PLNews: Programming Language News

Open Watcom v1.8 has been released. Open Watcom is an open-source continuation of the Watcom C, C++ and Fortran compilers.

This release includes: stricter type checking on C enumerated types, improved C compiler support for detecting functions that do not return, C compiler support for compiling larger and more complex source files, improved and new C and C++ compiler warnings, C++ compiler support for the explicit specification of function template arguments, C++ compiler support for the lazy instantiation of class templates and template members, C++ compiler bug fixes, Fortran compiler fixes and improvements, library improvements, Linux support for the Fortran run time libraries, debugging-related improvements, linker improvements, bug fixes, and other changes.

C++Script 0.9.0 has been released. C++Script is an extension to C++, adding support for dynamic types, garbage collection, closures, functors, and other features.

Open64 4.2 has been released. Open64 is an open source compiler suite including compilers for C, C++, and Fortran.

This release includes: the enabling of the GCC 4.2.0-based front-end, improved Fortran 2003 support, reduced IPA memory usage, optimization improvements, support for new targets, bug fixes, and other changes.

Ch 6.0 and Embedded Ch 6.0 have been released. Ch is a portable C and C++ interpreter, while Embedded Ch allows for the Ch interpreter to be embedded within other applications.

This release includes: the addition of debugging features in Ch Professional Edition and Embedded Ch, a new Ch IDE in Ch Professional Edition, new plotting features, and other changes.

Herb Sutter has written a report summarizing the ISO C++ committee meeting held from October 1 to 6, 2007.

The topics discussed in the summary include: nullptr, explicit conversion operators, atomic types, multithreading, garbage collection, and more.

The Astoria Seminar presents Extraordinary C++ has been announced. "For the experienced C++ programmer reaching beyond the ordinary, the Astoria Seminar brings you five of the industry's top experts in a program that uncovers new pathways to C++ excellence." The speakers are Scott Meyers, Andrei Alexandrescu, Dave Abrahams, Eric Niebler, and Walter Bright.

It will be held from September 23 to 26, 2007, in Astoria, Oregon. Registration is limited to 55 attendees.

Sun Studio 12 has been released. It includes compilers for C, C++ and Fortran, supporting Solaris on SPARC, and Solaris and Linux on x86/x64.

The changes for this release include: support for Linux, new multithreading/multicore tools, performance improvements, improved GCC compatibility, and more.

Herb Sutter has written a summary of the ISO/IEC C++ Standards Committee meeting held from April 15 to 20, 2007, in Oxford, UK.

The summary discusses some of the new language features voted into the C++09 draft standard, including template aliases, variadic templates, and Unicode characters an strings. New library features voted into the draft standard are also covered.

The Developer Tools Group of Borland Software Corporation has announced the availability of the new line of Turbo development tools. Available are Turbo Delphi, Turbo Delphi for .NET, Turbo C++, and Turbo C#.

Digital Mars C/C++ 8.49 has been released. It is a C and C++ compiler for 16-bit and 32-bit Windows and DOS development.

This release includes the addition of the fabsl, sqrtl, remquol, and rintl functions, plus a number of bugfixes.

Borland Software Corporation has announced plans to relaunch its Turbo brand of development tools. The products will include Turbo Delphi, Turbo Delphi for .NET, Turbo C++, and Turbo C# for .NET.

General availability of the products is planned for the third quarter of 2006.

Doublecpp 0.6.1 has been released. "Doublecpp is a preprocessor for C++ that handles a new linguistic construct for defining branches of a multi-method.

Intel C++ Compiler 9.1 for Windows and Intel C++ Compiler 9.1 for Linux have been released.

The Windows release includes support for integration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, and support for the latest multi-core processors from Intel.

The Linux release includes Cluster OpenMP support, integration with the Eclipse IDE, and support for the latest multi-core processors from Intel.

Herb Sutter has written a short report covering the highlights of the April 2 to 7, 2006 meeting of the ISO C++ committee.

The report covers the work that got voted into the C++0x working draft, including: most of TR1, 'auto' type deduction, delegating constructors, right angle brackets, and 'extern template'.

Open Watcom 1.5 has been released. Open Watcom is an open-source continuation of the Watcom C, C++ and Fortran compilers.

This release includes: a __restrict keyword for the C compiler, new C warnings, optimization improvements, support for the C99 floating-point classification macros, support for the ISO/IEC TR 24731 Safer C Library, plus other changes and bugfixes.

Doublecpp 0.6 has been released. It is a preprocessor for C++ which adds support for defining branches of a multimethod.

This release includes: support for the handling of mutual dependencies among classes, the correct recognition of tab characters in input files, the handling of structs, plus other changes.

Andrei Alexandrescu has announced that the articles he wrote for the C/C++ Users Journal are now available online.

C to C++ Converter 1.4 has been released. It is a script which translates C to C++ by generating classes, converting functions to methods, replacing function calls with method invocations, and more.

Digital Mars C/C++ 8.47 has been released. It is a C and C++ compiler for 16-bit and 32-bit Windows and DOS development.

This release fixes a corrupt uuid.lib import library.

Open Watcom 1.4 has been released. Open Watcom is an open-source continuation of Watcom C, C++ and Fortran compilers.

A list of changes to the C and C++ compilers is available. This release includes: support for C99 designated initializers, support in the C++ compiler for the new template specialization syntax and partial support for partial specialization, support for the Microsoft fastcall calling convention, plus many other changes and fixes.

Digital Mars C/C++ 8.46 has been released. It is a C and C++ compiler for 16-bit and 32-bit Windows and DOS development.

This release includes a coffimplib tool to convert COFF import libraries to OMF, updated import libraries, an adaptation of Don Clugston's implementation of lgamma() and tgamma(), plus a number of bugfixes.

Intel has announced that trial versions of their C++ and Fortran compilers for Intel-based Mac systems from Apple are now available.

The suite of development tools is expected to be available for purchase during the second quarter of 2006.

Java for C++ 0.2 has been released. Java for C++ generates C++ wrappers around Java classes.

This release includes the use of namespaces in the generated code, and Ant build files.

Java for C++ 0.1 has been released. It generates C++ wrappers for existing Java classes, using JNI to call the Java implementation.

This release generates fully working C++ classes, but some problems have been encountered with binary string data and with multidimensional arrays.

The Portland Group has announced that version 6.1 of their optimizing C, C++ and Fortran compilers will be available on December 15, 2005.

This release includes: support for generating unified binaries for Intel and AMD x64 processors, support for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 editions, in addition to other changes.