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Re: C++ to bytecode?
- From: Glenn Chambers <gchamber at bright dot net>
- To: tromey at redhat dot com
- Cc: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>, "Dale E Martin" <dmartin at cliftonlabs dot com>, java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 21:19:43 -0400
- Subject: Re: C++ to bytecode?
On Tuesday, June 25, 2002, at 01:21 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
I also thought there was an attempt to target a standard JVM. It was
never integrated into the tree (never really submitted, I think). I
looked but I don't have a URL any more.
It's at http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~cristina/uqbt.html under 'Java
backend for
GCC' and quite old. The text references 'egcs' and says it's quite
experimental.
Given that the C and C++ standards were quite deliberately written to
include
segmented architectures like 16-bit DOS, it's quite probable that a
C-to-JVM
mapping could be built that adhered to the 'legal' requirements. It
would, however,
quite probably not be of much practical use.
Glenn Chambers
Toledo, OH