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HLA
General
- x86_64
- GPLv3-only
Technologies
- C99
- TommyHash
- Flex/Bison
Train of translation
file -> preprocessor -> hla -> link -> exe
NOTE: the compiler front-end should be able to handle the preprocessing someway, but we are not making our own preprocessor. use Frexx or m4
implementation
- flex parsing
- bison creates partial syntax trees (since we dont optimize, we can render in relatively small chunks because not all that much context is needed)
- xolatile magic
Types
<prefix><size>
prefixes:
- s - signed
- u - unsigned
sizes:
- 8
- 16
- 32
- 64
floating point types?
prefix:
- f (guarantee IEEE)
size:
- 32 (float)
- 64 (double)
- 80? (long double)
- 128? (long double)
All of these types would be generically available unless disabled by some compiler option. All of the traditional
types would be enabled by default or require said flag to become usable, this hypothetical flag (-ftraditional-types)
would then need implementation and support. In the future traditional types could be enabled by default along with
a flag like (-fno-terry-types) to disable EAXCC standard typing. If these types are ever disabled by default
then we'll utilize the flag (-fterry-types) to enable them.
Syntax
Macros
- fuck macros
- use a preprocessor
Asm
- no ',' argument deliteters
- optional "[]" argument parenthesizing
Machine code
machine
// literal values
end machine
All literal values (string or numeric) is copied as machine code
Logic
- only evaulated in logical blocks
logical blocks
- if-then-else-end-if
operators
- =
-
- <
- <=
-
=
- !=
- not
- and
- or
- xor
Functions
<qualifyiers>
<type> <name>
<declarations>
begin
<code>
end <type>
qualifier:
- fast -> use the fastcall calling convention
- ? stack -> place all arguments on the stack
labels
my_label:
Come back to later
registervolatileexternstatic
LATER
- DWARF2
- ask xolatile very nicely
- linker?
- support ld (thereby mold/gold) for speed reasons