Re: Ada95 to ANSI_C converter

[fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)]

kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) writes:

>In article <5hfble$4d0$1@news.pacifier.com> steved@pacifier.com (Steve Doiel) writes:
>>Has anyone done any work to make the GCC back end generate 'C' code?  It
>>seems that this might be beneficial to all ports that use the GCC back end.
>
>No one has done this and I don't think this would be all that useful.
>When you consider that many front ends (specifically that for Ada) use
>features that aren't expressable in C (most notably discriminated
>records), that C that would have to be produced would correspond a lot
>more to an *interpreter* of the program than a compilation of it.

But there has been some work done on making gcc compile to a
machine-independent(?) bytecode, hasn't there?
There is some bytecode stuff in the gcc source code,
but from the looks of things, it isn't complete yet.

A gcc->bytecode compiler and a bytecode interpreter would suffice
for bootstrapping purposes,

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