Can anyone help me convert following x86 inline asm code to arm format?
bool N_FLAG = 0;
bool C_FLAG = 0;
bool Z_FLAG = 0;
bool V_FLAG = 0;
asm ("sub %1, %%ebx;"\
"setsb N_FLAG;"\
"setzb Z_FLAG;"\
"setncb C_FLAG;"\
"setob V_FLAG;"\
: "=b" (reg[dest].I)\
: "r" (reg[base].I), "b" (value));
How about converting this into C?
It looks like the code subtracts two numbers (value - reg[base].I), stores the result into reg[dest].I and then checks the various flags.
So something (roughly, not tested) like:
reg[dest].I = value - reg[base].I;
Z_FLAG = (reg[dest].I == 0);
N_FLAG = (reg[dest].I < 0);
/* repeat for: carry, overflow */
And then let the compiler do its magic? The ARM gcc compiler is not bad in mapping this sort of stuff to the right ARM instructions.
If you want to go ARM assembly you're probably looking at using conditional move instructions, something like (wrote quickly - untested):
__asm__ (
"subs %[out], %[in2], %[in1]\n\t"
"movmi %[N_FLAG], #1\n\t"
"moveq %[Z_FLAG], #1\n\t"
"movcs %[C_FLAG], #1\n\t"
"movvs %[V_FLAG], #1\n\t"
: [N_FLAG]"+r"(N_FLAG), [Z_FLAG]"+r"(Z_FLAG), [C_FLAG]"+r"(C_FLAG), [V_FLAG]"+r"(V_FLAG), [out]"=r" (reg[dest].I)
: [in1]"r" (reg[base].I), [in2]"r"(value))
: "cc"
);
This code works for me using clang:
int sub(int a, int b)
{
int c;
asm ("sub %0, %2, %1" : "=r" (c) : "r" (b), "r" (a));
return c;
}
Notice the commas between the register arguments.
Related
This must be something really silly and basic, but the cgo docs (and google fu) have left me stranded. Here's what I am trying to do: I want a GO function to call a "C" function using 'import "C"'. Said "C" function needs to store the address of a "C" string (malloc or constant - neither has worked for me) into an argument passed to it as *C.char. The GO function then needs to convert this to a GO string. It actually does work, except I get this:
panic: runtime error: cgo argument has Go pointer to Go pointer
If I run with GODEBUG=cgocheck=0, it all works fine. If I leave as default:
strptr = 4e1cbf ('this is a C string!')
main: yylex returned token 1
yylval.tstrptr 4e1cbf
stringval token "this is a C string!"
The problematic line seems to be:
yylval.stringval = C.GoString(yylval.tstrptr)
What little I can find about C.GoString, it left me with the impression that it allocates a GO string, and fills it in from the "C" string provided, but that seems to not be the case, or why am I getting a complaint about 'Go pointer to Go pointer'? I've tried a number of other approaches, like having the "C" function malloc the buffer and the GO function do C.free() on it. Nothing has worked (where worked == avoiding this runtime panic).
The GO source:
package main
import (
"fmt"
"unsafe"
)
// #include <stdio.h>
// int yylex (void * foo, void *tp);
import "C"
type foo_t struct {
i int32
s string
}
var foo foo_t
func main() {
var retval int
var s string
var tp *C.char
for i := 0; i < 2; i++ {
retval = int(C.yylex(unsafe.Pointer(&foo), unsafe.Pointer(&tp)))
fmt.Printf("main: yylex returned %d\n", retval)
fmt.Printf("tp = %x\n", tp)
if retval == 0 {
s = C.GoString(tp)
fmt.Printf("foo.i = %d s = %q\n", foo.i, s)
} else {
foo.s = C.GoString(tp)
fmt.Printf("foo.i = %d foo.s = %q\n", foo.i, foo.s)
}
}
}
The "C" source
#include <stdio.h>
int yylex (int * foo, char ** tp)
{
static num;
*foo = 666;
*tp = "this is a C string!";
printf ("strptr = %x ('%s')\n", *tp, *tp);
return (num++);
}
What's interesting is that if the GO func stores into foo.s first, the 2nd call to yylex bombs with the panic. If I do s and then foo.s (depending on whether I check retval as 0 or non-zero), it doesn't fail, but I'm guessing that is because the GO function exits right away and there are no subsequent calls to yylex.
I am trying to learn the Dart language, by transposing the exercices given by my school for C programming.
The very first exercice in our C pool is to write a function print_alphabet() that prints the alphabet in lowercase; it is forbidden to print the alphabet directly.
In POSIX C, the straightforward solution would be:
#include <unistd.h>
void print_alphabet(void)
{
char c;
c = 'a';
while (c <= 'z')
{
write(STDOUT_FILENO, &c, 1);
c++;
}
}
int main(void)
{
print_alphabet();
return (0);
}
However, as far as I know, the current version of Dart (1.1.1) does not have an easy way of dealing with characters. The farthest I came up with (for my very first version) is this:
void print_alphabet()
{
var c = "a".codeUnits.first;
var i = 0;
while (++i <= 26)
{
print(c.toString());
c++;
}
}
void main() {
print_alphabet();
}
Which prints the ASCII value of each character, one per line, as a string ("97" ... "122"). Not really what I intended…
I am trying to search for a proper way of doing this. But the lack of a char type like the one in C is giving me a bit of a hard time, as a beginner!
Dart does not have character types.
To convert a code point to a string, you use the String constructor String.fromCharCode:
int c = "a".codeUnitAt(0);
int end = "z".codeUnitAt(0);
while (c <= end) {
print(String.fromCharCode(c));
c++;
}
For simple stuff like this, I'd use "print" instead of "stdout", if you don't mind the newlines.
There is also:
int char_a = 'a'.codeUnitAt(0);
print(String.fromCharCodes(new Iterable.generate(26, (x) => char_a + x)));
or, using newer list literal syntax:
int char_a = 'a'.codeUnitAt(0);
int char_z = 'z'.codeUnitAt(0);
print(String.fromCharCodes([for (var i = char_a; i <= char_z; i++) i]));
As I was finalizing my post and rephrasing my question’s title, I am no longer barking up the wrong tree thanks to this question about stdout.
It seems that one proper way of writing characters is to use stdout.writeCharCode from the dart:io library.
import 'dart:io';
void ft_print_alphabet()
{
var c = "a".codeUnits.first;
while (c <= "z".codeUnits.first)
stdout.writeCharCode(c++);
}
void main() {
ft_print_alphabet();
}
I still have no clue about how to manipulate character types, but at least I can print them.
I've been trying to implement a BASIC language interpreter (in C/C++) but I haven't found any book or (thorough) article which explains the process of parsing the language constructs. Some commands are rather complex and hard to parse, especially conditionals and loops, such as IF-THEN-ELSE and FOR-STEP-NEXT, because they can mix variables with constants and entire expressions and code and everything else, for example:
10 IF X = Y + Z THEN GOTO 20 ELSE GOSUB P
20 FOR A = 10 TO B STEP -C : PRINT C$ : PRINT WHATEVER
30 NEXT A
It seems like a nightmare to be able to parse something like that and make it work. And to make things worse, programs written in BASIC can easily be a tangled mess. That's why I need some advice, read some book or whatever to make my mind clear about this subject. What can you suggest?
You've picked a great project - writing interpreters can be lots of fun!
But first, what do we even mean by an interpreter? There are different types of interpreters.
There is the pure interpreter, where you simply interpret each language element as you find it. These are the easiest to write, and the slowest.
A step up, would be to convert each language element into some sort of internal form, and then interpret that. Still pretty easy to write.
The next step, would be to actually parse the language, and generate a syntax tree, and then interpret that. This is somewhat harder to write, but once you've done it a few times, it becomes pretty easy.
Once you have a syntax tree, you can fairly easily generate code for a custom stack virtual machine. A much harder project is to generate code for an existing virtual machine, such as the JVM or CLR.
In programming, like most engineering endeavors, careful planning greatly helps, especially with complicated projects.
So the first step is to decide which type of interpreter you wish to write. If you have not read any of a number of compiler books (e.g., I always recommend Niklaus Wirth's "Compiler Construction" as one of the best introductions to the subject, and is now freely available on the web in PDF form), I would recommend that you go with the pure interpreter.
But you still need to do some additional planning. You need to rigorously define what it is you are going to be interpreting. EBNF is great for this. For a gentile introduction EBNF, read the first three parts of a Simple Compiler at http://www.semware.com/html/compiler.html It is written at the high school level, and should be easy to digest. Yes, I tried it on my kids first :-)
Once you have defined what it is you want to be interpreting, you are ready to write your interpreter.
Abstractly, you're simple interpreter will be divided into a scanner (technically, a lexical analyzer), a parser, and an evaluator. In the simple pure interpolator case, the parser and evaluator will be combined.
Scanners are easy to write, and easy to test, so we won't spend any time on them. See the aforementioned link for info on crafting a simple scanner.
Lets (for example) define your goto statement:
gotostmt -> 'goto' integer
integer -> [0-9]+
This tells us that when we see the token 'goto' (as delivered by the scanner), the only thing that can follow is an integer. And an integer is simply a string a digits.
In pseudo code, we might handle this as so:
(token - is the current token, which is the current element just returned via the scanner)
loop
if token == "goto"
goto_stmt()
elseif token == "gosub"
gosub_stmt()
elseif token == .....
endloop
proc goto_stmt()
expect("goto") -- redundant, but used to skip over goto
if is_numeric(token)
--now, somehow set the instruction pointer at the requested line
else
error("expecting a line number, found '%s'\n", token)
end
end
proc expect(s)
if s == token
getsym()
return true
end
error("Expecting '%s', found: '%s'\n", curr_token, s)
end
See how simple it is? Really, the only hard thing to figure out in a simple interpreter is the handling of expressions. A good recipe for handling those is at: http://www.engr.mun.ca/~theo/Misc/exp_parsing.htm Combined with the aforementioned references, you should have enough to handle the sort of expressions you would encounter in BASIC.
Ok, time for a concrete example. This is from a larger 'pure interpreter', that handles a enhanced version of Tiny BASIC (but big enough to run Tiny Star Trek :-) )
/*------------------------------------------------------------------------
Simple example, pure interpreter, only supports 'goto'
------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdarg.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <setjmp.h>
#include <ctype.h>
enum {False=0, True=1, Max_Lines=300, Max_Len=130};
char *text[Max_Lines+1]; /* array of program lines */
int textp; /* used by scanner - ptr in current line */
char tok[Max_Len+1]; /* the current token */
int cur_line; /* the current line number */
int ch; /* current character */
int num; /* populated if token is an integer */
jmp_buf restart;
int error(const char *fmt, ...) {
va_list ap;
char buf[200];
va_start(ap, fmt);
vsprintf(buf, fmt, ap);
va_end(ap);
printf("%s\n", buf);
longjmp(restart, 1);
return 0;
}
int is_eol(void) {
return ch == '\0' || ch == '\n';
}
void get_ch(void) {
ch = text[cur_line][textp];
if (!is_eol())
textp++;
}
void getsym(void) {
char *cp = tok;
while (ch <= ' ') {
if (is_eol()) {
*cp = '\0';
return;
}
get_ch();
}
if (isalpha(ch)) {
for (; !is_eol() && isalpha(ch); get_ch()) {
*cp++ = (char)ch;
}
*cp = '\0';
} else if (isdigit(ch)) {
for (; !is_eol() && isdigit(ch); get_ch()) {
*cp++ = (char)ch;
}
*cp = '\0';
num = atoi(tok);
} else
error("What? '%c'", ch);
}
void init_getsym(const int n) {
cur_line = n;
textp = 0;
ch = ' ';
getsym();
}
void skip_to_eol(void) {
tok[0] = '\0';
while (!is_eol())
get_ch();
}
int accept(const char s[]) {
if (strcmp(tok, s) == 0) {
getsym();
return True;
}
return False;
}
int expect(const char s[]) {
return accept(s) ? True : error("Expecting '%s', found: %s", s, tok);
}
int valid_line_num(void) {
if (num > 0 && num <= Max_Lines)
return True;
return error("Line number must be between 1 and %d", Max_Lines);
}
void goto_line(void) {
if (valid_line_num())
init_getsym(num);
}
void goto_stmt(void) {
if (isdigit(tok[0]))
goto_line();
else
error("Expecting line number, found: '%s'", tok);
}
void do_cmd(void) {
for (;;) {
while (tok[0] == '\0') {
if (cur_line == 0 || cur_line >= Max_Lines)
return;
init_getsym(cur_line + 1);
}
if (accept("bye")) {
printf("That's all folks!\n");
exit(0);
} else if (accept("run")) {
init_getsym(1);
} else if (accept("goto")) {
goto_stmt();
} else {
error("Unknown token '%s' at line %d", tok, cur_line); return;
}
}
}
int main() {
int i;
for (i = 0; i <= Max_Lines; i++) {
text[i] = calloc(sizeof(char), (Max_Len + 1));
}
setjmp(restart);
for (;;) {
printf("> ");
while (fgets(text[0], Max_Len, stdin) == NULL)
;
if (text[0][0] != '\0') {
init_getsym(0);
if (isdigit(tok[0])) {
if (valid_line_num())
strcpy(text[num], &text[0][textp]);
} else
do_cmd();
}
}
}
Hopefully, that will be enough to get you started. Have fun!
I will certainly get beaten by telling this ...but...:
First, I am actually working on a standalone library ( as a hobby ) that is made of:
a tokenizer, building linear (flat list) of tokens from the source text and following the same sequence as the text ( lexems created from the text flow ).
A parser by hands (syntax analyse; pseudo-compiler )
There is no "pseudo-code" nor "virtual CPU/machine".
Instructions(such as 'return', 'if' 'for' 'while'... then arithemtic expressions ) are represented by a base c++-struct/class and is the object itself. The base object, I name it atom, have a virtual method called "eval", among other common members, that is the "execution/branch" also by itself. So no matter I have an 'if' statement with its possible branchings ( single statement or bloc of statements/instructions ) as true or false condition, it will be called from the base virtual atom::eval() ... and so on for everything that is an atom.
Even 'objects' such as variables are 'atom'. 'eval()' will simply return its value from a variant container held by the atom itself ( pointer, refering to the 'local' variant instance (the instance variant iself) held the 'atom' or to another variant held by an atom that is created in a given 'bloc/stack'. So 'atom' are 'inplace' instructions/objects.
As of now, as an example, chunk of not really meaningful 'code' as below just works:
r = 5!; // 5! : (factorial of 5 )
Response = 1 + 4 - 6 * --r * ((3+5)*(3-4) * 78);
if (Response != 1){ /* '<>' also is not equal op. */
return r^3;
}
else{
return 0;
}
Expressions ( arithemtics ) are built into binary tree expression:
A = b+c; =>
=
/ \
A +
/ \
b c
So the 'instruction'/statement for expression like above is the tree-entry atom that in the above case, is the '=' (binary) operator.
The tree is built with atom::r0,r1,r2 :
atom 'A' :
r0
|
A
/ \
r1 r2
Regarding 'full-duplex' mecanism between c++ runtime and the 'script' library, I've made class_adaptor and adaptor<> :
ex.:
template<typename R, typename ...Args> adaptor_t<T,R, Args...>& import_method(const lstring& mname, R (T::*prop)(Args...)) { ... }
template<typename R, typename ...Args> adaptor_t<T,R, Args...>& import_property(const lstring& mname, R (T::*prop)(Args...)) { ... }
Second: I know there are plenty of tools and libs out there such as lua, boost::bind<*>, QML, JSON, etc... But in my situation, I need to create my very own [edit] 'independant' [/edit] lib for "live scripting". I was scared that my 'interpreter' could take a huge amount of RAM, but I am surprised that it is not as big as using QML,jscript or even lua :-)
Thank you :-)
Don't bother with hacking a parser together by hand. Use a parser generator. lex + yacc is the classic lexer/parser generator combination, but a Google search will reveal plenty of others.
I'm using the llvm-fs bindings and one method I would like to call is createJITCompilerForModule which is an extern to the native method LLVMCreateJITCompilerForModule in the LLVM C api. The author of llvm-fs has stated he can't make a 'nice' version of this function call in F#:
createJITCompilerForModule in llvm-fs:Generated.fs:
[<DllImport(
"LLVM-3.1.dll",
EntryPoint="LLVMCreateJITCompilerForModule",
CallingConvention=CallingConvention.Cdecl,
CharSet=CharSet.Ansi)>]
extern bool createJITCompilerForModuleNative(
void* (* LLVMExecutionEngineRef* *) OutJIT,
void* (* LLVMModuleRef *) M,
uint32 OptLevel,
void* OutError)
// I don't know how to generate an "F# friendly" version of LLVMCreateJITCompilerForModule
Do you know how I would call this function from F#, or even what the native one does? It looks like it has an 'out parameter' for OutJIT (as the native code reassigns a thing the void* points to). Here is the native function:
LLVMCreateJITCompilerForModule in llvm-c:ExecutionEngineBindings.cpp:
LLVMBool LLVMCreateJITCompilerForModule(LLVMExecutionEngineRef *OutJIT,
LLVMModuleRef M,
unsigned OptLevel,
char **OutError) {
std::string Error;
EngineBuilder builder(unwrap(M));
builder.setEngineKind(EngineKind::JIT)
.setErrorStr(&Error)
.setOptLevel((CodeGenOpt::Level)OptLevel);
if (ExecutionEngine *JIT = builder.create()) {
*OutJIT = wrap(JIT);
return 0;
}
*OutError = strdup(Error.c_str());
return 1;
}
The actual function I wanted to use was a special hand made one as it couldn't be generated. I've put it here as an example of how to call it:
llvm-fs:ExecutionEngine.fs
let private createEngineForModuleFromNativeFunc
(nativeFunc : (nativeint * nativeint * nativeint) -> bool)
(moduleRef : ModuleRef) =
use outEnginePtr = new NativePtrs([|0n|])
use outErrPtr = new NativePtrs([|0n|])
let createFailed =
nativeFunc (
outEnginePtr.Ptrs,
moduleRef.Ptr,
outErrPtr.Ptrs)
if createFailed then
let errStr = Marshal.PtrToStringAuto (Marshal.ReadIntPtr outErrPtr.Ptrs)
Marshal.FreeHGlobal (Marshal.ReadIntPtr outErrPtr.Ptrs)
failwith errStr
else
ExecutionEngineRef (Marshal.ReadIntPtr outEnginePtr.Ptrs)
let createJITCompilerForModule (modRef : ModuleRef) (optLvl : uint32) =
let f (engPtr, modPtr, outErrPtr) =
createJITCompilerForModuleNative (engPtr, modPtr, optLvl, outErrPtr)
createEngineForModuleFromNativeFunc f modRef
In my previous question I was looking for a way of evaulating complex mathematical expressions in C, most of the suggestions required implementing some type of parser.
However one answer, suggested using Lua for evaluating the expression. I am interested in this approach but I don't know anything about Lua.
Can some one with experience in Lua shed some light?
Specifically what I'd like to know is
Which API if any does Lua provide that can evaluate mathematical expressions passed in as a string? If there is no API to do such a thing, may be some one can shed some light on the linked answer as it seemed like a good approach :)
Thanks
The type of expression I'd like to evaluate is given some user input such as
y = x^2 + 1/x - cos(x)
evaluate y for a range of values of x
It is straightforward to set up a Lua interpreter instance, and pass it expressions to be evaluated, getting back a function to call that evaluates the expression. You can even let the user have variables...
Here's the sample code I cooked up and edited into my other answer. It is probably better placed on a question tagged Lua in any case, so I'm adding it here as well. I compiled this and tried it for a few cases, but it certainly should not be trusted in production code without some attention to error handling and so forth. All the usual caveats apply here.
I compiled and tested this on Windows using Lua 5.1.4 from Lua for Windows. On other platforms, you'll have to find Lua from your usual source, or from www.lua.org.
Update: This sample uses simple and direct techniques to hide the full power and complexity of the Lua API behind as simple as possible an interface. It is probably useful as-is, but could be improved in a number of ways.
I would encourage readers to look into the much more production-ready ae library by lhf for code that takes advantage of the API to avoid some of the quick and dirty string manipulation I've used. His library also promotes the math library into the global name space so that the user can say sin(x) or 2 * pi without having to say math.sin and so forth.
Public interface to LE
Here is the file le.h:
/* Public API for the LE library.
*/
int le_init();
int le_loadexpr(char *expr, char **pmsg);
double le_eval(int cookie, char **pmsg);
void le_unref(int cookie);
void le_setvar(char *name, double value);
double le_getvar(char *name);
Sample code using LE
Here is the file t-le.c, demonstrating a simple use of this library. It takes its single command-line argument, loads it as an expression, and evaluates it with the global variable x changing from 0.0 to 1.0 in 11 steps:
#include <stdio.h>
#include "le.h"
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int cookie;
int i;
char *msg = NULL;
if (!le_init()) {
printf("can't init LE\n");
return 1;
}
if (argc<2) {
printf("Usage: t-le \"expression\"\n");
return 1;
}
cookie = le_loadexpr(argv[1], &msg);
if (msg) {
printf("can't load: %s\n", msg);
free(msg);
return 1;
}
printf(" x %s\n"
"------ --------\n", argv[1]);
for (i=0; i<11; ++i) {
double x = i/10.;
double y;
le_setvar("x",x);
y = le_eval(cookie, &msg);
if (msg) {
printf("can't eval: %s\n", msg);
free(msg);
return 1;
}
printf("%6.2f %.3f\n", x,y);
}
}
Here is some output from t-le:
E:...>t-le "math.sin(math.pi * x)"
x math.sin(math.pi * x)
------ --------
0.00 0.000
0.10 0.309
0.20 0.588
0.30 0.809
0.40 0.951
0.50 1.000
0.60 0.951
0.70 0.809
0.80 0.588
0.90 0.309
1.00 0.000
E:...>
Implementation of LE
Here is le.c, implementing the Lua Expression evaluator:
#include <lua.h>
#include <lauxlib.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
static lua_State *L = NULL;
/* Initialize the LE library by creating a Lua state.
*
* The new Lua interpreter state has the "usual" standard libraries
* open.
*/
int le_init()
{
L = luaL_newstate();
if (L)
luaL_openlibs(L);
return !!L;
}
/* Load an expression, returning a cookie that can be used later to
* select this expression for evaluation by le_eval(). Note that
* le_unref() must eventually be called to free the expression.
*
* The cookie is a lua_ref() reference to a function that evaluates the
* expression when called. Any variables in the expression are assumed
* to refer to the global environment, which is _G in the interpreter.
* A refinement might be to isolate the function envioronment from the
* globals.
*
* The implementation rewrites the expr as "return "..expr so that the
* anonymous function actually produced by lua_load() looks like:
*
* function() return expr end
*
*
* If there is an error and the pmsg parameter is non-NULL, the char *
* it points to is filled with an error message. The message is
* allocated by strdup() so the caller is responsible for freeing the
* storage.
*
* Returns a valid cookie or the constant LUA_NOREF (-2).
*/
int le_loadexpr(char *expr, char **pmsg)
{
int err;
char *buf;
if (!L) {
if (pmsg)
*pmsg = strdup("LE library not initialized");
return LUA_NOREF;
}
buf = malloc(strlen(expr)+8);
if (!buf) {
if (pmsg)
*pmsg = strdup("Insufficient memory");
return LUA_NOREF;
}
strcpy(buf, "return ");
strcat(buf, expr);
err = luaL_loadstring(L,buf);
free(buf);
if (err) {
if (pmsg)
*pmsg = strdup(lua_tostring(L,-1));
lua_pop(L,1);
return LUA_NOREF;
}
if (pmsg)
*pmsg = NULL;
return luaL_ref(L, LUA_REGISTRYINDEX);
}
/* Evaluate the loaded expression.
*
* If there is an error and the pmsg parameter is non-NULL, the char *
* it points to is filled with an error message. The message is
* allocated by strdup() so the caller is responsible for freeing the
* storage.
*
* Returns the result or 0 on error.
*/
double le_eval(int cookie, char **pmsg)
{
int err;
double ret;
if (!L) {
if (pmsg)
*pmsg = strdup("LE library not initialized");
return 0;
}
lua_rawgeti(L, LUA_REGISTRYINDEX, cookie);
err = lua_pcall(L,0,1,0);
if (err) {
if (pmsg)
*pmsg = strdup(lua_tostring(L,-1));
lua_pop(L,1);
return 0;
}
if (pmsg)
*pmsg = NULL;
ret = (double)lua_tonumber(L,-1);
lua_pop(L,1);
return ret;
}
/* Free the loaded expression.
*/
void le_unref(int cookie)
{
if (!L)
return;
luaL_unref(L, LUA_REGISTRYINDEX, cookie);
}
/* Set a variable for use in an expression.
*/
void le_setvar(char *name, double value)
{
if (!L)
return;
lua_pushnumber(L,value);
lua_setglobal(L,name);
}
/* Retrieve the current value of a variable.
*/
double le_getvar(char *name)
{
double ret;
if (!L)
return 0;
lua_getglobal(L,name);
ret = (double)lua_tonumber(L,-1);
lua_pop(L,1);
return ret;
}
Remarks
The above sample consists of 189 lines of code total, including a spattering of comments, blank lines, and the demonstration. Not bad for a quick function evaluator that knows how to evaluate reasonably arbitrary expressions of one variable, and has rich library of standard math functions at its beck and call.
You have a Turing-complete language underneath it all, and it would be an easy extension to allow the user to define complete functions as well as to evaluate simple expressions.
Since you're lazy, like most programmers, here's a link to a simple example that you can use to parse some arbitrary code using Lua. From there, it should be simple to create your expression parser.
This is for Lua users that are looking for a Lua equivalent of "eval".
The magic word used to be loadstring but it is now, since Lua 5.2, an upgraded version of load.
i=0
f = load("i = i + 1") -- f is a function
f() ; print(i) -- will produce 1
f() ; print(i) -- will produce 2
Another example, that delivers a value :
f=load('return 2+3')
print(f()) -- print 5
As a quick-and-dirty way to do, you can consider the following equivalent of eval(s), where s is a string to evaluate :
load(s)()
As always, eval mechanisms should be avoided when possible since they are expensive and produce a code difficult to read.
I personally use this mechanism with LuaTex/LuaLatex to make math operations in Latex.
The Lua documentation contains a section titled The Application Programming Interface which describes how to call Lua from your C program. The documentation for Lua is very good and you may even be able to find an example of what you want to do in there.
It's a big world in there, so whether you choose your own parsing solution or an embeddable interpreter like Lua, you're going to have some work to do!
function calc(operation)
return load("return " .. operation)()
end