[Oberon] Compiler Construction on projectoberon.net

[John Stout]

Hello everyone

I'm working on a compiler and emulation of the RISC processor detailed in
the latest (?) edition of Compiler Construction by Professor Wirth
from CompilerConstruction1.pdf
(projectoberon.net)
<http://www.projectoberon.net/wirth/CompilerConstruction/CompilerConstruction.pdf>
.

I can't follow the Oberon code for the emulator in section 9.5 in the
section handling memory instructions, which differs from Peter De Wachter's
Oberon RISC emulator at https://github.com/pdewacht/oberon-risc-emu.git

In Compiler Construction, once an instruction has been decoded as a memory
instruction the address is calculated using

adr := (R[b] + IR MOD 100000H) DIV 4;

which (apart from the DIV 4) agrees with the code in oberon-risc-emu (which
also sign extends the offset before adding it).

If adr >= 0 then a load is carried out, and the N and Z flags set depending
on the value loaded.
However (and this is the bit I don't understand) if adr < 0 then a store is
carried out, whereas in oberon-risc-emu u bit of the instruction is checked
and if 0 a load is carried out and if 1 a store is carried out.

Since I know oberon-risc-emu works, and that agrees with the settings for
the u and v bits in Compiler Construction then I assume that must be the
correct implementation, but is there an error in Compiler Construction or
am I missing something very simple?

All the best.

John Stout
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