This is for two reasons: first, the C++CSP backend still needs them, and
second, the way I'd done the removal wasn't correct; since you can have arrays
of them, abbreviate them, etc., they need to be stripped out by an earlier
pass so that other passes don't try to operate upon them.
Now that I have begun moving all the _sizes stuff forward into proper compiler passes, much of the code for handling arrays in the backends is going to become redundant:
- The tockArrayView class should eventually disappear; now that _sizes are pulled forward, there's no advantage of having this extra class (compared to just doing C and C++ arrays in the same, C-based, style)
- The declaration and use of the _sizes array everywhere should go, now that it is inserted in an earlier pass
I haven't removed as much as I should from the C backend; I am wary to touch it when Adam is about to move it over to the new CIF anyway
Most of this is mechanical: changing function names, and carrying the "wptr"
argument around. I've made the code for computing Expressions from Structureds
a bit more generic too.
The only complex bit is the handling of PAR processes, which I'm not very happy
with at the moment; they used to use the normal C calling convention, but now
you need to pack the arguments into the workspace. I'm handling this at the
moment by generating wrapper functions that do the unpacking, but it would be
better in the future to make the wrapper PROCs that we already generate have
the right interface.
This won't work for programs that use any of the top-level channels yet, since
there are no handlers for them.
Or, rather, add a new CIF-specific header, so tock_support.h is now the common
code and each of the backends has its own. This means some of the conditional
stuff can go away.
This changes the TLP code to use CCSP's stand-alone mode, and gets rid of the
old KRoC wrapper stuff. It also changes occam_stop everywhere in order to pass
the number of arguments (since ExternalCallN needs that now), and cleans up the
interaction with the C++ backend a bit.
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