Version 2010-03-21 of Seed7
Release Notes: The compiler and interpreter were improved towards support for 64-bit systems and Mac OS X. The explanation of the compilation was improved. The makefiles were changed to assure that types like int32type have the size implied by their name. Errors in bigToInt32 and bigToInt64 were fixed. Changes were made to assure that the interpreter and compiler use the same types. The programs chkint.sd7 and chkbig.sd7 were improved to check powers of 2 and the functions 'str', 'integer conv', 'ord', and 'bigInteger conv'. The keyboard driver "kbd_inf.c" was improved and a new keyboard driver "kbd_poll.c" was added.
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Release Notes: Documentation comments have been added or improved in several files. The functions lower and upper in string.s7i and char.s7i have been improved to use the default Unicode case mapping. The performance of the deflate compression has been improved by a factor between 5 and 10. The performance of the functions str_cmp, str_range, str_substr, strCompare, strRangeSlice, strRange, strSubstrSlice, and strSubstr has been improved. Tests for several string functions have been added to chkstr.sd7. The compiler has been improved to inline code for the actions STR_HASHCODE, STR_RANGE and STR_SUBSTR.
Release Notes: The type integer has been changed to use 64-bit values. Documentation comments have been added to several files. The new libraries bin32.s7i (bit operations for 32-bit values), crc32.s7i (CRC-32 cyclic redundancy check) and deflate.s7i (deflate compression algorithm) have been added. The library binary.s7i has been renamed to bytedata.s7i. Several functions have been moved from gzip.s7i to the new library inflate.s7i. The functions 'name' and 'path' have been added to progs.s7i. The library tar.s7i and the program tar7.sd7 have been improved to allow the creation of compressed archives.
Release Notes: The support for K&R C has been removed. Now an ANSI C compiler is required to compile Seed7. The manual and documentation comments have been improved. The functions min and max have been added to bigint.s7i, bigrat.s7i, and rational.s7i. Rational addition and subtraction operators have been improved to reduce the result. The parse operator in bigrat.s7i has been improved to process negative rational literals correctly. A standard bitmap font, with capital height of 8, has been defined in the library stdfont8.s7i. The program ftp7.sd7 has been improved to allow linewise editing with history.
Release Notes: Functions to compare arrays have been added. The functions hashCode and compare have been defined for enum types. The operator parser has been improved to accept bigRational numbers with repeating decimals. Functions to convert a numeric string with a specified radix have been added. The operator sci has been added to complex.s7i. The memory management in the interpreter has been improved to free the memory of struct objects only when usage_count reaches zero. The compiler has been improved to call the destructor for local interface objects and to initialize all set constants.
Release Notes: The FAQ explanation concerning garbage collection has been improved. Several manual chapters have been improved. Operations to get an array slice with a specified length have been added to array.s7i and idxarray.s7i. Array aggregates with a start index have been added to idxarray.s7i. Functions for binomial coefficient and modular exponentiation have been added to bigint.s7i. The functions min and max have been added to integer.s7i and float.s7i. A standard bitmap font, with capital height of 9, has been defined in stdfont9.s7i. The Comanche Web server has been improved to accept cookies.
