DISCLAIMER: These notes are from the defunct k8 project which precedes SquirrelJME. The notes for SquirrelJME start on 2016/02/26! The k8 project was effectively a Java SE 8 operating system and as such all of the notes are in the context of that scope. That project is no longer my goal as SquirrelJME is the spiritual successor to it.
12:16
Now RETURN must be handled and I would have my first constructor, cool.
12:44
For the C recompiler to work I am going to need vtables for classes and such. I am also going to need decoration for output code also. Another thing is that the language specific dynamic recompiler or boot code will have to add executable formats, since my current recompiler just works on single methods. That will have to be the way it will work. Code gets translated then once all the methods for a class are generated the binary output for say C will create the source file for the class and its header file. So still at this point I will need to implement the entirity of the virtual machine byte operation decoding to even reach stage two. Reaching stage 3 will be about fixing issues which exist in stage 2 caused by further down stage 1 issues. However once the 3 stages successfully compile and run I would have a primitive virtual machine. One thing to note is I would have to write a Java compiler but I can sidestep that by using pre-existing packages as input to hairball (it will not build packages that exist on the disk) so I can at least side-step that issue. That would mean that I would need to lazy get the Java compiler so that if it does not exist it can then build.
12:57
I can use lots of gotos in my C code to simplify branch handling and such.
17:33
The C code will be quite literally the virtual machine op codes acting on pointers and such, so this way it is more of a graphical representation of how things are done. I can then hide stuff like garbage exception in the operation implementation.
17:38
Not sure how I will handle stuff like exception handlers however.
17:44
If code does cause an exception I could use a return status so that the
exception handler is jumped to as needed. That could work, then have say it
return an exception type. May be something as ((toss = opFoo()) != null) goto
handlerfor_1234;.
21:40
I could use setjmp/longjmp and figure out a way where I can do stuff such as catch and finally as needed.
23:39
I require checks to be performed for the various operations. That is when they are created the inputs and outputs are validated so they are correct. If say a method has 20 arguments then the passed in types must be correct. However they may be correct and it will never be known, in the case of classes which depend on others.
23:43
That would probably be best be done when all the operand states are known. In any case the outputs will always be overwritten based on their type so really only the inputs require checking. It is quite possible for the code to be normalized as needed however. As for operand implementation, only 159 left to implement, which is quite a bunch. I could probably write a cache for the input and output registers, but I need a nice expandable cache map for values. Using lambdas and such would vastly make it not as big as it is needed however.
23:50
I suppose the code to concentrate on is the handling of byte code operations, then once those are handled I can better output specific code (the current C test code) once all of it is inside and handled correctly.