CAP/MiniC/README-functions.md

MiniC Compiler

LAB6 (code generation for functions), MIF08 / CAP 2023-24

Authors

YOUR NAME HERE

Contents

TODO: Say a bit about the code infrastructure ...

Howto

As in the previous labs.

make test-codegen SSA=1 to lauch pyright and the testsuite with the three allocators (do not forget the options you can add).

Test design

TODO: give the main objectives of your tests.

Design choices

TODO: explain your choices

Known bugs

TODO: bugs and limitations you could not fix (if any).

Checklists

A check ([X]) means that the feature is implemented and tested with appropriate test cases.

Parser

• Function definition
• Function declaration
• Function call

Typer

• Function declaration
• Function definition
• Function call
• Function return

Code generation

• Function return
• Callee-saved registers
• Function call
• Getting the result of a function call
• Caller-saved registers
• Increase the size of the stack for callee/caller-saved registers
• Temporaries for giving arguments to a function call
• Temporaries for retriving arguments at the beginning of a function