ARM/PPC Support?

[Paul Barker]

Hi,

I've been trying to find an interesting project to work on for a while now, and
I'm considering the idea of adding a couple of new architecture modules to yasm.
Primarily I'm interested in ARM, but if theres already some code written for PPC
support it might be an idea to start there.

I've had a look around the current source tree (from subversion) and played
around with a couple of things to try to learn the interface. I'm a little
confused as to the status of the LC-3B arch module... is this deprecated? It no
longer compiles and it looks like the arch module interface has changed and
LC-3B hasn't kept up-to-date. I was hoping that I could learn the interface from
a simple module rather than having to understand the x86 module.

As well as looking at architecture modules, I've looked at the other open
tickets for the 0.7.0 milestone. For a GAS-like preprocessor, would it help if I
wrote a very simple preprocessor which can remove comments and handle the
'.include' directive and nothing else? This probably doesn't involve too much work.

I don't want to get your hopes up too much since I don't know how much time I
will have to work on all this yet, but I'm happy to help out when I can.

Thanks,
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Paul Barker                         <paulbarker at mailsnare.net>
http://eternalseptember.co.uk/      <P.R.Barker-06 at student.lboro.ac.uk>