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32 lines
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I'm exploring some things around the VM implementation and
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tooling; this directory contains the relevant files for this.
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Things I'm working on in this:
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[x] Single file implementation
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[x] Modular I/O (enable/disable at compile time)
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[x] Faster opcode processing
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[x] Removal of image saving from the C sources
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[x] Building extended image w/o retro-extend in C
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[x] Assemble new image w/o retro-muri in C
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[ ] Support for embedding device words in the C source
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[ ] Embed image in the C source using tool written in Retro
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Specifics:
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Retro's build process is a little messy. We first compile the
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assembler, then retro-extend (which is an Nga-in-C, with a
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reduced set of I/O). These are used to assemble the kernel,
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merge in the stdlib and any device words, then the VM is
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compiled, user-level additions are added to a new image, and
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then the source is updated before being rebuilt.
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In this, the VM is built, then is used to assemble and build a
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new image, eliminating the need for separate retro-extend and
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retro-muri binaries.
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In the longer term, there is benefit to having a standalone
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set of supporting tools, so I'm not going to eliminate them,
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but using Retro itself for more is something worth doing IMO.
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