The New Jersey Machine-Code Toolkit

The New Jersey Machine-Code Toolkit (1995)

by Norman Ramsey , Mary F. Fernandez

Venue:	IN PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1995 USENIX TECHNICAL CONFERENCE
Citations:	48 - 8 self

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Datum	Value	Source
TITLE	The New Jersey Machine-Code Toolkit	INFERENCE
AUTHOR NAME	Norman Ramsey	user correction
AUTHOR AFFIL	Bell Communications Research	user correction
AUTHOR NAME	Mary F. Fernandez	user correction
AUTHOR AFFIL	Department of Computer Science, Princeton University	user correction
ABSTRACT	The New Jersey Machine-Code Toolkit helps programmers write applications that process machine code. Applications that use the toolkit are written at an assembly-language level of abstraction, but they recognize and emit binary. Guided by a short instructionset specification, the toolkit generates all the bitmanipulating code. The toolkit's specification language uses four concepts: fields and tokens describe parts of instructions, patterns describe binary encodings of instructions or groups of instructions, and constructors map between the assembly-language and binary levels. These concepts are suitable for describing both CISC and RISC machines; we have written specifications for the MIPS R3000, SPARC, and Intel 486 instruction sets. We have used the toolkit to help write two applications: a debugger and a linker. The toolkit generates efficient code; for example, the linker emits binary up to 15% faster than it emits assembly language, making it 1.7-2 times faster to produce an a....	user correction
YEAR	1995	INFERENCE
VENUE	IN PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1995 USENIX TECHNICAL CONFERENCE	user correction
VENUE TYPE	CONFERENCE	INFERENCE
PAGES	289--302	INFERENCE
CITATIONS	22 found	ParsCit 1.0