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authorHimbeer <himbeer@disroot.org>2024-09-05 14:58:41 +0200
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+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Himbeer <himbeer@disroot.org>
+//
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
+
+- 1. Primitive types
+--------------------
+
+ * int8, uint8 -> QBE b, w
+ * int16, uint16 -> QBE h, w
+ * int32, uint32 -> QBE w, w
+ * int64, uint64 -> QBE l, l
+
+- 2. Coercion
+-------------
+
+ * Integer widening
+
+- 3. Declaration and mutability
+-------------------------------
+
+ * Variables need to be declared before being used
+ * All declarations (including globals and implicit declarations from imports)
+ must be above their first use
+ * Redeclarations ("shadowing") are forbidden
+ * Variables may be changed using the "assign" statement
+ * Constants cannot be changed, but mutables can
+ * Local mutables are allocated on the stack, local constants are QBE
+ temporaries