Added todo to force an endian convention
I've flip flopped a bit on this but I believe the virtual machine bytecode format must have a convention on endianness. This is because of the issue stated in the TODO which may very well happen.
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*** TODO VM [0%]
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**** TODO vm/runtime.h
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** TODO Specification
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* TODO Rigid endian :LIB:
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Say a program is compiled on a little endian machine. The resultant
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bytecode file, as a result of using C's internal functions, will use
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little endian.
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This file, when distributed to other computers, will not work on those
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that use big endian.
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This is a massive problem; I would like bytecode compiled on one
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computer to work on any other one. Therefore we have to enforce big
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endian. This refactor is limited to only LIB as a result of only the
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~convert_*~ functions being used in the runtime to convert between
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byte buffers (usually read from the bytecode file directly or from
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memory to use in the stack).
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2024-04-09: Found the ~hto_e~ functions under =endian.h= that provide
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both way host to specific endian conversion of shorts, half words and
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words. This will make it super simple to just convert.
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* TODO Preprocessing directives :ASM:
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Like in FASM or NASM where we can give certain helpful instructions to
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the assembler. I'd use the ~%~ symbol to designate preprocessor
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