[fpc-announce]1.9.2 aka 2.0.0 Beta-2 is out

[Florian Klaempfl]

As you may have noticed on the FPC website, Free Pascal 1.9.2, which is
the second beta of the upcoming FPC 2.0.x series, is available.

Compared with 1.9.0 there are a lot of bug fixes as well as some new 
features like register calling for i386 or a powerpc compiler. For more 
information about the new stuff see below.

You can download 1.9.2 from the well known FPC ftps
(http://www.freepascal.org/sdown.html) or if they are overloaded, the
1.9.2 release is available at SourceForge as well
(http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2174).

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 From the whatsnew.txt:

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                       Whats New in 1.9.2 aka 2.0.0-Beta2
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Compiler:
   + PowerPC compiler
   + sse/sse2 code generation support
   + "global" property support
   * improved inlining support
   * optimizer enabled again
   * uses register calling conventions by default
   * $fputype directive
   + properties of type single can have default values
   + support of $IF DECLARED()
   + support of DQWORD in inline intel assembler code
   * a lot of bug fixes

RTL:
   * more improvements for unix runtime library
   * using FPC_USE_LIBC allows to compile an rtl which uses libc instead 
of syscalls
   + System.Initialize
   + Sysutils.ExecuteProcess
   + System.WideStringManager
   + System.PtrInt and System.PtrUInt
   * ipv6 support
   * lots of bug fixes

FCL:
   + sqlite support
   * bug fixes

Misc:
   * improved docs

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The Free Pascal developement team