On Thu, 2026-06-18 at 15:38 +0800, Tom Hunter via cctalk wrote: > You missed the point. The compiler backend is emitting assembly code, > so > you better have a very good understanding of the underlying hardware > and > the assembly language for the machine to successfully write a > compiler > backend for the architecture in question.
The IBM 1401 COBOL compiler wrote assembler (Autocoder) on a tape. Then you had to mount the Autocoder assembler tape and assemble it. And it included the input COBOL code as Autocoder comments.
