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Contents

• Chapter 1: Setting Up
  Final Module - Setting up the use of this module.
  Chapter 2: Mechanism
  Code Generation - To generate final code from intermediate code.
  Code Generators - To create the range of possible targets into which Inter can be converted.
  Vanilla - The plain-vanilla code generation strategy, provided for the use of generators to imperative languages such as Inform 6 or C.
  Vanilla Constants - How the vanilla code generation strategy handles constants, including literal texts, lists, and arrays.
  Vanilla Functions - How the vanilla code generation strategy declares functions.
  Vanilla Objects - How the vanilla code generation strategy handles instances, kinds, and properties.
  Vanilla Code - How the vanilla code generation strategy handles the actual code inside functions.
  Vanilla IF - Constructing the dictionary, command verb and action tables when the target language is not Inform 6 (where such things are made automatically).
  Chapter 3: Non-Vanilla Generators
  Final Textual Inter - To create the range of possible targets into which Inter can be converted.
  Final Binary Inter - To create the range of possible targets into which Inter can be converted.
  Final Inventory - To print a summary of the contents of a repository.
  Chapter 4: Inform 6
  Generating Inform 6 - To generate I6 code from intermediate code.
  Inform 6 Constants - To declare I6 constants and arrays.
  Inform 6 Global Variables - To declare global variables, using a mixture of I6 Globals and array entries.
  Inform 6 Objects - To declare I6 objects, classes, attributes and properties.
  Inform 6 Code - To generate I6 routines of imperative code.
  Chapter 5: C
  Final C - To generate ANSI C-99 code from intermediate code.
  C Namespace - How identifiers are used in the C code we generate.
  C References - How changes to storage objects are translated into C.
  C Global Variables - Global variables translated to C.
  C Memory Model - How arrays of all kinds are stored in C.
  C Assembly - The problem of assembly language.
  C Arithmetic - Integer and floating-point calculations translated to C.
  C Program Control - Generating C code to effect loops, branches and the like.
  C Conditions - Evaluating conditions.
  C Literals - Text and dictionary words translated to C.
  C Object Model - How objects, classes and properties are compiled to C.
  C Function Model - Translating functions into C, and the calling conventions needed for them.
  C Input-Output Model - How C programs print text out, really.
  C Miniglk - Just enough of the Glk input/output interface to allow simple console text in and out, and no more.
  C Utility Functions - Rounding out the C library with a few functions intended for external code to use.