Re: Possible to write compiler to Java VM? (I volunteer to summarize)

Andreas Krall <andi@complang.tuwien.ac.at>
23 Jan 1996 17:31:53 -0500

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From: Andreas Krall <andi@complang.tuwien.ac.at>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 23 Jan 1996 17:31:53 -0500
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 96-01-037,
Keywords: interpreter, translator

"Peter Seibel" <seibel@sirius.com> writes:
>So I'm asking you all: how easy/hard/impossible would it be to write a
>compiler for your favorite language(s) that compiles to Java VM
>byte-codes. ...


The easiest way to compile a programming language to the Java VM is to
cross-compile to Java and use the Java compiler to generate Java VM code.
So you don't need to know the details of the Java VM and you can use all
the features of Java like garbage collection and libraries. But you need
to know Java implementation in some detail to make design decisions like
using implicitely Javas internal stack or using a stack explicitely and
things like that.


Andi


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