trapcc

Computing with traps (by jbangert)

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  • trapcc - computing with traps
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Mar 2024
  • Subtraction Is Functionally Complete
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Oct 2023
    A variation of this has been done using Intel MMU fault handling. Behold: https://github.com/jbangert/trapcc

    This is a proof by construction that the Intel MMU's fault handling mechanism is Turing complete. We have constructed an assembler that translates 'Move, Branch if Zero, Decrement' instructions to C source that sets up various processor control tables. After this code has executed, the CPU computes by attempting to fault without ever executing a single instruction. Optionally, the assembler can also generate X86 instructions that will display variables in the VGA frame buffer and will cause control to be transferred between the native (display) instructions and 'weird machine' trap instructions.

  • Building Processors from the Ground Up
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Oct 2023
    This thread is about hacking something up and not building a product.

    For example imagine somebody shares the "one instruction set computer" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-instruction_set_computer) project or x86 MMU being turing complete (https://github.com/jbangert/trapcc). Both are clearly just interesting hacks (which may have some interesting implications about security and what does it mean to be "code" etc) and certainly are not intended to be practical products

  • x86 is Turing-complete with no registers
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Jan 2023
    fwiw, linked to from the article:

    > As others have shown, we can compute using alphanumeric machine code[1] or English sentences[2], using only the mov instruction[3], or using the MMU[4] as it handles a never-ending double-fault. Here is my contribution to this genre of Turing tarpit: x86 is Turing-complete with no registers.

    [1] http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=57&id=15#article

    [2] http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~sam/ccs243-mason.pdf

    [3] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sd601/papers/mov.pdf

    [4] https://github.com/jbangert/trapcc

  • Trapcc – Computing with Traps
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Sep 2022
  • Insane x86 Turing Machine that does not run any x86 instructions
    3 projects | /r/programming | 20 Sep 2022
    I think trapcc is what you're thinking about maybe?
  • So, what's your favourite programming language?
    2 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 28 Aug 2021
    MMU gang.
  • The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme
    5 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 11 Apr 2021
    page fault handling is Turing complete
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jbangert/trapcc is an open source project licensed under BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of trapcc is C.


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