NAME ^

POST::Compiler - Compiler for POST trees

DESCRIPTION ^

POST::Compiler defines a compiler that converts a POST tree into PIR or an Eval PMC (bytecode).

METHODS ^

pir_children(node)
Return generated PIR for node and all of its children.
pir(Any node)
Return generated pir for any POST::Node. Returns the generated pir of node's children.
pir(POST::Op node)
Return pir for an operation node.
pir(POST::Label node)
Generate a label.
pir(POST::Sub node)
Generate PIR for node, storing the result into the compiler's $!code attribute and returning any code needed to look up the sub.

AUTHOR ^

Patrick Michaud <pmichaud@pobox.com> is the author and maintainer. Please send patches and suggestions to the Parrot porters or Perl 6 compilers mailing lists.

HISTORY ^

2007-11-21 Significant refactor as part of Parrot Compiler Toolkit

COPYRIGHT ^

Copyright (C) 2006-2008, The Perl Foundation.


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