completly stuck in a rewrite in minie

3 files changed, 38 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/minie/DESIGN b/minie/DESIGN
index a517964..1dabf9c 100644
--- a/minie/DESIGN
+++ b/minie/DESIGN
@@ -69,3 +69,6 @@ built on as many systems as possible. The goal is that N is self-hosting
 using the toolchain of O.
 
 Step 3: Write a native backend for N targetting system T'' or a for a simulator E(T'')
+
+TODO: Tombstone notation, can also be applied to more than just a compiler
+
diff --git a/minie/TODOS b/minie/TODOS
index d06e971..d57248d 100644
--- a/minie/TODOS
+++ b/minie/TODOS
@@ -279,8 +279,12 @@ set/bitset/enum
 set: mutually exclusive
 bitset: usable as switches, flags
 
+have a look at System/360 and how the grand-fathers and fathers did it:
+XPL/XCOM: strings af variable size with garbage collection
+
 links
 -----
 
 https://hackernoon.com/considerations-for-programming-language-design-a-rebuttal-5fb7ef2fd4ba
 https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon/A2/Oberon.Strings.Mod
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tombstone_diagram
diff --git a/minie/e2c.c b/minie/e2c.c
index 920c130..7ba88d5 100644
--- a/minie/e2c.c
+++ b/minie/e2c.c
@@ -1498,6 +1498,7 @@ static void procedureName( void )
 
 static void procedureDeclaration( void )
 {
+	char typeName[MAX_STRING_LEN];
 	char return_type[MAX_IDENT_LEN];
 	Symbol *symbol;
 	Type *funcType;
@@ -1527,10 +1528,37 @@ static void procedureDeclaration( void )
 					Abort( "Too many parameters in definition of procedure" );
 				}
 				identifier( );
-				/* TODO from here */
-				/* lookup types, define local variables as parameters */
-				symbol->symbol.procedure.params[symbol->symbol.procedure.len]
+
+				/* NO: new way, remember all local names and types, eventually definiting
+				 * new types. Then when entering the VAR section of the procedure, add
+				 * the parameters as local variables BEFORE the definition of new locals!
+				 */
+				 
+				/* define local variable of that type */
+				/* TODO: just in the case of a following block, otherwise we have a forward
+				 * declaraition */
 				
+				/* lookup types, define local variables as parameters */
+				/* define the procedure with pointers to eventually new (anonymous) types */
+
+				/* TODO from here */
+		
+		/*	 new?	
+				sprintf( typeName, 
+
+		sprintf( typeName, "__array_%d_of_%s", num, ident );
+		type = get_type_symbol( current_scope, typeName );
+		if( type == NULL ) {
+			Symbol *symbol = insert_symbol( current_scope, typeName );
+			symbol->kind = SYMBOL_TYPE;
+			symbol->symbol.type.kind = TYPE_ARRAY;
+			symbol->symbol.type.type.array.len = num;
+			symbol->symbol.type.type.array.type = basicType;
+			type = &symbol->symbol.type;
+		}
+		*/
+				symbol->symbol.procedure.params[symbol->symbol.procedure.len].kind = SYMBOL_TYPE;
+
 				
 				funcType.details.function.params[funcType.details.function.len] = (Type *)( &funcType.details.function.data + sizeof( Type ) * funcType.details.function.len );
 				strncpy( funcType.details.function.params[funcType.details.function.len]->name, ident, MAX_IDENT_LEN );