[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.
[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.
[GB.JIT]
* BUG: Set the SP stack pointer before calling the conversion function to workaround the compiler optimizations and prevent a memory leak at function end if the conversion fails and an exception is raised.
[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.
* 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.
[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.
[GB.JIT]
* BUG: Don't leak memory when converting an object to a boolean.
* BUG: Correctly pop the arguments from the stack when propagating an exception.
[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]
* 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.
[GB.DB]
* NEW: Connection.LastInsertId is a new property that returns the value of the serial field used in the last inserted row. It is supported on MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite3 only.
* BUG: Connection.Handle is correctly declared now.
[GB.DB.MYSQL]
* NEW: Support for Connection.LastInsertId.
[GB.DB.ODBC]
* NEW: Raise an error if Connection.LastInsertId is used.
[GB.DB.POSTGRESQL]
* NEW: Support for Connection.LastInsertId.
[GB.DB.SQLITE2]
* NEW: Raise an error if Connection.LastInsertId is used.
[GB.DB.SQLITE3]
* NEW: Support for Connection.LastInsertId.
[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.
[GB.IMAGE]
* NEW: Image.Invert() is a new method that inverts an image. It takes an optional boolean argument that indicates if the color hue must be kept.
[GB.DB]
* BUG: Correctly initialize Connection object from Connections collection when that connection has been switched between sqlite and non-sqlite type from the IDE.
