--- Bala Karthik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Ramesh, > > That sounds exciting. Just wanted to clarify on your > suggestion. Are you saying that the parrot compiler > should be able to decipher the asm generated by any > C code. Well... EIther we just compile C down to Parrot. Or work at an asm to parrot translator. The advantages I think are greater in the first, as we can build really tight code. But yes! you'll have to recompile all the programs. Yes, I am dreaming of porting Linux to run in Parrot. No, functional purpose. Just one of those dreams. Or hey does that mean we can use Parrot as a VM, sorta like VMWare.
Branch two, would mean we translate at byte level from assembly to parrot. Would this be easier? I don't know. But you could just translate without needing to recompile all the stuff. > Any idea on how to go around this ? I'm a > newbie to this and i'm very much interested in > contributing to the community :) . Your help would > be highly appreciated. First way I think would be to write a back end to gcc. But that's tough. the way parrot is constantly changing. But another way would be to write a library with which you compile. So that the resultant code is parrot code. I really don't know whether this is feasible. Err. really pinging the community on this. But my dream is to run Linux on Parrot. > > Thanks, > Bala. > Ramesh Ananthakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote:well, > that part exists. a proof of concept parrot to jvm > translator stuff has already been done. As for full > implementation well parrot's still er... changing. > It's still being developed and so keeps changing > pretty fast. I wouldn't go to translation at this > time > as it may be pretty hard to hit the forever changing > target that's parrot now. > I'm working on poring C to parrot. So that you can > compile C programs into parrot assembly and have > them > work right off the bat. Once we get C across, it > would > b e pretty easy to port other languages and > libraries > to Parrot like Perl5.6, Ruby all of which have been > built using standard C tools. (or so I hope ;-)). > Anyway if you are intrested in it send me a line. > Hey Hey.... wait a minute. There's this flashing big > light bulb. Big idea coming up! O.K. This may be > exceedingly stupid, but why not an assembly back to > Parrot compiler. Howzaat. We wouldn't actually have > to > port C just the assembly stuff and voila' it just > works. > > cheers, > Ramesh > > > Hi All, > > I am new to this parrot virtual machine aimed as > > a common denominator for > > perl and python. I had been going thru this list > for > > some time. > > I would like to contribute to the parrot > > community. > > My interest here is - I am intereseted in > > writing a .class file --> .parrot > > bytecode and viceversa. In other words planning to > > bring in the jvm > > compatibility suite to parrot. > > Can you please let me know if any work going on > > relative to this or any src > > code tree that you would me to look into. > > > > Thanks in advance for letting me know this info. > > > > Good luck. > > > > Cheers. > > Karthik. > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More > > http://faith.yahoo.com > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More > http://faith.yahoo.com > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos, & more > faith.yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com
