SVML Specification

This page serves as a repository for preliminary specification of a virtual machine code (byte code) format for Virtual Machine implementations of Source.

Overall format

Let's have a few bytes in the beginning to indicate what kind of byte code it is, similar to the JVM, as well as a version number:

• Something similar to JVM's 0xCAFEBABE
• Version number: 2 bytes for minor, 2 bytes for major
• Constant pool count
• Constant pool
• code

See here for comparison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_class_file

Instruction set

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