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https://github.com/minio/c2goasm

by krishnasrinivas • 9 years ago

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justinclift2• 9 years ago

Probably worth mentioning the blog post too: https://blog.minio.io/c2goasm-c-to-go-assembly-bb723d2f777f

Out of curiosity, any idea how well does Go asm works with Delve (the Go debugger)?

fwessels2• 9 years ago

That is a good question but have never tried it. However, there is nothing "special" about the assembly as ported by c2goasm, so it should equally well as any other (hand-crafted) assembly.

akavel• 9 years ago

Haven't tried it personally, but based on a recent article shared at r/golang (https://rakyll.org/coredumps/, via https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/6cvtd6/debugging_go...), delve seems to show the contents of an .s file allright.

justinclift2• 9 years ago

Thanks, that's a useful article.

Just wish core dumping Go programs worked on OSX. Hopefully one day. :)

mhh__• 9 years ago

So, is go assembly the IR inside the Go compiler?

fwessels2• 9 years ago

No, it is not an IR code such as in Java or .Net. At compile time it is translated into opcodes for the corresponding architecture that you are compiling for.

chrisseaton2• 9 years ago

I disagree. I think saying that it's the lowered intermediate representation in the Go compiler pipeline is a really good description. It's equivalent to the LIR in Java's C2 compiler. I'm not sure what the equivalent is in .net.

Fundamentally, it's a representation and it's intermediate isn't it?

theparanoid• 9 years ago

Go needs another option other than assembly. Either compiler intrinsics like C/C++ or something, anything, else.

tankenmate• 9 years ago

It does, cgo.

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