From: paul.winalski@gmail.com (Paul Winalski)
Subject: [TUHS] pdp-11 assembly as a hll?
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 11:03:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABH=_VRbiuUBVuNHCPq2WjQkU3R5H+q8JCa0XySDDzvf59hP0Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfrR2WYcS2Etyx_Z-nH-E=8_caUwPPce7TZ65CbRCSY4TA@mail.gmail.com>
On 2/13/18, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> I don't suppose anybody has written a pdp-11 assembler to C translator...
> My google fu is insufficient for the day.
>
Or you could write a compiler that translates PDP-11 assembler to LLVM
intermediate language. That was the technique used to port VMS to the
DEC Alpha and Intel Itanium. A lot of VMS was in VAX assembler, so
DEC's compiler group wrote a compiler that took in VAX assembler and
generated IL for the GEM back end used by all of DEC's Alpha and
Itanium compilers.
-Paul W.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-14 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-14 1:08 Warner Losh
2018-02-14 3:18 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-02-14 5:12 ` Warner Losh
2018-02-14 6:43 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-02-14 7:27 ` Bakul Shah
2018-02-14 7:28 ` Ian Zimmerman
2018-02-14 16:03 ` Paul Winalski [this message]
2018-02-14 16:56 ` Warner Losh
2018-02-14 8:41 Paul Ruizendaal
2018-02-14 13:15 Noel Chiappa
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