Re: Pros and cons of high-level intermediate languages

scott@bbx.basis.com (Scott Amspoker)
Sat, 25 Jul 1992 22:49:57 GMT

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From: scott@bbx.basis.com (Scott Amspoker)
Organization: BASIS International, Ltd., Albuquerque NM USA
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 22:49:57 GMT
References: 92-07-068 92-07-084
Keywords: C, translator

graham@maths.su.oz.au (Graham Matthews) writes:
>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!


That's what I meant when I said to approach such "front ends" as full
compilers. To generate C code, a proper front end must understand
everything being being fed to it and how the C compiler will deal
with it. Generated code must *never* have compile errors.


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Scott Amspoker
Basis International, Albuquerque, NM


scott@bbx.basis.com


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