0.7.6 Change list

Changes / improvements

• Add lengthof() compile time function #2439
• Allow doc comments on individual struct members, faultdefs and enum values #2427.
• $alignof, $offsetof and $nameof can now be used in $defined.
• Infer generic parameters lhs -> rhs: List{int} x = list::NOHEAP.
• Unify generic and regular module namespace.
• env::PROJECT_VERSION now returns the version in project.json.
• Comparing slices and arrays of user-defined types that implement == operator now works #2486.
• Add 'loop-vectorize', 'slp-vectorize', 'unroll-loops' and 'merge-functions' optimization flags #2491.
• Add exec timings to -vv output #2490.
• Support #! as a comment on the first line only.
• Add +++= operator.

Fixes

• Compiler assert with var x @noinit = 0 #2452
• Confusing error message when type has [] overloaded but not []= #2453
• $defined(x[0] = val) causes an error instead of returning false when a type does not have []= defined #2454
• Returning pointer to index of slice stored in a struct from method taking self incorrectly detected as returning pointer to local variable #2455.
• Inlining location when accessing #foo symbols.
• Improve inlined-at when checking generic code.
• Fix codegen bug in expressions like foo(x()) ?? io::EOF? causing irregular crashes.
• Correctly silence "unsupported architecture" warning with --quiet #2465
• Overloading &[] should be enough for foreach. #2466
• Any register allowed in X86_64 inline asm address. #2463
• int val = some_int + some_distinct_inline_int errors that int cannot be cast to DistinctInt #2468
• Compiler hang with unaligned load-store pair. #2470
• ?? with void results on both sides cause a compiler crash #2472.
• Stack object size limit error on a static object. #2476
• Compiler segfault when modifying variable using an inline assembly block inside defer #2450.
• Compile time switch over type would not correctly compare function pointer types.
• Regression: Compiler segfault when assigning struct literal with too few members #2483
• Fix compile time format check when the formatting string is a constant slice.
• Compiler segfault for invalid e-mails in project.json. #2488
• Taking .ordinal from an enum passed by pointer and then taking the address of this result would return the enum, not int.
• Alias and distinct types didn't check the underlying type wasn't compile time or optional.
• Incorrect nameof on nested struct names. #2492
• Issue not correctly aborting compilation on recursive generics.
• Crash during codegen when taking the typeid of an empty enum with associated values.
• Assert when the binary doesn't get created and --run-once is used. #2502
• Prevent foo.bar = {} when bar is a flexible array member. #2497
• Fix several issues relating to multi-level inference like int[*][*] #2505
• $for int $a = 1; $a < 2; $a++ would not parse.
• Fix lambda-in-macro visibility, where lambdas would sometimes not correctly link if used through a macro.
• Dead code analysis with labelled if did not work properly.
• Compiler segfault when splatting variable that does not exist in untyped vaarg macro #2509

Stdlib changes

• Added Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm (ECB, CTR, CBC modes) in std::crypto::aes.
• Added generic InterfaceList to store a list of values that implement a specific interface
• Added path::home_directory, path::documents_directory, path::videos_directory, path::pictures_directory, path::desktop_directory, path::screenshots_directory, path::public_share_directory, path::templates_directory, path::saved_games_directory, path::music_directory, path::downloads_directory.
• Add LinkedList array_view to support [] and foreach/foreach_r. #2438
• Make LinkedList printable and add == operator. #2438
• CVaList support on MacOS aarch64, SysV ABI x64.
• Add io::skip and io::read_le and io::write_le family of functions.