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Tobias Tebbi 91ef86f9d1 [torque] add typeswitch statement
This adds a typeswitch statement

typeswitch (e)
case (x1 : Type1) {
  ...
} case (x2 : Type2) {

} ...
... case (xn : TypeN) {
  ...
}

This checks to which of the given types the result of evaluating e can
be cast, in the order in which they are listed. So if an earlier
type matches, a value of this type won't reach a later case.

The type-checks are performed by calling the cast<T>() macro.
The type of the argument passed to the cast macro is dependent on the
case and excludes all types checked earlier. For example, in

const x : Object = ...
typeswitch (x)
case (x : Smi) {
  ...
} case (x : HeapNumber) {
  ...
} case (x : HeapObject) {
  ...
}

there will be calls to cast<Smi>(Object) and
cast<HeapNumber>(HeapObject), because after the Smi check we know that
x has to be a HeapObject. With the refactored base.tq definition of
cast, this will generate efficient code and avoid repeating the Smi
check in the second case.

The type system ensures that all cases are reachable and that the type
given to the last case is safe without a runtime check (in other words,
the union of all checked types covers the type of e).

The cases can also be written as
case (Type) { ... }
, in which case the switched value is not re-bound with the checked
type.

Bug: v8:7793
Change-Id: Iea4aed7465d62b445e3ae0d33f52921912e095e3
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/1156506
Commit-Queue: Tobias Tebbi <tebbi@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Clifford <danno@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#54958}
2018-08-08 07:49:42 +00:00
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V8 JavaScript Engine

V8 is Google's open source JavaScript engine.

V8 implements ECMAScript as specified in ECMA-262.

V8 is written in C++ and is used in Google Chrome, the open source browser from Google.

V8 can run standalone, or can be embedded into any C++ application.

V8 Project page: https://github.com/v8/v8/wiki

Getting the Code

Checkout depot tools, and run

    fetch v8

This will checkout V8 into the directory v8 and fetch all of its dependencies. To stay up to date, run

    git pull origin
    gclient sync

For fetching all branches, add the following into your remote configuration in .git/config:

    fetch = +refs/branch-heads/*:refs/remotes/branch-heads/*
    fetch = +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*

Contributing

Please follow the instructions mentioned on the V8 wiki.