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| author | Andreas Rumpf <andreas@andi> | 2008-06-22 16:14:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Andreas Rumpf <andreas@andi> | 2008-06-22 16:14:11 +0200 |
| commit | 405b86068e6a3d39970b9129ceec0a9108464b28 (patch) | |
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diff --git a/doc/filelist.txt b/doc/filelist.txt new file mode 100755 index 000000000..cdb06cb9c --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/filelist.txt @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +Short description of Nimrod's modules +------------------------------------- + +============== ========================================================== +Module Description +============== ========================================================== +lexbase buffer handling of the lexical analyser +scanner lexical analyser + +ast type definitions of the abstract syntax tree (AST) and + node constructors +astalgo algorithms for containers of AST nodes; converting the + AST to YAML; the symbol table +trees few algorithms for nodes; this module is less important +types module for traversing type graphs; also contain several + helpers for dealing with types + +sigmatch contains the matching algorithm that is used for proc + calls +semexprs contains the semantic checking phase for expressions +semstmts contains the semantic checking phase for statements +semtypes contains the semantic checking phase for types + +idents implements a general mapping from identifiers to an internal + representation (``PIdent``) that is used, so that a simple + pointer comparison suffices to say whether two Nimrod + identifiers are equivalent + +ropes implements long strings using represented as trees for + lazy evaluation; used mainly by the code generators + +ccgobj contains type definitions neeeded for C code generation + and some helpers +ccgmangl contains the name mangler for converting Nimrod + identifiers to their C counterparts +ccgutils contains helpers for the C code generator +ccgtemps contains the handling of temporary variables for the + C code generator +ccgtypes the generator for C types +ccgstmts the generator for statements +ccgexprs the generator for expressions +extccomp this module calls the C compiler and linker; interesting + if you want to add support for a new C compiler +============== ========================================================== |