Release 2.8

Release 2.8

Features

• New assignment operators are now supported
  • Along with the .let keyword, the := operator can be used to define and assign values to variables.
  • Variables can also be mutated using compound operators, such as += and &=.
• Added the .label directive for labels back-referenced from .goto directives, which avoids label redefinition errors.
• New flow control command .do ... .whiletrue.
• Enumerations are supported with the .enum keyword.
• Slight performance improvement when referencing and updating label and variable values.

Changes

• Section definintion syntax in config files has changed.
• More improvements to source highlighting in error and warning messages.
• The .target directive is no longer supported.

Fixes

• The .switch directive had some errors.
• Certain expressions in macro parameters were not processing correctly.
• Some math expressions were incorrectly interpreted as conditional expressions.
• Creating string array variables, and assigning variables to individual elements in an string array should work.
• Certain .goto destinations were not being recognized.
• The defect causing the .page directive to throw errors incorrectly has been fixed.
• Certain sections with assembly were not being written to the output.
• The .map keyword is did not behave correctly with string literal arguments.