Release 0.5.5

Changes / improvements

• Disallow multiple _ in a row in digits, e.g. 1__000.
• Added @link attribute.
• New 'linker' build option.
• "linker" project setting updated, "system-linker" removed.

Fixes

• Struct/union members now correctly rejects members without storage size #1147.
• math::pow will now correctly promote integer arguments.
• Pointer difference would fail where alignment != size (structs etc) #1150
• Fixed array calculation for npot2 vectors.
• $$memcpy_inline and $$memset_inline fixed.
• .$Type = ... and .$foo = ... now works #1156.
• int.min incorrect behaviour #1154.
• Bitstruct cast to other bitstruct by way of underlying type would fail #1159.
• Bug in time.add_seconds #1162.
• Remove initial './' in Win32 and convert '/' to '' for paths when running a binary.
• 'output' directory for projects was incorrect in templates.
• Regression: no stacktrace.
• For MacOS, running with higher optimization would crash as initializers were removed.
• compile-run and run now returns the proper return code.
• Allow String constants -> ichar*, and allow integer pointers to explicitly convert between unsigned signed.
• Bug in unaligned return value lowering for Aarch64.

Stdlib changes

• Added new_aligned and alloc_aligned functions to prevent accidental under-alignment when allocating simd.
• Fixes to realloc of aligned allocations
• Use native Windows calls on aligned allocations on Windows.
• mem::copy_inline, mem::clear_inline and mem::set_inline added.
• mem::copy / clear / set no longer has an $inline attribute.
• Native aligned libc malloc on Windows & POSIX.
• Simplification of the allocator interface.
• CoreFoundation only linked on MacOS when used.