GlossaryΒΆ
- binary
- Binary is the final piece in the process
- bootloader
- Bootloader, for purposes of this documentation, means virtually any piece of bytecode. It gains its “bootloader-like” property by the fact that it’s the first piece of code that’s executed by CPU core.
- EVT
- Exception Vector Table
- HDT
- Hardware Description Table
- linker
Linker takes an object file (or more, or even an archive), and creates a binary by merging relevant sections and by replacing symbolic references with final offsets.
ld provides this functionality.
- machine
- For a long time, Ducky existed only as an software simulator. But, since I got that great idea about getting me a simple FPGA and learn VHDL, this may no longer be true. So, when I write about machine, I mean both software simulator (VM) and hardware materialization of Ducky SoC.
- object file
- Object file is a file containing compiled code in a form of distinct sections of instructions, data and other necessary resources. Despite sharing their format with binary file, object files are usualy not executable because pretty much no instructions that address memory contain correct offsets, and refer to the locations using symbols. Final offsets are calculated and fixed by a linker.
- VM
- Virtual Machine. For a long time, the only existing Ducky implementation.