- CI: macOS on Apple Silicon and Intel (macos-15, macos-15-intel); a tag v* attaches every package
(Linux x64/ARM64, macOS ARM64/x64, Windows x64, the VS Code extension) to its release
- vectors: fma is llvm.fmuladd (llvm.fma was a libm call per lane without FMA hardware: 3.5x slower)
- examples/simd.fch: a dot product eight at a time, timed against the plain loop
- README and the English guides: installing on Linux, macOS and Windows; vectors (SIMD); --cpu;
-g is DWARF on Windows too (lldb from llvm-mingw); no more mention of the C++ compiler
- comments left from the C++ compiler (src/target.cpp, src/codegen.cpp, "never frees") brought up to date
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- on stderr (finch ir stays the IR), as yellow warnings in editors (@W in the index), once per place
- str, arrays and maps inside a struct don't count: passing it copies only their handles
- none in the compiler, the examples or the tests other than the new one
- docs: the warning instead of "not planned"; what was and wasn't checked for Android
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- cheat sheets, technicians' and engineers' guides: "\(x)", test blocks, finch fmt, finch.toml,
the build cache, the chain of calls, threads and atomics, C++/Rust/Android, struct #defines,
passing structs, why there is no warning for big copies
- Kate (version 4) and VS Code: code inside text, test, min/max/abs/clamp/assert/atomic_...
- finch.toml's name is used only for its entry; other files of the project keep their own name
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export fn name(...) is a C function of a library; build --shared makes lib<name>.so with no main and a
finch_module_on_fatal(handler) the host can take runtime errors over with. Ported from the embed work (the
runtime, its test and the docs are that work's; the compiler side is new).
The driver reads FINCH_PATH (more module folders), FINCH_RT (the runtime's file) and FINCH_CC (the clang).
tests/boot.sh also runs tests/shared.sh with the compiler under test. 41 passed.
- fn Struct.method(...) with self by reference, also on C structs
- map[K]V: insertion-ordered hash maps, literals, m[k] += 1, has/get/remove/keys/values
- -> T! / -> !, return error(...), or <value>, or { err }, try; fallible int/float/read_file/write_file/delete_file
- for i, x in list / for k, v in map
- print and str() share one text formatter
- LSP: method and map completion, method signatures; grammar and snippets for VS Code and Kate
- tests: 74 (methods, errors, maps + 11 failure cases); docs at all three levels, en and pl
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