<Guest77>
Is this the right place to ask Mistral questions or am I in the wrong place?
<lofty>
Guest77: I mean, there's #prjmistral
<lofty>
but I'm happy to answer Mistral questions here too
<Guest77>
I think I'm mostly just trying to understand the nature of .bt format generated by its decompile step, and if there's a better way to read it than examining it in a text editor
<lofty>
...there's no way of looking at a bitstream that looks "nice" because they're intrinsically messy things :p
<Guest77>
that's kind of what I figured, I've mostly managed to stay on 'compiling' side of things rather than the 'decompiling' side of things
<Guest77>
but that .bt format *is* purely an invention of the mistral project and not shared by anything else?
<lofty>
yes
<Guest77>
that's what I wanted to know, thanks!
<lofty>
other projects sometimes have fasm, e.g. project x-ray
<lofty>
but .bt is what the mistral tooling "speaks"
<lofty>
and, well, it doesn't make much sense IMO to try to share it because there's nobody to share it with
<lofty>
quartus doesn't have an equivalent, for example
<lofty>
not something as low-level as this, anyway.
<Guest77>
that's about what I expected, I'm counting myself lucky that something like Mistral exists at all
<lofty>
I won't ask what you're using it for
<Guest77>
I think I'm okay for now, I'll come back if I have more questions. Thanks for the help!