On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Terrence Brannon wrote:
> Is there some reason that a new pseudo-architecture has be
> invented and compiled to? Why can't we simply compile to GCC's
> RTL and allow gcc to compile to C?
"allow gcc to compile to C"? Huha? GCC does C->RTL and RTL->assembler
(of whatever machine), I thought.
> And then just write a RTL->JVM and RTL->CRL converter?
Well, as far as RTL->Parrot Bytecode goes, because RTL tends to assume
that we have some large, byte-addressed memory, which simply isn't true in
parrot's style ot thinking. You can simulate it with a properly
constructed PMC, of course, but that makes the output be of not much use.
(Of course, I notice you didn't ask that question.)
-=- James Mastros
--
"In the case of alchemy v chemistry the chemists know whether it will
probably go bang before they try it (and the chemical engineers still duck
anyway)." -=- Alan Cox
