[antlr-interest] Jasmin/LLVM/other

[Jim Idle]

ASM is easily the best .class generator in my mind. LLVM is very
mainstream too and I would recommend either of these as being useful after
you are a student on top.

Jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org [mailto:antlr-interest-
> bounces at antlr.org] On Behalf Of Andreas Stefik
> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 1:42 PM
> To: antlr-interest at antlr.org
> Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] Jasmin/LLVM/other
>
> 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
> >
>
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