SystemC Class Library (Rel. 2.2.0)
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This is the release of the SystemC 2.2.0 Class Library.

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                IMPORTANT

1. This is the release of SystemC 2.2.0. This release contains bug 
   fixes for SystemC 2.1.v1 as well as adding IEEE 1666(tm) compliance
   features.

2. This release is supported on the following platforms for which it has
   been well tested:
    o Sun Solaris 2.8 with GNU C++ compiler versions gcc-2.95.3, 
      gcc-3.2.3, and gcc-3.3.2
    o Sun Solaris 2.8 with SUN C++ compiler versions SC6.1, SC6.2,
      and Forte 7.
       (Note: tests that use the new dynamic process feature do 
        not compile with SC6.1
       )
    o Linux (Redhat 6.2) with GNU C++ compiler version gcc-2.95.3
    o Linux (Redhat 7.2) with GNU C++ compiler version gcc-2.95.3
    o Linux (Redhat 8.0) with GNU C++ compiler versions gcc-2.95.3,
      gcc-3.2.3 and gcc-3.3.2
    o Linux (Redhat 9.0) with GNU C++ compiler versions gcc-3.2.2,
	  gcc-3.4.3
    o Linux (2.6.9-34.EL kernel) with GNU C++ compiler versions gcc-3.4.5
      and gcc-4.1.0
    o 64-bit Linux (Redhat 2.6.9-5.0.3.EL) with GNU C++ compiler version 
      gcc-3.4.4
    o HP-UX 11.00 with HP C++ compiler version A.03.39
      (Note: +O1 is the highest safe optimization level)
    o MacOSX (Tiger) with GNU C++ compiler version gcc-3.1, gcc-3.3, and
      gcc-4.0.0
    o Windows NT 4.0 (SP6a) with VC++ 7.0 

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User Documentation

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Installation

   See the separate INSTALL file that provides system
   information and installation instructions.

Release Notes

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   information about this release of SystemC.

Additional information

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       http://www.systemc.org
     
   Discussion forum: http://www.systemc.org/login_forum.html

   You can post the bugs and suggestions of general interest to the forum.
   When reporting bugs please specify the following information (if
   applicable):

     1) SystemC version 
     2) platform, compiler, flags 
     3) description of the problem 
     4) steps to reproduce the problem 
     5) compile/runtime warnings and errors 
     6) code sample, not more than 100 lines to demonstrate the problem 

   Note: All bugs will only be tested against the latest publicly available 
   version of the product. 
   Note: All C++ compilers that SystemC supports have bugs of different
   degree of severity. We cannot fix those bugs. Please report them to
   the compiler vendor.