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Re: JVM -b backend

From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
To: Adam Megacz <gcj at lists dot megacz dot com>
Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: 14 Jan 2002 10:59:50 -0700
Subject: Re: JVM -b backend
References: <Pine.OSF.3.96.1020108225725.314251B-100000@saturn.cs.uml.edu> <877kqs9mpt.fsf@creche.redhat.com> <86vge4bzyf.fsf@megacz.com>
Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com

>>>>> "Adam" == Adam Megacz <gcj@lists.megacz.com> writes:

Mike> gcc -b jvm hello.c -o hello.class

Tom> As far as I know nobody is working on this.  While possible, it
Tom> isn't trivial.  It would require runtime support as well.

Adam> Hrm, how would you do goto's?

The JVM has a goto instruction.

The real problem is dealing with the different data models, namely
pointers.  Even this is solvable though.

Tom

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