Re: The trend is to move away from Delphi...

Marco van de Voort wrote:
On 2006-08-22, Andre Kaufmann <andre.kaufmann_remove_@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
language, parse it into meaningful tokens, and generate binary machine code for it.
Wasn't meant to be a real reasonable solution / idea ;-) and - yes - it doesn't matter in which language the compiler is written in.

With 2 step/phase process I meant that the Delphi compiler could be changed and compiled with any C++ compiler

The Delphi compiler is in _A_ C++ dialect. Nobody said it was 100% standards
compliant.

Did I request it to be ?

and then used to generate C Code from the Pascal / C++ VCL source, to be
compiled and linked together.

No. The codegenerator doesn't suddenly start to generate code for X, just
because it is written in X.


That's what I meant with

> doesn't matter in which language the compiler is written in.

The compiler must be surely changed to emit code, which can be compiled or linked by other C++ compilers or any other language.
In fact most of the C++ compilers don't generate directly assembly code, but some kind of intermediate / P-Code.

Andre


.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: "STL from the Ground Up"
    ... high-level intermediate language than can interoperate with many other ... If your language lacks expressive features then you cannot write code ... memory management in comparison. ... Mostly because type errors mean that the programmer and compiler disagree ...
    (comp.programming)
  • Re: A note on computing thugs and coding bums
    ... It would handle international characters if the execution character ... method I used in "Build Your Own .Net Language and Compiler". ... work areas and counting on Nul is an illusion. ...
    (comp.programming)
  • Re: WaitForSingleObject() will not deadlock
    ... represent an incorrect implementation of the language. ... the *compiler* does not guarantee this. ... but to state it in terms of the execution instead of the formal semantics of the language ... as long as the optimizations do not change the semantics of the language). ...
    (microsoft.public.vc.mfc)
  • Re: ISA-independent programming language
    ... the compiler takes care of it. ... >> or two representations for zero should not matter to me. ... Any language is a "CLOSED ENVIRONMENT." ...
    (comp.arch)
  • Re: "STL from the Ground Up"
    ... are not features of a language. ... To support reflection you make a compiler embbed type and functional information in the compiled program. ... When the OCaml compiler is given a complicated nested pattern match it ... virtual const Base *clone= 0; ...
    (comp.programming)