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@@ -1,3 +1,55 @@ + TXR 176 + 2017-05-21 + + + Features + + FFI: + - New tagged variant of cptr type, for improved safety. + - New carray type for handling arrays of unknown size, + where FFI's automatic memory handling isn't of help. + - deffi-type is just called typedef + - New ffi macro providing a shorthand for ffi-type-compile. + - Variable length arrays that are null-terminated (zarray <type>) + now have useful semantics: the type can extract an arbitrarily + long null-terminated array from foreign memory. + - Previously undocumented ffi-call function is now documented, + and has undergone an API change. + - deffi macro now generates Lisp functions with fixed number of + arguments, so a mismatch in number of arguments is caught + at the wrapper level, rather than down inside ffi-call. + - New deffi-var macro for defining a Lisp variable connected + to a foreign variable. + Awk macro: + - New (again) operator for repeating all the rules against + the same record. + Filesystem: + - New functions dir-name, base-name and variable path-sep-chars. + - New function realpath, wrapper for the POSIX one. + + Bugs + + - fixed corrupt line numbers being reported in some + situations, like unbound variables inside quasi-word-list literals. + - FFI: + - fixed broken in semantics of buf type. + - fixed broken alignment of basic types leading to wrong + struct layouts. + - nil value now handled by FFI buf type, mapped to null pointer. + - A ffi call now releases up temporary local memory when an + exception occurs in the argument preparation phase. + - A ffi callback similarly releases any temporary memory + allocated during the preparation of the return value, if + the preparation terminates due to an exception. + - Defense in the type system against incomplete (i.e. zero sized) + types being passed or returned by value, or used as array + elements or struct slots. + - Fixed wrong documentation about variable-length arrays corresponding + to pointers. + - FFI calls are now checked for proper number of arguments. + + + TXR 175 2017-05-15 |