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You could say the same thing about the gcc internal representation, but no.<br>C is a much more portable more documented more implemented more known assembly.<br><br> - Jay<br><br>> From: dragisha@m3w.org<br>> To: jay.krell@cornell.edu<br>> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:26:14 +0200<br>> CC: m3devel@elegosoft.com<br>> Subject: Re: [M3devel] main in C or not? also, backend....<br>> <br>> Looks like a lobotomy for me.<br>> <br>> GNU Pascal folks are on similar crossroads now, only they are forced<br>> because they follow GCC changes "in realtime", as opposed to fixed<br>> version approach used by cm3.<br>> <br>> C *is* assembly and approach, except this debugger/debugging lobotomy<br>> thing, is sound. Except - there are better assemblies, and if we are<br>> divorcing cm3 from GCC then let's do it properly - going LLVM way.<br>> <br>> On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 04:50 +0000, Jay K wrote:<br>> > stock gdb will have very good type information where today it has<br>> > virtually none.<br>> > Besides the other debuggers like windbg/VisualStudio.<br>> > Expressions would be in C perhaps.<br>> > You could still hack on m3gdb if you really want, but it seems of<br>> > reduced utility. <br>> -- <br>> Dragiša Durić <dragisha@m3w.org><br>> <br> </body>
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