5.6 RELEASE OF RISC OS C TOOLS AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY

This new release includes fixes for all bugs reported through Castle's C support web pages and over 20 additional improvements/enhancements including the following:

PRINCIPAL IMPROVEMNTS

1. Numerous code generation improvements.
2. Improved checking of printf/scanf format strings.
3. Improved compilation of (int) longlong, (int) longlong >> 32, and long long >> 1 or << 1. Also, long long multiplication and division by powers of two transformed into shifts.
4. Optimised handling of narrow (<32 bit) data and computations.

PRINCIPAL ENHANCEMENTS

1. Added complex and imaginary number support as specified in C99 Annex G.
2. _Bool, _Complex and _Imaginary now available in pcc and C90 modes.
3. Support for switch on a long long expression.
4. Added inter-statement compile-time evaluation of long long arithmetic.
5. asm keyword recognised in C++ mode.
6. IEEE 754 conformance improved; generally edging the compiler closer to C99 Annex F.

Current C Tools subscribers can download the new version from Castle's web site.

Full information and subscription details can be found at: http://www.iyonix.com/tools/

For further information please contact Jack Lillingston at: