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

From "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Control-flow stack (was: Static Single Assignment ...)
Date 2015-02-11 22:42 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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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> <mbglmo$7rs$1@dont-email.me>

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on 11/02/2015 22:39:56, "Alex McDonald" wrote:
> on 11/02/2015 17:46:36,  wrote:
>> "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> writes:
>>>Category A. Hugh (and possibly Albert) wants the control flow stack to
>>>*not* be the data stack.
>>
>> 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); a separate control-flow
>> stack would have helped relatively little.
> 
> That's also been my experience while supporting the Win32Forth
> meta-compiler.
> 
>>
>>>> * Programmers could use DEPTH to find out the size of an individual
>>>> control-flow stack item, and then copy it, store it to memory, or
>>>> otherwise manipulate it.
>>>
>>>Ouch. They can do that anyway for words with orig and dest.
>>
>> They cannot store these items to memory, and load them later or
>> something (e.g., for implementing labels and gotos).
>>
> 
> Why not? Removing an IFs orig should effectively remove the IF from
> the compile stream, since there is no code generated (at least on the
> CPU architecures I know where there's no requirement to identify a
> branch target) and the orig is the only evidence of the IF.

Belay that and delete, this newsreader I'm using has a send but no save
draft button, and I prematurely fired this off. It's obvious that THEN is
the target of the branch at IF.

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Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation Aliaksei Chapyzhenka <alex.drom@gmail.com> - 2015-02-05 20:01 -0800
  Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-02-05 21:00 -0800
    Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Rod Pemberton" <buzz@notnotnontnooatno.cmm> - 2015-02-06 02:15 -0500
      Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-02-06 12:07 -0800
        Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation Jan Coombs <Jan-54 <jenfhaomndgfwutc@murmic.plus.com>> - 2015-02-08 22:38 +0000
          Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-02-08 14:55 -0800
            Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation Aliaksei Chapyzhenka <alex.drom@gmail.com> - 2015-02-08 19:59 -0800
  Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-02-06 13:15 +0000
  Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-02-06 13:22 +0000
    Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation Aliaksei Chapyzhenka <alex.drom@gmail.com> - 2015-02-06 11:16 -0800
      Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-02-06 12:05 -0800
      Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-02-06 16:44 -0800
        Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Rod Pemberton" <buzz@notnotnontnooatno.cmm> - 2015-02-06 23:41 -0500
      Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Rod Pemberton" <buzz@notnotnontnooatno.cmm> - 2015-02-06 23:41 -0500
        Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-02-07 19:22 +0000
          Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation Aliaksei Chapyzhenka <alex.drom@gmail.com> - 2015-02-07 13:09 -0800
            Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-02-07 11:25 -1000
              Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation Aliaksei Chapyzhenka <alex.drom@gmail.com> - 2015-02-07 14:09 -0800
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-02-07 22:32 +0000
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation Aliaksei Chapyzhenka <alex.drom@gmail.com> - 2015-02-07 14:51 -0800
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-02-08 00:04 +0000
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation Aliaksei Chapyzhenka <alex.drom@gmail.com> - 2015-02-07 17:03 -0800
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Rod Pemberton" <buzz@notnotnontnooatno.cmm> - 2015-02-07 21:04 -0500
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Rod Pemberton" <buzz@notnotnontnooatno.cmm> - 2015-02-07 21:10 -0500
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-02-08 10:57 +0000
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Rod Pemberton" <buzz@notnotnontnooatno.cmm> - 2015-02-07 21:05 -0500
            Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-02-07 22:24 +0000
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            Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-02-07 15:35 -1000
              Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-02-07 16:52 -1000
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-02-08 10:21 -0800
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-02-08 20:09 +0000
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-02-08 17:15 -1000
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-02-09 12:00 +0000
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-02-09 13:05 +0000
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-02-10 16:01 +1100
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Rod Pemberton" <buzz@notnotnontnooatno.cmm> - 2015-02-09 02:35 -0500
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-02-09 12:03 +0000
              Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-02-08 10:13 -0800
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-02-08 20:21 +0000
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-02-09 22:49 -0800
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-02-10 12:12 +0000
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-02-10 12:54 +0000
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-02-10 06:30 -0800
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-02-10 14:53 +0000
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-02-10 08:20 -1000
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-02-10 14:33 +0000
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-02-10 19:09 +0000
                Control-flow stack (was: Static Single Assignment ...) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-02-10 14:29 +0000
                Re: Control-flow stack (was: Static Single Assignment ...) "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-02-10 15:49 +0000
                Re: Control-flow stack (was: Static Single Assignment ...) albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-02-10 17:56 +0000
                Re: Control-flow stack (was: Static Single Assignment ...) "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-02-10 20:53 +0000
                Re: Control-flow stack "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-02-10 13:08 -1000
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                Re: Control-flow stack (was: Static Single Assignment ...) "Rod Pemberton" <buzz@notnotnontnooatno.cmm> - 2015-02-10 18:43 -0500
                Re: Control-flow stack (was: Static Single Assignment ...) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-02-11 17:46 +0000
                Re: Control-flow stack (was: Static Single Assignment ...) "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-02-11 22:39 +0000
                Re: Control-flow stack (was: Static Single Assignment ...) "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-02-11 22:42 +0000
                Re: Control-flow stack (was: Static Single Assignment ...) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-02-12 09:52 +0000
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                Re: Control-flow stack (was: Static Single Assignment ...) hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-02-11 20:23 -0800
                Re: Control-flow stack (was: Static Single Assignment ...) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-02-12 07:21 +0000
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                Re: Control-flow stack (was: Static Single Assignment ...) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-02-15 11:09 +0000
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                Re: Control-flow stack "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-02-10 16:37 -1000
                Re: Control-flow stack hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-02-10 18:57 -0800
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Rod Pemberton" <buzz@notnotnontnooatno.cmm> - 2015-02-10 18:44 -0500
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-02-10 14:49 -1000
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-02-10 18:16 -0800
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-02-11 00:35 -0800
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-02-11 09:35 +0000
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-02-11 03:06 -0800
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-02-11 14:27 +0000
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-02-11 14:40 +0000
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Rod Pemberton" <buzz@notnotnontnooatno.cmm> - 2015-02-12 20:02 -0500
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-02-13 11:42 +0000
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Rod Pemberton" <buzz@notnotnontnooatno.cmm> - 2015-02-13 07:44 -0500
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-02-13 14:20 +0000
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-02-13 10:32 -1000
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Rod Pemberton" <bork@lllljunkqwer.cpm> - 2015-03-29 16:27 -0400
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                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-03-29 15:24 -1000
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-03-30 04:44 -0700
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-03-30 15:33 +0100
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-02-11 18:03 +0000
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-02-12 00:16 +0100
                Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-02-12 07:08 +0000
            Re: Static Single Assignment form to Stack allocation "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-02-08 10:51 +0000

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