c3lang/c3c v0.6.3

Version 0.6.3

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Changes / improvements

• Introduce arg: x named arguments instead of .arg = x, deprecate old style.
• Support splat for varargs #1352.
• Allow var in lambdas in macros.
• Support int[*] { 1, 2, 3 } expressions.
• Support inline struct designated init as if inline was anonymous.
• Introduce the .paramsof property.
• Support environment variable 'C3C_LIB' to find the standard library.
• Support environment variable 'C3C_CC' to find the default C compiler.
• Support casting bitstructs to bool.
• Allow user-defined attributes to have typed parameters.
• Add .gitkeep files to project subfolders.
• Add env::COMPILER_BUILD_HASH and env::COMPILER_BUILD_DATE
• Support linking .o files in compilation command. #1417
• Slicing constant strings at compile time works.
• Add project fetch subcommand to fetch missing project dependencies (general and target specific)
• Ability of vendor-fetch to download the dependencies in the first specified path dependencies-search-path
• Ability of vendor-fetch to register the fetched dependencies in the project file.
• Allow the "self" parameter to be $/# for macro methods.
• Support compile time slicing of untyped lists.
• Allow specifying an import module using @wasm #1305.
• Deprecated inline generic types outside of struct definitions and macros unless marked @adhoc.
• Improved method detection in earlier stages of checking.
• Allow @norecurse attribute for non-recursive imports #1480.
• wasm32 / wasm64 targets are use-libc=no by default.
• Add hash/sha256 module

Fixes

• Issue where a lambda wasn't correctly registered as external. #1408
• Generic methods were incorrectly registered as functions, leading to naming collisions. #1402
• Deprecated tuple / triple types.
• Converting a slice to a vector/array would copy too little data.
• Crash when reading an empty 'manifest.json'.
• "optsize" did not work correctly in project.json.
• l[0].a = 1 now supported for overloads due to better lvalue handling #1357.
• Asserts are retained regardless of optimization when running tests.
• Limit object filename lengths. #1415
• Fix regression for $include.
• Correct '.so' suffix on dynamic libraries on Linux.
• Fix bug where inline index access to array in a struct would crash the compiler.
• Asserts are now correctly included and traced in when running tests.
• Use atexit to fix finalizers on Windows #1361.
• Fix bugs in "trap-on-wrap" #1434.
• Bug with casting anyfault to error.
• Lambda / function type would accidentally be processed as a method.
• Fix error message when not finding a particular function.
• Crash invoking a @body argument with the wrong number of parameters.
• Fix reordering semantics in struct assignment.
• Regression when passing types as #expr arguments. #1461
• Temp allocator overwrites data when doing reset on extra allocated pages. #1462
• User defined attributes could not have more than 1 parameter due to bug.
• Folding a constant array of structs at compile time would cause an assert.
• Enum attributes would be overwritten by enum value attributes.
• LLVM issue with try when bool is combined #1467.
• Segfault using ternary with no assignment #1468.
• Inner types make some errors misleading #1471.
• Fix bug when passing a type as a compile time value.
• Fix bug due to enum associated values not being checked for liveness.
• Regression when compile time accessing a union field not last assigned to.
• Safer seed of rand() for WASM without libc.
• Bad error message aliasing an ident with a path. #1481.
• Error when slicing a struct with an inline array #1488.
• Improved error messages on Foo a = foo { 1 }; #1496
• Bug in json decoder escape handling.
• Fix bug when reading zip manifest, that would not return a zero terminated string. #1490
• Fix thread tests.
• Detect recursion errors on non-recursive mutexes in safe mode.
• Foreach over distinct pointer failed to be caught as error #1506.
• Foreach over distinct iterable would ignore operator(len).
• Compiler crash when compiling c code in a library without --obj-out #1503.

Stdlib changes

• Additional init functions for hashmap.
• format functions are now functions and work better with splat.
• Add support for the QOI format.
• Add io::read_new_fully for reading to the end of a stream.
• Add io::wrap_bytes for reading bytes with io functions.
• Add rnd and rand_in_range default random functions.
• Additional timezone related functions for datetime.
• Added MD5 and crypto::safe_compare.
• Added generic HMAC.
• Added generic PBKDF2 implementation.
• DString reverse.
• DString.insert_at now has variants for other types.