[exprla-devel] [XPL] Instruction Set Architecture in XML?

[reid_spencer <ras...@re...>]

--- In xpl-dev@y..., "Richard Anthony Hein" <935551@i...> wrote:
I was wondering if it really would be possible to make a schema to 
describe
an ISA in XML and use that during construction of a compiler for XPL, 
that
can map XPL code to the ISA for a specific processor?  Then if 
another ISA
comes along, we can use XSLT to map the ISA to the XPL compiler 
specifically
based on the new ISA's schema?  Any thoughts?  Am I totally off base 
here?
Perhaps this is something like a Virtual Machine, except compiled, 
but we
don't have to compile it.

In addition, couldn't we use the same kind of technique for building 
an XPL
I/O library, which maps perfectly to the instruction sets dealing 
with I/O?
Maybe this is nonsense ... don't worry, just tell me, I have no real 
idea if
it would work - it won't hurt my feelings. :-)

Richard A. Hein
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