2 issues:
- With poll backend, we were polling for writes even after we finished
writing. Presents as wasting a lot of CPU.
- Fixes strange closing behavior of chat server.
Also remove all (limited) type inference from the sysir. Type
inference is better done in frontend, limited inference in backend
just covers compilers issues.
Simple hello world with nasm working.
We need the ability to represent multiple calling conventions in IR.
All backends need to support a :default CC, but can also support more
for interop with system libraries, code from other compilers, syscalls, etc.
Also allow void returns.
Needs changes to IR to allow encoding immediates in all
instructions where possible. This makes the IR denser, means
we don't need `constant` and `callk`, and allows certain optimizations
like comparing to zero, using `inc` and `dec`, etc which are
specializations of more general instructions with constants.
Setup frontend.janet to show the basics of what is going on. Currently
emitting "fake" instructions just to hash out the idea.
One apparent issue is how we handle register spilling during variable
argument IR instructions (function calls). Arguments should come
_before_ the function call not after.
Disallow jumping to arbitrary instructions - instead, only allow jumps
to label ids. This will make various transformations and validations
easier since adding or remove instructions does not break jumps.
This allows dependencies to be marked such that they are not
primary dependencies installed by the users - rather, they are
dependencies of dependencies. This distinction is important when
a user installs a package that itself has dependencies.
This also interacts with new features to prevent a user from breaking
their installation by installing needed packages or
installing/uninstalling bundles out of order.
Basic frontend being prototyped in examples/sysir/frontend.janet. Still
a lot of work needs to be done here, and some of this code will
eventually move to C most likely, but this is a good way to better
exercise our backend.
Type inference - at the very least _forward_ inference, is the most
needed change here. While one could do this in the compiler
frontend, doing so in sysir/asm is not so much of an issue. "Inference"
here means inserting "bind" instructions when there is only a single
type that will work correctly.
Useful for old-style unix daemons, start up scripts, and so on.
Easy to add on top of os/execute.
May want to consider allowing the same IO redirection as os/execute
and os/spawn.
May also want to put both fork and exec behind a config switch since I
suppose some systems may not support them, although I don't know of any
concrete examples.
Any references exclusively held by a weak table may be collected
without the programmer needing to free references manually. A table
can be setup to have weak keys, weak values, or both.
