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mises on May 28, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: An x86 Assembler in 256 LOC (2017)

I might try doing this as a learning project. Can you offer any advice as to what those abstractions are? I'd appreciate some advice to avoid the "going back" part.

chrisseaton on May 28, 2019 [–]

See this real-world assembler for example

https://github.com/oracle/graal/tree/master/compiler/src/org...

Then take a random instruction

https://github.com/oracle/graal/blob/master/compiler/src/org...

See how it has common methods used by other instructions simdPrefix and emitModRM? Those are the abstractions.

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