Want to get more regular with my status updates here. In the 7 days since my last on https://github.com/akkartik/mu/blob/5a68894ca/subx/Readme.md:

• a simple memory allocator, assuming we rarely free: http://akkartik.github.io/mu/blob/5a68894ca/subx/066allocate.subx
• a sketch of safe pointers for a later compiler of a C-like language: http://akkartik.github.io/mu/blob/5a68894ca/subx/apps/handle.subx
• compiled a fairly small Linux kernel and ran SubX with it on Qemu. Still need to get it booting a real laptop and VPS. Also, /dev/fb0.
• light background for my terminals! And for the above code renderings.

Next up: compiling SubX in SubX. Phase 1 is done: translating text hex bytes into binary http://akkartik.github.io/mu/blob/5a68894ca/subx/apps/hex.subx.html. 1700 lines, but sub 200 lines/instructions excluding tests and comments.

Phase 2: packing operand bitfields into bytes.

Phase 3: translating labels. *That* will be interesting, without a hash table for strings.

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