Writing an assembler in Python
Ed Keith
e_d_k at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 22 22:47:26 EST 2010
> Subject: Re: Writing an assembler in Python
> Giorgos
> Tzampanakis wrote:
>
> > I'm implementing a CPU that will run on an FPGA. I
> want to have a
> > (dead) simple assembler that will generate the machine
> code for
> > me.
>
> Let me suggest an alternative approach: use Python itself
> as the assembler.
> Call routines in your library to output the code. That way
> you have a
> language more powerful than any assembler.
>
> See <http://github.com/ldo/crosscode8> for
> an example.
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Not a bad idea, has anyone tried this for x86 machine code?
-EdK
Ed Keith
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