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beta-8
From: |
Keith Hopper |
Subject: |
beta-8 |
Date: |
Tue, 01 May 2001 12:54:17 +1200 |
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Pluto/2.02b (RISC-OS/3.60) POPstar/2.02 |
Greetings,
I have put beta-8 on our sather web site
(http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/sather) for anyone who wishes to use it. All
works well under linux, but there are a couple of things which are odd -
not about the code- under Windows2000:-
(1) I can't seem to get the command ./configure cygwin to work. The
shell doesn't seem to like the configure script - so I have just had
to manually enter the last (copy) line by hand replacing the arg by
'cygwin'.
(2) The makefile in the test directory will not compile programs - I
-think- this is something to do with there being an undefined define
for WIN32 - only applicable under Windows, of course. If Nobbi (who
wrote it) would like to try to fix it before moving onto the Gnu site
I would be very grateful - TIA.
The release page gives notes on changes - primarily
a. Fixes to input routines of the Represent sub-section.
b. Additional draft documentation - and fixes - in particular for
the Code sub-section.
c. Unicode class is now fully conformant with version 3.0 of the
standard.
d. salccomp is ready for testing (here).
Unless there are major bugs which need fixing I don't aim to send out
another version until I can get the concurrency stuff working properly -
although it has hardly changed from the 1.2 implementation there seems to
be weird problems with linux lwps and smp_at in general. Help warmly
appreciated!!
Hasta la vista,
Keith
PS Just a couple of quick thoughts about some of the recent discussion -
a. The Sather language does NOT define a string as being
'null-terminated' - this is purely an implementation matter which
the astute programmer will need to forget all about - until external
interfacing is needed.
b. The C programming language standard defines (void *) as being
equivalent to any other pointer - hence the REFERENCE class
implementation handles this - but does permit bit-pattern 'conversion'
to a numeric value if needed for interfacing with external services.
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