[COMPILER]
* NEW: 'STATIC' keyword can be used instead of 'DIM' for declaring local static variables.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Support for local static variables.
[GB.DEBUG]
* NEW: Support for local static variables.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Support for expression watches.
[GB.DEBUG]
* NEW: Add new command for watching expressions, i.e. stopping the debugger when the value of an expressions changes.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: '_read' and '_write' are two new special methods that allow to make any object serializable by the READ and WRITE instructions.
* NEW: Rename macro that convert a Gambas stream object to the internal stream structure and add a macro that does the reverse conversion.
[COMPILER]
* BUG: Fix compilation of function calls with variable arguments passing.
* BUG: Remove some useless structure packing directives.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Fix compilation of function calls with variable arguments passing.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: Assert is an new instruction that raises an error as soon as its boolean argument is FALSE. The associated bytecode is not emitted if the '-x' option is specified.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Assert is an new instruction that raises an error as soon as its boolean argument is FALSE.
[GB.DEBUG]
* BUG: Fix a potential array overflow.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: Allow loop variables to be declared inside the loop syntax.
* NEW: Consequently, FOR EACH now can only use local variables.
[INTERPRETER]
* OPT: A little optimization of integer loops. They are about 5% faster now.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Forgot to call JIT function when the call is dynamic, i.e. if the object owning the method has an anonymous datatype (Object or Variant).
[GB.JIT]
* BUG: Save the initial stack pointer of a function in the function stack instead of using the interpreter stack.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: String value can be used like object.
* NEW: String[X] returns the X-th character of the string, 0 being the first one.
* NEW: String[X, N] returns N characters from the position X, 0 being the first one. IF N is strictly negative, then all characters from the position X, except the last N characters are returned.
* NEW: String.Len returns the length of the string.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: Allow the [] operator to be applied to a string.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Creating a NULL value now clears the object address field so that it can be freely interpreted as a Object value with a null address by the JIT compiled code.
[GB.JIT]
* BUG: Correctly restore stack after calling a method through the interpreter.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: JIT: Add an API for throwing type mismatch errors.
* BUG: Raise a type mismatch error when converting a function to a variant. Don't panic anymore.
[GB.JIT]
* BUG: Handle function datatype by raising a type mismatch error.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: JIT: Support for event raising.
* BUG: Fix some bugs detected by clang.
[GB.JIT]
* NEW: Support for event raising.
* OPT: Some optimizations in jit code generation and compilation.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: The NEW implementation routine takes its opcode as argument now, like other subroutines with a variable number of arguments.
[GB.JIT]
* OPT: Call subroutines using their static address. No significative performance gain was detected.
* NEW: Support for CATCH and FINALLY.
[BENCHMARKS]
* NEW: Little meaningless changes.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: JIT: Support for FOR EACH loops.
* BUG: JIT: Handle function values that are put on stack before calling them.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: JIT: Optimization of mathematic functions.
* NEW: JIT: Support for FOR EACH loops.
* NEW: JIT: Remove successive POP_x() / PUSH_x().
* NEW: JIT: Optimization of DIV and MOD.
* NEW: JIT: Support of internal control local variables used by SELECT and FOR EACH.
* NEW: JIT: Support for SWAP.
[GB.JIT]
* NEW: Optimization of mathematic functions.
* NEW: Variants management.
* NEW: All conversions are handled now.
* NEW: FOR EACH loops are implemented.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Implement return value of JIT methods.
* NEW: Support for calling '.' operator from a JIT method.
[COMPILER]
* BUG: JIT: Fix detection of native arrays.
* BUG: JIT: Delete translated file if a class has no fast method anymore.
* BUG: JIT: Prefix JIT method with "jit_" to avoid possible conflicts.
* BUG: JIT: Fix variable initialization.
* NEW: JIT: Complete datatype support.
* NEW: JIT: Support for SWAP.
* NEW: JIT: Support for array operators.
* BUG: JIT: Fix arithmetic operators.
* NEW: JIT: Implement ME and "." operator.
* NEW: JIT: Complete GOSUB / RETURN support.
* NEW: JIT: Support for DIV and MOD operators. Not optimized yet.
[ARCHIVER]
* NEW: Put JIT translation in the archive.
[GB.JIT]
* NEW: Complete datatype support. Variant is not supported yet.
* NEW: Complete GOSUB / RETURN support.
* NEW: Support for ME and '.' operator.
[COMPILER]
* BUG: JIT: Fix local variable referencing.
* NEW: JIT: Implement NEW operator and array accessors.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Support for JIT NEW operator and array accessors.
[GB.JIT]
* NEW: Support for object datatypes.
* NEW: Implement NEW operator and array accessors.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: JIT: Support for FOR...TO...NEXT loops.
* NEW: JIT: Support for Len(), Left$(), Mid$(), and Right$().
* NEW: JIT: Subroutines return values are now hadled correctly.
[GB.JIT]
* NEW: Compile JIT code with -O3.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: Internal initialization functions now can be JIT translated.
* NEW: Support of subroutine calling completed. Interpreter subroutines are called if there is no optimization implemented in the JIT translation.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Remove old JIT stuff.
[GB.JIT]
* NEW: Use 'gambas.h' and 'gb.jit.h' to compile translated code.
* NEW: Work on JIT continues...
* NEW: Better panic errors.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Remove the old JIT stuff.
* NEW: Calls gb.jit at runtime if needed. If a fast function has no jit implementation, the bytecode version is used.
* NEW: Start defining the JIT interface needed by the JIT functions.
* NEW: The common static character buffer is now twice the size of the maximum symbol length, to avoid possible overflows.
[GB.JIT]
* NEW: Compilation starts to work.
* NEW: Debugging messages.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: Work continues on new JIT system.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Make comparison operator true functions so that they can be called by the JIT code.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Fix conversion between dates and their local string representation.
* OPT: Little optimization in conversion functions calls.
[GB.UTIL]
* BUG: Fix Date.ToUnixTime() and Date.FromUnixTime() according to the interpreter fix.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Add a new message error for free object being referenced.
* NEW: Raise an error if a object being freed has been referenced by its '_free' special method.
* OPT: Add a boolean flag in the class structure not to try to call the '_free' special method if there is not.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: Oct$() is a new functions that converts an integer to its octal representation.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Oct$() is a new functions that converts an integer to its octal representation.
* BUG: Forbid continuing and stay in debugger when an unhandled error is raised. This prevent crashes when an error occurs during variable initialization.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@8031 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* NEW: Stream.Term.Width and Stream.Term.Height are two new properties that return the size of the terminal associated with the stream, if any.
* NEW: As soon as the terminal size is read on any stream with the previous properties, the SIGWINCH signal is watched, and the Application_Resize() public method of the startup class is called each time this signal is catched, meaning that the terminal has been resized.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@7735 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* BUG: Fix a crash on one error message thrown incorrectly.
[GB.FORM.TERMINAL]
* OPT: Optimize drawing routine. Still slow, but less flicker.
* NEW: TerminalView: Add a blink property that enables or disables cursor blink.
[GB.GTK]
* BUG: Use cairo_paint() instead of cairo_fill() when Paint.Operator is not Paint.OperatorOver. Is it a Cairo bug?
[GB.GTK3]
* BUG: Use cairo_paint() instead of cairo_fill() when Paint.Operator is not Paint.OperatorOver. Is it a Cairo bug?
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@7698 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* OPT: Optimize access to objects whose class is "simple", i.e. without
parent, children, special check method, and not virtual.
* OPT: Detect when automatic conversion is useless in arithmetic and
comparison operators.
* OPT: Optimize a bit inequality comparison operators.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@7476 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* OPT: Subroutine table is faster to access now.
* OPT: Don't browse temporary directory at end if no temporary file has
been used.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@7469 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* OPT: Collection access is faster now.
* OPT: LINE INPUT and INPUT are faster now.
* OPT: Conversions to Boolean, from and to Variant are faster now.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@7440 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* BUG: Fix a crash when trying twice accessing a collection without the
good number of arguments.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@7395 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* BUG: "create static" classes are now taken into account when using the
_call() special method.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@6809 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* NEW: Support for the new USE instruction.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: A class header now can include USE "xxxx" declarations, where "xxxx"
is a component name. It means that the specified component will be loaded
when the class is initialized, the first time it is loaded.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@6648 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* BUG: Be more intelligent when parsing arguments. Now all arguments after
the first non option argument are sent to the script process.
[INTERPRETER]
* OPT: Remove a previous optimization that made benchmarks slower, contrary
to what valgrind tells. No idea why exactly, maybe a valgrind cache
simulation problem.
[BENCHMARKS]
* NEW: Do less in the polynom benchmark, so that it runs about as long as
the other benchmarks.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@6621 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* OPT: Move some rare instructions (breakpoints & quit management) out of
the main interpreter loop.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: The parser now assumes that an identifier is a subroutine taking
some arguments only if it is followed by an open brace.
[GB.EVAL]
* NEW: The parser now assumes that an identifier is a subroutine taking
some arguments only if it is followed by an open brace.
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