Annotation of gforth/model, revision 1.1
1.1 ! anton 1: $Id: model,v 1.3 1992/09/11 12:13:54 anton Exp $
! 2: Copyright 1992 by the ANSI figForth Development Group
! 3:
! 4: This file describes the implementation model of ANSI figForth. The things
! 5: described herein are valid in all implementations of ANSI figForth.
! 6:
! 7: The instruction pointer (ip) is post-incremented.
! 8:
! 9: Branches are relative:
! 10: branch
! 11: offset: target - offset
! 12: ...
! 13: target: ...
! 14:
! 15: The top-of return stack is in memory
! 16:
! 17: The top of data stack need not be in memory. Other data stack items
! 18: are in memory.
! 19:
! 20: The stacks grow downward
! 21:
! 22: flags are represtented by 0 and -1
! 23:
! 24: The loop control parameters are the index on the top of return stack
! 25: and the limit on the second item.
! 26:
! 27: Everything except the virtual machine registers (ip, sp, etc.) is
! 28: addressable.
! 29:
! 30: The return address on the return stack occupies one cell.
! 31:
! 32: There is a floating point stack
! 33: The floating point numbers are the same as C's double numbers
! 34:
! 35: The error returns of the file word set are FALSE or TRUE. (or should
! 36: we use errno? Does this work with stdio functions?)
! 37:
! 38: No assumptions can be made about the order of fetching the xt of the
! 39: next word wrt the other operations in a forth word. This makes a
! 40: difference only if you want to execute code lying on the stack or if
! 41: you store into the very next word that is executed.
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