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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****************************************************************************** Whats New in 1.9.2 aka 2.0.0-Beta2 ******************************************************************************
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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