FPC internals

The basic parts of this documentation are taken from the the 1.0.x internals documentation ([1]) written by Carl-Eric Codere. They are adapted to fit the changed parts of 1.9.x. This documentation is still under construction.

1. Introduction
2. Scanner/Tokenizer
3. The parse tree
4. Symbol tables
5. Symbol entries
6. Type information
7. The parser
8. The inline assembler parser
9. The code generator
   1. Node code generator
   2. Code generator abstraction layer
   3. The register allocator
10. The optimizer
11. The assembler output
12. Generating initialised data
    • Layout of certain compiler-generated data and data structures
13. Message files