cyclone/docs/old-notes/Developer-How-To.md

Add a primitive

• Add function/definitions to runtime.h and runtime.c
• Rebuild and install runtime library.
• Add to prim? section in transforms.sld. Some functions may need to added to the next section in the file, so they are not constant-folded (IE, evaluated at compile time).
• Add above the c-compile-primitive section in cgen.sld. Some functions may need to be added in multiple places to indicate they take additional arguments, call their continuation, etc.

TODO: need to develop this section better to come up with a workable/optimal approach to building things:

• Compile: cyclone scheme/cyclone/cgen.sld cyclone scheme/cyclone/transforms.sld

• Copy modified files to cyclone-bootstrap, including runtime, .sld, and compiled .c files.

• Run make clean ; ./install from bootstrap repo

• Add primitives to the list in eval.sld. Rebuild one more time.