…instantiations (C/C++ backend)
AFAIK, #22802 expanded `noinit`'s utility by allowing the pragma to be
attached to types (thanks @jmgomez !).
I suggest broadening the scope a bit further: try to avoid `nimZeroMem`s
on a type level beyond imported C/C++ types[^1], saving us from
annotating the type instantiations with `noinit`.
If this change is deemed acceptable, I will also adjust the docs, of
course.
Adding tests for this change seems a bit problematic, as the effect of
this type annotation will be to work with uninitialized memory, which
*might* match 0 patterns.
[^1]: "complex value types" as already defined here:
94c5996877/compiler/cgen.nim (L470-L471)
the function name extension encoded by paths could be useful for
debugging where the function is from
Before:
```js
function newSeq_33556909(len_33556911)
```
After:
```js
function newSeq__system_u2477(len_p0)
```
**TODO**
- [x] fixes changelog
With the new option `nimPreviewVtables`, `methods` are confined in the
same module where the type of the first parameter is defined
- [x] make it opt in after CI checks its feasibility
## In the following-up PRs
- [ ] in the following PRs, refactor code into a more efficient one
- [ ] cpp needs special treatments since it cannot embed array in light
of the preceding limits: ref
https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/20977#discussion_r1035528927; we
can support cpp backends with vtable implementations later on the
comprise that uses indirect vtable access
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Co-authored-by: Andreas Rumpf <rumpf_a@web.de>
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.
* [C++] Member pragma RFC #530
rebase devel
* changes the test so `echo` is not used before Nim is init
* rebase devel
* fixes Error: use explicit initialization of X for clarity [Uninit]
* alternative to #22219; adds a pointer wrapper for T destructor
* clean up and add comments
* Update compiler/ccgtypes.nim
* tidy up
* fixes comments
* fixes cpp
* fixes cpp
* WIP: removal of seq spam in generated C/C++ output and Module.typeStack cleanup
* removal of seq spam in generated C/C++ output and Module.typeStack cleanup
* implements: [C++] constructor pragma improvement (fix#21921)
t
* fix test so it doesnt use echo in globals
* Update compiler/ccgtypes.nim
* Update lib/std/private/dragonbox.nim
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Co-authored-by: Andreas Rumpf <rumpf_a@web.de>
* introduces virtual pragma, modifies proc def, prevents proc decl
* marks virtual procs as infix
* forward declare vfuncs inside the typedef
* adds naked callConv to virtual
* virtual proc error if not defined in the same top level scope as the type
* first param is now this. extracts genvirtualheaderproc
* WIP syntax
* supports obj. Removes the need for the prefix
* parameter count starts as this. Cleanup
* clean up
* sem tests
* adds integration tests
* uses constraint to store the virtual content
* introduces genVirtualProcParams
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Co-authored-by: Andreas Rumpf <rumpf_a@web.de>
