Re: compiler from c to Bytecodes(java) is needed.

Stefan Monnier <monnier+comp/compilers/news/@tequila.cs.yale.edu>
16 Feb 1999 23:21:36 -0500

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier+comp/compilers/news/@tequila.cs.yale.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 16 Feb 1999 23:21:36 -0500
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 99-02-038 99-02-058
Keywords: Java, C

>>>>> "Olivier" == Olivier Lefevre <olivier.lefevre@wdr.com> writes:
> Apogee has announced such a compiler: http://www.apogee.com/cava.html
> As our moderatro commented, it sure will be a strange beast.


Reading their page it seems that they don't really provide a C to JVM.
Rather they rely on a JVM extended with adhoc-code to implement the dirtier
details of C. That might be enough, but you probably lose one of the main
benefits of the JVM: type safety.


Stefan
[You lose portability, too, if you have to use their hacked JVM. -John]


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