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Arithmetic Expression Compiler
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RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler
Quote:This is so far out of my wheelhouse that I couldn't comment intelligently on it.
Well, that's kind of how I feel when you talk about how Chrome is the only good browser because it is the only one that allows the users to publish voice-recordings to your website - I have no idea what you are talking about.
Quote:scripting old / small processors for use in robotics
Well, you know, the compiler algorithm I've made kind of breaks for ARM processors, it assumes the existence of a stack inside the processor (like the FPU stack in x86).
I mean, yeah, I suppose I could arrange the 15 general purpose registers (or even just a portion of them) in a stack and then "push" and "pop" the values using the macros (a decent assembly-language compiler, assuming such exists for ARM, would allow me to do that). The obvious problem with that is that it would lead to unreasonably large executables (but I don't think performance would be a problem, since ARM processors are known to move values between registers a lot faster than Intel or AMD processors).
Very few assembly-language compilers (I assume none of those available for ARM) would allow me to make statements such as:
Code:
mov [result],3.141592f
However, if I am using the Duktape framework, that actually wouldn't matter much because I could just invoke a C function from JavaScript that would do pointer aliasing to give me hexadecimal IEEE 754 code (and both x86 and ARM support little-endian). So, I could easily output something like:
Code:
mov r0,0x40490fd0 ;3.141592
mov [result],r0
The biggest problem is that ARM, being a RISC processor architecture, doesn't have anything like the x86 "fsin". That would lead to very different kinds of problems than what I had to solve when making an app that outputs x86 assembly (which has those instructions, but they often change the FPU stack in a counter-intuitive way). I could solve those problems by, for instance, making a complicated macro that would calculate trigonometric functions using factorials (assuming that can be done without corrupting the "processor stack", I am not sure if that's possible). Calculating logarithms and exponents will probably be just as problematic in ARM assembly as it is in x86 assembly.
Or, unless I am working on bare metal, I could simply temporarily "store" the stack somewhere in memory, request the kernel to do the complicated calculations for me, and then reload the stack into the processor registers. But, if I want to be consistent, I'd have to do that very often since, if I quickly look up online, the ARM assembly doesn't even have the equivalent of "fprem" (which I used quite often in my compiler).
Those are just the problems I can think of right now.
Quote:You would probably benefit from some formal education.
Why exactly? What do you think I am doing wrong that a formal education would help with?



Messages In This Thread
Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - January 2, 2019 at 3:01 am
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by bennyboy - January 2, 2019 at 7:15 am
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by Angrboda - January 2, 2019 at 9:56 am
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - January 3, 2019 at 4:47 am
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by Angrboda - January 3, 2019 at 9:27 am
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - January 3, 2019 at 12:35 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by bennyboy - January 3, 2019 at 9:09 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - January 9, 2019 at 5:08 am
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by bennyboy - January 9, 2019 at 5:09 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by SteelCurtain - January 9, 2019 at 10:24 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - January 10, 2019 at 8:16 am
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by bennyboy - January 10, 2019 at 10:33 am
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - January 12, 2019 at 8:02 am
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by bennyboy - January 12, 2019 at 9:36 am
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - January 31, 2019 at 3:50 am
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by bennyboy - January 31, 2019 at 8:42 am
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - February 8, 2019 at 2:30 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - May 2, 2019 at 11:00 am
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - May 10, 2019 at 3:53 am
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by Smaug - May 10, 2019 at 7:45 am
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - May 25, 2019 at 2:28 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by Smaug - May 31, 2019 at 5:56 am
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - June 1, 2019 at 1:50 am
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by Smaug - June 1, 2019 at 1:24 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - June 2, 2019 at 7:26 am
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by Smaug - June 6, 2019 at 4:12 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - June 7, 2019 at 8:01 am
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by Jehanne - May 31, 2019 at 7:17 am
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - August 17, 2019 at 1:50 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - October 31, 2019 at 12:50 am
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - January 4, 2020 at 9:26 am
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - May 1, 2020 at 12:08 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - May 22, 2020 at 2:40 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - May 27, 2020 at 8:52 am
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - June 14, 2020 at 9:32 am
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - June 18, 2020 at 1:12 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by arewethereyet - June 18, 2020 at 1:27 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - June 18, 2020 at 3:35 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - June 24, 2020 at 3:59 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - August 22, 2020 at 1:16 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - August 30, 2020 at 4:24 am
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - August 30, 2020 at 6:51 am
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - August 30, 2020 at 10:56 am
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - August 30, 2020 at 11:37 am
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - August 30, 2020 at 12:02 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - August 30, 2020 at 1:09 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - August 30, 2020 at 1:37 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by Angrboda - August 30, 2020 at 12:14 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - August 30, 2020 at 2:01 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - August 30, 2020 at 2:06 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - August 30, 2020 at 2:15 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - August 30, 2020 at 4:39 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by Grandizer - September 3, 2020 at 3:43 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - August 30, 2020 at 6:55 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - September 3, 2020 at 12:08 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - September 3, 2020 at 3:18 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - September 3, 2020 at 4:51 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - September 3, 2020 at 5:06 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - September 4, 2020 at 4:05 am
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by Angrboda - September 3, 2020 at 3:10 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - September 4, 2020 at 4:17 am
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - September 21, 2020 at 3:12 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by HappySkeptic - September 24, 2020 at 1:12 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - October 5, 2020 at 5:01 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by HappySkeptic - October 5, 2020 at 9:12 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - October 6, 2020 at 1:55 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - October 18, 2020 at 9:11 am
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by FlatAssembler - July 17, 2021 at 12:29 pm
RE: Arithmetic Expression Compiler - by arewethereyet - July 17, 2021 at 12:36 pm

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