2014/12/04

DISCLAIMER: These notes are from the defunct k8 project which precedes SquirrelJME. The notes for SquirrelJME start on 2016/02/26! The k8 project was effectively a Java SE 8 operating system and as such all of the notes are in the context of that scope. That project is no longer my goal as SquirrelJME is the spiritual successor to it.

04:08

Wrote down to say stuff yesterday but I never did, was busy day doing things in real life.

05:32

Need to turn all these stack operations from annotations into a giant array since that would be a bit more effective, but since converting those annotations to arrays would be a bit complex, I am just going to write a main entry and then call that, which translates everything for me instead. That would be a mostly fast copy and paste work.

05:56

Now I printed out replacements for all of the 213 opcodes, now I need to replace them all.

06:16

Using a spreadsheet, sed, and copy replace made it a very quick job to change all of the enumeration values.

06:42

These lists of lists should be good for quickly handling multiple possible stack operations and such.

06:51

Maybe instead of a verification and a register translation phase, I can combine the two since they are both performing the same kind of work for the most part. I could actually merge the jump stuff stage and the verification and register creation phase too.

07:00

I can move the stuff to other classes to simplify things, I can do what I planned before by having an evaluation thing to do. That is start execution with a known state and then push any jumps conditional or otherwise for future evaluation. So basically the translation code will be executing Java byte code as it transforms it. Checking for validity is performed and then as that happens, register based operations are being generated at the same time.