/* This file defines a number of threading schemes. Copyright (C) 1995, 1996,1997,1999,2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of Gforth. Gforth is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA. This files defines macros for threading. Many sets of macros are defined. Functionally they have only one difference: Some implement direct threading, some indirect threading. The other differences are just variations to help GCC generate faster code for various machines. (Well, to tell the truth, there actually is another functional difference in some pathological cases: e.g., a '!' stores into the cell where the next executed word comes from; or, the next word executed comes from the top-of-stack. These differences are one of the reasons why GCC cannot produce the right variation by itself. We chose disallowing such practices and using the added implementation freedom to achieve a significant speedup, because these practices are not common in Forth (I have never heard of or seen anyone using them), and it is easy to circumvent problems: A control flow change will flush any prefetched words; you may want to do a "0 drop" before that to write back the top-of-stack cache.) These macro sets are used in the following ways: After translation to C a typical primitive looks like ... { DEF_CA other declarations NEXT_P0; main part of the primitive NEXT_P1; store results to stack NEXT_P2; } DEF_CA and all the NEXT_P* together must implement NEXT; In the main part the instruction pointer can be read with IP, changed with INC_IP(const_inc), and the cell right behind the presently executing word (i.e. the value of *IP) is accessed with NEXT_INST. If a primitive does not fall through the main part, it has to do the rest by itself. If it changes ip, it has to redo NEXT_P0 (perhaps we should define a macro SET_IP). Some primitives (execute, dodefer) do not end with NEXT, but with EXEC(.). If NEXT_P0 has been called earlier, it has to perform "ip=IP;" to ensure that ip has the right value (NEXT_P0 may change it). Finally, there is NEXT1_P1 and NEXT1_P2, which are parts of EXEC (EXEC(XT) could be defined as "cfa=XT; NEXT1_P1; NEXT1_P2;" (is this true?)) and are used for making docol faster. We can define the ways in which these macros are used with a regular expression: For a primitive DEF_CA NEXT_P0 ( IP | INC_IP | NEXT_INST | ip=...; NEXT_P0 ) * ( NEXT_P1 NEXT_P2 | EXEC(...) ) For a run-time routine, e.g., docol: PFA1(cfa) ( NEXT_P0 NEXT | cfa=...; NEXT1_P1; NEXT1_P2 | EXEC(...) ) This comment does not yet describe all the dependences that the macros have to satisfy. To organize the former ifdef chaos, each path is separated This gives a quite impressive number of paths, but you clearly find things that go together. It should be possible to organize the whole thing in a way that contains less redundancy and allows a simpler description. */ #ifdef DOUBLY_INDIRECT # ifndef DEBUG_DITC # define DEBUG_DITC 0 # endif /* define to 1 if you want to check consistency */ # define NEXT_P0 ({cfa1=cfa; cfa=*ip;}) # define CFA cfa1 # define MORE_VARS Xt cfa1; # define IP (ip) # define SET_IP(p) ({ip=(p); cfa=*ip;}) # define NEXT_INST (cfa) # define INC_IP(const_inc) ({cfa=IP[const_inc]; ip+=(const_inc);}) # define DEF_CA Label ca; # define NEXT_P1 ({\ if (DEBUG_DITC && (cfa<=vm_prims+DOESJUMP || cfa>=vm_prims+npriminfos)) \ fprintf(stderr,"NEXT encountered prim %p at ip=%p\n", cfa, ip); \ ip++;}) # define NEXT_P2 ({ca=**cfa; goto *ca;}) # define EXEC(XT) ({DEF_CA cfa=(XT);\ if (DEBUG_DITC && (cfa>vm_prims+DOESJUMP && cfa