[cctalk] Re: AI applied to vintage interests

[Jay Jaeger via cctalk]

> On Jan 17, 2023, at 04:52, Peter Coghlan via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
> 
> How about translating code from Z80 which has several registers to 6502 with
> rather fewer?  That would seem to need some more intelligent thinking on
> how to simulate the unavailable registers without causing additional
> difficulties.
> 
> Regards,
> Peter Coghlan.

That would be not much different than compiling code (say, C) for the 6502.  
One need not “simulate” anything.  One could use the stack plus perhaps a bit 
of so-called heap
storage to manage register allocation, along with translating ( perhaps with 
optimization ) the instruction stream.  Dealing with changed 8080 stack offsets 
from the original code would be tricky.