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A 6502-oriented low-level programming language supporting advanced static analysis
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SixtyPical
SixtyPical is a very low-level programming language, similar to 6502 assembly, with static analysis through abstract interpretation.
In practice, this means it catches things like
- you forgot to clear carry before adding something to the accumulator
- a subroutine that you call trashes a register you thought was preserved
and suchlike.
It is a work in progress, currently at the proof-of-concept stage.
The current released version of SixtyPical is 0.5. The current development version of SixtyPical, unreleased as of this writing, is 0.6-PRE.
Documentation
- Design Goals — coming soon.
- SixtyPical specification
- SixtyPical history
- [Literate test suite for SixtyPical syntax](tests/SixtyPical Syntax.md)
- [Literate test suite for SixtyPical execution](tests/SixtyPical Execution.md)
- [Literate test suite for SixtyPical analysis](tests/SixtyPical Analysis.md)
- [Literate test suite for SixtyPical compilation](tests/SixtyPical Compilation.md)
- [6502 Opcodes used/not used in SixtyPical](doc/6502 Opcodes.md)
TODO
For 0.6:
call
vector (generates an JSR to a trampoline that does indirect JMP.)goto
(tail call) a routine or a vector.- A more involved demo for the C64 — one that sets up an interrupt?
For 0.7:
word
type.trash
instruction.- zero-page memory locations.
- indirect addressing.
At some point...
interrupt
routines.- add line number (or at least routine name) to error messages.
- 6502-mnemonic aliases (
sec
,clc
) - other handy aliases (
eq
forz
, etc.) - have
copy
instruction able to copy a constant to a user-def mem loc, etc. - add absolute addressing in shl/shr, absolute-indexed for add, sub, etc.
- check and disallow recursion.