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- From: RWilson@acorn.co.uk
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
- Subject: BASIC V all time bug list
- Message-ID: <18452@acorn.co.uk>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 16:25:01 GMT
- Sender: rwilson@acorn.co.uk
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- . > BugList
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- Bugs that have been mended
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- Date Description of fault
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- 20-Jul-86 WHILE loop was checking the line number to see if it was a token or
- ENDWHILE or end of line.
- 06-Aug-86 Nested block IF structures implemented.
- 07-Aug-86 In the assembler, "LDRB first" and similar failed to read because
- it trashed the position.
- 14-Aug-86 In the assembler, LDR Rn,label had the U/D bit sense inverted.
- 14-Aug-86 In the assembler EQUB, EQUW, EQUD implemented.
- 14-Aug-86 In the assembler pre indexing writeback implemented.
- 14-Aug-86 Direct function calls supported in assembler for macros.
- 15-Aug-86 FNRET did not pull strange things from stack.
- 15-Aug-86 LOCAL ERROR added as synonym for ON ERROR TO.
- 15-Aug-86 ENDFN and FNRET process any error status they find on stack.
- 18-Aug-86 += and -= implemented.
- 19-Aug-86 Comments in assembler were not spotted before opcode.
- 19-Aug-86 Assembler listings were wrong for comments and labels only.
- 19-Aug-86 Assembler listings could not cope with comments including commands
- e.g. \LOAD IT!
- 20-Aug-86 Assembler couldn't branch to unaligned addresses.
- 10-Sep-86 += now works for strings, also.
- 30-Oct-86 LEFT$(A$) means LEFT$(A$,LENA$-1); RIGHT$(A$) means RIGHT$(A$,1).
- 18-Nov-86 -chain, -load, -help added to startup.
- 24-Nov-86 ^ in assembler set wrong bit.
- 24-Nov-86 MOVEQ dealt with.
- 24-Nov-86 misc corrections to help messages.
- 08-Dec-86 O% in assembler incremented.
- 08-Dec-86 RETURN etc. in direct mode no longer cause address exception.
- 12-Jan-87 APPEND added.
- 13-Jan-87 SYS added.
- 13-Jan-87 line number range extended to 65279.
- 16-Jan-87 LISTIF OPENIN no longer finds CASE.
- 16-Jan-87 ; added to SYS.
- 22-Jan-87 LVAR no longer says RETURN real array.
- 22-Jan-87 LISTO2 indents IF THEN ELSE ENDIF.
- 22-Jan-87 RENUMBER 10,65270 doesn't complain.
- 22-Jan-87 TRACE ON will trace lines whose number is greater than &FE00.
- 22-Jan-87 SWAP A(),B() etc. now work.
- 23-Jan-87 CALL with parameters.
- 29-Jan-87 -quit as a command line option.
- 29-Jan-87 SAVE with date stamp does "B" option.
- 02-Feb-87 Assembler accepts ranges in LDM etc.
- 16-Feb-87 missing parameters allowed in SYS.
- 19-Feb-87 COLOUR a,p,r,g,b implemented.
- 23-Feb-87 RECORD, ON ERROR TO, ON ERROR RESTORE eliminated.
- 05-Mar-87 A$+="JIM" bug introduced when STRACC moved removed.
- 11-Mar-87 REM as first character in assembler line wasn't printed properly.
- 11-Mar-87 LDR R0,[R0,-R0] couldn't be assembled.
- 13-Mar-87 "A"="AB" bug introduced when register names in STNCMP changed.
- 16-Mar-87 Line too long spotted.
- 16-Mar-87 "fred"="" bug introduced when register names in STNCMP changed.
- 16-Mar-87 bug in INSTR two parameter introduced when SPULL used R3.
- 17-Mar-87 COLOUR a,r,g,b instead of COLOUR a,p,r,g,b.
- 06-Apr-87 bug in BPUT#handle,""; fixed.
- 06-Apr-87 OF value changed.
- 10-Apr-87 ALIGN in assembler fixed.
- 10-Apr-87 No room message added to string allocation (and about time!)
- 14-Apr-87 a()+=1 error message fixed - by making it work!
- 14-Apr-87 refence spelling corrected.
- 14-Apr-87 Detection of unknown arrays in array operations corrected.
- 22-Apr-87 PRINT#X,"HELLO" bug due to moving STRACC.
- 18-May-87 LOCAL a$() etc. didn't recover space used by elements.
- 11-Aug-87 nested LOCAL A$() got space recovery wrong.
- 11-Aug-87 didn't call osbyte &da, called &d0, in error handler
- 11-Aug-87 RND seed was non-word aligned.
- 28-Aug-87 OPT 4+ ALIGNments corrected.
- 01-Sep-87 CLEAR when PAGE changed removed (but not the ROM version).
- 11-Sep-87 Detection of insufficient space for library.
- 11-Sep-87 RESTORE and TRACE OFF removeed from low level error handler.
- 11-Sep-87 SYS x,y TO ;V% allowed.
- 18-Sep-87 division by power of 2 did not check under/overflow.
- 24-Sep-87 LOCAL A() destroyed when nested LOCAL A$() fixed.
- 28-Sep-87 A()=const destroyed by cache mechanism.
- 08-Dec-87 LOCAL A():DIM A(1,1) messed stack due to bug in DIM re type (also
- misallocates integer arrays!).
- 04-Jan-88 LINE INPUT had sense of LINE flag wrong - misbehaved for A,B ans.
- 05-Jan-88 HIMEM=HIMEM wouldn't work.
- 08-Feb-88 CREATE was uncallable due to LVBLNK loosing R4.
- 26-Feb-88 STRACC postion changed for Arthur 2.00.
- 29-Feb-88 $A="" check for <&8000.
- 07-Mar-88 50IF<false>THEN50 unescapeable due to cache.
- 12-May-88 INPUT#,a$ at end of file gives end of file message.
- 23-May-88 ATN of a large power of 2 went wrong.
- 01-Sep-88 WHILE <no sd> failed in TRACE state due to moving LINE in SLOWMUNG
- 20-Sep-88 EXP1E-5 bug fixed - epsmin coded as wrong number
- 17-Nov-88 Fixed TAN1E-5 bug (misread the flow chart in Cody and Waite!)
- 02-Dec-88 -1^-10 blew up
- 14-Mar-89 " unlistable token " not terminated by >&7F
- 15-Jun-89 F1XSUB, F1SUB could return -0 which various xxSTAs can't cope with
- 17-Jul-89 Difference between IF THENELSE and IF THEN ELSE fixed
- 18-Aug-89 Cache not being flushed on errors could cause problems with EVAL
- 12-Oct-89 Problem printing 0 in e mode.
- 17-Oct-89 INT-(3*2^30) didn't give error
- 19-Oct-89 BYTESM not reset on -chain or -quit
- 24-Oct-89 A()=B() messed up
- 03-Nov-89 Change to ADVAL to return all 32 bits
- 29-Nov-89 Altered fatal error to 0 only
- 06-Dec-89 error bit in OPT for ADR didn't work
- 11-Dec-89 INSTALL was a statement when it should have been a command
- 11-Dec-89 TRACE TO "printer:" didn't work because of the type setting
- 17-Jan-90 CRUNCH messed up EOR sample,sample,#1 and AND etc.
- 19-Jan-90 FIX of maximum negative integer (a very long standing bug)
- 19-Jan-90 BASIC64 printing -ve numbers rounded in the wrong place
- 01-Feb-90 BASIC64 fp read inaccurate - changed to E precision
- 20-Feb-90 LISTO3 indented SUM (due to checking for TESCFN as well as TESCSTMT)
- 01-Mar-90 RESTORE DATA pulled one too many words off the stack
- 08-Aug-90 COUNT not cleared on -run, -quit programs
- 30-May-91 String concatenation via += failed to check maximum length properly.
- 03-Jun-91 Assembler couldn't do CRUNCH'd BL FNE....
- 05-Jun-91 Auto CRUNCH removed from BASIC V (not VI)
- 10-Jun-91 Bug in printing 1E9-.5 removed from BASIC VI
- 10-Jun-91 BASIC V AutoCRUNCHes if BASIC$Crunch is defined
- 10-Jun-91 COUNT not cleared on -chain programs
- 28-Jun-91 redesigned assembler condition code checking
- 28-Jun-91 change TRACE so numbers and PROC can be on simultaneously
- 21-Jan-92 'technical error' - ADVAL gets R2 value wrong - irrelevant on RISC OS
- 21-Jan-92 1 S cycle removed from INKEY (INTEGZ rather than INTEGY)
- 27-Jan-92 @% += and -= reimplemented
- 27-Jan-92 CRUNCH of ) next to ! and ? disallowed
- 12-Mar-92 10 registers allowed for SYS
- 12-Mar-92 BBC MOS emulation removed from BASIC VI
- 23-Mar-92 TEXTLOAD failed to do a NEW before merging the text (code copied from
- FROMAT into LOADFILEFINAL)
- 18-Aug-92 floating point comparison of positive numbers with zero exponent against
- zero returned wrong sign
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