On 26 Mar 2014, at 09:06, Goubier Thierry <thierry.goub...@cea.fr> wrote:
> > > Le 26/03/2014 09:03, Marcus Denker a écrit : >> >> On 26 Mar 2014, at 06:37, Pavel Krivanek <pavel.kriva...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Unbelievable... I stare how open source can work :-) I started this project >>> yesterday so it can hardly translate more than the small examples and of >>> course it had no announcement. >>> >>> So, CCodeGenerator is the standalone translator from Smalltalk to plain C >>> extracted from VMMaker. >> >> One thing we need to do eventually is to have a SLANG that does not use the >> old AST and Parser… but the RB AST instead. > > I'm curious about that. I'll have a look to see how hard it would be to make > the change (I'm deep in parser and AST land at the moment). > The nice thing would be that it would just a visitor… very similar to Opal: 1) do semantic analysis 2) a visitor emitting C code. Later one could then even have a real intermediate representation (maybe the one of Sista?) and do some optimisation there, with all control flow information instead of using the AST. Ah, and there is Waterfall: http://hal.inria.fr/hal-00871353 This already contains a SLANG based on the RB AST… but compiling with native boost ASMJIT as a backend, not C. Marcus
