WARNING! New experimental feature in the development version!

[Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I have just pushed a new experimental feature: two pass compilation.

This new compiler feature allows to detect unknown symbols.

I added an option for that in the compiler, and a corresponding button 
in the project property in the IDE.

The compiler flag for using two pass is '-p'.

Beware that this is experimental, and that even if the option is not 
activated, there may be bugs that make the compilation fail, or worse 
make the interpreter crash because of a bug in the compiler.

So be careful, save your projects, and tell me immediately if you 
encounter any bug or crash.

As written in the window of the development version of the IDE, "USE AT 
YOUR OWN RISK!".

This feature is not fully finished. At the moment it cannot detect 
symbols from classes whose name is not explicitly written in the code.

For example, "A.B.C" is not checked if the class of "A.B" is not 
declared anywhere.

All that is based on the following process:

- Each component and library used by the project is loaded in the first 
pass.

- An information file is generated for each project class in the '.desc' 
directory.

- These files are loaded on demand during the second pass (the real 
compilation).

At the moment, only unknown symbols are detected. But in the future, 
more errors may be detected: Bad number of arguments in a method call, 
suspicious type conversion... If you have any idea about that tell me.

I apologize in advance for any problem you will encounter.

Best regards,

--
Benoît Minisini.