--- gforth/NEWS	2003/08/25 14:57:22	1.19
+++ gforth/NEWS	2007/09/25 20:29:37	1.25
@@ -1,3 +1,89 @@
+
+
+User-visible changes between 0.6.2 and 0.6.9 (up to 2007-09-12):
+
+Installation:
+  support for DESTDIR, POST_INSTALL, INSTALL_SCRIPT
+  report performance and functionality problems at end of "make"  
+Bug fixes
+  Now works with address-space randomization.
+  The single-step debugger works again in some engines.
+  Many others.
+Ports:
+  AMD64, ARM, IA-64 (Itanium): better performance
+  PPC: disassembler and assembler (32-bit)
+  Gforth EC: R8C, Lego NXT (complete?)
+Invocation:
+  New flags --ignore-async-signals, --vm-commit (default overcommit)
+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)
+  X:structures: +FIELD FIELD: FFIELD: CFIELD: etc.
+  X:ekeys: new: EKEY>FKEY K-SHIFT-MASK K-CTRL-MASK K-ALT-MASK K-F1...K-F12
+Unicode support (incomplete, documentation probably not up-to-date):
+  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
+  Signs after the number prefix are now accepted, e.g, #-50.
+  ' now only handles a single (x)char: 'ab is no longer accepted, 
+                                       'a' now produces (decimal) 97
+New words:
+  \C C-FUNCTION (libcc C interface)
+  OUTFILE-EXECUTE INFILE-EXECUTE BASE-EXECUTE (limited change of global state)
+  16-bit and 32-bit memory acces: UW@ UL@ SW@ SL@ W! L! W@ L@ /W /L
+  NEXT-ARG SHIFT-ARGS (OS command-line argument processing)
+  NOTHROW (for backtrace control)
+  FTRUNC FMOD (undocumented)
+  SEE-CODE SEE-CODE-RANGE (show generated dynamic native code)
+Improvements/changes of existing words:
+  S\", .\" now support \l, \m, \z, and limits hex and octal character specs.
+  OPEN-FILE with W/O no longer creates or truncates files (no compat. file)
+  TRY...ENDTRY changed significantly, compatibility files available (see docs).
+  The disassembler (DISCODE) can now use gdb to disassemble code
+  Uninitialized defered words now give a warning when executed
+  Division is floored (disable with "configure --enable-force-cdiv")
+  Gforth (not gforth-fast) reports division by zero and overflow on division
+    on all platforms.
+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
+  CLEARSTACKS
+  FORM
+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) (undocumented) and
+  a C-compiler-based approach (requires C compiler at run-time) (incomplete).
+Libraries:
+  depth-changes.fs: report stack depth changes during interpretation
+  ans-report.fs now reports CfV extensions
+  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)
+  endtry-iferror.fs, recover-endtry.fs to ease the TRY change transition
+  test/tester.fs: Now works with FP numbers (undocumented)
+  test/ttester.fs: Version of tester.fs with improved interface (T{...}T).
+ compat library:
+  compat/execute-parsing.fs
+Speed improvements:
+  static stack caching (good speedup on PPC)
+  mixed-precision division is now faster
+  support for int128 types on AMD64
+  workarounds for gcc performance bugs (in particular, PR 15242)
+  branch target alignment (good speedup on Alpha).
+
+
 User-visible changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
 
 Bug fixes (in particular, gforth-0.6.2 compiles with gcc-3.3)
@@ -237,7 +323,7 @@ $?)  added (SYSTEM) ( c_addr u -- wretva
 ' and ['] now give an error for compile-only words.
 
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+Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,2000,2003,2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
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