PureBasic 6.40 beta 1 is ready, surprise inside !

[threedslider]

Fred and Team are awesome as always !

Thanks for sharing

[PrincieD]

Excellent work Fred and team!

Quick and dirty optimisation for string comparison - check if the prefixed length int are equal first? - you're probably already doing this but just thought i'd mention it.

[skywalk]

Yup, tried alpha4 and same crash for Ucase(mystruct\myfilepath$).
I don't have time yet to dig into this, but if I comment out a resetstructure(mystruct, mystruct_info) I get a little further until another structured string access error involving mystruct\mystr$ + Space(10).
My fear is this breaks a LOT of my structured string use.

[Fred]

Which compiler do you use ? Does it crash with a small snippet ?

[skywalk]

Yes, I always use the C backend.
I tried snippet but not extensive enough to match error. Ran out of time. Like I mentioned, I comment out reset structure and it got me past 1 error but onto another structured string error.
The common issue is working with structured strings: ucase(), space(), etc.

[minimy]

Thanks again for this new version.
As far as I have been able to test, I have not detected any errors. (Win11x64)

[Fred]

2026-02-27: beta 1 is out, the assembly x86 backend is also fully working, on Windows and Linux ! All packages are now availables for testing, as usual.

[Axolotl]

Thanks again!
Just yesterday I was wondering when the next version would be released! (Maybe I should think like that more often... )

[skywalk]

Thanks for the beta!
I am still crashing hard(repeating error stream in debugger window) upon access of structured strings.
Win11 25H2, PB v340b1 x64, CBE+opt|ASM, no purifier.

@Fred - I might have time this weekend to debug or maybe I can PM this source entirely?

[Fred]

Sure, you can send me the source if it's easily compilable via PM

[skywalk]

Yes, it is only pbi(xincludes) files.

[STARGÅTE]

2026-02-27: beta 1 is out, the assembly x86 backend is also fully working, on Windows and Linux ! All packages are now availables for testing, as usual.

What about the purifier? Will it come back to working or will it be removed?

[Fred]

Purifier should be working as expected

[STARGÅTE]

Purifier should be working as expected

No, not in my project.
If I start compiling with debugger and enabled purifier, the debugger crashes before the code is running.
I try to reduce the code to a minimum, if I find the origin.

[ColeopterusMaximus]

Trying Linux version, noticed Inkey() segfaults.

Also when using ReplaceString() #PB_String_InPlace returns constant not found.

Shall I post this on the bug section?