qhasm is nice, but feels like it needs more support. A maintained repo with an up to date set of architectures and documentation would help a lot. Every time I try to use it, I run in to instructions that are missing, then try to figure out/remember how to add new instructions, then get worried that I might use an crappy operator/name for it and could be embarrassed if I distribute it, then etc etc etc and decide it's too much trouble. (having to look up the syntax for compare/jump usually pushes me over the edge). You can semi-program it with Peters https://cryptojedi.org/programming/maq.shtml which does help with some of the "this repetition is killing me" stuff that is unavoidable with asm.
asm-opt is a workable solution (at least for getting asm in to projects, not for creating the asm), but not optimal. You still have to manually touch up the final file a bit, where it's obviously easier for qhasm/PeachPy/whatever to generate the required mark-up information in the intermediate file based on the source. On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Trevor Perrin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 4:02 AM, Andrew Moon <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Ideally, I think I'd want two different steps: An easy to use >> "programmable assembler assembler" which handles boring stuff like >> register allocation, stack allocation, instruction set validation, >> constant data, stream interleaving (ARM), maybe a cycle/pipeline >> analyzer such as http://pulsar.webshaker.net/ccc/ if I got greedy. I >> guess I'm mostly describing PeachPy, but parsing some kind of source >> file instead of the nasty python code; something that makes writing >> the exact instructions you want as painless/efficient as possible. > > Hi Andrew, > > That makes sense - I'm curious why you didn't bring up qhasm though - > how close is it to meeting those goals? > > Also, I think you work on asm-opt [1], another interesting project in > this space. Is that a potential solution here? > > Trevor > > [1] https://github.com/floodyberry/asm-opt _______________________________________________ Curves mailing list [email protected] https://moderncrypto.org/mailman/listinfo/curves
