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Re: java bytecode considered bad
- To: Trent Waddington <s337240 at student dot uq dot edu dot au>
- Subject: Re: java bytecode considered bad
- From: Michael Matz <matzmich at cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 01:24:14 +0100 (MET)
- cc: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot oz dot au>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Hi,
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Trent Waddington wrote:
> > I don't see why we should want to reduce the functionality for users of
> > GCC to avoid that; unless I miss something, that is.
> >
>
> finally, the voice of sanity.
Well, in case you haven't noticed. Most of us are not of the opinion of
RMS on this topic (this special one, using JBC as IL; not generally the
fear of having a feasible IL, which some share with him).
> If you were going to choose an intermediate language to dump to
> proprietory backend's, wouldn't a low level C be more useful than JBC?
I think neither JBC nor C are feasible ILs, because too much information
is lost, and e.g. C allows things which makes a mapping from another
language to C unnecessarily inefficient, when compiled from that "IL"
(e.g. pointers).
Ciao,
Michael.