evocation - Call forth the blue-green flame of computation from the universe, weave its energies into a fabric, that we may share our blood with it.

Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author
6 days	give the names of codeword pointers in label-transform output	Irene Knapp
	under the hex transform, that is this also implements ndrop in quine, because it wasn't building evoke, and it checks in the updated hex.hex which reflects the more concise notation for integer constants. this brings all the builds into a clean state, for the moment. Force-Push: yes Change-Id: I243cf08c70b4a3af00ea5e0836c5596a32f1288b
9 days	place a trap inside the hex-transformed nlabel-transform-one	Irene Knapp
	this will be used to cause it to apply a tilde alternate, but the lexing code for that needs to be refactored first also, this has an implementation of nexit, a new flow-control word for a scary style of metaprogramming Force-Push: yes Change-Id: Ic7fe2d50a8ee21cf9fa5fef1fef4408c2935bb4c
13 days	substantial additions to the README	Irene Knapp
	and also a prettier flame drawing Force-Push: yes Change-Id: I5896bfdee53c934b4c38861c8a9e9f5a966f7264
14 days	status update in the README! an important one :)	Irene Knapp
	Force-Push: yes Change-Id: Ia929bd55a0cec2781a4166dad4c7797fd2cb1b9d
14 days	document how to do a full build of evoke.hex	Irene Knapp
	the contents of evoke.hex aren't usable quite yet, for reasons now described in the README, but the build itself runs to completion. this is honestly a huge milestone. Force-Push: yes!!!!! Change-Id: Ia95d6aba7485062c0e64cdde0575058a2df2a1ef
14 days	deal better with return values when underflowing the substring entry stack	Irene Knapp
	it's now able to run all the way to the end of the label transform, inside the hex transform. the output leaves much to be desired, but it runs. Force-Push: yes Change-Id: I7cac39df599e8081fac6b050dfeb34e598bb54eb
2026-09-09	check in the hex binary and commented hex-dump	Irene Knapp
	yes, wow, right? big milestone! doesn't work for evoke itself quite yet, but getting really close Force-Push: yes Change-Id: I1e836b85cf185db4aa835d2aa494a67585e60744
2026-08-30	add some stuff about string literals to the readme	Irene Knapp
	Force-Push: yes Change-Id: I7bda5d1ad0c6b1b44ea283b429b14fd397ef978a
2026-08-30	add a metadata structure for the hex transform	Irene Knapp
	the structure will eventually be populated from a few places, but for now, the proof-of-concept installs a complex hook that runs only on the call to "allocate" done at the top of "label-loop". the comment output code works: the metadata entries are output in the appropriate places in the dump! yay Force-Push: yes Change-Id: I15f20241e84b535c8407f9a190b22c9cb85227e6
2026-08-29	expand the README with details on the bootstrapping goals and status	Irene Knapp
	Force-Push: yes Change-Id: I1cde3ac2bfc10ccaa8be260a1a6a88684563ccf6
2026-08-28	make read-to-buffer take its delimiter as a parameter	Irene Knapp
	since the recommended invocation to build Evocation (hehe) does the heavy lifting in interpreted mode, this required a new helper, allocate-string, which takes a string in the scratch space and properly allocates it so it won't be overwritten by future allocations Force-Push: yes Change-Id: Ia73612a65fd7c11af5fe110c573c23c16b777112
2026-06-06	more docs	Irene Knapp
	Force-Push: yes Change-Id: I16f8271c2629270f65e58e3a642511745ce136c1
2026-05-28	add the ability to bind signal handlers	Irene Knapp
	and a useful example one ;) this also involved fixing the failure cases in input.e to handle EINTR correctly. it required a lot of tracing, but now the expected state of the stack is much better commented for next time. many thanks to @cks@mastodon.social who found code in the Go compiler which had the details of what's required in regard to the restorer, which made the whole thing work, and to @snowfox@tech.lgbt who did some experimental testing around the exact requirements. both those contributions are reflected in the documentation added with this CL. additional thanks to everyone who chimed in on the fedi thread, your comments kept us going! Force-Push: yes Change-Id: I97fd89426bf807df5565e011d3665f7e904fa138
2026-05-24	added a README	Irene Knapp
	at least it's a start :) Force-Push: yes Change-Id: I221a916c8d6ae5ac45c1d884232b31da89584ddc