On 29-Mar-2003, Miguel de Icaza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > > Also, the approach describe there has some fundamental flaws. > > According to Gopal V, "It has a huge array which it uses like C uses RAM. > > Not pretty, fast, stable or useful", and according to Rhys Weatherly, > > "He's using a similar approach to egcs-jvm. See the pnet FAQ for a > > description of why this isn't a good way to port gcc to a stack machine", > > and they are both right. > > Still a useful foundation, and good direction to bring plenty of > compilers over to .NET.
I don't think so. > The important bit about this work is the fact that the register-based > RTL representation is used to map to CIL code. The other nuisances are > technical details. > > In the "solvable" universe, not in the "impossible" universe. Sure, the problem is solvable. But IMHO the approach under discussion is not a useful step toward a solution -- instead, it's just exploring a dead end. -- Fergus Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | "I have always known that the pursuit The University of Melbourne | of excellence is a lethal habit" WWW: <http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh> | -- the last words of T. S. Garp. _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
