On May 28, 2006, at 12:19 AM, Loren Wilton wrote:
I'm looking at the need to build a very comprehensive code
optimizer and
generator for a very strange (antique but still used mainframe)
machine.
Which machine out of curiosity?
> The machine is very strange in modern terms. It doesn't have registers, it
> executes code in reverse Polish, the integer data type is a degenerate form
> of the floating point data type, pointers are magic, there are no page
> tables, and the word size isn't a power of 2, just to start. Oh, an
Hello. This is my first post to this list, so I apologise in advance if I
get any of the 'stupid newbie' things wrong in this post. I have spent a
while reading the last month's archive.
I'm looking at the need to build a very comprehensive code optimizer and
generator for a very strange (antiqu
