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* Changed comment syntax to C-style /* */ and //
* References to registers and mutable variables are never created
implicitly - a reference to a register or variable R is now created
via the expression "ref R". References are assigned like "(*Y) = X",
with "(*ref R) = X" being equivalent to "R = X". Everything is always
explicit now, which simplifies the logic in the typechecker. There's
also now an invariant that every id directly in a LEXP is mutable,
which is actually required for our rewriter steps to be sound.
* More flexible syntax for L-expressions to better support wierd
power-idioms, some syntax sugar means that:
X.GET(a, b, c) ==> _mod_GET(X, a, b, c)
X->GET(a, b, c) ==> _mod_GET(ref X, a, b, c)
for setters, this can be combined with the (still somewhat poorly
named) LEXP_memory construct, such that:
X->SET(a, b, c) = Y ==> _mod_SET(ref X, a, b, c, Y)
Currently I use the _mod_ prefix for these 'modifier' functions, but
we could omit that a la rust.
* The register bits typedef construct no longer exists in the
typechecker. This construct never worked consistently between backends
and inc/dec vectors, and it can be easily replaced by structs with
fancy setters/getters if need be. One can also use custom type operators to mimic the syntax, i.e.
type operator ... ('n : Int) ('m : Int) = slice('n, 'm)
struct cr = {
CR0 : 32 ... 35,
/* 32 : LT; 33 : GT; 34 : EQ; 35 : SO; */
CR1 : 36 ... 39,
/* 36 : FX; 37 : FEX; 38 : VX; 39 : OX; */
CR2 : 40 ... 43,
CR3 : 44 ... 47,
CR4 : 48 ... 51,
CR5 : 52 ... 55,
CR6 : 56 ... 59,
CR7 : 60 ... 63,
}
This greatly simplifies a lot of the logic in the typechecker, as it
means that E_field is no longer ambiguously overloaded between records
and register bit typedefs. This also makes writing semantics for these
constructs much simpler.
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