I never did like overloaded_function_t as a name, and with the
introduction of generic functions (or templates, I guess?) meta-function
makes more sense to me.
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.
With this, genFType and genDType functions are now treated separately
and expanding to all components (single row or column matrices are not
supported (at this stage, anyway) for generic parameters).
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.
It doesn't properly differentiate between (treats genDType as being the
same as genFType):
@generic(genFType=@vector(float)) genFType radians(genFType degrees);
@generic(genDType=@vector(double)) genDType radians(genDType degrees);
but this is due to problems with how the type is built from
@vector(float) and @vector(double). However, I thought it was about time
I got some of this into git.
Also, `@generic(...) { ... };` blocks don't work properly (they lose the
generic info): need to get a little smarter about handling generic scope
in `external_def_list`.
While they might be ok, I expect them to cause some issues when doing
compile-time evaluations of type expressions, so use of dags seems to be
a premature optimization. However, as the "no dags" flag is propagated
to parent expression nodes, it may prove useful in other contexts.
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.
The syntax is not at all correct at this stage (really, just a copy of
Ruamoko), but the keyword table exists (in the wrong place) and the
additional basic types (bool, bvecN and (d)matNxM) have been added.
Boolean base type is currently just int, and matrices have 0 width while
I think about what to use, but finally some progress after several
months' hiatus.
This allows the dags code to optimize the return values, and when I make
the node killing by function calls less aggressive, should make for many
more potential CSE optimizations.
The fix in bdafdad0d5 for
`while (count--)` never did appeal to me. I think I understood the core
problem at the time, but I hadn't figured out how to use a var's
use/define sets to detect the write-before-read. Using them allows the
special handling for flow control to be removed, making things more
robust. The function call handling has been superfluous since the
Ruamoko instruction set required the auxiliary operands on the call
statements.
Two birds with one stone: eliminates most of the problems with going
const-correct with expr_t, and it make dealing with internally generated
expressions at random locations much easier as the set source location
affects all new expressions created within that scope, to any depth.
Debug output is much easier to read now.
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).
