Re: Java virtual machine as target language for C/C++

bnm@indica.bbt.com (Brian N. Miller)
10 May 1996 01:29:29 -0400

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From: bnm@indica.bbt.com (Brian N. Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.compilers
Date: 10 May 1996 01:29:29 -0400
Organization: BroadBand Technologies, RTP NC
References: 96-05-036 96-05-064
Keywords: Java, Ada

|Drinie@xs4all.nl (Rinie Kervel) writes:
|
| But as the Java virtual machine gets integrated in many OSes it would
| be nice to use it as a target language for other languages.
|
| Is it possible (and will Sun allow it) to extend the JVM to support
| pointer arithmetic.


No need to alter the JVM for suitability with today's popular abstract
languages like lisp, smalltalk, perl, etc. which have little or no
direct use of address pointers. JVM is fine for those as is.


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