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$VER: Release_Notes 3.01 (17.4.94)

This is the Commercial version of DICE.

        Online Help/Error Tracking/Editor Integration
        ---------------------------------------------

Dice provides very addictive features that integrate with your favorite text
editor.  One use of online help and you'll be hooked.  To get hooked, all you
need to do is hook these features into your editor.

Most full featured Amiga editors are highly configurable.  Scripts are provided
for many popular editors.  If your editor is not listed, don't panic!  You may
be able to modify one of the suppiled scripts.    Other users of the same editor
may already have written a compatible script.  Obvious Implementations will
collect the best scripts, and include them in the next release of Dice.


TurboText (Martin Taillefer)
============================
Dice comes pre-configured for use with Turbotext.

CygnusEd Professional (ASDG)
============================
Dice comes pre-configured for use with Turbotext.

Note that you can only bind 10 keys, so we have chosen the 10 most common
operations to bind to the function keys.  You will need to install the arexx
commands under the "special" menu, select "DOS/AREXX Interface" then
"Load DOS/AREXX Commands...".  Select "DCC:S/RexxCommands"

You can also bind individual keys by hand with the "Install DOS/AREXX Command...".
Select function keys for the following commands:

    DCC:Rexx/DICEHelp.ced ?        Bring up dicehelp with a requester
    DCC:Rexx/DICEHelp.ced        Bring up dicehelp on the current word
    DCC:Rexx/ErrorMove.ced First    Move to the First error message
    DCC:Rexx/ErrorMove.ced Next    Move to the Next error message
    DCC:Rexx/ErrorMove.ced Current    Move to the Current error message
    DCC:Rexx/ErrorMove.ced Prev    Move to the Previous error message
    DCC:Rexx/ErrorClear.ced        Clear out any error messages
    DCC:Rexx/Vmake.ced Build    Build the current VMake project
    DCC:Rexx/Vmake.ced Run        Build and run the current project
    DCC:Rexx/Vmake.ced Debug    Build the project and run under the debugger
    DCC:Rexx/Vmake.ced Front    Bring VMake to the front
    DCC:Rexx/Vmake.ced Open        Bring VMake to the front
    DCC:Rexx/Vmake.ced Compile    Compile the current file in the current project

When you are happy with the installation, select "Save DOS/AREXX Commands...".

DME (Matt Dillon)
=================
Dice comes pre-configured for use with DME.  Pressing the HELP key looks
up the word under the cursor.

AME (Andy Finkel)
=================
Dice comes pre-configured for use with AME with lots of examples.

            Speedy Compiles / Resident
            --------------------------

If you have a lot of memory, you can speed compiles by making all the core
DICE executables (dcc, dc1, dcpp, das and dlink) resident.  All DICE
executables are residentable.

To speed repeat compiles, try enabling dicecache.library.  Simply copy
dicecache.library to your libs:.  The "dicecache" program controls the
operation.  "dicecache ON ADD .h ADD .c ADD .lib" would cache files ending
in .h, .c or .lib.  'dicecache ?' lists options.

The Dice stdio function can be set to detect the presence of dicecache
and use it automatically.  Any DICE compiled program can take advantage
of dicecache by declaring the following global:

int _DiceCacheEnable = 1;

Note: programs compiled with _DiceCacheEnable set to 1 WILL WORK JUST FINE
on systems for which dicecache.library is not installed.  This option
incurs no additional program or startup overhead.

Note: dicecache will not release memory if the system runs low!  This
program is meant to be used on systems with a *lot* of memory!


                  system13() call
                 OpenConsole() call
            --------------------------

Through much magic and hair pulling we have managed to implement a
system()-like call which works under 1.3 AND 2.0 AND passes ^C AND works
from workbench-run programs!  It's even relatively legal code
(lib/extra/system13.c in the library source).  It *appears* to be stable
but involves such huge amounts of obfuscated code that we would appreciate
it if you all tested it a bit.

Note that the first call to system13() involves a slight delay (a longer
delay under 1.3 depending on whether c:Run, C:Execute, C:Endcli, and
C:NewShell are all resident or not) for the first call.  Subsequent calls
will utilize the already-open background shell to post commands and be
relatively fast.

We have also implemented a call called OpenConsole().  This routine is BOOL
OpenConsole(char *) where you pass a DOS console string such as
"con:0/0/320/200/fubar".  This routine is meant to be used by workbench-run
programs which want a console window and will set stdin, stdout, and stderr
to the console (presuming a successful open), as well as direct output from
programs run with system13() to this console.

The prototype for system13() is in <stdlib.h>.  The prototype for
OpenConsole() is in <lib/misc.h>.


To give you an idea of how much this release has progressed over the Registered
version of DICE, here is a list of all the bugs that have been addressed:


Bugs that have been fixed with this release:
--------------------------------------------

00060 bintohex      Add symbols to hex file output
01095 CI      RCS leaves hanging AmigaDOS locks
01038 CLIB      A small addition for fcntl.h:
00141 CLIB      Add V39 VarArgs function list
01139 CLIB      All library code calls should check the return from
..... ........... malloc
06010 CLIB      Code for ungetc()-problem.
06012 CLIB      CreateTask() in DICE 3.0
00101 CLIB      Dice rexx library support
00152 CLIB      DICE string/strerror.c replacement
06051 CLIB      DoMethod() and hookPkt() missing
00057 CLIB      errno not set to EDOM for sqrt( -1.0 )
06031 CLIB      Feof() does not return eof correctly
00050 CLIB      fstat(0,1,2,..) problem
06057 CLIB      Functions missing
00140 CLIB      Geta4() Missing library function
00100 CLIB      Handle European character set
01089 CLIB      isxxxx macros a bit scrambled, I think.
65008 CLIB      List of all VarArgs functions...
00149 CLIB      List of Missing VarArgs functions
06029 CLIB      localtime doesn't work with small "time" values
06046 CLIB      Memory leak with WBMAIN
10003 CLIB      missing example in fread.c
65000 CLIB      Missing functions in amiga*r.lib
01080 CLIB      mungwall hit in new Arexx code
65006 CLIB      Mungwall hit on exit of a task created by CreateTask()
06002 CLIB      Possible bug with ungetc
06022 CLIB      Problems with 1.3 vs 2.0 libraries
06021 CLIB      RKM examples under DICE
00053 clib      scanf does not support floats
01092 CLIB      scanf format problem in DICE
00150 CLIB      scanf("%[abcd]", ...) ignores whitespace
00058 CLIB      sinh cosh tanh atan2 fmod frexp ldexp Math functions
..... ........... missing
06013 CLIB      Strncat has a problem with null terminated strings
01018 CLIB      Suggestion for new version of mktemp
00002 CLIB      Support routines for using Hooks in resident programs
01131 CLIB      The patched version of amiga.lib causes some problems
01130 CLIB      There's an unnecessary fopen() call in stdio/fopen.c,
..... ........... function fdopen():
01088 CLIB      Various Problems with library routines
06030 CLIB      wbmain appears to lose 144 bytes each time it is run
01048 CLIB      WorkbenchBase needs to be AutoOpen
01152 DAS      Bug report - DAS writes to low memory
01124 DAS      DAS 2.07.10R (1993/01/19) Enforcer-hit bug-report
01117 DAS      DAS ENFORCER HITS WITH DICE B4 AND DICE 2.07.54 ON
..... ........... INSTRUCTION "MOVE.B 112(A3),A2"
06042 DAS      DAS Generates and enforcer hit
06033 DAS      DC1 should include #line statements in .asm code
00126 DBUG      DBug 'over' enhancement
00129 DBUG      DBUG doc incomplete
00125 DBUG      DBug enhancement
00124 DBUG      dbug/dd still guruing on 68000 machines
01003 DBUG      Suggestions for DBUG, crash
01090 DC1      -R option of DCC is totally broken
06063 DC1      An unknown DICE COMPILER BUG ! ! !
06036 DC1      Another enforcer hit
06055 DC1      Arithmetic on function pointers
01133 DC1      Bad error about retirn mismatch on __autoinit
..... ........... procedure
00106 DC1      Bitfield assertion problem
01091 DC1      Bug Report: Bad code gives DC1 error 0 -- not in
..... ........... dice.errors list!
01010 DC1      Code before default clause not allowed in a switch
..... ........... statement
00111 DC1      D2 register destroyed on function call
00115 DC1      DAS Error 16 generated (extension of .0 is illegal).
06065 DC1      DC! does not complain about unknown structures
65007 DC1      DC1 barfs on bitfields
06040 DC1      dc1 crash located
01113 DC1      DC1 crashes system
65023 DC1      DC1 creates illegal addressing modes on entry into a
..... ........... __regargs function
01115 DC1      DC1 doesn't accept bitfields in conditions
00004 DC1      DC1 doesn't generate a warning message on int-ptr
..... ........... conversion
10002 DC1      DC1 enforcer hits
06045 DC1      DC1 enforcer hits
00104 DC1      DC1 Error generating assembly for DAS
06004 DC1      DC1 fails to detect reuse of register in a prototype
01137 DC1      DC1 fails to warn about mismatch function pointer
..... ........... assignment
06027 DC1      DC1 fails to warn about type mismatch on functions
01023 DC1      DC1 generates enforcer hits and crashes the machine
..... ........... with 3.0 includes
01140 DC1      DC1 is misaligning structure sizes
06053 DC1      DC1 outof memory for undefined structure tag
01098 DC1      DC1 problem with stack overflow
65003 DC1      DC1 produces incorrect code instead of issuing an
..... ........... error message
01046 DC1      DC1 Should look for DCC_CONFIG:dcc.errors if it
..... ........... exists.
65001 DC1      DC1 softerror in  ( ? : ) expression
01045 DC1      DCC Does not allow full SAS Style #Pragmas
06003 DC1      DCPP not expanding types properly/DC1 not checking
..... ........... types properly
06018 DC1      DICE 2.06.40 pessimizes constant pointer arithmetic
06062 DC1      DICE 3.0 MISSING AN ERROR IN MY CODE ?
00110 DC1      DICE bitfield bug
01085 DC1      Dice generates incorrect code when constant strings
..... ........... are put into the code segment
06026 DC1      Dice loses track of return in registerized parameters
00114 DC1      DICE v2.06.40 structure return bug
01132 DC1      Dynamic stacks (options -gs) works fine, except for
..... ........... main():
06017 DC1      Fails to detect mismatch of types
06000 DC1      Failure to detect type mismatch usage
00038 dc1      Fatal error from DC1
00000 DC1      Fatal error on __regargs function with more than 4
..... ........... arguments
06041 DC1      Formatting improvement for error messages
01006 DC1      Generation of .0 extension on instructions
00108 DC1      if (a, 0) is not allowed
06050 DC1      Illegal size from DC1
06037 DC1      Incorrect extension tst.?
06019 DC1      Logical Or with constants generates a software-error
00059 DC1      Long Double float constants not implemented
00047 DC1      Missing error messages
00145 DC1      Nesting too many includes crashes the machine
00102 DC1      Parsing of constant expressions for Bitfields
00113 DC1      Parsing of the const keyword
00116 DC1      Parsing of the volatile keyword
00105 DC1      Passing structures on the stack size 17/18+n*4
65021 DC1      Possible #pragma libcall incompatibility with SAS C
06020 DC1      Possible DICE bugs
06058 DC1      Precedence order problems
06044 DC1      Problem in generated code (Crashes at runtime)
06009 DC1      Problem wih abs and unsigned values
01143 DC1      Problem with ?: generating a void error
06068 DC1      Problem with registerized call
01005 DC1      Problems Forward typedefining volatile structures
00117 DC1      Problems typedef'd functions
01138 DC1      Problems with incorrect ptr-to-ptr mismatch messages
06028 DC1      Problems with misalligned subroutines - Error in
..... ........... DICE 2.07R
06001 DC1      Re: #pragma problems
06005 DC1      Re: DC1 cuts off first character of error messages:
06066 DC1      Re: Enforcer Hits on dc1
01040 DC1      Size mismatch errors
00118 DC1      Soft-Error "too many redos"
01008 DC1      Software failure with strange include file
01004 DC1      Software-Error for de-referencing structure returns
..... ........... field directly
00109 DC1      Statements allowed before a case in a switch
..... ........... statement
00107 DC1      Structure definition bugs
00148 DC1      The compiler does not catch goto's to non-existant
..... ........... labels
01154 DC1      Types.c needs to issue ERROR 63 properly
01007 DC1      Wrong file reported for errors with -H option
00120 DC1      \x does not allow a single hex character
01014 DCC      automatic library use does not allow for debug.lib
01151 DCC      Bug report - DCC Enforcer hit
06006 DCC      DCC config bug
01079 DCC      dice bugs/problems
01017 DCC      Errors and warnings are hard to read
00103 DCC      possible dice bug with strings
01100 DCC      Problems with error file parsing
01002 DCC      Return code behavior
00146 DCC      The first column of error messages is being eaten
01035 DCC      There is no way to get source lines along with error
..... ........... message
00121 DCPP      date format suggestion
00001 DCPP      DCCP chokes on "#include TOKEN"
06008 DCPP      DCPP Does not evaluate macro arguments in IF
..... ........... statements
01022 DCPP      DCPP Generates enforcer hits with -H file missing
01105 DCPP      DCPP writes location 0 for syntax errors
01078 DCPP      DCPP: Warning 31 on recursive macro definition
01077 DCPP      DCPP: Warning 31 on recursive macro definition
65015 DCPP      Pragmas have changed in Beta 4. WHY?
06049 DCPP      Problems with macro expansions not having parenthesis
01099 DCPP      still wrong line numbers in error dc1 reports
01084 DD      Can't set a breakpoing in the breakpoint window
06011 DD      dd 1.10 'set breakpoint' menu does not work
01083 DD      DD Generates an Enforcer hit when opening a window
00127 DiceCache   Provide more information on dicecache
01050 DiceHelp      DiceHelp needs to support Multiple selections on the
..... ........... same name
65018 DiceHelp      DiceHelp still doesn't react on the ARexx command "Q"
00128 DiceHelp      DiceHelp truncates
01108 DiceHelp      Enforcer hit with HelpBox from TTX
01021 DIFF      Diff should have a noisy option
01037 DIFF      New DIFF for BugBatch crashes
06025 DLINK      DLINK Claims CreateTask is multiply Defined
01125 DLINK      Enforcer hits with DLINK
01056 DMake      DMake copyright/version strings are non-standard
00135 DMake      Dmake does not support aliases or implicit
..... ........... dependencies
00045 DMAKE      Dmake Lockup
00132 DMake      DMake not friendly
01057 DMake      Suppress output from Dmake for No-Work situation
06067 Docs      -l0 still includes DLIB:X.0
01015 Docs      Arexx functions need to be documented in the library
00041 Docs      DICE 1st impressions...
01058 Docs      DME Chapter needs to be updated
01153 Docs      DU documentation change
01101 Docs      Insufficent descriptions for error messages
01060 Docs      Need documentation for VMake
01052 Docs      Need to write Documentation for DD
01019 Docs      Regargs question
00153 Docs      Restrictive Docs in string.doc
01114 Docs      stpchr not documented
01053 Docs      We need an Amiga Programming Chapter
01093 Docs      Porting problems
01011 Docs      Problems with word-wrapping of listings in the manual
01147 DSearch      dsearch says nothing if file not found
06015 DU      du BETA-3.00.02  (27.7.92)
01096 DU      du gives wildly different answers on RAM:, Hard Disk
00043 Environment DiceHelp/Integrated/libmake/profiler comments
06052 EXAMPLE      FMSDISK has a bad declaration of a function pointer
01126 EXAMPLE      SharedLib example loses memory when the library is
..... ........... expunged
01150 FDTOPRAGMA  Bug in fdtopragma - always gets enforcer hits
01016 Hunks      Hunks program generates enforcer hit
01148 Hunks      Hunks program gets enforce hits
00046 Includes      Missing clib/alib_protos.h
01001 INSTALL      -f flag should not be set when installing under 2.0
65011 INSTALL      3.0 Includes are missing
01136 INSTALL      CED Integration information
01103 INSTALL      DICE beta4 installation bugs
00143 INSTALL      Does not have the latest includes
00147 INSTALL      Installation Report/Bugs
01134 INSTALL      Installer ICON
00044 INSTALL      Installer should generate log file by default
01145 INSTALL      installer text bug
65017 INSTALL      Missing include file directory pattern in Makeindex
..... ........... call
65019 INSTALL      MMU Tools in DICE 3.0 Beta 4
00138 INSTALL      Re: Installation Report/Bugs
02000 INSTALL      Use archiving file handler for floppy installed
..... ........... product
00049 INSTALL      Use more instead of DICE as text reader
01000 INSTALL      We need to have the latest 2.0 includes
01044 INSTALL      Work to be done on the Installer
01094 INSTALL      Problems with volumes with spaces in the name
01075 Library      DICE strncat function differs signifcantly from ANSI
..... ........... spec.
00139 Makeindex   Makeindex does not include the last entry of a .doc
..... ........... file in the index
03001 RCS      RCS should work under AmigaDos 1.3
01086 TOOLS      Debugging tools for Commercial DICE?
65020 TOOLS      Enforcer hit in fdtopragma
00037 TTX      Assorted integrated error problems
01149 TTX      Typing "ttxsame" with no arguments hangs CLI
01047 TTX      VMake Integration with TurboText
01030 VMake      .info files should not appear in the requester
01029 VMake      Add ability to update a VMakefile
01032 VMake      DEL button for VMake requester does not work well
01041 VMake      dmake clean is a bit overenthusiastic
03004 VMake      Don't allow non projects
01043 VMake      Enhancement: Console window should follow VMAKE
..... ........... jumping
01062 VMake      Handle initial command Line arguments in VMake
03003 VMake      NEW does not put new project in alternate path
01066 VMake      Resizing in VMake has some problems
01028 VMake      SCAN Command needs to be smarter
01034 VMake      Selecting SAVE for a brand new project gives
..... ........... unhelpful message
01073 VMake      VMake configurations scripts are missing
01033 VMake      VMake does not restrict the characters that can be
..... ........... in a project name
01070 VMake      VMake does not support options results
65014 VMake      VMake doesn't ghost gadgets and menus
01027 VMake      VMake failed for devices with spaces in the name
01104 VMake      VMake GUI problems
01071 VMake      VMake List gadget flickers a lot
01069 VMake      VMake needs external parameter passing for REXX
..... ........... commands
01054 VMake      VMake needs to check for an empty Project
01061 VMake      VMake needs to handle dropins better
01068 VMake      VMake Should look for DCC_CONFIG:VMake.config if it
..... ........... exists.
01074 VMake      VMake should support Project based configurations
65012 VOpts      Empty gadgets in VOpts requester
65013 VOpts      Errors in DCC:Config/VOpts.config
01063 VOpts      VMake/VOpts interaction needs to be tuned
01067 VOpts      VOpts Should look for DCC_CONFIG:VOpts.config if it
..... ........... exists.
01039 VOpts      VOpts should notify user before modifying soruce
01049 WBRun      WBRun crashes under 2.0