caoyfcode / asm

The Design and Implementation of An Assembler and Linker for Teaching and Experiments.

The repository is the official implementation of The Design and Implementation of An Assembler and Linker for Teaching and Experiments. The paper presents the design and implementation of an assembler and linker on the x86 Linux platform for teaching experiments in computer architecture and program design. The assembler uses AT&T syntax and the linker can perform static linking of several target files. The assembler supports 158 different instructions, or a total of 398 different instructions if taking the differences of operand format into account.

Requirements

Install Rust:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

Usage

1. Build the assembler and linker:

   cargo build

2. Then add ./target/debug/assembler and ./target/debug/linker to PATH.
3. The input parameters to the assembler take the following format:

   assembler -o <output-file> <input-file>

4. The input parameters to the linker take the following format:

   linker -o <output-file> <input-file1> <input-file2> ...

Results

Correctness of instruction generation, and correctness of the executable file are verified.

Our generated executable files have similar execution times to those generated by GCC as/ld.

References

If you find this repository helpful in your research, please consider citing:

@INPROCEEDINGS{10484260,
  author={Cao, Yifan and Xu, Wei},
  booktitle={2023 International Conference on Algorithms, Computing and Data Processing (ACDP)}, 
  title={Design and Implementation of An Assembler and Linker for Teaching and Experiments}, 
  year={2023},
  volume={},
  number={},
  pages={74-79},
  keywords={Ground penetrating radar;Source coding;Linux;Heuristic algorithms;Education;Geophysical measurement techniques;Computer architecture;assembler;linker;teaching experiment;Rust;ELF;x86},
  doi={10.1109/ACDP59959.2023.00019}}