Using one-character strings as operands in the assembly editor | Turing Complete | Page 1

elder barn Jun 13, 2023, 6:48 AM

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Currently, you can write strings inside the assembly editor as separate tokens, but a desirable feature would be to extract numerical values from strings inside operands. A one-character string would turn into a byte, a two-character string would turn into a 16-bit word, etc. This way, we can do something like
out console|"H"
for example, to use character codes as operands.
Doing this currently results in weird behavior that seems to invalidate all further code in the assembly editor.

timber galleon Jun 13, 2023, 6:49 AM

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for some reason i dont think this shouldnt work

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why doesnt it?

elder barn Jun 13, 2023, 6:57 AM

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timber galleon why doesnt it?

only the first token, which is lia representing 3 gets assembled. The bitwise or and the next instruction+argument don't

timber galleon Jun 13, 2023, 6:58 AM

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weird

elder barn Jun 13, 2023, 6:58 AM

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I double checked and it works fine if you replace the H with an integer literal

timber galleon Jun 13, 2023, 6:58 AM

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that is funny

elder barn Jun 13, 2023, 6:59 AM

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Once again, a line consisting entirely of a string gets assembled byte-by-byte just fine

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But you can't inline strings

plain sand Jun 13, 2023, 3:32 PM

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Can you use a character literal using ' instead?

plain sand Jun 13, 2023, 5:17 PM

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Hm, no. single character literals do work with ', but they still can't use operators

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" not working is IMO fine, although it should generate an error a good error message: " represents a multi byte sequence, not a single value.

#Using one-character strings as operands in the assembly editor