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Re: Converting the gcc backend to a library?
- To: martin at loewis dot home dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de, oliva at lsd dot ic dot unicamp dot br
- Subject: Re: Converting the gcc backend to a library?
- From: Mike Stump <mrs at windriver dot com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 19:33:04 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 01:40:01 +0100
> From: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de>
> I think if such a technology ever succeeds, you'd have the back-end
> directly produce machine code, instead of going through assembly
> language. Of course, then you lose all the existing back-ends...
No, not really. You just unify the backends with opcodes/*... it all
falls out kinda naturally I bet. Also, one then notices the
redundancy between those files and eliminates it. :-)