Re: Designing a calling convention for a Lisp->C compiler

russell kym horsell <kym@sdf.lonestar.org>
Sun, 6 Jun 2010 05:58:46 +0000 (UTC)

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From: russell kym horsell <kym@sdf.lonestar.org>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 05:58:46 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: Netfront http://www.netfront.net/
References: 10-06-008 10-06-010
Keywords: Lisp, C, translator
Posted-Date: 06 Jun 2010 17:00:43 EDT

russell kym horsell <kym@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
...
> Good luck. :)
> [I dunno. People have been compiling Lisp into machine code quite
> successfully since the mid 1960s. -John]


I'm talking about a relatively complete and efficient method of
handling lambda expressions rather than either ignoring the problem or
resorting to passing off nontrivial cases to an "eval" (interpreter)
in the runtime system.


Anyone interested can consult Lispkit lisp (c1980) et al or later.


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