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to call this an assembler is to not give it credit where it's due - this is not an assembler, it's much more than that. it's a set of functions for bash that w
by foxhill 10y ago
to call this an assembler is to not give it credit where it's due - this is not an assembler, it's much more than that.
it's a set of functions for bash that when sourced make the assembly a valid bash script which then runs and assembles itself. this is genius.
- gcr 10y agoIt's using the shell's own tokenizer to parse asm! That's glorious! I don't really understand why the code works since I can't read x86 asm yet, but I think how it works is reasonably clear. Each instruction has its own bash function that writes its opcodes to the output file and the asm script to be assembled is (I think) sourced directly into the running shell session.