Xref: utzoo comp.lang.c++:2200 comp.lang.c:14567 comp.lang.forth:725 comp.lang.fortran:1596 comp.lang.misc:2298 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ihlpb!nevin1 From: nevin1@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Liber) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.forth,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Assembly or .... Message-ID: <9148@ihlpb.ATT.COM> Date: 6 Dec 88 00:14:37 GMT References: <1388@aucs.UUCP> <729@convex.UUCP> <1961@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <1432@zen.co.uk> Reply-To: nevin1@ihlpb.UUCP (55528-Liber,N.J.) Followup-To: comp.lang.misc Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 13 [followups to comp.lang.misc] In article <1432@zen.co.uk> frank@zen.co.uk (Frank Wales) writes: >Suppose you don't have a compiler. Or an assembler. Suppose you're writing >these for a brand new processor -- what do you write them in? I would write a cross-assembler (probably table-driven if I had to do this sort of thing a lot) and an emulator on another machine. If I waited for the actual hardware to come out before I did any of my software, I'd probably be out of business. :-) -- NEVIN ":-)" LIBER AT&T Bell Laboratories nevin1@ihlpb.ATT.COM (312) 979-4751