Desktop development and not a flat pack in sight
Posted by Steve Revill Tue, 23 Jan 2018 20:49:00 GMT
If you missed October’s London Show you may also have missed the release of DDE28 too.
CC-BY “James Lee”
The Desktop Development Environment is the set of tools and utilities that you need to write applications for RISC OS in C, BASIC, or ARM assembler. They’re also the tools we use to build the operating system each and every night.
What’s changed
The big list of changed components which feature in this latest release are available but now very easy to digest, the highlights include:
- New PDFs of the Acorn C/C++, Acorn Assembler, and Desktop Tools manuals
- With clickable links between books
- Easily searchable copies taking zero bookshelf space
- Extra assembler help in SrcEdit when in assembly language mode
- Some bug fixes to the C compiler following user reports
- Various corrections to the examples
- Improvements to !AMU and !Make for projects that utilise make files
- When targetting more recent ARMv6 (and later) processors
- Code generation improvements to the C compiler
- A fix for the new ARMv8 CRC32 instruction in ObjAsm
- Extra decoding in the debugger, !DDT
We’ve ambitious plans to further extend the compiler’s coverage of the numerous extra instructions that ARMv6 and later include, for example the Pi’s Cortex-A7 processor, and are looking for pledges to the bounty open. These new features would benefit any program written in C, for example.
A copy can be yours
Developers with an active DDE who have bought a copy or upgraded in the last 6 months will have received their DDE28 download email already, since all such users qualify for free updates. Outside that period you can upgrade for half price (£25 inc. VAT) by sending your magic ‘DEV07’ developer number to us.
New developer seats cost £50 inc. VAT, with postage extra if delivered on a USB stick.
