C++ intermediate bytecode

[Jim Cobban]

Optymizer Sez wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'd like to ask if there is a way to use GCC in order to compile a C++ source program into machine-independent code (bytecode, perhaps?) and then translate the bytecode into processor-dependent code on the target machine?
> Something like the Amsterdam Compiler Kit, but for C++ and x86_64 would be great!
>   
The language definition of C++ is not machine independent so the exact 
meaning of a particular source program varies from platform to 
platform.  For example there are significant differences in the 
interpretation of programs on big-endian as opposed to little-endian 
platforms, and even between 32-bit and 64-bit processors in the same 
family.  Furthermore there are vast differences between different 
operating systems.  Dealing with those differences is one of the issues 
that Java was designed to address.

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