minio/c2goasm
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C to Go Assembly
7 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 1 story, 6 comments · first 2017-05-24 · latest 2026-07-22
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…and at https://github.com/golang/go/issues/78902 so things have moved since I tried it last. [1] https://github.com/minio/c2goasm
comment by kristianp · 2026-07-22 · in Everyone should know SIMD -
…that convert a C function with intrinsics to Go assembly, but they were buggy for my use case [1],[2]. [1] github.com/minio/c2goasm (no longer updated) [2] https://github.com/gorse-io/goat
comment by kristianp · 2025-01-05 · in Don't Clobber the Frame Pointer -
That exist(ed)! c2goasm would compile C and then decompile it into Go asm. https://github.com/minio/c2goasm
comment by FiloSottile · 2024-07-31 · in Rustgo: Calling Rust from Go with near-zero overhead (2017) -
…but it might be possible to translate to Go assembly and then use the Go toolchain. Edit: https://github.com/minio/c2goasm seems to slightly go in that direction.
comment by ck45 · 2022-09-26 · in Go runtime: 4 years later -
…so it also uses syscalls directly. Just look at https://github.com/minio/asm2plan9s / https://github.com/minio/c2goasm — carefully read the readme and understand what this hack does. If the existence of this hack does not make you…
comment by floatboth · 2019-09-25 · in ZeroTier 2.0 Status -
…all instructions and even addressing modes (!) of amd64, so people have had to create hacks like https://github.com/minio/c2goasm to run asm functions without the overhead of cgo. Please actually read that project's README, but tl;dr it…
comment by floatboth · 2018-10-09 · in Go 1.11 got me to stop ignoring Go