[Oberon] FJump and FixLink

Andreas Pirklbauer andreas_pirklbauer at yahoo.com
Sun Sep 23 18:18:08 CEST 2018


   > Personally, I would use C22 in fix().
   > And «MOD maxCode» in FixLinx..()
   > And try to make ORG.maxCode a power of two for efficiency reasons.
   > But feel free to take C22 everywhere.
   >
   > br
   > Jörg

Ok, now that the issue is fully understood it’s matter of taste. I'll
sleep over it before making a final decision. Thx for the clarification!

PS: For ORG.fix, one advantage of sticking with C24 is that it
makes it deterministic: for negative branch offsets, the leading
bits #22 and #23 will *always* be set to 1, no matter what their
values were before and which does no harm, as you have stated
earlier, while for positive offsets bits #22 and #23 will be set to 0.
This may have been one of the reasons why C24 has been
used in the official Oberon-07 compiler, but I just don’t know.

PS2: For ORG.FixLink, both MOD C22 or MOD maxCode if
maxCode is a power of 2 are fine. Note that ORG.CheckRegs
checks for pc >= maxCode anyway..

-ap





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