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Dæmon S. @[email protected] · 2025-09-02 · 10:35 UTC

Using #GNU as Assembler (not Assembly, but the Assembler) and ld Linker to spit out a working BMP gradient image.

Yeah, you read it right. I'm not using #Assembly to produce an image. I'm, instead, using Assembler directives and macros during compile-time to generate a binary file that happens to be a valid image (BMP) file.

File: tonishing.s (GNU Assembly file)

width = 320
height = 240
area = width * height
_begin:
    .ascii "BM"
    .int fileSize
    .int 0
    .int (_rasterdata - .)

_infoheader:
    .int infoheaderSize
    .int width     # width
    .int height    # height
    .short 1       # planes
    .short 24      # bitcount
    .int 0         # compression
    .int 0         # imagesize
    .int 11811     # xpixperm
    .int 11811     # ypixperm
    .int 0         # colorsused
    .int 0         # colorsimp

infoheaderSize = (. - _infoheader)

_rasterdata:
    n=area+1
    .rept height
        .rept width
            byten=((n*255)/area)&0xFF
            rn=(192*byten)/255
            gn=(64*byten)/255
            bn=(128*byten)/255
            .byte rn,gn,bn
            n=(n-1)
        .endr
    .endr

fileSize = (. - _begin)

File: run.sh (Shellscript)

#!/bin/sh
clear
rm astonishing.bin
rm tonishing.o
as tonishing.s --64 -o tonishing.o
# The pun is _astonishingly_ intended.
strip -R .comment -R .note.gnu.property tonishing.o
ld -n -x -s -N --oformat binary --unique=.note.gnu.property -o astonishing.bin tonishing.o
magick identify -verbose astonishing.bin

I run the whole thing with... wait for it... #nodemon!

That's right: the tool intended for #Nodejs hot-reloading, is being leveraged for GNU Assembly, which is itself being leveraged for compile-time instructions to produce a whole BMP image.

nodemon -e "s sh" --exec ./run.sh

While I have a #Codeberg account, it's under my personal name where I published old projects from #GitHub, so I should do a second account for this pseudonym... but I'm not sure if this is against the Codeberg rules... So I'm posting the whole thing through a Calckey post instead.

#programming #devlog #dev #devhacks #quirks #codegolf #experiments #surreal #absurd

#gnu #assembly #nodemon #nodejs #codeberg #github

Dæmon S. @[email protected] · 2025-09-02 · 10:35 UTC

Using #GNU as Assembler (not Assembly, but the Assembler) and ld Linker to spit out a working BMP gradient image.

Yeah, you read it right. I'm not using #Assembly to produce an image. I'm, instead, using Assembler directives and macros during compile-time to generate a binary file that happens to be a valid image (BMP) file.

File: tonishing.s (GNU Assembly file)

width = 320
height = 240
area = width * height
_begin:
    .ascii "BM"
    .int fileSize
    .int 0
    .int (_rasterdata - .)

_infoheader:
    .int infoheaderSize
    .int width     # width
    .int height    # height
    .short 1       # planes
    .short 24      # bitcount
    .int 0         # compression
    .int 0         # imagesize
    .int 11811     # xpixperm
    .int 11811     # ypixperm
    .int 0         # colorsused
    .int 0         # colorsimp

infoheaderSize = (. - _infoheader)

_rasterdata:
    n=area+1
    .rept height
        .rept width
            byten=((n*255)/area)&0xFF
            rn=(192*byten)/255
            gn=(64*byten)/255
            bn=(128*byten)/255
            .byte rn,gn,bn
            n=(n-1)
        .endr
    .endr

fileSize = (. - _begin)

File: run.sh (Shellscript)

#!/bin/sh
clear
rm astonishing.bin
rm tonishing.o
as tonishing.s --64 -o tonishing.o
# The pun is _astonishingly_ intended.
strip -R .comment -R .note.gnu.property tonishing.o
ld -n -x -s -N --oformat binary --unique=.note.gnu.property -o astonishing.bin tonishing.o
magick identify -verbose astonishing.bin

I run the whole thing with... wait for it... #nodemon!

That's right: the tool intended for #Nodejs hot-reloading, is being leveraged for GNU Assembly, which is itself being leveraged for compile-time instructions to produce a whole BMP image.

nodemon -e "s sh" --exec ./run.sh

While I have a #Codeberg account, it's under my personal name where I published old projects from #GitHub, so I should do a second account for this pseudonym... but I'm not sure if this is against the Codeberg rules... So I'm posting the whole thing through a Calckey post instead.

#programming #devlog #dev #devhacks #quirks #codegolf #experiments #surreal #absurd

#gnu #assembly #nodemon #nodejs #codeberg #github

Dæmon S. @[email protected] · 2025-09-02 · 10:35 UTC

Using #GNU as Assembler (not Assembly, but the Assembler) and ld Linker to spit out a working BMP gradient image.

Yeah, you read it right. I'm not using #Assembly to produce an image. I'm, instead, using Assembler directives and macros during compile-time to generate a binary file that happens to be a valid image (BMP) file.

File: tonishing.s (GNU Assembly file)

width = 320
height = 240
area = width * height
_begin:
    .ascii "BM"
    .int fileSize
    .int 0
    .int (_rasterdata - .)

_infoheader:
    .int infoheaderSize
    .int width     # width
    .int height    # height
    .short 1       # planes
    .short 24      # bitcount
    .int 0         # compression
    .int 0         # imagesize
    .int 11811     # xpixperm
    .int 11811     # ypixperm
    .int 0         # colorsused
    .int 0         # colorsimp

infoheaderSize = (. - _infoheader)

_rasterdata:
    n=area+1
    .rept height
        .rept width
            byten=((n*255)/area)&0xFF
            rn=(192*byten)/255
            gn=(64*byten)/255
            bn=(128*byten)/255
            .byte rn,gn,bn
            n=(n-1)
        .endr
    .endr

fileSize = (. - _begin)

File: run.sh (Shellscript)

#!/bin/sh
clear
rm astonishing.bin
rm tonishing.o
as tonishing.s --64 -o tonishing.o
# The pun is _astonishingly_ intended.
strip -R .comment -R .note.gnu.property tonishing.o
ld -n -x -s -N --oformat binary --unique=.note.gnu.property -o astonishing.bin tonishing.o
magick identify -verbose astonishing.bin

I run the whole thing with... wait for it... #nodemon!

That's right: the tool intended for #Nodejs hot-reloading, is being leveraged for GNU Assembly, which is itself being leveraged for compile-time instructions to produce a whole BMP image.

nodemon -e "s sh" --exec ./run.sh

While I have a #Codeberg account, it's under my personal name where I published old projects from #GitHub, so I should do a second account for this pseudonym... but I'm not sure if this is against the Codeberg rules... So I'm posting the whole thing through a Calckey post instead.

#programming #devlog #dev #devhacks #quirks #codegolf #experiments #surreal #absurd

#gnu #assembly #nodemon #nodejs #codeberg #github

Dæmon S. @[email protected] · 2025-09-02 · 10:35 UTC

Using #GNU as Assembler (not Assembly, but the Assembler) and ld Linker to spit out a working BMP gradient image.

Yeah, you read it right. I'm not using #Assembly to produce an image. I'm, instead, using Assembler directives and macros during compile-time to generate a binary file that happens to be a valid image (BMP) file.

File: tonishing.s (GNU Assembly file)

width = 320
height = 240
area = width * height
_begin:
    .ascii "BM"
    .int fileSize
    .int 0
    .int (_rasterdata - .)

_infoheader:
    .int infoheaderSize
    .int width     # width
    .int height    # height
    .short 1       # planes
    .short 24      # bitcount
    .int 0         # compression
    .int 0         # imagesize
    .int 11811     # xpixperm
    .int 11811     # ypixperm
    .int 0         # colorsused
    .int 0         # colorsimp

infoheaderSize = (. - _infoheader)

_rasterdata:
    n=area+1
    .rept height
        .rept width
            byten=((n*255)/area)&0xFF
            rn=(192*byten)/255
            gn=(64*byten)/255
            bn=(128*byten)/255
            .byte rn,gn,bn
            n=(n-1)
        .endr
    .endr

fileSize = (. - _begin)

File: run.sh (Shellscript)

#!/bin/sh
clear
rm astonishing.bin
rm tonishing.o
as tonishing.s --64 -o tonishing.o
# The pun is _astonishingly_ intended.
strip -R .comment -R .note.gnu.property tonishing.o
ld -n -x -s -N --oformat binary --unique=.note.gnu.property -o astonishing.bin tonishing.o
magick identify -verbose astonishing.bin

I run the whole thing with... wait for it... #nodemon!

That's right: the tool intended for #Nodejs hot-reloading, is being leveraged for GNU Assembly, which is itself being leveraged for compile-time instructions to produce a whole BMP image.

nodemon -e "s sh" --exec ./run.sh

While I have a #Codeberg account, it's under my personal name where I published old projects from #GitHub, so I should do a second account for this pseudonym... but I'm not sure if this is against the Codeberg rules... So I'm posting the whole thing through a Calckey post instead.

#programming #devlog #dev #devhacks #quirks #codegolf #experiments #surreal #absurd

#absurd #surreal #experiments #codegolf #quirks #devhacks

Dæmon S. @[email protected] · 2025-09-02 · 10:35 UTC

Using #GNU as Assembler (not Assembly, but the Assembler) and ld Linker to spit out a working BMP gradient image.

Yeah, you read it right. I'm not using #Assembly to produce an image. I'm, instead, using Assembler directives and macros during compile-time to generate a binary file that happens to be a valid image (BMP) file.

File: tonishing.s (GNU Assembly file)

width = 320
height = 240
area = width * height
_begin:
    .ascii "BM"
    .int fileSize
    .int 0
    .int (_rasterdata - .)

_infoheader:
    .int infoheaderSize
    .int width     # width
    .int height    # height
    .short 1       # planes
    .short 24      # bitcount
    .int 0         # compression
    .int 0         # imagesize
    .int 11811     # xpixperm
    .int 11811     # ypixperm
    .int 0         # colorsused
    .int 0         # colorsimp

infoheaderSize = (. - _infoheader)

_rasterdata:
    n=area+1
    .rept height
        .rept width
            byten=((n*255)/area)&0xFF
            rn=(192*byten)/255
            gn=(64*byten)/255
            bn=(128*byten)/255
            .byte rn,gn,bn
            n=(n-1)
        .endr
    .endr

fileSize = (. - _begin)

File: run.sh (Shellscript)

#!/bin/sh
clear
rm astonishing.bin
rm tonishing.o
as tonishing.s --64 -o tonishing.o
# The pun is _astonishingly_ intended.
strip -R .comment -R .note.gnu.property tonishing.o
ld -n -x -s -N --oformat binary --unique=.note.gnu.property -o astonishing.bin tonishing.o
magick identify -verbose astonishing.bin

I run the whole thing with... wait for it... #nodemon!

That's right: the tool intended for #Nodejs hot-reloading, is being leveraged for GNU Assembly, which is itself being leveraged for compile-time instructions to produce a whole BMP image.

nodemon -e "s sh" --exec ./run.sh

While I have a #Codeberg account, it's under my personal name where I published old projects from #GitHub, so I should do a second account for this pseudonym... but I'm not sure if this is against the Codeberg rules... So I'm posting the whole thing through a Calckey post instead.

#programming #devlog #dev #devhacks #quirks #codegolf #experiments #surreal #absurd

#gnu #assembly #nodemon #nodejs #codeberg #github