This articles was published on 2013-02-08
What happened on the mruby front in January 2013?
The main item this time was again the build system. CMake was removed as a building choice after the new Rake system could handle nicely cross-compilation via toolchain files. Lots of work went into customisation of the build options. It is possible now to only build specific binaries or just the main library. There is now also an extensive documentation of the (cross-)compilation process.
Narihiro Nakamura had a great new year gift in the beginning of January 2013. He wrote a generational garbage collector which is now by default activated. In case you want to use the incremental GC mode you have to set:
GC.generational_mode = false
I was a bit surprised seeing that the C function dump option of mrbc was removed by Yuichiro MASUI. I described this function some month back in Five ways to execute mruby but this option was never really used by anyone and also it was a bit buggy. So now it is more like “Four ways to execute mruby” :-)
Masamitsu MURASE fixed some parts of the Range implementation so that the initialisation is now working.
skandhas implemented method_defined?.
Some left-overs were removed like unused functions, macros and constants.
Add ability to pass parameters from mrbgem.rake spec into test scripts.
Remove double quote for MRUBY_XXX in libmruby.flags.mak
Change the way that the DISABLE_GEMS flag is set.
Correct conf.gem directory
Added .lib extension for library file on VS2012
Fix some styling of the documentation
Modify code blocks
Fixed markdown of code in mrbgems/README.md
load MRUBY_CONFIG script after ‘build_config.rb’
remove bin/command first to avoid text file busy
Fixed mrbc file ext on host
Moved mrbgems examples
Let’s use more ruby
Listing gems vertically
Remove noisy build message quotes
Add flags_after_libraries
Add build summary at the end of a build.
Makefile: add all to test dependency
Remove reverse
Refine pretty-print indenting
Fix pretty-print test miss
Refine pretty printing
Removed ext
Added finalizer of mrbgems
Add C++/Objective-C init in toolchains
Added “Unknown toolchain/gem” error message
Added flags_before_libraries to linker
Changed flags name in libmruby.flags.mak
vs2012 toolchain: various fixes
Beautify the output of rake
Set default rake to not verbose
make minirake respect verbose and set verbose to false by default
Fixed 1.8 compatibilitywq
fix build faild on Cygwin Environment
Reduce line length
Fix Visual Studio Toolchain
Export build flags to lib/libmruby.flags.mak
Beautify the graphs in the compilation documentation
Add diagram for new build process
build_config gets more flexibility
Modify documentation for new build process
Improved build scripts and config files
silence clang warning
note about $MRUBY_CONFIG.
build gems if build_config.rb is modified.
should be flatten.
Fixed mrbtest result numbers
Removed gem libraries in mrbc
remove compiler warnings.
Test ruby library should depend on host’s mrbc, not its own mrbc
Make conf.bins work for cross compiled deps as well as the host.
Added conf.bins for defining bulding binaries
Added s flag to ar command
Added gem :github option
Run mrbgems test run on isolate mrb_state each rb file.
Remove unused rules in .gitignore and Makefile
Removed XCode build
Added cxx/objc/asmflags in mrbgems. Sorry, I forgot it
Add mruby_ldflags to mrbtest
Fix mrbgem options 689#issuecomment-11911431
Fixed build dependency
Add mruby_ldflags when tools/mruby and tools/mrbc link archive files
Changed objccflags to objcflags Added cxxflags, objcflags, asmflags to mrbgem.rake Support .cxx and .cc as C++ source in mrbgems
Fix an unnecessary space
Fixed pure ruby mrbgems can’t compile and fixed build script wrong variable name
Add documentation for compilation process
Fix documentation for mrbgems
Adapter mrbgems documentation to rake system
Rebuild CRuby based building script without Makefile
mrb_field_write_barrier paints also gray in the major collector. These objects will be traversed after a minor collect cycle.
Doesn’t clear black of all marked objects in major collections. Since the minor collector doesn’t need to mark these objects, the worst-case pause time is reduced.
Add field_write_barrier when an method is defined.
Clear all old flags, even if we change the gc mode during the major gc.
Compact flags for GC
add test cases for GC API
Skip sweeping old slots which don’t contain any young object.
gc.c: Enable DEBUG(x) if GC_DEBUG is defined. vm.c: Enable DEBUG(x) if VM_DEBUG is defined.
Add the generational gc
These places need the write barrier
Removed mrbc -C option what’s C function dump. and TAB to space
Add check for using cdump with DISABLE_STDIO option.
Enable test for `Range#initialize`.
Initialize Range->edges after cheking `beg` and `end` to prevent segmentation fault.
Modify `Range#initialize` to accept optional `exclusive` argument.
Initialize edges of RRange.
add test for Module#method_defined?
add mrb_mod_method_defined
Changed variable $test_args to constant TEST_ARGS
rename mrb_ary_alen to mrb_ary_len; close #781
Fixed MRB_INT64 warning
removed unused mrb_check_funcall
removed unused mrb_funcargv_t
Remove unused define and commented out code.
Removed mistake
more aggressive code elimination for NODE_DOT{2,3}
eliminate unused hash expression more aggresively
eliminate unused array expression more aggresively
supress cast warning on C++.
Remove unused function parametes.
Remove API mrb_str_catf().
Removed tests that look outdated. The mrb_compile_string they use is gone now.
Fixes a number of “comparison between signed and unsigned” warnings.
Remove multiple definition of RuntimeError.
remove mrb_str_each_line form src/string.c
Remove redundant null checks.
remove MRUBY_VERSION for the time being; close #700
Remove DEBUG macro definitions.
Bug fix.
Protect irep of ensure.
Make sure quotes and escapes get escaped.
Fixed minor typo.
defined printf macro for mrb_int
inspecting anonymous class should not SEGV; close #780
Fixed mistake
zero initialize hex buffers; close 768
Add test for `undef` and `alias`.
Modify handling of NODE_UNDEF to accept multiple arguments.
Add a test for quoted non-expanded string literal.
Modify handling of Quoted non-expanded literal strings.
Add test for issue #750.
Modify handling of OP_ENTER.
Modify handling of `bodystmt`.
fixed wrong loop termination introduced by 79d38c4
save/restore arena index in mirb; close #740
check if array expands in each block
check if array shrinks in each block
Fix disappearance of command_call in case of statement without parentheses.
wrong condiiton in too many symbols check; #close #731
use the new specifier b instead of o
include/mruby/cdump.h: Add new error codes. src/cdump.h: Use error codes defined in mruby/cdump.h.
Use MRB_DUMP_OK instead of 0.
change 2012 to 2013
fix typos
add new specifier “b” (boolean) for mrb_get_args()
add mrb_check_hash_type
jump address error when value taken from if statement without else clause; close #712
Add a comment: the usage of MRB_DUMP_GENERAL_FAILURE.
Fix error handlings.
Extract each expresion in “if” statements. It is for maintainability.
Export mrb_ary_clear in array.h
`unless` without `else` should return nil if the condition is true.
Modify NODE_IF handling.