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Re: Straight Forth Re: Stack Sizes

From rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Straight Forth Re: Stack Sizes
Date 2016-10-24 22:23 -0400
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On 10/24/2016 7:28 PM, lawrencedo99@gmail.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 5:13:32 AM UTC+13, JUERGEN wrote:
>>
>> On Saturday, October 22, 2016 at 1:46:13 AM UTC+1, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>>>
>>> On Saturday, October 22, 2016 at 11:13:48 AM UTC+13, Bernd Paysan wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Am Mon, 17 Oct 2016 16:54:31 -0700 schrieb lawrencedo99:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tuesday, October 18, 2016 at 10:53:27 AM UTC+13, Bernd Paysan wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So 30 years after the great Forth83 "mistake", I can claim that this
>>>>>> idea had arrived as general consensus among ISA designers, at least for
>>>>>> vector operations where they have the freedom to use them...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Apparently, these sorts of flags make more sense in general ...
>>>>>
>>>>> “For vector operations” ≠ “in general”.
>>>>
>>>> You can't read, as I described at length ...
>>>
>>> ... all the parts where you were trying to argue that, just because
>>> special-purpose vector instructions have become commonplace, that makes
>>> them general-purpose?
>>>
>>> I read all right. And understood, possibly better than you.
>>
>> Could you please do me a favour and explain where you understand it better
>> than Bernd for my understanding and the rest of the people reading this
>> thread.
>> Very much appreciated.
>
> See Bernd’s own words above, where he says “at least for vector” at one point, then jumps to “in general” at another point, with no connection in-between. To spell it out:
>
>     “general-purpose” ⊆ “commonplace”
>     “vector” ⊆ “special-purpose”
>
> However, nowadays
>
>     “vector” ⊆ “commonplace”
>
> Nevertheless,
>
>     “vector” ⊈ “general-purpose”
>
> Or, to put it another way,
>
>     “vector” ∩ “general-purpose” = ∅
>
> Is that clearer now?

I think this is where Bernd gets to "commonplace"...

> ARMv8 also provides a csinv instruction which has all bits
> set as true value for the normal integer operations (that's what didn't
> happen in the Intel world), so even for the normal integer operation,
> having -1 as true flag seems to be widespread enough for CPU designers to
> add those instructions (C flags are generated with csinc).

I looked at this instruction and it seems to be a way to change a 
register from zero to -1 conditionally which would be used for setting a 
Forth type flag.

-- 

Rick C

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                Re: Straight Forth Re: Stack Sizes lawrencedo99@gmail.com - 2016-10-24 16:28 -0700
                Re: Straight Forth Re: Stack Sizes Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-24 17:20 -0700
                Re: Straight Forth Re: Stack Sizes rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-10-24 22:23 -0400
                Re: Straight Forth Re: Stack Sizes Bernd Paysan <bernd@net2o.de> - 2016-11-04 20:39 +0000
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                Re: Straight Forth Re: Stack Sizes Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-17 09:20 -0700
                Re: Straight Forth Re: Stack Sizes rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-10-17 19:11 -0400
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                Re: Straight Forth Re: Stack Sizes rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-10-17 20:19 -0400
                Re: Straight Forth Re: Stack Sizes Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-17 17:25 -0700
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                Re: Straight Forth Re: Stack Sizes albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2016-10-18 02:04 +0200
                Re: Straight Forth Re: Stack Sizes anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-10-18 06:13 +0000
                Re: Straight Forth Re: Stack Sizes hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-10-16 15:21 -0700
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                Re: Stack Sizes anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-10-10 14:41 +0000
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                Re: Stack Sizes Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2016-10-11 05:16 -0500
                Re: Stack Sizes anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-10-12 12:54 +0000
                Re: Stack Sizes albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2016-10-12 18:27 +0200
                Re: Stack Sizes anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-10-12 17:06 +0000
                Re: Stack Sizes Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2016-10-12 13:01 -0500
                Re: Stack Sizes Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2016-10-12 17:07 -0400
                Re: Stack Sizes albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2016-10-13 03:18 +0200
                Re: Stack Sizes Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2016-10-14 14:26 -0400
                Re: Stack Sizes lawrencedo99@gmail.com - 2016-10-12 20:30 -0700
                Re: Stack Sizes anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-10-13 15:52 +0000
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                Re: Stack Sizes Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2016-10-07 12:33 -0500
                Re: Stack Sizes rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-10-08 01:12 -0400
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                Re: Stack Sizes anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-10-07 15:59 +0000
                Re: Stack Sizes Bernd Paysan <bernd@net2o.de> - 2016-10-17 22:05 +0000

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