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Re: Control-flow stack (was: Static Single Assignment ...)

From anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Control-flow stack (was: Static Single Assignment ...)
Date 2015-02-12 07:21 +0000
Organization Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
Message-ID <2015Feb12.082133@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> (permalink)
References (4 earlier) <54d9ff6a$0$3895$e4fe514c@dreader34.news.xs4all.nl> <2015Feb10.152916@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <mbd98q$eml$1@dont-email.me> <2015Feb11.184639@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <587613c2-2804-4ee0-9c41-5503306ff33a@googlegroups.com>

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hughaguilar96@gmail.com writes:
>On Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 10:58:03 AM UTC-7, Anton Ertl wrote:
>> I have done more metaprogramming in Forth than most other Forth
>> programmers (e.g., the Gray parser generator generates executable
>> Forth code, including control structures);=20
>
>Apparently you didn't have a LITERAL inside of any of these control structu=
>res that you generated

Let's see:

1 max-member  ok
0 singleton ' abort terminal t  ok
t ?? parser test  ok
see test 
: test  
  140737329163752 abort 
  IF     140737329163752 abort abort 
  THEN ; ok

The 140737329163752 was generated with LITERAL, and one of them is
inside the IF.

> --- or you would have noticed that getting the liter=
>al value to the LITERAL is a problem because the control-structures' contro=
>l-flow data is on the data stack getting in the way.

In this program they did not get in the way.  Let's look at the source
code for the code generation for the terminal T and for "??":

: compile-test ( set -- )
 postpone literal
 test-vector @ compile, ;

: generate-terminal ( -- )
 this get-first compile-test
 check&next compile, ;

: generate-option ( -- )
 operand get-first compile-test
 postpone if
 operand generate
 postpone endif ;

What's happening here is that Gray uses an object-oriented approach
akin to mini-oof2.  I think it's the great-grandfather of mini-oof2;
like mini-oof2, but unlike the intermediate mini-oof it already has
the current object (THIS) and can access fields of THIS such as
OPERAND.  In Gray a separate stack is used for that, but a VALUE and
the return stack would have been good enough (and is used in
objects.fs and I think mini-oof2).  When calling GENERATE, the object
is removed from the data stack and put on the separate stack.

PARSER generates code for a "??" node and calls GENERATE which calls
GENERATE-OPTION, and that generates the IF, and then accesses THIS
(via OPERAND) to tell another instance of GENERATE what to generate
code for; so the control-flow stack item of the IF does not get in the
way.  That GENERATE then calls GENERATE-TERMINAL, which calls LITERAL.

>In this thread I did some meta-programming:
>https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/comp.lang.forth/codejam/comp.lang.forth/3Y4w_MdYl0k/IMCaSNvF864J
>I found a bug in Gforth that limited the length of colon words. This isn't =
>generally a problem with hand-written colon words, because Forth style is t=
>o write short colon words. It is more likely to be a problem in meta-progra=
>mming, because unwinding loops is pretty common. The fact that this bug exi=
>sted in Gforth indicates to me that none of the Gforth programmers (includi=
>ng yourself) had ever done any meta-programming in Gforth (at least, nothin=
>g that involved unwinding a loop) --- otherwise you would have found the bu=
>g --- the fact that I found the bug, indicates that I was one of the first =
>people ever to do any meta-programming in Gforth.

Here's the answer <2012Apr25.153938@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> to
your posting:

|That's a limitation in Gforth 0.6.*.  Gforth 0.7.* does not have that
|limitation.  BTW, this means that your program has a sequence of 128
|primitives without intervening control flow (no call to a colon
|definition or somesuch).  Not many people complained about that
|limitation while 0.6.* was current, but I came across (IIRC) one
|program where it caused a problem, so I removed the limitation.

BTW, I just looked up when this limitation was removed in the
development version of Gforth, and it was in November 2003, 6 months
after it was introduced, and more than 8 years before you first
complained about it.

- anton
-- 
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