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authorKartik K. Agaram <vc@akkartik.com>2021-03-03 22:09:50 -0800
committerKartik K. Agaram <vc@akkartik.com>2021-03-03 22:21:03 -0800
commit71e4f3812982dba2efb471283d310224e8db363e (patch)
treeea111a1acb8b8845dbda39c0e1b4bac1d198143b /apps/ex8.subx
parentc6b928be29ac8cdb4e4d6e1eaa20420ff03e5a4c (diff)
downloadmu-71e4f3812982dba2efb471283d310224e8db363e.tar.gz
7842 - new directory organization
Baremetal is now the default build target and therefore has its sources
at the top-level. Baremetal programs build using the phase-2 Mu toolchain
that requires a Linux kernel. This phase-2 codebase which used to be at
the top-level is now under the linux/ directory. Finally, the phase-2 toolchain,
while self-hosting, has a way to bootstrap from a C implementation, which
is now stored in linux/bootstrap. The bootstrap C implementation uses some
literate programming tools that are now in linux/bootstrap/tools.

So the whole thing has gotten inverted. Each directory should build one
artifact and include the main sources (along with standard library). Tools
used for building it are relegated to sub-directories, even though those
tools are often useful in their own right, and have had lots of interesting
programs written using them.

A couple of things have gotten dropped in this process:
  - I had old ways to run on just a Linux kernel, or with a Soso kernel.
    No more.
  - I had some old tooling for running a single test at the cursor. I haven't
    used that lately. Maybe I'll bring it back one day.

The reorg isn't done yet. Still to do:
  - redo documentation everywhere. All the README files, all other markdown,
    particularly vocabulary.md.
  - clean up how-to-run comments at the start of programs everywhere
  - rethink what to do with the html/ directory. Do we even want to keep
    supporting it?

In spite of these shortcomings, all the scripts at the top-level, linux/
and linux/bootstrap are working. The names of the scripts also feel reasonable.
This is a good milestone to take stock at.
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-# Example reading commandline arguments: compute length of first arg.
-#
-# To run:
-#   $ ./bootstrap translate init.linux apps/ex8.subx -o apps/ex8
-#   $ ./bootstrap run apps/ex8 abc de fghi
-# Expected result:
-#   $ echo $?
-#   3  # length of 'abc'
-#
-# At the start of a SubX program:
-#   argc: *esp
-#   argv[0]: *(esp+4)
-#   argv[1]: *(esp+8)
-#   ...
-# Locals start from esp-4 downwards.
-
-== code
-#   instruction                     effective address                                                   register    displacement    immediate
-# . op          subop               mod             rm32          base        index         scale       r32
-# . 1-3 bytes   3 bits              2 bits          3 bits        3 bits      3 bits        2 bits      2 bits      0/1/2/4 bytes   0/1/2/4 bytes
-
-Entry:
-    # . prologue
-    89/copy                         3/mod/direct    5/rm32/ebp    .           .             .           4/r32/esp   .               .                 # copy esp to ebp
-    # eax = ascii-length(argv[1])
-    # . . push args
-    ff          6/subop/push        1/mod/*+disp8   5/rm32/ebp    .           .             .           .           8/disp8         .                 # push *(ebp+8)
-    # . . call
-    e8/call  ascii-length/disp32
-    # . . discard args
-    81          0/subop/add         3/mod/direct    4/rm32/esp    .           .             .           .           .               4/imm32           # add to esp
-
-    # exit(eax)
-    89/copy                         3/mod/direct    3/rm32/ebx    .           .             .           0/r32/eax   .               .                 # copy eax to ebx
-    e8/call  syscall_exit/disp32
-
-ascii-length:  # s: (addr array byte) -> n/eax
-    # edx = s
-    8b/copy                         1/mod/*+disp8   4/rm32/sib    4/base/esp  4/index/none  .           2/r32/edx   4/disp8         .                 # copy *(esp+4) to edx
-    # var result/eax = 0
-    b8/copy-to-eax  0/imm32
-$ascii-length:loop:
-    # var c/ecx = *s
-    8a/copy-byte                    0/mod/*         2/rm32/edx    .           .             .           1/r32/CL    .               .                 # copy byte at *edx to CL
-    # if (c == '\0') break
-    81          7/subop/compare     3/mod/direct    1/rm32/ecx    .           .             .           .           .               0/imm32/null      # compare ecx
-    74/jump-if-=  $ascii-length:end/disp8
-    # ++s
-    42/increment-edx
-    # ++result
-    40/increment-eax
-    # loop
-    eb/jump  $ascii-length:loop/disp8
-$ascii-length:end:
-    # return eax
-    c3/return
-
-== data
-
-# . . vim:nowrap:textwidth=0