Looking for a Forth compiler or assember

[dougmoran]

Hey folks, does anyone happen to have code for a Forth compiler or assembler in Autoit3?

[Richard Robertson]

I highly doubt it. Why do you want Au3 source to something like that?

[dougmoran]

I'm using a stack processor in an FPGA design. The processor's assembly language is modeled after forth and I'm looking for a simple way to build an assembler or compiler using AutoIT because I'm most familiar with that language.

[Richard Robertson]

I've never heard of any real compiler written in AutoIt. Most likely because it's not the best language for managing the kinds of things a compiler would need to manage.

[ZOTHOP]

Good luck to create a compiler particulary for assembler !

[twitchyliquid64]

fpga? isn't that really hard to develop logic for?

man that shit is intense.

[Mat]

FPGAs are pretty easy when you have something like LabView to do it for you

I don't see why AutoIt can't be used as a compiler. It would be slow though as compilers usually have to manage a lot of data (in general, I've never used forth). Due to the nature of compilers, there isn't much advantage in using AutoIt. There is little need for dynamic types, and a real need for either classes or structures.

There is an example of a lexer (by Manadar) and a parser (by me) here: Turning those into a compiler is a bit more tricky, you'll have to look at my C example to output an AST from the parser rather than executing as you go. From then you'll have to look at code generation.