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diff --git a/mu.md b/mu.md index aadb78e8..9c26dd67 100644 --- a/mu.md +++ b/mu.md @@ -127,16 +127,24 @@ var name/reg: type <- ... Variables on the stack are never initialized. (They're always implicitly zeroed them out.) Variables in registers are always initialized. -Register variables can go in 6 registers: `eax`, `ebx`, `ecx`, `edx`, `esi` -and `edi`. Defining a variable in a register either clobbers the previous -variable (if it was defined in the same block) or shadows it temporarily (if -it was defined in an outer block). +Register variables can go in 6 integer registers: `eax`, `ebx`, `ecx`, `edx`, +`esi` and `edi`. Floating-point values can also go in 8 other registers: +`xmm0`, `xmm1`, `xmm2`, `xmm3`, `xmm4`, `xmm5`, `xmm6` and `xmm7`. + +Defining a variable in a register either clobbers the previous variable (if it +was defined in the same block) or shadows it temporarily (if it was defined in +an outer block). Variables exist from their definition until the end of their containing block. Register variables may also die earlier if their register is clobbered by a new variable. -## Arithmetic primitives +Variables on the stack can be of many types (but not `byte`). Variables in +integer registers can only contain 32-bit values: `int`, `boolean`, `(addr +...)`. Variables in floating-point registers can only contain values of type +`float`. + +## Integer primitives Here is the list of arithmetic primitive operations supported by Mu. The name `n` indicates a literal integer rather than a variable, and `var/reg` indicates @@ -208,6 +216,83 @@ Excluding dereferences, the above statements must operate on non-address primitive types: `int` or `boolean`. (Booleans are really just `int`s, and Mu assumes any value but `0` is true.) +## Floating-point primitives + +These instructions may use the floating-point registers `xmm0` ... `xmm7` +(denoted by `/xreg2` or `/xrm32`). They also use integer values on occasion +(`/rm32` and `/r32`). They can't take literal floating-point values. + +``` +var/xreg <- add var2/xreg2 +var/xreg <- add var2 +var/xreg <- add *var2/reg2 + +var/xreg <- subtract var2/xreg2 +var/xreg <- subtract var2 +var/xreg <- subtract *var2/reg2 + +var/xreg <- multiply var2/xreg2 +var/xreg <- multiply var2 +var/xreg <- multiply *var2/reg2 + +var/xreg <- divide var2/xreg2 +var/xreg <- divide var2 +var/xreg <- divide *var2/reg2 + +var/xreg <- reciprocal var2/xreg2 +var/xreg <- reciprocal var2 +var/xreg <- reciprocal *var2/reg2 + +var/xreg <- square-root var2/xreg2 +var/xreg <- square-root var2 +var/xreg <- square-root *var2/reg2 + +var/xreg <- inverse-square-root var2/xreg2 +var/xreg <- inverse-square-root var2 +var/xreg <- inverse-square-root *var2/reg2 + +var/xreg <- min var2/xreg2 +var/xreg <- min var2 +var/xreg <- min *var2/reg2 + +var/xreg <- max var2/xreg2 +var/xreg <- max var2 +var/xreg <- max *var2/reg2 + +Remember, when these instructions use indirect mode, they still use an integer +register. Floating-point registers can't hold addresses. + +Most instructions operate exclusively on integer or floating-point operands. +The only exceptions are the instructions for converting between integers and +floating-point numbers. + +var/xreg <- convert var2/reg2 +var/xreg <- convert var2 +var/xreg <- convert *var2/reg2 + +var/reg <- convert var2/xreg2 +var/reg <- convert var2 +var/reg <- convert *var2/reg2 + +There are no instructions accepting floating-point literals. To obtain integer +literals in floating-point registers, copy them to general-purpose registers +and then convert them to floating-point. + +One pattern you may have noticed above is that the floating-point instructions +above always write to registers. The only exceptions are `copy` instructions, +which can write to memory locations. + +var/xreg <- copy var2/xreg2 +copy-to var1, var2/xreg +var/xreg <- copy var2 +var/xreg <- copy *var2/reg2 + +Floating-point comparisons always put a register on the left-hand side: + +compare var1/xreg1, var2/xreg2 +compare var1/xreg1, var2 +``` + ## Operating on individual bytes A special-case is variables of type 'byte'. Mu is a 32-bit platform so for the |