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Re: Stack Sizes

From Rod Pemberton <NeedNotReplyHere@xrsevnneqk.cem>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Stack Sizes
Date 2016-10-07 23:05 -0400
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On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 02:26:54 -0400
rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/7/2016 2:14 AM, Paul Rubin wrote:
> > rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> writes:

> >> A register/stack hybrid by giving a limited range of access into
> >> the stack for operands.  
> >
> > This sounds like a register window architecture, e.g. SPARC.  They
> > were in vogue in workstation processors for a while, but then went
> > out of favor, I think because of difficulties making them
> > superscalar or something like that.  For a small fpga softcore
> > maybe that doesn't matter.  
> 
> Lol, no, I don't think not being "superscalar" matters to a MISC CPU. 
> Not familiar with register window, but that sounds a bit like it, but 
> put it on top of a stack.  The idea is to do away with most of the
> stack manipulations, OVER, DUP, etc. buy implementing them with small
> offsets and stack pointer adjustments other than +1/0/-1.
> 
> One of the issues in stack machines is dealing with more than a
> couple or three stack items.  I think a small offset into the stack
> will make this work a lot better.
> 

It would be useful if you could move the pointer from position at the
top of the stack, while guaranteeing that items now above the new
pointer location were not corrupted.  E.g., if you wanted to swap the
3rd and 4th items, you could:

1) change data stack pointer to point to 3rd item
2) "protect" the items between new and old position, i.e.,
 "guard" the 1st and 2nd items
3) SWAP, which would swap the 3rd and 4th items
4) restore data stack pointer
5) remove "guard" protecting 1st and 2nd items from being overwritten

I noticed this type of situation come up both in Forth code and C code
converted to Forth.  This would make all data stack operations
independent of the current stack position.  I'm just not sure how to do
it more effectively than moving items to the return stack.  Guarding
the data would be the hard part in software, I think, without needing
to use to two block moves of data, which would slow this down.  Swapping
the stack pointer is quick and easy.


Rod Pemberton

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            Re: Stack Sizes Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2016-10-06 19:11 -0400
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                Re: Straight Forth Re: Stack Sizes rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-10-16 22:27 -0400
                Re: Straight Forth Re: Stack Sizes Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2016-10-16 21:14 -0700
                Re: Straight Forth Re: Stack Sizes rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-10-17 00:35 -0400
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                Re: Straight Forth Re: Stack Sizes Bernd Paysan <bernd@net2o.de> - 2016-10-17 21:53 +0000
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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
                Re: Straight Forth Re: Stack Sizes lawrencedo99@gmail.com - 2016-10-16 22:42 -0700
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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
                Re: Straight Forth Re: Stack Sizes Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-17 16:40 -0700
                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
                Re: Straight Forth Re: Stack Sizes rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-10-17 20:50 -0400
                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: Straight Forth Re: Stack Sizes albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2016-10-18 02:12 +0200
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                Re: Straight Forth Re: Stack Sizes albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2016-10-18 12:53 +0200
                Re: Straight Forth Re: Stack Sizes hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-10-18 12:12 -0700
                Re: Stack Sizes anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-10-07 16:53 +0000
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                Re: Stack Sizes anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-10-09 16:03 +0000
                Re: Stack Sizes Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2016-10-10 03:25 -0500
                Re: Stack Sizes Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2016-10-10 10:29 -0500
                Re: Stack Sizes Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2016-10-11 05:19 -0500
                Re: Stack Sizes anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-10-10 14:41 +0000
                Re: Stack Sizes Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2016-10-10 20:23 +0200
                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
                Re: Stack Sizes lawrencedo99@gmail.com - 2016-10-13 15:05 -0700
                Re: Stack Sizes Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2016-10-14 03:08 -0500
                Re: Stack Sizes Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2016-10-14 14:41 -0400
                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
              Re: Stack Sizes Rod Pemberton <NeedNotReplyHere@xrsevnneqk.cem> - 2016-10-07 23:05 -0400
                Re: Stack Sizes jim.brakefield@ieee.org - 2016-10-07 21:56 -0700
                Re: Stack Sizes Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2016-10-08 07:23 -0400
                Re: Stack Sizes lawrencedo99@gmail.com - 2016-10-11 22:39 -0700
            Re: Stack Sizes Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2016-10-07 08:21 +0200
            Re: Stack Sizes albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2016-10-07 09:22 +0200
              Re: Stack Sizes Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2016-10-07 09:35 +0200
                Re: Stack Sizes jim.brakefield@ieee.org - 2016-10-07 10:51 -0700
                Re: Stack Sizes Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2016-10-07 13:21 -0500
                Re: Stack Sizes Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2016-10-07 20:40 +0200
                Re: Stack Sizes albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2016-10-07 20:53 +0200
            Re: Stack Sizes anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-10-07 07:35 +0000
              Re: Stack Sizes Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-07 01:09 -0700
                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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