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ORCA/C 2.2.0 B2
Copyright 1997, Byte Works Inc.
Updated by Stephen Heumann and Kelvin Sherlock, 2017
-- Change List --------------------------------------------------------------
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7. Some new headers specified by recent C standards are added.
See "New Headers."
7. Two new #pragma ignore bits are defined. See "Compiler changes
8. Two new #pragma ignore bits are defined. See "Compiler changes
introduced in C 2.2.0".
2.1.1 B3 1. Bugs squashed. See bug notes, below.
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-- Known Issues -------------------------------------------------------------
1. The loop invariant removal optimization pass can generate bad code (e.g. creating infinite loops) in some cases.
1. The % operator will generally not work correctly when either operand is negative. It may produce an incorrect result, or in certain scenarios it may give a compile-time or run-time error.
2. The % operator will generally not work correctly when either operand is negative. It may produce an incorrect result, or in certain scenarios it may give a compile-time or run-time error.
2. Not all orderings of storage class specifiers, type qualifiers, and type specifiers are supported in declarations and type names.
3. Not all orderings of storage class specifiers, type qualifiers, and type specifiers are supported in declarations and type names.
4. ORCA/C fails to detect various error conditions for which the C standards require a diagnostic message to be issued.
3. ORCA/C fails to detect various error conditions for which the C standards require a diagnostic message to be issued.
-- Manual Errata ------------------------------------------------------------
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The description of the action function says it takes a single integer parameter. Actually, it takes two parameters, as shown in the example on page 41.
Both the description and the sample on page 41 indicate that the action procedure for an NDA should return void. Actually, the action routine should return int, returning 0 if it handled the action and 1 if it did not. The correct function looks like this:
Both the description and the sample on page 41 indicate that the action procedure for an NDA should return void. Actually, the action routine should return int, returning 1 if it handled the action and 0 if it did not. The correct function looks like this:
int Action (long param, int code)
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p. 258
The #pragma ignore directive supports two new bits.
The #pragma ignore directive supports three new bits.
Bit 1 affects the interpretation of multi-character character constants.
See "Multi-Character Character Constants," below.
Bit 1 affects the interpretation of multi-character character constants. See "Multi-Character Character Constants," below.
Bit 2 controls whether spurious tokens are allowed after an #endif directive. See "Compiler changes introduced in C 2.2.0," below.
Bit 3 controls whether // comments are allowed. If bit 3 is set, as in
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6. The "#warning" preprocessor directive is now supported. This behaves similarly to #error in that it causes any following tokens to be printed as a diagnostic message, but (unlike #error) it does not abort compilation. (This is a non-standard feature, but compatible with other common compilers such as GCC and Clang.)
7. A new bit (bit 2, a value of 4) is introduced in #pragma ignore that permits spurious tokens to appear after the #endif directive. If this bit is set, the tokens are treated as a comment, and have no effect on the program. If this bit is clear, tokens after #endif are treated as an error. (This feature was introduced in MPW IIgs ORCA/C and is compatible with it, but in this version the bit is unset by default, providing standard-compliant semantics.)
7. Two new bits are introduced in the #pragma ignore directive. But 1 (a value of 2) affects the handling of multi-character character constants; it is described in the section below. Bit 2 (a value of 4) controls whether spurious tokens are allowed to appear after the #endif directive. If this bit is set, the tokens are treated as a comment, and have no effect on the program. If this bit is clear, tokens after #endif are treated as an error. (This feature was introduced in MPW IIgs ORCA/C and is compatible with it, but in this version the bit is unset by default, providing standard-compliant semantics.)
(Kelvin Sherlock, Mike Westerfield)
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51. An unlimited number of octal digits could be processed as part of an octal escape sequence in a character constant or string. Octal escape sequences are now limited to a maximum of three octal digits, as required by the C standards. (This partially reverts a change in ORCA/C 2.1.0, which should only have applied to hexadecimal escape sequences.)
52. Fixed several bugs that could cause the loop invariant removal and common subexpression elimination optimizations to move code when it was invalid to do so.
(Bug fixes below here were added in ORCA/C 2.2.0 B2.)
(Soenke Behrens, Michael Guitton)
52. Fixed several bugs that could cause invalid optimizations to be performed by the loop invariant removal optimization pass, and also one that affected common subexpression elimination.
(Soenke Behrens, Michael Guitton, Dave Tribby)
53. Added prototypes for internal functions called by macros in <stdio.h>, so they will not produce errors when certain #pragma lint options are used.
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(Kelvin Sherlock, Stephen Heumann)
55. Prototypes for the library functions also defined as macros are now provided. This ensures correct behavior when the macro is bypassed to access the library function.
56. The setbuf macro could evaluate its second argument twice, which could cause incorrect behavior. It has been removed in favor of just calling the library function.
57. Correct code was not being generated when producing profiling code but not source-level debug code (e.g. by using "#pragma debug 4"). This could result in incorrect profiling results or other strange behavior.
(Kelvin Sherlock)
58. When a macro's own name was used within it, that token could be re-expanded later in some cases. That re-expansion is now blocked, consistent with the C standards.
59. When zero was consecutively stored to two global or static variables, the second store might be omitted if using the native code peephole optimizer. (This was a regression introduced in ORCA/C 2.2.0 B1.)
-- Bugs from C 2.1.0 that have been fixed -----------------------------------
1. In some situations, fread() reread the first 1K or so of the file.