In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 09/19/2008 at 03:41 PM, Timothy Sipples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>If you do have to create a compiler backend, that's some work. But one >thing you could try, at least for bootstrap purposes, is to keep an >existing backend but do something like a "double compile." For example, >if the OpenVMS compiler generates Alpha code (and you can output some >sort of assembler source format, which is likely), theoretically you >could write a translator that takes the Alpha code and converts it to >z/Architecture, Machine to machine translation is hard to do well, and I wouldn't recommend that approach for a cross-compiler. BTDT,GTS. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html