From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <505a46af0607191049p7f63a0f0i1a811199e9042540@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:49:25 +0100 From: "Darren Bane" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Intermediate Language In-Reply-To: <44BE41A1.7000703@dsci-usa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <44BE41A1.7000703@dsci-usa.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 84974c54-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 19/07/06, Vladimir Giszpenc wrote: !snip! > Why not have an intermediate language similar to MSIL but more suited to > your OS? There is such a beast if you want it (not everyone does). Inferno ( http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/index.html ) runs programs for the Dis virtual machine ( http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/papers/hotchips.html ). !snip! > If > someone could either explain or refer me to an explanation of the > register versus stack based language problem as it applies to an > intermediate language, I would very much appreciate it. This is very well described in the hotchips paper above. -- Darren Bane