On 5/6/07, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat May 5 21:13:56 EDT 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> compiling c code. can you imagine a c compiler that does not translate
> to asm first?
like ken's c compiler?
- erik
really? i though it had an "internal" assembler.
i certainly would create an assembler first. even for testing purposes
only. i remember debugging a pl/0 compiler in compiler class and it is
really mind numbingly hard to work with pentium machine code directly.
can we write plan 9 without using assembler? maybe for some archs. but not x86.
of course if i am creating my own processor i would make sure i dont
need to use assembly at all. but then other programmers would want
their favorite language to be supported as well and they will likely
end up creating their own processor. not a good situation.
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