Re: Third party compiler middle and back-end

Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:29:32 -0400

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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:29:32 -0400
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: 10-10-010 10-10-017
Keywords: tools, code
Posted-Date: 13 Oct 2010 15:39:03 EDT

Jean-Marc Bourguet <jm@bourguet.org> writes:


> Use C as intermediate code. There is quite a few backend for a few
> architectures available.


That's a viable possibility. I've done it successfully
more than once.


But there are some things about C that make it less than
ideal as a compiler intermediate language:


Some things can't be expressed in C. Efficient exception
handling, for example.


It's somewhere between difficult and impossible to provide
good debugging support.


- Bob

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