dev-2024-09

New Language Features

• Add support for linux_riscv64 and freestanding_riscv64

Compiler Improvements

• Support RISC-V for the compiler itself
• Fix crash if referencing import "aliased" in other file
• Added a hint at end of build.bat about release mode when building in debug mode
• Allow symlink test to work irrespective of git settings
• Use another BSD URL for pkgsrc on CI
• Fix type switching over internal pointer union
• Fix c_vararg bit_set
• Add table-driven (in)definite article to some errors.
• Fix alias handling of procedures
• riscv: add an error when atomics are used without the atomics extension
• Remove extra format item at end of context error message
• Fix inline transmutation of [16]i8 to i128
• Fix 'odin [run|test] --' giving a compiler out of bounds
• UL_COMPARE_AND_WAIT_SHARED is macOS 10.15+
• query brew for llvm-config location if possible

New Packages

• Add vendor:box2d
• Add core:text/regex

Package Improvements

• Add sdl2glue to vendor:wgpu package
• Fix os.read_dir with symlinks
• os.Error to replace os.Errno
• core:image/common.odin Fixes
• Prevent SIGPIPE on Darwin when writing to a closed core:net socket
• Add reflect.struct_field_count that returns the number of fields in a struct type
• Fix missing closing brace for Bit_Field in core:odin/parser
• Fix SIMD intrinsics wording
• Core sys windows rawinput code
• Port core:net to FreeBSD
• Allow testing for intentional leaks in test runner
• Various core:encoding/cbor fixes
• Various core:crypto improvements
• Vectorize index_byte
• Use intrinsics.reverse_bits in core:compress/zlib
• Fix type_info_union_is_pure_maybe only working with regular pointers
• Add support for field tags on bit_field fields to core:odin
• Loop os.write_entire_file to write more than MAX_RW
• [fmt] Add bit fields to the pointer printing logic
• Fix os.read_dir closing the given file descriptor
• Fix type hint propagation for shift
• Let memory failures be errors in the test runner
• Check if procedure parameter type declares polymorphic args
• vendor:x11: Added a few procedures for xrandr, xinput, and xFixes
• vendor:egl: Added a few more egl procedures and constants
• core:time WASI implementation
• core:sys/linux: Add binding to ioctl syscall + standard fd constants.
• Update mem doc example formatting
• Error if assigning to rodata variable with index
• Report error when a variadic procedure parameter has a default value
• core:sys/posix and core:os/os2 based on it (for darwin, netbsd, freebsd and openbsd)
• Fix error handling in os2.read_entire_file_from_file()
• add shm_open and shm_unlink syscalls for darwin
• More Foundation bindings.
• Add autogenerated orca bindings and macros from laytan
• os2 process linux implementation
• Improve benchmarks.
• Check if file open-mode is O_CREATE on Darwin before forcing chmod
• Fix open bindings
• Fix log unnecessary allocations
• (raygui) Restores vertical text alignment broken after 4.0 migration
• Implement lshrti3 on wasm
• Add core:math.count_digits_of_base
• Remove deprecated log procs from core:testing
• Fix SIMD var typo
• Fix wiki link in the README.md
• Add support for Linux on os/sys/posix termios.
• A couple of foundation binding. Vet tabs.
• core:sys/linux - implement clock_settime, clock_getres and clock_nanosleep
• os2: process API for Darwin and most of it for BSDs
• orca: implement core:time and core:log
• Fix ambiguous generic type names
• Added missing slice advancing.
• Fix binding: Make rl.LoadImageAnim take a pointer instead of a multi-pointer.
• Fix core:reflect/iterator.odin
• Fix binding to cmark_node_get_fence_info
• Fix win32 dwmapi DWMWINDOWATTRIBUTE enum.
• os2: propagate errors from execv
• Free the arenas allocated in test_core_runtime
• Fix use-after-free in thread.Pool
• Fix error for uuid to require 36 bytes instead 32 (4 bytes for dashes)
• Fix -vet and -strict-style failures in tests
• [os2/process]: Don't free process info fields in partial success scenarios
• Add API for freeing thread_local state
• wgpu: update to v22.1.0.1
• Delay lexical checking for foreign blocks that are in file scope
• -vet -strict-style -disallow-do in tests
• Win32 clipboard procedures
• os2: disable custom heap allocator
• mem/virtual: use sysconf for retrieving page size and actually use these init procs
• mem/virtual: make sure the given size is used for subsequent blocks
• Add missing lexer checking delay for foreign blocks
• Add core:io test suite
• Add a file tag parser to core:odin/parser
• Fix some issues with the "bad import name" errors
• Add math.remap_clamped, which clamps the result in range [new_min, new_max]