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Kent Retargettable Occam Compiler 1.5.0-pre3 has been released. It is a portable Occam 2.1 compiler, including extensions from a subset of Occam 3 and from pi calculus.

This release includes: a rearrangement of the source tree and code rewrites.

The Kent Retargettable Occam Compiler 1.4.1-pre6 has been released. It is a portable Occam 2.1 compiler, including extensions from a subset of Occam 3 and from pi calculus.

This release includes: the addition of the occSDL library, documentation updates, bug fixes, new examples, and other changes.

The Amsterdam Compiler Kit 6.0pre3 has been released. The ACK is an optimizing, retargetable, open source compiler suite supporting a variety of languages, including C, Pascal, Modula-2, BASIC, and Occam.

This release includes: support for generating CP/M binaries using the 8080 code generator, improved ANSI C headers, improved floating-point support, optimizations, bug fixes, and other changes.

The Amsterdam Compiler Kit 6.0pre2 has been released. ACK is an optimizing, retargetable, open source compiler suite supporting a variety of languages, including C, Pascal, Modula-2, BASIC, and Occam.

This release includes: limited support for i386 Linux binaries, syscall changes, the removal of the K&R C compiler, changes to the built-in libc, plus other changes and bug fixes.

Kent Retargettable Occam Compiler 1.4.1-pre5 has been released. It is a portable Occam 2.1 compiler, including extensions from a subset of Occam 3 and from pi calculus.

This release includes: reduced dependencies on specific versions of GCC, updated documentation, better support for 64-bit Linux on the Opteron, and the addition of a MySQL API to the contributed modules.

The Kent Retargettable Occam Compiler 1.4.1-pre4 has been released. It is a portable Occam 2.1 compiler, including extensions from a subset of Occam 3 and from pi calculus.

This release includes: an occamdoc tool, updates to the runtime interface and CIF, the addition of command line handling to the file library, plus other changes and fixes.

The Kent Retargettable Occam Compiler 1.4.1-pre3 has been released. It is a portable Occam 2.1 compiler, including extensions from a subset of Occam 3 and from pi calculus.

This release includes: support for ENROLL instead of BARRIER for doing PAR barrier extensions, support for multi-way sync, a fix to prevent PROTOCOLs from being used as variables, support for multi-processor nodes, plus other changes and bugfixes.

Kent Retargetable Occam Compiler 1.4.0 has been released. It is a portable Occam 2.1 compiler, including extensions from a subset of Occam 3 and from pi calculus.

This release includes updates to SDLRaster, plus bugfixes.

Kent Retargettable Occam Compiler 1.4.0-final2 has been released. It is a portable Occam 2.1 compiler.

This release includes documentation improvements, updates to the Cygwin port, plus several fixes and other changes.

Kent Retargettable Occam Compiler 1.4.0-pre2 has been released. It is an Occam 2.1 implementation.

This release includes: support for live updates from an SVN repository, support for CLAIM-ing mobile arrays of mobile channel-ends, plus bugfixes and other changes.

The Kent Retargettable Occam Compiler 1.4.0-pre1 has been released. It is an Occam 2.1 implementation.

This release includes fixes for compilation problems with old releases of GCC, tranx86 updates for NOCC, plus other changes.