Standardize name for 'end of file' sentinel. `eof` seems like an ordinary
variable, and `EOF` looks too much like a register (particularly in code
like `if (EAX == EOF)`), so we'll go with `Eof`. Consistent capitalization
for globals, and constants are globals too.
Considering how much trouble a merge phase would be (commit 4978), it seems
simpler to just add the extra syntax for controlling the entry point of
the generated ELF binary.
But I wouldn't have noticed this if I hadn't taken the time to write out
the commit messages of 4976 and 4978.
Even if we happened to already have linked list primitives built, this
may still be a good idea considering that I'm saving quite a lot of code
in duplicated entrypoints.
So far I've been assuming that I'd just statelessly convert each line in
a .subx file. But over the past week or so of constant interruptions I
gradually realized that code and data need different parsers.
Bugfix: has-metadata? was corrupting registers
Seems uneconomic to write tests for stuff like this. Assembly is just not
the right layer to try to come up with a general solution or process. Keep
running your code and wait to find signs of breakage.
In the process of building next-token I finally added some support for a
debugging situation I've found myself in a couple of times: wondering "what
changed this memory location"?
Kartik Agaram