--- gforth/NEWS	2003/08/25 14:57:22	1.19
+++ gforth/NEWS	2006/05/20 07:07:28	1.20
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+
+User-visible changes between 0.6.2 and 0.6.9 (up to 2006-05-07):
+
+Installation:
+  support for DESTDIR, POST_INSTALL, INSTALL_SCRIPT
+  report performance and functionality problems at end of "make"  
+Bug fixes
+  Among others: now works with address-space randomization.
+  The single-step debugger works again in some engines.
+Ports:
+  AMD64, ARM, IA-64 (Itanium): better performance
+  Gforth EC: R8C port
+Forth 200x:
+  extension queries (produce true for all implemented extensions)
+  REQUIRED etc. (not new)
+  [DEFINED] and [UNDEFINED]
+  PARSE-NAME (new name)
+  deferred words (new: DEFER@ DEFER! ACTION-OF)
+Unicode support (incomplete):
+  added xchars words for dealing with variable-width multi-byte characters
+  provide 8bit (ISO Latin 1) and UTF-8 support for xchars
+Number prefixes:
+  0x is a hex prefix: 0xff and 0XfF now produces (decimal) 255
+  # is a decimal prefix: #10 now produces (decimal) 10
+  ' now only handles a single (x)char: 'ab is no longer accepted, 
+                                       'a' now produces (decimal) 97
+The disassembler (DISCODE, SEE <primitive>) can now use gdb to disassemble code
+Uninitialized defered words now give a warning when executed
+New words:
+  16-bit and 32-bit memory acces: UW@ UL@ SW@ SK@ W! L! W@ L@ /W /L
+  FTRUNC FMOD (undocumented)
+  NEXT-ARG SHIFT-ARGS (OS command-line argument processing)
+Newly documented words:
+  S>NUMBER? S>UNUMBER?
+  EKEY keypress names: K-LEFT K-RIGHT K-UP K-DOWN K-HOME K-END K-PRIOR
+    K-NEXT K-INSERT K-DELETE K1 K2 K3 K4 K5 K6 K7 K8 K9 K10 K11 K12
+    S-K1 S-K2 S-K3 S-K4 S-K5 S-K6 S-K7 S-K8 S-K9 S-K10 S-K11 S-K12
+  CLEARSTACKS
+Environment variable GFORTHSYSTEMPREFIX (used by word SYSTEM and friends)
+C interface:
+  exported symbols now start with "gforth_" (for referencing them from C code)
+  support for use of libffi (supplied with gcc) and
+  a C-compiler-based approach (requires C compiler at run-time) (incomplete).
+Libraries:
+  depth-changes.fs: report stack depth changes during interpretation
+  fsl-util.4th: FSL support files (undocumented)
+  regexp.fs for regular expressions (undocumented)
+  complex.fs for complex numbers (undocumented)
+  fft.fs for Fast Fourier Transform (undocumented)
+  wf.fs, a Wiki implementation (undocumented)
+  httpd.fs, a web server (undocumented)
+  status.fs, show interpreter status in separate xterm (undocumented)
+  profile.fs for profiling (undocumented, incomplete)
+ compat library:
+  compat/execute-parsing.fs
+Speed improvements:
+  static stack caching (good speedup on PPC)
+  fast mixed-precision division words on i386 and AMD64
+  support for int128 types on AMD64
+  workarounds for gcc performance bugs (in particular, PR 15242)
+
+
 User-visible changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
 
 Bug fixes (in particular, gforth-0.6.2 compiles with gcc-3.3)