ludic/selfhost/buf.ludic
Orkuncakilkaya 70ab79a4e9 Phase 7b: null literal + x == null (retire ptr_null/ptr_is_null)
`null` is now a real pointer literal and null-tests are comparisons, instead of
`ptr_null()` and `ptr_is_null(x)`:

  ptr_null()          -> null
  ptr_is_null(x)      -> (x == null)
  not ptr_is_null(x)  -> (x != null)

Mechanics: a new E_NULL primary (`null`, like true/false) lowers to the `null`
pointer; emit_bin's comparison path now picks `ptr` vs `i32` from operand type
(via llty), so `==`/`!=` work on any pointer/record/slice. The two intrinsics are
deleted.

Two reseeds: (A) add the literal + ptr comparison keeping the intrinsics; (B)
migrate all 182 call sites (compiler + runtime, via a balanced-paren script that
skips string-literal args and rewrites `not ptr_is_null` to `!= null`) and delete
the intrinsics. Node/Val/Buf/Tok field defaults now read `ptr = null`.

Vocabulary drops the two from LUDIC_INTRINSICS; `null` joins true/false as a
language constant (grammar + ludic_syntax.h). LANGUAGE.md notes the literal.
Reseeded (21664 lines); C-free fixpoint holds; goldens identical; 17/17; vocab +
doc-fences clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-28 00:50:21 +03:00

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# buf.ludic — a growable byte buffer for building IR text. The emitter writes
# module-level material (types, globals, string constants) into one buffer and
# function bodies into another, then prints them in order.
property Buf { data: ptr = null, len: int = 0, cap: int = 0 }
fn buf_new() -> Buf {
let b = new Buf
b.cap = 256
b.data = mem_alloc(b.cap)
b.len = 0
return b
}
fn buf_ensure(b: Buf, extra: int) -> void {
if b.len + extra + 1 <= b.cap { return }
while b.len + extra + 1 > b.cap { b.cap = b.cap * 2 }
b.data = mem_realloc(b.data, b.cap)
}
fn buf_putc(b: Buf, c: int) -> void {
buf_ensure(b, 1)
poke8(b.data, b.len, c)
b.len = b.len + 1
}
fn buf_puts(b: Buf, s: ptr) -> void {
var i = 0
while peek8(s, i) != 0 { buf_putc(b, peek8(s, i)); i = i + 1 }
}
fn buf_puti(b: Buf, n: int) -> void { buf_puts(b, itoa(n)) }
fn buf_str(b: Buf) -> ptr { poke8(b.data, b.len, 0); return b.data }