# Amalgam
Amalgam is written in c89 C standard to work on as many devices as possible and with many different compilers,
which would allow you to compile amalgam with a compiler that generates smaller (static) binaries than gcc.

Amalgam is not meant to be a replacement for any other language but rather a new unique language for programming
with gpu without writing an external gpu program (glsl/hlsl).

Files have to be in utf-8 format and can optionally have utf-8 BOM.
# Fast compilation
Every stage of the compiler is multithreaded and data copy is kept to a minimal, for example tokenization
is done without storing tokens in a list. Almost all allocation is done using an arena allocator that
is only cleaned up once (when the compiler is finished), and the data is allocated sequentially.
# TODO
Build with -nostdlib and replace use of libc with syscalls (on linux).
Don't parse files unless the variable they are assigned to (with @import) is used. This is useful when only using small parts of a library.
Align machine code to word boundary for the start of functions. No need to pad with NOP, as functions return before the padding.
Use const to cleanup ANSI C style variable declarations, since const allows you to declare and assign variables on the same line.
# Documents
Documents are located under doc. The file doc/Documentation.md is generated from source files by running doc/doc_extract.py
but there is no need to run this script unless you are modifying documentation in the source.