Doodled a bit to combine new SM compiler with the new interpreter for partial evaluation, but seem to have lost my stride after 2 weeks of putting out fires at work...
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Two more weeks of exhaustion.. But picked it up again. Lure Scheme: added preliminary Erlang, JavaScript and GDB script backends, and started working on dataflow analysis (liveness) for the state machine compiler to implement state variable allocation across suspend points.
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Still existential questions about what this thing is supposed to be. For now it's self-propelling. Something something Scheme, microcontrollers and test systems.
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In related news, I contributed a Lua backend to Ribbit VM. I'd like to integrate that somehow. There is some overlap, though my main aim is compilation.
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Anyways I think I know what I want: rebuild the ideas of Staapl (interactive tethered development), but build it on top of standard tools (GDB & C) using a lowest common denominator language (Scheme or Scheme subset) as a focal point.
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Actually surprised I got compilation from Scheme to GDB script working with so little effort. It can now do functions, if/then/else and while loops (from named let or single-def letrec, with support for nesting).
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Managed to encode anonymous functions - see gist. Unfortunately due to global variables only, there is no re-entrancy. E.g. nested 'map' won't work. Can't think of a simple solution, so will probably resort to inlining.
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Possible solutions: use nested data structures on target, but this requires target memory. GDB can host arrays so could implement memory which could host a low level VM + GC, but that seems a bit far-fetched.
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This needed a break apparently... I know where to go next: build something with RTIC first, then see how to mesh the state machine compiler with something that maps to RTIC or some stripped down C version of the RTIC idea (use Cortex M NVIC as a scheduler).
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