On 13 April 2012 14:53, McKown, John <[email protected]> wrote: > Sounds like what is done by the GNU compiler people. From what I've read, all > the GNU compilers utilize the same "back end" code generator. IIRC, at one > time the non-C compilers really did a <language> to C conversion, followed by > a C compile. I don't know if I have the terminology correct, but now all the > compilers in the GCC collection emit a "parse tree"(?) and pass that to the > common back end for actual optimization and code generation.
Any system that has a "middle end" has my vote! > Now if they would just create a COBOL and PL/I compiler "front end", I would > be in 7th heaven. Well, "they" haven't done so because there isn't really a "they" to do it. But there has been a GCC PL/I project on SourceForge for some years, with rather little progress, unfortunately. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
