Now that we have a bootstrapped (quasi-) language and (kinda) bootstrapped OS, we're finally starting to think about less error-prone notations.

This week two of us built a notation for x86 addressing modes:

• direct: %ecx
• indirect: *ecx
• indirect with displacement: *(ecx+4)
• indirect with index, scale and displacement: *(ecx + edx<<3 + 4)

Not yet sure this is a good approach. But it'll be fun to playtest.

Here's before and after screenshots for factorial.subx.

Before:

After:

(project link)

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