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  • ! Fixes bugs related to using CONST strings
  • ! Fixed a bug with local Arrays of Floats
  • ! Fix PEEK (ULong, ...)
  • Other minor errors fixes and improvements
    • NextTool is now directly executable
  • ! Fixed a bug when saving config files for the 1st time
  • ! Fixed a bug with MUL in ZX Next
  • Code refacts and optimizations
  • Little updates to NextCreator tool
  • Allow declaring CONST strings
  • Fixes WindowPaint listing in the Wiki
  • ! Fixed some bugs and improved stability
  • ! Fixed and improved the peep hole optimizer
  • Compiling speed increased
  • Fixes bug with SAVE and USR
  • Internal code refacts
  • All routines using the screen (PLOT, DRAW, PRINT, SCROLL...)
    now use the screen back buffer! So you can draw in other address of RAM.
  • Requires Python 3.10+
  • Allow setting the HEAP address with --heap-address=0xNNNN
  • Fixes bugs with zxbpp (preprocessor) and zxbasm (assembler)
  • Updated documentation and README.md (thx to @Chronomantic)
  • Add PutChars() library function
  • Add ClearBox() library function
  • Add PutTile() library function
  • ! Fixed some bugs and improved stability
  • ! Fixed some bugs in the compiler
  • ZXBPP (preprocessor) now allows boolean conditions
  • ZXBPP (preprocessor) now allows numeric conditions
  • ! Fixed bug with assembler and temporary labels
  • ! Fixed bug with drawing primitives (PLOT, DRAW, CIRCLE)
  • Improved optimization for binary operators (*, +)
  • minor bugfixes in the assembler and the testing suite
  • optimize PRINT routine (faster, smaller)
  • Added optional parameters
  • Added keyword args
  • Allow temporary labels (1b, 1f) in the assembler
  • ! Fixed several bugs in the assembler and compiler
  • Produces better code for multiplications in ZX Next
  • zx0 compression library updated (thx to Einar Saukas)
  • ! Fixed a bug with command line options
  • ! Fixed a bug with some saved options being ignored
  • ! Fixed a bug in the peephole optimizer (-O4)
  • Implemented #include MACRO
  • Added functions ltrim/trim/rtrim to <string.bas>
  • Some libraries rearranged.
  • ! Fixed bugs and improved stability, specially with the optimizer
  • Variables and functions now allow underscore character
  • Peephole optimizer is now smarter
  • Compiler now allows config files to avoid repearing cmdline flags
  • Added #pragma once
  • Fixed bugs and improved stability
  • Assembler will show a warning on DB truncated values
  • Input key taps will emit sound (mute then with a POKE)
  • Little optimizations
  • Added token pasting ## and stringizing # operators to the preprocessor
  • Warnings and error messages improved with codes
  • Warnings can now be silenced with -Wxxx (i.e. -W150)
  • Improved error reporting (files and line numbers)
  • Improved code generation and optimization
  • Speed compilation increased by 100%!
  • ! Fixed many bugs and improved stability
  • ! Fix bug with optimizer
  • ! Fix crash with some syntax errors
  • ! Allow { and } in ASM for 3rd party assemblers
  • Other minor bugfixes
  • ! Fix bug with LEN()
  • ! Fix potential endless compiling
  • ! Fix several bugs unused functions
  • ! Fix bug with SAVE DATA
  • Add 2 extra optimization patterns
  • ! Fix bug with include file names on warnings
  • Add --arch=, start of ZX Next backend!
  • ! Fix Mac OS native package
  • ! Fix bug with DIM var AT @label (or any constant expr)
  • Other minor cosmetic changes in libraries
  • Improved documentation
  • New binary releases now available for Linux and Mac OS!
  • Added new library for Windows scrolling
  • ! Fix bug with constant LBOUND / UBOUND usage in array parameters
  • Allow passing arrays as parameters byRef!
  • ! Several bugfixes and improved stability and code cleanup
  • Add PRINTFXZ by Eunar Saukas and Andrew Owen (ported by Britlion)
  • ! Bugfixes and improved stability
  • Internal refactors in code. Also -d (debug) behaviour updated
  • ! Fix a critical bug with local arrays
  • Deprecating zxb executable in favour of zxbc
  • ! Many bugs fixed (CODE, VAL, preprocessor...)
  • ! Improved stability
  • Can now hide LOAD messages using -D HIDE_LOAD_MSG
  • Improved Windows deployment
  • Fixes a Warning for python 3.8.x
  • ! Fix warning in arrays boundaries checks
  • Added support for ZX Next extended ASM instruction set
  • Allow shifting SCREEN coordinates for drawing
  • Add mini-pacman example
  • Add tool for viewing .SCR files
  • Improved compatibility with Sinclair BASIC (--sinclair)
  • Updates testing and parsing tools
  • Code generation optimized
  • Many bugfixes and improved stability
  • Updates in online documentation
  • ! Fix warning in parameters ByRef
  • Makes LOAD and SAVE to ignore BREAK
  • ! Little bug fixes and better stability
  • Some docs and README fixes and improvements
  • ! Fix memory leak bug when doing procrustean substring assignation
  • Also optimizes substring access not allocating mem when not needed
  • Allow some extra chars within the ASM sections for 3rd party assemblers
  • ! Little bugfixes
  • Now printing at the end scrolls up the screen!
  • ! Bugfix: grammar errors for RESTORE
  • Change LD (IX/IY + NN), r instructions to standardize it
  • ! Bugfix: error compiling to binary with headerless mode (thx to em00k)
  • ! Bugfix: fixes several crashes under some conditions
  • ! Bugfix: Fixes escape code for backslash (thx to em00k)
  • ! Bugfix: fixes some bugs in the parser to improve stability.
  • ! Bugfix: fixes a bug in the optimizer (-O3 and -O4)
  • Add fastplot.bas library
  • ! Bugfix: array access read / write might overflow. Fixed.
  • Array access speedup and optimization.
  • Dropped support for PyPy and Python 2.x
  • New and completely refactored optimizer which now allow patterns.
    This new optimizer (after a year of hard work) not only optimizes better,
    it also allows to specify new optimization patterns without touching the compiler code.
  • New optimizer level -O4 (peephole)
  • zxbasm (assembler) now allows several instructions per line using :
  • zxbasm allows labels to be declared without using colon.
  • Some other little optimization
  • ! Bugfix: FLASH 8 and BRIGHT 8 were not working correctly. Fixed.
  • Changelog file renamed to Changelog.md and renovated. Now uses Markdown.
  • PLOT, DRAW and CIRCLE now do not use the ROM for ATTR (no ROM dependency)
  • ! Bugfix: Setting multiple ORG within ASM blocks crashed the compiler. Fixed.
  • Change code style to pass more flake8 tests
  • Add --append-binary command line flag to append binaries to tape file
  • Add --append-headless-binary cmdlie flag to do like the above, but headless.
  • ! Bugfix: Crash in READ and DATA sentences under some cases
  • ! Bugfix: Fix INT to behave like the original one (Round to -INF)
  • ! Bugfix: --array-check was not working properly. Fixed!
  • ! Bugfix: fix 32 bit operations (DIV, MOD...)
  • ! Bugfix: do not remove ASM blocks (optimize)
  • ! Bugfix: END instruction was not returning result. Fixed.
  • ! Bugfix: crash on bad array declaration
  • ! Several bugfixes with contants declaration
  • Suport for UTF-8 BOM files
  • ! Bugfixes with -O3 crash
  • ! Fixes crash with arrays
  • ! Other bugfixes and better stability
  • Better warning explanation under some circumstances
  • ! Bugfix in the peephole optimizer (-O2)
  • ! Several bugfixes to improve stability
  • Optimization in the peephole optimizer (-O1)
  • Support for extended array str element operations
  • ! Other syntax bugfixes
  • ! Bugfixes in the peephole optimizer
  • Shorter and faster generated code (deep optimizations)
  • ! Bugfix in the PRINT42 routine that now supports newlines, etc
  • Implemented routine input42 (INPUT42.BAS) for PRINT42 mode
  • ! Bugfixes in the peephole optimizer
  • ! Bugfix in OUT instruction
  • Fixes minor errors and bugs (i.e. --enable-break)
  • Improved and faster generated code (IN, OUT, AND, check BREAK...)
  • Added basic.bas library (meta-interpreter) and eval.bas example!! (thanks to @mcleod_ideafix!!!)
  • ! Bugfixes in the peephole optimizer (-O3)
  • Better optimized code
  • Improved compiling speed and more stability
  • Fixes minor errors and bugs
  • Now single line IF sentences does not require END IF
  • ! Bugfixes in libraries esxdos.bas and memcopy.bas
  • Improved pong.bas example
  • Improved readme file :) (thanks to @harko and @haplo)
  • ! Bugfixes with -O3 and DATA statements
  • Little improvements
  • Updates README.md file and added TESTING.md one.
  • Added READ, DATA, RESTORE (finally!)
  • Allows to call SUBs with no parenthesis (e.g. mySUB 1, 2+a)
  • Allows to call FUNCTIONS with 1 or no params with no parenthesis (e.g. MyFunc x+2)
  • Some bug fixes for better stability
  • ! Fixes and improves strict mode checking
  • Adds #error and #warning directives
  • Adds missing default font (Haplo) for Radastan mode
  • ! Bugfixes and little improvements
  • ! Fix infinite recursive include in Windows OS (yes, win sucks)
  • Little optimizations in memset() and RND
  • Standardize file includes like in cpp
  • Added many more drawing primitives for Radastan Mode
  • Added instructions ON .. GOTO and ON .. GOSUB
  • Added UART library (by yomboprime) for serial communication
  • ! Several bugfixes and minor errors and better stability
  • Better code generation
  • Allows array initialization with @label references
  • Switch .bas libraries (not the compiler) to MIT license
  • ! Fixes a bug in the peephole (-O3) optimizer
  • Improved speed for Integer / Unteger operations
  • Improved speed for Byte / Ubyte operations
  • Improved speed for some 32 bit operations (Ulong, Long, Fixed)
  • Improved code speed for -O3 optimized level
  • Improved travis and bitbucket pipelines CI (cache, added pypy)
  • ! Fixes and improvements to the ESXDOS library (by @mcleod_ideafix)
  • Added new ESXDOS sample program (directory tree listing)
  • ! Fixed some bugs in the assembler
  • ! Fixed a bug when calling a function in advance
  • ! Fixed a problem in tox, setting the terminal to UTF-8
  • Added more testing and bitbucket pipelines using tox
  • ! Do not optimize user inlined ASM. It must go as is.
  • Added option --mmap to generate memory maps
  • Added option --ignore-case to allow variable names to be case insensitive
  • ! Fixes optimizer bugs
  • ! Fix to make make it to work in python 2.7
  • ! Refactorize the assembler to use centralized configuration
  • ! Fixed a bug in constant evaluation
  • ! Allows non constant initialization of scalar variables like DIM a$ = "hi"
  • ! Fix bugs in the assembler not allowing complex expressions
  • ! Fix a rare crash when using functions before declaring them

This is a long (near 3 year) set of versions in which the compiler was refactored in many places. The compiler migrated from one-pass no objects compiler to a multiple pass object like compiler. This not only makes the code much more maintainable and elegant, but also a bit faster.

Technical stuff: Now the AST uses an heterogeneous AST pattern, allowing both children traversal using indexes (and also primitives like node.appendChild) and attribute traversal which depends on the symbolTYPE being parsed. e.g. for symbolBINARY (binary expressions), we have node.left, node.right, node.operand, but also node.children[0], node.children[1].

The major feature in this release is the posibility to declare nested functions. These functions are declared within others, and can only be called from within their respective parent function body.

  • ! Fixed a bug in USR <string>
  • ! Fixed a bug in SAVE / LOAD
  • ! Fixed a serious bug in the preprocessor
  • ! Fixed a bug with DIM and constants
  • ! Fixed a bug with SHL/SHR for 0 shifts
  • Added -D option. ZXBasic now allows commandline macro definition
  • ! Fixed a bug with CODE and INKEY$
  • ! Fixed a bug with string slicing assignation (e.g. a$(3) = "x")
  • ! Fixed a bug with arrays of integer assignation (e.g. a(3) = 5, being a of Integer type)
  • ! Fixed a bug with peephole optimizer (-O3)
  • Some changes and code refactorization towards 2.x branch
  • ! Fixed a serious bug with ALL integer (signed/unsigned) operands which were not working correctly under some circumstances.
  • ! Fixed some bugs which made the compiler to crash when a syntax error is found.
  • ! Fixed a bug in ALIGN (assembler)
  • ZXBasic python version is now PyPy compatible.
  • RND is now MUCH faster and produces better random patterns (thanks to Britlion)
  • Compiler speed is now almost 100% faster!
  • Some code optimization
  • Added a recursive pattern fill library with an example (thanks to Britlion)
  • Fixed some bugs in the preprocessor which prevented some chars to be written
  • Fixed a bug with PRINT and comma position
  • Fixed a bug in PEEK which was related to the backend
  • Fixed more than 50 other minor bugs in both the compiler and the assembler
  • THEN keyword is now optional in IF statements
  • Code rearranged and restructured for future deep refactorizations.
  • ! Complete rewritten backend (or almost!) to fix a bug in code generation which was being suboptimal.
    Now generated code is much faster and take less memory than before!
  • Added support for Bitwise syntax (|, &, ~)
  • Fixed some bugs in ASM
  • ! Fixed some bugs in the peephole optimized (-O3)
  • ! Fixed a bug with line continuation comments /' ...
  • ! Fixed bugs in ASM parser regarding to comments
  • Added ATTRADDR() function in <attrib.bas>
  • ! Many more bugs fixed related to STRING memory leak
  • ! Fixed a bug related to parameters.
  • Some optimizations for code size and speed for FLOAT types
  • Optimization for STRING parameters
  • Optimization for 32 bit values
  • ! Fixed a bug for Uinteger/Integer arrays assignation
  • ! Fixed 2 bugs in CAST operation and type conversion
  • ! Fixed a bug in OVER attribute during PRINT
  • Added PONG game example
  • ! Fixed a bug in POKE
  • ! PRINT optimized and slightly faster. Now fully compatible with Sinclair Basic (no Out of Screen error on program exit)
  • ! CSRLN and POS optimized to this new PRINT scheme! ... and much much more
  • DRAW is now much faster (and a bit more larger)
  • PLOT, DRAW and CIRCLE now supports change screen address (for double-buffering)
  • Added LBOUND() and UBOUND() functions
  • ! Fixed a bug in IF/THEN/ELSEIF/ELSE construct (thanks to LTee)
  • Added a completely new preprocessor which now support true macros and better line counting handling. This is a major change in the compiler.
  • Added string management library with UCase(), LCase(), Ucase2(), LCase2(), InStr() and StrPos()
  • ! UDG where not being handled into the Heap, which might lead to program crash (fixed). This is done only if --sinclair or -Z cmdline flag is used.
  • Added support for BIN, so BIN 01010101 is also accepted now.
  • ! Fixed a bug with string parameters passed by value (again) not being correctly free upon return and crashing the program.
  • BEEP with constant duration and pitch (e.g. BEEP 1, 2) has been optimized for space (and also slightly faster)
  • Added Flight Simulator example
  • Bitwise bAND, bOR, bXOR, bNOT finally added for 8, 16 and 32 bits
  • The assembler now supports ALIGN <integer> directive
  • Added support for logical XOR (IF A XOR B THEN...)
  • Added support for checking out of memory in runtime (--debug-memory)
  • Added support for checking BREAK in runtime (--enable-break)
  • Added support for Subscript Out of Range in runtime (--debug-array)
  • Added support for --strict-boolean (0 or 1) values
  • Added print64() by Britlion library routine, and Mojon Twins FourSpriter version (more to come).
  • Fixed a bug in RANDOMIZE which wasn't updating the seed correctly.
  • Fixed a pragma typo in POS.bas library which lead to errors.
  • ! Fixed a bug in STR$, VAL, CHR$ and CODE which could crash the program.
  • ! Fixed a bug in string comparison
  • ! Fixed 2 more bugs in the peephole optimizer (-O3) which could crash the program.
  • ! Fixed some syntax bugs. PI() and RND() are now allowed.
    Calling functions with no parenthesis is allowed too.
  • ! Fixed a parser bug in which empty WHILE / DO .. LOOP loops crashed the compiler. Fixed.
  • ! Array access has been optimized for speed. Now faster.
  • ! For loops have been slightly optimized.
  • ! MEM_FREE heap routine has been slightly optimized.
  • The print* intermediate code instructions have been removed and converted to routines.
  • Lot of code refactoring, and moved to the standard trunk/tag/branches SVN repository scheme.
  • String expressions are now standardized (like any other data type).
  • TDD: Begin to create tests cases for the compiler.

v1.2.5

Assembler:
  • ! Under some pathological cases, compiling or assembling will last for exponential time (minutes to hours!), due to a possible bug/misuse of a regular expression. Fixed. Now it takes linear time.
  • Added support for IXh, IXl, IYh, IYl registers.
  • Added support for DEFS macro. Now DEFS n, B creates a block of n times byte B
  • ! Instructions LD A, R and LD R, A where also missing. Fixed.
Compiler
  • ! The optimizer -O2 was broken, and contained 3 bugs. Fixed.
  • ! The optimizer -O3 was broken, and contained more than 15 bugs. It's been almost completely rewritten.
    Fixed. Now it even tries to optimize ASM users code.
  • ! The @operator was broken under some circumstances (array accesses and variables). Fixed.
  • ! The memory heap was also broken almost always when using any string in the program (INKEY$, STR$, CHR$, $ variables). Fixed.
  • ! Signed LONG division was wrong for positive divisors. Fixed.
  • ! Byte comparison operators < > = >= <= were sometimes bugged. Fixed.
  • ! using MOD with Fixed type was unsupported. Fixed. Now MOD used Fixed type.
  • ! INT(Fixed) was wrong. Fixed. ! Temporary attributes BOLD and ITALIC were disabled. Now they are back.

v1.2.4

  • Added SAVE/LOAD/VERIFY CODE/SCREEN$ capabilities (uses ROM routines)
  • Fixed a bug in @ operand which produced a memory leak

v1.2.3

  • ! CHR$ and STR$ might not use the HEAP without initializing it first, leading to memory corruption. Fixed. Thanks to Britlion.
  • HEAP size can now be set with a command line parameter.

v1.2.2

  • ! DIM with array base was buggy. Fixed.
  • ! INK 8 and PAPER 8 were being ignored. Now they work.

v1.2.0

  • ! DIM f% = <value> was not working. Now it does.
  • ! HEAP memory init routine slightly improved. Also removed a possible bug of memory corruption reported by Britlion. (Thanks)
  • New memory scheme: Now variables and heap zone are moved to the end of the memory (high area). This should make easier to implement data bank switching on 128K machines. It also allows to SAVE all data memory in a single block. This is a feature to be implemented in near-future releases.
  • ! Undeclared local variables caused a compiler error. They should just compile (like global ones do).
  • ! String variables used in string slices where sometimes optimized (ignored).
  • ! ELSEIF constructions were not being compiled correctly.

v1.1.9

  • ! Fixed a bug for constant string slicing, so "0909"(A TO B) now works. Thanks to Britlion.
  • ! Expanded grammar to allow something like "0909"(f) or "0909"() which are also allowed in Sinclair Basic. Thanks to Britlion.
  • ! Using expressions like "0909"(f) (like above) might corrupt the HEAP memory, leading to a program crash. Fixed. Thanks, Britlion :-)
  • ! Fixed a bug in typecast from signed integers to float which sometimes overflowed leading to wrong results.

v1.1.8

  • ! % suffix was being ignored. Fixed.
  • ! Global string variables were not optimized unless declared with $ suffix. Fixed.

v1.1.7

  • ! BOLD and ITALIC could not be used as permanent attributes, only as temporary ones. Now they are allowed as permanent too.
  • Some more syntax compatibility with Sinclair BASIC. Expressions like F$(5) and PRINT ;;; are now allowed.
  • ! Single PRINT sentences were not working (they should print a newline).
  • Minor grammar corrections.
  • ! Using a suffix like $ in a function declaration was being ignored. Now it's taken into account.
  • Added support for PRINT , (thanks to Britlion and LCD for the suggestions and bug detection)
  • Fixed a potential optimization bug for SHR and SHL

v1.1.6

  • ! Fixed many optimization bugs (almost five). Thanks to LCD
  • ! Fixed ChangeLog file
  • Internal refactored code (somewhat)

v1.1.5

  • Added the ELSEIF construct to the IF THEN ELSE sentence
  • Added more optimizations in some jumps
  • Added the USR function (both for Strings and Floats)
  • Optimized some print string generated code (now it's smaller)

v1.1.4

  • The peephole optimizer has been enabled and seems to be working reasonably well.
  • ! When a DIV BY ZERO error occurs with floating point numbers the program crashes and resets the computer. This behaviour has been fixed and now returns 0 value and sets the error code 6 (Number Too big) in the ERR_NR system variable.
  • Refactorization of both the assembler and compiler so they now shared the OPTIONS storage in a better way (still to be finished). This makes easier to program future compiler options. Now also --debug flag is additive, showing more verbosity the more it is used.
  • Memory optimization: PRINT routine (which is about 1K size) is not included if not USED.

v1.1.2

  • ! Fixed a bug in negative constant integer typecasting (Thanks to LCD at WoS for reporting it! ;-)). It was causing decremental FOR..NEXT to fail.
  • ! Scientific notation numbers (e.g. 2e10) were not correctly parsed. Fixed. Thanks again to LCD. ;-)
  • Added TAB compatibility for the PRINT command (both as a command and as a CHR$ control character).
  • PRINT code optimized for size, maintaining speed.

v1.1.1

  • ! Fixed a bug in CONTINUE DO which was not being correctly compiled
  • PRINT routines were included even when neither PRINT nor drawing primitives were used. Optimized.
  • ! Fixed a lot of syntax error checks with array operations.
  • ! Fixed array dimension checking
  • Expanded syntax: Direct array assignation a = b (being a and b arrays of the same type an size)
  • ! Fixes an error exception on syntax error for array subscripting.
  • Changed alloc functions to match names of that of FreeBASIC ones.
  • Using a wrong sigil in array declaration is now forbidden.
  • Better sigils (suffixes) types managements at DIM declarations.
  • Lot of internal source code refactoring
  • DIM r AT @a(k0, k1, ...) is allowed (being k0, k1, ... constants) +! Fixed a bug for local variables and parameters when the offset is very large (> 128)
  • Enabled the --sinclair cmdline flag for automatic sinclair libraries inclusion
  • Added SetAttr() routine which changes the attribute of screen coordinate at (I, J) with the given color attr value.
  • ! Fixed buggy modu16 and modi16 IC implementation that was not compiling correctly
  • Output asm code is now slightly optimized (for speed an memory)
  • ! Fixed a bug in integer parameters (16 and 32 bits)
  • ! Fixed a compiler crash when using arrays of Fixed Point numbers

v1.1.0

  • SCREEN$ coordinated were swapped. Fixed.
  • DIM .. AT was not correctly working with local vars nor params. Fixed.
  • Added BOLD "attribute". PRINT BOLD 1; "Hello"
  • Added ITALIC "attribute". PRINT ITALIC 1; "Hello"
  • Added malloc, free and realloc functions to work with the heap
  • Some code rearrangement
  • The IFDEF directive was not working in the preprocessor. Fixed.

v1.0.9

  • Fixed a bug which could crash the program if no memory
  • Added better error handling for parameter declaration
  • Added UCase function
  • Added Lcase and fixed ucase to be case insensitive
  • Added MultiKeys function (similar to that of FreeBASIC) so multiple keys can be checked at once
  • Added GetKeyScanCodes
  • Added HEX and HEX16 functions to return HEXadecimal string representation of numbers
  • Fixed a bug when a$(n TO) was specified
  • ! Optimization: Remove unnecessary jumps at function returns.
  • ! store16 IC instruction now generates a more efficient backend (Z80 ASM) code.
  • Added alias for arrays. Now you can declare:
    DIM a(10)
    DIM c at @a
    
  • ! Better code generation for store32 and storef backend
  • ! Optimized constant array assignation as a direct store.
  • ! Added constant array Read access optimizations