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2019-03-11Improve ocamldoc commentsAlasdair Armstrong
Check in a slightly nicer stylesheet for OCamldoc generated documentation in etc. Most just add a maximum width and increase the font size because the default looks absolutely terrible on high-DPI monitors. Move val_spec_ids out of initial_check and into ast_util where it probably belongs. Rename some functions in util.ml to better match the OCaml stdlib.
2019-03-09C: Fix miscompilation of constrained struct field accessAlasdair
For a Int-parameterised struct F('x: Int) = ... the optimizer would attempt to optimize field access in cases where 'x was known to constrain the types of the struct fields only locally. Which would create a type error in the generated C. Now we always use the type from the global struct type. However, we previously weren't using struct type quantifiers to optimize the field representation, which we now do. Also rename some utility functions to better match the List functions in the OCaml stdlib.
2019-03-08Rewriter: Cleanup old sizeof rewritesAlasdair Armstrong
Shouldn't affect anything as this is done by the typechecker now. Also remove some unfinished tracing code from c_backend.ml
2019-03-08C: Refactor C backendAlasdair Armstrong
Main change is splitting apart the Sail->IR compilation stage and the C code generation and optimization phase. Rather than variously calling the intermediate language either bytecode (when it's not really) or simply IR, we give it a name: Jib (a type of Sail). Most of the types are still prefixed by c/C, and I don't think it's worth changing this. The various parts of the C backend are now in the src/jib/ subdirectory src/jib/anf.ml - Sail->ANF translation src/jib/jib_util.ml - various Jib AST processing and helper functions (formerly bytecode_util) src/jib/jib_compile.ml - Sail->Jib translation (using Sail->ANF) src/jib/c_backend.ml - Jib->C code generator and optimizations Further, bytecode.ott is now jib.ott and generates jib.ml (which still lives in src/ for now) The optimizations in c_backend.ml should eventually be moved in a separate jib_optimization file. The Sail->Jib compilation can be parameterised by two functions - one is a custom ANF->ANF optimization pass that can be specified on a per Jib backend basis, and the other is the rule for translating Sail types in Jib types. This can be more or less precise depending on how precise we want to be about bit-widths etc, i.e. we only care about <64 and >64 for C, but for SMT generation we would want to be as precise as possible. Additional improvements: The Jib IR is now agnostic about whether arguments are allocated on the heap vs the stack and this is handled by the C code generator. jib.ott now has some more comments explaining various parts of the Jib AST. A Set module and comparison function for ctyps is defined, and some functions now return ctyp sets rather than lists to avoid repeated work.