Re: [C--] C-- development

On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:42:22 -0400, Norman Ramsey wrote:

>> From my outsider perspective, it appears that C-- is moribund until
>  > someone picks it up again. However, I also think that, rather than
>  > starting from the current C-- code base, it would be better to
>  > migrate the distinctive features of C-- into the LLVM project.
> 
> My opinion is that this would be nearly impossible.

Well, with enough casts you can achieve almost anything.  :-)

But the I might as well be using C itself, and have the advantage of 
multiple compilers written to an exacting standard.

> LLVM and C-- make
> fundamentally different assumptions about what knowledge is preserved
> during code generation.  LLVM is a fantastic infrastructure but it
> essentially aimed to do what gcc does, only better.  C-- had very
> different goals.   I think it would be easier to do a new project from
> scratch.

It might be easier to compile LLVM to C--.

-- hendrik

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