NEW

This is ACK distribution 5.6.

This is a minor update of 5.5, the last public release from Vrije University.
Only minor changes have been made to make the system build on modern
platforms.

The NEW document from the previous release follows.

David Given
dg@cowlark.com 2005-06-24

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The only addition with respect to the 5th ACK distribution is the support
for Solaris 2 on SPARCs. It also contains many bug fixes.

Notes for the 5th ACK distribution:

It is not wise to mix files created by the previous version of the Kit
with files belonging to this version, although that might sometimes work.
Many problems with the previous distribution have been fixed.
The major additions are:

	- an ANSI C compiler
	- a LINT C program checker, both non-ansi and ansi
	- an Intel 80386 back-end
	- a SPARC code expander
	- a source level debugger for Pascal, Modula-2, C, and ANSI C
	- an Acorn Archimedes back-end
	- code-expanders for VAX, Intel 80386 and Motorola M68020 processors,
	  and very fast Pascal, Modula-2, ANSI C, and C compilers constructed
	  using these code expanders
	- a cc-compatible very fast C compiler for SUN-3 and VAX.

Also added, but not part of the Kit proper are
	- flex: a lexical analyzer generator
	- byacc: yacc-clone by UCB
	- f2c: a Fortran to C compiler by AT&T.

See the ACK installation manual for their copyright notices.

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Ceriel Jacobs, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit,
De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Email:	ceriel@cs.vu.nl		Fax: +31 20 6427705