dev-2024-03

Distribution Changes

• MacOS ARM releases and CI support
• MacOS releases self-contained / bundle LLVM

New Language Features

Compiler Improvements

• General bug fixes in the compiler
• Fix -no-crt on Darwin and Linux
• Make odin run args take the first '--' as the start of the args, instead of the last '--'
• Fix intstrumentation in debug mode
• Add backend info to odin report
• Change runtime.type_table to allow RTTI to be constantly initialized on all platforms
  • Removes the need for the start procedure initializing the RTTI table
  • Previous approach was due to limitations and bugs in LLVM
• Promote types in #c_varargs according to C rules
• Reduce dynamic library dependencies on macOS
  • We were previously linking with LLVM-C, LLVM, and libunwind, however only LLVM was needed since it contains LLVM-C, and libunwind comes with macOS already

New Packages

• core:crypto/hash
  • General refactor of the cryptographic packages
• core:container/avl
  • AVL Tree Container

Package Improvements

• fmt.*printfln add to core:fmt
• Fixes to the WebGL package
• General improvements to package os for *nix platforms
• Numerous documentation improvements
• Fixes to core:mem/virtual arena_static_reset_to
• Make spall able to be used in instrumentation procedures
• Expose vendor:OpenGL shader procedures in
• Add more Windows window procedures
• Fix return in json unmarshal for enumerated arrays
• Add ID3DUserDefinedAnnotation to direct3d package
• Update miniaudio to 0.11.21
• Change vendor:raylib to use non-universal binaries
• Fix vendor:raylib's ModelAnimation alignment to match that of C's
• Better error code for binding a privileged port without root access in core:net
• vendor:glfw add RawMouseMotionSupported
• Basic EGL support on Linux
• Improved implementation of core:math round

Full Changelog: dev-2024-02...dev-2024-03