Targeting a Compiler for Tagha and Tagha's Specifications

Introduction

The Tagha Runtime Environment is not meant to be tied down to a single compiler. Similar to how C and C++ have many compilers for them. Tagha is only meant to be a minimal runtime that has the bare bones environment necessary to run bytecode compiled from C code.

Tagha Required C Specifications

• double and long double should always be 8 bytes in data size.

• float and double are as defined by the IEEE.

• long, size_t, and long long should be 8 bytes in size.

• all binary math operations assume both operands are the same size.

• argc and argv are implementation-defined for Tagha, so main could have any type of parameters as necessary to script devs.

• if argv contains pointers that are not owned by the script's memory allocator, then the VM will throw a runtime exception if the bytecode dereferences them. Keep this in mind when passing objects to the scripts. A workaround for this is to allocate from the script's own runtime heap, copy data to it, and pass that to main.