Re: WARNING! New experimental feature in the development version!

[Brian G <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/25/26 08:14, Benoît Minisini wrote:
> 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,
Looking at the new code you added,

Would it now be possible to make things such as public structures into a 
now global asset, where if defined once, can be accessed anywhere within 
the app?

looks like the gbc_info interface may allow that type of 
extension/globalization. such that one would not have to copy paste 
structures into each file they are used in and not have to incur the 
overhead of using a class interface to make they global.

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~~~~ Brian

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