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RetroForth & nga 2024.1 Release Notes
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- general
- removed some unneeded files
- quieter output when building
- remove old Python build + packaging code
- configuration of devices can now be done in either config.h
or (by default) Configuration.mk
- build instructions for enabling/disabling devices updated
- toolchain
- removed duplicate typedef in tools/retro-muri.c
(reported by sevan)
- update tools/missing-dsource.retro
- in retro-muri.c, use bsd_strlcpy (rep by fangchar)
- retro-describe now using hash based name comparison
- retro-describe small reductions in call/return overhead
- documentation
- add missing source data for vocabularies & globals:
a: d: double: err: file: fll: mem: script:
- fix misc. typos
- examples
- add example/irc-logger.retro
- add example/ilo-export.retro
- add new example showing decompression of ulz files
- add example/vocabulary.retro
- add example/colored-dwords.retro
- image
- small optimizations in fll: vocabulary
- move from interface/ to package/extensions/:
double.retro malloc.retro
- in retro.forth, fix `s:index/char` (rep by fangchar)
- remove separate temp. string buffer in `s:dedup`
- use constants for device identifiers in the Forth part of
the device handlers
- support loading extensions at runtime via `library:load`
(searches ./library/ and ~/.config/retroforth/library/)
- more use of assembly language
- move full listener from interface/retro-unix to the base
image
- library
- block-editor (from konilo)
- describe (lookup glossary data at runtime)
- konilo (some words from konilo, was in image previously)
- termina (from konilo [console, colors, tui programs])
- x11 (for use w/nga-x11)
- retro-compiler
- fix bugs in retro-compiler(1) preventing compilation
- fix bug in retro-compiler(1) causing compiled programs to
hang on startup
- added an initial man page for retro-compiler(1)
- new nga implementations
- nga-d
- nga-x11
- nga-c
- fixed a bug in load_image() (rep. by sevan)
- err:notfound message no longer in C (sevan)
- add -v for verbose mode
- now skip execuion of NOP instructions
- fix some casting issues
- force immediate exit() on HA instruction
- file:read-line now provided by file device
- use mode array instead of conditionals when opening files
and pipes
- remove obsolete/unused files
- refactor handling of invalid opcodes
- use constants for device identifiers
- remove need to lookup & call err:notfound
- use C preprocessor to help with readability in arg.
processing
- optional BRANCH_PREDICTION (build-time option) to use
__builtin_expect() (faster on some systems). (~iacore)
Future Notes
In 2023.9 the nga-c implementation added support (enabled by
default) for using UTF32 (translating incoming source and output
between UTF8 and UTF32 transparently). The fallback option (to
just read raw 8-bit values) is now considered deprecated and
will be removed in the future (assuming no bug reports relating
to the UTF32 conversions are reported).
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