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).
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.
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).
The switch to using expression dags instead of trees meant that the
statement generator could traverse sub-expressions multiple times. This
is inefficient but usually ok if there are no side effects. However,
side effects and branches (usually from ?:, due to labels) break: side
effects happen more than once, and labels get emitted multiple times
resulting in orphaned statement blocks (and, in the end, uninitialized
temporaries).
This makes a slight improvement to the commutator product in that it
removes the expand statement, but there's still the problem of (a+a)/2.
However, at least now the product is correct and slightly less abysmal.
It's now meant only for ALLOC. Interestingly, when DEBUG_QF_MEMORY is
defined in expr.c, something breaks badly with vkgen (no sniffles out of
valgrind, though), but everything is fine with it not defined. It seems
there may be some unpleasant UB going on somewhere.
This fixes the motor test :) It turns out that every lead I had
previously was due to the disabling of that feature "breaking" dags
(such that expressions wouldn't be found) and it was the dagged
multi-vector components getting linked by expr->next that made a mess of
things.
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.
They don't have much effect that I've noticed, but the expression dags
code does check for commutative expressions. The algebra code uses the
anticommutative flag for cross, wedge and subtract (unconditional at
this stage). Integer ops that are commutative are always commutative (or
anticommutative). Floating point ops can be controlled (default to non),
but no way to set the options currently.
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).
That is, passing int constants through ... in Ruamoko progs is no longer
a warning (still is for v6p and v6 progs). I got tired of getting the
warning for sizeof expressions when int through ... hasn't been a
problem for even most v6p progs, and was intended to not be a problem
for Ruamoko progs.
This makes working with them much easier, and the type system reflects
what's in the multi-vector. Unfortunately, that does mean that large
algebras will wind up having a LOT of types, but it allows for efficient
storage of sparse multi-vectors:
auto v = 4*(e1 + e032 + e123);
results in:
0005 0213 1:0008<00000008>4:void 0:0000<00000000>?:invalid
0:0044<00000044>4:void assign (<void>), v
0006 0213 1:000c<0000000c>4:void 0:0000<00000000>?:invalid
0:0048<00000048>4:void assign (<void>), {v + 4}
Where the two source vectors are:
44:1 0 .imm float:18e [4, 0, 0, 0]
48:1 0 .imm float:1aa [4, 0, 0, 4]
They just happen to be adjacent, but don't need to be.
This gets only some very basics working:
* Algebra (multi-vector) types: eg @algebra(float(3,0,1)).
* Algebra scopes (using either the above or @algebra(TYPE_NAME) where
the above was used in a typedef.
* Basis blades (eg, e12) done via procedural symbols that evaluate to
suitable constants based on the basis group for the blade.
* Addition and subtraction of multi-vectors (only partially tested).
* Assignment of sub-algebra multi-vectors to full-algebra multi-vectors
(missing elements zeroed).
There's still much work to be done, but I thought it time to get
something into git.
Due to joys of pointers and the like, it's a bit of a bolt-on for now,
but it works nicely for basic math ops which is what I wanted, and the
code is generated from the expression.
I never liked it, but with C2x coming out, it's best to handle bools
properly. I haven't gone through all the uses of int as bool (I'll leave
that for fixing when I encounter them), but this gets QF working with
both c2x (really, gnu2x because of raw strings).
I think the current build_element_chain implementation does a reasonable
job, but I'm in the process of getting designated initializers working,
thus it will become important to ensure uninitialized members get
initialized.
While swizzle does work, it requires the source to be properly aligned
and thus is not really the best choice. The extend instruction has no
alignment requirements (at all) and thus is much better suited to
converting a scalar to a vector type.
Fixes#30
The destination operand must be a full four component vector, but the
source can be smaller and small sources do not need to be aligned: the
offset of the source operand and the swizzle indices are adjusted. The
adjustments are done during final statement emission in order to avoid
confusing the data flow analyser (and that's when def offsets are known).
