On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Robert Fraser <[email protected]> wrote: > Bill Baxter wrote: >> >> Don't know if this is of interest to anyone here, but I've seen this >> on another mailing list recently: >> http://code.google.com/p/asmjit/ >> >> C++ library to jit-compile assembly functions. >> It uses function syntax to do it's think like "a.push(ebp);" >> That's pretty cool already, but I was thinking with D you could just >> write the assembly function directly as a string mixin. Or really >> (even in C++ ) you could just parse the darn assembly function at >> runtime. But then you don't find out about your coding errors till >> runtime. With compile time parsing you get to keep the compile time >> check to make sure the asm instructions are at least typo-free. >> >> Also kind of relevant to the other thread here about compiling >> different versions of the same function for different target >> processors. >> >> --bb > > Semi on-topic, does anyone know of a a JIT assembler for D (or a good one > for C it wouldn't take too long to make a header for?.... Of course, > DMD+Windows has linking issues)
Maybe TCC fits the bill for the C? http://bellard.org/tcc/ """ With libtcc, you can use TCC as a backend for dynamic code generation. """ --bb
