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On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Terrence Brannon wrote: > Is there some reason that a new pseudo-architecture has be > invented and compiled to? Why can't we simply compile to GCC's > RTL and allow gcc to compile to C? "allow gcc to compile to C"? Huha? GCC does C->RTL and RTL->assembler (of whatever machine), I thought. > And then just write a RTL->JVM and RTL->CRL converter? Well, as far as RTL->Parrot Bytecode goes, because RTL tends to assume that we have some large, byte-addressed memory, which simply isn't true in parrot's style ot thinking. You can simulate it with a properly constructed PMC, of course, but that makes the output be of not much use. (Of course, I notice you didn't ask that question.) -=- James Mastros -- "In the case of alchemy v chemistry the chemists know whether it will probably go bang before they try it (and the chemical engineers still duck anyway)." -=- Alan CoxThread Previous | Thread Next