Alis Byte Code (Text)

Statements

A statement is a single line. A statement in Alis ByteCode can be:

• Empty or whitespace
• Label
• Instruction + optional args
• Label + Instruction + optional args

Instructions

Instructions are written as instructionName followed by any argument(s), separeted by whitespace. The instructionName is case sensitive.

instructionName		argument		argument

Labels

Label names are case sensitive as well.

SomeLabel:
			SomeInstruction
			MoreInstructions
OtherLabel: AnotherInstruction		withSomeArg		andAnotherArg		# comment
			Jump SomeLabel

Whitespace

Whitespace can be either tab(s) or space(s), and is ignored. At least 1 character of whitespace is necessary between labels, instruction names, and arguments.

Instruction Arguments

An instruction can have any number of arguments. These can be of following types:

• Integer - signed integer (ptrdiff_t)
• Double - a float
• Boolean - true (a non zero ubyte), or false (0)
• String - a string, enclosed between "
• Label - position in code. Written as @LabelName.

Strings

These are written like: "someString".

The back-slash character can be used to include characters like " or tab by doing: "tab: \t, quotationMark: \""

Characters

These are written like: 'c'.

Hexadecimal Integer

These are read as of type Integer, and are written like: 0xFFF, where FFF is the number.

Binary Integer

Integer can be written in binary as: 0b1111, where 1111 is the number.

Comments

Anything following a # (including the #) are considered comments and are ignored:

	#comment
	someInstruction someArgument # this is a comment