got gp_screen_init working on the assembler side!

Will not be doing most of the course in assembly for now.
Assemblers are missing a bunch of ergonomics not related to to instruction abstraction. Mostly related to offset and data typw width calulations and how to ergonomically utilize those symbols within the assembly syntax. The GNU gas macros are terrible and struct member resolution must be done manually.
There is no utilities for doing stack allocations with alignment in mind either, no way to get info on the system's calling convention for foreign symbols (not even as a diagnostic, etc).

C is a terrible for inline assembly, and gas doesn't support grabbing C struct info from header files (even though they are part of the same toolchain collection).
There is no utilities for doing stack allocations with alignment in mind either, no way to get info on the system's calling convention for foreign symbols (not even as a diagnostic, etc).

Low-level dev really is in a catch 22 of bad tooling.

code/asmdd/dsl.s

@@ -11,10 +11,19 @@
 .macro load_uimm p1, p2
 	lui \p1, \p2
 .endm
+.macro load_half p1, p2
+	lh \p1, \p2
+.endm
 .macro load_word p1, p2
 	lw \p1, \p2
 .endm
 # Store
+.macro store_byte p1, p2
+	sb \p1, \p2
+.endm
+.macro store_half p1, p2
+	sh \p1, \p2
+.endm
 .macro store_word p1, p2
 	sw \p1, \p2
 .endm
@@ -33,14 +42,14 @@
 	add \p1, \p2, \p3
 .endm
 .macro add_u p1, p2, p3
-	add \p1, \p2, \p3
+	addu \p1, \p2, \p3
 .endm
 .macro add_si p1, p2, p3
 	addi \p1, \p2, \p3
 .endm
-.macro add_ui p1, p2, p3
-	addiu \p1, \p2, \p3
-.endm
+ .macro add_ui p1, p2, p3
+ 	addiu \p1, \p2, \p3
+ .endm
 # Subtraction
 .macro sub_s p1, p2, p3
 	sub \p1, \p2, \p3
@@ -49,7 +58,18 @@
 	subu \p1, \p2, \p3
 .endm
 # Multiplication
-
+.macro mult_s p1, p2
+	mult \p1, \p2
+.endm
+.macro mult_u p1, p2
+	multu \p1, \p2
+.endm
+.macro mult_si p1, p2
+	multi \p1, \p2
+.endm
+.macro mult_ui p1, p2
+	multui \p1, \p2
+.endm
 # Division
 .macro div_s p1, p2
 	div \p1, \p2
@@ -122,14 +142,38 @@
 # Subroutine return address when doing a sub
 .set rret_addr, $ra
 
+.macro align8 size
+	(\size + 7) & ~7
+.endm
+
+.macro def_cf_sp_size size
+.set cf_ssize, (\size + 7) & ~7
+.endm
+
+.macro stack_alloc amount
+	add_ui $sp, $sp, - \amount
+.endm
+
+.macro stack_release amount
+	add_ui $sp, $sp, \amount
+.endm
+
 # Data Widths
 .set byte, 1
 .set word, 4
 
-.macro stack_alloc amount
-	add_ui $sp, - \amount
-.endm
+.equ U8,    1
+.equ S8,    1
+.equ U16,   2
+.equ S16,   2
+.equ U32,   4
+.equ S32,   4
+.equ SSIZE, 4
+.equ USIZE, 4
+.equ B8,    S8
+.equ B16,   S16
+.equ B32,   S32
 
-.macro stack_release amount
-	add_ui $sp, \amount
-.endm
+.equ false,         0
+.equ true,          1
+.equ true_overflow, 3