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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   
      
      
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