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From: "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei@online.no>
Subject: Re: ADA CORE TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES GNAT-TO-JAVA SYSTEM
Date: 1997/09/17
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Brian Rogoff wrote:
> 
> I realize that the JVM port is motivated (quite rightly, IMO) by economic
> reasons, but I wonder if some other "intermediate form" besides byte
> codes might be better if one wanted a portable format which could then
> be compiled.
>

I suppose you just end up with a more high level machine code.

The internals of GCC may be what you want. There is som sort of
interface between the compiler and the code generator. The internals of
the code generator depends on the target.

Greetings,

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