New semantics for the integer 'for' loop

The numerical 'for' loop over integers now uses a precomputed counter
to control its number of iteractions. This change eliminates several
weird cases caused by overflows (wrap-around) in the control variable.
(It also ensures that every integer loop halts.)

Also, the special opcodes for the usual case of step==1 were removed.
(The new code is already somewhat complex for the usual case,
but efficient.)
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Roberto Ierusalimschy
2019-03-19 10:53:18 -03:00
parent 1e0c73d5b6
commit 9b37a4695e
10 changed files with 213 additions and 185 deletions

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@@ -280,10 +280,6 @@ OP_RETURN,/* A B C return R(A), ... ,R(A+B-2) (see note) */
OP_RETURN0,/* return */
OP_RETURN1,/* A return R(A) */
OP_FORLOOP1,/* A Bx R(A)++;
if R(A) <= R(A+1) then { pc-=Bx; R(A+3)=R(A) } */
OP_FORPREP1,/* A Bx R(A)--; pc+=Bx */
OP_FORLOOP,/* A Bx R(A)+=R(A+2);
if R(A) <?= R(A+1) then { pc-=Bx; R(A+3)=R(A) } */
OP_FORPREP,/* A Bx R(A)-=R(A+2); pc+=Bx */