ocamlAssembler

This is a little thing I hacked together over a weekend.

It was very helpful to learn about some of the difference between an imperative language and functional language. I eventually learned some things in my functional language course that made me realize that I could've done some things differently architectural wise, such as introducting variant data types to make operations on the data much easier. I was releying on position of data objects in a list to determine what to do the data. Instead I should of gave the data variant data types, and then determine what operation to do based on that.

Inspired by a school project, I decided to see if I could implement an assembler with a functional langauge, and see how different that proramming experiance would be compared to implemening something like in a c style imperative language.

Makfile

all: -> complies the assembler program with the correct modules and libraries to produce an bytecode executable.
test: -> compiles the assembler program and runs each test file on it. Does not check that the test programs are giving correct output.
clean -> clean the directory of all complied files and whatnot.

assembler

The compiled program that runs the assembler. I used an ocmal version of get opt to parse command line arguments.

The two options are:
-i inputFile: specifies an assembly file to read in.
-o outputFile: specified an output file to write to.
If you don't specify a file to write to, the program will just print to stdout.

Example

./assembler -i testcases/test1.asm 
./assembler -i testcases/test2.asm -o testcases/test2.mc

assembler.ml

The ocaml source code file. Works pretty well, but there are always improvements to be made.

todo:

Implement tags / tag replacement.
Implement error checking, throw execptions on bad input.
Implement multithreading.

testcases