20.7 Internals Improvements
Some more items that would make g77 more reliable
and easier to maintain:
- Generally make expression handling focus
more on critical syntax stuff, leaving semantics to callers.
For example,
anything a caller can check, semantically, let it do so, rather
than having expr.c do it.
(Exceptions might include things like
diagnosing `FOO(I--K:)=BAR' where `FOO' is a
PARAMETER
—if
it seems
important to preserve the left-to-right-in-source order of production
of diagnostics.)
- Come up with better naming conventions for -D to establish requirements
to achieve desired implementation dialect via proj.h.
- Clean up used tokens and
ffewhere
s in ffeglobal_terminate_1
.
- Replace sta.c
outpooldisp
mechanism with malloc_pool_use
.
- Check for
opANY
in more places in com.c, std.c,
and ste.c, and get rid of the `opCONVERT(opANY)' kludge
(after determining if there is indeed no real need for it).
- Utility to read and check bad.def messages and their references in the
code, to make sure calls are consistent with message templates.
- Search and fix `&ffe...' and similar so that
`ffe...ptr...' macros are
available instead (a good argument for wishing this could have written all
this stuff in C++, perhaps).
On the other hand, it's questionable whether this sort of
improvement is really necessary, given the availability of
tools such as Emacs and Perl, which make finding any
address-taking of structure members easy enough?
- Some modules truly export the member names of their structures (and the
structures themselves), maybe fix this, and fix other modules that just
appear to as well (by appending `_', though it'd be ugly and probably
not worth the time).
- Implement C macros `RETURNS(value)' and `SETS(something,value)'
in proj.h
and use them throughout g77 source code (especially in the definitions
of access macros in `.h' files) so they can be tailored
to catch code writing into a `RETURNS()' or reading from a `SETS()'.
- Decorate throughout with
const
and other such stuff.
- All F90 notational derivations in the source code are still based
on the S8.112 version of the draft standard.
Probably should update
to the official standard, or put documentation of the rules as used
in the code...uh...in the code.
- Some
ffebld_new
calls (those outside of ffeexpr.c or
inside but invoked via paths not involving ffeexpr_lhs
or
ffeexpr_rhs
) might be creating things
in improper pools, leading to such things staying around too long or
(doubtful, but possible and dangerous) not long enough.
- Some
ffebld_list_new
(or whatever) calls might not be matched by
ffebld_list_bottom
(or whatever) calls, which might someday matter.
(It definitely is not a problem just yet.)
- Probably not doing clean things when we fail to
EQUIVALENCE
something
due to alignment/mismatch or other problems—they end up without
ffestorag
objects, so maybe the backend (and other parts of the front
end) can notice that and handle like an opANY
(do what it wants, just
don't complain or crash).
Most of this seems to have been addressed
by now, but a code review wouldn't hurt.