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- table access added to csoundapi~ via new get/set methods

----- Original Message -----
From: jpff <jpff@cs.bath.ac.uk>
Date: Friday, February 3, 2012 3:17 pm
Subject: [Cs-dev] Draft Release Notes
To: csound-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

> Slightly more upto date
> ==John ffitch
> 
> Notes for 5.16
> ==============
> 
> The major change is that the new parser is now the 
> default.  The old
> parser is still available in case of difficulty but the new has been
> given extensive testing since the start of the year, including
> complete restructuring of macro expansion.
>   A side effect is that the runtime of most orchestras is faster,
> although parsing is slower.  There are a few optimisations 
> implementedlike constant folding in simple cases.  Line 
> numbers and file names
> are traced better than before.
> 
> Some memory leaks also fixed
> 
>   
> 
> New Opcodes:
>     dust, dust2
>     fractalnoise
>     gausstrig
>     gendy
>     ptable, like table but does not require a 
> power-of-2 table 
>     ptable3, like table3 but does not require a 
> power-of-2 table 
>     ptablei, like tablei but does not require a 
> power-of-2 table 
>     ptablew, like tablew but does not require a 
> power-of-2 table 
> 
> New Gen and Macros:
> 
> Modified Opcodes and Gens:
>     There was a fencepost problem in tab opcode 
> that could falsely
>         report a reference 
> out of range
>     GEN15 mis-called gens 13 and 14 internally, 
> using uninitialised values
>     voice amplitude problem fixed
>     fmbell now takes an optional argument to 
> control the sustain time
>     Change to pvsbasic for tab to table conversions
>     poscil is now polymorhic, allowing k- or a- 
> rate amplitude and frequency 
>     p() and i() changed when argument at k-rate
>     gen49 deferred now works
>     gen23 now available deferred
> 
> Utilities
>     Checked foe use with the new parser/in memory files
> 
> 
> Bugs fixed:
>     Many in new parser related to precedence and 
> multicore.    Better diagnostics when orchestra 
> file/csd is missing
>     csd file: fix CsFileB and CsSampleB
>     fix score statement 'n'
>     Fixed bug in diskin2 leading to infinite loop
>     Fixed bug causing crossfade noise in hrtfmove
>     Fixed unlikely buffer overflows in some utilities
>     Avoid segfault in midicN
>     Bug in mp3in in skip=0 case fixed
>     r score statement fixed with respect to macros
>     sndwarp could segfault
> 
> System Changes:
>     New code to transfer tables to/from PD (csoundapi~)
>     preprocessor #if #else #endin working
>     #includes depth now limited rather than 
> infinite recursion
>     really turn off all displays if --nodisplays 
> or -d is used; fixes
>         bug where using -d or 
> --nodisplays would still cause the
>         winFLTK.c 
> csoundModuleInit to setup display callbacks; bug
>         caused with python TK 
> apps and CsoundYield_FLTK being called 
>     memory leak in mp3in and mp3len fixed
> 
> API:
> 
> Internal:
>      Very, very, very many!  And the 
> new parser.....
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ========================================================================
> 
> Undocumented opcodes as of now:
> OSCrecv
> cogoto
> copy2ftab
> copy2ttab
> ctlchn
> midipgm
> pgmchn
> pitchac
> readks 
> 
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Dr Victor Lazzarini, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Music,
National University of Ireland, Maynooth