[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: File.RealPath() is a new statis method that returns the the canonicalized absolute pathname of path, with no symbolic links inside.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Allocate custom language environment variables statically, because environment is accessed by shared library exit routines, after the interpreter memory allocations have been freed.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Allow one more decimal digit in floating point number constants.
* BUG: Ignore trailing zeros in the decimal part of floating point number constants. It may introduce rounding differences.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Add a API to know if a native component exists on the disk.
[GB.GUI]
* BUG: Take the other requested GUI components into account to choose the toolkit.
[GB.GUI.QT]
* BUG: Take the other requested GUI components into account to choose the toolkit.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Correctly clear observer reference on the observed object when it is freed.
* BUG: Clear environment variables set by the interpreter, as they can be read by the shared libraries exit routines after main() has been terminated.
[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]
* BUG: Fix the LANGUAGE environment variable at startup, not just when System.Language is set. This is a temporary fix, as you lost the contents of LANGUAGE.
* NEW: Add hebrew to the list of right-to-left written languages.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Do not use __DATE__ and __TIME__ macros, they prevent reproducible builds.
[COMPILER]
* BUG: Do not use __DATE__ and __TIME__ macros, they prevent reproducible builds.
[ARCHIVER]
* BUG: Do not use __DATE__ and __TIME__ macros, they prevent reproducible builds.
[INFORMER]
* BUG: Do not use __DATE__ and __TIME__ macros, they prevent reproducible builds.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Overriding public variables was useless, and is now forbidden to help JIT compiler optimizations.
[GB.JIT]
* BUG: Correctly compile dynamic accesses to public constants.
[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.
* NEW: Update highlighting themes by defining the new color constants.
* NEW: Update French translation.
* BUG: Option dialog: The highlighting color panel now takes the editor font size into account.
[GB.EVAL]
* BUG: Fix string highlighting.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: Rename a macro constant to avoid a symbol clash when compiling the interpreter.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Get rid of a macro trick in 'gbx_eval.h' header.
[GB.EVAL]
* NEW: Highlight: Add three new color constants for syntax highlighting: Escape, Label and Constant.
* NEW: Rename some source files.
* NEW: Rename some constants.
* NEW: Gambas syntax highlighter now use the three new contants for escape characters in strings, for labels, and for language contants (True, False, Null, +Inf and -Inf).
[GB.EVAL.HIGHLIGHT]
* NEW: Support for the new syntax highlighting color constants.
[GB.FORM.EDITOR]
* NEW: Support for the new syntax highlighting color constants.
pty.h is not needed because its functions are not used.
Use ioctl.h additionally to the already included termios.h to import the
implicitly used functions/constants.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: If an unknown symbol is called through a parent class reference, the _unknown() method is not called and an error is raised if the unknown symbol exists in the actual child class.
[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: When creating a new class, set its component immediately if we know the archive it comes from.
[GB.JIT]
* BUG: Correctly load classes from archives other than the main project one.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Add a JIT API for loading classes without running the _init method.
[GB.JIT]
* BUG: Load classes without running the _init method, so that the JIT behaviour is closer to the interpreter behaviour.
[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.
* NEW: Fix panic error message.
[GB.JIT]
* BUG: Load project classes before try to resolve a unknown symbol.
* BUG: Correctly restore the stack pointer in all cases at function exit.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Do not clear the 'super' field of the object value returned by NEW, as it does not fix actually anything.
[GB.JIT]
* BUG: Correctly reset the stack pointer when releasing the stack in error handlers.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: The interpreter does not crash anymore when using standard streams at the end of the program whereas they have been already freed.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Abort if a stack mismatch is detected after a JIT function has been called.
[GB.JIT]
* NEW: The GB_JIT_CC environment variable allows to define the C compiler that will generate the code.
* OPT: Don't call the compiler through a shell anymore.
* NEW: Support for clang.
* BUG: Don't use the "," operator anymore to write JIT code.
* BUG: Correctly free stack when leaving a function whereas we are still inside a GOSUB.
* BUG: Declare all local variables and arguments as volatile as soon the function uses CATCH or FINALLY.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Jit is a new static class that allows to deal with the JIT compiler.
* NEW: Jit.Time is a new property that returns the time spent in JIT compilation, in seconds.
[GB.JIT]
* NEW: Support for the Jit.Time property.
* NEW: UNSAFE is a new keyword used in conjunction with FAST. It tells the JIT compiler not to do any safety check (null objects, division by zero, out of array bounds...). It makes the code a bit faster, but prone to segmentation fault.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Support for the UNSAFE keyword.
[GB.JIT]
* NEW: Support for the UNSAFE keyword.
* NEW: Check validity of objects that can be invalid.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: JIT: Support for SUPER.
* NEW: JIT: Support for extern functions.
* NEW: Add a flag in Gambas functions to know if they are static or not.
[GB.JIT]
* NEW: Support for SUPER.
* NEW: Support for extern functions.
* BUG: Fix object arrays access.
* OPT: Optimization of Abs, Sgn, Int, Fix, and Pi subroutines.
[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]
* BUG: JIT: Fix error handling when calling methods from JIT code.
[GB.JIT]
* NEW: Fix support of CATCH and FINALLY.
* NEW: Support for ON GOTO and ON GOSUB.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: JIT: Complex number support.
* NEW: JIT: LAST support.
[GB.JIT]
* BUG: Fix management of local variable declaration of translated functions.
* NEW: Support for WITH ... END WITH.
* NEW: JIT: Complex number support.
* NEW: JIT: LAST support.
[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.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Support for error management in JIT methods.
[COMPILER]
* BUG: Fix Error() function metadata.
[GB.JIT]
* NEW: Support for error management.
* NEW: TRY instruction.
* BUG: Correct support of NULL.
[INTERPRETER]
* OPT: String searching (Instr, RInstr and Replace) has been made about 4x faster by searching the first occurence with memchr() and memrchr().
[GB.FORM.TERMINAL]
* BUG: Fix warning messages.
[GB.JIT]
* BUG: Fix byte, short and boolean pushing and popping routines.
* BUG: Fix string values referencing.
* BUG: Fix optional argument management.
* NEW: Optimization of bits management subroutines.
[GB.QT4]
* BUG: Delay hooks initialization, because now socket notifiers must not be used before creating the event loop.
[GB.QT5]
* BUG: Delay hooks initialization, because now socket notifiers must not be used before creating the event loop.
[INTERPRETER]
* OPT: String routines are now compiled with -O3.
* NEW: Don't display JIT debugging message unless GB_JIT_DEBUG is set to something different from zero.
* NEW: String whose length is greater than 256 now have a growth step of 256 bytes instead of 16.
[GB.JIT]
* NEW: Do many global optimizations as now the class metadata is fully available.
* NEW: Support for optional argument. Still buggy at the moment.
[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.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Release arguments after having called a JIT method.
* NEW: Add JIT interface for returning a value.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: JIT: Nicer translation for quick add of negative numbers.
[CONFIGURATION]
* NEW: Add '.jit' directory to '.gitignore'.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: New '-j' option that disables just in time compilation.
* NEW: JIT: Support for private functions calls.
* NEW: JIT: Support for native arrays accessors.
* BUG: JIT: Fix loop support.
* NEW: JIT: Support for GOSUB.
[GB.JIT]
* NEW: GB_JIT_DEBUG is an environment variable that defines if JIT compilation debugging messages are printed.
* NEW: GB_JIT_CFLAGS is an environment variable that defines the JIT compilation flags. The default is "-O3".
* NEW: Support for native arrays accessors.
[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.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: When formatting a date, the number of 'y' is now the minimum number of digits used for displaying the date year.
* NEW: When converting a string to a date with Val(), if the year begins with a zero character, then it is not converted to years between 1931 and 2030 if it is lower than 100.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: New API for reference a Gambas string.
[GB.DB]
* NEW: Result.GetAll() is a new method that returns an array of the values of a specific field from each record. It is about twice faster than the equivalent code written in Gambas.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Writing to a stream does not crash anymore if the stream is closed while the data is sent in several shots. Socket stream implementation should not close the stream while writing. I will try to fix that later.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Remove the task output serialization file when it is freed.
* BUG: Tasks do not print memory and objects clean up warnings anymore.
[DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT]
* OPT: Don't load the help browser form immediately to speed up IDE starting.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Use a dedicated stream for locks, so that the File object returned by LOCK cannot be used for reading or writing the locked file.
[GB.GTK]
* NEW: Ignore Application.Busy when displaying a message box.
[GB.GTK3]
* NEW: Ignore Application.Busy when displaying a message box.
[GB.QT4]
* NEW: Ignore Application.Busy when displaying a message box.
[GB.QT5]
* NEW: Ignore Application.Busy when displaying a message box.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Component.Library is a new property that returns if a component is actually a user library.
* NEW: Component.Version is a new property that returns the version number of a loaded component. If the component is a user library, you get the version number of that library. Otherwise you get the current Gambas version.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: gb.Match is a new constant that indicates a string comparison using the PCRE MATCH operator.
* BUG: The gb.Descent flag could be erased when sorting objects implementing the '_compare' special method.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Correctly attach newly created objects.
* BUG: Lof() should work correctly now on streams having a specific implementation of Lof() function.
[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.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: New syntax for octal numbers: "&Oxxx".
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: New syntax for octal numbers: "&Oxxx".
[GB.EVAL]
* NEW: New syntax for octal numbers: "&Oxxx".
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Translate comments in english.
* BUG: Take '\' escape character into account correctly in format strings.
* BUG: Remove undocumented feature in format strings.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Initialize pseudo-terminals with ECHO and don't clear OCRNL flag. This is not compatible with previous versions, as now, by default, printing a NL will become CR+NL through the pseudo-terminal.
But I didn't succeed in modifying the pseudo-terminal reliably once the child has started. It sometimes fails silently.
* NEW: Check the result of tcsetattr() carefully, as it returns an error only if none of the flags has been set, not just one.
[GB.TERM]
* NEW: Check the result of tcsetattr() carefully, as it returns an error only if none of the flags has been set, not just one.
[GB.FORM.TERMINAL]
* OPT: TerminalView: Reorder some tests in escape codes analyze.
* NEW: TerminalView: The mouse wheel now sends up and down keys when we are not in mouse mode, and if there is nothing to scroll.
[DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT]
* BUG: Terminal: Replace "\n" by "\r\n" when sending text to the output terminal.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: When a process is run with a pseudo-terminal, don't set the ECHO flag, and clear the ONLCR flag.
That way, the data printed on the standard output is the same as when the process is not run in a pseudo-terminal.
[GB.FORM.TERMINAL]
* BUG: TerminalView: Output filter now works correctly when it receives incomplete data.
* OPT: TerminalViews: Resize the terminal less often when the terminal view is resized.
* NEW: TerminalView: When a process is run inside the terminal, set the ECHO and ONLCR flags automatically.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Fix pseudo-terminal initialization when running an external process with Exec or Shell.
[COMPILER]
* BUG: Fix a typo in 'gbc_trans.h' header.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Process.Wait() does not freeze anymore when the child process actually ends before checking the end of the process just after having run it.
* NEW: Collection.First is a new property that returns the key of the first element of the collection, or NULL if the collection is void.
* NEW: Collection.Last is a new property that returns the key of the last element of the collection, or NULL if the collection is void.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@8174 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* NEW: Add an API that allows to create an array class before instanciating it.
[GB.DBUS]
* BUG: When marshalling from DBus to Gambas, create the array classes before instanciating them.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@8173 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* NEW: Switch version to 3.10.90.
[GB.DB]
* NEW: Connection.TimeZone is new property that will allow to define the default timezone of dates stored in the database we are connected to. Not implemented yet.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@8168 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* BUG: Don't raise events just after a process has been started and has just been terminated. Postpone them.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@8142 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* BUG: Check if linking with 'librt' is needed to get monotonic clock.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@8139 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* NEW: Add a autoconf check for monotonic clock.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Use a monotonic clock (if possible) to implement the WAIT instruction.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@8138 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* NEW: New instruction MOVE ... DOWNTO ... that renames a file and erase the destination atomically.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: New instruction MOVE ... DOWNTO ... that renames a file and erase the destination atomically.
* BUG: The signal handler now loops until the signal pipe is void.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@8129 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* BUG: Fix a possible bad serialization of arrays.
* BUG: Don't crash during the unserialisation of an array whose datatype has been incorrectly serialized. Raise an error instead.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@8110 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
