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Re: BCPL compiler with GCC

From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm at polyomino dot org dot uk>
Cc: Tom Crick <cs1tc at bath dot ac dot uk>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 19:54:45 +0100
Subject: Re: BCPL compiler with GCC
References: <00f701c398bb$9340ce30$0a00a8c0@tcrick><16278.46717.488851.400938@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com><Pine.LNX.4.58.0310221932450.13777@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk>

Joseph S. Myers writes:
 > On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Andrew Haley wrote:
 > 
 > > Addresses are always word addresses, aren't they?  I suppose you'd end
 > > up with something like
 > > 
 > > !B  mapping onto  *(word *)(b * sizeof word)
 > 
 > Remember that it might be more efficient, when implementing BCPL on 
 > byte-addressed machines, to make adjustments for arithmetic rather than 
 > for pointer dereferencing.  See the discussion at the end of 
 > <http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/clive-on-history.html>.

Well, Clive Feather suggests it might be a nice idea.  It is a nice
idea -- I don't know if anyoe's ever tried it!

Oh dear, we're off topic now...

Andrew.

References:
- BCPL compiler with GCC
  - From: Tom Crick
- BCPL compiler with GCC
  - From: Andrew Haley
- Re: BCPL compiler with GCC
  - From: Joseph S. Myers

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