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* Allow label references in pinned address calculationsBen Bridle2025-04-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a relaxation of the rule where a label reference could not be used in any context that could change the length of an assembled program. We implement this in the bytecode stage by naively calculating an initial address for each label as before. If a pinned address is calculated from a label reference, some of the calculated addresses could be incorrect. We then attempt to run the bytecode stage, which will calculate a more accurate address for each label based on how pinned addresses are calculated. If the address of any label was changed by running this stage, we re-run the stage up to three more times until all labels stabilise. If the labels fail to stabilise, we return an error.
* Implement first-class string literalsBen Bridle2025-04-26
| | | | | | | | | | | This feature promotes strings to a first-class type in the language. If a string is passed to an invocation via the new string-type argument, the string will be passed as a whole value. String arguments can still be passed to an invocation via an integer-type argument, in which case they'll be broken apart into individual characters with the macro being invoked once per character. String-type macro arguments are declared like "name".
* Allow a macro to invoke itself safelyBen Bridle2025-04-18
| | | | | | | A macro can now invoke itself if the invocation is inside a conditional block that will eventually return false. The assembler stack can still overflow if the macro recurses too deeply, or if a macro calls itself without a conditional block.
* Allow a macro to invoke itselfBen Bridle2025-04-18
| | | | | This will currently cause the assembler to hang in all situations where it is used.
* Rewrite entire assemblerBen Bridle2025-03-11
The language is now more general, the code is better structured, error reporting is more detailed, and many new language features have been implemented: - conditional blocks - first-class strings - more expression operators - binary literals - negative values - invocations in constant expressions