protected fun compile_header_structs is abstract
# Declaration of structures for nitni undelying the FFI
- protected fun compile_nitni_structs is abstract
+ protected fun compile_nitni_structs
+ do
+ self.header.add_decl """
+/* Native reference to Nit objects */
+/* This structure is used to represent every Nit type in extern methods and custom C code. */
+struct nitni_ref {
+ struct nitni_ref *next,
+ *prev; /* adjacent global references in global list */
+ int count; /* number of time this global reference has been marked */
+};
+
+/* List of global references from C code to Nit objects */
+/* Instanciated empty at init of Nit system and filled explicitly by user in C code */
+struct nitni_global_ref_list_t {
+ struct nitni_ref *head, *tail;
+};
+extern struct nitni_global_ref_list_t *nitni_global_ref_list;
+
+/* Initializer of global reference list */
+extern void nitni_global_ref_list_init();
+
+/* Intern function to add a global reference to the list */
+extern void nitni_global_ref_add( struct nitni_ref *ref );
+
+/* Intern function to remove a global reference from the list */
+extern void nitni_global_ref_remove( struct nitni_ref *ref );
+
+/* Increase count on an existing global reference */
+extern void nitni_global_ref_incr( struct nitni_ref *ref );
+
+/* Decrease count on an existing global reference */
+extern void nitni_global_ref_decr( struct nitni_ref *ref );
+"""
+ end
# Generate the main C function.
# This function:
v.add("glob_argc = argc; glob_argv = argv;")
v.add("initialize_gc_option();")
+
+ v.add "initialize_nitni_global_refs();"
+
var main_type = mainmodule.sys_type
if main_type != null then
var mainmodule = v.compiler.mainmodule
v.add("\}")
end
+ # Copile all C functions related to the [incr|decr]_ref features of the FFI
+ fun compile_nitni_global_ref_functions
+ do
+ var v = self.new_visitor
+ v.add """
+struct nitni_global_ref_list_t *nitni_global_ref_list;
+void initialize_nitni_global_refs() {
+ nitni_global_ref_list = (struct nitni_global_ref_list_t*)nit_alloc(sizeof(struct nitni_global_ref_list_t));
+ nitni_global_ref_list->head = NULL;
+ nitni_global_ref_list->tail = NULL;
+}
+
+void nitni_global_ref_add( struct nitni_ref *ref ) {
+ if ( nitni_global_ref_list->head == NULL ) {
+ nitni_global_ref_list->head = ref;
+ ref->prev = NULL;
+ } else {
+ nitni_global_ref_list->tail->next = ref;
+ ref->prev = nitni_global_ref_list->tail;
+ }
+ nitni_global_ref_list->tail = ref;
+
+ ref->next = NULL;
+}
+
+void nitni_global_ref_remove( struct nitni_ref *ref ) {
+ if ( ref->prev == NULL ) {
+ nitni_global_ref_list->head = ref->next;
+ } else {
+ ref->prev->next = ref->next;
+ }
+
+ if ( ref->next == NULL ) {
+ nitni_global_ref_list->tail = ref->prev;
+ } else {
+ ref->next->prev = ref->prev;
+ }
+}
+
+extern void nitni_global_ref_incr( struct nitni_ref *ref ) {
+ if ( ref->count == 0 ) /* not registered */
+ {
+ /* add to list */
+ nitni_global_ref_add( ref );
+ }
+
+ ref->count ++;
+}
+
+extern void nitni_global_ref_decr( struct nitni_ref *ref ) {
+ if ( ref->count == 1 ) /* was last reference */
+ {
+ /* remove from list */
+ nitni_global_ref_remove( ref );
+ }
+
+ ref->count --;
+}
+"""
+ end
+
# List of additional files required to compile (FFI)
var extern_bodies = new Array[ExternFile]