Re: [Nasm-devel] Risc-v Port

[Cyrill G. <gor...@gm...>]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 8:19 PM Taylor Holberton
<tay...@gm...> wrote:
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> Hello!
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> I am writing you to give you the pleasure of knowing that you were right in saying that porting nasm to support another architecture would be a lot of work.
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> Too much work.
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> It looks like the assembler just wasn't built from the start to support more than a single architecture. Aside from that, the code is just too difficult to follow. Like many of the older C projects I've seen, there are just too many abbreviations, long winded functions, and larger than preferred files. I will say, though, that the documentation was a little helpful.
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> Thank you for your replies and answering my questions.

Hi! Indeed it is quite a task. And as far as I know we never been
planning to support other archs that's why code structure is so
coupled with x86.