benbridle

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   by benbridle 1y ago

   Thank you so much! It looks like the issue I described is what he calls the 'oscillator problem' [0]. This is an absolute goldmine, I'm going to be reading for days. [0] https://board.flatassembler.net/topic.p
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   by benbridle 1y ago

   I should clarify, I was thinking of microcontroller toolchains when I wrote this. The documentation I've seen for Intel processors is solid.
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   by benbridle 1y ago

   Oh neat! Thanks for the link, I hadn't heard of fasmg before. It looks like fasmg builds up from the byte level, so it would only work for architectures that use 8-bit words. Torque builds up from the bit level, so it can assemble code
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   by benbridle 1y ago

   Thanks, that's great to hear! What platforms do they develop for?
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   by benbridle 1y ago

   Thank you! My main inspiration was the Uxn assembly language [0], which is itself heavily inspired by Forth. I loved how easy it was to build something that looks like a high-level language by just stacking up macros, and I wanted to have t
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   Show HN: Torque – A lightweight meta-assembler for any processor(benbridle.com)

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