Re: [DotGNU]gcc?

[Keith Poole]

Fair enough, but one thought that occurs to me is - if we have a VM 
which handles IL in any form, this will be true, anyone could produce a 
proprietary language which generated IL, and the .GNU VM would happily 
run it.
       Keith

David Sugar wrote:

> There are philisphical reasons not to do this and why this won't be done.
>
> Consider this, what if one had a proprietary compiler tool chain for 
> some special proprietary "X" language that happend to generate IL.  
> This would mean that one could then use gcc to compile entirely source 
> secret applications. This would be a perversion of gcc.
>
>
> John wrote:
>
> > Keith Poole wrote:
> >
> > > There is an alternative, the virtual machine in .NET compiles the IL
> > > into native machine code, so why couldn't the .GNU virtual machine use
> > > the gcc back-end to convert the IL?  This would give the advantage of
> > >  the good code generation of gcc, provide code generation for a host of
> > > machines in one go, and allow toold such as gdb, to be used to debug
> > > applications.  So the sequence of events to run a program is:
> > >
> > > 1.  Write the code
> > > 2.  Compile into IL using the .GNU compiler
> > > 3.  Start execution
> > > 4.  The virtual machine converts the IL into RTL (Register Transfer
> > > Language), passes it to the gcc back-end and produces machine code.
> > > 5.  The produced code executes,
> >
> >
> >
> > Stupid thought of the day #6635
> >
> > I know zilch about GCC from any end other than as a user, but let me
> > suggest that it might be easier just to be passing RTL around the net?
> > IL would be passed around and compiled as you say, but our VM could use
> > RTL as a base?
> >
> > How much work would it be to turn the GCC backend into a VM?
> >
> > John Le'Brecage
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