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.

Supporting Subroutines and Improving/Refactoring WASM Backend

This week, I worked on

  • Refactoring/Improving the WebAssembly Backend
  • Adding support for Subroutines (Still working on this)

The Improvements brought are the following:

  • The maps m_var_name_idx_map and m_func_name_idx_map now use/support keys hashed using get_hash(). This hopefully/possibly reduces the possibilities of collision in these maps.
  • New functions emit_function_prototype() and emit_function_body() have been added/defined which make it possible to independently define the function prototype and the function bodies. This hopefully/possibly encourages code reuse.
  • The concept of SymbolInfo (used by the C and CPP Backends) is also introduced.

Under progress:

  • #21 brings the support for Subroutines.
  • Once it is complete, the WebAssembly Backend would then be able to support Subroutines.
  • This would hopefully allow a larger subset of code to be parsed by the LFortran WebAssembly Backend.

I will update here as soon as I make progress on the same PR #21

This phase was mostly/approximately from 16-07-2022 to 22-07-2022.

The MRs during this phase are as follows:

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