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* genvmop: fix broken script.Kaz Kylheku2018-03-121-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | This broke when I moved asm.tl into the library directory and set it up for auto-load. * genvmop.txr: We must not include "asm" any more. But then there is no auto-load on any other feature of the assembler other than the class name. The @(mdo) directive comes in handy; at expansion time we can trigger auto-load by doing a lookup on the sys:assembler struct name.
* New: virtual machine with assembler.Kaz Kylheku2018-03-101-0/+18
This commit is the start of compiler work to make TXR Lisp execute faster. In six days of part time work, we now have a register-style virtual machine with 32 instructions, handling exceptions, unwind-protect, lexical closures, and global environment access/mutation. We have a complete assembler and disassembler for this machine. The assembler supports labels with forward referencing with backpatching, and features pseudo-ops: for instance the (mov ...) pseudo-instruction chooses one of three kinds of specific move instruction based on the operands. * Makelfile (OBJS): Add vm.o. * eval.c (lookup_sym_lisp1): Static function becomes external; the virtual machine needs to use this to support that style of lookup. * genvmop.txr: New file. This is the generator for the "vmop.h" header. * lib.c (func_vm): New function. (generic_funcall): Handle the FVM function type via new vm_execute_closure function. In the variadic case, we want to avoid the argument copying which we do for the sake of C functions that get their fixed arguments directly, and then just the trailing arguments. Thus the code is restructured a bit in order to switch twice on the function type. (init): Call vm_init. * lib.h (functype_t): New enum member FVM. (struct func): New member in the .f union: vm_desc. (func_vm): Declared. * lisplib.c (set_dlt_entries_impl): New static function, formed from set_dlt_entries. (set_dlt_entries): Reduced to wrapper for set_dlt_entries_impl, passing in the user package. (set_dlt_entries_sys): New static function: like set_dlt_entries but targetting the sys package. (asm_instantiate, asm_set_entries): New static functions. (lisplib_init): Auto-load the sys:assembler class. * share/txr/stdlib/asm.tl: New file. * vm.c, vm.h, vmop.h: New files.