(* The symbol names a Flan build puts into an object, spelled once. Both backends emit the same names — that is not a nicety, it is the link: an [--x86] host and a redefinition module built by LLVM bind against each other, so [@"flan.cell."] has to be byte-for-byte the same string on both sides or the dlopen fails and the piece served nothing. The macro loader and the daemon's disassembler look up the same names from outside the backends entirely. So the prefixes live here, unquoted and without a sigil. Quoting is each backend's own — LLVM writes [@"..."], the assembler writes ["..."] — and a Flan name holds -, ?, > and /, which is why every emitted name is quoted at all. This module only decides *which string* is quoted. Not here: the ABI marker itself. [Emit.abi_marker] is ["flan.abi.llvm"] and [X86.abi_marker] is ["flan.abi.x86"], and the two must stay distinct — a crossed pair is refused at [dlopen] precisely because the marker one image defines is not the one the other references. Sharing that string would delete the mechanism. The *label* a module hangs its requirement on is the other half of that mechanism and is shared, so it is here: see [abi_require] below. *) (* The prefix itself. It keeps the Flan [main] from colliding with C's, and it is what makes every Flan symbol recognisable in a disassembly. *) let prefix = "flan." (* A function or a global. One namespace, because the language has one: a [defn] and a [defonce] cannot share a name, so nothing here has to keep them apart. The compiler's own names go through this too — [.init-globals] and [.init-data] start with a dot no reader token can produce. *) let sym n = prefix ^ n (* The single constructor a dev build emits, which calls the runtime's two enable entry points — the allocation registry and the crash handler — in that order. It goes through [sym] with a leading dot for exactly the reason that comment gives, and the reason is not decoration: the first spelling of this was a plain [flan.dev.ctor], which is what [(defn dev.ctor [] i32 7)] mangles to. That program compiles and runs as a release build and fails a dev build with a redefinition clang refuses. A dot is what no reader token can produce, so there is no Flan name that reaches this one. *) let dev_ctor = prefix ^ ".dev-ctor" (* A dev build's indirection cell: a mutable global holding the address of the function that is currently this name's body. *) let cell n = prefix ^ "cell." ^ n (* The two module-local caches a name the host was never built with is reached through — one for a function, one for a global. *) let cellptr n = prefix ^ "cellp." ^ n let globalptr n = prefix ^ "gp." ^ n (* A compiled macro's entry point, which the expander dlsyms by this name out of the module [Build.macro_module] wrote. *) let macro n = prefix ^ "macro." ^ n (* The datum a redefinition module puts its host's ABI marker into. Nothing outside the module names it — the relocation against the marker is the whole of what it does — but both backends emit it, so the string is spelled once here rather than twice, beside every other name that has to read the same on both sides. What it *holds* is each backend's own marker, and that pair stays distinct; see the paragraph at the top. *) let abi_require = prefix ^ "abi.require"