[M3devel] main in C or not?

[Olaf Wagner]

Quoting Jay K <jay.krell at cornell.edu>:

> I'm *really* interested in a C-generating backend, which will subsume this.
> Except perhaps systems like NT386, and maybe we'll expand that set.
> I'm becoming increasingly frustrated with the gcc backend.

The tide comes and goes. The DEC SRC people were very frustrated with
the C-generating M3 compiler long ago, and invested large efforts to
build the gcc backend ;-) I think I remember that Bill Kalsow, who wrote
much of the original compiler code, said that "C was a very mediocre choice
as an intermediate language". (It may have been somebody else who said
this though.)

> I can compromise and leave the code in m3linker, but I still like   
> the change in cm3 where the configuration
> is ignored.

Yes, I think we should not unnecessarily remove this.
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