Version 0.8.1

Changes / improvements

• Add $$PROJECT_PATH, accessible through env::PROJECT_PATH.
• Deprecate $field.get(a) and $field.set(a, b). Replaced by a.$field and a.$field = b.
• Add a.$eval($field) as a variant of a.$field.
• Add json pretty print.
• $$atomic_store and $$atomic_load takes an alignment parameter.
• $vaarg[^1] is supported. #3276
• Improve error message when a keyword is used a block parameter. #3275
• Correct tag method error messages from tagof/has_tagof to get_tag and has_tag
• Don't resume parsing when implicit module names yield invalid names.

Stdlib changes

• Add math::TAU / math::TWO_PI
• Add values::expand to turn strings containing expressions into values.
• Enhanced path::ls functionality, like searching for wildcard.
• LinkedHashMap renamed OrderedMap, LinkedHashSet renamed OrderedSet. Old names are deprecated.
• Added initial cpudetect on Linux / MacOS Aarch64.
• Enable libc::errno for FreeBSD.
• Checking filesize on Win32 now correctly reports errors. Getting the filesize now rejects directories.
• ini::parse and related takes an error_line argument to identify the line with error.
• JSON marshaling will return INVALID_NUMBER when encountering a inf or NaN for a float.
• JSON decoding will reject 1. literals.
• spawn now allows binding I/O and using different settings per pipe.
• @loop_over_ai would leak fds, deprecated and replaced by @loop_over_addresses.
• Correctly return error on native_fwrite and native_fread.
• Prevent infinite spin on io::read_fully, File.load_buffer, File.load and File.save.
• io::write_all now retries on incomplete writes.
• GrowableBitSet.max_bit_set added.
• Added UnboundedChannel.
• BufferedChannel and UnbufferedChannel gets non-blocking push/pop.
• FixedThreadPool and ThreadPool deprecated.

Fixes

• @volatile_store on arrays were sometimes incorrectly lowered.
• NPOT vectors as associated variables were incorrectly lowered on load. #3228
• .get_tag and .has_tag did not work properly for globals and locals.
• Vectors stored in unions lowered incorrectly causing an assert #3234
• Segmentation fault during library fetch when the "dependencies" key is missing in project.json. #3233
• .tags would crash if no attribute with arguments were present.
• Rect.merge_point would sometimes result in a point outside of the rect.
• Possible array overflow in SortedMap.
• Possible memory overwrite in BackingArenaAllocator on realloc.
• Realloc could cause data corruption in DynamicArenaAllocator.
• OnStackAllocator would not correctly clear memory on calloc.
• Vmem temp allocator would not correctly free all vmem on destroy.
• Wasm memory allocation could overallocate unnecessarily.
• VirtualMemory contract off by one error.
• CPU detect of leaf7 on x86 incorrect.
• Fixed project benchmark target parsing. #3237
• Incorrect type on UIntLE and UIntBE.
• CVaList would behave different incorrectly for types larger than 8 bytes on some platforms.
• UTF32 BOM detection was broken.
• Sort from DString.less was inconsistent.
• Fix io::skip using 'read' vs 'read_byte', causing an error.
• Slice2d.slice incorrectly handled slices with x/y offset and 0/negative length together.
• String.to_integer incorrectly accepted some invalid characters for hex.
• Removed broken StringIterator.get.
• Fix to refcount behaviour, preventing issue on release.
• File.close should always invalidate the pointer on close, even on failures.
• Overlong conversions to unicode for %c at boundaries.
• Do not rely on implicit allocation for getcwd.
• Skipping symlinks wasn't properly implemented for Win32.
• Reverse indexing a value that overloads indexing would index an anonymous copy of the value.
• Fix case where member.set would hit an assert.
• Same type casts would not become rvalues.
• Hex decoding would leak memory on failure.
• Codepage.by_name would not use normalized name.
• @return? bar! didn't work if the identifier matched a macro.
• Copying compile time strings during compile time folding with strings containing 0 would sometimes get truncated. #3267
• Pem parsing did not correctly handle empty body, nor when the first line was too short.
• Additional pem parsing bugs on malformed data handled.
• Compiler would crash when getting the kind, qname, or alignment of an untypedlist.
• untypedlist incorrectly had size property.
• JSON handling of UTF16 surrogate pairs fixed.
• base32, base64 and codepage would leak memory on encode/decode errors.
• Indexing into a type with a $reflect value would sometimes cause a crash.
• Using a faultdef hidden behind @if would cause a crash.
• Taking the type of a macro method would cause a crash.
• Cap array size to avoid overflow when making multidimensional arrays that are too large.
• DynamicArenaAllocator would incorrectly handle some reuse cases.
• __atomic_compare_exchange had an incorrect implementation.
• channel::create_unbuffered would not correctly zero out memory, potentially yielding unpredictable result.
• lock_timeout on Posix would sleep the entire sleep before retrying, and it would fail if it managed to sleep.
• stack_size setting for threads was ignored on Posix.
• Setting thread priority on Win32 was off by one.
• Non-power-of-two-sized member of @bigendian bitstruct backed by char array wasn't working #3283.
• Binary bitwise operations were not considered simple.
• $expand was incorrectly made generic in generic modules. #3274
• Mangle lambdas in macros without @ to ensure they work correctly on elf #3217.
• DString.replace("", "X"); would crash.
• DString.read_from_stream would not return the correct length when available was not supported by the stream.
• @str_camelcase would yield same result as @str_pascalcase. #3287
• conv::utf8to32 would not zero terminate in when the zero would be at the end of the buffer.
• char16_to_utf8_unsafe would not load low byte unaligned when required.
• Not all invalid UTF8 was detected.
• UTF16 length detection was incorrect for utf16 with surrogate pairs.
• Initializing a variable which has the type of an optional struct using a const value would fail codegen. #3288
• Parsing a malformed hex float would not correctly get reported.
• Parsing an integer with trailing space would incorrectly be reported as an error.
• String.escape used the incorrect default for stripping quotes.
• mem::equals would not correctly compare slices of with element size > 1.
• AsciiCharset.contains incorrectly handled char > 127.
• Reuse of recently freed DynamicArenaAllocator allocations failed.
• Crash in codegen in some cases when RHS of a && or || was unreachable at lowering.
• Visibility modifiers were incorrectly allowed on enum/constdef members.
• Datetime format could not handle negative offsets with non-zero minutes.
• NormalDist.random could occasionally return inf.
• Url parser would fail on foo@bar.com.
• Url parser would drop the port on http://[::1]:8080.
• Ipv6 classification - is_link_local etc, was incorrect
• env::get/set_var for Win32 would appear to fail when succeeding.
• env::get_var had a race condition on Win32.
• process::run_capture_stdout would remove the last character, even when it wasn't \n.
• Add missing __powisf2 to compiler_rt.
• // would count newlines twice when parsing JSONC.
• Path::for_posix(".a/..") was not parsed correctly.
• SortedMap.clear and SortedMap.free would work incorrectly on map initialized with ONHEAP.
• GrowableBitSet would yield the wrong length.
• GrowableBitSet would not work correctly on backing types bigger than uint.
• DString.replace would not work correctly in some cases.
• ByteWriter.ensure_capacity did realloc unnecessarily when the data exactly matched capacity.
• DString.equals used int rather than sz for len comparison.
• DString.replace_char would crash on empty DString.
• io::read_varint and io::write_varint: handling for signed integers were broken.
• io::write_tiny_bytearray and io::write_short_bytearray could have incomplete writes.
• Splatting a partially raw array into a macro would miscompile. #3302
• Getting the tag for an enum parameter caused a crash. #3307
• Json marshalling of floats would lose precision.
• Crash when initializing a bitstruct from an untyped list.
• Shifting a vector by a non-numeric type would cause a crash rather than a compiler error.
• Recursive macros were not detected when going by way of a lambda.
• Compile time concatenation with an empty slice was lacking checks, causing a compiler crash.
• Fix zip slip vulnerability.
• Fixed issues with Object.to_value.
• DString.len was incorrectly marked @dynamic.
• Qoi decoder wasn't correctly signaling all invalid data.
• Casting a constant string to a float vector was buggy, causing a compiler crash.
• Codepage detection could fail values after the last element.
• Xml parsing could leak memory if root was preceeded by Pi nodes.
• DateTime.diff_years would not handle leap years properly.
• Deque.free would not reset the capacity, making it break if later reused.
• Formatter would overflow in cases like %2147483648d.
• Distributions would drop convergence control setting on recursion.
• In some rare cases available() could leave the stream in an unexpected state.