Re: generic assembly language available?

hi Gopi,


I think what you have is the closest to what I am looking for
(except it is not freeware), anyway, i am not sure whether the
idea of having a generic low-level language (much much lower
than C) is possible at all or not.


chok


"Gopi Bulusu" <gopi@sankhya.com> wrote in message
> > 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
[See if you can find info about LIL, a little low level implementation
language built at Bell Labs in the 1970s. It worked fine, but they
found that anything it could do, C could do just as well so there was
no point. -John]

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