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Re: rtl metadata musings


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: rtl metadata musings
Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 23:52:34 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.130005 (Ma Gnus v0.5) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux)

Hi!

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> skribis:

> 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.

This sounds great!

I guess literal strings would go out as per ‘SCM_IMMUTABLE_STRING’
(which needs relocation), right?

Perhaps the .guile.docstr section could eventually be used to contain
stexi, but that seems to already fit into the plan anyway.

Ludo’.




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