Hi everyone,
GPC version 20011222, the release candidate #2 for GPC 2.1, has been
uploaded to the usual places, CVS and FTP:
ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/gnu-pascal/current/gpc-20011222.tar.gz
The main changes made since RC 1 are in the searching of unit source
and GPI files (thanks to a bug report by The Chief), the handling of
packed arrays (thanks to a bug report by Emil Jerabek) and set
constructors (due to some bugs found by myself). If you use any of
these things, you might want to check if the changes didn't break
any of your code.
There is also one new "feature", the Intl (internationalization)
unit by Eike Lange. (I know that normally one should not do major
additions so short before a release, but the unit is completely
separate from the rest of the compiler and run time system, so even
a very unlikely fatal bug would not affect the stability of the
whole system.)
Again, I've tested it on some systems, test reports from other
systems are welcome, and if you find new or especially important
bugs, or very important missing features, please report them.
Merry Xmas,
Frank
--
Frank Heckenbach, frank(a)g-n-u.de, http://fjf.gnu.de/
GPC To-Do list, latest features, fixed bugs:
http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~gnu-pascal/todo.html
Hi everyone,
GPC version 20011202 has been uploaded to the usual places, CVS and
FTP:
ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/gnu-pascal/current/gpc-20011202.tar.gz
We consider this version the Release Candidate #1 for the upcoming
GPC 2.1 release.
Many things have changed since the last announced version. (Please
see the `Done' section of the To-Do list and the `News' chapter in
the manual or on the homepage for details.)
Though many bugs have been fixed since the last version, there is
still a number of known bugs left, some of which are longstanding
issues that will take some time to be fixed. Therefore, according to
a discussion in gpc(a)gnu.de, we have decided to make a 2.1 release
now, anyway.
This version has been tested successfully (i.e., the test suite ran
without failures -- except martin2a.pas and fjf434c.pas on some
platforms which should have been moved to knownbugs, and will be
further investigated before the final release) on the following
systems:
i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1 (gcc-2.8.1)
i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1 (gcc-2.95.3)
i386-pc-msdosdjgpp (gcc-2.8.1)
sparc-sun-solaris2.6 (gcc-2.95.2)
mips-sgi-irix6.5 (gcc-2.95.2)
alpha-dec-osf4.0b (gcc-2.95.3)
Test reports from other systems are welcome.
If you find new or especially important bugs, or very important
missing features, let us know so we can perhaps fix them before 2.1.
Any major changes, however, will not be done in the 2.1 source tree,
but rather in the next alpha versions leading to 2.2.
Frank
--
Frank Heckenbach, frank(a)g-n-u.de, http://fjf.gnu.de/
GPC To-Do list, latest features, fixed bugs:
http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~gnu-pascal/todo.html