millfork/CHANGELOG.md

Change log

Current version

• Finally faster than C.

• Licenced the standard library more permissively.

• Preliminary Atari 2600, BBC Micro and LUnix support.

• Added array initialization syntax with for.

• Added multiple new text codecs.

• Added character literals.

• Added 24-bit farword type.

• Special array layouts, e.g. @word.

• Fixed invalid offsets for branching instructions.

• Fixed incorrectly overlapping local variables.

• Fixed broken downto loops.

• Fixed broken comparisons between variables of different sizes.

• Fixed several other bugs.

• Tons of optimizer improvements.

• Other improvements.

0.2.2

• Allowed adding constant words to variable bytes without the zeropage pseudoregister.

• -fzp-register is now enabled by default, as the documentation has already been saying.

• Allowed more kinds of constants within variable and array initializers.

• Fixed several bugs.

• Other improvements.

0.2

• Breaking change! Renamed inline to macro.

• Breaking change! Added support for memory segments. Changed the platform definition file syntax.

• Added preliminary support for 65CE02, HuC6280 and 65816 processors.

• Added support for Famicom/NES and C64 with SuperCPU.

• Added new -O1 optimization preset; old -O1 became -O2, old -O2 became -O3 and so on.

• Added command line options for controlling the size-speed trade-offs.

• Added support for parameters for macros written in Millfork.

• Enabled calling macros with index expression parameters.

• Enabled calling macros from assembly.

• Added optimizer hints: inline, noinline, register.

• Added command line flags --size, --fast, --blast-processing.

• Removed command line flag --detailed-flow. Detailed flow analysis was slow, broken, hard to maintain, and didn't even help that much.

• Added *'=, nonet, hi and lo operators.

• Added support for zeropage pseudoregisters, allowing for some operators work with more types of operands.

• Added return dispatch statements.

• Added break and continue statements.

• Allowed the else if combination (i.e. the else branch doesn't have to be in braces if it's just a single if-else statement).

• Added octal and quaternary literals.

• Fixed several allocation bugs.

• Fixed several optimization bugs.

• Fixed several C64 and C16 library bugs.

• Fixed several other bugs.

• Other improvements.

0.1

• Initial numbered version.