ecx54.notes

ECX v54 (1.9.1) - May 2008
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-  A bunch of STATIC bugs fixed.

-  Previous version broke 68k immediate lists, fixed.

-  Untyped variables/members would be dereferenced as PTR TO BYTE, fixed.

-  Using procedure without args from module broke in previous version, fixed.


ECX v54 (1.9.0) - May 2008
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- Cleaned up and updated EBNF description.

- Added STATIC keyword, see guide.

- Compiler did not flush modified modules from cache (introduced 1.8.0),
  fixed.

- 3 bugs in "END classobject" construct fixed.

- PPC ObjName(),ObjSize() where broken.

- Doubles in objects used by typed lists didn't work, fixed.

- Allocation of local DOUBLE/REAL array was incorrect in 68k mode, fixed.

- Added NATURALALIGN option, affects OBJECTs.

- Undefined member in OBJECT was set to "PTR TO CHAR" instead of "LONG",
  fixed.

- Problem with secondary loaded methods fixed.

- Added ability to DEFine function variables, see guide.

- Removed ability to use "*" and "!" as return value definitions, supported
  is for now LONG,PTR,REAL,DOUBLE.

- Relaxed the need for using {} around code labels to get their address.

- Fixed 68k double args to procedures.

- Fixed 68k reading double indexed bug.

- PPC FastDispose(),FastDisposeList() did not handle NIL-pointers gracefully,
  fixed.

- "foo BUT bar" as normal statement did not work, fixed. Thx Chris S Handley