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2018-03-22Fix C compilation for CHERI and MIPSAlasdair Armstrong
First, the specialisation of option types has been fixed by allowing the specialisation of constructor return types - this essentially means that a constructor, such as Some : 'a -> option('a) can get specialised to int -> option(int), rather than int -> option('a). This means that these constructors are treated like GADTs internally. Since this only happens just before the C translation, I haven't put much effort into making this very robust so far. Second, there was a bug in C compilation for the typing of return expressions in non-unit contexts, which has been fixed. Finally support for vector literals that are non-bitvectors has been added.
2018-03-13Polymorphic option types now compile to CAlasdair Armstrong
Fixed an issue whereby an option constructor that was never constructed, but only matched on, would cause compilation to fail. Temporarily fixed an issue where union types that can be entirely stack-allocated were not being treated as such, by simply heap-allocating all unions. Need to adapt the code generator to handle this case properly. Fixed a further small issue whereby multiple union types would confuse the type specialisation pass. Added a test case for compiling option types. RISCV now generates C code, but there are still some bugs that need to be squashed before it compile and work.
2018-03-12ELF loading for C backendAlasdair Armstrong
Add a flag to Sail that allows for an image of an elf file to be dumped in a simple format using linksem, used as sail -elf test.elf -o test.bin This image file can then be used by a compiled C version of a sail spec as with ocaml simply by ./a.out test.bin