retroforth/RELEASE_NOTES.md

RETRO 12 - 2018.4.xx (WIP)

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: