List of simplifications we should perform

Diego Novillo dnovillo@redhat.com
Fri May 11 22:27:00 GMT 2001


On Sat, 12 May 2001, Fergus Henderson wrote:

> The drawback of that approach is that you'd then need an ML implementation
> around in order to compile GCC.  Unfortunately GCC doesn't have an ML
> 
Yes, that's true. Much like we require the presence of bison for
parse.y.

> <plug>
> There is however another high-level functional language, quite similar
> in many ways to ML, for which there is a GCC front-end...
> </plug>
> 
> ;-)
> 
There you go then. Care to write an optimizer generator in
Mercury? :)

Diego.



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