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|    Message 851 of 2,753    |
|    Brooks Moses to Mark Mickelsen    |
|    Re: Bliss-11 and other Bliss compilers    |
|    28 Nov 06 00:14:01    |
      From: bmoses-nospam@cits1.stanford.edu              Mark Mickelsen wrote:       > [I don't know of any work on Bliss past VMS Bliss-32 for the Vax and       > Alpha. You might see if you can find one of those and try       > bootstrapping from one of them to an x86. Since the Vax and Alpha       > have approximately the same memory addressing as an x86, byte       > addressed little-endian, it should mostly be a matter of minor       > adjustments to the stack frame format and redoing the code generator       > to generate x86 code. I wouldn't waste time with Bliss-11 unless you       > want to target 16 bit machines. -John]              There is someone working on a Bliss front end to GCC, as well; see       http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2006-07/msg00486.html. Unfortunately, I don't       know anything about it besides what's in that message.              - Brooks                     --       The "bmoses-nospam" address is valid; no unmunging needed.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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