Re: Release my K&R C compiler along OS and utilities

On 2025-03-20, Oscar Toledo G <biyubi@gmail.com> wrote:

On 19 Mar 2025 at 6:22:06 CST, "anthk" <anthk@openbsd.home> wrote:
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On 2025-03-16, Oscar Toledo G <biyubi@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all.
 
I've released recently the source code to my almost full K&R C compiler (minus
extern and static) made in 1993-1996.
 
It was developed based on Small-C and expanded to K&R per the book.
 
The target of this C compiler is a transputer chip. The C compiler runs under
my own operating system, and you'll find along text editor, assembler,
assorted utilities, a 3D modeler, and a ported Ray Tracer program.
 
For this to work, I've made a transputer emulator that can be compiled in
recent macOS (test with Macbook Air M1)
 
The full source code is available at https://github.com/nanochess/transputer
 
Also three articles about the development are linked there.
 
Enjoy it!
 
Regards,

 
Thanks/Gracias. Altough from you I would expect using something like Minix 3,
or OpenBSD :D.

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I'm more mainstream these days because I keep distros of IntyBASIC, CVBasic,
and CoolCV for Windows, macOS and Linux.
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I use a Macbook Air for development, and VirtualBox for running both Windows
and Fedora, so I don't need to use another computer.
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Regards,

Did you have a look on EForth+Subleq/Muxleq?

Subleq it's a tiny VM/OISC, albeit slow. Muxleq speed it ups a lot
by multiplexing instructions. Eforth runs under it.

https://howerj.github.io/subleq.htm

https://github.com/howerj/muxleq

THe repo has both subleq and muxleq.
If you want a recent muxleq.dec, email me;
I will submit a ready to run subleq (DEC)
image.

If any, edit muxleq.fth, set to 1 the opt.*
variables related to floats, a better SEE
and loops (do...loop it's a Forth standard).

My settings. Sorry for not posting a diff:

tant opt.multi      ( Add in large "pause" primitive )
1 constant opt.editor     ( Add in Text Editor )
1 constant opt.info       ( Add info printing function )
0 constant opt.generate-c ( Generate C code )
1 constant opt.better-see ( Replace 'see' with better version )
1 constant opt.control    ( Add in more control structures )
0 constant opt.allocate   ( Add in "allocate"/"free" )
1 constant opt.float      ( Add in floating point code )
0 constant opt.glossary   ( Add in "glossary" word )
1 constant opt.optimize   ( Enable extra optimization )
1 constant opt.divmod     ( Use "opDivMod" primitive )
0 constant opt.self       ( self-interpreter [NOT WORKING] )

Then:

./muxleq ./muxleq.dec < ./muxleq.fth > ./new.dec

Run:

./muxlec ./new.dec

The interpreter uses a soft float approach. Thus, you
can use -O3 -ffast-math without troubles, I guess.

On guides, "Starting Forth" (Web ANS version) and
Thinking Forth will be more than enough.

There's Sectorforth, but it's really limited. Contrary
to SectorLisp from Jart, it doesn't have
a integer number set save for numbers declared as
forth words such as powers of 2 and numbers maybe from
0 to 16.

If you want to try, you can set a proper SectorForth
by properly bootstrapping the integer part.

https://github.com/cesarblum/sectorforth

Enjoy.