The end goal was to fix erroneous non-constant initializer errors for
the following (ie, nested initializer blocks):
typedef struct { int x; int y; } Point;
typedef struct { int width; int height; } Extent;
typedef struct Rect_s { Point offset; Extent extent; } Rect;
Rect makeRect (int xpos, int ypos, int xlen, int ylen)
{
Rect rect = {{xpos, ypos}, {xlen, ylen}};
return rect;
}
However, it turned out that nested initializer blocks for local
variables did not work at all in that the relocations were lost because
fake defs were being created for the generated instructions.
Thus, instead of creating fake defs, simply record the offset relative
to the base def, the type, and the basic type initializer expression,
then generate instructions that all refer to the correct def but with a
relative offset.
Other than using the new element system, static initializers are largely
unaffected.
It proved to be too fragile in its current implementation. It broke
pointers to incomplete structs and switch enum checking, and getting it
to work for other things was overly invasive. I still want the encoding,
but need to come up with something more robust.a
Attempting to define a variable with an incomplete type is an error, and
results in a default size 1 of allocated, but I forgot to set default
alignment when implementing alignment.
This is for modern code. Traditional code still treats initialized
globals as constant and nosave. This will make a bit of a mess of
modern code that expects traditional behavior.
Rather than prefixing free_ to the supplied name, suffix _freelist to the
supplied name. The biggest advantage of this is it allows the free-list to
be a structure member. It also cleans up the name-space a little.
The current implementation probably needs more work, but for the case where
I needed it, it does the job.
grid.r💯 vector size = {range, range, 0};
0115 store.f range, size
0116 store.f range, [$2ac]
0117 store.f .zero, [$2ad]
Also move the ALLOC/FREE macros from qfcc.h to QF/alloc.h (needed to for
set.c).
Both modules are more generally useful than just for qfcc (eg, set
builtins for ruamoko).
With this, alias defs become singletons based on the def they alias and the
type and offset of the alias. Thus, the removal of the free_def call in
emit.c.
alias_def now always creates an offset def (though the usual case has an
offset of 0). The if the alias escapes the bounds of the base def, an
internal error will be generated.
It really doesn't seem wise to allow the compiler to do so as it would
overwrite unrelated defs. The only time such a thing is valid is the return
statement (silly vm design), and that's read-only.
With the intoduction of the statement type enum came a prefix clash. As
"st" makes sense for "statement type", I decided that "storage class"
should be "sc". Although there haven't been any problems as of yet, I
decided it would be a good idea to clean up the clash now. It also helps
avoid confusion (I was a bit surprised after working with st_assign etc to
be reminded of st_extern etc).
It is necessary to know if a def is a function parameter so it can be
treated as initialized by the flow analyzer. The support for the flag in
object files is, at this stage, purely for debugging purposes.
Bill Currie