Jasmin Assembler help and creating a language target to it

[dusk moat]

Heya, i'm working on making the https://nim-lang.org language compile itself to Jasmin, an assembler for JVM bytecode, does anyone know how .var <var-number> is <name> <descriptor> from <label1> to <label2> works? I'm wondering if it needs a line number or label to work with (will add them in later, but it's a bit difficult to implement rn since i'm slowly just trying to make a limited subset of Nim compile to it)

[dusk moat]

I got pinged?

[dusky wave]

I think they read your post, missunderstood somethinc, pinged you regarding it, realized their missunderstanding and deleted it

[dusk moat]

Ah fair

I've figured out the issue now anyway so it's all good

Just wondering if there's a good library to handle uint math for me

[dusky wave]

well, you could use int and a bunch of ifs

[dusk moat]

True

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alternatively, just use the next-bigger datatype in combination with a bit-level AND

[dusk moat]

Does long even have a bigger datatype?