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Press Release

Contact: Ron Pimblett
Phone: (919) 676-0847 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
9 AM EDT, January 14, 2003

Raleigh, NC - January 14, 2003: Dignus, LLC Compiler Technology Performance Improvement Release V1.65

Dignus, LLC announces Release V1.65 This release e demonstrates the company's continuous commitment to improve the performance of its products for our customers. Technical improvements are as follows:

Systems/C and Systems/C++ for z/Architecture

Improved Program Build, Release and Maintenance. Support for #pragma ident and #ident to place text characters into the generated object
-O option to engage optimizer improving generated code
#pragma statements are tokenized in Systems/C to allow comments within pragmas
Support in C++ for the latest approved clarifications of the ISO 1998 C++ Standard
C++ operator keywords supported in #if directives e.g #if 0 or 1
Continued C99 compatibility improvements
Support for ANSI C99 inline functions, including improved inliner for C and C++ inline functions. The compilers will now inline functions explicitly via the inline keyword or based on command-line heuristics

About Dignus, LLC

Dignus, LLC is an innovative company, located in Raleigh, North Carolina, committed to providing the best compilers, assemblers and development tools for the IBM mainframe. Dignus, LLC provides unique mainframe programming solutions that offer savings in time and effort, while streamlining development costs. Solutions are applicable to programming for a wide range of IBM mainframe operating systems, including OS/390, TPF, VM, Linux/390 and others. Systems/C, Systems/C++ and Systems/ASM run in native or cross-mode on PCs or workstations. This allows the end use to have the benefits of exceptional editing, rapid compile times, and locally assembled output linked on the mainframe for execution. Dignus compilers and assemblers have been recognized by IBM as "IBM Enterprise Servers Division Member Solution of the Month." For more information about Dignus, LLC or our products visit www.dignus.com.

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