A minimalist Lisp implementation in x86_64 assembly. Note that most of the code is in Dutch, since it was a personal project.
This is a minimalist Lisp implementation, entirely written within x86_64 assembly language and in the Lisp itself. The project was inspired by (and some parts of the implementation are based on) Jones Forth, a Forth implementation also written entirely in (32 bits) x86 assembly language, and a nice example of literate programming.
The basic language is implemented in lisp.nasm. This language is extended using its own primitives in the "standard library" file swail.lisp to a more complete Lisp dialect. The Makefile includes the following commands:
make# To make the executable,lisp-nasmmake doe# To run this executable, together with the standard library, giving a prompt.make kever# To run the executable in GDB, together with useful command's for debugging (seelisp_gdb.py)make proef# To run a few test cases.
- A computer with x86_64 processor running Linux.
- A recent version of NASM, the Netwide Assembler, for example version 2.13.
- A linker, for example the
ldthat is included with GCC. - (GNU) Make
- Optionally: GDB, the GNU debugger, with Python3 support, for debugging.
- Minimalism
- Built on x86_64 assembly
- Dynamical scoping
- Garbage collection
- Configurable primitives