/awk-jvm

a toy jvm in awk

Primary LanguageAwkMIT LicenseMIT

awk-jvm

a toy jvm in awk, based on this tutorial: https://zserge.com/posts/jvm/

notes

  • this requires gawk, because of functions and the builtin strtonum
  • since none of the awks can read binary, you first need to pipe the classfile through hexdump
    • example (see run.sh): javac Add.java && hexdump -v -e '/1 "%01u "' Add.class | awk -f jvm.awk

what can it do?

  • not a lot (eg. call methods and basic operations, see Add.java)