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|  | debuging mode. | 
|  | `b`. | 
|  | registers.
This was due to print_char clobbering `d` when calling
get_index. | 
|  | This helps reduce code duplication, and makes it
easier to both read, and add new handlers. | 
|  | This subroutine gets the index of a given character
from a string.
This will help in replacing some routines like
get_ctrlidx, isdelm, and isdelm2. | 
|  | using SIB, rather than with lsl.
This doesn't increase, or decrease the code size, but
does make it both more compact, and easier to read. | 
|  | handle_directive() with a call to parse_quote().
This not only reduces code duplication, but also makes
it more robust in the process. | 
|  | parse_quote().
This allows for replacing the string parsing code in
handle_directive() with a call to parse_quote(). | 
|  | This makes the code much smaller than the previous
version. | 
|  | sequence for the escape character. | 
|  | with deeper scope local symbols.
This is done to make the code easier to read. | 
|  | greater than one are handled.
It wasn't getting the correct depth when relative
local symbols were used.
So to account for that, it adds the relative depth
(number of '@'s in a row), with the absolute depth
(number of '.'s), to get the true scope depth. | 
|  | This will eventually replace the per-line lexer. | 
|  | in the assembler.
- Rewrote more of the SuB Suite to use the new calling
convention.
- Fixed a bug to do with SIB operands in the
emulator's disassembler.
- Made the MMV instruction not require a loop prefix
for copying data. | 
|  | - Implemented support for the SIB addressing mode into
  the assembler.
  SIB is short for "Scale Index, and Base", and works
  much like x86's version of SIB (scale*index+base),
  although my version supports any scale value between
  1, and 256.
- Redid the line shifting routine in SuBEditor.
  It now uses memcpy, and memset to do that, and also
  supports shifting the line left, or right by any
  number of characters. | 
|  | This is because the previous commit actually created
  a bug, rather than fixing one.
- Added JMP, and JSR to the ortho extension, and
  implemented them both in the assembler, and
  emulator. | 
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|  | I was finally able to figure out how to implement the
expression parser into two functions.
It can be done in a single function, but I used two
functions to make it easier to read. | 
|  | It's now separate from the lexer, and was designed to
make it both easier to understand, and easier to
parse. | 
|  | - Started work on implementing the Super VIA emulation.
- Added support for disabling disassembly per
  instruction, when in debug mode.
- Did some more work on rewriting the SuB Suite to
  work with the new calling convention.
- Rewrote the symbol handling code in the emulator's
  assembler, to make it both simpler, and to add
  support for arbitrarily deep symbol scopes.
- Added support for arbitrarily deep local symbol
  scopes.
  For example, to declare a symbol of depth 2, you add
  two '@' characters to the start of the symbol name.
  In other words, the number of '@' characters before
  the symbol name is what determines the scope of that
  symbol.
  And to use a symbol thats outside the current
  scope, you would use the same syntax as using a
  struct member, so you would do `global.local`. | 
|  | I mainly did this to be able to display all 16 main
  registers, but also to simplify the debugger. | 
|  | This was done in order to save three bytes whenever
  you want to immediatly do a conditional branch after
  the `set` instruction. | 
|  | assembler.
  The main thing I had to do was implement the parsing
  of the condition code token, but that wasn't hard to
  do, since I had already done the lexing part already.
  The next thing to do, will be to design a calling
  convention for Sux. | 
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|  | in the emulator. | 
|  | both the assembler, and the emulator.
  I finally figured out how I could get support for the
  Ortho extension implemented into the old assembler.
  The only reason for doing this, is to buy me some
  while I start work on the new assembler, and to help
  me get an idea for how to do the same in the new
  assembler. | 
|  | This is the biggest milestone I've reached for this
  project, since the base extension changes alot about
  what Sux can do by default, and now makes it a viable
  instruction set for modern day use, when compared
  with other instruction sets. | 
|  | - Made the debug print for the CPU flags more
  readable.
- Started work on implementing line number support
  into SuBAsm. | 
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|  | This is to allow for making the stack bigger for
  anything that needs to change the size of it.
- Made the SuB Suite set the stack pointer to the end
  of the usable RAM, and allow for changing the stack
  size.
  In this case, the size of the stack is currently set
  to 192K, with the end of the heap being just below
  the stack. | 
|  | The carry flag is now set properly, and the rotation
  now is set properly by the carry flag, even for
  shift values greater than one.
- Added a test program for properly testing the rotate
  instructions. | 
|  | implementation of free(), although it's commented
  out.
- Removed the sbc() function from the emulator, since
  sbc can be done by just inverting the second operand
  of adc. | 
|  | emulator's memory.
  All reads outside of the emulator's memory give back
  $/0xFF bytes, while all writes outside of the
  emulator's memory are ignored.
- Implemented malloc(), and free() in the SuB Suite.
  In order to do this, I had to add support for a heap,
  which I did by reserving the first 3 banks of the
  address space (the first 192K), and by adding a
  routine that finds the end of the RAM.
  In this case, I set the starting address for the
  routine at bank 3 (bank 4 with one indexing), but,
  the routine's starting address isn't hardcoded, and
  thus, any starting address can be passed as an
  argument.
  The routine uses the fact that we can now read/write
  outside the emulator's memory, and also uses the
  fact that writing outside the emulator's memory will
  be ignored, and that reading outside the emulator's
  memory will always read $/0xFF bytes, and uses that
  to signal that it's reached the end of the RAM.
- Added a test program for getting the size of RAM
  starting at address $/0x20000. | 
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|  | handled.
- Added a function called fix_symtree(), which when
  called. will rearrange the symbol tree based on the
  order they're declared in by the token stream.
  The reason I wrote this, was to make sure the symbol
  tree could be printed correctly.
- Optimized print_symtree() to now use tail recursion.
- Started adding all of the SuB Suite's structs. | 
|  | emulator's assembler.
- Make the symbol table a doublely linked list, in
  both ways.
- Optimized the memcopy() function.
- Changed the benchmark timing, to now use a timer, and
  stops once the timer reaches zero.
  When the timer hits zero, it sends SIGALRM to the
  main function, which tells the emulator that the
  benchmark is done. | 
|  | - Added a memcopy() function, for later on. | 
|  | - Optimized the memory read, and write functions.
- Made the emulator faster, and cleaner in general. | 
|  | - Simplified the effective address functions.
- Made SuBEditor a bit faster.
- JSR, and RTS now support using the RS prefix, which
  is used to specify the return address size, with an
  RS prefix of 0 being a return address size of 64
  bits, rather than 8 bits. | 
|  | address handling.
It's now all done using several functions for each
addressing mode, with the result being the effective
address.
I did this to make the codebase cleaner, and more
readable. | 
|  | It now uses a struct to store the escape sequence.
  Before it handles the escape sequence, it parses it,
  which includes things like getting any arguments
  that are supplied, and getting the mode type.
- Moved the code that handles control codes to a
  separate function.
The reason for doing this was because I wanted to make
the escape sequence handling faster, but also make the
code more readable at the same time.
I got the idea to do this from st, a terminal emulator
created by the suckless.org project. | 
|  | I decided to use keypad now, and create a function to
return the actual key sequences.
The keyboard I/O is also now being handled by the io
emulation function, and not by the main function.
This should get rid of any possible deadlocks. | 
|  | spaces, and tabs before the current token.
  Along with also now storing a sub-token count which
  is used in case the token's secondary id is meant to
  be treated as a sub-token.
- Added suppor for saving the number of blank lines
  before the current tokenized line. | 
|  | It now saves the characters of the typed key into a
buffer, and returns each character in the buffer one
at a time, until it reaches a null terminator, at
which point it starts getting the next key.
The reason for doing this was to make getting multi
character keys faster, by not calling getch() for
each character.
The only downside to this is that I have to set a
timeout() for getch(), making it somewhat non
blocking, although the delay is 8 milliseconds.
The next thing I'll probably be doing, is working more
on the SuB suite. | 
|  | expressions to the emulator's assembler. | 
|  | instruction formatting simpler.
- Refactored the instruction table of the emulator's
  assembler, it now has two parts, the addressing mode
  bits, and the base value.
  The base value is what's used to generate the actual
  opcode, with the addressing mode bits telling the
  assembler what addressing modes this instruction
  supports.
  The reason for doing this was to use less space. For
  comparison, the previous version used 870 bytes for
  the instruction table, while the new version uses
  only 222 bytes. The new version is nearly 4 times
  smaller than the pervious version.
- The B register based ALU instructions now use their
  own addressing mode, and are specified by using 'b'
  as the operand for those instructions.
  For example, to add the Accumulator with the B
  register, you now use "ADC B" instead of "AAB". | 
|  | - Changed the file structure of the SuB Suite, so that
  all variable declarations, symbols, and constants
  are in a single file.
- Moved the C library functionss into a separate
  file, and made them use stack frames.
- Added support for using the emulator's assembler for
  realtime debugging, to enter it, get in to stepping
  mode by pressing Ctrl+s, press any other key, then
  press F1,
  The reason for having to press some other key before
  pressing F1 is because it only allows entering the
  assembler when the keyboard is not ready.
- Added the ".res" directive to the emulator's
  assembler, the ".res" directive tells the assembler
  to reserve however many bytes specified by the
  operand.
- Fixed some bugs in the emulator's assembler. | 
|  | - Fixed some bugs with the push, and pull functions
- Fixed a bug in the assembler. | 
|  | - Added a new preifx called the OF prefix, which adds
  the contents of a specific register to the current
  operand.
- Added a table generator, which parses opcode table
  csv files. | 
|  | - Fixed some bugs in the emulator's assembler.
- Worked on SuBAsm's lexer some more.
- Created a new directory for the SuB suite, and moved
  all of the SuB suite's files in there. |