[M3devel] temporary records lack typeids

[Jay K]

It'd be nice if temporary records had typeids.


Specifically, it'd be nice if closures, instead of being "3 word CGType.Struct" where more like
declare_record 3 fields typeidxxx
  declare_field integer marker
  declare_field address function_pointer
  declare_field address static_link
declare_typename closure = typeidxxx


Then:
 1) they'd be viewable somewhat in a debugger
   note that the static_link is up to the backend to define.
   It is also a pointer to a struct, but the frontend doesn't know that

 2) I could soon dispense with my mechanism for declaring structs with size but not particular fields.
i.e.

#define M3STRUCT(n) m3struct_##n##_t
#define M3STRUCT1(n) typedef struct { volatile UINT8 a[n]; } M3STRUCT(n);
#define M3STRUCT2(n) typedef struct { volatile UINT16 a[(n)/2]; } M3STRUCT(n);
#define M3STRUCT4(n) typedef struct { volatile UINT32 a[(n)/4]; } M3STRUCT(n);
#define M3STRUCT8(n) typedef struct { volatile UINT64 a[(n)/8]; } M3STRUCT(n);
...
M3STRUCT8(8)
M3STRUCT8(24)
...

M3STRUCT(24) L_32_L_33 = { 0 };



all structs were using this, but now likely only closures are..er...what is that 8 byte struct?
That is also something I'll remove soon, unfinished work making uplevel structs strongly typed.
Maybe a long standing bug in the C backend also. I'll know soon..


 - Jay
 		 	   		  
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