In the end, it does simplify things a lot, though it helped get function
pointers working at least a bit (they're not quite the same as C yet,
but I think that's mostly that functions can be struct fields).
They should now work in generic contexts, but the pressing need to work
on arrays was due to constant expressions for element counts breaking.
As a side effect, function pointers are now a thing (and seem to work
like they do in C)
Because the symbol tables for generic functions are ephemeral (as such),
they need to be easily removed from the scope chain, it's easiest if
definitions are never added to them (instead, they get added to the
parent symbol table). This keeps handling of function declarations or
definitions and their parameter scopes simple as the function gets put
in the global scope still, and the parameter scope simply gets
reconnected to the global scope (really, the generic scope's parent)
when the parameter scope is popped within a generic scope.
Simple functions now get to the code-gen phase (where they fail since
it's the wrong for other reasons). Parameter types aren't right for
spir-v yet as non-const params need to be references.
I don't know why I thought it was a good idea to make sy_var context
dependent. Renaming sy_var to sy_def makes it a little easier to know to
use the def field, too.
The unification of qc and c function symbol handling made it important
that the new symbol was a proper duplicate (minus being in a table) of
the old symbol. This fixes redeclared prototypes (especially for
qc-style functions, not encountered for c-style). Complete with unit
test :)
The expression grammar has been tidied up and some basic checks are made
of parameters to the type functions. Also, type parameters are looked up
so parsing now works properly. However, the type parameters are not used
correctly, so function generation doesn't work.
There were a few places where some const-casts were needed, but they're
localized to code that's supposed to manipulate types (but I do want to
come up with something to clean that up).
Or at least mostly so (there are a few casts). This doesn't fix the
motor bug, but I've wanted to do this for over twenty years and at least
I know what's not causing the bug. However, disabling fold_constants in
expr_algebra.c does "fix" things, so it's still a good place to look.
Finally, that little e. is cleaned up. convert_name was a bit of a pain
(in that it relied on modifying the expression rather than returning a
new one, or more that such behavior was relied on).
If a symbol is not found in the table and a callback is provided, the
callback will be used to check for a valid procedural symbol before
moving on to the next table in the chain. This allows for both tight
scoping of the procedural symbols and caching.
I had messed up the handling of declarators for combinations of pointer,
function, and array: the pointer would get lost (and presumably arrays
of functions etc). I think I had gotten confused and thought things were
a tree rather than a simple list, but Holub set me straight once again
(I've never regretted getting that book). Once I understood that, it was
just a matter of finding all the places that needed to be fixed. Nicely,
most of the duplicated code has been refactored and should be easier to
debug in the future.
The symtab code itself cares only about global/not global for the size
of the hash table, but other code can use the symtab type for various
checks (eg, parameter shadowing).
Along with QuakeC's, of course. This fixes type typeredef2 test (a lot
of work for one little syntax error). Unfortunately, it came at the cost
of requiring `>>` in front of state expressions on C-style functions
(QuakeC-style functions are unaffected). Also, there are now two
shift/reduce conflicts with structs and unions (but these same conflicts
are in gcc 3.4).
This has highlighted the need for having the equivalent of the
expression tree for the declaration system as there are now several
hacks to deal with the separation of types and declarators. But that's a
job for another week.
The grammar constructs for declarations come from gcc 3.4's parser (I
think it's the last version of gcc that used bison. Also, 3.4 is still
GPL 2, so no chance of an issue there).
Most were pretty easy and fairly logical, but gib's regex was a bit of a
pain until I figured out the real problem was the conditional
assignments.
However, libs/gamecode/test/test-conv4 fails when optimizing due to gcc
using vcvttps2dq (which is nice, actually) for vector forms, but not the
single equivalent other times. I haven't decided what to do with the
test (I might abandon it as it does seem to be UD).
There's still some cleanup to do, but everything seems to be working
nicely: `make -j` works, `make distcheck` passes. There is probably
plenty of bitrot in the package directories (RPM, debian), though.
The vc project files have been removed since those versions are way out
of date and quakeforge is pretty much dependent on gcc now anyway.
Most of the old Makefile.am files are now Makemodule.am. This should
allow for new Makefile.am files that allow local building (to be added
on an as-needed bases). The current remaining Makefile.am files are for
standalone sub-projects.a
The installable bins are currently built in the top-level build
directory. This may change if the clutter gets to be too much.
While this does make a noticeable difference in build times, the main
reason for the switch was to take care of the growing dependency issues:
now it's possible to build tools for code generation (eg, using qfcc and
ruamoko programs for code-gen).
They take a pointer to a free-list used for hashlinks so the hashlink
pools can be per-thread. However, hash tables that are not updated are
always thread-safe, so this affects only updates. progs_t has been set
up such that it is easy for multiple progs within one thread can share
hashlinks.
While expression symbols worked for what they are, they weren't so good
for ivar access because every ivar of a class (and its super classes)
would be accessed at method scope creation, generating spurious access
errors if any were private. That is, when the access checks worked at
all.
I don't remember what the goal was (stopped working on it eight months
ago), but some possibilities include:
- better handling of nil (have trouble with assigning into struts)
- automatic forward declarations ala C# and jai (I was watching vids
about jai at the time)
- something for pascal
- simply that the default symbol type should not be var (in which case,
goal accomplished)
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.
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 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).
