EiffelStudio 6.7 Releases
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EiffelStudio 6.7.x Releases
6.7.x
Placeholder for new stuff since last intermediate release.
New features
- compiler: New tracing facility in Eiffel code. Currently tracing is done at the runtime level by writing some text in the standard output. This new tracing facility let you execute some user defined Eiffel code at entry and exit of all routine calls. That way you can better track what is going on without endless search in the output.
Improvements
Feature removed
Bug fixes
- Fixed eweasel test#ccomp085. Now the compiler ensures that if you have a C external with a specific includes order, it will be respected at compile time.
- Fixed eweasel test#exec326. Now the compiler properly generates the REAL_32 values for {REAL_32}.min_value and {REAL_32}.max_value.
- Fixed eweasel test#valid243, test#svalid028, test#svalid029, test#tuple004, test#freez032 and test#multicon058. The issue was that when we performed the type checking of inherited routines using prefix/infix we were not using the new name of the prefix/infix operator but still the old one. Thus if it was renamed it would cause a spurious compilation error instead of accepting the code.
- Fixed eweasel test#multicon056 which prevented usage of objectless call on formal generic parameter using multiconstraints.
User changes
- base: Made {ARRAY}.make obsolete. Now one has to use `make_empty' or `make_filled'.
Developer changes
6.7.8.3946 (July 20th 2010)
New features
- compiler: Added support for gcc on Windows 64-bit, thus removing the need for Microsoft Visual Studio for most type of projects.
- compiler: UTF-8 source code parser
- compiler: Unicode (STRING_32) manifest string
- compiler: Unicode free operator
- encoding: BOM encoding detector for UTF-8
- encoding: New localized printer which prints Unicode according to the console encoding.
Improvements
- store: Prevent C storable to block all threads while waiting from data to be read in retrieved. Now we would wait for the storable type first before blocking all the other runtime threads. This fixes bug#16859.
Feature removed
Bug fixes
- compiler: Fixed various crashes and incorrect or missing bug reports related to qualified anchored types (bug#16791 (test#anchor011), bug#16792 (test#incr352), bug#16793 (test#incr353), bug#16797 (test#anchor012), bug#16798 (test#anchor013), bug#16799 (test#anchor014), bug#16800 (test#anchor015), bug#16803 (test#anchor016), bug#16804 (test#anchor017), test#anchor018, bug#16819 (test#anchor019), bug#16821 (test#incr354), test#anchor020, test#anchor021, bug#16824 (test#anchor022), test#anchor023, bug#16839 (test#anchor024), test#anchor026, bug#16848 (test#anchor027), bug#16849, bug#16850 (test#attach030), bug#16855 (test#final089), bug#16849, bug#16867 (test#anchor028), bug#16868 (test#anchor029), bug#16876 (test#anchor031), bug#16878 (test#incr356), bug#16879 (test#anchor033), bug#16883 (test#anchor034), bug#16884 (test#anchor035), bug#16885 (test#anchor036), bug#16886 (test#anchor037), bug#16887 (test#anchor038), bug#16889 (test#incr358), bug#16890 (test#anchor040), bug#16893 (test#incr359), bug#16897 (test#anchor041), bug#16899 (test#incr362), bug#16900 (test#incr363), bug#16901 (test#incr364), bug#16902 (test#anchor043), bug#16943 (test#anchor047), bug#16944 (test#anchor048), bug#16945 (test#anchor049), bug#16959 (test#anchor052)).
- compiler: Fixed eweasel test#exec327 where evaluation an assertion the code being executed encounter the new check ... then ... end instruction it would reset some internal flags causing assertion within assertions to be checked when they should not.
- compiler: Prevented a failure in the case of a directory containing Eiffel classes is abruptly removed from disk while being processed at degree 6.
- compiler: Fixed bug#16815: Feature call on void target in {CLASS_C}.inline-agent#1 of has_stable_attribute in EiffelStudio.
- compiler: Fixed bug#16795: No error or warning for unknown once key.
- debugger: Fixed bug#16838: User can bring up multiple breakpoint dialogs on same breakpoint.
- studio: fixed bug#16831: Picking and dropping class from Features window into Editor tab clears Features window.
- compiler: Fixed incremental bugs that involve types anchored to expanded ones (bug#16882 (test#incr357), bug#15825 (test#incr329)).
- compiler: Fixed bug#16921 that resulted in VEVI error for an attribute of a formal generic type, constrained to an expanded type (see test#attach073).
- compiler: Fixed issues with conformance checks for formal generics constrained to other formal generics, including conformance to expanded types (see test#conform009, test#conform010, test#valid114).
- compiler: Disallowed incorrectly accepted empty contraint types that also fixes some related crashes (bug#15197 (test#term171), bug#16133 (test#multicon052), bug#16908 (test#syntax061)).
- compiler: Fixed bug#16912: Executing many inherited once-per-object routines crashes in finalized system
- compiler: Fixed an issue that may cause a compiler crash when a formal generic constraint lists a generic derivation that is never created during system execution (see test#term185).
- compiler: Fixed bug#16970 that caused incorrect code to be generated when using target type NONE in object test with the source of an expanded type (see test#attach076).
- store: Fixed bug#16946 and eweasel test#store032 where `cid_array' was not properly initialized in a different thread than the main thread.
- encoding: Fixed bug#16820: Endianness issue on big endian machine.
- encoding: Fixed bug#16836: Unexpected BOM apperance, caused by inconsistent behavior of iconv on Solaris 9 Sparc and Solaris 10 Sparc.
- Vision2: Fixed bug#16892: Context menu in editor gone since 6.5!!!!
