[LLVMdev] Questions for new Backend

[Christopher Lamb]

Hi Cedric, Chris,

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 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LC-3). 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).

If you think this would be useful let me know and I can commit back  
to the repo sooner rather than later.

On Apr 27, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Chris Lattner wrote:

> This would be an interesting target to add to mainline llvm.  It seems
> like a great example of a small architecture.  We don't have any 8/16
> bit arch's and nothing that uses ASI's in mainline yet.  It would be
> great to have an example.

--
Christopher Lamb



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