backend support tasks

[ct-clmsn]

these lists are a work in progress (subject to change)

passes

• symbol table
• program construction
• program validation (validate w/type checking)
• code generation

variable declaration with/without value initialization

• scalar int, string, cstring, real declaration
• array int, string, cstring, real declaration
• multi-dimensional array int, string, real
• scalar initialization declaration
• array initialization declaration
• multi-dimensional array initialization w/range
• multi-dimensional array initialization w/domain
• config, ref, const etc variables
• domain declaration w/initialization
• associative domain declaration w/initialization
• distributed domain support

expressions

• literal + variable + function call binary expressions (=, +, -, /, *, etc)
• function calls (argument lists included) w/binary expressions as arguments
• array access w/binary expressions
• multi-dimensional array access w/binary expressions as index logic
• casting types

function support (user defined)

• function declarations
• function definitions
• variable declaration support with/without value initialization
• first class functions/lambdas
• iterable functions (generator functions)

control flow

• function calls (w/argument lists)
• for loops (for, forall)
• conditionals (if, if-else, else, etc)
• on
• begin, cobegin
• coforall
• zip
• do
• locales (user defined types)

integral type support

• array methods
• string methods
• associative array methods
• byte methods
• string (utf8) / c_string support
• template functions, user defined types, etc
• tuples

user defined types

• class support (member variables, methods)
• record support (member variables, methods)

module support

• import statement