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<title>suspect-devices/circuitpython/py/bc0.h, branch encoding</title>
<subtitle>CircuitPython - a Python implementation for teaching coding with microcontrollers</subtitle>
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<title>Add license to some obvious files.</title>
<updated>2020-07-06T18:16:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Diego Elio Pettenò</name>
<email>flameeyes@flameeyes.com</email>
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<published>2020-06-03T22:40:05+00:00</published>
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<title>py: Clean up unary and binary enum list to keep groups together.</title>
<updated>2017-10-04T23:49:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Damien George</name>
<email>damien.p.george@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2017-10-03T12:34:28+00:00</published>
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2 non-bytecode binary ops (NOT_IN and IN_NOT) are moved out of the
bytecode group, so this change will change the bytecode format.
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<title>py: Clarify which mp_unary_op_t's may appear in the bytecode.</title>
<updated>2017-09-25T23:35:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Sokolovsky</name>
<email>pfalcon@users.sourceforge.net</email>
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<published>2017-09-25T23:35:19+00:00</published>
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Not all can, so we don't need to reserve bytecodes for them, and can
use free slots for something else later.
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<title>all: Use the name MicroPython consistently in comments</title>
<updated>2017-07-31T08:35:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Steffen</name>
<email>devel.20.webmeister@spamgourmet.com</email>
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<published>2017-06-30T07:22:17+00:00</published>
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There were several different spellings of MicroPython present in comments,
when there should be only one.
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<title>all: Unify header guard usage.</title>
<updated>2017-07-18T01:57:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Steffen</name>
<email>devel.20.webmeister@spamgourmet.com</email>
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<published>2017-06-29T21:14:58+00:00</published>
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The code conventions suggest using header guards, but do not define how
those should look like and instead point to existing files. However, not
all existing files follow the same scheme, sometimes omitting header guards
altogether, sometimes using non-standard names, making it easy to
accidentally pick a "wrong" example.

This commit ensures that all header files of the MicroPython project (that
were not simply copied from somewhere else) follow the same pattern, that
was already present in the majority of files, especially in the py folder.

The rules are as follows.

Naming convention:
* start with the words MICROPY_INCLUDED
* contain the full path to the file
* replace special characters with _

In addition, there are no empty lines before #ifndef, between #ifndef and
one empty line before #endif. #endif is followed by a comment containing
the name of the guard macro.

py/grammar.h cannot use header guards by design, since it has to be
included multiple times in a single C file. Several other files also do not
need header guards as they are only used internally and guaranteed to be
included only once:
* MICROPY_MPHALPORT_H
* mpconfigboard.h
* mpconfigport.h
* mpthreadport.h
* pin_defs_*.h
* qstrdefs*.h
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<title>py: Add LOAD_SUPER_METHOD bytecode to allow heap-free super meth calls.</title>
<updated>2017-04-22T13:39:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Damien George</name>
<email>damien.p.george@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-18T23:45:59+00:00</published>
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This patch allows the following code to run without allocating on the heap:

    super().foo(...)

Before this patch such a call would allocate a super object on the heap and
then load the foo method and call it right away.  The super object is only
needed to perform the lookup of the method and not needed after that.  This
patch makes an optimisation to allocate the super object on the C stack and
discard it right after use.

Changes in code size due to this patch are:

   bare-arm: +128
    minimal: +232
   unix x64: +416
unix nanbox: +364
     stmhal: +184
    esp8266: +340
     cc3200: +128
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<title>py: Allow bytecode/native to put iter_buf on stack for simple for loops.</title>
<updated>2017-02-16T07:38:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Damien George</name>
<email>damien.p.george@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-09T23:59:52+00:00</published>
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So that the "for x in it: ..." statement can now work without using the
heap (so long as the iterator argument fits in an iter_buf structure).
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<title>py: Combine 3 comprehension opcodes (list/dict/set) into 1.</title>
<updated>2016-09-19T02:28:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Damien George</name>
<email>damien.p.george@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-18T22:46:01+00:00</published>
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With the previous patch combining 3 emit functions into 1, it now makes
sense to also combine the corresponding VM opcodes, which is what this
patch does.  This eliminates 2 opcodes which simplifies the VM and reduces
code size, in bytes: bare-arm:44, minimal:64, unix(NDEBUG,x86-64):272,
stmhal:92, esp8266:200.  Profiling (with a simple script that creates many
list/dict/set comprehensions) shows no measurable change in performance.
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<title>py: Make UNARY_OP_NOT a first-class op, to agree with Py not semantics.</title>
<updated>2015-12-10T22:19:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Damien George</name>
<email>damien.p.george@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-08T12:28:11+00:00</published>
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Fixes #1684 and makes "not" match Python semantics.  The code is also
simplified (the separate MP_BC_NOT opcode is removed) and the patch saves
68 bytes for bare-arm/ and 52 bytes for minimal/.

Previously "not x" was implemented as !mp_unary_op(x, MP_UNARY_OP_BOOL),
so any given object only needs to implement MP_UNARY_OP_BOOL (and the VM
had a special opcode to do the ! bit).

With this patch "not x" is implemented as mp_unary_op(x, MP_UNARY_OP_NOT),
but this operation is caught at the start of mp_unary_op and dispatched as
!mp_obj_is_true(x).  mp_obj_is_true has special logic to test for
truthness, and is the correct way to handle the not operation.
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<title>py: Remove mp_load_const_bytes and instead load precreated bytes object.</title>
<updated>2015-06-25T14:42:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Damien George</name>
<email>damien.p.george@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-25T14:42:13+00:00</published>
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Previous to this patch each time a bytes object was referenced a new
instance (with the same data) was created.  With this patch a single
bytes object is created in the compiler and is loaded directly at execute
time as a true constant (similar to loading bignum and float objects).
This saves on allocating RAM and means that bytes objects can now be
used when the memory manager is locked (eg in interrupts).

The MP_BC_LOAD_CONST_BYTES bytecode was removed as part of this.

Generated bytecode is slightly larger due to storing a pointer to the
bytes object instead of the qstr identifier.

Code size is reduced by about 60 bytes on Thumb2 architectures.
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