From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27098 invoked by alias); 11 Dec 2002 01:06:40 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cgen-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cgen-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 27083 invoked from network); 11 Dec 2002 01:06:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO fep01-svc.swip.net) (130.244.199.129) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 11 Dec 2002 01:06:38 -0000 Received: from cockmaster ([212.151.42.54]) by fep01-svc.swip.net with ESMTP id <20021211010636.XHRD10102.fep01-svc.swip.net@cockmaster>; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 02:06:36 +0100 Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:06:00 -0000 From: Johan Rydberg To: Doug Evans Cc: cgen@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: make CGEN a less moving target? Message-ID: <20021211021108.A18098@cockmaster> References: <15862.9492.864974.265990@xris-athlon.transmeta.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <15862.9492.864974.265990@xris-athlon.transmeta.com>; from dje@transmeta.com on Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 18:32:04 +0100 X-SW-Source: 2002-q4/txt/msg00066.txt.bz2 On 2002.12.10 18:32 Doug Evans wrote: : Off the top of my head, there are at least 3 big things still to be done. : : [...] : - I've always wanted to be able to handle the x86 ISA better. : [and ciscy isa's in general] Yes, this is a big *must* I think. : While I can understand someone wanting a parser written in C[/C++], : I always thought forcing people to learn Scheme was a good thing! :-) : Or are there other reasons for wanting to write your own parser? Well, trying to make the CGEN cpu descriptions a less moving target is not a bad thing, even if the reason is not to writing your own parser. My goal, of course, is to write my own parser. My reasons may be strange though. (one of them being me not wanting to learn Scheme right now.) brgds, johan