NAME¶
mixasm
—
the MIX virtual machine assembler
SYNOPSIS¶
mixasm |
[-n | --ndebug ]
[-l | --list
list-file] [-o |
--output output-file]
MIX_FILE |
mixasm |
[-h | --help ]
[-u | --usage ]
[-v | --version ] |
DESCRIPTION¶
The mixasm
utility is an assembler for the MIX virtual
machine. The MIX is Donald Knuth's mythical computer, described in the first
volume of The Art of Computer Programming, which is programmed using MIXAL,
the MIX assembly language.
ENVIRONMENT¶
The operation of the mixasm
utility is not affected by
its environment.
EXIT STATUS¶
The mixasm
utility exits 0 on success,
and >0 if an error occurs.
EXAMPLES¶
Compile a MIX assembly language file:
mixasm primes.mixal
Load a MIXAL program and run it in the MIX virtual machine:
mixvm -r hello.mix
STANDARDS¶
No standards documentation was harmed in the process of creating
mixasm
.
AUTHOR¶
The mixasm
utility was developed by
Jose A. Ortega Ruiz, Pieter E. J.
Pareit, Philip E. King,
Michael Scholz and Sergey
Poznyakoff. This manual page was written by Peter
Pentchev ⟨roam@ringlet.net⟩ for the Debian Project.