Inform 6.33

[DavidK (David Kinder)]

To go along with the new version of Inform 7, there is also a new version of Inform 6: version 6.33. As usual, this contains a number of bug fixes and small improvements.

Release notes: [url]http://ifarchive.org/if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform6/ReleaseNotes.html[/url]
Source code: [url]http://ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXinfocomXcompilersXinform6Xsource.html[/url]
Windows console-mode executable: [url]http://ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXinfocomXcompilersXinform6Xexecutables.html[/url]

[Ron_Newcomb]

Nice!

Is the dead code elimination options on or off by default?

[zarf (Andrew Plotkin)]

Off.

[zarf (Andrew Plotkin)]

Unused routines can now be detected and omitted from the compiled game, through two new settings. If $WARN_UNUSED_ROUTINES is set to 1, unused routines are reported during compilation. If $OMIT_UNUSED_ROUTINES is set to 1, unused routines (other than those in the Inform library) are omitted; if it is set to 2, unused routines anywhere, even in the library, are omitted.

That’s backwards actually. WARN_UNUSED_ROUTINES can be 0, 1, or 2. OMIT_UNUSED_ROUTINES can be 0 or 1.

[DavidG (David Griffith)]

And with that, I’ll have an official package of the Inform6 compiler package for Unix uploaded in a day or two.

[DavidG (David Griffith)]

Well, it might be longer than a few days. I still have nine more bugs to squash.

[Dannii]

Should the bugs on mantis be marked as closed now? (And what about the IDE bugs too?)

[DavidK (David Kinder)]

@zarf

That’s backwards actually. WARN_UNUSED_ROUTINES can be 0, 1, or 2. OMIT_UNUSED_ROUTINES can be 0 or 1.

Now fixed, thanks.