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From: K538915@CZHRZU1A.BITNET
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Subject: CCD ST-Pascal+ V2.0 annoucement (OSS Personal Pascal)
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Date: Sat, 20-Jun-87 14:36:46 EDT
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CCD have annouced version 2.0 of there ST-Pascal+ compiler (sold in
the US as OSS Personal Pascal). According to the annoucement the whole
code generation has been rewritten and a number of limitations in the
old compiler have been removed:

        -size of types & vars only limited by the maximal addressable
         amount of memory {at last 1mB arrays :-)}

        -no limit on the total size of local variables & parameters

        -Long_Integer is allowed as FOR-loop index and in CASE and
         variant record statements

        -new type Short_Integer (= old integer) {it's not quite
         clear which length a Integer type will have in the new
         compiler}

        -no more temporary files generated by the compiler, which
         results in faster compilation

A number of things have been changed in the libraries:

        -trigonometric functions have been improved

        -PASGEM library supplied by OSS has been extended and improved
         {there was no more info than this, since it seems they have
          just got the revised version from OSS}

        -new low-level library, with block-move and other routines

A new improved shell will also be supplied with the new version,
CCD has annouced that the update will be available in 6-10 weeks
and the update costs will be probably < 50 DM.

                Simon Poole
                K538915@CZHRZU1A.BITNET

PS: as soon as I've got my copy a new version of UniTerm will be on
    its way!

Disclaimer: as always I'm not affiliated in any way with CCD, I was
            was just one of their first customers.