java bytecode considered bad

[Trent Waddington]

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?