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Created February 14, 2019 19:44
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A simple brainfuck interpreter in C (update)
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
// initialize the tape with 30,000 zeroes
unsigned char tape[30000] = {0};
// set the pointer to point at the left-most cell of the tape
unsigned char* ptr = tape;
void interpret(char* input) {
char current_char;
size_t i;
size_t loop;
for (i = 0; input[i] != 0; i++) {
current_char = input[i];
if (current_char == '>') {
++ptr;
} else if (current_char == '<') {
--ptr;
} else if (current_char == '+') {
++*ptr;
} else if (current_char == '-') {
--*ptr;
} else if (current_char == '.' ) {
putchar(*ptr);
} else if (current_char == ',') {
*ptr = getchar();
} else if (current_char == '[') {
continue;
} else if (current_char == ']' && *ptr) {
loop = 1;
while (loop > 0) {
current_char = input[--i];
if (current_char == '[') {
loop--;
} else if (current_char == ']') {
loop++;
}
}
}
}
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
if (argc != 2)
{
printf("Usage: %s file.bf\n", argv[0]);
exit(2);
}
FILE *file = fopen(argv[1], "r");
if (file == NULL)
{
printf("Error: fopen failed\n");
exit(1);
}
fseek(file, 0L, SEEK_END);
long file_len = ftell(file);
rewind(file);
char *file_buf = malloc(file_len * sizeof(char) + 1);
file_buf[file_len] = '\0';
fread(file_buf, file_len, sizeof(char), file);
fclose(file);
interpret(file_buf); // outputs input
free(file_buf);
return 0;
}
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D0tty commented Feb 14, 2019

Original authors is @maxcountryman, see his version here

Simple update to read bf code from a file

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As has been mentioned, '[' must jump back to the ']' if memory cell == 0, for a compliant implementation.

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