Re: [C--] C-- development

 > On 03/13/2013 02:42 PM, 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.  LLVM and C-- make
 > > fundamentally different assumptions about what knowledge is preserved
 > > during code generation.
 > Does the code generation here refer to a front-end generating LLVM or 
 > C-- code?

Neither.  Code generation is what happens in the back end,
after LLVM and C-- code is generated.

The margin of this email is too small for me to elaborate the
differences, but many of them follow because LLVM basically assumes it
is compiling C, and C-- does not.


Norman
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