v12.0.0

What's Changed

Highlights

• Lots of improvements in Slang: better management of C reserved keywords, comments and less C compilation warnings!
• Improvements in stack management:
  • unification of frame implementation
  • new optional stack overflow support
• Development moved to Pharo12
• New primitives to pin behavior and pretenuring
• More stability, for example in permanent space management

Features

• Adding option for pin behaviour by @tesonep in #844
• Improvements in stack management by @guillep in #710
• Added new primitive for allocating directly in the old space by @jordanmontt in #701
• Forward VM build parameters from CMake by @guillep in #654

Improvements

• Making it loadable in P12 by @guillep in #825
• Do not unlink all sends on GC by @guillep in #503
• Update SDL by @LucFabresse in #615
• Update SDL2 version in OSX (Intel & Apple) by @tesonep in #849
• Reject reserved words by @ivojawer in #613
• Validate if locals/args exist when adding a type declaration by @ivojawer in #603
• Check structs' instance variable type declarations by @ivojawer in #607
• Improving perm space p12 by @tesonep in #621
• Simplify stack-to-register mapping API by @guillep in #627
• Make instantiateClass more robust when the format is missing by @privat in #634
• Improve and use unreachable by @privat in #630
• README: Developer documentation is not a link by @jordanmontt in #637
• Rename reserved words: selectors, locals and instance variables by @ivojawer in #624
• Add getClass for Pharo 12 compatibility by @sbragagnolo in #651
• Redundant type declaration linter rule by @ivojawer in #662
• Add a palette with the C translation of any inspected C node by @hernanmd in #686
• Add C source code inspection tab for TParseNode by @hernanmd in #687
• Use pharo11 on CI by @PalumboN in #669
• Small stack interpreter tests by @hernanmd in #690
• Added test on extended store and pop by @guillep in #520
• Update build version to P12 by @guillep in #826
• Improving log of old space limit error reporting by @tesonep in #833
• a better comment support for Slang by @RenaudFondeur in #838
• a first version of Slang with no type conflict and an exception if one appear by @RenaudFondeur in #819
• remove unused cast and expression by @RenaudFondeur in #837
• add a comment explaining why declareCVarsIn: is empty in some subclasses by @RenaudFondeur in #842
• small change in dead code elimination to considers a method with only comments empty by @RenaudFondeur in #843
• Frame unification by @guillep in #602
• small change in copyWithoutReturn to handle CCoerce by @RenaudFondeur in #836

Fixes

• Resolved a bug about UUID primitives by @Mathilde411 in #610
• Robust cannotInterpret: in the interpreter by @privat in #641
• Fix cast tests by @hernanmd in #660
• Fix and test for inlinings with If's and right shift not translated by @hernanmd in #667
• Remove hostname lookup on network initialization by @guillep in #845
• C AST translation right side parenthesis in expression by @hernanmd in #685
• Add tests+fix for an incorrectly case of generated inlined C code from CCodeGenerator by @hernanmd in #666
• fix warnings related to multiple include of the same header file by @RenaudFondeur in #840
• Fix a lot of unused expression by @RenaudFondeur in #832

Cleanups

• Clean special object array a little by @privat in #640
• Added comments and renamed methods during todays dojo by @Mathilde411 in #623
• fixing-categorization-p12 by @tesonep in #626
• removed strange SDL2_copy cmake target by @LucFabresse in #620
• Clean up Interpreter State by @tesonep in #658
• Rename conflicting identifiers by @ivojawer in #646
• Created new package CAST-Tests by @hernanmd in #679
• Move warnings to debug when loading plugins by @guillep in #675

New Contributors

• @Mathilde411 made their first contribution in #610
• @LucFabresse made their first contribution in #615
• @ivojawer made their first contribution in #613

Full Changelog: v10.3.0...v12.0.0