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43 lines
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This directory contains Mu programs and infrastructure that require a Linux
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kernel. To run programs under this directory, you must first `cd` into it.
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```sh
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$ cd linux/
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$ ./translate apps/hello.mu # generates a.elf
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$ ./a.elf
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Hello world!
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```
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See the [shared vocabulary](vocabulary.md) of data types and functions shared
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by Mu programs running on Linux. Mu programs can transparently call low-level
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functions written in SubX.
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Some programs to try out:
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* `tile`: [An experimental live-updating postfix shell environment](https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/105108305362341204)
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that updates as you type. Prototype. Look at this to see what is currently
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possible, not how I recommend building software.
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<img alt='tile app' src='../html/rpn5.png' width='500px'>
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* `browse`: [A text-mode browser for a tiny subset of Markdown](https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104845344081779025).
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* `apps/ex*`: small stand-alone examples that don't need any of the shared code at
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the top-level. They each have a simple pedagogical goal. Read these first.
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* `apps/factorial*`: A simple program to compute factorials in 5 versions,
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showing all the different syntax sugars and what they expand to.
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The Mu compiler toolchain is also here in the following phases:
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* Bare SubX: `hex`, `survey_elf`, `pack`, `dquotes`, `assort`, `tests`
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* Syntax sugar for SubX: `sigils`, `calls`, `braces`
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* Mu->SubX compiler: `mu`. Compiles [most statements](http://akkartik.github.io/mu/html/mu_instructions.html)
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to a single instruction of machine code.
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The toolchain includes binaries in the repo. At any commit, the binary should
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be identical bit for bit with the result of translating the corresponding
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`.subx` file. The binary should also be natively runnable on a Linux system
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running on Intel x86 processors, either 32- or 64-bit. If either of these
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invariants is violated, it's a bug.
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