Re: [DotGNU]Re: Support Java for .GNU

[Zeph Campbell]

Well im basing it rather heavily on Java and its ISA, however, i'm trying to
make the runtime system as free form as possible while still keeping things
coherent.

I want to have:

- A native code base class library, with some kinda API, so language porting
teams can write wrappers to these native calls

- All types, including what are usually considered simple types (ints,
floats, chars) would all be objects (because I CAN! =])

- A decent garbage collector (optional, maybe with a command-line switch)

- Maybe another API so language porting teams can (more) easily write
compilers for the ISA.

I have concurrently been writing some kind of 1st HLL for it, based off of
Python syntax.  It goes slowly, but it goes =]  This is also my first
attempt at anything like this.

Cheers
zeph


on 7/16/01 3:31 PM, Jeremy Petzold at address@hidden wrote:

> well, see if there is anyone hear on the project that can help you, if it will
> benefit the project then it is worth while to at least look at it.
> 
> On Mon, 16 July 2001, Zeph Campbell wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> For (3) there are several options
>>> a) Java bytecode, possibly with some modifications
>>> b) Microsoft's new bytecode, possibly with some modifications
>>> c) Create our own bytecode spec from scratch, possibly based on
>>> Knuth's ideas
>> 
>> I seem to recall MMIX having a look-but-dont-touch license.
>> 
>>> 
>>> Yes.  First we need to know what we want from the bytecode.
>>> Then choose a strategy for the bytecode.  Then make the other
>>> language choices.
>>> 
>> 
>> I'm working on something that parallels the MSIL and VM, but I'm mostly
>> doing it for fun, and I don't think I'm pacing the development fast enough
>> for this project (classes and all that) =]
>> 
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> Regards,
> 
> Jeremy
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