TMI: Yak-shaving
Mar. 28th, 2013 08:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timDown to 35 open issues for the release. I'm still working on #4439 and trying to untangle the mysteries of owned self. Since it started looking like we're not releasing 0.6 this week, I decided (quite probably unwisely) to rewrite a lot of the trans code to use the Datum type, to make the error easier to track down. The older trans code passes around raw LLVM values, whereas some of the newer code uses a Datum, which is an LLVM value bundled with a Rust type t and an annotation as to whether this value is a value of type t, or a pointer to t. Modernizing things is hard and tedious and I don't really know whether it's more or less time-consuming than actually tracking down the bug without modernizing the code. But that's how it goes.
I also added a span (location in source code that tells you the line and column number of a location in some source file) field to the Datum type, which I don't know if reviewers will object to when I try to check it in, but it sure makes debugging easier!
I feel like I should be doing something more urgent for the release, but I don't know what it is.
I also added a span (location in source code that tells you the line and column number of a location in some source file) field to the Datum type, which I don't know if reviewers will object to when I try to check it in, but it sure makes debugging easier!
I feel like I should be doing something more urgent for the release, but I don't know what it is.