On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 11:12 AM, <alexanderao...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I want to develop a new target for Go and I want to know what sort of > support Go has to facilitate this. > > I know I could use some functionality that's provided in in gotypes. I can > use Gotypes to generate AST and typecheck it, but before I went ahead with > making my own visitor for the AST, I wanted to know if there is some other > framework already established for accomplishing this sort of thing. > > GCC, for example, allows new targets by operating on their IR, but I don't > know if there is some analog for the Go compiler. > > I'm aware of gccgo, but I wanted to accomplish this task entirely in Go, if > possible.
Do you mean that you want to generate code for a different processor? Which processor? Basically you need to start by adding your processor to cmd/internal/obj. Then cmd/asm/internal/arch, cmd/compile/internal, and cmd/link/internal. Look at the existing processor support while adding your new processor. Then you can move on to runtime (including internal/sys and internal/atomic) and syscall and sync/atomic. Then you are done, except for writing assembly-optimized versions of code in crypto and maybe a couple of other places. Ian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
