This patch is actually an amalgam of multiple (already large) patches. Those patches conflicted (parameterised Structured vs. changes to usage checking and FlowGraph) and encountered a nasty bug in darcs 1 involving exponential time (see http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/ConflictsFAQ for more details). Reasoning that half an hour (of 100% CPU use) was too long to apply patches, I opted to re-record the parameterised Structured changes as this new large patch. Here are the commit messages originally used for the patches (which, as mentioned, were already large patches):
A gigantic patch switching all the non-test modules over to using parameterised A.Structured
Changed the FlowGraph module again to handle any sort of Structured you want to pass to it (mainly for testing)
A further gigantic patch changing all the tests to work with the new parameterised Structured
Fixed a nasty bug involving functions being named incorrectly inside transformInputCase
Added a hand-written instance of Data for Structured that allows us to use ext1M properly
Fixed a few warnings in the code
This was not as straightforward as the C++ backend. CIF has no capability for supporting waiting *for* a specified time as an ALT guard; only waiting until (AFTER, in occam) a specified time. This is further complicated by the fact that when you disable an ALT timer guard in CIF, you have to be able to supply the timeout value that you waited on in the enable sequence.
Therefore, I added a pass that transforms all WaitFor guards into WaitUntil guards, by declaring nonce time variables, getting the time, and adding on the delay that we want to wait for; these actions occur just before the ALT.
This new pass is in the new BackendPasses module, into which I also moved the identifyParProcs pass. I also wrote tests for my new pass that live in the new BackendPassesTest module.
