Re: wip-rtl disassembler

[Noah Lavine <noah.b.lavine@gmail.com>]

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On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> wrote:

> At this point the disassembler is working much better, and works at the
> REPL now via ,x.  Also, procedure-name now works.
>
> I'm now moving to implement source line information and other metadata
> via .debug_info / .debug_line / etc sections.
>

Wow, that's great!


> I think debugging things will be ready in a few weeks.  Noah, how's the
> compiler coming?  I think we could reasonably be looking at compiling
> everything with RTL by July or August if all goes well.
>

Not as quickly as I'd like, but that's always going to be true. :-)

The status is still what it was in my last email - almost all language
features are done, but I would like to check edge cases much more
thoroughly than I have. What I have been working on most recently is a
patch to the test suite to add a command-line option to choose a different
compiler. I realized that my strategy of writing a separate test suite for
CPS will never get close to our 35,000+ Guile tests, and also can't be
reused the next time we want to test a new compiler. So my goal is to let
the test suite use the CPS compiler, and then just systematically fix any
bugs I find until things pass.

If anyone else wants to work on this, they are more than welcome to jump in.

Noah

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