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* 5008Kartik Agaram2019-03-171-0/+1
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* 5001 - drop the :(scenario) DSLKartik Agaram2019-03-121-60/+95
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I've been saying for a while[1][2][3] that adding extra abstractions makes things harder for newcomers, and adding new notations doubly so. And then I notice this DSL in my own backyard. Makes me feel like a hypocrite. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13565743#13570092 [2] https://lobste.rs/s/to8wpr/configuration_files_are_canary_warning [3] https://lobste.rs/s/mdmcdi/little_languages_by_jon_bentley_1986#c_3miuf2 The implementation of the DSL was also highly hacky: a) It was happening in the tangle/ tool, but was utterly unrelated to tangling layers. b) There were several persnickety constraints on the different kinds of lines and the specific order they were expected in. I kept finding bugs where the translator would silently do the wrong thing. Or the error messages sucked, and readers may be stuck looking at the generated code to figure out what happened. Fixing error messages would require a lot more code, which is one of my arguments against DSLs in the first place: they may be easy to implement, but they're hard to design to go with the grain of the underlying platform. They require lots of iteration. Is that effort worth prioritizing in this project? On the other hand, the DSL did make at least some readers' life easier, the ones who weren't immediately put off by having to learn a strange syntax. There were fewer quotes to parse, fewer backslash escapes. Anyway, since there are also people who dislike having to put up with strange syntaxes, we'll call that consideration a wash and tear this DSL out. --- This commit was sheer drudgery. Hopefully it won't need to be redone with a new DSL because I grow sick of backslashes.
* 4987 - support `browse_trace` tool in SubXKartik Agaram2019-02-251-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I've extracted it into a separate binary, independent of my Mu prototype. I also cleaned up my tracing layer to be a little nicer. Major improvements: - Realized that incremental tracing really ought to be the default. And to minimize printing traces to screen. - Finally figured out how to combine layers and call stack frames in a single dimension of depth. The answer: optimize for the experience of `browse_trace`. Instructions occupy a range of depths based on their call stack frame, and minor details of an instruction lie one level deeper in each case. Other than that, I spent some time adjusting levels everywhere to make `browse_trace` useful.
* 4694Kartik Agaram2018-10-131-1/+1
| | | | Check for duplicate docstrings.
* 4692 - update online help for subxKartik Agaram2018-10-131-21/+35
| | | | | | It now includes details for 8-bit registers. And we'll just use the classic names for the registers so that the relationships between 8- and 32-bit versions are more obvious.
* 4668Kartik Agaram2018-10-051-22/+10
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* 4640 - clear error message on missing libraryKartik Agaram2018-10-011-1/+1
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* 4616 - fix subx/examples/ex7Kartik Agaram2018-09-291-9/+19
| | | | | | | | | It was broken since I added support for global variables, back on Sep 1. One other subtle thing I've improved is the name `looks_like_hex_int`. We can now distinguish in the pack-operands transform between ignoring 'foo' because it doesn't look like a number, and immediately flagging '0xfoo' as an error because it *should* be a number.
* 4572Kartik Agaram2018-09-211-1/+3
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* 4544Kartik Agaram2018-09-121-16/+16
| | | | | | | | Attempt #3 at fixing CI. In the process the feature gets a lot less half-baked. Ridiculously misleading that we had `has_metadata()` was special-cased to one specific transform. I suck.
* 4531 - automatically compute segment addressesKartik Agaram2018-09-011-31/+0
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* 4527 - reading commandline argumentsKartik Agaram2018-08-301-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | The new example ex9 doesn't yet work natively. In the process I've emulated the kernel's role in providing args, implemented a couple of instructions acting on 8-bit operands (useful for ASCII string operations), and begun the start of the standard library (ascii_length is the same as strlen). At the level of SubX we're just only going to support ASCII.
* 4526Kartik Agaram2018-08-291-1/+1
| | | | | New levels should be added at the top of list of transforms rather than bottom. See layer 29.
* 4518Kartik Agaram2018-08-131-3/+24
| | | | Support both signed and unsigned numbers when parsing strings.
* 4504Kartik Agaram2018-08-111-5/+22
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* 4502Kartik Agaram2018-08-111-1/+1
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* 4501Kartik Agaram2018-08-111-1/+3
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* 4483Kartik Agaram2018-08-041-0/+431
Reorganize layers in accordance with the plan in layer 29.