Merge pull request 'Add basic meta documentation' (#11) from meta-documentation into main

Documentation efforts are ongoing but this should be good enough for now

CONTRIBUTING.md

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+# Contributing
+
+## Code of Conduct
+Be nice, we are all just doing this to have fun
+
+## General rules
+- All text (names, comments, etc.) has to be in English
+- You are responsible for ensuring that you have the rights for us to use the code you contribute to the project
+- follow the guidelines, for code, documentation, etc.
+- all code has to work with the standard symphony ISA
+
+## Documenting Functions
+All functions in the standard library should follow the following outline:
+```
+; <description>
+; Arguments: <which register contains what argument>
+; Result: <what is the result, and where is it stored>
+; Clobbers: <list of registers that are clobbered>
+fn_label: <;SHOULD BE INLINED>
+    CODE 
+
+```
+
+Functions should be in the appropriate asm file, if you are unsure where functionality fits make a seperate file and ask in the pull request
+Functions that are provided for convenience/reference but should be inlined in production code should be marked with `;SHOULD BE INLINED` after their label

README.md

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-# symphony_stdlib
+# Symphony Stdlib
 
-standard library for symphony
+This is a standard library for symphony.
+It is both intended as a practical toolkit to develop more complex software as well as a teaching resource.
+
+If you just want to use the standard library [[stdlib.asm]] is your main header, include it after your code.
+
+If you are using it as a learning resource have a look at the [teaching folder](teaching).
+
+If you are intersted in contributing have a look at [[CONTRIBUTING.md]]
+
+---
+
+## ABI
+
+### Calling Convention
+| class | registers |
+| ----- | --------- |
+| n.a. | zr |
+| preserved | sp, r8 - r12 |
+| scratch | flags, r1 - r7 |
+| arguments | r1 - r7 |
+| result | r1-r7 |
+| return address | r13 |
+
+Arguments not fitting into the 7 registers should be passed on the top of the stack, meaning they should be the last values pushed before the function call.
+Arguments are passed in reverse order with the stack so:
+lowest address = 1st stack arg
+highest address = last stack arg
+
+Should a function return more values than fit into the 7 registers, the caller has to allocate space on the stack for them, and pass the pointer to that space in the next free argument register.
+This reduces the amount of argument registers to 6 and all arguments above that shall go on the stack, the pointer to the result stack shall **always** be passed in an argument register.
+This register points at the highest available address for results, with the 8th result being stored there, the 9th below it and so on.
+
+### Stack
+Grows downwards from 0xXXFE_0000 (so top of memory -0x1_0000).
+
+### Types
+
+#### String
+Strings are stored in memory as null terminated sequences of bytes encoding ascii characters.
+They should be passed by reference.
+
+#### Array
+Arrays are stored in memory with a reference to them being the tuple (pointer, length) stored in a register pair.
+Array elements may only have a size of 8/16/32 bits

stdlib.asm

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-; ===== INTRODUCTION =====
-; This is supposed to provide some standard library functionality for stock symphony.
-; In particular its supposed to work with an unmodified ISA, that means some choices are not 
-; optimal (RA being stored in flags for example)
-
-; ===== ABI =====
-
-; ----- CALLING CONVENTION -----
-; n.a. zr
-; preserved: sp, r8 - r12
-; scratch: flags, r1 - r7
-; arguments: r1 - r7 (r1 = 1st argument, r6 = 6th arg/stack args, r7 = 7th arg/stack res)
-; result: r1, r2 (r1 = low word, r2 = high word)
-; return address: r13
-
-; ----- STACK -----
-; grows downwards from top of memory
-; arguments are passed in reverse order with the stack so:
-; lowest address = 1st stack arg
-; highest address = last stack arg
-
-; ===== TYPES =====
-
 pub include bit
 pub include imath

teaching/README.md

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+# Teaching
+
+This is a collection of teaching advice regarding the stdlib.
+
+**WIP**