c3lang/c3c v0.6.6

Version 0.6.6

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0.6.6 Change list

Changes / improvements

• Split help into normal and "full" help, #1703
• Removed 'headers' command line option.
• Add enum.from_ordinal and fault.from_ordinal
• Deprecate cast-style conversion from integer <-> enum.
• Make deprecation an error in test mode.
• Add --win-vs-dirs to override VS detection dirs.
• Add "name" project property to override the name of the resulting binary. #1719
• Improved add-project to take arguments.
• Improve error reporting when using type names as the function argument #1750.
• Improve ordering of method registration to support adding methods to generic modules with method constraints #1746
• Support experimental @operator(construct) operator overload.
• Allow using 'var' to declare lambdas in functions.
• Add 'validation' setting and make dead code a warning.
• Allow compile time $foreach iteration over constant Strings and bytes.
• Improved error message when accessing @private from other modules #1769.
• Include @name when searching for possible matches to name in the error message. #1779
• Improve @param parse errors #1777
• Improved #foo resolution inside of the compiler.
• Deprecated '&' macro arguments.
• Deprecate `fn void! main() type main functions.
• Deprecate old void! @benchmark and @test functions.
• Allow test runners to take String[] arguments.
• Added --lsp output.
• Improve the error message when running out of memory.
• Allowed passing arguments to @test / @benchmark runners via c3c test[benchmark] -- -o --opt1 <arg1>
• Handle bytes and string literals the same way in terms of zero termination.
• Function comments are stored and displayed with -P.
• Prevent #hash arguments from taking code that modifies ct variables. #1794
• Make stringify to recursively enter #hash expressions #1834.

Fixes

• Fix case trying to initialize a char[*]* from a String.
• Fix Map & HashMap put_all_for_create not copying all elements, causing init_from_map to create incomplete copy.
• Fix bug when a macro calling an extern function was called in another module also declaring and calling the same function. #1690
• static-lib and dynamic-lib options from the command line now produces headers.
• Fix bug outputting exported functions without predefined extname.
• Fix problem where crt1 was linked for dynamic libraries on Linux and BSD. #1710
• Fix CRT detection on Arch Linux.
• Fix lexer allowing a trailing underscore (_) with hex and binary literals.
• Fix --list-operators CLI command printing underscore (_) and hash (#).
• Fix bug in temp allocator when temp memory is exhausted and allocation needs overaligned mem. #1715
• Incorrectly handles distinct enums and pointers with '+=' and '-=' #1717.
• Prevent DString from being initialized with "".
• Fix bug in OnStackAllocator when freeing overallocated data. #1720
• Use weak_odr rather than weak on Windows which seems to prevent issues such as #1704.
• Use weak on dyn-symbols on Linux.
• Fix crash on project.json not having an empty set of targets.
• Miscompile when indexing an array with small unsigned types for enums.
• Change CBool to be 1 byte.
• any_to_int checks value to be int and no longer works with enum.
• Add check in formatter printing "%c".
• Fix bug where !! and ! was not recognized to jump out of the current scope.
• Fix bug when including compile time parameters in trailing body more than once.
• Fix issue with compiling a constant struct containing a string array in a local context.
• Fix error where panic would not properly stop the program when stacktrace couldn't be printed #1751.
• Macros with default arguments to &, # and type parameters didn't work as expected. #1754.
• net::poll() with negative timeout behaved incorrectly.
• Return type inference bugs with macros #1757
• $defined in a global scope should accept testing normal macros.
• Assert on add to uninitialized ct variable #1765.
• Dynamic function lookup fails after changing type without dummy anycast #1761
• $vasplat was allowed inside of a function when passed as an argument to a function.
• Prohibit raw vaargs in regular functions with a function body.
• Assert on certain slice to slice casts. #1768.
• Fix vector float -> bool conversion.
• Fix +a = 1 erronously being accepted.
• Fix not freeing a zero length String
• Macros with trailing bodys aren't allowed as the single statement after a while loop with no body #1772.
• Deref subscripts as needed for macro ref method arguments. #1789
• Change ordering to simplify adding methods to type in conditional modules.
• #foo style arguments were not type checked when given a type. #1790
• Bug when using +++ on value build a slice or array: the rhs cast was not done.
• Fix bug preventing compile time slices from being iterated over with $foreach.
• Fix bug with defer assignment in macro #1807.
• Fix regression with swizzle references for vectors #1810.
• Assert when partially initializing a constant struct containing a slice #1812.
• Assert concatenating constant slices #1805.
• Do not link "ld" on Linux with no libc.
• Fix bug when multiple $else clauses followed an $if #1824.
• Report the correct type as not having a method when access fails #1828.
• Prevent temp arena scribbling from causing an asan warning. #1825
• Fix bug where &i[0] = null was not detected to be an error #1833.

Stdlib changes

• Increase BitWriter.write_bits limit up to 32 bits.
• Updates to Slice2d, like get_xy and others.
• Added iter() value_iter() and key_iter() to HashMap.
• Add "tokenizer" to String.
• Add "skip_empty" to split methods. Add split_to_buffer method.
• Add @enum_from_value.
• Updated hash function.
• Added URL parser.
• Added convenience functions to Maybe.
• Added String.trim_left() and .trim_right().
• Deprecation of several & macros.
• Format functions for timedates.
• Add @assert_leak() to assert on memory leaks in the scope.
• Added double.set_high_word(), double.set_low_word(), and float.set_word().