odin-lang/Odin dev-2024-07

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New Language Features

• Allow for constant strings in foreign imports
• #exists(<string>) -> bool
• @(rodata)
• context.random_generator
  • Brand new runtime.Random_Generator interface

Compiler Improvements

• Brand new Multithreaded Test Runner
  • #3646
• Improvements to error line rendering
  • Full support for Unicode grapheme clusters
• NetBSD ARM64 support
• -show-defineables and -export-defineables
• -vet-cast
  • Looks for redundant casts or transmutes, and transmutes that should be casts
• -strict-style now enforces a lot more regarding the official Odin code base style
  • -vet-style is a much weaker form that does not have all of the same enforced options as -strict-style
  • Enforces -vet-cast
  • Enforces case statements to be in the same column as their switch token
  • Enforces 1TBS style
• -vet-tabs
  • Enforces tabs to be used for indentation with statements/declarations
• -custom-attribute:<string>
  • -custom-attribute:attr1
  • -custom-attribute:attr1,attr2
  • -custom-attribute:attr1 -custom-attribute:attr2
• Improve parsing for label: #reverse for and label: #partial switch
• Allow #soa arrays to be used directly with make, reserve, append, etc.
• intrinsics.procedure_of(call(...))
• intrinsics.syscall_bsd
• Fixes to debug information generation for LLVM < 13
• Add #directory (complements #file)
• Remove @(warning) and #warning
• Allow - constant_array
• Support @(extra_linker_flags) on WASM targets
• Use f32 operations when doing complex32 and quaternion64 operations to improve accuracy and performance
• Allow for when x in y { (minor oversight in syntax)
• Keep bit_field accesses happy with -santitize:address
• Fix for bit_set[$T] not setting the bounds correctly (#3842)
• intrinsics.type_struct_has_implicit_padding
• Remove quite a few possible race conditions in the compiler
• Numerous big fixes

New Packages

• vendor:wgpu (WebGPU)
  • 108b8fe
• core:flags
  • edb685f
• core:encoding/uuid
  • 4824050
• core:mem/tlsf
  • "Two-Level Segregated Fit" memory allocator
• core:image/bmp
  • #3609

Package Improvements

• core:text/table now supports Unicode grapheme clusters correctly
• core:math/rand now uses the new context.random_generator interface instead of the implementation specific rand.Rand
• core:crypto has a Random_Generator interface for entropic cryptographic random number generators
• Improvements to core:strconv
  • Support complex/quaternion parsing
  • Partial parsing of infinity
• Improvements to vendor:raylib declarations
• Move rlgl to vendor:raylib/rlgl
• Fixes to core:math/big and add numerous other utility procedures
• Fix code generation for vendor:vulkan on ^[3]f32 parameters
• Numerous improvements to core:odin/parser
• Make runtime.heap_alloc et al "contextless"
• Add #no_broadcast to append_soa calls
• Add no_zero_* variants for #soa dynamic arrays
• More test suites