What's New in C51 Version 9.57

C51 Version 9.57 Release

Release Date: 9 November 2017

• [A51 Assembler] and [AX51 Assembler]
  • Corrected: two line feeds in Macro Processor Language (MPL) error message.
• [LX51 Linker/Locater]
  • Corrected: in banking mode 8 there were sometimes misplaced segments and warning L30: MEMORY SPACE OVERLAP appeared.
  • Added: the warning L59: REENTRANT CALLS NON REENTRANT FUNCTION, COULD LEAD TO WRONG OVERLAY CALCULATION will be generated when a reentrant function calls a non-reentrant one.
  • Corrected: automatic rebuilds are not executed when 'Global Register Coloring' is used. This problem was introduced with C51 version 9.56.
  • Corrected: in case of banked applications and under some circumstances the CONST- as well as the CODE-Segments located to the same bank address. This problem was introduced with C51 version 9.56.
  • Corrected: under some circumstances the MERGEPUBLICS does not work for sbit variables.
  • Corrected: the LX51 may locate the Stack-Segment to wrong address. As described in the knowledge base article 3842 this problem was introduced with C51 version 9.55.
  • Corrected: under some circumstances the LX51 erroneously throws the warning L48: IGNORED RECURSIVE CALL. This regression was introduced with C51 version 9.56.
• [BL51 Linker/Locater]
  • Corrected: erroneously the BL51 throws the ERROR L121: IMPROPER FIXUP for bit variables located in the bdata memory space.
• [OHX51 Object to Hex converter]
  • Corrected: under some circumstances the OHX51 terminates the OMF51 to Intel HEX conversion by throwing the following message: ERROR: BANKED APPLICATION CANNOT HAVE AN OFFSET VALUE.
• [New Supported Devices]
  • Nuvoton
    N76E885, N76E616, and N76E003.
• [µVision]
  • This C51 release comes with µVision V5.24.2.86.
  • • Enhanced: New PC-Lint configuration option to add project target and compiler specific preprocessor symbols.
    • µVision now offers Japanese localization on Windows PCs with the 'primary language' Japanese.
      To select the language use the uVision menu item Edit - Configuration - Other - Startup - Language.
    • A Japanese Getting Started user's guide is available in the uVision Books Window.
    • Added: new option to limit the Find in Files utility to the "Current Document".
    • Enhanced: editor now supports Arabic, Baltic, Eastern European, Greek, Hebrew, Russian, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese character sets.
    • Corrected: Bookmark navigation is now working only on the "Current Document".
    • Corrected: opening struct elements in the Watch Window did not always show up-to-date values.