Rust-in-action

This is a practice repository which contains the code written while reading/learning chapters 5 to 12 from the book 'Rust in Action' by Timothy Samuel McNamara.

Chapter 5

Teaches the reader about

• Bit patterns
• Endian-ness
• Representing and dissecting decimal/floating point numbers using exponents and mantissa

Practice

Implementing a CPU emulator in multiple steps to establish that functions are also data

• Iteration 1 : Implementing an adder
• Iteration 2 : Looping the adder to make a multiplier, showing us an instruction can be repeated multiple times
• Iteration 3 : Implementing a stack to call and return addresses using a stack and stack pointer to execute multiple instructions

Chapter 6

Teaches the reader about memory in Rust

• Stack
• Heap
• Dyanamic allocator
• Virtual memory