Theoretical Benefits / Plans:
- Typed assembler-like language.
- Allows for a CPS transformation.
- Can replace the existing C backend by a new C backend.
- Can replace the VM.
- Can do more effective "not nil" checking and static array bounds
checking.
- Can be used instead of the DFA.
- Easily translatable to LLVM.
- Reasonably easy to produce native code from.
- Tiny memory consumption. No pointers, no cry.
**In very early stages of development.**
Todo:
- [x] Map Nim types to IR types.
- [ ] Map Nim AST to IR instructions:
- [x] Map bitsets to bitops.
- [ ] Implement string cases.
- [ ] Implement range and index checks.
- [x] Implement `default(T)` builtin.
- [x] Implement multi string concat.
- [ ] Write some analysis passes.
- [ ] Write a backend.
- [x] Integrate into the compilation pipeline.
* refactoring in preparation for better, simpler name mangling that works with IC flawlessly
* use new disamb field
* see if this makes tests green
* make tests green again
* IC: renamed to_packed_ast module to ic module
* IC: don't store the --forceBuild flag, makes it easier to test
* IC: enable hello world test
* Codegen: refactorings for IC; changed the name mangling algorithm
* fixed the HCR regressions
* life is too short for HCR
* tconvexhull is now allowed to use deepCopy
* IC exposed a stdlib bug, required a refactoring
* codegen: code cleanups
* IC: even if a module is outdated, its dependencies might come from disk
* IC: progress
* IC: better name mangling, module IDs are not stable
* IC: another refactoring helping with --ic:on --gc:arc
* disable arraymancer on Windows for the time being
* disable arraymancer altogether
* IC: make basic test work with 'nim cpp'
* IC: progress on --ic:on --gc:arc
* wip; name mangling for type info
* IC: dead code elimination pass
* preparations for a different codegen strategy
* added documentation to the newly written code
* IC: backend code
* IC: backend adjustments
* optimized the compiler a bit
* IC: yet another massive refactoring
* fixes regressions
* cleanups
* reworked ID handling
* the packed AST now has its own ID mechanism
* basic serialization code works
* extract rodfiles to its own module
* rodfiles: store and compare configs
* rodfiles: store dependencies
* store config at the end
* precise dependency tracking
* dependency tracking for rodfiles
* completed loading of PSym, PType, etc
* removed dead code
* bugfix: do not realloc seqs when taking addr into an element
* make IC opt-in for now
* makes tcompilerapi green again
* final cleanups
Co-authored-by: Andy Davidoff <github@andy.disruptek.com>
* refactoring: idents don't need inheritance
* refactoring: adding an IdGenerator (part 1)
* refactoring: adding an IdGenerator (part 2)
* refactoring: adding an IdGenerator (part 3)
* refactoring: adding an IdGenerator (part 4)
* refactoring: adding an IdGenerator (part 5)
* refactoring: adding an IdGenerator (part 5)
* IdGenerator must be a ref type; hello world works again
* make bootstrapping work again
* progress: add back the 'exactReplica' ideas
* added back the missing exactReplica hacks
* make tcompilerapi work again
* make important packages green
* attempt to fix the build for 32 bit machines (probably need a better solution here)
* drnim: tiny progress
* refactoring complete
* drnim: prove .ensures annotations
* Moved code around to avoid code duplication
* drnim: first implementation of the 'old' property
* drnim: be precise about the assignment statement
* first implementation of --assumeUnique
* progress on forall/exists handling
* mark user defined destructors with sfOverriden to simplify the logic
* refactoring in preparation to merge liftings and generic instantiations for destructors
* ast: introduce nkHiddenTryStmt for destructor generation in order to be able to optimize better the code later on
* renamed 'patterns' switch to 'trmacros' as it was totally misleading before
* destructors: introduce tfCheckedForDestructor flag in preparation of strict =destroy checking
* test for invalid/too late destructor introductions
* liftdestructors: make code robust for nimsuggest
* --newruntime works for hello world again
* newruntime: code generation for closures
* Field checks for JS backend
* Clean nkCall nodes with no arguments
Generating a nkEmpty in place of no arguments makes no sense form the
AST point of view and also trips up the VM codegen.
* Field checks for VM backend
* Test case for #6612
This patchset fixes#6612
* Add test case for LHS double evaluation
* Prevent LHS double-eval for JS backend
* Prevent double evaluation in VM backend
