MIXASM(1)

📦 version 1.3.1, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 MIXASM(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the mixasm page from the General Commands Manual — the ✨ MIX virtual machine assembler ✨. she's niche, she's iconic, she turns your little assembly dreams into actual runnable MIX code, and we're gonna go through every single thing together. no skipping, no skimming, periodt. 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

mixasm — the MIX virtual machine assembler. that's her. that's the whole vibe. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

mixasm [-n | --ndebug] [-l | --list list-file]
       [-o | --output output-file] MIX_FILE
mixasm [-h | --help] [-u | --usage] [-v | --version]

so you got two modes, bestie: one where you actually assemble a file (that's the MIX_FILE one, plus all the little flag situations), and one where you're just asking her for help/usage/version info and she's like "say less." 🫶

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

The mixasm utility is an assembler for the MIX virtual machine. and what even is the MIX, you ask? okay so, the MIX is Donald Knuth's mythical computer — like, literally a fictional computer, a legend, the blueprint — described in the first volume of The Art of Computer Programming. 📚👑

and how do you program this mythical beast? with MIXAL, the MIX assembly language. that's the whole thing. she assembles MIXAL. that's the job. slay. 🔥

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

The operation of the mixasm utility is not affected by its environment.

translation: she does not care what your shell is going through. no environment variables are doing anything to her. she's unbothered, moisturized, in her lane. 💅✨

🎀 EXIT STATUS 🎀

The mixasm utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

that's it. zero means we ate. anything above zero means something went sideways and she's telling you about it. 😭

🦋 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

see? assemble with mixasm, then run it in mixvm. the little pipeline of it all. so cute. 🥹

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

go read those too, iykyk. they're the rest of the family. 👑

💀 STANDARDS 💀

No standards documentation was harmed in the process of creating mixasm.

not one document. not one. we are eco-friendly over here. 🌱💖

👑 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.

absolute legends, every single one. we stan. 🫶🌸

and that's the page, bestie! this was Debian, dated February 18, 2011 — yeah she's been iconic for a minute — and honestly? still serving. 💅✨🦋 no cap.

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