This means that floating-point constants can now have the range and precision of the extended type (aka long double), and floating-point constant expressions evaluated within the compiler also have that same range and precision (matching expressions evaluated at run time). This new behavior is intended to match the behavior specified in the C99 and later standards for FLT_EVAL_METHOD 2.
This fixes the previous problem where long double constants and constant expressions of type long double were not represented and evaluated with the full range and precision that they should be. It also gives extra range and precision to constants and constant expressions of type double or float. This may have pluses and minuses, but at any rate it is consistent with the existing behavior for expressions evaluated at run time, and with one of the possible models of floating point evaluation specified in the C standards.
Note that we currently defer evaluation of such expressions to run time if the long long value cannot be represented exactly in a double, because statically-evaluated floating point expressions use the double format rather than the extended (long double) format used at run time.
Right now, decimal constants can have long long types based on their suffix, but they are still limited to a maximum value of 2^32-1.
This also implements the C99 change where decimal constants without a u suffix always have signed types. Thus, decimal constants of 2^31 and up now have type long long, even if their values could be represented in the type unsigned long.
Currently, the actual values they can have are still constrained to the 32-bit range. Also, there are some bits of functionality (e.g. for initializers) that are not implemented yet.
This affects command lines like:
cmpl myprog.c cc=(-da=+) ...
Previously, this would be accepted, but a was actually defined to 0 rather than +.
Now, this gives an error, consistent with other tokens that are not supported in such definitions on the command line. (Perhaps we should support definitions using any tokens, but that would require bigger code changes.)
This also cleans up some related code to avoid possible null-pointer dereferences.
This is contrary to the C standards, but ORCA/C historically permitted it (as do some other compilers), and I think there is a fair amount of existing code that relies on it.
This is normally 1 (indicating a hosted implementation, where the full standard library is available and the program starts by executing main()), but it is 0 if one of the pragmas for special types of programs with different entry points has been used.
This generalizes the heuristic approach for checking whether _Noreturn functions could execute to the end of the function, extending it to apply to any function with a non-void return type. These checks use the same #pragma lint bit but give different messages depending on the situation.
This uses a heuristic that may produce both false positives and false negatives, but any false positives should reflect extraneous code at the end of the function that is not actually reachable.
We now insert spaces corresponding to whitespace between tokens, and string tokens are enclosed in quotes.
There are still issues with (at least) escape sequences in strings and comments between tokens.
Currently, this only flags return statements, not cases where they may execute to the end of the function. (Whether the function will actually return is not decidable in general, although it may be in special cases).
This currently checks for:
*Calls to undefined functions (same as bit 0)
*Parameters not declared in K&R-style function definitions
*Declarations or type names with no type specifiers (includes but is broader than the condition checked by bit 1)
Previously, the designated initializer syntax could confuse the parser enough to cause null pointer dereferences. This avoids that, and also gives a more meaningful error message to the user.
In the #pragma lint line, the integer indicating the checks to perform can now optionally be followed by a semicolon and another integer. If these are present and the second integer is 0, then the lint checks will be performed, but will be treated as warnings rather than errors, so that they do not cause compilation to fail.
These were previously allowed in some cases, but not as the last argument to a macro. Also, stringization and concatenation of them did not behave according to the standards.
In combination with earlier patches, this fixes#53.
Also, if the lint flag requiring explicit function types is set, then also require that K&R-style parameters be explicitly declared with types, rather than not being declared and defaulting to int. (This is a requirement in C99 and later.)
Previously, these would report "identifier expected"; now they correctly say "')' expected".
This introduces a new UnexpectedTokenError procedure that can be used more generally for cases where the expected token may differ based on context.
_Thread_local is recognized but gives a "not supported" error. It could arguably be 'supported' trivially by saying the execution of an ORCA/C program is just one thread and so no special handling is needed, but that likely isn't what someone using it would expect.
There would be a possible issue if a "static" or "typedef" storage class specifier occurred after a type specifier that required memory to be allocated for it, because that memory conceptually might be in the local pool, but static objects are processed at the end of the translation unit, so their types need to stick around. In practice, this should not occur, because the local pool isn't currently used for much (in particular, not for statements or declarations in the body of a function). We give an error in case this somehow might occur.
In combination with preceding commits, this fixes#14. Declaration specifiers can now appear in any order, as required by the C standards.
_Bool, _Complex, _Imaginary, _Atomic, restrict, and _Alignas are now recognized in types, but all except restrict and _Alignas will give an error saying they are not supported.
This also introduces uniform definitions of the syntactic classes of tokens that can be used in declaration specifiers and related constructs (currently used in some places but not yet in others).
Type specifiers and type qualifiers can now appear in any order, as specified by the C standards. However, storage class specifiers and function specifiers still cannot be freely mixed with them.
Specifically, the following six punctuator tokens are now supported:
<: :> <% %> %: %:%:
These behave the same as the existing tokens [, ], {, }, #, and ## (respectively), apart from their spelling.
This can be useful when the full ASCII character set cannot easily be displayed or input (e.g. on the IIgs text screen with certain language settings).
Specifically, the following will now be tokenized as keywords:
_Alignas
_Alignof
_Atomic
_Bool
_Complex
_Generic
_Imaginary
_Noreturn
_Static_assert
_Thread_local
restrict
('inline' was also added as a standard keyword in C99, but ORCA/C already treated it as such.)
The parser currently has no support for any of these keywords, so for now errors will still be generated if they are used, but this is a first step toward adding support for them.
This could happen in some very obscure cases like using these macros for the names of segments or include files. The fix is to just terminate precompiled header generation if they are encountered.
The issue was that invalid sym files could be generated if an #include is encountered within an #if or #ifdef block in the main source file. The fix (for now) is to simply terminate precompiled header generation if such an #include is encountered.
Fixes#2.
This makes something like the following work:
#define STDIO_H <stdio.h>
#include STDIO_H
It didn't previously, because workString would be overwritten by NextToken. The effect in this case was that it would erroneously try to include the header <hh>, rather than <stdio.h>.
Detected based on a couple programs from FizzBuzz-C.
Stephen Heumann