Re: Writing a compiler

andresj <andresjriofrio@gmail.com>
Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:47:13 -0700 (PDT)

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From: andresj <andresjriofrio@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:47:13 -0700 (PDT)
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 08-10-037 08-10-046 08-10-047
Keywords: code, C
Posted-Date: 31 Oct 2008 10:14:17 EDT

On Oct 26, 4:57 am, Nick <Ibeam2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If I can make a suggestion, use C or C++ as target language. Here
> you don't have to reinvent subroutine calling and the like, and you
> maintain compatibility with other things on the OS. Not to mention
> ease of moving around different OSes. And troubleshooting. Much
> easier.
> [Quite a reasonable idea unless your plan was to learn about code
> generation. -John]


That is a reasonable idea, thanks. :-) The only problem is that there
would be a dependency on a complicated C or C++ compiler, which might
make the language more difficult to manage.


Andres
[If you're careful, you can generate extremely portable C code. Not so sure
about C++, though. -John]


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