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In article <3h8jpv$2iq@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>, dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote:

> If it is so difficult to generate assembler (I don't think it is), then
> why not generate C. A port of GCC to generate skeleton low level C would
> be quite easy to do, certainly no harder than a from-scratch alpha port
> for example!

The people at DEC SRC who did the Modula-3 compiler were not happy with
low-level C as an intermediate language. (I haven't got the reference with
me, but I could find it if someone needs it).