blaise/tools
Graeme Geldenhuys f66260093e Achieve self-hosting for hello-world compilation
The blaise compiler now compiles its own source (tests/blaise-compiler.pas)
into a second-stage binary that successfully compiles and runs a hello-world
program. All 834 compiler tests still pass.

Codegen and RTL fixes that unblocked self-hosting:

- String literal interning (uCodeGenQBE): set FStrLits.CaseSensitive := True.
  FPC's TStringList.IndexOf is case-insensitive by default, so distinct
  literals like 'WRITELN' and 'WriteLn' collapsed to the same label.

- ARC on implicit Self.Field assignments (uCodeGenQBE): EmitAssignment's
  implicit-Self branch did a raw storel for class/string fields. Fresh
  _ClassAlloc'ed objects start at refcnt 0, so without the addref they were
  freed by later local releases. Now addrefs new value and releases old.

- #nn character literals (uLexer): UnescapeString handled only 'text'.
  Extended to decode #nn decimal literals and concatenated forms like
  'abc'#13#10'def'. Local OrdAt helper lets the body parse under FPC and
  the self-hosted compiler.

- Chr() builtin: registered in uSymbolTable, handled in uSemantic, emitted
  in uCodeGenQBE as _Chr, implemented in rtl/blaise_str.c.

- LF line separator (Classes.pas): TStringList.GetText used #13#10; QBE
  rejects CR in its input. Changed to #10.

Self-hosting source (tests/blaise-compiler.pas) — needs a virtual Destroy
on TASTNode and Exception (post-TObject-stripping they became root classes
without a vtable, breaking `is` checks and exception message layout).
TAST* descendants chain `override`.

Migration tooling: add tools/migrate_full.py — the script that generates
tests/blaise-compiler.pas by flattening the eight compiler units and RTL
Classes unit into a single self-contained Pascal source. The postprocess()
step injects virtual Destroy on TASTNode / TTypeDesc and strips `override`
from non-vtable root classes.
2026-04-24 00:21:43 +01:00
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migration-analyser Phase 1 bootstrap: Blaise compiler skeleton 2026-04-20 15:35:50 +01:00
.gitkeep Initial project scaffold 2026-04-20 14:22:10 +01:00
migrate_full.py Achieve self-hosting for hello-world compilation 2026-04-24 00:21:43 +01:00