gEDA-user: Icarus Verilog snapshot 20021207, prerelease for v0.7

[Stephen Williams <steve@icarus.com>]

The last prerelease for Icarus Verilog v0.7 led to a flurry of bug
reports, so I have made another prerelease. A fair number of bugs
were fixed in this. As with the last prerelease, I encourage people
to test the installers as well as the packages.

This is also the last chance for port managers to get packaging
issues resolved before the release proper. I would like to see
packages made for Debian, NetBSD, FreeBSD, and Solaris. I do not
know what Mac OS X does for packaging.


Here is the source:  (NOTE THE DIFFERENT LOCATION!)

  <ftp://icarus.com/pub/eda/verilog/v0.7/prerelease/verilog-20021207.tar.gz>
  <ftp://icarus.com/pub/eda/verilog/v0.7/prerelease/verilog-20021207.txt>

I've compiled and packaged for the platforms that I maintain
and have the equipment for, and placed the packages here:

  <ftp:://icarus.com/pub/eda/verilog/v0.7/prerelease/>

        RPMS for RedHat 7.X (Should work on Mandrake as well)
            RPMS/verilog-0.6.20021207-0.src.rpm
            RPMS/verilog-0.6.20021207-0.alpha.rpm
            RPMS/verilog-0.6.20021207-0.i386.rpm

	Windows Installer (Mingw build)
	    Windows/iverilog-s20021207-setup.exe


* Release Notes for Snapshot 20021207

Fix bit select of constant expressions.

Event names in named event triggers can be hierarchical.

Better security in creating temporary files.

Various bugs in handling of indices of part selects have been
fixed. Also, memory addressing has similar fixes, and indices are
precalculated where practical. Also, dynamic indices are bounds
checked at run time to prevent overrun.

Some new VPI features have been added, according to customer
requests.

Some MINGW vs CYGWIN build problems have been fixed.

In synthesis, detect magnitude compare to 0 as a special case.

Virtex code generator can now generate code for bufif1 and wide
and-like devices, and various spelling fixes in the emitted EDIF.

-- 
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