[Sdcc-user] SDCC 4.0.0 released

[Philipp K. K. <pk...@sp...>]

Dear SDCC developers and users,

Today SDCC 4.0.0 has been released.
As always it has been put online in our SourceForge File section.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sdcc/files/

There have been various improvements, both features and bug fixes since
SDCC 3.9.0. The full ChangeLog is at
https://sourceforge.net/p/sdcc/code/HEAD/tree/tags/sdcc-4.0.0/sdcc
/ChangeLog.

The following is a list of particularly noteworthy new features.
* The pdk15 backend now passes the regression tests (both with and
without --stack-auto), and is thus considered stable.
* New in-development pdk13 backend for Padauk µC with 13-bit wide
program memory.
* C2X memccpy(), strdup(), strndup().
* Better tail call optimization.
* Many fixes in the pic14 backend.
* C2X u8 character constants.
* C2X bool, static_assert, alignof, alignas.
* C2X attributes on statements.
* C2X attribute declarations.
* Support for extended ASCII characters in sdas, sdld
* Compiler support for UCNs and non-ASCII utf8 in identifiers

Trunk is now no longer frozen, so future development can happen there
again.

Philipp Klaus Krause
SDCC 4.0.0 Release Manager