Bytecode-OS

Created 5 years ago
Maintained by kapstok
A bare-bone OS only capable of parsing bytecode.
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Jan Allersma committed 5 years ago

Bytecode OS

This Readme is separated in two parts:

  • The Bytecode part, which shows how to write a binary file and parse it with an executable.

  • The OS part, which shows how to create a bare-bone OS that uses the Bytecode part.

If you consider the bare-bone OS as an actual OS, then you could say that the executable from the bytecode part is basically a virtual machine.

The bytecode part

Building

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Bytecode reference

prog.dat is an example (binary) file that can be read by the executable. The reference of the bytecode can be found below:

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VM bytecode       prog bytecode   description 

1064              6410            1 - loadi, 0 - arg0 (register), 64 - value
11c8              c811            1 - loadi, 1 - arg0 (register), c8 - value
2201              0122            2 - add, 2 - arg0 (result register), 0 - arg1 (register 1), 1 - arg2 (register 2) 
0000              0000            0000 - halt

The OS part

Building

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