With the changes in this patch, it is now possible to add methods to
both Torque's class and struct types. As a special case, "constructor"
methods are used to initialize the values of classes and structs when
they are constructed.
The functionality in this patch includes:
- The refactoring of class- and struct-handling code to share field
and method declaration code between both.
- Addition of the "%Allocate" intrinsic that allocates raw bytes to be
allocated from the V8 GC's NewSpace heap as the basis for freshly
created, initialized class objects.
- An implementation of a CallMethodExpression AST node that enables
calling methods and constructors, including special handling of
passing through the "this" pointer for method calls on structs by
reference. The syntax for struct construction using "{}" remains as
before, but now calls the struct's matching constructor rather than
implicitly initializing the struct fields with the initialization
arguments. A new syntax for allocation classes is introduced: "new
ClassName{constructor_param1, constructor_param1, ...}", which
de-sugars to an %Allocate call followed by a call to the matching
constructor.
- class constructors can use the "super" keyword to initialize their
super class.
- If classes and struct do not have a constructor, Torque creates a
default constructor for them based on their field declarations,
where each field's initial value is assigned to a same-typed
parameter to the the default constructor. The default constructor's
parameters are in field-declaration order, and for derived classes,
the default constructor automatically uses a "super" initialization
call to initialize inherited fields.
- Class field declarations now automatically create ".field" and
".field=" operators that create CSA-compatible object accessors.
- Addition of a no-argument constructor for JSArrays that creates an
empty, PACKED_SMI_ELEMENTS JSArray using the machinery added
elsewhere in this patch.
Bug: v8:7793
Change-Id: I31ce5f4b444656ab999555d780aeeba605666bfa
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/1392192
Commit-Queue: Daniel Clifford <danno@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Tobias Tebbi <tebbi@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#58860}
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