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Free Pascal Compiler
Version 2.0.4
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What's New in 2.0.4
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More than 1000 changes have been made to 2.0.4 since 2.0.2. As this is a bug
fix release, most are fixes for some issues, but new features and performance
enhancements have been added as well.
Compiler:
* Lot of small bugs and compatibility fixes
* Updated several translations
* Improved code generation
* Improved and fixed PIC code generation
* Improved register allocation
* Improved ansistring string code generation
* Several alignment values increased so the requirements of modern processors
are met better
* WINDOWS defined on all windows platforms (Win32, Win64, WinCE)
* Parameter order for methods with structured results changed
(result pointer<->self swapped), please check such methods if they are
implemented in assembler
* i386 compiler no longer needs environment variables set when installed on
an x86_64 Linux distribution
RTL:
* Lot of small bug and compatibility fixes
* 64 bit file pointer support on most targets
* Faster integer to string conversion
* Endian conversion routines added
* Improved heap manager
* Improved ansistring routines
* PowerPC: Power3/4/5/PPC970 compatibility
FCL:
* Lot of small bugs and compatibility fixes
* Improved data base support
Packages:
* Lot of small bugs and compatibility fixes
* Improved data base support
* Apple universal interfaces added
Free Vision:
* New outline unit
* Small bug fixes
* Unix: much improved video and keyboard handling
* Unix: Free Vision applications no longer need to link to libc
* Linux: grab_vcsa utility to ensure vcsa access
IDE:
* Small bug fixes
* Redesigned directories window
* Reorganised compiler options window
* Option to use Ctrl+X,C,V for cut/copy/paste
Misc:
* Improved documentation
* Better cross compilation support
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What's New in 2.0.2
******************************************************************************
This is a bug fix release, so don't expect a big new feature list here. Most
of the almost 700 changes made to 2.0.2 since 2.0.0 are fixes for some issues.
Compiler:
* Lot of small bugs and compatibility fixes
* Improved SSE support
* Improved inlining
* Enhanced variant support
* Embedded resource support for targets using elf32 executable format
+ Type checking of compile time expressions
+ Mode MacPas: Support for Mac style objects
+ Mode MacPas: Compile time variables can be given on command line
RTL:
* Lot of small bugs and compatibility fixes
* Enhanced variant support
* Embedded resource support for targets using elf32 executable format
FCL:
* Lot of small bugs and compatibility fixes
* Improved SqlDB package
Packages:
* Lot of small bugs and compatibility fixes
* Improved data base support
IDE:
* Small bug fixes
Misc:
* Improved docs
* Bug fixes for FreeVision
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What's New in 2.0.0
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Compiler:
+ properties in objects are now allowed
+ use of cmov when at least -Cppentium2 is supplied (i386+ only)
+ .p is a searched source extension in macpas mode now
* Improved MacPas mode
* Improved variant support
* Updated language files
* Improved warnings regarding uninitialised variables
* Lot of small bugs and compatibility fixes
RTL:
* Several widestring and unicode fixes
* Heavily improved variant support
* Improved threading support
* Improved 64 bit compatibility
* Lot of small bugs and compatibility fixes
FCL:
* Improved data base support
* Lot of small bugs and compatibility fixes
Packages:
+ Jedi windows api is part of the packages now
+ Windows specific units of the rtl have been moved to packages/base/winunits
+ XFree header conversions to X package added
* Endian and 64 bit fixes
* Lot of small bugs and compatibility fixes
IDE:
* Small bug fixes
Misc:
* Improved docs
* Bug fixes for FreeVision
Version 1.9.8 aka 2.0.0-Rc2
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What's New in 1.9.8 aka 2.0.0-Rc2
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Compiler:
+ arm-linux cross compiler for i386-linux
+ SysV style syscalls added for MorphOS
+ Exportable macros for mode MacPas
+ Support procvar declaration in parameters for mode MacPas
+ Give warning if code is never executed in while/if statements
+ Directive {$COPERATORS ON} added, synomym for -Sc
+ Check for uninitialzed from and to values in for-loop statement
+ -Fa<unit> option added to load units in a program before the uses statement
is parsed
+ -vz for output to stderr
* Better support for unique types
* AfterConstruction/BeforeDestruction behaviour is now compatible with Delphi
* Better support for Widestring
* Removed {$THREADING ON} directive, threading support is always available
* Improved code generation on Sparc
* Lot of small bugs and compatibility fixes
+ On target Mac OS, resource files is supported
RTL:
+ arm Linux support
* Basic threading support moved to the system unit
* Operator ** moved to math unit; system.power removed
* Improved variant support
* Lot of small bugs and compatibility fixes
+ The unit MacOS (api to Mac OS) for target MacOS
FCL:
+ Support for Interbase/Firebird, PostgreSQL and MySQL 4.0 under windows
* Database drivers are now dynamically loaded
* The TSQLQuery is now fully editable using cached updates
* Lot of small bugs and compatibility fixes
Packages:
+ gtk2 interface units
* 64 bit compatibility fixes
* Lot of small bugs and compatibility fixes
IDE:
+ vector unit window
* x86-64 asssembler debugging support improved
* Sparc asssembler debugging support improved
* Some bug fixes
Misc:
+ txt output to fpdoc added
* some fpdoc bugs fixes
+ demo for macos
Version 1.9.6 aka 2.0.0-Rc1
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What's New in 1.9.6 aka 2.0.0-Rc1
******************************************************************************
Compiler:
+ x86_64/amd64 (Linux) compiler
+ Sparc (Linux) compiler
+ PowerPC MorphOS support
+ Mac OS (classic) compiler (for MPW)
+ Netware Libc support (-Tnetwlibc)
+ Register variable support (-Or) for all targets
+ MacPas compiler mode (-Mmacpas)
* Better inlining support
* For loop variable assignment is not allowed anymore
* $fpctarget expands to <cpu>-<os> (except for 8.3 limited targets),
old $target removed
* Implicit loading of Variants unit
* Lots of bug fixes
RTL:
+ x86_64/amd64 Linux support
+ Sparc Linux support
+ PowerPC MorphOS support
+ Mac OS (classic) support (except Sysutils and its dependants)
+ Netware Libc support
+ New heap manager that releases memory back to the OS
+ TThread.Synchronize support
+ utf8bidi unit
+ GetHeapStatus added
+ GetProcessID added
+ SysUtils.GetEnvironmentVariableCount and SysUtils.GetEnvironmentString added
* gpm unit does not need libgpm anymore
+ Further additions for improved Delphi compatibility
+ System.GetProcessID and System.GetThreadID added
+ Dos.GetMsCount added
+ Support for changing console resolution in Video for Win32
+ Support for using high memory (> 512 MB) under OS/2 (where available)
- Removed MaxAvail, MemAvail, HeapSize due to their unreliability
(bogus/misleading return values) in multitasking environment with swapping
FCL:
+ RTTIUtils unit added
+ fpcunit test-framework added
* Lots of dbf and other db fixes
FV:
* Updated to fvision implementation, first official release
IDE:
* Lots of improvements and stability fixes
* Support latest gdb 6.2.x and 6.3.x releases
Docs:
+ Lots of updates
+ Easier to navigate html documentation
* fpDoc is used to generate all unit documentation
Misc:
* Makefiles create units in a separate directory units/cpu-os/
* More cross compilation improvements
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What's 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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What's 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 $IF DECLARED()
+ support of DQWORD in inline intel assembler code
* lots of bug fixes
RTL:
* more improvements for unix runtime library
* using FPC_USE_LIBC allows to compile an rtl which uses libc instead of
syscalls
+ System.Initialize
+ Sysutils.ExecuteProcess
+ System.WideStringManager
+ System.PtrInt and System.PtrUInt
* ipv6 support
* lots of bug fixes
FCL:
+ sqlite support
* bug fixes
Misc:
* improved docs
******************************************************************************
What's New in 1.9.0 aka 2.0.0-Beta1
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Compiler:
+ dynamic arrays
+ interfaces
+ variants
+ full widestring support
+ default parameters
+ cross name scope overloading
+ support for the PowerPC, Sparc and ARM processor, installation packages
will follow within the next weeks
+ new and more sophisticated register allocator
+ inlining across units
+ register calling conventions
+ SSE and SSE2 support for inline assembler
+ PIC code generation
+ new language mode: "Mac Pascal"
+ full boolean evaluation is now also available
+ threadvar support, enabled by using {$threading on}
* support of int64 integer constants
* improved Delphi compatibility in -Sd mode
* a lot of bug fixes
* large parts of the compiler are rewritten to create a more stable,
portable and maintainable compiler
RTL:
+ multithreading support
* completely rewritten unix runtime library
* improved Delphi compatiblity
* significantly improved speed of exception related code
* prepared for big endian and 64 Bit CPUs
* a lot of bug fixes
FCL:
+ tdataset support
+ html generator
+ 64 Bit file handling
* a lot of bug fixes
Docs:
* adapted to reflect new language features
IDE:
* a lot of bug fixes
Misc:
* improved cross compilation
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