[GB.DRAW]
* NEW: Paint.TextHeight is a new property that returns the height of one line of text. This is not the same as Paint.Font.Height, as the device resolution is taken into account.
[GB.GTK]
* NEW: Paint.FontScale is now "transparent". Paint.Font.Size is not changed anymore when assigning the Paint.Font property.
[GB.GTK3]
* NEW: Paint.FontScale is now "transparent". Paint.Font.Size is not changed anymore when assigning the Paint.Font property.
[GB.QT4]
* NEW: Paint.FontScale is now "transparent". Paint.Font.Size is not changed anymore when assigning the Paint.Font property.
[GB.QT5]
* NEW: Paint.FontScale is now "transparent". Paint.Font.Size is not changed anymore when assigning the Paint.Font property.
* BUG: Utility windows now kept being in front of their parent window correctly.
[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.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: Don't emit debugging information for generated functions, but emit void sections for backward compatibility.
* NEW: Don't emit source file path in the debugging information.
* 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.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: Add ByRef annotations to the ".info" files generated by the compiler. The name of "ByRef" method arguments is now prefixed with a '&' character.
[GB.DRAW]
* NEW: Paint: FontScale is a new property that defines a scale applied to the size of the fonts assigned to the Paint.Font property.
* NEW: Paint: Scale() second argument is now optional, and takes the same value as the first argument if omitted.
[GB.GTK]
* NEW: Paint: Implementation of Paint.FontScale.
* BUG: Printer: All printer events are raised between a single Paint.Begin() / Paint.End().
[GB.GTK3]
* NEW: Paint: Implementation of Paint.FontScale.
* BUG: Printer: All printer events are raised between a single Paint.Begin() / Paint.End().
* BUG: Printer: Print() does now crash anymore.
* BUG: Printer: Font sizes now are the same as with QT components.
[GB.QT4]
* NEW: Paint: Implementation of Paint.FontScale.
[GB.QT5]
* NEW: Paint: Implementation of Paint.FontScale.
[GB.EVAL]
* NEW: Highlight.Alternate is a new constant that represents the background style used for coloring code embedded into webpages.
[GB.EVAL.HIGHLIGHT]
* NEW: Support for new Highlight.Alternate style.
[GB.FORM.EDITOR]
* NEW: Support for new Highlight.Alternate style.
* NEW: Matching braces now blink with the cursor.
* BUG: When the cursor moves, the blinking timer is reset so that the cursor blinks only when it is not moving.
[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.
[CONFIGURATION]
* NEW: Update version to 3.13.90.
[DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT]
* NEW: Redone extra references support.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: Take project extra references into account.
[GB.TERM.FORM]
* BUG: Fix project description.
[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.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: Allow local variable declaration anywhere in the function. The local symbol still has a function scope, but can be used after its declaration only.
[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]
* 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.
[CONFIGURATION]
* NEW: Fix some messages
[GB.CRYPT]
* NEW: Do not disable the component if libcrypt is not found. Let's suppose it is located in the C system library, as on some systems.
[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: Write the name of optional libraries in the warning message displayed when not found.
[GB.PDF]
* BUG: Fix compilation of gb.pdf on old gcc, by checking if the '-std=c++11' flag is available.
* 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.
[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]
* 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.
Disable it for main as it's expected.
=> GAMBAS_CONFIG_FAILURE=1 ./configure
.....
checking for gb.db.postgresql headers... no
configure: WARNING: Unable to find file: postgres.h
configure: WARNING: Unable to find file: pg_type.h
checking for gb.db.postgresql libraries... /usr/lib64/
configure: error: Failed to configure gb.db.postgresql
configure: error: ./configure failed for gb.db.postgresql
[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.
