[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Calling a JIT function from a class having a ':' in its name works correctly now.
* NEW: Jit.Enabled is a new property that allows to temporarily deactivate the JIT compiler.
[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]
* BUG: And, Or and Xor operators now correctly raise an error if they deal with Single or Float values.
* OPT: And, Or and Xor operators should be a bit faster.
[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.
[DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT]
* NEW: Update French translation.
* NEW: Support of the new '.list' file format.
* NEW: Support of the new EXPORT AS syntax.
* NEW: Update error messages.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: EXPORT AS is a new syntax for exporting a class with a specific name that can include a namespace.
* NEW: New header file to start sharing reader code with the 'gb.eval' component.
* NEW: Class names can include a colon. The part before the colon is assumed to be a namespace.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Classes exported in a namespace are now declared both in the global symbol table and in the local symbol table of their component.
* NEW: Class names are now allocated inside the symbol tables, and not in the class objects anymore.
[GB.EVAL]
* NEW: Share some reader code with the compiler.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Add an API to know if a native error has already been raised.
[GB.DB]
* NEW: The Result.Release() driver API now tells if the connection has been closed.
* NEW: Raise an error when retrieving the primary key fails, if the driver has not already raised it.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: If the current localization uses the same separator for all date elements having a separator,
then the element having no separator will use that same element if the "/" format character
is used in the Format() function. Same change for the time separators.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Task.Kill() method is now a synonymous of Task.Stop().
* BUG: GB.Call() API now works correctly again when calling static methods.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Change the GB_FUNCTION structure so that it stores the index of the method instead of its description pointer.
[GB.DATA]
* OPT: The new GB_FUNCTION structure allows to reduce the size of the GRAPH_DESC structure.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Timers are not inherited anymore by background tasks. They are actually inherited, but immediately disabled the first time they trigger inside the background task.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Array.Sorted is a new property that makes the Find() and Exist() methods use a binary search algorithm. In other words, it tells the interpreter that the array is sorted.
* BUG: Object[].Find() now correctly takes the optional 'Start' argument in account.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Fix initialization of multi-dimensional array.
* NEW: Raise a memory error if the size of an array element overflows. The maximum size is now 16 MB minus one byte.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: By default, the compiler now use a number of background tasks equal to the number of cores.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: System.Cores is a new property that returns the number of cores.
[INTERPRETER]
* OPT: Signal handlers are now checked only if requested explicitly by a component.
[GB.GTK]
* NEW: Request SIGCHLD handler check.
[GB.GTK3]
* NEW: Request SIGCHLD handler check.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Formatting a date with 'gb.Standard' now uses 'gb.MediumDate' concatenated to 'gb.MediumTime', as 'gb.GeneralDate' now is a different format.
* BUG: Str() now uses gb.Standard to format dates, so that Val() and IsDate() can understand them.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Rework the way standard date formats are built from strftime().
* NEW: System.GetFormat() is a new method that returns the format string associated by a predefined format constant.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: GB.IsLocked() is a new API that tells if an object is locked.
* NEW: GB.IsRaiseLocked() is a new API that tells if raising an event is useless because no observer will receive it.
* BUG: Errors cannot be propagated outside of an event handler, because the event may result from a library signal that do not support exceptions (like the glib library).
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Add a debug API that returns the current error message, and remove the API that printed it.
[GB.DEBUG]
* BUG: The debugger now correctly saves and prints the current error message.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Child processes do not inherit locks anymore.
* BUG: Workaround libraries like 'glib' that override SIGCHLD handler by checking and reinstalling it at each process run.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Fix possible buffer overflow on localisation environment variables.
* BUG: Always define LC_ALL and LANG with the effective language chosen.
* BUG: Use the current language to load translations, not what setlocale() returns.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Remove the now useless testing specific code.
* NEW: 'gbx3 -T' now just loads the 'gb.test' component and calls Test.Main() passing it the '-T' option argument.
[GB.TEST]
* NEW: Move 'gb.test' sources in '/main/lib'.
* NEW: 'gb.test' has now a part written in C that allows him to load project classes on demand.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Now '-T' option with no argument calls Test._List() method.
* NEW: If '-T' gets an argument, the Test._Run() method is used.
* NEW: If '-T' argument is '*', then the Test._RunAll() method is called.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Add '-T' option to run test modules.
* NEW: Update help message and display options in alphabetic order.
* BUG: Use '-r' option now to redirect standard error output. No conflict anymore with '-t'.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Support for JIT '&=' optimization.
* BUG: Fix '&=' optimization on argument variables.
* OPT: Strings greater than 4096 bytes are allocated by 4096 bytes steps.
[GB.JIT]
* NEW: JIT optimization of '&=' has been implemented.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: Support for the new PEEK instruction.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: PEEK is a new instruction that peek some bytes from a stream without removing them, so that they are available to the next READ instruction.
* OPT: IsAscii(), IsLower(), IsPunct()... instructions are now a bit faster.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Internal name of libraries uses a point now between vendor and library name, not a slash anymore.
[GB.DEBUG]
* BUG: Undo "make debugger output writes more robust". Apparently it does not work.
[GB.JIT]
* BUG: Compiling libraries works now.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Add class name in 'incorrect symbol declaration' error message.
* NEW: Opening a pipe for reading does not block anymore if the pipe has not been opened for writing yet. It help synchronizing applications using the same pipe a lot!
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Check special methods return value datatype and raise a dedicated error if it is incorrect.
* NEW: Error.Text, Error.Where and Error.Backtrace are now available inside the Application_Error handler.
* BUG: 'gbx3 -L' now displays the same Gambas version as 'gbx3 -V'.
* NEW: A class can declare a public '_invalid' boolean variable. The value of that variable will indicates if the object is invalid.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: WAIT NEXT is a new instruction that waits for the next event and process it.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: Support for the new WAIT NEXT instruction.
[GB.GTK]
* NEW: Support for the new WAIT NEXT instruction.
[GB.GTK3]
* NEW: Support for the new WAIT NEXT instruction.
[GB.QT4]
* NEW: Support for the new WAIT NEXT instruction.
[GB.QT5]
* NEW: Support for the new WAIT NEXT instruction.
[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.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: OPEN NULL is a new syntax that opens a null stream. Reading always returns end of file, and writing does nothing except advancing the file pointer, allowing to know how many bytes were written.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: OPEN NULL is a new syntax that opens a null stream.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Stream.NullTerminatedString is a new property that tells if writing a string on the stream emits the string length first, or a null terminated zero byte. This property is TRUE by default on memory streams.
[COMPILER]
* BUG: Allow static arrays to be used with the point operator.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Fix static array management. They are not read-only anymore. Only methods that want to modify the size of the array are forbidden, as well as the ReadOnly property.
[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.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Do JIT compilation after class loading. Otherwise the JIT compiler may want to load the class that triggers the compilation again.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Add command-line help for the '-t' option.
* NEW: The '-t' command-line option has a '--trace' long version.
* NEW: System.Trace is a new property that toggles the dump of the position of each executed line.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Uncatched errors raised from an event handler can be ignored now.
[GB.GTK]
* NEW: Uncatched errors raised from an event handler can be ignored now.
[GB.GTK3]
* NEW: Uncatched errors raised from an event handler can be ignored now.
[GB.QT4]
* NEW: Uncatched errors raised from an event handler can be ignored now.
[GB.QT5]
* NEW: Uncatched errors raised from an event handler can be ignored now.
* NEW: Add a driver API that handles debugging messages.
* NEW: Print the current date/time before any debugging message.
[GB.DB.MYSQL]
* NEW: Use the new driver API to print debugging messages.
[GB.DB.ODBC]
* NEW: Use the new driver API to print debugging messages.
[GB.DB.POSTGRESQL]
* NEW: Use the new driver API to print debugging messages.
[GB.DB.SQLITE2]
* NEW: Use the new driver API to print debugging messages.
[GB.DB.SQLITE3]
* NEW: Use the new driver API to print debugging messages.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Array.ReadOnly is a new property that make an array read-only. Once set, the property cannot be unset.
* NEW: The "Embedded array" error message has been rewritten as "Read-only array".
* NEW: Add two new standard errors: "Multidimensional array" and "Unknown class".
* NEW: Replace some specific error messages by standard errors.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Ignore errors when loading a class for the JIT compiler.
[GB.JIT]
* BUG: Loading a class during JIT compilation can fail. Take that into account.
[COMPILER]
* OPT: Some optimizations in symbol table routines.
* NEW: Emit column position in almost all error messages. It makes the compiler 2.5% slower, even with the optimizations.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: JIT compiler does not run static initializers anymore when loading a class. Otherwise bytecode can be modified before being compiled, leading to a JIT compiler crash.
[COMPILER]
* BUG: Fix LOCK subroutine meta-information.
[GB.JIT]
* NEW: Don't display abortion debugging message if there is no compilation to abort.
* BUG: Object variables are correctly managed now.
* BUG: DO...LOOP and REPEAT...UNTIL at the beginning of the function now is correctly compiled in all cases.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Active file descriptor watches and active timers are now automatically transferred to the component declaring a custom event loop. Consequently, a process started before the declaration of the event loop will have its termination signal correctly catched.
* NEW: Use waitpid() instead of wait4().
[GB.GTK]
* BUG: Declare the event loop hook last so that active file descriptor watches and active transfer are automatically transferred.
[GB.GTK3]
* BUG: Declare the event loop hook last so that active file descriptor watches and active transfer are automatically transferred.
[GB.QT4]
* BUG: Declare the event loop hook last so that active file descriptor watches and active transfer are automatically transferred.
[GB.QT5]
* BUG: Declare the event loop hook last so that active file descriptor watches and active transfer are automatically transferred.
[INTERPRETER]
* OPT: JIT compilation is run in two steps.
[GB.JIT]
* OPT: Run JIT compilation in the background.
* NEW: JIT.Debug is a new property that allows to enable JIT debugging messages at runtime.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Variant[].Sort() and Variant[].SortUsing() methods have been added.
* NEW: SortUsing() methods now take an optional sort mode as second argument.
[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.
