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Show HN: Torque – A lightweight meta-assembler for any processor

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Re: Show HN: Torque – A lightweight meta-assembler for any processor

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zzo38computer wrote: post #30
benbridle wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wholeheartedly agree with using "0o" as the octal prefix, I've never been a fan of "0". I've jut implemented this feature and released it in v2.2.0, you can grab it from the project page. Thanks for the suggestion! I'm not too sure I understand what you're describing with non-Unicode text. Torque doesn't have a built-in concept of bytes, instead each character is treated as an integer with the value being the Unico…

I meant that the input should not have to be Unicode. The input could be any extended ASCII encoding (supporting ASCII is necessary, in order that the syntax will work; therefore some encodings such as Shift-JIS and UTF-16 are not suitable) which does not have to be mapped to Unicode. (Even if the input actually is UTF-8, you may have a character that is made up of multiple code points. If it is treated as a sequence…

Oh I think I see what you mean now, you're talking about the encoding of the Torque source code that gets fed into the assembler. To be honest I'd never really considered anything other than UTF-8, the parsing is all implemented in Rust which requires strings to be valid UTF-8 anyway. Are you wanting to write Torque code with a non-Unicode text editor, or are you thinking about how the document encoding affects the handling of string literals inside the assembler?

Some kind of table syntax would be useful for character mappings, but I'm not sure what it'd look like or if it'd be applicable outside of dealing with characters. I'll think more on that.

Re: Show HN: Torque – A lightweight meta-assembler for any processor

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benbridle wrote: post #27
vanderZwan wrote: post #25

I shared Torque elsewhere and people asked what license it has

Thanks for the interest! Torque is public domain, feel free to use it or change it or share it however you want. I'd love to hear how people use it, but no obligation. If you shared it someplace public I'd love to pop by, if you have a link.

I've since been informed that public domain isn't really a proper term, legally speaking, so to clarify things I've released Torque under the MIT license.
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