From: bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com   
      
   Jean-Marc Bourguet  writes:   
      
   > Use C as intermediate code.  There is quite a few backend for a few   
   > architectures available.   
      
   That's a viable possibility.  I've done it successfully   
   more than once.   
      
   But there are some things about C that make it less than   
   ideal as a compiler intermediate language:   
      
   Some things can't be expressed in C.  Efficient exception   
   handling, for example.   
      
   It's somewhere between difficult and impossible to provide   
   good debugging support.   
      
   - Bob   
      
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