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Meta processing 

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Tristan B. Velloza Kildaire 2023-07-09 21:03:46 +02:00
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@ -87,8 +87,6 @@ constructed, then we can pass the changed program to the `TypeChecker`
and it wouldn’t know any different. For all the type checker knows, this
is just the original program.
TODO: Document me
| Method name | Return type | Description |
|----------------------------------------------|-------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| `process(Container)` | `void` | Processes the various types of meta statements in the provided `Container` |
@ -99,7 +97,7 @@ TODO: Document me
| `isSystemType(string)` | `bool` | Checks if the given type is a system alias (so, is it `size_t`/`ssize_t`) |
| `getSystemType(string)` | `string` | Resolves `size_t`/`ssize_t` to their concrete types using the `CompilerConfig` |
#### AST processing
### AST processing
The `process(Container)` method is the entry point to the whole
meta-processor engine and it is called by the `TypeChecker` by passing
@ -114,7 +112,7 @@ is a kind-of `Container`, if so then we recurse by calling
`process(childContainer)` on the child container. Therefore reaching the
depths of the AST tree.
##### Type alias replacement
#### Type alias replacement
The first step which is applied is to replace all type aliases with
their concrete values. This is accomplished by calling the

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@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ The `MetaProcessor` is the actual processing facility which can apply different
| `isSystemType(string)` | `bool` | Checks if the given type is a system alias (so, is it `size_t`/`ssize_t`) |
| `getSystemType(string)` | `string` | Resolves `size_t`/`ssize_t` to their concrete types using the `CompilerConfig` |
#### AST processing
### AST processing
The `process(Container)` method is the entry point to the whole meta-processor engine and it is called by the `TypeChecker`
by passing in the parsed `Module` instance such that the meta-proessing and AST manipulation can be applied to the entire
@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ to each body `Statement` of the current container. Right at the end after all th
check if the current `Statement` is a kind-of `Container`, if so then we recurse by calling `process(childContainer)` on
the child container. Therefore reaching the depths of the AST tree.
##### Type alias replacement
#### Type alias replacement
The first step which is applied is to replace all type aliases with their concrete values. This is accomplished
by calling the `doTypeAlias(Container, Statement)` method from the current container with the `Statement` we have