Changelog

• got multiple arguments class constructors working
• completetly broke destructors being called at the end of the scope
• reworked how constructors worked, making them actual constructors instead of factories

WIP

• pushing everything to master branch (currently everything is in the classes branch)
• fixing destructors being called at the end of the scopes
• class member access

kept working on classes

Changelog

• made the compiler automatically pass the struct to the class methods and destructor
• added constructors being called when allocating a class and destructor being called when exiting the scope
• added break and continue statements to use inside loops

WIP

• being able to call constructors other than the default one
• constructors being called for arrays of classes
• accessing classes members

Changelog

• added location to FunctionPrototypeAST for better errors during semantic analysis
• added codegen for:
  • class methods (kinda of a WIP still)
  • class constructors
  • class destructor

I’m still working on implementing classes

Changelog

• got class allocation working
• got sizeof to work with classes
• got typeofto work with classes

Changelog

• kept working on implementing classes
• added debug info for the members of a class
• improved a couple of error messages for variables, functions and classes

in the pictures below you can see the debug information generated from my class

really small devlog

Changelog

• started working on implementing classes
• implemented class declaration parsing, which includes:
  • class declaration
  • class constructors
  • class destructors
  • private and public members and methods

lil changes i did while i was at school

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• Added comparison operators for pointers
• added detection for unreachable code to stop generating code after exit or ret if in the middle of the program
• fixed (hopefully) Ubuntu workflow
• started introducing classes

i made a little video about the new additions

stilll trying to fix the ubuntu workflow but this time i actually fixed it

ok, so this isn’t a devlog per se, but i had to fix the build on my computer which completetly broke so i had to rebuild LLVM from source and do lots of other stuff to get it to work again. you can see in the image me recompiling llvm from source, which by its own took 52 minutes

huge changes this time

Changelog

• added debug metadata for functions, locals, and parameters so i can finally debug my programs and not go crazy
• added --strip flag to strip debug info from the executables
• fixed a bug where assembly output also included LLVM IR in the same file

this time it took a bit to implement these features, but i’d say it was really worth it

Changelog:

• Added these target options for the compiler:
  • Assembly -> -S flag
  • Object file -> -C flag
  • LLVM IR -> -emit-llvm flag

yet another really small devlog

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• fixed a crash caused by incorrect handling of pointer index access in function call arguments (e.g. argv[i])
• updated call argument codegen to avoid unintended extra loads on indexed pointer values
• kept only the required checks in the final implementation to avoid overcomplicating the code path
• verified generated IR now passes indexed pointer values directly without double dereference

really short devlog for the vscode extension

Changelog

• Added two new settings to the vscode extension:
  • Save before run
  • Default code optimization value

small but at the same time huge devlog, cause i finally added code optimization which i thought would take much longer but ended up taking only around 30m

Changelog

• added code optimization using llvm::ModulePassManager following this tutorial
• Improved error messages for functions and variables inside namespaces

finally a kinda short devlog for once

Changelog:

• added parsing and semantic analysis for const variables, both local and global
• updated the vscode extension to recognize the const keyword (i’m dumb and i recorded the video before adding it)

this one is also a big one cause i’ve had to fix a lot of stuff to make the new feature work

Changelog

• restored type parsing so int[]* and int*[] are both accepted again
• initialize uninitialized pointer variables to nullptr
• updated new and free to follow the restored pointer semantics
• simplified VariableDeclarationAST::codegen() by sharing the common init flow between globals and locals

Changelog

• made nameof accept every statement which has a name, ex. function calls, index access, ecc.
• made typeof accept every statement which has a type
• made sizeof accept every statement which returns a variable or pointer which has a size and also accept a type on its own
• reworked function calls to cast number types when passing them, ex.

  fun b(f32 fl) -> void {}
  fun main(i32 argc, char** argv) -> i32 {
     i32 a = 0:
     b(a): // this now works
  }
  

• removed String as a type and just set it as a char* as i should’ve done since the start

another pretty long devlog that’s the result of threee different commits:

Changelog:

• started introducing namespaces
• changed how namespaces were handled, from having an ast node for them to just keeping track of the current namespace prefix in the parser and adding it to the variable/function/class name, this way i’m not required to add other semantic analysis and codegen code
• added parsing for qualified names for functions and variables both inside and outside namespace blocks as shown in the video and in this block of code:

namespace math {
   f64 pi = 3.141592653589793;
}
fun math::add(f32 a, f32 b) -> f32 {
   ret a + b;
}

finally a really small devlog for once:

Changelog:

• Updated vscode extension with support for :
  • new types
  • builtin functions
  • format specifier in print and input functions

this one is a long one cause it’s the result of two different commits which i forgot to make a devlog for

Changelog 1

• Introduced the staticCast expression so now it’s possible to allocate stuff with malloc and cast the pointer type from void* to the type needed
• Added the possibility to declare global variables by declaring them outside functions

Changelog 2

• Added support for multiple numeric types:

  • int/i32
  • uint/u32
  • float/f32
  • double/ f64
  • i8
  • i16
  • i64
  • i128
  • u8
  • u16
  • u64
  • u128

  removed num

• Fixed pointers assignment doing a copy assignment instead of assigning the address

Changelog:

• added the type Reference which just like in C++ is a pointer which can’t be reassigned, tho contrary to c++ and like in rust, references have to be passed explicitly like this: fun(&ref);.
• added the decay of arrays to pointers when passing them to functions which take pointers

Changelog

• fixed how multidimensional arrays were allocated in memory, before if you did num[4][5] you’d actually get an array like this: num[5][4], so now i’ve inverted the way the array type gets initialized
• reworked sizeof(), typeof() and nameof() to work with more expressions and not only variables, ex. index access operations
• added a size() method to the Type base class

added an index access operator which works for both pointers and arrays, even on multidimensional ones, i’m currently working on adding the new and free operators to allocate memory on the heap for both pointers and dynamic arrays

kept working on error and warning generation:
added a warning for unused variable expresions as shown in the picture below, fixed a bug where the filename inside the error would be wrong and also made it so functions would go through semantic analysis even if they have errors

had to fix a couple of errors with error messages showing the wrong position of the error inside the code, i also added some color to the error messages and worked on improving the extension for the language

I reworked the error messages for both Parser.cppm and SemanticAnalyzer.cppm now they both follow this format

main.tgs:24:21: error: missing semicolon after ')'
24 | print("hello world")
                                   ^

i refactored the error handling in the compiler.
i improved error handling in the function code generation by returning nullptr at the end of a function if an error was found instead of logging an error message and returning instantly.
I also enhanced error detection for missing semicolons, now when a statement has an error the parser will ignore every next token untill it finds the next semicolon as it’s possible to see in the video

i started working on the compile options module adding argument parsing and error handling, reworked the main file for better clarity, added a filesystem library, also worked on the vscode extension for the language fixing the build and run shortcut, added an option to clear the terminal before running and reuse the same terminal every time instead of creating a new one

fixed a couple bugs that made declaring function overloads crash the compiler and one that didn’t let you declare bool functions and variables

made base type follow the camelCase naming convention instead of PascalCase and kept classes and structs with PascalCase the same way that rust does it

started reworking the syntax, lexer and parser for better readability

I’m working on my first project! This is so exciting. I can’t wait to share more updates as I build.