decided it'd be a neat project to write my own instead - have never really toyed around with sleigh, and it seems like a curious ISA. turns out both are surprisingly neat to work with!

there's hardly any documentation publicly, but it turns out modern GNU binutils can handle FLIX quite easily, so started referencing that (and the above repo in thread). thankfully, this doesn't use what seems to be true VLIW - they're all fixed 64-bit 🙏

the actual encoding itself isn't awful: one executs three slots, which embed 24 -> 20 -> 16 bit instructions with varying levels of opcode availability (seemingly over load/stores and ALU ops). the second has two slots, 24 -> 36-bit (for wide conditional branches!)

perhaps that's a poor explanation because I'm running on fumes at the moment, but just happy it works lol