<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Apr 27, 2008, at 1:43 PM, Christopher Lamb wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> <div>Hi Cedric, Chris,</div><div><br></div><div>I had a similar thought, namely that having a simple 16/8-bit arch in clang+LLVM would be a great instructional tool. I'm currently whipping up a quick back end for the 16-bit LC-3 instructional architecture (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LC-3">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LC-3</a>). I thought it'd be a good example because it is both extremely simple, but also quite functionally complete, and it has free assemblers and simulators available (not to mention that it's used to teach basic architecture and tools at a number of universities).</div><div><br></div><div>If you think this would be useful let me know and I can commit back to the repo sooner rather than later.</div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>That would be very nifty.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>-Chris</div></body></html>