Re: Using FORTH as target machine?

mailings@jmksf.com wrote:
>
> While crawling the web, I was unable to find out a compiler that uses
> Forth as its target language. But in my opinion, compiling a
> higher-level language into Forth code is a great deal between using a
> standardized lower-level and widely spread programming language and its
> platform-independency. There are even CPUs which are capable of
> executing Forth.
>
> So, does anyone know about a compiler-project or similar software that
> uses Forth as its destination? And if not - would it be wrong to compile
> code into sequences of Forth definitions and words? Why?


Some years ago MPE did a C to Forth compiler as part of an EU funded
project. They did release it into the wild, and it can be downloaded from:


http://www.mpeforth.com/arena/c2forth110.zip


> Maybe I'm just looking too "foolish Forthy" into this topic. At least,
> it's a simple, stack-based virtual machine which is needed to execute a
> program in a particular (maybe self-defined) lower level language a
> compiler compiles to.


You should look for papers from Jaanus Pvial of the programming group at
the University of Tartu. He was using Forth as a common back end.
--
Peter Knaggs

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