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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: guile-devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: rtl metadata musings
Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 23:42:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hai2iou3.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871u9fqv70.fsf@pobox.com> (Andy Wingo's message of "Fri, 10 May 2013 07:07:31 +0200")

Hi,

On Fri 10 May 2013 07:07, Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:

> To recap, the new toolchain has the new RTL assembly embedded in ELF.
> There are 6 things we need to put in the ELF file somehow:
>
>   (1) Procedure names and bounds.
>   (2) Docstrings.
>   (3) Generic procedure metadata (for procedure-properties).
>   (4) Arity information (see docs for program-arities).
>   (5) Information about local variables for the debugger.
>   (6) Line numbers.

A status update: (1), (2), and (4) are done.  The arities code doesn't
use quite the same runtime interface as 2.0; not sure what can be done
there.  I'll take a look later.  I'll do (3) soon.  (5) and (6) require
a bit of time and mental clarity; maybe in a few weeks.

Cheers,

Andy
-- 
http://wingolog.org/



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-16 21:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-10  5:07 rtl metadata musings Andy Wingo
2013-05-11  4:48 ` Mark H Weaver
2013-05-12 21:20   ` Andy Wingo
2013-05-16 21:42 ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2013-05-19 21:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-05-20 14:23   ` Andy Wingo
2013-05-20 16:37     ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-05-20 16:48       ` Mike Gran
2013-05-20 18:29       ` Andy Wingo
2013-05-20 19:28         ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-05-20 20:24           ` Andy Wingo

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