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authorpommicket <pommicket@gmail.com>2021-09-01 18:27:51 -0400
committerpommicket <pommicket@gmail.com>2021-09-01 18:27:51 -0400
commit336a7931494b149298ec0d215bf643c4ca07a712 (patch)
treef1f79a7b5470cb5af12c0d914a24ec6aeb8d50f8 /00
parentf71545c939d530d42903deadd365205a4e02bd56 (diff)
markdown to HTML converter
Diffstat (limited to '00')
-rw-r--r--00/Makefile4
-rw-r--r--00/README.md6
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/00/Makefile b/00/Makefile
index fa229a2..a328fee 100644
--- a/00/Makefile
+++ b/00/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
all: README.html out00
-%.html: %.md
- markdown $< > $@
out00: in00
./hexcompile
+%.html: %.md ../markdown
+ ../markdown $<
diff --git a/00/README.md b/00/README.md
index 25dc1ae..a8d4c38 100644
--- a/00/README.md
+++ b/00/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
# stage 00
This directory contains the file `hexcompile`, a handwritten executable. It
-takes input file `in00` containing space/newline/[any character]-separated
+takes input file `in00` containing space/newline/(any character)-separated
hexadecimal digit pairs (e.g. `3f`) and outputs them as bytes to the file
`out00`. On 64-bit Linux, try running `./hexcompile` from this directory (I've
already provided an `in00` file, which you can take a look at), and you will get
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ That's quite a lot to take in for such a simple program, but here we are! We now
have something that will let us write individual bytes with an ordinary text
editor and get them translated into a binary file.
-## Limitations
+## limitations
There are many ways in which this is a bad program. It will *only* properly
handle lowercase hexadecimal digit pairs, separated by exactly one character,
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ Also, we only read in data *three bytes at a time*, and output one byte at a
time. This is a very bad idea because syscalls (e.g. `read`) are slow. `read`
might take ~3 microseconds, which doesn't sound like a lot, but it means that if
we used code like this to process a 50 megabyte file, say, we'd be waiting for
-a long time.
+a while.
But these problems aren't really a big deal. We'll only be running this on
little programs and we'll be sure to check that our input is in the right