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.
01:04
Soon I will be assembling, hopefully. I decided that the core compiler's assembler will be very basic. The one that takes human readable assembly is in hairball. I can write a new tokenizer, but I am just going to use StreamTokenzer to simplify things.
19:42
I thought about how things are to be placed in memory, but it will be very simple. Everything is essentially an object, including definitions that describe how a class is laid out. Every object will have a pointer which points to an instance of FormClass which describes a class. Then that would be followed by the identity hash code, and then all the required object information based on superclasses and such. So when it comes to superclasses, all subclasses can be aliased to a super class. Interfaces complicate things however, but I will have to figure that out also. Linking will have to be performed when code is loading, unless I have a double dereference.