Re: Any thoughts on ARM FORTH register usage

From	stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc)
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: Any thoughts on ARM FORTH register usage
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Date	2012-07-20 05:38 +0000

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On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:13:58 -0700 (PDT), "Clyde W. Phillips Jr."
<cwpjr02@gmail.com> wrote:

>I truly regret my mistake on your name Stephen.

You're not the only one, Shirley.

>I am getting to the ARM manuals. I will look for references on STC FORTH 
>hi vs lo-level word compilation and structure.

Do let us know what you find. MPE did a fair amount of testing at one
stage but never published.

>My initial take on your comment on the call is that every primitive
>(if not words) has to manage the Link register, which I think will 
>allow for nested calling sequences.

The safe way to handle LR is just to push it, but that leads to
an overhead which can often be avoided. One of the design decisions
is how complex you want the code generator to be.

Stephen

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Any thoughts on ARM FORTH register usage Clyde Phillips <cwpjr02@gmail.com> - 2012-07-15 22:01 -0700
  Re: Any thoughts on ARM FORTH register usage stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2012-07-16 08:50 +0000
  Re: Any thoughts on ARM FORTH register usage "Clyde W. Phillips Jr." <cwpjr02@gmail.com> - 2012-07-19 00:56 -0700
    Re: Any thoughts on ARM FORTH register usage stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2012-07-19 08:56 +0000
  Re: Any thoughts on ARM FORTH register usage "Clyde W. Phillips Jr." <cwpjr02@gmail.com> - 2012-07-19 16:13 -0700
    Re: Any thoughts on ARM FORTH register usage stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2012-07-20 05:38 +0000
      Re: Any thoughts on ARM FORTH register usage "Clyde W. Phillips Jr." <cwpjr02@gmail.com> - 2012-07-23 23:08 -0700
        Re: Any thoughts on ARM FORTH register usage stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2012-07-24 09:05 +0000
          Re: Any thoughts on ARM FORTH register usage "Clyde W. Phillips Jr." <cwpjr02@gmail.com> - 2012-07-24 16:20 -0700
            Re: Any thoughts on ARM FORTH register usage stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2012-07-25 08:01 +0000

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