Mips Interpreter
Project description
Dashmips
Dashmips is a Mips Interpreter CLI Program.
Install
The recommended way to install dashmips is with pip:
pip install dashmips
Usage
If you installed via pip you should now have a binary in your path that you can launch by typing:
dashmips
"Compiling"
To compile or run a mips program you run:
dashmips compile --run FILE.mips
What "compilation" means in dashmips is a conversion of the source file to a json format that is better understood by the program. You can use this json format to inspect the internals of how your mips program is interpretted by dashmips.
Debugging
In order to leave a flexible environment for debugging dashmips doesn't provide an interface for human debugging of a mips program. Instead the debugger included is a server that accepts the json format of a mips program over the network and will do the requested operations returning an updated MipsProgram json object.
There is a vscode extension that can speak dashmips specific json language here.
Debugging protocol
Small notes about the protocol if you want to proceed with a manual debugging. The JSON you send to the debug server is expected to take the following format:
interface DebugMessage {
command: 'start' | 'step' | 'continue' | 'stop';
program: MipsProgram; // MipsProgram can be found in `dashmips/models.py`
// properties below are optional
breakpoints?: number[];
message?: string;
error?: boolean;
}
The commands listed are start
, step
, continue
, and stop
. In short each operation does the following:
- Start: sets the pc to the main label
- Step: runs exactly one instruction from current pc
- Continue: runs as many instructions as there are between current pc and a breakpoint
- Stop: Does nothing
The server is designed to be stateless so it can handle many clients at once.
Contributing
Adding Syscalls / Adding Instructions
You can add to the existing files in the dashmips/instructions
and dashmips/syscalls
directories using the relevant decorator (@
).
If you add instructions or syscalls to a new file in these subdirectories ensure that the new file is named with the pattern: *_instructions.py
or *_syscalls.py
where *
is whatever identifier you choose.
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