How to use Loads and Stores in LIR

Well, if you read the Wiki on LIR, and if you aren't previously familiar with LIR, then you might not have gotten the hang of pointers.

Pointers - are like integers in the way that they contain addresses, and can be used anywhere where an integer can(LIR has only one type).
What is different is that you cannot create a pointer(that is get a memory address, unless you are extremely lucky!) by yourself.

Thats where alloc instruction comes in.
Alloc - The wiki will give you the more technical information. Alloc is basically like calloc() in C - it allocates a specified amount of space for your usage later, and returns a pointer to it. Hence the instruction format is:

p = alloc size

Illustration

I will illustrate this with an example straight from jorendorff's desk -

addr = alloc 4;
zero = int 0;
st addr[0] = zero ... (that's roughly how it's intended to be used)

That stores the value 0 at the memory address specified by addr pointer. Now you can load that value into a variable, store another value, etc.


Going one step further, if you allocate 8 bytes of memory

addr = alloc 8;
zero = int 0;
one = int 1;
st addr[0] = zero;
st addr[4] = one;

Note the offset 4 in the second store. The offset is the number of bytes to be offset from the base, as expected.Now, you can load the two bytes in separate variables, or mess up stuff by specifying an offset not divisible by 4!

Having implemented basic loads and stores today, and consolidated my code which looks much more readable now, I am hoping to get information on:
1. Jumps and labels and how to handle those(Are labels solely the responsibility of the parser?).
2. Subroutine calls.
3. Guards

I will go about them in the above order.

[LIR Compiler]Progress and Issues

I have added support for a number of instructions(mostly, floating points and guards, and 64 bit instructions are left). The project feels pretty robust currently.
I need to add code for reporting errors in a more informative manner(currently, I use the trivial "syntax error at line number ...." format. I will need to look into YYLOC and the related token locating parameters.
Also, I need information on how/what do display as output. Currently, I am using the program here as the base program, and modifying it to suit my needs.
Also, I am not aware how loads and stores work - for instance, what addresses are we providing to the compiler - if we store an integer using store, where is it actually getting stored. Are we directly addressing memory words, or is it stored in some LIns * pointer like other data is stored.