On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> You access the bytes individually the same way you do now. If a string is
> of type "8-bit byte" then a character is a byte, and vice versa.
> >I'm thinking of porting GCC, of course <G>. However, I'm thinking that
> >pretty much any c-like language is going to want somthing like this.
> Not that I mind people trying--that's fine. But it's not a primary target
> for us. (We'd be far better served targetting GCC's back end than we would
> getting GCC to target ours...)
What I'm thinking is that if you can compile C code to target the PVM, we
can have it be /almost/ trivial to run C code with the portablity of
Parrot, and make C code callable from Perl and vice-versa with only a
recompile. (Or you can not recompile, and make a perl extension, but
that'd be more work.)
If our VM can run C and C++, then we hugely expand the usefulness of both
C/C++ and Parrot. And that can only be a win for everybody.
-=- James Mastros
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