Re: RPN as intermediate code?

hbaker@netcom.com (Henry Baker)
Sat, 2 Sep 1995 16:49:59 GMT

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From: hbaker@netcom.com (Henry Baker)
Keywords: interpreter, forth
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References: 95-08-164 95-09-010
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 1995 16:49:59 GMT

lkaplan@BIX.com (Leonard Kaplan) wrote:


> Noel Gorelick wrote:
> >I am struggling trying to convert my C interpreter from a tree-based
> >design to an intermediate-code design.
>
> >I now want to move to storing (and executing) some form of intermediate
> >code. I really like the idea of encoding into an 'execution string', like
> >bc does, and reverse polish works great for this, as long as I stick to
> >encoding expressions. But this model falls apart when I get into things
> >like conditionals and loops, and I am completely baffled how to do
> >short-circuit logic like this. For instance, I can compile the following
> >code into the RPN strings shown (which execute easily):


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