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
40 hours	change sys-write and sys-read to take file descriptors	Irene Knapp
	and also sys-write didn't used to return a result this required a little massaging to make it build, the host evoke needed to not actually pass the file descriptor in evoke.e. for posterity: this was fixed by changing it everywhere else as a one-off, then changing it there and using the intermediate version to build the one being checked in now. this kind of weirdness is a thing we get the freedom to do because of the bootstrapped distribution model, though we still strongly prefer not to do it unless necessary. this breaking change would have had to happen at some point, so it's considered acceptable. the size of the diff to evoke.hex is larger than ideal. this raises the need to have a policy for when to regenerate it. since this is a breaking change, it's mandatory. it also seems important to commit a regenerated copy when a release is tagged. it will probably turn out to be a good idea to not regenerate it excessively, otherwise. it's possible that in the long run it might make sense to add name-mapping functionality to hex, just to make the diffs smaller. Force-Push: yes Change-Id: I2648b2577c5c21b126e46405e9888b5cb59aa0b7
3 days	mark a couple labels in hex.e as non-offset	Irene Knapp
	and rebuild hex.hex with the latest features Force-Push: yes Change-Id: Ic96c1ff6b06d2ecfb08a5c6829206460c0cdcf95
2026-09-09	add an implicit way to define suffix comments	Irene Knapp
	and make the explicit way more versatile (allowing zero length) this required hooking the lexer at a pretty low level, but it worked out fine Force-Push: yes Change-Id: Icdbe233fbf9d4cf07cb8d03975eed3b4f7b620aa
2026-09-09	provide a #swap operation in comment templates	Irene Knapp
	and use it in a couple places in amd64.e where it's needed Change-Id: Id73dcd13f08c03aa02ac09e45ab034fcd90f2569 Force-Push: yes
2026-09-08	bubblesort the metadata entries during postprocessing	Irene Knapp
	since we do this here, we no longer need to worry about doing it during initial entry creation, so that's good. that had been on the mental "maybe later" checklist for a while. the various innovations in entry processing now make it possible to pass through most of the formatting in hex.e, so that's done now (suffix comments that aren't instruction decodings still need to be made to work) there's also a new entry type which will be part of the comment parameter system. that's not fully working yet, but this was a bunch of really subtle debugging, so it makes a good spot to checkpoint at. Force-Push: yes Change-Id: I2aff7276368eaad7e5c280a58834605e294dcd74
2026-09-08	the hex dump now prints trailing messages at the end of the data	Irene Knapp
	Force-Push: yes Change-Id: I71930b088c176ade6a0bf7aaecb46bdecb0636ad
2026-09-07	add indentation and blank lines as magic-comment features	Irene Knapp
	the output is really starting to look like something! Force-Push: yes Change-Id: Ic41c8b1702d884ff89693a86d457af7cc752aa86
2026-09-07	add tracing of the latest output point in packstring	Irene Knapp
	this is necessary because packstring isn't implemented in terms of pack8, unlike packalign also add a bunch more magic comments to hex.e, which would be in the wrong place without the semantic change Force-Push: yes Change-Id: I422b8d00a07568be5113e005fddaeab82f5ca731
2026-06-12	it spits out correct hex	Irene Knapp
	no comments yet, of course. also no way to run it on evoke itself yet, due to the buffer thing. Force-Push: yes Change-Id: Ia1d7cc06bd3da59a5d272e1c04606c25d46acee5
2026-05-24	added a program, hex.e, which will be the bootstrap strategy	Irene Knapp
	also added some instructions it needed Force-Push: yes Change-Id: Ia35280e2696167eb0662a5c3a9dc47840438da56