CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to the YuLang compiler will be documented in this file.

0.0.7 - 2023-07-12

Changed

• Supported up to LLVM 16.

0.0.6 - 2022-08-28

Changed

• Supported LLVM 12, 13, 14 and 15.

0.0.5 - 2021-09-15

Added

• More declarations of C standard library functions.
• Read operations of IO library.
• Pointer-sized type isize and usize.

Changed

• A warning will be given when encountering a combination of extern/inline and import.
• Some method name in standard library module strview.

Fixed

• Value evaluation process on VarLetDefAST.
• Bugs about counting down in standard library module range.
• The process of handling reference types on VarLetElemAST.
• Value evaluation process on IntAST.
• Bugs about generating code on global constructor and global constant string.
• Bugs about casting integers to booleans.

0.0.4 - 2021-03-05

Added

• Relational operations between pointers.
• Perform multiple type casting operations at once (e.g. x as u8 as i32).
• Modules in standard library (Queue, StrView, HashMap)

Changed

• Allowed type casting from functions/arrays to pointers.
• Allowed type casting from basic types to enumerations.

Fixed

• Bugs about IR generation on when statements, global variables/constants, enumerations and function calls.
• Bugs about loads/stores of volatile type.
• Comparison between struct types (IsIdentical).
• Some details when the parser encounters a newline character.
• Bugs about type casting.
• Bugs about CFG simplification (BlockMerge pass).
• Value evaluation process on ImportAST.
• Bugs about file existence check.
• Bugs about alignment of structures.
• Compilation errors in some LLVM versions.

0.0.3 - 2020-04-03

Added

• Yu IR: intermediate representation of YuLang.
• New mid-end, which can convert AST to Yu IR.
• Pass manager and passes.
• Back-end, which can convert Yu IR to LLVM IR, assembly or object file.

Changed

• Removed old AST to LLVM IR back-end.

0.0.2 - 2020-03-23

0.0.1 - 2020-03-01