> Thanks Marcus. > I'm among the skepticals concerning the AST, but I'd like to be proven wrong, > because AST level would certainly simplify things a lot.
Me too :) But marcus knows it since the end of his PhD :D. This is why I really want to see AST compression. > My main reserve is that interruption can occur at BC level, so for debugging > purpose, what are your plans? > Will you move the PC at some AST node boundary (if it is possible given side > effects of some BC)? > > > 2013/4/27 Marcus Denker <marcus.den...@inria.fr> > > On Apr 27, 2013, at 5:59 PM, Marcus Denker <marcus.den...@inria.fr> wrote:. > > > >> Could we have a primer on what remains to do on the Opal front? > >> > > > > > > -> debug BC-IR->AST->text mapping more (lots of it working already) > > -> debug temp variable lookup in optimized blocks in the debugger (almost > > there, too) > > -> Go through all the test for the old Compiler and port them to the new. > > -> Better compiler API and refactor the whole system to use it > > (but keep a backward compatible API at least to some extend) > > > All the TODOs are in the bug tracker, Project "Compiler (Opal)". > > There are right now 29 Issues. > > Marcus >
