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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index f2b07e56..f806ea9e 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -18,10 +18,10 @@ Running the code you want to run, and nothing else. [](https://travis-ci.org/akkartik/mu) -The Mu translator is built up from machine code and requires just a Unix-like -kernel and nothing else. You can also bootstrap it from C++. Both C++ and +Mu requires just a Unix-like OS and nothing else. The Mu translator is built +up from machine code. You can also bootstrap it from C++. Both C++ and self-hosted versions emit identical binaries. The generated binaries require -just a Unix-like kernel and nothing else. +just a Unix-like kernel and nothing else. ([More details.](http://akkartik.name/akkartik-convivial-20200315.pdf)) ## Goals @@ -64,13 +64,13 @@ checks. Here's the program we translated above: <img alt='ex2.mu' src='html/ex2.mu.png'> -There are no expressions, only statements that operate on variables. Most -statements in Mu translate to a single machine code instruction. Variables -reside in memory by default. Programs must specify registers when they want to -use them. Functions must return results in registers. Execution begins at the -function `main`, which always returns its result in register `ebx`. [This paper](http://akkartik.name/akkartik-convivial-20200315.pdf) -has more details, and there's a [summary](mu_summary) of all supported -instructions. +There are no expressions; functions consist of only statements that operate on +variables. Most statements in Mu translate to [a single machine code instruction](http://akkartik.github.io/mu/html/mu_instructions.html). +Variables reside in memory by default. Programs must specify registers when +they want to use them. Functions must return results in registers. Execution +begins at the function `main`, which always returns its result in register +`ebx`. [This paper](http://akkartik.name/akkartik-convivial-20200315.pdf) has +more details, and there's a [summary](mu_summary) of all supported instructions. ## SubX |