Using a struct with function pointers instead of switching on an enum
makes it much easier to add languages and, more importantly,
sub-languages like glsl's shader stage variants.
I don't know why I didn't apply the same ideas as in methoddef, maybe I
just forgot. I'm pretty sure I did methodproto first, or maybe cleaned
up methoddef much later then didn't think of methodproto. Still, the
grammar is much nicer to read now.
Arrays of functions or functions that return arrays or functions aren't
valid. While working on how to get generics in properly, I finally
understood what's going on with function types in the specifier, and I
think I'll be able to sort out function pointers vs prototypes, too.
Generic qc-style prototypes don't work but both c and qc style
definitions get as far as trying to build the builtin function. It
starting to look like I need to rework function handling, which isn't
all that surprising as it hasn't changed much over 22 years.
Most of them were noise from the type const correctness pass, but the
qc field function handling was always dubious (though in practice safe
due to how the type was built, but...). The remaining casts outside of
type.c need some thought.
That is, `@generic(...) { ... };`, which is handy for bulk declarations
(such as for glsl). This proved to be a lot harder than expected, I
suspect handling of specifiers needs a lot of work.
I never did like all those cryptic parameters, especially when they were
just 0 and 1. Now the individual specifier creation functions take only
those parameters they need (if any) and there's no possibility of
conflicting parameters. Also, it's clearer what the new specifier does.
This fits in nicely with the rest of the generic type system and makes
it a little more useful. The idea is it will take a return type (already
does since type functions always require a parameter at this stage) and
a parameter list (not implemented yet). It currently resolves to the
basic void (...) function type for QC.
It turns out they're not needed as the difficulty of quakec function
declarations (function fields) is taken care of by qc_function_spec.
Also, they made it difficult to think about function declarations.
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.
The semantics are only partially implemented (generic types not yet
generated), but the generic scope for function declarations seems to be
working as intended in that it gets inserted in the scope chain and
removed at the end of the declaration.
The end goal is to allow generic and/or template functions, but this
allows types to be specified parametrically, eg vectors of specific type
and width, with widths of one becoming scalars.
Matrices are currently completely broken as I haven't decided on how to
represent the columns (rows is represented by width (column-major
storage)), and bools are only partially supported (need to sort out
32-bit vs 64-bit bools).
No semantics yet, but qfcc can parse some of QF's shaders. The grammar
mostly follows that in the OpenGL Shading Language, Version 4.60.7 spec,
but with a few less tokens.
This gets the types such that either there is only one definition, or C
sees the same name for what is essentially the same type despite there
being multiple local definitions.
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).
I'm not sure the regressive product is right (overall sign), but that's
actually partly a problem in the math itself (duals and the regressive
product still get poked at, so it may be just a matter of
interpretation).
I'm surprised it took almost two years to discover that I had no
quaternion multiplications in any test code, but getting an ICE for a
quaternion-vector product, and the Hadamard product for
quaternion-quaternion was a bit of a nasty surprise.
I had wanted to do this earlier but shied away from the large edit. Now
it became more necessary (and will become even more necessary when I get
to the glsl front-end).
This will be used for unifying preprocessing and parsing, the idea being
that the tokens will be recorded for later expansion via macros, without
the need to retokenize.
The improved location tracking isn't used yet, but was fairly invasive
on the bison-flex api.
It also cleans up some of the ancient workarounds for bad flex cores.
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.
Especially binary expressions. That expressions can now be reused is
what caused the need to make expression lists non-invasive: the reuse
resulted in loops in the lists. This doesn't directly affect code
generation at this stage but it will help with optimizing algebraic
expressions.
The dags are per sequence point (as per my reading of the C spec).
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).
