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v0.4.1 - 2006-11-16

With v0.5 (<stdio.h>) taking longer than expected, v0.4.1 was set up as a backport of bugfixes in the current development code.

- #1427211 realloc( NULL, size ) fails (fixed)
- #1427548 stdlib.h - insufficient documentation (fixed)
- #1428100 Misspelled name in credits (fixed)
- #1428101 malloc() splits off too-small nodes (fixed)
- #1494254 qsort() stack overflow (fixed)
- #1514883 malloc() bug in list handling (fixed)
- #1527437 strncmp() does not terminate at '\0' (fixed)
- #1529792 stdint.h dysfunctional (fixed)
- #1529796 NULL redefinition warnings (fixed)

Just talking about the progress I make towards v0.5 is not really helpful for people drumming their fingers on the table waiting for some stdio to work. I'm not really sure what I made different this time, but I managed to upload a snapshot of my local SVN repository to SourceForge.

The latest code revision does compile, should be preferred over the v0.4 code (lots of bugs fixed), but please understand that this is all still PRE-ALPHA. Especially the stdio code is work in progress, and *will* contain bugs which I probably know about, so please wait until alpha / beta phase before submitting bug reports.... read more

For practical reasons (99.9% of the work being done while without a network connection) I have transferred the sources from the SourceForge CVS to a Subversion repository on my laptop. This makes many things easier for me.

As far as I know, Sourceforge is planning to offer SVN support some time soon, so perhaps there is a way to keep my offline repos and the public SF one in sync in the future. If not, I am thinking about offering a SVN dump together with the packaged releases to provide a history of changes.... read more

PDCLib v0.4 has been released on 2006-02-06, and implements most of <stdlib.h>.