The src/type Directory

Namespace type, delivered during TC-4 and TC-EXTS. Type checking.

File: local.am (src/type/)

This is a Makefile configuration relative to the src/type/ directory. It is responsible for the integration into the libtc library with everything exported from the type module, and the linkage of the directory’s unit tests in the test-suite.

File: libtype.* (src/type/)

The interface of the type module. It exports a single procedure, types_check.

File: tasks.* (src/type/)

Tasks related to the type module (see: The src/task Directory).

File: fwd.hh (src/type/)

Forward declarations for the type module.

File: default-visitor.* (src/type/)

Implementation of the GenDefaultVisitor class template, which walks the abstract syntax tree, doing nothing. This visitor does not define visit methods for nodes related to object-oriented constructs (classes, methods, etc.); thus it is an abstract class, and is solely used as a basis for deriving other visitors. It is instantiated twice: GenDefaultVisitor<misc::constify_traits> and GenDefaultVisitor<misc::id_traits>.

Files: types.hh, type.*, array.*, attribute.*, builtin-types.*, class.*, field.*, function.*, method.*, named.* & record.* (src/type/)

The definitions of all the types. Built-in types (Int, String and Void) are defined in src/type/builtin-types.*.

File: nil.* (src/type/)

The Nil type is holding information about the real record type that it’s hiding. The record_type is set during the type checking in the parent nodes of the node holding a Nil type.

File: type-checker.* (src/type/)

The type::TypeChecker visitor. Computes the types of an AST and adds type labels to the corresponding nodes (works on syntax without objects).

File: pretty-printer.* (src/type/)

The type::PrettyPrinter visitor which pretty-prints type::Type in a human-readable way. Used to output nice type errors.

File: test-type.cc (src/type/)

Unit tests.