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Show HN: Torque – A lightweight meta-assembler for any processor
Hello everyone, I've been working on this project for the past few months.Torque is a meta-assembler: instead of having an instruction set built into the assembler, you use macros to build up a small language that decribes an instruction set and then you use that to write your program. It's designed to work for any microcontroller/processor architecture, you build from the bit level upwards so there aren't any assumptions around word widths, instruction formats, or endianness.I created Torque initially to write programs for a PIC microcontroller, after running into difficulties with the official assembler. I've also used it to write programs for the Z80 processor inside an old TRS-80 computer.Let me know if you try it out or have any questions! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43698801 Points: 23 # Comments: 1
Hello everyone, I've been working on this project for the past few months.
Torque is a meta-assembler: instead of having an instruction set built into the assembler, you use macros to build up a small language that decribes an instruction set and then you use that to write your program. It's designed to work for any microcontroller/processor architecture, you build from the bit level upwards so there aren't any assumptions around word widths, instruction formats, or endianness.
I created Torque initially to write programs for a PIC microcontroller, after running into difficulties with the official assembler. I've also used it to write programs for the Z80 processor inside an old TRS-80 computer.
Let me know if you try it out or have any questions!
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43698801
Points: 23
# Comments: 1