Re: Pros and cons of high-level intermediate languages

graham@maths.su.oz.au (Graham Matthews)
Fri, 24 Jul 1992 01:19:05 GMT

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From: graham@maths.su.oz.au (Graham Matthews)
Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 01:19:05 GMT
References: 92-07-068 92-07-074
Keywords: C, translator

(Olivier Ridoux) writes:
>d) There is no first-class label data-type. One can neither store and
>read labels, nor goto stored labels.


I think you will find that gcc 2.X allows you to have arrays of labels.
Any gcc experts out there to confirm this?


As to high-level intermediate languages the biggest problem I see is
making sure that the user gets meaningful errors. On many languages I have
used that translate into C one gets C compiler error messages at times as
part of the language level error messages. YUK!


graham
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