Best tools for writing an assembler?

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Hello,

I want to write an assembler for my own processor architecture. It
would be of middle complexity.  What language/tools would you use?
I'm thinking of perl or C++, maybe with some (which?) program library.
What about flex/bison, are those good for this, how hard are they to
use?  Once I have written a very simple assembler in C++, but now I
want more functions and proper error messages as well.  Thank you for
your help.
[An assembler isn't very different from any other compiler except
that the code generator is a lot simpler.  Flex and bison are
well suited for most assembler syntax, write your code in C or C++
as you prefer.  (You can probably guess which book I'd recommend.)
There are some reasonable parser tools for Java, Perl, and python
now which could make sense if you don't need your assembler to run
extremely fast. -John]

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Best tools for writing an assembler? tpphysik@gmail.com - 2014-02-18 16:04 -0800
  Re: Best tools for writing an assembler? "C. Bergström" <cbergstrom@pathscale.com> - 2014-02-19 11:14 +0700
  Re: Best tools for writing an assembler? glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-02-19 04:25 +0000
  Re: Best tools for writing an assembler? Ivan Godard <ivan@ootbcomp.com> - 2014-02-18 23:23 -0800
    Re: Best tools for writing an assembler? Robert A Duff <bobduff@TheWorld.com> - 2014-02-19 18:20 -0500
      Re: Best tools for writing an assembler? Sébastien Fricker <sebastien.fricker@gmail.com> - 2014-02-21 12:00 +0100
      Re: Best tools for writing an assembler? "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-02-22 00:28 +0000
      Re: Best tools for writing an assembler? noitalmost <noitalmost@cox.net> - 2014-02-23 11:22 -0500
        Re: Best tools for writing an assembler? Sébastien Fricker <sebastien.fricker@gmail.com> - 2014-02-24 07:32 +0100
          Re: Best tools for writing an assembler? Louis Krupp <lkrupp@pssw.com> - 2014-02-24 15:39 -0700
          Re: Best tools for writing an assembler? Ivan Godard <ivan@ootbcomp.com> - 2014-02-24 15:04 -0800
            Re: Best tools for writing an assembler? rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) - 2014-02-25 13:00 +0000
          Re: Best tools for writing an assembler? Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com> - 2014-02-25 04:09 +0100
        Re: Best tools for writing an assembler? "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2014-02-24 23:18 +0000
        Re: Best tools for writing an assembler? noitalmost <noitalmost@cox.net> - 2014-02-27 18:11 -0500
          Re: Best tools for writing an assembler? George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2014-03-01 13:09 -0500
            Re: Best tools for writing an assembler? federation2005@netzero.com - 2014-03-26 17:57 -0700
              Re: Best tools for writing an assembler? federation2005@netzero.com - 2014-04-13 12:24 -0700
  Re: Best tools for writing an assembler? Sébastien Fricker <sebastien.fricker@gmail.com> - 2014-02-19 09:59 +0100
    Re: Best tools for writing an assembler? Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> - 2014-02-19 18:27 -0500
  Re: Best tools for writing an assembler? Patrik Túri <tpphysik@gmail.com> - 2014-02-20 17:15 -0800
    Re: Best tools for writing an assembler? Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com> - 2014-02-21 12:09 +0100
      Re: Best tools for writing an assembler? glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-02-24 20:42 +0000
        Re: Best tools for writing an assembler? Ivan Godard <ivan@ootbcomp.com> - 2014-02-24 15:13 -0800
        Re: Best tools for writing an assembler? hu47121@usenet.kitty.sub.org (Hannah) - 2014-02-25 00:43 +0000
          Re: Best tools for writing an assembler? Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2014-02-27 14:14 -0500
        Re: Best tools for writing an assembler? Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com> - 2014-02-25 04:23 +0100
    Re: Best tools for writing an assembler? glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-02-24 20:35 +0000

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