dev-2022-11

New Language Features

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Compiler Improvements

• Make raw_data an intrinsic rather than a @(builtin) runtime procedure
• Allow transmute to be constant for integers of the same internal endianness
• Throw type checker error when scalar cast to non-square matrix
• Fix #defined(I)
• Build script: Detect which and complain if not found
• Add early LLVM > 14 detection, as LLVM 15 and above are not (yet) supported
• Remove previously deprecated -opt flag
• Improve SysV ABI LLVM IR generation for development purposes
• Use direct parameter value in lb_find_ident when possible
• Optimize #caller_location and #location to use read only data section where possible
• Ad-hoc pass source code location directly by pointer without stack copy
• Clarify odin help for -define
• Add -minimum-os-version for Darwin targets, e.g. -minimum-os-version:12.0.0
• Add -target-features flag to force extra LLVM options
• Add safety check for #2161

New Packages

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Package Improvements

• Update Darwin release map for core:sys/info
• Unify Static_Arena and Growing_Arena into Arena
• Many improvements to core:mem/virtual in general
• Add and correct various Windows, Darwin, glfw, objC and other bindings
• Allow for N = -1 in wstring_to_utf8
• Add core:math/rand.choice
• Heavily improve time handling on Windows for time.now() and os.File_Info