Information for Tycoon Programmers at STS

The following documents summarize information relevant for students who are involved in the development of the Tycoon system. The main references are Definition of the Tycoon Language and Tycoon System and Library Manual.

Project management (TeamWare)

• Setup of (shared) TeamWare environment
• TeamWare introduction
• TeamWare maintenance
• Wartung der Demos
• Verantwortliche für die Konsistenz von Tycoon

Tycoon Store Protocol

(nothing yet)

Tycoon Virtual Machine and C calls/callbacks

• Why is the linking of libtm.so so complicated?
• How to link static libraries to the Tycoon Machine
• Transitive calls of dynamic libraries
• Architecture and C files (naming, position, linking)

Tycoon Machine Language and optimization

• Dynamic Optimization of Functions and Modules

TooL

• TooL - Up and Running

Tycoon System and Tycoon Language compiler

• How do I bootstrap the TL Compiler?
• Extending the Tycoon system

Tycoon Language, programming and libraries

• New syntax of TL (has been changed in Definition of the Tycoon Language)
• Debugging of TL programs
• Profiling of TL programs
• The StarView -> Tycoon Language Manual
• Extending the syntax of TL

Further development

• TLMin: New type checker using object identity. Syntax extensions.
• StdLib/MachineLib: New standard libraries.