PROC"
+.SS "CLOSEPROC AND CLOSE2PROC"
 .PP
-The \fIclose2Proc\fR field contains the address of a function called by the
+The \fIcloseProc\fR field contains the address of a function called by the
 generic layer to clean up driver-related information when the channel is
-closed. \fIClose2Proc\fR must match the following prototype:
+closed. \fICloseProc\fR must match the following prototype:
 .PP
 .CS
-typedef int \fBTcl_DriverClose2Proc\fR(
-        void *\fIinstanceData\fR,
-        Tcl_Interp *\fIinterp\fR,
-        int \fIflags\fR);
+typedef int \fBTcl_DriverCloseProc\fR(
+        ClientData \fIinstanceData\fR,
+        Tcl_Interp *\fIinterp\fR);
 .CE
 .PP
-If \fIflags\fR is 0, the \fIinstanceData\fR argument is the same as the value
-provided to \fBTcl_CreateChannel\fR when the channel was created. The function
-should release any storage maintained by the channel driver for this channel,
-and close the input and output devices encapsulated by this channel. All queued
+The \fIinstanceData\fR argument is the same as the value provided to
+\fBTcl_CreateChannel\fR when the channel was created. The function should
+release any storage maintained by the channel driver for this channel, and
+close the input and output devices encapsulated by this channel. All queued
 output will have been flushed to the device before this function is called,
 and no further driver operations will be invoked on this instance after
 calling the \fIcloseProc\fR. If the close operation is successful, the
@@ -425,20 +451,35 @@ error code. In addition, if an error occurs and \fIinterp\fR is not NULL,
 the procedure should store an error message in the interpreter's result.
 .PP
 Alternatively, channels that support closing the read and write sides
-independently may accept other flag values than 0.
-Then \fIclose2Proc\fR will be called with \fIflags\fR set to an OR'ed
+independently may set \fIcloseProc\fR to \fBTCL_CLOSE2PROC\fR and set
+\fIclose2Proc\fR to the address of a function that matches the
+following prototype:
+.PP
+.CS
+typedef int \fBTcl_DriverClose2Proc\fR(
+        ClientData \fIinstanceData\fR,
+        Tcl_Interp *\fIinterp\fR,
+        int \fIflags\fR);
+.CE
+.PP
+The \fIclose2Proc\fR will be called with \fIflags\fR set to an OR'ed
 combination of \fBTCL_CLOSE_READ\fR or \fBTCL_CLOSE_WRITE\fR to
 indicate that the driver should close the read and/or write side of
 the channel.  The channel driver may be invoked to perform
 additional operations on the channel after \fIclose2Proc\fR is
-called to close one or both sides of the channel.  In all cases, the
-\fIclose2Proc\fR function should return zero if the close operation was
-successful; otherwise it should return a nonzero POSIX error code.
-In addition, if an error occurs and \fIinterp\fR is not NULL, the procedure
-should store an error message in the interpreter's result.
+called to close one or both sides of the channel.  If \fIflags\fR is
+\fB0\fR (zero), the driver should close the channel in the manner
+described above for \fIcloseProc\fR.  No further operations will be
+invoked on this instance after \fIclose2Proc\fR is called with all
+flags cleared.  In all cases, the \fIclose2Proc\fR function should
+return zero if the close operation was successful; otherwise it should
+return a nonzero POSIX error code. In addition, if an error occurs and
+\fIinterp\fR is not NULL, the procedure should store an error message
+in the interpreter's result.
 .PP
-The \fIclose2Proc\fR value can be retrieved with \fBTcl_ChannelClose2Proc\fR,
-which returns a pointer to the function.
+The \fIcloseProc\fR and \fIclose2Proc\fR values can be retrieved with
+\fBTcl_ChannelCloseProc\fR or \fBTcl_ChannelClose2Proc\fR, which
+return a pointer to the respective function.
 .SS INPUTPROC
 .PP
 The \fIinputProc\fR field contains the address of a function called by the
@@ -447,7 +488,7 @@ internal buffer. \fIInputProc\fR must match the following prototype:
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef int \fBTcl_DriverInputProc\fR(
-        void *\fIinstanceData\fR,
+        ClientData \fIinstanceData\fR,
        char *\fIbuf\fR,
        int \fIbufSize\fR,
        int *\fIerrorCodePtr\fR);
@@ -491,7 +532,7 @@ generic layer to transfer data from an internal buffer to the output device.
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef int \fBTcl_DriverOutputProc\fR(
-        void *\fIinstanceData\fR,
+        ClientData \fIinstanceData\fR,
        const char *\fIbuf\fR,
        int \fItoWrite\fR,
        int *\fIerrorCodePtr\fR);
@@ -521,17 +562,17 @@ without writing any data.
 .PP
 This value can be retrieved with \fBTcl_ChannelOutputProc\fR, which returns
 a pointer to the function.
-.SS "WIDESEEKPROC"
+.SS "SEEKPROC AND WIDESEEKPROC"
 .PP
-The \fIwideSeekProc\fR field contains the address of a function called by the
+The \fIseekProc\fR field contains the address of a function called by the
 generic layer to move the access point at which subsequent input or output
-operations will be applied. \fIWideSeekProc\fR must match the following
+operations will be applied. \fISeekProc\fR must match the following
 prototype:
 .PP
 .CS
-typedef Tcl_WideInt \fBTcl_DriverWideSeekProc\fR(
-        void *\fIinstanceData\fR,
-        Tcl_WideInt \fIoffset\fR,
+typedef int \fBTcl_DriverSeekProc\fR(
+        ClientData \fIinstanceData\fR,
+        long \fIoffset\fR,
        int \fIseekMode\fR,
        int *\fIerrorCodePtr\fR);
 .CE
@@ -550,8 +591,30 @@ does not implement seeking.
 The return value is the new access point or -1 in case of error. If an
 error occurred, the function should not move the access point.
 .PP
-The \fIwideSseekProc\fR value can be retrieved with
-\fBTcl_ChannelWideSeekProc\fR, which returns a pointer to the function.
+If there is a non-NULL \fIseekProc\fR field, the \fIwideSeekProc\fR
+field may contain the address of an alternative function to use which
+handles wide (i.e. larger than 32-bit) offsets, so allowing seeks
+within files larger than 2GB.  The \fIwideSeekProc\fR will be called
+in preference to the \fIseekProc\fR, but both must be defined if the
+\fIwideSeekProc\fR is defined.  \fIWideSeekProc\fR must match the
+following prototype:
+.PP
+.CS
+typedef long long \fBTcl_DriverWideSeekProc\fR(
+        ClientData \fIinstanceData\fR,
+        long long \fIoffset\fR,
+        int \fIseekMode\fR,
+        int *\fIerrorCodePtr\fR);
+.CE
+.PP
+The arguments and return values mean the same thing as with
+\fIseekProc\fR above, except that the type of offsets and the return
+type are different.
+.PP
+The \fIseekProc\fR value can be retrieved with
+\fBTcl_ChannelSeekProc\fR, which returns a pointer to the function,
+and similarly the \fIwideSeekProc\fR can be retrieved with
+\fBTcl_ChannelWideSeekProc\fR.
 .SS SETOPTIONPROC
 .PP
 The \fIsetOptionProc\fR field contains the address of a function called by
@@ -560,7 +623,7 @@ the generic layer to set a channel type specific option on a channel.
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef int \fBTcl_DriverSetOptionProc\fR(
-        void *\fIinstanceData\fR,
+        ClientData \fIinstanceData\fR,
        Tcl_Interp *\fIinterp\fR,
        const char *\fIoptionName\fR,
        const char *\fInewValue\fR);
@@ -601,7 +664,7 @@ channel. \fIgetOptionProc\fR must match the following prototype:
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef int \fBTcl_DriverGetOptionProc\fR(
-        void *\fIinstanceData\fR,
+        ClientData \fIinstanceData\fR,
        Tcl_Interp *\fIinterp\fR,
        const char *\fIoptionName\fR,
        Tcl_DString *\fIoptionValue\fR);
@@ -639,7 +702,7 @@ notice events of interest on this channel.
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef void \fBTcl_DriverWatchProc\fR(
-        void *\fIinstanceData\fR,
+        ClientData \fIinstanceData\fR,
        int \fImask\fR);
 .CE
 .PP
@@ -670,9 +733,9 @@ the generic layer to retrieve a device-specific handle from the channel.
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef int \fBTcl_DriverGetHandleProc\fR(
-        void *\fIinstanceData\fR,
+        ClientData \fIinstanceData\fR,
        int \fIdirection\fR,
-        void **\fIhandlePtr\fR);
+        ClientData *\fIhandlePtr\fR);
 .CE
 .PP
 \fIInstanceData\fR is the same as the value passed to
@@ -699,7 +762,7 @@ It should be set to NULL.
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef int \fBTcl_DriverFlushProc\fR(
-        void *\fIinstanceData\fR);
+        ClientData \fIinstanceData\fR);
 .CE
 .PP
 This value can be retrieved with \fBTcl_ChannelFlushProc\fR, which returns
@@ -714,7 +777,7 @@ that occur on the underlying (stacked) channel.
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef int \fBTcl_DriverHandlerProc\fR(
-        void *\fIinstanceData\fR,
+        ClientData \fIinstanceData\fR,
        int \fIinterestMask\fR);
 .CE
 .PP
@@ -743,7 +806,7 @@ might be maintaining using the calling thread as the associate. See
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef void \fBTcl_DriverThreadActionProc\fR(
-        void *\fIinstanceData\fR,
+        ClientData \fIinstanceData\fR,
        int \fIaction\fR);
 .CE
 .PP
@@ -760,8 +823,8 @@ length. It can be NULL.
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef int \fBTcl_DriverTruncateProc\fR(
-        void *\fIinstanceData\fR,
-        Tcl_WideInt \fIlength\fR);
+        ClientData \fIinstanceData\fR,
+        long long \fIlength\fR);
 .CE
 .PP
 \fIInstanceData\fR is the same as the value passed to
@@ -808,6 +871,58 @@ The function takes good care of inserting minus signs before
 each option, commas after, and an
 .QW or
 before the last option.
+.SH "OLD CHANNEL TYPES"
+The original (8.3.1 and below) \fBTcl_ChannelType\fR structure contains
+the following fields:
+.PP
+.CS
+typedef struct Tcl_ChannelType {
+    const char *\fItypeName\fR;
+    Tcl_DriverBlockModeProc *\fIblockModeProc\fR;
+    Tcl_DriverCloseProc *\fIcloseProc\fR;
+    Tcl_DriverInputProc *\fIinputProc\fR;
+    Tcl_DriverOutputProc *\fIoutputProc\fR;
+    Tcl_DriverSeekProc *\fIseekProc\fR;
+    Tcl_DriverSetOptionProc *\fIsetOptionProc\fR;
+    Tcl_DriverGetOptionProc *\fIgetOptionProc\fR;
+    Tcl_DriverWatchProc *\fIwatchProc\fR;
+    Tcl_DriverGetHandleProc *\fIgetHandleProc\fR;
+    Tcl_DriverClose2Proc *\fIclose2Proc\fR;
+} \fBTcl_ChannelType\fR;
+.CE
+.PP
+It is still possible to create channel with the above structure.  The
+internal channel code will determine the version.  It is imperative to use
+the new \fBTcl_ChannelType\fR structure if you are creating a stacked
+channel driver, due to problems with the earlier stacked channel
+implementation (in 8.2.0 to 8.3.1).
+.PP
+Prior to 8.4.0 (i.e. during the later releases of 8.3 and early part
+of the 8.4 development cycle) the \fBTcl_ChannelType\fR structure
+contained the following fields:
+.PP
+.CS
+typedef struct Tcl_ChannelType {
+    const char *\fItypeName\fR;
+    Tcl_ChannelTypeVersion \fIversion\fR;
+    Tcl_DriverCloseProc *\fIcloseProc\fR;
+    Tcl_DriverInputProc *\fIinputProc\fR;
+    Tcl_DriverOutputProc *\fIoutputProc\fR;
+    Tcl_DriverSeekProc *\fIseekProc\fR;
+    Tcl_DriverSetOptionProc *\fIsetOptionProc\fR;
+    Tcl_DriverGetOptionProc *\fIgetOptionProc\fR;
+    Tcl_DriverWatchProc *\fIwatchProc\fR;
+    Tcl_DriverGetHandleProc *\fIgetHandleProc\fR;
+    Tcl_DriverClose2Proc *\fIclose2Proc\fR;
+    Tcl_DriverBlockModeProc *\fIblockModeProc\fR;
+    Tcl_DriverFlushProc *\fIflushProc\fR;
+    Tcl_DriverHandlerProc *\fIhandlerProc\fR;
+    Tcl_DriverTruncateProc *\fItruncateProc\fR;
+} \fBTcl_ChannelType\fR;
+.CE
+.PP
+When the above structure is registered as a channel type, the
+\fIversion\fR field should always be \fBTCL_CHANNEL_VERSION_2\fR.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 Tcl_Close(3), Tcl_OpenFileChannel(3), Tcl_SetErrno(3), Tcl_QueueEvent(3), Tcl_StackChannel(3), Tcl_GetStdChannel(3)
 .SH KEYWORDS
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ a zero value to temporarily disable an existing handler.
 .AP Tcl_FileProc *proc in
 Procedure to invoke whenever the channel indicated by \fIchannel\fR meets
 the conditions specified by \fImask\fR.
-.AP void *clientData in
+.AP ClientData clientData in
 Arbitrary one-word value to pass to \fIproc\fR.
 .BE
 .SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ what it means for a channel to be readable or writable.
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef void \fBTcl_ChannelProc\fR(
-        void *\fIclientData\fR,
+        ClientData \fIclientData\fR,
        int \fImask\fR);
 .CE
 .PP
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ void
 The channel for which to create or delete a close callback.
 .AP Tcl_CloseProc *proc in
 The procedure to call as the callback.
-.AP void *clientData in
+.AP ClientData clientData in
 Arbitrary one-word value to pass to \fIproc\fR.
 .BE
 .SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Arbitrary one-word value to pass to \fIproc\fR.
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef void \fBTcl_CloseProc\fR(
-        void *\fIclientData\fR);
+        ClientData \fIclientData\fR);
 .CE
 .PP
 The \fIclientData\fR is the same as the value provided in the call to
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Name of command.
 .AP Tcl_CmdProc *proc in
 Implementation of new command:  \fIproc\fR will be called whenever
 \fIcmdName\fR is invoked as a command.
-.AP voie *clientData in
+.AP ClientData clientData in
 Arbitrary one-word value to pass to \fIproc\fR and \fIdeleteProc\fR.
 .AP Tcl_CmdDeleteProc *deleteProc in
 Procedure to call before \fIcmdName\fR is deleted from the interpreter;
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ and it returns NULL.
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef int \fBTcl_CmdProc\fR(
-        void *\fIclientData\fR,
+        ClientData \fIclientData\fR,
        Tcl_Interp *\fIinterp\fR,
        int \fIargc\fR,
        const char *\fIargv\fR[]);
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ result that match the type \fBTcl_CmdDeleteProc\fR:
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef void \fBTcl_CmdDeleteProc\fR(
-        void *\fIclientData\fR);
+        ClientData \fIclientData\fR);
 .CE
 .PP
 The \fIclientData\fR argument will be the same as the \fIclientData\fR
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ a handler.
 .AP Tcl_FileProc *proc in
 Procedure to invoke whenever the file or device indicated
 by \fIfile\fR meets the conditions specified by \fImask\fR.
-.AP void *clientData in
+.AP ClientData clientData in
 Arbitrary one-word value to pass to \fIproc\fR.
 .BE
 .SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ type \fBTcl_FileProc\fR:
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef void \fBTcl_FileProc\fR(
-        void *\fIclientData\fR,
+        ClientData \fIclientData\fR,
        int \fImask\fR);
 .CE
 .PP
@@ -0,0 +1,166 @@
+'\"
+'\" Copyright (c) 1989-1993 The Regents of the University of California.
+'\" Copyright (c) 1994-1996 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
+'\"
+'\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
+'\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
+'\"
+.TH Tcl_CreateMathFunc 3 8.4 Tcl "Tcl Library Procedures"
+.so man.macros
+.BS
+.SH NAME
+Tcl_CreateMathFunc, Tcl_GetMathFuncInfo, Tcl_ListMathFuncs \- Define, query and enumerate math functions for expressions
+.SH "NOTICE OF EVENTUAL DEPRECATION"
+.PP
+The \fBTcl_CreateMathFunc\fR and \fBTcl_GetMathFuncInfo\fR functions
+are rendered somewhat obsolete by the ability to create functions for
+expressions by placing commands in the \fBtcl::mathfunc\fR namespace,
+as described in the \fBmathfunc\fR manual page; the API described on
+this page is not expected to be maintained indefinitely.
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.nf
+\fB#include <tcl.h>\fR
+.sp
+void
+\fBTcl_CreateMathFunc\fR(\fIinterp, name, numArgs, argTypes, proc, clientData\fR)
+.sp
+int
+\fBTcl_GetMathFuncInfo\fR(\fIinterp, name, numArgsPtr, argTypesPtr, procPtr,
+                    clientDataPtr\fR)
+.sp
+Tcl_Obj *
+\fBTcl_ListMathFuncs\fR(\fIinterp, pattern\fR)
+.SH ARGUMENTS
+.AS Tcl_ValueType *clientDataPtr out
+.AP Tcl_Interp *interp in
+Interpreter in which new function will be defined.
+.AP "const char" *name in
+Name for new function.
+.AP int numArgs in
+Number of arguments to new function;  also gives size of \fIargTypes\fR array.
+.AP Tcl_ValueType *argTypes in
+Points to an array giving the permissible types for each argument to
+function.
+.AP Tcl_MathProc *proc in
+Procedure that implements the function.
+.AP ClientData clientData in
+Arbitrary one-word value to pass to \fIproc\fR when it is invoked.
+.AP int *numArgsPtr out
+Points to a variable that will be set to contain the number of
+arguments to the function.
+.AP Tcl_ValueType **argTypesPtr out
+Points to a variable that will be set to contain a pointer to an array
+giving the permissible types for each argument to the function which
+will need to be freed up using \fITcl_Free\fR.
+.AP Tcl_MathProc **procPtr out
+Points to a variable that will be set to contain a pointer to the
+implementation code for the function (or NULL if the function is
+implemented directly in bytecode).
+.AP ClientData *clientDataPtr out
+Points to a variable that will be set to contain the clientData
+argument passed to \fITcl_CreateMathFunc\fR when the function was
+created if the function is not implemented directly in bytecode.
+.AP "const char" *pattern in
+Pattern to match against function names so as to filter them (by
+passing to \fITcl_StringMatch\fR), or NULL to not apply any filter.
+.BE
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.PP
+Tcl allows a number of mathematical functions to be used in
+expressions, such as \fBsin\fR, \fBcos\fR, and \fBhypot\fR.
+These functions are represented by commands in the namespace,
+\fBtcl::mathfunc\fR.  The \fBTcl_CreateMathFunc\fR function is
+an obsolete way for applications to add additional functions
+to those already provided by Tcl or to replace existing functions.
+It should not be used by new applications, which should create
+math functions using \fBTcl_CreateObjCommand\fR to create a command
+in the \fBtcl::mathfunc\fR namespace.
+.PP
+In the \fBTcl_CreateMathFunc\fR interface,
+\fIName\fR is the name of the function as it will appear in expressions.
+If \fIname\fR does not already exist in the \fB::tcl::mathfunc\fR
+namespace, then a new command is created in that namespace.
+If \fIname\fR does exist, then the existing function is replaced.
+\fINumArgs\fR and \fIargTypes\fR describe the arguments to the function.
+Each entry in the \fIargTypes\fR array must be
+one of \fBTCL_INT\fR, \fBTCL_DOUBLE\fR, \fBTCL_WIDE_INT\fR,
+or \fBTCL_EITHER\fR to indicate whether the corresponding argument must be an
+integer, a double-precision floating value, a wide (64-bit) integer,
+or any, respectively.
+.PP
+Whenever the function is invoked in an expression Tcl will invoke
+\fIproc\fR.  \fIProc\fR should have arguments and result that match
+the type \fBTcl_MathProc\fR:
+.PP
+.CS
+typedef int \fBTcl_MathProc\fR(
+        ClientData \fIclientData\fR,
+        Tcl_Interp *\fIinterp\fR,
+        Tcl_Value *\fIargs\fR,
+        Tcl_Value *\fIresultPtr\fR);
+.CE
+.PP
+When \fIproc\fR is invoked the \fIclientData\fR and \fIinterp\fR
+arguments will be the same as those passed to \fBTcl_CreateMathFunc\fR.
+\fIArgs\fR will point to an array of \fInumArgs\fR Tcl_Value structures,
+which describe the actual arguments to the function:
+.PP
+.CS
+typedef struct Tcl_Value {
+    Tcl_ValueType \fItype\fR;
+    long \fIintValue\fR;
+    double \fIdoubleValue\fR;
+    Tcl_WideInt \fIwideValue\fR;
+} \fBTcl_Value\fR;
+.CE
+.PP
+The \fItype\fR field indicates the type of the argument and is
+one of \fBTCL_INT\fR, \fBTCL_DOUBLE\fR or \fBTCL_WIDE_INT\fR.
+It will match the \fIargTypes\fR value specified for the function unless
+the \fIargTypes\fR value was \fBTCL_EITHER\fR. Tcl converts
+the argument supplied in the expression to the type requested in
+\fIargTypes\fR, if that is necessary.
+Depending on the value of the \fItype\fR field, the \fIintValue\fR,
+\fIdoubleValue\fR or \fIwideValue\fR
+field will contain the actual value of the argument.
+.PP
+\fIProc\fR should compute its result and store it either as an integer
+in \fIresultPtr->intValue\fR or as a floating value in
+\fIresultPtr->doubleValue\fR.
+It should set also \fIresultPtr->type\fR to one of
+\fBTCL_INT\fR, \fBTCL_DOUBLE\fR or \fBTCL_WIDE_INT\fR
+to indicate which value was set.
+Under normal circumstances \fIproc\fR should return \fBTCL_OK\fR.
+If an error occurs while executing the function, \fIproc\fR should
+return \fBTCL_ERROR\fR and leave an error message in the interpreter's result.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_GetMathFuncInfo\fR retrieves the values associated with
+function \fIname\fR that were passed to a preceding
+\fBTcl_CreateMathFunc\fR call.  Normally, the return code is
+\fBTCL_OK\fR but if the named function does not exist, \fBTCL_ERROR\fR
+is returned and an error message is placed in the interpreter's
+result.
+.PP
+If an error did not occur, the array reference placed in the variable
+pointed to by \fIargTypesPtr\fR is newly allocated, and should be
+released by passing it to \fBTcl_Free\fR.  Some functions (the
+standard set implemented in the core, and those defined by placing
+commands in the \fBtcl::mathfunc\fR namespace) do not have
+argument type information; attempting to retrieve values for
+them causes a NULL to be stored in the variable pointed to by
+\fIprocPtr\fR and the variable pointed to by \fIclientDataPtr\fR
+will not be modified.  The variable pointed to by \fInumArgsPointer\fR
+will contain -1, and no argument types will be stored in the variable
+pointed to by \fIargTypesPointer\fR.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_ListMathFuncs\fR returns a Tcl value containing a list of all
+the math functions defined in the interpreter whose name matches
+\fIpattern\fR.  The returned value has a reference count of zero.
+.SH "REFERENCE COUNT MANAGEMENT"
+.PP
+\fBTcl_ListMathFuncs\fR always returns a zero-reference object, much
+like \fBTcl_NewObj\fR.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+expr(n), info(n), Tcl_CreateObjCommand(3), Tcl_Free(3), Tcl_NewListObj(3)
+.SH KEYWORDS
+expression, mathematical function
@@ -54,12 +54,12 @@ const char *
 .AS Tcl_CmdDeleteProc *deleteProc in/out
 .AP Tcl_Interp *interp in
 Interpreter in which to create a new command or that contains a command.
-.AP char *cmdName in
+.AP "const char" *cmdName in
 Name of command.
 .AP Tcl_ObjCmdProc *proc in
 Implementation of the new command: \fIproc\fR will be called whenever
 \fIcmdName\fR is invoked as a command.
-.AP void *clientData in
+.AP ClientData clientData in
 Arbitrary one-word value to pass to \fIproc\fR and \fIdeleteProc\fR.
 .AP Tcl_CmdDeleteProc *deleteProc in
 Procedure to call before \fIcmdName\fR is deleted from the interpreter;
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ and it returns NULL.
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef int \fBTcl_ObjCmdProc\fR(
-        void *\fIclientData\fR,
+        ClientData \fIclientData\fR,
        Tcl_Interp *\fIinterp\fR,
        int \fIobjc\fR,
        Tcl_Obj *const \fIobjv\fR[]);
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ result that match the type \fBTcl_CmdDeleteProc\fR:
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef void \fBTcl_CmdDeleteProc\fR(
-        void *\fIclientData\fR);
+        ClientData \fIclientData\fR);
 .CE
 .PP
 The \fIclientData\fR argument will be the same as the \fIclientData\fR
@@ -217,11 +217,11 @@ A \fBTcl_CmdInfo\fR structure has the following fields:
 typedef struct Tcl_CmdInfo {
    int \fIisNativeObjectProc\fR;
    Tcl_ObjCmdProc *\fIobjProc\fR;
-    void *\fIobjClientData\fR;
+    ClientData \fIobjClientData\fR;
    Tcl_CmdProc *\fIproc\fR;
-    void *\fIclientData\fR;
+    ClientData \fIclientData\fR;
    Tcl_CmdDeleteProc *\fIdeleteProc\fR;
-    void *\fIdeleteData\fR;
+    ClientData \fIdeleteData\fR;
    Tcl_Namespace *\fInamespacePtr\fR;
 } \fBTcl_CmdInfo\fR;
 .CE
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ otherwise, this is a compatibility procedure
 registered by \fBTcl_CreateObjCommand\fR
 that simply calls the command's
 value-based procedure after converting its string arguments to Tcl values.
-The field \fIdeleteData\fR is the clientData value
+The field \fIdeleteData\fR is the ClientData value
 to pass to \fIdeleteProc\fR;  it is normally the same as
 \fIclientData\fR but may be set independently using the
 \fBTcl_SetCommandInfo\fR procedure.
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ from \fBTcl_CreateObjCommand\fR in place of the command name.  If the
 and fills in the structure designated by \fIinfoPtr\fR.
 .PP
 \fBTcl_SetCommandInfo\fR is used to modify the procedures and
-clientData values associated with a command.
+ClientData values associated with a command.
 Its \fIcmdName\fR argument is the name of a command in \fIinterp\fR.
 \fIcmdName\fR may include \fB::\fR namespace qualifiers
 to identify a command in a particular namespace.
@@ -277,9 +277,9 @@ copies the information from \fI*infoPtr\fR to Tcl's internal structure
 for the command and returns 1.
 .PP
 Note that \fBTcl_SetCommandInfo\fR and
-\fBTcl_SetCommandInfoFromToken\fR both allow the clientData for a
+\fBTcl_SetCommandInfoFromToken\fR both allow the ClientData for a
 command's deletion procedure to be given a different value than the
-clientData for its command procedure.
+ClientData for its command procedure.
 .PP
 Note that neither \fBTcl_SetCommandInfo\fR nor
 \fBTcl_SetCommandInfoFromToken\fR will change a command's namespace.
@@ -323,6 +323,21 @@ instead. The result from \fBTcl_GetCommandTypeName\fR will be exactly that
 string which was registered, and not a copy; use of a compile-time constant
 string is \fIstrongly recommended\fR.
 .VE "info cmdtype feature"
+.SH "REFERENCE COUNT MANAGEMENT"
+.PP
+When the \fIproc\fR passed to \fBTcl_CreateObjCommand\fR is called,
+the values in its \fIobjv\fR argument will have a reference count of
+at least 1, with that guaranteed reference being from the Tcl
+evaluation stack. You should not call \fBTcl_DecrRefCount\fR on any of
+those values unless you call \fBTcl_IncrRefCount\fR on them first.
+Also, when the \fIproc\fR is called, the interpreter result is
+guaranteed to be an empty string value with a reference count of 1.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_GetCommandFullName\fR does not modify the reference count of its
+\fIobjPtr\fR argument, but does require that the object be unshared.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_GetCommandFromObj\fR does not modify the reference count of its
+\fIobjPtr\fR argument; it only reads.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 Tcl_CreateCommand(3), Tcl_ResetResult(3), Tcl_SetObjResult(3)
 .SH KEYWORDS
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Tcl_TimerToken
 How many milliseconds to wait before invoking \fIproc\fR.
 .AP Tcl_TimerProc *proc in
 Procedure to invoke after \fImilliseconds\fR have elapsed.
-.AP void *clientData in
+.AP ClientData clientData in
 Arbitrary one-word value to pass to \fIproc\fR.
 .AP Tcl_TimerToken token in
 Token for previously created timer handler (the return value
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ the type \fBTcl_TimerProc\fR:
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef void \fBTcl_TimerProc\fR(
-        void *\fIclientData\fR);
+        ClientData \fIclientData\fR);
 .CE
 .PP
 The \fIclientData\fR parameter to \fIproc\fR is a
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 '\"
 '\" Copyright (c) 1989-1993 The Regents of the University of California.
 '\" Copyright (c) 1994-1996 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
-'\" Copyright (c) 2002 by Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org>.  All rights reserved.
+'\" Copyright (c) 2002 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org>.  All rights reserved.
 '\"
 '\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
 '\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ details of the calling sequence.
 .AP Tcl_CmdTraceProc *proc in
 Procedure to call for each command that is executed.  See below for
 details on the calling sequence.
-.AP void *clientData in
+.AP ClientData clientData in
 Arbitrary one-word value to pass to \fIobjProc\fR or \fIproc\fR.
 .AP Tcl_CmdObjTraceDeleteProc *deleteProc in
 Procedure to call when the trace is deleted.  See below for details of
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ interpreter.
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef int \fBTcl_CmdObjTraceProc\fR(
-        \fBvoid *\fR \fIclientData\fR,
+        \fBClientData\fR \fIclientData\fR,
        \fBTcl_Interp\fR* \fIinterp\fR,
        int \fIlevel\fR,
        const char *\fIcommand\fR,
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ typedef int \fBTcl_CmdObjTraceProc\fR(
 .PP
 The \fIclientData\fR and \fIinterp\fR parameters are copies of the
 corresponding arguments given to \fBTcl_CreateTrace\fR.
-\fIclientData\fR typically points to an application-specific data
+\fIClientData\fR typically points to an application-specific data
 structure that describes what to do when \fIobjProc\fR is invoked.  The
 \fIlevel\fR parameter gives the nesting level of the command (1 for
 top-level commands passed to \fBTcl_Eval\fR by the application, 2 for
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ When \fBTcl_DeleteTrace\fR is called, the interpreter invokes the
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef void \fBTcl_CmdObjTraceDeleteProc\fR(
-        \fBvoid *\fR \fIclientData\fR);
+        \fBClientData\fR \fIclientData\fR);
 .CE
 .PP
 The \fIclientData\fR parameter will be the same as the
@@ -160,12 +160,12 @@ match the type \fBTcl_CmdTraceProc\fR:
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef void \fBTcl_CmdTraceProc\fR(
-        void *\fIclientData\fR,
+        ClientData \fIclientData\fR,
        Tcl_Interp *\fIinterp\fR,
        int \fIlevel\fR,
        char *\fIcommand\fR,
        Tcl_CmdProc *\fIcmdProc\fR,
-        void *\fIcmdClientData\fR,
+        ClientData \fIcmdClientData\fR,
        int \fIargc\fR,
        const char *\fIargv\fR[]);
 .CE
@@ -187,5 +187,14 @@ There is no way to be notified when the trace created by
 \fBTcl_CreateTrace\fR is deleted.  There is no way for the \fIproc\fR
 associated with a call to \fBTcl_CreateTrace\fR to abort execution of
 \fIcommand\fR.
+.SH "REFERENCE COUNT MANAGEMENT"
+.PP
+When the \fIproc\fR passed to \fBTcl_CreateObjTrace\fR is called,
+the values in its \fIobjv\fR argument will have a reference count of
+at least 1, with that guaranteed reference being from the Tcl
+evaluation stack. You should not call \fBTcl_DecrRefCount\fR on any of
+those values unless you call \fBTcl_IncrRefCount\fR on them first.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+trace(n)
 .SH KEYWORDS
 command, create, delete, interpreter, trace
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 .so man.macros
 .BS
 .SH NAME
-Tcl_DStringInit, Tcl_DStringAppend, Tcl_DStringAppendElement, Tcl_DStringStartSublist, Tcl_DStringEndSublist, Tcl_DStringLength, Tcl_DStringValue, Tcl_DStringSetLength, Tcl_DStringFree, Tcl_DStringResult, Tcl_DStringGetResult \- manipulate dynamic strings
+Tcl_DStringInit, Tcl_DStringAppend, Tcl_DStringAppendElement, Tcl_DStringStartSublist, Tcl_DStringEndSublist, Tcl_DStringLength, Tcl_DStringValue, Tcl_DStringSetLength, Tcl_DStringTrunc, Tcl_DStringFree, Tcl_DStringResult, Tcl_DStringGetResult \- manipulate dynamic strings
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf
 \fB#include <tcl.h>\fR
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ char *
 .sp
 \fBTcl_DStringEndSublist\fR(\fIdsPtr\fR)
 .sp
-size_t
+int
 \fBTcl_DStringLength\fR(\fIdsPtr\fR)
 .sp
 char *
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ char *
 .sp
 \fBTcl_DStringSetLength\fR(\fIdsPtr, newLength\fR)
 .sp
+\fBTcl_DStringTrunc\fR(\fIdsPtr, newLength\fR)
+.sp
 \fBTcl_DStringFree\fR(\fIdsPtr\fR)
 .sp
 \fBTcl_DStringResult\fR(\fIinterp, dsPtr\fR)
@@ -47,10 +49,10 @@ Pointer to structure that is used to manage a dynamic string.
 Pointer to characters to append to dynamic string.
 .AP "const char" *element in
 Pointer to characters to append as list element to dynamic string.
-.AP size_t length in
-Number of bytes from \fIbytes\fR to add to dynamic string.  If TCL_INDEX_NONE,
+.AP int length in
+Number of bytes from \fIbytes\fR to add to dynamic string.  If -1,
 add all characters up to null terminating character.
-.AP size_t newLength in
+.AP int newLength in
 New length for dynamic string, not including null terminating
 character.
 .AP Tcl_Interp *interp in/out
@@ -126,6 +128,10 @@ caller to fill in the new space.
 even if the string is truncated to zero length, so \fBTcl_DStringFree\fR
 will still need to be called.
 .PP
+\fBTcl_DStringTrunc\fR changes the length of a dynamic string.
+This procedure is now deprecated.  \fBTcl_DStringSetLength\fR  should
+be used instead.
+.PP
 \fBTcl_DStringFree\fR should be called when you are finished using
 the string.  It frees up any memory that was allocated for the string
 and reinitializes the string's value to an empty string.
@@ -190,6 +190,73 @@ path as this is easy to construct from repeated use of
 dictionaries are created for non-terminal keys where they do not
 already exist. With \fBTcl_DictObjRemoveKeyList\fR, all non-terminal
 keys must exist and have dictionaries as their values.
+.SH "REFERENCE COUNT MANAGEMENT"
+.PP
+\fBTcl_NewDictObj\fR always returns a zero-reference object, much like
+\fBTcl_NewObj\fR.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_DictObjPut\fR does not modify the reference count of its \fIdictPtr\fR
+argument, but does require that the object be unshared.  If
+\fBTcl_DictObjPut\fR returns \fBTCL_ERROR\fR it does not manipulate any
+reference counts; but if it returns \fBTCL_OK\fR then it definitely increments
+the reference count of \fIvaluePtr\fR and may increment the reference count of
+\fIkeyPtr\fR; the latter case happens exactly when the key did not previously
+exist in the dictionary.  Note however that this function may set the
+interpreter result; if that is the only place that is holding a reference to
+an object, it will be deleted.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_DictObjGet\fR only reads from its \fIdictPtr\fR and \fIkeyPtr\fR
+arguments, and does not manipulate their reference counts at all.  If the
+\fIvaluePtrPtr\fR argument is not set to NULL (and the function doesn't return
+\fBTCL_ERROR\fR), it will be set to a value with a reference count of at least
+1, with a reference owned by the dictionary.  Note however that this function
+may set the interpreter result; if that is the only place that is holding a
+reference to an object, it will be deleted.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_DictObjRemove\fR does not modify the reference count of its
+\fIdictPtr\fR argument, but does require that the object be unshared. It does
+not manipulate the reference count of its \fIkeyPtr\fR argument at all.  Note
+however that this function may set the interpreter result; if that is the only
+place that is holding a reference to an object, it will be deleted.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_DictObjSize\fR does not modify the reference count of its \fIdictPtr\fR
+argument; it only reads.  Note however that this function may set the
+interpreter result; if that is the only place that is holding a reference to
+the dictionary object, it will be deleted.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_DictObjFirst\fR does not modify the reference count of its
+\fIdictPtr\fR argument; it only reads. The variables given by the
+\fIkeyPtrPtr\fR and \fIvaluePtrPtr\fR arguments (if not NULL) will be updated
+to contain references to the relevant values in the dictionary; their
+reference counts will be at least 1 (due to the dictionary holding a reference
+to them). It may also manipulate internal references; these are not exposed to
+user code, but require a matching \fBTcl_DictObjDone\fR call.  Note however
+that this function may set the interpreter result; if that is the only place
+that is holding a reference to the dictionary object, it will be deleted.
+.PP
+Similarly for \fBTcl_DictObjNext\fR; the variables given by the
+\fIkeyPtrPtr\fR and \fIvaluePtrPtr\fR arguments (if not NULL) will be updated
+to contain references to the relevant values in the dictionary; their
+reference counts will be at least 1 (due to the dictionary holding a reference
+to them).
+.PP
+\fBTcl_DictObjDone\fR does not manipulate (user-visible) reference counts.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_DictObjPutKeyList\fR is similar to \fBTcl_DictObjPut\fR; it does not
+modify the reference count of its \fIdictPtr\fR argument, but does require
+that the object be unshared. It may increment the reference count of any value
+passed in the \fIkeyv\fR argument, and will increment the reference count of
+the \fIvaluePtr\fR argument on success. It is recommended that values passed
+via \fIkeyv\fR and \fIvaluePtr\fR do not have zero reference counts.  Note
+however that this function may set the interpreter result; if that is the only
+place that is holding a reference to an object, it will be deleted.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_DictObjRemoveKeyList\fR is similar to \fBTcl_DictObjRemove\fR; it does
+not modify the reference count of its \fIdictPtr\fR argument, but does require
+that the object be unshared, and does not modify the reference counts of any
+of the values passed in the \fIkeyv\fR argument.  Note however that this
+function may set the interpreter result; if that is the only place that is
+holding a reference to an object, it will be deleted.
 .SH EXAMPLE
 Using the dictionary iteration interface to search determine if there
 is a key that maps to itself:
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Tcl_DoWhenIdle, Tcl_CancelIdleCall \- invoke a procedure when there are no pendi
 .AS Tcl_IdleProc clientData
 .AP Tcl_IdleProc *proc in
 Procedure to invoke.
-.AP coid *clientData in
+.AP ClientData clientData in
 Arbitrary one-word value to pass to \fIproc\fR.
 .BE
 .SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ type \fBTcl_IdleProc\fR:
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef void \fBTcl_IdleProc\fR(
-        void *\fIclientData\fR);
+        ClientData \fIclientData\fR);
 .CE
 .PP
 The \fIclientData\fR parameter to \fIproc\fR is a copy of the \fIclientData\fR
@@ -58,6 +58,18 @@ and if \fIinterp\fR is non-NULL, an error message is left in \fIinterp\fR.
 The \fBTcl_ObjType\fR of \fIobjPtr\fR may be changed to make subsequent
 calls to \fBTcl_GetDoubleFromObj\fR more efficient.
 '\" TODO: add discussion of treatment of NaN value
+.SH "REFERENCE COUNT MANAGEMENT"
+.PP
+\fBTcl_NewDoubleObj\fR always returns a zero-reference object, much
+like \fBTcl_NewObj\fR.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_SetDoubleObj\fR does not modify the reference count of its
+\fIobjPtr\fR argument, but does require that the object be unshared.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_GetDoubleFromObj\fR does not modify the reference count of its
+\fIobjPtr\fR argument; it only reads. Note however that this function
+may set the interpreter result; if that is the only place that
+is holding a reference to the object, it will be deleted.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 Tcl_NewObj, Tcl_DecrRefCount, Tcl_IncrRefCount, Tcl_GetObjResult
 .SH KEYWORDS
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 '\"
-'\" Copyright (c) 1992-1999 Karl Lehenbauer and Mark Diekhans.
-'\" Copyright (c) 2000 by Scriptics Corporation.
+'\" Copyright (c) 1992-1999 Karl Lehenbauer & Mark Diekhans.
+'\" Copyright (c) 2000 Scriptics Corporation.
 '\" All rights reserved.
 '\"
 .TH "Tcl_DumpActiveMemory" 3 8.1 Tcl "Tcl Library Procedures"
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ is not defined, these functions are all no-ops.
 \fBTcl_DumpActiveMemory\fR will output a list of all currently
 allocated memory to the specified file.  The information output for
 each allocated block of memory is:  starting and ending addresses
-(excluding guard zone), size, source file where \fBTcl_Alloc\fR was
+(excluding guard zone), size, source file where \fBckalloc\fR was
 called to allocate the block and line number in that file.  It is
 especially useful to call \fBTcl_DumpActiveMemory\fR after the Tcl
 interpreter has been deleted.
@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ by \fBTcl_Main\fR.
 \fBTcl_ValidateAllMemory\fR forces a validation of the guard zones of
 all currently allocated blocks of memory.  Normally validation of a
 block occurs when its freed, unless full validation is enabled, in
-which case validation of all blocks occurs when \fBTcl_Alloc\fR and
-\fBTcl_Free\fR are called.  This function forces the validation to occur
+which case validation of all blocks occurs when \fBckalloc\fR and
+\fBckfree\fR are called.  This function forces the validation to occur
 at any point.

 .SH "SEE ALSO"
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 .so man.macros
 .BS
 .SH NAME
-Tcl_GetEncoding, Tcl_FreeEncoding, Tcl_GetEncodingFromObj, Tcl_ExternalToUtfDString, Tcl_ExternalToUtf, Tcl_UtfToExternalDString, Tcl_UtfToExternal, Tcl_GetEncodingName, Tcl_SetSystemEncoding, Tcl_GetEncodingNameFromEnvironment, Tcl_GetEncodingNames, Tcl_CreateEncoding, Tcl_GetEncodingSearchPath, Tcl_SetEncodingSearchPath \- procedures for creating and using encodings
+Tcl_GetEncoding, Tcl_FreeEncoding, Tcl_GetEncodingFromObj, Tcl_ExternalToUtfDString, Tcl_ExternalToUtf, Tcl_UtfToExternalDString, Tcl_UtfToExternal, Tcl_GetEncodingName, Tcl_SetSystemEncoding, Tcl_GetEncodingNameFromEnvironment, Tcl_GetEncodingNames, Tcl_CreateEncoding, Tcl_GetEncodingSearchPath, Tcl_SetEncodingSearchPath, Tcl_GetDefaultEncodingDir, Tcl_SetDefaultEncodingDir \- procedures for creating and using encodings
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf
 \fB#include <tcl.h>\fR
@@ -36,6 +36,12 @@ int
 \fBTcl_UtfToExternal\fR(\fIinterp, encoding, src, srcLen, flags, statePtr,
                  dst, dstLen, srcReadPtr, dstWrotePtr, dstCharsPtr\fR)
 .sp
+char *
+\fBTcl_WinTCharToUtf\fR(\fItsrc, srcLen, dstPtr\fR)
+.sp
+TCHAR *
+\fBTcl_WinUtfToTChar\fR(\fIsrc, srcLen, dstPtr\fR)
+.sp
 const char *
 \fBTcl_GetEncodingName\fR(\fIencoding\fR)
 .sp
@@ -56,6 +62,12 @@ Tcl_Obj *
 .sp
 int
 \fBTcl_SetEncodingSearchPath\fR(\fIsearchPath\fR)
+.sp
+const char *
+\fBTcl_GetDefaultEncodingDir\fR(\fIvoid\fR)
+.sp
+void
+\fBTcl_SetDefaultEncodingDir\fR(\fIpath\fR)
 .SH ARGUMENTS
 .AS "const Tcl_EncodingType" *dstWrotePtr in/out
 .AP Tcl_Interp *interp in
@@ -73,11 +85,11 @@ Points to storage where encoding token is to be written.
 .AP "const char" *src in
 For the \fBTcl_ExternalToUtf\fR functions, an array of bytes in the
 specified encoding that are to be converted to UTF-8.  For the
-\fBTcl_UtfToExternal\fR function, an array of
+\fBTcl_UtfToExternal\fR and \fBTcl_WinUtfToTChar\fR functions, an array of
 UTF-8 characters to be converted to the specified encoding.
 .AP "const TCHAR" *tsrc in
 An array of Windows TCHAR characters to convert to UTF-8.
-.AP size_t srcLen in
+.AP int srcLen in
 Length of \fIsrc\fR or \fItsrc\fR in bytes.  If the length is negative, the
 encoding-specific length of the string is used.
 .AP Tcl_DString *dstPtr out
@@ -243,6 +255,18 @@ is filled with the corresponding number of bytes that were stored in
 \fIdst\fR.  The return values are the same as the return values for
 \fBTcl_ExternalToUtf\fR.
 .PP
+\fBTcl_WinUtfToTChar\fR and \fBTcl_WinTCharToUtf\fR are Windows-only
+convenience functions for converting between UTF-8 and Windows strings
+based on the TCHAR type which is by convention a Unicode character on
+Windows NT. Those functions are deprecated. You can use
+\fBTcl_UtfToWCharDString\fR resp. \fBTcl_WCharToUtfDString\fR as replacement.
+If you want compatibility with earlier Tcl releases than 8.7, use
+\fBTcl_UtfToUniCharDString\fR resp. \fBTcl_UniCharToUtfDString\fR as
+replacement, and make sure you compile your extension with -DTCL_UTF_MAX=3.
+Beware: Those replacement functions don't initialize their Tcl_DString (you'll
+have to do that yourself), and \fBTcl_UniCharToUtfDString\fR from Tcl 8.6
+doesn't accept -1 as length parameter.
+.PP
 \fBTcl_GetEncodingName\fR is roughly the inverse of \fBTcl_GetEncoding\fR.
 Given an \fIencoding\fR, the return value is the \fIname\fR argument that
 was used to create the encoding.  The string returned by
@@ -269,7 +293,7 @@ the encoding name to it.  The \fBTcl_DStringValue\fR is returned.
 \fBTcl_GetEncodingNames\fR sets the \fIinterp\fR result to a list
 consisting of the names of all the encodings that are currently defined
 or can be dynamically loaded, searching the encoding path specified by
-\fBTcl_SetEncodingSearchPath\fR.  This procedure does not ensure that the
+\fBTcl_SetDefaultEncodingDir\fR.  This procedure does not ensure that the
 dynamically-loadable encoding files contain valid data, but merely that they
 exist.
 .PP
@@ -296,7 +320,7 @@ typedef struct Tcl_EncodingType {
    Tcl_EncodingConvertProc *\fItoUtfProc\fR;
    Tcl_EncodingConvertProc *\fIfromUtfProc\fR;
    Tcl_EncodingFreeProc *\fIfreeProc\fR;
-    void *\fIclientData\fR;
+    ClientData \fIclientData\fR;
    int \fInullSize\fR;
 } \fBTcl_EncodingType\fR;
 .CE
@@ -327,7 +351,7 @@ type \fBTcl_EncodingConvertProc\fR:
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef int \fBTcl_EncodingConvertProc\fR(
-        void *\fIclientData\fR,
+        ClientData \fIclientData\fR,
        const char *\fIsrc\fR,
        int \fIsrcLen\fR,
        int \fIflags\fR,
@@ -359,7 +383,7 @@ The callback procedure \fIfreeProc\fR, if non-NULL, should match the type
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef void \fBTcl_EncodingFreeProc\fR(
-        void *\fIclientData\fR);
+        ClientData \fIclientData\fR);
 .CE
 .PP
 This \fIfreeProc\fR function is called when the encoding is deleted.  The
@@ -384,6 +408,15 @@ are not verified as existing readable filesystem directories.  When
 searching for encoding data files takes place, and non-existent or
 non-readable filesystem directories on the \fIsearchPath\fR are silently
 ignored.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_GetDefaultEncodingDir\fR and \fBTcl_SetDefaultEncodingDir\fR
+are obsolete interfaces best replaced with calls to
+\fBTcl_GetEncodingSearchPath\fR and \fBTcl_SetEncodingSearchPath\fR.
+They are called to access and set the first element of the \fIsearchPath\fR
+list.  Since Tcl searches \fIsearchPath\fR for encoding data files in
+list order, these routines establish the
+.QW default
+directory in which to find encoding data files.
 .SH "ENCODING FILES"
 Space would prohibit precompiling into Tcl every possible encoding
 algorithm, so many encodings are stored on disk as dynamically-loadable
@@ -523,5 +556,16 @@ been loaded, it attempts to load an encoding file called \fIname\fB.enc\fR
 from the \fBencoding\fR subdirectory of each directory that Tcl searches
 for its script library.  If the encoding file exists, but is
 malformed, an error message will be left in \fIinterp\fR.
+.SH "REFERENCE COUNT MANAGEMENT"
+.PP
+\fBTcl_GetEncodingFromObj\fR does not modify the reference count of its
+\fIobjPtr\fR argument; it only reads. Note however that this function may set
+the interpreter result; if that is the only place that is holding a reference
+to the object, it will be deleted.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_GetEncodingSearchPath\fR returns an object with a reference count of at
+least 1.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+encoding(n)
 .SH KEYWORDS
 utf, encoding, convert
@@ -209,6 +209,27 @@ namespace whose list of exported commands is used if both the mapping
 dictionary and the subcommand list properties are NULL. May be read
 using \fBTcl_GetEnsembleNamespace\fR which returns a Tcl result code
 (\fBTCL_OK\fR, or \fBTCL_ERROR\fR if the token does not refer to an ensemble).
+.SH "REFERENCE COUNT MANAGEMENT"
+.PP
+\fBTcl_FindEnsemble\fR does not modify the reference count of its
+\fIcmdNameObj\fR argument; it only reads. Note however that this function may
+set the interpreter result; if that is the only place that is holding a
+reference to the object, it will be deleted.
+.PP
+The ensemble property getters (\fBTcl_GetEnsembleMappingDict\fR,
+\fBTcl_GetEnsembleParameterList\fR, \fBTcl_GetEnsembleSubcommandList\fR, and
+\fBTcl_GetEnsembleUnknownHandler\fR) do not manipulate the reference count of
+the values they provide out; if those are non-NULL, they will have a reference
+count of at least 1.  Note that these functions may set the interpreter
+result.
+.PP
+The ensemble property setters (\fBTcl_SetEnsembleMappingDict\fR,
+\fBTcl_SetEnsembleParameterList\fR, \fBTcl_SetEnsembleSubcommandList\fR, and
+\fBTcl_SetEnsembleUnknownHandler\fR) will increment the reference count of the
+new value of the property they are given if they succeed (and decrement the
+reference count of the old value of the property, if relevant). If the
+property setters return \fBTCL_ERROR\fR, the reference count of the Tcl_Obj
+argument is left unchanged.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 namespace(n), Tcl_DeleteCommandFromToken(3)
 .SH KEYWORDS
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 .so man.macros
 .BS
 .SH NAME
-Tcl_EvalObjEx, Tcl_EvalFile, Tcl_EvalObjv, Tcl_Eval, Tcl_EvalEx, Tcl_GlobalEval, Tcl_GlobalEvalObj, Tcl_VarEval \- execute Tcl scripts
+Tcl_EvalObjEx, Tcl_EvalFile, Tcl_EvalObjv, Tcl_Eval, Tcl_EvalEx, Tcl_GlobalEval, Tcl_GlobalEvalObj, Tcl_VarEval, Tcl_VarEvalVA \- execute Tcl scripts
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf
 \fB#include <tcl.h>\fR
@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ int
 .sp
 int
 \fBTcl_VarEval\fR(\fIinterp, part, part, ... \fB(char *) NULL\fR)
+.sp
+int
+\fBTcl_VarEvalVA\fR(\fIinterp, argList\fR)
 .SH ARGUMENTS
 .AS Tcl_Interp **termPtr
 .AP Tcl_Interp *interp in
@@ -62,8 +65,11 @@ null terminating character.  If \-1, then all characters up to the
 first null byte are used.
 .AP "const char" *script in
 Points to first byte of script to execute (null-terminated and UTF-8).
-.AP char *part in
+.AP "const char" *part in
 String forming part of a Tcl script.
+.AP va_list argList in
+An argument list which must have been initialized using
+\fBva_start\fR, and cleared using \fBva_end\fR.
 .BE

 .SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -122,10 +128,16 @@ might be a UTF-8 special code.  The string is parsed and executed directly
 bytecodes.  In situations where it is known that the script will never be
 executed again, \fBTcl_Eval\fR may be faster than \fBTcl_EvalObjEx\fR.
 \fBTcl_Eval\fR returns a completion code and result just like
-\fBTcl_EvalObjEx\fR.
+\fBTcl_EvalObjEx\fR.  Note: for backward compatibility with versions before
+Tcl 8.0, \fBTcl_Eval\fR copies the value result in \fIinterp\fR to
+\fIinterp->result\fR (use is deprecated) where it can be accessed directly.
+ This makes \fBTcl_Eval\fR somewhat slower than \fBTcl_EvalEx\fR, which
+does not do the copy.
 .PP
 \fBTcl_EvalEx\fR is an extended version of \fBTcl_Eval\fR that takes
-additional arguments \fInumBytes\fR and \fIflags\fR.
+additional arguments \fInumBytes\fR and \fIflags\fR.  For the
+efficiency reason given above, \fBTcl_EvalEx\fR is generally preferred
+over \fBTcl_Eval\fR.
 .PP
 \fBTcl_GlobalEval\fR and \fBTcl_GlobalEvalObj\fR are older procedures
 that are now deprecated.  They are similar to \fBTcl_EvalEx\fR and
@@ -141,6 +153,11 @@ It returns the result of the command and also modifies
 the interpreter result in the same way as \fBTcl_Eval\fR.
 The last argument to \fBTcl_VarEval\fR must be NULL to indicate the end
 of arguments.  \fBTcl_VarEval\fR is now deprecated.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_VarEvalVA\fR is the same as \fBTcl_VarEval\fR except that
+instead of taking a variable number of arguments it takes an argument
+list. Interfaces using argument lists have been found to be nonportable
+in practice. This function is deprecated and will be removed in Tcl 9.0.

 .SH "FLAG BITS"
 .PP
@@ -190,6 +207,20 @@ the \fBreturn\fR, \fBbreak\fR, or \fBcontinue\fR command was
 invoked in an inappropriate place.
 This means that top-level applications should never see a return code
 from \fBTcl_EvalObjEx\fR other than \fBTCL_OK\fR or \fBTCL_ERROR\fR.
+.SH "REFERENCE COUNT MANAGEMENT"
+.PP
+\fBTcl_EvalObjEx\fR and \fBTcl_GlobalEvalObj\fR both increment and
+decrement the reference count of their \fIobjPtr\fR argument; you must
+not pass them any value with a reference count of zero. They also
+manipulate the interpreter result; you must not count on the
+interpreter result to hold the reference count of any value over
+these calls.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_EvalObjv\fR may increment and decrement the reference count of
+any value passed via its \fIobjv\fR argument; you must not pass any
+value with a reference count of zero. This function also manipulates
+the interpreter result; you must not count on the interpreter result
+to hold the reference count of any value over this call.

 .SH KEYWORDS
 execute, file, global, result, script, value
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ usually means that an error occurred.
 Procedure to invoke before exiting application, or (for
 \fBTcl_SetExitProc\fR) NULL to uninstall the current application exit
 procedure.
-.AP void *clientData in
+.AP ClientData clientData in
 Arbitrary one-word value to pass to \fIproc\fR.
 .BE

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ otherwise causes the application to terminate without calling
 returns control to its caller.
 If an application exit handler has been installed (see
 \fBTcl_SetExitProc\fR), that handler is invoked with an argument
-consisting of the exit status (cast to void *); the application
+consisting of the exit status (cast to ClientData); the application
 exit handler should not return control to Tcl.
 .PP
 \fBTcl_Finalize\fR is similar to \fBTcl_Exit\fR except that it does not
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ and freeing global memory.
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef void \fBTcl_ExitProc\fR(
-        void *\fIclientData\fR);
+        ClientData \fIclientData\fR);
 .CE
 .PP
 The \fIclientData\fR parameter to \fIproc\fR is a
@@ -133,9 +133,10 @@ installed, that exit handler takes over complete responsibility for
 finalization of Tcl's subsystems via \fBTcl_Finalize\fR at an
 appropriate time.  The argument passed to \fIproc\fR when it is
 invoked will be the exit status code (as passed to \fBTcl_Exit\fR)
-cast to a void *value.
+cast to a ClientData value.
 .PP
-\fBTcl_SetExitProc\fR can not be used in stub-enabled extensions.
+\fBTcl_SetExitProc\fR can not be used in stub-enabled extensions. Its symbol
+entry in the stub table is deprecated and it will be removed in Tcl 9.0.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 exit(n)
 .SH KEYWORDS
@@ -98,6 +98,15 @@ containing the expression's value at \fI*resultPtrPtr\fR.
 In this case, the caller is responsible for calling
 \fBTcl_DecrRefCount\fR to decrement the value's reference count
 when it is finished with the value.
+.SH "REFERENCE COUNT MANAGEMENT"
+.PP
+\fBTcl_ExprLongObj\fR, \fBTcl_ExprDoubleObj\fR,
+\fBTcl_ExprBooleanObj\fR, and \fBTcl_ExprObj\fR all increment and
+decrement the reference count of their \fIobjPtr\fR arguments; you
+must not pass them any value with a reference count of zero. They also
+manipulate the interpreter result; you must not count on the
+interpreter result to hold the reference count of any value over these
+calls.

 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 Tcl_ExprLong, Tcl_ExprDouble, Tcl_ExprBoolean, Tcl_ExprString, Tcl_GetObjResult
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ int
 int
 \fBTcl_FSUnregister\fR(\fIfsPtr\fR)
 .sp
-void *
+ClientData
 \fBTcl_FSData\fR(\fIfsPtr\fR)
 .sp
 void
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ int
 \fBTcl_FSDeleteFile\fR(\fIpathPtr\fR)
 .sp
 int
-\fBTcl_FSRemoveDirectory\fR(\fIpathPtr, int recursive, errorPtr\fR)
+\fBTcl_FSRemoveDirectory\fR(\fIpathPtr, recursive, errorPtr\fR)
 .sp
 int
 \fBTcl_FSRenameFile\fR(\fIsrcPathPtr, destPathPtr\fR)
@@ -79,10 +79,10 @@ int
 \fBTcl_FSUtime\fR(\fIpathPtr, tval\fR)
 .sp
 int
-\fBTcl_FSFileAttrsGet\fR(\fIinterp, int index, pathPtr, objPtrRef\fR)
+\fBTcl_FSFileAttrsGet\fR(\fIinterp, index, pathPtr, objPtrRef\fR)
 .sp
 int
-\fBTcl_FSFileAttrsSet\fR(\fIinterp, int index, pathPtr, Tcl_Obj *objPtr\fR)
+\fBTcl_FSFileAttrsSet\fR(\fIinterp, index, pathPtr, objPtr\fR)
 .sp
 const char *const *
 \fBTcl_FSFileAttrStrings\fR(\fIpathPtr, objPtrRef\fR)
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ Tcl_Obj *
 int
 \fBTcl_FSConvertToPathType\fR(\fIinterp, pathPtr\fR)
 .sp
-void *
+ClientData
 \fBTcl_FSGetInternalRep\fR(\fIpathPtr, fsPtr\fR)
 .sp
 Tcl_Obj *
@@ -144,16 +144,16 @@ Tcl_Obj *
 Tcl_StatBuf *
 \fBTcl_AllocStatBuf\fR()
 .sp
-Tcl_WideInt
+long long
 \fBTcl_GetAccessTimeFromStat\fR(\fIstatPtr\fR)
 .sp
 unsigned
 \fBTcl_GetBlockSizeFromStat\fR(\fIstatPtr\fR)
 .sp
-Tcl_WideUInt
+unsigned long long
 \fBTcl_GetBlocksFromStat\fR(\fIstatPtr\fR)
 .sp
-Tcl_WideInt
+long long
 \fBTcl_GetChangeTimeFromStat\fR(\fIstatPtr\fR)
 .sp
 int
@@ -174,10 +174,10 @@ int
 unsigned
 \fBTcl_GetModeFromStat\fR(\fIstatPtr\fR)
 .sp
-Tcl_WideInt
+long long
 \fBTcl_GetModificationTimeFromStat\fR(\fIstatPtr\fR)
 .sp
-Tcl_WideUInt
+unsigned long long
 \fBTcl_GetSizeFromStat\fR(\fIstatPtr\fR)
 .sp
 int
@@ -197,6 +197,8 @@ rename operation.
 .AP Tcl_Obj *destPathPtr in
 As for \fIpathPtr\fR, but used for the destination filename for a copy or
 rename operation.
+.AP int recursive in
+Whether to remove subdirectories and their contents as well.
 .AP "const char" *encodingName in
 The encoding of the data stored in the
 file identified by \fIpathPtr\fR and to be evaluated.
@@ -208,7 +210,7 @@ this structure will be returned. This parameter may be NULL.
 .AP Tcl_Interp *interp in
 Interpreter to use either for results, evaluation, or reporting error
 messages.
-.AP void *clientData in
+.AP ClientData clientData in
 The native description of the path value to create.
 .AP Tcl_Obj *firstPtr in
 The first of two path values to compare. The value may be converted
@@ -224,6 +226,10 @@ be joined together. If negative, then all elements are joined.
 .AP Tcl_Obj **errorPtr out
 In the case of an error, filled with a value containing the name of
 the file which caused an error in the various copy/rename operations.
+.AP int index in
+The index of the attribute in question.
+.AP Tcl_Obj *objPtr in
+The value to set in the operation.
 .AP Tcl_Obj **objPtrRef out
 Filled with a value containing the result of the operation.
 .AP Tcl_Obj *resultPtr out
@@ -241,11 +247,11 @@ The structure that contains the result of a stat or lstat operation.
 Name of a procedure to look up in the file's symbol table
 .AP "const char" *sym2 in
 Name of a procedure to look up in the file's symbol table
-.AP Tcl_PackageInitProc **proc1Ptr out
+.AP Tcl_LibraryInitProc **proc1Ptr out
 Filled with the init function for this code.
-.AP Tcl_PackageInitProc **proc2Ptr out
+.AP Tcl_LibraryInitProc **proc2Ptr out
 Filled with the safe-init function for this code.
-.AP void **clientDataPtr out
+.AP ClientData *clientDataPtr out
 Filled with the clientData value to pass to this code's unload
 function when it is called.
 .AP Tcl_LoadHandle *loadHandlePtr out
@@ -716,7 +722,7 @@ better functions to use for most purposes.
 \fBTcl_FSGetTranslatedStringPath\fR does the same as
 \fBTcl_FSGetTranslatedPath\fR, but returns a character string or NULL.
 The string returned is dynamically allocated and owned by the caller,
-which must store it or call \fBTcl_Free\fR to ensure it is freed. Again,
+which must store it or call \fBckfree\fR to ensure it is freed. Again,
 \fBTcl_FSGetNormalizedPath\fR or \fBTcl_FSGetNativePath\fR are usually
 better functions to use for most purposes.
 .PP
@@ -783,7 +789,7 @@ It returns one of \fBTCL_PATH_ABSOLUTE\fR, \fBTCL_PATH_RELATIVE\fR, or
 .SS "PORTABLE STAT RESULT API"
 .PP
 \fBTcl_AllocStatBuf\fR allocates a \fITcl_StatBuf\fR on the system heap (which
-may be deallocated by being passed to \fBTcl_Free\fR). This allows extensions to
+may be deallocated by being passed to \fBckfree\fR). This allows extensions to
 invoke \fBTcl_FSStat\fR and \fBTcl_FSLstat\fR without being dependent on the
 size of the buffer. That in turn depends on the flags used to build Tcl.
 .PP
@@ -831,7 +837,7 @@ general that is not a good thing to do). \fBTCL_OK\fR will be returned.
 the list of known filesystems, if it is known, and returns \fBTCL_OK\fR. If
 the filesystem is not currently registered, \fBTCL_ERROR\fR is returned.
 .PP
-\fBTcl_FSData\fR will return the clientData associated with the given
+\fBTcl_FSData\fR will return the ClientData associated with the given
 filesystem, if that filesystem is registered. Otherwise it will
 return NULL.
 .PP
@@ -1008,7 +1014,7 @@ Tcl's internal list of known filesystems.
 .CS
 typedef int \fBTcl_FSPathInFilesystemProc\fR(
        Tcl_Obj *\fIpathPtr\fR,
-        void **\fIclientDataPtr\fR);
+        ClientData *\fIclientDataPtr\fR);
 .CE
 .SS DUPINTERNALREPPROC
 .PP
@@ -1018,8 +1024,8 @@ simply not copy the internal representation, which may then need to be
 regenerated later.
 .PP
 .CS
-typedef void *\fBTcl_FSDupInternalRepProc\fR(
-        void *\fIclientData\fR);
+typedef ClientData \fBTcl_FSDupInternalRepProc\fR(
+        ClientData \fIclientData\fR);
 .CE
 .SS FREEINTERNALREPPROC
 Free the internal representation. This must be implemented if internal
@@ -1028,7 +1034,7 @@ internal representation is generated), but may otherwise be NULL.
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef void \fBTcl_FSFreeInternalRepProc\fR(
-        void *\fIclientData\fR);
+        ClientData \fIclientData\fR);
 .CE
 .SS INTERNALTONORMALIZEDPROC
 .PP
@@ -1039,7 +1045,7 @@ representation is the normalized path.
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef Tcl_Obj *\fBTcl_FSInternalToNormalizedProc\fR(
-        void *\fIclientData\fR);
+        ClientData \fIclientData\fR);
 .CE
 .SS CREATEINTERNALREPPROC
 .PP
@@ -1050,7 +1056,7 @@ the \fITcl_FSPathInFilesystemProc\fR for this filesystem always
 immediately creates an internal representation for paths it accepts.
 .PP
 .CS
-typedef void *\fBTcl_FSCreateInternalRepProc\fR(
+typedef ClientData \fBTcl_FSCreateInternalRepProc\fR(
        Tcl_Obj *\fIpathPtr\fR);
 .CE
 .SS NORMALIZEPATHPROC
@@ -1628,6 +1634,158 @@ typedef int \fBTcl_FSChdirProc\fR(
 The \fBTcl_FSChdirProc\fR changes the applications current working
 directory to the value specified in \fIpathPtr\fR. The function returns
 -1 on error or 0 on success.
+.SH "REFERENCE COUNT MANAGEMENT"
+.SS "PUBLIC API CALLS"
+.PP
+For all of these functions, \fIpathPtr\fR (including the \fIsrcPathPtr\fR and
+\fIdestPathPtr\fR arguments to \fBTcl_FSCopyFile\fR,
+\fBTcl_FSCopyDirectory\fR, and \fBTcl_FSRenameFile\fR, the \fIfirstPtr\fR and
+\fIsecondPtr\fR arguments to \fBTcl_FSEqualPaths\fR, and the \fIlinkNamePtr\fR
+and \fItoPtr\fR arguments to \fBTcl_FSLink\fR) must not be a zero reference
+count value; references may be retained in internal caches even for
+theoretically read-only operations.  These functions may also manipulate the
+interpreter result (if they take and are given a non-NULL \fIinterp\fR
+argument); you must not count on the interpreter result to hold the reference
+count of any argument value over these calls and should manage your own
+references there. However, references held by the arguments to a Tcl command
+\fIare\fR suitable for reference count management purposes for the duration of
+the implementation of that command.
+.PP
+The \fIerrorPtr\fR argument to \fBTcl_FSCopyDirectory\fR and
+\fBTcl_FSRemoveDirectory\fR is, when an object is set into it at all, set to
+an object with a non-zero reference count that should be passed to
+\fBTcl_DecrRefCount\fR when no longer needed.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_FSListVolumes\fR always returns a zero-reference object, much
+like \fBTcl_NewObj\fR.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_FSLink\fR always returns a non-zero-reference object when it is
+asked to read; you must call \fBTcl_DecrRefCount\fR on the object
+once you no longer need it.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_FSGetCwd\fR always returns a non-zero-reference object; you
+must call \fBTcl_DecrRefCount\fR on the object once you no longer need
+it.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_FSPathSeparator\fR always returns a zero-reference object, much
+like \fBTcl_NewObj\fR.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_FSJoinPath\fR always returns a zero-reference object, much
+like \fBTcl_NewObj\fR. Its \fIlistObj\fR argument can have any reference
+count; it is only read by this function.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_FSSplitPath\fR always returns a zero-reference object, much
+like \fBTcl_NewObj\fR.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_FSGetNormalizedPath\fR returns an object with a non-zero
+reference count where Tcl is the owner. You should increment its
+reference count if you want to retain it, but do not need to if you
+are just using the value immediately.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_FSJoinToPath\fR always returns a zero-reference object, much like
+\fBTcl_NewObj\fR. Its \fIbasePtr\fR argument follows the rules above for
+\fIpathPtr\fR, as do the values in the \fIobjv\fR argument.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_FSGetTranslatedPath\fR returns a non-zero-reference object (or
+NULL in the error case); you must call \fBTcl_DecrRefCount\fR on the
+object once you no longer need it.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_FSNewNativePath\fR always returns a zero-reference object (or
+NULL), much like \fBTcl_NewObj\fR.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_FSFileSystemInfo\fR always returns a zero-reference object (or
+NULL), much like \fBTcl_NewObj\fR.
+.PP
+The \fIobjPtr\fR and \fIobjPtrRef\fR arguments to \fBTcl_FSFileAttrsGet\fR,
+\fBTcl_FSFileAttrsSet\fR and \fBTcl_FSFileAttrStrings\fR are conventional Tcl
+values; the \fIobjPtr\fR argument will be read but not retained, and the
+\fIobjPtrRef\fR argument will have (on success) a zero-reference value written
+into it (as with \fBTcl_NewObj\fR). \fBTcl_FSFileAttrsGet\fR and
+\fBTcl_FSFileAttrsSet\fR may also manipulate the interpreter result.
+.PP
+The \fIresultPtr\fR argument to \fBTcl_FSMatchInDirectory\fR will not have its
+reference count manipulated, but it should have a reference count of no more
+than 1, and should not be the current interpreter result (as the function may
+overwrite that on error).
+.SS "VIRTUAL FILESYSTEM INTERFACE"
+.PP
+For all virtual filesystem implementation functions, any \fIpathPtr\fR
+arguments should not have their reference counts manipulated. If they take an
+\fIinterp\fR argument, they may set an error message in that, but must not
+manipulate the \fIpathPtr\fR afterwards. Aside from that:
+.TP
+\fIinternalToNormalizedProc\fR
+.
+This should return a zero-reference count value, as if allocated with
+\fBTcl_NewObj\fR.
+.TP
+\fInormalizePathProc\fR
+.
+Unlike with other API implementation functions, the \fIpathPtr\fR argument
+here is guaranteed to be an unshared object that should be updated. Its
+reference count should not be modified.
+.TP
+\fIfilesystemPathTypeProc\fR
+.
+The return value (if non-NULL) either has a reference count of zero or needs
+to be maintained (on a per-thread basis) by the filesystem. Tcl will increment
+the reference count of the value if it wishes to retain it.
+.TP
+\fIfilesystemSeparatorProc\fR
+.
+The return value should be a value with reference count of zero.
+.TP
+\fImatchInDirectoryProc\fR
+.
+The \fIresultPtr\fR argument should be assumed to hold a list that can be
+appended to (i.e., that has a reference count no greater than 1). No reference
+to it should be retained.
+.TP
+\fIlinkProc\fR
+.
+If \fItoPtr\fR is NULL, this should return a value with reference count 1 that
+has just been allocated and passed to \fBTcl_IncrRefCount\fR. If \fItoPtr\fR
+is not NULL, it should be returned on success.
+.TP
+\fIlistVolumesProc\fR
+.
+The result value should be a list (if non-NULL); it will have its reference
+count decremented once (with \fBTcl_DecrRefCount\fR) by Tcl once done.
+.TP
+\fIfileAttrStringsProc\fR
+.
+If the result is NULL, the \fIobjPtrRef\fR should have a list value written to
+it; that list will have its reference count both incremented (with
+\fBTcl_IncrRefCount\fR) and decremented (with \fBTcl_DecrRefCount\fR).
+.TP
+\fIfileAttrsGetProc\fR
+.
+The \fIobjPtrRef\fR argument should have (on non-error return) a zero
+reference count value written to it (allocated as if with \fBTcl_NewObj\fR).
+.TP
+\fIfileAttrsSetProc\fR
+.
+The \fIobjPtr\fR argument should either just be read or its reference count
+incremented to retain it.
+.TP
+\fIremoveDirectoryProc\fR
+.
+If an error is being reported, the problem filename reported via
+\fIerrorPtr\fR should be newly allocated (as if with \fBTcl_NewObj\fR) and
+have a reference count of 1 (i.e., have been passed to
+\fBTcl_IncrRefCount\fR).
+.TP
+\fIcopyDirectoryProc\fR
+.
+If an error is being reported, the problem filename reported via
+\fIerrorPtr\fR should be newly allocated (as if with \fBTcl_NewObj\fR) and
+have a reference count of 1 (i.e., have been passed to
+\fBTcl_IncrRefCount\fR).
+.TP
+\fIgetCwdProc\fR
+.
+The result will be passed to \fBTcl_DecrRefCount\fR by the implementation of
+\fBTcl_FSGetCwd\fR after it has been normalized.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 cd(n), file(n), filename(n), load(n), open(n), pwd(n), source(n), unload(n)
 .SH KEYWORDS
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ equivalent to the \fBinfo nameofexecutable\fR command.  NULL
 is returned if the internal full path name has not been
 computed or unknown.
 .PP
-\fBTcl_FindExecutable\fR can not be used in stub-enabled extensions.
+\fBTcl_FindExecutable\fR can not be used in stub-enabled extensions. Its symbol
+entry in the stub table is deprecated and it will be removed in Tcl 9.0.
 .SH KEYWORDS
 binary, executable file
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ char *
 \fBTcl_GetCwd\fR(\fIinterp\fR, \fIbufferPtr\fR)
 .sp
 int
-\fBTcl_Chdir\fR(\fIpath\fR)
+\fBTcl_Chdir\fR(\fIdirName\fR)
 .SH ARGUMENTS
 .AS Tcl_DString *bufferPtr in/out
 .AP Tcl_Interp *interp in
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ This dynamic string is used to store the current working directory.
 At the time of the call it should be uninitialized or free.  The
 caller must eventually call \fBTcl_DStringFree\fR to free up
 anything stored here.
-.AP char *path in
+.AP "const char" *dirName in
 File path in UTF\-8 format.
 .BE

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ must call \fBTcl_DStringFree()\fR when the result is no longer needed.
 The format of the path is UTF\-8.
 .PP
 \fBTcl_Chdir\fR changes the applications current working directory to
-the value specified in \fIpath\fR.  The format of the passed in string
+the value specified in \fIdirName\fR.  The format of the passed in string
 must be UTF\-8.  The function returns -1 on error or 0 on success.

 .SH KEYWORDS
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 '\"
-'\" Copyright (c) 1998-2000 by Scriptics Corporation.
+'\" Copyright (c) 1998-2000 Scriptics Corporation.
 '\" All rights reserved.
 '\"
 .TH Tcl_GetHostName 3 8.3 Tcl "Tcl Library Procedures"
@@ -105,6 +105,12 @@ array of characters at \fItablePtr\fR+\fIoffset\fR bytes, etc.)
 This is particularly useful when processing things like
 \fBTk_ConfigurationSpec\fR, whose string keys are in the same place in
 each of several array elements.
+.SH "REFERENCE COUNT MANAGEMENT"
+.PP
+\fBTcl_GetIndexFromObj\fR and \fBTcl_GetIndexFromObjStruct\fR do not modify
+the reference count of their \fIobjPtr\fR arguments; they only read. Note
+however that these functions may set the interpreter result; if that is the
+only place that is holding a reference to the object, it will be deleted.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 prefix(n), Tcl_WrongNumArgs(3)
 .SH KEYWORDS
@@ -64,9 +64,12 @@ if the first such characters are
 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 \fB0\fR
 then \fIsrc\fR
-is expected to be in binary form;  otherwise, \fIsrc\fR is
-expected to be in decimal form.
+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
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ be used for reading.
 .AP int checkUsage in
 If non-zero, then an error will be generated if the file was not opened
 for the access indicated by \fIwrite\fR.
-.AP void **filePtr out
+.AP ClientData *filePtr out
 Points to word in which to store pointer to FILE structure for
 the file given by \fIchanID\fR.
 .BE
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 '\"
-'\" Copyright (c) 1996 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
+'\" Copyright (c) 1996 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
 '\"
 '\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
 '\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 '\"
-'\" Copyright (c) 2001 by Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org>.
+'\" Copyright (c) 2001 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org>.
 '\"
 '\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
 '\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
@@ -27,13 +27,13 @@ Pointer to handler function replacing \fBTcl_GetTime\fR's access to the OS.
 .AP Tcl_ScaleTimeProc scaleProc in
 Pointer to handler function for the conversion of time delays in the
 virtual domain to real-time.
-.AP void *clientData in
+.AP ClientData clientData in
 Value passed through to the two handler functions.
 .AP Tcl_GetTimeProc *getProcPtr out
 Pointer to place the currently registered get handler function into.
 .AP Tcl_ScaleTimeProc *scaleProcPtr out
 Pointer to place the currently registered scale handler function into.
-.AP void **clientDataPtr out
+.AP ClientData *clientDataPtr out
 Pointer to place the currently registered pass-through value into.
 .BE
 .SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -83,10 +83,10 @@ The signatures of the handler functions are as follows:
 .CS
 typedef void \fBTcl_GetTimeProc\fR(
        Tcl_Time *\fItimebuf\fR,
-        void *\fIclientData\fR);
+        ClientData \fIclientData\fR);
 typedef void \fBTcl_ScaleTimeProc\fR(
        Tcl_Time *\fItimebuf\fR,
-        void *\fIclientData\fR);
+        ClientData \fIclientData\fR);
 .CE
 .PP
 The \fItimebuf\fR fields contain the time to manipulate, and the
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Tcl_HashEntry *
 Tcl_HashEntry *
 \fBTcl_FindHashEntry\fR(\fItablePtr, key\fR)
 .sp
-void *
+ClientData
 \fBTcl_GetHashValue\fR(\fIentryPtr\fR)
 .sp
 \fBTcl_SetHashValue\fR(\fIentryPtr, value\fR)
@@ -66,8 +66,9 @@ The word at \fI*newPtr\fR is set to 1 if a new entry was created
 and 0 if there was already an entry for \fIkey\fR.
 .AP Tcl_HashEntry *entryPtr in
 Pointer to hash table entry.
-.AP void *value in
-New value to assign to hash table entry.
+.AP ClientData value in
+New value to assign to hash table entry.  Need not have type
+ClientData, but must fit in same space as ClientData.
 .AP Tcl_HashSearch *searchPtr in
 Pointer to record to use to keep track of progress in enumerating
 all the entries in a hash table.
@@ -185,6 +186,11 @@ instead, it returns NULL as result.
 .PP
 \fBTcl_GetHashValue\fR and \fBTcl_SetHashValue\fR are used to
 read and write an entry's value, respectively.
+Values are stored and retrieved as type
+.QW ClientData ,
+which is
+large enough to hold a pointer value.  On almost all machines this is
+large enough to hold an integer value too.
 .PP
 \fBTcl_GetHashKey\fR returns the key for a given hash table entry,
 either as a pointer to a string, a one-word
@@ -223,7 +229,7 @@ overall information about a hash table, such as the number of
 entries it contains, the number of buckets in its hash array,
 and the utilization of the buckets.
 It is the caller's responsibility to free the result string
-by passing it to \fBTcl_Free\fR.
+by passing it to \fBckfree\fR.
 .PP
 The header file \fBtcl.h\fR defines the actual data structures
 used to implement hash tables.
@@ -324,5 +330,19 @@ typedef void \fBTcl_FreeHashEntryProc\fR(
 If this is NULL then \fBTcl_Free\fR is used to free the space for the entry.
 Tcl_Obj* keys use this function to decrement the reference count on the
 value.
+.SH "REFERENCE COUNT MANAGEMENT"
+.PP
+When a hash table is created with \fBTcl_InitCustomHashTable\fR, the
+\fBTcl_CreateHashEntry\fR function will increment the reference count of its
+\fIkey\fR argument when it creates a key (but not if there is an existing
+matching key). The reference count of the key will be decremented when the
+corresponding hash entry is deleted, whether with \fBTcl_DeleteHashEntry\fR or
+with \fBTcl_DeleteHashTable\fR. The \fBTcl_GetHashKey\fR function will return
+the key without further modifying its reference count.
+.PP
+Custom hash tables that use a Tcl_Obj* as key will generally need to do
+something similar in their \fIallocEntryProc\fR.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+Dict(3)
 .SH KEYWORDS
 hash table, key, lookup, search, value
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 '\"
-'\" Copyright (c) 1998-2000 by Scriptics Corporation.
+'\" Copyright (c) 1998-2000 Scriptics Corporation.
 '\" All rights reserved.
 '\"
-.TH Tcl_Init 3 8.0 Tcl "Tcl Library Procedures"
+.TH Tcl_Init 3 8.7 Tcl "Tcl Library Procedures"
 .so man.macros
 .BS
 .SH NAME
@@ -13,10 +13,15 @@ Tcl_Init \- find and source initialization script
 .sp
 int
 \fBTcl_Init\fR(\fIinterp\fR)
+.sp
+const char *
+\fBTcl_SetPreInitScript\fR(\fIscriptPtr\fR)
 .SH ARGUMENTS
 .AS Tcl_Interp *interp
 .AP Tcl_Interp *interp in
 Interpreter to initialize.
+.AP "const char" *scriptPtr in
+Address of the initialization script.
 .BE

 .SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -26,6 +31,13 @@ Interpreter to initialize.
 path.
 .PP
 \fBTcl_Init\fR is typically called from \fBTcl_AppInit\fR procedures.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_SetPreInitScript\fR registers the pre-initialization script and
+returns the former (now replaced) script pointer.
+A value of \fINULL\fR may be passed to not register any script.
+The pre-initialization script is executed by \fBTcl_Init\fR before accessing
+the file system. The purpose is to typically prepare a custom file system
+(like an embedded zip-file) to be activated before the search.

 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 Tcl_AppInit, Tcl_Main
@@ -63,9 +63,9 @@ Define the \fBUSE_TCL_STUBS\fR symbol.  Typically, you would include the
 \fB\-DUSE_TCL_STUBS\fR flag when compiling the extension.
 .IP 3) 5
 Link the extension with the Tcl stubs library instead of the standard
-Tcl library.  For example, to use the Tcl 9.0 ABI on Unix platforms,
-the library name is \fIlibtclstub9.0.a\fR; on Windows platforms, the
-library name is \fItclstub90.lib\fR.
+Tcl library.  For example, to use the Tcl 8.6 ABI on Unix platforms,
+the library name is \fIlibtclstub8.6.a\fR; on Windows platforms, the
+library name is \fItclstub86.lib\fR.
 .PP
 If the extension also requires the Tk API, it must also call
 \fBTk_InitStubs\fR to initialize the Tk stubs interface and link
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ first thing in the application's main program.
 .PP
 \fBTcl_InitSubsystems\fR is very similar in use to
 \fBTcl_FindExecutable\fR. It can be used when Tcl is
-used as utility library, no other encodings than utf-8,
+used as utility library, no other encodings than utf8,
 iso8859-1 or unicode are used, and no interest exists in the
 value of \fBinfo nameofexecutable\fR. The system encoding will not
-be extracted from the environment, but falls back to utf-8.
+be extracted from the environment, but falls back to iso8859-1.
 .SH KEYWORDS
 binary, executable file
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ are provided by the C language standard.  The \fBTcl_WideInt\fR type is a
 typedef defined to be whatever signed integral type covers at least the
 64-bit integer range (-9223372036854775808 to 9223372036854775807).  Depending
 on the platform and the C compiler, the actual type might be
-\fBlong long int\fR, \fB__int64\fR, or something else.
+\fBlong long int\fR, or something else.
 The \fBmp_int\fR type is a multiple-precision integer type defined
 by the LibTomMath multiple-precision integer library.
 .PP
@@ -160,6 +160,27 @@ If anything later in the caller requires
 The \fBTcl_InitBignumFromDouble\fR routine is a utility procedure
 that extracts the integer part of \fIdoubleValue\fR and stores that
 integer value in the \fBmp_int\fR value \fIbigValue\fR.
+.SH "REFERENCE COUNT MANAGEMENT"
+.PP
+\fBTcl_NewIntObj\fR, \fBTcl_NewLongObj\fR, \fBTcl_NewWideIntObj\fR, and
+\fBTcl_NewBignumObj\fR always return a zero-reference object, much like
+\fBTcl_NewObj\fR.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_SetIntObj\fR, \fBTcl_SetLongObj\fR, \fBTcl_SetWideIntObj\fR, and
+\fBTcl_SetBignumObj\fR do not modify the reference count of their \fIobjPtr\fR
+arguments, but do require that the object be unshared.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_GetIntFromObj\fR, \fBTcl_GetIntForIndex\fR, \fBTcl_GetLongFromObj\fR,
+\fBTcl_GetWideIntFromObj\fR, \fBTcl_GetBignumFromObj\fR, and
+\fBTcl_TakeBignumFromObj\fR do not modify the reference count of their
+\fIobjPtr\fR arguments; they only read. Note however that this function may
+set the interpreter result; if that is the only place that is holding a
+reference to the object, it will be deleted. Also note that if
+\fBTcl_TakeBignumFromObj\fR is given an unshared value, the value of that
+object may be modified; it is intended to be used when the value is
+.QW consumed
+by the operation at this point.
+
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 Tcl_NewObj, Tcl_DecrRefCount, Tcl_IncrRefCount, Tcl_GetObjResult
 .SH KEYWORDS
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+'\"
+'\" Copyright (c) 1989-1993 The Regents of the University of California.
+'\" Copyright (c) 1994-1996 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
+'\"
+'\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
+'\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
+'\"
+.TH Tcl_Interp 3 8.7 Tcl "Tcl Library Procedures"
+.so man.macros
+.BS
+.SH NAME
+Tcl_Interp \- client-visible fields of interpreter structures
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.nf
+\fB#include <tcl.h>\fR
+.sp
+typedef struct {
+    char *\fIresult\fR;			/* NO LONGER AVAILABLE */
+    Tcl_FreeProc *\fIfreeProc\fR;	/* NO LONGER AVAILABLE */
+    int \fIerrorLine\fR;		/* NO LONGER AVAILABLE */
+} \fBTcl_Interp\fR;
+
+typedef void \fBTcl_FreeProc\fR(
+        char *\fIblockPtr\fR);
+.BE
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.PP
+The \fBTcl_CreateInterp\fR procedure returns a pointer to a \fBTcl_Interp\fR
+structure.  Callers of \fBTcl_CreateInterp\fR should use this pointer
+as an opaque token, suitable for nothing other than passing back to
+other routines in the Tcl interface from the same thread that called
+\fBTcl_CreateInterp\fR.  The \fBTcl_Interp\fR struct no longer has any
+supported client-visible fields.  Supported public routines such as
+\fBTcl_SetResult\fR, \fBTcl_GetResult\fR, \fBTcl_SetErrorLine\fR,
+\fBTcl_GetErrorLine\fR must be used instead.
+.PP
+Any legacy programs and extensions trying to access the fields above
+in their source code will need conversion to compile for Tcl 8.7 and later.
+
+.SH KEYWORDS
+interpreter, result
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ the handler returns.  Many handlers may be attached to the same
 interpreter limit; their order of execution is not defined, and they
 must be identified by \fIhandlerProc\fR and \fIclientData\fR when they
 are deleted.
-.AP void *clientData in
+.AP ClientData clientData in
 Arbitrary pointer-sized word used to pass some context to the
 \fIhandlerProc\fR function.
 .AP Tcl_LimitHandlerDeleteProc *deleteProc in
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ following prototype:
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef void \fBTcl_LimitHandlerProc\fR(
-        void *\fIclientData\fR,
+        ClientData \fIclientData\fR,
        Tcl_Interp *\fIinterp\fR);
 .CE
 .PP
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ following prototype:
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef void \fBTcl_LimitHandlerDeleteProc\fR(
-        void *\fIclientData\fR);
+        ClientData \fIclientData\fR);
 .CE
 .PP
 A limit handler may be deleted using \fBTcl_LimitRemoveHandler\fR; the
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ In \fBTcl_LinkArray\fR, the additional linked types \fBTCL_LINK_CHARS\fR and
 All the above for both functions may be
 optionally OR'ed with \fBTCL_LINK_READ_ONLY\fR to make the Tcl
 variable read-only.
-.AP size_t size in
+.AP int size in
 .VS "TIP 312"
 The number of elements in the C array. Must be greater than zero.
 .VE "TIP 312"
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ Tcl errors.
 .
 The C variable is of type \fBchar *\fR.
 If its value is not NULL then it must be a pointer to a string
-allocated with \fBTcl_Alloc\fR.
+allocated with \fBTcl_Alloc\fR or \fBckalloc\fR.
 Whenever the Tcl variable is modified the current C string will be
 freed and new memory will be allocated to hold a copy of the variable's
 new value.
@@ -246,6 +246,31 @@ with a NULL \fIobjvPtr\fR:
 result = \fBTcl_ListObjReplace\fR(interp, listPtr, first, count,
        0, NULL);
 .CE
+.SH "REFERENCE COUNT MANAGEMENT"
+.PP
+\fBTcl_NewListObj\fR always returns a zero-reference object, much like
+\fBTcl_NewObj\fR. If a non-NULL \fIobjv\fR argument is given, the reference
+counts of the first \fIobjc\fR values in that array are incremented.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_SetListObj\fR does not modify the reference count of its \fIobjPtr\fR
+argument, but does require that the object be unshared. The reference counts
+of the first \fIobjc\fR values in the \fIobjv\fR array are incremented.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_ListObjGetElements\fR, \fBTcl_ListObjIndex\fR, and
+\fBTcl_ListObjLength\fR do not modify the reference count of their
+\fIlistPtr\fR arguments; they only read. Note however that these three
+functions may set the interpreter result; if that is the only place that is
+holding a reference to the object, it will be deleted.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_ListObjAppendList\fR, \fBTcl_ListObjAppendElement\fR, and
+\fBTcl_ListObjReplace\fR require an unshared \fIlistPtr\fR argument.
+\fBTcl_ListObjAppendList\fR only reads its \fIelemListPtr\fR argument.
+\fBTcl_ListObjAppendElement\fR increments the reference count of its
+\fIobjPtr\fR on success. \fBTcl_ListObjReplace\fR increments the reference
+count of the first \fIobjc\fR values in the \fIobjv\fR array on success.  Note
+however that all these three functions may set the interpreter result on
+failure; if that is the only place that is holding a reference to the object,
+it will be deleted.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 Tcl_NewObj(3), Tcl_DecrRefCount(3), Tcl_IncrRefCount(3), Tcl_GetObjResult(3)
 .SH KEYWORDS
@@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ be unloaded with \fBTcl_FSUnloadFile\fR.
 the symbol cannot be found, it returns NULL and sets an error message in the
 given \fIinterp\fR (if that is non-NULL). Note that it is unsafe to use this
 operation on a handle that has been passed to \fBTcl_FSUnloadFile\fR.
+.SH "REFERENCE COUNT MANAGEMENT"
+.PP
+The reference count of the \fIpathPtr\fR argument to \fBTcl_LoadFile\fR may be
+incremented. As such, it should not be given a zero reference count value.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 Tcl_FSLoadFile(3), Tcl_FSUnloadFile(3), load(n), unload(n)
 .SH KEYWORDS
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ Tcl_Object
 int
 \fBTcl_ObjectContextSkippedArgs\fR(\fIcontext\fR)
 .SH ARGUMENTS
-.AS void *clientData in
+.AS ClientData clientData in
 .AP Tcl_Interp *interp in/out
 The interpreter holding the object or class to create or update a method in.
 .AP Tcl_Object object in
@@ -83,10 +83,10 @@ and \fBTCL_OO_METHOD_PRIVATE\fR for a private method.
 .AP Tcl_MethodType *methodTypePtr in
 A description of the type of the method to create, or the type of method to
 compare against.
-.AP void *clientData in
+.AP ClientData clientData in
 A piece of data that is passed to the implementation of the method without
 interpretation.
-.AP void **clientDataPtr out
+.AP ClientData *clientDataPtr out
 A pointer to a variable in which to write the \fIclientData\fR value supplied
 when the method was created. If NULL, the \fIclientData\fR value will not be
 retrieved.
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ Functions matching this signature are called when the method is invoked.
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef int \fBTcl_MethodCallProc\fR(
-        void *\fIclientData\fR,
+        ClientData \fIclientData\fR,
        Tcl_Interp *\fIinterp\fR,
        Tcl_ObjectContext \fIobjectContext\fR,
        int \fIobjc\fR,
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ through a new method being created or because the object or class is deleted.
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef void \fBTcl_MethodDeleteProc\fR(
-        void *\fIclientData\fR);
+        ClientData \fIclientData\fR);
 .CE
 .PP
 The \fIclientData\fR argument to a Tcl_MethodDeleteProc will be the same as
@@ -248,8 +248,8 @@ class is copied using \fBTcl_CopyObjectInstance\fR (or \fBoo::copy\fR).
 .CS
 typedef int \fBTcl_CloneProc\fR(
        Tcl_Interp *\fIinterp\fR,
-        void *\fIoldClientData\fR,
-        void **\fInewClientDataPtr\fR);
+        ClientData \fIoldClientData\fR,
+        ClientData *\fInewClientDataPtr\fR);
 .CE
 .PP
 The \fIinterp\fR argument gives a place to write an error message when the
@@ -258,8 +258,32 @@ also return TCL_ERROR; it should return TCL_OK otherwise.
 The \fIoldClientData\fR field to a Tcl_CloneProc gives the value from the
 method being copied from, and the \fInewClientDataPtr\fR field will point to
 a variable in which to write the value for the method being copied to.
+.SH "REFERENCE COUNT MANAGEMENT"
+.PP
+The \fInameObj\fR argument to \fBTcl_NewMethod\fR and
+\fBTcl_NewInstanceMethod\fR (when non-NULL) will have its reference count
+incremented if there is no existing method with that name in that
+class/object.
+.PP
+The result of \fBTcl_MethodName\fR is a value with a reference count of at
+least one. It should not be modified without first duplicating it (with
+\fBTcl_DuplicateObj\fR).
+.PP
+The values in the first \fIobjc\fR values of the \fIobjv\fR argument to
+\fBTcl_ObjectContextInvokeNext\fR are assumed to have a reference count of at
+least 1; the containing array is assumed to endure until the next method
+implementation (see \fBnext\fR) returns. Be aware that methods may
+\fByield\fR; if any post-call actions are desired (e.g., decrementing the
+reference count of values passed in here), they must be scheduled with
+\fBTcl_NRAddCallback\fR.
+.PP
+The \fIcallProc\fR of the \fBTcl_MethodType\fR structure takes values of at
+least reference count 1 in its \fIobjv\fR argument. It may add its own
+references, but must not decrement the reference count below that level; the
+caller of the method will decrement the reference count once the method
+returns properly (and the reference will be held if the method \fByield\fRs).
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
-Class(3), oo::class(n), oo::define(n), oo::object(n)
+Class(3), NRE(3), oo::class(n), oo::define(n), oo::object(n)
 .SH KEYWORDS
 constructor, method, object

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 .\"
-.\" Copyright (c) 2008 by Kevin B. Kenny.
-.\" Copyright (c) 2018 by Nathan Coulter.
+.\" Copyright (c) 2008 Kevin B. Kenny.
+.\" Copyright (c) 2018 Nathan Coulter.
 .\"
 '\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
 '\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ void
 .AS Tcl_CmdDeleteProc *interp in
 .AP Tcl_Interp *interp in
 The relevant Interpreter.
-.AP char *cmdName in
+.AP "const char" *cmdName in
 Name of the command to create.
 .AP Tcl_ObjCmdProc *proc in
 Called in order to evaluate a command.  Is often just a small wrapper that uses
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ in the same way as the \fIproc\fR argument to \fBTcl_CreateObjCommand\fR(3)
 (\fIq.v.\fR).
 .AP Tcl_ObjCmdProc *nreProc in
 Called instead of \fIproc\fR when a trampoline is already in use.
-.AP void *clientData in
+.AP ClientData clientData in
 Arbitrary one-word value passed to \fIproc\fR, \fInreProc\fR, \fIdeleteProc\fR
 and \fIobjProc\fR.
 .AP Tcl_CmdDeleteProc *deleteProc in/out
@@ -72,10 +72,10 @@ Pointer to an unshared Tcl_Obj where the result of the evaluation is stored if
 the return code is TCL_OK.
 .AP Tcl_NRPostProc *postProcPtr in
 A function to push.
-.AP void *data0 in
-.AP void *data1 in
-.AP void *data2 in
-.AP void *data3 in
+.AP ClientData data0 in
+.AP ClientData data1 in
+.AP ClientData data2 in
+.AP ClientData data3 in
 \fIdata0\fR through \fIdata3\fR are four one-word values that will be passed
 to the function designated by \fIpostProcPtr\fR when it is invoked.
 .BE
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ a message as the interpreter's result.
 .CS
 typedef int
 \fBTcl_NRPostProc\fR(
-        \fBvoid *\fR \fIdata\fR[],
+        \fBClientData\fR \fIdata\fR[],
        \fBTcl_Interp\fR *\fIinterp\fR,
        int \fIresult\fR);
 .CE
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ stack, to evalute a script:
 .CS
 int
 \fITheCmdOldObjProc\fR(
-    void *clientData,
+    ClientData clientData,
    Tcl_Interp *interp,
    int objc,
    Tcl_Obj *const objv[])
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ call \fITheCmdNRObjProc\fR:
 .CS
 int
 \fITheCmdOldObjProc\fR(
-    void *clientData,
+    ClientData clientData,
    Tcl_Interp *interp,
    int objc,
    Tcl_Obj *const objv[])
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ int
 .CS
 int
 \fITheCmdNRObjProc\fR
-    void *clientData,
+    ClientData clientData,
    Tcl_Interp *interp,
    int objc,
    Tcl_Obj *const objv[])
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ int
 .CS
 int
 \fITheCmdNRPostProc\fR(
-    void *data[],
+    ClientData data[],
    Tcl_Interp *interp,
    int result)
 {
@@ -227,10 +227,29 @@ int
 Any function comprising a routine can push other functions, making it possible
 implement looping and sequencing constructs using the function stack.
 .PP
+.SH "REFERENCE COUNT MANAGEMENT"
+.PP
+The first \fIobjc\fR values in the \fIobjv\fR array passed to the functions
+\fBTcl_NRCallObjProc\fR, \fBTcl_NREvalObjv\fR, and \fBTcl_NRCmdSwap\fR should
+have a reference count of at least 1; they may have additional references
+taken during the execution.
+.PP
+The \fIobjPtr\fR argument to \fBTcl_NREvalObj\fR and \fBTcl_NRExprObj\fR
+should have a reference count of at least 1, and may have additional
+references taken to it during execution.
+.PP
+The \fIresultObj\fR argument to \fBTcl_NRExprObj\fR should be an unshared
+object.
+.PP
+Use \fBTcl_NRAddCallback\fR to schedule any required final decrementing of the
+reference counts of arguments to any of the other functions on this page, as
+with any other post-processing step in the non-recursive execution engine.
+.PP
+The
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 Tcl_CreateCommand(3), Tcl_CreateObjCommand(3), Tcl_EvalObjEx(3), Tcl_GetCommandFromObj(3), Tcl_ExprObj(3)
 .SH KEYWORDS
 stackless, nonrecursive, execute, command, global, value, result, script
 .SH COPYRIGHT
-Copyright (c) 2008 by Kevin B. Kenny.
-Copyright (c) 2018 by Nathan Coulter.
+Copyright \(co 2008 Kevin B. Kenny.
+Copyright \(co 2018 Nathan Coulter.
@@ -46,10 +46,10 @@ Tcl_Command
 \fBTcl_FindCommand\fR(\fIinterp, name, contextNsPtr, flags\fR)
 .sp
 Tcl_Obj *
-\fBTcl_GetNamespaceUnknownHandler(\fIinterp, nsPtr\fR)
+\fBTcl_GetNamespaceUnknownHandler\fR(\fIinterp, nsPtr\fR)
 .sp
 int
-\fBTcl_SetNamespaceUnknownHandler(\fIinterp, nsPtr, handlerPtr\fR)
+\fBTcl_SetNamespaceUnknownHandler\fR(\fIinterp, nsPtr, handlerPtr\fR)
 .SH ARGUMENTS
 .AS Tcl_NamespaceDeleteProc allowOverwrite in/out
 .AP Tcl_Interp *interp in/out
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ The interpreter in which the namespace exists and where name lookups
 are performed. Also where error result messages are written.
 .AP "const char" *name in
 The name of the namespace or command to be created or accessed.
-.AP void *clientData in
+.AP ClientData clientData in
 A context pointer by the creator of the namespace.  Not interpreted by
 Tcl at all.
 .AP Tcl_NamespaceDeleteProc *deleteProc in
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ the global namespace.)
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef void \fBTcl_NamespaceDeleteProc\fR(
-        void *\fIclientData\fR);
+        ClientData \fIclientData\fR);
 .CE
 .PP
 \fBTcl_DeleteNamespace\fR deletes a namespace, calling the
@@ -159,6 +159,18 @@ for the namespace, or NULL if none is set.
 \fBTcl_SetNamespaceUnknownHandler\fR sets the unknown command handler for
 the namespace. If \fIhandlerPtr\fR is NULL, then the handler is reset to
 its default.
+.SH "REFERENCE COUNT MANAGEMENT"
+.PP
+The \fIobjPtr\fR argument to \fBTcl_AppendExportList\fR should be an
+unshared object, as it will be modified by this function. The
+reference count of \fIobjPtr\fR will not be altered.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_GetNamespaceUnknownHandler\fR returns a possibly shared value.
+Its reference count should be incremented if the value is to be
+retained.
+.PP
+The \fIhandlerPtr\fR argument to \fBTcl_SetNamespaceUnknownHandler\fR
+will have its reference count incremented if it is a non-empty list.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 Tcl_CreateCommand(3), Tcl_ListObjAppendList(3), Tcl_SetVar(3)
 .SH KEYWORDS
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Tcl_ThreadId
 void
 \fBTcl_DeleteEvents\fR(\fIdeleteProc, clientData\fR)
 .sp
-void *
+ClientData
 \fBTcl_InitNotifier\fR()
 .sp
 void
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ Procedure to invoke to prepare for event wait in \fBTcl_DoOneEvent\fR.
 Procedure for \fBTcl_DoOneEvent\fR to invoke after waiting for
 events.  Checks to see if any events have occurred and, if so,
 queues them.
-.AP void *clientData in
+.AP ClientData clientData in
 Arbitrary one-word value to pass to \fIsetupProc\fR, \fIcheckProc\fR, or
 \fIdeleteProc\fR.
 .AP "const Tcl_Time" *timePtr in
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ is NULL, it means there is no maximum wait time:  wait forever if
 necessary.
 .AP Tcl_Event *evPtr in
 An event to add to the event queue.  The storage for the event must
-have been allocated by the caller using \fBTcl_Alloc\fR.
+have been allocated by the caller using \fBTcl_Alloc\fR or \fBckalloc\fR.
 .AP Tcl_QueuePosition position in
 Where to add the new event in the queue:  \fBTCL_QUEUE_TAIL\fR,
 \fBTCL_QUEUE_HEAD\fR, or \fBTCL_QUEUE_MARK\fR.
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ the event source.
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef void \fBTcl_EventSetupProc\fR(
-        void *\fIclientData\fR,
+        ClientData \fIclientData\fR,
        int \fIflags\fR);
 .CE
 .PP
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ following prototype:
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef void \fBTcl_EventCheckProc\fR(
-        void *\fIclientData\fR,
+        ClientData \fIclientData\fR,
        int \fIflags\fR);
 .CE
 .PP
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ of window events.
 When \fIproc\fR returns 1, \fBTcl_ServiceEvent\fR will remove the
 event from the event queue and free its storage.
 Note that the storage for an event must be allocated by
-the event source (using \fBTcl_Alloc\fR)
+the event source (using \fBTcl_Alloc\fR or the Tcl macro \fBckalloc\fR)
 before calling \fBTcl_QueueEvent\fR, but it
 will be freed by \fBTcl_ServiceEvent\fR, not by the event source.
 .PP
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ queue.  \fIProc\fR should match the following prototype:
 .CS
 typedef int \fBTcl_EventDeleteProc\fR(
        Tcl_Event *\fIevPtr\fR,
-        void *\fIclientData\fR);
+        ClientData \fIclientData\fR);
 .CE
 .PP
 The \fIclientData\fR argument will be the same as the \fIclientData\fR
@@ -111,9 +111,9 @@ which is defined as follows.
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef struct Tcl_Obj {
-    size_t \fIrefCount\fR;
+    int \fIrefCount\fR;
    char *\fIbytes\fR;
-    size_t \fIlength\fR;
+    int \fIlength\fR;
    const Tcl_ObjType *\fItypePtr\fR;
    union {
        long \fIlongValue\fR;
@@ -283,7 +283,12 @@ to reduce storage requirements.
 Reference counting is used to determine when a value is
 no longer needed and can safely be freed.
 A value just created by \fBTcl_NewObj\fR or \fBTcl_NewStringObj\fR
-has \fIrefCount\fR 0.
+has \fIrefCount\fR 0, meaning that the object can often be given to a function
+like \fBTcl_SetObjResult\fR, \fBTcl_ListObjAppendElement\fR, or
+\fBTcl_DictObjPut\fR (as a value) without explicit reference management, all
+of which are common use cases. (The latter two require that the the target
+list or dictionary be well-formed, but that is often easy to arrange when the
+value is being initially constructed.)
 The macro \fBTcl_IncrRefCount\fR increments the reference count
 when a new reference to the value is created.
 The macro \fBTcl_DecrRefCount\fR decrements the count
@@ -184,8 +184,8 @@ to be treated as conventional null character-terminated C strings.
 These restrictions are easily met by using Tcl's internal UTF encoding
 for the string representation, same as one would do for other
 Tcl routines accepting string values as arguments.
-Storage for the byte array must be allocated in the heap by \fBTcl_Alloc\fR.
-Note that \fIupdateStringProc\fRs must allocate
+Storage for the byte array must be allocated in the heap by \fBTcl_Alloc\fR
+or \fBckalloc\fR.  Note that \fIupdateStringProc\fRs must allocate
 enough storage for the string's bytes and the terminating null byte.
 .PP
 The \fIupdateStringProc\fR for Tcl's built-in double type, for example,
@@ -248,6 +248,28 @@ The \fIfreeIntRepProc\fR implementation must not access the
 uses of that field during value deletion.  The defined tasks for
 the \fIfreeIntRepProc\fR have no need to consult the \fIbytes\fR
 member.
+.PP
+Note that if a subsidiary value has its reference count reduced to zero
+during the running of a \fIfreeIntRepProc\fR, that value may be not freed
+immediately, in order to limit stack usage. However, the value will be freed
+before the outermost current \fBTcl_DecrRefCount\fR returns.
+.SH "REFERENCE COUNT MANAGEMENT"
+.PP
+The \fIobjPtr\fR argument to \fBTcl_AppendAllObjTypes\fR should be an unshared
+value; this function will not modify the reference count of that value, but
+will modify its contents. If \fIobjPtr\fR is not (interpretable as) a list,
+this function will set the interpreter result and produce an error; using an
+unshared empty value is strongly recommended.
+.PP
+The \fIobjPtr\fR argument to \fBTcl_ConvertToType\fR can have any non-zero
+reference count; this function will not modify the reference count, but may
+write to the interpreter result on error so values that originate from there
+should have an additional reference made before calling this.
+.PP
+None of the callback functions in the \fBTcl_ObjType\fR structure should
+modify the reference count of their arguments, but if the values contain
+subsidiary values (e.g., the elements of a list or the keys of a dictionary)
+then those subsidiary values may have their reference counts modified.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 Tcl_NewObj(3), Tcl_DecrRefCount(3), Tcl_IncrRefCount(3)
 .SH KEYWORDS
@@ -53,28 +53,28 @@ int
 int
 \fBTcl_Read\fR(\fIchannel, readBuf, bytesToRead\fR)
 .sp
-size_t
+int
 \fBTcl_GetsObj\fR(\fIchannel, lineObjPtr\fR)
 .sp
-size_t
+int
 \fBTcl_Gets\fR(\fIchannel, lineRead\fR)
 .sp
-size_t
+int
 \fBTcl_Ungets\fR(\fIchannel, input, inputLen, addAtEnd\fR)
 .sp
-size_t
+int
 \fBTcl_WriteObj\fR(\fIchannel, writeObjPtr\fR)
 .sp
-size_t
+int
 \fBTcl_WriteChars\fR(\fIchannel, charBuf, bytesToWrite\fR)
 .sp
-size_t
+int
 \fBTcl_Write\fR(\fIchannel, byteBuf, bytesToWrite\fR)
 .sp
-size_t
+int
 \fBTcl_ReadRaw\fR(\fIchannel, readBuf, bytesToRead\fR)
 .sp
-size_t
+int
 \fBTcl_WriteRaw\fR(\fIchannel, byteBuf, bytesToWrite\fR)
 .sp
 int
@@ -92,10 +92,10 @@ int
 int
 \fBTcl_OutputBuffered\fR(\fIchannel\fR)
 .sp
-Tcl_WideInt
+long long
 \fBTcl_Seek\fR(\fIchannel, offset, seekMode\fR)
 .sp
-Tcl_WideInt
+long long
 \fBTcl_Tell\fR(\fIchannel\fR)
 .sp
 int
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ input of the invoking process; likewise for \fBTCL_STDOUT\fR and
 redirect stdio handles to override the stdio handles for which
 \fBTCL_STDIN\fR, \fBTCL_STDOUT\fR and \fBTCL_STDERR\fR have been set.  If it
 is set, then such redirections cause an error.
-.AP void *handle in
+.AP ClientData handle in
 Operating system specific handle for I/O to a file. For Unix this is a
 file descriptor, for Windows it is a HANDLE.
 .AP int readOrWrite in
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ from a procedure such as \fBTcl_OpenFileChannel\fR.
 .AP Tcl_Obj *readObjPtr in/out
 A pointer to a Tcl value in which to store the characters read from the
 channel.
-.AP size_t charsToRead in
+.AP int charsToRead in
 The number of characters to read from the channel.  If the channel's encoding
 is \fBbinary\fR, this is equivalent to the number of bytes to read from the
 channel.
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ If non-zero, data read from the channel will be appended to the value.
 Otherwise, the data will replace the existing contents of the value.
 .AP char *readBuf out
 A buffer in which to store the bytes read from the channel.
-.AP size_t bytesToRead in
+.AP int bytesToRead in
 The number of bytes to read from the channel.  The buffer \fIreadBuf\fR must
 be large enough to hold this many bytes.
 .AP Tcl_Obj *lineObjPtr in/out
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ channel.  Must have been initialized by the caller.  The line read will be
 appended to any data already in the dynamic string.
 .AP "const char" *input in
 The input to add to a channel buffer.
-.AP size_t inputLen in
+.AP int inputLen in
 Length of the input
 .AP int addAtEnd in
 Flag indicating whether the input should be added to the end or
@@ -187,10 +187,10 @@ A pointer to a Tcl value whose contents will be output to the channel.
 A buffer containing the characters to output to the channel.
 .AP "const char" *byteBuf in
 A buffer containing the bytes to output to the channel.
-.AP size_t bytesToWrite in
+.AP int bytesToWrite in
 The number of bytes to consume from \fIcharBuf\fR or \fIbyteBuf\fR and
 output to the channel.
-.AP Tcl_WideInt offset in
+.AP "long long" offset in
 How far to move the access point in the channel at which the next input or
 output operation will be applied, measured in bytes from the position
 given by \fIseekMode\fR.  May be either positive or negative.
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ given by \fIseekMode\fR.  May be either positive or negative.
 Relative to which point to seek; used with \fIoffset\fR to calculate the new
 access point for the channel. Legal values are \fBSEEK_SET\fR,
 \fBSEEK_CUR\fR, and \fBSEEK_END\fR.
-.AP Tcl_WideInt length in
+.AP "long long" length in
 The (non-negative) length to truncate the channel the channel to.
 .AP "const char" *optionName in
 The name of an option applicable to this channel, such as \fB\-blocking\fR.
@@ -641,6 +641,24 @@ the channel was created with \fBTcl_OpenFileChannel\fR,
 \fBTcl_OpenCommandChannel\fR, or \fBTcl_MakeFileChannel\fR.  Other
 channel types may return a different type of handle on Windows
 platforms.
+.SH "REFERENCE COUNT MANAGEMENT"
+.PP
+The \fIreadObjPtr\fR argument to \fBTcl_ReadChars\fR must be an unshared
+value; it will be modified by this function.  Using the interpreter result for
+this purpose is \fIstrongly\fR not recommended; the preferred pattern is to
+use a new value from \fBTcl_NewObj\fR to receive the data and only to pass it
+to \fBTcl_SetObjResult\fR if this function succeeds.
+.PP
+The \fIlineObjPtr\fR argument to \fBTcl_GetsObj\fR must be an unshared value;
+it will be modified by this function.  Using the interpreter result for this
+purpose is \fIstrongly\fR not recommended; the preferred pattern is to use a
+new value from \fBTcl_NewObj\fR to receive the data and only to pass it to
+\fBTcl_SetObjResult\fR if this function succeeds.
+.PP
+The \fIwriteObjPtr\fR argument to \fBTcl_WriteObj\fR should be a value with
+any reference count. This function will not modify the reference count. Using
+the interpreter result without adding an additional reference to it is not
+recommended.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 DString(3), fconfigure(n), filename(n), fopen(3), Tcl_CreateChannel(3)
 .SH KEYWORDS
@@ -50,12 +50,12 @@ If nonzero, the client socket is connected asynchronously to the server.
 .AP "unsigned int" flags in
 ORed combination of \fBTCL_TCPSERVER\fR flags that specify additional
 informations about the socket being created.
-.AP void *sock in
+.AP ClientData sock in
 Platform-specific handle for client TCP socket.
 .AP Tcl_TcpAcceptProc *proc in
 Pointer to a procedure to invoke each time a new connection is
 accepted via the socket.
-.AP void *clientData in
+.AP ClientData clientData in
 Arbitrary one-word value to pass to \fIproc\fR.
 .BE
 .SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ the channel. \fIProc\fR must match the following prototype:
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef void \fBTcl_TcpAcceptProc\fR(
-        void *\fIclientData\fR,
+        ClientData \fIclientData\fR,
        Tcl_Channel \fIchannel\fR,
        char *\fIhostName\fR,
        int \fIport\fR);
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 .BS
 '\"  Note:  do not modify the .SH NAME line immediately below!
 .SH NAME
-Tcl_Panic, Tcl_SetPanicProc, Tcl_ConsolePanic \- report fatal error and abort
+Tcl_Panic, Tcl_PanicVA, Tcl_SetPanicProc, Tcl_ConsolePanic \- report fatal error and abort
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf
 \fB#include <tcl.h>\fR
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ void
 \fBTcl_Panic\fR(\fIformat\fR, \fIarg\fR, \fIarg\fR, \fI...\fR)
 .sp
 void
+\fBTcl_PanicVA\fR(\fIformat\fR, \fIargList\fR)
+.sp
+void
 \fBTcl_SetPanicProc\fR(\fIpanicProc\fR)
 .sp
 void
@@ -83,8 +86,8 @@ The typical use of \fBTcl_SetPanicProc\fR arranges for the error message
 to be displayed or reported in a manner more suitable for the
 application or the platform.
 .PP
-\fBTcl_SetPanicProc\fR can not be used safely by stub-enabled extensions, so its
-symbol is not included in the stub table.
+\fBTcl_SetPanicProc\fR can not be used in stub-enabled extensions. Its symbol
+entry in the stub table is deprecated and it will be removed in Tcl 9.0.
 .PP
 Although the primary callers of \fBTcl_Panic\fR are the procedures of
 the Tcl library, \fBTcl_Panic\fR is a public function and may be called
@@ -92,6 +95,10 @@ by any extension or application that wishes to abort the process and
 have a panic message displayed the same way that panic messages from Tcl
 will be displayed.
 .PP
+\fBTcl_PanicVA\fR is the same as \fBTcl_Panic\fR except that instead of
+taking a variable number of arguments it takes an argument list. Interfaces
+using argument lists have been found to be nonportable in practice. This
+function is deprecated and will be removed in Tcl 9.0.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 abort(3), printf(3), exec(n), format(n)
 .SH KEYWORDS
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ The array of arguments to be parsed.
 Pointer to a variable that will hold the array of unprocessed arguments.
 Should be NULL if no return of unprocessed arguments is required. If
 \fIobjcPtr\fR is updated to a non-zero value, the array returned through this
-must be deallocated using \fBTcl_Free\fR.
+must be deallocated using \fBckfree\fR.
 .BE
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .PP
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ typedef struct {
    void *\fIsrcPtr\fR;
    void *\fIdstPtr\fR;
    const char *\fIhelpStr\fR;
-    void *\fIclientData\fR;
+    ClientData \fIclientData\fR;
 } \fBTcl_ArgvInfo\fR;
 .CE
 .PP
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ have the following signature:
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef int (\fBTcl_ArgvFuncProc\fR)(
-        void *\fIclientData\fR,
+        ClientData \fIclientData\fR,
        Tcl_Obj *\fIobjPtr\fR,
        void *\fIdstPtr\fR);
 .CE
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ function will have the following signature:
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef int (\fBTcl_ArgvGenFuncProc\fR)(
-        void *\fIclientData\fR,
+        ClientData \fIclientData\fR,
        Tcl_Interp *\fIinterp\fR,
        int \fIobjc\fR,
        Tcl_Obj *const *\fIobjv\fR,
@@ -189,6 +189,12 @@ will be stored at \fIdstPtr\fR; the string inside will have a lifetime linked
 to the lifetime of the string representation of the argument value that it
 came from, and so should be copied if it needs to be retained. The
 \fIsrcPtr\fR and \fIclientData\fR fields are ignored.
+.SH "REFERENCE COUNT MANAGEMENT"
+.PP
+The values in the \fIobjv\fR argument to \fBTcl_ParseArgsObjv\fR will not have
+their reference counts modified by this function. The interpreter result may
+be modified on error; the values passed should not be the interpreter result
+with no further reference added.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 Tcl_GetIndexFromObj(3), Tcl_Main(3), Tcl_CreateObjCommand(3)
 .SH KEYWORDS
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 .so man.macros
 .BS
 .SH NAME
-Tcl_ParseCommand, Tcl_ParseExpr, Tcl_ParseBraces, Tcl_ParseQuotedString, Tcl_ParseVarName, Tcl_ParseVar, Tcl_FreeParse, Tcl_EvalTokensStandard \- parse Tcl scripts and expressions
+Tcl_ParseCommand, Tcl_ParseExpr, Tcl_ParseBraces, Tcl_ParseQuotedString, Tcl_ParseVarName, Tcl_ParseVar, Tcl_FreeParse, Tcl_EvalTokens, Tcl_EvalTokensStandard \- parse Tcl scripts and expressions
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf
 \fB#include <tcl.h>\fR
@@ -33,16 +33,20 @@ const char *
 .sp
 \fBTcl_FreeParse\fR(\fIusedParsePtr\fR)
 .sp
+Tcl_Obj *
+\fBTcl_EvalTokens\fR(\fIinterp, tokenPtr, numTokens\fR)
+.sp
 int
 \fBTcl_EvalTokensStandard\fR(\fIinterp, tokenPtr, numTokens\fR)
 .SH ARGUMENTS
 .AS Tcl_Interp *usedParsePtr out
 .AP Tcl_Interp *interp out
-For procedures other than \fBTcl_FreeParse\fR and
-\fBTcl_EvalTokensStandard\fR, used only for error reporting;
+For procedures other than \fBTcl_FreeParse\fR, \fBTcl_EvalTokens\fR
+and \fBTcl_EvalTokensStandard\fR, used only for error reporting;
 if NULL, then no error messages are left after errors.
-For \fBTcl_EvalTokensStandard\fR, determines the context for evaluating
-the script and also is used for error reporting; must not be NULL.
+For \fBTcl_EvalTokens\fR and \fBTcl_EvalTokensStandard\fR,
+determines the context for evaluating the
+script and also is used for error reporting; must not be NULL.
 .AP "const char" *start in
 Pointer to first character in string to parse.
 .AP int numBytes in
@@ -187,6 +191,17 @@ code with one of the values \fBTCL_OK\fR, \fBTCL_ERROR\fR,
 some other integer value originating in an extension.
 In addition, a result value or error message is left in \fIinterp\fR's
 result; it can be retrieved using \fBTcl_GetObjResult\fR.
+.SS "DEPRECATED FUNCTIONS"
+.PP
+\fBTcl_EvalTokens\fR differs from \fBTcl_EvalTokensStandard\fR only in
+the return convention used: it returns the result in a new Tcl_Obj.
+The reference count of the value returned as result has been
+incremented, so the caller must
+invoke \fBTcl_DecrRefCount\fR when it is finished with the value.
+If an error or other exception occurs while evaluating the tokens
+(such as a reference to a non-existent variable) then the return value
+is NULL and an error message is left in \fIinterp\fR's result. The use
+of \fBTcl_EvalTokens\fR is deprecated.
 .SH "TCL_PARSE STRUCTURE"
 .PP
 \fBTcl_ParseCommand\fR, \fBTcl_ParseExpr\fR, \fBTcl_ParseBraces\fR,
@@ -208,8 +223,8 @@ typedef struct Tcl_Parse {
 typedef struct Tcl_Token {
    int \fItype\fR;
    const char *\fIstart\fR;
-    size_t \fIsize\fR;
-    size_t \fInumComponents\fR;
+    int \fIsize\fR;
+    int \fInumComponents\fR;
 } \fBTcl_Token\fR;
 .CE
 .PP
@@ -449,5 +464,12 @@ There are additional fields in the Tcl_Parse structure after the
 \fBTcl_ParseCommand\fR, \fBTcl_ParseExpr\fR, \fBTcl_ParseBraces\fR,
 \fBTcl_ParseQuotedString\fR, and \fBTcl_ParseVarName\fR; they should not be
 referenced by code outside of these procedures.
+.SH "REFERENCE COUNT MANAGEMENT"
+.PP
+The result of \fBTcl_EvalTokens\fR is an unshared value with a reference count
+of 1; the caller of that function should call \fBTcl_DecrRefCount\fR on the
+result value to dispose of it. (The equivalent with
+\fBTcl_EvalTokenStandard\fR is just the interpreter result, which can be
+retrieved with \fBTcl_GetObjResult\fR.)
 .SH KEYWORDS
 backslash substitution, braces, command, expression, parse, token, variable substitution
@@ -91,7 +91,11 @@ functions.
 \fBTcl_PkgRequireProc\fR is the form of \fBpackage require\fR handling
 multiple requirements. The other forms are present for backward
 compatibility and translate their invocations to this form.
+.SH "REFERENCE COUNT MANAGEMENT"
+.PP
+The requirements values given (in the \fIobjv\fR argument) to
+\fBTcl_PkgRequireProc\fR must have non-zero reference counts.
 .SH KEYWORDS
 package, present, provide, require, version
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
-package(n), Tcl_StaticPackage(3)
+package(n), Tcl_StaticLibrary(3)
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Tcl_Preserve, Tcl_Release, Tcl_EventuallyFree \- avoid freeing storage while it
 \fBTcl_EventuallyFree\fR(\fIclientData, freeProc\fR)
 .SH ARGUMENTS
 .AS Tcl_FreeProc clientData
-.AP void *clientData in
+.AP ClientData clientData in
 Token describing structure to be freed or reallocated.  Usually a pointer
 to memory for structure.
 .AP Tcl_FreeProc *freeProc in
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ reasons, but the value is the same.
 .PP
 When the \fIclientData\fR argument to \fBTcl_EventuallyFree\fR
 refers to storage allocated and returned by a prior call to
-\fBTcl_Alloc\fR or another function of the Tcl library,
+\fBTcl_Alloc\fR, \fBckalloc\fR, or another function of the Tcl library,
 then the \fIfreeProc\fR argument should be given the special value of
 \fBTCL_DYNAMIC\fR.
 .PP
@@ -18,7 +18,10 @@ Tcl_PrintDouble \- Convert floating value to string
 .SH ARGUMENTS
 .AS Tcl_Interp *interp out
 .AP Tcl_Interp *interp in
-This argument is ignored.
+Before Tcl 8.0, the \fBtcl_precision\fR variable in this interpreter
+controlled the conversion.  As of Tcl 8.0, this argument is ignored and
+the conversion is controlled by the \fBtcl_precision\fR variable
+that is now shared by all interpreters.
 .AP double value in
 Floating-point value to be converted.
 .AP char *dst out
@@ -38,7 +41,9 @@ so that it does not look like an integer.  Where \fB%g\fR would
 generate an integer with no decimal point, \fBTcl_PrintDouble\fR adds
 .QW .0 .
 .PP
-The result will have the fewest digits needed to
+If the \fBtcl_precision\fR value is non-zero, the result will have
+precisely that many digits of significance.  If the value is zero
+(the default), the result will have the fewest digits needed to
 represent the number in such a way that \fBTcl_NewDoubleObj\fR
 will generate the same number when presented with the given string.
 IEEE semantics of rounding to even apply to the conversion.
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ the command at global level instead of the current stack level.
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .PP
 \fBTcl_RecordAndEvalObj\fR is invoked to record a command as an event
-on the history list and then execute it using \fBTcl_EvalObjEx\fR.
+on the history list and then execute it using \fBTcl_EvalObjEx\fR
 It returns a completion code such as \fBTCL_OK\fR just like \fBTcl_EvalObjEx\fR,
 as well as a result value containing additional information
 (a result value or error message)
@@ -44,6 +44,12 @@ allow the user to re-issue recently invoked commands.
 If the \fIflags\fR argument contains the \fBTCL_NO_EVAL\fR bit then
 the command is recorded without being evaluated.

+.SH "REFERENCE COUNT MANAGEMENT"
+.PP
+The reference count of the \fIcmdPtr\fR argument to \fBTcl_RecordAndEvalObj\fR
+must be at least 1. This function will modify the interpreter result; do not
+use an existing result as \fIcmdPtr\fR directly without incrementing its
+reference count.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 Tcl_EvalObjEx, Tcl_GetObjResult

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ configuration as ASCII string. This means that this information is in
 UTF-8 too. Must not be NULL.
 .AP "const Tcl_Config" *configuration in
 Refers to an array of Tcl_Config entries containing the information
-embedded in the binary library. Must not be NULL. The end of the array
+embedded in the library. Must not be NULL. The end of the array
 is signaled by either a key identical to NULL, or a key referring to
 the empty string.
 .AP "const char" *valEncoding in
@@ -40,10 +40,10 @@ too. Must not be NULL.
 .PP
 The function described here has its base in TIP 59 and provides
 extensions with support for the embedding of configuration
-information into their binary library and the generation of a
+information into their library and the generation of a
 Tcl-level interface for querying this information.
 .PP
-To embed configuration information into their binary library an
+To embed configuration information into their library an
 extension has to define a non-volatile array of Tcl_Config entries in
 one if its source files and then call \fBTcl_RegisterConfig\fR to
 register that information.
@@ -108,4 +108,4 @@ typedef struct Tcl_Config {
 .\" No cross references yet.
 .\" .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .SH KEYWORDS
-embedding, configuration, binary library
+embedding, configuration, library
@@ -51,20 +51,20 @@ can be efficiently searched.
 .AP Tcl_Obj *patObj in/out
 Refers to the value from which to get a regular expression. The
 compiled regular expression is cached in the value.
-.AP char *text in
+.AP "const char" *text in
 Text to search for a match with a regular expression.
 .AP "const char" *pattern in
 String in the form of a regular expression pattern.
 .AP Tcl_RegExp regexp in
 Compiled regular expression.  Must have been returned previously
 by \fBTcl_GetRegExpFromObj\fR or \fBTcl_RegExpCompile\fR.
-.AP char *start in
+.AP "const char" *start in
 If \fItext\fR is just a portion of some other string, this argument
 identifies the beginning of the larger string.
 If it is not the same as \fItext\fR, then no
 .QW \fB^\fR
 matches will be allowed.
-.AP size_t index in
+.AP int index in
 Specifies which range is desired:  0 means the range of the entire
 match, 1 or greater means the range that matched a parenthesized
 sub-expression.
@@ -80,14 +80,14 @@ OR-ed combination of the compilation flags \fBTCL_REG_ADVANCED\fR,
 \fBTCL_REG_QUOTE\fR, \fBTCL_REG_NOCASE\fR, \fBTCL_REG_NEWLINE\fR,
 \fBTCL_REG_NLSTOP\fR, \fBTCL_REG_NLANCH\fR, \fBTCL_REG_NOSUB\fR, and
 \fBTCL_REG_CANMATCH\fR. See below for more information.
-.AP size_t offset in
+.AP int offset in
 The character offset into the text where matching should begin.
 The value of the offset has no impact on \fB^\fR matches.  This
 behavior is controlled by \fIeflags\fR.
-.AP size_t nmatches in
+.AP int nmatches in
 The number of matching subexpressions that should be remembered for
 later use.  If this value is 0, then no subexpression match
-information will be computed.  If the value is TCL_INDEX_NONE, then
+information will be computed.  If the value is \-1, then
 all of the matching subexpressions will be remembered.  Any other
 value will be taken as the maximum number of subexpressions to
 remember.
@@ -337,9 +337,9 @@ defined as follows:
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef struct Tcl_RegExpInfo {
-    size_t \fInsubs\fR;
+    int \fInsubs\fR;
    Tcl_RegExpIndices *\fImatches\fR;
-    size_t \fIextendStart\fR;
+    long \fIextendStart\fR;
 } \fBTcl_RegExpInfo\fR;
 .CE
 .PP
@@ -355,8 +355,8 @@ follows:
 .PP
 .CS
 typedef struct Tcl_RegExpIndices {
-    size_t \fIstart\fR;
-    size_t \fIend\fR;
+    long \fIstart\fR;
+    long \fIend\fR;
 } \fBTcl_RegExpIndices\fR;
 .CE
 .PP
@@ -377,6 +377,22 @@ If no match was found, then it indicates the earliest point at which a
 match might occur if additional text is appended to the string.  If it
 is no match is possible even with further text, this field will be set
 to \-1.
+.SH "REFERENCE COUNT MANAGEMENT"
+.PP
+The \fItextObj\fR and \fIpatObj\fR arguments to \fBTcl_RegExpMatchObj\fR must
+have reference counts of at least 1.  Note however that this function may set
+the interpreter result; neither argument should be the direct interpreter
+result without an additional reference being taken.
+.PP
+The \fIpatObj\fR argument to \fBTcl_GetRegExpFromObj\fR must have a reference
+count of at least 1.  Note however that this function may set the interpreter
+result; the argument should not be the direct interpreter result without an
+additional reference being taken.
+.PP
+The \fItextObj\fR argument to \fBTcl_RegExpExecObj\fR must have a reference
+count of at least 1.  Note however that this function may set the interpreter
+result; the argument should not be the direct interpreter result without an
+additional reference being taken.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 re_syntax(n)
 .SH KEYWORDS
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 '\"
-'\" Copyright (c) 1997 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
+'\" Copyright (c) 1997 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
 '\" Contributions from Don Porter, NIST, 2004. (not subject to US copyright)
 '\" Copyright (c) 2018 Nathan Coulter.
 '\"
@@ -35,20 +35,20 @@ Refers to the Tcl interpreter whose bypass area is accessed.
 .AP Tcl_Obj* msg in
 Error message put into a bypass area. A list of return options and values,
 followed by a string message. Both message and the option/value information
-are optional.
+are optional. This \fImust\fR be a well-formed list.
 .AP Tcl_Obj** msgPtr out
 Reference to a place where the message stored in the accessed bypass area can
 be stored in.
 .BE
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .PP
-The current definition of a Tcl channel driver does not permit the direct
+The standard definition of a Tcl channel driver does not permit the direct
 return of arbitrary error messages, except for the setting and retrieval of
 channel options. All other functions are restricted to POSIX error codes.
 .PP
 The functions described here overcome this limitation. Channel drivers are
 allowed to use \fBTcl_SetChannelError\fR and \fBTcl_SetChannelErrorInterp\fR
-to place arbitrary error messages in \fBbypass areas\fR defined for channels
+to place arbitrary error messages in \fIbypass areas\fR defined for channels
 and interpreters. And the generic I/O layer uses \fBTcl_GetChannelError\fR and
 \fBTcl_GetChannelErrorInterp\fR to look for messages in the bypass areas and
 arrange for their return as errors. The POSIX error codes set by a driver are
@@ -87,10 +87,14 @@ the value.
 Which functions of a channel driver are allowed to use which bypass function
 is listed below, as is which functions of the public channel API may leave a
 messages in the bypass areas.
+.IP \fBTcl_DriverCloseProc\fR
+May use \fBTcl_SetChannelErrorInterp\fR, and only this function.
 .IP \fBTcl_DriverInputProc\fR
 May use \fBTcl_SetChannelError\fR, and only this function.
 .IP \fBTcl_DriverOutputProc\fR
 May use \fBTcl_SetChannelError\fR, and only this function.
+.IP \fBTcl_DriverSeekProc\fR
+May use \fBTcl_SetChannelError\fR, and only this function.
 .IP \fBTcl_DriverWideSeekProc\fR
 May use \fBTcl_SetChannelError\fR, and only this function.
 .IP \fBTcl_DriverSetOptionProc\fR
@@ -130,6 +134,15 @@ leave all their error information in the interpreter result.
 .ta 1.9i 4i
 \fBTcl_Close\fR	\fBTcl_UnstackChannel\fR	\fBTcl_UnregisterChannel\fR
 .DE
+.SH "REFERENCE COUNT MANAGEMENT"
+.PP
+The \fImsg\fR argument to \fBTcl_SetChannelError\fR and
+\fBTcl_SetChannelErrorInterp\fR, if not NULL, may have any reference count;
+these functions will copy.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_GetChannelError\fR and \fBTcl_GetChannelErrorInterp\fR write a value
+reference into their \fImsgPtr\fR, but do not manipulate its reference count.
+The reference count will be at least 1 (unless the reference is NULL).
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 Tcl_Close(3), Tcl_OpenFileChannel(3), Tcl_SetErrno(3)
 .SH KEYWORDS
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ New limit for nested calls to \fBTcl_Eval\fR for \fIinterp\fR.
 .PP
 At any given time Tcl enforces a limit on the number of recursive
 calls that may be active for \fBTcl_Eval\fR and related procedures
-such as \fBTcl_EvalEx\fR.
+such as \fBTcl_GlobalEval\fR.
 Any call to \fBTcl_Eval\fR that exceeds this depth is aborted with
 an error.
 By default the recursion limit is 1000.
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 .so man.macros
 .BS
 .SH NAME
-Tcl_SetObjResult, Tcl_GetObjResult, Tcl_SetResult, Tcl_GetStringResult, Tcl_AppendResult, Tcl_AppendElement, Tcl_ResetResult, Tcl_TransferResult \- manipulate Tcl result
+Tcl_SetObjResult, Tcl_GetObjResult, Tcl_SetResult, Tcl_GetStringResult, Tcl_AppendResult, Tcl_AppendResultVA, Tcl_AppendElement, Tcl_ResetResult, Tcl_TransferResult, Tcl_FreeResult \- manipulate Tcl result
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf
 \fB#include <tcl.h>\fR
@@ -26,11 +26,15 @@ const char *
 .sp
 \fBTcl_AppendResult\fR(\fIinterp, result, result, ... , \fB(char *) NULL\fR)
 .sp
+\fBTcl_AppendResultVA\fR(\fIinterp, argList\fR)
+.sp
 \fBTcl_ResetResult\fR(\fIinterp\fR)
 .sp
 \fBTcl_TransferResult\fR(\fIsourceInterp, code, targetInterp\fR)
 .sp
 \fBTcl_AppendElement\fR(\fIinterp, element\fR)
+.sp
+\fBTcl_FreeResult\fR(\fIinterp\fR)
 .SH ARGUMENTS
 .AS Tcl_FreeProc sourceInterp out
 .AP Tcl_Interp *interp out
@@ -139,6 +143,11 @@ extensions.
 Any number of \fIresult\fR arguments may be passed in a single
 call; the last argument in the list must be a NULL pointer.
 .PP
+\fBTcl_AppendResultVA\fR is the same as \fBTcl_AppendResult\fR except that
+instead of taking a variable number of arguments it takes an argument list.
+Interfaces using argument lists have been found to be nonportable in practice.
+This function is deprecated and will be removed in Tcl 9.0.
+.PP
 \fBTcl_TransferResult\fR transfers interpreter state from \fIsourceInterp\fR
 to \fItargetInterp\fR. The two interpreters must have been created in the
 same thread.  If \fIsourceInterp\fR and \fItargetInterp\fR are the same,
@@ -175,6 +184,22 @@ single character
 or ends in the characters
 .QW " {" )
 then no space is added.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_FreeResult\fR performs part of the work
+of \fBTcl_ResetResult\fR.
+It frees up the memory associated with \fIinterp\fR's result.
+It also sets \fIinterp->freeProc\fR to zero, but does not
+change \fIinterp->result\fR or clear error state.
+\fBTcl_FreeResult\fR is most commonly used when a procedure
+is about to replace one result value with another.
+.SS "DIRECT ACCESS TO INTERP->RESULT"
+.PP
+It used to be legal for programs to
+directly read and write \fIinterp->result\fR
+to manipulate the interpreter result.  The Tcl headers no longer
+permit this access. C code still doing this must
+be updated to use supported routines \fBTcl_GetObjResult\fR,
+\fBTcl_GetStringResult\fR, \fBTcl_SetObjResult\fR, and \fBTcl_SetResult\fR.
 .SH "THE TCL_FREEPROC ARGUMENT TO TCL_SETRESULT"
 .PP
 \fBTcl_SetResult\fR's \fIfreeProc\fR argument specifies how
@@ -214,6 +239,33 @@ typedef void \fBTcl_FreeProc\fR(
 .PP
 When \fIfreeProc\fR is called, its \fIblockPtr\fR will be set to
 the value of \fIresult\fR passed to \fBTcl_SetResult\fR.
+
+.SH "REFERENCE COUNT MANAGEMENT"
+.PP
+The interpreter result is one of the main places that owns references to
+values, along with the bytecode execution stack, argument lists, variables,
+and the list and dictionary collection values.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_SetObjResult\fR takes a value with an arbitrary reference count
+\fI(specifically including zero)\fR and guarantees to increment the reference
+count. If code wishes to continue using the value after setting it as the
+result, it should add its own reference to it with \fBTcl_IncrRefCount\fR.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_GetObjResult\fR returns the current interpreter result value. This will
+have a reference count of at least 1. If the caller wishes to keep the
+interpreter result value, it should increment its reference count.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_GetStringResult\fR does not manipulate reference counts, but the string
+it returns is owned by (and has a lifetime controlled by) the current
+interpreter result value; it should be copied instead of being relied upon to
+persist after the next Tcl API call, as most Tcl operations can modify the
+interpreter result.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_SetResult\fR, \fBTcl_AppendResult\fR, \fBTcl_AppendResultVA\fR,
+\fBTcl_AppendElement\fR, and \fBTcl_ResetResult\fR all modify the interpreter
+result. They may cause the old interpreter result to have its reference count
+decremented and a new interpreter result to be allocated. After they have been
+called, the reference count of the interpreter result is guaranteed to be 1.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 Tcl_AddErrorInfo, Tcl_CreateObjCommand, Tcl_SetErrorCode, Tcl_Interp,
 Tcl_GetReturnOptions
@@ -242,6 +242,27 @@ but the array remains.
 If an array name is specified without an index, then the entire
 array is removed.

+.SH "REFERENCE COUNT MANAGEMENT"
+.PP
+The result of \fBTcl_SetVar2Ex\fR, \fBTcl_ObjSetVar2\fR, \fBTcl_GetVar2Ex\fR,
+and \fBTcl_ObjGetVar2\fR is (if non-NULL) a value with a reference of at least
+1, where that reference is held by the variable that the function has just
+operated upon.
+.PP
+The \fInewValuePtr\fR argument to \fBTcl_SetVar2Ex\fR and \fBTcl_ObjSetVar2\fR
+may be an arbitrary reference count value; its reference count will be
+incremented on success. However, it is recommended to not use a zero reference
+count value, as that makes correct handling of the error case tricky.
+.PP
+The \fIpart1\fR argument to \fBTcl_ObjSetVar2\fR and \fBTcl_ObjGetVar2\fR can
+have any reference count; these functions never modify it. It is recommended
+to not use a zero reference count for this argument.
+.PP
+The \fIpart2\fR argument to \fBTcl_ObjSetVar2\fR and \fBTcl_ObjGetVar2\fR, if
+non-NULL, should not have a zero reference count as these functions may
+retain a reference to it (particularly when it is used to create an array
+element that did not previously exist).
+
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 Tcl_GetObjResult, Tcl_GetStringResult, Tcl_TraceVar

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 '\"
-'\" Copyright (c) 1998-2000 by Scriptics Corporation.
+'\" Copyright (c) 1998-2000 Scriptics Corporation.
 '\" All rights reserved.
 '\"
 .TH Tcl_SourceRCFile 3 8.3 Tcl "Tcl Library Procedures"
@@ -20,23 +20,23 @@ int
 char *
 \fBTcl_Merge\fR(\fIargc, argv\fR)
 .sp
-size_t
+int
 \fBTcl_ScanElement\fR(\fIsrc, flagsPtr\fR)
 .sp
-size_t
+int
 \fBTcl_ScanCountedElement\fR(\fIsrc, length, flagsPtr\fR)
 .sp
-size_t
+int
 \fBTcl_ConvertElement\fR(\fIsrc, dst, flags\fR)
 .sp
-size_t
+int
 \fBTcl_ConvertCountedElement\fR(\fIsrc, length, dst, flags\fR)
 .SH ARGUMENTS
 .AS "const char *const" ***argvPtr out
 .AP Tcl_Interp *interp out
 Interpreter to use for error reporting.  If NULL, then no error message
 is left.
-.AP char *list in
+.AP "const char" *list in
 Pointer to a string with proper list structure.
 .AP int *argcPtr out
 Filled in with number of elements in \fIlist\fR.
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ String that is to become an element of a list.
 .AP int *flagsPtr in
 Pointer to word to fill in with information about \fIsrc\fR.
 The value of *\fIflagsPtr\fR must be passed to \fBTcl_ConvertElement\fR.
-.AP size_t length in
+.AP int length in
 Number of bytes in string \fIsrc\fR.
 .AP char *dst in
 Place to copy converted list element.  Must contain enough characters
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+'\"
+'\" Copyright (c) 1995-1996 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
+'\"
+'\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
+'\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
+'\"
+.TH Tcl_StaticLibrary 3 7.5 Tcl "Tcl Library Procedures"
+.so man.macros
+.BS
+.SH NAME
+Tcl_StaticLibrary, Tcl_StaticPackage \- make a statically linked library available via the 'load' command
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.nf
+\fB#include <tcl.h>\fR
+.sp
+\fBTcl_StaticLibrary\fR(\fIinterp, prefix, initProc, safeInitProc\fR)
+.sp
+\fBTcl_StaticPackage\fR(\fIinterp, prefix, initProc, safeInitProc\fR)
+.SH ARGUMENTS
+.AS Tcl_LibraryInitProc *safeInitProc
+.AP Tcl_Interp *interp in
+If not NULL, points to an interpreter into which the library has
+already been incorporated (i.e., the caller has already invoked the
+appropriate initialization procedure).  NULL means the library
+has not yet been incorporated into any interpreter.
+.AP "const char" *prefix in
+Prefix for library initialization function;  should be properly
+capitalized (first letter upper-case, all others lower-case).
+.AP Tcl_LibraryInitProc *initProc in
+Procedure to invoke to incorporate this library into a trusted
+interpreter.
+.AP Tcl_LibraryInitProc *safeInitProc in
+Procedure to call to incorporate this library into a safe interpreter
+(one that will execute untrusted scripts).  NULL means the library
+cannot be used in safe interpreters.
+.BE
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.PP
+This procedure may be invoked to announce that a library has been
+linked statically with a Tcl application and, optionally, that it
+has already been incorporated into an interpreter.
+Once \fBTcl_StaticLibrary\fR has been invoked for a library, it
+may be incorporated into interpreters using the \fBload\fR command.
+\fBTcl_StaticLibrary\fR is normally invoked only by the \fBTcl_AppInit\fR
+procedure for the application, not by libraries for themselves
+(\fBTcl_StaticLibrary\fR should only be invoked for statically
+linked libraries, and code in the library itself should not need
+to know whether the library is dynamically loaded or statically linked).
+.PP
+When the \fBload\fR command is used later to incorporate the library into
+an interpreter, one of \fIinitProc\fR and \fIsafeInitProc\fR will
+be invoked, depending on whether the target interpreter is safe
+or not.
+\fIinitProc\fR and \fIsafeInitProc\fR must both match the
+following prototype:
+.PP
+.CS
+typedef int \fBTcl_LibraryInitProc\fR(
+        Tcl_Interp *\fIinterp\fR);
+.CE
+.PP
+The \fIinterp\fR argument identifies the interpreter in which the library
+is to be incorporated.  The initialization procedure must return \fBTCL_OK\fR or
+\fBTCL_ERROR\fR to indicate whether or not it completed successfully; in
+the event of an error it should set the interpreter's result to point to an
+error message.  The result or error from the initialization procedure will
+be returned as the result of the \fBload\fR command that caused the
+initialization procedure to be invoked.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_StaticLibrary\fR was named \fBTcl_StaticPackage\fR in Tcl 8.6 and
+earlier, but the old name is deprecated now.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_StaticLibrary\fR can not be used in stub-enabled extensions. Its symbol
+entry in the stub table is deprecated and it will be removed in Tcl 9.0.
+.SH KEYWORDS
+initialization procedure, package, static linking
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+load(n), package(n), Tcl_PkgRequire(3)
@@ -1,73 +0,0 @@
-'\"
-'\" Copyright (c) 1995-1996 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
-'\"
-'\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
-'\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
-'\"
-.TH Tcl_StaticPackage 3 7.5 Tcl "Tcl Library Procedures"
-.so man.macros
-.BS
-.SH NAME
-Tcl_StaticPackage \- make a statically linked package available via the 'load' command
-.SH SYNOPSIS
-.nf
-\fB#include <tcl.h>\fR
-.sp
-\fBTcl_StaticPackage\fR(\fIinterp, pkgName, initProc, safeInitProc\fR)
-.SH ARGUMENTS
-.AS Tcl_PackageInitProc *safeInitProc
-.AP Tcl_Interp *interp in
-If not NULL, points to an interpreter into which the package has
-already been loaded (i.e., the caller has already invoked the
-appropriate initialization procedure).  NULL means the package
-has not yet been incorporated into any interpreter.
-.AP "const char" *pkgName in
-Name of the package;  should be properly capitalized (first letter
-upper-case, all others lower-case).
-.AP Tcl_PackageInitProc *initProc in
-Procedure to invoke to incorporate this package into a trusted
-interpreter.
-.AP Tcl_PackageInitProc *safeInitProc in
-Procedure to call to incorporate this package into a safe interpreter
-(one that will execute untrusted scripts).  NULL means the package
-cannot be used in safe interpreters.
-.BE
-.SH DESCRIPTION
-.PP
-This procedure may be invoked to announce that a package has been
-linked statically with a Tcl application and, optionally, that it
-has already been loaded into an interpreter.
-Once \fBTcl_StaticPackage\fR has been invoked for a package, it
-may be loaded into interpreters using the \fBload\fR command.
-\fBTcl_StaticPackage\fR is normally invoked only by the \fBTcl_AppInit\fR
-procedure for the application, not by packages for themselves
-(\fBTcl_StaticPackage\fR should only be invoked for statically
-loaded packages, and code in the package itself should not need
-to know whether the package is dynamically or statically loaded).
-.PP
-When the \fBload\fR command is used later to load the package into
-an interpreter, one of \fIinitProc\fR and \fIsafeInitProc\fR will
-be invoked, depending on whether the target interpreter is safe
-or not.
-\fIinitProc\fR and \fIsafeInitProc\fR must both match the
-following prototype:
-.PP
-.CS
-typedef int \fBTcl_PackageInitProc\fR(
-        Tcl_Interp *\fIinterp\fR);
-.CE
-.PP
-The \fIinterp\fR argument identifies the interpreter in which the package
-is to be loaded.  The initialization procedure must return \fBTCL_OK\fR or
-\fBTCL_ERROR\fR to indicate whether or not it completed successfully; in
-the event of an error it should set the interpreter's result to point to an
-error message.  The result or error from the initialization procedure will
-be returned as the result of the \fBload\fR command that caused the
-initialization procedure to be invoked.
-.PP
-\fBTcl_StaticPackage\fR can not be safely used by stub-enabled extensions,
-so its symbol is not included in the stub table.
-.SH KEYWORDS
-initialization procedure, package, static linking
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
-load(n), package(n), Tcl_PkgRequire(3)
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 '\"
-'\" Copyright (c) 2001 by ActiveState Corporation
+'\" Copyright (c) 2001 ActiveState Corporation
 '\"
 '\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
 '\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 .so man.macros
 .BS
 .SH NAME
-Tcl_NewStringObj, Tcl_NewUnicodeObj, Tcl_SetStringObj, Tcl_SetUnicodeObj, Tcl_GetStringFromObj, Tcl_GetString, Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj, Tcl_GetUnicode, Tcl_GetUniChar, Tcl_GetCharLength, Tcl_GetRange, Tcl_AppendToObj, Tcl_AppendUnicodeToObj, Tcl_AppendObjToObj, Tcl_AppendStringsToObj, Tcl_AppendLimitedToObj, Tcl_Format, Tcl_AppendFormatToObj, Tcl_ObjPrintf, Tcl_AppendPrintfToObj, Tcl_SetObjLength, Tcl_AttemptSetObjLength, Tcl_ConcatObj \- manipulate Tcl values as strings
+Tcl_NewStringObj, Tcl_NewUnicodeObj, Tcl_SetStringObj, Tcl_SetUnicodeObj, Tcl_GetStringFromObj, Tcl_GetString, Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj, Tcl_GetUnicode, Tcl_GetUniChar, Tcl_GetCharLength, Tcl_GetRange, Tcl_AppendToObj, Tcl_AppendUnicodeToObj, Tcl_AppendObjToObj, Tcl_AppendStringsToObj, Tcl_AppendStringsToObjVA, Tcl_AppendLimitedToObj, Tcl_Format, Tcl_AppendFormatToObj, Tcl_ObjPrintf, Tcl_AppendPrintfToObj, Tcl_SetObjLength, Tcl_AttemptSetObjLength, Tcl_ConcatObj \- manipulate Tcl values as strings
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf
 \fB#include <tcl.h>\fR
@@ -59,6 +59,9 @@ void
 \fBTcl_AppendStringsToObj\fR(\fIobjPtr, string, string, ... \fB(char *) NULL\fR)
 .sp
 void
+\fBTcl_AppendStringsToObjVA\fR(\fIobjPtr, argList\fR)
+.sp
+void
 \fBTcl_AppendLimitedToObj\fR(\fIobjPtr, bytes, length, limit, ellipsis\fR)
 .sp
 Tcl_Obj *
@@ -87,44 +90,44 @@ Tcl_Obj *
 Points to the first byte of an array of UTF-8-encoded bytes
 used to set or append to a string value.
 This byte array may contain embedded null characters
-unless \fInumChars\fR is TCL_INDEX_NONE.  (Applications needing null bytes
+unless \fInumChars\fR is negative.  (Applications needing null bytes
 should represent them as the two-byte sequence \fI\e300\e200\fR, use
 \fBTcl_ExternalToUtf\fR to convert, or \fBTcl_NewByteArrayObj\fR if
 the string is a collection of uninterpreted bytes.)
-.AP size_t length in
+.AP int length in
 The number of bytes to copy from \fIbytes\fR when
 initializing, setting, or appending to a string value.
-If TCL_INDEX_NONE, all bytes up to the first null are used.
+If negative, all bytes up to the first null are used.
 .AP "const Tcl_UniChar" *unicode in
 Points to the first byte of an array of Unicode characters
 used to set or append to a string value.
 This byte array may contain embedded null characters
 unless \fInumChars\fR is negative.
-.AP size_t numChars in
+.AP int numChars in
 The number of Unicode characters to copy from \fIunicode\fR when
 initializing, setting, or appending to a string value.
-If TCL_INDEX_NONE, all characters up to the first null character are used.
-.AP size_t index in
+If negative, all characters up to the first null character are used.
+.AP int index in
 The index of the Unicode character to return.
-.AP size_t first in
+.AP int first in
 The index of the first Unicode character in the Unicode range to be
 returned as a new value.
-.AP size_t last in
+.AP int last in
 The index of the last Unicode character in the Unicode range to be
 returned as a new value.
 .AP Tcl_Obj *objPtr in/out
 Points to a value to manipulate.
 .AP Tcl_Obj *appendObjPtr in
 The value to append to \fIobjPtr\fR in \fBTcl_AppendObjToObj\fR.
-.AP int *lengthPtr out
-If non-NULL, the location where \fBTcl_GetStringFromObj\fR will store
-the length of a value's string representation.
+.AP size_t | int *lengthPtr out
+The location where \fBTcl_GetStringFromObj\fR will store the length
+of a value's string representation. May be (int *)NULL when not used.
 .AP "const char" *string in
 Null-terminated string value to append to \fIobjPtr\fR.
 .AP va_list argList in
 An argument list which must have been initialized using
 \fBva_start\fR, and cleared using \fBva_end\fR.
-.AP size_t limit in
+.AP int limit in
 Maximum number of bytes to be appended.
 .AP "const char" *ellipsis in
 Suffix to append when the limit leads to string truncation.
@@ -137,7 +140,7 @@ Format control string including % conversion specifiers.
 The number of elements to format or concatenate.
 .AP Tcl_Obj *objv[] in
 The array of values to format or concatenate.
-.AP size_t newLength in
+.AP int newLength in
 New length for the string value of \fIobjPtr\fR, not including the
 final null character.
 .BE
@@ -244,6 +247,12 @@ values may contain internal null characters).  Any number of
 \fIstring\fR arguments may be provided, but the last argument
 must be a NULL pointer to indicate the end of the list.
 .PP
+\fBTcl_AppendStringsToObjVA\fR is the same as \fBTcl_AppendStringsToObj\fR
+except that instead of taking a variable number of arguments it takes an
+argument list.  Interfaces using argument lists have been found to be
+nonportable in practice. This function is deprecated and will be removed
+in Tcl 9.0.
+.PP
 \fBTcl_AppendLimitedToObj\fR is similar to \fBTcl_AppendToObj\fR
 except that it imposes a limit on how many bytes are appended.
 This can be handy when the string to be appended might be
@@ -374,6 +383,33 @@ white space, then that value is ignored entirely. This white-space
 removal was added to make the output of the \fBconcat\fR command
 cleaner-looking. \fBTcl_ConcatObj\fR returns a pointer to a
 newly-created value whose ref count is zero.
+.SH "REFERENCE COUNT MANAGEMENT"
+.PP
+\fBTcl_NewStringObj\fR, \fBTcl_NewUnicodeObj\fR, \fBTcl_Format\fR,
+\fBTcl_ObjPrintf\fR, and \fBTcl_ConcatObj\fR always return a zero-reference
+object, much like \fBTcl_NewObj\fR.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_GetStringFromObj\fR, \fBTcl_GetString\fR, \fBTcl_GetUnicodeFromObj\fR,
+\fBTcl_GetUnicode\fR, \fBTcl_GetUniChar\fR, \fBTcl_GetCharLength\fR, and
+\fBTcl_GetRange\fR all only work with an existing value; they do not
+manipulate its reference count in any way.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_SetStringObj\fR, \fBTcl_SetUnicodeObj\fR, \fBTcl_AppendToObj\fR,
+\fBTcl_AppendUnicodeToObj\fR, \fBTcl_AppendObjToObj\fR,
+\fBTcl_AppendStringsToObj\fR, \fBTcl_AppendStringsToObjVA\fR,
+\fBTcl_AppendLimitedToObj\fR, \fBTcl_AppendFormatToObj\fR,
+\fBTcl_AppendPrintfToObj\fR, \fBTcl_SetObjLength\fR, and
+\fBTcl_AttemptSetObjLength\fR and require their \fIobjPtr\fR to be an unshared
+value (i.e, a reference count no more than 1) as they will modify it.
+.PP
+Additional arguments to the above functions (the \fIappendObjPtr\fR argument
+to \fBTcl_AppendObjToObj\fR, values in the \fIobjv\fR argument to
+\fBTcl_Format\fR, \fBTcl_AppendFormatToObj\fR, and \fBTcl_ConcatObj\fR) can
+have any reference count, but reference counts of zero are not recommended.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_Format\fR and \fBTcl_AppendFormatToObj\fR may modify the interpreter
+result, which involves changing the reference count of a value.
+
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 Tcl_NewObj(3), Tcl_IncrRefCount(3), Tcl_DecrRefCount(3), format(n), sprintf(3)
 .SH KEYWORDS
@@ -62,6 +62,13 @@ result of the whole substitution on \fIobjPtr\fR will be truncated at
 the point immediately before the start of the command substitution,
 and no characters will be added to the result or substitutions
 performed after that point.
+.SH "REFERENCE COUNT MANAGEMENT"
+.PP
+The \fIobjPtr\fR argument to \fBTcl_SubstObj\fR must not have a reference
+count of zero. This function modifies the interpreter result, both on success
+and on failure; the result of this function on success is exactly the current
+interpreter result. Successful results should have their reference count
+incremented if they are to be retained.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 subst(n)
 .SH KEYWORDS
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