Re: generic assembly language available?

> My guess is that no such generic assembly language exists today.
> Please email me to let me know I'm wrong. Thanks.


Depends on what qualifies as generic assembly language. Most compilers
emit intermediate code that is then processed by a code generator to
create the final assembly code for a specific processor.


If we defined generic assembly language as a human readable
intermediate code, I believe there will still be many languages out
there.


One of our research projects uses a very high-level intermediate code
that is both intuitive for humans to use and can be processed by a
code generator to generate the final assembly code for a particular
processor.


Some more information is available here:


  http://www.sankhya.com/info/products/tools/dttf.html


Thanks,
gopi


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Gopi Kumar Bulusu
Sankhya Technologies Private Limited
http://www.sankhya.com
Tel: +91 891 554 2666
Fax: +91 891 554 2665
[There have been some attempts at standards for assembly language like
IEEE 694-1985 twenty years ago. But I don't see any way to abstract
out the differences in the underlying machines short of putting a code
generator into the assembler which kind of defeats the purpose. -John]

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