Re: C++ to bytecode?

[Andrew Haley <aph at cambridge dot redhat dot com>]

Dale E Martin writes:
 > > No.  The problem is that the semantics of Java an C++ are really quite
 > > different, and without a good deal of work it wouldn't be possible to
 > > generate bytecode in this way.  Also, many of the tricks that C
 > > programmers commonly use to override the type system wouldn't work.
 > 
 > Ah yes, sorry, I know that there are lots of issues lurking but let's say I
 > had written a whitepaper about how to deal with the semantic differences
 > and was prepared to implement them in the code generator and runtime? (or
 > pay someone to do it if I didn't do it myself.)
 > 
 > Is the current bytecode backend implemented at all like a standard backend
 > to gcc?

No.  All that we do is walk over the parse trees generating bytecode
as we go.

The bytecode generator doesn't call gcc's back end ast all.

Andrew.