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authorDimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>2015-05-27 18:44:32 +0000
committerDimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>2015-05-27 18:44:32 +0000
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@@ -14,9 +14,10 @@ grown our little Kaleidoscope language from being a useless toy, to
being a semi-interesting (but probably still useless) toy. :)
It is interesting to see how far we've come, and how little code it has
-taken. We built the entire lexer, parser, AST, code generator, and an
-interactive run-loop (with a JIT!) by-hand in under 700 lines of
-(non-comment/non-blank) code.
+taken. We built the entire lexer, parser, AST, code generator, an
+interactive run-loop (with a JIT!), and emitted debug information in
+standalone executables - all in under 1000 lines of (non-comment/non-blank)
+code.
Our little language supports a couple of interesting features: it
supports user defined binary and unary operators, it uses JIT
@@ -68,12 +69,6 @@ For example, try adding:
collection, note that LLVM fully supports `Accurate Garbage
Collection <../GarbageCollection.html>`_ including algorithms that
move objects and need to scan/update the stack.
-- **debugger support** - LLVM supports generation of `DWARF Debug
- info <../SourceLevelDebugging.html>`_ which is understood by common
- debuggers like GDB. Adding support for debug info is fairly
- straightforward. The best way to understand it is to compile some
- C/C++ code with "``clang -g -O0``" and taking a look at what it
- produces.
- **exception handling support** - LLVM supports generation of `zero
cost exceptions <../ExceptionHandling.html>`_ which interoperate with
code compiled in other languages. You could also generate code by