notes.md

useful tools

• m commands

./tools/Debug/m -fir ../samples/test.m

• Learn llvm IR

clang -S -emit-llvm ./samples/test_c.c -o ./samples/test_c.ll

• clang RVO (return value optimization)

clang -S -emit-llvm ./test/test_rvo.c

• Dump c/c++ header ast

clang -x c++ -Xclang -ast-dump -fsyntax-only ./include/test-ccompiler.h

• Generate stdio.m/math.m lib files

./apps/c2m -i/usr/include -o../mlib stdio.h
./apps/c2m -i/usr/include -o../mlib math.h

• ld link to executable command. Unix-like system crt1.0: _start entry point for ELF, crti.o: initialization, crtn.o: finalization

ld -o helloworld -dynamic-linker /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/crt1.o /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/crti.o -lc helloworld.o /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/crtn.o

• MSVC link

link /ENTRY:main  legacy_stdio_definitions.lib ucrt.lib helloworld.o 

• history May 31, 2020 m 0.0.16 - support generic/type inference/stack-based types. 😄 Feb 29, 2020 mlang.dev site online & m 0.0.9 with if and for control support. ✨ Feb 1, 2020 about m(mlang)