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Re: Common Language Runtime
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Subject: Re: Common Language Runtime
- From: Jim Wilson <wilson at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 13:43:12 -0700
- References: <00ca01c0d5c0$68849390$ec6556d8@magoo>
In article <007001c0d5d8$1c3bb0a0$9865fea9@timayum4srqln4> you write:
>How could there be such a thing as an ECMA instruction set? Maybe a
I was wondering about that too, but it makes sense when you remember that
C# is an attempt to replace Java. Java has bytecodes. C# has the CIL
(Common Intermediate Language) instruction set. Not surprisingly, they
are a kind of bytecode, but apparently they are being careful not to use that
term.
It would be possible to write a gcc backend to emit CIL, but we'd rather
encourage use of java than C#. If C# becomes widespread, then we may
eventually need a CIL backend, but we don't need one now.
Jim