Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Rubin Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Ideal Stack Machine Instruction Set Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2016 14:56:54 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 8 Message-ID: <874m2c4sp5.fsf@nightsong.com> References: <9ec202ed-8f32-4b76-b1a2-3cfaafbed507@googlegroups.com> <1a0be1fe-8615-4b13-a748-81bf6411db04@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="2296ec77468b8e05d91b989ab2eec0a5"; logging-data="30198"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19u5f9NWICOrg7sV4tNLguz" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1DR2O8BXNlMaTdgtA0DlLtdsZQc= sha1:uquuWQbu8/IKi4+QVirVTi4b6DE= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:53234 Nathan Schulzke writes: > What would the virtual hardware look like? My preliminary design has > two stacks (parameter and return), and three registers (machine code > PC and IR, and an IP for Forth). You might find this useful: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/euroforth/ef08/papers/pelc.pdf