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@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ Generic lisp synatx highlighting should provide good results, however.
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* Proper tail calls.
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* Direct interop with C via abstract types and C functions
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* Dynamically load C libraries
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* Functional and imperative standard library
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* Lexical scoping
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* Imperative Programming as well as functional
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* REPL
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@ -88,7 +89,7 @@ make test
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### CMake
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On a posix system using make as the backend, compiling and running is as follows (this is the same as
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On a posix system using make as the backend, compiling and running is as follows (this is the same as
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most CMake based projects).
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```sh
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@ -385,5 +385,5 @@ void dst_clear_memory(void) {
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}
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/* Primitives for suspending GC. */
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int dst_gclock() { return dst_vm_gc_suspend++; }
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int dst_gclock(void) { return dst_vm_gc_suspend++; }
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void dst_gcunlock(int handle) { dst_vm_gc_suspend = handle; }
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@ -39,9 +39,6 @@
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#define dst_gc_unmark(m) (dst_gc_header(m)->flags &= ~DST_MEM_COLOR)
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#define dst_gc_reachable(m) (dst_gc_header(m)->flags & DST_MEM_REACHABLE)
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// #define dst_gclock() (dst_vm_gc_suspend++)
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// #define dst_gcunlock(lock) (dst_vm_gc_suspend = lock)
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/* Memory header struct. Node of a linked list of memory blocks. */
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typedef struct DstGCMemoryHeader DstGCMemoryHeader;
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struct DstGCMemoryHeader {
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return y;
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}
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Dst dst_wrap_true() {
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Dst dst_wrap_true(void) {
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Dst y;
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y.type = DST_TRUE;
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y.as.u64 = 0;
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return y;
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}
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Dst dst_wrap_false() {
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Dst dst_wrap_false(void) {
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Dst y;
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y.type = DST_FALSE;
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y.as.u64 = 0;
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void dst_gcroot(Dst root);
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int dst_gcunroot(Dst root);
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int dst_gcunrootall(Dst root);
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int dst_gclock();
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int dst_gclock(void);
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void dst_gcunlock(int handle);
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/* Functions */
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@ -91,7 +91,10 @@ extern "C" {
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#define DST_LITTLE_ENDIAN 1
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#endif
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/* Check compiler */
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/* Define how global dst state is declared */
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#ifdef DST_SINGLE_THREADED
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#define DST_THREAD_LOCAL
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#else
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#if defined(__GNUC__)
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#define DST_THREAD_LOCAL __thread
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#elif defined(_MSC_BUILD)
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@ -99,6 +102,7 @@ extern "C" {
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#else
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#define DST_THREAD_LOCAL
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#endif
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#endif
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/* Include default headers */
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#include <stdint.h>
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@ -112,7 +116,7 @@ extern "C" {
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__LINE__,\
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__FILE__,\
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(m));\
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exit(-1);\
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exit(1);\
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} while (0)
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#endif
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#define dst_unwrap_integer(x) ((x).as.integer)
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#define dst_unwrap_real(x) ((x).as.real)
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Dst dst_wrap_nil();
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Dst dst_wrap_nil(void);
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Dst dst_wrap_real(double x);
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Dst dst_wrap_integer(int32_t x);
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Dst dst_wrap_true();
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Dst dst_wrap_false();
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Dst dst_wrap_true(void);
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Dst dst_wrap_false(void);
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Dst dst_wrap_boolean(int x);
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Dst dst_wrap_string(const uint8_t *x);
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Dst dst_wrap_symbol(const uint8_t *x);
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# Thoughts
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A collection of thoughts and todo tasks for the project.
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- Remove the concept of 'Ast node'. While providing fine-grained source mapping is
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is reasonably useful, it complicates the implementation of macros and other source
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transforming operations. Instead, we can key collection types (which have the unique
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pointer property) to source mapping information in a external data structure, which is specifically
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for source mapping. This data structure would be a hash table that used pointer equality
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instead of value equality for entries.
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The compiler would then need to keep track of 'most specific collection' node when compiling,
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as the value itself would not always be a collection and contain source mapping information.
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As a result, we could remove special forms like 'ast-quote', as well as ast-unwrapping logic
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which potentially duplicates a fair amount of data. Macros would be easier to write without
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needing to either unwrap ast values or sacrifice all source mapping.
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- Serialization and deserialization of all datatypes. This would allow loading of bytecode
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without needing the compiler present. However, loading C functions is currently problematic.
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C functions could perhaps be wrapped in data structures that contain some meta information
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about them, say home module and types. This could also allow some automated type checking for
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C functions rather than writing it manually. Some slight overhead could perhaps be compensated
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for by adding optional ommission of typechecking later for C functions if it can be statically
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shown the types are sound.
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- Better support for custom user datatypes. Tables and structs do work well for creating
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custom 'objects' and records, but lack ability to differentiate between object style
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values and data structure style values. For example, simply adding special keys as fields
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would make plain a table or struct possibly become object-like if the write keys are added.
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A Lua like solution would be metatables. It would perhaps make sense to only allow
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metatables on tables, as object like behavior seems to makes most sense on mutable data (?).
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For example, metatables on a struct could allow non-pure behavior unless they were extremely
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limited, or purity was enforced somehow. This could break expectations of a struct to behave
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as immutable data.
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Also, it might make sense that the metatable of a value would actually be a struct, so
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a metastruct. Implementations of Lua (LuaJIT) do not allow (or do not acknowledge)
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changing certain values of a metatables after it is set, such as gc, for performance
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reasons.
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Currently, tables can have a prototype table, which is used to look up values recursively if they
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are not found in the original table. This provides a partial solution to custom user types,
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but does not have the felxibility of Lua style metatables.
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- Actually make a debugger. While the VM changes to enable debugging are relatively
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simple, make a useful debugger would be another project. At first, simply inspection
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of the generated bytecode assembly would be a good start. Single stepping, continuation,
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and inspecting the stack and current fiber would be a start.
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Preferably this would be programmed in dst. The needed functionality could be exposed
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in the fiber API.
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Later, with information from the compiler, we could inspect variables and upvalues
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by symbol. The current compiler does not do full SSA optimization, so named values
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are always accessible in the stack when in scope.
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- Create a pool for fibers. Whlie the general purpose allocator and GC can be made more efficient,
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Fiber's can be well pooled because the allocated stack is large and can be reused. The stack
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size parameter on dst_fiber could simply become the minimum memory allocated for the stack. (Do
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a linear search throught the pool).
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- Implement multi-methods.
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