[Newcompiler] Status of the NewCompiler

[Marcus Denker]

On 02.04.2007, at 12:04, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:

> may be you should post that to squeak-dev too.
>

The problem is that I am not subscribed right now... maybe someone  
else can do that? The
list of things done by math would need to be extended with the things  
mentioned later in the thread,
and the mail should have a link to this mailinstlist's subscribe page.

> Stef
> On 1 avr. 07, at 01:32, Marcus Denker wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Last summer/fall, Mathieu Suen worked (as part of the ESUG  
>> SummerTalk) on the NewCompiler framework.
>>
>> He added
>> 	-> Support for literalVariable read/write bytecode
>> 	-> Human readable Error Messages for the Parser that say more  
>> then "SmaCCParserError".
>> 	-> Support for Squeak 3.9 Pragmas / A solution for parsing  
>> primitives (which used the old parser with
>>              nobody realizing it... ;-) )
>>         -> An experiment for a Smalltalk Scripting Language's  
>> parser (Saphire)
>> 	-> Many of smaller and larger bugfixes and improvements
>>
>> Thanks a lot!
>>
>> The NewCompiler framework has been used in many projects, both at  
>> SCG and elsewhere.
>>
>> Next things on the TODO
>> ====================
>>
>> Bugs
>> -------
>>
>> - variables in the debugger seem to be not work correctly when  
>> selecting them for a doit / inspect it.
>> - in the debugger make "debug it" work. See  
>> ParagraphEditor>>#debugIt.
>> 	- fix debugIt to not compile a #doit method but use the same  
>> mechanism as #doIt.
>> - instVar vs. Field in IRBuilder. Something is very  not nice  
>> here. We should provide both concepts.
>> - Fix Compiler IR-->RBNode decompile
>> - Make to Block primitives work for BlockClosure so that  
>> exceptions (#ifCurtailed:, ...) work
>>
>> Enhancements
>> --------------
>>
>> - Integrate RB with Newcompiler Parser.
>> 	-- step one: Put Parser into it's own package (NewParser)... or  
>> the AST package
>> 	-- step two: remove RBParser, check/ fix RefactoringEngine
>> -  work-around for bytecode limitations (jump offsett, number of  
>> temps, number of literals ...) in IRBuilder
>>    (see http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/ 
>> 2006-February/100691.html)
>> - Look at optimizing the Closures generated by the compiler. VM  
>> hacking included.
>> - VMmaker code generator should use RB AST
>>
>>
>> Documentation
>> ------------
>> - We need websites for AST, RB, SmaCC, NewCompiler
>> 	-- Write Hitchhikers Guide to the New Compiler:
>> 	   http://www.whysmalltalk.com/articles/bykov/HitchHiker.htm
>> 	   But then, these examples are even simpler to realise with  
>> Persphone/Geppetto aka. "The Reflectivity"...
>> 	-- IRBuilder: comments for public method, provide documentation  
>> for stack effects
>> - Better bugtracker. At least I loose track of the Mantis bugs  
>> very easily. Can't it
>>   generate emails to this list? Maybe use Roundup like  
>> Reflectivity and Moose?
>>   (http://macamis.unibe.ch/trackers)
>>
>

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