Cmajor 5.0.0 for Windows x64

Release notes

• Bug fix: compile error 'class not bound' resolved

• Bug fix: sorting algorithm in the System.Base library reimplemented

• Bug fix: one bug in the red-black tree in the System.Base library fixed

• XML serialization reimplemented.

• [nodiscard] attribute: when the return value of a function with [nodiscard] attribute is discarded, the compiler issues a warning.

• Error handling scheme changed: exceptions are no longer supported. Now error handling is based on using the Result template. The result template represents either a valid function return value of type T or an error result. This change is likely to break existing code: many APIs especially in the System.IO and System.Windows namespaces are changed to return Result of type T instead of T or Result of type bool instead of void.

• Two new backends and two new compilers: masmcmc and cmcmc:

  • These compilers generate x64 assembly code.
  • They use MSBuild to compile assembly code to object code, to generate libraries and to link programs.
  • The difference between them is that the MASM backend compiler masmcmc is written in C++ while the CM/MASM backend compiler cmcmc is written in Cmajor.
  • The source code of the cmcmc is included in the cmajor/projects/tools/compiler directory.

• auto: If a local variable is declared to have type 'auto', the compiler deduces its type from its initializer.

• The mapped type of a map and the mapped type of a hashmap can be a UniquePtr or other move-only type.

• Compile error diagnostics improved.