Date:  Thu, 14 Aug 2003 22:04:59 -0400
From:  "Mark Dodel" <madodel at ptdprolog.net>
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: Open Watcom 1.1 RC1 available


Forwarded message from Michal Necasek <michalnDESPAM at scitechsoft.com> on 
Thu, 14 Aug 2003 18:47:20 UTC Posted on  www1.scitechsoft.com
openwatcom.users.c_cpp


  Windows and OS/2 installers as well as ZIP files are available on the
Open Watcom FTP server (ftp://ftp.openwatcom.org/watcom/)

  Please do not spread the URLs too much because our bandwidth is limited.
Once we go 'gold', mirrors will be used.

  Note that most of the files are relatively old and there have been no
significant changes since 1.1 beta. This is to be considered as an update
to 1.0 with some missing files added and minor fixes.

  Once I hear that 1.1 is good to go, I will build and upload 1.2 beta,
which will include many more bugfixes as well as documentation updates.

  Here is a quick list of changes in 1.1, probably incomplete:

 - Using the -ol option (loop optimization) sometimes resulted in 
    generation of incorrect code.
 - The printf() function could access too much data when formatting 
    strings, causing page faults.
 - NANs, INFs and denormals were not handled correctly by the math 
    emulation library.
 - The assembler did not generate implicit segment override prefixes 
    when accessing data in code segment.
 - The clock() function sometimes produced incorrect results on OS/2 if
    the TZ environment variable was set.
 - The Open Watcom editor (vi/viw) has been changed to store temporary
    files in directory designated by the TMP environment variable, instead
    of using the TMPDIR environment variable.
 - Many packaging problems (missing files) have been resolved.

  I am hoping that the change to the editor to use TMP instead of TMPDIR
will solve the issues with viw 'locking up' while starting.


        Michal


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