* allow defects to be caught even for --exceptions:goto (WIP)
* implemented the new --panics:on|off switch; refs https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/180
* new implementation for integer overflow checking
* produce a warning if a user-defined exception type inherits from Exception directly
* applied Timothee's suggestions; improved the documentation and replace the term 'checked runtime check' by 'panic'
* fixes#13627
* don't inherit from Exception directly
* ensure capitalize doesn't take an inferred sink parameter
* sink parameter inference: first version, for now disabled. Changed that sink parameters can be consumed multiple times in order to adhere to our spec.
* sink inference can now be disabled with .nosinks; sometimes for proc type interop this is required
* fixes yet another critical DFA bug
* better implementation that also understands if expressions etc
* document sink parameter inference and allow for global disabling
* fix#13150 `nim doc --project` works with duplicate names and with imports below main project file
* add to help; fixup after #13212 isRelativeTo got merged
* fix test tests/compilerapi/tcompilerapi.nim
* remove nimblePkg field; compute on the fly instead
* kochdocs: compiler docs now under compiler/
* --docRoot now has smart default: best among @pkg, @path
This implements "deterministic" exception handling for Nim based on goto instead of setjmp. This means raising an exception is much cheaper than in C++'s table based implementations. Supports hard realtime systems. Default for --gc:arc and the C target because it's generally a good idea and arc is all about deterministic behavior.
Note: This implies that fatal runtime traps are not catchable anymore! This needs to be documented.
* first implementation of the =trace and =dispose hooks for the cycle collector
* a cycle collector for ARC: progress
* manual: the .acyclic pragma is a thing once again
* gcbench: adaptations for --gc:arc
* enable valgrind tests for the strutils tests
* testament: better valgrind support
* ARC refactoring: growable jumpstacks
* ARC cycle detector: non-recursive algorithm
* moved and renamed core/ files back to system/
* refactoring: --gc:arc vs --gc:orc since 'orc' is even more experimental and we want to ship --gc:arc soonish
* cursors: first implementation
* added currently failing test
* .cursor works for doubly linked lists
* make -d:useMalloc work again
* added code to nil out refs in a destructor
* it's now called --gc:arc
* renderer.nim: render nkBreakState properly
* make simple closure iterators work without leaking
* new .gensym implementation
* make astspec test green again
* introduce a --useVersion switch to group compatibility switches
* fixes#10180
* fixes#11494
* fixes#11483
* object constructor fields and named parameters are also not gensym'ed
* disabled broken package
* IC: C codegen is aware of IC
* manual: minor change to make VSCode's RST plugin render it properly
* IC: minor refactoring
* testament: code refactorings
* rodutils: removed dead code
* IC: always build the compiler with the IC feature
* IC: C codegen improvements
* IC: implement the undocumented -d:nimMustCache option for testing purposes
* IC: added first basic tests
* IC: extensive testing of the deserialization feature
* testament: refactoring; better IC tests
* IC: removes 'nimMustCache' flag; readonly does the same
* testament: minor refactoring
* update Nimble version
* testament: removed dead code and imports; IC: added simple test
* IC: progress
* track the checksums of all involved Nim files for smarter 'nim c -r' recompiles
* don't recompile unless necessary for 'nim c -r' [feature]
* [feature] koch boot uses a two step process in order to free the RAM before the GCC/Clang invocations
* fixes a serious regression
* calling the "_actual" versions of functions when defined within the same module - slowdown for the snappy compression is now down from x6 to x4-x5 when HCR is ON
* dynamically linking to the runtime for VS when HCR is on - binaries are smaller
* compilerProcs are also called using the _actual direct version within the module they are defined (system)!
* updated comments & goals
* handling VS-compatible compilers on Windows in a cleaner way
* now the .dll/.so files end up in the nimcache even when --nimcache isn't explicitly stated
* mark user defined destructors with sfOverriden to simplify the logic
* refactoring in preparation to merge liftings and generic instantiations for destructors
* ast: introduce nkHiddenTryStmt for destructor generation in order to be able to optimize better the code later on
* renamed 'patterns' switch to 'trmacros' as it was totally misleading before
* destructors: introduce tfCheckedForDestructor flag in preparation of strict =destroy checking
* test for invalid/too late destructor introductions
* liftdestructors: make code robust for nimsuggest
* --newruntime works for hello world again
* newruntime: code generation for closures
