Acorn C/C++ is the fifth release of an Acorn C compiler product for RISC OS, and replaces the Acorn Desktop C product. The product has seen the following significant changes since the last release:
The product has been merged with the Assembler.
A C++ translator has been added to the product. This is a port of Release 3.0 of AT&T's CFront product.
A C++ tool has been added to the product to provide an interface for C++ compilation that is similar to that provided by the CC tool for C compilation.
The compiler now produces smaller programs that use less memory and run faster. This performance improvement is the result of many small improvements to the compiler, such as:
in-lining some commonly used small library functions
introducing conditionalised conditions
using variable lifetime analysis to improve the allocation of variables to registers.
The Toolbox has been added to the product, to facilitate the design and coding of consistent user interfaces for RISC OS desktop applications. See the accompanying User Interface Toolbox guide.
RISC_OSLib has been removed from the product, as the Toolbox now provides far superior facilities for writing RISC applications.
