Re: generic assembly language available?

arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins)
15 Jul 2004 16:34:54 -0400

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From: arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 15 Jul 2004 16:34:54 -0400
Organization: Pioneer Consulting, Ltd.
References: 04-07-018 04-07-038 04-07-040
Keywords: design, assembler, code
Posted-Date: 15 Jul 2004 16:34:54 EDT

ChokSheak Lau <choksheak@yahoo.com> wrote:
>I think what you have is the closest to what I am looking for
>(except it is not freeware), anyway, i am not sure whether the
>idea of having a generic low-level language (much much lower
>than C) is possible at all or not.
>
>chok
> [ .... ]
>
>[See if you can find info about LIL, a little low level implementation
>language built at Bell Labs in the 1970s. It worked fine, but they
>found that anything it could do, C could do just as well so there was
>no point. -John]


Norman Ramsey, I believe, is working on something called C-- which is
a low level language intended to be targeted by compilers...


HTH,


Arnold
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