From: atverm{at}xs4all.nl

Speed-Pascal/2 continues!

Although SP/2 V1.0 has recently been released big progress has 
been made already for the next version of Speed-Pascal/2. 
For all users of the V1.0 release the update to V1.5 will be free. 
A Beta I of V1.5 is available for those users. Read all about this 
at the following URL:

http://xs4all.nl/~atverm

The link for download of to the Beta I-archive is there also.

What's new in the V1.5 version of SP/2:
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- Higher BP7 compatibility
- Compiler up to 3 times faster
- new SPU format to speed up linking
- New Object Pascal (Delphi) language extensions
- Complex function result types (all types allowed)
- Open arrays now implemented
- SETs of Enums can now contain up to 255 elements
- Uninitialized data no longer stored in EXE
- Faster file I/O
- All 80386/486 processor commands and adressing modes included
- Easier array handling (array constants like in BP8)
- BP 8.0 (Delphi) features like
                               - Classes
                               - Properties for Classes/Objects
                               - Indexed properties
                               - Class functions for Classes
                               - Published, Protected Class/Object parts
                               - Runtime type information
                               - Runtime object identification
                               - Exception handling
- Type STRING now Turbo Pascal compatible again.
- New, more "intelligent" Make

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Alex T. Vermeulen     email: a.vermeulen{at}ecn.nl or atverm{at}xs4all.nl
CIS: 72072,30 (=72072.30{at}compuserve.com)  WWW: http://ecp541.ecn.nl


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