Re: Need an interesting topic for an undergraduate project on Compilers

On 8/27/2011 8:30 AM, Joe keane wrote:
> Volker Birk<bumens@dingens.org> writes:
>> If you want to compile a programming language to assembler code
>
> I'm not sure why anyone would want to do this; if you have another
> language you can convert it to C code, and concentrate on what you are
> doing. If you find that the C->assembly step can be improved that is
> also useful.


there are a few drawbacks to compiling to C though:
one can only compile to C in contexts where they have a C compiler,
which largely rules out things like JIT compilers;
the time-to-comile may be somewhat worse (in cases where this is important);
some language features are difficult to implement effectively in C (and
standard C is annoyingly lacking in reflection features);
...


so, it is not so clear-cut that one wouldn't want to compiler to ASM (or
to some bytecode, which is run through a JIT).
[Do you mean compiling to assembler, or compiling to machine code? They're
different. -John]

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