Finished todo on importing another file

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Like in FASM or NASM where we can give certain helpful instructions to
the assembler. I'd use the ~%~ symbol to designate preprocessor
directives.
** WIP Import another file
Say I have two "asm" files: /a.asm/ and /b.asm/.
#+CAPTION: a.asm
#+begin_src asm
global main
main:
push.word 1
push.word 1
push.word 1
sub.word
sub.word
call b-println
halt
#+end_src
#+CAPTION: b.asm
#+begin_src asm
b-println:
print.word
push.byte '\n'
print.char
ret
#+end_src
How would one assemble this? We've got two files, with /a.asm/
depending on /b.asm/ for the symbol ~b-println~. It's obvious they
need to be assembled "together" to make something that could work. A
possible "correct" program would be having the file /b.asm/ completely
included into /a.asm/, such that compiling /a.asm/ would lead to
classical symbol resolution without much hassle. As a feature, this
would be best placed in the preprocessor as symbol resolution occurs
in the third stage of parsing (~process_presults~), whereas the
preprocessor is always the first stage.
That would be a very simple way of solving the static vs dynamic
linking problem: just include the files you actually need. Even the
standard library would be fine and not require any additional work.
Let's see how this would work.
** TODO Macros
Essentially constants expressions which take literal parameters
(i.e. tokens) and can use them throughout the body. Something like
@@ -243,3 +204,42 @@ memory to use in the stack).
2024-04-09: Found the ~hto_e~ functions under =endian.h= that provide
both way host to specific endian conversion of shorts, half words and
words. This will make it super simple to just convert.
** DONE Import another file
Say I have two "asm" files: /a.asm/ and /b.asm/.
#+CAPTION: a.asm
#+begin_src asm
global main
main:
push.word 1
push.word 1
push.word 1
sub.word
sub.word
call b-println
halt
#+end_src
#+CAPTION: b.asm
#+begin_src asm
b-println:
print.word
push.byte '\n'
print.char
ret
#+end_src
How would one assemble this? We've got two files, with /a.asm/
depending on /b.asm/ for the symbol ~b-println~. It's obvious they
need to be assembled "together" to make something that could work. A
possible "correct" program would be having the file /b.asm/ completely
included into /a.asm/, such that compiling /a.asm/ would lead to
classical symbol resolution without much hassle. As a feature, this
would be best placed in the preprocessor as symbol resolution occurs
in the third stage of parsing (~process_presults~), whereas the
preprocessor is always the first stage.
That would be a very simple way of solving the static vs dynamic
linking problem: just include the files you actually need. Even the
standard library would be fine and not require any additional work.
Let's see how this would work.