<div dir="ltr">Certainly a calculator supports arithmetic :-)<div><br></div><div>The TI 58/59 support things such as 1 3 STO IND 02 which, if memory 02 currently holds "42", will store 13 into memory 42.</div><div><br></div><div>So, yes, there are pointers. And address arithmetic. </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 11:30 AM, Friedman, Eli via llvm-dev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org" target="_blank">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 3/14/2018 8:53 AM, via llvm-dev wrote:<br>
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Hello,<br>
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I am a new comer to llvm framework. I read quite many tutorials but I am still not able to determine whether llvm can be used for my project: implementing a backend for the famous Texas Instruments 59 Calculator (sold from 1977 to 1982).<br>
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This is not a CPU but it uses a kind of bytecode that is interpreted (see examples in <a href="http://ti59compiler.wixsite.com/ti59/t-compiler" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://ti59compiler.wixsite.co<wbr>m/ti59/t-compiler</a>). It has no stack, no frame, only floating point registers. The memory is split between program (up to 960 steps) and registers (up to 100). A register consumes 8 program steps, reducing the program size accordingly.<br>
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The most tricky part is the following: a simple instruction like MOV R1,N may require more or less bytes to be coded. For instance:<br>
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MOV R1,1 will require 3 bytes: (key) 1, STO, 01.<br>
MOV R2,345 will require 5 bytes: (key) 3, (key) 4, (key) 5, STO, 02.<br>
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How to cope with such an instruction? Can llvm be used to generate the right bytecode?<br>
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>From your description, it sounds like the architecture doesn't support pointers or integer arithmetic; that probably makes it impossible to write a usable LLVM backend.<br>
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Instruction sets with with multiple instruction sizes are relatively common; x86, Thumb2, microMIPS, and RISCV all fall into this category.<br>
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-Eli<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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