odin-lang/Odin dev-2022-10

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New Language Features

• cap(Enum), equivalent to max(Enum)-min(Enum)+1
• ODIN_BUILD_PROJECT_NAME constant
• //+build-project-name build directive
• intrinsics.type_convert_variants_to_pointers
• Add helgrind and valgrind support

Compiler Improvements

• Greatly improve error messages
• Preparations for Compiler Explorer support
• Use uint instead of int to improve bounds checking code generation
• Replace #optional_second with #optional_allocator_error
• Remove extra pointer indirection
• Make intrinsics.count_{ones,zeros,trailing_zeros,leading_zeros} work at compile time
• Improve map
• Improve parapoly support for ^T to [^]$V and vice versa
• Various bugfixes
• Simplify win32 resource file linking
• Add Windows 32-bit build system error
• Add help command, so you can now use odin help build in addition to odin build -help
• Improve macOS version detection for odin report

New Packages

• Add vendor:zlib
• Begin work on core:debug/pe to parse PE files
• Add core:sys/info to query CPU, GPU, RAM, etc.

Package Improvements

• Add system:legacy_stdio_definitions.lib to core:c
• Allow reading/writing files larger than max(i32) on Darwin
• Allow skipping unused fields in core:encoding/json
• Add parsing of +/-Inf and NaN to core:strconv
• Add additional win32 imports and constants
• Fix typo in map_insert
• Fix libc.aligned_alloc
• Add slice.enumerated_array
• Add serial comms support to core:sys/windows
• Add complex support to core:libc
• Correct json unmarshal of maps
• Fix Darwin libs for vendor:stb/image
• Added support for ID3D11InfoQueue to vendor:directx
• Improve core:mem/virtual handling of out of memory on Windows
• Simplify core:io by removing different unnecessary types and calls
• Add the builtin procedures abs, clamp, min, max to core:math as aliases