Moved writeInit() out of Constructor. Course instructions say to only write the initialization if processing a directory with multiple .VM files. Passes all unit tests and grader 100/100!

Author: brucesdad13

src/CodeWriter.java

@@ -67,9 +67,6 @@ public class CodeWriter {
         } catch (IOException e) {
             throw new RuntimeException(e); // rethrow the exception as an unchecked exception
         }
-
-        // write the bootstrap code to initialize the VM
-        writeInit(); //TODO: implement commandline argument to disable the bootstrap code
     }
 
     /**

src/VMTranslator.java

@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ public static void main (String[] args) {
             outputFileName = input.getPath() + File.separator + outputFileName; // concatenate the directory name with the output file name
             codewriter = new CodeWriter(outputFileName); // instantiate the CodeWriter class
 
+            // write the bootstrap code to initialize the VM when translating a directory
+            codewriter.writeInit();
+
             File[] files = input.listFiles();
             if (files == null) {
                 System.out.println("No files found in directory: " + inputFileName);
@@ -60,6 +63,9 @@ public static void main (String[] args) {
             outputFileName = inputFileName.substring(0, inputFileName.lastIndexOf('.')) + ".asm"; // replace .vm with .asm
             codewriter = new CodeWriter(outputFileName); // instantiate the CodeWriter class
 
+            // Do not write the bootstrap code when translating a single file. Otherwise online grader will fail.
+            Debug.println("Skipping writing bootstrap code to output file");
+
             Parser parser = new Parser(inputFileName); // unique parser object for each file per API
             parseInput(parser, inputFileName, codewriter); // shared output file
         }