GCC Machine Description - Programming language

GCC Machine Description is a programming language created in 2001.

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Example from Linguist:

;;- Machine description for the PDP-10.
;;  Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Lars Brinkhoff.
;;  Contributed by Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>, funded by XKL, LLC.


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;; Index

;;   Front Page
;;   Index
;;   Constraints for Immediate Operands
;;   To-do List
;;   Instruction Wish-List
;;   Attributes
;;	length, skip, reorg_type
;;   Unspec Usage
;;	UNSPEC_ADJSP, UNSPEC_ADJBP, UNSPEC_ADDRESS, UNSPEC_FFO, UNSPEC_SUBBP,
;;	VUNSPEC_BLT, VUNSPEC_FSC, VUNSPEC_XBLT, VUNSPEC_MOVSLJ, VUNSPEC_MOVST
;;   Constants
;;      RIGHT_HALF, LEFT_HALF, SIGNBIT, SP_REGNUM
;;   Optimizations
;;   Data Movement
;;	LDB, ILDB, (LDBI), LDBE, ILDBE, (LDBEI), DPB, IDPB, (DPBI),
;;	HRR, HRL, HLR, HLL, HRRM, HRLM, HLRM, HLLM,
;;	HRRZ, HRLZ, HLRZ, HLLZ, HRRE, HRLE, HLRE, HLLE,
;;	SETZM, SETOM,
;;	MOVE, MOVEI, MOVSI, HRLOI, HRROI, MOVEM,
;;	MOVS, EXCH, SETZB,
;;	DMOVE, DMOVEM,
;;	BLT, XBLT, (MOVSLJ), (MOVST), (CMPS)
;;   Conditional Data Movement
;;	SKIPL, SKIPE, SKIPLE, SKIPGE, SKIPN, SKIPG,
;;	TDZA
;;   Integer Arithmetic
;;	AOS, SOS,
;;	ADD, ADDI, ADDM, ADDB, DADD,
;;	SUB, SUBI, SUBM, SUBB, DSUB,
;;	IMUL, IMULI, IMULM, IMULB, MUL, MULI, MULM, MULB, DMUL,
;;	IDIV, IDIVI, IDIVM, DIV, DIVI, DIVM, DDIV,
;;	UIDIV, UIDIVI, UIDIVM, UIMOD, UIMODI, UIMODM,
;;	MOVN, MOVNM, MOVNS, MOVNI, DMOVN, DMOVNM,
;;	MOVM, MOVMM, MOVMS,
;;	FFS
;;   Integer Conversions
;;	ANDI, HRRZ, SEXT, HRRE, ANDI, HRR
;;   Shifting and Rotating
;;	LSH, LSHC, ASH, ASHC, ROT, ROTC
;;   Logical Operations
;;	AND, ANDI, ANDM, ANDB, TLZ, ANDCMI,
;;	ANDCA, ANDCAI, ANDCAM, ANDCAB, ANDCBI,
;;	ANDCM, ANDCMM, ANDCMB,
;;	XOR, XORI, XORM, XORB, TLC, EQVI,
;;	IOR, IORI, IORM, IORB, TLO, ORCMI,
;;	ANDCB, ANDCBM, ANDCBB,
;;	EQV, EQVM, EQVB,
;;	SETCA, SETCAM, SETCAB,
;;	SETCM, SETCMM, SETCMB,
;;	ORCA, ORCAI, ORCAM, ORCAB, ORCBI,
;;	ORCM, ORCMM, ORCMB,
;;	ORCB, ORCBM, ORCBB
;;   Floating-point Arithmetic
;;	FADR, FADRI, FADRM, FADRB, DFAD, GFAD,
;;	FSBR, FSBRI, FSBRM, FSBRB, DFSB,

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Comments	✓	; A comment
Line Comments	✓	; A comment	;
Semantic Indentation	X