Thank you, Joe, once again for your help. I have settled into a nice rythym of
virtually tracing through the code by looking at the source (both vm and factor
files), augmented by the Help system in the listener. That should keep me busy
and out of your hair for a couple months (or couple years? :( ). Let me hold
off on asking any more questions until I've had a chance to absorb some of
this. Maybe one little question. Am I correct in suspecting that there is a
high-level Factor word I can execute on demand and trace through the exectution
of via the Factor debugger to get a more dynamic picture of how this all
unfolds? Would it be make-image? Can you just call that directly or is it
only called in the context of a sequence of operations that have already set
other things up?
> Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 21:12:23 -0700
> From: arc...@gmail.com
> To: factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Factor-talk] Any way of making sense of what's in the boot
> image?
>
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Joe Groff <arc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The code in the bootstrap.image module outputs the bootstrap image as
> > a binary blob. You can get a sense for the format of the bootstrap
> > image and its contents by looking at that module.
>
> To clarify, by "output as a binary blob" I mean the code in
> bootstrap.image doesn't have any special help from the VM—it just
> generates a byte array whose contents resemble a Factor image and
> outputs that to a file. It could be transliterated to another language
> and still generate a valid boot image.
>
> -Joe
>
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