Asmjit - JIT asm compiler (for C++)
Bill Baxter
wbaxter at gmail.com
Tue Feb 3 00:36:25 PST 2009
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Robert Fraser
<fraserofthenight at gmail.com> 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
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