hackerman

An assembler for 16-bit Hack machine language written in Rust.

Instructions

Build and test

$ cargo build
$ cargo test

Run

$ cargo run --release /path/to/input.asm /path/to/output.hack

Example Hack Assembly Program

Note: You can learn about Hack machine language specification from here.

Rect.asm

// This file is part of www.nand2tetris.org
// and the book "The Elements of Computing Systems"
// by Nisan and Schocken, MIT Press.
// File name: projects/06/rect/Rect.asm

// Draws a rectangle at the top-left corner of the screen.
   @0
   D=M
   @INFINITE_LOOP
   D;JLE
   @counter
   M=D
   @SCREEN
   D=A
   @address
   M=D
(LOOP)
   @address
   A=M
   M=-1
   @address
   D=M
   @32
   D=D+A
   @address
   M=D
   @counter
   MD=M-1
   @LOOP
   D;JGT
(INFINITE_LOOP)
   @INFINITE_LOOP
   0;JMP

Rect.hack

0000000000000000
1111110000010000
0000000000010111
1110001100000110
0000000000010000
1110001100001000
0100000000000000
1110110000010000
0000000000010001
1110001100001000
0000000000010001
1111110000100000
1110111010001000
0000000000010001
1111110000010000
0000000000100000
1110000010010000
0000000000010001
1110001100001000
0000000000010000
1111110010011000
0000000000001010
1110001100000001
0000000000010111
1110101010000111

License

MIT