This directory contains the "javatools" project, which is a set of Java classes that implement the Ecstasy lexer, parser, compiler, IR, runtime, etc.
This project uses the library produced by the "javatools_utils" project,
and the implicit.x resource file from the "ecstasy" project.
Long term, this project will be used to help support IDE plug-ins for common Java-based IDEs, such as IntelliJ IDEA.
(Note: The test portion of this project may have dependencies on test frameworks.)
This project produces the javatools.jar file.
The License is the Apache License, Version 2.0.
Status: Suitable for use
- Driven by
org.xvm.tool.Compiler - (The original command line tool for the compiler is
org.xvm.compiler.CommandLine) - Lexed by
org.xvm.compiler.Lexerintoorg.xvm.compiler.Tokenobjects - Recursive descent parsed by
org.xvm.compiler.Parserintoorg.xvm.compiler.ast.AstNodeobjects - AST nodes are multi-pass compiled (with optional re-queuing)
via
org.xvm.compiler.ast.StageManager
Status: Suitable for use
- Structures are all based on
org.xvm.asm.XvmStructure - Constant values and persistent identity references encoded
as
org.xvm.asm.Constantobjects - Inheritance tree of component types starting with
org.xvm.asm.Component - Virtual machine instructions encoded as
org.xvm.asm.Opobjects (see theops.txtfile in the documentation)
Status: Working proof-of-concept (will be replaced by an LLVM-based adaptive compiler).
- Command line is
org.xvm.tool.Runner - Implementation in
org.xvm.runtimepackage
Warning: This runtime is not speedy, by any stretch; this is expected, because it is only intended as a proof-of-concept. The runtime is currently implemented as an interpreter, and the interpreter (which would be naturally slow to begin with) has not been optimized. Its purpose is to be malleable and easy to test, so that we could prove out the design of the compiler and the Ecstasy IR.