GCC to emit C code

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 06:39:45AM -0500, Vidya Praveen wrote:
> hi
> 
> i am thinking of retargeting gcc to emit C code instead of emitting assembly 
> code. It's just experimental. Point here is, the generated c code will be 
> optimized. I have read about this compiler called LANCE which does similar 
> work. 
> Have anyone tried this out before?
> or Any idea about this?

If you search the archvies of the gcc and gcc-patches lists, you'll
find a patch from someone at Sun who implemented this.  It wasn't quite
complete, but it was mostly functional.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer