afi2c

A Forth Interpreter written in C.

Dependencies

The AFI interpreter is designed to be cross platform, with system-specific frontends.

The AFI interpreter requires a C11 compiler with malloc.

The AFI standard frontend and test suite also requires the readline library.

Building

To build the AFI static library and frontend, simply use make.

By default, debugging symbols are included, if a smaller binary is preferred, use make RELEASE=y.

To build a different frontend, use make TARGET=<somefrontend>. Currently only test and linux are valid by default.

To build only the static library, use make afi.a.

Running

After building, the frontend binaries and static library should be in the bin/ subdirectory. Simply run one of the programs from the shell of your choice.

Usage

AFI is a stack based language, heavily based on FORTH. AFI currently works a lot like a Reverse Polish Notation calculator.

Currently, AFI has a very small standard library. This consists of arithmetic operations, branching, and basic stack operations.

These include:

• +, -, *, /
  • Example: 2 4 + 3 - 4 * will push 12 onto the stack.
• ., .D, PEEK
  • Prints the top element of the stack to stdio, without changing the stack.
• POP
  • Prints the top element of the stack to stdio, and removes the element from the stack.
• DROP
  • Discards the top element of the stack without printing.
• IF, ELSE, END
  • If the top of the stack is non-zero, any code between IF and ELSE is executed. Otherwise, the code between ELSE and END is executed.