On 12/14/20, Vanessa McHale
Have any of you written compilers or backends that generate assembly? Lots of projects seem to "end" at LLVM.
It's very rough work yet, but a low-level backend IR has been a ongoing project of mine for a while now: https://github.com/strake/esil.hs I am designing a programming language, but LLVM was unfit for my purposes as i need both dynamically-sized stack-allocated values and arbitrary control flow.
I have a project (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/kempe) where I used something like maximal munch and a linear register allocator, but I was wondering if there was anything more sophisticated out there!
I also have a graph-coloring register allocator: https://hub.darcs.net/strake/reg-alloc-graph-color.hs Unfortunately the docs just now are poor, at best. If this seems potentially useful to you, let me know, so i can prioritize that! (Esil uses the register allocator, but thru another interface which is a compiler framework of mine.)