ecx57.notes

ECX v57 (2.2.2) - June 2010
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- ">>=" was broken, fixed.

- ":REG" on locals did not put in register, fixed.

- 64bit integers: A number of bugs fixed + some inprovements in code quality.

- "x OP -y" was broke if "y" was in register variable, fixed. (OP = AND,OR,*,/)

- MUI4 fixes in compiler and libraries/mui.e.

- PPC divisdion by immediate power of 2, starting at 1024 and up, was broken,
  fixed.

ECX v57 (2.2.1) - November 2009
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- Error message for unterminated strings/comments gave useless line number,
  fixed. (thx Elwood)

- PPC 64bit integer comparison had a bug, fixed.

- Receiving 64bit values from SYSV library functions did not work, fixed.

- Usage of DisposeLink() from EC/CreativE compiled module caused crash, fixed.

- morphos/tinygl.m module was broken, fixed.


ECX v57 (2.2.0) - October 2009
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- "RAISE BLA IF myproc() ..."  now works. Procedure must have been defined
  before.

- Init value for global WIDE variables was broken.

- Local labels ".mylab:" supported.

- STATIC bugs fixed.

- SIZEOF extensions, see guide.

- Constant expression bug fixed.

- Variables from modules can now be dereferenced.

- AmigaOS startup code opened too high version of math libraries, fixed.

- ECX now supports "hard space" (ascii 160) and cr+lf combination in source.

- More 68k inline assembler fixes.

- Private module globals can now be inited like "DEF xxx=12, yyy[100]:ARRAY" etc.

- Built-in functions was not put in symbolhunk, fixed.

- Bug fixed in static class methods.

- Added commandline options ERRLINE/S, SHOWCONDSYMS/S.

- Deprecated _DATE_ and added __AMIGADATE__ to replace it.

- Generation bug in private globals fixed.

- Bug in PPC AstrCopy() fixed.

- Deprecated ~ operator for the old Not one.. well, see guide.

- Abs and Not are now operators rather than built-in functions and can now also be
  used in constant expressions.

- Abs64() not needed anymore, just use Abs().

- Added OPT ECXVERSION = ver.

- This and that and stuff..


Thanks go to Chain-Q and UltraGelb for valuable feedback in this release.