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[silverfrost]

We are pleased to announce the release of FTN95 version 5.30. This is available for download now to supported users.

New Features:

• C style preprocessing directives can now appear in the label field (except for #include).
  
• New memory model used in salflibc.dll. Currently available for beta testing by setting an environment variable.
  
• ALLOCATE extended to include SHARENAME keyword argument for Win32 inter-process shared memory and file mapping.
  

Outline summary of bugs that have been fixed:

• The dialog box reporting runtime errors sometimes failed to appear.
  
• NEAREST intrinsic did not always expanded correctly inline.
  
• /CHECK failure when using a certain statement function.
  
• A certain combination of using UBOUND with ALLOCATE failed.
  
• ALLOCATE failure for array of CHARACTER type with elements of variable length.
  
• ALLOCATE regression when using certain CHARACTER members in a TYPE definition within a MODULE.
  
• Array of a derived TYPE with zero size not handled correctly by the compiler.
  
• Problem with IBSET when used with pointers.
  
• INTEGER*1 range problem with /CHECKMATE.
  
• False error report when a certain subroutine was passed as an argument in a MODULE.
  
• Array bounds check failed when the index was an array element.
  
• Missing TARGET caused access violation in a particular construction.
  
• False warning issued for a particular EQUIVALENCE statement.
  
• Regression in DBK_LINK: vcLinkText@ etc. in Visual ClearWin samples, failed to link.
  
• False /CHECK runtime failure when optional CHARACTER argument was absent.
  
• Simple assignment to member of .NET class failed to pass JIT compiler.
  
• Namelist with array slice gives "Digit(s) expected" error.
  

[Andrew]

Additional note

Support for Visual Studio 2003 has been dropped from the main downloadable installer. Support for Visual Studio 2003 is still available by downloading and installing the plugin separately. The 2003 plugin is available from:

http://www.silverfrost.com/public_downloads/FTN95_VS_PLUGIN_2003.msi

Full support is still of course provided for Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008.