LoongArch Assembly

An extension that provides language support for LoongArch assembly language.

Features

• Provide syntax highlighting for LoongArch assembly language.
• Provide support for comment shortcuts.

Developing

# Install js-yaml as a development only dependency in your extension
$ npm install js-yaml --save-dev

# Use the command-line tool to convert the yaml grammar to json
$ npx js-yaml syntaxes/loongarch.tmLanguage.yaml > syntaxes/loongarch.tmLanguage.json

# Update package-lock.json
$ npm install

# Install vsce for packaging, publishing and managing VS Code extensions
$ npm install -g vsce

# Package the extension
$ vsce package

Known Issues

• Comments starting with # must be followed by a whitespace character in order to be highlighted correctly.
• Highlighting of rarely used symbols may be missing or redundant.

Release Notes

1.0.0

Initial release of loongarch-assembly.

Add syntax highlighting for LoongArch assembly language.

1.1.0

Add support for comment shortcuts.

1.1.1

Fix highlighting for terms like $r0.

1.1.2

Fix highlighting for comments like // xxx: xxx.

1.1.3

Change the minimum version of VS Code API that the extension depends on.

1.1.4

Fix highlighting for words like kernelsp.

Remove highlighting for registers not beginning with $.

1.2.0

Add highlighting for more escape sequences.

Add highlighting for FCSR registers.

Add highlighting for LVZ, LBT, LSX and LASX instructions.

1.2.1

Fix missing highlighting.

Reference

• Vscode Language Extensions, Syntax Highlight Guide
• Language Grammars, Naming Conventions
• Regular Expressions
• LoongArch Opcodes
• Assembler Directives
• Directives