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* 4431 - operate exclusively in hexKartik Agaram2018-07-261-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | Was confusing having numbers without an explicit base sometimes be hex and sometimes not, based on their metadata. By convention I don't bother with the '0x' for instructions, or for single-digit numbers that are equal to their decimal representation. But I could and it would still work.
* 4424Kartik Agaram2018-07-261-15/+15
| | | | Clean up format of example programs.
* 4414 - subx: syntax checkingKartik Agaram2018-07-251-15/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a large patch, and there's a few things wrong with it: a) Helpers are incredibly messy. I want to use has_metadata in layer 24, but can't since it also does error checking. There must be a better basis set of primitives for managing metadata. b) Layer 22 introduces operands for checking, but programs with operands don't actually run until layer 24. So I can't write non-error scenarios in layer 22. That seems ugly. But if I try to introduce layer 24 first there's nothing left to check after it. I *could* play tricks with ordering layers vs transforms. Mu does that a bit, but it becomes hard to mess with, so I'm trying to avoid that. My current plan is for layers within an "abstraction level" to be run in order. Higher layers will necessarily need to come before lower ones. But hopefully this level of hierarchy will help manage the chaos. c) The check for whether an instruction is all hex bytes makes me nervous. I do want to check that an instruction that's just: cd tells the programmer that an operand is missing. The check I currently have is likely not perfectly correct. I *could* put layer 25 in its own commit. But I guess I'm not doing that now. We have a new example program: hello world!
* 4392Kartik Agaram2018-07-241-0/+4
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* 4360Kartik Agaram2018-07-161-1/+1
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* 4356 - subx: first program with a data segmentKartik Agaram2018-07-161-6/+21
| | | | | | | | | | | We read() a character from stdin and write() it out to stdout, saving it to a global variable in between. ELF binaries are inefficient; you can ask for a low alignment, but the kernel may not be able to handle it. If you set up a high alignment then you end up wasting an increasing amount of space in each segment because of the constraint that the offset bear some relationship with the loaded address.
* 4350Kartik Agaram2018-07-151-0/+1
| | | | | | | Reorganize layers to introduce the translation workflow right at the start. We also avoid duplicating parsing code. Programs are always parsed into the `program` data structure.
* 4330 - start allocating data/stack/heap segmentsKartik Agaram2018-07-081-1/+1
| | | | | | | | ex4 now writes to the (global) data segment, rather than trying to write to the code segment. We still need to specify the other segments in the generated ELF, though.
* 4326 - new example: read() from stdinKartik Agaram2018-07-071-0/+23
Currently only runs in emulated mode. Likely a paging issue, writing data to code page. I'm not checking the return value.