LNXSDK/Kha/Backends/Kinc-hxcpp/khacpp/Changes.md

4.3

• Bug fixes
• Upgrade to 4.3 API
• Use PCRE v2

4.2

• Update MIN_IOS_VERSION
• Bug fixes
• Upgrade to 4.2 API
• Fixed mysql_select_db failing for newer mariadb versions due to extra 0x00 byte after database
• Fixed mysql_close not sending COM_QUIT before closing socket

4.1.15

• Added Arm64 suport on windows
• Fixed crash with zero-sized alloc and generational GC
• Fixed crash with generational GC when old objects come back to life
• Fixed compile error with @:fixed Anons and arrays (socket select)
• Fixed lastIndexOf
• Optimized some equality functions

4.1.1

• Added functions for haxe 4.1 Api.
• Added HXCPP_DEBUG_LINK_AND_STRIP to preserve symbolic information when creating android release binaries.
• Added optional HXCPP_SIGNAL_THROW to convert memory errors to haxe exceptions without needing additional code
• Added string_hash_map_substr and __hxcpp_parse_substr_float/int to allow some substring processing without extra allocation

4.0.64

• Upgrade buildserver to 4.01
• Better generational collection in high fragmentation case
• typeinfo include fix for MSVC
• Fix MySQL connections
• Fix bugs with HXCPP_GC_GENERATIONAL
• Add map.clear
• Better c++11 iOS support

4.0.19

• Add Array.keyValueIterator
• General Utf16 string improvements
• Limit the amount of recursion in toString function
• Add float32 support to cppia
• Fix Gc race condition
• Throw exceptions according to the spec when casting
• Introduce hxcpp_smart_strings for unicode text

4.0.4

• Compile Cppia against haxe 4.0 preview 4

4.0.2

• Default Cppia to 64 bits on windows

4.0.1

• More logic for determining the android NDK version
• Updated various opensource libraries (thanks robocoder)
• Updated version of zlib
• Updated version of sljit
• Updated version of pcre
• Updated version of sqlit3
• Updated version of mbedtls
• Some work on supporting utf16 strings (hx_smart_strings)
• Added process_kill
• Change root when calculating haxelib in build.xml files
• Fix cppia super calls across cpp boundary
• Add Array.resize
• Be consistent with mod in cppia
• Fix Sys.stderr
• Add 'embedName' file attribute to allow text to cpp conversion
• Updates for Msvc
• Updates for Xcode

3.4.188

• Fix some threading crashes

3.4.185

• Do not ship static libraries
• Use more lock-free structures in GC processing
• Added some documentation
• Added HXCPP_GC_SUMMARY option
• Added HXCPP_GC_GENERATIONAL option
• Added HXCPP_GC_DYNAMIC_SIZE option
• Some MSVC 2017 support
• Compile Cppia with JIT as an option by default

3.4.64

• Fixed cppia native interface implementation
• Fixed debugger breakpoints
• More compatibility for inet_pton and inet_ntop
• Correct the order of thread housekeeping data

3.4.49

• Fixed 2d-Arrays and unserialize

3.4.43

• Added more options for code-size optimizations on android (thanks madrazo)
• Added version of stpcpy on android to allow building with platform > 21, and running on older devices
• Added some initial support for ipv6
• Experimental support for Cppia JIT
• Fixed issue with stale objects that use new pch files in cache
• Rethrowing exception now preserves stack correctly

3.4.2

• Align float reads from memory for Arm architecture
• Removed some virtual functions not needed by newer versions of haxe
• Reworked the logic for compacting fragmented heaps with HXCPP_GC_MOVING
• Expose StackContext to allow inlining of allocation routine, and combine with Cppia context
• Fix some compare-with-dynamic issues
• Added WatchOs support
• Fixed for android NDK 13
• Fix Array closure equality
• Refactor the Cppia code
• Fix return codes for atomic decrease
• Fix some GC zone issues in the standard library
• Set minimum MacOS deployment target to 10.6
• Do not use typedefs for 'Int' and 'Bool' for newer api levels
• Added dll_link to create output dll
• Improved ObjC support
• Make Cppia order of operations of '+=' et al consistent with other targets
• Added NO_RECURSE flag to PCRE
• Fix bsd_signal undefines on android
• Add create/free abstract

3.3.49

• Fix Dynamic != for haxe 3.2.1
• Fix Command line parsing on windows for triple quotes

3.3.45

• Much better compile cache support
• Added tags to compiler flags to allow better targeting
• Added UCP support to regexp
• Added Array::fromData
• Added AtomicInt operations
• Added _hx_imod
• More improvements for tvos
• Fix blocking deque issue
• Improved native testing
• Added 'hxcpp run hxcpp cache ...' commands for managing cache
• Added cpp.Variant class for query of field values to avoid boxing
• Added more efficient version of finalizer
• Add non allocating version of __hxcpp_print
• More WinRT fixes
• Output 'HxcppConfig.h' with defines included for easier external integration
• Output list of output files if requested
• Add support functions for StdLib - alloc/free/sizeof
• Fix crash when marking stack names from GCRoots
• Add bitcode support for iOS
• Rename RegisterClass to avoid conflicts with windows
• Added 'VirtualArray' for arrays of unknown types
• Split Macros.tpl
• Added optional ShowParam to process_run
• Added inline functions for Int64 externs
• Add error check for allocating from a finalizer
• Fix null strings on Cffi Prime
• Use slow path if required for Win64 Tls
• Expand logic for detecting android toolchain from NDK name
• Remove the need for hxcpp binaries by compiling source directly into target
• Adjust the default verbosity level, and add HXCPP_VERBOSE/HXCPP_QUIET/HXCPP_SILENT
• Added some control options for copyFile directive
• Fix cppia decrement
• Add Array.removeRange, which does not require a return value
• Do not call setbuf(0) on stdin, since it messes with readLine
• Cppia now throws an error if loading fails
• Allocate EnumParam data inline to cut down on allocations
• Allow anonymous object data to be allocated inline to avoid allocations
• Add SSL library code
• Add NativeGen framework for interfaces
• Add macros to allow neater generated code
• Allow larger memory space with -D HXCPP_GC_BIG_BLOCKS
• Improve Array.join speed

3.2.205

• Initial support for HXCPP_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
• Support HXCPP_DEBUG_LINK on more targets
• Support for cross compiling to windows from linux
• Added array removeAt
• Some telemety fixes (thanks Jeff)
• Check contents when comparing Dynamics with same pointer (Math.Nan!=Math.Nan)
• Numerous WinRT fixes (thanks madrazo)
• Fixed bug causing GC to crash marking constant strings (eg, resources)
• Updated default SDK for Tizen (thanks Joshua)
• Fixed command line args on linux (thanks Andy)

3.2.193

• Some improvements for tvos
• Start on some GC defragging code
• Fix android thread access to GC structures
• Add socket socket_recv_from and socket_send_to
• Fixed memory leak in GC collection code
• Allow cross-compile to windows via MINGW
• Fix overflow error that meant GC would work with a too-small buffer in some cases

3.2.180

• Initial support for tvos
• Change name of ObjectType to hxObjectType to avoid clashes with iOS
• Try to keep windows.h out of haxe-generated code
• Fix null access bug in array-of-array
• Create separate library for msvc 19

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• Try to get the pdb server working better for MSVS 2015
• So not export symbols on windows unless HXCPP_DLL_EXPORT is set (-D dll_export) - makes exe smaller
• Avoid dynamic-cast if possible when converting 2D arrays
• Some RPi fixes
• Some CFFI Prime fixes (thanks Joshua)
• Fix build tool for next version of neko
• Improve msvc cl.exe version checking for non-English environments
• Add more control over how much Gc memory is used
• Add faster(inline) thread local storage for Gc on windows.
• Add some Gc load balancing when marking large arrays with multiple threads
• Change the Gc memory layout to be a bit larger, but simpler. This allows most of the allocation to be simplified and inlined.
• Explicitly scan registers for Gc references because the stack scanning was missing them sometimes
• Some additions to Undefine.h for windows
• When static linking using MSVC 2015, compile the libraries directly into the exe to avoid compatibility issues
• Move standard libraries into their own build.xml files
• Make it easier to change the generated output filename
• Allow targets from one build.xml file to be merged into another
• Some more work on HXCPP_COMPILE_CACHE
• Allow automatic grouping of obj files into librarys to avoid linking all the symbols in all obj files
• Add implicit conversion to referenced type from cpp.Reference
• Allow build.xml files to be imported relative to importing file
• Allow '-' in command-line defines
• Fix warnings from Hash class
• Fix setsockopt for Mac
• Support to MSVC2015
• Fix for Blackberry 10.3
• Fix debug break by linenumber
• Better objc integration (thanks Caue)
• Increase number of variables captured in closures to 20
• Initial support for telemetry (thanks Jeff)
• Align allocations for better emscripten support

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• Fix gc_lock error in remove_dir
• Some cppia bug fixes - enum and resources overrides
• More android atof fixes
• Improved haxelib seek logic

Haxe 3.2.0

• Improve testing
• Allow dll_load path to be set programatically and simplified the dll search sequence.
• Improved cffi_prime, and added String class
• Fixed static linking of mysql5
• Moved static link code in general to cpp.link package, not hxcpp package
• URL decode now does not need to performe reallocs
• Ensure HXCPP_API_LEVEL is always defined
• Added __hxcpp_unload_all_libraries to cleanly unload dlls
• Added some utc date functions
• Better support for non-console apps in windows XP 64
• Increased use of HXCPP_DEBUG_LINK for gcc based targets
• Class 'hasField' is now more consistent with other functions/targets
• 'haxelib run hxcpp test.cppia' will run Cppia on the specified file
• Add fast-select option for sockets
• Allow code to run without HXCPP_VISIT_ALLOCS defined
• Fix debugger thread deadlocks
• Allow up to 27 dynamic arguments
• Fixes for Emscripten - byte align access and disable threads
• Allow emscripten to generate 'executables' (.js/.html) and add options for specifying memory
• Allow spaces in exe names again
• Make cpp::Struct compare via memcmp, and mark correctly
• Fix catch block in cppia
• Treat '-debug' as an alias for "-Ddebug"
• Expose ArrayBase for use with some generic or external code
• Clarify the role of 'buffer' in cffi

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• Only put a minimal run.n in source-control, and use this to boot hxcpp.n
• Added cpp.Struct and cpp.Reference classes, which are handy for extern classes
• Moved Class to hx namespace
• Simplified 'main' logic
• Allow new android compilers to work for old devices (thanks google)
• Correctly read hxcpp_api_level from Build.xml
• Verbose logging prints which file is being compiled
• Handle undefining the INT_ constants differently to allow std::string to still compile
• Remove entries form Options.txt that do not influence the cpp build
• Add optional destination= command-line option to allow copying the result to named file
• Static libraries will be prefixed with 'lib' now
• val_is_buffer always returns false on neko
• Add val_iter_field_vals, which is like val_iter_fields but consistent with neko
• Remove NekoApi binaries
• Add Cppia binaries
• Add Windows64 binaries
• Make compares between Dynamic and numeric types false, unless the Dynamic is actaully numeric

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• Even more optimizations for hashes
• Some more optimizations for small hashes
• Fix for google changing inlining in platform21 headers (atof, rand, srand)
• Re-tuned Hash for small objects too (improves Anon object perforamce)
• Reverted change that automatically threw 'BadCast'. Now required HXCPP_STRICT_CASTS

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• Cached dynamic versions of small ints and 1-char-strings for speed
• Added support for weak hashes - needs latest haxe version
• Use internal hash structure for maps - now faster. New version of haxe makes it faster still.
• Changed the way development versions are bootstrapped to avoid committing binaries
• Improved mingw support
• Dont append -debug to dll name
• Reorder xml includes to allow early parts to correctly influence older parts
• Fix busy wait in semaphore lock
• Fixed GC issue when constructing exrernal primitive objects
• Added armv7s and arm64 targets for ios
• Some fixes for neko cffi - wstring and warning for neko_init
• Fix file read (and copy) from thread

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• Compile fix for blackberry
• Pass on haxe_api_level
• Add -nocolor flag

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• Add support for prelinker
• Cygwin toolchain fix
• Add HXCPP_NO_COLOUR and HXCPP_NO_M32
• Fix windows trace output
• Add initial support for GCWO compile
• Fix bug with losing GC references in Array.sort
• Fix bug with zombie marking
• Add support for optimised sort routines
• Add support for haxe.ds.Vector optimisation
• Add support for cpp.Pointer, cpp.NativeArray, cpp.NativeString

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• Add BlackBerry and Tizen binaries
• Fix issues when using names like ANDROID or IPHONE in an enum
• Added more info in verbose mode (setenv HXCPP_VERBOSE)
• Refactor build files to allow greater customisation
• Fix bug with 'lock' where some threads may not get released
• Add optimised arrays access
• Add optimised memory operations for arrays and haxe.io.Bytes
• Avoid blocking in gethostbyname
• Upgrade run tool output and layout
• Restore sys_time for windows

3.1.1

• Fixed MSVC support for 64-bit targets (vc11, vc12)
• Initial work on cpp.Pointer (not fully functional)
• Fixed callstack when throwing from native function

3.1.0

• VC 2013 support - used as default now
• Add winxp compatibility flags
• Allow cross-compiling from mac to linux
• Added NSString helper conversion
• Better auto-detection for android toolchain
• Allow foreign threads to easily attach and detach from GC system
• Weak references to closures keep object alive
• Added HXCPP_API_LEVEL define to allow for future compatibility
• Fixed clearing finalizers twice
• Int multiply and minus are performed with integers now
• Fix comparing +- infinities
• Use multiple threads in the mark phase of GC
• IOS now defaults cpp11 binary linkage
• Added HXCPP_VERBOSE environment var to enable extra output
• Fixed spin loop in pthread_cond_wait
• Added ability to link several .a files into a single .a file
• Removed dependence on STL runtime for supplied modules
• Renamed some directories to be more standard
• Moved some extra build files into obj directory
• Use sys.io.Process instead of Sys.command to avoid threading slowdown writing to console
• Add hxcpp.Builder to help with building multiple binaries
• Add android x86 support
• Drop pre-compiled support for everything excepth windows,mac,linux,ios and android
• Allow libraries and files to accumulated in the build.xml
• Supply pre-build lib files for static linking on supported platforms
• Support for static linking of all modules
• Support for hxcpp-debugger project
• Binaries have been removed from repo, and are built using a server
• Use build.n script to build all appropriate binaries
• Some initial support for mysql and sqlite databases
• Add free_abstract for safe releasing of data references
• Change process lauching to get better thread usage on mac
• Fix GC error in string resources
• Give obj files in libraries unique names

3.0.2

• Fix Dynamic + Int logic
• Reverted linux compiler to older version
• Cast Array at call site if required
• Tweak Array.map return value

3.0.1

• Added nekoapi for linux64
• Upgrade nekoapi to v2
• Added haxe vector support
• Added socket_set_fast_send
• Fixed android build
• Expanded native memory access methods
• Fix exception dump
• Added initial Emscriptm support
• Allow specification of ANDROID_HOST
• Inital work on auto-setup of win64
• Support call-site casting of Arrays

3.0.0

• Support haxe3 syntax
• Added socket poll function
• Added some initial support for dll_import/dll_export
• Allow full path name when loading dynamic libraries
• Allow dynamic toString function
• Added initial support for Raspberry Pi
• Array sort now uses std::stable_sort
• Fixed Dynamic+null string output
• Fix splice size calculation
• Add object ids for use in maps
• Add map/filter functions to arrays
• GC will now collect more often when big arrays are used
• You can specify a number of args > 5 for cffi functions if you want
• Fix internal hash size variable
• Class static field list does not report super members now
• Fix casting of null to any object
• Do not read input twice in sys_getch
• Link in PCH generated obj data on msvs 2012
• Date is now consistent with UTC
• Hash 'remove' now returns correct value
• CPP native WeakRef now works, and has a 'set' function
• Fixed compile error when assigning to a base class
• Fixed compile error when using != and Dynamic
• Math/floor/ceil/trunc/min/max now pass unit tests
• More control over android sdk installation
• Regexp_match fix
• Fix val_callN CFFI

2.10.3

• Added initial build support for WinRT
• Android toolchain improvements
• Minor compile fixes
• Other minor improvements

2.10.2

• Fixes for BlackBerry 10 compatibility
• Fixes for iOS 6 compatibility
• CFFI improvements
• Minor Linux improvements
• Minor OS X improvements

2.10.1

• Fix trace() output
• Clang options for OS X compiler
• Small fixes

2.10.0

• GC upgrades - moving/defragging/releasing
• Built-in profiler
• Build-in debugger
• Fix mac ndll finding bug
• Add Int32 member functions
• Clang options for ios compiler
• Add a few pre-boxed constants
• Some general bug fixes

2.09.3

• Fix Xml enum usage

2.09.2

• Resolve library paths when launching Mac apps from Finder
• Compile fix for the BlackBerry toolchain
• Fix interface comparison
• Fix api_val_array_value for NekoApi
• Add workaround for optional Strings in interfaces
• Tweak the timing og the GC run
• Remove setProperty conditional compiles
• String charCodeAt only returns positive values
• Fix modulo for negative numbers
• Remove extra space from array output
• Treat '.' and '_' as literals in urlEncode
• Dynamically generated, 0 param, enum instances match the static version

2.09

• Improved precision in random implementations
• Added some experimental support for float32
• Added some experimental support for generic getProcAddress
• String::fromCharCode generates single-byte strings
• Fix method compares
• Plug memory leak in finalizers
• Fix debug link flags
• Separate get/SetField from get/setProperty
• Added Null for optional parameters

2.08.3

• Actually add blackberry toolchain

2.08.2

• Add blackberry support
• Add armv7 options
• Support new xcode layout
• Fix const qualifiers on interface functions
• Fix webOS obj directory

2.08.1

• Fix Math.random returning 1.0 sometimes
• Std.is( 2.0, Int ) is now true
• Make static library building more separated - refactor defines to control this
• Do not use @files for linking on mac
• toString on Anon objects will now get called
• Fix fast memory access with --no-inline
• Android tool host now set to linux-x86
• Allow use of __compare as operator== overload
• Add toNativeInt
• Add weak references
• Implement some neko/cffi compatibility operations
• Fix mac deployment using environment variable
• Fix reentrant mutexes
• Do not explicitly specify version of g++
• Speedup some code by avoiding dynamic_cast if possible
• Some fixes to allow Android multi-threading in normal operation

2.08

• Do not create a new class definition for each member function
• Allow 5 fast and up to 20 slow dynamic function arguments
• Support utf8 class
• Added "Fast Memory" API similar to flash
• Added support for webOS
• Fix uncompress buffers
• Added file to undefined pesky processor macros
• Setup default config in user area
• Auto-detect msvc and iphone version
• Force compilation for mac 10.5
• Some support for cygwin compilers
• Remove Boehm GC as an option
• Integrate properly now with Android ndk-r6
• Make Int32 pass haxe unit tests (shift/modulo)
• Fix bug in "join"
• Fix bug with marking the "this" pointer in closures
• Fix bug with returning NAN from parseFloat
• Fix linux link flags
• Fix bug where string of length 0 would be null
• Made String cca return value consistent
• Added control over @file syntax
• Removed need for nekoapi.ndll
• Allow for neko.so to end in ".0"

2.07

• Added initial support for Mac64, Linux64, MinGW and GPH and refactored build tool.
• Return the count of traced objects
• Fix interface operator ==
• Initial work on msvc10 batch file
• Add bounds check on String.cca
• Build static libraries, if requrested
• Added exe stripping
• Added val_field_name, val_iter_fields
• Fixed nekoapi string length
• Fixed Sys.args

2.06.1

• Close files if required in GC
• Added fix for File.write
• Fixed String UTF8 Encode
• Nekoapi is now a "ndll", not a "dso".
• Fix array compile issue on linux
• Fix stack setting on firced collect

2.06.0

• Updates to match haxe 2.06 compiler features
• Numerous bug fixes
• Add additional context to GC collection process
• Swapped from wchar_t* to utf8 char*
• Added templated iterators
• Use strftime for Dates
• Fix socket select and "_s" members
• Seed Math.random
• Fixed dynamic integer compare
• Added __hxcpp_obj_id
• Added some Android support

2.05.1

• Updated windows nekoapi.dll binary
• Added -m32 compile flags to force 32 bit

2.05.0

• Default to IMMIX based internal garbage collection.
• Reorginised files - split big ones, and moved common ones out of "runtime".
• Put internal classes in "hx" namespace, or HX_ prefix for macros.
• Remove multiple-inheritance, and use delegation instead.
• Write "Options.txt" from compiler so dependency can be determined.
• Require -D HXCPP_MULTI_THREADED for multi-threaded classes - to avoid overhead if not required.
• Build thread code into executable for better control.
• Fix return values of parseINt/parseFloat.
• Added comprehensive list of reserved member names.
• Put if/else statements in blocks.
• Added assert, NULL, LITTLE_ENDIAN, BIG_ENDIAN as keywords.
• Added control over how fast-cffi routines are created by requiring cpp.rtti.FastIntergerLookup to be "implemented".
• Construct anonymous object fields in deterministic (as declared) order.
• Fix code generation for some complex inline cases.
• Added cpp.zip.Compress
• Change "Reflect" class to be more standard
• Use array of dynamics for StringBuf.
• Fix setting of attributes in XML nodes.

Build-tool:

• Allow multiple build threads (via setenv HXCPP_COMPILE_THREADS N) for faster building on multi-code boxes.
• Added FileGroup dependencies
• Added pre-compiled headers (windows only, at the moment since gcc seems buggy)

1.0.7

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