Integrating Abstract Machines: The GAMA

GAMA, the General Abstract Machine Assembler, is a programming environment supporting the development and integration of abstract machines. In this work, it was used to integrate an existing implementation of the WAM (our version of the NyWAM [\protect\citeauthoryearNystrøm1985]) with the newly developed LLAMA (chapter 5).

In the following sections, the constituents of the GAMA,

• the memory organization,
  
• hash tables, jump tables, and the module system,
  
• the definition of assembler instructions, and
  
• the assembler and loader
  

• Memory Organization
• Hash Tables, Jump Tables, and the Module System
• Defining Assembler Instructions
• The Assembler and Loader