- comparisons of vectors give masks (boolxN): select(m, a, b), m.any/all/count, & | ^ !;
f32x8(list, i, fill) and v.store_part(list, i) for the end of a list (masked load/store)
- v.shuffle(constant lanes), v.lo(), v.hi(), concat(a, b), table.lookup(indices):
pshufb / vpshufb on x86 (SSSE3 and up), tbl on ARM64 (checked in the assembly, LLVM 18 and 21)
- acc.dot_add(a, b): i32 lanes gain 4 byte products each, exactly; vpdpbusd with AVX-VNNI or AVX-512 VNNI,
usdot/sdot/udot on ARM64, the sum written out elsewhere (pmaddwd); run here with all three paths agreeing
- @cpu("avx2,fma") fn: LLVM target-features for one function (+evex512 for AVX-512, which LLVM 18+ needs);
cpu_has("avx2"): CPUID + XGETBV on x86, hwcaps on Linux ARM64, sysctl on macOS; a wide vector can't be passed
between functions with different @cpu (its registers differ), and the compiler says so
- the compiler asks clang which features --cpu means (its predefined macros, cached), so dot_add picks the instruction
- Nix's clang wrapper dropped -march=native in nix-shell (reproduced): finch tells it NIX_ENFORCE_NO_NATIVE=0, shell.nix too,
and warns if --cpu native still made no difference
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Psc42moPLwP43Cmb9oZqSR
Hover, go to definition, completion (after a dot too: fields, methods, a module's names, an enum's variants,
array/text/map methods), signature help, the outline and errors while typing -- everything the C++ one did,
and the same tests/lsp_test.py passes against it.
It doesn't type-check by itself: for every change it runs finch index on the editor's text (--overlay says
which file the text stands in for) and reads what the compiler learned about every name, which is also what
the compiler's own error messages are made of. Half-typed code keeps using the last version that compiled.
src/docs.fch is the one description of the built-ins that hover and completion share.
tests/run.sh runs the LSP test too. 107 passed.
boot/ is src/ now. The C++ compiler and CMake are gone from this branch (they are on before-bootstrap).
bootstrap/build.sh builds the compiler from bootstrap/<system>.ll -- the compiler's own LLVM IR -- then builds
it with itself and checks the two come out identical. bootstrap/build.sh seed writes the seed anew.
The driver is complete: the runtime is compiled once and kept in ~/.cache/finch; a program's own C files,
.o and .a files and frameworks link along; a linker failure is read and answered with link "lib" or the
library that is missing. The old tests/fail diagnostics are all in again (a missing import, a str compared with
null, 'write just the library's name', a map key that is a float, non-ASCII names, ...).
tests/run.sh is the one test runner: programs, refusals, -g builds and the shared library. 106 passed.
- examples/opengl.fch: OpenGL 3.3 core, shaders, VAO/VBO, a spinning triangle (checked offscreen)
- examples/vulkan.fch: instance, GPUs with properties/memory/queues, logical device and queue
- ptr(n) and int(p) conversions for C APIs that pass offsets as pointers
- .ptr works on string literals; a comma after the last call argument is allowed
- a missing header included by an imported header is now named in the error
- the old .fn extension hint is gone (Finch is new, there are no old files)
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.fn is already used by other tools (e.g. Fennel). Modules are now looked up as name.fch;
a leftover name.fn gets a clear message telling you to rename it.
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- struct with default values; constructors Point(1, 2) / Point(x: 1); field access, auto-deref through pointers
- []T arrays with bounds checks, literals, for-each, push/pop/insert/remove/clear/resize/find/contains/join/slice/reverse/sort
- str carries its length: .len, s[i], +, comparison, sub/find/split/trim/upper/lower/replace/repeat/bytes, str(x), int(s), float(s)
- Memory: values own their memory and are freed at the end of their block; assignment copies, temporaries move;
parameters are lent and only copied when the function changes them; defer; new()/free() for manual heap memory
- input(), read_file/write_file/file_exists, exit(), fn main([]str args)
- Finch modules: import name, module.fn(), module.Struct
- C structs from headers (fields, fixed arrays, nested); passed and returned by value with the System V x86-64 ABI;
addr(fn) gives C a callback
- link "file.c" compiles and links your own C code
- -g emits DWARF debug info (gdb/lldb)
- Small C runtime (runtime/finch_rt.c) embedded in the compiler, cached in ~/.cache/finch
- Tests: 58, all clean under valgrind (MEMCHECK=1 tests/run.sh)
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A small, fast programming language on LLVM with C-like syntax.
- Lexer, recursive-descent parser, single-pass type checker + LLVM IR codegen, O2 pipeline
- Types: int/float/bool/char/str, sized i8..u64/f32/f64, pointers ptr[T] with addr()/.value/null
- Functions (fn ... -> T), if/else, while, for..in, break/continue, Go-style operator precedence
- Implicit conversions only when lossless; literals adapt to their target type
- Runtime checks for division by zero, MIN/-1 and null .value
- C interop: import "header.h" via libclang, link "lib" with pkg-config, link-error advice
- Human-readable errors with source excerpts
- Test suite (34 tests), examples, docs for beginners/technicians/engineers in English and Polish
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