This Week in WebAssembly III

Binaryen

binaryen repository

• [2016-08-26 02:13:00 +0800] Logan Chien: Fix asm2wasm dead lock caused by empty modules.

• [2016-08-26 11:29:18 -0700] Heejin Ahn: Asm.js-style setjmp/longjmp support for wasm (#681)

Design

design repository

• [2016-08-22 23:03:37 -0700] gahaas: Make NaN handling more consistent. (#772)

• [2016-08-23 03:56:59 -0700] George Kuan: Global section (#771)

• [2016-08-23 16:46:35 +0200] titzer: Make name section a user-string section.

• [2016-08-24 16:56:24 +0200] titzer: Use positive section code byte

• [2016-08-25 12:46:01 +0200] titzer: Remove specification of name strings for unknown sections

• [2016-08-29 11:31:41 -0500] Luke Wagner: Add WebAssembly.validate (#752)

Spec

spec repository

The most important "change" is that a PR for the stack machine semantics was opened in PR #323, but still not merged.

• [2016-08-23 19:22:20 +0200] Andreas Rossberg: Tweak S-expr grammar

• [2016-08-24 14:12:15 +0200] Andreas Rossberg: Eliminate second loop label

• [2016-08-24 15:15:10 +0200] Andreas Rossberg: Simplify memop

• [2016-08-24 16:54:46 +0200] Andreas Rossberg: Rename expressions to instructions

• [2016-08-24 17:10:52 +0200] Andreas Rossberg: Added todos

• [2016-08-30 11:57:55 +0200] rossberg-chromium: Symmetrise import/export syntax

Website

webassembly.github.io repository

• [2016-08-22 16:18:15 -0700] Rebecca Bettencourt: Add note about which system the instructions are for, instructions for cmake on OS X, and remove leading whitespace on pre tags.

Resources

• How to start using WebAssembly today