//: Beginnings of a nicer way to build SubX programs. //: We're going to question every notion, including "Assembly language" and //: "compiler". //: Motto: Abstract nothing, check everything. //: //: Workflow: read 'source' file as a single string. Run a series of //: transforms on it, each converting to a new string. The final string should //: be just machine code and comments, suitable to pass to load_program(). :(before "End Types") typedef void (*transform_fn)(const string& input, string& output); :(before "End Globals") vector Transform; :(before "End Includes") const int START = 0x08048000; :(before "End Main") if (is_equal(argv[1], "translate")) { assert(argc > 3); string program; slurp(argv[2], program); perform_all_transforms(program); dump_elf(program, argv[3]); } :(code) void perform_all_transforms(string& program) { string& in = program; string out; for (int t = 0; t < SIZE(Transform); ++t, in.swap(out), out.clear()) (*Transform.at(t))(in, out); } // write out the current Memory contents from address 1 to End_of_program to a // bare-bones ELF file with a single section/segment and a hard-coded origin address. void dump_elf(const string& program, const char* filename) { Mem.resize(1024); // load program into memory, filtering out comments load_program(program, 1); // Not where 'program' should be loaded for running. // But we're not going to run it right now, so we // can load it anywhere. // dump contents of memory into ELF binary ofstream out(filename, ios::binary); dump_elf_header(out); for (size_t i = 1; i < End_of_program; ++i) { char c = Mem.at(i); out.write(&c, sizeof(c)); } out.close(); } void dump_elf_header(ostream& out) { char c = '\0'; #define O(X) c = (X); out.write(&c, sizeof(c)) // host is required to be little-endian #define emit(X) out.write(reinterpret_cast(&X), sizeof(X)) //// ehdr // e_ident O(0x7f); O(/*E*/0x45); O(/*L*/0x4c); O(/*F*/0x46); O(0x1); // 32-bit format O(0x1); // little-endian O(0x1); O(0x0); for (size_t i = 0; i < 8; ++i) { O(0x0); } // e_type O(0x02); O(0x00); // e_machine O(0x03); O(0x00); // e_version O(0x01); O(0x00); O(0x00); O(0x00); // e_entry int e_entry = START; emit(e_entry); // e_phoff -- immediately after ELF header int e_phoff = 52; emit(e_phoff); // e_shoff; unused int dummy32 = 0; emit(dummy32); // e_flags; unused emit(dummy32); // e_ehsize uint16_t e_ehsize = 52; emit(e_ehsize); // e_phentsize uint16_t e_phentsize = 0x20; emit(e_phentsize); // e_phnum uint16_t e_phnum = 0x1; emit(e_phnum); // e_shentsize uint16_t dummy16 = 0x0; emit(dummy16); // e_shnum emit(dummy16); // e_shstrndx emit(dummy16); //// phdr // p_type uint32_t p_type = 0x1; emit(p_type); // p_offset uint32_t p_offset = /*size of ehdr*/52 + /*size of phdr*/32; emit(p_offset); // p_vaddr emit(START); // p_paddr emit(START); // p_filesz uint32_t size = End_of_program - /*we're not using location 0*/1; emit(size); // p_memsz emit(size); // p_flags uint32_t p_flags = 0x5; emit(p_flags); // p_align uint32_t p_align = 0x1000; emit(p_align); #undef O } void slurp(const char* filename, string& out) { ifstream fin(filename); fin >> std::noskipws; ostringstream fout; char c = '\0'; while(has_data(fin)) { fin >> c; fout << c; } fout.str().swap(out); } :(after "Begin run() For Scenarios") perform_all_transforms(text_bytes); :(before "End Includes") using std::ios;