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Support for OTP-28 new atom table format #1321

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bettio opened this issue Oct 13, 2024 · 0 comments
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Support for OTP-28 new atom table format #1321

bettio opened this issue Oct 13, 2024 · 0 comments

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bettio commented Oct 13, 2024

erlang/otp#8913 changed the atom table format.

This change allows having atoms that can be longer than 255 bytes.
This might happen with atoms having long unicode names.

Suggested fix:
supporting variable length atoms might require spread changes in all our codebase and additional logic for handling variable length (that might slow down atom handling logic).

We might translate the new atom table format to the old one when doing PackBEAM, or convert longer ones at runtime when loading unchanged beam files.

As soon as this is fixed, #1320 can be reverted.

bettio added a commit that referenced this issue Oct 13, 2024
CI: build-and-test: disable OTP master

A recent change made impossible to use beam files compiled with OTP master, so
let's disable it.

See also #1321 and erlang/otp#8913

These changes are made under both the "Apache 2.0" and the "GNU Lesser General
Public License 2.1 or later" license terms (dual license).

SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 OR LGPL-2.1-or-later
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