[gambit-list] x86 back end
Marc Feeley
feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Fri Jan 28 11:04:55 EST 2011
On 2011-01-27, at 2:42 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 09:42:31PM -0500, Marc Feeley wrote:
>>
>> On 2011-01-26, at 6:38 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>>
>>> Does that x86 back end generate code directly into memory, augmenting
>>> the running system? Or does it generate code into a file that has to be
>>> executed from the OS?
>>
>> The back-end includes an assembler which can output the machine code to a byte vector or a file. In the tests I have done the code was generated into memory and executed without accessing the filesystem.
>
> Great! That's what I was hoping for. I've been tinkering with some
> similar stuff, but without using a nice language to write the code
> generator in (I used C/C++) and was just realising I needed a better
> notation for expressing the code generation patterns -- A better
> notation such as that available in Scheme. I was trying to be
> source-language-agnostic.
>
> Any chance I could have a look at your code, and possibly repurpose it?
I'm currently doing a major refactoring of the code, so this is a bad moment to share the code with you. Can you wait a few weeks?
Marc
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