[m-rev.] diff: update IL backend to-do list.

[Tyson Dowd]

Hi,


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Estimated hours taken: 0.5
Branches: main

compiler/mlds_to_il.m:
compiler/mlds_to_mcpp.m:
	Update the to-do lists on these modules.


Index: compiler/mlds_to_il.m
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RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/mercury/compiler/mlds_to_il.m,v
retrieving revision 1.24
diff -u -r1.24 mlds_to_il.m
--- compiler/mlds_to_il.m	2001/05/08 13:37:43	1.24
+++ compiler/mlds_to_il.m	2001/05/08 17:29:29
@@ -21,12 +21,14 @@
 %
 % The IL backend TO-DO list:
 %
+% [ ] advanced name mangling: 
+%	- optionally only mangle names when it is absolutely necessary
 % [ ] solutions
-% [ ] floating point 
 % [ ] Type classes
-%	- You need to know what module the instance declaration is given in.
-%	- This involves module qualifying instance declarations.
-%	- This has semantic complications that we have to ignore for now
+%	- now work, but...
+%	- type class hierarchies don't work due to unimplemented pragma
+%	  foreign code.
+%	- should be implemented as interfaces
 % [ ] RTTI (io__write -- about half the work required for this is done)
 % [ ] High-level RTTI data
 % [ ] Test unused mode (we seem to create a byref for it)
@@ -43,7 +45,6 @@
 % [ ] nested modules need testing
 % [ ] We generate too many castclasses, it would be good to check if we
 %     really to do it before generating it.  Same with isinst.
-% [ ] Write line number information from contexts (in .il and .cpp files)
 % [ ] Implement pragma export.
 % [ ] Fix issues with abstract types so that we can implement C
 %     pointers as MR_Box rather than MR_Word.
@@ -51,7 +52,7 @@
 %     we should (this can occur in nondet C code). 
 % [ ] ml_gen_call_current_success_cont_indirectly should be merged with
 % 	similar code for doing copy-in/copy-out.
-% [ ] figure out whether we need maxstack and fix it
+% [ ] generate maxstack correctly
 % [ ] Try to use the IL bool type for the true/false rvals.
 % [ ] Add an option to do overflow checking.
 % [ ] Should replace hard-coded of int32 with a more abstract name such
Index: compiler/mlds_to_mcpp.m
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RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/mercury/compiler/mlds_to_mcpp.m,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.2 mlds_to_mcpp.m
--- compiler/mlds_to_mcpp.m	2001/05/02 16:34:37	1.2
+++ compiler/mlds_to_mcpp.m	2001/05/08 17:29:22
@@ -8,6 +8,12 @@
 % interface.
 % Main author: trd.
 %
+% To-do:
+%
+% [ ] Fix the output of contexts so that the context gets reset after the
+%     user code.
+% [ ] Output contexts in more places, currently we don't do all of them.
+%
 % This code converts the MLDS representation of foreign language code into MC++ 
 
 :- module mlds_to_mcpp.
@@ -81,8 +87,6 @@
 
 %-----------------------------------------------------------------------------%
 
-	% XXX we don't output contexts correctly -- we need to write out the
-	% original context at the end of the user's MC++ code.
 :- pred generate_mcplusplus_code(mlds, io__state, io__state).
 :- mode generate_mcplusplus_code(in, di, uo) is det.
 generate_mcplusplus_code(MLDS) -->


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       Tyson Dowd           # 
                            #  Surreal humour isn't everyone's cup of fur.
     trd at cs.mu.oz.au        # 
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~trd #
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