Changelog
fpc (2.4.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release with many fixes and new features offering a nice
collection of new functionality and bug fixes.
* New platforms:
- Mac OS X/PowerPC64
- Mac OS X/x86_64
- Mac OS X/ARM (iPhone)
* Compiler changes:
- Support for Delphi-style resource handling
- Whole-program optimization infrastructure, which initially supports
program devirtualization and unused virtual method removal
- Much faster compilation of units containing many type-sections
- The ability to suppress individual hints/warnings/notes
- Several improvements to the DWARF debug information generation
- Fixes to the generics support
- Fixes to the interface delegation (implements) support
- Improved cpu register allocation
- Improved ARM/EABI support
* RTL changes:
- Linearly scaling multi-threaded memory manager
- Support for (advisory) file locking on Unix-based platforms
- when using the SysUtils file creation/opening routines
- Support for ANSI ISO Extended Pascal ReadStr/WriteStr
- A UnicodeString type that, while not yet equivalent to Delphi 2009's
UnicodeString type, offers reference counted UnicodeString support on
the Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and Beos/Haiku platforms.
* Packages changes:
- Many improvements to the XML units
- Many improvements to the database units
- Updated the common Mac OS X Pascal interfaces to r241, including
header a translation of the CFNetwork framework
- The zipper unit now works correctly on big endian platforms
* Added a patch fixing building documentation on Debian systems.
* Included quilt.make in rules file. (Closes: Bug#538552)
* Packaged news utility program (fpclasschart) poducing a class tree from
source files.
* Removed duplicate section field.
* Fixed fp-units-i386 package short description.
* Removed unneeded override rule.
* Added doc-base file for fp-compiler package.
* Fixed lintian warnings related to spell errors.
* Fixed upgrade breakage from 2.2.4-3 caused by moving files from fp-units-gfx
to fp-units-multimedia. (Closes: Bug#565167)
-- Abou Al Montacir <email address hidden> Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:25:00 +0100
