[cup] Remove unnecessary function from codegen, add info to README

2 files changed, 16 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/compiler/README.md b/compiler/README.md
index 0e58d43..54ab576 100644
--- a/compiler/README.md
+++ b/compiler/README.md
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
 # CUP Compiler in CUP
 
-This is the beginnings of a CUP compiler written in itself.
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+This is an implementation of the CUP compiler in itself! As of this writing, it can generate identical assembly code to the compiler written in C.
+
+```bash
+$ make
+gcc -Wall -Wextra -Werror -ggdb3 -o build/cupcc <...>
+$ ./build/cupcc compiler/main.cup -o 1.nasm
+$ make 1.out
+nasm -felf64 1.nasm -o 1.o
+ld 1.o -o 1.out
+$ ./1.out compiler/main.cup -o 2.nasm
+$ diff 1.nasm 2.nasm
+$ # no output, same generated code, yay!
+```
+
diff --git a/compiler/codegen.cup b/compiler/codegen.cup
index c18500f..67a401c 100644
--- a/compiler/codegen.cup
+++ b/compiler/codegen.cup
@@ -29,12 +29,6 @@ fn emit_asm(msg: char*) {
     fwrite(gen_out_file, msg, strlen(msg));
 }
 
-// This is a hack because we don't support manual escaping, and 
-// we need to be able to include '`' in string literal definitions.
-fn emit_asm_char(c: char) {
-    fwrite(gen_out_file, &c, 1);
-}
-
 fn emit_num(num: int) {
     // FIXME: Just support printing negatives directly.
     if (num < 0) {
@@ -486,10 +480,7 @@ fn generate_program(ast: Node*, file: File*) {
     //       cause invalid output and break everything. Maybe just output the
     //       byte values.
     for (let i = 0; i < gen_string_literals.size; ++i) {
-        emit_asm("    global_string_"); emit_num(i); emit_asm(": db ");
-        emit_asm_char('`');
-        emit_asm(gen_string_literals.data[i]);
-        emit_asm_char('`');
-        emit_asm(", 0\n");
+        emit_asm("    global_string_"); emit_num(i);
+        emit_asm(": db \`"); emit_asm(gen_string_literals.data[i]); emit_asm("\`, 0\n");
     }
 }
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