Version 11.07 of Mercury
Release Notes: New features in this release include Unicode support, a new form of memory profiling, and the ability to initialize mutables using semipure or impure function calls. Support for using MSVC as the C compiler has been improved and support for using clang as the C compiler has been added. The Java backend is now compatible with Java 1.7. In addition, numerous performance improvements and bugfixes have been made.
Other releases
Release Notes: Generation of 64-bit executables on Windows is now supported. Compilation times for very large programs have been improved. Several new type representation optimizations have been added. The debugger now has better support for handling cliques of mutually recursive calls on the stack. A binding to the GLFW library has been added to the extras distribution. Assemblies generated with the C# backend can now be signed with a strong name.
Release Notes: This bugfix release fixes problems with building the library in the C# grade on Cygwin and with using GCC in C99 (or GNU99) mode. There are also some minor additions to the standard library.
Release Notes: New features in this release include Unicode support, a new form of memory profiling, and the ability to initialize mutables using semipure or impure function calls. Support for using MSVC as the C compiler has been improved and support for using clang as the C compiler has been added. The Java backend is now compatible with Java 1.7. In addition, numerous performance improvements and bugfixes have been made.
Release Notes: New language features include scopes that require a scoped goal to have a particular determinism and a scope that requires a switch to be complete. A new backend that generates C# has been added. Support for using frameworks on Mac OS X has been improved. A binding to the Cairo 2D graphics library has been added to the extras distribution. A module that provides lazy evaluation has been added to the standard library. String switches have been improved for the LLDS backend.
Release Notes: A number of problems that caused the compiler to abort have been fixed, some broken RTTI operations in the Java grade have been fixed, and a workaround was included for a problem with GCC version 4.4.
