Last week and this week: - Bugfixing. The compiler is finally able to finish compiling itself. With PEVerify I get 639 errors (18 unique).
Next week: - Fix the PEVerify errors.
Problems: - I had a bug it took me four days to work around, as always problems with the MS runtime, it failed with a TypeLoadException for several types complaining that the generic parameter constraints were not fulfilled. It took me four days to make a small reproduceable testcase, in the end I had to copy all the code to another folder and start commenting out to find out when it started working. In the end it seems that the simple presence of a class with a method with type parameter with constraints can make a totally unrelated generic class fail. And it all have to be compiled in a specific order, and it has to be done with the debugger attached, because otherwise the it all works perfectly...
The compiler is not self-hosting yet, it is only able to produce an executable of its own source, but it does not do so correctly (therefore the PEVerify errors).
Hopefully there are not very many bugs left and I think I will be able to fix them in a couple of weeks.
Rolf
On 8/6/06, Miguel de Icaza <miguel.de.ic...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Rolf, > > Last week and this week: > > - Bugfixing. The compiler is finally able to finish compiling itself. > > With PEVerify I get 639 errors (18 unique).
> This is *fantastic*
> I have a question, is the resulting compiler able to compile itself?
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