DOS ain't dead

Regina Rexx 3.9.6 was released on 5 May 2024.

Download: regina396dos4gw.zip (1.0 MB)
Sources: regina396.zip (3.0 MB)

> Changes in this release (from 3.9.5)
> ------------------------------------
> * Bugs Fixed:
> - Crash with UPPER and LOWER BIFs
> - #560 MAX(1m2m05,0,4) returns 5 (not what the doc says)
> - #561 Crash with 10 trace off
> - #564 Two STREAM QUERY EXISTS generate wrong result Rexx >= 3.7
> - #575 Parsing fails
> - #581 Silly syntax typo causes Regina to CRASH
> - #583 Trace "Failure" ineffective.
> - #586 syssearchpath() under Windows not using updated
> - #588 Configure probes for gethostbyname_r and getpwuid_r fail incorrectly with strict compilers
> - #589 Translate BIF only translates aplha characters
> - #593 bad format, numeric digits not honoured
> - #594 FORMAT(123.4573, ,3,0,0)
> * Feature Requests:
> - #44 Regina pauses at execution end - installation check box pls
> * Potentially improve performance by reducing initial variable pool hash size from 2003 to 227. Certainly improves rexxcps - suggested by Jake Hamby
> * Add REGINA_HASHTABLELENGTH to enable initial variable pool size to be changed at runtime. This value MUST be a prime number! Use with caution.
> * Add sysgetline() and sysgetlinehistory() to Regutil; implementation of GNU Readline (actually added in v3.9.5)
> * Add handling support for SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 to turn on/off TRACE I
> * Add ReginaGetAddonDir() API call to obtain location where Regina looks for external function packages
> * Initial support for Windows ARM64 platform
> * Check for Windows 11 and arm/arm64 architecture in UNAME BIF
> * Add OPTION STRICT_ANSI_FORMAT_BIF to apply strict ANSI rules to the FORMAT BIF