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===Improvements===
 
===Improvements===

Revision as of 22:47, 29 October 2012

Below are not the release notes of EiffelStudio. It is the change log of EiffelStudio intermediate releases and the most important changes are highlighted in green or in red (for breaking changes). The release notes of EiffelStudio can be found at the following URL. You can also download the latest revision here. Information about other version can be found under Category:Releases.

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 with 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