retroforth/RELEASE_NOTES.md
crc 81756aaf86 final update to release notes
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RETRO 12 - 2018.4.20
Changes in the .20 marked with (*).
Bug fixes:
Build:
- now recommended to use "make" instead of "build.sh"
- (*) new Makefile from mpts
Core Language Improvements:
- rx kernel: faster and smaller `s:eq?`
- stdlib: smaller implementations of `c:whitespace?` and `c:vowel?`
Interfaces:
- rre
- (*) increase default memory size to 12MiB
- add NOP skipping to Nga instruction handler
- add `unix:io:putn`
- add `unix:io:puts`
- fixed handling of backspace
- removed: listen-cbreak
- now uses termios instead of calling out to stty for
character breaking mode
- now exits on stack overflow, stack underflow, memory write out of bounds
- repl
- now embeds image (used if no ngaImage in the cwd)
- add NOP skipping to Nga instruction handler
- native
- Implementations of repl w/o requiring libc
- FreeBSD / x86
- FreeBSD / x86-64
- Linux / x86
- Standalone / x86
- ri
- now uses same embedded image as repl
- add NOP skipping to Nga instruction handler
- To-be-named
- HTML + JavaScript implementation using iOS/macOS style editor
Other:
- fixed bugs in example/NumbersWithoutPrefix.forth (thanks to kiyoshi)
- source now builds using ancient (2.92) gcc
- back to using `make`
Documentation:
- fix sorting of Glossary by setting LC_ALL=c
- added words from RETRO/iOS
- fix descriptions for `until`, `while`
Examples:
- (*) use `/usr/bin/env rre` instead of hard coding a path
- new debugger (examples/Autopsy.forth)
- added defstruct.forth
Final Notes: