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This is cfunge - a fast Befunge93/98/109 interpreter in C.

cfunge offers some features that many other standard conforming interpreters
don't. For example:
 * Sandbox mode, prevents programs from harming system (more details below).
 * Advance tracing support, debugging protocol support system under development.
 * Passes mycology (of course other conforming interpreters does this, but most
   interpreters are, sadly, not conforming).
 * Tested using Valgrind and similar tools.
 * Tested with fuzz testing to ensure cfunge does not segfault on random stuff.
 * Coded for maximum performance AND correctness.
 * Support for selecting either 64-bit or 32-bit integers as datatype in
   funge-space at compile time.


Dependencies
------------
REQUIRED:
 * cmake (http://www.cmake.org/) to generate Makefile for cfunge. At least
   version 2.6 is required.

 * A C99 compiler, or one that supports a large subset of C99, like GCC.
   + GCC 3.4.6, 4.1.2, 4.2.1, 4.3.2 and 4.3.3 are known to work, other versions
     may or may not work.
   + ICC 10.1 is known to work too.
   + Open64 4.1 should work, but isn't recommended.
   + Very recent SVN versions of clang works on 32-bit x86 (as of 2009-03-28),
     but can currently not be recommended since clang is not very stable yet.
   - TCC 0.9.24 is known to fail at certain C99 constructs used in cfunge.
   Other compilers may or may not work.

 * A POSIX.1-2001 system with the memory mapped file option. It also needs the
   function strdup() which is part of the XSI extension. (For POSIX.1-2008 both
   strdup() and memory mapped files are mandatory and part of the base.)
   Operating systems known to work:
   + Linux 2.6.27 (with glibc 2.8) and later (earlier versions unknown but will
     probably work unless very old).
   + FreeBSD 6.4 or later (earlier versions unknown).
   + Mac OS X (unknown version) has been reported to work but I don't have it
     myself and thus can't test it.
   + OpenBSD 4.4 (sparc64): I have not managed to get cmake 2.6 to compile on
     OpenBSD, but I did manage to build cfunge by hand, required some strange
     workarounds and defines.
   Windows most likely won't work. Nor do I plan to support it. Cygwin may work,
   but you are on your own if it doesn't.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED:
 * Ncurses (http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/), needed for the TERM
   fingerprint. This is most likely already installed. Ncurses will be
   automatically used if found.

 * IEC 60559 floating-point arithmetic. Please see Annex F in ISO/IEC 9899 for
   more details.

OPTIONAL:
 * Boehm-GC (http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/) version 7 or later.
   You have to manually enable some compile time options to use Boehm-GC.


Configuring
-----------
Warning: Out of tree builds are highly recommended. Building in the source tree
may work but is _completely_ untested.

To build using cmake, you can run these commands in the top source directory:
  mkdir build && cd build
  cmake ..

If you are on a 32-bit system you may want to use 32-bit integers (instead of
64-bit integers) for speed. It is also slightly faster on some 64-bit systems
to use 32-bit integers. This may vary between architectures. To use 32-bit
integers you could use these commands instead of the above ones:
  mkdir build && cd build
  cmake -DUSE_64BIT=OFF ..

If you want to see a list of available options use ccmake. It will allow you to
select options in a ncurses based user interface. Help is always shown at the
bottom of the screen.
  mkdir build && cd build
  ccmake ..
    (press c)
    (change options - use t to show advanced options)
    (press c again)
    (press g to generate make file)

For more information see:
  cmake --help
and/or
  ccmake --help

To enable garbage collector you can run cmake with -DUSE_GC=ON. However using a
GC isn't as fast as not using one and it could also cause issues with certain
fingerprints.


Compiling
---------
After having run cmake as described in the above section, just run:
  make


Installing
----------
Not needed, cfunge can be run from build directory, but if you want to (after
having compiled cfunge):
  make install


Fingerprints
------------
It is planned to implement most or all of the existing fingerprints,
with some exceptions:
 * FNGR - Contradicts with 98 standard.
 * IMAP - Too intrusive.
 * MODE - Intrusive into IP handling.
 * TRDS - Exceedingly complex and intrusive.
 * WIND - Too complex to implement and not portable.

Short descriptions of implemented fingerprints:
 3DSP 3D space manipulation extension
 BASE I/O for numbers in other bases
 CPLI Complex Integer extension
 DATE Date Functions
 DIRF Directory functions extension
 FILE File I/O functions
 FING Operate on single fingerprint semantics
 FIXP Some useful math functions
 FPDP Double precision floating point
 FPSP Single precision floating point
 FRTH Some common forth commands
 HRTI High-Resolution Timer Interface
 INDV Pointer functions
 JSTR Read and write strings in Funge-Space
 MODU Modulo Arithmetic Extension
 NCRS Ncurses Extension
 NULL Funge-98 Null Fingerprint
 ORTH Orthogonal Easement Library
 PERL Generic Interface to the Perl Language
 REFC Referenced Cells Extension
 REXP Regular Expression Matching
 ROMA Funge-98 Roman Numerals
 SCKE TCP/IP async socket and dns resolving extension
 SOCK TCP/IP socket extension
 STRN String functions
 SUBR Subroutine extension
 TERM Terminal control functions
 TIME Time and Date functions
 TOYS Funge-98 Standard Toys
 TURT Simple Turtle Graphics Library
For more details please see the specs for each fingerprint.
In cases of undefined behaviour in fingerprints, cfunge mostly tries to do the
same thing as CCBI.


Undefined behaviour
-------------------
The Befunge98 standard leaves some things undefined, here is what we do for
some of those cases:
 * y pushes time in UTC not local time.
 * k with a negative argument reflects.
 * # across edge of funge-space may or may not skip first char after wrapping
   depending on exact situation.
 * ( and ) with a negative count reflects and doesn't pop any fingerprint.
 * Loaded fingerprints are inherited to child IPs at split (t).
 * STDOUT is only flushed at:
   * Newline (line feed, ASCII 10) printed using , instruction.
   * Any input instructions.
   * End of program.
 * Standard input is read one line at a time and buffered internally. Those
   instructions reading chars fetch one char from this buffer, leaving the rest
   (if any) including any ending newline. Instructions reading an integer will
   leave anything after the integer in the buffer with one exception: if the
   next char is a newline it will be discarded.


Notes on different standards
----------------------------
The option -s 93 does not prevent the program from accessing outside the first
80x25 cells. Nor does it disallow instructions that didn't exist in 93. It does
however change space behaviour to match 93 style.

If a program depends on a instruction that is undefined in 93 to reflect, it
should be easy to replace such instructions with a r for reflect or any in the
range A-Z (and not load any fingerprint).

Further division by zero always returns 0 in all modes, though the Befunge93
specs says the interpreter should ask the user what result he/she wants in that
situation.


Sandbox mode
------------
Sandbox mode prevents Funge programs from doing "harmful" things, this includes,
but is not limited to:
 * Any file or filesystem IO is forbidden.
 * The list of environment variables the program can see in y are restricted.
 * Non-safe fingerprints can not be loaded (this includes network and file
   system access as well as other things).