At 09:12 AM 12/3/2001 -0800, Terrence Brannon wrote: >Is there some reason that a new pseudo-architecture has be invented and >compiled to? Why can't we simply compile to GCC's RTL and allow gcc to >compile to C?
Because there are platforms where GCC doesn't run. Because GCC's licensing is onerously restrictive for our purposes. Because it makes embedding an interpreter a pain. Because we dynamically recompile and redefine ourselves, which makes this difficult. Because GCC's codegen is pretty bad. Because we've gone *over* this before. A bunch. "Use the archives, Luke!" Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk