Mun v0.2.0

The second Mun release includes big new features such as hot reloading support for data structures, garbage collection, and full operator and literal support for fundamental types.

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• Incremental compilation when hot reloading

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• Install instructions in README

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• Use codecov.io instead of coveralls

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• loop expression

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• Changed crate authors

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• break expression

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• while expression

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• struct declarations
• struct literals
• ABI support for struct types

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• LLVM install instructions for Arch Linux in README

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• Optimised CStr::from_ptr(ptr).to_str() to from_utf8_unchecked in ABI

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• Test UTF-8 validity of compiler-generated CStr

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• Tools for manual generation of ABI & runtime CAPI bindings

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• Simple binary operation type checking

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• License, homepage, and repository information in README

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• Compiled libraries use munlib extension

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• Improved error messages for missing function signatures

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• Marshalling of struct types

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• MunStructInfo is appended to MunTypeInfo for struct types

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• Unit test for LineIndex::line_str function

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• Marshalling of fields with the struct type

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• Updated Runtime CAPI
• Unit tests for Runtime CAPI

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• Support for extern functions in the dispatch table

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• Integration with annotate-snippets crate

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• Restrict symbol generation to pub functions

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• Marshalling of struct(value) types

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• extern functions

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• Heap-allocated object management using pointer indirection

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• Size and alignment of types in ABI

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• Garbage collection using mark & sweep

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• Code coverage using tarpaulin instead of grcov

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• Test for incremental compilation

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• Upgraded parking_lot dependency

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• Performance benchmarks

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• Upgraded failure dependency

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• Retrieve TypeInfo and StructInfo during calls in a StructRef

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• Upgraded cbindgen dependency

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• Updated Arch Linux install instructions in README

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• struct memory mapping

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• Typed literals
• Hex, binary, and octal literals
• Allow underscores in numeric literals

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• Use -> instead of : for function return types

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• i128 and u128 integer types

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• Lock cbindgen dependency

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• Runtime support for extern functions without return type

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• Merged file_ir and group_ir snapshots

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• Missing space in invoke_fn15 function

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• % and %= operators

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• Unary ! and - operators

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• Cast fundamental types during struct memory mapping

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• Split artifact generation and CI tests

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• Simplified MemoryMapper API
• Clarified usage of unsafe code

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• StructRef can be cloned

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• bool assignment (=) operator
• struct assignment (=) operator
• bool and (&&), or (||) operators
• bitwise and (& and &=), or (| and |=), xor (^ and ^=) operators
• left-shift (<< and <<=), right-shift (>> and >>=) operators

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• Return Rc<RefCell<Runtime>> from RuntimeBuilder

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• Number type inferencing

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• Removed float, uint, and int types

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• Updated code sample in README

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• Updated badges in README

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• Garbage collection methods in Runtime CAPI

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• Test for type conversion during memory mapping

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• Split FunctionInfo into signature, prototype, and definition

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• Support for adding extern functions in Runtime CAPI

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• Removed old snapshots

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• Map fields with different struct memory kinds during memory mapping
• Zero initialise fields with different struct types during memory mapping

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• Buoyancy example

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• Log upon assembly reload

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• Cloning instructions in README

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• Updated code sample in README

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• Mun book in main repository

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• crates.io publishing metadata

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• Updated binaries for Runtime C API

In addition, there were a lot of bug fixes.

Special thanks to @legendiguess and @jakbyte for their contributions to this release.