On Wednesday 06 April 2005 13:00, Harry Goulding wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm developing a front end for a simple programming language as part of a > project. > > I have looked through the GCC Internals Manual, the Toy front end language > and Treelang. > > I can't seem to find any info regarding an input or print statement, so i > can read integers(my language only deals with integers) from the stdio and > return integer results to stdio.
Interfacing with the OS is the resposibility of your language runtime library, not the compiler itself.. You might want to look at how the fortran intrinsic functions an IO routines are handled. Basically the language define IO constructs are turned into a sequence of function calls. Paul
