New Jersey Machine-Code Toolkit Architecture Specifications
Report ID: TR-470-94Author: Ramsey, Norman / Fernandez, Mary F.
Date: 1994-10-00
Pages: 57
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Abstract:
The New Jersey Machine-Code Toolkit helps programmers write applications that process machine code---assemblers, disassemblers, code generators, tracers, profilers, and debuggers. The toolkit lets programmers encode and decode machine instructions symbolically. It transforms symbolic manipulations into bit manipulations, guided by a specification that defines mappings between symbolic and binary representations of instructions. This document presents our annotated specifications for the MIPS R3000, SPARC, and Intel 486 instruction sets. For an overview of the toolkit, read [ramsey:jersey] first. The reference manual for the toolkit [ramsey:tk-reference] gives a complete description of the specification language used here.