Re: [Libjit-developers] ARM backend status

[Thomas Cort]

Hi Chris,

On 2/22/07, Chris Double <address@hidden> wrote:
> How much work is involved in creating/updating the backends?

I did the initial work on the alpha port as part of last year's Google
Summer of Code. During the summer I was able to do enough to get a few
of the libjit tutorial programs working, the ones that do simple
integer math. The most time consuming part was finding detailed
documentation on the architecture (like encoding opcodes, dealing with
certain limitations, etc). I ended up reading a lot of source code.
gcc, binutils, ffcall, llvm, kaffe, and mono are all very useful
resources. If you are already an expert on these kinds of things, then
it may not take very long.

-Thomas