why ?
- We already have an emit that does the same thing
- The name asm itself is a bit confusing, you might think it's an alias
for asm.js or something else.
- The asm keyword is used differently on different compiler targets (it
makes it inexpressive).
- Does anyone (other than some compiler libraries) use asm instead of
emit ? If yes, it's a bit strange to use asm somewhere and emit
somewhere. By making the asm keyword for js target deprecated, there
would be even less use of the asm keyword for js target, reducing the
amount of confusion.
- New users might accidentally use a non-universal approach via the asm
keyword instead of emit, and then when they learn about asm, try to
figure out what the differences are.
see https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/10821
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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.
* fix =#13790 ptr char (+friends) should not implicitly convert to cstring
* Apply suggestions from code review
* first round; compiles on windows
* nimPreviewSlimSystem
* conversion is unsafe, cast needed
* fixes more tests
* fixes asyncnet
* another try another error
* last one
* true
* one more
* why bugs didn't show at once
* add `nimPreviewCstringConversion` switch
* typo
* fixes ptr to cstring warnings[backport]
* add fixes
Co-authored-by: xflywind <43030857+xflywind@users.noreply.github.com>
