Re: [Tinycc-devel] OSX

[Steve Dekorte]

Thanks for the response.

On Sunday, April 20, 2003, at 03:16 AM, Peter "Firefly" Lund wrote:
> 1) Do you know PPC assembler?

Nope. I did some C64 assembly back in the day. But I don't remember 
much of it.

> 2) Do you know the executable format for OS X?  Does it use ELF?  COFF?

Mach-O, I think. I don't know anything about executable formats, btw.
This sounds difficult...

> 3) Do you know anything about compilers in general?

I've written a VM before: http://www.iolanguage.com/

> 4) Do you know 386+ assembler?

Nope.

> 5) Do you know Unix build systems?

I'm familiar with make.

> ad 3) It would be easier if you knew a little -- like, what is a 
> parser, a
>   lexer,

I've written those before.

>  intermediate code, register allocation, a code generator, etc.

I haven't done that before.

Have you considered using something like GNU Lightning to produce your 
assembly code? It already supports several architectures.

Cheers,
Steve
Io, a small language: http://www.iolanguage.com/