Seed7 Release 2021-03-22

Hello,


I have released a new version of Seed7: seed7_05_20210322.tgz
The download is here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/seed7/files
Seed7 is also at GitHub: https://github.com/ThomasMertes/seed7
The Seed7 programming language has many interesting concepts, which
are explained at its Homepage: http://seed7.sourceforge.net


Notable changes in this release are:
- Support to read GIF and BMP images has been added.
- The performance of several functions has been improved: Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) compression/decompression and reading bits from a string.
- Additional optimizations have been introduced in the Seed7 compiler.


Changelog:
- Some misleading tests have been removed from chkflt.sd7. Many
    thanks go to Zachary Menzies for pointing out problems with the
    tests for trunc() and round().
- The new library gif.s7i has been added. This library supports the
    GIF image file format.
- The new library bmp.s7i has been added. This library supports the
    BMP image file format. The functions readBmp() and str(BMP) have
    been moved from draw.s7i to the new library bmp.s7i. The performance
    and functionality of readBmp() has been improved. The deprecated
    function read_bmp() has been removed (the function readBmp() can be
    used instead).
- In bitdata.s7i the performance of getBitsLsb() and getBitsMsb() has
    been improved.
- The functions peekBitsLsb(), skipBitsLsb(), peekBitsMsb() and
    skipBitsMsb() have been added to bitdata.s7i.
- The functions lzwCompressLsb(), lzwDecompressLsb(),
    lzwCompressMsb(), lzwDecompressMsb(), lzwCompressMsbEarlyChange()
    and lzwDecompressMsbEarlyChange() have been added to lzw.s7i.
    The functions lzwEncodeMsb() and lzwDecodeMsb() have been
    deprecated (use lzwCompressMsbEarlyChange() respectively
    lzwDecompressMsbEarlyChange() instead).
- Tests for INDEX_ERROR have been added to chkarr.sd7.
- Tests for peekBitsLsb() and peekBitsMsb() have been added to
    chkbitdata.sd7.
- Tests for << (shift left) have been added to chkint.sd7.
- Tests for string concatenations where the second parameter is a
    string of length 1 (created by str(aChar)) have been added to
    chkstr.sd7.
- The function getStriUpToChar() has been added to bytedata.s7i.
- The experimental function seekable() has been added to file.s7i,
    null_file.s7i, clib_file.s7i, external_file.s7i, strifile.s7i,
    subfile.s7i, utf16.s7i, iobuffer.s7i, gzip.s7i, lzma.s7i, xz.s7i and
    zstd.s7i.
- Several optimizations have been done in the compiler (s7c.sd7):
    - In comp/arr_act.s7i the index check for the action ARR_IDX has
        been improved.
    - In comp/int_act.s7i the overflow check for the actions
        INT_ADD_ASSIGN and INT_SBTR_ASSIGN has been improved.
    - In comp/intrange.s7i the function getIntRange() has been improved
        to get a range for the action INT_LSHIFT and to get a better range
        for the action INT_MOD.
    - In comp/str_act.s7i the function optimize_str_cat has been
        improved to generate a call of strConcatChar() or
        strConcatCharTemp(), if applicable.
    - In comp/chr_act.s7i the generation of the macro chrStrMacro()
        has been improved to avoid #line directives in macro parameters.
- In drw_win.c the performance of the function drwImage() has been
    improved. Instead of calling SetPixel() for every pixel it now does
    one call of CreateBitmap().
- In runerr.c in the function write_curr_position() the check for
    the current action object has been improved.
- The functions strConcatChar() and strConcatCharTemp() have been
    added str_rtl.c.
- The function filSeekable() has been added to fil_rtl.c.
- The function determineLseekFunction() has been added to chkccomp.c.


Regards,
Thomas Mertes


--
Seed7 Homepage: http://seed7.sourceforge.net
Seed7 - The extensible programming language: User defined statements
and operators, abstract data types, templates without special
syntax, OO with interfaces and multiple dispatch, statically typed,
interpreted or compiled, portable, runs under linux/unix/windows.

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