[fpc-pascal]FPC Version 1.9.4 released.

[IoDream]

Hi,

May I assume MultiThreading issues are gone.

And PIC (Position Independant Code) generation is working too ? It was the
biggest hurdle to generate dynamic libraries on Linux (*.so file), if I
remember correctly.

Best Regards,
^IoDream^


Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The FPC team is pleased to announce that version 1.9.4 has been
> uploaded on the web. Version 1.9.4 is a pre-release of the upcoming
> version 2.0. However, the FPC team believes that the quality is
> sufficient for production work: version 1.9.4 scores significantly
> better in the testsuite than the official 1.0.10 version.
>
> Versions have been uploaded for the following platforms:
> - BSD (FreeBSD)
> - Linux (Intel,PowerPC hardware)
> - Win32
> - Mac OS X (PowerPC hardware)
> Versions for other supported platforms may follow, depending
> on available time/enthousiasm.
>
> The new release can be downloaded from our website:
> http://www.freepascal.org/sdown.html
> Please select a mirror near you, as bandwidth is limited.
>
> The FPC Wiki contains a page which shows what is in store for the
> upcoming 2.0 release:
> http://www.freepascal.org/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Road_to_2.0
>
> The list of changes in this 1.9.4 release is appended to this mail.
> The complete list of changes since version 1.0.10 can be found in the
> whatsnew.txt file in the distribution.
>
> Enjoy !
>
> The FPC team.
>
>
****************************************************************************
**
>                       Whats New in 1.9.4 aka 2.0.0-Beta3
>
****************************************************************************
**
>
> Compiler:
>   + ARM (Linux) compiler
>   + PowerPC Darwin (Mac OS X) support
>   + reintroduce keyword support
>   + added prefetch(const mem) support
>   + MacPas compile mode
>   + -gv to generate an executable that can be run under Valgrind >=
>   2.1 * register allocator fixes and tweaks
>   * better support for preprocessor $IF expressions
>   * better overloaded operator support
>   * Win32 DLL export table fixes
>   * stabs (debuginfo) generation cleanups
>   * enum names in RTTI are now in their original case
>   * record alignment fixes
>   * lots of bug fixes
>
> RTL:
>   + ARM Linux support
>   + PowerPC Darwin support
>   + Sysutils.RaiseLastOSError added
>   + Sysutils.GetLastOSError added
>   + Classes.TOwnedCollection added
>   + Sysutils.FileIsReadOnly added
>   + support of widestring and currency in the typinfo unit
>   * Better support for Libc based RTL (FPC_USE_LIBC)
>   * 64bit cleanup for future x86_64 port
>   * ExecuteProcess fixes
>   * Linux use getdents syscall instead of deprecated readdir
>   * bug fixes
>
> FCL:
>   + SDF DB backend
>   + TGA support in fpImage
>   + support of widestring and currency type in stream related classes
>   * Lot of fixes to fpImage classes
>
> Misc:
>   * better cross development support
>   * Documentation updates
>   * Testsuite updates to store testrun results in a database
>   * Testsuite updates for cross platform testing, with remote rsh/ssh
> support
>
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