odin-lang/Odin dev-2022-08

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New Language Features

None

New Compiler Features

• #by_ptr procedure attribute to enforce a parameter to be passed by pointer internally

Compiler Improvements

• Improved build scripts for *nix systems
• Improved error message when doing ^x instead of &x for addressable variables
• Improved debug symbol generation
• Fix and improve x->y() behaviour to minimize duplicate evaluation
• Disallow proc do stmt and only allow proc() { stmt }
  • This removed an ambiguity with parsing
• Fix minor issue with a lack of a trailing comma in parsing structs without -vet
• Numerous bug fixes

New Packages

None

Package Improvements

• Improvements to strings.Buffer related procedures
• Update vendor:raylib to support macos-arm64
• Minor improvements to mathematical procedures
• Minor clean up of the WASI API
• Simplify logic of append of zero sized elements