New features in version 0.28.0
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Bug in configurator utility around PG-PVM detection has been fixed.

Configurator utility has been extended with detection of the BFD
library which is required to produce the new `pickstab' utility of
grapnel library.

GRP parser
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Rule of `DataType' has been changed from

DataType::= "CHAR" | "INT" | "FLOAT" | "DOUBLE". 

to:

DataType::= "CHAR" | "INT" | "FLOAT" | "DOUBLE" | ID. 

where ID interpreted as unknown data type. It causes parser to produce
a warning during the parse but it does not refuse the GRP
file. Generated programs can be compiled and executed because new data
type `UNKNOWN' has been introduced in the grapnel library, but it
causes to exit the application with a fatal error message.

GRP code generator
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New utility program has been introduced. `samefile' program is used by
the generated Makefile to determine if installation directory differs
from the actual one. I wrote this program because I do not know if
every version of UNIX test utility knows the -ef option.

Installation part of the generated Makefile has been reorganized and
some bugs have been fixed.

GRP library
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New utility program has been introduced. `pickstab' program can be
used to pick up debugging information from a binary file and place it
in a text file. It is possible if the processed file has been compiled
with `-g' compiler directive.

New data type has been introduced `UNKNOWN', but it can not be sent
through the channels because `pack' and `unpack' functions refuse this
type of data and exit the application with fatal error.

Mar 1, 1997.