Pietro Gagliardi wrote: > The compiler generates Assembly in a temporary file, > then calls up the assembler to make the program.
That sounds somewhat similar to Dan Bernstein's qhasm (http://cr.yp.to/qhasm.html) which is a semi-portable assembly language combining C-like syntax w/ direct access to registers. Anathema to the Plan 9 philosophy I suppose but given that clock speeds seem to have hit a wall it's one way to wring out more speed. To be fair he seems to intend it to be used only for number crunching inner loops rather than as a general purpose language. John
