Re: [C--] C-- development

Simon Peyton-Jones <[email protected]> Fri, 15 Mar 2013 08:30:08 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.c--
Message-ID <59543203684B2244980D7E4057D5FBC147785E20@DB3EX14MBXC308.europe.corp.microsoft.com>
|  > 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?

Emphatically not!  C-- was designed to be ABLE to do that (eg it fully supports tail calls) but we tried very hard to be front-end neutral.

Simon
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