dried up the test code

test/test_crystal.rb

@@ -2,37 +2,37 @@ require_relative 'helper'
 require "asm/arm/code_generator"
 
 # try  to test that the generation of basic instructions works
-class TestAsm < MiniTest::Test
+# one instruction at a time, reverse testing from objdump --demangle -Sfghxp
+# tests are named as per assembler code, ie test_mov testing mov instruction
+
+class TestArmAsm < MiniTest::Test
+  # need a code generator, for arm 
   def setup
     @generator = Asm::Arm::CodeGenerator.new
   end
 
+  # code is what the generator spits out, at least one instruction worth (.first)
+  # the op code is wat was witten as assembler in the first place and the binary result
+  # is reversed and in 4 bytes as ruby can only do 31 bits and so we can't test with just one int (?)
+  def assert_code code , op , should
+    assert_equal op ,  code.opcode
+    binary = @generator.assemble
+    assert_equal 4 , binary.length
+    index = 0
+    binary.each_byte do |byte |
+      assert_equal should[index] , byte 
+      index += 1
+    end
+  end
   def test_mov
-    m = @generator.instance_eval { mov r0, 5 }.first
-    assert_equal :mov ,  m.opcode
-    assert ! m.affect_status #no s at the end, silly for mov anyway
-    binary = @generator.assemble
-    assert_equal 4 , binary.length
-    should = [0x05,0x00,0xa0,0xe3]
-    index = 0
-    binary.each_byte do |byte |
-      assert_equal should[index] , byte 
-      index += 1
+    code = @generator.instance_eval { mov r0, 5 }.first
+    assert_code code , :mov , [0x05,0x00,0xa0,0xe3]
+    assert ! code.affect_status #no s at the end, silly for mov anyway
   end
-  end
-
   def test_sub
-    m = @generator.instance_eval { subs r2, r0, 1 }.first
-    assert_equal :sub ,  m.opcode
-    assert m.affect_status #the s at the end
-    binary = @generator.assemble
-    assert_equal 4 , binary.length
-    should = [0x01,0x20,0x50,0xe2]
-    index = 0
-    binary.each_byte do |byte |
-      assert_equal should[index] , byte 
-      index += 1
-    end
+    code = @generator.instance_eval { subs r2, r0, 1 }.first
+    assert_code code, :sub ,  [0x01,0x20,0x50,0xe2]
+    assert code.affect_status #the s at the end
   end
 
   def saved_other