Gnu Lightning (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. GNU lightning is a free software library that generates assembly language code at run-time. Supported backends are SPARC (32-bit), x86 (32- and 64-bit) and PowerPC (32-bit). An ARM port is under way. The features GNU lightning provides make it useful for just-in-time compiler applications. As opposed to libraries such as LLVM or libJIT, it only provides a low-level interface that assembles a standardized RISC architecture loosely based on the SPARC and MIPS into the target architecture's machine language.