Overview

This documentation does not reflect the actual current implementation state

Words

Wherever possible we try to stick to keeping everything as a 64 bit value. Throughout the specifications of the VM, a word should be interpreted to mean a 64 bit value. Similarly a half word (or hword) should be interpreted to mean a 32 bit value.

Instructions

See Is.md

Registers

Each core has a bank of 8 general purpose registers, as well as a couple of internal registers. The general purpose registers are called a, b, c, d, e, f, x, and y. The internal registers are called l, u, and n.

• l: exec pointer
• u: flags and stuff
• n: stack pointer

Privledge

The VM has a few different priviledge rankings that can be used to isolate processes.

Memory

Memory is word addressable, and uses a word as its address space. This gives a theoretical maximum memory space of 2^64 words of memory. This gives us a theoretical maximum of 32 exabytes of data, which is large.

2^10 * 2^10 * 2^10 * 2^10 * 2^10 * 2^10 * 2^4
^ K    ^ M    ^ G    ^ T    ^ P    ^ E    ^ 8    ^ 8 (64 bits -> 8 bytes)