On 5/6/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> yes. and is it easier if you build it into the code generator? the
> designers actually dont give you a choice.
Not easier, but at least you can escape the constraints laid down by
the designer, in that only the code generator implementor needs to be
burdened by them. I'm sure the code generator can be impossibly
difficult to get right, but you gain the ability to optimise as Plan 9
C's compiler suite does. You are hardly likely to do so in a straight
assembler.
++L
assmebler has its place. for a code generator writer it is necessary
even as an intermediate step. for the rest of us it has no use.
with the massively parallel processors with high very IPC like the one
im simulating, assembler is just that. a testing tool.
