[TUHS] pdp-11 assembly as a hll?

[Bakul Shah]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 22:12:50 -0700 Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 8:18 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 13 Feb 2018, Warner Losh wrote:
> >
> > I don't suppose anybody has written a pdp-11 assembler to C translator...
> >> My google fu is insufficient for the day.
> >>
> >
> > I'd like to see it handle "JSR PC,@(SP)+"...  Are you reverse-engineering
> > something, writing a PDP-11 simulator, or what?
> 
> 
> I was wondering what it would take to convert the v6/v7 basic program into
> something that can be run today.
> 
> http://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V6/usr/source/s1/bas.s
> or
> http://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/src/cmd/bas/bas.s
> 
> Its 2128 lines. It doesn't have that fun instruction in it :)

May be it just needs a perl script to generate C code?

Example:
2:				label(lab0);
	cmp	r0,(r3)		cmp(r0,deref(r3));
	beq	2f		beq(lab1);
	tst	(r3)	  =>	tst(deref(r3));
	beq	2f		beq(lab1);
	add	$6,r3		add(6,r3);
	br	2b		br(lab0);
2:				label(lab1);

C calls are to macros or inline functions.