dev-2024-10

New Language Features

• Replace //+ syntax with #+
  • Used in cases like #+build windows
• #min_field_align and #max_field_align
  • deprecate #field_align in favour of #min_field_align
  • #max_field_align used in places where #pragma pack was used in some C compilers
• #caller_expression

Compiler Improvements

• ABI BREAKING CHANGE: How SysV handles multiple return values
  • Matches the same behaviour as other platforms to pass multiple return values separately
• Fix ABI for 128-bit integers since the breaking changes in LLVM 18 for WASM and AMD64
• -vet-packages:<command-separated-string_array>
• -vet-unused-procedures
• Add -no-rpath
• Simplify #row_major and matrix_flatten behaviour
• Allow transmute(Bit_Set)~T(0)
• Move many of the vendor:wasm/js package to core:sys/wasm/js
  • Rename runtime.js to odin.js to be consistent

New Packages

Package Improvements

• General improvement to documentation across the core library
• core:sys/info: more CPU feature detection for RISC-V
• core:time time.time_to_datetime
• Add #any_int directive to built-in procedures that were missing it, to be consistent
• More Objective-C Runtime Bindings
• Improvements to core:container/bit_array
• Improvements to C vararg behaviour and definitions and va_list
• Improvements to atomic/sync/thread related operations
• Improvements to core:sync/chan