All simple type checks are now done using is_* helper functions. This
will help hide the implementation details of the type system from the
rest of the compiler (especially the changes needed for type aliasing).
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.
In order to keep enumerator type and enum type the same, the values need
to have their type set after the enum type is finalized, and then the
appropriate symbols created in the parent scope. This fixes the infinite
recursion when assigning an enum value to its own type.
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)
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 seems that building types is very fragile: all too easy to fix things
in one place and break something somewhere else. I guess the type system
will need a comlete rewrite at some stage.
find_type() does type comparisons based on tag name for struct/union/enum
but when it returns the previous tag (eg, from "struct foo;") the returned
type has a null symtab pointer, so setting the symtab pointer in the type
before calling find_type() only throws away the symtab. Thus, since
find_type() doesn't check the symtab pointer when comparing the types, set
the symtab pointer after calling find_type().
Since there is now a proper symbol table, defs are now just references to
memory locations and the symbol table takes care of duplicates.
Also, start using far data for ObjQC structures.
The qfo functions have been stubbed out until I figure out what to do with
object files in the new scheme.
That which isn't rewritten is horribly broken. However, this does include a
nice mechanism for building QC structs for emitting data.
emit.c has been gutted in the spirit of "throw one away".
There is much work to be done to get even variables emitted, let alone
code. Things should be a little more fun from here on.
