From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 31 19:27:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA10040 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 31 May 1998 19:27:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA10020 for ; Sun, 31 May 1998 19:27:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA00805; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 02:27:23 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id EAA02362; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 04:27:08 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980601042708.54610@follo.net> Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 04:27:08 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Mikhail Teterin , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TenDRA/XANDF to the rescue? (Re: Fix for undefined...) References: <199805312213.PAA16988@usr06.primenet.com> <199806010122.VAA25839@rtfm.ziplink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <199806010122.VAA25839@rtfm.ziplink.net>; from Mikhail Teterin on Sun, May 31, 1998 at 09:22:02PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, May 31, 1998 at 09:22:02PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Terry Lambert once stated: > > =I agree that at some point you are going to lose backward compatability; > =I think, however, that XANDF will push this off, since most of the > =historical compatability issues can be resolved by regenerating the > =assembly code, and relinking, which is implied. > > Well, what's wrong with plain C-code, for example? Just because it > is source and is easier to reverse engineer? Theoreticly, C must > be as crossplatform as XANDF or whatnot. C is more limited in it's expressiveness. It is bad as an intermediate format for other languages because metadata is lost (which limit the optimization possibilities). > Ok, how about Java byte code? java byte code can't express e.g. C. This also answer the rest of your post (which I've deleted). Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message