Thinking about how to format slices.

It requires writing LLVM IR functions or functors in a way that is hard to do with my current llvm-sys generator.rs setup.

penne.todo

@@ -229,6 +229,7 @@ Documentation:
 	☐	Simplify wasm4 saving-data.md using cast
 
 Development:
+	☐	Drop llvm-sys and generate LLVM BC and textual IR by hand
 	☐	Release 0.4.0
 		☐	Flesh out core and vendor/libc
 		☐	Add/check documentation for E359, E553

src/generator.rs

@@ -2640,8 +2640,20 @@ fn format_slice(
 	}
 	else
 	{
+		// let n = ?
+		// for i in 0..n {
+		//
+		// }
+		// create format string that is n times %.*s
+		// for i in 0..n {
+		// TODO call the same llvm IR snippet for multiple Expressions
+		// TODO my Generator currently doesn't have a nice way to do that
+		// }
 		buffer.add_text("[");
 		// TODO print elements
+		// buffer.add_specifier("%.*s");
+		// buffer.insert(formatted_elements_len);
+		// buffer.insert(formatted_elements_ptr);
 		buffer.add_text("]");
 		Ok(())
 	}

tests/execution.rs

@@ -703,6 +703,16 @@ fn execute_builtin_format_array() -> Result<(), anyhow::Error>
 	Ok(())
 }
 
+#[test]
+fn execute_builtin_format_slice() -> Result<(), anyhow::Error>
+{
+	let output = execute("tests/samples/valid/builtin_format_slice.pn")?;
+	let stdout = stdout_from_output(output)?;
+	let expected = "[]\n[200]\n[12, 34]\n[1, 22, 333, 4444, 55555, -6]\n";
+	assert_eq!(stdout, expected);
+	Ok(())
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn execute_builtin_format_struct() -> Result<(), anyhow::Error>
 {

tests/samples/valid/builtin_format_slice.pn

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+
+fn main() -> u8
+{
+	var empty: []i32 = [];
+	var one: []i32 = [200];
+	var two: []i32 = [12, 34];
+	print_slice(empty);
+	print_slice(one);
+	print_slice(two);
+	print_slice([1, 22, 333, 4444, 55555, -6]);
+	return: 0
+}
+
+fn print_slice(data: []i32)
+{
+	print!(data, "\n");
+}