[sdcc-devel] SDCC 4.5.0 release candiate 1

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

The first release candidate (RC1) for SDCC 4.5.0 is available in our
SourceForge File release system:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sdcc/files/

In addition to the source package, binaries are available for amd64
Windows, x86 Windows, amd64 macOS, and amd64 GNU/Linux.

If you have time, please verify it and report your positive or negative
results.

In addition to many, many bug fixes, notable features added since the
4.4.0 release are:

* Full atomic_flag support for msc51 and ds390 ports.
* Experimental f8 port.
* ISO C2y case range expressions.
* ISO C2y _Generic selection expression with a type operand
* K&R-style function syntax (preliminarily with the semantics of non-K&R
ISO-style functions)
* ISO C23 enums with user-specified underlying type
* struct / union in initializers

A full list of changes can be found in the ChangeLog:
https://sourceforge.net/p/sdcc/code/HEAD/tree/tags/sdcc-4.5.0-rc1/sdcc/ChangeLog

Philipp
(SDCC 4.5.0 release manager)