Golden Gate 2.0.8 is here!

• The 65816 emulator now accurately emulates undocumented emulation mode behavior of (dp,x) and plb. Not that it should matter.
• opus-extractor will automatically identify ORCA/C update disk images and behave appropriately (no warnings about missing files or fiddling with the command line to specify a directory).
• (Win32) There is now a separate installer for x64 windows. You may want to update your $PATH environment variable to remove the 32-bit version (Settings -> Advanced System Settings -> Environment Variables… -> System Variables -> Path.)

ToolBox

• Time Zone Tool: GetTimePrefs implemented.
• Time Zone Tool: Offset2TimeZoneString implemented.
• Time Zone Tool: TimeZoneString2Offset implemented.
• Time Zone Tool: Fixed some incorrect tool numbers (preventing StartUp/ShutDown/Status/Version calls from working).
• SANE: FX2DEC improvement.

GS/OS

• FastFileLoad converts \r\n to \r so ORCA/C, etc. line numbers will be correct (and \ line joining works correctly).

Patches

• The Rez/DeRez patches were not always being applied correctly, due to intermittent dangling memory references.

Utilities

• Added the md5 command. sha1 is of course, more secure, but md5 is 25% fewer characters to type.
• Added the hexdump command, which like like the usual hexdump command (but without custom format strings). However, it does feature a -r flag to dump the resource and a -7 flag to strip the high bit when displaying ASCII.

occ

• Added --std flag to select the C version. occ --std=help to list options. (Requires ORCA C 2.2.0)
• The -f flag (which was previously mapped to #pragma float) now selects individual code optimizations, ala gcc and clang. occ -fhelp to list options. #pragma float can still be enabled via --float or -ffpe-float
• The -W flag was added to specify individual warnings (errors, really) to enable, ala gcc and clang. occ -Whelp to list options.
• occ now passes in the +F flag to ORCA C, which, as of 2.2.0, displays the filename when printing a diagnostic error.
• The --verbose, -I includefile and -D define options are now supported with the rez compiler.

After 6 years of development, 7 betas, 1,153 commits¹, and hundreds of bug fixes, ORCA C 2.2.0 is now available.

Stephen Heumann gave an overview of the update in his A24EVR presentation.

ORCA/C 2.2.0 B7 is now available!

This ORCA/C update contains various enhancements and bug fixes. Additions since ORCA/C 2.2.0 B6 include:

• Support for new language features from C99 and C11
  • Designated initializers
  • Anonymous structures and unions
  • _Pragma preprocessing operator
  • __STDC_VERSION__ macro
  • C99-compliant inline semantics (but no actual inlining)
  • C11-compliant _Thread_local specifier (but no multithreading)
• Other compiler features
  • C standard selection, including strict conformance modes
  • Debugging option to detect illegal use of null pointers
  • Lint check for unused variables
  • Lint check for implicit conversions that change constant values
  • Small improvements to compiler performance and generated code
• New library features
  • Optional support for time zone handling using the Time Tool
  • timespec_get function
  • erf, erfc, fma, and tgamma math functions
• Auto-segmenting linker
• Various bugs fixed

ORCA/C 2.2.0 B7 supports nearly all the features required by C17, apart from wide character support and some floating-point library features.

For installation instructions, see the readme. For details on what has changed, see the release notes.

This is an update package designed to be installed on top of an existing copy of ORCA/C 2.1 or later. Note that the disk image must be treated as a hard drive image or high-density floppy image. If you need to use an 800KB floppy, place the SHK file on it instead of using the disk image.

Also: An updated ORCALib for GNO/ME 2.0.6.

This is an updated version of the ORCALib library suitable for use with GNO 2.0.6. This contains the same updates as the standard ORCALib distributed with ORCA/C 2.2.0 B7, except that under GNO certain portions of the C standard library (such as <stdio.h>) are not included in ORCALib because they are implemented by GNO’s libc. For more information about this GNO version of ORCALib, see the readme.

You should only use this if you are using ORCA/C under GNO. The standard version of ORCALib suitable for use under the ORCA shell is included with the ORCA/C 2.2.0 B7 release.

Golden Gate 2.0.7 is here!

Debugger

• Fix array display for pascal and modula/2.

ToolBox

• SANE: FEXPWRI operands were in the wrong order. [Stephen Heumann]
• SANE: FNEXT* support
• SANE: FCPYSGN* support
• SANE: FADD*, FSUB*, FMUL*, FDIV*, and FREM* now support all types
• SANE: FCMP* and FCPXX now support all types.
• SANE: FRANDOM, FANNUITY, FCOMPOUND, POWI, EXPM1, EXPM2, LOG1P, LOG2P support

GS/OS

• GetPrefixGS wasn’t returning a buffTooSmall error when the buffer was too small. [Stephen Heumann]
• The Result Buffer size was undercalculated by 4 bytes. [Stephen Heumann]
• FastFileLoad now puts a carriage return after the end of the file so utilities that expect a carriage return at the end of the file (such as ORCA/M, MacGen, and Rez) will be happier.

Golden Gate 2.0.6 is here!

Updates include SANE improvements, resource manager write support, and a universal (x64/arm64) version for MacOS.