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EiffelStudio 7.2.x Releases

7.2.x.y (...)

New features

• library (base): Added support for converting CHARACTER_32 to lower or upper case.
• installation: Added support for Visual Studio 2012 as a C compiler backend.
• library (base): Added support to manipulate Unicode path.
• Added support for installing EiffelStudio in a path using Unicode characters.

Improvements

• EiffelStudio: Added VWAB to the list of filtered warning messages.
• EiffelStudio: Slightly improved reading of the error messages for VBAC(3), VBAR(2), VUTA(2).
• library (base): Added a new class REPEATABLE for the objects that can iterate over they own state.
• example (scoop): Simplified dining philosophers example and used the class REPEATABLE for a philosopher's life cycle.

Feature removed

Bug fixes

• library (WEL): Fixed a bug in {WEL_FONT}.string_size_extended that could cause access on an invalid index if the string contained characters that are mapped to the surrogate pairs in UTF-16.
• EiffelStudio: Corrected a pretty printer to remove a temporary file after prettifying source code.
• EiffelStudio: bug#17588 - Supported prettyfing of source code containing Unicode characters.
• library (base): Fixed a bug in SED where if your retrieval fails while retrieving data, you would get a partial object.
• library (base): Fixed a bug in recoverable version of SED where if attributes are missing in the retrieval system, it would fail to retrieve the serialized object even though you have some correct_mismatch or have allowed for attribute removal.

User changes

• compiler: banned the following syntax for types in object creation using the old syntax of object creation:

	! attached like ... !
	! detachable like .... !
	! attached separate like ... !
	! detachable separate like .... !

• compiler: banned the following syntax for using the old attachment marks with the new `separate' keywords:

	! separate ... 
	? separate ...

• c-compiler: On Windows when using the Microsoft C/C++ compiler we have removed the generation of PDB files in workbench mode. If you need this, please define the environment variable ISE_CFLAGS to include the -Zi flag.

Developer changes