Re: [sdcc-devel] [Sdcc-user] SDCC 4.5.0 released

[Maarten B. <sou...@ds...>]

Hello Philipp,

I also want to thank you for once again bringing the release to the 
public.
Well done!

Maarten

Sebastien Lorquet wrote on 2025-01-29 11:40:
> Hello Philipp,
> 
> I want to thank you very much for taking care of SDCC releases.
> 
> I'm silent but I'm very appreciative of everything you do to keep the
> project alive in a coordinated manner.
> 
> This appreciation also applies to every contributor fixing bugs and
> adding features to this project.
> 
> Thank you all, this is great.
> 
> Sebastien
> 
> 
> On 28/01/2025 13:03, Philipp Klaus Krause wrote:
>> The SDCC 4.5.0 release is available in our SourceForge File release 
>> system:
>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/sdcc/files/
>> There, you can find the source package, and binaries for x86 and amd64
>> Windows, amd64 macOS, and amd64 GNU/Linux.
>> 
>> 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/sdcc/ChangeLog 
>> Philipp
>> (SDCC 4.5.0 release manager)
>> 
>> P.S.: Personally, I think SDCC 4.5.0 will be the most stable and
>> reliable release among SDCC from 4.1.0 to 4.7.0, and recommend users 
>> of
>> previous version to upgrade to SDCC 4.5.0 soon.