Hey there 🤗, Welcome to my GSoC Journey

This is a series of blogs that I am writing to share my amazing GSoC 22 (Google Summer of Code 2022) Journey with you all.

The Designing of the WASM->WAT Backend

Traditionally, whenever there is a new feature added to LFortran, there is also a test case added. This ensures proper working of the feature. At the same, it also helps find/debug code breakings due to future contributions.

Given that we added a ASR->WASM backend in !1713, we now needed to add a test case. The ASR->WASM backend generates a wasm file, which is a binary file. Using this binary file as a test reference was not a good idea, because if there were any changes in the binary file, it would not be obvious if we didn’t break anything. So, the best way forward was to implement a WASM->WAT backend. More details about this discussion are here #689.

This phase was mostly/approximately from 22-05-2022 to 03-06-2022.

The MRs during this phase are as follows:

• !1748
• #4
• #5
• !1757

That’s all for this blog. Thank you for your time. We continue this series in the next blog.