Re: backend question

"Fergus Henderson" <fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU>
13 Nov 2002 12:19:35 -0500

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From: "Fergus Henderson" <fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 13 Nov 2002 12:19:35 -0500
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne
References: 02-11-063
Keywords: translator
Posted-Date: 13 Nov 2002 12:19:35 EST

"Martin Doering" <doeringm@gmx.de> writes:


>If I would like to write a native compiler for a toy language (just
>for my personal interest), the hardest thing for me is to generate
>code for a specific processor in the end. So my question is, if I
>could skip this last step by just using some well know intermediate
>format?
>
>For Minix there is a amsterdam compiler kit, which seems to provide
>something like this. Are there others? And is there something like
>this not too huge in size? I just want to play around a bit. Yes, and
>it should be free...
>
>[These days the most popular intermediate format is C. -John]


Other alternatives include


- C--
See <www.cminusminus.org>.


- Java
- Java byte codes


- C#
- .NET IL
See <http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/net/>, <www.go-mono.com>,
and <http://www.southern-storm.com.au/portable_net.html>.


- Interfacing with the GCC back-end
See <gcc.gnu.org>; in particular see the "treelang" toy
language front-end.


- Interfacing with other compilers, such as VPO, MLRISC, or lcc.


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