Writing an assembler in Python

[Ed Keith]

> Subject: Re: Writing an assembler in Python
> Giorgos 
> Tzampanakis wrote:
> 
> > I'm implementing a CPU that will run on an FPGA. I
> want to have a
> > (dead) simple assembler that will generate the machine
> code for
> > me.
> 
> Let me suggest an alternative approach: use Python itself
> as the assembler. 
> Call routines in your library to output the code. That way
> you have a 
> language more powerful than any assembler.
> 
> See <http://github.com/ldo/crosscode8> for
> an example.
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Not a bad idea, has anyone tried this for x86 machine code?

   -EdK 

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