On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Matt Fowles <[email protected]> wrote:
> John~
> I am confused...  The fact that I don't use Janino's parser doesn't
> theoretically stop me from bootstrapping the compiler.  In fact, Janino's
> parser is only useful if the language I am compiling is actually Java.  If
> my language goes
> Foo -> Foo AST -> Janino AST -> bytecode
> I can still get a bootstrapped system in the usual way (implement a Foo
> compiler in Java, use that to implement a Foo compiler in Foo, throw away
> the Java one and compile using earlier versions of the compiler).
> Matt

This is what I hope to do, in terms of Ruby -> Ruby IR (CFG) -> Janino
AST -> bytecode.  To be honest, I would also appreciate things like
register (local var) allocation, but for debugging sanity we'll
probably have to hand-select local variables anway.

- Charlie

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