On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 5:32 AM, David Matthews
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Yue Li wrote:
>>
>> I was trying to understand and document the semantics of the opcode
>> set used by Poly/ML's interpreter, and I'm wondering whether inside
>> Poly/ML's compiler, there are such debugging functions which could
>> print out the IR tree as well as the generated op code for an input ML
>> program? These functions would help me a lot to test my understanding
>> on Poly's IR data structure and code generation.  Thank you very much!
>
> Yue,
> There are switches in the PolyML.Compiler structure that will print out
> various stages of the compilation process when compiling something. Probably
> the most useful for you would be
> PolyML.Compiler.codetree := true;
> which will cause the compiler to print out the code-tree.  You may also find
> "codetreeAfterOpt" (i.e. code-tree after it has been through the optimiser)
> and "assemblyCode" (the machine code generated by the final code-generator)
> useful as well.
>
   This works and I can see the printed code tree now. I will have
more questions later when I tried more examples.

Many thanks!!

Yue
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