aWASMe

A WASM interpreter with dual modes - one as a browser-based VM and one as a simulator for WASM. It uses a structured parsing and execution pipeline in C++ & emscripten, to load binary modules, validate and decode instructions, and simulate a full virtual machine directly in the browser.

Mentors

• Selvaganesh Arunmozhi
• Sarah Kazi
• Nirupama Jayaraman

Mentees

• Aston Venol D'Souza
• Samyuktha Ramesh Babu
• Shashidharan VS
• Chitra Likith Kumar

Dependencies

• Make
• C++20
• Emscripten compiler (emcc)

Build and run

For engine: make engine && ./engine.exe For parser: make parser && ./parser.exe "<path_to_wasm_file>"

Future improvements

• Supporting tables, reference types
• Adding support for exception handling instructions
• Supporting SIMD vector instructions
• Complete the simulator, which will allow users to step through the code as well as view WASM's various stacks and linear memory.