wow, sounds like a freshman assignment. don't steal ".b" from limbo, use limbo.
brucee On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Pietro Gagliardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I put up a new Bentley. This has support for, hopefully, all control > structures: > > if e then if..then > s > if e then if..then..else > s > else > s > while e do while..do > s > loop loop (infinite loop) > s > repeat repeat..until (like > do..while(!)) > s > until e > for i := e to e [by e] do like in pascal, but > with steps > s > for i := e downto e [by e] do like in pascal, but with steps > s > > The file asm.b is a simple demonstration of the last two. > > The Bentley compiler, when built, is named #b, so the 386 compiler (and the > only one so far) is 8b. The name is changed on build. This is used exactly > like the C compilers: > > 8b asm.b > 8l -o asm asm.8 > asm > > The -S option produces an Assembly listing, but does not build (the C > compilers do). > > My only regret so far is that for loops generate a medium sized piece of > spaghetti (yum). See the comment in 8.c for details. > > Set for the next release: arguments in procedures, functions, a more > sophisticated stack size algorithm, bit arrays. > > >
