[sdcc-devel] Small Device C Compiler 2.9.0 released

[Borut R. <bor...@si...>]

A new release of SDCC, the portable optimizing compiler for 8051, DS390, 
Z80,
HC08, and PIC microprocessors is now available 
(http://sdcc.sourceforge.net).
Sources, documentation and binaries compiled for x86 Linux, x86 MS 
Windows and
PPC Mac OS X are available.

SDCC 2.9.0 Feature List:

*  sdcpp synchronized with GNU cpp 4.3.3
* Integer constants written in binary (prefix 0b or 0B, followed by a 
sequence of 0 and 1digits) are now supported as a SDCC extension.
* pic16 *printf() library functions return int
* disabled support of undocumented and not standard compliant 'b' binary 
format specifier ("%b", "%hb" and "%lb") in pic16 *printf() and 
printf_tiny() library functions
* fixed initialization of unnamed bitfields members of objects of 
structure and union type
* many optimizations to reduce code size and increase speed in the Z80 
backend
* added support for ar format libraries to adcc asxxxx
* libraries, included in sdcc packages, are in ar format
* sdcc asxxxx license changed to GPLv3
* added support for many PIC16 devices

Numerous feature requests and bug fixes are included as well.

You can download the release from:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=599

Borut