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
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next prev 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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