ELENA 6.0.8

[arakov]

Description

ELENA 6.0.8 is out for all supported platforms : Windows x86 / x86-64, Linux x86 / x86-64 / AARCH64 / PPC64le!

The release includes a number of critical bug fixes, new functionality and ported samples.

Fixes # (issue)

• [ADDED] an opcode LNEG
• [ADDED] native negate operation for long integers
• [ADDED] Operation with int constant #588 - Operation with int constant
• [ADDED] multi-profiles per a single project file; new option -l
• [ADDED] Accessing a variable declared in the upper scope #638 - Accessing a variable declared in the upper scope
• [FIXED] calling a variadic method without arguments directly
• [FIXED] declaring a template based type with T is an array as a method result
• [FIXED] GC : perm generation is not included as roots for the partial collect
• [FIXED] generating a proper debug info for local structure / structure self
• [FIXED] it has to be possible to convert int literal directly to v_int8 / v_int16 / v_int64, depending on the value size
• [FIXED] x86 MTA : starting the new thread / program
• [FIXED] x86 MTA : GC routine
• [FIXED] byrefHandler : if it is not contain the explicit return, assign self to byref retVal
• [FIXED] no need for typecasting operation after if-else operation with both branches containging returning operation
• [FIXED] optimizing operation with int constants
• [ADDED] sqlite module
• [FIXED] string.toUpper() : returns a string with an incorrect length
• [FIXED] windproc
• [ADDED] xforms
• [ADDED] sqlite_test
• [FIXED] Rosetta Code : Interactive programming (repl), Vigenère cipher
• [ADDED] c_a_g sample
• [ADDED] agenda sample
• [ADDED] graph sample
• [ADDED] support for stdcall for win32
• [ADDED] project settings - select the project profile
• [FIXED] IDE debugger: the debugger must hide trace line on wait #634 - IDE debugger: the debugger must hide trace line on wait
• [FIXED] IDE debugger: the debugger must hide trace line on wait #634 - debugger step over some expressions
• [FIXED] IDE bugs #636 - IDE bugs
• [FIXED] displaying stack-allocated structures
• [FIXED] warn if the source code is not compiled after the change before run / debug
• [FIXED] warn if the source code is changed and not save before run / debug
• [FIXED] the document is in read-only mode during the debugging

Type of change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)

Link

Please visit a release page to download the binaries: https://github.com/ELENA-LANG/elena-lang/releases/tag/v6.0.8

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This discussion was created from the release v6.0.8.

[arakov]

Any bug reports / suggestions / questions are welcome!