[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.
