Re: Retargettable assembler?

Mr Zandor wrote:


> I've written a VM's for a machine code a friend of mine thought up,
> but my shoddy, home-made table assembler can't compile RISC code.
> Does anybody know where I can get a versatile retargetable assembler?


The GNU assembler is a (somewhat heavyweight) solution to your problem.


The machine-specific part is essentially infinitely customizable
(since it hands off all actual instruction lines to user-defined code
to parse and analyze), but it handles assembler directives, object
file formats (ELF, COFF, ...), debug information formats (Stabs, ...)
etc. in a sort of portable fashion (if I may gloss over some bumps).


There are dozens of machine-specific files included; you can look in them
for inspiration on writing your own machine-specific support.


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