To compile the table_columns submodule for a compilation unit, which contains _table_column packages.

• §1. Compilation data for table columns
• §2. Compilation of table columns

§1. Compilation data for table columns. Each table_column object contains this data:

typedef struct table_column_compilation_data {
    struct parse_node *where_from;
    struct package_request *tc_package;
    struct inter_name *id_iname;
} table_column_compilation_data;

table_column_compilation_data RTTableColumns::new_compilation_data(table_column *tc) {
    table_column_compilation_data tccd;
    tccd.where_from = current_sentence;
    tccd.tc_package = NULL;
    tccd.id_iname = NULL;
    return tccd;
}

package_request *RTTableColumns::package?Usage of RTTableColumns::package:
§2(table_column *tc) {
    if (tc->compilation_data.tc_package == NULL)
        tc->compilation_data.tc_package =
            Hierarchy::local_package_to(TABLE_COLUMNS_HAP, tc->compilation_data.where_from);
    return tc->compilation_data.tc_package;
}

inter_name *RTTableColumns::id_iname?Usage of RTTableColumns::id_iname:
§2
Tables - §2.1.1.1.3(table_column *tc) {
    if (tc->compilation_data.id_iname == NULL)
        tc->compilation_data.id_iname =
            Hierarchy::make_iname_in(TABLE_COLUMN_ID_HL, RTTableColumns::package(tc));
    return tc->compilation_data.id_iname;
}

• The structure table_column_compilation_data is private to this section.

§2. Compilation of table columns. Column IDs will be numbers at runtime, but we can't allocate them here, because they need to be unique across the whole program. So we compile references only to the column-ID constant, and let the linker choose a value for that.

void RTTableColumns::compile(void) {
    table_column *tc;
    LOOP_OVER(tc, table_column) {
        package_request *pack = RTTableColumns::package(tc);
        Emit::numeric_constant(RTTableColumns::id_iname(tc), 0);  placeholder value
        inter_name *kind_iname = Hierarchy::make_iname_in(TABLE_COLUMN_KIND_MD_HL, pack);
        RTKindIDs::define_constant_as_strong_id(kind_iname, Tables::Columns::get_kind(tc));
        Hierarchy::apply_metadata_from_raw_wording(pack,
            TABLE_COLUMN_NAME_MD_HL, Nouns::nominative_singular(tc->name));
        TEMPORARY_TEXT(conts)
        Kinds::Textual::write_plural(conts, Tables::Columns::get_kind(tc));
        Hierarchy::apply_metadata(pack, TABLE_COLUMN_CONTENTS_MD_HL, conts);
        DISCARD_TEXT(conts)
    }
}