Re: Empirical data: assembly source vs. HLL source.

adrian@dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk (A Johnstone)
14 Jul 1999 11:49:34 -0400

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From: adrian@dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk (A Johnstone)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 14 Jul 1999 11:49:34 -0400
Organization: Royal Holloway, University of London
References: 99-07-023 99-07-038 99-07-042 99-07-051
Keywords: assembler

: > [There's no reason that assemblers have to have awful syntax. ...


For a contemporary example of an assembler with a more algebraic
style, see the Analog Devices assembler for their ADSP 21xx Digital
Signal Processors. Control structures are not well supported (apart
from DO UNTIL which is an ADSP-21xx hardware primitive) but arithmetic
expressions use operators, rather then prefix opcodes. (Actually there
are some serious infelicities that arise from this approach, but it
has some good ideas).
                                                        Adrian
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