[M3devel] LINUXLIBC6

[Jay K]

To be more portable, and get out of the "problem" of being self-hosting.
I realize self-hosting has major benefits too.
Someone just needs to see if Debian et. al. have a general story for compilers that compile themselves.
And I need to really implement the C backend I talk forever and ever about....


 - Jay


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> Subject: Re: [M3devel] LINUXLIBC6
> From: dragisha at m3w.org
> Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 10:00:04 +0200
> CC: dabenavidesd at yahoo.es; m3devel at elegosoft.com
> To: jay.krell at cornell.edu
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> And why would you/we do it? To be less portable? To escape direct knowledge of endian/word_size/jmpbuf/whatever by cpp and run into C/C++/Java?
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> On May 20, 2012, at 11:32 PM, Jay wrote:
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> > I meant "gcc frontends", which Modula-3 is structured as, in a somewhat backward-seeming way.
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> > Btw, rewriting all of m3front in C or C++ or Java probably wouldn't be very difficult.
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> > - Jay (briefly/pocket-sized-computer-aka-phone)
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> > On May 20, 2012, at 2:28 PM, Jay <jay.krell at cornell.edu> wrote:
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> >> Normally gcc compilers
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