Coast was much too slow and ineffiecient, especially for large modules. Also, it was discovered that Coast in some cases returned erroneous values.
Consequently, Coast has been discontinued and is replaced with a new tool Cover with similar interface and functionality. Refer to the Tools User's Guide and Reference Manual for more information about Cover.
(*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***)erlang:apply/2
and the like are included among
the external calls. This is in contrast to R7 where calls to
apply
and spawn
were used for representing
unresolved calls.There are also release notes for older versions.