[convivialdingo]

I’ve been modifying the the MIR c2mir JIT compiler to extend the c11 compiler to support simple classes, boxed strings(immutable, nun-nullable) with AOT support.

Imagine if Java and C had a love child, basically.

MIR is a fantastic piece of engineering.

Honestly the hardest part is representing types. Having played around with other compilers it seems to be a typical problem.

I’m stuck in the minutiae of representing highly structured complexity and defining behavior in c. I can understand why many languages have an intermediate compiler - it’s too much work and it will probably change over time.

[fuhsnn]

>I’ve been modifying the the MIR c2mir JIT compiler to extend the c11 compiler to support simple classes, boxed strings(immutable, nun-nullable) with AOT support

Is the project public? Really interested in the AOT support, I've always wanted to see its generated code but didn't find an easy way to dump it.

[convivialdingo]

Once things are a little more stable, I will put it up!

Right now you can just break before the (fun_call)() delegate and disassemble the fun_call in gdb.

The basic trick is to add reloc support to the x86 translate code, mark external calls and replace with 0x0 placeholders, and copy out the machine_code and data segment output to an object file.

I can do basic main functions with simple prints calls but not much more. It’s a hack for now but I’ll refactor it until it’s solid.