C++ to bytecode?

Wed Jun 26 18:19:00 GMT 2002

On Tuesday, June 25, 2002, at 01:21 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
> I also thought there was an attempt to target a standard JVM. It was
> never integrated into the tree (never really submitted, I think). I
> looked but I don't have a URL any more.

It's at http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~cristina/uqbt.html under 'Java 
backend for
GCC' and quite old. The text references 'egcs' and says it's quite 
experimental.
Given that the C and C++ standards were quite deliberately written to 
include
segmented architectures like 16-bit DOS, it's quite probable that a 
C-to-JVM
mapping could be built that adhered to the 'legal' requirements. It 
would, however,
quite probably not be of much practical use.
Glenn Chambers
Toledo, OH