Based on apps/handle.subx (commit 4894), but we're able to simplify it
further now that we know more about the situation we find ourselves in.
6 instructions, zero pushes or pops.
Before I can start building this, I need to reorganize my use of handles.
They're going to be fat pointers so we can't store them in registers anymore.
I thought I needed to support compute-offset with literal index, but in
that case might as well just use an index literal directly. The 'index'
instruction with literals already supports non-power-of-2 sizes.
If indexing into a type with power-of-2-sized elements we can access them
in one instruction:
x/reg1: (addr int) <- index A/reg2: (addr array int), idx/reg3: int
This translates to a single instruction because x86 instructions support
an addressing mode with left-shifts.
For non-powers-of-2, however, we need a multiply. To keep things type-safe,
it is performed like this:
x/reg1: (offset T) <- compute-offset A: (addr array T), idx: int
y/reg2: (addr T) <- index A, x
An offset is just an int that is guaranteed to be a multiple of size-of(T).
Offsets can only be used in index instructions, and the types will eventually
be required to line up.
In the process, I have to expand Input-size because mu.subx is growing
big.
And we're using it now in factorial.mu!
In the process I had to fix a couple of bugs in pointer dereferencing.
There are still some limitations:
a) Indexing by a literal doesn't work yet.
b) Only arrays of ints supported so far.
Looking ahead, I'm not sure how I can support indexing arrays by non-literals
(variables in registers) unless the element size is a power of 2.
I'd been thinking I didn't need unconditional `break` instructions, but
I just realized that non-local unconditional breaks have a use. Stop over-thinking
this, just support everything.
The code is quite duplicated.
Kartik Agaram