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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