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uart777



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uart777 13 Jul 2013, 00:21
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Still pondering a simple way to add support for parenthesis (to collapse common sub-expressions manually)
It may help to convert infix expressions to RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) first to remove parenthesis/precedence then interpret subexpressions (lvalue+rvalue) from left-to-right order using irps or forward+match.

My EXPRESSION.INC demonstrates the mechanics of a simple recursive descent parser. I couldn't think of a way to do this with macros.

References:

* Famous "red dragon compiler book": http://www.amazon.com/Compilers-Principles-Techniques-Alfred-Aho/dp/0201100886
* Recursive descent parser: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_descent_parser
* Shunting yard algorithm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunting-yard_algorithm
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bitRAKE 14 Jul 2013, 01:27
Thanks for the resources. I am a little familiar with parsing methods, but am working within the constraints of FASM's preprocessor. There is a workaround to avoid use of parentheses. Instead multiple equations could be processed and combined using the current macro implementation.

Instead let us look at the problem:

( A ) B

A => C + ( D
B => + E ) + F

( C + ( D ) + E ) + F

It seems three cases need to be parsed: the initial pair, and then possible unmatched ends. If results are stored on a separate stack we'd just need to push/pop from that stack to the other one. This works well with the previous optimization which reduced instruction count.

*This only works if all values are static because calculations are not really preformed in precedence order. No ++/-- or assignment bullshit.

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l_inc 14 Jul 2013, 11:41
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I think, you're trying to parse it in a wrong way. The TS has already asked me the same question over PM in March. What I suggested was to use this macro as a starting point, but instead of displaying the expression to store the expression into a virtual section and to parse it using the load directive. This would be a much simpler way of parsing.

I also provided the following macro (for a little different purpose):
Code:
;Displays all tokens of an expression, delimiting them 
;with a specified string 
;usage: dispExp ' ', y = 17, x = 2*y+(y mod 12) shl 7 
macro dispExp delim*,[exp] 
{ 
        common match \exp,exp 
        \{ 
                _rest equ \exp 
                irps sym,\exp 
                \\{ 
                        display \\`sym 
                        match head tail, _rest 
                        \\\{ 
                                restore _rest 
                                _rest equ tail 
                                display delim 
                        \\\} 
                \\} 
                restore _rest 
        \} 
}    

See any similarity to the first post? Smile

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bitRAKE 14 Jul 2013, 12:24
Using the assembler directives would be a much easier approach.
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l_inc 14 Jul 2013, 12:25
bitRAKE
Yes. That's what I said.

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tthsqe 14 Jul 2013, 14:07
So is this post trying to evaluate expressions involving mathematical operators (no asignments or flow controls, ect.) purely through fasm's macros? You need a few stacks, which fasm has, but more importantly, you need to be able actually do the arithmetic operations, which fasm doesn't have for floating point. How is this being accomplished?
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bitRAKE 15 Jul 2013, 00:26
I was under the impression Roman is trying to create a some sort of code generator, or rather I assumed that when he switched to using SSE instructions. Before that the goal was too vague, imho. Since others have already written parsers using assembler directives, thought I'd push the preprocessor method.
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uart777 15 Jul 2013, 04:58
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... parse it using the load directive. This would be a much simpler...
Here's a load/store example for those who don't know how to use them: Scroll through each character of literal text and convert to uppercase. Text may be a stream of tokens, names, operators and/or store in a list of equates...
Code:
text: db \          ; example text
 'abcdef', 0

i=0                 ; initialize
c=1                 ; counters

while c<>0          ; while not 0
 load c byte \      ; get c
  from text+i           
 if c>='a' & c<='z' ; lowercase?
  c=c-32            ; convert
 end if
 store byte c \     ; store result
  at text+i
 i=i+1              ; next c
end while    
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... calculations are not really preformed in precedence order. No ++/-- or assignment bullshit.
An alternative to infix expressions is to write multiple operations+statements on the same line separated with commas - . if a=b, n=f(1,2,3), end, p=a[i] - as in the following examples.

New ML in development: Future Macro Language. Ultimate ML that replaces C/C++/C#/Java. Easiest, most compact, highest production speed, direct memory access (for LL/systems programmers), C-style &address/*value, 100% FASM (not a backend or separate program), type safety and portability (X86+ARM).
Code:
; Future Macro Language...

! rgb(byte r, g, b) - color  
 . r1=r, r2=g, r1<<16, r2<<8, r1|r2, r1|b, end!  

! strlen(string s)  
 . r1=s, while *s, s++, endw, s-r1, s--, end! s  

! strcpy(string a, b)  
 . while *b, *a++=*b++, endw, *a=0, end! a  

! strcat(string a, b)  
 . strlen(a), r1+a, strcpy(r1, b), end! 

! strcmp(string a, b)  
 . while *a=*b and *a|*b, a++, b++, endw,\  
 r1=*a, r1-*b, end!  

! strchr(string s, char c)  
 . while *s, ? *s=c : return s, s++, endw, end! 0  

macro strequ a, b { . strcmp(a, b), ~r1 }  

! memcpyb(void *a, *b, u32 n)  
 . repeat n, (u8) *a++=*b++, endr, end!  

! memsetb(void *p, byte v, u32 n)  
 . repeat n, (u8) *p++=v, endr, end! 

; optional function/endf keywords 
; (for IDEs with syntax coloring). 
; all statements may be written on 
; individual lines... 

function rgb(byte r, g, b) - color  
 . r1=r, r2=g, r1<<16, r2<<8, r1|r2, r1|b 
endf 

function strlen(string s)  
 . r1=s 
 . while *s, s++, endw 
 . s-r1, s-- 
endf s 

function strcpy(string a, b)  
 . while *b, *a++=*b++, endw 
 . *a=0 
endf a 

function strcmp(string a, b)  
 . while *a=*b and *a|*b 
  . a++, b++ 
 . endw 
 . r1=*a, r1-*b 
endf    
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