Re: Compiling to C (where C is used as misspelled assembly)

Ray Dillinger wrote:


[To use C as an Intermediate language]


> However, this will violate every "reasonable" assumption a maker of C
> compiers will have about programming style. It will mean a program is
> compiled into a *single routine* of C code, with Goto destinations
> that might be more than 64K bytes away -- and no templates, no library
> functions linked, no header files, etc etc....
>
> Will modern C systems handle this?
> [Probably not. Machine generated source code always seems to break
> compilers designed for code written by humans. -John]


Especially forget about turning -O on. We are generating C code for
Unixes. The code uses only gotos and some of them break on what I'd
call a medium sized function that is 250 variables, 11.000 lines and
340 kb.


However the same compiler seems to digest it when the optimisations
are turned off.


Ch.


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