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Re: Highlevel C Backend

From: Joel Dice <dicej at mailsnare dot net>
To: David Nicol <davidnicol at gmail dot com>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 16:33:40 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: Re: Highlevel C Backend
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On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, David Nicol wrote:

One imagines that one would construct a virtual machine architecture framework and then write a back-end that would generate "machine code" for that virtual machine, which would be a subset of ANSI C. Hey-presto, you then have a butt-ugly anything-to-ANSI-C translator, that (whoops) loses any back-end-specific optimizations.

For those who don't already know about it, LLVM (llvm.org) has a C back-end, among others.

- Joel

References:
- Highlevel C Backend
  - From: Fabian Scheler
- Re: Highlevel C Backend
  - From: Steven Bosscher
- Re: Highlevel C Backend
  - From: Sebastian Pop
- Re: Highlevel C Backend
  - From: David Nicol

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