chip/docs/todos.md

Todos

• How to capture arguments passed to a C program

  ```c
  // argc is the number of args passed
  // argc is always 1 or more
  // argc always has name/path of program as first arg
  int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
  // do stuff with the args
  }
  ```
  

• How to print argument value

  ```
  printf("%s", argv[1]);
  ```
  

• Read a file

  ```c
  // open file in read mode. returns NULL if doesn't exist
  FILE *file_ptr = fread(file_path, "r");
  
  // seeking to end of file.
  // useful telling number of bytes
  fseek(file_ptr, 0, SEEK_END);
  
  // get number of bytes
  int num_of_bytes = ftell(file_ptr);
  
  // seek to begin of file
  fseek(file_ptr, 0, SEEK_SET);
  ```
  

• Store contents of file in memory

• Print file contents

• Print instructions

• Make sure program occupies correct space in chip memory

• Parse individual instructions from binary CHIP-8 file