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Subject: Re: structured assembler ?
Message-ID: <1695@cwruecmp.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 12-Dec-86 17:06:04 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 12 17:06:04 1986
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Organization: CWRU Dept. of Computer Engineering, Cleveland OH
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In article <359@danews.ATT.COM> lvc@danews.ATT.COM (Larry Cipriani) writes:
>The recent articles on using macro assembler for defining
>control structures reminded me of some work done at Case
>Western Reserve University (CWRU) in my senior year there.
>My memory of it never was strong, but I believe that the
>goal of the research was to explore using 'the usual'
>control structures in HLL's in assembly language.  Does
>anyone know what the result of this research was.
>
>Larry Cipriani	AT&T Network Systems


The "official" description given out by the department reads:

	"This research group is incorporating many modern concepts of
	 programming languages, such as modularity and data abstraction,
	 into machine-specific languages.  These languages provide con-
	 trol over machine resources equal to that possible in traditional
	 assembly languages.  The group is currently implementing a
	 family of languages, called al:0, for many of the possible
	 microprocessors."

I'm not directly connected with the research myself, but I know that the
al:0 implementation for the 68000 is pretty much done.  I think the
next step is to implement for the 80** series.  If I hear more, I'll
post to the net (if anyone is interested, of course).


Chet Ramey

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