diku-dk/futhark: 0.20.1

Published August 28, 2021 | Version v0.20.1

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Added

The #[trace] and #[break] attributes now replace the trace and break functions (although they are still present in slightly-reduced but compatible form).
The #[opaque] attribute replaces the opaque function, which is now deprecated.
Tracing now works in compiled code, albeit with several caveats (mainly, it does not work for code running on the GPU).
New wasm and wasm-multicore backends by Philip Lassen. Still very experimental; do not expect API stability.
New intrinsic type f16, along with a prelude module f16. Implemented with hardware support where it is available, and with f32-based emulation where it is not.
Sometimes slightly more informative error message when input of the wrong type is passed to a test program.

Removed Changed

The ! function in the integer modules is now called not.
! is now builtin syntax. You can no longer define a function called !. It is extremely unlikely this affects you. This removes the last special-casing of prefix operators.
A prefix operator section (i.e. (!)) is no longer permitted (and it never was according to the grammar).
The offset parameter for the "raw" array creation functions in the C API is now int64_t instead of int.

Fixed

i64.abs was wrong for arguments that did not fit in an i32.
Some f32 operations (**, abs, max) would be done in double precision on the CUDA backend.
Yet another defunctorisation bug (#1397).
The clz function would sometimes exhibit undefined behaviour in CPU code (#1415).
Operator priority of prefix - was wrong - it is now the same as ! (#1419).
futhark hash is now invariant to source location as well as stable across OS/compiler/library versions.
futhark literate is now much better at avoiding unnecessary recalculation.
Fixed a hole in size type checking that would usually lead to compiler crashes (#1435).
Underscores now allowed in numeric literals in test data (#1440).
The cuda backend did not use single-pass segmented scans as intended. Now it does.

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