11 Dec
2008
11 Dec
'08
9:05 p.m.
>>>> "bfranchuk" == bfranchuk
<bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> writes:
bfranchuk> I looked at that, and it was a toy language. Alas most of
bfranchuk> the languages I want to use, still have commerical
bfranchuk> copyrites on them, or the OS or the source has been lost
bfranchuk> years ago. The cpu I have designed does not lend itself
bfranchuk> to the simple compilers that produce a stack based
bfranchuk> instruction set. a - *n compiles to: load a, st --*sp,
bfranchuk> load n, st --*sp , load **sp, reverse subtract *sp++. I
bfranchuk> want to generate is ld ac a, sub ac @ n.
I don't think I've ever seen a compiler that bad, not even in compiler
class in college in 1976...
paul