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Re: CIL back-end


On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:50:13 +0200, Roberto COSTA <roberto.costa@st.com> said:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm working for an R&D organization of STMicroelectronics.  Within our 
> team we have decided to write a gcc back-end that produces CIL binaries 
> (compliant with ECMA specification, see 
> http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-335.htm).
> Our main motivation is the ability to produce highly-optimized CIL 
> binaries out of plain C code (and C++ in the future), and possibly to 
> add some optimizations to improve, if needed, the quality of the 
> generated code.

It seems that there's a Summer of Code student working on the exact same item:
http://code.google.com/soc/mono/about.html

Perhaps you could collaborate with him, or (as I believe the Summer of Code
rules might require) build off his work after it gets submitted. I'd suggest
you contact the Mono project about it.

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