Version 2 of risc-v assembler

Updated 2021-02-16 02:45:00 by jbr

A risc-v assembler in Tcl : code on github

This simple risc-v assembler supports rv32 and rv64 with several standard extensions. Its output is a primitive listing with source line, address and bytes in hex. It does not currently support writing ELF.

Instruciton sets and extensions:

  • rv32G (IMAFD_Zicsr_Zifencei)
  • rv64G (IMAFD_Zicsr_Zifencei)
  • C - Compressed instructions
  • E - 16 registers
  • Q - Quad floats
  • Zfinx - Floats in X registers

A very simple example.rva is included. Try make example

    $ make example
    ./rva.tcl -march rv32gc example.rva
     00005 0100 00C58533   add a0 a1 a2
     00006 0104 FFFFC297   auipc t0 top
     00006 0108 12E1       addi t0 t0 top
     00007 010A 8282       jalr x0 t0 0

The accepted instruction sets are defined in files sourced from the opcodes directory. These files derrive from those available in the riscv/riscv-opcodes repository, but are highly edited. Additional opcodes can be easily added by including X entensions in the extensions directory and sourcing them by suffixing the -march option with the extension name in the risc-v accepted usage.

For example:

    rva.tcl -march rv32gc_Xaname

An opcode mnemonic instruction is a Tcl proc that calls 'assemble'. A few pseudo instructions are in macros.tcl and more can easily be added. The macro and alias syntax are slight simplifications of standard Tcl. More complex pseudo instructions benifit by being defined directly as procs.

The currently supported instructions are tested against the gnu gas assembler. The tests are run with make invoking the test scripts.

    make test

A few differences are still present with gas and rva.tcl compressing slightly different sets of instructions and with referencing labels.