gcc backend that can be interpreted by a java program?

Sat Jul 5 05:40:00 GMT 2003

>>>>> "Adam" == Adam Megacz <gcj@lists.megacz.com> writes:

Adam> Why? I need to run Freetype2 (very clean ANSI C, no external
Adam> dependencies) in an all-Java environment. JNI/CNI are not an option.
I think there's an MMIX back end around somewhere. This is a fake
assembly language invented by Knuth. Dunno how hard it would be to
write a simulator for it. That's my best guess for this sort of
thing.
It would be possible to compile C to java bytecode with a lot of
runtime support. Per had a plan for this some years back, though we
might not have ever released it.
But then you're talking not only the java runtime code (which could be
100% java if you didn't care about efficiency), but also a new gcc
backend, which is likely to be hard.
Tom