Added isnegative and lowbitand subroutines to VVS stdlib.
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1# Overview #
2
3This folder contains a library of useful functions written in VVhitespace.
4Standard include guards are used with `cpp` to include the stdlib in user
5programs. For an example, see `examples/hello-stdlib`.
6
7# Reservations #
8
9Since all labels share a global namespace, the standard library makes the
10following reservations:
11
12## Label ##
13
14 00000000 0xxxxxxx - reserved for stdlib function entry points
15 00000000 1xxxxxxx - unassigned
16 0xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx - reserved for private use by stdlib
17 1xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx - available for use in user programs
18
19## Heap and Pointers ##
20
21The first 16 heap addresses (`0-15`) are reserved when using the stdlib.
22Within that reservation, heap[0] is used by `random` and heap[15] is used
23by `spewreg`. The remaining 14 locations, heap[1]-heap[14] are used as
24general-purpose registers.
25
26By convention, functions which return a pointer will use the address `0` to
27represent a `NULL` pointer.
28
29# Entry Points #
30
31The following labels are entry points to stdlib functions. Read the
32header comment for each function to learn the call and return stack.
33
34 000xxx - reserved
35 001xxx - core functions
36 1000 ----- printf (stdio.pvvs)
37 1001 ----- print number from stack (stdio.pvvs)
38 1010 ----- stackrotate (stack.pvvs)
39 1011 ----- stackrotatereverse (stack.pvvs)
40 1100 ----- deepdup (stack.pvvs)
41 010xxx - math functions
42 10000 ----- random (math.pvvs)
43 10001 ----- absolute value (math.pvvs)
44 011xxx - heap functions
45 11000 ----- memset (heap.pvvs)
46 11001 ----- memcpy (heap.pvvs)
47 11010 ----- memrand (heap.pvvs)
48 11011 ----- memcmp (heap.pvvs)
49 11100 ----- memsrch (heap.pvvs)
50 11101 ----- <empty>
51 11110 ----- slurp (heap.pvvs)
52 11111 ----- spew (heap.pvvs)
53 100xxx - string functions
54 100000 ----- strlen (string.pvvs)
55 101xxx - logic functions
56 101000 ----- not (logic.pvvs)
57 101001 ----- and (logic.pvvs)
58 101010 ----- or (logic.pvvs)
59 101011 ----- xor (logic.pvvs)
60 101100 ----- rshift (logic.pvvs)
61 101101 ----- lshift (logic.pvvs)
62 110xxx - conversion functions
63 111xxx - debug functions
64 111000 ----- dump heap (debug.pvvs)
65 111001 ----- dump stack (debug.pvvs)
66 1xxxxxx - reserved for less common entry points
67 1000000 ----- lowbitand (logic.pvvs)
68 1000001 ----- isnegative (math.pvvs)
69 1000010 ----- print sign of number (stdio.pvvs)
70 1000011 ----- print magnitude of number (stdio.pvvs)
71 1000100 ----- print string from stack (stdio.pvvs)
72 1000101 ----- print string from heap (stdio.pvvs)
73
74# Misc #
75
76By convention, each public stdlib label will have 8 bits of
77private label space associated with it, formed as follows:
78
79 00001000 xxxxxxxx - for use by 1000
80 00001001 xxxxxxxx - for use by 1001
81 ...etc