From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org>
Cc: nkavv@physics.auth.gr, linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Backend projects for Sparse
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:45:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <474DC549.2030000@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <70318cbf0711281053k6dc561c5ge540ccd99a6a922e@mail.gmail.com>
Christopher Li wrote:
> There is already compile-i386.c in the project. But it is not a good
> place to start.
Agreed. That was generating code directly from the parse tree, rather
than from the linearized form.
> It does not use the linearized byte code at all. The compile.c written by Linus
> is a better place to start.
test-linearize.c maybe? compile.c is part of compile-i386.
>> 5) Is there any documentation covering the API and linked tools to the sparse
>> library (something more than the man pages)?
>
> Not that I know of. If you need that much detail to perform the back end work,
> you have to read some source code. I think you can ignore a lot of the parser
> details and focus on the linearized byte code.
Agreed.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-28 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-28 9:53 Backend projects for Sparse nkavv
2007-11-28 18:53 ` Christopher Li
2007-11-28 19:00 ` Nikolaos Kavvadias
2007-11-28 19:25 ` Christopher Li
2007-11-29 9:09 ` nkavv
2007-11-28 19:45 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-11-28 20:27 ` Christopher Li
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