Re: [C--] C-- development

On 03/14/2013 07:20 PM, Norman Ramsey wrote:
>   > 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.
Can I say C-- assume it is compiling the spineless and tagless G machine 
language?
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