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I try to understand, how the mmo object file format works, which is used for Don Knuth's educational MMIX architecture. I have not bought MMIXware, so I have to guess most of the details from the literate source files of the assembler and simulator.

The object format uses a special ternary search trie for storing the symbol table. At a look at the code, I don't quite understand how it works. Can somebody please explain me some details? Especially about how the tree is serialized.

fuz
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I don't think I can do much better than the explanation found here.

Michael Dorfman
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  • Hm... I asked for a *detailed* explanation, but since you are the only one to answer my question and I don't want my 100 points wasted, you get the bounty. The page you link to makes a better explanation about the codes themself, but I still kind of don't understand how those tries work. – fuz Oct 06 '11 at 19:05