[LLVMdev] Automatic assembler generation?

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi,

Nikolaos Kavvadias wrote:
> Quoting Richard Pennington <rich at pennware.com>:
> > I've just started looking into code generation and have a newbie
> > question: Is there enough information in the .td files to make a
> > tool to automatically generate an assembler from them? Is a project
> > like that in the works?
> 
> your question is reasonable, but it is probably out of scope for LLVM.
> There have been some architecture description languages (ADLs)
> proposed for specifying a machine description and generating all
> software development tools (for compilation down to object code and
> for simulation) from there. A decent (and realistic) approach would
> aim in generating binutils-specific source files for the basic tools
> (as, ld, objdump at least) since binutils are quite mature.

The work of Norman Ramsey is a reasonable place to start reading up on
this.  http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~nr/

Cheers,


Ralph.