Re: Need help on how to port GAS

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Peter, Magnus,

> We're two students at Mälardalens University in Sweden who are
> trying to port gas, ld & gdb to a new architecture.

You might wish to look at the CGEN project which allows a lot of the
owrk involved in generating the assembler, disassembler and simulator
to be done automatically:

        http://sources.redhat.com/cgen/

> We would appreciate any additional information on how a port is done
> or if you know of people who have done a porting.

Most people work by examining the already existing ports and copying
what has been done before.  So find a port of an architecture close to
your own and then look to see what was done for that port.

Cheers
        Nick

PS.  Don't forget to create a GAS testsuite for your port - it really
helps with debugging the assembler and disassembler.