PalmUnit Enhancements NEWS

2003-05-12 0.1.2-cytheric1
    * Created PalmUnitApp namespace, and moved all classes into it.
    
    * Added support for multiple code sections. Added macro to place many 
      functions in a new code section, defined as "palmunit" in main Makefile. 
      This removes about 10K from the Code1 section (.text).
      
    * Created sub-project named "sample" to generate an executable for sample 
      tests. Moved test files from src directory. Also changed output of src 
      directory to generate a library archive file, PalmUnitGui.a. So a 
      PalmUnit application must now link with this file as well as the 
      framework archive, PalmUnit.a.
      
    * PalmUnit.h - Added declaration of AddTests(TestRunner*) function. An 
      application must define this function to populate tests. PalmUnit.cc - 
      Removed hardcoding of test files. Instead calls AddTests(TestRunner*) 
      so the application may populate tests. This technique is cleaner than 
      the requirement to copy files and then to directly change PalmUnit.cc. 
      The application only needs to implement AddTests(TestRunner*). See the 
      sample sub-project.
      
    * Added top-level Makefile to allow building/cleaning the project as a
      whole. Added common.mk to contain definitions in common across
      subdirectory makefiles.
      
    * Updated description for an error (as opposed to failure) to include 
      error identifer from ErrCatch argument. See TestCase.cc. This 
      information helps when using ErrTry/ErrCatch mechanism.
      
    * Worked around memory leak in Exception class. Was not releasing memory 
      for member data of String type due to use of ErrTry/ErrCatch. Converted 
      member data type to volatile char*. Your own test code may generate
      memory leaks when an error/failure occurs.
      
    * Removed exception and RTTI support by addition of -fno-exceptions and 
      -fno-rtti compilation flags, and by link with libnoexcept.a. This 
      reduced size of Code1 section to around 13k and Data section to 2k for
      the Sample application.   

    * Issue: When compile with optimization flag, like -O2, POSE generates 
      errors. If compile with optimization but do not use a separate code 
      section, errors do not occur. At any rate, omitted optimization flag.