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Is my 'variable-storing area' basically a 'heap'?
I'm planning to implement a simple VM/interpreter kind of thing for a simple language I'm making. The compiler of the language emits mostly stack-oriented instructions to be executed by the VM.
The ...
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How does a stack VM manage with only one stack?
Lately I've been asking a lot of questions here about VMs. Here's another one:
I understand that often stack based VMs use only one stack - the call stack - for everything. E.g. it is also used for ...
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What would the register-machine bytecode for this code look like?
I hope this kind of question isn't off-topic on this site.
I'm finally getting the hang of what a stack based machine is, and how to compile code for it. For example, the following code: 2 * 5 + 1 ...
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Do VMs use one stack for everything? [duplicate]
Most VMs have a "call stack" to keep track of where to return from each function that was called. This is often simply regarded as "the stack".
However often a stack is needed for operations that ...
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How do VMs implement function calling?
I'm reading a compiler textbook that compiles to some form of assembly. Since I don't know this assembly language I decided to invent my own simple "assembly language" and implement a basic "virtual ...
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