SciTech Software
Announces Open Watcom 1.1 Now Available.
SciTech
Software, Inc. today announced that Open Watcom 1.1 has been
released. This update includes
a number of eagerly
anticipated fixes and enhancements and can be downloaded,
free of charge, from the Open Watcom web site at www.openwatcom.org.
Open Watcom can also be purchased on a a CD which not only
includes all of the source code but also includes SciTech’s
installer for DOS, OS/2, and windows. Support for the update
will be handled exclusively through the Open Watcom web site.
"
With
nearly a year of development now behind us, the Open Watcom
project is beginning to take shape,” said
Michal Necasek, Open Watcom’s Project Manager. “ With
the initial code review and bug fixes now wrapped up we will
be more free to focus on adding increased capabilities to
Open Watcom.”
Whats new in Open Watcom 1.1
Using the -ol
option (loop optimization) sometimes resulted in generation
of incorrect code.
The printf() function could access
too much data when formatting strings, causing page faults.
NANs,
INFs and denormals were not handled correctly by the
math emulation library.
The assembler did not generate
implicit segment override prefixes when accessing data
in code segment.
The clock() function sometimes produced
incorrect results on OS/2 if the TZ environment variable
was set.
The Open Watcom editor (vi/viw) has
been changed to store temporary files in directory designated
by the
TMP environment
variable, instead of using the TMPDIR environment variable.
Many
packaging problems (missing files) have been resolved.
About Open Watcom
The Watcom C/C++ and Fortran products will be the first mass
market, proprietary compilers to be Open Sourced and, weighing
in at nearly three million lines
of source code, will represent one of the largest pools of commercial source
code of any type ever released under an Open Source license. Sybase, Inc.
developed the original Watcom code and SciTech Software, Inc. is the official
maintainer of the project. The Open Watcom project has stirred tremendous
interest among developers worldwide. Thousands have already
joined
the Open Watcom community at www.openwatcom.org in order
to use Open Watcom and contribute to its further development.
Watcom supports software development in Windows, DOS, OS/2,
Netware, QNX, and other operating systems (a Linux version
of Open Watcom is planned). The Open Watcom web address is http://www.openwatcom.org. About SciTech:
SciTech Software, Inc. is a leading
supplier of PC graphics utilities, drivers, and tools
for the embedded,
industrial
and enterprise markets. SciTech’s products include,
SciTech SNAP Graphics, a fully accelerated binary compatible
graphic device driver solution, SciTech MGL, a professional
graphics library used to speed develop of today’s
multi-os software programs, and SciTech GLDirect, an
OpenGL to Direct3D
driver. SciTech products support Linux (X11 and Qt),
Qt/Embedded, Windows, OS/2, and DOS operating systems.
SciTech is privately
held and the company's web address is http://www.scitechsoft.com.
