Version 0.6.2

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Changes / improvements

• Updated LLVM passes
• Added is_substruct type property.
• Scalar -> vector not implicit in call or assign.
• Added --vector-conv to enable the old scalar->vector conversion behaviour.
• Added "weak" type aliases def Foo = my_foo::Foo @weak;
• *-add keys in targets in manifest.json and project.json are deprecated.
• Made "add" the default for things like sources, dependencies and other keys in project and library files.
• Give some symbol name suggestions when the path is matched.
• Don't generate .o files on compile and compile-run if there is no main.
• c3c init-lib does not create the directory with the .c3l suffix c3c init-lib does not create the directory with the .c3l suffix #1253
• Permit foreach values to be optional.
• Add --show-backtrace option to disable backtrace for even smaller binary.
• Untested Xtensa support.
• && doesn't work correctly with lambdas inference doesn't work through && in lambdas #1279.
• Fix incorrect override of optimization levels when using projects.
• Add experimental @noalias attribute.
• Add a --run-once option to delete the output file after running it.
• Add @const attribute for macros, for better error messages with constant macros.
• Add wincrt setting to libraries.
• Add +++ &&& ||| as replacement for $concat, $and and $or.
• Add methodsof to type info for struct, union and bitstruct.
• Added @tag tagof and has_tagof to user defined types and members.
• Added c-include-dirs project/manifest setting.
• The compiler now skips UTF8 BOM.
• Printable values passed to the Formatter as pointers, will print as if passed by value.
• Pointers are rendered with "0x" prefix when passed to '%s'.
• Add temp allocator scribble.
• Use PIC by default on Linux.
• $exec may now provide a stdin parameter.
• Introduce $vaarg[...] syntax and deprecate the old $vaarg(...).
• Similar change to $vasplat: $vasplat and $vasplat[1..].
• Add $member.get(value) to replace value.$eval($member.nameof)
• Improve the error message when the compilation does not produce any files "No output files found." when compiling wasm32 module without stdlib, libc, entry, etc. #1390.
• Add fmod implementation for nolibc.

Fixes

• Broken WASM library code.
• Regression: Invalid is_random implementation due to changes in 0.6.
• dbghelp.lib was linked even on nolibc on Windows.
• Fix incorrect linker selection on some platforms.
• Struct members declared in a single line declaration were not sharing attributes. @align Doesn't Align All Fields For Single-Line Declarations  #1266
• opt project setting now properly documented.
• Incorrect justify formatting of integers.
• Assertion with duplicate function pointer signatures LLVM assertion with duplicate function pointer signatures #1286
• Distinct func type would not accept direct function address assign. Implicit cast detected for assignment of distinct duplicate function ptr def #1287
• Distinct inline would not implement protocol if the inlined implemented it. Distinct inline will not be assignable as Protocol #1292
• Distinct inline can now be called if it is aliasing a function pointer.
• Bug in List add_array when reserving memory.
• Fix issue where a compile time parameter is followed by "...".
• Fix issue with some conversions to untyped list.
• Issue where a if (catch e = ...) in a defer would be incorrectly copied. Causing codegen error.
• Variable in if-try / if-catch cannot be a reused variable name.
• Vararg interfaces were broken.
• LLVM codegen for constants in enums could fail.
• Fixes to the socket functions.
• Improved output when pointer is out of range.
• Better error when casting to a distinct fails.
• With single module, name the .o file after what -o provides. Can't specify output file #1306
• Bitstruct members can now have attributes.
• % analysis was incorrect for int vectors.
• When resolving inherited interfaces, the interface type wasn't always resolved.
• Fix issues when checking methods and interfaces hasn't been resolved yet.
• Fix Vec2.angle
• Update to libc::setjmp on Win32, to do no stack unwinding.
• Recursively follow interfaces when looking up method.
• Int128 alignment change in LLVM fixed on x64.
• Fix interface lazy resolution errors.
• Interface resolution when part of generics Interface resolution fails when an interface is defined in one module with a parent interface and implemented in another module where the implementation has a List of that interface as a field #1348.
• Assert not properly traced Assert statements don't properly mark their message arguments as used causing the linker to fail. #1354.
• Ordering issues with $include / $exec fixed $exec fails to resolve constant in another module dependent on file order/names #1302.
• Issues with wincrt linking.
• Debug info with recursive canonical type usage could cause segfault.
• Missing check on optional left hand side for s.x.
• Incorrect zero analysis on foo["test"] = {} Segmentation Fault on String Literal Assignment in Optional Struct #1360.
• Bug converting untyped list Segmentation Fault on String Literal Assignment in Optional Struct #1360.
• Benchmark / test no longer suppresses debug info. Debug info for test and benchmark builds #1364.
• Bug when compile time subtracting a distinct type.
• insert_at incorrectly prevented inserts at the end of a list.
• Fix aligned alloc for Win32 targets.
• Compiler didn't detect when a module name was used both as a generic and regular module.
• Assigning a const zero to an aliased distinct caused an error.
• --path is now properly respected.
• --test will now provide the full filename and the column.
• Fix of bug in defer (catch err) with a direct return error.
• Too restrictive compile time checks for @const.
• Fixes to wasm nolibc in the standard library.
• Fixed int128 div/mod.
• Fix WASM memory init priority.
• Fix bug with defer (catch err) when used together with regular defer.
• Methods can now properly be aliased using def Function aliases fail when attempting to alias a method #1393.
• Memory leak in Object when not using temp allocators.
• Tracking allocator would double the allocations in the report.
• printf will now show errors in the output when there are errors.
• Bug where if try would work incorrectly in a macro.
• Prevent loading / storing large structs with LLVM.

Stdlib changes

• send and recv added to libc for Posix / Win32.
• Add support to destroy temp allocators.
• Deprecated path.append, path.tappend, getcwd, tgetcwd, path.absolute, ls.
• Deprecated env::get_config_dir, replaced by env::new_get_config_dir.
• Added path.has_extension, path.new_append, path.temp_append, new_cwd, temp_cwd, path.new_absolute, new_ls, temp_ls.
• Added dstring.replace
• New hashmap type, Map
• Added ElasticArray.
• Added types::is_signed, types::is_unsigned and types::inner_type.

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This discussion was created from the release Version 0.6.2.