Clojurians Log v2

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And this is Chewbacca saying “Never deploy on Friday!” :P

I'm working on a toy assembly like language and I want to add an instruction rep which in following example will repeat inc :a 8 times.

5: rep 8
6:   inc :a
7: rp

5: rep 8
... stuff
12:    call foo
13: rp

18: foo:
19:   rp   ;; oh no! This is goign to return to call foo line, no line 5...
20:   ret  ;; this is a normal return from a function.... it should return to call site by popping IP stack.

IMO loops like this are not very assembly-like. I would expect to use a more primitive form like pdp11’s BNE. Some assembler have macros, which let you write higher level loops, but they expand to lower level instructions like BNE. If you do want to have a loop like this, I think it would be better to make the second case invalid.

I have already implemented cmp :a :bwhich compares and b and stores result in a cmp register (either =, <, >) Then I have jmps which look at cmp register. e.g. jne foo (jumps to foo if cmp was < or >) je foo (jumps to foo if cmp was =) jge foo (jumps to fo foo if cmp was > or = etc So maybe a rep / rp is just redundant

I also have macro expansion, so maybe I can just implement loops using macros e.g. I can do this

.macros
  %sum-and-square
    mul %1 %1
    mul %2 %2
    add %1 %2
  %end
.code
   mov :a 2
   mov :b 3
   sum-and-square(:a, :b)
   prn :a
   end