Torque
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assembler
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How HN took it
9 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score +0.40.
Idea: 5 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Interesting idea and well executed macro-based design
From 3 comments
Very cool and I like the idea of a "meta-assembler." The most-recent version of flatassembler (fasm 2) is built with fasmg which is also a "meta-assembler" of sorts, in that it…
2ton_jeff on HNSuper fun site! Did you get inspiration from other assemblers or macro processors? You have it running on a TRS-80, how does that work? I had no idea Rust could target a TRS-80.…
sitkack on HNExcellent work man! I know some low level guys who would really appreciate this.
zadkey on HN
Objections
Octal and non-Unicode text support were initially missing
From 1 comment
Is there any support for non-Unicode text? Is there any support for octal numbers? These things should be corrected, hopefully. Also, some of the links in the table of contents…
zzo38computer on HN
Documentation table of contents had broken links
From 1 comment
Is there any support for non-Unicode text? Is there any support for octal numbers? These things should be corrected, hopefully. Also, some of the links in the table of contents…
zzo38computer on HN
Requests
Support octal literals with a 0o prefix
From 2 comments
I think the "0" prefix for octal (as used in the C programming language) is not so good and that "0o" is better; so, if octal literals are implemented then "0o" is better. For…
zzo38computer on HNI wholeheartedly agree with using "0o" as the octal prefix, I've never been a fan of "0". I've jut implemented this feature and released it in v2.2.0, you can grab it from the…
benbridle on HN
Support non-Unicode byte input and character mapping tables
From 1 comment
I meant that the input should not have to be Unicode. The input could be any extended ASCII encoding (supporting ASCII is necessary, in order that the syntax will work; therefore…
zzo38computer on HN
Questions
How the TRS-80 port works and how structs are laid out in memory
From 1 comment
Super fun site! Did you get inspiration from other assemblers or macro processors? You have it running on a TRS-80, how does that work? I had no idea Rust could target a TRS-80.…
sitkack on HN
Whether there is an internal IR and whether constraint solving is planned
From 1 comment
Super fun site! Did you get inspiration from other assemblers or macro processors? You have it running on a TRS-80, how does that work? I had no idea Rust could target a TRS-80.…
sitkack on HN
Alternatives named
fasmg (flat assembler), a macro assembler
From 1 comment
Very cool and I like the idea of a "meta-assembler." The most-recent version of flatassembler (fasm 2) is built with fasmg which is also a "meta-assembler" of sorts, in that it…
2ton_jeff on HN
TDASM meta-assembler
From 1 comment
Reminds me of TDASM from the turn of the century: https://web.archive.org/web/20230906054935/http://www.penguin.cz/~niki/tdasm/ I remember there were a few other meta-assemblers…
userbinator on HN
Uxn assembly language, the maker's inspiration
From 1 comment
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…
benbridle on HN