Re: GCC for PARROT (GCC Compiling itself to PARROT, then compiling all supported languages to PARROT from PARROT)?!?!

2004-04-29 Thread Vishal Vatsa
hi Guys I am working on this problem as my masters research project. Details to follow soon On Saturday 20 March 2004 16:33, Gerald E Butler wrote: Hello all, I've been investigating the possibility of creating a MACHINE DESCRIPTION (aka BACK-END) for GCC to target PARROT. My thinking

Re: GCC for PARROT (GCC Compiling itself to PARROT, then compiling all supported languages to PARROT from PARROT)?!?!

2004-04-29 Thread Vishal Vatsa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I am research student in Ireland and I have been working on this problem for a while now, I have spent a couple of months getting to grips with gcc internals, (by the time I finish this project I might not have any hair left on my head ;o).

Re: GCC for PARROT (GCC Compiling itself to PARROT, then compiling all supported languages to PARROT from PARROT)?!?!

2004-03-22 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 11:33 AM -0500 3/20/04, Gerald E Butler wrote: Hello all, I've been investigating the possibility of creating a MACHINE DESCRIPTION (aka BACK-END) for GCC to target PARROT. My thinking is this: If a satisfactory GCC back-end targeting PARROT is created -and- PARROT is efficient enough

GCC for PARROT (GCC Compiling itself to PARROT, then compiling all supported languages to PARROT from PARROT)?!?!

2004-03-20 Thread Gerald E Butler
Hello all, I've been investigating the possibility of creating a MACHINE DESCRIPTION (aka BACK-END) for GCC to target PARROT. My thinking is this: If a satisfactory GCC back-end targeting PARROT is created -and- PARROT is efficient enough (which from reading the documentation thus far