Dr-Nekoma / chime

A stack-based virtual machine written in Objective-C

Chime 🔔

A runtime at your service. Chime is a hybrid Virtual Machine that first compiles a chime program into a sequece of words (32 bits each) and later on interprets it.

It is Turing Complete. As for nice to haves, you have compile-time literals (integers), string support and syscalls (write and read from stdout).

Features

Chime 1.0 [9/9]

• [X] Stack manipulations
• [X] Flow control
• [X] Arithmetic and Logic
• [X] Address Management
• [X] Neutral instructions
• [X] Function calls
• [X] Strings
• [X] Syscalls
• [X] Rule 110

Chime 2.0 [0/4]

• [ ] Translator between dialects
• [ ] Closures
• [ ] ROM
• [ ] x86 Compilation (ROM is required)

How to use Chime

Nix

> just build
> ./result/bin/chime -p program.chf -d dialect

Guix

TODO

Developers

• EduardoLR10
• z-silver
• MMagueta

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References

• http://fpgacpu.ca/publications/Second-Generation_Stack_Computer_Architecture.pdf