GCC question

["John Ratcliff" <jratcliff at verant dot com>]

Quick question.  I'm looking to put an embedded VM inside my application.
What I want is a C++ compiler that will produce an OS neutral byte code and
I will have a VM to interpret it.  I want the VM to be 100% ANSI complient,
OS neutral C or C++ code.

Java seems like the likely candidate, however the Java VM implementations I
have seen are rather huge.  One approach would be to have GCC produce, say
80386 code, and then write a C implementation of an 80386 emulator.
Actually not a bad idea....anybody got one laying around?

Is there a version of the GCC compiler that produces OS neutral VM byte code
and a corresponding *small* (very small) byte code interpreter for it,
written in C or C++?

What I want to accomplish is to download OS neutral binaries over the
internet to an application running on completely different processors.  One
is a Pentium but the other is a console machine that I am not at liberty to
discuss.  As well, there might be more processors I would support in the
future.  I want to be able to download and execute these binaries on any of
the machines.  I don't need a JIT compiler, that's overkill since this isn't
performance oriented code, mostly high level game logic calling high speed
native routines.

It there a solution short of including the rather massive, huge, and fat,
Java VM?  Or, is there a thin, skinny, small Java VM implementation?

Thanks,

John W. Ratcliff
Senior Software Engineer
Verant Interactive