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Subject: Release -0.81 of SmallEiffel The GNU Eiffel Compiler
From: Dominique.Colnet@loria.fr (Dominique Colnet)
Subject: Release -0.81 of SmallEiffel The GNU Eiffel Compiler
Date: 10 Apr 1998 00:20:19 GMT

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The SmallEiffel team is proud to announce release 
- -0.81 of SmallEiffel, The GNU Eiffel compiler.

It is freely available from:

   http://www.loria.fr/SmallEiffel

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The most important news is that release -0.81 now includes 
an efficient garbage collector. For more information, have 
a look at http://www.loria.fr/SmallEiffel

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What's new in this release (extract from the 
SmallEiffel/misc/HISTORY.txt file):


* Release - 0.81 - Thursday April 9th, 1998
 + First finalized version of the garbage collector. Currently
   supported architectures are SPARC Solaris, HP-UX, GNU/Linux,
   MacOS, Windows 95 and NT (see file SmallEiffel/sys/gc for
   details). Added flag -no_gc to suppress the GC (see
   man/compile_to_c).
 + Changed the default for the generation of C code. Now, the C
   code and object files are kept by default. (This previously
   required using option -c_code, which becomes obsolete.)
   Added flag -clean which removes all the C and object files of
   the system. (This corresponds to the old default behavior.)
 + Fixed a bug related to buffered input under Windows/MS VC.
 + Fixed a bug in misc/INSTALL.SH script.
 + Added require is_connected for all features put_* of class
   OUTPUT_STREAM.
 + Fixed a bug in command short (require/ensure assertion of
   deferred routines are now printed).
 + Added one useful hook for mode -html1 in command short (see
   hook Mcn).
 + Added directory SmallEiffel/sys/runtime which contains the C
   runtime.
 + Fixed a bug about instanciation of class ANY itself (not so
   common !).
 + Fixed a bug about inlining of operator $.
 + Fixed a bug about cyclic anchored definitions.
   

Since I will be away next week, I won't be able to answer 
immediately to questions. You may want to use the SmallEiffel
mailing-list (smalleiffel@loria.fr).
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Dominique COLNET -- UHP (Nancy 1) -- LORIA -- INRIA Lorraine
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