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Re: Where to post ARM/Thumb Assembly Questions?

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On 6/20/2011 1:05 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is anyone aware of a group for ARM assembly? I found 1 hit on Google
> (http://groups.google.com/group/armprogram), but its low activity and
> full of porn.
>

alt.lang.asm?...
far more common there is x86/x86-64 ASM though.


kind of funny as I have recently been starting to familiarize myself 
with ARM. not much luck at the moment is nearly everything related to 
the architecture seems to be being a PITA.

for a test I am wanting to port my VM project over to it.

anything to do with Android is a PITA as well, as-is trying to find some 
way to get a more full-fledged distro (with gcc and a usable 
command-line) working in an emulator (say, qemu).

that or find a "nice" way to streamline the edit/compile/link cycle for 
native code targeting Android (for code with a console-style interface...).


for my uses, I need to implement an assembler (dynamic/in-process) for 
it (that or my project will be stuck with the limitations of plain C).

not sure the best way to approach representing instruction encodings (in 
the assembler), as most of the listings in the manual are bit-oriented 
block diagrams (bit-twiddly in a 32-bit word).

whereas my existing assembler was more designed for x86 and similar, 
which is basically handled via character-based command-strings. it looks 
like instructions vaguely follow a pattern, and will probably need 
brute-force assigning a letter to each pattern and using a number for 
the encoded bits or similar (or, a letter for the pattern and a 8-digit 
hex-block for any pre-set bits).

"KEA000000/ia" to represent an unconditional jump or similar.

basically, I am looking at extending it to also handle ARM (in addition 
to x86).


grr...

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Where to post ARM/Thumb Assembly Questions? Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2011-06-20 01:05 -0700
  Re: Where to post ARM/Thumb Assembly Questions? Jongware <jongware@no-spam.plz> - 2011-06-20 15:45 +0200
  Re: Where to post ARM/Thumb Assembly Questions? Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> - 2011-06-21 15:05 +0300
  Re: Where to post ARM/Thumb Assembly Questions? tea bone stake <nospam@nospam.com> - 2011-06-23 20:58 +0000
    Re: Where to post ARM/Thumb Assembly Questions? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-06-24 09:09 +1200
    Re: Where to post ARM/Thumb Assembly Questions? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-06-23 14:15 -0700
    Re: Where to post ARM/Thumb Assembly Questions? Sherm Pendley <sherm.pendley@gmail.com> - 2011-06-23 17:30 -0400
      Re: Where to post ARM/Thumb Assembly Questions? Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com> - 2011-06-23 17:42 -0500
  Re: Where to post ARM/Thumb Assembly Questions? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-06 11:08 -0700

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