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Re: java bytecode considered bad
- To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Subject: Re: java bytecode considered bad
- From: Trent Waddington <s337240 at student dot uq dot edu dot au>
- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 09:31:55 +1000 (GMT+1000)
- cc: Michael Matz <matzmich at cs dot tu-berlin dot de>, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot oz dot au>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> I believe it would be trivial, for someone (with commercial interests)
> who is able to write a backend, to write a simple dumper that saves the
> current state of the internal structures/trees to a file or prints it to
> a pipe for consumption of a proprietary backend.
>
> Not more than a week of work, probably even much less.
>
> I don't see why we should want to reduce the functionality for users of
> GCC to avoid that; unless I miss something, that is.
>
finally, the voice of sanity. If you were going to choose an intermediate
language to dump to proprietory backend's, wouldn't a low level C be more
useful than JBC?