Re: rtl metadata musings

[Andy Wingo]

Hi,

On Fri 10 May 2013 07:07, Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:

> To recap, the new toolchain has the new RTL assembly embedded in ELF.
> There are 6 things we need to put in the ELF file somehow:
>
>   (1) Procedure names and bounds.
>   (2) Docstrings.
>   (3) Generic procedure metadata (for procedure-properties).
>   (4) Arity information (see docs for program-arities).
>   (5) Information about local variables for the debugger.
>   (6) Line numbers.

A status update: (1), (2), and (4) are done.  The arities code doesn't
use quite the same runtime interface as 2.0; not sure what can be done
there.  I'll take a look later.  I'll do (3) soon.  (5) and (6) require
a bit of time and mental clarity; maybe in a few weeks.

Cheers,

Andy
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