On Adding Executables to PATH and Becoming All-Powerful
For the past few months you’ve been learning C and writing toy programs. But you’re getting sick of having to include their relative paths when you want to e...
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Type Punning
Here are 32 bits, or 4 bytes. Seems like a pretty big number. And it is . . . sorta. Depends on how you look at it. 0 1 0 0 0 ...
String Chaos and Compiler Sleight-of-Hand
We need to talk about strings. I’m working on porting my Python assembler to C, and I’m getting to the harder stuff. As I wrote about in my last post I sett...
Porting my assembler to C, Part II
I’ve been keeping that good Impossible Stuff Day energy going today and made excellent progress on my assembler project. It can’t handle labels or symbols ...
RC43. Impossible Stuff Day: Porting my assembler to C, Part I
A few weeks back I built an assembler in Python as a project for Nand2Tetris. When I was first plotting my approach and feeling ambitious, I thought, hey, ...