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Re: long long long
- To: mrs at windriver dot com
- Subject: Re: long long long
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Date: Fri, 22 Sep 00 21:28:25 EDT
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Also, I thought most COBOL systems didn't bother with actual
compilation, but rather just targeted a cobol vm, and did it that way.
This is news to me! Certainly, the original COBOL compilers for the
IBM mainframes always generated machine code directly. I know that
both major COBOL compilers for the x86 did as well. Indeed, if I
remember correctly, one of them was the only compiler to ever generate
*all* x86 instructions from some code sequence.