Mad Pascal 1.7.6

• Bugfixes and Optimizations

Mad Pascal 1.7.5

• bugfixes and optimizations
• added support for SUBRANGE (low..high)
• new PACKFIRE, SAM, MD1 units
• added MD1, MD1PLAY resources
• improved parsing of real values, accepts additional characters ‘E’, ‘-’, e.g. 6.1858296469E-02

Mad Pascal 1.7.4

• Bugfixes and Optimizations
• improved operations on ENUM type (passing/returning to procedure/function)
• added support for WITH statement (WITH record_name)
• new units: SHA256, GIF, AES, BFONT

Mad Pascal 1.7.3

• Bugfixes and Optimizations
• added support for addressing a pointer to an array in OBJECT
• added new optimization 'opt_BOOLEAN_OR.inc'

Mad Pascal 1.7.2

• optimizations, bugfixes
• faster code for ABSOLUTE arrays
• unit SYSTEM added array 'mem: array [0..0] of byte absolute $0000'
• optimization for CASE (tail optimize)
• INC/DEC optimization for [striped] arrays
• new unit E80, handler E: in HiRes mode, 80 columns.
• new unit RC4, encryption with RC4 algorithm

Mad Pascal 1.7

• [STRIPED] for arrays with a maximum range of 0..255

• new target, neo6502 (-t neo)

• GRAPH.INC: Circle (faster version)

• fixes lib/aplib.pas

• fixes lib/zx0.pas

• improved CASE optimization

• added directive {$UNITPATH filename} as equivalent to {$LIBRARYPATH filename}

• added ability to specify a path for a module declared by USES, e.g:

  uses crt, vector in '...\3d_vector.pas';

• added support for LIBRARY modules

• added EXTERNAL modifier for variables, procedures, functions

• added ability to set compilation address from program level, e.g.:

  program name : address;
  library name : address;

Mad Pascal 1.6.9

• improved memory allocation for arrays [0..0], 'ABSOLUTE $0000' is enforced initially, 1 byte of memory is saved
• added possibility to declare arrays without specifying their size, e.g.:

var tab: array of byte = [1,3,4,3,1];
var tb: array of char = 'abcdefghij';

• new compiler directive {$bin2csv filename} allows you to initialize arrays e.g.:

var tb: array of byte = [ {$bin2csv filename} ];

• new compiler directive {$optimization loopunroll}, {$optimization noloopunroll}, performs FOR loop unrolling with fixed parameters
• new BLOWFISH module allowing to encrypt, decrypt character strings according to specified key
• new example a8\AES-Rijndeal

Mad Pascal 1.6.8

• resignation of type expansion for expressions from SHR

• new SAPR resource type, SAPRPLAY

• for RMTPLAY, as the second parameter you can specify the address for variables on the zero page

• SizeOfResource(variable, name)

• unit SAPLZSS

• unit SHANTI

• unit SHA1

• unit xSFX

• unit SYSTEM: NtoBE, RorByte, RorWord, RorDWord, RolByte, RolWord, RolDWord, SarShortint, SarSmallint, SarLongint

• possibility to instantiate an array of CHAR type by STRING (if string is shorter spaces will be inserted), e.g:

  tab: array [0..15] of char = '0123456789ABCDEF';

• fixed passing function values through arrays

• added support for VBLKI interrupts (immediate) via SetIntVec, GetIntVec (https://mads.atari8.info/doc/pl/przerwania/)

• rewritten compiler code for mod separable modules

• rewritten code for handling arrays with pointers to records 'tab: array [0..x] of record^'

• added optimization 'Common head/tail Sequence coalescing'

Mad Pascal 1.6.6

• improved implementation of EXIT
• added ability to generate code for RAW (-target)
• added support for INLINE modifier for procedures and functions
• added ability to declare a variable on the null page by using REGISTER modifier
• added support for TEXTFILE (TEXT) type
• new unit INIFILES
• unit SYSUTILS: CompareMem, TryStrToInt
• unit SYSTEM: CompareByte, Pos, Delete
• improved passing of parameters to objects (OBJECT) without participation of program stack :STACKORIGIN (in most cases)
• added possibility to mark a variable as ephemeral [volatile]
  [volatile] vcount: byte absolute $d40b;
• for OBJECT added methods CONSTRUCTOR, DESTRUCTOR
• added support for macros {$define label (parameters) := expression}
• added 'FOR element IN array' construction for arrays not exceeding 256 bytes
• more free memory on the zero page, FXPTR, PSPTR pointers are now allocated depending on whether they are used
• added support for FLOAT16 type
• added support for procedural type
• unit ZX2

Mad Pascal 1.6.5

• rewritten handling of CASE OF
• rewritten code optimization for arrays not exceeding 256 bytes
• optimization for conditions '>', '<='
• added memory allocation for STRING-type arrays (so far only the pointer was put away, it worked like 'array of ^string')
• new platform added, Commodore C4 Plus
• unit GRAPHICS: procedure Font(charset: pointer);
• unit STRINGUTILS
• unit MISC, RMT, CMC, MPT: DetectAntic
• unit SYSTEM revised to include ATARI, C64, C4Plus platforms
• unit ZX0
• unit HCM2
• added support of $resource (RCDATA, RCASM) for C64, C4Plus platforms, resources are sorted by ascending addresses
• extended RCDATA resource with possibility to specify ofset for read file
• added support for Pascal compliant syntax for ASM block, no { } brackets required
• added new directive {$codealign proc = value}, {$codealign loop = value} allowing to align generated code