OCS Release Notes PowerAda 5.6b2 LinuxIa32
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PowerAdaÆ 5.6b Release Notes These Release Notes contain information relevant to Version 5.6b of the OCS PowerAda Compilation System, supplementing the PowerAda User's Guide. 1. Introduction Version 5.6b of the PowerAda Compilation System is a bug-fix and feature update to version 5.6 of the PowerAda development tools from OC Systems. 2. Getting Help If you have any comments, would like additional information, need a different media format, or you have any other installation or configuration problems, please contact OC Systems by internet at support@ocsystems.com or by telephone at (703)-359-8160. 3. Requirements System Requirements for each of the PowerAda hosts are: For PowerAda/AIX: any computer running AIX version 5.2 or later For PowerAda/Linux: any modern Intel Pentium-based computer running Red Hat Linux 8 or later (with a version 2.4.18 kernel or later) Contact OC Systems for help installing PowerAda on versions or platforms other than these. Typically, 700 Megabytes of disk space are required for installation of PowerAda on any of the host platforms. The file "README" contains more detailed notes on requirements. Please refer to this before installing the PowerAda product on any supported host. 4. Licensing PowerAda 5.6b works with the software product FLEXlm. PowerAda 5.6b for AIX does not require a new license if you already have a valid license for PowerAda 4.1 (or newer) for AIX. PowerAda 5.6b for Linux does not require a new license if you already have a valid license for PowerAda 5.3 (or newer) for Linux. Replacements for older licenses can be reissued by support@ocsystems.com. The license keys for AIX are different from those for Linux, as the products are sold separately. See the PowerAda 5.6b Installation Guide for more information about setting up the license manager. 5. Compatibility All PowerAda 5.6* versions are source-code compatible with prior PowerAda versions up to 5.2, although a complete recompilation of your source code is required. PowerAda Linux 5.6b object code is object-code compatible with 5.6*. PowerAda AIX 5.6* object-code IS NOT compatible with that produced by versions prior to 5.6. OCS recommends AGAINST linking 5.6* object-code together with object code created by an older version because the PowerAda runtime support packages differ slightly. On AIX, this is due to new floating point exception checks behavior, which was done so that PowerAda would better coexist with foreign (C/C++) code, by avoiding exception bits in the FPSCR register after floating point operations, when enabled by "-q float_overflows" only on AIX. On Linux, the runtime layout of pragma Exported subprograms differs, as Pop_Stack_And_Call_Cplus requires. Projects created using earlier versions of PowerAda cannot be opened using PowerAda 5.6b. If you're sure you know what you are doing, you can get around this by doing the following cd adaproj # or whatever your project root is rm .adaproj # delete the current project state file aprojinit -k # create a new project state file, keeping the directory Note that future versions of PowerAda 5 AIX will not support AIX 4. PowerAda 5.2 will continue to be supported as the LegacyAda version of PowerAda for use on AIX 4 operating systems. 6. Customer-Reported Defects Fixed Below are problems which were found at customer sites and have been fixed in 5.6b. If you have reported a problem and do not see it on this list, please contact OC Systems as described above to check on the status of your problem. 1809 adbg debugger "tasks" command displays "no tasks" 1820 segfault on assignment to deferred constant with controlled components 1823 pthread_create fails on AIX 5.4+ for non-root users 1827 adbg debugger supports reading Linux ELF core files 1829 adbg debugger supports probed applications on Linux 1831 powerada GUI CM Diff_Files for multiple selections at once 1838 memory leak in Linux version of libutb.so ======================================================= 7. Limitations and Unimplemented Features If you encounter any problem, or have any suggestions for improvement or enhancement, please contact OC Systems at support@ocsystems.com. We can't fix what we don't know about. See APPENDIX C, "Implementation Characteristics" (corresponding to Annex M of the Ada95 Reference Manual) for a detailed description of which optional portions of the language have been implemented. PowerAda/Linux does not do any stack overflow checking, and so it will dump core on insufficient stack space rather than raise STORAGE_ERROR. The user should make sure that all task stacks are given sufficient storage to execute. ---