-# This is an example INI file that can be used to set compiler options
-# without the requirement for supplying them as arguments on the command
-# line, this can be coupled with progs.src. To utilize this file there
-# are two options availble, if it's named "gmqcc.ini" or "gmqcc.cfg" and
-# the file exists in the directory that GMQCC is invoked from, the compiler
-# will implicitally find and execute regardless. For more freedom you may
-# use -config=<file> from the command line to specify a more explicit
-# directory/name.ext for the configuration file.
-
-
-# These are common compiler flags usually represented via the -f prefix
-# from the command line.
+#This configuration file is similar to a regular .ini file. Comments start
+#with hashtags or semicolons, sections are written in square brackets and
+#in each section there can be arbitrary many key-value pairs.
+
+#There are 3 sections currently: ‘flags’, ‘warnings’, ‘optimizations’.
+#They contain a list of boolean values of the form ‘VARNAME = true’ or
+#‘VARNAME = false’. The variable names are the same as for the corre‐
+#sponding -W, -f or -O flag written with only capital letters and dashes
+#replaced by underscores.
+
[flags]
- # Enabling this can potentially reduce code size by overlapping
- # locals where possible.
- OVERLAP_LOCALS = false
-
- # in some older versions of the Darkplaces engine the string table
- # size is computed wrong causing compiled progs.dat to fail to load
- # Enabling this works around the bug by writing a few additional
- # null bytes to the end of the string table to compensate.
- DARKPLACES_STRING_TABLE_BUG = false
-
- # Enabling this corrects the assignment of vector field pointers via
- # subsituting STORE_FLD with STORE_V.
- ADJUST_VECTOR_FIELDS = true
-
- # Enabling this allows the use of the FTEQ preprocessor, as well as
- # additional preprocessing directives such as #error and #warning.
- FTEPP = true
-
- # Enabling this relaxes switch statement semantics
- RELAXED_SWITCH = false
-
- # Enabling this allows short-circut evaluation and logic, opposed
- # to full evaluation.
- SHORT_LOGIC = false
-
- # Enabling this allows perl-like evaluation/logic.
- PERL_LOGIC = true
-
- # Enabling this allows the use of the "translatable strings" extension
- # assisted by .po files.
- TRANSLATABLE_STRINGS = false
-
- # Enabling this prevents initializations from becoming constant unless
- # 'const' is specified as a type qualifier.
- INITIALIZED_NONCONSTANTS = false
-
- # Enabling this allows function types to be assignable even if their
- # signatures are invariant of each other.
- ASSIGN_FUNCTION_TYPES = false
-
- # Enabling this will allow the generation of .lno files for engine
- # virtual machine backtraces (this is enabled with -g as well).
- LNO = false
-
- # Enabling this corrects ternary percedence bugs present in fteqcc.
- CORRECT_TERNARY = true
-
- # Prevent the creation of _x, _y and _z progdefs for vectors
- SINGLE_VECTOR_DEFS = false
-
- # Cast vectors to real booleans when used in logic expressions.
- # This is achieved by using NOT_V.
- CORRECT_LOGIC = false
-
- # Always treat empty strings as true. Usuall !"" yields true, because
- # the string-NOT instruction considers empty strings to be false, while
- # an empty string as condition for 'if' will be considered true, since
- # only the numerical value of the global is looked at.
- TRUE_EMPTY_STRINGS = false
-
- # Opposite of the above, empty strings are always false. Similar to
- # CORRECT_LOGIC this will always use NOT_S to cast a string to a real
- # boolean value.
- FALSE_EMPTY_STRINGS = false
-
- # Recognize utf-8 characters in character constants, and encode
- # codepoint escape sequences in strings as utf-8. This essentially allows
- # \{1234} escape sequences to be higher than 255.
- UTF8
-
- # When a warning is printed and it is set to be treated as error via
- # a -Werror switch, compilation will be stopped, unless this is false.
- # When this is false, the rest of the code will be compiled, and at the end
- # the file and line of the first warning will be shown.
- BAIL_ON_WERROR = true
-
- # Allow loops and switches to be labeled and break and continue to take an
- # optional label to target a specific loop/switch.
- LOOP_LABELS = false
-
- # Enable the 'nil' null constant, which has no type. It can be used as the
- # right hand of any assignment regardless of the required type.
- UNTYPED_NIL = false
-
- # Be "permissive". For instance, when -funtyped-nil is used, this allows local
- # variables with the name 'nil' to be declared.
- PREMISSIVE = false
-
- # Allow vararg access from within QC of the form: ...(argnumber, type)
- VARIADIC_ARGS = true
-
- # Most Quake VMs, including the one from FTEQW or up till recently
- # Darkplaces, do not cope well with vector instructions with overlapping
- # input and output. This option will avoid producing such code.
- LEGACY_VECTOR_MATHS = true
-
- # Builtin-numbers are usually just immediate constants.
- # The following allows whole expressions to be used, as long as they
- # are compile-time constant.
- EXPRESSIONS_FOR_BUILTINS = false
-
-# These are all the warnings, usually present via the -W prefix from
-# the command line.
+ #Add some additional characters to the string table in order to
+ #compensate for a wrong boundcheck in some specific version of the
+ #darkplaces engine.
+
+ DARKPLACES_STRING_TABLE_BUG = true
+
+
+ #When assigning to field pointers of type .vector the common be‐
+ #haviour in compilers like fteqcc is to only assign the x-compo‐
+ #nent of the pointer. This means that you can use the vector as
+ #such, but you cannot use its y and z components directly. This
+ #flag fixes this behaviour. Before using it make sure your code
+ #does not depend on the buggy behaviour.
+
+ ADJUST_VECTOR_FIELDS = true
+
+
+ #Enable a partially fteqcc-compatible preprocessor. It supports
+ #all the features used in the Xonotic codebase. If you need more,
+ #write a ticket.
+
+ FTEPP = true
+
+
+ #Enable some predefined macros. This only works in combination
+ #with '-fftepp' and is currently not included by '-std=fteqcc'.
+ #The following macros will be added:
+ #
+ # __LINE__
+ # __FILE__
+ # __COUNTER__
+ # __COUNTER_LAST__
+ # __RANDOM__
+ # __RANDOM_LAST__
+ # __DATE__
+ # __TIME__
+ # __FUNC__
+ #
+ #Note that __FUNC__ is not actually a preprocessor macro, but is
+ #recognized by the parser even with the preprocessor disabled.
+ #
+ #Note that fteqcc also defines __NULL__ which becomes the first
+ #global. Assigning it to a vector does not yield the same result
+ #as in gmqcc where __NULL__ is defined to nil (See -funtyped-nil
+ #), which will cause the vector to be zero in all components. With
+ #fteqcc only the first component will be 0, while the other two
+ #will become the first to of the global return value. This behav‐
+ #ior is odd and relying on it should be discouraged, and thus is
+ #not supported by gmqcc.
+
+ FTEPP_PREDEFS = false
+
+
+ #Allow switch cases to use non constant variables.
+
+ RELAXED_SWITCH = true
+
+
+ #Perform early out in logical AND and OR expressions. The final
+ #result will be either a 0 or a 1, see the next flag for more pos‐
+ #sibilities.
+
+ SHORT_LOGIC = true
+
+
+ #In many languages, logical expressions perform early out in a
+ #special way: If the left operand of an AND yeilds true, or the
+ #one of an OR yields false, the complete expression evaluates to
+ #the right side. Thus ‘true && 5’ evaluates to 5 rather than 1.
+
+ PERL_LOGIC = false
+
+
+ #Enable the underscore intrinsic: Using ‘_("A string constant")’
+ #will cause the string immediate to get a name with a "dotrans‐
+ #late_" prefix. The darkplaces engine recognizes these and trans‐
+ #lates them in a way similar to how gettext works.
+
+ TRANSLATABLE_STRINGS = true
+
+
+ #Don't implicitly convert initialized variables to constants. With
+ #this flag, the const keyword is required to make a constant.
+
+ INITIALIZED_NONCONSTANTS = false
+
+
+ #If this flag is not set, (and it is set by default in the qcc and
+ #fteqcc standards), assigning function pointers of mismatching
+ #signatures will result in an error rather than a warning.
+
+ ASSIGN_FUNCTION_TYPES = true
+
+
+ #Produce a linenumber file along with the output .dat file.
+
+ LNO = false
+
+
+ #Use C's operator precedence for ternary expressions. Unless your
+ #code depends on fteqcc-compatible behaviour, you'll want to use
+ #this option.
+
+ CORRECT_TERNARY = true
+
+
+ #Normally vectors generate 4 defs, once for the vector, and once
+ #for its components with _x, _y, _z suffixes. This option prevents
+ #components from being listed.
+
+
+ SINGLE_VECTOR_DEFS = true
+
+
+ #Most QC compilers translate ‘if(a_vector)’ directly as an IF on
+ #the vector, which means only the x-component is checked. This
+ #option causes vectors to be cast to actual booleans via a NOT_V
+ #and, if necessary, a NOT_F chained to it.
+ #
+ # if (a_vector) // becomes
+ # if not(!a_vector)
+ # // likewise
+ # a = a_vector && a_float // becomes
+ # a = !!a_vector && a_float
+
+ CORRECT_LOGIC = true
+
+
+ #An empty string is considered to be true everywhere. The NOT_S
+ #instruction usually considers an empty string to be false, this
+ #option effectively causes the unary not in strings to use NOT_F
+ #instead.
+
+ TRUE_EMPTY_STRINGS = false
+
+
+ #An empty string is considered to be false everywhere. This means
+ #loops and if statements which depend on a string will perform a
+ #NOT_S instruction on the string before using it.
+
+ FALSE_EMPTY_STRINGS = true
+
+
+ #Enable utf8 characters. This allows utf-8 encoded character con‐
+ #stants, and escape sequence codepoints in the valid utf-8 range.
+ #Effectively enabling escape sequences like '\{x2211}'.
+
+ UTF8 = true
+
+
+ #When a warning is treated as an error, and this option is set
+ #(which it is by default), it is like any other error and will
+ #cause compilation to stop. When disabling this flag by using
+ #-fno-bail-on-werror, compilation will continue until the end, but
+ #no output is generated. Instead the first such error message's
+ #context is shown.
+
+ BAIL_ON_WERROR = false
+
+
+ #Allow loops to be labeled, and allow 'break' and 'continue' to
+ #take an optional label to decide which loop to actually jump out
+ #of or continue.
+ #
+ # for :outer (i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
+ # while (inner) {
+ # ...;
+ # if (something)
+ # continue outer;
+ # }
+ # }
+
+ LOOP_LABELS = true
+
+
+ #Adds a global named 'nil' which is of no type and can be assigned
+ #to anything. No typechecking will be performed on assignments.
+ #Assigning to it is forbidden, using it in any other kind of
+ #expression is also not allowed.
+ #
+ #Note that this is different from fteqcc's __NULL__: In fteqcc,
+ #__NULL__ maps to the integer written as '0i'. It's can be
+ #assigned to function pointers and integers, but it'll error about
+ #invalid instructions when assigning it to floats without enabling
+ #the FTE instruction set. There's also a bug which allows it to be
+ #assigned to vectors, for which the source will be the global at
+ #offset 0, meaning the vector's y and z components will contain
+ #the OFS_RETURN x and y components.#
+ #
+ #In that gmqcc the nil global is an actual global filled with
+ #zeroes, and can be assigned to anything including fields, vectors
+ #or function pointers, and they end up becoming zeroed.
+
+
+ UNTYPED_NIL = true
+
+
+ #Various effects, usually to weaken some conditions.
+ # with -funtyped-nil
+ # Allow local variables named ‘nil’. (This will not
+ # allow declaring a global of that name.)
+
+ PERMISSIVE = false
+
+
+ #Allow variadic parameters to be accessed by QC code. This can be
+ #achieved via the '...' function, which takes a parameter index
+ #and a typename.
+ #
+ #Example:
+ #
+ # void vafunc(string...count) {
+ # float i;
+ # for (i = 0; i < count; ++i)
+ # print(...(i, string), "\n");
+ # }
+
+ VARIADIC_ARGS = true
+
+
+ #Most Quake VMs, including the one from FTEQW or up till recently
+ #Darkplaces, do not cope well with vector instructions with over‐
+ #lapping input and output. This option will avoid producing such
+ #code.
+
+ LEGACY_VECTOR_MATHS = false
+
+
+ #Usually builtin-numbers are just immediate constants. With this
+ #flag expressions can be used, as long as they are compile-time
+ #constant.
+ #
+ #Example:
+ #
+ # void printA() = #1; // the usual way
+ # void printB() = #2-1; // with a constant expression
+
+ EXPRESSIONS_FOR_BUILTINS = true
+
+
+ #Enabiling this option will allow assigning values or expressions
+ #to the return keyword as if it were a local variable of the same
+ #type as the function's signature's return type.
+ #
+ #Example:
+ #
+ # float bar() { return 1024; }
+ # float fun() {
+ # return = bar();
+ # return; // returns value of bar (this can be omitted)
+ # }
+
+ RETURN_ASSIGNMENTS = true
+
+
+ #When passing on varargs to a different functions, this turns some
+ #static error cases into warnings. Like when the caller's varargs
+ #are restricted to a different type than the callee's parameter.
+ #Or a list of unrestricted varargs is passed into restricted
+ #varargs.
+
+ UNSAFE_VARARGS = false
+
+
+
[warnings]
- # ?? Used for debugging ??
- DEBUG = false
+ #Generate a warning about variables which are declared but never
+ #used. This can be avoided by adding the ‘noref’ keyword in front
+ #of the variable declaration. Additionally a complete section of
+ #unreferenced variables can be opened using ‘#pragma noref 1’ and
+ #closed via ‘#pragma noref 0’.
+
+ UNUSED_VARIABLE = false
+
+
+ #Generate a warning if it is possible that a variable can be used
+ #without prior initialization. Note that this warning is not nec‐
+ #essarily reliable if the initialization happens only under cer‐
+ #tain conditions. The other way is not possible: that the warning
+ #is not generated when uninitialized use is possible.
+
+ USED_UNINITIALIZED = false
+
+
+ #Generate an error when an unrecognized control sequence in a
+ #string is used. Meaning: when there's a character after a back‐
+ #slash in a string which has no known meaning.
- # Enables warnings about unused variables.
- UNUSED_VARIABLE = true
+ UNKNOWN_CONTROL_SEQUENCE = false
- # Enables warnings about uninitialized variables.
- USED_UNINITIALIZED = true
- # Enables warnings about the unknown control sequences in the source
- # stream.
- UNKNOWN_CONTROL_SEQUENCE = true
+ #Warn when using special extensions which are not part of the
+ #selected standard.
- # Enables warnings about the use of (an) extension(s).
- EXTENSIONS = true
+ EXTENSIONS = false
- # Enables warnings about redeclared fields.
- FIELD_REDECLARED = true
- # Enables warnings about missing return values.
- MISSING_RETURN_VALUES = true
+ #Generally QC compilers ignore redeclaration of fields. Here you
+ #can optionally enable a warning.
- # Enables warnings about missing parameters for function calls.
- INVALID_PARAMETER_COUNT = true
+ FIELD_REDECLARED = false
- # Enables warnings about locals shadowing parameters or other locals.
- LOCAL_SHADOWS = true
- # Enables warnings about constants specified as locals.
- LOCAL_CONSTANTS = true
+ #Functions which aren't of type void will warn if it possible to
+ #reach the end without returning an actual value.
- # Enables warnings about variables declared as type void.
- VOID_VARIABLES = true
+ MISSING_RETURN_VALUES = false
- # Enables warnings about implicitally declared function pointers.
- IMPLICIT_FUNCTION_POINTER = true
- # Enables warnings for use of varadics for non-builtin functions.
- VARIADIC_FUNCTION = true
+ #Warn about a function call with an invalid number of parameters.
- # Enables warnings about duplicated frame macros.
- FRAME_MACROS = true
+ INVALID_PARAMETER_COUNT = false
- # Enables warnings about effectivless statements.
- EFFECTLESS_STATEMENT = true
- # Enables warnings of "end_sys_fields" beiing declared a field.
- END_SYS_FIELDS = true
+ #Warn when a locally declared variable shadows variable.
- # Enables warnings for infompatible function pointer signatures used
- # in assignment.
- ASSIGN_FUNCTION_TYPES = true
+ LOCAL_SHADOWS = false
- # Enables warnings about redefined macros in the preprocessor
- PREPROCESSOR = true
- # Enables warnings about multi-file if statements
- MULTIFILE_IF = true
+ #Warn when the initialization of a local variable turns the vari‐
+ #able into a constant. This is default behaviour unless
+ #-finitialized-nonconstants is used.
- # Enables warnings about double declarations
- DOUBLE_DECLARATION = true
+ LOCAL_CONSTANTS = false
- # Enables warnings about type qualifiers containing both 'var' and
- # 'const'
- CONST_VAR = true
- # Enables warnings about the use of multibytes characters / constants
- MULTIBYTE_CHARACTER = true
+ #There are only 2 known global variables of type void:
+ #‘end_sys_globals’ and ‘end_sys_fields’. Any other void-variable
+ #will warn.
- # Enables warnings about ternary expressions whos precedence may be
- # not what was initially expected.
- TERNARY_PRECEDENCE = true
+ VOID_VARIABLES = false
- # Enables warnings about unknown pragmas.
- UNKNOWN_PRAGMAS = true
- # Enables warnings about unreachable code.
- UNREACHABLE_CODE = true
+ #A global function which is not declared with the ‘var’ keyword is
+ #expected to have an implementing body, or be a builtin. If nei‐
+ #ther is the case, it implicitly becomes a function pointer, and a
+ #warning is generated.
- # Enables preprocessor "#warnings"
- CPP = true
+ IMPLICIT_FUNCTION_POINTER = false
- # With the [[attribute]] syntax enabled, warn when an unknown
- # attribute is encountered. Its first token will be included in the
- # message.
- UNKNOWN_ATTRIBUTE = true
- # Warn when declaring variables or fields with a reserved name like 'nil'
- RESERVED_NAMES = true
+ #Currently there's no way for an in QC implemented function to
+ #access variadic parameters. If a function with variadic parame‐
+ #ters has an implementing body, a warning will be generated.
- # Warn about 'const'-qualified global variables with no initializing value.
- UNINITIALIZED_CONSTANT = true
+ VARIADIC_FUNCTION = false
- # Warn about non-constant global variables with no initializing value.
- UNINITIALIZED_GLOBAL = true
- # Redeclaring a 'const' as 'var' or the other way round.
- DIFFERENT_QUALIFIERS = true
+ #Generate warnings about ‘$frame’ commands, for instance about
+ #duplicate frame definitions.
- # Redeclaring a function with different attributes such as
- # [[noreturn]]
- DIFFERENT_ATTRIBUTES = true
+ FRAME_MACROS = false
- # Warn when a function is marked with the attribute
- # "[[deprecated]]". This flag enables a warning on calls to functions
- # marked as such.
- DEPRECATED = true
- # Warn about possible problems from missing parenthesis, like an
- # assignment used as truth value without additional parens around.
- PARENTHESIS = true
+ #Warn about statements which have no effect. Any expression which
+ #does not call a function or assigns a variable.
+
+ EFFECTLESS_STATEMENT = false
+
+
+ #The ‘end_sys_fields’ variable is supposed to be a global variable
+ #of type void. It is also recognized as a field but this will
+ #generate a warning.
+
+ END_SYS_FIELDS = false
+
+
+ #Warn when assigning to a function pointer with an unmatching sig‐
+ #nature. This usually happens in cases like assigning the null
+ #function to an entity's .think function pointer.
+
+ ASSIGN_FUNCTION_TYPES = false
+
+
+ #Show warnings created using the preprocessor's '#warning' directive
+
+ CPP = true
+
+
+ #Warn if there's a preprocessor #if spanning across several files.
+
+ MULTIFILE_IF = true
+
+
+ #Warn about multiple declarations of globals. This seems pretty
+ #common in QC code so you probably do not want this unless you
+ #want to clean up your code.
+
+ DOUBLE_DECLARATION = false
+
+
+ #The combination of const and var is not illegal, however differ‐
+ #ent compilers may handle them differently. We were told, the
+ #intention is to create a function-pointer which is not assigna‐
+ #ble. This is exactly how we interpret it. However for this
+ #interpretation the ‘var’ keyword is considered superfluous (and
+ #philosophically wrong), so it is possible to generate a warning
+ #about this.
+
+ CONST_VAR = true
+
+
+ #Warn about multibyte character constants, they do not work right
+ #now.
+
+ MULTIBYTE_CHARACTER = false
+
+
+ #Warn if a ternary expression which contains a comma operator is
+ #used without enclosing parenthesis, since this is most likely not
+ #what you actually want. We recommend the -fcorrect-ternary
+ #option.
+
+ TERNARY_PRECEDENCE = false
+
+
+ #Warn when encountering an unrecognized ‘#pragma’ line.
+
+ UNKNOWN_PRAGMAS = true
+
+
+ #Warn about unreachable code. That is: code after a return state‐
+ #ment, or code after a call to a function marked as 'noreturn'.
+
+ UNREACHABLE_CODE = true
+
+
+ #Enable some warnings added in order to help debugging in the com‐
+ #piler. You won't need this.
+
+ DEBUG = false
+
+
+ #Warn on an unknown attribute. The warning will inlclude only the
+ #first token inside the enclosing attribute-brackets. This may
+ #change when the actual attribute syntax is better defined.
+
+ UNKNOWN_ATTRIBUTE = true
+
+
+ #Warn when using reserved names such as ‘nil’.
+
+ RESERVED_NAMES = true
+
+
+ #Warn about global constants (using the ‘const’ keyword) with no
+ #assigned value.
+
+ UNINITIALIZED_CONSTANT = true
+
+
+ #Warn about global variables with no initializing value. This is
+ #off by default, and is added mostly to help find null-values
+ #which are supposed to be replaced by the untyped 'nil' constant.
+
+ UNINITIALIZED_GLOBAL = true
+
+
+ #Warn when a variables is redeclared with a different qualifier.
+ #For example when redeclaring a variable as 'var' which was previ‐
+ #ously marked 'const'.
+
+ DIFFERENT_QUALIFIERS = true
+
+
+ #Similar to the above but for attributes like ‘[[noreturn]]’.
+
+ DIFFERENT_ATTRIBUTES = true
+
+
+ #Warn when a function is marked with the attribute "[[depre‐
+ #cated]]". This flag enables a warning on calls to functions
+ #marked as such.
+
+ DEPRECATED = true
+
+
+ #Warn about possible mistakes caused by missing or wrong parenthe‐
+ #sis, like an assignment in an 'if' condition when there's no
+ #additional set of parens around the assignment.
+
+ PARENTHESIS = true
+
+
+ #When passing variadic parameters via ...(N) it can happen that
+ #incompatible types are passed to functions. This enables several
+ #warnings when static typechecking cannot guarantee consistent
+ #behavior.
+
+ UNSAFE_TYPES = true
+
+
+ #When compiling original id1 QC, there is a definition for `break`
+ #which conflicts with the 'break' keyword in GMQCC. Enabling this
+ #warning will print a warning when the definition occurs. The
+ #definition is ignored for both cases.
+
+ BREAKDEF = true
-# Finally these are all the optimizations, usually present via the -O
-# prefix from the command line.
[optimizations]
- # Enables peephole optimizations.
- PEEPHOLE = true
+ #Some general peephole optimizations. For instance the code `a = b
+ #+ c` typically generates 2 instructions, an ADD and a STORE. This
+ #optimization removes the STORE and lets the ADD write directly
+ #into A.
+
+ PEEPHOLE = true
+
+
+ #Tail recursive function calls will be turned into loops to avoid
+ #the overhead of the CALL and RETURN instructions.
+
+ TAIL_RECURSION = true
+
+
+ #Make all functions which use neither local arrays nor have locals
+ #which are seen as possibly uninitialized use the same local sec‐
+ #tion. This should be pretty safe compared to other compilers
+ #which do not check for uninitialized values properly. The problem
+ #is that there's QC code out there which really doesn't initialize
+ #some values. This is fine as long as this kind of optimization
+ #isn't used, but also, only as long as the functions cannot be
+ #called in a recursive manner. Since it's hard to know whether or
+ #not an array is actually fully initialized, especially when ini‐
+ #tializing it via a loop, we assume functions with arrays to be
+ #too dangerous for this optimization.
+
+ OVERLAP_LOCALS = true
+
+
+
+ #This promotes locally declared variables to "temps". Meaning when
+ #a temporary result of an operation has to be stored somewhere, a
+ #local variable which is not 'alive' at that point can be used to
+ #keep the result. This can reduce the size of the global section.
+ #This will not have declared variables overlap, even if it was
+ #possible.
+
+ LOCAL_TEMPS = true
+
+
+ #Causes temporary values which do not need to be backed up on a
+ #CALL to not be stored in the function's locals-area. With this, a
+ #CALL to a function may need to back up fewer values and thus exe‐
+ #cute faster.
+
+ GLOBAL_TEMPS = true
+
+
+ #Don't generate defs for immediate values or even declared con‐
+ #stants. Meaning variables which are implicitly constant or qual‐
+ #ified as such using the 'const' keyword.
+
+ STRIP_CONSTANT_NAMES = true
+
+
+ #Aggressively reuse strings in the string section. When a string
+ #should be added which is the trailing substring of an already
+ #existing string, the existing string's tail will be returned
+ #instead of the new string being added.
+ #
+ #For example the following code will only generate 1 string:
+ #
+ # print("Hello you!\n");
+ # print("you!\n"); // trailing substring of "Hello you!\n"
+ #
+ #There's however one limitation. Strings are still processed in
+ #order, so if the above print statements were reversed, this opti‐
+ #mization would not happen.
+
+ OVERLAP_STRINGS = true
+
+
+ #By default, all parameters of a CALL are copied into the parame‐
+ #ter-globals right before the CALL instructions. This is the easi‐
+ #est and safest way to translate calls, but also adds a lot of
+ #unnecessary copying and unnecessary temporary values. This opti‐
+ #mization makes operations which are used as a parameter evaluate
+ #directly into the parameter-global if that is possible, which is
+ #when there's no other CALL instruction in between.
+
+ CALL_STORES = true
+
+
+ #Usually an empty RETURN instruction is added to the end of a void
+ #typed function. However, additionally after every function a DONE
+ #instruction is added for several reasons. (For example the qcvm's
+ #disassemble switch uses it to know when the function ends.). This
+ #optimization replaces that last RETURN with DONE rather than
+ #adding the DONE additionally.
- # Enables localtemp omission optimizations.
- LOCALTEMPS = true
+ VOID_RETURN = true
- # Enables tail recrusion optimizationd.
- TAIL_RECURSION = true
- # Enables tail-call optimizations. (Not implemented)
- TAIL_CALLS = true
+ #Because traditional QC code doesn't allow you to access individ‐
+ #ual vector components of a computed vector without storing it in
+ #a local first, sometimes people multiply it by a constant like
+ #‘'0 1 0'’ to get, in this case, the y component of a vector. This
+ #optimization will turn such a multiplication into a direct compo‐
+ #nent access. If the factor is anything other than 1, a float-mul‐
+ #tiplication will be added, which is still faster than a vector
+ #multiplication.
- # Every function where it is safe to do so will share its local data section
- # with the others. The criteria are currently that the function must not have
- # any possibly uninitialized locals, or local arrays regardless of how they
- # are initialized.
- OVERLAP_LOCALS = false
+ VECTOR_COMPONENTS = true
- # Strip out the names of constants to save some space in the progs.dat
- STRIP_CONSTANT_NAMES = true
- # Aggressivly reuse strings in the string-section
- OVERLAP_STRINGS = true
+ #For constant expressions that result in dead code (such as a
+ #branch whos condition can be evaluated at compile-time), this
+ #will eliminate the branch and else body (if present) to produce
+ #more optimal code.
- # Have expressions which are used as function parameters evaluate directly
- # into the parameter-globals if possible.
- # This avoids a whole lot of copying.
- CALL_STORES = true
+ CONST_FOLD_DCE = true
- # Do not create a RETURN instruction at the end functions of return-type void.
- VOID_RETURN = true
+ #For constant expressions we can fold them to immediate values.
+ #this option cannot be disabled or enabled, the compiler forces
+ #it to stay enabled by ignoring the value entierly. There are
+ #plans to enable some level of constant fold disabling, but right
+ #now the language can't function without it. This is merley here
+ #as an exercise to the reader.
- # Turn extraction-multiplications such as (a_vector * '0 1 0')
- # into direct component accesses
- VECTOR_COMPONENTS = true
+ CONST_FOLD = true
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