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.
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