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Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto f5ca906852 mruby-compiler: fix bare nil? in if/unless to use self as receiver
The if/unless nil? optimization called codegen() on the call node's
receiver, but a bare `nil?` is parsed as an FCALL whose receiver is
NULL. codegen(NULL) emits OP_LOADNIL, so the JMPNIL was testing the
literal nil instead of self, making `if nil?` always behave as
`if nil.nil?` (always true) and `unless nil?` always skip its body.
Load self when the receiver is implicit. Fixes #6874.

Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-30 07:39:45 +09:00
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mruby-compiler

This mrbgem provides the mruby compiler, which is responsible for parsing Ruby code and generating mruby bytecode.

Functionality

The mruby-compiler gem includes the following components:

  • Parser: Translates Ruby source code into an abstract syntax tree (AST).
  • Code Generator: Traverses the AST to produce executable mruby bytecode.
  • mrbc executable: A command-line tool for compiling .rb files into .mrb bytecode files.

Usage

The mrbc (mruby-bin-mrbc) executable will generate compiled binary from Ruby programs via this gem.

Example of using mrbc:

# Compile a Ruby script to bytecode
bin/mrbc my_script.rb

# Run the compiled script
bin/mruby my_script.mrb