BaCon 4.5 released

[Pjot]

All,

BaCon version 4.5 has just been released. Please download the latest from the BaCon website and refresh your browser cache if the new package is not visible in your browser immediately.

This is a major new release with several important changes:

Memory management
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• The internal memory management for the high performance strings has been revised. Now all string manipulation is performed using local buffers for each individual string function.
• The temporary buffers for the RETURN statement are changed to local buffers as well.

As a consequence of these changes, a long standing issue in CentOS7 is fixed, where BaCon shows mysterious crashes at random places using GCC 4.8.5. Also, the overall performance of BaCon has increased with approx. 15%.

FLEX
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The FLEX lexer now is an optional requirement. If FLEX is not available, BaCon still works, but it cannot leave out unnecessary functions. So without FLEX, the resulting binary will be larger than necessary.

Internal editor
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The internal editor has undergone major improvements. The performance of rendering the syntax highlighting was greatly improved. New functionality was added, like showing line numbers, look up keywords in documentation and memorizing the last settings.

New
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A few statements and functions were added, like TYPE, INDEX and SCREEN.

Bug fixes
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An important regression in IIF$ was detected and fixed. Next to this, various code fixes and optimizations were applied, most notably in the BETWEEN, VAR and ON keywords.

Thanks to everybody who has contributed to this latest release, especially to forum member vovchik for his endless testing of the beta versions.

See the full list of changes for more details (please refresh your browser cache to see the latest).

Best regards
Peter

[bigbass]

Hello Peter

compiles ,builds and runs on the RPI3
from the source code package.tar.gz

have been keeping up with fossil until this new release
thanks for all the improvements
will keep testing the C++ possibilities in Qt
was able to get bacon's PRINT working with Qt
as you know they use QString and no char* anywhere to be found
but there is a way we can convert code to PRINT
with a helper macro

DEF FN  PRINTABLE(p) =  qPrintable(p)  
then we can do something like this

PRINT "saved as " , PRINTABLE(filename) FORMAT "%s%s\n"

this is good news we can even use Qt c++ with bacon
this will push the compiler even more while testing

Joe