[antlr-interest] Jasmin/LLVM/other

[Andreas Stefik]

anyone used these:

http://asm.ow2.org/index.html

for example? Seems like a plausible candidate.

Stefik

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Andreas Stefik <stefika at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> I'm teaching a compiler theory course in ANTLR this fall and am trying
> to decide what kind of code I want the students to output to by the
> end of the course. I have considered something like Jasmin, as it's in
> chapter 9 of Terence's book:
>
> http://jasmin.sourceforge.net/
>
> However, I have some concerns that Jasmin isn't well supported any
> more, with the last source check-in, it seems, around 6 years ago, and
> am considering something like LLVM:
>
> http://llvm.org/
>
> I'm not an expert in either tool, as in the past I've had students
> writing something more akin to a VM, so I'll have a bit of a learning
> curve myself before we get into that part of the course. Folks have
> any recommendations? Does one or the other, or a third alternative,
> have a particularly good/nasty (learning curve | documentation |
> real-world applicability | other issue)? Any other better supported
> Java byte code generators (which might be preferable)?
>
> Stefik
>