Hello,
The FPC team is pleased to announce the immediate release of FPC v1.0.6, an updated and fixed version of the previous v1.0 release v1.0.4 which was released in early 2001.
Many parts of v1.0.6 have been available for some time in the form of snapshots, which have been used and extensively tested. They have also been tested for the last few weeks as a pre release as a result of which some further fixes and minor improvements have been made.
The versions available are Dos (Go32v2), Win32 (works on Win9x, WinNT, Win2000, WinXP), Linux, OS/2, FreeBSD, BeOS, SunOS/Solaris (beta). Versions for QNX and NetBSD (beta) should follow soon.
These are available from the www site www.freepascal.org:
http://www.freepascal.org/sdown.html
(A FTP user limit is in effect. Please select a mirror close to you.)
and from the named folders on the ftp site:
ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist
and in the appropriate sub folder (alphabetically): BeOS: ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/beos-1.0.6 BSD: ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/freebsd-1.0.6 DOS: ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/dos-1.0.6 Linux: ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/linux-1.0.6 OS/2 ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/os2-1.0.6 SunOS: ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/sunos-1.0.6 Win32: ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/win32-1.0.6 QNX: ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/qnx-1.0.6 (will follow soon)
Most of the distributions are packaged both as a single large zip and as separate smaller zips. They will also be available from the FPC mirrors, although it may take up to a week for all of the mirrors to get the release or any updates.
Please note that only a limited number of simultaneous ftp accesses to the ftp site is allowed, so if your access is rejected you may need to try again later or to try one of the mirrors.
Please report any problems (or unwanted 'features') to the FPC-devel mailing list, together with your operating system name, the FPC file name & date, description of the problem and a small fragment of the code that shows the problem if possible.
Alternatively report faults via the FPC web site bug facility. The easier it is for the developers to reproduce the fault, the faster it will be fixed.
The FPC team will continue to produce fixes for v1.0.6 in the form of regular (eg daily/weekly) (v1.0.7) snapshots. These will available from ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/snapshot/v10.
The FPC team prefers that you check to see if faults have been corrected by downloading these before reporting a fault.
Now that v1.0.6 is released, work will be concentrated on v1.1 of the compiler, which will eventually form the v1.2 release.
It not only includes the fixes from 1.0.x, but also includes a lot of new features such as 64bit integer constant support, a more modular code generator for easier porting, a much improved optimizer and support for newer Delphi features such as dynamic arrays, multithreading and interfaces, and increased syntactic compability with newer Delphi versions.
See http://www.freepascal.org/future.html for a list of planned new features.
Regular (i.e. daily/weekly) snapshots of v1.1 will be available from ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/snapshot
Here is a summary of the updates & major fixes since the v1.0.4 release: -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Compiler:
+ NetBSD, BeOS, QNX and Sunos/Solaris for i386 support
+ m68k code generator (beta quality)
* ppc386.cfg renamed to fpc.cfg
* fpu overflow fixed
* better typecast checking
* better checking if passing a constant to a variable argument
* procedure variable handling fixes
* procedure inlining fixes
* shared library has now initialization of the rtl
* failed execution of tools (assembler, linker) now give errors
* range checking now works correctly for cardinal and 64 bit operations
* fixed crashing on 386 processors
* fixed a lot of reported bugs
IDE:
+ regular expressions for find
+ disassembler window
+ libgdb 5.1.1 for Go32v2 & Win32 (better debug)
* winXP/Win2000 fixes
* fixed a lot of reported bugs
RTL:
+ NetBSD, BeOS, QNX and Sunos/Solaris for i386 support
+ added PathDelim,DriveDelim,PathSep variables
+ keyboard, mouse and video units updates
* append() returns error if file doesn't exists
* winXP fixes for go32v2 mouse
* lot of updates to make the RTL easier to port
* bug fixes
FCL:
* small bug fixes
Docs:
+ compiler internals documentation (available through ftp site)
* programmer's reference update
Utils:
* h2pas updates
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Enjoy !
The FPC team.